THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
When spring
has sprung...
LONDON.
KLEPTOMANIA is on
the increase
manners get worse on
the tube...
beauty sa
lons are full of spotty women-what does
all
this mean. It means that is on the way, spring and thut all those things, along with the crocuses in the park, are signs of its approach.
of year
How does this time affect you?
This fine
old myth
Frankly, for me, as you may have already gathered, the emphasis isn't on the joys ul life at all.
Something happens a: the hrirdressers, so my set deeza"! stay in. find queues absolute- Jy intolerable and generally mure frayed.
tempers
is it really
so romantic?
BY SHIRLEY LORD
thau
Springtime) (Youmger Maguire, over here to star in Broadway's hit, Finian's Rain- bow, both felt prosaic about it. "It makes me feel the need of a new wardrobe immediate- ly," said Jeannie, "so that I can get rid of all my lumpy clothes but this year with rehearsals there'll be precious little time,
It's still the
silly season
There was nothing romantic about Biff's appraisal elther.
In fact, I've never been able "Whenever people go gooey- this season eyed over this season," he told to understand why
is ris
in
the
is so cooed over. l-lieve that me, "I think of a rhyme we used the feeling it's supposed to give, to say when we were kids of "something in the air, and school: 'Spring is sprung,
wonder I summer round the corner" only grass
The birds Impatience, where the nowers is? #ggravates people's instead of tempering it, and (as are on the wing, and isn't that Thomas Moore ance said): absurd? I always thought the
gloomy wings were on the be but Spring would Weather, if we had nothing else but spring.
That sums it up for me: It's The silly season. when people In case you think I'm getting can get away with murder by
have
do I feel personally? **How Lousy. Spring doesn't stop the lu, and to me it just means it's the end of the financial year not a particularly good time for people in show business,
spy-
"My accountant keeps
mid before ing. Now don't go
after April, David. Wait until the Budget-so I have to post- pone any buying sprees then."
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So you see in not the only one who
spring-fever thinks has another side. But if you hate me for pointing it out, write nad say so, giving one good reason.
A PARTY IN 'PARADISE'
TECENTLY
it
was de-
Rsigner Michael Inch-
town: David Hicks, John Sidde- for 12 years after the wor, ley and John Dannenburg. told me over lunch that sho I haven't yet called to seo I was the first person to uso it was a success, but scorchow mole models in
cobbler's daughter who
a background on
fashion
I think it was, because, unlike shows when she introduced never had shoes, Mr inchbald them as has devoted five years of his TV. to making his home a decorator's paradise.
bold's birthday, and I must the say I felt a bit of trepida- tion when I heard about his e old and cranky, destroying this merely explaining, it's spring wife's special treat for that
David Hughes groaned whin day. fine old English myth, I asked the people who regularly I mentioned the word. sing bout
"I'm up to my eyes in it," he spring! For their
"There are just 100 many thoughts on how they feel about said.
songs about spring, and I can't Jeannie (It's Springtime) decide which to use for my pro- Carson and her husband, Bift gramas.
it.
She was giving a surprise
porty at their home.
The guests were not his family But the or his oldest friends aclenowledged top designers
CHILDREN'S CORNER
The Muddy Chase
-O'Sconl's Brand-New Hat Is Swept Downstream-
By MAX TRELL
Knart and Hanid and Dunkel
all stopped short. Dunkel lifted
IT all started to happen when up her ears, Knart and Hanid
Pixie Scowi's hat flew just stood and listened.
off Just as he stepped outside "That sounded like Pixie
of O'Cheer Halt in the roots O'Scowl," sald Koorf to Hanid. of the Old
Pixies lived.
Oak where the
"I can't understand what h
fald," Hanid remarked the next
The Oki Oak: was in the moment. "I think he jost his middle
of the park, and the hat."
Pixies who Hyed in O'Cheer
Called for help
Hall were city-born and cle- Dunkel didn't say anything. bred.
But after a second, she bounded
New when Pixie O'Scowl's forward in the direction of the hat flew away, he started run- lake. Knart and Hanid prompt- ning after it.
Jy followed her.
It was a brand-new hat inade "Help! Come over heref"
#1-23
"Get my hat!" muddy Pixlo
'Scowl called out to Hanid,
He has used all his ingenuity on changing the slum he in- herlled in Chelsea, into a minggal- ficent home secluded ter- race room built in over the back in yard. a wardrobe will
walls of pale blue silk out of อม old-fashioned closet an impeccable tiled bathroom out of a 3ft. bool cupboard, with towel rails sliding out of the walls at the merest touch.
out of a brand-new acorn with Pixie O'Scowl was yelling, also in the mud, for he was al- a bright red feather which a "Can't you see me? Here! I'm most completely covered with Robin had given him.
here
it.
It had rained the whole day Knart and Hanld and Dunkel "Get my hat?" he glibbered. before and the ground was mud- were about a dozen yards from
Knor and Hanid and Dunkel
dy. The new hat rolled in the mud. Pixle O'Scowl raced after
the edge of the lake. They very pulled Pixfe O'Scowl cut of the nearly stepped all over Pixle mud.
it. He fell he picked himself 'Scowl.
up, he ran again in less time than it lakes to tell this.
Couldn't catch up
mudi
"Get my hal! Get it!" he kept
"I don't sce you, Pixie saying. "It's a brand-new hat!" O'Scow!" called Hand, looking
from side to side.
He was covered with From the top of his hatless head bui
In front of her was nothing stretch of muddy walk.
Consoled 'Scowl
"Now, dear,"
said Hamid, as
down to his pale green shoes! In the middle of this mud ran the tock the muddy Pixie in the Bu: race as he would Pixie a swifi, narrow ribbon of palm of her hand and washed O'Secwi could not catch up with water, caused by the rain of him down with a wet handker
chief,
Els rolling lint,
acticed before.
And suddenly, yesterday.
"I's only an old acorn
"It's brand-newt And I want
it fell into a rushing stream Hanid noticed, though she with a feather in it," which Pixie O'Scowi had never didn't attach much importance exclaimed Pixie O'Scovi.
It went sailing to an acorn with a wel off toward the lake in the feather stuck in it, caught
twig in the middle of this "Get my hat!" shrieked Pixie rain stream.
middle of the park.
O'Scow!,
It was at that
moment that
Covered with mud
In vain did Kaart and Hanid to convince Pixie O'Secwl that
try
it would be less trouble to noke another hat than to wade out into the mud and get his
Nevertheless, with the help
Knart and Honk, the Shadow Then all at once they spied lost une,
Dunkel, the Black Prodic,
ncry
who fcund
Children with the Turned-About Pixle O'Scowl. He was up to Names, came into the park for his knees in mud. The part of of Dunkel, who found a their morning walk with him that was out of the mud com, and Knart,
might just on well have been another feather a blue one, this time Hanid made Pixle
Scowl a fine new hat,
It atted him perfectly! "Why. It's beautiful. Hand cald.
Rupert and the Paper-fall-8
"What a
bye,
Went away.
dear,"
Then they carried him all the
want a speck of mud on him when they set him down on the doorstep of O'Cheer Hall,
Thinking things over, I felt his wife had been very clever to let the other designers in to see his work,
MEN WON THE DAY
the
"When Ceell McGivern. then programme controller ni Alex- andra Pakce, objected to Idea I explained a woman would far rather have a good-looking man as a fashion accessory than a mink stole day day, it was the only argument that ever convinced him."
Nylons are still fun
do
you decide in the
11-PLUS LIFT FOR
DAMP DAYS..
on
CURRENTLY Intent proving that there's an. other, more lighthearted way to look at the 11-plus nge group la the Swallow firm, who've been making raincoats for yours and years.
A new executive there. mother of an 11-plus girl, weighed down with the begy of the approaching exam on her daughter's be- half, deelded this phrase in our language should loss its ominous sound, and take on as much meaning in fashion, Instead, as teen and 20.
. She want to Paris found,
and
the chic-cat girle wearing oil-sking, sa brought back a scaled-down design from the Fauborg St Honora for the "in-between."
LADY
your
*
LUCK
CHINA MAIL
horoscope
THURSDAY, MARCH 23
AQUARIUS (1) (January 21-February 19); This could be a promising day for you if you do things your own way, rather than by taking the advice of others.
PISCES (10) (February 20- March 20): You will be more succesful in gaining a colleague's full co-opera- tion if you treat him as a friend rather than as 11 mere working partner.
on damp daya, all ★ | ARIES (6) (March 21-April 19): A closer, relationship with somebody you con- sidered unemotional could bring you unexpected hap- pines.
This racy, slim style han became the first of a range, almed
at making the 11- plus girl more conscious of the exciting years that lay ahead in just being a girl.
*
TAURUS (2) (April 20-May 20): Rely ОП your own endeavours to get you to your oventual goal, since no other ingredient of succesSH Ja under your control. ✰✰✰ GEMINI (8) (May 21-Jane 21): Whilst always ready to help others, you are not expected to pay the price for other people's indiscré- tions.
CANCER (3) (June 22-July
21):
If you
value your in the present standing weapon)-
community, you must avoid any action which could mar your good reputation. LEO. (4)
This never happened when all dark they were
or light shades of putty, but only since the hosiery manufacturers started their colour war (they Have found colour is the only really potent sales
to for it takes some matchlog find clothes that go with the Riverbanks (muddy Pearl Smokes (chimney grey), green),
(burnt
or nge) and dozens of others.
Stenna Suns
If you wonder why I don't go back to pully shades, it's be- cause buying nylons has (mec again become fun.
PAT ON THE BACK NOTE: I predicted some weeks ago that Beno Teichmann would be a namc to watch in the fierce but fruitful world of fabric designing. Now he's just back from a two-week
HWhat to wear morning? I've recently day visit to the States, having cavored
ал extraordinary sold a record amount of trend in my own wardrobe cloth HK $ 9,300,000 manoeuvres; what wear worth, in fact. This really on top is now dictated by
puts him among the top to boys. BETTIE Spurling, fashion the stockings I happen consultant to the BBC pull out of the drawer,
-(London Express Service),
(July 22-August 21) Your desire to mix with new people should be thoroughly satisfied during
COOKING COLUMN
If you
eggs,
a forthcoming visit to the country.
VIRGO (7) (August 22-Sep- tember 22); Don't be too quick to fall in with a plan which could involve you in an expenditure
you сап hardly afford. LIBRA (0) (September 23-
October 22): Your reluc- tance to enter into conver- sation makes people uneom- fortable, and if you want to avoid being considered snobbish, try and be a bit more friendly,
SCORPIO (12) (October 23-
November 21): The tre- mendous energy with which you attack everything you do must be replenished by relaxation and regular sumcient sleep. SAGITTARIUS (6) (Novem- ber 22-December 21): A change in routine now may disrupt things for a while.. but definito benefit will be apparent a little later on, CAPRICORN (11) (Decem-
You ber 22-January 20): must overcome an irrational feeling of guilt, if you are really doing all you possibly can for a needy friend. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER: Count the letters in. your first nane and add the total to the number shown in brackets after your sign of the Zodine. This is your lucky number for the week.
by Helen
Burke
can't eat
try
this cake..
vanilla
essence to it. Stir tho
ROM time to time I hear bonate of soda and half teaspoon of a member of a family liquid into the dry ingredients, who cannot cat eggs, not
then stir in the cooled bul silli even in a cake. And I am liquid lard. asked for eggloss dishes. Hore is one and a wonder-
The icing
★☆✰✰✰✰✰✰✰★✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰★fully good cake at that. Turn the mixture into two
TWENTY-FIVE OF JERSEY-KAPWOOD'S LACES AND FABRICS. ARE DISPLAYED ON DANCING FIGURES IN A. BAL MABQUE REPRESENTING MME POMPAD- OUR, A GAN-CAN GIRL, ROMEO AND JULIET, VICTORIANA, AND JOSEPHING.
DANCING FIGURES AT TRADE FAIR
way back to the Old Oak. There THE most striking exhibit at the Nylon Fair at the Royal Albert Hall, THE most stris the Jersey-Kapwood stand with its glittering, dancing figures. Designed for Jersey-Kapwood Ltd. of Nottingham, England by
a bal masque Dorrit Dekk, MSIA, the stand represented
with period figures dressed in Jersey-Kapwood's laces and fabrics, and was acclaim- ed by overseas and British visitors to the Fair.
Then Knort and Hand and Dunkel went away. The fast thing that Hanid sold before she went away was
"Now don't back for that dirty, muddy hat. Do you hear me, Pixie O'Secwl?"
With Ropert's help, the amal? it went. Now I can't answer any
I guess Pixie D'Scowl didn't engineer hauls the thing out of
more questions. I'm off. Good.
liear her, Because no sooner the water. "Why it's a big toy
"Oh dear,” sighs Rupen. The other little man wouldn't
were Hand and the olbers gone, cart" cries Rupert.
than Pixie O'Scowl rushed right beauty Where did it come from 7 Answer questions either, I do wish How ever did it get into the knew who you are. And that back for the hat with the red Water? " **3 was testing it.” lovely car i
feather, How 1 wish I could saya the other. "There wa have one just like that for And he went to bed that night
Christmas." something wrong with it. and in
covered with mud but with ALL highta RYZEAVED
two intel
This is the first time that Jersey-Kapwood Ltd, the largest late producers In Great Britain, have appeared at the Nylon Fair since the new company was formed by the merger of Jersey, Fabries Ltd and Kapwood Lace, Lid on November 1, 1900.
Jersey-Kapwood produce all grades of both Leavers and Raschel Inees as well as nylon tricol, shirtings, Flutaton (striped and fluted nylon), Sprusaton (loop-raised nylon, plain and with various backings), and Chrysalon (nylon and pure slik), Twenty-five examples or their laces and fabrics are used to dress the fantasy figures of Mme Pompadour, Romeo and Juliet, Josephine, Victoriana, and a Can-Can girl on the stand,
Jerney-Kopwood export their laces and warp-knitted trimmings and fabrics to countries In all parts of the world,
Measure 10 to 11 tablespoons well buttored and floured 7-inch of hot water into a bowl and sandwich tins and bake for 25 add a large tablespoon of black to 30 minutes at 375 to 400 treccle, including the spoon, to degrees Fahr. gas mark 5 to incorporate the treacle in 1. 6. Turn out on to wire racks Melt 3oz. lard. Into another and, when cold, sandwich with bowl, all together Boz. self- vanilla bulter icing. raising flour, quarter teaspoon For the icing, blend together salt, oz. (generous) cocoa, 3oz. 4oz. sifted icing sugar, one or caster sugar and half teaspoon two walnuts of butter and a few instant coffee (dry).
Add. drops of vanilla essence. Remove the spoon from the drop by drop, toy milk cream or now cooled treacle water and evaporated milk to make a mix= add quarter teaspoon of blear- ture of spreading consistency.
JACOBY
Our
on BRIDGE
WHEN Mrs Jacoby was first learning bridge I could always depend on her to foi low any convention religiously.
Hence when
opponents renched three no-trump I de- elded to try a gambling double. I did not know if we could beat the hand at all, but it appeared that our best chance would be with a heart lead through the suit that North had blu and rebid.
to me
hoart
Anyway, I doubled and wait- cd for tho opening.
expected
Usually, the lead would be made immediately, but to my horror there was siderable problem
a con-
VICARD Sensekk.
Q-The bidding has been: North
East South
Pass 2
34- Pars
&N.T. Pass
Weat
Pass Pass
་
34 Z You, Bouth, bold: $AQ67 WE SK05 4K3048
What do you do?...one A-PL. Your partner. is not Interested in a stam and is will ing to play no-trump- Trunt his Judgment.
TODAY'S QUESTION Instead of bidding threa no- trump, your partner bids four diamonds. What do you do in this instance?
Answer TomOTTOW
WEST AD5 03
103
NORTH
QJ10
KJ0762 K3 80
EAST
87032 ❤AQ 100 +04
AKQJ1043 42
SOUTH (D) MAKA
4
AQJ165 4975
East and West vulnerable South West North East -10
Pacs 1❤
Po 2❤
Pass Pass
AN. T. Pass 3N.T. Double Pass
Pass Pass Opening lead—♣ A
Finally the ace of clubs ap¬ peared on the table. 1 played iny deuce but she was not dis- couraged. The king oppeared next. Then there was a sight. further pause followed by five more quick club teads
After that Mrs Jacoby looked around and led, a hearT y took two heart tricks and they were down five.
At this point my wife asked, Was it all right for me to lead 'n club?” I replied, "Con't blame you this time, but a con- vention is a convention and if you had opened a heart we would have set them six,”