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LADY

your

AQUARIUS

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1959.

WOMANSENSE

LUCK-

CHINA MAIL

horoscope

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2

21.

ly if given the chance, and you ought to be on your guard.

(January February 191: The cause of your recent disagreement. with a friend having been VIRGO removed, you must do your very best to recover your

pleasant

former

ship.

PISCES

relation-

SEXY

February 20- March 201: You may find

in a state of be yourself wilderment about tinual situation; how- ever, given suflicient tine. you will adjust yourself to at

ARIES (March 21-April 1993 Every person you meet has sume worth while quality, and you should try and discover it before forming a biased impression. TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

You are fortunate in being able to put everything that comes your way to profitable

use.

years

GEMINI (May 21-June 21:

If you are celebrating an anniversary today, you should feel grateful for the happiness the past tive brought you. CANCER (une 22-July 21: Beware of tears shed by a hypocritical person; they are not the expression of genuine emotions. LEO July 22-August 21: A person you will meet to- day could act rather sharp-

be-

August 22-Septem- ber 22): Hesitating tween two alternatives, Jou must realise that the result will be much the same whichever you choose, LIBRA (September 23-Octo-

You can ber 221:

be as- sured that the arrangement which your superior has made for you will be fair. to all concerned. SCORPIO

23-

1October November 211: After hav-, ing considered all angles. you must make your final decision soon as to whether or bot to change your domicile.

SAGITTARIUS,

1November

You approach your superior resolutely with the request you feel you are entitled to make.

22-December 21: should

20:

CAPRICORN (December 22-

All January

cir.

scem to cum. cumstances bine to

long make your planned meeting with some} estranged friends a great SUCCESS.

YOUR LUCKY CARD:

If today is your birthday, your lucky card, no matter what game you may be playing. ought to be

SEVEN of HEARTS.

WOMEN AT THE TOP

the

Kathleen Could Be Princess

Anne's Headmistress

by Alex Gill

It's made from duck feathers and so, naturally, its waterproof!

CHILDREN'S CORNER

The Day It Happened

--Christopher Recalls A Moring Experience-

By MAX TRELL

uver to the window. Chris

CHRISTOPHER Cricket came turned around and smiled but a

out from between the two icose bricks of the fireplace.

He stood still for a moment, looking around the room. Then

and put his face close to glass and looked out,

"ROYAL Tot for School?" screamed the head. He walked across to the window

line in an American newspaper.

There followed an article speculating whether

Mos

Interesting of her ex- periments is with her ceniors

Looked Like Rain

the

It was late afternoon. The

look of surprise was in his eyes. "Oh, I didn't know you were in this room," he said to Knart and Hanid. "I thought I'd take a look out of the window and see what was doing outside.".

"heard you sayin some- thing to yourself," said Knarf,

Chris Smiled Christopher Cricket smiled

I was only thinking to my- said. "I was saying

Chris turned around and

smiled at the Shadows,

Princess Anne would be educated at home by sky was heavy with clouds. It

And if hadn't yet started to rain but again. governesses, or sent to boarding school.

it looked as if it might at any the Queen did decide to break with tradition, moment. A cold wind was blow-self," he

ing the dried leaves of the trees. that it was en a day just like which school would the Princess attend?

Christopher Cricket

this that it happened." sighed

"Happened?" asked Hanid,

outside. I could see Mother and and said to himself:

"I was on a day just like

"What happened, dear?"

chatrs. Father sling in their "What I meant to say,"

said Father this. Yes, it was on a day just Christopher, "is that it was on

waz reading. Mother like this..."

was knitting. The Children were a day like this that I first got looking at a book. The Cot was Now Knort and Hanid, the

I remember it dozing in

one corner and Shadows with the Turned-About to this house. Names,

perfectly." had been watching

another. Dog was sleeping in Christopher from the moment Christopher to tell them all fireplace.

Kuart

Hamid begged A low fire and

was burning in the he had crept out from between about the first day that he had the two loose, bricks of the fire-

come to the house. place.

Holtet Up at the moment is "Healthfield." Princžas Alexan- dra was at this school. So, too, wae Princess Fazilet, once the flancer of King Feisal, and countless debutantes and daughters of the English aris- Locrity.

Elegant And Charming Headmistress is Kathleen Dodds,

elegant arni charting woman in her fortics who looks nothing like the Sypical headmistress-rel very tired of being told 10.

is

She is also tired of people who y:-"I thought your sehcol was just for girls who are not going to do anything when they grow up."

When the post of headmis- tress was offered to her in 1946, Heathfield-O world famous

Ascot racecourse in Barkshire -had a well-Justilled reputa- tion as a home-from-home for daughters of the rich and the titled.

Dodds has Since then, Miss opent all her time and energy Turning it into her kies of the ideol girls' school.

"Frankly, I don't

Hko

usually about 18 girls who are working for University.

No Uniforms

These girls live in bed-sitting rooms in her part of the house, do nol wear uniforms, drop organised games, and work

On

Heard Him Mumbling They Heard him mumbling something to himself but they couldn't understand what he

the tutorial system. This way, Miss Doks hopes to bridge the the gap between school - and outside world,

And mest important of all-was saying. to help her pupils to grow gracefully.

132 "Hello, Chris dear," sold Hanld, and she and Karf went

JACOBY on BRIDGE

LENRY BAER of Dallas lean-

other new life master after the Houston tournament. Playing with my son Jim, Henry capi- talised on a partnership misu- derstanding to come up with a good score,

East chose to open one club in- stead of one diamond for reasons best known to himself. West responded one spade and Jim

boarding schools for girls at sitting North made a two club

ull" she says.

"Particularly

overcolt,

This led to be a real club suit, not those that are modelled on not a cue bid, but Henry had a boys' public schools.

Strict Discipline

"They're set in a rigid mould education, strict clusical discipline and argruised gumos- playing-a completely natural environment for girls which only produças 0:1- feminine, uncultivated young women."

In 13 years Kathleen Dodd's has

raised the scholastic stan- durd and produced B morc natura atmosphere, 00- couraging an interest In 130- gunge

and the arts instead of meire book-learning,

She

both cleosy her staff, men and women, very careful- Jy, giving praference to those who have a broad experience of ildo and have done things other than tonching.

short brainstorm and bid three hearts after East went to two spades. West passed end Jim

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Answer TomREOTY

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Double Pas

Post Pass

"Opening lead-♣ 3

raised to four hearts. He thought Henry was showing a heart suit.

ta

When this came around West he practically jumped out of his chair to double and Henry got the message. He ran out lo vo clubs. West doubled that also but now the Baer-Jtedby partnership was on firm ground, Jim lest one club, two, diamonds and a spade, but the 500 point set came close to being b. lợp score because almost every other East-West pair brid and mode a spade game.

Likes To Remember "Of course I'll tell you," said Christopher. "I like to ber it.

remem-

the

Wanted To Live There

How I'd love to live in that house, I sald. If only I could come in!!*

"At that moment the bell rang. Father opened the door!

Come in,' he said. 'Come in.' "Sa in I went," said Christo- pher. "Two offer people

few "It happened quite a years ago. The wild was blow- ing. The sky was thick with clouds. It looked as if it was in, too. It was Grandmother and going to rain. I didn't have a Grandfather. One of them had

place to live in."

"I thought you lived out in

the garden," said Knart.

rung the bell

Snuggest Place

came

"I did." replied Christopher, "And as soon as I got into "I lived under a dandelion. But the house," said Christopher, "I the dandelion had turned white hopped straight across the floor and one by one, the white tufts and found myself the enuggest went blowing away in the wind. place in the rooth. I moved in between two loose bricks in the fireplace.

Cold And Lost "By late afternoon, there was nothing over my head but the open sky. I was cold. I didn't know what to do or where to No."

"And that's where I've spent every winter ever since,

notice "Mother didn't

me. Father didn't notice mic. The Christopher Cricket sighed Cat didn't nottee, neither did again.

the Dog. But the Children heard "And all of a sudden," Chris- me playing my guitar and they topher went on, "I noticed a cried: |light in this house.

"Cricket has come to live

"I came closer and looked in with us! through the window from the stay!'

Cricket has come to

· Rupert and the Whistlefish-35

The old man evidently does noj Rupert. Why is everybody so want to hear about Sailor Sam and happy now? And are we going he fead. Rupert along the caus up these stairs? I thought yu

This time the way to the island

Yes. things said I mustn't.". huge doors are open and the have changed now." says the old guards stand aside, looking, at 'she man. **At first we do believe hitje her with beaming smiles, Your story. It seem unlikely. Now What's happened? atks we know you speak the truth}"

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Just the thing to warm you up on a cold day

IT really is thick warm soup-making weather. While we can buy won- derful soups in cans and packets, there

by HELEN BURKE

are I SUGGEST

several we can make in

the matter of half an SOME REALLY hour with materials we THICK SOUP

can easily have on hand.

them

wo k

them

One of my favourites is a the peeled potatoes into round, potato-leck soup, a large pot of acidi which will provide five to six around. generous servings.

Small pieces

For this need three large or

throath It for a very soup

ar

smooth Line a d-worked mouli gumes titled with a fine dire. Or serve the roup as it is, with a small nut of butter alled into it.

For brother crap, 1 slice the green parts of the lerks, add chopped onion

good-sized corrol-not dieed but rubbed on a shredder-a dleed potato and, prhaps, a lite sliced celery. V-pint of have been whittling a head of Now add about stock, cover and simmer until gelery for several days.) To

stock the potatoes are cooked. Season these, 1 add enough

water to make soup for with a little pepper.

family.

Mash and whisk the veget

them one

cr the

At the moment, as I write, I

six emaller leeks an onion and ables, then sir into two to three for even more) pint each of hot stock and milk, have a pot of soup cooking D

if the stove with, in nadition further and season large potatoes. 1 use only the Taste

required. white parts of the leeks and put the creeps away for another day. If you Jaw!

blond, you can pass

the

to

the above vegetables, some chopped outer leaves of lettuce an electric and what was left of sixpennya.

the lot worth of wateryness.

Do not make heavy weather of the eloning of the leeks or

olher

which vegetable any contes ir.

with contact ground. Quarter them length- small wise, then cut them in

CO much k written and talked about wine by "experts" that any pieces. Place them in a colan- beginner might easily become bewildered. This is a pity, be-

sink ailed der in the

with cause wine drinking Is Just as much a matter of taste as is eating enough cold water to float them, food, stir them round and round with a wooden spoon, then let them rest while getting on with the chopping of the union.

Take it as you like it...

Free of grit

in

of

are

Lift the leeks up and down their colander in changes fresh water so that they entirely freed of grit. Draun them well.

Mel oz. buller in a large pot. Add the drained leeks, the onion and a tiny pinch of rukar,

If you don't like a really dry wine, don't drink it simply be- cause some says that the best palates scrept IL

I think that some of the Yugoslav wines I tasted recently were excellent. Some were very dry. some less dry and some quite Kweet. It seems to me to be a good fra to buy half bottles of them, so that, at small expense, one can sample different ones and then decide which are the most suitable for one's own taxle.

These Yugoslav wines, all 1953 vintage, are not sa inexpen- nive ae some other wines but they recommend themselves for their purity of flavour.

As an all-round while wine to be served throughout the meat, I chose Lulomer Riesling. To serve with fish, oysters and shellfish in general, a very dry Pinol is well worth trying, only to com-

pare it with other dry wines of equal cost,

Tigermilk, a desert wine, is sweeter than the others because

it is made from grapes left on the vines untill they acquire a hízh

cover and let the vegetables degree of tweetness, and there is a rich red wine, Merlol, which sweat" for a few minutes. Cut is well worth trying.

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