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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1959.-

WOMANSENSE

LADY LUCK

your

CHINA MAIL

THE TUNIC IS WHAT MATTERS NOT THE LENGTH

י

horoscope

AQUARIUS

MONDAY, OCTOBER 12

Jumary 21- VIRGO (August 22-Septem-|

You may be

A

February 19

abandon 10 compelled certain course of action in order to pursue one mere advantageou in the long

run. PISCES

February 20- March 2004 Resdising that plea for advancement just now is sure to fall on

-carry- deaf ears, you must

on as before and hope for a more propitious moment. ARIES (March 21-April 193: A letter from a close friend for- bave abroad

mny

your effects on

reaching

future.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your past. efforts will shortly be Kreat £3**ę25%

bor 22): Given a rather dificult Assignment, You

should

without

ber 221:

not plange into it! frat making very

detailed plans. LURA September 23-Octe Although enger and impatient to finish a job, you should go at it in a deliberate and methodical,

in order to avoid www bangling it.

(October 23. SCORPIO

November 21: You have now gained a firm footing in your position and must nol jeopardise your status- ly over-confidence. SAGITTARIUS

(November 22-December 21: Cir- crowned

your life. cumstances in and the

with

Achievement will give you well deserved satisfaction. GEMINI May 21-June 21): Being given the opportunity knowledge to enhage your

a pel subjeel, you should make the very best of the chance offered to yun. CANCER June 22-July 21); Accept the wise counsel of a well meaning friend sta

[ much will soon you more confident than of late. LEO (July 22-Angust 21: Certain information which has come to you about ther associate conduct of an aught to be ignored as it. lacks any foundation.

JACOBY

SOUT

which has recently under- gone a major change, nee; rather hard to get used to,

THE TUNIC line—ono skirt above another—is a much bigger fashion story than the final longth, A tunic topcoat in tweed stops four inches short of its match- ing dress.

Lady

THE TUNIC dress is arriving in the best shop windows, the idea adapted from Balenciaga and Chanel, Hero, a one-piece dress in the season's top fabric, gray flannel,

Macmillan

but with patience and good (SURE OF AN EXTENDED TENURE)

hurmour you will. sun adapt yourself. CAPRICORN (December 22. January 20: After a difti- calt period involving com-i siderable work and worry you are finally seeing day-

fight and will soon revert

tu your previous tranquil existence.

YOUR

on

NOUTH might well how tried reven after his part- nr: jump raise. 1 had Is the Blackwood route he would have located all nees and kings and surely hid the grand zlam but South

of was one

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those old fachical players who inte did not believes in seven

untes he could personally see 13 tricks he contented him-

self with a quick x bid.

This time his deelfum turned

ut whe indeed. The ringkon

act of hearts

opposite the

singleton king gave

portunity

for a

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op- discard and when South saw the dummy it led if he would have to

go down one at six.

♥CARD Sense♣♦

North

1♥

3+

The stdding has been:

East South West Pass 2+

Pass

Pass

7

You, South, hold: AKJ87 3 4AJI AKQ 10 6

What do you do?

A-Bld four diamonds only. You have good hand but i your partner has nearly all red cards your king of spades ir apt to be useless to hip.

TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner's next bid is five clubr. What do you do now?

Answer tomorrow

more

BIRTHDAY: If to-

day is your birthday your work may involve consider-

travel uble

Juring the coming year.

BRIDGE

NORTH

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WEST ▲ 10

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South

West

Pass

Puss

North

Pass Opening Icad--♥ Q

East Pass Pass

coin and

Talks About Life

PICTURES WY MICHAEL WILLIAMS.

THE TUNIC with a fringe gives the double skirt look In 'flocked oatmeal wool with to a one-piece dress. an open blanket weave; pin-hoo! gunmetal pumps.

-(London Express Service).

COOKING COLUMN

by Helen Burke

At 10 Downing St. JACK'S AT THE TOP

By DEE REMMINGTON

ECENTLY I found out

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something of what goes on behind one of the most famous front doors in the world the front door of Number 10 Downing Stret, London, official re- sidence of the Prime Mini- ster of Great Britain.

Lady Dorothy Macmillan invited me into the drawing- room and we talked about her life behind that door ut No. 10 Downing Street.

The door that everyone uses from the Prime Mini- ster's youngest and noisicat grandchild to the most im- portant Head of State.

Policemen sland guard al the duur. Photographs of solemn

look heavily statemen

down from the interior walls. But to Lady Dorothy No. 10 is family house. A house where grandchild can shout happily "Let's have a game of hide and seck.

Unpredictable

а

не So it was family affairs

about in the drawing- with

the pale green About the hours her husband works: "They are so unpredict- know what is able. You don't

But, South Jadi tromble making his conlagt. He won the heart be, drew five rounds of and trumps, cashed the aeri kings of the twa minor

Multa talked and then went

short room into a trance. He hipped a mental walls.

East led a diamond; won but since East had start ed with only two clubs he had to give South a ruff and a dis. card so South made the hand. South's trance had heen un- necessary. West had started with unly two diamonds and a club lend would have end played him in the same fashion.

going to happen next.

"Sometimes he will ring me up and say he will be home for Then he arrives dinner alone. with four people,

"Or he says he will be ring ing four people to dinner. And

LADY DOROTHY

alone," said

some more shirts and he will have them."

Does he EVER bay a now sult?

"I suppose ho always seems to be wearing the same one," she laughed.

"He'll have a new one every ten years or so. But the sults he likes best are all about 25 to

30 years old."

About anniversary presents:

After an army life he's become one of the

best amateur chefs I know

FACK, my bachelor neigh-

JACK

bour, is one of the best

know,

"He never members birthdays, amateur.chefs 1

I tell him about the children's although his repertoire is birthdays and buy the presents. limited. Yet until he re- He never remembers our wed-

ding anniversaries. But he often tired from the Army nearly gives me handsome presents two years ago he had never, Jewellery, perhaps. Now and in his adult life, been in a again, you know. It's all rather kitchen. haphazard."

Lady Dorothy talks happily, laughter coming quickly into her

blue eyes.

The Flowers

answer

One of the first things he tackled was a Dundee cake. He reasoned that he could make it for halt the usual cost and ask- [ed me for a recipe. I gave him Tall, wearing a grey Les one from a well-tried cookery with diamond brooch on the book. Lady Incl, moving quickly across the

drawing-room to family phone call,

Then, about the flowers:

in some of the arrange them rooms here, The others are arranged for me."

hostess might And, as any syn afraid there are not mony of them here today. I've been no busy, ..."

artines Dorothy.

Jikes: About the food he "Plain

No food.

made-up dishes. When he's working late upper is left for him. He al- ways says, Just a bit of cold meal. and salad will do.' So he has that with a flask ef soup.

te always says cold meat and salad. He doesn't like pud- dings or sweet things--just bis cults and cheese."

Doesn't Bother

Later, I asked him: "How was the cake?" "Very Doggy, very dull," he replied.

His

happened, oven, as it was not in order, but when that was fixed, he never made a mis- take with Dundee cake again.

Next job was rough pastry

She chooses the flowers from for beefsteak (no kidney) ple. the garden of Birch Grove, her That beat him the pastry sup- Gute, ped into the dish. Had he used home

Chelwood nt

Yes. ple rest?

What about Sussex, and brings them up to No. 10 in her car.

And about No. 10: "It's a About the

way he dresses

family (and the way people sometimes nice-feeling hote, say he might look smarter): hours. If I had to live in Lon- "He doesn't bother much about dan I would choose this house." clothes. There is absolutely Her Jub at No. 10 is "tremen-

dous fun." nothing I can do about it. Some times I might suggest he needs

STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

Willy's New Business

He's Making Gay Flower Hats For Ladies- By MAX TRELL

"I WAS so surprised," said Knarf to his sister Hanid, "that I didn't believe it, even though I was looking right at

11."

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Behind the garden and over the low stone wall and past the tree and on the broken pine

the brook stood other side of the old Elmi Tree where Willy Toud had his sign.

Hanid stood and read it,

Hanid, who had been reading "Yes," she sold to Knart, "it's Willy seems

a book when her broth came just as you said. in and sat down beside her, to be in a new business now. looked up at Knert with a He's making hats tor ladies."

puzzled expression on her face. Where's Workshop?

"What did you say?" she asked.

Repeated it

Kmart repeated what he had

Fikr

HI don't see where he's making them at all." sald Knarf. "Where's his workshop?"

tached to a rope on the tree behind the sign..

Knar yanked the rope several The bell rang and a door times. opened at the bottom of the tree.

Willy Toad clood there, smil- ing and saying "Come In."

Willy was wearing a striped smock. He had a pair of scissors In one hand and a pile of rib- bons in the other. He had pins stuck all over his smock. On his head he had a yellow het.

It took fanid a minute or two before she recognised what the hat was made of.

Buttercup Hat

"It must be around here some- Hanid exclaimed.

"But what did you aco?" where," said Harid.

Hamid wanted to know.

"I saw a sign," said Knarf. hanging from a tree.

"It was

On the sign were the words:

WILLY TOAD

Knart and Hanid both called "Willy! Willy Where

you?"

1. for They walked minutes, but there was

answer.

Yanked Rope

pre

"Willy! It's a buttercup hat!" "My latest model," explatard Willy. "Don't

you adore it? But please come in."

Khart rang Willie Toad's bell

and ko came out,

Willy muide Held a dulsy hat, He wouldn't make any. hats for Knart, because Kaarf was a lady.

As Kuårf and Hanfd went out Willy had dozens of hats in again, they heard the bell ring- his workshop. It was a large ing. Willy had a crowd of new few room in the hollow trunk of the customers beetles, grasshop

pers, crickets, Katydids, owls In addition to the buttercup, and a cat, all the ladies of the model, Willy the Hat Maker bad neighbourhood. n blue-bell hat, a panay hal, a

elm.

HATS FOR LADIES' "And I couldn't belleve it," mid Kharf, "because how con

hat made of rose petals, a big "Come in, come in, my dears," hots for .mako Willy Toad

"I have lovely Then oll at once Knart saw daisy blossomn hat. And in a invited Willy. 3ndica?"

charming "I think we'd better go around something that he hadn't seen enner, all by self, standing hats for all of you and see," said Hanid:

before. It was a brakà bell at- on a rack, was a sunflower hat, ladies!"

In The Centre "There is a lot of excitement about it. A feeling of being iL the dentre of things," sho mid.

Sometimes she dies quietly with her husband-cr' a Iew cream- the smil, quests--in walled dining-room,

Or is hostess to foreign visitors and their wives in the large heavily-panelled dining-room

to her Menus are presented for approval. "I try to give foreign guests the sort of dishes they might not have at home.... pheasant or grouse, perhaps,"

Are politiclans finicky eaters, about their diets over-anxious

A TREAT OF

A SWEET

Coming from America are the most expensive of all canned foods - Crepes Surette, 2 ser- vings, $8 and; for 4, Fruit Rum Babas, 4 in a can, at $8.50, and well worth the money if you feel you must have them and cannot make them yourse!t.

the size of the pic dish in res lation to the amount of meat in

and waistlines? What of Lord it? Hailsham's "Eat tnt and grow sum" fad? Wasn't he problem?

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The dish would have been all right for alb. beef, but he was I gave him a Senllod Lady Dorothy. "There using only Ilb.

strict small dish in which the meat two

reached up to only the level of vegetarians, But we can cope.the rim. And all was well. His names, I'd rather not give rough puff pastry is particularly them away?

good.

are

No

one

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The Family

Several Traps

When the time, comes--as in- evitably it must, one day--when

she has to leave No. 10, what yow for an adventure; coa will be her feelings?

AU. VIN; There WELD "I suppose one is bound to several traps. And Jack fell miles the fun and the excitement in them all. His sauce was too of it all," she said.

blue and so strongly favoured "But I should feel tremend-with wine na to be unentable. ously glad that I have had the In many recipes, experience is This is my chance to be here. After all, not the safest guide. a lot of people become the wife of a Prime Minister.

way.

Would life scem duli If she

For four persona, disjoint s' weren't?

roseting chicken of 3.to alb "Dull?" she said surprised into 4 log portions," + "breasts "But I would still havo.my and 2 wing. Dut them with home in Ekisses and the garden.seasoned four, and fry thom all And the family..

j-over in 2oz. butter and 1-4able

Salt &

A welcome return to today's kitchens is a now version of great-grandmother's hanging salt-box. Those two in pottery with tenk lids, cost approxi- mately $52 each from most stores.

Salt

freshly chopped parsley

SCTVD

spoon olive oil untill a rich with

and (The olive oil will warm gold. prevent the butter from burn potatoes with it ing.)

plainly boiled

I have had this dish in Jack's Transfer the pieces to A home and very good it was. casserole, add the giblets and Mushrooms could be an addi- Lightly cook the washed the carcase with 1 pint hot lon water, cover and place in the unpeeled button ones in a little oven at 350 degrees Fahr., or butter and add them during tha gas mark 4.

last 15 minutes.

In the original frying-pan, try 24 pooled small onions, chaking the pan until they take Add on a pleasant gold tone.

Better?

them to the casserole, Sprinkle Why is it that men always a teaspoon of sugar into the

being belter frying pan and cook It to a real Ent credit for

Chefs are cooks than women? deep brown, without burning it. always, or nearly always, men. Sprialdo, in and brown There is no place for womera dessertspoon of Bour. Then

in the professional kitchen. aid a chopped glove of garlic, a very good pinch of grated nutmeg and bottle of good ned Burgundy.

One reason is that a woman, however gifted a cook she may be, Inevitably leaves her job to mary and never becomes the Itub the residue of the pan fine chef she might be. into the ULICE, When it has But, mioro to the point, thickened strain it on to the perhaps, is that the professional chicken ploces, add a bouquet kitchen is no, hot, the hours 50 parni and, if the muce seems a long, and the work so strenuous, ittle too thick, more hot water that few women can stand up

Cover and cook for another to it.

London Express, Service). minutes. Sprinkle the dish

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Rupert and the Outlaws-49

After a while some of the men take the big puppy away, to feed it while the Chief lonks' keenly at Rupert **** Dun't you really want to be one of our band? We can refum you nothing' after what you have done for gay to let us know. yeye wishes and don't be afraid."

"Well, my Mummy doesn't like me being out so long," says the little bear." And 1 ctitamly didn't expect to come so far, as please may 1 go home now?" The Chief gives a great laugh, and the boy hobbles forward, smiling." ** Am I to lose you so soơn ?,” he says; ALL RIGHTS KESERVED