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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY OCTOBER 1, 1959.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1
with a
man you have not seen for many years will have some unexpected re- suite.
AQUARIUS (5) (January 21- February 19): Your labit of criticising others ought to be curbed; otherwise you are in danger of losing the affection of your friends. PISCES (91 (February 20-
March 201: You must not let the recent disagreement. with a friend worry vill anduly; your next meeting will be quite amicable,
LEO
(1) (July 22-August 21) Strong impulses drive you at times to do things which are far removed from your asual routine; as hug as you do no harm to any body
nothing there is wrong in giving in to them.
ARIES (12) March 21-April VIRGO (8) August 22-5
new
19) It is essential for you to adapt yourself to surroundings witho[ drawing unfavourable com- parisons with the past. TAURUS (10) April 20-May
201: A casual
remark of yours to a friend muy have- touched on a sore point, and all you can do is apologise And explain that it was quite unintentional.
GEMINI (2) (May 21-June 21) During the next few weeks you will have to keep on the alert to any changes which take place around and use every
op- you portunity to take advantage of them.
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TWO GIRLS - TWO VIEWS
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The Party Line Called On Gromyko
Ho
By HAZEL MEYRICK
HOW do Russian women dress? Are they really as drab as people say? These questions have haunted me ever since the Iron Curtain was lifted enough for us to take a peep at the Russian hem- line,
By YVONNE THOMAS
THE first thing I did in Russia was to break my
neck on an hotel staircase-well, almost! This was at Minsk, the town where you make your first halt if entering Russia by car from westerly direction, and where you have the chance
according to Anne Ford, who is just back from down these stairs Moscow.
They roared
а
the
I had cherished a fixed idea of Russian women, to observe the Russian way of living at close head-scarved and high-booted, gazing at our quarters.
But I am fashions with longing eyes.
wrong, i nearly made a headlong dive door that we wanted to see Mr
because this Gromyko,
of Recretary WAS my first sight inside a Angio-Russian society. typical Russian hotel, and I was "Why did We want ta sce overawed by the heavily-mould; him?" We had met a friend of ed plaster decoration on the his in London, who had asked ceilings and walls, the faden us to call on him. we replied. chandeliers and the plushy cur- Respectfully, he Asked t
wait, I hadn't noticed way that the stair carpet find be flung loosely over the steps and the stair rods thrown haphazardly on top, so at the only safe way of going up down was by treading warity on the uncurpæted edge.
Despite this, I fell well dis- posed towards Russian things in general. As one of a party of live who had been driving to- wards Russia for four days with the minimum of delays,
with laughter said. "I met n charming giri al my clothes," said Anne, who who looked Just like Brigitte LIBRA 13 September 23-is no THOD dresser. "They Bardot, but my interpreter told
October 221: You may soon tried on my stiletic-heeled shoes, me she would never marry-she twins. have
of and fell dat on their faces-but was far too thin. They thought What a good chance
I must be very poor, and winning real distinction in then, if we had to walk as much
as they do, we'd
wear wedge couldn't afford enough bread to your particular field.
heels too."
keep my weight up." Anne Ford says it is nonaense I was
particularly interested 3CORPIO (11) (October 23-
to think Russian women have to hear what party clothes the We should Party decreed this year in clothes by Russia, so I asked Anne about
11.
our
don't want
British
November 21): The air-no fashion sense cumstances of your past never judge their life have trained you to Westimi standards.
As you accept conditions
"They're interested
but they clothes, And them, and this them," says Mrs Ford fet great advantage to you.
they regard current SAGFFTARIUS (4) (Novem. styles as slightly fancy dress,"
ber 22-December 21): Your search for peace and quirt:
These remarks will come as a will inevitably lend you toj
shock to some of the British isolated spot where designers who have taken their solitude will helj to restore clothes to Moscow with mission- your nerves.
ary zea), hoping to sell to the shops there.
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SUON
A SHOCK
SATIN
"The girls 1 saw all Work satin," she told me. "Mainly in pastels celiac or blue. All the dresses seemed to be made in the same style with a boat- shaped neck, no sleeves end a gathered skirt.
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anything that the Soviet Union could provide in the way of rest and refreshment seemed bound to meet with my approval.
TOOK TEN
the bolt
room
SO SORRY
After waiting we were shown
foor, with through a
"Mr Gromyko" stencilled across it. Inlo મ biggish room. Tpere were two long windows at one' end. a huge map of the world pinned to the right-hand wall, some furniture upholstered amber and white striped materi- al, and two secretaries working at their desks.
in
One, a man, got up quickly when we entered. We told him to speak to Mr we wanted Gromyko. He said he was very sorry very sorry, indeed, but "I was fascinated by their
Mr Gromyko was in Geneva at Just like jewellery,
clothes,
the conference. Could he help? jewellery fashions are decided
It's true that getting into my It was only then we realised Mra Ford Is the Fashion by the State, Right now the hotel CAPRICORN (7) December
look a good 30 what
Mr had happened. If current favourite is an Imita- An un-Director of a well-known stock-
had to
had not be Gromyku
been at minutes the key 22-January 20);
We expected obstacle to your ing rm, so she naturally took a tion ruby ring. It comes in a shifted around in the lock until the conference I am sure
cholec of five seilings and "dive normal progress will be good look at Ruselan nylons.
"They are
tremendously ex- sizes, and all the young girls are by sheer luck (and perseverance) would have met him. Yet two shot back. But the days before, a burly Russian of smoothed away with pensive," she told me. "The wearing them." Four usual churm and usual price is over £3 a pol- Fashion in Russie, of course, magnificence of the heavy old about 50 years of age tried to gold velvet curtains, marble knock me down and snatch my diplomacy.
yel 1 saw women buying the is dictated by the Stute which bedside lamp and marble ink camera because I took a photo- sheerest stockings at two pairs tells the designers Just what stand made up for it. a time."
they should make up, and how.. At first sight
Suitcases were brought up to this may sound horrifying, but we submit qulle the fourth four in
Ut manned by an happily to our own fashion shaking dielators, 50 what difference ancient patriarch with a snowy- does it make if the paris Dlor, white spade beard, black, greasy
Peoples Fashion clothes, round pebble spectacles:
and a glum expression. He al- most hurled the baggage alter us and descended magnificently in his rattling cage.
YOUR LUCKY NUMBER:
Anne Told me there was a Count the letters in your first name and add the total mysterious shortage of elastic in Union--all corsels to the number shown in the Soviet
and bras tre fastened with but-
brackets after your sign tons.
the
of the Zodiac. This is your} "Russian women are very lucky number' for the week. large by our standards," she Council?
CHILDREN'S CORNER
Island Of Broomsticks
-Baron Munch Tells Knarf And Hanid A Story--
By MAX TRELL
"DID I ever tell you," Baron said Kharf,
Munch asked his two small friends, Knart and Honid, the Shadow Children with the Turned-About Names "about voyage I once made to the Island. of Broomstick?"
Knarf and Hamid were sitting unter a banyan tree in Buron Munch's garden.
the
Unusual Garden
I was quite an unusual gar- den. Not only was there a ban- yun irge but there were als banua trees, piticapple trees, fig trees and date trees.
"Please tell us about your. voyage to the stand of Brum- stick, Hanid said to Baron.
Baron Munch
and smiled nodded.
five of trumpe and after Munch,
thinking over carefully pro- ceeded to cash the ace and king of hearts and two high diamonds stopping in dummy.
"I be very glad to tell you the story," he said, "and par- ticularly because it's such a true All the stories I tell you
Now he ruffed hearts and story; clubs back and forth and even-are true," tually wound up with 11 tricks.
t
Looked Surprised
Knari und Hand looked sur-
"Oh, it must have been a desert island, Baron Munch!"
Baron Munch shook his head. "It wasn't a "No," he said. desert Island. There were things They all looked like growing. broomsticks.
"Broomsticks!" exclaimed Knarf and Honid.
"That's what they looked "Bul like," said Baron Munch. they were the strangest broom- slicks that anyone had ever scent
"One day I pulled one of the broomsticks out of the ground. I meant to use it as a walking air. stick to help me climb the steep mountain in the middle of the island.
Tripped Over Vino
The Baron was sailing over the ocean in a balloon.
t
Kraph of an ordinary Saturday
night dance in a park of rest
bonc, and culture.
It
We had dinner in another profusely ornamented room. look two-and-a-half hours and was served by a waitress who wore a loose embroidered blouse with puffed sleeves and a gathered skirt with on uneven hem.
Later I found that these were tavourite clothes among women in Moscow, Leqingrad and the towns between. The waitress looked as glum as the greybeard who worked the lift.
STOLID
I was given my
Arst im-
pression of Russia as a country
of contrasts and contradictions
by the awesome
if somewhat
i
dated decor of that hotel Minsk, as compared with the the drabness of depressing
take,
shops and people in the town; by the eager friendliness shown by some towards us, and the stony suspicion of others.
of contrasta This impression to take her sailing through the and contradictions was streng-
thened as time went on. "And," said Вагод Munch, When we reached Moscow, I "it was a good thing those was not surprised to, find gold broomsticks could ty me mosaics glining in the marble- Through the air because, as I pillared Metro, decorative litter above the should have told you sooner, my bins, hotels rising balloon blow into the ocean and other buildings Bike great
and the it it weren't for the fact that cathedrals.
dingiest "I was half way up the moun- Baron Munch went on, tain,"
I was able to sit on a broom-shops and clothes
I have ever through the air scan. "when I tripped over a vine and stick and By
forward with the I don't know how I ever should Nor. stumbled
despite the wariness broomstick between my knees. have reached home again
In shown by
many Ruslans to- was I really fo my astonishment," sald time to tell you this true story words foreigners, Baron Munch, "I began flying about the Island of Broom surprised when once, by mis-
sticks." about on the broomstick."
I was shown into the "It was b. Mother Goose Knart and Hanld thanked closely-watched Foreign Office, looks like a very com-
Broomstick!" Hanld shouted. Baron Munch for his interesting and into the private sanctum of pilcated way to bid and mike
"That's what it was," said story. But, as they walked home Mr Gromyko, the Russlan game but South
playing prised, Baron Munch was a very Baron Munch. "This was the together, they couldn't help Foreign Secretary, himself. duplicate and his five odd was good friend. They loved him island where Mother Goose grew wondering whether I was really, The incident amused the
dearly. step score. ..
But now and then they the broomsticks which she used Es true co he had said it was. Russians as much as ourselves.. were quite sure that some of Also, while four hearts made the stories he told them weren't
A medical student, friend and 1
contact were trying to easily at a few tables
secretary of the Anglo-Russian South players wound up at
anciety, called Mr Gromyko, three no-trump whereupon
whose club cult
offices are West would run his
in Kolinin Street, quite near the Kremlin. and set the hand right off the
A woman who spoke good bat..
English directed u8, She understood, she said. But. we had got the address of the Anglo- Russian Society wrong. She re- wrote it for us in Russian, Another woman who 'wag, English-speaking interpreter was anxious to help, too. It was 13pical of the Russian people. that they would take endless trouble, often traveling on buses and the Meteo with us, tọ skow us on the way.../
Was
inost true at all.
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However, Baron Munch hud started his story and was how sogling:
I had decided to go on a voyage by bulloun. I had placed reveral weeks provisions aboard the balloon. The wind blew just, right end in a few days I was for out over the ocean.
Lovely Little Faland
a
"Bright and carly one morn- ing. I looked down and saw lovely tile istund. I decided to visit it. I let the gas out of my balloon, and came down slowly Unill Anally there I was in the middle of the island.
"But now I saw that it was a strange place, There were no houses. There were no people.. There were no animals, ; Thero wero not even any trees or bushes,”
Rupert and the Outlaws-40
Rupert scrambles up until he is you!" says the boy faintly. !" IE beside the boy. The big tracker you hadn't found me I don't know puppy found your trail," he says, what I should have dane. Now.
but the end-was 100 steep for dog, and even I had an awful
if you help me I know rather
in taxies way back." "And,
fres
job to reach you, if you're hurt he has bravely struggled to his
I don't think you'll ever get down (eet, habeans on the little bese and those rocks." It was topping of tries to hobble down the slope, t
ALL BIGHTED KERRAVED
the
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Eventually we were, conduct- ed into a white building, many storeys high. Everyone who went in lor:out showed à pasa? with (his photograph on it:
"We fald' a red and white uniformed miilile' dan 'át thự
Let's Eat
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IDA BAILEY ALLEN
Special Red Plum Sauce Highlights Chinese Meal
Jellied Seedless Green Grapes Het or Iced Coffee or Tea Milk
ONE of the highlights of a meal, in a fine Chinese restaurant is the red plum sauce, served on a butter chip plate, along with hot mustard.
Alf mucuramente are level; "My husband likes this plum
recipes proportioned to sores 4 ta d sauce so much,” TV's, Nancy Ann;
Chicken "Steaks": Melt 2 tbsp. Graham remarked to me, "that butter or margarine. make a batch every year and 1 Add 1⁄2 c. minced celery and use your recipe.
c. minced green pepper, Slow- Chinese Red Plum Sauce (Usejsauté 5 min. with Chicken, Pork, Seafood or Add 2 c. minced cooked or Fish: Wash and pit 1 qt. sour red canned chicken, 1 c. fine-en- plums.(do not peel).
riched bread crumbs, 14 tsp. salt.
Place in a 2
a 2 qt. saucepan with 4 tsp. each pepper and onion 14 c. raisins, 2 c. vinegar, 1 csait, is c. milk and 1 beaten egg. water, 11⁄4 c. brown sugar, 1 tsp. Chill 15 min.
Form lato Individual "steaks." salt, 1⁄4 tsp. each ground clove and ailspice, tap. ground cinnamon, Dust lightly with flour. Pan-fry tap. ground ginger, tbsp. in fat until gelden on both sides. Jellled Seedless Green Grapes: paprika, le tsp. cayenne pepper..
Simmer-bol 30. min., or until Dissolve 1.pkg. prepared temon the plums are very soft. Rub gelatin in 1 c. boiling water.
Add 1 c. grape juice. Chill until through a coarse strainer. Sim- mer until thick, Ike narmalade. beginning to congeal.
Rinse individual molds with Transfer to sterilized half-pt. glasses and seal.
cold water. F1 3⁄4 full with "Perhaps our readers would washed drained seedless green also like to learn how to make grapes. When the gelatin begins the Chinese mustard that is often to ticken, spoon it over the served with red plum sauce," re- Krapes. marked the Chef.
Refrigerate 3 hrs., or unt firm. Unmold. Garnish with a
"It is very easy. Just mix dry ground mastard with cold water whipped topping or dairy sour until a smooth medium-thick cream. pasle results."
TOMORROW'S DINNER
Frosty Pineapple Juice Chicken "Steaks" Red Plum and Mustard Sauces
Whipped Potatoca Buttered Bects Vegetable Coleslaw.
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