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LADY

your

AQUARIUS

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1959.

WOMANSENSE

LUCK

CHINA MAIL

horoscope

TUESDAY, AUGUST 18

21. VIRGO January February 195: The strange behaviour of enllengue

will baffle you and uil who come in contact with him, but will fortunately re- main unexplained.

PISCES February 20-

you

will find yourself ont with

of step for a while

your old friends,

ARIES (March 21-April 191:

will be advimble to go It through your papers eure- fully as you may have for gotten to pay a mislaid b TAURUS (April 20-May 20: In the studles necessary for your advancement you will find that in one particular feld there is still a great den to be feurneuf.

GEMINI May 21-June 21:

August 22-Septem- her 22); In a contust be fasten two suppprently equal applicants for an important position the ane with the will stronger

Bersemality

win, And that ought to bei You

FREE AND EASY

THAT'S THE ITALIAN FASHION

FREE and easy-that's

in

the maxim of this sea- son's high fashion showings Florence and Rome, Leading designors agree on three main polats.

Normal, we 11. defined waistlines, fairly short skirts, and rather flat, short suit jacket or bolero tops,

Flat-Chested

Muruce thinks that women

Dateline Rome

from Ginny Martellle

making

one smuli circle, her jackets and couts with swollen skirts e other, larger circle. togs, narrow skiria and wide, The waistline is well-marked, turned-down collars. but often hidden by enormous, fringed collars or effects.

Square Line

bloused

Su in Italy this season you can dress almost any way you Hice and still be right in fashion!

Let's Eat

IDA BAILEY 'ALLEN

Tropical Countries Eat Fruits To Combat Heat

TN tropical

countries,

By long experience has lightly sweetening and salting

proved that eating julcy fruits in the natural state is necessary to combat the heat,"

The

his high Cher moved bonnet to its most professional angle and continued: "Of all the fruits, melons contain the highest percentage of water to

Fashionable Colours content.

fabrics

REFRESHING

Capucci and de Lura are in- trigued by geometrical effects.

"This 'water is very special Nowrlest of the new Capucci keeps to a square ine.

because it has been distilled by with lots of shoulder padding here are the etamines wools

nature. The favour is refresh- and stiffeneri ealtors,

with open-worked surfaces,

Hing and the melon is so bulky It sometimes looped, sometimes the stomach and satisfies hales, acensionally thick and cantaloupes at the mar plereed with regular round

Chummer, for a while at least. knotted, and at other times asket are very fine. Dght and gauzy as a cobweb,

De Luen takes two triangles,

makes one a bodice, the other a tkiri, and joins the two halves with wide bands, draped belts and Oriental obi sashes.

After that each designer March 29 Owing to your LIBRA (September 24-Octo- has his or her own Ideas recent prolonged absence ber 226: A rather harrow about the Ideal feminine

ius:

may leave shape" for 1959. experience you in a wervous state at mind for a while. Occupy should be semi-curvaceous-flat- yourself with a variety of chested and round-hipped. Most activities and you will soon of his styles have flat bolero legs and fell, bell-shaped skirts. te ver it.

Veneziani has gone overboard SCORPIO + October 23-

November 21: Although for the young, sporty look. In- straightforward sults, your youthful illusions are stend of

Bere arc Tunics varying: certain to fade, your later!

lengths falling straigh; over years will bring a great full. tnt-pleated skiria.

Fabirul, un individualist, add precious compensa-i Simoneita has

ed to the assortment of "lines" designed 3 Tians,

"Bgure eigh!" Ine, with bodices by itre during lung, hip-length SAGITTARIUS (November)

22-December 211: A pride but well meaning, attempt ba friend to help you should be taken in the spirit in which it is offered. CAPRICORN (December 22- January 20: Your efforts tu keep expenses, within t reasomeble limit and exceeding your fixed indget will he rewarded by TUT uhtesported windfall,

On being questioned about the reason for a certain action of yours, you must make

earnest atternyat

to explain intelligently why you behaved as you did. CANCER GJune 22-July 21: Your serions application to intricate problem will bring the dilen Mies Mu rounding into slurp foen,

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LEO July 22-August 21: YOUR LECKY COLOUR:

Try to avoid contart with

person of whose rather underhand deulings you IV Table 1 become a vietin.

If today is your birthday. look out for JET BLACK.

# oyht to bring yon luck.

JACOBY BRIDGE

the

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to four epels zu let us assime that "somesné "Vise "gor "to four heerts and

have You colled in to play the band. How did you pum your play!

You can coum two diamond

rufts and threw DRILA

124

your trump suit yo yon ive trump tricks, What is your best play to get them?

on

You should assume that Past will hold both the king and queen of trumps unt sleutel plun-to shorten yourself meh as porcible so that he wit:

lend have to

trumps to H. take the ace of Hence, you: *pades and see of diamonds, raff a diamond, ruil a spate, Tuff another diamond, rutr il spade and lend your small etab.

The best defence is for Rast to win and play pond. You follow to the first diamond, trump the reond one low and lead back the jack of tramps, East will win and have to lead a trump to your nee-ten where. upon you make Loth uf them and your contract,

VACARD'Sendeks

The bidding has been

West North East

Bouth

14

14 AN.T.

Pass Fag

1

3

Puss

7

You, South, hald:

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NORTH

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EAST

WEST

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South

West North East

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2 N. T. Puss

Opening lead-♣ K

Woman"

wears

1

Foremost fashion colour is green, followed by flower tones of violet, lite, white, azalea - red and pink.

mock

dress.

LEFT: Marucelli's "Lunar

two-piece The bodice tooks like a short bolero, the skirt is full and bell-shaped. CENTRE: De Luca joins his two triangles with a wide obi sash, and carries out the Japanese influence with a kimono neckline and sleeves. RIGHT: The "Square Line" from Capucci-a rectangular, fingertip-length cont over a matching skirt. The coat is squared off at intervals with bands of padded seaming.

STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

The Rescue Of The Ants

-The Shadows Pull a Tiny Food Truck Out of a Mudhole-

By MAX TRELL

IZSARF

Hani:, anel

the

it might be a large Beetle or a Toad,

But

11 there

was,

"We'd better do something for them," Hand whispered to her brother, "They can't do it bem- selves."

To The Rescue

So, without saying a word, out A teal Knart und Hanid reached the truck, a hundred times maller and lifted the whole truck out of could than any truck they had over the rain-puddle muchole und

set It back on the path, Pass tily belleve their owIL eyes, seck before.

Fuse

A Shadow Children with Terned

About Names,

Passat there it was, as pizin as day,

You

MAKES W12 +376 AQ43

A-Vid atx diamonds. don't know exactly what is guitig on but your partner must have a tremendous two nulier with at Jeast alx diamonds,

TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding has been:

Weat North

South

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Разз

19

7 You, South, hold:

furthest

The tiny truet came speeding

сле

we

end of the garden, at n sput "Oh, the poor little thing," away from the house. Hanid sturted to say. Just to one side of them grew a Meanwhile, Krant reached out East thick clip of bushes and under and held the truck from falling

the burles ra a tiny path no over. wider than a ribop.

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What do you do?

Answer Tomorrow

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Ant Driver

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The Anis pushed and tugged with all their might..

I have been

Posk #

made dressing

fresh lime or lemon juice;-

DINNER

Cantaloupe Cup Ven Salad Platter in New England Style Corn-on-Cob Hented Rolls Mum Criss-Cross Pie Hot or Iced Coffee or Tea or Mic AR Measurersents Are Irel

LONDON COPIES

US

By Hazel Meyrick THE

THE-long-hot--summer-

brought Londoners out into their gardens like pallid insects crawling from under a stone. It has also given an unexpected, now dimen- ` sien to entertaining in Eng- land-out-door parties.

may

Cuidver colertaining [mean extra work, but I can, be fun, ever for the hostess, If the Food is well plarned. S> I quizzed threz · experienced hot- weather hostess, two English u one Italian, to hear their views on the subject.

"Don't do anything too ambitious," Buil Paddy Arnold, the wife of inzz Recipes Proportioned to Serva to trumpoter Peter Arnold, Veal Salad Platier New Eng-Who often has to cope with land: Dice enough cooked odd-all-night jazz sessions. "A Inents of veal to make 3 heaping sudden gust of wind will cupfuls.

sink a soufile, and you are Add 4 course-chopped herd- left with a wreck on your coked eggs, 1 e. small-diced hands.

welery, 2 tbsp. prepared horse- radich, 14 ten,

pepper, 4 tsp.

8-4

FOR A REFRESHING hot weather lunch or supper, serve a cool cantaloupe berry salad, with melon and cheese wedges for dessert.

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erting plenty of them." Ho patted his whistline. "Will you jaleuse give ine the calories con tent of cantaloupe, Madame?"

FEW CALORIES

It's very low, Chef, I re- plied. "Half of a 41⁄2 in. can- taloupe is only 30 calories."

"Very good, Madame. This fact will also interest all weightwatchers."

"Also all watchers of good nutrition, Chef, for that same size serving of cantaloupe con- talna 6,136 units of Vitamin A, the amount required for It whole day."

Cantaloupe Appetiser or Knock: Serve melon balls or etbes on cocktali pics alternat- bite-sized pieces of Ing with boiled ham or curried lunchcon ment, The Juicy, root inclou and Bavourful meals are good mixers.

Refreshing Cantaloupe Fruit Salad: Arrange slices and balls of chiited vine-pened canta- loupe and barrios fans kind) on leaves of crisp, green leeberg

jeltuce.

Try These!

APPLE FLAX: Make a pastry with ib. nour, 4oz. butter, an egg, and a pinch of sall, Knead with a little water and leave

hours. to rest for one to two Spread it in an oblong bullered nan tin and prick it here and there with n fork.

On the pastry arrange in rows and sliced 21b. apple proled

In between each very thinly. layer sprinkle white sugar-

all. about 40% in

Bake in moderate oven for 40 minutes.

When the flan hus cooled, pour over it a little syrup made er the apple peel, sugar, lemon peel and sweet clder. Eat when cold.

The driver and all the Ant- jin aut mosle truck as snell us down the path, then all

looked around In workmen Harid tels Lux. It was loaded a Knart and

Bul Karf amazement. with bags and barrels no blyger walching, the wheels truck a

enorinous tha thumb-nals and peanet pebble. The next secand the and looked so

truck skidded into a small mad- their eyes that they mistook. she B.

dozen rain them bath for gigantle trees. Honid Kharf and

had been hole made by a sting on a white stone at the drops. And there it stuck.

And that's why a few minutes later the truck sped off again on its way

And no All City, one in the truck even bothered to thout thank-you to the Boy

"That's what I'm wondering," helped and the Girl who had

sald Knurf with a puzzled ex- them out of their troubles.

pression on his face as he looked "And I never thought," saki at Honid. "I'm beginning not to Knant to land as they both be sure that I ever saw anything an automobile-truck just walked home again, "that Ants like

APPLE BATTER: Peel and ever had automobile-trucka,"

No one slice a pound of apples, Mix bi encugh for Anta. "Neither did 1," said Hand. would believe us it we told them with a 111lle sugor and twa "ul we both saw it, didn't we?" them."

tablespoons of brandy, Leave to

and for a while.

Muice A batter with lb. flour,

2 cers, 1 tablespoons Eugur, and a glass of milk Mix the apples and the batter to- cether, pour into a buttered tin end ecol for about one hour in a moderate oven.

was along this Ebony path that the tiny truck came. When Knar! and Itanid frst heard the noire of its coming, they thought

ни

• No-no—when we ask you to change your babies,

we mean..

At this very moment; an Ant stuck its head out from inside the truck. He was the driver.

"Hey! We're stuck in the mud!" he shoutes. "Come on But, bayel We've all got to help!" With this, the driver jumped Cown from the front of the truck while from the back came whole crowd of other Ants, all dressed in dungarees and beavy workelbillies.

a

For the next several minutes: Knart and Hanid watched as the crowd of Anta pushed and¶ tuzgǝd with all their might, put- the shoulders to tiny their wheels of the truck. BLUE, though they tried as hard they could, it was impossible for them to get Bo truck back on the path again.

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"Oh my! Oh my?" they hord the Ants saying," "The Queen will never forgive us!"

Knarf and Honid heard an- other Ant saying that the truck was carrying all the sals and wheat and barley for food). for the whole city of Ants:

Rupert and the Outlaws-2

"It's all right. It's only a stray dog." Rupert calls back to Bill At the sound of his voice, the animal turns, and after one glance it dashes forward and leaps up at him with every sign of joy. The onset la wo suddens and the dog is so big that Rupert cannot keep his balance

and when Bill appease through the wood he finds his pal aithing on the ground laughing, with the deg capering round him. "What on earth are you playing at?” cried the little Badger. Do you know that dog? Whose in it? Has it seen you before 7**

ALL HIONTA BESERVKO

APPLE SOUFFLE: Peel, core and ailec four apples, and stew them in a very little water, Add 402. willte sugar when they cre qulle soit. While the ap- ples are at: warm, fold four stimy beaten egg whites, pour into a bullered, rouffle, dish, and bake for 40 minules in moderate cvco.

risen When the souffle has and is ready to eat, sprinkle with brown or white sugar, Berve with lots of thick cream.

monosodium glutamate and Isp. suit.

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"ATV favourite dish for out- of-door dining it creamed chicken and tweet tcm, I pose a jointed chicken in milk for an hour, cover it with thick cream rates made from the milk, leave it to cool, scatter the dish with mall sweet iTunes and serve it with salad, (0111 und baked

sw c

butalbes."

Franca Pantaleont. the wife of a Milan lawyer, prefers to serve informat meals In her roof-top (21,

is

of

"My Javourite dish Laage, a leaning tower Pisa made from pasta," she told me. "But it could equally well be mida with postry,

"You linen big baking-tray with pastry, then spread I with a layer of cooked micut in a good sauce, then more pastry, (mere met and so on, Anlshing with a layer of meat sprinkled with Parmesan cheese, 1 mark It into large squares then bake it in a hot oven,"

SHE LIKES RICE "I'm all for quick-cooking dishes," said Judy Steelo, the sliter of a gley magazine, who lives in a London flat. "I ustaully do all the messy pre- Over it sprinkle e, not-

paration of food the moment I weet French dressing. Toss

get back from the office, then until absorbed, Refrigerate 30

Ko and change and make-up, mia.

doing the actual cooking at the Blend with cooked salud last minute, or

something that di rsslug. Arrange & bed of lean be caten

Bam cold, like leftuce. Top with a little more

smeared with mustard and dressing and with sliced pickles. brown sugar,

in and bateed Garnish the plalter with al- ckier,

than "I serve rice, rather ternating allees of tomato and potatoes, because it culs down Lucumber and big spoonfuls of well-drated cute stany or potato

salad in lettuce leaves.

CANTALOUPE CUP FROM THE CHEF

preparation time. I try the rice Best In butter, add water and put it in a casserole to bake. cooks itself and That way it och grain is separate and 1utty."

Franca

who Pantaleoni, Dice ebilled, fully ripe canta- loupe in bite-sized pieces,

haunts the Milan street markets for cheap Spoon Into

antiques, has made cocktail glasses. Halt cover with frozen lime and herself a trolley for serving temonade prepared according to

food for next to nothing. She package directions.

bought an elegant-looking old pram, removed the hood, painted the body while, and fitted a metal tray on the top. The scc- tion it the end where the baby

Lainer tor wise battles.

HOUSEHOLD used to sit holds a special con HINTS

When laundering. men's ties, baste them before washing 10 prevent the lining or padding from hecoming lumpy. Remove basting before iconing.

Try dipping chicken pieces in buttermilk before rolling the

In flour,

The latest table-top for the terrace is a huge siab of black slate you can sometimes pick them up at bullders' yards. Give it a coat of black shoe pollah to bring up a shine.

Cautionary Tale

THERE is a cautionary tale: Never under- estimate the power of home' made wine.

I

un.

Last weekend, earthed a jar of rhubarb

wine, munde last summer, and served it at a luncheon

Use warm water for sprinkl-party in huge jugs.

At one o'clock, everyone was ing clothes. It dampens gor- ments more quickly and evenly drinking it by the tumblerful, than cold water.

Just like lemonade.

At two o'clock strong black coffee was being hastily ad- two

·

"You

one or

To keep insects off fresh paint ministered, and during warm weather, add a people had to lie down, tittle insect repellent to the

were crazy to serve it like that," cald wine-mpling paint before applying.

expert Raymond Lever, when i told him. "Home-made wines can be as potent as whisky-no After washing venetian blinds, wonder you felt 11." hang them full length with the

In case anyone wants to try bottom weighed to keep the their hand at rhubarb wine Zit tapes from shrinking as they tastes rather like hock) here is try.

Mr Lever's own recipe;

Put 615 th barb, cleared and chopped, luto, a gallon of

A sharp knile is better than cold water. Leave for a week, occasionally, ,then salestra for culting flower stems. stltring Scissors pinch the stems and crush the pulp to extract · cs make it harder for them to soak much juice as possible, and up water."

etrain through muslin,

Azd 31) sugár and the | thinly-peeled rind end juice1ot a lemon to the juice; hept to Exz white will remove chew-lukewarm, Add 4 YERA, Ing gum from nearly anything dissolved in some of the liquid, including children's hair.

and lenye well covered for 24 hours,

Pour into a glan er ziedo już, cover the top with thres layers

Caulfower will have nillder Qavour if it is cooked of cloan cotton, and leavs 10 uncovered In

moderate ferment for some weeks in Camount of water. FOT A warm place. When the liquid stronger flavour, cook in. a has stopped hissing, schon it covered pan fu a small amount off into bottles and store for of salted water,

months.