1951-10-12 — Page 5

NEW IDEAS FOR THE SLIM

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1951.

WOMANSENSE

FRUIT BREAD-AND- BUTTER PUDDING

HERE'S A NICE PUDDING FOR

PAMI

LINE A RE DISH WITH THIN SUCES OF BREAD- AND-BUTTER

COVER WITH A. LAYER OF STEWED APPLE OR OTHER STEWED FRUITT

THENI MORE SIRGACH

ANDHBUTTERNE

AND MORE FRUTA ENDING WIRE

GREAD-AND BUTTER

· POUR OVER A \CUSTARD MIXTURE MADE WITH JEGO AND 12 DINT.

MILK

KLE THE

TOP WITH SUGAR AND A LITT GRATED NUTMEG

DUMB-BELLS

NO

HAVE YOU SEEN MISS HELENS

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BEEN

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OR USE A PACKET CUSTARD MIXTURE

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ZOITONG PREDU SERVICE

1. CORSELETTE BODICE for slim women only is the distinctive feature of this new autumn model evening frock. The bodice is made of black quipure lace

2. BODICE RUFFLE-07 k chiffon over fame tufeta: the centre bodice is of shot velvet with gold lame thread.

BOYS'

K12

Picture Frames Add Individuality To A Room

By ELEANOR ROSS

THE easlest, nicest and according to directions on con- often least expensive way tainer. When dry, apply a cont of pure, fresh white shellac cut to add beauty, distinction, half and half with good quality individuality or colour to a denatured alcohol (not anti- room is through the medium freeze),

each cont

or

dry, rub

of well-chosen pictures. A Give coat time to dry, then rub lightly with sandpaper, beautiful flower painting, a

dust again, and apply two land or seascape why, more coats of the cut shellac, many

decorator really as desired. Be careful to see builds a room around one of that

Is thoroughly these. Doesn't have to be dry before applying the next.

final coat is When an original, either, although, if one has a discerning eye, one can frequently pick up fine originals at sensible staining step. prices, many the efforts of artists who later become well-known.

• To set off the picture, and, what is most importani, match

It with the decor of your room, he proper wooden frame end finish should be given careful thought. It is becoming in- creasingly

popular

buy picture frames and finish them at home.

• How It's done. The wood should be rubbed smooth with

Bne steel wool or No. 06 sand paper, and then dusted. I! other than a natural fish is required, stain wood to desired colour with oil or water slain

Dish-water Allergy

ighty with sandpaper- or steel wool, then wak. To get a natural wood finish, omit the

PICKLED FINISH

• Just now the pickled finish ta very popular, and it in attractive. To obtain the finish,

d:Jute lead or zinc white with pare gum turpentine, and apply carefully to frame. Rub gently with a soft rag until the desired effect is obtained. This Is done before the first cost of shellac is applied.

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100-YEAR SHEETS AND NOSTALGIC

MEMORIES

1

Bolerog are booming since reintroduction by Dior

this. autumn. They appear fitted to the bust in mushroom, black": sequin-embroidered satin over a plack velvet dinner dress; in: tailored cyclamen-pink perge quer a black serge day dress. Woollens are also popular, likafthis white bobble-fringed bolero.

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• If you OWE or pick up one of those gilt-framed oils, grame may look as needed care, especially if the oil painting has been profes- slonally cleaned. A real ît frame Is covered with gold leaf and at work is an art. So just gently clean the gilt by using a mixture of equal parts of alcohol and ammonia. Prith the least possible *pressure, touch the gilt with a thin pad of clean cheesecloth or a

housewives Soft brush. This is not work to worry over the cost of equip-

Among the exhibits of old Because his wife's doctor has hurry over. Use a fresh cloth ping and maintaining their utility men still in regular use in pronounced her allergic to to remove soll.

would find household all over the country A little lemon linen cupboards

in an ex-many of them over 100 years dish-water, a Winnsboro. Texas oll, patted on very gently, will nostalgic memories

the help to keep gilt from drying hibition at one of the West End old-are husband has taken over

embroidered pillow dish-washing chores in his and cracking. If bits of gilt stores of the days when a cases datad In ink 1853 from household. He is also buying have chipped off, the frame bride's trousseau Iinen Tasted Mrs P. Toms, of East Budleigh; quantities of paper plates.

will need a professional job.

apa a linen sheet of 1799, Int by Mrs Appleton, of Uffieulme, Davon. This sheet, which is still being used in Mrs Apple- ton's household, la embroidered in blue threads with the names of successive owners,

her all the days of her life.

AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

Where Does Mr. Cricket Live? Wintergreen

-He Has an Address, but the Meadow's 50 Big!-

By MAX TRELL

KNARF

to

So Knarf and Hanid and the beetle started walking toward the other side of the meadow. I wish Frederick C. Cricket

more convenient

Road and Wildrose Avenue and Boulevard and Cowslip Square. But no Daisy Lane that I know ot. I'm sorry." And he hurried off He was

such อ very nice get back into line. beetle that Knarf and Honid and Hanid, the decided they ought to do their shadows with the turned- best to help him find Daisy Lane about names, were sitting under where Mr Frederick C. Cricket the shade of a fern at the edge lived. So they all weat into ved in B of the meadow, when a beetle the meadow. From the out- place," said the beetle. came along. Now there was side, the meadow seemed to All at once they met a spoll certainly nothing unusual about have no lanes or roads or streets nibbling a peppermint leaf in that. Only it was a very strange or avenues at all. It looked the middle of the meadow near bretle. It was wearing striped completely covered with grass, a tiny pool of water. Daisy the mea- Lane?" the mail said after they trousers for one thing, and for But once you got in another it had a pair of hom- dow you saw, to your surprise had explained to him what they rimmed eyeglasses on its nose, #bat there were dozens and wanted. "Now let me see.... "I beg pohdon," said the dozens of different paths that the hmm.... yes, it's the other beetle. That sounded strange, thy meadow-folk used-little side of the meadow, all right, 100. Hanid thought it was an threads of paths that went between Blickeyed Susan and extremely polite beetle, 80 she winding about underneath the Violet. You ought to get there said, "Is there something we blades of grass and the stems of by the middle of next week."

flowers. can do for you, dear?

"Yes," said the beetle. "I'd be much obliged 4 you'd tell me how I can get to Daisy Lane in the Meadow."

Didn't Know Either

Army of Ante Along the first path they came to, they found an army of ants marching swiftly up one side and another army marching just Hanid said she didn't know as swiftly down the other. where that lone was. The beetle, Hanid stopped one of the ants. looked at Kmart, Knart said he "Would you raind telling us didn't know either Is it in where we can find Daisy Lane, this speadow?" asked Kaart. please?!"

#li

8-10 The beetle handed the card to Hand, Pity you don't know him," he said.

It was a good thing that the beetle suddenly shouted, "I hear Is It Far Away?

himl" "What!" cried Hanid, "Ey "Who?" asked Knarf and the middle of next week? Is it Hanid." that far away?".

"Mr Frederick C. Cricket! "That's how long it would Listen!" take me," remarked the small,

DOWER CHEST

From Colonel Roger Swire, Island of Skye,comes "a Unen sheet and lace-trimmed pillow case belonging to his ancestress Rosamond Swire, who was born in 1733 and worked this linen yet forcher, dower chest, em- broidering her initials in her

own hair.

Mr Norman Ablett, of Alford, Lines. still

Iinen uses a damask dining cloth, which is marked in ink, "Charles, 6th

Lord Maynard, 1753.

For the woman who likes to preserve some of the beauties of old time housekeeping, it is still possible to have "initials and monograms embroidered or worked In Crows at itch Charger are reasonable, and it is amar ing what this touch can do to the appearance of utility limon,

WHEN

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WEATHER WARNING

shopping for e waterproof, remember to ask whether the materialis pre-shrunk. Cases have been reported to the Retall Trading dial Standards Association of water. and went on nibbling the leat Knarf and Hanid listened. proofs shrinking as much

confused they get. There heard the chirping of a cricket, g in the rain, But the further they went the Sure enough, very faintly, they wo inches after their first out- particularly were more and more paths, all The beetle dashed under the among cheap cotton gabertines. Most reputable manufacturers. crisscrossing and forking and grass, climbed over twigs and twisting and turning. They kept jumped from pebble to pebble before productiori,

have their material pre-shrunk "It must be," and the bestle think it's over on the other getting directions from different At last, sitting under a daisy takes more material, and less "It's the only meadow around side replied the ent. There's people. A bumble bee told them strumming a guitar, was Frede here. My friend Mr Frederick C. no. Daisy Lane here. Cricket Lives there. Do you know Clover Street and Buttercup them to go another.

There's to go one way, a dragon-fly told rick C. Cricket.And Knart and scrupulous manufacturers might

'Hanid' were certainly relieved..

Mr Frederick C.. Cricket?”

Knart and Hanid both replied

that they were sorry but they | didn't.

At this the beetle looked in the pocket of his striped trousers and took out a small leather wallet. Out of the small leather! wallet he took a cardi handed the card to Hanid. The card read:

Mi Frederick Chirp Cricket

The Meadow

Rupert and the Sorcerer-37

RUPERT and the

WRONG PRESENTS

but this

prefer to squeeze an extra gar ment from a roll of material and trust to hick on shrinkage, The association, who recently persuaded the Board of Trade to tighten the specifications, for rainwear cloths, he now pressing for a "relaxation, 1. shrinkage": rule to be introduced for rain-

Household Hinta

When you are cooking, keep chideen away from the move, Aside from the hazard of their turing on the gee, they might down the bundle of a her pan and get badly burned,

JACOBY ON BRIDGE

"There's your screw driver..right under your nose!"

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by Beachcomber

SMART-ALLICK yesterday asked by Governors why he had not call

in the police to deal with chaos at Narkover,

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By OSWALD JACOBY ROBABLY South should have

was and him, "too malay" for their the shredded nerves. Let me tell them,

have a these ludicrous halimen, that they much right to, orlizien in poet as I have to be an inspector of boiler walls. Were not 100 proud to touch such offal, I would- thrash each one of them within an inch of his life, reciting the poems of tingo as I did so. Noise! Ha! Let one of the make not like I will let him off with a reprimand Guttare or Tristesse d'Olymplo, and

and a blow in the face.

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The Headmaster explained that a squad of police, who came in zn- swer to a summons from one of the masters. arrested the master. It was afterwards ascertained that these "police" belonged to a gang. They had stolen the uniforms from the local police station. Yesterday It doesn't surprise me three mestera were screated by a panty of bogus fathers dressed as police officers.

for making. When the genuine police arrived they arrested two

soup from reindeer bones. I read genuine tnthera, who were released

the following: Then the stack a after explanations. Dr. Smart-Alick the

strained through a napkin tied to said: "I would willingly consider these requisites are lacking, the teps of an up-anded table.

stock can be strained - "through a tweed overcoat tied to a chandelier, of thrown inverted umbrul

threadbare bed-gulle best to an

a request for the military to be called in, & I wasn't so sure that the place would be swarming with bogus soldiers before you could

turn round."

A warning

N some directions

But the Swedes of the Lappmaricea atrain the stock through fiblog nets stretched between dwirt. Junipers. Which reminds me-in Lubes est So the little pimply ones with the hotel by the quay, in the legs like match wilcks, the blab- Siceopabrogatan, but do not ask for berers of tinned varse, dare to reindeer soup, in your quaint Eng- shear at my Victor Hugot They list way.

passed three trump YOUR BIRTHDAY

010

lowing his partner to play the hand. However, a spade opening would leave three no-trump de- pendent on a good guess in hearts. That good guess or good play-was all South needed make four hearts.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12

By STELLA

PORN on Columbus Day, you 'much. You act on

to

the

West opened - the king of clubs and shifted to the deuce of dia- monds. South won and returned a club to West's ace. West then led another

South dlarsund, and won again.

sate by South thought he was now, and speedily castted the king and then the ace of hearts. Then he tried, to_cash the queen clube, but East stepped right in with the queen of trumps and fald down the ace of spades to set the contract,

of

Naturally South would have made his contract he had guessed the location of the queen of hearts. He could have made it without guessing, however, 11 only he had played the hand properly.

On winning the fourth trick with ⚫ diamond South must lead only one round of trumpe to dummy's ace. Then he must lead the queen of clubs.

He can be sure that West has at least one more club for West would have opened the ace of clubs from the doubleton ace-king. If East follows side, South is safe. He discards a spade, cashes the third diamond to dacard another spade and then enda the jack of clubs to- get rid of his last spade. By this means only to cluba and one trump can be lost.

If East rufts the queen of clubs. Bouth over-rus, draws the int trump, and then gets to dummy via the fack of trumps, Then he bas two discarde on a club and a diamond, giving up two clubs and one spade.

CARD Sende♦

-With

North East

Fit-West vulnerable, the bidding has been: West

Bouth 1 Heart

Pare Pass You, South, hold: Spades A-KA- 10-6-3, Heart 8. Diamonds K-Q-34, Clubs 8-3. What do you do? .

A-Bid" twa. spades. This Indi- with good ́cated a strong hand

distribution. Partner should make some bid with something like one Honour" trick, "in which case" you will bid, game

TODAY'S QUESTION

The bidding has been the same as in the question just answered, You... Bounth, bold: Spades K-6, Rearts 6-4 Diamonds 9-1-2, Clubs 4-Q-J-8-8-4. What do you do?

Answer tomorrow,

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Knowledge

1: Were pre... the Allm Mountain Mo

dance of Argentina?

Name the

Bunches-and will probably have some of usually your quick decision is bet

explorer's adventuresome ter than some decisions "inade by naturel You like activity and those who deliberate. Therm change: are dramatic and emo piritual side to your nature which tional. I things are just a little is not always recognised exunt by dull, you are just the one to think those who know you very well. up something exciting. Still, even You are inclined to consider: your If you have a dozen :dcas a doy, Intuition B divine guidance. you can be depended upon to carry all twelve of them through suc cessfully.

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You have a mind that is exact and dematic. In fact, the adfences rifkety to appest to You have a good head for business, too, and can be depend- ed upon to strike a good bargain.

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You women, especially, are never happier than when in your home, managing your family. And a good manager you are, toot Things are never dull with around, although everything ove with clock-like precision.

To And what the stars have store for tomorrow, select your Singe your intuitions are excep. birthday star and read that corres- tionally keen, you do not And it ponding paragraph. Let your birth- necessary to think things over too day star be your daily 'gukle.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13

LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 73)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 10) Today be tolerant of the mistakes Be sharp-eyed and efficient, when of others. Not everyone can be as it comes to barigaka hunting and Anfallible as you sel Patience you will find some really good рауа,

orbes.

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PISCES

(Feb. 20-Mat. 20

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. Zdeas can be made to par well. See Might be just the time for family

that sine édes you have da instru- mented and a good market found for it.

SAGITTARIUS (Kov, 3-Dec, 23) Finish up shopping ofés and ends, Another excellent bargain | day.

CAPRICORN (Dec,' #1-Jan. 207- "mend-it last

and

A fine time to go a

fxt" ancest Things longer if you take good care them.

CHESS PROBLEM

By O. OFFENHEIMER Black, 10 pieces.

gathering. Why not to every one over to your house?

ARIES Some

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good reading can prove real inspiration. It could prove challenge to your own ideas... ...

21-May #1)~~. no play data be

TAURUS LAPI. All work and dreary. It is up to you to discover of the proper bstance

White, 11 pieces, .. White to play mate in to,

Solution to yesterday's problem:

1, RR, any; 2, Q, or R mates.

POCKET CARTOON

that morate on an oven keel.

GEMINI (May Your

keeps

-22-Jone - 81),

energy should be at peak right now. Make the best possible use of it. Get important stings done.

CANCER

(Jina

Stick to brass tacks! Don't get of on a tangent. Be practical to every- thing Illusions don't pay.”

LEO

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