1951-06-14 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1951.

WOMANSENSE

SUMMER VELVET TRIM

APPLE GINGERBREAD

For an important occasion.

By GRACE THORNCLIFFE TARK gray and white dotted silk yurah has been smartly tulored into a very effective dress. Although 1 is simple, the frock has an air about it and would be an ideal choice for a dressy occasion. Block velvet binding is most interest- Ingly used for the frame collar, cuffs, pockets and down

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the

the

front. A double white organdie collar stands away from neck inside the velvet binding. The buttons

rhinestone studded.

are

: SCRAP DINNER?

Controversial tople is raised

by authoress Anabel Williams- Ellis, her book, "The Art of Being a Woman."

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One-Seam Skirt-In Low-Cost Rayon Gabardine

fabric manufacturers

Thave succeeded in making a

refnarkable rayon fabric that luka like lightweight Wool gabardine, and that hay all the attractiveness of woul without the cost. This fabric 19 00′′ wide. One yd. will make skirt and a cummerbund waist-

a

e Baish for the average figure.

To cut: Straighten fabric both ends. Measure off your skirt length plus 2" for hem. Average

hed skirt length today is 27", so you have approximately 7" for cummerbund and pockets,

From One End

+

Measure off from one end of

the short piece three pocket pieces, each 7" wide. The third

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GINGER

14 LEVEL TEA- SPOON GROUND ALLSPICE

12 LEVEL TEA- SPOON GROUND CINNAMON

AND 12

TEACUPFUL

pocket plece is split into two in the waistline. Bring the ones crosswise pieces to make the at centre front and centre back cuffs for the top of the two together at the centre,

Make pockets. The remainder of the these 3 to 4" deep, making pleats piece is used for the cummer- smaller as sides, but deep enough bund.

to take up all of the skirt full- ness. Pin tape to the skirt.

one

Making skiri: Stitch the acam, beginning 71⁄2" down from

? Pocket Pocket Cummerbund

Adjusting Fullness

Put skirt on, adjust waistline fullness for becomingness to your figure. Pin pockels to position. Check evenness of hem. Remove .skirt. Stitch one lengthwise cummerbund to skirt,

one crosswise edge. Press seam edge of At a meeting of housewives open and put a 7" skirt zipper in

the placket

Stitch opening.

binding to the

she used the question of how matching seam domestic routine could be al-bottom edge. Turn and pin the terca to give women more free hem the length allowed for hem, time, Answer was,

"Abolish Make the pockets neatly as our

detail shows, dinner." Sunday

Surprising suggestion I nay be, but how

it would

much more pleasure mean for the average woman "if she could share in

family's day of rest and fun.

the

Waistline of Skirt

WARMED

TREACLE

3269

NOW FOLD IN SE FLOUR ALTERNATELY WITH 2 TEACUP OF GOUR MILIK MIXED WITH LEVEL. TEASPOON OF

BICARBONATE

OF SODA

BAKIT IN

A RING MOULD ABOUT 144 HOUR IN A. MODERATE OVEN

AND SERVE HOT WITH STEWED

.APPLE PURGE IN THE MIDDLE

Seaworthy Swim Suit

By AUCE ALDEN

THE resort season has seen, ice cream tones, The bodice is all sorts of novel fabrics and snug, nicely cuffed, and con- designs for swim and beach structed to stay up even with- wear. But in the final analysis

it is the fine, simple suit that is out the halter strap. The flared is smartly all-around the belle of the beach. Brilliant skirt does a beauty in nail head pleated. The suit is completely cotton, striped with while and 'lined.

US Housewives Also Have

Food Headache

New York. salers are alarmed by the fail- The US. Government has ing off of demand, amounting found, just 35 the British to as much as 30% to 50% in government has found, that two weeks. housewives are a force to be One big slaughtering concern reckoned with

announced it had laid off 10% The American woman's lot is of its staff as a result, and Fold waistline of the skirt in stitching through the pleats and happier than that of her British others say that between re- half, then fourths, then again in sram binding.

sister, since her butcher's duced demand and rising live. eighths. Cut a notch or place a

shelves are piled high with, stock prices they may have to, The family

pin at each fold. Take a piece

Make a narrow hem on top meat, but it is priced so high close down. of seam binding the size of your edge and hem 1" wide at side that outraged housewives are got to eat on lenst through

waist plus 2", divide this into closing. Finish this with hooks refusing summer

to buy any but the pockets cheaper eyes. Slip-stitch

in many cases desks cuts, months why not try substitut-eighths as you did the skirt, us-

and hems to position so na switching to poultry. ing a cold buffet lunch, withing pins to mark each eighth.

stitching shows on right side.

Prices

have been forced and the whole family joining Place tape opposite each mark Press the skirt carefully and it down by this boycott as much table-laying und washing-up? in the skirt. Then lay soft pleats is ready to wear.

as Jd. a pound, and whole

have obviously Sundays, but at

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BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

Teddy Bear Was Very Hungry Rupert and the Coughdrop-22

-And No One Knew What to Feed Him-

By MAX TRELL *NOW and then, about once a month or so," said Teddy, the stuffed bear, I get hungry for something to eat. I'm hungry right now."

Knari,

the Bhadow-boy with the turned-about name, looked

ever

"Because you're stuffed, that's why)" sald Knarf. “If you're stuffed, how can you fit any more food inside of yourself? If you're stuffed, you're stuffed. So you can't be hungry."

Didn't Understand

at Teddy in surprise. He was quite sure that nothing like this Teddy said he didn't under bad

before. stand what being stuffed had to happened "Teddy,"

ho said to the bear, do with it. "you are mistaken and wrong Here Knart's sister Hanid came and you can't be hungry at all," along and wanted to know what "I can!!" said Tetidy, sounding the argument was about, Knarf quite surprised himself, "Why explained .it to her. can't 17 I'm as. hungry as a "Well," cald Hanid, "maybe bear," he added the next instant. Teddy, the stuffed bear, Isn't "What's

wrong with being hun quite stuffed. Maybe he's got

room for a little something." You're not a real bear," Teddy. "That's it bouted Tendy jor- You're a stuffed bear. And that's fully. "Ive got lots of room for why you can't be hungry.

a ikile, something!”. Teddy looked more surprised So he and Hanid and Knarf than ever. "Why, because I'm walked into the kitchen and stuffed bear, can't I 15 hungry opened the pantry door and ilke any other bear?"

gazed at the different things on the shelves to decide what kind of a little something Teddy felt

#eating.

Ike

As Rupert gets higher he sees that there is a hole right through the cloud, and the baskey just fits in as it is pulled upwards, until it emerges in clear starlight on top. "So that's what was drawing us up," he cries. **Surely this isn't a real cloud I" For in front of him is a strong little crane being worked

by a toy soldier. His two com panions get out and walk_about

This

Rupert without fear. mulle-bound insisted on bringing Bear." says the down. The ham. Why? What can be do? asks the toy soldier in surprise. "I haven't the lean idea," laughe the clown, neither has he, We must wait and ace.”

ALL RIGHTS KEIKKYZD

ture,

Letters To Senators Letters are plling on senators" from angry housewives, women have even pooled their money to buy radio time, urging a boycolt of all goods which are priced unreasonably high.

As a result of this boycoll

JACOBY ON BRIDGE

Put Your Best Finesse Forward

By OSWALD JACOBY

WHEN. this hand was play-

ed." writes

Los Angeles-correspondent, "South was sure of five tricks in the mafor suits and needed four tricks in the minors to make his contract.

"He sw at once that he had to And either the queen of clube or the king of diamonds in the West hand. If the diamond finesse worked. be would have four tricks in that suit alone. If the club fineme worked, he would make three club Iricks and the ace of diamonds.

"As it happened. South tried the diamond finesse. It lost to East's king, and Kast knocked out South's remaining spide stopper,

"Now South was dead. He could (and did) run eight trickr, but the manent he touched the chibs. East took his ace and made the rest of the tricks with spades.

"Obviously. South could have made the contract by trying the club finesse instead of the dissent. But should he have known—or was 11 m fem? Please tell the truth-don's dig up a strained reasoɑ just be- cause you can see all the Hands."

I cannot tell = lie: South should have tried the club free for a Tery good reason.

Last was sure to have the ace of clubs for his vulnerable over- call. Hence it would be fatal io

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lose the diamond finesse (as South found out when be actually played the hand).

If South tried the club finesse and happened to lose to the queen of clubs, has remaining spade" stopper would be knocked out." Then, bow- eer. He could sun try the diamond finesse. And E that worked, be veould still make his contract.

In other words, South can try both fizesses if he begins with the clubs and loses his first try. But if he begins with diamonds and loses his first try, he is dead then and there.

♥ CARD Sersekt

Q-With

your partner

both sides vulnerable. deals and bids ope spade. The next player paumes. You hold: Spades 4-4-2, Hearts 6-4. Diamonds A-J53-2 Clubs What do you do?

And two spades. You have a hand of less than average strength. (An Average kand contains one see. one-king, öte guten, and our jack) You should therefore bid only once. A 1ade false is more likely to help

partner

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TODAYS QUESTION With both sides vulnerable, your partner deals and bids one spade. The next player passes. You bold: Spades 3-4 62, Hearts G-4, Dis- monds A-3-3-3, Clots K-7-2. What do you do?

Answer tomorrow.

some wholesalers are bringing CHESS PROBLEM

their

prices down, but the situation is complicated in the extreme, for white meat prices are controlled, livestock prices are not

Thus the wholesaler has his eri de coeur too, for he is caught" between the fixed retail prices and rising livestock prices.

By W. MAY

Black, 11 pieces.

**Chrome FRESH BERWICK,

ROBBELT Ufwrefilt

"Which shall we show him first-my report card, your new hat or the dent in the fender?"

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Beachcomber

word

SHOULD

very much like, toy mouse with a flithy Fascist took saya jony Jack Hopkins, was traced to a horribly bourgenus with a light laugh, to see their perialist coloured bricks and capi

shop. In the window

im- idea of an Iare Søtc.

donkeys which aqueaked In passing

plutocratically when pinched.: OM- ciala confiacaled the toys, and lurid AN article I have just read claims in their place some of the new

that the "greatest achievement of the human intelligence in the post 20 years.....is the progress In man's ability to control and do- minate his economic environment

One small plece of evidence that Reim ‹ fit me is that man in England cou now buy a rabbit for little Tore than twice the price he would

have had to pay for the meat the Government won't purchase. A little more of such control and domina- tion of his economic environment, and be will be able to afford the дет Czech reindeer-musage. and meat will be so cheap, owing to judicious non-buying, that he will be able to get none for nothing.

Imperialist dolls

E protest of Communist teachers 10 East German kindergartens ngsimi dolls with "reactionary and Imperialist expressions In their faces" sbowen – bow mabila in clam propaganda. In Prague recently, a

inlist

horses with proletarian faces. Pall the tails, and they give the elenched hoof lute.

Hist!· Irma!·

WHAT is wrong with the atmos

phere? The helium has disap- peared That the solentia ex- planation of two Hamburg Profes- wors, I knew something had hiappen- ed. The only possible course, they say. is to compute the trilium content of the whole earth. That, would 'ob- viously lead to a solution of the mystery of the vanished', helium. If the trillen disoppsare, it will mean that an international gang. is at work, stockpiling these necessary ingres - dients of cosmic radiation. Salome

of the

TALKING of Strauss's "Salome," I have always liked the anawer boy to the question. "Who was. Salome?" He replied, "She was a woman who danced naked in front of Harrocis,"

YOUR BIRTHDAY............3 STELLA

THURSDAY, JUNE 14

IF you are bom today, the stare have given you exceptional capa- bilites, but your talents will remain hidden imless you develop them early in life and make the most of them. The quality of your nature shows in your tendency to change your mind impulsively on occasion and your abilty to be; quiet, studious and

thoughtful at other

times.

at all. Be more natural and you will

·be happier,

A great lover of music and the arts, you will be happlest 19 your work is connected with them in some way, even if you, yourṇelf. ore not a creativa artist. Your ideals are high and if you fall short of your own estimate of perfection. yourself, you would enjoy nothing better than devoung your lime and You are quick to anger, but as efforts to helping them who are quickly to cool off. Others. „may' expecially talented. This is a' type not be able to adjust a readily of siblimation which you women Remember that

are especially hair to when it comes You are sensitive and are eastly to selecting a partner for life. You hurt by the thoughlessrom of others, are a hopeful; encouraging and To covet up this weaknew, you sympathefie wife and mother. may boast and act as if you were To find what the stars have m as thick-skinned as a rhinoceros. stores for tomorrow, select Tour This only gives people the wrong - birthday star and read the correS Impression of your true nature and poeding paragraph. Let your birth- docan't help your own. Inhibitions day she be your daily made.

FRIDAY, JUNE 15.

GERINI QON · 22-322@~** 223-emotional "over" Bliainess:" postpone

stick closely to decisions. A poor day, noi routine and you will make fewer BCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov. 213- mistakes than if you are too ad- Definitely a day for rownance, Don't venturesome.

attempt to carry on ordinary busi- CANCER

(June 23-July *3)— new except the most essentful rou- Leo more ordinary caution, es- tine.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 12)... pecially in personal matters of in- portance. Lave and romance arc

"LID and coming" day. Cavoured.

See that you take full advantage of 2) all opportunities offered to your A good day for a wedding. Pleasure

CAPRICORN * (DAE," SA-Fána 20)- and social activities take precedence

A delay in a message reaching you over strictly basiness aftátra.

could cause a business lom unless, You are very 'natuto."

LED . (July

+26-ADE.

Another

VIRGO (ARE. 24-Sept. 12): Not your best day. Take things • AQUARIUÍ. (ZA5; · 21-Fab. - 19)— slow and cagy and you will get

Another Ene day for your personal) klong better than if you try to riti, affairs. Love, and marmage cominta

LIBRA

(Sept.":"23-02£ 23 to be a paramount interest.

PISCES A good day for romance, but one

(Feb-Mar. In which you murt not get. Make sure that you do not make careless commitments. – Know what ou are promising before you say ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 203 General business is only fair, but. personal rommalle objectives.may be jained now,

BARBS-

BY HAL COCHRAN

With some movie shows run- ning three hours long it's easy to find out what home is with- out mother.

The income tax means addition, subtraction, division, multiplica-

The US.. government has hom ordered an inquiry into the latter, which may result in a ceiling price on livestock

No “Plain" "Lost" Since we're on the subject of food,

the it always amazes Iong-term visitor to the U.S. that it is next to impossible to buy y ́a plain, ordinary loaf of bread.

You may buy, besides white bread. wholowheat, cracked wheat, rye, milk and pamper uickel, to name just a few. If you eatin a good class 1, B—ÐI, 1...K—KI; 2. restaurant you will be offered K-B4; 1...P-B4; 2, B-84, tion and, in lots of cases, muis- a choice of hot or cold rolls, rolls

soft

or kard, decorated with cara- way seeds, or with sticky tops, or masquerading as something that to the British palate is nothing more nor less than a raisin ten scone.

Teddy shook his head so much ward the woodshed. The chil- Every swrapped loaf of bread that his neck began hurting. "No, dren's father had been there all contains an impressive list of thank you. I don't care for any morning, repairing some turul-ingredients. These may include of those things."

to quote a recent purchase- Knarf and Hanid didn't know to eat in the woodshed!" Knart sugary

"But, Teddy! There's nothing!"unbleached flour, raisins, salt, Teddy

tutter, sald

**** Hand. what to suggest next.

yolks and Hanld said as they ran after cinnamon and sodium proponiate, "Would you caro for a 111210

Tedily.

which is frowned upon in Eng something like soup?"

In the Pantry

Techly pushed the door of the land, and is used to keep the Teddy thought about soup for minute or two. Then he said:

"Anyhow."

woodsbed open and scampered bread molst. said Teddy, *I thank you, I don't think I don't think the little something Hand heard him ab ing. "A provides you, we are informed, "No,

This "enriched" · loaf... also inside. "Here At lal art and want a litle something like that I feel hungry for. is in the whole heap of It!" BOUD"

a pantry. I don't'ate it or imeli IL.

with ample amounts of thiamine, And when Knarf and Hanid riboflavine, niacin and Iron. "Crackers?" suggested Knatt Smell it!" he suddents exclaim. **No studny

an appetising thank you. No črackers" od, "He started mining: the air, looked in the woodshed they saw What, it does not give you is

what it is, but I smell it right fre

freak unwdin

After a Cow weeks in the this minutels if moods a little laTeddy!” Hania makt sha U. most, British visliers would something like-like woodi”. tiểă a handkerchief, around; his trade their next eziyand-betons oke wood neck to serve anamaakin who breakfast for an isolant,

Hanid, H

Teddy shook his head.

"Cake? Maki Knari,

Again, Teddy shook his head.

At this. Teddy all at once didn't wangunan till mitmed beins non-impikond, criety) erupted. darted out through the kitchen More mediale Docsses perdut Tugand Katz. They might even qua- doorway and weak bussbling is what studied busty are sumed think with porbalcin of the war-

and, bunging down the patha pow wildl

White, & pieces. White to play: mate is two.

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INTELLIGENCE TEST:

RANK LURACY

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Good wrestlers get in the big money, says a proboter. And set 'offen wind up flat on their backs.

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