WOMANS WORLD
London.
Threo middle-aged women and Pakistani princess
left 1wo American W here on the first stage of a 6,000-mile overland journey to Paklolan.
Princess Indira of Kapurthala, whose younger brother is the present
Maharajah of Ka- purthala and who is often heitd in Parlamentary rouumentaries UVET the B.H.C., elress Waurn Patri and artist Marguerite Lewis, will travel through Bel- Yugoslavia, Ciermany, glum, Greece, Turkey, and Perala to Lahore In Pakistan.
Driving a specially equipped van, they will carry out re- search on the origin of gypsies, gather material for a hook and 4 tim.
When they reach Lahore, Princess Indira will visit her fly for the first Ume in 22 years. She hopes to tre there | by October, China Mall Special.
LOOKING BACK
Actress Nikki Duval's habil
buying placeleb match each of her many outfits is causing a fuss in New York,
An optician complaini he lo owed 412 dollars (£147) for coloured 12 pairs of variously glasses.
Who will pay? The husband to whom she was matrica when site was going through this phone has spectacles-buying refused And now Niki herself is nowhere to be found,
YOUR BIRTHDAY
FRIDAY, AUGUST 15
BORN day you have been given
one standing talent by th star and you will be droelet in your duty if you do not develop it to Its height of expresden. Early in te alegüver the one thing that you want MOT 10 Red Then bend all efforin invard that a goat. You should repelt it fairly ears tid en Joy a life of rewarding success. The store have tunched you with genius -but even gemus must work hard to achieve goal,
You have any areas from which you may elect your career. You would do well in the
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art, in literature, in diploinacy or li stateration. You have structive inled and are never happier than when creating and develophag personal magnetlim and are able to project your ideas and have them accepted. You must guard against top mer-centred. Things becom
By STELLA
ves wikes you are garnful. Ut might be well to recall that ok njuge. "Pride cinelli beroje a full."
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But although fall you say, anually will land on your feet ad start all ever again. This ability to raboning piler a setback in one of the
zenit particular phases of your Your emotions Bir wear the surface and you must be cautious your remantle Altuchments. Look care- fully before leaping into marriage.
Among the born on this date
WITH
Edna Ferber, Sir Walter Scott and Katharine Bruch, authors; thel BATYWIE, crese: Novokan ut France: Waite lines Page, author and diplomat: T E. Lawrence, anthor and explorer: Jola Sinspoon John Tors, botanist and
JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
South Sees All But Danger
By OSWALD JACOBY
COUTH
won, the opening spnde leud in his own hand and wok stock of the situation. The game was duplicato ond he saw that he was in a fine construct and that the opening lead had been favourable.
He needed four heart tricks to bring home three no-trump and the hand would make Just as many tricks at na-trump as ut hearts.
heart He led n
to dummy's bee and East dropped the nine
reedings pot At this point in the pro-
the Loward
Jack Kuuranter the contract
a low
heart back
would against
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SATURDAY,
24-AME. 23)*** LEO (Judy Uluge inf day for pleasant recrea tion. Thor to ht down tentuns anet Five yourself a change of peace
1.sept. 23) VITUO (Aug. Combine
and personal astain to your distinci advantage, Peronality is what counts ist now
LIHA (Sept. 24-Oct.
Ar today. Health should come Spend the day in relaxing recreation,
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bundene. 21-Nov. ACORPIO Friends can be helpful in planning your future active Lank for that Opportunity to advance.
SAUITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22-
A chige of activity can be e
Betal, adding text to living.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan, 20)--
To id what the Lor have in store for you tomorrow, select your labthday slur af read the cortes panding paragraph. Let your birth day star be your daily guide. AUGUST 16
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great Interest,
nine spot with Maybe
it came from queen- nire, In that case he could lay down the king and make four edd. Maybe it came from ten- cojine. In that case he could go hand and lead” the back to his Jack. West could put on queen or not as he chose, South would make all Ave tricky harurts.
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CANCER (Jure 22-July 21)-
your Plan to attend a list of
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club or vaganjation. Meet one wf Pertajes induce.
Plan an interesting onset and keep CROSSWORD
an-eye-out-for-ramancil could
be for yout
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)—
if at all possible, get mu the cours- try or to the allure. An outdoor
week end would be ideal for you.
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar.
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"You're the father of a fino husky boy, sir! Before long ho'll be eating $6 worth of groceries a day!"
false-card.
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What do you do?
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TODAY'S QUESTION
Your partner passes your one- spade bid and East bids two clubs. What do you do now?
Answer Tomorrow
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1958.
WOMANSENSE
Pago
VERONICA PAPWORTH
The fashion line shoots up
Just 2,000 francs' worth (£1 14s.) of elegance-a royal blue, scarlet, and white striped dress in cotton, jersey. And take a good second look at that high waist. You'll be seeing many more of them.
to a new high...
66, the last time I saw Paris her
"O girls were straight and gay".
but this time there's some SHAPE in them.
For they've shifted the line of fashion interest to n far more exciting level.
They've talien their hip belts and moved them up-up-up to tle them tight beneath the bosom. ....And I'm not talking only of the pampered pets who shop for dresses at the 100,000 francs levet.
I went out to and the cheapest, chic-eat
dress la Paris.
New
shape
for £2
to
Sking through the crowds I went tossing and turning the goods-measuring them up myself-appraising and rejecting just like all the other bargain-conscious Parisiennes who go shopping on & Saturday afternoon,
(All I lacked to complete the resemblance was a short, garlic-scented husband to advise me. But I managed.)
I found my dress at the Prixunle-a kind
of French Woolworths with escalators, music, and a strong smell of cigar smoke mixed with perfume throughout.
I put it on the prettiest girl I knew-tacked -furiously for two minutes and achieved the
new shape for just under £2
IN PARIS
FARIS POINTERS ----
flermath Veronica Pap- worth's dictionary of terras for afi toho are bent on un ravelling the mysteries of the report on the new fashiona.
SMUGGLER'S COLLAR. I One so deep that a huge diamond necklace or vory small man could be smuggled in or out of the 1 country-duty free.
wear
PYJAMA - STRING. Nothing to do with slumber
and holds nothing up. la Worn across the frant only-just beneath the bust.
WIG HAT, Not to be confused with the rose | petal caps we have seen uver here.
Wig hals in Paris took of the model bad taken a sitting hen and pulled li well down over her cars,
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Precious fox.
That's what they are asking are out and about this Sunday?, each other-and the manufae- turers are deeply concerned the final auswer,
Ja
In London the couturiers give an emphatic YES.
I lent her my own straw hat the crown well packed with tissue paper because HEIGHT is a must in hals this season.
The Wc photographed her against a nearby bistro, and 1 can enly report that, with the single exception of a great but
But in Paris the really well barrage-balkon of a man with dressed women are all wearing a bluu chin and a bulcher's seamless stockings. apron who never took his nose I think out of his glass of Fernod, the assembled company (all male) kissed their hands, sucked in their ps, wolf-whistled, and generally signified in typically French fashion that the new shape is OK. by them.
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much they look so prettier. To see them is to make to
mind--instantly. up one's cot arguing.
Да
The reason is that having lived through so many changes of tashion in the last 10 years -having done their daridest to simulate an hour-glass.
utip, a column, a sack, and a trapeze, women are discovering that it's possible to suit fashion themselves-irrter of fl- I'en ting themselves into fashion.
And don't waste your time worrying over
many inches your skirt should be Everything from the ground, depends on your overall length. One of the designers dictatod 22
women's Inches." Some leys aren't 22 inches all told.
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bombshell is that bespeelscled boy hope
TOW big a
H
of the house of Dior M. Yves Si Laurent-delivered with his
CITTING eavesdropping-at-th-longer skirt line?
Parts collections, I repor
that seklom have so many
I'd say it has the strength of
Why?
women regretted their misspent a tuppenny squib. youth in the history classes.
"What exactly do we mean by 'Empire'?" "I heard buyer ask another. "It's on the
how
As for those of you who have fallen for the near knee length hemline-courage, courage. It'a
Because nine-tenths of the not a question of "they're
out of step but our Yves." one yomon in this country never shortened their skirts in the
HE'S WRONG."
lip of my mind but I simply Arst place.
can't think this week. And the news Is so worrying, isn't i dear....oll those
The news that hems have low-belted been going higher and higher dresses I've ordered and now left them colder and still colder Ook what's happened to waists. as the ripples spread out from So, what with one thing and the capital. another, tell me, dear-where was the Empire?"
"Leicester-square," I longed to
fell her. But I didn't.
☆★☆
FREQUENTLY
and
debated in Paris at
moment Should seam?
BOYS' AND GIRLS'
Sailing On A Rain River
Nothing In The World Is More Fun-
By MAX TRELL
though Hiawatha pulled along.
had to bo
KŠTUJELL, well, well," Teddy, As Knart and Teddy and Hia
"W
watha stood on
the Stuffed Bear, remarked as he looked out of a window that looked out into the garden
"There's a big river outside that was never there before!"
a rock and
watched the water flow by the ame thought came to all three
of them.
"It's just wide enough for it!" exclaimed Knarf
"It's just fast enough for "
Hearing these remarkable words, Knart the Shadow Boy said Teddy. with the Turned-About Name, and Hiawatha, the Small-Sized Wooden Indian, who were on the other side of the room, came running ever to look out of the window!
"Yes," said Knart the next minule, "there is a river!"
Not A Real River
Hiawatha snorted, "It's not e real river. It's only a rain, river,” True enough, it had been raining all night. But eun, the stream of rain water that, ran from the spout at the side of marrow the house, across the
end of the garden and disap- peared around the far side of the stone wall where the ivy grew, looked enough like a real river to be one,
The three friends went out- aldo to have a closer look at it, |
"I'd like to do it, too," Hia- watha told them, "only where can we find a boat?"
Had Some Thought
of
The thought that Knorr and Teddy and Ilawatha had, course, was to go sailing down the rain giver.
"A boat?" cald Knart. "That shouldn't be hard to find." Then ho added, "Oh, I see one right cow!"
Knart pounced on a leaf that had fallen from the maple tree.
"And
I see a boat, too!" ex- claimed Teddy.
Rupert and Floppity-24
Pong-Ping turns rather in all meming. Some people think patiently at Rupert's call. What he'r dotty because he insists on is this fie asks, don't trailing them, Now perhaps he want to waste any more time! can it usefully." This idea. ecems so good that Pong-Ping "You won't waste any time. You may ave time," says Rupert. "Why not let Floppity try to find
gazes in excitement at Floppity and Floppity. in return, states
your monkey? [fe' wonder hard and keeps on sniffing cheer. ful tracker. He's beer tracking folly at Pong-Ping
ALL RIGHTS REALXYED
Young Yves has not yet reached the stage when he can
tempe dictating.
The salient story of the Paria Collections is the high-busted Empire look. And this is a look
Take a look around your that goes with a shorter hem- town today. How many knees line.
PEAR
A
holly
me
The FOR
19 tho
question: stocking have
G
is the answer
the world is filled with colour-but I find it idflcult to put into
words.
MAGAZINE
Ho grabbed a flat plece of bark that had come off the birch tree,
Making Own Boat
"I'm making any own boat" said Hiawatha.
He found an empty match box under the kitchen stairs. He just at in it.
A few minutes later, the three friends were stiling down the rain river, Knart on his leaf, Teddy on his piece of bark and Hiawatha in his empty match box.
Now in all the world, there is no such fun as sailing down a rain river.
The three friends salted past
the strawberry patch.
I have, however, found tho perfect metaphor for all who are interested in considering a winter clothes colour scheme.
Take
avocado pear, in The soll, dark, woodsy green your suit,
is
The
pulp
Эл
your pale, yellowish-green blouse, gloves
For hat,
The skinned stono is your pinkish beige accessories.
This
Bam colouring Tune Interior
through to fashionable
decor.
Helega
buffet
Fabulous
Kubinstein's
for her fabulous
party at the Moulin
grand iumch de Brie-
Comte-Robert sported a creamy tablecloth bordered with palc- green velvet.
Straw-coloured mata and
baskets held pale green
und salads.
Green
grasses
"
Trufta
and darkser
green climbing planta decorated the surrounding pillars,
Great bunches of radishes in just the right shade
of rosy belge were clustered to form centre-piece.
How did they get the exact colour?
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How were those radishes First they moved very slowly, for the rain river was broad and shallow where it flowed past the edges of his piece of bark. Ha-uniform in shape and shade?
Answer came from a bralt patch. girawberry
The red watha had to press back with Now Zealander who stole one strawberries over their heads all his might inside his empty and bit into it. looted like giant Japanese inn- match box. terms.
The current grow swifler as it awirled around the roots of the apple tree.
Bigger and Stronger
Around the alone wall, swirled the mighty rain river. It had become bigger and stronger na
A Caterpillar in the apple tree, several other rain rivers from looked down at them. It waved other parts of the garden sowed
one hand at Knart. another into it.
band at Teddy, and a third hand
at Jawatha. It had several
For the next moment or two,
They were tinted marzipan.
Household Hints
Pipe cleaners can be used to
stains.
to
remove tannin
more hands left to wave with neither Knart nor Teddy nor clean the spout of, a teapot. but, as no one else was there, it Hiawatha was quite sure where Insert, the doubled pipe cleaner contented itself with calling they were going Their boats and furn them all a spun round and round. down and wishing pleasant journey,
Suddenly, all was calm again. Then the rain river went cas- They were in the middle of a
If the current Cors of in down over a pile a bugo, smooth laka. cading
"Of course!" said Knart. "It's the humo freezer, keep the stones and twigs Knart had to cling to the sides of the leaf to a rola puddle. What can be more door closed. Frozen fonds will days without keep from being thrown off like a jako than a beautiful big keep up to two
great loss of quality, Teddy had to hold on to the rain puddio}"
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