THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1959.
WOMANSENSE
Beauty Has A Place In Decorating Plans
DRESSING TABLE'S placed before mirrored wall by Rally Forrest, Room's colour scheme sets uff her blonde colouring,
By JEANNE D'ARCY
PARTIES: It's the time
NYONE with a room, And the
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necessary nerve can give a party. An awful lot of . people do in fact give a lot fof awful parties.
But no one to my know- ledge and J include Bisn Maxwell has ever satisfac- torily explained how you give a good party.
What with Christmas and the New Year looming and the annual pastebourd avalanche already begun, This probirm must, 1 magine, be preying on
may mine.
prospective hostess"
canvasted the views of some
of my more parly minded friends. With the following contradictory results.
Gay men
SOME time ago we interviewed tire and upholstered pieces, do YOU must have lots of gay,
Actren Sally Forrest in ler Joze What inpressed as mest
de was the fact that she'd enrated her handrome New York apartment to be a perfect back- ground for her blonde beauty,
It Was Planned Accidental? Not at 1 Mrs Forrest planted it that way.
Her living room, for example, was done in neutral sharles beige and white. They were her choice for two reasATIN
crumplement
your natural colouring and will barise with most of your clothes
preferably unattached,
"Pretty girls bre a mus one model girl will electrify the atmosphere...."
Be Conscious Of Colour
"Drinks, lots of it-and Make it a beauty point to be don't mean those uriful congoc- cwiour-conselous, not only ations which teste like fruit salad
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L when roines out. with a dash of bitters....ˆ Dress yourself to make the most
colourful background "I believe in mixing people---
age #roups. whether it's at a friend's house different for at a favorite restaurant. It's typer....
sure way of making certain that you'll be the centre of in wrest in any gathering.
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Tr decorating. Thore reverat other beauty angles to remember.
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The best parties, really, are the ones where everyone knows andi likes everyone clo...."
"Make it formal--people like an exens for dressing-up."
There you are. But the one inentioned the hostess.
1. Belge and white makes a rivin background for a lon The sameness of the hair thurie and the neutrale has elegance.
2. Neither beige zur white ca Somewhere in the house have possibly clash with any drers a full-length mirror, so you van she wears. They provide new - eb.k your appearance head ta tral backgrounds for the mund Roc. A three-way mirror, for
Irunt, back and endde views, is is the lynch-pin of the colourful prints, the mo: bril-
whole affair. If she lant reds, blues and greens, abo invaluable. making Miss Forrest,
Joom, the star attraction.
It's good beauty sente,
furalshing thing brides
the
Now I think the hostess
is
of year you're landed with one
by JOGASTA INNES
To decorate a buffet table or highlight o dinner party- randelabra with an elegant line.
In Expensive look, silver-plated metal.
good party. It's as simple as that.
But, of course, this simplicity is the result of forethought and careful planning.
Fin
nul, is in no position enjoy herself.
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Most parties have to keep to a tight budget. Su my odvice is: economise on the food, which should be the kind you can pre- pare the day before, and splash heavily on drink.
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There are plenty of recipes which Icok and taste special without costing the earth.
Help yourself
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informal help-your- sat type ry party cold buffet meal is the answer. based on a good hearty dish like veal-and-har pic. Two of these will serve about 10 people.
Ingredients: 4 cyfts! 11ylb. veal; 14h. raw ham'or gammon. A Nitle mixed spice and pepper. Enough short pastry in cover two at pie dishes.
To make. Hard-boil the rigs. Make pastry Cut veal and hum into small cubes and cover the pie dish with meat, pushing in the eggs (whole) so they don't egg-
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PICTURE BY JOHN COLE
For the rest of us. I'm afraki. the answer remains: alcohol, and plenty of it.
Bake in high oven
What to drink? I have heard touch each other.
about 20 minutos. Reduce heat of parties where the only liquid and continue cooking! for provided was milk and everyone A hostess
Pour in veal stock so that it mother hour and half. who has to spend
had whale of a time. But this
If you must have whisky, gin Add spice and
kind of social tour de force half the evening in the kitchen, covers the meat. il If you apply make-up in the having a good time
While the ple is still hot pour demands a hostess
ur vodka, it will be expensive. or discovers half-way through pepper. Cover the dish with
with nerves bathroom, or at a vanity table,
beaten in a little gelatine mixed with of steel and shattering aplomb. Why not give a wine party? somes are that the fighting is bright usually turns out to be a the evening that the drink has pasty and brush with
hot water through holes in the
Wine is cheaper, goes well with Allow to cool.
cheese cuber, pastry.
(my Bolle parties
party simple fare ilke To dress this up-tols of minded friends tell me) are pickles and nuis, and has just Ipastry sulphice and pic Ir OUT, unless you are prepared to crough alcohol content to keep Serve with large green salads, cepe with brawls, droughts and the average party simmering pickles, rolls and cheese.
appalling hangovers.
pleasantly.
irst apartment might keep mind.
that and clear, Put make-up on un-
atre in daylight is apt to be a
2:2
her dim lights and your appear-
bit too colourful.
In selecting wall colours, eur-
LADY
your
CHILDREN'S CORNER
LUCK Globe-Trotting Knarf
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25
AQUARIUS January 21-
February 19):
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shook his head and said:
Just then General Tin, the Tin Soldier, hearing the sound of loud voices, marched over to
the see wha!
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46]HAI T'd like to do right "No, you don't have the time now," Knarf sail to fits to go all the way around the friend Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, world. But you can go haif
is to take a trip around the way around the world." world."
"Yes, bis! Fou Can't," d "No, no, no!" shouted Teddy, Teddy, "because you have to be "He hasn't even got time to go back in time for lunch and it's half way around the world."" holiday season approaching 11 o'clock now and you've only it will be well to put aside get an hour After hav
in which to go some money for the inevit-around the world." ing considered a number of
of 4 variations
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Knarf's Unhappy scheme, you should HOW CAPRICORN December 23-
Kuarf shook his head January 20): Owing put the best to the test. PISCES (February 20-March
fuste ppily. your discriminating you do not always have an 26: If you are not pleased with certain aspects of your easy time anding what you to make are baking fur, but eventu- work, you ought some constructive SUKECA- ally your search succeeds. tions for its improvement. YOUR LUCKY CARD: I today is your birthday, your lucky card, no reatter what game you may playing, ought tu be TEN of SPADES.
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know," he said. At that moment
un- about,
Hiawatha,
the Small-Sized Wooden Indian, came along.
"Td lie to go around the Knarf told him, "only work."
11 o'clock and I have to he home at 12 o'clock for lunch,
I haven't
got time to go De around the world, have 1" the Higuathal, who was a very wise te Indian. thought about
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Explains To General Knarf explained to him about wanting to go around the world.
Hiawatha thinks I only have time to go half way around the
even have time for that." World. Bui Teddy thinks I don't General Tin stood leaning on his musket, thinking about what koert had just said.
General Tin had been around the world several times. knew all about travel.
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Agroes With Teddy Teddy's right," he said at last. There isn't time even to go half way around the world." Kaart groaned with disap- pointment.
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Teddy, Knarf and Iflawatha were arguing,
"Knarf hur time to go an around the righth of the way world."
How Far? far "How Knarf.
"It's as far as the end of the river and back again." said Mr Punch.
iy that?" asked
"No time! No time!" ried Teddy before Knart had chance to say anything.
Then
the Rag Mary-Jane, Doll, erme along and said that Knart had time to go one- sixteenth way around the world, which was es tar as the other side of the railroad tracks and back again.
"No time! No time" cried Teddy.
Great Disappointment "But you have got time to "Oh well," said Knarf in way around the great disappointment, “I guess go a quarter world,' said General Tin. I haven't got time to go any
"How far
that be?" part around the world." would
Fald asked Kharf.
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world."
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*Just to the dining room table," said Teddy. Mr Punch came along there Just
"You'll be in time for lunch." And that's what Knarf did!
Rupert and the Whistlefish-29
With the sante rattling noise the small bost draws up at the cause- way. A tough-looking soldier in in it, and short, sharji words eru exchanged between the two men. Then Rupert is hustled aboard. the rattling restarts, and the boat awings away with its queer engine
throwing a lot of spray around.. They make good speed across the glassy aca, and secun to be making for row of great posts citing from platforms. "Whatever are those " calia Rupert. “And are those cages on top? I do believe there's someone in one of them.” ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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