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YOUR BIRTHDAY

TUESDAY, MAY 26

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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1959.

WOMANSENSE

The Raincoat You Can

..BY STELLA

BORN today, you have Your Intuitions are keen, and *mendous nervous energy you should heed them at all and want to be doing something times. Never put your trust in all the time. Activity is your or depend upon others for very fc-blood and you con- Important decision. If you do, sider any dag really lost in there is a good chance you will which you have not accoin- make a mistake. Your cultural

Unhed

something old and interests lean toward music and Constructive. . Your ambitions the scientific. You probably are vounding and you will crave will be able to play Sonic wealth, for yt know that where musical Instrument well, even if there's money, there's apt to be you do not use this talent pre- power and a way to get exactly fessionally. You probably will what you want! Your loyalties become a well-read perron, too, are strong, but as a

literature is enemy, for your inste in you prove to be a lasting and wide. Litter one!

Among those born on thia There is such a quiet reserva date are: Julius Sleiglitz, chemist about you which gives you and educatur: Aud-al-Kadir,

that air of authority

prople Arab scholar and patriot; usually ten to everything you Richard Christopher Carrington, say. They may not greg with ŋstronomer Queen Mary of you, but at least they will honour England, wife of King George V;

Once you Al Jelson, singer and actor. qu for your opinion. have set your eyes on a definite To and what the stars lave goal, nothing can deter you from in store for you tomorrow, select Teaching it. You are dogged our birthday lar and read the and determinent.

you corresponding paragraph have given your word, that is your bithday star be your daily that!

wide.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 27

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GEMINI (May 22-June 21)— upset previously-made plans. Hasty action en ny cause Readjust and all works out well. trouble today. Take your time BAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. and think carefully before you 22)-Your best day of the week, before take precautions

act..

CANCER (June 22-July 23)- Catch up 25 back work today. If you've been postponing an irksome job, de it now!

lose

seal

'LEO (July 24-Aug. 23) This is a day when you nothing by taking a back and listening to what others

have to say.

VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)- Take your thne about things, fur basty netion can only result in error, Think carefully.

LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)— Combine business with pleasure: A luncheon meeting might bring excellent results.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) Today, the unexpected might

JACOBY

NOUTH'S 'two-apnde bid was doubtful and his rebid to game can only be described as total optimism.

He

but

acting bustis.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20)-Bet to stick fairly closely to routine matters today. Post- pone new ideas until later.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb, 19) Self-confidence and tact Dru necessary for success in this mixed-up day.

PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar, 20)- Keep your eyes on your mujur objective and let nothing deter you from reaching your goal.

ABIES (Mar, 21-Apr. 20)- If you are patient and careful, you van side-slep trouble and advance safely.

TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)- Things may not be quite as they appear on the surface, so ad- vattee with caution.

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BRIDGE

won the opening heart lead In

and after dummy looking things over carefully he that he just might make

N&W

his contract if everything went well.

Hv deuce of clubs and East

promptly played the

won

with the ten. Each had nothing Better to do than lead a second heart and South was back in dummy.

He ruffed n club tu gel to his own hard and led n small

❤+CARD Seriseks.

Q-The bidding has been: North Reel South. West JA Pois

You, South, hold:

MAJZ WA154 4ABT JADI

What do you do? A-Bld four spades if your partner plays the normal week pre-emptive three bid. If he' plays good three hide then try five or six spades depending on how good they are likely to be. TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding has been; North

East

South West 4 J

? You, South, hold: MAJI VAJBIS $KQUE AS

WEST (D)

AAKS

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A4

NORTH 444 VKQ

A03 4K97632

EAST AJO

SOUTH

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+91 108

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No one vulnerable

North Eart Boulh

West

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Pass 14 Pass Posy Pass

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Opening lead-♥ 1

trump West ruse with the ace.

It's the trench coat brought up to date a raincoal

of cotton lined with Batla and finished with mother-of-pearl buttons.

HOUSEHOLD

HINTS

Heat the oven for at least 16 by arranging the food on a tray minutes before you use it. and carry it to a pleasant spot in the house, perhaps by a win- dow.

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Remove eggs, butter and milk from the refrigerator nt least an hour before using them In cook- ing or baking to bring them to room temperature,

K You arc cating alone. brighten mealtime and

Be especially careful about using small rugs in a kitchen or bathroom. They should be of rubber or thoroughly rubberised on the back.

A skid and fall around fx- save tures, appliances and hot things your digestion, as well as steps, is especially dangerous,

by Hazel Meyrick

THIS season's crop of raincoats promises to be the brightest yet--and the ones I'm putting my money on are the kind you can wash,

Mutie from pale, pretty cotton, treated with a special rain- procñng Anish, they can be trnked in a basin of lukewarm roupsuds and hung out to dry, If they get dirty, It's as .cosy as that.

The cout that I pick for star- dom in apple-green' washable cotton, lined with satin. curved yoke. is trimmed with permanent pleating, which

black and white that we usually sve for men's sulting. Now the fashion designYEES have had it printed onto cotton, nylon and pure silk for summer clothes.

Sporting Trophies

HEAR that the Americans are scouring London's Junk shops for old sporting trophies makes it took as though it has those little silver 'cups that bren intricately tucked, and the Junker gets when he comes first cont self is cut to hang as in the cross-country race, or straight as a plumb-Une.

wins a prize at the sailing club They're being used in the Slates as containers for landing round elgurettes,

Pleated

IF you like the idea of a

ulated raincoat, you're bound to go overboard for one mode from a new, silky man- made Abre called Tricel, The coat, which is straight-cut, is in a dark, glowing red. The minule knife-pleats which fall almost frean shoulder-level arc per- manently set.

Just right for the tropics are the new hot-weather raincoats made from flower-splashed col- ten satin. You'd take them fur colourful housecoats rather than rulnwear and they're just the thing to slip into a holiday suit- case. One design 1 Bow in fume-coloured colton satin, pat- terned with tropical flowers is the kind you could slip on over play-clothes, without looking silly.

Seen on a model girl at the Polly Peck collection in London - new style leather bolt. It was fastened with a giant pad lock and she wore the key dangling on a chain,

Dogstooth Check

PAUL BLANCHE used it for

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chic town raincoat.... showed cotton Horrockses dresses in it, and I've roen it made up Into everything from lounging pants to hats,

It's the top favourite print t the year-dogstooth check in

CHILDREN'S CORNER

Inside A Sea Shell

-The Friends Hear Waves And See Them, Too-

By MAX TRELL

Ife had nothing to guin by was a strange playing small. Another

heart

D

sound like the beating of waves on a rocky shure.

Toddy, the Stuffed Bear, was the first one to discover it. He friends, told his Knurf, the Shadow, and Ha- watha, the Small-Sized Wooden Indian.

was won by South's ace and second spade lead produced the king from West and the jackLmmediately from East.

West led fourth heart. South ruffed picked up West's eight of trumpa with the ten. Bnessed the diamond and made the hand,

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All of which proves once mure that good play and good Tuck can make up for whole Answer, Tonneront annonse kakeformerbiddin

SIDE GLANCES

CHINE

By Galbraith

THUB DO,

"My mother says I can't have a new dress-for-the- dance. I wish she hadn't been deprived of so many things when she was a child 19% A

From A Sholl

that he had looked inside the

At last they came to a high shell wall directly in front of them.

On scorching carefully, they discovered an opening in the wall over to ono side. They all squeezed through it,

What an interesting Bight they saw! In front of them was a great expanse of blue sea. Waves were pounding against the rocky shore, It was the very shore on which they were standing. In the sky were flocks of gulls, wheeling and diving as they uttered sharp cries,

„But directly beside them was

The lighthouse had black and white stripes.

"It comes

from that shell standing on the edge of the boots sald Teddy thanost-teresting sight of all

Knarf said he didn't see how it was a lighthouse, tall and MERKAT dermoen, suiped blade and whiteHe sudopentligvo- to be from a shell. Hiawatha shook At the very top of the light- awake," said Knant. "The light his head gloomily and grunted house was the shining light

will tell all captains to keep "That's what we saw from the their ships off these rocks," shell many times and had never cutside of the shell Knarf ex- been able to see anything. -l's full of darkness," he said.

However, Teddy urged his two Irlends to come over to the shell and Ilater He kept saying again and again that he was sure he had heard the sound of pound- lag waves.

Finally, they all climbed up to the top of the bookcase and put their ears to the wide opening of the shell

Triumphant Teddy

"There! Do you hear

"

nsked Teddy triumphantly. "Boom-boom-boosn!”

"Yes, it does round like

waves," admitted Knart.

"Pawl Nothing in that shell |but darkness," Bawathu gram-

biled again.

Knott stuck his hood way in- side the shell, "I see a light way, way off." said Knarf.

“Yos, and it's a very bright

light," sold Teddy

Even Hiawatha had to agree that there somed to be a spock

of light deep inside the shell.

the

So one after the other, three friends crept inside the chell,

High Wall

gà frat, they found them)- selves in a dark cavern, with round sides. They kept walking. con, he sound of the WTAVOS grow louder. Ahead the flickering Tight Bagan, growing Babtor and stronger:

cluined.

"I told you I heard the sound ad waves," said Teddy.

He Was Asleep

to

Even though he wished deny it, Hiawatha had to ac knowledge that they were in deed standing in front of ocean

waves.

They climbed up to the top of the lighthoun. They found the Hghthouse keeper there, but he was fast asleep. They were un- able to wake him up.

They walked back through the shell out on to the book- shelf again and back into their

гость.

"Well," said Today, "now we know why

you can hear

the sound of waves when you put your ear to that shell. They're poal waves,"

But Hiawatha shook his hond,

"The ocean's too big to get into that little shell. It must be a dream," he said.

Nothing would convince the gloomy Wocklen Indian that this wasn't so.

Rupert and the Truant-16

It is two days after Christmas Christmas? Or have you had too before Rupert acts, Podgy: again, much? Poday... turna with a and then he gica his pal walking dismal sigh. **Did YOU HAP moodily away from the villags. jolly ? "' ha mosna. “Oh, my, we "Hello, balio, what's the outainly have not 1. That pressA matter?" cries the litzla bear. that Rosalie wrote to Senia. Claus !! You look an gham as you did last '' for hasn't turned up. So can you wwk: Hewn't you had a fully inhaalim what she has been like > " - ALE NIGHTS 'BREVBYRD ·

Red Flannel

THE birthday present that I've THE

put down on my shopping list this year is a red tonnel nightshirt, designed, of course for men, and on aute in several London stores,

I'm hoping that the recipient of this particular glft will throw It back at me in disgust-then 1 von wear it around the house as the latest thing in lounging wear,

Kit-Bags

E latest craze among young men about town seems to In the last the hobo look. few days I've seen dozens of ond city workers students

through the streets strolling with hall-size kit-bags plung over their shoulders, hold their lunch-timo sand- wiches, I suppose, or a spare sweater, but, who knows, this could be the start of handbaga for men.

It could

NOW THE QUEEN WANTS

A

TO TRY IT

DISH it for a queen-and the Queen asked for the recipe and got it. It is a meat and rice dish called Baghela Pola which was served all the Persian Embassy banquet for the Shah. Mrs Estondiary, Persian diplomat's wife, pre- pared it herself,

Wash

Soft, silky Perslan Suede Is used for this finger-tip length jacket with a rounded collar. It is water resistant and will clean.

Let's Eat

BY

、IDA BAILEY ALLEN

Women Say Nix To Mix When Baking For Guests

Mix at medium speed for $

THE Chef and I recently con- ducted a round-table discussion mir. Thon turn the speed to with a dozen busy homemakers high and beat 5 min, more; or on the subject of cake making, mix altogether by hand which These were business women, takes a little longer. mothers of children from 4 to 12 years of age.

a

Save Work, Time

To make it, you need fillet of veni, rlee, and broad beans, preferably tinned.

Soak the rico in solt and water for 24 hours. Then, two heurs before you plan to serve the meal, boil same water, in an iron casserole and pour the rleo and sailed water in, Boll for 20 minutes, Then strain In a colander and rinse in alter- nate cold and hot water,

Chop the veal into small cubes and cook it slightly with butter, onions, salt and pepper.

Rice first

PuIwo cupfuls of water into. "the casserole with half a pound

and of butter

melt Then remove the ediderite from the heat and Bl

with alternAŠO layers of the partly cooked rice, veal and Unned broad beans (rice 'first),

Cook one Ught heat for 20 'minutes. Then cover the casserole with a id, tio a towel round the edge of the lid to stop steam escaping and cook slowly for further 40 minutes.

Just before serving, colour the top layer of rice with saffron and pour melted butter over the top.

ACCENT ON ........

IF you've ever day-dreamed

of seeing the sights Au America by means of a job over there, then here's a word of advice:

"American bosses don't look for same qualities. In a secretary as na English boss does," says Miss. Norma Clay- man, director of D. London secretarial agency. •

According to Miss Clayraan, who shorthand-lypod her way round 40 American towns Ja 1955, the first six qualities an Americas - expects of his secro- tary prot

Enthusiaan;

Food accent (British is best); polis (you'd be expected to take his clients oul to lunch); a bandbox look; speed, (give kim your spoods in figures and he'll be impressed); ond diplomacy‚·

Whereas an English bond would, wanti **Diplomacy{" apcod; good Accent; enthusiasm,

looks;

and poise-in-that- order arte --(London Exprées Exrvice),

To decorate: Tint small por- tions of the creamy frosting with food coloring, Half-all a plastic pastry bag with the All of these women used con- frosting. Fold over the tog sey- mercial cake mixes occasionally. especially for family cooking, leaves, stars and a dower design eral times, then press out petals, and found them both time and of your own imagining; or make work-saving. For special events rose to put in the center. and for guests, all preferred to

"make their cakes from scratch" Usa tube No. 129 for the rose; Itube No. 08 for the leaves; tube following a trusted recipe.

"Buch cakes are more individ-No. 10 for the stars. ual," was the collective opinion,

"not carbon copies of everyone

SUNDAY DINHER Minted Melon Bections

eleo's cake. They also cost less, Roast Lamb 'Brown Gravy are not so sweet and keep fresh longer," was the general opin- Ion.

Bo here is a new recipe for an exquisite homemade cake, sult-

Pan-Roast Potatoes Summer Squash with Green Pepper Nut-Crumb Dako Coffee Tes

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A TRACERY of frosting seals the layers and outlines the star design that decorates Nut Grümb' Cako, a treat for parties. able for any special occasion, to Canned salinon is more that add to collections of treasured a good old standby. It is rich in vitamins A and D. Try this rec- recipes

Áll momento munia nzo Javel Ipo fresh from the test kitchen. Salmon Biscult-Topped Fle: Nut-Crumb Cake: Mix by hand with a spoon, or blend to-To 1 c. medium-thick white gether in an electric mixer, 1 c. sauce, add the flaked contents: golden shortening, 1 c. sugar, da'drained (1 lb) can salmon, 1 (6) can undrained green eggs and 11⁄2 tap, vanilia.

Combine e. fine graham pets, 116 oz.) can undrained cracker crumbs, 1 c. fine-sliced mushrooms, 4 tap, each chopped nutments (any kind) ground black pepper and onion and Stop, doubló-asting,baking powder. Heat to bolling... powder. Stir into the first mix- Pour into an 8 x 8 x 2-in: bak- ture alternately with i o, milk. ; {ing dish. Top with tiny younda Pour batter into two' 9-in of rich biscuit dough; Bake 25- olled inver ezka vana,

30 mini Bake 35-40 min. In a moderated Oven, 550 %, or until a wooden pick, inserted near the center, comes out clean:

Turnout on a rack to cool. Put | the layere together and decorate with creamy frosting.

Creamy Frosting;'In an elec; tria mixer, put 3⁄4∙e, gülden. shortening, a teri, salty, 25

TOMORROW'S DINNE Tomato-Egg Saladettes Biman Biscuit-Toppad Pia Osulinöwen with droon vous

Milloed Barianad tr

Tea

* Ļemonade Banca Coffee

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- TRICK OF THE CHINA

non-fat dry malik sollast 3% c. Had tap, powdered dili when water, I tap, vanlids, and 6 o. un- making Balzon zieruit-Z900R afted 102 confectioner's sugar. "Fidi