THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1960, "
WOMANSENSE
Where those bold.
bounding Chinese
THOSE bold bounding Chinese horses
which adorn the walls of artistic European and American houses and coffee shops, come off the hand prosses daily in a rambling house in a tiny backstreet of Peking.
China today has developed a flourishing ex- · port trade in high quality reproductions of her traditional and contemporary works of art.
The striking black-and-whlte demand. Some of the more
horses
come from
a polished red wood case. It
offers
In
Preserving
the
CHILDREN'S CORNER
Some Strange Friends
---Mr. Punch Tells The Shadows All About Them-
By MAX TRELL round-end. prancing up, and “
down as ho went round and-
6 Tow when I was very round-and we both had as much
Nyoung," said Mr Funch to fun as a Horso and a Boy could his very young friends Knart ever have together. and Hanld, the Shadow Children with the Turned-About Names, "I had several very strange
friends,"
"He was
a Ano old friend," Charlie was," Mr Punch said,
after a moment or two of stience. during which he smiled as if he 'Knarf and Hanid instantly were thinking of the long-ago- interrupted Mr Punch to ask days when he and Charlie used what kind of strange friends he to meet almost every afternoon. micant,
Mr Punch smiled in his good- natured way.
Punch's other friend
Then Mr Punch's face clouded
"What's the matter?" Hanid asked, a little worried, for it we seldom that good-natured Mr Punch ever let a frown wrinkle
his forehead.
"I suppose not everyone would over. call those old friends of mine strange. One of them was a Horse, named Charlie," said Mr Punch.
"I was just thinking of another old friend of mine. Her name was Gartle. She was A Horse, too. But Charlie didn't like her
10-17.
Funch sat on Charlie's -back, riding the cry-go-round
in the winter, Gertie just stood there like a statue.
"And come to think of It," Mr Punch sold, amiling in a sly way as it to trick Knart and Hanid into belleving that he had just thought of it "Gertie was a statue,"
They're surprised Knerf and Han'ḍ shouted: "A statuel"
"Solid
and stone through through," said Mr Punch.
Nothing strange "Why, there's nothing strange about a forse," said Knarf, aur- prised at Mr Punch for even mentioning it. "Lots of People at all." have Horses for friends.”
"Was Gertie on the fame "That may be," said Mr Kuari asked,
Charlie?" merry-go-round
"No Mr Punch shook his head. "Gertie wasn't a Merry-go round Horse at all. But that
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. This latter work, 187 centi- Formarly Prosklent of the separato wood block. So They have become popular in many countries metres long by $1 centimetres Nanking and Peking Fine Arts arust must first decide on the high (about six feet by 20 Colleges, he became chairman of number of blocks to be made, throughout the world, and can be seen in homes inclica), was reproduced on the All-China Association of then make a tracing for each Fine. Ama Workers after the subtle shade which goes to in Moscow, Melbourne and Paris and artists' etu- glazed silk scroll and is sold in
Communists come to power, make up the final picture. dios in London's Chelsea and even New York's took Jung Pao Chai nearly three serving until his death, in 1953, Greenwich Village, where a few evade American years to malte the more than 250 21 the age of 57.
addition to lifa horse engraved wood blocks to achieve
the import restrictions by arriving via Europe.
studio, another the exact shades and fine details studies, the studio also
reproductions of of the beautiful, work, which is animal
other racings are pasted onto blocks drawings. including prints of galloping or resting elaborate and expensive works original, now
more than 1,000 years old. The cocka, geese, ungles and kittens. of hard, white wood and skilled horres, and the brightly-colour are restricted to only about 100 castern Museum in
in the North One of his masterpieces, a study engravers, using sharp knives Punch, nedding his head, "but Shenyang, of four solemn-looking ish and chisels, carve out the de-Charlle was a strange kind of ed insects, utrds and flowers prints, while the ruil mid formerly suffed Mukden, shows howies, is the largeat work to sign on the surface of the wood. Horse"
the shown alongside them, are only "galloping horse"
constantly to has rui mix elegant lactics and their pets. produced by wood-block print. He refers
"Oh. I knowl" exclaimed wasn't the reason Charlie didn't a small part of the production tens of thousands.
"He was ing here. Made on silk, it original painting to be sure of Hanid. of the Jung Pao Chai (Glorious
Masterpiece measures 109 by 104 centi producing it accurately, ana of Hobby-Horse!" Treasures Studio) in Li, Li
metres (about three and a half preserving, the spirit and flow of Chang
southern
Mr Punch readily admitted Bazaar,
feat' equare),
its brush strokes. Peking,
When the blocks are all com-that his friend Charlie eas pleted there may be only two wooden, Horse, Liu L! Chang could be called
"But he wasn't # or three, or there may be more
Hobby the Chinese Capital's Laun
Herse," than 300 actual printing is
he quickly added. " , Quarter. Its ow winding
mean he didn't recit up and ready to begin. streets are lined with art, curio,
down. He ran around in circles." and stationery shops; handi- craftsmen und printers work in low-roofed stucties grouped round interior courtyards, Mid- dan from the grey streets. Moit enterprbes are now state-owner or operated by ûrban peoples commune.
Jung Pao Chai, formerly a
and then private house
was converted antique shop. into an art reproduction "studio following the proclamation of the Chinese Peoples Repúbile in 1940.
Today, more than 260 werkers, half of them weinen,
thousands of produce productions each month
20-
#formi of assembly Tre culture." one Western visitor commented recently, while watching, the bustie in its Bluzios
Elaborato
About 90 of the staff
skilled crist who make the wood blocks used to recreate the beauty of the originais, Many are recent graduates of nuri schro's. About ten New apprentices are taken into the studo cach year.
The current Catalogue shows O juinungs, dozens
bich modern and Clung elascal,
Although exact agures are not. ovaliable, Mr Sung, the young business manager,
SILYS that about 50 to 60 per cent of the output is experted,
Chinese conts for
Only n few copics of this reproduction have been made for museums and 1 sehools, But separate scrolls are avall able showing some of the ladies, ench i actividuo work of tisto tad beauty.
Chinese museums, · colleges, art schools,
akt comimungs private homes buy other works, which range in price from a few!
The most popular Items, pro- a Rower slused pt Jung Pao Chai are the decorated envelope to about 700 magnificent horses copled from yuon (more than HK1,000) for Chirawe laic paintings mada in the beautiful. Tang Dynasly we 1040's by lisu Pei-hung, one Game.lower-Wearing of mocem China's best-loved Ladies."
wrists.
Flower paintings,' reproduced with on sccuracy and beauty which makes it almost Impoasi- ble for an amateur to distinguish them from original works,
are Onished ellher for hanging on a wall or on fine rice paper in richly-bound portfolios."
the A meaning in
the wood
The first block is fastened on to a base on a large desk-top, studio The deft fingers of a young girl block artist apply the correct shade of watching engravings, being made, follow Chinese ink to the raised part ed by a leisurely search through then carefully press a sheet of items for sale in the shop, is a paper onto the surtace.
the popular event on
cach pro- process is repeated with gramme of foreign visitors to of perhaps 100 sheets. Peking.
COOKING FOR TWO... by Helen Burke one se
A BITTER-SWEET
LIGHT LUNCH
Then the wood block
This
f wooden
care for Gertie."
Novar moved
&
Horse!"
They guessed it' "Merry-go-round shouted Kharf and Hanid. And they were pleased to see that Mr Punch was smiling and nodding
his head.
wonder sho never moved," said Knart.
the park?" Hanid asked curl. "What was Gertie doing in
ously.
Mr
that Punch explained Gertle, the stone statue of a Mir Punch went on to say Horse, stood on a tall Glone that Charlie Wood all kinds of pedestal. Horses-Merry-go-round Horses,
"And a big stone general--I Mull-wagon Horses, Old-clothes- man's Horts, Horse-back rid- forget hila nome now-sat on the guess ing Horses and even pictures of Gertie's buck, 1
tint Horses.
General was so heavy Gertie wouldn't have been able
made of stone," to move even if she hadn't been
i
for not liking Gerke was that "Now Charlie's real reason she never moved," Mr Punch explained... "She stood in the
Mr Punch Enld he had several park not far from Charlie's strange friends, a red chinin merry-go-round. But while Rabbit that sat on the lawn "Charlie and I wore preat Charlie went round and round near the boathouse in the parkc friends," said Mr Punch. He, and pranced up and down white and up fron Rooster that stood is Ilved on
merry-go-round in going round and bund, Gerlie on top of the boathouse root the middle of the park. I used never moved a muscle, She and turned around in the wind. to come with my mother and visit him every day. I'd sit on foo
stood right out in the open, air;." "A weather vanch" his back.
From the leeming, dingy street,
quiet changed. The colour of ink through the
a changed and the same sheets of and dimly-lit shop tv charming interior courtyard. In paper are printed with the new an elegant reception room, its design and colour. This is re- walls line with reprochseed and peated until the flower or horse original paintings, statues and emerges complete. pottery, un official outils the history of the organisation und briefly explains its work.
A number of coples have to be rejected as imperfect by the studio's high standards, But officials say that the total of three is a very small proportion of the whole.
Then the Visitor is taken to the low-cellinged bright room where a dozen artists carefully The great majority of copier, and trace on transparent paper the after drying, mounting.
tre ready for sale in produced. Each of its colour Peking, elsewhere in China, or the reds of dower pozis, the in art shops round the world.--||| greens of the leaves-requires a Reuter.
lun-outline of the painting to be re- frish,
THIS is another main course for a light
cheon. Quantities can be multiplied according to the number of people to be served.
rean it Endive Supreme, been-"boiled on the bone" and It is chicory Ог Belgian cause it rolls without breaking, dive I mean. The chicory : Cooked bored ham is awkward blanched und of elgar shape. for this. Use Maves clinging "lightly to each other.
THE CHICORIES
Chooce. four not-too-thick chicories. Cut a very thin silce off the root of cash and dis-
JACOBY on
card any poor outer leaves. TIASTS raise to three hearts
Boll the chicories for digits in the doubtful gategory
It is pleasantly bitter and is minutes in salted water co- and so we West's bid of four. mude on silk or paper, bound in complemented by the ham which tofring the juler of half a fine books or en natupaper: New is
But with a little bit of luck wrapped around it. The 1émon. Drain well and presa plus some help by the defence works are added to the catalogus į flavour of the whole Is bitter.
them between the folde of the hand rolled in. steadily.
swcet."
Linen cloth. The number of copies of each Fer prettrice, buy
en printing varles according to thinly sliced ham
very which has
LADY LUCK
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14
AQUARIUS (January 21- February 19): If you realise your shortcoming, It is never too late ta, do something to overcome them. PISCES (February 20-March 20): A newcomer to your circle will be grateful f you welcome him warmly and make him feel that no is among friends. ARIES (March 21-April 19):
Don't let
domestic problem overwhelm you, Ordinary common. Bénse will help you to solve it. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You will be intrigued by a romantic encounter. but
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.. ought to avold hurting the person who has so far en- Joyed your undivided affee- tion. GEMINI (May 21-June 21):
An Irritating
BRIDGE
NORTH 1032
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WEST (D)
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EAST
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North decided quite properly to attack with his long suit. He also decided that he was spe- dally appointed to fool the
4920 the declarer and opened his fifth over best, the deuce, Instead of his
fouth best as he should,
Mçarıwhile, make the follow- ing white sauce; Simmer 2oz four in 2oz. butter without colouring 11. Away from heat, stir in a tie pinj milk, then simmer to cook the flour and make a fairly. thick sauce.
Add 1 to 2 tablespoons of top milk cream and reasoning tuzte, including few graine of Cayenne, i Uked.
Wrap cach chleory in a very thin slice of bollet ham. Pack member that it is not the them closely, side by side ard value of the gift which in one layer, in a small oven counts, but the sentiment dish, and spoon the sauce over
thezi. behind it.
Sprinkle them with fairly VIRGO
22. (August
fresh breadcrumbs and gretco September 22); An older mild cheer, hot and half for relative who knows. youn mixture of Gruyere and very well ought to Parmesan, if available). Browa heeded and his advice ja litle under a hot grill. taken,
Shelled and skinred bolted (September LIBRA
20- chestrutu, rolled
incited October 22): Make sure to buter, go well with this dich. keep an appointment for
BAKED BANANAS tonight, Usappointing
ROSETTA who
and thus avoid A person
counting a great Peel two large or, three smaller bananas, nice them in
deal on your meeting.
SCORPIO •(October 23- hat, lenghwins, place them in
November 21): A trouble a butterect
essential if your assocła tlon is to be a lasting suc-
Cees,
oven-dish
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some neighbour will move sprinkle à le grated lemon from your vicinity and a tind over them. frequent source of Ap- Dribble a good noyance will be removed. of meled butter over them, SAGITTARIUS (November Aprinkio with a tablespoons of 22-December 21): Con- brown sugar and bake for up minutes in a moderato fidence in your partner Is 20 person
Oven (375 demers. Fahr. g mark 5).
Malco this cauco: Mat CAPRICORN (December 22-in a pair of water. Bring to Lapons of red currant jolly January 20): You will re the boll," then stir in a lovel ecivo a welcome invitation smal terspoon, of BITO TOO", from a much younger per blended withi a tablespoon of on with whom you had water. Bring to the boil again, when. It will clear at once. Pour tills Muce ov YOUR LUCKY CARD: If baronas and serve.
today in your birthday, Or worm'a mesure of rum Pour it over the your lucky card, no matter in Indio
at tablu Lagring, Det is alight what gaane you may be and baste them with the fam playing, ought to be the ing spirit. TEN of HEARTS.
-London Express Nervica),
should not be permitted to rous you, to anger, Con- aldor his Imitations bo- fore lealng your temper. 'CANCER (June 22-July 21): A person born under Sagittarius may make a pleasant acquaintance, but no lasting friendship Ja likely to develop between you. LEO (July 22-August 21); show If you want gratitudo to someone whe has done you a service, 'ro-
to
almost lost contact.
tho
He fooled the declarer but that did not matter. Declarer had no interest in clubs any way. More Important, he fooled his partner, South could count. The deuce lead showed four cluba only in the North hand.
VECARD Sensek
Q-The bidding has been: North East South Wes
Pask. 3. Раз
2 N.T. 3N.T.
Pasa
? You, South, hold:, MAS VKS $QJ96TO AK?,
What do you do now? A-Bld four zio-trump ar Blackwood. If you don't play this particular blå as Blackwood, al you can do la bid six no-trump and give up the grand slam (des
TODAY'S QUESTION
You do bid four no-trump and your partner bids five spades to show three aces. What do you: do now?
Answer TomOITOW
BOUTH AJE
J1095 4A913
North and South vulnerable West North 1
PLES 2❤ Pass 39
East I
South
PARL
Pass
Fass Pass Pass Opening lead 42
wa3
Henco, declarer was marked with three of
Lnd n them trump return way indicated, Back come the trump and West in businicas. He drew trumpa and laid down the, queen of spades. South could thick, take his ace or whistle, but West was going to have time to get up a spade for a discard of his third diamond.
Even if North had opened his fourth best club South might have gone wrong and led back the trump anyway, He might have and he might not. We will never know, but at least be would not have been fooled by his pariner.
Rupert and the Purple Star-15
"I wish things hadn't turned out quite like this," murmurs Rupert. I did want to take Komething interesting back to Sailor Sam, aild this purple star fish is the queerest thing we've wen today, expect it needs salt water to keep it alive. Look,
here's a pool lift at the very lop of the tide." They put the pall st the edge of the pool, and Rupert gently tips the creature out. Soon they are in the car again. "Good, there's nothing wrong with the engine now,” says Mr. Dear un te drives briskly away, ALL BIGHTS MESIAPED
a
crled Knart and Hanid. "Here we gof" Charlie would "And no matter how hard it "What was his name?" nakteri
Then the music would begin blew, or how hat it got in the
rained er how hard the wind Kharf the next second.
"Gus," said Mr Punch. "But and Charlie would go round and summertime or how cold it got his full fame was Gusty."
Santa told us-
Will tell you
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