THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
Susan Barnes signposts a pitfall that faces unescorted girls
The day I met a wolf
THE
THE great thing about the Eng- lish is that they don't intrude on your privacy. With the exception of Covent Garden Market, you could walk around the streets of London stark naked and no Englishman would ask you for a date.
In other countries of the Western world you CATE walk around the streets. shrouded from top to toe, but if there is the slightest clne that you are female-and unes- corted practically any
at my hotel
swimming pool
body will offer his com- could have been anywhere panionship.
As for remaining by your self when you take the sun th
i: Southern Califorion, it
tually an umpeos ability,
Not new
var
Amerex. It was simply a varla fin, on the same old theme:
MALE VOICE: "1'm lucking p to the for somebody to Bruch with zue."
Silence, while I keep my eyes
tightly elas in the hope that The will be easily discouraged.
HINT: "De nou wanna go to conversation the beach with me?"
31E Chaving, resignedly, open- to occur besize the happened swimming pool of a fashionable en ny eyes and seett hovering Beverly Hills. But it wver ine a tall young man with
1!
hotel in
following
COOKING
COLUMN:
by Helen
Burke
Recipes from Pennsylvania
Cole slaw
trup vinegar. Na teaspoons sult, frasuon proper, & table spoon sugar, 3 vugs, 2 table- ajang efecten, amigas chopped cabbage.
short crust pastry and All with the molasses mixture, Sprinkle the top with crumbs made from egasi jarts of butter, sugar and Maur ixed with nutmeg and bake in a very moderate" oven, as the molasses burns easily. Apple sauce cake
rup butter. 11⁄2 cup brown 2 cups apple cups chopped nuts, 2 chopped
floured and
Heat vinegar, fat and our tu belling pusst. Heat the ones and add the hut vinear mix- inre to them slowly, Cook in sutar double boiler until mixture thickens, Then at the cream, Pour dressing over shredded raisins, 1 cup chopped dates, 11⁄2 raw cabbage, garnish with teaspoons ground cloves, 2 tea- pimlentes and serve cold.
spoons cinamon, ! TPOSIKKIN Prune and noodle pudding salt. 2 teaspoons bicarbonate of
soda, 3 cups flour.
cooked reg
teater sugar. jutro,
Frazi
jernes tablespiona
1
tejas
dark glasses
irl large nose and spots): No, thank you. I don't want to go to the benen with you."
11: "Why don't you 19auna p to the beach with
ME: "Because I want to stay
hete by mysetr. thank you, polite lo Americans are very one another. They reckon it saves trouble in the end. Do
you mond very much not stand-, Jag my sub**
HIM Geating himself on the and n my lounge cluiry; "Do I wanna go at with the tu nisplat?"
AIE "I'm afraid I'm flying out of Los Angeles tonight,“
HIM: "Weti. Pas gonna be in New York tomorrone night, Don AnDa piersze a rashes check there?"
ME: “I'm not going to be la New York tomorrow night. I'm fying to london,"
#13; "Well, when are you amin' back to New York?""
AE: "I'm not coming back to New York, thank you. I don't happen to live there."
HIMI: "You can you don't keep au apuriment there all Hear round the way i do on 77th just of Park?".
ME: "Well, as amalter of fnel. I don't.”
New start
HIM: "The Blue Ampel?“ ME: "Yes," HIM: "The
ME
.."
(sitting up, my igue nature definitely flagging): "For God's sake, why pick on me! There are roughly 805 giris be- standing in tween the ages of 18 and 19, all the lobby of this hotel. Why can't you talk witha one of them?“
HIM: "What am I gonna talk a church-quing virt? about to Didn't ya see those nuus with them, all dressed in black?"
Me: Well, I'm a church-going girl too, so there's not a lot of point in your talking with me.
ITAM (rising with dignity); "Sorry distolbed you."
ME Think nothing of IL Goodlive.”
HIM: "Be seeing you."
When next opened my eyes long enough to reanoint myself with suntan øil, I saw the young nhat resettled himself on the lounge chair of a girl 20ft. away, I felt sympathy for her. I also felt a sudden burst of longing for England, the land where men let you alone-in public, at any rule.
A tip for Blue-bloods
want
DRITISH stately home There then followed a minute Downers who
support for of silent brouting, during which Government the young man settled himself their roofs but don't want still deeper on my lounge chair. 2 cups soaked prunes, 2 capa Cream, butter and sugar and
1 brain having turned over the mob in the drawing- rup add beaten 4. Add apple
Is Bule problem, he Then add
began room might take a tip from, cup sauce, nuts ami fruit.
afresh, this time using the a rich Philadelphian named femum the four sifted with the spires,
New York night club-name- Dr Albert Barnes. Haky in loaf ting salt and serin
dropping hit: —
Until his violent death nine in a slow oven for about 7 hour.
HIM: "You Cuver been to El years ago he revelled in rude- Apea cake
Morucco?"
ness
Since and vituperation. his demise the trustees of the Barnes Foundation have carried on this unfriendly tradition.
The Barnes fortress is nearly unassailable by the public, al-
Mix all ingredients thorough
ly and baka buttered dish
a moderate Dy fr
in
hour.
Shoofly pic
"
OTIC
1 cup butter, 2 cups brown sugar. 4 cups flour, 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of suda, 1 tegapoon wat wy and a little suur milk.
rupa foie, 12 cup sugar, tablespoons butter, cup
Creain the butter and sugar. THOÍÐARTS. # farma
hirur Sift the flour and sela alter- bonate of audu, i eng bolling nately to the butter and sugar water.
with the sour milk. Roll out and est in squares and bake
Dissolve the setla in balling water, add molasses and stir in rapidly the flour, sugar and beat- ter, ended thoroughly. Lane a sandwich cake tin with rich
in a moderate oven for twenty This recipe will miske, about 40 small very much like shortbread.
cakes
ME: "Yes,"
HIM: "21"
ME: "Yes,"
HIM: "Eddie Condon's?” ME: """Yes."
Practically anybody will offer his companionship...
It houses over £100 though million worth of art treasures and remains a tax-free bistitu- liun.
How
Because, technically, the house "always open" to the publie and available for art education, In practice, the privacy of the place is scarcely disturbed. Visiting it is made too differ!.
Forbidden
When Dr Barnes was alive, the procedure was to write humi a letter, begging admittance to see the 200 Renoirs or whatever it was that interested you. If Dr Barnes said Yes, you were sent un admission end for a
and in certain monis
year.
Marthe
But here Are A few, minor you are referring to your hus- }ints:-
band and may ask you in- DON'T ask your hostess to antis what it has to cio
In America, have your husband's pet wash with her.
you ed. You'll And his waistcoat ask for your check. has been put in the washing DON'T ask your host lu machine. In America that arrange for your things in be of the nga man wears under his put in your boot. You may shirt is called an undershirt, A th your goloshes stuffed with vest is the third part of a sunt, your fothbrush and pyjamas and heaven knows what. In DON'T ask a sales girl where America, the storage pari of a you can buy lnckers, it you car is called the trunk. have something fellly and DON'T у you're going feminine in mind, You will ring a friend, It will be as- And yourself being shown plus- numed that you intend throt- fours. In America women ing your chum. In America
you call or give a blast. DON'T tell the waitress you Enul lesson for the day. want your bill. She will think London Express Servier.
Children under
13 ore allowed.
Taking photographs is allowed.
1*<>!
not
Sketching is not allowed. Smoking is not allowed. Keeping your coat on is not allowed.
Keeping your handbag is not allowed. (You can't even take it into the ladies' rooni.)
Indeed,
British the only visitors recommended to try to assall the fabulous forless are these who in their own sintely homes are trying to have the best of both worlds: the tax- payers money without the tax- payers themselves,
date usually six months in the Watch what
future.
But it was a matter of his whin
Applicants (particularly you say
other gallery directors) who
happened to rouse Dr Barnes's
ltt
received abusive, vitriolic
S we all know the lan-
letters. Sometimes they were A gauge burier het leen
peppered with obscenities.
the British and the Rus-
Sometimes they were signed sians is considerable. The by the "Third Assistant Filing barrier between the British Clerk" or by "Fidele du Port- and those other nationa Manech, Secretaire de Docteur Barnes" (who happened to be lities that happen to speak the collector's pet mongrel). English is alsó considerable.- Well, the old man Is dead. And, as I never occurs to any And the State authorities, after Briton travelling abroad "That long and tedious litigation, have his way of speaking English is imitated throughout the this year Insisted that the tax- free house be pened to the world, misunderstandings enn public.
But before the visiting Briton makes a bee-line for Philadici phie he should know that the Earnes trustees have rigged it so that
Only the first 100 people to arrive will be admitted through the high iron gates, and then only on Fridays and Saturdays
occur.
And do.
Particularly since Americans regard the British my eccentric anyhow, and tend to take them. Rierally.
I cannot advise you how to avoid some of the inte un- barrassing misunderstandings because they arc. ft seems, unprintable.
wear pants.
to
LADY LUCK-
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE
21
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Atunci
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
VIRGO CĂugunt
September 229: If you are sure of your judgment, don't waste time asking too many other people for their opinions. 1IBRA (September 23. October 24: Your attitude towards a member of the family may be
FL
AQUARIUS January
February 191: A splendid opportunity for improving your future with suddenly present itself. but you will
it quickly. have to grasp PISCES (February 20-March 201: You will have 11 chance today to tackle rosting jobs in an original way and will find it a very anch more efficient method. ARIES (March 21-April 19): greater experience Your and better judgment will enable you to score enrfly over an opponent. TAURUS (April 20-May 201:
You will be invited to entertainment tonight quite
to your
experiences and will find it a refreshing change. GEMINI (May 21-June 21): A difficult task sasigned to easily you will be more tackled if you devote part of the weekend to plauning your approach. CÂNCER (June 22-July 21): Stick to the promine you juva mado, even though it a few em- may entire you
HOW
Ji
barrassing moments. LEO (July 22-August 21):
you are under the In presalon that you are not making suiclent bendway with your present tuition. you had better change yʊur Instructor.
STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Left And Right
-Kaarf And Teddy Can't Tell Which Is Which-
By MAX TRELL KNARF the Shadow Buy with the Turned-About Name, with his two close friends Ted- dy, the Stuffed Bear, and Hia- waths, the Small-Sized Wonden Indian, walked arm in
the room until they ACTOSS renched the rocking chair. There, as usini, mai Mr Punch enjoying the peace and qulet.
Me Punch looked at his three Visitors, look oft his eyeglasses and suntled.
Important question
Bro
"I can see," he said. Misinter-
ng he scanned the three faces, "that you are about to ask me a very important questions,”
preted unless you are frank about your reasons for it. SCORPIO (October 23- November 21): A collegue who has been getting Fery much on your nerves@will ahortly be transferred to another department.
(November SAGITTARIUS
22-December 21): A candid talk with a person toward whom you feel romantically drnwn
reveal should the whether
feeling in mutual or not. CAPRICORN (December 22- January 20): Your Blad- hes to an ailing neigh- bour is deeply appreciated, even though you may not ba thanked in mo muny worda.
YOUR BIRTHDAY: If this Is your birthday a dispute with authority may tako time before ROWN
being finally nottled, but the eventual outcome will bo entirely to your entlafac-- tion.
"No." agreed Teddy. "Not Im- portant ut all.' But it's some. thing we'd like to know."
Hiawatha Interrupted by gruating again.
"awathy knows already," Knart explained, "but Teddy and I don't know. What we'd ike to know Is this: Fulks have right arms and right legs, don't they?"
Eyer and cars
"They do," said Mr Punch, "And they have right eyes and left eyes and right cars and left ears?"
"They do," said Mr Punch again.
What we'd like to know," sald Texly, "Is how you fell thre Knarf and Tetidy shook their ference between
right and henda ilawatha grunted. He left?"
nodded his head.
" ape," said Mr Punch.
"It's question," Knarf said. At this point, Hiawatha sud- "But we don't think it's very denly burst out with great
a Important."
many loud grunts. Mr Punch
Rupert and the Secret Path-9
in very slow. Oh dear," says Ringo, at length, Repping back #ga tree. **It was many enough to drop linka pinches of aand, but it's almost "Impossible la pick them up again out of the gesis. I got tired enough making
Rupert and Bings find the work the path....... This sort of work, la
Witse: I feel almost dead " However, they go on wraping and, take some, full pails back. "'It's no good,” groene Bingo at Izat. This wind bin whit pever be as full as it was however hardd we work |** ALL MIGHT REBEATED
looked puzzled, Then Knarf, who understood what Ho- watha's grunts menņi, turned to Mr Punch and saly that Hi- walha was trying to say that i was easy to tell the difference between right and left. All your had to know was which was Fight, and the other had to be left.
Start from beginning
"That's right," said Mr Punch. "I mean "He cleared his throat with a little cough. "Now let's start from the beginning." "Let's," said Knarf and Ted- dy.
Hiawatha sat down on the Noor, drew his blunket over his head and fell asleep.
8-8
“I can sou you're about to sale xo a question,” said Fuoch.
"Do you see that red chair over there?" asked Mr primite Kaart and Tekly said they pointing across the room. Kharf saw the Käiten. and Teddy looked over of the
Mr "She's on the left," said bright red chair that stood Punch. "So your arins and legs
They and your eyes and your against the far wall.
car nodded. "Very good," sold
Mr that are on the same side as the
the " Punch. "Now everything on that Killen are all un
Punch was about to say: alle in on the right."
the left."
"BOULEVARD".
By Dior, and part of the Dior Collection for Autumn and Winter 1901.52 recently shown in Paris. The ensemble in composed of a black and white check ault and short three. button aoat which flares out from a slender shoulderline; and lo trimmed with a wide black alterokin band.
JACOBY on BRIDGE
This week's articles will dis-
cuss freak hands. There is no sciealife way to bit most of them. Selentine bidding in based on averages and there just sren't enough freak hands to establish average results,
Today's hand was sent me by Mrs Marcella Muce of Waynes- burg, Pa.
of
The bidding was what took altce when her group held the hand. West dld not double the Mr
six-heart contract but he "On pinced the
ace of spades the table and a space continu- Borrowed chair
As luck would have it, the ation resulted in a three trick
Jumped to set which Just cancelled out At that moment Hanid, the Kitten all at once
her feet and chased a bit Shadow Girl with the Turned fluff across to the opposite side
of South's 150 honours. About Nang,
into the come anteed it anybody of the room. "I mean," shouted minded if she borrowed the red Mr Punch, "they're all on the
room and
cholr.
"Yes!" Teddy.
shouted Knarf
ឆ
We can't tell what's
right if you take it away."
right!"
Ran back and forth
Then Ve Kitten ran back in Hand locked puzzled. then the left-hand side of the room she said that Knarf ond Teddy again. But the bit of fluff kep! were being silly.
moving around and the Kitten
"I'll just borrow 11 for a few dashed from one side of the minutes," she said. "Is it all room to the other. right, Mr Puncht"
By this tine. Mr Punch was "Thank you,” said Hantd, and shouting excitedly: alio walked out of the room "No, that's right! No," that' with the red chair.
left Righill Letti "That's all riglit," anid Mr "Oh, well," he sold as the Punch to Korf and Teddy, "We Kitten finally pounced on the can learn right and left just an bit of fluff and curled berself well without that chair. Now right in the middle of the room, do you see the Kitten allting "left in the site where your over against the wall on the heart is and the other alde other side of the room?”
right"
It is interesting to speculate on what would have happened If West had opened huis single- ♥*CARD Sende♣♦
You, South, hald:
WEST
NORTH (D)
✔ Nono ❤Nono ◆KITOK42. A910072
▲ ▲ 10 9 43 ❤2
◆ Q10083
KB
SOUTH
17
EAST AKQJS
4A
JONAS
❤AKQ31087GE
Nono Nono
No one vulnerablo.
South West Double 4❤ 44
North East 1+
Tak
A FARN Opening fead-AA
Tass
Q-The bidding has been: Norik East fontia West, 1
FAST
tvo trump and, South had run 24
Pass of Beven or eight hearts. Fast 2♥ Pass -7
and West might Just love 442 VA AKSTI LIEL3 thrown away enough spades to
give South his contract, What do you do?
As for the bidding, of thei A Tam. You have a mere hand I can't really criticise any eleven high card poiŋle and your blu, but some player with the singleton heart is a dinger signal. South corda tight have dou-
QAXY
TODAY'S QUESTION Instead of bidding two hearts your partner has jumped to three hearts, What do you do in this C07
Answer TomazTAW
bled the five-spade bld. The double Jooks
We are looking though now. at all the hands, but no stated in the Arst paragraphs anyone's guess is likely to be good with there unusual distributions,