THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER: - 30, 1960.
***What's Best in Kowloon?
WOMANSENSE
Where did you get that hat?
THERE used to be two kinds of choose when she was shopping new: The ugly-smart hat or the frankly silly and frivolous.
hat that a woman could around for something little number, that was
But all that is changed now. For the first Ume in years hats
are coming our way which are
By
JANE ROGERS
pretty and chic at the same time, beret was in fashion, but look which need not massacre your out for it-it is making a come. haledo, either.
The preity-smart hat may be a modifest version of the cossock,
back,
designed specially for the TTHAT'S new about wormer weather. It is made W children's clothes this
from swansdown in white or
be obligingly season?
Colour-that's
it a sure-fire success with the overseas and moxiel girls.
a
black and car pushed into any shape you care what. The British children's To make it.
wear designers have bowed There is also a swansdown to the demand from beret which has just the right
mothers both hore and amount of off-beat chic to make
started pro- ducing dresses in really vivid colour schemos. The pretty-smart hat can be a doftened version of the bowler, Like the bright red pinn fore hardly dress I saw, trimmed with so gay that you would recognise it. It has a crown like minute white bows from hem lo an upturned pudding basin, and top. or another in royal bluo any rolled.brim and it is, as with poodles oppiled to the skirt. ilkely as not, trimmed with a The boys are not overlooked, Rigantic rose. The new-style elther-the favourite fabric for bowler is the kind of hat you can small-size trousers in a vivid red wear with a suit or with a dress, turtan. and it looks right both ways.
The protty-smart hat may be two-tone-the newest idea to
The twelve and thirteen-year- olds are being put into sophisti- cated abstract prints, The best- selling number at one wholesale
date. The crown is one fabric, house was a guy shirl-walster in draped spotted silk perhaps, or a surprisingly grown up brown coarse straw or even shantung, smudge print.
The brim is of something com-
pletely different, probably felt or
velvet, in a colour which com-
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your
CHINA MAIL
horoscope
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30
AQUARIUS (January 21. VIRGO
February 19): Confidence
in your own ability should not make you contemptuous of those less capable than yourself.
PISCES (February 20-March 20): A domestic issues may lead to an unpleasant dis pute, unless you give in for unce to avoid argumenta. ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you are under an obliga- tion to settle a debt, don't postpone it any longer, 24
plements but does not match the crown.
boxful of bows to clip plain onto
court
tiny
I've seen a cloche in a coffee shoes. Made from black organ- colour banded with cream, and a die, satin, plaid taffeta and vel- of vet, they come in an assortment white felt hat with a crown polka-dotted alive green slik, of colours, are sewn onto But the crispest, smartest colour spring clips.
old combination of all is an faithful-navy and white.
For the girl who likes pretty things: a pair of gally printed sheets and a printed
match. the nightgown
to
The
The pretty-smart hat for young is without a doubt the favourite theme is a long-stem- casual beret, made now in fake med rose.
leather. It 19 cut baker-boy ... A tiny box of gold p fashion but has a higher, puffed gloss which you smooth on over make your out crown and a bigger brim your lipstick to
talk- trimmed with a tailored bow. It mouth gililer when you
Is a long time now since the atrietly for Beatniks, this one.
Silk shantung makes a cocktail coat that is trimmed with
deep fox cuffs by MarksmeDT.
STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
The Squirrel-Dentist
-Willy Is Busier Than Ever With His Patients-
By MAX TRELL
"Willy's always turning into something new!" said Knart.
Knari and Hanid had a long talk with Willy later in the day, after he was all through will all his Squirrel patients.
"I like being a Dentist,”
"Squirrels are always sald, hurting their teeth cracking nuts, but they go right on do- ing it just the same"
he
"Ilow ebe can they crack nuls?" Knart asked willy.
22- (August September 22): The sum total of a very loquacious person's chatter will bring NARF and Hanid, the Shadow This was true. Since the time you no nearer to knowing Children with the Turned- that Khurt and Hanid knew him for what he really is, About Names, were halfway in Willy, he had been a Tailor, a the park when all at once they Grocer, a Farmer, a Barber, a
"They haven't got nut crack- LIBRA (September 28-stopped. For off to one side of Sallor, a Shoemaker and now a
ers," Bold Honid. October 22): A person the path, stretching from the Dentist
broad Chestnut
"Ax their teeth as quick as Just then a Duck came wad-
nald Willy. born under Aries will not Oak, Tree to a
Tree, were 1 whole line of prove the right companion Squirrels-large
Emall ding up with a small Duck at they hurt them," on for you, and it would be ones, old ones, young ones, grey her side. The small Duck had "And I help to keep them clean, better to break off the re- ones and here and there a red- a bandage wriund around her too, lationship in its carly atnges,
it will be no easier to partsCORPIO (October 22- with the money Inter on. TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
Don't let the flattery of a business rival blind you tu the possibility that he may be secking his own advant- uge, GEMINI (Mny 21-June 21): notable Another person's success in a similar field to yours will give you an in- centive to intensify your efforts. CANCER (June 22-July 21): to gain the If you confidence of a prospective 3111 employer,
must frank about yourself and give him all the facts he needs to know.
want
Le
LEO (July 22-August 21);
By being completely above board you will be able to clear up an unpleasant mis- col- understanding with a league.
dish one.
Nineteen squirrels
November 21); Don't let "Nineteen of them," announced had counted BUIRCONE wha is hardly Honld, after she
them. "Why are they all wait- competent to judge dis-
ing there, I wonder?" from courage you
going ahead with a plan you be- lieve in. SAGITTARIUS
him
bill.
Have no teeth.
DENTIST
"Your daughter should see, IL Doctor," Willy told Mrs. Datka "Pardon me, please, the large
"But I do wish that Birds "Neither have you any teeth, Duck was saying as she pushed
Flogs and Butterfiles Willy," said Hanld. forward. "My Utle Girl has a and toothache. Doctor Toad!" the would stop coming to me to
"I know it," said Willy, "But see have their teeth fixed. Every- called out. "We've got to you right away!”
one knows they haven't got any who ever sild that a Dentist
had to have any teeth?" teeth."
Knart and Hanid were now pleased to get a glimpse of their friend Willy. He was dressed in j a white cost.
Knart, wondered, too, so they both walked up to the nineteenth Squirrel in the line-he was a
Ho'll zoo duckling (November edd'sh one and asked
what he was doing.
Muy teeth Waiting to ret
"Ah, my poor Girl," he said, sold the reddish as he patta the little Duck on cleaned."
the top of her downy head, "so Squirrel.
This seemed odd. But by this you've got a toothache, have
.you?"
22-December 21): If a young person's response to your attempts to guide him continues to be negative, you might just as well save your time and effort,
(December 22- CAPRICORN
January 20): Plans for domestic improvements may for have to be shelved the time being, but they are not really as urgent as you imagine.
time Squirrel No. 18 and Squir- rel No. 17 had turned around. · "own" and nodded and said that they Duck. were also waiting to have their teeth cleaned,
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bawled the small
"If none of you Fellows and Girl mind," raid Willy to the long line of walling Squirrels, "I'll see this tie Duckling first."
JACOBY on BRIDGE
JUST in case some tender dow convention, I will explain it
not know the Blackwood brielly. In Binckwood a four no- trump bid asks pariner to show his aces quantitatively, Five four clubs shows no pres aces; five diamonds shows one
Ce; five hearts, two accs; Ave spades, three sers.
OF
and
Same reason
The four no-trump bidder can also ask for kings by bid- Pretty
soon all the other
ding five no-trump at his next six None of the Squirrels gald turn. Here the response is
dia- So YOUR BIRTHDAY: If this Squirrels in the line were saying
Wily clubs for no kings; six your that they were waiting on the that they minded." birthday, hopes for a better future line for the same reason: to get started back into his office with monds for one; six hearts for
the small Duck,
two; and six spades for three, With four kings you bid should begin to materialise their coth cloned,
"Hello, Willy!" Knart and no-trump, not six clubs, Hanid called.
is
your
this year.
Rupert and the Purple Star-28
Rupert in startled and scared by ing he peers keenly around. He the stranger's sudden appearance. looks without surprise at the dead "Oh please, I'm a friend of starlah, then rushes towards the Sam'a," he 4uavers. And I iron box. That's it, that's it 1*? called to see him because he asked he hims. Cap'n.' Morgan's
carpenter, Old Jem, owned that- box. Many's the time I've seen it. Now 'tis mine 1 * *
for something from the measkit
and. But the siber does not seem to be listening. Stift frown
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
"And I wish the Dentist would hurry up," said Squirrel No. 19. "I've been waiting here since carly this morning.**
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Brnall Duck. hollow trunk of this Oak Tree," Isaid Squirrel No. 2.
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Sounded angry.
the
Willy sounded angry as ho
· Knarf and Hanid walked up to, the head of the line. They were now able to see a emelisign Lacked to the trunk of the tree, said:
'It read:
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