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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
FASHION
by BARBARA
GRIGGS
SINCE the packet steamer was invented and the penny post; since they first thought up telephones and began to take photographs; since airplanes became a normal way of getting about and people visited from three thousand miles away.
Noticed?
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there's been no way of keeping fashion localised. Trade winds sweep it round the world, one country's traditions getting caught up In another's revolutions. Dizzying, occasionally, but vastly exhilarating. This week's fashion news proves the rule all over again...
The change in the Queen?
you good news and you wINDIA
share
be gind to jubilation with him.
your
VIRGO (3) August 22-Sep-
tember 22): Make a whole- hearted effort to adjust yourself to your partner's plan for a successful life together,
FLA
print-deserve special
mention,
along with Bardy Amies stylish dreas and jacket in clear blue silk with pleated skirt, the hat an white with roltec-back
rim.
it
SO NATURAL
LATTERING Royal dress-sense has been pastime of mine, but it's high time someone all the how Incredibly this September 24-pretty and elegant the two mienses. October 221: Your fondness Queen has been looking for good living should not be allowed to overtas your on her India tour.
and you canhot pointed out, fail to achieve it.
LIBRA 1-1)
Bnancial resources,
SCORPIO (1) October 28-
same,
To start with, she has clearly pounds-on # pre-tour tost crash-diet. To go on with, the November 211: A person farmal warmth and brillance born under Aquarius will of her Indian welcome has not be able to arouse your brought out something obvious when trying to in all the pictures delighted, synpally enlist your help in a per-spantaneet quiety all too often
absent from the sonal matter.
neempied face.
Queen's pre-
SO SIMPLE
SAGITTARIUS (12) (Novem. ber 22-December 21): Take more time off for alioor exercise, and your zest for living will incrense by leaps and bounds.
Finally, the Queen's couturiers -Hartnell and Hardy Amies- CAPRICORN (7) December have done her proud un this 22-January 20: Your opension, atting her up with a superior may entrust you wardrobe of stunningly simple, with a new responsibility, stylish clothes, in pale Fieh silks. linens and drifting In the certain knowledge rough
delight- that you are well able to organdies, crowned by
fully frivolous hats. cope with it, YOUR LUCKY
NEMBER:
Count the letters in your
coal over
What can have brought about
in the transformation Curen's appearance? I make
critical
the time wouldn't be Western eyrn that know about Parls.
all
Second, the Queen is now old enough to wear with perfect naturalness the rather format clothes that five years ago made her look merely matronly,
Some
of women grow, out
others
their natural style
grow into It. The Queen is one of the lucky latter,
ENGLAND
Dresses that
Others are carving them up to make into dresses. The one in the picture-in the shops shortly -shows the sari westernised
draw the eye into a clinging vampy dress, lis
THE rich glinting of a
rich gold border folded along the top of the bodice and fan- ning out ever
shoulder
AMERICA
The colours
gold-hemmed sari is (typical 1961 note). are matching
suddenly drawing many
in eyes Western women tually wearing saris. wouldn't feel happy if I saw an indian woman wan- First, the knowledge that all dering around Bombay
in those milions of curious eyes zazing at her every minute of well-cut tweeds.)
If you want
SARI
INTO CLINGING VAMP...
THE SARI goes West in a dress.
of .floring tan- gerino silk scattered with rich gold. Its border cdging the bodice and curving over ong shoulder. A is o in white,
A DISH IN
MINUTES
Goujons
of sole
THIS week's
main
course dishes can be prepared in a matter of minutes and are planned for those who have little time to cook but like to set down, to their family and friends, food which is not quite "every day."
Goujons of sole require a little preparation but this can be done by the ish- monger, who will fillet the fish and cut it into strips, The actual cooking takes very little time.
For four persons, you will need 6 to 8 good-sized flllets of Dover (or Macao) sole (skinned), Cut them into diagonal strips, slightly
imagine for bra, pantle-girdle less than h, wide, and petticoat.
To make quite surc colour-matching
the up 20
Place them in a basın, cover them with standard, one big firm making barely corsetry Warner International milk, leave them for up to -has bought up a whole firm an hour, then drain them with a coast-to-coast distribu- thoroughly,
tion. Other lingerie Arms are doing the game, in reverse.
BIG DEMAND
Place 3 tablespoons plain
flour in a lurgish paper bag and season well with pepper
happily un- Helping on: the new corsetry and salt. Drop the strips
more takes to colour much readily than the old
In Italy, they were turning
the England. Some them into drifting dance dresses, XPECT it before
one end of the year from over ac swathed similarly are
America: (I shoulder but with full skirts.
to make your economical inspiration in man-made fibre, Lycra. which of fish into the bag and own sari dress, Indian shops sell the lingerie field.
rubbery Shake them about to coat the fine pure silk originals, They tried colour-matching fabrics.
them with the flour. Lift long enough to turn into a dress, lingerie to dresses a year or two Also helping on: public de-out and shake off LXGCSA st almost any price you care to ago—and it never really caught mand for more dazzling under-
along with the chunky on. Now evidently
the wear. on gilt bangles and necklaces that principle that you can get away At least one thing can be sald set them off well.
with a tall story as long as it's a in defence of this imminent sityscraper--they've gone one colour drive: White was NEVER beiter and produced lingerie the most practical colour for colour-matched to corsetry-the underwear.
—¿London Express Servica,)
These books
made me
feel
uneasy
by MAUREEN OWEN
name
FS: Kohl on the eyes by all means, but let's forget the caste marks.
same
cerulcan blue, let us
CHILDREN'S CORNER
Sleigh-Riding Problem
-Kuarf Doesn't Like To Pull His Sted Up-IIill–
By MAX TRELL
Baren Muuch was smiling broadly.
"Ah," he said, pulling Knarf
on the head, "you and I are a
Ukes much of us with the Turned-About Name, ther
hard
Hartnell's two garden-parts LA AST year the National Marriage Guidance "I LIKE everything about sleigh-riding -- except one ensembles-one of a plain pert Council published two marriage booklets thing" Knarf, the Shadow Boy great dent alike, my Boy, Nel- and the winkle organic first manze and
watching dress, the other of an which were classed as indecent publications by was said to his old friend work. total to the number shown organd coat printed in all the the GPO in Malta and burned. in brackets after your signale colours of an English of the Zodiac. This is your flower-garden, and worn over a lucky number for the week. taffeta dress with the
JACOBY
TAKE a look at the South
Some
on
BRIDGE
hand and the bidding only. Would you ever double West's Three spade bid with that South hand? Surely never in rubber The ds ngainst you bridge. are fou great. You risk losing #ame and rubber to pick up a posible extra 100 points be enuse surety you will never set West two tricks.
:
How about al match duplente? The double is still a bad bid, but it can work ou very well for you because the difference between plus 100 for zelting West one trick un- doubled and plus 200 for sel- ting him doubled may amount to a great many match pointy.
When this hand was actually played at New York's Mayfulr Chib exactly one South player double threo rpade contract. As you can see by looking at
NORTHL AB
10
052
Jaz 4J052
WEST
J4
▲ AKJ92
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EAST
Q10753 107 +785
10 3
ROUTH (D)
AK103
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764
East and West vulnerable
South West North
1
14 2
Eut 24
Poss Pass
Pass
3 V 34 Part
Double Paza Pass
Pasd Pasa Pats
Opening lead-❤ 2
all the hands the double was diamonds and two hearts and successful. West lost three went down one trick.
❤CARD Sende♦
Q-The bidding has been:
(North
14
124
Pass You, South, hold:
Fast Sosla West Pass
Puss T
MAJSZE WA884 $KQJ10 40
What do you do?
A-Bid three diamonds. A strong blả should be made mod your beari sult is very weak.
TODAY'S QUESTION "Your partner'rabids to three Ino-textmp. What do you do now
AnswerTomorrow,
the
Each has a foreword written respectively by Sheila Sim, Janetle Scott and Colin Cowdrey.
And right there on the first natural chlidbirth? (Only a maze of every book the uneasy minority succeed.)
Baron Munch, the greal traveller und explorer,
11:28]
Knarf didn't ke pulling the sled
-
flour.
During this preparation, have deep oil or lard getting bot. When a slice of raw potato, dropped into the hot fat, im- mediately rises, the fish strips, may go in.
As they cook to a warm gold, remove them on to absorbent kischen paper.
IDEAL CHOICE
Alumette potatoes are ideal with goujons of sole. If to be served, cul them into match sticką, trak them for holl an hour, then drain them wall and dry them in a cloth.
While the goujens aro' drain- ing, place the frying, basket In the hot fat and get it very hot again. Add the potatoes and cook them untit crisp and golden.
SAUCE TARTARE
Disliked it, too Last week three new editions went on sale: Knarf and his sister Hanid
When I was a Boy of your "The £ s. d. of Marriage." "All About Your Wed-had dropped in for a short visit
riso disliked the hard to Baron Munch, Heved in 1 ding," and "Starting Your Family" (2s. 6d. each). a tidy little house at the end of work or pulling my sted up-
With the fish, pass lernon hill. So i made up my mind Book Boulevard.
quarters and about a breakfast- Where is Book Boulevard? It to find a somewhere that
cup of very thick Sauce Tar- is behind the bookcase between only went down-hill.”
tare. This is made with real the cuckoo clock and the cur-
"And did you find it, Baron
"I saw it all right," he said, mayonnaise, Into which has tain. But there's a wonderful
Knarf oud Hand Munch?'*
been incorporated a tablespoon "It was on the moon1" short cut to Baron Munch's asked in great excitement.
cach of chopped paraley, house which, as I should have
and Haron Munch it his pipe and
capers and a Knarf and Hontd groaned gherking sat himself down in his chair,
with disappointment.
chopped small shalĵot, "Let me tell you about it," he name on It-Baron Munch's full
First, place the chopped in- the moon "And is
the only "I was certainly eager
af linen Baron Munchausen began.
gredients in a piece place where you can And and if you find the book in the to and that hill that only went down-hill that never
and twist It Into a ball bookcase, ant open it, there's down and never went up. So I Baron Munch?" Knari
queeze out the moisture, where you'll find Baron Muncht naked everyone I met to tell me sadly.
Looked surprised
| feeling starts,
Is it a good thing to advie told you, looks exactly like a We are used to the endorse new mothers to do all the wash-book. There's a book with his ment of fountain pens and spin ing before breakfast and cut a dryers by telly people and sandwich lunch? My doctor's name is popular Idols, But spin dryers reply is unprintable.) are one thing and marriage quite anothre.
You'd hardly nollee it though WHO NEEDS IT? If you listened to the Morzinge Gulders. Their strongly materialistic philosophy patters down like plastic pennies from la Hollywood hedan, sd, is
the guiding force.
You get married in church because of all the trappings that
a
If they knew where I could and
went down.
goes up, asked
ta
Chopped chervyl and farra- gon, when availible, can also be added to the sauce,
If the vinegar is left in the such hill. But no one secmed "I'm afraid so." said Baron gherkins and capers, it will
other thin down the anuce too much. to know. They knew plenty of Munch. "Perhaps some "But what is this one thing hills that went up and down traveller has found a down-hill Is it responsible to tell people that you don't like about sleigh-
could. So I think, my Boy, if keep their rent and holiday riding, my Boy?" Baron Munch but not a single one that only that never goes up. But I never savings in old tea pots around nrked Knarf
you're going to co sleigh-riding ready to pull one day," continued you'll have to Baron Munch, "I met a very old your sted up-hill every time you Man. He told me that he knew ride down-hill. "Unless,"
the exactly where I could find this added, you can get to wonderful down-hill that I was moon!" looking for.
the house? (Ask a policeman.) "The hills," answered Knart. " mean Knarf stammered to a stop. "I mean the up- Hills," Kharf continued after n moment.
Is it everyone who believes so with it. No: to worry if you've that "we are all descended from never been baptized er sel foot animals?" (I thought there was in a church before-few clergy-meve Kway from the Darwinlan men will dare to object.
PERSONAL
It. on the other hand,
theory,)
Most of the advice on planning
Baron Munch raised his cyg; brown He looked puzzled önd surprised.
The up-hills? 1 can't say
"Then
old
the "You're sure, I asked
Man, that it only, goca
and never up?"
He was sura
"I am, replied the ok Man. "Where in it?' I asked him, Tell me where I can find H1' "You look out of your win- "He means," the cald, "that dow at inlf-past seven tonight he doesn't like pulling his sled and you'll see it as plain as the up-hill. I'm too much work. I
mcen,' he rald. think oo, too" she added.
"Yes," said Knart promptly, nodding his head and smiling. Folt batter
foolood
་
a wedding or bringing up baby that i understand you, my Boy, down has been better presented by the Explain yourɛell, please." women's magazines or Dr Spock. Here Hanid said that she For example what modern bride would explain just
what her You have a baby if you can needs to be told "don't put on brother Kat meant by saying afford one. Dite warnings about your wedding dress, then realise that he didn't like sleigh-riding South was pretly proud of the cost of babies and the wife's that you have not put on your bets of the up-hlils. his double until
scores lots of inocme when she gives make-up}" came in. He remainect proud fup her job.
Who needs this port ef edvice of his double, but strangely
you from Joseph Brayshaw's Govern- enough it did him very little
want a baby and can't have one mønt-subsidised crganisation?
"Then he went away. good.
of your own, you go to the Who wants to waste the time and
"Well," Baron Munch sald In Someho or other, most Adoption Sceleties. Costs and money on buying 117
low volce, "I went home and South players landed at four addresses all listed:
had my dinner. I could hardly The urgent market in need of hearts on
wait for the clock to say it was come biking berles
Highly prysonai and ques- advice the the, 13-plus-ers, And He had or other, Invariably
half-past seven. would open the king of spades, tionable theceles are elitred into fer them "Family Doctor has ashamed of himself for not
their cosy "woman's chat"-type produced an excellent bookleting something because L *As soon as the clock struck He would hold the trick; lootages, like laxative into choco- called "16+Facts of Life" (is) meant a bit of hard work. But the proper time I rushed to the dummy over carefully; and
with the unsugared facts of life, when ho saw that Baron window to look out to see the then lead anything but à club..
underlined with a philosophical Munch didn't
only went Boer displeased wonderful hill that From that polni on South
and red-blooded humanity. would wrap up his game for a
to find out about this, Knart downl" Daron Munch slopped felt better again.
and Emiled. rcore of 420.
West
late.
Is it sound, for instance, to stato that there are few women who are unable to achieve
-London Express Baroles),
Vittic
HELEN BURKE
he
-(London Express Service).
Rupert and the Winter Sale-17
Rupert i still worried as jumps down front the chair. You needn't tell me not to be fright ened," he says. ***I'm nal frightened, but my Mummy will b. I'd better také the bus home, She give me some money." Then the shop manager comes back.
"Now then, have we got his anie ?** he asks. “We'll put a message over the ludipeaker system." But he never doša, for as that moment there is the sound 'of an agitated voice beyond one of the doors and the man goes to Bnd out who is there.
ALL RIGHT_ARYENYED