THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1961,
WOMANSENSE
LADY LUCK SHIRLEY LORD
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE.
MONDAY, JUNE 12
AQUARIUS. (January 21- February 15): A child born under this sign is likely to show a marked interest in aclence at an early age. PISCES (February 20-March 201 Dun't try too hard to nake an impression on a person who is quite antis- fied to accept you as you
are.
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
if too many things are ex. peeted of you this week, make it clear that you can only attend to them one at a time. TAURUS (April 20-May 201: A wealthy relative should not be treated with too much deference, or he, will begin to suspect an ulterior motive.
Rome
GEMINI May 21-June 21): An unexpected expense this week my force you to in- troduce
temporary economies. CANCER (June 22-July 21: A colleague who was short- tempered before his holiday
will return
to work in a
much better mood. LEO July 22-August 201:
You may win enough on a
Showers- with flowers!
PLASTIC Flowers are a
nasty notion for the
dining-room when you can
buy the real thing
for a couple of shillings a bunch.
But they are good
news in the place Now Yorkers are putting them
at the moment ---
wreathes of plastic spring flowers can be bought
to attach to the
shower-bath head and to
adorn other plugs, and handles in the bathroom.
small bet tiny to make p for some recent loanca, ÇAuguRE 22- VIRGO
September 22): There is not much chance of a har- monious relationship with a person of the opposite sex Extru
or under Leo. LIBRA (September 23- October 22 Show your superiority to aquarrel- Home neighbour by taking no notice of his attempts to provoke you.
FIRST, A WORD ABOUT THE MOTHER
WHO STEPPED DOWN SO GRACEFULLY
I HAVE BEEN more Mume crying at the church over their chubby-cheeked littlo
turned
than over groom
their con beautiful blushing brido daughters, I have squeezed the trembling hands of countless Mums as the bridal car drove away carry- ing their Bartle, Freddy or Charllo with hiu chalce.
the
now
Of
SCORPIO (October 23-; "A nice girl," they've cried, "but, oh, November 21: You will ac-how lucky she is my con le auch a fine cidentally and a practical boy, and witnessing this sort of attitude application for a novel idea evor the years has strengthened my belief in the old story that Fathers dote on their at frat seemed un-daughters and Mums on their sons which workulie.
status However, with (November Mother-in-law, the Mums I've known SAGITTARIUS
22-December 21): After an
have quickly grown to enjoy a certain unusually carefree week new impartanca. None had to cope with end you will start work to- day with a fresher mind. CAPRICORN December 22- January 20): By accepting your share of the blame for i quarrel you may shame your partner intu 41 apology. YOUR BIRTHDAY: If your birthday is this week, you will find a symbol of good
Rift
fortune in travelling slippers,
of
IN rummy, that fas- cinating card game, ssion happens to be a of mine and the ft... that finally the other day I started to beat the per- son who taught me was a great source of satis- faction.
Because of my considerably improved prowess with the pack I began to imagine myself at the chemin de fer table in Monte Corio, suitably smothered in diamonds (or rhinestones would do in a bad year).
I saw myself quite clearly retching
Janguld yet confident hand on the green
a. pretty big problem one any woman might understandably rosent that of losing her name to the new member of the - family, What a furere that would have caused in some homes I've knownt
When titles are involved, this situation occasionally crops up as it hay with our. latest Royal romance and with her usual Intelligence, the Duchess of Kent. hsa chosen to revert to a name which evokes for many, nostalgie, happy memories of "anya-boforo-the-war"
new
Duchess took such
A
Tho
sort of girl, probably vivacious, likeablo there was ittle heartsearching and sad. news in passing on to her what should be her rightful title.
Gin
Out how would you fool fa elmliar daciaion had to be mado? If, when your son married, your precious name had to be inevitably, It given to somebody elso? tinges a wonderful occasion with womb pathos and Invites murmure of "how and to have to step down.
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This time with her choice of name, the Duchem, I feel sure, has made an attem 't to scetch all that. Princess Marina is an exciting noms. It pounde-quite rightly-- as if she has chosen to find a new loado of life, rather than resigning herself to a future in the background.
has can still be argued sho If it "stopped down," she has shown the way to do it-gracefully, and with pleasure.
rummy
had nothing
on this
Laive to collect an interest other burn didn't really hurt at
on
Passport
I stood for a moment behind a swarthy Italian to see how he The was playing
game, until somebody whispered he was a multi-millionaire....round the other side of the table I could see ho was losing mull- millionaire with 2 sick Expression.
It didn't tako
long for.. different feeling to hit me. Ono moment I W on ohe foot exhilarated, excitedly waiting for somebody to vacate a chair, the next I shoolt' with fear.
Fear.
Another picture had entered
my
my head, one which showed me en route to the pawnshop. clothes in rags, my sunburn and name checked, getting worse every minute os
I walked through one Imposing the rays crept through the holes. ing sum-interesting mean all. ing enough
casino entrance across the street, lolly to buy a
truc Fear, the instinet no villa next door
I have been to casinos before, passed the door to the theatre to Grace
ever knows, bad and Rainier in the hills.
had watched gambler of course, but always as a spec- where often 1
Anally swallowed all of Fonteyn. dance and
my combting With an invitation to spend totor, watching the pain
other people's faces.
found the kitchen.. G the Inclination', Whitsun
South in the France, I thought my moment
gambling arena is affectionately
Crestfallen. I sneaked to the roulette wheel where I lost the equivalent of 30s. beiting on my lucky 9 with no skill at all.
1
to show shuffling supremacy had arrived, and playing "gin" solidly from London to Nive tharpened my wits,
Submerged
Until in rummy came into Instead of diamonds that first my life I never knew I had 3 night out, unfortunately I had to be smothered in the invisible gambling Instinct, it was so well
lyos of sunbuza ointment, but such was my burning ardour for my arst personal million,
CHILDREN'S CORNER
New Home For Chris
-Shadows Go Apartment-Hunting With Cricket-
By MAX TRELL
"WELL"
saic
Christopher answered at once that the apartment he would Christopher not Hike to have would be the Cricket as he came out some one that he had all last from under blanket ook spring and summer and autuan. "Do you see that willow tree and elm leaves and sat unself
of his
down on the park bench be- over there?" he asked.
He unfolded gayeraj the and Hand, tween Knar! Shadow Children with the arms and pointed to an old wil- Turned-About Names, "how low that hung over the edge of uf ls long, there's the lake. Some that it's spring again,
one thing that I've got to get." drooping twigs actually touched
Hanid smlied and said: "New spring clothes!"
Now apartment
I know," said
Che smiled and swered,
ant
the water.
The tree was only half a doz- "This used to be Chris's apart. en yards from the spot where mont," Knarf told Bectlo. they were all sitting now.
the
submerged.
known.
The croupiers who are always described as bored in books looked eager to me. There were tow diamonds to be seen, fewer
Instead of for love, I suppose,
JUST LET FLOWERS GO TO YOUR HEAD
PRETTIEST
way I've
seen of sweetening the Shingle
is
for summer this hair-style designed by Rene Princess Mar- He garet's hairdresser. brushes
hair in the feathery petals over the forehead, tucks a couple of roses behind each ear for partics.
How to
a
HARDEST thing for a woman to wear is bathing cap-unless it's As grand one like this. as a model hat, it's pret- tily petalled, exotically coloured and expen- sively priced. Looks just lovely in or out of the water,
--London Express Service).
the best
English
roast
By A
cook
MASTER COOK
TTERE we give you the final, definitive word on
how to roast a joint.
It comes from a man who has spent 35 years inks and, I suppose, hardly any I'll just have to get used to roasting meat in a restaurant which is famous all people in contrast to the usual playing rummy for menoy over the world in roast meat,
before I try the big stuff, that crowd in the August Scoson
To warn me I had heard but I didn't notice too much, is, I have a feeling I'll go back. enough conversations which I wore the same fixed expression
began
"Any fuck last night? as everybody else. Lost? How much? Oh,..." and
ended with sombre silence. Now the fever had caught up on me.
For the first time I rubbed the foot of the bronze horse in the foyer of the Hotel de Paris for luck the foot with the colour worn away by thousands of anxious gambling fingers.
Atmosphere
the
The seals around the chemin table were all taken and atmosphere of money in went straight to my head.
May
To catch a Wolf.....
Rthinking
I've been about our
Mr Arthur Moss, of Simp- Lamb is no a fat meat son's in the Strand, is one of which should be well, cooked, the three or four Master Cooks Like work you should not cook
the In
country. He knows it with
fat, Nor any extra more than anyone else how to chould you baste it But turn roast those four standby it from time to time. English family Sunday joints beef, lamb, pork, and veal.
Advice
Here is Mr Moss's advice for
Veal is a dry meat and should be cooked in beet dripping, or bacon fat. or have stripe of bacon laid on top of it, Basto li every 20 minutes, 11 can be a lule tasteless when eaten on its own, co have it with ham, or the bacon it has been cooked with, or Bath chap sliced very thinly.
And stuff it with Mr Moss's 1. Don't alter the temperature own special recipe for veal him understanding? En-hf your oven according to your stuffing! courage him-wait for, it meat. -to exchange his fanga for an overdue halo?
DECENTLY
approach to a tricky Bubbasting meat in general ject. Do we ever help the The three most Important big bad wolf to change his things to remember are:
we ever give
JACOBY on BRIDGE way? Do
COUTH puì dummy's queen of
hearts on West's jack. East took his king and returned the nuit and South was in durany.
rounds South played a few
of trumps; cashed the ace and king of diamonds; ruffed dum- my's inst diamond and slapped the jack of clubs on the table. West was ready with a small club and after a little thought South rose with dummy's king. Wes!
his made "My old apartment used to be other trees in the park and she Eventually
was Knart, at the bottom of that tree, one would certainly find Christopher queen of clubs and South
little down a trick.
"Fineases never woric for mean, I'm pretty sure I do. Now step up a white stone and then an apartment with very
inside," said Christopher. trouble.
South. moaned
"Or So off they all
act, looking me,"
I could have guessed nothing fancy, nothing with a view, nothing in the very best Walked toward treo. neighbourhood -- just a simple Kaart
a simple walked little apartment for cross the grass to the willow little Cricket, tree at the edge of the lake. "It doesn't even have to have Sure enough, there was the electric lights," said Christophier
tired
of living under
that
that it's spring again you're "That's the place I'd like to blanket of old leaves. You want have back, yes'm! But it's no for an apartment--nothing blk.the club, but I had nothing to
a new apartment."
This time Christopher siniled
and said, "Yes."
"Only," he added quickly, "it doesn't have to be a new apart ment. It can be an almost-new aportiment. It can even be an
use. I can't have it."
Hanid and
old apartment. But what a job white stone step leading up to Cricket.
It is to find une!"
Christopher crossed
a deep crack In the trunk, like
Ave
or
a doorway to a house,
Christopher came over slowly.
six of his legs and folded two
He kepl shaking his head.
or three of his arms. He blew It's just no use trying to get
out a long breath of air, making
1 back," he said.
Searchod everywhore
n
course.
guide me.
Actually, South had chucked the hand mut the window through
a "Hard Luck Joe" ype play, Do you see what he did wrong?
The error occurred at trick one. Sometimes it just does not pay to nesse. If South
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All meat should
be .oasted at the same tempera- turt. Hemember that it is the length of time you cook it that should be varied according to the joint.
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Breadcrumbs
For n ́4lb. joint, mix together breadcrumbs, large cup of Start your meat off in a fairly three-quarters of a cup of finely over chopped suct, a large teaspoon pre-heated
No, of course not. We're too busy looking for the nearest heavy implement to bat him with, too busy negotiating a hot, well retreat with poire, precision and, (about 400; as No. 6), cook it of chopped parsley, a pinch of mest of all, speed.
for a quarter of an hour or 20 lemon thyme, the chopped peel minutes, then lower the heat to of 1 lemon, salt, pepper, and a
beaten egg. Many girls I've known have No. 5.
If you are not go- thought up all sorts of devious
hem with your 2. Don't flour
It ing to SETTU the meat Tuttle tricks to outwit the wily doesn't eat it, and it can give roast veal, you can add
Anely chopped ham stuming
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It a roggy little crust.
2. Do mit the meat. But Juɛt
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with an over amalous dust it with sall Don't rub it coped escort in a most original way, because that will prevent the accompaniments
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No fat
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10 the
Mr Mass Hikes the traditional
his to
roast sauce with meals-horseradish beef, red currant jelly or int sauce with lamb, apple sauce with pork, and the venl 03 described.
too
About garlic he says: "I lova Cook a 4b, joint for about it. I ke it with almost any- There she hold an animated conversation with an imaginary an hour and a half depeluding thing, certainly with lamb and Batmic, and afterwards want on the thickness of the meat port. But not with weal and
Their favours are quickly Into the kitchen and and whether you want it well beet. ato two onions. She never saw cooked or red. Don't use any dolicata for gorile-at least,
fat on it and baste it with its when they are roasted." Town jùlces every half-hour.
ND-For those who would Unlike beef, pork does not rather have a sicak than a joint vary its cooking time, bocaue st any time, including Sundays. done. Allow Mr Moss marinades his steaks It must be well about two hours for a 4b, leg in elf for a day before cooking It is a fat meat, so do not use them, and sprinkles them with any fat on it, and don't basta freshly ground, black paper →→ It or you won't get any crack- no sali-before: frying or grill-
ing. ling.
had simply pinyed the nce of played a red card South would
It's a pity because reformed, and discard hearts at irtel one; drawn ruff in his hand
have used They went from treo to tree.
trumps; played three rounds a club from dummy. If he led she could probably "Sorry," sald
Chipmunk
diamonds (trumping
queen would be him for a husband. the A club. the to the
LfLondon Express Serotea), who came
doorway of or
elm tree third lead, of course); and con- trapped in either hand, "I don't see why not, Christo- an apartment in on
trunk, but this apartment Is tinued by leading his last heart he could have claimed his hand ing and looking," he said, "pher," said Hanid.
Kaart rapped loudly on the not for rent. I live here." can't find a thing!"
side of the trunk. The
"We live here," said a Grass right then and there. next
a port of tired kind of whistle.
"I've been looking and look-
It would not matter where Hanid hugged him second a large, black Beetle in hopper papa and his family as} Christopher looked so sad and overalls and with his shirt- they came to the doorway of the king of hearts and queen Whichever op- so tired at that moment that sleeves rolled up stuck out his very small apartment behind of clubs were.
plexe of loose bark at the bot-ponent held the king of hebris head. Hanid, who love him deurly, "Well?" he growled. "What tom of an oak tree. "There just would be in the lead. If be threw her arms around him and
Jen't any room for anybody else. does anybody want?" gave him a bug.
"You poor thing," she said. Knarf. This used to be our
"I beg your pardon, sir," said We're all terribly cotry."
"Sorry," said a fut Caterpillar "You peer, pour le thing!" friend! Christopher Cricket's in an apartment halfway up the
apartment and he'd like to have trunk of a maple tree,
And so it went. Everyono was sorry.
But Knarf and Hanid did
"Of course
"We'll help you find an apart ment, Chris," said Knart..
we will
said it back."
Hanid. "Now tell me," she said,
Too lato
fu Christopher as she took him "He would, would he!" ex- manage to find an apartment
on her knee, "exactly what kind, claimed the Berite. "He's too for Christopher at Inst." It was of an apartment you're Inoking late. I'm here now. Good-bye!" with the fat.Caterpillar. for-where you would like it to The Beetle disappeared inside
be, how much you can pay for, and Knarf and and heard rent
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Hanld suddenly bald: "But that fat, old thing will something that sounded like a be turning lato a Butterfly in Here Christopher interrupted door slamming.
fow dayal Holl fly. RWBY,
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to say that all the apartments "There] That's what I mean," Christopher!" in the park were free.
sald Chelstopker. "I guess · I'm So back they went and Chris- "That's good," said Hanid, junt a Bils too Intel
topher (tho Caterpillar didn't "Now where would you like it But Hand said cheerfully mind!), squeezed in, and finally! to bo7"
that: Ittere were hundreds of had a place soon-to-be his own!
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Answer TomKIETUTE.
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good?" "Wall, come back to morrow and see," saya-Rupert," t brought us home safely, but oh deats I was stared, ry. Then Podgy and Rupin indoors to describe all that has happened to his Daddy, whi looks soubtful and clearly does not want to believe li
With some sighing and grunt, ing Podgy Pig rises to his teen slowly dod land-sgoing the. fence. 1st- now," he says shakily.
** I had given up hope of ever seeing nty home again. Let's hope never have another Journey like that. I wonder if that broomstick has gone for
ALL KIONTI SZERÁVKY-
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HOUSEHOLD
HINTS
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A tooth, that aches will often soft brush ́or a carpes sweeper be soothed If the gums are should be used rather than rubbed over with bicarbonate harsh brak or
cleaner, which will tend to pull up the loose strands, and, wenz kon the carpol.
of suda.
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Syrup lefiovor' from stewed
ton. Klway's contetu''quantities, fruit may be combined with of loose wool and should be other fruit juices as a baverage Very carefully brushed for the for breakfast, or an an appetizer dral months (of thờlf, was A for dinner,