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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1959. ¿

WOMANSENSE

YOUR BIRTHDAY ..........By STELLA

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FRIDAY, MAY 15

DORN today, you are a natural Since you have on affec- B

will organiser and enjoy nothing tonale disposition, you more than putting n new idea need to see that your loyallies plan Into -production. ore not misplaced. When it Analytical and logical in your comes to business, you can pick conclusions, you will progress a good employee. But in love. speedliy along your chosen and romance, you are apt path. You are not the type to heed Impulse and and in ality dolly the job. You emotional turmoil. You are at-

fruntive want to see it finishel In re-

to members of the HAVE corti time so that you may start apposite sex and wil! on a new one.

admirers before settling down to marringe.

You are diplomantle in dealing with associates and get people 10 do your bidding without high-pressuring them. Since you

many

to on

Among those born on this date are: Florence Nightingale, nurse Anth philanthropiat: Thomas Lake Harris, poet and are intuitive and can judge a mysite; Marquis Sebastion del persun Becurately

first Vauban, French marshal; Edwin meeting, yesss will be the type A. Alderman, educator:" Arthur, to select office personnel casily. Scholtzler, author and play- You get ́excellent enojieration wright.

Ti

at the drup of a word. Tacitul To And whot the sturS bave and pallent, you recognise that in store for you tomorrow, End not everyone's mind works na select your birthday star speedily as yours. As long as read the corresponding -park- a person is really trying, you graph. Let your birthday star are willing to wait for results. be your dally guide.

SATURDAY, MAY 16

TAURUS (APE, 21-May 21)— SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov, 221--- an Interesting Sports This can be a happy, rominale Attend

thle afternunt. Saturday. Attend to important event

Enjoy

is

business only If salutely yourself as spectator if no!

necessary.

à compelltor.

GEMINI. (May 22-June 20)— BAGITTARIUR (Nov. 23-Dec. 221-Allent to necessary shop- ping for clothing and supplies. Vacation-bound kokin?

A fine day for a social event. Entertain friends this

.

evening

and give them the time of their liven.

muke preparations,

Then

CANCER (June 22-July 230)— CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. May be a Saturday, but not a 20)--If you got through yester-

Arlows day for outing. An Important day without business deal" may comeợ to a then lungs begin to pick head now.

for you naWY,

shag.

up

LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)- Combine business' and pleasure

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb, 19) today. You will and that one Combine business and plex- helps the other

sure today to mutual advantage. and you can

the Invite the boss 10 spend VIRGO (Aug. 24-Hept, 23)- evening? A fine tlay for all your

the prospects, Probably

have fun!

you.

PISCES (Feb, 20-Mar, 20),-- with

to

Best Friendly cooperation Saturday so far this month for neighbours may be the key

a huppy and pleasant weekend. LIBRA thepi, 24-02, 231- ARIES (Mar, 21-Apr, 20) - Select some siltable recreation Expect some special happiness and enjoy yourself Im-

event Enday. An

you have

mensurably. Unexpected been anticipating more than pleasure can be yours.

meets your hopes,

JACOBY an

how

I DON'T Know exactly

North and South should have

bid their curds but certainly their bluding Is not to be recom mended

When they landed at six dia- nignds West stuck in

a lead directing double to call for a spede eod. He could ruff that suit and hoped that his partner would produce another trick.

East doubled six spades be- cause his partic had doubled. six diutnonds and West doubled six no-trump because East had doubled spades,

At this point North enme up with a sensible hid. He redou blrd.

V+CARD Sensek♦

Q-The bidding has been: Fast Boulh West North

Pans PAR Double

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PAST IN.T. Paas

Pass 44 Pass

Pass

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You, South, hold:

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What do you do?

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VERONICA PAPWORTH

Reporting on the struggle that breaks women's hearts and their husbands' bank balances...to be among the Bost Dressed Ton

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North East

South West 1 Fass A1 Pass 3N.T. Pher

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Double

♦ G Double 6 N.T. Double Red' Pas Pass Pasa

Opening lead-♦ 9

West upened a dianum usich Staith proceeded to make all the ticks. 1 wasn't difflealt. He 49mply won the opening diamond Last and proceeded to run off Ax hd trucks He discaril- el catte keturi ant two clubs and then eashed his ve spades,

A-Bid six hearts. You may have trapped your partner but

you have too much to stop short. On the last spade lead. Eust

TODAY'S QUESTION

hi to ongiard his king of hearts to hong on to the pęć of East has opened with three clubs and Sault wound up with Apogen.You South-holds-Artriotsipedoubled i AZ VAQ87 #AJ65 4954 contract. A distinct case of fall-

What do you do?"

Answer Tomorrow

SIDE GLANCES

ing in the river and coming up with a fish if I ever saw one.

6

By Galbraith

"He's the moody type-likes to walk in the ralal”

and money

in

Plakas av John Prosaki,

THE VERSATILE THREE-PIECE

It couldn't be more practical, more wearable, or more versatile - this three-piece outfit particularly suited to the woman in her thirties or forties. (That's when most women stop countin

In a slightly nubbly fabric called "Sacco," the outfit is fully lined with taffeta. The jumper top-low cut to a V at the back - ̈would look splendid with a scramble of bead necklaces,

woman

the TOP TEN?

MONG the many, little LISTS so dear to the hearts of superlative-loving Americans (well, what other nation could have coined a word like "mestest 7 there is one that matters and oh! how it matters

to a comparatively small number of women,

It is the list of the Ten Best Dressed Women in the World. Fantastic though it may seem to you as indeed it does to me - thera are many who dream about it, dedicate their lives to it. They would, and do, "resort to offers of bribes to be included in on it.”

0

Wo

I quote Eleonor Lambert- "Now

send out 25,000 director of the New York Deres untio papers annually to top Institute who mode quick light dressmakers, hairdressers, trip to London recently, It milliners, restaurateurs, theatro is she who is responsible for managers, and so on throughout THAT LIST. Together we America and Europe, toolt gentle aperitif at the

"Then all that remains is to Allz and I asked her all about count the volcs,"

Why was PRINCESS MAR- GARET on and then off again? "I in as inexplicable as any ather etection

sald result," Eleanor.

it,

"Sure the list is important," said Eleanor. "I mean any pri needs น Symbol of Ex- cellence.

But it gets a bit alarming when the best dressers become kinda dedicated about it," *Narcissistic?" sold 1. "You've

sotd she, got it," "There's one-don't name her, will you with her Ws desper. ately important.

good faste

"It's no longer it's assembly to a formula --- the une bright jewel, the per- fectly matched accessories, the touch of colour hero and there ... suddenly it's no longer HUMAN.

I

no," sold she.

over here," said 1, "that any "There is a general feeling

woman with enough money can become a Best Dresser."

"Absolutely "Why, there are plenty who are clotties med — but with the wildes! strelch of one's imagin- ation one knows they'll never make the list.

Across the room I watched a woman with a face like a Derby winner and legs to match hurl approximately £2,000 worth of sable into ú chair and fing herself angularly on top of it.

I said I could Eleanor meant.

see

what

Any other best-dressers likely to succeed?

Said Eleanor: "There's LADY calm way of dressing BETSEY RANFURLY-hers is on easy, HAY WHITNEY (the ambassa- dur's wife) very smooth, soft dresser — MARY LEE FAIR- BANKS-the's no model fisture (plump and shortisk), but the impression she leaves is elegant -HENRIETTA TLABKSsho'll eertally be listed if she keepa going and MARGARET LEIGHTON she's always holly tipped."

Then let us end on a prac- leat note," sald 1. "What about a few simple rules for good dressing?”

"Your NORAH DOCKER for Instance. All the money in the world, but anyone who'd wear a "I mean one can do over a white mink polo coat !!!!!" house with everything perfeel. The exclamation marks fairly But it takes a worn chair to rang round the Ritz.

I asked if she would care to AND DEMANDS OF ONE'S "Likewise with a woman, put forward the names of any lutely no sense buying clothes She's gotta have something best dressers likely to succeed for a lite you rarely lead. natural and uncalculated about on this side of the Atlantic.

make it look like home.

her to make her real."

How, I asked, did this list business start?

"There's FLEUR COWLES MEYER," she said enthusiast. cally. "Mu, how's she's blos- soined uver here.

"Sure she's loosened her hair

(1) "ACCEPT THE LIMITS

LIFE," said she, "There's abso-

(2) "BUY LITTLE, BUY CAREFULLY. FTT IT AGAIN AND ADAIN TO MAKE CERTAIN ALL 18 PERFEC- TION www THEN WEAR IT HARD. The fewer clothes in one's closet the easier one's life but they've got to be the right clothes."

"Way back in the 1920's with and put on a little weight, but the French couturiers but I fl's not that. Suddenly the has imagine the set-up was slightly a sublime assurance. D'you call phoney, since most of theint the county look?

As I opened my closet door customers appeared ah it

"Some women can be well that evening I could see, what "Bellovo or not, Elsa dressed yet insecure Inside, but she meon-aled a little of what Maxwell was once listed!

Brillah women the kind I she did NOT mean., "We, at the institute simply mean--have a self-confidence revived it after the war.

very near to arrogance,"

.

I closed it again with a solz- confident arrogant British kick.

Be a guinea-pig-for

THE

THE beauty world is buzzing with new excitements, and I the most eager of guinea-pigs — have delighted in trying out some of the latest,

In particular there are the effects sringe

bo

be

STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

Mr. Punch Tells A Tale

-Hanid Learns How The Giraffe Got His Long Neck-

By MAX TRELL · the giraffes have longer necks than any other animal in all of Punch," said Hanid, creation. the Shadow Girl, to her

"Long ago, long before our old friend, "why have giraffes grandfather's grandfathers, the giraffes had necks like anybody

got such long necka?"

Problem It took a lot of hard

·work,

"Now there's one herd of giraffes I must tell you about.

hik

except only were very binart always ready to work hard to get those tender leaves at the top of the trees...

"They would pile stones, one Mr Pureb, who was shaving else. They used to roam around on top of the other, against the himself in front of a mirror, in the big open plains, browsing trunks of the trees or they smiled at Hanid through the sometimes on grass and some would push up piles of sticks mirror. At least Ilanid was times on flowers. But their very am sometimes they would even pretty sure he was amiling. I favourite food was the new and stand on each other's backs just was hard for

to be tender leaves that are only to be to be able to reach the delicious

leaves," absolutely sure on account ot found on the most branches. all the coop that was on Mr of a tree."

| Punch's face,

her

However, Mr Punch sald;

"Oh," said Hanic, "But how "Why have giraffes got such could the giraffes get up to the long necks? I'll tell you, if they top of the trees, Mr Punch?” hod short necks, you wouldn't That's It," sald Mr Punch. know they were giraffes. You'd "How could they get up to the think they were antelopes

deer or something ilke that."

A Long Story

"But, Mr Punch," sald Hanid, "what about the ous giraffe who the lasy Girade got the leaver

at the top of the tree. didn't want to do these things?"

The Others Laughed

seven new

beauty ideas

achieved with a while Lipstick

1 used under a vivid colour.

There's a protective "basio dew" too that is splendid

The result, according to one for dry akina,

of my severest critics, gives me the look of s

"highly-sexy

zumble."

I'm still thinking that over]

one

Talking of guinea pigs, there's a modified germ oll with "fast acting penetration value" that works wondere with the little pets,

There are several now iridescent Hipsticks too, in certain Dr Masshoff has. shades, ranging from the new-been applying this oil to the orange-apricats to a striking skin, of guinea-pigs for a period "violet-icing colour. You also

istso. Hitse over the white-lips of 10-days during which" time tarco to six times la previous

A new group of herbal thickness,

preparations lista such de-

licious-sounding concoctions as into a new skin cream,

be next, ch? It's to be put

"yoghurt and cucumber sin

food," » "milk and huney

Falee eyelashes with a new

beauty mask," and a "marsh type of easy on and cosy off mallow emollient skin tonic."

There is also a gream contain- gain adhesive can be seen all ing lemon peel and rosehips over the place,

said to restore the Vilomin F I experimented with them deficiency that is the chief too but ene side kept getting cause of those wretched little mixed up with my lower lashes red lines on the cheeks.

so that I spent halt the evening There's a new liquid make winding at lotel strangers, up buse — not drying, but not too greasy,

It has excellent

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Such a situation-fraught covering though it may be with possibili- ́ qualities and comes in five toe has no place in a serious

report on the word BEAUTY.

the lazy, one. He didn't bother to "I'm about to tell you about pushup stones or Blicks or shades.

or top of the trees? It was quite a him," said Mr Punch. "He was bother to climb on anybody's

Hanid thought about this for several minutes while Mr Punch continued moving the Tazor across his face, up and down, Finally she said:

"But how did giraffes get such leng necks, Mr Punch?""

"It's a long story," said Mr Punch. "I mean," he added, “It's not quite as long as the giraffer neck, but it's long enough."-

I'd like to hear it, sald Hanid.

"You don't mind my telling i to you while I'm shaving?” asked Mr Punch.

Hanit said she didn't mind at ali,

How It Happened

"Well, then," said Mr Punch, "this is how it happened that

Rupert and the Truant-7

In his own house Rupert looks snough" "There's not much time so worded that-Mes. Bear ORDER left now," saya. Men, Bear. "1 to see what it the trouble should address it to Cloud Castle, **Rossia has arrived." Rupert Sky. Then it Fa ia alexady away explains. "and to keep her quiet on his rounda someone will forward I've promised to address herit." So Rupert does, as shem Christmas letter. She won't believe mjesta and mens to catch" tế” that just writing Santa Clava" is into posti

back. All he would do was stand under a tree and lazlly stretch bis head up, trying his best to reach the top of the tree,

on

"The other giraffes laughed at him. But this lazy one just went sitriching and stretching and a-t-r-e-t-c-h-l-n-g"

"Until his neck got longer and longert" cried Hanid.

"That's it!" said Mr Punch,

ARE THESE PRETTY ?

the few current fashions I view with an astonisit-

ment bordering on flabbergasted horror, there is none to com- with the latest In pare

hairstyles."

Two of the moet frightening made their appearance this

"It was the lazy giraffe with the wock on two of the prettiest THE MONARCH

long neck who got all the tender girls in town. Icaves."

"Why," said Hanid, "he was smarter than all the others!"

“That's what some folks say," sald Me Punch. "At any rate, all the rest of the giraffes quickly streiched their

her nocks from that "day" on." ...

There

LIESE DENIZ Cover Giri

OF - TIR,

GLEN LOOK. --two versions

appearing an "yled by Rene" (Princess recognise BRONWYN PUGIL Margaret's Own) in a coiffure disguised as the Monarch of ing that resembled nofling so much Glen in two great "additional as Jimmy Edwards's moustache side-pieces of hair," blown up to ant proportions,

Then those of you who saw And Mr Punch wailed again the preview of the Dorchester's

Come off it chape.

We may be pretty silly, BUT llly though we may be w

on looking pretty,

(or at least Hund thought 10) | Dmba mink show on TV may insist [-nad-went-on-shaving...--

be forgiven if you failed to

Chonden Laprasa Kursion.).