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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1959.

WOMANSENSE Test-tube Talent!

KNITTED nylon nightdress (you can buy

IL with the duty side inside or out) is trimmed

with nylon satin ribbon. (Washable,

it needs no ironing.)

By Kayser Bondor.

GLEAMING white weather-coat (other colours too in

Plastylon with a beaver jamb collar. By Marksmoor,

LADY

your

AQUARIUS

NEAT shirtwaister dress. permanently pleated from neck to hem. It's in Banion (washes, dries quickly, needs no Ironing), By Richard Shops.

SOFT brushed Orion sweater cut likė a man's pullover, comes in seven colours.

It dries quickly, needs no ironing.

By Twemax,

Ideas For

LUCK-The First Course

CHINA MAIL

horoscope

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20

21- January February 191: The chances are that your plans for

My

nove

23-

If are fur er party TF you are looking for a quick

FASHION PAGE

Presents the pick of

the chemistry...

by JILL BUTTERFIELD

FASHION today is a test-tube business and the dress of your dreams is simply a science- fiction formula. As we zoom from jet age to space age it's a wise girl who knows where the coat on her back comes from.

In six out of 10 cases today it had its origins way back in a boffin's laboratory.

For

have man-made fibres Laken over women's fashion, and there are around 20 different ones in Britain today. They often cost less than natural fibres, they're easier to care for, they take exolle colour dyrs superbly.

NOT SO LONG AGO If you wore a leather coat

pald you upwards of £20 for 11. It spent half is life at the cleaners 100. Nowadays the backroom boys have produced the fal:ric 1astylon, which costs half that amount, is spongeable, very warm, and tailors Beautfully

Those minks

NOT

LONG AGO whether you earned, inherited or were born to your mink, it cast somebody a good £3m for a cosy little length Touay a nylon for fabric stole in any mink mutation you chix:se would be about Es. What's more it's spongeable and moth - proof,

THE HAT of the winter is

ocelot-marked in Bri-Ion furleen (washable). Also comes in mock Persian lamb. Astrakhan, dark mink. beaver. By Astraka,

fabrics like Banion, Tricel, Terylene. Where once you paid around £15 for a pleated dress now you pay nearer £5.

NOT SO LONG AGO it you floated around the Hoor in 1 sheer dance druss it meant several billion silk worms had been at work. Now the worm's 1urned chemist and the prettiest

NOT SO LONG AGO if you wanted a sweater that was soft, had cut and class there was no substitute for cashmere (but * simple cardigan could set you back £8-and at that price you didn't feel like trusting to the suds so often). Now Orion comes Just as sofl-Just as sheers come straight from a test delicately coloured and washes tube at the rate of 400 million for ever.

nylon articles a year.

Pleated luxury

NOT SO LONG AGO the very thought of synthetic fabrics in winter made' you, skiver, be- cause the carly prototypes NOT SO LONG AGO

WERE cold, WERE slippy, pleated dress was the biggest WERE summer-only, Now you luxury in a woman's wardrobe can find special winter versións. -partly because the expense of (Tricel with a flecvy back, a dry-cleaning and re-pleating it special knitted nylon which you was prohibitive. Now some of wear with the leocy side next the prettiest dresses in the to the sklo.)

shops

are permanently pleated But ME I'm still saving up --COMIE in quick drip-drying for that mink-made mink!

JACOBY

on

quick -but not o

us the inevitable pate or smoked sal- mon- give you a couple of

TERE is another 15-17 point suggestions.

HER The first turned up at an no-trump operation,

South friend's party last American

has exactly 15 points week, and lasted so good 3 tele-plus a ten spot and 4-3-3-3 dis- phoned for the details later. tribution. North has seven points The second is From Mainly and a good six-card minor suit Fish, a cockery book by Vietor and while his jump to three no- MacClure.

trump is something of a gamble, it is the correct bid.

bad better tell them of the 1 budding romance,

October a SCORPIO materialise November 21): Don't stay too long at tonight's party as you will nord: R very clear head at tomorrow's conference. SAGITTARIUS November 22-December 211: A blind date arranged by a friend will turn out very well in- deed and you will want to meet the person again very

sooner than you expected. PISCES (February 20- March 20): An unexpected visit by a distant relative will prove must enjoyable in spite of your misgivings. ARIES March 21-April 19):

Don't pay any attention to empty talk some people are irresponsible and rather enjoy making trouble. TAURUS (April-20-May 201: A strained relationship with a

has friend which worried you a great deal of late will gradually improve. GEMINI (May 21-June 21): You owe a letter of thanks for a great favour done and should not neglect writing

it.

CANCER (June 22-July 21):

Try not to be quite so much, alone; other people's com pany will cheer you up and divert your thoughts into! happier channels.

LEO (July 22-August 21):

You may be late for an sp-

for reasons be pointment

yond your control, bui you

should nevertheless express proper regret.

VIRGO (August 22-Septem-

$100

cream.

DIRT.

+CARD Sensens

Take

Roquefort

The three no-trump effectively cheese. 140z cream cheese; shuts East out of the bidding softened and West must make a blind tublespoons butter, two tablespoons thick lead. If he gets his fingers on a tablespoons spade. East will establish his brandy plus fresh ground spade suit before his king of dia- pepper and a little cayenne monds is knocked out and South will go down. But West led the irt

electric Combine

Beuce of hearts, the best lead he blender or beat well with a

had. fork.

Put into individual pots:

East's queen tells to South's

the hotice and

diamond finesse and chill. Serve wit foast.

Marinate for at least sir hours kippers smoked after boning, in a mixture of oil. and lemon juice (or war- licked wine vinegar), charged with chopped shut- tots, parsley, a bay-leaf, and a few crushed peppercorns. TO SITUE, drain and pat dry with a cloth. Lay them flat on a board and

slice flesh of skins in thin slivers towards the tails, after the manner of smoked salmon. The big difference between Uris dish and smoked salmon is, have the courage of your of course, the price. 'convictions.

-(London Express Service).

soon.

CAPRICORN (December 22-

January 20): You are attributing too many un- connected events to some mystic influence and ought to be more realistic.

YOUR HIRTHDAY: If this is your birthday you are entering

8 year of great promise; providing you

To remove

HOUSEHOLD

HINTS

stairs on

K are not broken, the seat will be bor 223: Make sure that polished table caused by, water quite us firm as when new,

i scak your extreme politeness to-dripping from a vase

wards everybody is not piece of collon wool in joding A little vinegar put into the

misconstrued as

on your part.

weakness and rub over the spot.

water with a cracked egg will keep the egg from coming out Tighten the canc scats af of the shell while boiling. LIBRA (September 23-Octo-chairs in this way: Turn the ber 22): You may have chair side down, and wash

some

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個

difficulty explaining the case well with pop and Slutlo bund, moistened with your frequent mysterious water. Leave it in the open air milk and heated in the oven, absences from home; you to dry, and provided the canes will freshen up immediately,

East 14

PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN FRENCH GLAMOROUS party dress in shadow checked grey and black nylon-sparked with a gleaming gold Lurex thread, a wide cold bell. (Wash gently, iron with a cont tren.)

By Jean Cono,

BEAUTIFULLY draped back-belted dress in

Celanese Acetate, (Clean as for silk.) Comes in six colours. By Kitty Copeland.

BOAT-NECKED evening top in velvet finished knitted nylon, With stiff Paisley printed skirt of satinixed cotton. Both by Digby Morton/Roldan,

-(London Express Service).

BRIDGE CHILDREN'S CORNER

NORTH

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WEST

▲ 10 33

X 72 73 $3753

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South

EAST ◆KQJ42

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SOUTH (D)

♥ A 104

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No one vulnerable

West North Fari

1 N.T. Pass JN.T. Pass Pass Pass

Opening lead-♥ z

loses. Now East can clear the spade suit but it will be too North late

South will run off the dia-

The bidding has been:

South West

7

You, South, huld: MAQTE ♥AK013 (QE 465

What do you do? A-Double. You have a good hand with both major suite.

TODAY'S QUESTION

West passes and your partner responds one diamond. 'What do you do now?

+

Answer tomorrow

mond suit and eventually take

the club fincsne to make contract.

The Looking Glass

-The Shadows And Teddy Are In For A Surprise→

By MAX TRELL

the

Hiawatha didn' move and just watched them.

T'S a lovely story," Hanid, "Now what Alice did," said Shadow Girl with Raald, "wes this. She walked and it the Turned-About Name, was right up to the Mirror saying to her, brother Knaet zor of melted away. Then sho and his two friends, Teddy, the found herself on the other side. Stuffed Bear and Haiwatha, the Everything was backwards." Small-Sized Wooden Indian.

I go first," said Teddy,

Hanid Was Noxt

"It's all about a tile Girl named Alice who went through ja Looking Glass,"

Didn't Believe It

Knor! cald in a voice that sounded as though he didn't be lieve this:

"She couldn't go through a Looking Glass. She'd bump her his head.

1 South had opened with one elub, North would respond one diamond and East would get

1

Hanid smiled.

"But she did go through the

Teddy look a deep breath, put his hands in front of him and dived into the Mirror.

Knarf could hardly believe There was Teddy - his cyon. side the Mirror waving to his two friends to follow.

10%

Teddy waved to his friends to follow him.

They met and neighbours.

ail their friends

Met Everybody Honid walked right through. They met the Polleeman and pushing the Mirror aside 44 the Bus Driver. They met Mrs though it were A very thin Smith who lived next door, and curtain.

Mis Jones who lived across the street and Mrs King who lived Knorf was the last one to go around the corner.

Jilat before he went, ho

turned.

chance to show his spades, North Looking Glass, daring and she in, and South would probably stop didn't bump her head." at a nice safe part score in dia-

"Let's try excitedly.. Lry 11."

monds but game in no-trump would have disappeared,

Rupert and the Whistlefish-25

The boat containing Sailor Sam speeds away with a queer rattling rwise towards, the distant pasta riting from the sea. In spite of Rupert's excitement at seeing his old friend, his grim, compankans will not let him pause more th 4 moment. They urge him steadily

forward along the long, long cauANG-- way. Just before they reach the island two huge meral doors swing open, more soldiers let the Dew- comers through as if they were expecting them, and the old mare ́carries in the bowl containing the

Whitclefsh

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

But the strangest thing of all happened when they walked all "Are you sure you don't want around the black and saw Hia- come with us, Hiawatha?" watha sitting on a fence look- he asked.

ing at them,

I cried Teddy. "Come on, Jet's all to

Willing To Try

"All right," said Knart, "I try walking through the Look- ing Glass. But I'm sure we' bump our heads."

But Hiawatha Just kept shaking his hand, so Клагт

"How did you get here, Hia-

went into the Looking Glass watha?" they all shouted. without him.

But he just sat there without

The strangest thing bout saying a word.

tront-

Hiawatha Was Gone

being inside the Looking Glass "Come on Hiawatha" sald was that you have to walk

of backwards Jnstead Teddy. "Get up! We're going wards to gel where you were Kharf and Hand and Teddy A few minutes later, when

Otherwise the going.

room walked beel: out of the Mirror looked exactly the way it sit into the regular room again, ways did.

to walk though the Locking Gines!'

Hiawatha shook his head and frunted.

"But why not?" caked Teddy.

watha.

Saw Hiawatha

they were surprised to find that. Hiowatha was gone.

Teddy ran out of the house

"Like here," grunted Hia- From the Looking Glass to loolt for him. "He found Hía- "Better on this side of room, they looked back into watkn around the block, sliting the Looking Glass than on the the regular room. They could on a fence. other side.".....

Walked To Minor

still see. Hiawatha allting on the floor with his legs criss- crossed, watching them.

Knorf and Hanid waliced out So Knart and Hard and Teddy all walked to the big through the door of the Lole Mirror on the other side of the ing Glass room and found them- room and stood in front of it, scives on a lovely street,

the

nor

And welther Teddy, Stuffed Bear, nor Knart, Hanld could ever gure out how Hiawatha could have been sitting on the fence around the block both inside the Looking Glass and outside of it.