PRIORITY news from Parlathe soft new dresses with long unbelted bodices' and flaring skirts..a tine that Pierre Cardin put over most emphatically of all. But one wholesale designer In Paris beat him to it: the dress in the picture was dreamed up in May for an autumn collection-with l the right points from the collarless neck to the wide panels of the flared skirt, past the unstressed, drop- ped waistline. Designed in Paris by Germaine and Jane. It is made of school - girl grey flannel in three shades, light, medium or charcoal.
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1960.
WOMANSENSE FASHION NEWS FOCUS by Barbara Griggs London gives the world
a new
craze
IT'S years since I've known the hair-
dressers so collectively happy. For months and months their salons rang with sad cries of "No, just a fraction, Ivor. "No, that's too much off, Leonard. "No, David darling, I'm GROWING it.
Suddenly, clients BI
streaming in actually asking of their own accord to have the darned stuff lopped off.
"Chignons are shrinking
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shingles. The beehives lle i.. heaps around the floors.
There first
And for
go!
once, London there before Paris. The short shingled hairstyles which were big news in Paris recently (only Dior obstinately and waywardly clinging to their chignons) have been appearing in London for months BOW (Edward at Andre Bernard was shingling as far January),
M there is. indeed. ony call at all in the London
hairdressers cup of happiness. It is the fact that it took the hypnotic word Paris to launch a look they'd thought up all on their
OWIL.
IN FRONT
OF THE FASHION
Autumn
crop for
THIS FROU-FROU NONSENSE
IT ISN'T a ribbony, frilly, frea-iron season in Paris at all-which was perhaps why one noticed the ribbery, frou frou nonsense ideas all the
like these two.
Ar Nina Ricci they gave a plain-necked evening dress three deep rows of big pearls and knotted a sooty black velvet bow in the middle of them to "dangle its streamers down front.
As Dior, ons of the starkett of several thousand little black dress had this pretty plece of homsenta on the orm of the mannequin shaping it: a huge black moire bow tied round the arm, with a crescent of pearls and glitter dand-centre.
Drawn by Jack Whitsert-with excessive respect for Parit's bar o giving any idea of the dress itself, . .
shingle at Evansky'a
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King Nep's Friends
➡They're Two Marusaide, Mørkids And & Merma
By MAX TRELL NOW THAT the grass had
201 tail and the days had grown warm and the leaves on the trees. In the park had be- come thick and green,' litua King Nep spent more and more time put of doors.
Knart and Hanid, the Shad- ow Chikken with the Turned About Names, would often And him sitting at the edge of the lake with his bare feet in the water and n kng fishing pole In his hands.
Word puzzled
in his hands they
into a very short style, shingled
And the first time Knauf and at the back: lopped off the Still holding out: Mrs Roy heavy blonde chignon of Boulting, Bronwen Pugh, Meryl Harid saw King Nep sitting at Hartnell's top model, Cynthia Colebrook. Tania Mallet, the edge of the Icke with the Oberholzer into an ultra-short whose shoulder-length fall of fishing pole style with just one Tong lock of heavy gold hair is her most were surprised even more than
the front and even particular charm, and Sandra surprised-they were puzzled
For they remembered same- talised Suzy Parker Paul, whose smooth long blonde whose Titian hair fell locks go with her gentle Eng-thing,
said Knarf, *King Nep," shoulder-length in the lish prettiness like peaches with original girl-next-door creatin
"weren't you emoc upon a time called King Neptune?"
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style to lose 21⁄2in, of
At French of London, top model Pagan Grigg (another
New arrival
"Yep. That's right, my Boy, so I was," replied King Nep in
chignon girl) has had her hair NEW designer whose work is
already familiar to Ameri- his usual cheerful voice, "I used slecked into a smooth cap, eurl- ing into the nape of her neck, cans, now appearing in London to be Ruler of the Seven Seas, Maggie Buchanan held out for for the first time: Vera, a Everybody know me then-but weeks but was finally won jaunty young American painter that was long, long ago." round
whose slashy bright naturalistla "In ancient times?" Hanid At Andre Bernard, Helen paintings of goldfish and apples, put in. Bunney and Joy Weston have peapods and butterflies turn uo beth left several inches of in America on towelling, wraps, behind beadcarves, table linen, beach beautiful silky hair them; and Joyce Irving has tops.
from chignon to As the Anal summer fling,
Liberty's have ordered in (stack of her beach-wear.
More on way
Pazan Grier, by free and light after all those French of London: a heavy masses of hair (less time back as sleek short curve.
under the boring dryers, too). Now it is the models who are It tends to be the models rushing to have it out,
At Vidal Sassoon's recently, who set the pace for the aver-
it was the they cropped Clemence Bettany's age girl today: models who grew
thelr hair smooth medium fall of" hair switched chignon-length first-and clung to it longest.
So easy, they claimed: up for hat pleturcs, down, for sporty cut-of-door shots, and when you haveat had á second for the hairdresser, up myway.
The models are now making another discovery: that if you have your hair shaped and shingled into the back of your head, the rosult is "just as neat as a thignon-much easier to keep in place and wonderfully
Tactful adults inspire
work harder
youth to
By Garry Cleveland Myers, Ph.D.
COOKING COLUMN
by Helen
Burke
HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF A
:
a
Same thing
She knew that the word an- cient was the same as saying long-long-ago,
Then King Nep shrugged.
"But I don't care," he said, "I don't mind being small. And I like this lake in the park. It's as big is the Atlantie There are cotton drawstring tops with brilliant green pea Ocean, but it's big enough for Ipod designs: square towelling "But what are you starting
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wraps with open flapping sirls, ready to do double duty as to say, Kari?" the Little King towel, adorned with a huge asked, gently moving the fish glassy-eyed goldish sitting in ang pole in the water.
"O"
said Knert, who had ret; and there are hip-length
almost forgotten what he had towelling tops, with a row of
started but to say. "Now I re-
NOT-SO-TASTY DISHep useful pockets
ILOBE artichokes are tablespoons of stock to the dish.
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the
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King Nep was sitting there with a fishing pole in his hand
King Nep chuckled again. He Efted the fishing pole out of the water. And now Koarf and Hanid saw the strangest and most remarkable thing that they had ever seen,
Swam away
At the end of the dishing pole And in the was a deep shell.
shell, which was illed with water, were two tiny mermaids, a merman and two even tinler merkids.
None of them was bigger than a minnow. There they were, swimming gaily about, in- side the shell. They wayed to Knarf and Hanid.
"See?" asked King Nep.
Then he dipped the shell Into the lake. The mermaids and the merman and the merkids
went swimming, away.
"Now and then," said King
dried it off with his handker-
Nep as he emptied the shell and
chief," they come and visit with me when I put this shell down
"They've grown small, too-- into the water.
and very scarce. Not many folks see mermaids and mermen and merkids any more...
In seven seas··
"And long-long-ago-I mean," nt said King Nep, smiling Hanld, "in ancient times, they were in all the seven seas, Lovely-looking, weren't they?"
front that's brilliant with two member. I was going to ask I you're fishing? you why big blue butterflies.
mean, if you're Ruler of In the autumn, more of these Soven Seas, you'd like fish too for 30 childishly winning designs will much to go fishing, wouldn't Gnot very tasty in them. Cover and bakes Fare, or be on sale on table linen (you?" selves. For that matter, gas mark six, basting two to and drying-up cloths too.
(London Express Service). neither are aubergines nor three times during the cooking.
But vegetable marrows.
that is no reason why we should not make something
GOOD many children of his bachers: "He could be of them. A historie learning ability are content ry harder," to earn average grades or less at school. These children Amay have no trouble in any
particular subject. Photographed in Paris by Francie Georges.
If you have such a child, say from ten to fifteen years of age, you may have been informed by
LADY LUCK
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE
TUESDAY, AUGUST 16 AQUARIUS (January 21. February 19): If a friend has a very unhappy home.
provide him life, help to with outside inferests. PISCES (February 20-March 20): You ought not to en- courage a person for whom you have no real affection merely because you find hig attentions flattering. ARIES (March 21-Apríl 19):
You will meet an old ac quaintance who has been very ill and shows it. Try not to let him see how shocked you are by his ap pearance,
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It would be taking un- neccssary chances with your money to entrust it to a person about whose character you know prac tically nothing.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21) : · You will be very happy to learn that someone for whom you have a deep affection fully reciprocates your feeling. CANCER (June 22-July 21): Control an impulse to quarrel with a member of your family. When you calm down your reasoning will be much more con vincing. A LEO (July 22-August 21)1⁄2 on't be envious of Another person's great
22-
You plead with him to exert more effort, but he's not much impressed. He may even tell you he can't see why you are
grade
worried about his marks. "Isn't 'C' a good safe he may ask,
•
Secret Agreement The child may be one of a group at school that feels n'out as he does. We hear of such Kang who have a secret agree
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JACOBY on BRIDGE
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The most usual way is to boil the artichokes in salted water, drain them well and serve them. The Blackwood convention is In almost universal use today hot, with Sauce Musseline. Ori
and it is fully as 'valuable as might serve artichokes for the sake of this delicious sauce itself. its universal use would indicate.
Or serve the artichokes cold Still, it is abused almost with an oil and vinegar dressing much as it is used, Pull off the leaves, dip the soft
In the next few articles I ends into the dressing, pull off will attempt to show some of the tasty bits at the bottom of its pit-falls and also the way
each leaf between the teeth and then discard the leaf itself,
When you reach the choke no longer any and there are leaves with tasty bits at their (the choke)
ends, remove
to use it,
In case anyone does not know the convention the basic bid is four
no-trump to csk for
20es. Partner responds five clubs to show no. aces; five dia- monds to show one; five hearts show two five spades to show three and Ave no-trump to
fond to
ment that they won't gins to get and arrive at the really worth an A grade, feeling some superiority to the "bookworms." while part, the bottom--what
the French call Sometimes one of these
d'arichaut." chlidren, on noving to another school will become a member of a group that has an ambition
to excel. After that, he may become a star student.
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stroke of luck. Your happy family life is worth more
all the popular discussion of the than material wealth.
need for developing higher after cutting off the stalks, drop 2 N.T.
fast boiling salted VIRGO (August
scholarship
attracting them into September 22): A very more bright students to choose water, head downwards. I give sensitive person will have the difficult subjects such rather large artichokes almost
45 minutes. to be handled with the is science and mathematics?
give consideration if will t
The best test is to pull out utmost
distinction to scholarship one of the leaves, after 39 you want to win his con-
bright
aver- minutes cooking. it it comes fidence. LIBRA (September 22 ag ten-agers? Let us hope it out casily, the artichokes are done. Lift them out and drain October 22): An invitation will, though we can't be sure
Lexturing and exhorting by them well. to a dinner party ought
parents will hardly get far, But to be refused, unless you the parent who has avoided are prepared to become in-nagging the youth, to strive volved in an endless chain harder, and centred his siten- of social obligations.
among
Stuffed artichokes are deli- clous Cook them as above, then pemove the inner leaves and the choke, leaving the "fond" as the
TODAY'S QUESTION Again West has overcalled your opening heart bid with a spade and your partner has bid two diamonds, You, South, hold:
is A What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
tion winning this youth's base for the filling. For 4 good-MAQ VKQ1037 ◆KI 4A1058 genule admiration and esteem, sized artichokes, bero SCORPIO (October 23- might hit on a strategle time pleasant filling,
November 21): You will when a quiet talis could have a Sometimes a go out of your way to powerful effect, oblige a friend, but may be grandparent, or other relative disappointed by his lack of who is a favourite of this young appreciation.
person, might be skilful enough to drop the magic word, '
On
Help Arouse Ambition
Simmer a chopped onion and, available, a chopped shalot in wo to three walnuls of a dessertspoon of butter and olive dil Add two tablespoons of bread-crumbs, two to three oz. chopped mushroom stalks and about a
cup at chopped boiled bacon or two or three chopped zashers of streaky bacon. gently cooked with the onion and alot before adding the other ingredients
SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 21): On meeting an opponent unex-
a parent might be able pectedly face to face, you to enlist the help of an esteemed will have a good opportu teacher or youth leader or suggest the bacon should be nity to settle the matter neighbour admired by this youth, at issue once and for all. The right person or group of CAPRICORN (December 22-persons has done wonders in January 20): A casual arousing ambition in an adoles friendship may eventually port by or girl
Or if this youth rarely goes at take up too much of your homework but is out nearly time, and it would be as well to put limitations on everynight; a wise and kitful it right from the start parent might successfully re- YOUR LUCKY COLOUR. quen to go at his homework
Now add a teaspoon pe chop-
ped; partley, one of tubed tomato puree, diablved in two to three tablespoons of stock or water and a tablespoon of dey white wine. Mix well together, Pile the mixture into the pre- regularly pared artichokes. Place them in If this is your birthday, Even if the youth has a caserole just large enough to look out for MIDNIGHT Ricker or ambition,... poor home Foontain them in one lever BLUE, It ought to bring y habits could hamper his Brugh the leaves with~ welkle you luck,
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Opening lead-
show four. In advanced part-. nerships the five club response is used to show either no aces or four aces since it is 'assumed that the Blackwood bidder can tell which is being shown,
Today's hard is made up to show a perfect Blackwood situa
опа tion. North opens with diamond and after recovering from his astonishment South either sees that he can make 11, 12 or 13 tricks depending on how many aces North holds. South bids -four no-trump North bids five hearts to show two aces; and South goes seven spades.
Rupert and the Gomnies-16
On his way round to the yellow the real hare strzaki, sway across gnome Rupen decides to see if the the garden and, out of sight, Well, the plate harm has not new hare had been printed yellow too. Then he mops abruptly; for been repainted, but there's some to his zatonil hyment a real hare is thing very queer about them anding facing the plaster en ligures, says Ruperts - Let's go and prinning as if in delight. A together and have a look at your Ohpry-starts Izeward to join him Gompie, du
ALL RIORTE ZENEYED..
to
King chuckled
When Knerf finished taking, King Nep chudded,
ת'ניי
not fishing," he said. "But isn't that a fishing
pole?" asked Kauf.
"Well, yes, so it is, I sup- pose. But you don't have to be doing any fishing, just because you happen to be holding a fishing pole in the water," he said.
Hanid said: **Then
Then King Nep rose and shook hands with Knart and Hand, and wished them Good Day, and went off into the tall grass with his tall fishing pola
until he and his fishing pole. both disappeared.
Then Knart and
Hanid both
lay on the ground at the edge of the lake and kept looking into the silvery water.
But they didn't see the mer maids and the merman and the what are you doing merkids any more, though they with that Ashing pole, King. looked and waited for a very Nep, dear?"
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