THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
Wool jersey solves your PARENTS' SECTION
fashion problems
Barbietiuslubunk
BY JEAN WISEMAN
IT'S not so many years ago that Germany, not Paris was
the world fashion centre. And the Germans have always liked a rather casual type of elegance, ornate, overdrossed look.
This is probably one of the
reasons
why wool jersey is to the German woman today what tweed has always been to most of us--the basic standby for alme. any "occasion and any weather.
To see just how the Germans this highly adaptable at the
treat fabrie take look
a
illustrations,
0:1
design. It can be worn with
or without belt. Next, a
colour dress in three figured knitted wool fabric simulating a woven one.
many Lan be wern
The sleeve and occasions. shoulder are cut in one piece. Under a guardsman-like hat, a costume very sporly Jersey which attracts attention with with beled bush jacket revers, epaulets and cuffs. Then you will see this two-plece dress with loose jacket made
fl
Its
First, a
Jumper sult with knitted collar and knit:od
nude in a two neckband, colour avool jersey in a check
rather than the
in hard-wearing wool jersey with black bariler. Wearing
this, you are suitably dressed for any time of day,
evening. Finally, for a theatre
you could have a little dress and jacket in fine black wool jersey. The simple cut of the dress is enlivened by the pearl necklace at the throat. Wool Jersey is your answer whether the occasion demands that you
appear casual-or elegant.
We're not
A NEW sort of an-
nouncement from Mr Harold Macmillan "I get the impres- sion," he said, "that young parents now are much stricter.
"My parents were strict with me," he adds. "I wasn't perhaps so strict with my children, but young parents to- day are becoming much stricter again."
Is he right? I think he's got hold of the wrong word. It's not so easy to find the vight one might do it, "though -sensible It's the sort f common sense that comes from the heart as well as the mind.
Today's parent is the great un-nannied and all the better for Hust. Our grandparents laid down a harsh set of rules, left nursery discipline to the nurse maids and earned themselves a reputation
disciplinarians. Today we would call it neglect,
really strict -just too busy
to pander..
By MAUREEN OWEN
that's our working philosophy, all for the occasional wallop." We found there isn't time to Saya harrister's wife Mrs deal with undisciplined infants. James Edgerley, mother of five. Our "No" may be a bit more including twins: "I think the hysterical than The remote exact opposite of Mr Masinillon, Victorian negative, but when we Parents today have 5 many land a swift one on the seat of difficulties to face that they the pants it's done in good wam tend to turn a blind eye to their anger, not in cold blood in the children's faulis, out of sheer study.
exhaustion. Only the leisured We found the value of larger parent en afford to lay down families again and we're all strict rules and see that they busy planning our children's are carried out." complicated edtention.
· We don't aim to be strict, Mr Macmillan, but as
any
We certainly have plenty to think about, plan for, and cope moden parent can tell you, it with. No one even bothers to you live with your children you complain about domestic chores have to make them liveable with,
It any more. but I don't think makes us strict.
Busy planning The parents of the twenties and titles were perhaps the most muddled on record. Med en Nor duca Evelyn Anthony who feeding theories, free expression, writes books and leeks after her birth control and the social own three children.... don't whirl, they took on smart young think parents today are strict nanuies, discarded dizelpline and in Mr Macmillan's sense of the
lotel on their limited families word,
If you look after your
understanding more
for one hour in the morning and rwn children you are bound to another in the evening. Are we he
of better parents or just busier? genubin problems, like being We found that you can't bring afraid of the dark, for instance, up children on a set of theorien, "But you can't Eve with Each clutd is an individual, and undisciplined children and I'm
JACOBY on BRIDGE!
WATCH any expert playing the
dummy. He will pause für some time before playing from dummy at trick one.
This pause is not necessarily concerned with that Arst trick, but rather with the whole play of the hand.
Of course. that very Arst play from durmy may be the key to success or failure. To- day's South did not believe in that pause and played the deuce of spades from dummy. If East rad played his king just as quickly there would be no article, but East things over very carefully and simply played the six spol.
thought
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South won the trick with the jack and then went into deep communion with himself. He wanted to lead a diamond from dummy, but the only way to get to dummy would be with a apade lead and that would would have gone up with dum- my's ace of spades and led the East could desperation eight of diamonds. a
queen, or play and led the king of dia play the ace of monds but it was too late. East whistle, but he couldn't set the tock his ace and knocked out hand.
Inter
establish East's spade suit.
South tried
dummy's see of spades. on he made the queen of dia- monda and four spade tricks and South was down two.. How different if South stopped to think earlier.
STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Chirpie's Story
-He Almost Went Across The Ocean To Europe-
By MAX TRELL
"I
"I come down to the harbour
"Anyway," sald Chirple Spar- who didn't quite agree
row.
with Knart that sitting on a smokestack was a comiortable place for any Bird to sit, " lew up there."
"Then I asked
my
triends
just to say hello to my Seagull what they were all waiting for The friends. As a rule, I'd ind They said they were waiting
ALMOST went across
ocean to Europe tids them cireting over the water in for the ship to all" morning." Chirpie Sparrow said the harbour, or else standing on Chirple said that the Seagulls to Knorr and Hanid, the Shadow one of the docks. But they told him the ship was going Children with the Turned- weren't in either place this across the ccean and that they
About Names.
lie had come as usual to the
moning
window MR for his breakfast "I was pretty disappointed."
bread crumbs.
He almost wont
"I hope you didn't think they had all town off without sny- ing goodbye to you," said
fanld.
were going along with it, or at any rate to follow behind it.
Plenty of food
way,
For It always happened, the Seagulls told Chirpie, that once a big ship got under "I almost did-but I didn't,"
here was plenty of food to be Chirple added.
Knort and Hank weren't She couldn't help feeling found in the water behind at. mare that they really had heard sorry for the lonely little Spat- "I asked the Seagulls how what Chirple said.
row, flying all the way down long they were going to follow to the harbour to visit his friends the ship and they told me they Chirpie repected that be eald only to find none of them there. might follow it all the ho had almost gone across the Decan to Europe.
"It cái started when I went
What to know more
Not so strange
way
Chirpio New up on the smacko- stack to see the Seagulls,
VACARD Sense&♦
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had
South
West North East
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Pass
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Pass
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You, South, hold:
MAQUE WAQ76 OZ MAKJ7
What do you do?
A-Bid six hearts only. There
is a temptation to bid seven, but you don't have quite the band for I. Al the same time, your Jump to six does not keep your partner from making a further bld.
TODAY'S QUESTION
You still hold this same nice hand. This time your partner has jumped to three no-trump over your two spades. What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
BEAUTY HINTS
If your eyebrows are thick (and inclined to meet over the nose, then plenty of "weeding" "On account of what come will be necessary to get them out of the smokestack," said under control. Once you have Chirpic.
got them into skupe they will need constant altention to krep them that way,
"Smoke?" asked Knart.
across the ocean to Europe,
"I told them I had never
"Big, been to Europe. And they said
Could go, too
down to see my friends the Sen- "The thought entered my that it was a place made up gulls. They're water Birds, you mind," said Chirple, that they of many cities and many har
now. There's a whole flock of might have gone away. Sea- Lours. them living down at the har- gulls are always on the move. bor," Chipie sak.
But all of a sudden opled them
They were sitting in row In one of the strangest Knut and Hanld wanted to places that anyove could ever know more about this trip to sit. They were sitting on Europa which Chirpio had al- smokestack
A teams." most taken but didit.
Knart sant he didn't
blace smoke," said Chlipie. "I couldn't even see the ocean. And even if I got to Europe, I wouldn't be able to see it.
After applying your powder, brush away any surplus from the face, cleaning alt crevices around the cyca, поле and mouth with a soft complexion brush.
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"No, sir, a smakeslack is no "Then they said that no one place for a Birt ke me, Pa would mind it I set right ea rather stand on the
Stretching is one of the most window the edge of the smokestack and ill and see a
for health bread crumb valuable exercises the aniled with the ship right
So hop out than stand on an ocean-going and gracefulness, aerous the ocean to Europe. Imckestock and not aco the of bed in the morning and
"Well," said Chirple
Voccan."
stretch, wiretch, streich, Knurl and Hanid, "I almost
Chirple walked up and down think that we such a strange did!" the whalow sill, picking up the last remaining crumbs. After place for a Bird to sit.
L
With that cheerfut remark, Retouch tinteck or Ulcached ***You almost did," said Hanid. Chirple SparrOW bade Knart hair often. Nothing looks more bo'd eaten them all, he said; *If I wmo a Seagull, I'd sit "Why didn't you go all the anut. Hanul a cheerful good stovenly than an sintouched new
"What happened was this.
ther" he said.
morning and flew away.
"growth" of hair.
way f
LADY
your
LUCK
CHINA MAIL'
horoscope.
MONDAY, JANUARY 23
21-
AQUARIUS (January
February 19): Due to an exceptionally full social calendar you may have been neglecting a close friend, and you owe him an ex- planation,
PISCES February 20-March
20): If you try to develop
anniversary could be suit- ably remembered with a gift box of chocolates. CANCER (June 22-July 21):
Avold gambling over and above a sum which you could safely lose without hardship to you or your de pendants,
a new ides too suddenly you LEO (July 22-August 21):
may find yourself faced with a series of obstacles which could have been avoided.
ARIES (Murch 21-April 19): You should respect your partner's conventional out- look even though you may not share it TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A financial undertaking is rather doubtful and it would be advisable to post pone it until you feel more certain of Ils outcome,
GEMINI (May 21-June 21): A friend's sixth wedding
Rupert and the Purple Star -48
Doing as he is told, Rupert takes the end of the hosepipe away from the pool and beyond a boulder. "Point the nozzle well away from you." says Sailor Sam, ** and don't get splashed with this elec trified water. There's no wind, so it won't be blown back on to
you." Then he works the pump vigorously and a jet of water appears. At length there is a cry from Sam and, dropping the host. the two pala find him lifting the Purple Star from the nearly empty pool, and putting it into the wooden bucket.
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