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THURSDAY, DEC. 8
AQUARIUS (8) (January 21. February 191: After the completion of a successful business ten, dari fail to give credit to those who helped you bring it off. PISCES (5) (February 20- March 200 You will have
good news from a distant
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1960.
WOMANSENSE
VERONICA
PAPWORTH
CHILDREN'S CORNER
How to get a kick Chief Moon Beam
out of keeping fit
ARE you too fat? Too thin? Too
stiff? Too tired? Too fed up
friend and the promise of with life in general? an early meeting.
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Newly opened in London is a club ARIES (G) (March 21-April dedicated to turning the Inevitable "yesses" 19): By showing apprecia-resulting from some of these questions Into tion of a small favour you one king resounding "NO."
It the Brst of a string of 50 planned- will encourage further help
for all the key cities in Brian-50 cluba from the same worer.
baths, massage-rooms, containing Turkish TAURUS (2) (April 20-May Run-lounges, and work-out gymusia "with 20): A proposed scheme spot-reducing and general stimming equip- which promises casy money ment, Plus, of course, the ubiquitous health should be examined
juter bor. with
With the Canadian business man backing extra caution.
and his manager, I followed GEMINI (3) (May 21-Jong this venture
the path all members must take, down the 21) Indulge a partner's sudden
whim. It will give more pleasure than a planned celebration. CANCER 110 tone 22-July 21): You will make a very good impression on a per- son whose opinia mutters, and who is in a position to further your ambitions. LEO (10) July 22-August 21): You must learn to overlook small oddities in
туд partner, your
Hutter nerves muy quarrels ensue, VIRGO 19) (August
September 221: A success- ful party will be followed by number of invitations from your grateful guests, LIBRA (12) September 28- October 22); A sensitive rhiki will need careful handling, RS present in- fluences could have a pro- found effect in his latera life.
purple-carpeted corridors, through the streamlined changing rooms to the cheek point, and the moment of truth-the "First. Figure Analysis."
Har -and
Detailed measurements of as can be Atted in-dally if you every member are listed on a itke. Working out at 10s. "personal, figure Improvement week, it is probably halt what chart." a routine is mapped out 4 woman sponds on her hair. to ruit and bingo!—in cho goes "And reychologically, it's KO
good for to the gymnasium.
aald the them." business man. "In a matter of days a member makes friends, gains a new interest, feels bet- ter and looks better.
The good work has com- menced.
Atmosphere
afler is the What we're cocktail atmosphere," said the 22-manager as he led me across more acres of purple carpeting, arches backed past Holianate
of by mirror glass to a battery chromium-plated machinery net oul like a medieval torture chamber. "Our aim is some thing around 5,000 members.
"Sure, we can accommodate thon-though not all at once,
"I see friends drifting in for chut and a work-out. It's a orb with a purpose.
"Not only can we take, off weight on this little number with fuintly fearful glee he
wirled
SCORPIO (7) (October 23- November 211: You will be doing a good deed by in-
the knobs of a cage troducing
ambitious
lined with revolving chris young person to the works heavily-ridged to pummel nway the poundage-"we can put it of great men.
And we SAGITTARIUS (1) (Novem-on with this one."
ber 22-December 21); Don't moved over in a bouncing and
between Affairs bucking discuss a friend's
mechanical horse and a rowing behind his back with il machine, is liable
The "cocktail atmosphere is
person who
10
cross
3
are
"Brings the baby too, if she We're planning a has one. ereche."
"Roughly 60 per cent of the
America in members women, but they're roping the men in," they told me, A short esslou on the way home is the routine, in preparation for the martinis!"
I wanted to tell them that the men of Britain, reared in a long and deathless tradition of cold baths and competitive sports, take their exercise the hard way. That there must be fresh air and stinging rain. Mud too, if possible.
Surrender
That chromium-plated rowing machines and
cock!all atmosphere, with soft musie would mean nothing less than Intal surrender to the men who like to break the ice before they push the boat cut..
And that in Britain we still
distort the Information. faithfully carried through to walk for pleasure. - CAPRICORN (4) (December the far corners. Soft music plays Bul 1 had not the heart to 22-January 203: A family endlessly on. Gold kid seals burst their bright bubble of erisis will be successfully tempt the faint-hearted to bridged, and yours will be the stretch themselves on stream- delight in their new venture. credit for having neted with lined racks.. tolerance and consideration, YOUN
LUCKY NUMBER: Count the letters in your arst name and add the total to the number shown in brackets after your sign of the Zadlog, This is your lucky number for the week.
Even the tlumb-bells are gilded.
This kind of club is practi- cally a cult in the U.S.A." said the manager.
Also, I have no doubt that women will revel in everything the clubs have to offer.
slimming equipment, plus the facilities of an exclusive beauty salon, at a fraction of the usual fees.
I made myself a
member on the spot, signed on for the "executives course," and found that I am to have one inch off
my upper arms and three on my bust.
I had no Idea "executives" were that shapel
I can hardly wait,
HERE may well be an acute shortage of pipe-cleaners in London at the moment. And if there is so, then one man only is to blame.
He is Oliver Messel (he is also well-know-who's uncle), and he has just completed a little jeb Involving no fewer Ihan 70,000 pipe-elênners.
cos- told
really doing the tumes for Cleopatra,” hé me. "Terribly busy with it all Eddle promise but I did Rayne to run off a
Christinas decor for his window.
That's
the where
pipe cleaners come in. An absolute jerest of them as Christmas trees, But I doubt if anyone
would recognise them as such. "I've sprayed them green and bite and frosted them over.
"Real twigs looks so ordi-
nary.
**NO.
any
they were not ordered in advance. The whole thing From the weary career girl was a rush job. I had my spies to the "neuretle" ruburbanite out oll over London shopping
invent for bundles of them.". (steady now, I didn't "suburban neurosis"), all will
I asked if there are to be
in pipe-cleaners
the "AL 25 guineas a year our delight in the chance to use services include as many trips £200,000 worth of the latest Cleopatra decor.
"None," salt Oliver. "It's simply not that kind of thing.
"Pipe-cleaners are marvellous for ruthes, you know. used them for a war-time pro- duction of The Tempest. Prac-
Take sandwiches -and kill love
I first
Hi's Grandfather Tells How He Chased The Moon
He greeted them with tho sime kind of a grunt that Hla- witha used, enly he quickly followed up the grunt with a cheerful greeting.
By MAX TRELL
¡VERY now and then, but not nearly often enough,Hia- watha, the Small-Sized Wooden tely everything was made of Indlan, would Invite his two friends, Knarf, the Shadow-Boy pipe-cleaners,
"They make the most magni-with the Turned-About Name, me how I can make you happy,"
he said. firent stage lace and embroidery and Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, 10
and such splendid pieces for visit
.old Hiawatha's
grand- Christmas decoration.
father.
"You really should experi-
ment."
The grandfather's name was
"will," said i, "If there are Chiet Moon Beam, day left."
Healthier hair? Try this diet
HSpiers has & AIRDRESSER
More than once Knarf had asked Hiawatha how Grand- father Moon Beam had got such a wonderful name.
grunted
in
"Sit yourself down and tell
Asked about nama
Thon, after they had all Bai down, Knarf naked Chief Moon Beam how it had happened that he had been given such a won dertil name.
wet."
Kaarf asked the Chief how he got his wonderful name.
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"So I waited die ni unill "It come!" said Chief Moon Bocm, "because I got myself all that old lazy moon roll
ing flowly down the hillside on Ask grandfather
the other side of the mendow. Hiawatha only
At this, Knart, Teddy and Then I slipped away and ran answer. But the expression on even Hiawatha, who had never after it his face seemed to say: "Ask heard the story before, wondered him."
aloud in great surprise what Saw moon again being all wet had got to do with gotting the name "Moon Beam", "At inst, I came to the hill- side. The moon was done, it Chief Meon Beam puffed s
else, rolled somewhere pipe, in silence for a moment or Just as I was abut lo return
so, and then he began:
ime without my prize, I sud- denly spotted 11.**
That was exactly what Knarf Intended to do the next time they were fortunate enough to visit Chief Moen Beam.
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Alan dietetic chip on his shoulder "be cause women will eat any old thing to improve their "Let's go and soo him right figures
"When I was a boy about OF their com- now, Teddy, the Stuffed Bear,
your age," he said looking at
"Where was IL?" shouted plexiona, but never to im- urget Hiawatha eagerly.
Knart and Teddy and Hiawatha, Khart and Teddy and prove their hair.".
Off to the wigwam "I used to think that it would
Filowatha: What is the best possible diet
"In a muddy pond, Hiawatha grunted again, which be no trouble at all to catch for a thick and glossy crop? I meant that it was all right with the moon, because, night after bottom of the hill, replied demanded.
him, so off the three of them night, I would see it rising Cheler Moon Beam. The answer, it seems, is went to find Chief Moon Beam's Inzlly in the sky and silting and just lying there, getting itself feast of sea foods and water-wigwam.
resting itself in the branches of l after its long jamey cress hercin lies the vital New Chief Moon Beam wasn't the trees and on the slopes of through the sky." todine-plus rough bread, fruit, always easy to find. He kept the hill before it Anally clima- and vegetables,
pitching his svigwan in different bed high overhead. places.
"No, it does not mean you're going to have to exist on cress and crabs or lobsters and let tuce," he assured me as sharpened my pencil to note for healthier hair.
three-day crash diet Here it is:-
down his
FIRST DAY Breakfast: Apples, raisins, one egg, and rye bread.
Lunch: Haddock, carrots, and cheese with celery,
Dinner: Veal cutlet, spinach, anchovies. On wholemeal
und toast.
SECOND DAY Breakfast: Ore orange, sIT- dines on rye toast, and irCES.
Lunch: Liver, Brussels baked -clistard and
Prous,
fruit.
Dinner: Avocado pear, grilled mackerel, celery and watercress salad.
THIRD DAY
Breakfast: Celery, watercress, a kipper, and rye toast,
Lunch: Shell fish, green salad, yoghurt and fruit.
Rolled down hills
Did he dive?
nt
"It was
the!
"Did you dive into it?" asked Knarl. I hope you didn't," he
Beam Chic! Moin'
tcok a
ing puff on his pipe.
Sometimes he pitched it be hind the big chale next to the
"Then, slowly and Inzily, that odder. window. Sometimes he pliched moon would come down aguia it behind the door, and some- times, when he didn't want any- and roll like a big yellow ball one to disturb him, he pitched down the hillsides and through the trees on it in a book that nobody ever the branches of
the other side of the meadows where we used to live.
read.
"I did," he said. "Eat did you get the moon?" sicuted Kaart and Teddy and Hiawatha.
Boom
Wok an
Behind the bookcase
Chief Mocn "But," continued Chief Moon
"when I told my even kager Tuff on his pipe, Tonight Knatt, Teddy and Beam,
found Chief Meon mother and father and brotheie "I didn't" he saki. "The only Hiawatha Beam sitting beside his wigwam about how easy I thought it was thing I got when I came home the moon, they all again, wet and nuddy, was the behind the boctecase. He was to catch smoking a long pipe,
Dame Moon Beam." laughed at me,
CHRISTMAS CAKE-AND
IT'S NOT TOO LATE
Dinner: Tuna Ash mayonnaise, TT is time to make our
watercress, cottage cheese,
wholemeal bread, and pears.
Christmas cakes and
What
Drinks? "Just water and as many of us do. much as possible. It's terribly pleases me is the num-
important."
Oh men!
THE SCARLETT O'HARA
STORY to silence for
A over all cries of "No,
COOKING COLUMN
o
by Helen
Burke
And for those who go hungry ber of requests I have en route? "Nibble a stick of had from young home-
time to give to the celery," says the expert sharply.makers who want a re. treacle (if used) vanilla essence
faselmating job of cookery. and sherry.
Gradually add this alternately The laicst idea about to in- cipe for this pride of English cooks,
with the sifted dry ingredients, vade us from the United States to, the creamed mixture until all 19 turkey in pleces-bat just First things first-and I mean the liquid and three-quarters of half a turkey but thighs or the fruit. If you buy the new the dry Ingredients have been drumsticks (and even imitation or breasts or scaron's fruit, it is more than incorporated. Stir in the pre- drumsticks!). likely that it wil be most inside-pared fruits and, finally the re- wings, all
quick frozen, and as soft as chamois leather maining dry ingredients.
course, prd ready to be cooked when you squeeze a handful of Butter a 9in tin and line it in whatever way you wish. it. I have packaged fruits: in with two thicknesses of buttered In America it has long been a practise to grill or roast half On the other hand, If you buy Turn the mixture into the turkeys and now quarter turkeys bulk fruit by the pound, the paper-lined tin and level it oft. are available, chances are that it may be over Give the tin a couple of taps on settle the mixture.
TOUCH
mind.
greaseproof paper.
of
NOVELIST LINKS ROMANCE WITH JOINT AND VEG.
I can't go to the ball-I've Well, she wasn't going to YOUR husband, madam, is not a superman? Then he is probably a paper nothing to wear centres mes Bond potty. She rushed
around Dorian Leigh-beat over to Harrods, bought her
self something like right yards bag man. And you, lady, are you a frigid Brigid? Then you are prob-
in this country as of white silk with gold stripes, ably a sandwich snatcher too. Who says so? Barbara Cartland,zy Parker's sister" but wrapped it around herself with dry and not too clean and, the table
Instead of contributing moisture Place the enko Just below tho authoress mother of Lady Lewisham.
very much a career girl în just a stitch here and there anti to the cake, it will take 1! away centre of the oven and bake cook a ble turkey once a
made the most draped evening dress.
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Miss Cartland, councillor, tolt an audience of mothers at Hatfield. Herts, that husbands thousands of British
vita-
are losing their manly virility besbuse of paper bag meals.
Ms Cartland, who has writ- ten best-sellers nn love-and
25 vitamins and lakes
day sald:-
wife who re- members that le she wants a young, vorous, exclting hus- rze he gels band, she must meat and two veg. each day,"
min pills
it is a wise
'Eat properly'
letters drom
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With the king of diamonds Iri In three, months, raid Miss Certiend, she had more than the slot there was no problem werried about making 10 tricks, but the 1,000 wives asking: "How can I pre- game wes duplicate and Mat vent myself from getting frigid?" made 11. tricks by a series of und
She replice: "I tell them to plays against East, eat properly and see that their husbands have good meals,
"A recent survoy In Britain showed that 1,000,000 meals each day are enten from paper bags.
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her own right in Paris, where she runs her main model agency.
It seems that Dorian, invited to the Dockland Settlements Ball, hadn't single evening dress over here.
So
gorgeous sari. from it.
"I believe there was ong fearful moment when it almost parted company, but noticed,
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nobody
this
Cleaning...
Variety
DERHAPS you would rather for 34 10 44 hours at 275 to 300 degrees Fahrenbelt or gas year? There is no doubt, how-
on your oven.)
TN this case, at least three days mark to 14. (This depends ever, that this place business
before making the cake, put the frail in a colander and plunge it several times into the
Testing
turkey bits of every possibia
size, raw and cooked-will soon be very popular.
"And why," added Winney, clean sink, filled with cold of cake by drawing it, far yond what any of us would sho telephoned Roy Boulling's wife Enid. "And I'd story?" only one ball gown to my "'Because it's aliphitly med, name," said the gorgeous Enid, and madly enterprising who is also a model "and I'd Like Scarlett O'Hara ett- leni it already."
up the ting
drawing curtains."
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YOUTH
The variety of "cuts" is be FTER 3% hours, test the Do not barely off-cold water. you interested in
fruit, becauso Book the
out of the oven to en- have. dreamed of until the Food that enough detracts from its flavour, A few able you to listen to it. It there Fair of the past two weeks,
This week at luncheon, I was is a slight hissing sound, it is dips and drains are enough,
nueds offered cooked turkey roll, cut Finally, spread the drained col baked through and fruit on a linen elotti and leave the full cooking thine. Another as thin as paper. That is, of it to dry of. After three days, lest ls to place the finger on the course, an exaggeration, but you the fruit will be dry on the centre of the enke, 1f an Imprint know what & meurt.
There was also quick-froze full time,
chicken, ready-cooked fried surface and beautifuly plumped remains, bake the cake for the
The cake should rise absolute minced chicken, roast chicken With packaged fruits, pirendy up inside. scientifically cleaned for us ly level, and, when eat, should and chickan a la King, Soon wa havo a very thin crust, all will be ordering turkey meat. there is no need for this, mak
around, THE INGREDIENTS
leaf, frozen or canned, ready to Lift the baked cake on to be heated through and served. 120x. currants; 12oz, -sultanan (some cut in hall); Bez, stened table, out of a drought After
And there are smoked turkey or seediese raising 2 to 4oz. chop. en hour, gently turn it out on ped mixed peek 2 to 40%, ground to a wire rack and invert it, so rolls and whole umboned smoked that the top is on top..To make turkey, which, somehow, seemed *lmonds: 2 to 40x. quartared glace quite pure that the cake is colt, to me to be more tender than sharring grated rind of a small
"She'd probably have done Winney McKinney, one of that if Harrods had been shut," Dorian's best friends, continued rald Winney-There's no stop
ping Dorian." the story for me.
Rupert and the Purple Star-10
When the two pals feel better wonder if it was dropped from. after their shocks, they stand and that sach that, we saw in the CAVE," says Rupert. tell you' Raze at the purple starfish."1 :don's - understand how i got, whatok's just the sort of gett here." gaya Bill, as an idea strikes thing that would interest Salior him Wit' pil" Alys, but the Samy Let's take, it back. And hes', didn't- being it bare. The very singly in cattles his pell, Tide that's hast going out, didn't Anangat, and picks it up on his come up quite as high as this??? 1 wooden apade,
PALL MOUER BAKRAYED AN
leave 11 for 23 hours, then, wrap the compressed meat. It appears leman; Box. butter: Box. soft 1t in greaseproof.paper and store that, when poultry is cut on the light brown sugar: 4 large egget it in a largo airtight tin until bias as it were, it is more 1. tablespoon black traadis (op the time comes to coat it with tender than when cut across the tional); 3 to 4 tablespoons dark almond paste and Royal icing. grain, A sherry; halt. · teaspoon vanilla
In due course, and in lots of I'came across turicey In other essence; Box, plain flour: 40%. self time, I shall give the recipes for formi Chow Mein (Chinesa caloing four quarter teaspoon these salt; half teaspoon mixed' aplas
| (optional); a good pinch sach of grated nutmeg, and ground cle. humon,
THE METHOD
. . ' . ..
*Mix together the prepared-
TURKEY
style), Tamatos (Mexican style),
- Pizza (Italian' ... style) and
American turkey ples.
I would rather cook my own
but I can sea chiloken and tur kay roli salling well. In this
frulls, ground almonds, cherrios UICK to prepare country, der
and lemon rind,
QUICK
quick to cook or
At this same luncheon, I met
Cream the butter well (having something that can be put one of our bigger tærkev left it overnight in a warm room in the oven and left to cook
so that the ereaming will be:
easier). Add the sugar (rolled Itaalf,
out if it is lumpy) and cream" " All these **aro"" of " utmost Logether, Beat together the eggs, importance to folk who Have
farmers. I here if he plans, to produce this really fine cooked and quick-frozen turkey roll It wirde a little loen anled
motiondon Expresa,Kerated.