THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
Shirley Lord
FASHION SHOW
AT
ST JAMES' PALACE
The first fashion show to be held in a British royal palace was held recently at St James' Palace in London. More than 350 guests paid HK$176 a head to see the show- it was in aid of the Edwina Mountbatten trust.
It opened with a ballet devised by Mexican designer Alfred Bouret.
PICTURE SHOWS: A Charleston even- ing dress, with a long feather boa included as one of the numbers in the "Royal" fashion show.
on every woman's wavelength
Tricky one
one to
to handle: children
WHETHER blessed with fortune or farthings, bring- ing up baby to appreciate money is one of the biggest problems known to man or left to Mum.
How can you get tycoon jnr, born with silver shares in his hand to value them in fact how do you teach a rich child what it's like to be poor? And vice versa- when heady success comes suddenly to the hard-up what early training prevents a "slip off the rails?"
I found one answer fitted both questions when I heard the stories of the youngest managing director in the cosmetic industry and the pretty girl from the East End chosen from 1,000 applicants to work in America for a big airline company. The firm that sells make-up to the Queen (they recently received the warrant after 60 years of Royal business) is the one that has, the youngest
money
ramning HK$1,710 a month
managing director in the exams-on an average level this will go up to HK$3,456.. comtry--21-year-old Gery mind you-we took him into i enn hardly believe "
Mrs Eden was just leaving:
Forsythe, grandson of the, the business.
"We sent him oul to our for her part-time job which
founder and the
the present chairman.
of overseas compantes as chem supplements the family income
ist's useistant, where he lived on the usual wage for that job
HK$192 a week.
He had to earn his position believe me, for The Tamily formula for bringings up a son
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....at a party: the girl who received, all the attention wasn't the deepest
one
a
"It was only when there was crisis in our South Africa factory-our top chemist fell ill thal we discovered his Hair for that side of the business
...it's really like cooking,
you know.
"Nobody was more surprised than his father when he saved the day for us, and he even said. I'd hail him as a find if
Forsythe' wasn't that's what Gery was 11 ] 7 ogairent.
Haue
Fitu with the decolletage,
but had a job with the Council for Industrial Design.
luxury
against a was a tough one.
background
"I think he appreciates his position because he knows he Parned it. From childhood he was taught it was up to him trz succeed In the world, not us to succeed for him.
"Our relationship is wonder- ful and he knew although his As his mother told me, "Gery life would always be comfort- didn't have money until he was able it wouldn't be successful able to earn i-half a crown without his own effort. (HK$2) weekly maximum at public school and afterwards a rock-botten favours.
salary-with
no
"Because of the war he was sent lo boarding school at eight years old and he knew then he had to be self-reliant.
"He didn't know what he wanted to do at 18, but because he had learned to control a had passed his temper and
CHILDREN'S CORNER
The Wallpaper Jungle
-Knarf Finds It On The Other Side Of The Wall-
By MAX TRELL
KNARF ani Hanid had never hi expected that anything so won derful could happen.
thing.
"You're going to bump your- gelf in a minute," Hanid warned
Kharf didn't
say any-
The wallpaper jungle laskeri For isn't very day in the very red tonight. Knarf couldn't week that a room in a house, explain exactly why, but it
can become a clearing in a seemed to him that the Birda forest, with Birds dying around in the air were fluttering about. and Deer and Zebras aist Gi- Somewhere deep inside the
Hippola junak". ralfes
he could hear the muses, moving around us take and of snapping twigs us a ly and comfortably. as though Deer ran through they were in the middle of Wants to get close
Afrika.
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ncluse as I can," Looked like jungle
Knarf thought in himself, as he Now I must tell you that the walked toward the wall, hold- wallpaper in the room in whica frut his hand cut in front of Knart and Hanid, the Shadow him. Children with the Turnerl-About Names, lived, showed palm trees to
Imagine Knarf's astonishment
Konr, the Shadow Boy, found
himself right in the jungle.
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.from the dryer: tha
lady who tokes her dress off, but leaves her pearls on-
hairdressing over her gown is usually the who leaves the tiniest tip.
one
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when called, I asked her if she was worried that the sud- den switch of backgroundi would bowl Belly over.
"Never. Belly knows we're proud of her success and she'd
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from the stalls: the person who says "shush" whon your chocolate paper rustles is the one who's ob- viously on
& dict.
Now,
never let us or bersalf down She has to work hard, too, you know... but she's already passed four of her exams with 100
cent per marks,"
I understood as Mrs Eden chatter on why Betty has suc- eceded in getting this first step ahead in the world, when along the grey
strect others were slouching despondently to their factory jobs,
"Betty knew
what restric- tions were. She had to be in by 11 o'clock at night and always Kave us something from her wages fowards her keep. Apart from the fact it was useful, it
CURIOUS, THIS
SAME-DRESS EXPERIMENT
WOULD
YOULD you buy a sales- girl's uniform for your summer dress? Somehow I don't think you would, yet two London stores appar- ently think otherwise.
These two stores have re- cently begun a curious ex- periment that of dressing many of their girls in the same clothes they want us to buy, admittedly pretty Mudeas cottons from Thoco- lette, a house with a good fashion line.
Wit it work? My opinion 19 that although A woman recently knows when she buys an off-the-peg dress that it is one of many, she also convinces herself in that split moment of decision that slic
will never meet auy- body wearing another any. way... so it doesn't matter.
In this case she will ho sufreunded by salesgirls to prove her wrong,
--(London Express Service),
Did you buy your dog
as a pet
or a success symbol?
gave her a sense of the cost of THE pronouncements of Hving.
"She had a steady boy-friend here
Tour
politicians worth a
are
second's
in Walthamstow, but surely wanted to see more of the world thought. before she married and
But I have been giving though we knew we'd miss her more than a second or two dreadfully, we encouraged this
Edelman,
al- con
I suppose
and re-
contribution?
stant encouragement
cognition of his enthusiasms.”
come
By VERONICA PAPWORTH
we were always behind to Mr Maurice
MP, who has just
As the father of six poodle- out with the report that whippets, nine bull-terrier
and pets in Britain are success whippets
two
spaniel "like whippets to date, he has his own symbols depending
method of impressing the neigh- and bours. the prestige of cars mistresses on
what they
10.
This was the connecting link between Elizabeth Forsythe and her ambitions." the mother of Betty Eden from Encouragement, trust and Walthamstow, for these were love. These, I decided, were the the only two gifts she was able ahead children, rich er poor.
three ingredients to give give her daughter.
three thousand miles Betty is away from the little terraed where she has lived alt her 21 years. Chosen last month
to
10
10 truin
as
lop-light
stewardess on the San Francisco,
Honolulu and Japan route, she
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moves going to "air-school" in New York
an
marvellous time.
having
"She's sharing a flat with another stewardess," said her mother wistfully, and already
C
..from the driver's scat: the
car that loft to turn right is driven by some- body smoking wears glasses.
who
JACOBY on BRIDGE
The room didn't look like a cliscover that instead of room any more, it looked like and vines and tropical flowers bumping himself on the wall, a clear plane in the middle of a and Birds with long feathers he stepped right inside the mid- great Jingle.
at the South TAKE a look and Monkeys in short, tile of the jungle. There was no
hand only. You "Here I am!" Hanid cried, as
respond looked like Jungle.
doubt about H. He touched the she came
to your partner's up to Kanrf. "My one spade "It almost looks reat." Hanid trunks of the trees around him, what a wonderful place we're opening bid. He raises you to sald to Kharf on this particular A Parrot
Blew over his head in now! It really is a jungle!" two spades. What is your re- evening.
screaming. He saw a Monkey They walked Blang path bid, if any? "I wish it were real" said fooling down on him, from high that
Wound among the great j Your hand certainly rates a Knarf. I'd love to walk in the up in the treetups.
trees, being careful not to trip rebld. You have 12 high card inkdle of that jungle."
**Hanic!** he called "I'm in over the vines that crept along points and
five-card A good Walked toward wall the Jungle."
the ground.
if you feel spade sult, Knart looked buck to see It had grown darker outside
Orchid blossoms
servativ, you can hvite game the window, for the days were Hand walking across the roum
Here and there, they found by bidding three spades, shorter and. growlan!
all at toward him. holding her land orchid blossoms growing, white if you decide to take the Knarf, without saying out cautiously just as he had unit red and once,
violet and rich by the hens and jump right in anything to Hanid, rese and been doing a few minutes be- brown, tanid plcked a whole game no one can criticise you. walked toward the wall.
arinful.
Meanwhile, Kaart, who had Now, see what happened ventured ahead, suddenly shout-poor South. Nerth was one of ed to come up and see what he those trap bidders. North had had found, It was a Monkey opened one not much bigger than a Kitten property and just as tame, The Monkey two sat on Kaarf's shoulder.
fore,
Rupert and the Paper-fall-3
Next morning Rupert wakes early, and when it is light enough; he peeps through the window. " thought 1 heard somebody-out there," he murinure. **Hello, our gate's open. I do believe there's another piece of paper rigla out side.wonder if it' like those
I found yesterday." His curiosity gets the better of him, and dressing quietly, he creeps into the living room, picks up the sheets of paper, and gently lets himself out. There was someone here !" he breathes, 1 can still me him over there on the grass."
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
"I'll keep him as a pet," said
| Knarf
Hanid's pot Parrot Ifanid found
a pet of her nwn. This was a young gray Ti qutely learned to | Daught
Bay "Charf" and "Hanid".
Ab urther Manid
came
un Knart and on a water hole and hera they sat, watching the Animals coming down to drink -Hippo and Deer and Ele- phants,
Giraffes and Zebras, even a Lioness and her Cubs.
All the Animals were friend-
ly.
Why should they hurt us?" Hanid "nald to Knaef. "This In a wallpaper jungle and only these are only wallpaper Ani- | mals,",
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Pans Pass PATE * You, South, hold:
cost to buy and maintain." I WISH I'D BEEN
To me a car is no more than
a means of comparatively swift BORN YESTERDAY...
locomotion.
I don't give a damn for its looks so long, as it goes.
$50
ALLED together in the cause And on mistresses and their women of the Year." peeking.
charity recently upkeep. I am hardly competent out from under something like to comment.
£5,000 worth of model millin- But I can't help defending ery, swallowed 550 trout-fol- This suggested decline of man's lowed by veal, haricot beans best frien?".
au beurre,
Ropicle,
cherries Rambees
"A Great Dane or an Irish and ice creams pudding. wolfhound needs a large hearthy for a maximum effect," says Mr Edelman, and the Boxer dog,
prestige animal," is the social climber's first choles
Dedicated
་
LADY LUCK
your
CHINA MAIL
horoscope
FRIDAY, MARCH 17
AQUARIUS (January 21- February 19): Try and visualise the scope.of the rather ambitious scheme you have in mind, and pro- ceed only if you honestly feel you can carry it out. PISCES (February 20-March 20): You will create a very good impression on some important people who may be able to do quite a lot to further your ambitions. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don't try to cope with too much
but detail today, utilise the time to catch up with work requiring less concentration.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The field you have selected for your future activities is well chosen, and a comfort- able future is assured. (GEMINI (May 21-June 21): Aspects for a long term plan are not too favourable at present, and you should wait for a more propitious moment before embarking on it.
CANCER (June 22-July 21); Don't let yourself be pro- voked into quarrelling to- day, but treat any annoying remarks with the contempt they deserve.
LEO
(July 22-August 21); If you have made up your mind that a certain person is the ideal partner for you, don't be influenced by a friend's unflattering spin- ion.
they relaxed while VIRGO ve shining examples of female success battled with the prob-
lem of who they would like to be it they were not themselves. Five very good speakers they were tou,
At my table, novelist Allson In an apple-greva toque, Uttley,
22-
(August September 22): A person born under Gemini will not be able to adjust himself to your ways, and no hap- piness could result from a permanent relationship.
I called up an old friend who the Indy mayor of St Pancras, LIBRA is a breeder of Boxers-a large, in cock feathers, Gladys Young tweedy soul---square flu, the in a grey tulle bat, and an Irish geometric sense) and absolutely barreter in a brocaded turban,; dedleated to her dogs.
applauded happly.
"How many Borers do you reckon to sell as success sy bols"
"As what? Speak up-is, this
a bad line or something?"
Not one of the speakers,
with gratification, was noted wished to have been born I MAN.
into
For my part, I was astonished: "Success symbols-that's that that every speaker groped back
to Ye the past
Eve, Maurice Edelman says they are." Florence Nightingale, Madame "Success what? My dogs are Curle, and so on. first dinss pets, wonderful con- panions and brave a ruddy lions. That's why I sell them." with any woman, but if I had to choose it would certainly be
I don't want to change places
"You don't think people buy someone LIVING. them to impress their neigh- Life goes bounding, along so bours?"
fast, and so much is happening "Tommy" rot, my girl. Plain so swiftly, I know I'd have is correct, but
needless to say tommy rot.
chosen to be born yesterday- he would have bid two spades West with a weaker hand.
"Seventy-five per cent buy and a WOMAN, naturally. Paza Anyway, when South Jumped them beenuse they love them Poz to four spades North Eprung and 25 per cent because they
the trap on him. He said to need their protection.
ROUNDat last-ma "If it's not appeal, you're out
simple himself, "I have a maximum two spade
the fashionable
solution to the problem ofi raise. My
pariner after,
how to clean those gorgeous has jumped to game.
today is a whippet. There
that white fur hats
look so may be a slam." Then North
"Belter still, three or four wonderful for to short time bld Ave spades,
matching whippets-belge for only. Needless to any South passed, proferenec,”
A friend who has just ro but the damage had been done.. "You hear that?" sold to appeared in an absolutely snow- West cashed two heart tricks my okt velge wippet us 1 re- white fur beret alie wore to and shifted to a club where-placed the receiver. "Three or parties alt last winter reports upon South had to
thalel?" a four to
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TODAY'S QUESTION - You hold:
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Azswer Tomorrow
1030
diamond trick, and game and Ho gave me a long, rubber,
tools,
dog
that sho keeps it that way with long a dog's dry shampoo.
****(London Express Service),
(September 23- October 22): An associate's outstanding BUCCORS does not necessarily mean that your efforta In the same be similarly feld would
crowned. SCORPIO (October 23- November 21): A domestic quarrel must not be allowed to Interfere with your work, which needs your exclusive attention at present.
(November SAGITTARIUS
22-December 21); A high- strung child will require special care,
and your patience and understanding will soon win his confidence. CAPRICORN (December 22- January 20): A manifesta- tion of true affection from your partner's, family will give you a very warm feel- ing. YOUR BIRTHDAY: If this Is your birthday a very busy time lies ahead of you, and
If you channel your ideas
in the right direction you should enjoy a prosperous year,