THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
LADY LUCK
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE ·
TUESDAY, APRIL 18
21. January AQUARIUS
February 19): You will be able to cope: calmy and eficiently with a situation which might upset those with less stable nerves, PISCES (February 20-March
201: Don't let a sympathe Lie impulse prompt you to make promise it may he impossible to keep. ARIES (March 21-April 193; Unless you explains an un- usual action to those whose opinion you value, it will certainly he misinterpreted, TAURUS (April 20-May 201:
A speculation which has brought profit in someone you know will not neces- sarily do the same for you. GEMINI Muy 21-June 23); A series of frustrations may upset your crowded schedule today, but by the evening you will be satisfied with what you have accom- plisher.
CANCER (June 22-July 21: No matter how attractive an investment may seem, don't plunge into it until you have talked it over with someone a good deal mure experienced than yourself.
LEO
(July 22-August 211: An expensive purchase for the home shotild only be
mado with the full agree- ment of your partner.
TAUKRBL ww- VIRGO
The op September 2): portunity to meet some new people tonight should make change front 14 welcome your usual selal round.
(September LIBRA
(tober 22): Avoid an ex-
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Cool and pretty for the Hongkong summer— GO GAY WITH COTTONS...
WHEREVER women gather together the sub-
ject of clothes eventually arises-especially in Hongkong where most of us have enough time, opportunity, and let's face it -- almost enough cash, to spend on this all important question.
by Jennifer Lane
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Incidentally, Lane Crawford's are con to completely re- crganise their fashion depart- ment and hope to include a special boutique for Alice Ed- wards' coltons.
Going back to my answer all these people who til at home say they can never find thing to wear-in bu Inbetwen 15 size, abstract roses in Liey and etffer on white fell t
folds from a Atted top with low round neck. by Fleischman $65).
More expensive but the plek (Berketex Younger Set $73). of the bunch to my mind, was a For the taller figure taking a riot of bold tangerines and size 14, in California Cottens, do lemons, pinko end browns Lendon subsidiary of the Ameri- splashed all over a simply cut can company, 1 saw a coully dress: with a bouffant skirt, smart dress in a shaped navy scooped neckline and tin spot design on white. With
candy pink, (A Sunabout trock soitly gathered
But sure enough, sooner or later, will come the wail from someone that they can never find a thing to wear in the shops here. They are too large-fat-short-thin to fit into readymades and off they dash in desperation to the local tailor who 23-may be cheaper, but is rarely smarter.
People like me who are bored pleated skirt, they come in two to tears with that inspired little designs; either plain white with
ribbon number being run up round the an appliqued
effect corner after the third fitting woven into the blouse, or else sleeves.
floral and wish to goodness they had in a sprigcedi
Fripe chosen nome other material on whife. should surely find something
These are both pretty and practical in the shopn at the moment,
penditure which you know beforehand will strain your roources out of all propor- tion to value received. SCORPIO (October
The im- November 21): provement in health of n member of
family will gradually free you from your present domestic res- ponsibilities.
SAGITTARIUS
Your
21:
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November 22-December
te straight straight question fran a friend could avert a serious misunderstanding. CAPRICORN December 22. January 20): A long awaited letter will arrive bring you promising and news of an idea you hope to be able to exploit com- mercially.
YOUR LUCKY COLOUR:
today is your birthday, Jonk ml for MINT GREEN, It ought to bring you hæck.
Rupert and the Paper-fall-29
Telling Rupert and Edward to hurry back to Norwood the little people run back to their building to end of the last few of their Parcels to other villages. "Wan't all our pals be glad to see us!" chuckles Rupert as they start off.
Hello, we're going up I don't remember this hill at Edward looks around. "No, not do 1." he says in a puzzled voice. Surely we didn't come this way. Oh,
I can't recognise anything. dear, this is tertible. "We're lost."
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Lane Crawford's have just got their summer clothes in and their fashion section is full of attractive clothes in all shapes and sizes.
And at reasonable prices too,
Swiss lawn
For instance As the hot weather approaches, a fresh and Umely collection of matching separates in Swiss lawn is avail- alle in raust fittings.
With a simple blouse top to be locked Into a full loosely
$60,
And at around
Polka dots
For the sub-teens, or for a
For a wedding?
Lin
white piped edging at the neck- line and again on the itch pockets, this in the sort of frock ihm would take you anywhere,
and olive trellised For the zverage Agure flowers on white decorated a (around
size 12) I spotted a sleeveless dress by Gaylayro alender cotton frock with an uns (the cheap end of Horrocka). usual wrought-iron design in with an chocolate and stone again on a white bluckground,
Sleeveless, with deep ruch- ed cummerbund, this eculd be
tough for topped by a frothy hat in fur- beige gloves, quoise organdie, dark brown shoes, and bag and
smart
easygoing zash belt this was in a size 18 (English) at $70,
Again amongst the larger a wedding sizes--screen-printed cotton in a bottle-green basket-work de- sign Од white spices with brilliant cyclamen, nadle ar
very petite Cure, huge palka dots of grey and donkey brown made a cool contrast on white in a big-skirted dress with a wide belt for tiny
walst. (By Donnie Biale $45).
Sull on the small gldo... although I did see it in several coloured beads picking up the tractive sundress with match- touch of turquoise. (Price of ing jacket edged with a cyclamen and colours during the frock, $03). other sizes
tic sash at the waist. (By my search the other day--denim was the fabric chosen
Doulique at $100). Probably the latest thing wrap-over beach dress in Ray hit Hongkong, is a low-waisted, sleevelesz siin of A dress
Charleston. In eau-de-nit Daeron, it would travel comfortably In a weekend suitcase. (A Rhona Roy design at 385).
for n
to
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WHEN you buy one of these drip-dry, minimum iron, crease- resblant cattens, don't throw the label with the washing Instruc- tions away. Keep it, and even more important, follow what it says.
WHAT you are buying in fact with for this operation, Rinse it Special boutique
with these materials, is a bot and then hang it up and wax or Filicone Anish sprayed thould emerga as good as new. From Alice Edwards' on to the cloth as R is being It's just nu se washing it in Italiana range of cottons, all rolled through the press before bailing water like being wound up lu a bolt.
Grande's full of bounce and colour, a 'ankets and
wondering then
very dashing sheath in shades why the thing bas not only of cyclamen suddenly dares be shrink. Lut needs a jelly good low the knee In a stiffened
iren.
Bounce.
This cts the fabrle and gives it lightly polished surface so that the water just drops off.
WIFEN you wash It, or the And po-if the nonb 15 Lovely for a 1920 Inok to go amah does, we that the water doing the washing confiscate with Summer cocktails, anti is Jukewarm (hot water melts her pet washboard: the wax) and thon swish it
backwards and forwards in the
suds, or gently brush it
a
FORDY brush. There
with
obviously more room in The
CHILDREN'S CORNER
Shadows' Good Deed
-They Bring Nuts To A Cold Squire Squirrel-
By MAX TRELL
KNA
I can't take a both and I can't
turn on the electric light and I NAHF and Hanid, the Shad- haven't got a bed to sleep in Oiv Children with the or chair to sit in or book Turned-Abou Namas, walked to read.
through the park. The
winter
"But in the summertime it's
SALM w.s shining clear and nice and green. I've got Birds bright. But still it was cold. all round me. I've got a beau-
I bet he isn't even home. tiful view of the lake. And no- Knotf Bald as he and them body ever maktus me pay ally Hanid stepped over a low rail- rent."
ing onto what, in the summer- Hanid said: time, had been π 'beautiful "We came to bring you green Lan. The grass was still present, Squire." there. Only it wasn', green any
more.
It was nearly rey.
Shadows smiled
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"Of course he's home," raid "You did! A present! Fer Hanid. "Where else can he bett me?” Squire exclaimed, finding By this time they had reached it hard to believe that he could the elm tree that stood at the Hive any such good luck. "What fr end of the lawn, up a little kind? Where is it?" rise that let you leekt over the At this Knart and Hamid both Jake. The lake was frezen new. smiled,
*We came to bring you a
present," Shadows told Squirrel
dig holes in the ground with.
Holes in the ground?" asked Saire. "Why should I want to aig hotes in the ground?"
of
To bury the nuts in, courre," said Knarf "Where else are you going to keep them Karl and Hanid stood for A Then Knar put his hand In if you don't bury them in hules moment watching the lee skal- his pocket and Hanid reached in the ground?" ers. Then they turned their for something under her coat. eyes to the top of the elm tree. Squire kept his eyes on
Didn't answer
All the leaves were gone. The Awigs und br.nches stirirdi in the wind. There weren't any Birds. There was no one at all in the tree,
"I'm sure he went away." Knart said mysin.
Hanid didn't answer him. She called up.
"Squire! Are you there?"
There was no answer. **See? He's one," said Knarf. And then, all of a sudden Squirrel stuck his head out of
a hole in a branch hallway up
the tree and shouted:
"Hello,
BARBARA GRIGGS
again inexpensive at $85.
CHOICE OF
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THE WEEK
Ready for anything in dramatic sun-loving dress in striped denim which never goes limp and laughs at wrinkles. Cool in candy pink, cooler in blue. Seen at Lane Crawford's with a price tag around $60.
Barbara Griggs, just back from New York after
viewing the Paris shows, hands out some advice
Jackie, if I were you in Paris...
AMERICA is enthusiastic about its new Presid- have no private life at all. I nothing in it for the best collections ever, and one of
with her
ent the first question any American asks u visitor is "What do the English think of go further, 1 give her Kennedy?"
But no one, not a single tion to
French Interior woman, all the time I was designer to come and visit there, asked: "What do you
the White House. think of Mrs Kennedy?"
suine independent advice of my own en how to make the mos! f her independence in Paris.
since she was last there.
wholesale,
show with all this master's genius for colour.
Hesitating
the rare bends in his slow stream of fashion-that coat that was positively princess-line In front, and could argue Zascinating things to come.
Make the most of it all, Mrs
too IF you're hesitating between Kennedy, and don't worry
Givenchy and Balenciaga, much about what they're saying After all, it's some little time and haven't Lime for both on Seventh Avenue. Even thele skip Givenchy tho longest First Lady surely has the right Was Washington looking to
cucture show I've ever sat to enjoy herself the way che Paris instead of New York in First of all, I'd tell her.
wants If through, and not his most news-
when she finds herself For the truth is, this this field too?
the wants to impress Parisians worthy: Balenciaga. on the visiting Paris in the spring. Jackic who seemed BO
with her chic as much as she other hand, produced one of his -(London Express Service). clearly cut out to be the at once, this was a purely per- heme the bright, bright colours True, soned the White House Impressed America-leave at most dazzling First Lady of sunal friendly visit; the fact that America is mad about at all time, is showing a remains that the Frenchman in the moment and the singing painful reluctance to step question works for Jansen, the pinks and bright grass greens into the limelight.
mast highly reputed decorator and crocus yellows.
Puzzled
In Paris, and man whose dignified 18th-century style would be just right for White House.
In Paris, they still take their the colours pretty soberly most of
the time.
JACOBY on BRIDGE
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NE of the points of disagree- Now further speculation is
ment among bridge experts Next shorten those skirts. alarming America. Jacqueline American
torny is the proper lead from QUE is insisting. to the can is to
women Wear Not casy therm,
SHE
their three nail of partner's cult, her husband skirts tonger noctmpany
than, any other The old-fashioned lead watching! every MOVO they
trary, un almnest as much on his May visit to Paris--in enuntry in the West; my own top; the modern tendency, to said Squire, "Up they gɔ," made. He didn't speak.
baughing good-naturedly. This privacy and independence as private capacity.
London-length skirts felt fantas-feat the bottom. Then Kurt and Hanid both en tree is full of hollow places, she enjoyed when the was just brought out a handful of flek-
There's no need to bother plain Mr Citizen.
An Americans
are puzzled
Brave stand
In the
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ory nuts, almonds and walnuts. digging holes in the ground We thought you might be a when the tree is full of holes. Hille hungry," Hanid said.
"And, anyway. If you think and saddened by its. Perfect She laid the nuts down in it's easy digging holes in the examples her choler of Oleg
Jackie pile at the foot of the tree, right ground on a tal tiny Kike this, Cassini as her No. 1 fashion WHILE, he is closeted with Faubourg St Honore it she against South's thres: strump
digi dedauna,
in fread of Squire, He looked just go ahend and try to at them. He coked it Knart one." and Hanld. He looked back at the nuts again.
براكه ما
makes
no de Gaulle in the Elysee, wants to keep that Jackie bos, contract. Dummy's secret of the fact that it the what, wonders Seventh Avenue a French coiffeur is the smartest covered by Enota queen
person go on darkly, will Jace be up to?
in the world at talking South dropped his seven. Held this because a disap-choice were hers, she'd
you into something you don't
He had two reasons for this pointed look hol come over shopping in Paris as before.
Socaking off to see her old want and he thinks you ought
play. The first one was that if Knarl's face.
Having bowed to the Ho's grateful
In chums Givenchy and Balen to have.
East held six heurts he would Knart really did try
по evitable and announced that slie ciaga,
doubt; sleeping Then he ran around the tree a hole. le found the ground
be in no further danger from would dress American In herself happily in the luxury
the heart ruit. The other was end back again.
frozen hard. It was like a rock.
Points are out
Ave choice did nothing atmosphere of the Faubourgs,
held only at if East very,
very Even
rough he pressed with future, her
hearts he would have no means the spoon, the best he could do to the Seventh Avenue de very likely: stepping off at the them." said
#igners.
of knowit if South had started was to make a tiny sent:tch.
ETTER buy some squaro-toed with three hearts or two. Squire said that the
plie of
shoes before you venture Obviously, if South had started nuts would last him through the
only
"You're vory.
"Please take
Kanis.
down there! Who wants me?" kind," he sakl.
"We du Come down, please, Squirel" cried Hontd in delight.
you, Hanid! Hello, Knart Here Jind
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Grands Magasins for a shopping sproe, no question of it,
Glad to see thom "Oh, it's you!" Squire, 11 wonderful
exclaimed winter.
to sno
them,
tco," he said.
"And we also brought said Knar
again
he
"No, I haven't got steen hest
Would take a week
For it fell on the innest wolf "You see how I in," sald in the pack an urbane young Personally, I'm on Jackie's out to your first public engage-
MID It's nice for the natives ment. Squire "I'd be at it for a week International who does nothing side, "And it any
of my friends even if both of your helped me, to disguise his contempt for the when their Queen, Princess or squares oro zilii wearing pointa
in her in Paris this spring. relatives arc hungry, So up they go!"
business-modial whirl of Seventh First Lady shops only
Street; but I come!" He scrambled down, there'll be enough for
He was as good as his word, Avenue, keeps his private le own High
the
fast a lightning.
and twice as fast.
well clear of it, is considered a principio can be pushed too far, And if you're looking in on He put two, three, four nuts complete outsider and revels in and democralle America should any of the dress houses; don't In his mouth and rushed up the fact.
be the first to concede the fact, mir Boban's collection at Dior. for fun, for fireworks, for some He took a small spaɔn out of stairs with them-dropped them klo cont. Squlro
It
came n in a hollow place and gavo
Is making Jackle
a brave of the most beautiful evening Had Jackie's cholen fallen on scrambling down
for Norman Noveller Calanos-or stand for a little Independence clothes ever designed and for incre.
ohmost any
other American and a life of her own-poralbly the historical interent of a pro- "But It must be no cold up
Should explain
"Thanks again for the wondesigner, she could have made the bravest stand by a Queen mising designer's Arst major
who collection. there. You haven't got plenm "That's not to eat," Bold derful present," he said as Knarf an awful lot of people an awful First Lady since Victoria,
used to v grumbly about for heme lot happler. heat or anything," said Knarf, loughed. "You'd better tell him and Held alatte
"Well," soid Squire
trouble and theonvenioneg lowly, why you brought
But if you want to sca the spoon, again, “Til bury them in a holej
More recently, it was the turn "putting up State Visitors in the young flared look at its mostest, Knart." "ves rven't like houses.
nil right-right here" and Kaart explained that he had laughed as he pointed to his of interior decoraters to go into Prince; and in this age where ju to Pierre Cardin, who started la ftat spin, over Jackle's invita- women in her position tend to it all; supremely couturier, or anything. I can't cook and brought the spoon to help Squire mouth,
Kennedy
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"We-I met I-ildn't thlak you'd be teme," Knarf said when Squire at in tront of them at the foot of the tree.
Squire chuckled. "I haven't puzzled dance. any place to go."
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PRER You, South, hold: AKIAOS VK3D JAMII 46
What do you do? Ambid thres hearia, Yon pea dhillaot slam possibilities.
TODAY'A QUESTION Your partner rebids to thres no-trump. What do you do now? Answer TouSPETOW
with three hourle East would
a betri.
East did decide that this was the case. Also West had opened the bidding with a diamond so East led the nine of it utt.
could Sinee South already count on six clubs and two aces, the diamond lead gave him lis ninth trick.
Note that if West had opened the three of hearts in accord- ance with modern practice Fast could not have gone wrong-