1957-11-29 — Page 5

This Funny World

"I have just met your fat, new, bowlegged secretary!”

YOUR BIRTHDAY

BORN today.

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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1957.

JACOBY ON BRIDGE

Sally Slams in Spade Suit

By OSWALD JACOBY (ALLY JOHNSON of West+

port, Coan, & anotiter young lady who has moved into the group of the 10 best women players.

Sally started going after and master point in 1935 acquired exactly 300 by the end end of 1950.

her Arst This summer was serious altempt at rational competition and she picked up a second in the cational mixed teams and third in the national open teams.

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Sally' teun was trailing in m important match In the open teams when she picked up rockerusher in the North rest, Her partner, Pedro Cabral New York, openod one upade

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Sylvia Lamond

LETS AN EXPERT INTO HER KITCHEN

I moved to the far end of my long, narrow kitchen.

last improvement i when made in my kitchen was a bright wallpaper with lobster motif stretched acrags one wall.

"Wait," he bellowed, "what An- are you doing up there? other half-turn and you could

I was rather pleased with have cracked the eggs into the the improvement, until I pa and hisut broakfast, cooking"

forced to take an un- flinching look at the kitchon a few evenings inter.

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he played the ace and king of kont want now.

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You hold the same hand and your partner responds two clubs to your opening heart bld. What do you do?

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Auswer Tomorrow

WAY

by Beachcomber

ANYONE would have used amicle abou

plane to apply the

a country house that Shibbo Ltd, would be thrown open to the publje:-- tie Arst Arm to make really

A lock of Wellington's hair ambitious

entler uluninni rests on a table with a picture of Lady—with her first rhino- Not content with subtle ad- ros....Touches of colour add vortisement-flashes in the middle ralism.

new fortiTA advertishon.

I measured up to him coldly,

breakfast. I'm getting a basın to scramble them in"

"We don't like fried eggs for

MANY STEPS

1 WILK

He told me his idea of a #aximum efciency colour scheme in the kitchen.

"You might have red in your 'busy' area, where you በፖ preparing, measuring, moving where your mind has to be

From that point, dreadful. Every step fell like half a mile. I cheated by leav- ing out the salt (eight" yards saved). I couldn't find the oven clolli and nonchalantly used alert.

rather my bron hunting,

Unthinking I took him t to look n the wallpaper. By of bad luck the a stroke kitchen was In state disorder. Every table top was crammed, the carving dish was on the floor--and, to

the cap confusion. my uncomplaining help was wiping her brow and

But it was no good. The peeling one vegetable after Sexis her shoulders as if "string-diagram" he produced another. the colour could be she'd been flat out down a-the criss-cross of tracks pole, blue-grey Or sea-green

sail-nine all day,

The efficiency expert looked! around happily, and sald it he'd Was the fest example ever seen of a workshop with out & plan.

said.

THREE MUSTS

than

Ko

showing how I'd gone about Afte shople meal-spoke for itself,

"In the repetitive area, like the sink, where you just stand

.something restful."

I thought of myself, "resting In my repetire area...brussels sprout in one hand, knife in the the other, one eye on a cookery

book open

On

draining the board, one eye on the clocks, the eye in the back of my head watching my child play Д with the game dangerous mineer; ears alert for the door. bell, telephone, and ping of the aven timer that means Take the pudding out.

Humbly, i listered. "A coherent assembly line is first thing, Everything for the preparation

this at

end... food, basins, bealers, and so on. Everything for the actual cook- ing the centre, and at the he far end-the point of departure all the frills which go to the table, like cutlery and tureens."

He moved a number of lienu to Improve their "relationship" to each other. The cat come in and went out : u tury when

SIMPLE WAYS

Page - 5

THE SPUTNIK

LOOK

By HAZEL MEYRICK

T had to come, of course your shirt front hanging out, or

--someone has designed tucked into the shorts.

a Sputnik bracelet. It's a git chain with 4 space chav hanging from it, a miniature earth with golden satellite encircling

il.

It's the cocoon cost, and it's just right to wear on scooters and in bubble-cars, when you don't want a full-length top-

These bracelets are being gat trailing round your ankles. Designer Wallace of Spectator the sampped up

moment

Sports, has dreamed up a serios they appear on the coun- of those bright little

three- ters, but I'm just wonder- quarter length jackota that ing whether Jewelcraft, the curve in towards the hemline, makers, will supply us with and wrap around you like extra satellites to fix on, ng more of them are sent up into space.

cocoon.

Although a straight-cut three- quarter length coat only sulta the very tall, these shapod. Jackets can be worn by anyone. There's a satellite skirt They're in cheerful colours, now. for rock 'n' roll fang. pillar-box red, for instance, and It is made from vivid mid- they sell at budget prices. light blue felt, with sequins for stars. and it is printed with the entire solar system, stars and all.

germent

and

They've brought the British "ym tunic up to school-girl's Delia date. That shopeless Fashion photographer, Dudgeon, who is rapidly mat- that every girl leather, ing her way to the top-despite other countries laugh about, tua. the fact that she's a pollo vic- been made up into a cocktai lim and works from a wheel dress. They've made it in pure chair-i using the satellite silk shantung, given It intricato

motif for her photography. The box pleating and cinched the model girls are photographed waist with a soft lle belt-but with strange space shapes in the to me it still looks like background.

dreary gym tunic.

"Actually it's a mobile that I already had in my studio," she told me, "But I thought I'd us The expert read my dejected it, because It's so topicul."

"There is

He had just come from a big industrial plant where

working on a plan to save the energy and time and step up the productivity of 250 men,

"Just the same three things a woman want: in her kitchen," 1. And that's how I enme

he found his bowl had been doubts. work- iny klichen #lated, That's why the big moved from the warm place obstacle," he admitted "to Kitchen eficiency. Women Industrial combines with 200 next to the boller room to the

cold spot beside the refrigerator, have no efficiency experts busy all day

do at many Jobs to have nothing on me.

agreed that 14 yarda' walk the same time. All the same, ery day to top up the cat's work-study methods do help.” To start we wilk bowl is unreasonable). chose a simple jeb

to have

and

one

bly

#1

Then he told me what he had cene in HIS kitchen,

Ji tas been estimated bauert! and egg break- woman walks 11⁄2 miles In her

lea "1 store the

china 115 fast. I tied an kitchen every day. "You could

covery-plate, saucer. double that figure here," sald separate my apron

tv get the expert admiringly. went

all three eup, on top-so that

are reached with one the frying pan But walking about in

TIGE pieces

movement.

take and put it on entirely responsible for

Most people the the tucker.

jaded feeling a girl gels after ce movements-cup from the ruck, and hook, plate from a a day in my kitchen.

Leer from a pile. sink is

Tho

the

veze- invest-

too low, the

"I worked out that peeling saucepan shelf in a fraction too vegetables was the most tiring, high, theru is no good, strong tine-wasting job-so a light shirang into oven table-pecter is a beller when the door is opened for an ment Chat: many other inspection.

appliances."

"Then the expert summed up.

"The method in my kitchen are quite simple, really," he said. "Any man of an organising turn of mind would probably do the same.

THOSE TINTS

He

made his first note: "Ninu yards 3 t} walleing

bend one full to bring tool to point of opera tion."

From the refrigerator 1 took the eggs (he clocked six yards); from a cup- The board only a step from cooker I took the bacon.

"I's a pity you have to go down on all fours for the bacon

that's -otherwise

the most fur. economical movement so

That was the last straw. Perfect relationship between But I scared with my colour took off my pron and went cooker and food to be cooked." scheme. Bright red puts zip hind my own organising genius The export was explaining into people," said the efficleury to tell him the kitchen was all the Importance of relationships expert approvingly.

Ever get a singing sensallon in the head? These stresses and strains of on inferior kitchen are probably why.

hisk

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11

It's new-the nylon founds- tion that looks just like a swim

It's suli, straps and all, shocking pink elasticised nylon, and fits the figure like a second sklo, moulding it into the shape you want to be.

that

about Tespite all that talk strings of multi-coloured beads, despite the fact that the Lo don stores are selling long TOPËS of crystals and semi-precious stanes by the dozen, when it comes to a fashionable occe- to slun, and a woman. vente

dress up, what does she choose? Pearls,

word

ex-

At an important dress show At last someone has produced this week, I counted no less than a slip to wear under that skin- thirty women wearing pearls tight dress--it's sleek and allment their throat-against the ly tailored with a double-fabric odd two

or three who shadow-proof front. It has a beads." trimming of 10 denier nylon, appliqued with ratin ribbon, and It is cut

Mrs Peter Thornycroft, two inches shorter fashion editor and now wife of than normal, because the mak- the Chancellor of the Teche ers, Taylor-Woods, feel that quer, sporled one row of birda shorter skirt lengths are on the cut-sized pearls. with earrings

match.. 10

Lady Ashton, folzner

professor of fashion at the Royal College of Art, wore Vicomtez' one row, D'Orthez--but she wore' hers with mind.

way.

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Newest thing to appear on the beach the shirt shorts set. The Staff writers of Britain's The shirt is cut in one with the best-known fashion magazine, shorls at the back, like a baby's which has been advocating the

But the romper suit.

front fashion for ropes of beads, wore pieces are cut separately, and three rows of pearls each-while

the out with their editor sported four,

you can wear

BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

Sparrows On The Fence

KN

--Three Birds Hold A Lively Converantion-

By MAX TRELL

"Kharf said to Hiawathe; “Chr you talk to that Sparrow,

"Sure," said Hi.

"

he is sure it wasn't a night."

Hiawatha whistled again ut the Sparrow.

Now Nost

Ing. Look," Hawalha said.

There come the other two baek again."

They Came Back

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them. The next second they thew around

other.

each

Sure enough, the "No," Ilawatha reported to 1′′NARF The Shadow Boy

Kharf and Teddy, "He says he's Sparrows came lying back to With

The third Sparrow "All_right," said Kaarf. "Ask positive it wasn't a fight, They the fence. The Turned-About name, Teddy, The Stuffel Bear, him what he was fighting with were just talking about a new hopped up into the ale to meet anid Hiawatha, The Senall-Size the other two Sparrows about." nest that this Sparrow-the une that's here-built for himself at Wooden India, were sitting sen the back fence havir a quiet

Strange Sounds

the top of the parch just under squawking squirking chirping,

warbling. the rain pipe." conversation.

Fald suppose," Krurt said: "Didn't the other

Kouri, Sparrows like the new "they're just talking about the

weather."

"That's right," said Hiawatha. "PU ask him," sald Hiawatha. "One says it's going to rein. The Again he and the Sparrow other two say it isn't. But they exchanged some whistling aren't fighting. They're just words,

to licing.

That's how Sparrows. always hold conversations."

Hiawatha now puckered up Suddenly, they were inter- rupied by a series of loud, sharp his lips and made some strange two noises.

whistling sounds. The Sparrow next?" stopped combing his rufied Looking around, they saw feathers and answered him with that the noises

coming a lot of chirps and squirks and from three Sparrows who had warbles. just flown across from the other side of the street und were now

were

"Who Is he saying to you?"

"Well," said Hiawatha, turn- ing back to Knurr and Teddy, friends "He said he wasn't fighting, "that Sparrow's two

The table in the hopping all over the fence Teddy finally asked Hiawatha. of Alms, Suibbe intends to have dining-room is laid for dinner. as they chirped and fought and amplifiers ou all its delivery Imitation fruit and wine provide shrilled at each other. www As they go through the the atmosphere for feasting.

streets the single word "Shibbe" will be whispered loudly and!

rapidly

oge-minutė Very intervals. Its travellers and its delivery men will insert into every conversation, as though he accident, the word "Snibbo Peuple will be rung up

Without comment

CORRESPONDENT sends Ine another plum for my emper, one of those sweet little mirabelles that drop fron the odd trees in Alsatkin villages. A

says: "Corners can be

at all," Flawathu reported to didn't like the nest in the porch "They're having a night," said Teddy and Knart. ie said he at all. They thought it ought to Just be in a tree. That's what trees and his two friends were

were for-for building

birus Teddy 10 Knari..

*Laiking," "They certainly -are," mud

"It sounded like a fight to nests in. But they weren't really Knart.

me," said Knart. "Ask him if fighting, They were Just talk-

Worst Bird Fight

Hiawatha, who understood

times during the day tar uight. matering paper, describingbird language, listened for When they answer, a volte will car whisper "Snibbs." That, and taken fast, but a tendency to mument or two. Finally he dart about spolls absolute pre- turned to Enart and Teddy and nothing more.

cision, which vagueness of steer said that this was

A clever interpolation

A

one of the

NOTHER idea being develop provolted the back wheels breakbeard.

ing does nothing to mitigate. If worst bird fights he had aver

cri in to interpolate into away in a conventional tail- "What are they fighting some television talk or debate allde,"

the word "Sriubo," without cin-

phants or comment, so that the in passing

interruption, the word being in

talk or conversation suffers ba

serted casually between

abr it?" asked Karl, shouting

at the top of his voice to make himself, heard over the noisy

READ the other day that the quarrel of the three Sparrows. "All 1. can hear," said Hla

two mystery of the Man In the watha, "is one of them saying

others. Only when it is over Iron Mask will. perhaps, never that the other two are crazy and does the audience realise that be solved. But It has been they don't know what they'ro It has heard the magic word. solved. He was Mattioli, who talking, about." Thaux:

"Well, it seems to me was arrested by Louis XIV for

At. this moment, two of the that the arguments Snibbo en betraying seeret negotiations. He the other side are all trivial, and was imprisoned in Pignerol, and sparrows new off in a durry of can be easily answered...."

then in the fortress of Sto. squawks and chirps, leaving the Nothing to do with me Marguerite. Ho was moved third sparrow standing by him- FROM the shower of golden from there to the Bastille, where self at the end of the feathers

ulums which falls upon no he died in 1703. And his "iron combing his rused

welik, his besk dolly I select

An, mask was of velvet. · 1wo from

fence,

Rupert and Rusty-40

The old gentleman, resenters

the cottage as if in a dream, and

be speak of a map ? What map ? "* Unable to think of an answer, he rises and they both remember

site down. When Rupert nervously repeat his question he pulls Rusty, "This is the way down."

himself together. “Yes, I know saga Rupert, pointing into six that man. It's my ne'er-do-well cupboard.****If that man didn't nephew 1" he says. I haven't lock the bottom door we should seen hins for years. What can be on be able is get to him and be doing here ? And why did istue him."

ALL NIGUES BENTAISY

The Sparrow listened while

I spoke bird language,

ENGAGEMENT

AND WEDDING

RINGS

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