1959-12-21 — Page 7

LADY

your

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1959.

WOMANSENSE

LUCK-

CHINA MAIL

horoscope

your Christmas holidays, you ought to wait a day or

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 21

AQUARIUS (January 21- February 19): When maklug business plans for next year, make sure to give others in responsible positions a chance to voice their views,

PISCES (February 29-March

201: Before coming to definite decision about

JACOBY

on BRIDGE

HERE is a rather prosaic look-

ing hand that gives op- portunity for considerable study of both play and defence.

Of course, the four-heart con-

ind tract is overambitious

*

eluh opening or immediate club shift would beat it easily but West opened and continued dipmondi and South ruffed the second lead high,

At this point he could have Ave by leading a tried for trump to dummy, ruling an- ather diamond high, drawing trumpa and knocking out the ace of spades for clubs discards but East could take care of this line of attack by simply duck- ing spades twice. So South thought of a better line.

He drew two rounds of trumps and played the king of Spades East ducked so Smith

NORTIL

WEST

473

654

◆ KQJ54

KJT

AJUS

❤ 1087

➜ 10 32

*A54

EAST

AA #4

32

ABB6

42 309 3

SOUTH (1)

AKQ 1002

VAKIO

• 7 ★802

East and West vulnerable

Routh West North

Faxt

Pass I NIT. l'ass

•♥• Pass Pass Opening lead-K

Pass

Pass Pass

continued with

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a low spade to the jack and East ducked again. A third spade knocked out East's ace and he promptly led

another diamond,

This forced South to make another good play but he was up to it. Instead of ruffing he simply discarded a club. Now he was able to ruff the diamond with dummy's

next queen,

cross to his hand and make

good the last two spades,

+CARD Sense4♦|

The bidding has been:

North

Doubin

East South Poks 1 A Pass

?

West

14

Pass

24

You, South, hold:

What do you do?

A-Bid four spades. You only

6QJZEN WE554 032 487

have six high card points but

your salt and distribution are

Into The 60's-And The News Is SILK

BY BARBARA GRIGGS

WHILE you and I are

In silk there's one big story: shirts, shorts, dresses made up from printed silk SCARVES,

organising our own modest Christmas shopping, using the yard area of their pot the shops and stores are al- tern as a design in Itself, and in ready launched on the big- many cases their beautiful bor- gest shopping spree of all ders as hems or shirt-fronts, time to fill their windows and Fram their stockroom shelves for 1960.

And if you think there is n

On now-just wait t next surtumcr Wholesalers I have talked to all tell the same story-fantasie erders already booked for spring and summer clothes, enough cotton dresses to cope with another record Heaven help them

until you find how things are shaping up. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don't upset a former ass ciate by referring to his past mistaken; some things are better left unsaid. TAURUS (April 20-May 20); When writing an important letter be careful how you word it, so that no remark hot season. of yours may start an un-all if we don't get it. pleasant controversy.

What Paris and Haly say ip (May 21-June 21): January will have, as always, In trying to perfect your-tremendous influence on line self in your work you must and colour; but, even without not mind doing a subor- this lead, the tountains of ideas dinate job for a while in end gimmicks, of new processes order to learn all the de- and starting textile advances, tails.

are already playing brilliantly.

GEMINI

CANCER (June 22-July 21)

You will have to adopt very

gentle methods in dealing with a rather wenk person who would not respond to harsh

men!.

And, for he girl with money sumuner 1960 is

in her pocket, going to be the hardest summer on record for keeping it there,

treat Sparkling new

LEO July 22-August 211: Someone who has given you long and faithful ser- vice may leave you at end of the year. VIRGO

trends

an

I've been this week on

tour. theexploration

in cold December, these were some ef the sporting new trends I

In spite (August 22-Septem-learned about. ber 22): When discussing terrifte competition from all the for the easy-core miracle fabrics, in arrangements holidays, don't

of enormously Improved mince pite

the certain

words if you feel that too in cotions,

sumuner

The girl in the picture wears one from a London collection, made from some of the prettiest best-sellers In the Jacqmar, range.

Another London firm has im- parted hundreds of spectally- designed scarves from Italy, to be made up into shirts, tunic tops and shorts.

Any girl who can afford it will be wearing silk on the brach next suruner, but the shirt-worn-loose-outside- formula is on the way Cut. Instead:-sashed tundes, or shirts worn inside with wide ellk qummerbunds.

eld ponts

All a-glitter

Glitter for party time shifts to lez-level, in New York the girls are turning up wearing nylons with their own built in glitter- gold or silver.

Sounds dashy, but the result is a faint and beautiful frosting. Expect them here-in quantity some time next year.

Meanwhile, one enterprising London shop has had some rushed through int time for Christmas, for a guinea a pair.

It's a fake

of

It doesn't matter any more how FARE your jewellery is

19

FDT next SILK. Sik for shirtwaisers mul occasional clothes; above all, for

sportswear and

much money is being spent on trifles, LIBRA (September 23-Octo-

her 221 You will realise casual clothes. ilais week how many

And silk is going into the

Big

• PREVIEW of Henley 1960. The girl is wearing summer's favourite a pure silk dress made of four squares with orange flowers brushed over a forest-green background, shoe string straps and a nest waist, and its own nylon net pelti- coals. The dress in going into the shops at the end of the month — in fime for winter parties: Debenham and Freebody will stock it. Drem by Ricci Michaels. Hat in white straw. by Otto Lucas.

Picture by JOHN COLE

sold out the

20. same day,

With luck, they will be here

-Landon Express Service).

A. CHILD'S FIRST STEPS

IN

TN grandma's day it was Even after that age mothers many often a gamble whether should be patient, for or not children would ever arch unill much later. Can we children don't seem to get a good

lessons,

learn to walk properly. The do anything help these arches? but reason was rickets, a disense Probably not very much, that struck fear into every make these attractive it is best exercises do help a little; To mother's heart.

dancing to prescribe especially when li la a girl. Bathing, particularly in sen, helps to tone up the muscles and ligaments of the feet, so that if lttle fat-footed Freddie doesn't like dancing it is to be hoped he lives at the sea-side.

Today, rickeis, is a muscura- plece of a disease. But it is aur- prising how many mothers silll worry needlessly about the odd

do way her youngster starts to his biking,

It is not yet generally realised that when children start learn- fug to walk, their legs find the effort rather too much and they They bend with the weight. elther bend outward and be come bow-legged or inwards and become knock-kneed.

This initial bending is normal, and the toes are turned inwards to maintain balance until the legs have straightened.

If you watch nbow-legged chimpanzee (and they always are bow-legged) you will see it tends to walk on the side of the feet and is very turkey-toed. It

the

Footnote: There is one im- pertant thing to remember cbout all children's foot Iroubles, s1:005. be get good, well-made Cheap shoej rarely at comfort. cbly. Cons and bunions can be avoided by spending more of boots and leg on bonnets

has to put up with this state of FASHIONETTES

ffairs all its fe.

Children learn to walk at very varying cg. But if, after near- ty n'year, the toes show no sign of becoming straight, it's time to seek advice. Certain congenital bone defects may be responsible ond most can be treated with some cuccess.

Newest Tashian for rainy days -ree-through raincoats. Cus- temes requested a lightweight coat with a dressy air, co oho manufacturer has given it to them. The coat is made of white or black silk and cotton water-repellent sheer fabric

with

a corded stripe in Une The back swings full, the-jumbo patch

No sooner does the πηνίους mother find that she needn't weave. worry about the early turning-in Fockets are

of the locs than she is faced with type, and the collar is a large another

Her choir-boy style. apparent defect. child has now got flat-fect.

appearance of fat- footedness is a deception. Babies have fat feet, not flat ones. The arch of the infant's foot is already there but is filled in with

about the age of two.

so long as I's big enough,

Taking a lead from the out- size jewellery (all fake) that

This slik, Givenchy and Balenciaga show- cently, is backing WHITE for a New York story three months

They were ed this outumn, the jewellery June onwards. designers have been rethinking

And three bly shoe-Arms have their job.

simultaneously discovered the They have abandoned (about possibilities of very light pig-

Pointed, high- stone to conventional, Carter. shoes. Shapes? type designs that made such heeled, and as light as a silpper. desperate efforts to foot every- one (and failed), and the tiny strings of dejected borus pearls that tried so hard even to look cultured.

friends you have from the shop by the yard at the lowest time, too) the clusters of rhine- skin, natural, white or dyed for in quantity some time next year, fat which normally disappears at

can remember: one

pretty range of pure dress weight slik will be selling by the yard for less than some of the imported cottons,

number of greetings that prices i will begin to pour in, SCORPIO (October 23-No- vember 21): Don't let A small irritation spoil the week for you; show patience and goodwill to- wards others.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22-Doceraber 21): On re- ceiving. 11

last-minute Christmas gift from an un- expected quarter. don't rush to reciprocate. There is always next year. CAPRICORN (December 22-

January 20): You will. easily weather the strain of this week's extra work if you can manage to take things

more easily after-

wards. YOUR BIRTHDAY: If your birthday is this week, you will find a symbol of good fortune in a gift of bottle of wine.

One of the otant-sized brooches now in the shops -See IT'S A FAKE.

Instead, they are producing Jewels in exhilarating giant size, fake and proud of it, in designs that have struck, out on their own, and onowy pearls the slac of plovers' ceps.

Watch for this s

Finally for later next year in time to leke much of the discomfort out of summer 1061) there is sensational news in

the underworld.

Du Pont have been working in the U.S.A. over the last avé

The brooch in the picture is a typical example: It measures years on a new fubric to be four inches across, is made of called Lycra, lextile with tre- smokey brown and yellow glit mendous elastielty and stretch fo making foundation gor- ments.

ICT.

Colour change ·

I

At present the stretch in most corsets is supplied by fine rubber Just as we had all got used to thread. Lycra, replacing this, the idea of CREAM SHOES for produces corsets, that will weigh practically all the your round, a third less, be less hot, lesa the restless shoe-designers have likely to sag and lose their begun to be bored with them.

stretch, al are guaranteed to Dolcls are thinking in terms of stay white, and give the same

amount of control.

First foundation

garments

DOVE GREY, Charles Jourdan,. whose glittering new Bond Street shop opened will a splash, re- made of it were put on sale in

STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

A Disappointed Bear

-Teddy Wants To Fly South On Mr. Crow's Back→

By MAX TRELL

Kindly get out of my way! I don't know what you're talk-

bath good. Your partner has "NOW Usters here, my goon ing about I don't think you

shown a very good hand.

knu what

you're talking

"But, Mr Crow="

fellow," Knart heard about!" Teddy, the Stuffed Beur, saying TODAY'S QUESTION

from the other side of the gar- You hold the same hand and den fence, "I know you'l Uke your ono spade response har beenit down there. All you have passed around to East who has to do is make up your mind. bid two clubs. What do you do

now?

Answer Tomorrow

"Everybody's going!" Then Knart heard Crow an- swering in his harsh volce:

Rupert and the Whistlefish-51

aaya

can do about it." All of a sudden The purney through the log lasra long that Rupert and they shoot out of the mist into Sailor Sam lose their anxiety, clear air and streak forward until

What's the

aconatiins appears. Then the. Rupert, feeling very cold from the soldier in the boat ahead allps the speed of their travelling?. ** Even, rope and, leaving thein mtraded. if that man in front may be going, sweeps away from them and the wrong way there's nothing we dashes back into the log.

DALL'AIGUTE BRAKAVELÍ

under

Knart hurriedly slid the fence, then ran behind the raspberry bush. He found his

"Well, come now," he said to Toddy, "where is this place you want me to go?"

Where To?

Teddy stood in front of Me Crow and said:

"Every year about this time all the Birds start flying south. You've got a fine broad back. There's plenty of room for Stuffed Bear on it. When you

a

fly south, I want to ride on your back."

friend Teddy, the Stuffed Bear,. "When I ay south," Mr Crow jumping up and down in front answered quickly, "you of Mr Crow and shouting: certainly ride on my back."

"But please listen to me! I'l explain everything! I'm sure you'll want to go"

Spied Knarf

;

Can

"Where Is this place you want "Hurray!” “shouted Toddy, me to go?” Crow xaked Teddy, the Bluffed Bear, Jumping up and down with joy, "I knew

you'd understand! I know you boat mournfully to Knart wouldn't mind taking me!"

**Now isn't that just Ilke

"He has

"I don't mind taking you at Crow?" Teddy asked, Here Teddy'spied. Knart and not flying south!"

art and all" said Mr Crow. "Only I'm big strong wings. He has a fine broad back with plenty of room began jumping up and down in

on it for a Bear, like me. And front of him:

"You're not Blying south?" yet he wants to keep on stay- south, demanded Teddy.

ing here. He won't fly He keeps op wanting to stay here all through the winter all through the snow and ice and wind!"

"Make Crow lidten to mel Please"

1

Mr Crow was in a burry to

He's Not Going-

Knari led Teddy away,

vings?

Stuffed

get or to the cornfield, but "No, I'm not flying south" ~ Knurf,

who was curious to replied Mir Crow. "I'm opend- know what. Tedky, the Stuffed ing the winter right here. And Bear, was so eager to tell him, as far as I know, though it "Now," Bald Teddy, finally got him to stay and really doesn't interest me a bit, didn't they give me listeri.

you're staying right here, tool Why didn't they let Now out of my wayl. And, don't Bear Ilke me have winga?" “Very ́well,” said My Grow, bother me about this again!?! vận t "I'll stay for a minute, but no With that, Mr, Crow flow off, Koarf didn't answer, but he longer, I'm sure it's all allliness. leaving Teddy lo stinke his felt a little sorry for his friend.

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A lovely selection of self colours and candy stripes,

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Exquisite stylings in broderic

anglais in a great variety of lovely designs.

Borrow a trick from the Paris house of Christian Dior: Yves St. Laurent,. Dlor's successor,

narrow plaid shows

Scarves wem Inside matching plaid, inckets.

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By many famous and leading English,

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