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WOMANSENSE
LADY LUCK-
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
AQUARIUS January 21. February 19: Business and pleasure ought to be kopt strictly separate, if you want to get the best out of both.
to be concluded until an expert has given it his well-consideredl approval. VIRGO (August 22.
PISCES (February 20-March 20): An accumulation of routine jobs
September 22): Don't be Artisfied with your second beat when you are fully
today may table of doing better.
keep you from accomplish- ing something much more Important.
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(September 13. October 22): A good chance to improve your Anancial position must nut
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“ERONICA FPAPWORTH
A gay view of the New You in fashion
You don't have to look
RECENTLY the
secrets of the Paris Collections were spread before 11 breathlessly waiting world.
Assuming you are a
were
woman
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
he allowed to slip through Considerable taet will be
your fingers. required today your SCORPIO 1October
ja dealing with
rather November 211: Anticipat- touchy person.
ing an embarrassing meet- The point is, how breath- TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
ing will fortify you against less und waiting Don't go too much by aut-
the moment when it actual-YOU? ward Appearances, but try ly takes place. to judge & newcomer by his SAGITTARIUS (November leas obvious qualities.
22-December 21: A little and, if not, what are you do- extra attention paid to an
ing wasting your time reading this when you might be shou- elderly relative will make during him feel less of a burden burden?), It is idle to pretend come fragile female's
to the family.
you don't care about the way CAPRICORN (December 22-you Inok.
Of course you enre. January 201: You will
Not about the new "high, very interesting di bust" or the "subtle kick- spend a evening in the company of fare around the kneee" maybe. a person closely connected | (Let's face it, high, tiny busts with the creative arts. one will
are born not made and it's the YOUR LUCKY
knees rather than the "gubile kicka" that count.)
GEMINI (May 21-June 20:
By taking more interest in your present job you will surprised at how quickly the time will pass. CANCER (June 22-July 211:
If you accept a challenge to take on the seemingly impossible,
binme you if you fall to bring it off.
LEO July 22-August 23): A property deal dught not
COLOUR:
If today is your birthday. look out for ORANGE. 1 ought to bring you luck.
BOYS AND GIRLS
MAGAZINE
Singing Lessons
-Hanid Suggests Canary As A Fine Teacher- By MAX TRELL
"NOW my dear." said
Hanid, the Shadow Girl with the Turned-About Name, as she hung the magie tolking- ribbon around the Kitten's neck, "1
would like to ask you a question,"
Pur-Purr, the black Kitten, let out a cow at first but as soon as the magie, riblion was 1rmly around her neck, she nald:
"My dear Child, you can ask me any question you like."
Hanid's surprised
Honld looked at the Kitten in surprise. She hadn't expéel- ed Purr-Purr to call her "My dear Child". That wasn't the way Kittens usually address- ed small Girls.
However, Hauld said:
"Did you ever take singing lessons, Purr-Purr dear?"
"No," sald Purr-Purr, nover did,"
8-7.
*' like to ask you a question,"
Hanid told Furr-Purr.
"I don't like singing teachers, elther," sald Purr-Purr. "Who is he?" she asked.
Hauld
before paused
she spoke. She didn't wunt 10 make things worse than they Puri-Purr was being
"I were.
"think you should." safd very difficult. Hanld.
"Why?" nsked the Kitten. *Is there something wrong with the way I sing?"
Hanld palted
Pur-Purr gently on the top of her furry head.
Sings woll
"I do hope," Hanid said, that you won't say you don't ke this singing teacher until you think about . He's a wonderful singer. If you learn to sing even half as good as he does, everyone in the whole neighbourhood will stop to listen to you."
"I don't think I'll like him,"
" don't want to hurt your sold Purr-Parr, "But who feelings," she said. "You sing he?" very well-for
Kitten. I F
mean,"
"Thank you," said Purr- Purr
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"But," continued Hanid, "in Hittle while you'll be Д
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"Enrico Canary," said Hanid.
Sho'll love canary!
"The
We all want
But what you want, I want, we all want, is whol the magazines are forever promis Ing-"a_newer, younger, more breathtaking you next winter," Maybe that's what you schemed for this summer?
Let's take it again, shall we -slowly. For the inescapable
like a greyhound
High-bosomed triangle
The REST (myself included) re-think and try will almost certainly settle for "cofre-bean-brown"
A coat with a flited, front and stead.
a wide, cipe-like, back.
Last year's straight-up and down top coats are old hat.
If you are buying a suit, do please look for one with gentle shope to the front of the Jacket.
Designers have contrived with bins cutting and canvas to build 冠 false facade--narrow shouldered; ample bosomed,
If you want to get a fox hat,
one
F title опе 1п-
Cet ahead,
Hey-WAIT A MINUTE. What is the man in your life now planning?
Is he at this very moment meditating the possibilities of aited frant to his jacket?
how is his
If you hope to get by on
Accessory-wise, nel of accessories pick treacle-brown or burgundy red scheme to date? patent leather,
If you are looking for an all- purpose evening outfit buy a cloth of gold" cardigan suit
it you want mink I had
and long waisted-into their better be "thaved" mink, sultb, which is Ane if you don't happen to have been born with much facade of your own, And do please promise to try the new, narrow skirts with a three-inch are at the hem.
Even the most dedicated, skin-tight-skirt addict will agree they look good.
No, I don't think they're shaving sable. Not yet.
And velvet is fine-especial- ly for Chanel-type sults.
Getting ahead
What is
inore,
setually climb
And don't forget, grey fannel with sherry-coloured accessor les... or clove-carnation red
• OF grass green winter while, which is fabu- lous in those rough-textured tweeds, but fattening.
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can you
Still, not to worry, for, need- Into a cab in less to say, you'll be SLIM- them without getting your MING, stiletto heel cought
in your hemline and anyone who has ever found herself standing on one leg and incapable of move ment will know it's tle points like this that count. "You're the expert,"
To continue, if you are con- crics. "What's
Uitle wrong with sidering a
black dress, today's fashlous. What do they lock?"
fact is that each and every one coat, 15gns.
of us needs to be covered--and the prettier the coverings the caster, especially on the eves, for everybody.
My problem is not simply how to present to you the dis- Ulted knowledge that comes from viewing close
on 5,000 stunning cnsembles.
It is rather to decipher the hieroglyphics of my, Paris note- book and try to make sense out of scraps reading "for up sides across top double" or "blascut Aan over bust bypassed." (Has Mr Marples any views on this one?)
What makes it all the harder is thal designer's world is peopled, seemingly, by one type of female only.
She has eyes like soot-ringed headlamps set in a stark white face, a rib-cage like a Grey- hound Derby winner, a hand span walst and legs that go on for almost ever.
So improbable
Any resemblance to the average woman is quite coin-
she
Absolutely nothing, of course, apart from someone with eyes like soot-ringed headlampa set in a stark white face, à rib- sage like a Greyhound Derby winner... and so on.
you?
But you all knew that, didn't Happily, hope springs elernal even the most human-as opposed to fashionably shaped
breast. It needs to
in
Therefore, let us set aside all gloom and despondency, let us take heart and try again.
than face, the autumn's latest No need to hibernate rather look. It's not as bad as that.
For from it.
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The new powdered diets are marvellously effective and easy-cspecially if you don't like food.
There are new cosmetics, too new eye-shapes, new lip-con- tours, new false hair, new.
What of his theatre sult?
What steps is ke taking to become a lovelier younger -mate?
ile is almost cer- iainly lying flat on his back cating VEAL of tonst quantjes and honey and letting bis. waistline go to "pot"i
Cut this page out very carefully, fold it in four, put it in
drawer then help yourself to the rest of the toast and honey.
You can't make good resolu- tions on an empty stomach.
Long-bodied
suit, black fox
collar, 17gns.
IT'S THE LEGS THAT MAKE A MAN
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HAVE it on the word of firmly. "O course there is top half of the body is cloth-
that well-known
still, a certain cult among the ed in something subdued And Bar various clubs. and regiments, easy atling-the loose jumper toril gage. Mr John Taylor but only the initiated can pin top maybe, or a tailored car- the editor of the Tailor point signißeances in cut and digan. But quiet in out and and Cutter that a minor buttons. revolution has taken place in lolsure wear for men.
the in-
"To the casual eye, a reefer is simply a navy blue blazer and popular fashion."
colour.
The focal point, all the dash and the drama, lles in a pair of terribly tight trousers-pre- ferably check."
The emphasis has switched
I asked it anything, special from trunk to legs. Taylor told me firmly. "You
was taking its place. "It's perfectly obvious," Mr
He added that this was "not must surely have noted
"It's the whole skape of the an easy fashion." He has a fashionable
anon that hus point there. Time was when version pältern" in general. changed, quite drastically many a man removed his jacket "Think back to compara- changed," said Mr Taylor. and left his shoulders inside it. tively rerent fashion--in parti- culor the navy-blue reefer with the emphasis is entirely focused "What has happened is that Its vivid crest, the bold, colour-
ful tweed jacket, or the striped on the pelvis and legs." blazer.
There are some devastatingly pretty clothes coming into the shops and all of them on the right lines.
Inspired practically away-by Paris,
carried departments
our fashion
"All the emphasis was in a have come up
broad-shoulder, with the GOODS. In record bright-hued top,
barrel-chested,
with lacom spicuous, anonymous grey' flao-; nels below.".
time too.
cidental and highly improbable. What, I ask myself, has she neighbour who claims to be my In common with my distant constant reader-a big, deep- bosomed mother of five-who. The young and goy wil no matter when or where we delight in the new triangular meet, nalls me with a loud coats with wide, stiffened skirts hello and "of lo Paris apain swinging from a high, narrow I suppose?"
bosom.
As I more or less lived here.
They are terrine, they are here and at the right price.
From my 5ft 4in. I shail survey them with envy, I look ike a wigwam on castors
in dogs them and that's that.)
To her I am a fibbertigibbet, absentee materfamilias-a but- terfly, skimming lite's
froth while she copes with children, chickens, ponies and husband-the LOT (In, I sus- pect, that order.)
"Tell me," and she when we last met, "where do I go wrong?
"I'm not frivolous Canary cried Purr- noi weak-minded. I've a thun- and I'm Purr. Her eyes sparkled with
dering good dress allowance, Purr-Purr, joy. Janid could
hardly be but I can't find a damn thing though she had Rever love the change that suddenly to wear. And when I do I don't
came over the Sad-looking look right in it. Kitten who hated to have to "Of course you will," said take singing lessons. "Oh, I'd
"Listen-I plunge on a bro Hanid, "All Kittens become love him she said,
ended two-piece which
will [7" asked
thought of that before.
some
Cala. And though you sing "I'm glad of that," Hanid slip of a girl kids me will make very well for a Kitten, I don't started to say, Then, sudden- me look like the sultan's think anyone will say that you iy, she thought of why Purr favourite, and off we go to the aing very well for a Cal." Purr would like the Canary theatre.
Pure-Purr thought about this. for
she sald:
singing a
teacher,
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I said that 00 per cent of the chaps who get into the news these days elther for good or evil-seem to be photographed in a reefer and flannels,
"Because the recter js not pollol stuff," said Mr Taylor
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for a minute or so. Finally guess," Hanië said nloud 10 "What happens } sland after Anding but thai my Pur-Purr, "that it is unfair out like a foming beacon and partner held no aces bidding for Kittens and Cats to have every other woman Is in | tiveno-trump to ask for kings. to joke singing lessons," 'understated' black,
The trouble with that sequence Then she quickly removed "So the next time I buy would be that if he did not the magle talking-ribbon from black-and In spite of Charlie's have either of the missing kings Purr-Purr's neck before the diamond clip, I feel, and look, I would find myself going down Kliten could Buy another like the chlet mourner at a one at a slam wordi
"Well, my door Child, what do you think I ought to do?"
You ought to take singing
lessons," said Hanid.
Didn't like lessons
"Lessons!" erled Purr-Purr. There was no mistaking whatį Furr-Purr meant. Sho didn't Ilica lessons. "Do I have to take them?" she asked.
"You do, it you become a Cat, Bald Iranid.
"All right," anid Pur-Purr, "I won't become a Cat,"
Hanıld quickly told Purr- Purr that there' was nothing she could do about it. It she was a Killen she had to be- come a Cat.
"Children don't become Cats," said Furr-Purr
"Pup- ples don't become Cats. No- body. becomes Cate except Kitten. It's not fair."
Janld Just smiled and said nothing.
"Oh, nii right," Pur-Purr said at last, "1'll take singing lessons If I have to. But I don't like them."
"I know a very good sing- Ing fanchor," said Hanid, "
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whlipes. Be careful how' you:
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Dingo's voice has sunk to a moves rather faster.
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