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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1960.

WOMANSENSE

PARIS: Your front-row seat

at the big fashion premiere

OLD-FASHIONED WAY BETTER?

Great Grandma's Fruit Cake Recipe

New York.

WHEN a housewife boasts of using a recipe handed down in her family for generations, she has more to brag about than many persons might think.

At any rate, that is the way I feel about my family's recipe for fruit cake.

Adapting my great-grand-

PARIS

REVERSIBLE COAT

BY NINA RICCI

Act 1, Scene 1: The Coats of Paris

WHITE COAT

BY LANVIN CASTILLO

no longer dictates une arbitrary line. She suggests a dozen different variations.

WORK

on

of st

They, the acknowledged trend- Belters, differed from the rest of

thek Paris only In

wider- smulder look. Like the rest of Paris, their walstling wanders down to the hips or stays in its rightful piece stressed by fabric

PARIS no longer sparks off a world) gave us a line that was blannual

-shattering an elegant evolution revolution-shey produces wear- season's, able, wantable clothes,

PARIS no longer relles the gimmicks to grab the head- theshe gives us logical change and gradual development.

That's the main news today, and la e It's the best fashion news for years. It's good newwa for the fashion shops, who, let's face it, didn't do so very well at of those quick-change ne & the sack, the chemise. the trapezu. It's one news for the

fashion supper, who was getting tired of lowering her hun. her wald. and her heart twice a year

or soft leather belts.

Like the rest of Paris, their skire stay sort.

YELLOW COAT BY GREE

OLUK SUIZ

Act I, Scene II: The Suits of Paris

BY CHRISTIAN DIOR

NENATIS EEN INT TODAY JILL BUTTERFIELD PRESENTS ACT ONE OF HER "TAKE YOUR PICK IN PARIS" SERIES. TOMORROW SHE COMPLETES THE SCENE WITH HER FAVOURITE FASHIONS FOR MID-AFTERNOON TO EARLY EVENING. FEUERENCEREMONIERUNĀJA NEKIFEELFREEKS TO CANCERIALETAMENT CHILDREN

White sloping shouldered coat has a full back, low set sleeves, and is trimmed with three blt

BY LANVIN black buttons, CASTILLO.

ACT, I. SCENE L The "time, The scene, any early morning. city street LT the fashion conscious world. The cast in order of appearance?—

Flaring top coat of beige wool

Bright eltion yellow tweed is black and while tweed. A reversible setrf collar slit at the sides for a collarless BY huge pocketed kimono-ilke coat, Sleeves, elbow length, BY GRES.

reverses

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For early morning trims the cardigan neck.

TODAY we give you a front-

row sout at E all-tha is the world premiere of Take Your Pick Paris. The action takes place between early morning Even the plants Balenelana and the early hours. The stars and Givenchy (whom I dub the are the trend-setting clothes Sumes. twins of the fashion from the leading designers.

LADY LUCK

your

CHINA MAIL

horoscope

THURSDAY, MARCH 10

AQUARIUS (1) January 21- February 19): Don't let a niinor disappointment upset you unduly, Keep your optimistic attitude and continue trying. PISCES (8) (February 20-

March 20): The beat way to improve your position in to use your initiative and investigate all possibilities. ARIES (4) (March 21-April 19): A project which has been hanging fire in a most nnoying way seenis just about to take a turn towards reallsation.

TAURUS (2) (April 20-Muy 20): You will regret not having been given an opportunity earlier in the week for the exhaustive job you have been asked to finish quickly but stick to it and you'll get it done on time. GEMINI (9) (May 21-June 21): If you are critical of n colleague's attitude, try and avold

unpleasantness

at all costs. A few words spoken calmly and with a Ballo should soon put mat- ters right. CANCER (6) (June 22-July 21): Do not slacken your efforts to bring two estranged members of your family together. They are only looking for an oppor tunity to shake hands again.

LEO

(7) (July 22-August 21): A young couple of your acquaintance may ask you for some reliable advico.

NINA RICCL.

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HAY FEVER

AND ALLERGIES

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By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D.

[AY FEVER is generally a seasonal complaint, but some people suffer from allergies at any time of the year.

• GREY SUIT

BY PICANTE CARDIN

Булорнів of the story. Shoulders are unpadded, sama and big buttons are the major trimming. Collors are small or non-existent.

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OREY BUIT

BY MICHEL GOMA

Grey funnel sult with longer jacket, bow-belted at the waist, has a detachable sum- mery looking white lace cullor. BY PIERRE CARDIN,

Grey flannel ACT 1, SCENE II. The time,

again for bloused jacket, tying around lunch. The scene, the waist, a very straight skirt. Un- at c

smartest restaurant you know. The Cast.

order of appearance:

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เหร seen partner, a white bloust. By MICHEL GOMA.

Synopsis of the story. Collarless suil in bright china blue tweed with an easy skirt, In the main,

sleeves rounded Jacket Jengib three-quarter buttons. BY CHRISTAN DIOR. eloase.

Sults, Bre collarless. is whatever you

BOYS AND GIRLS

MAGAZINE

Hanid Wins The Race

-And Proves That It Pays to Make Haste Slowly-

By MAX TRELL

KNARF, the Shadow with the himself small,

Turned About Name, made

How small? As small as the end of your Anger. As small as a pin. Very smell!

Then Knarf, now small, ran out into the garden und clima-

Wind-blown pollen, of course, troubles with which has no Lan't the only Irritant. And 'connection whatever, many victims of asthma, eC- Seemingly allergic reactions zema, etc., continue to suffer sometimes are reported amonged up the stem of a daisy and long after the first cold weather. children after cating certain stood on top of the blossom and

whistled. foods. Yet, medically, we are The next second, there was a Food Allergy

unable to prove that an allergy stirring in the groes. Out came exists in many of these cases.

a Grasshopper.

Food allergy, for example, can produce violent reactions at Inny time of the year. And eggs,

100, are among the offenders.

Be sincere and try to offer Somo Icw persons are ex them constructive criticism.tremely allergic to eggs, and

the mere touching of the shell (12) (August 22- will produce a severe reaction. VIRGO

Milk and wheat also might September 22): You may be disappointed about the produce reactions of eczema in lack of understanding a allergle persons. Even a nurs friend shown towards you. ing baby is not immune, Next time avoid soliciting his opinion.

Traces

'Then we do a bit of checking and find the real reason for the reaction was that the parenla unwittingly caused it by forcing the food upon the child.

He had a saddle

The Grasshopper had a sad. die on his back. He had a bridle through his mouth. He had stirrups.

of the

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Knarf jumped from the daisy Into the saddle.

Come

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neat culinary trick.

By CLAIRE COX

2 pounds currants

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1 pound citrom ( Jarn)

She did her, boking Kanzas farmhouse, first on wood stove and Inter with coal or oil for fuel. There was no refrigeration then and electricity was available only for lights,

I do my baking in a tiny spari- ment house kitchen crammed with every work-saving devico I can into it.

The fruitcake recipe, as passed on to me by my grandmother, listed most of the baste Ingredi- ents in pounds or ounces, and gave no baking degrees or time. Grundmother said she just knew when the oven was right.

That meant a do-it-yourself couree in weights and measures for me.

I learned that four cups mako a pound of four and there are two cups to a pound of sugar. An ounce of nutmer or other spice.ls equal to one tablespoon,

every

But once started, thing was much easier for me than for my uredecessors.

I can remember when fruit cake-haking time came at our house when I was a child, took several percons at least a day to cut up all the candled fruits and shell the nuts. The grape jelly had to be meie to put in the cake,

The eggs were beaten by hand. were The buller and sugar

a big wooden creamed with

spook not an electric mixer.. And that's hard-work!

la pound orange (1 Jar)

4 pound pineapple (2 Jars)

14 pound candied cherries

(2 Jars)

14 pound lemon peel (1 Jár):

36 pint molasses

1 pound whole pecans

1 pound almonds

1 tablespoon each nutmeg,

mace, cinnamon

Hi jore, any commercial grape

Jelly.

14 cup sherry 1 cup brandy

Cream butter and sugar, and beat in eggs one by one. Blend in molages, jelly and spices. then add flour alternately with sherry-brandy mixture and blend

In.

Add other ingredients and blend thoroughly.

This makes 10 to 12 pounds in 8 to 10 small loaf pans.

The instructions given to mo merely added: "Bake in loaf pars in slow oven in pans of water. Cover at first."

That was not scientifle enough for my electronic kitchen, so I consulted cookbooks and clipped frulteake recipes from newspa pers and magazines.

With their help and a bit of experimenting, I deler. mined that a "slow oven" would be 250-300 degrees and the cooking time would be 3 to 4 hours. I cover the pants with baking sheets for the first 30 to 45 minutes. This allows the cake to steam.

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- The pans should be placed in The pans were lined with heavily greased brown wrapping larger pans of water, which must be replenished periodically un pt per.

But when I turn to making to the last hour, when the water fruitcake, I go to the nearest may be allowed to evaporate. supermarket and buy four-cunce According to my grandmother, jars of candied fruits already cut who baited fruitcakes into tiny pieces. The nuts come year for curly 50 years, it is 1chelled. My mixer does the for better that they be under- done than cooked too long. She most tedious part of the leek. says that I a fruitcake seems a 1 put the batter into pans left little doughy, toss it in a double over from purchases of clore- boller, steam it and serve it with made cakes in tins. 1 line the bard sauce. as though it were pans with aluminium foll and plum pudding. grease it. I leave enough of the foil over-lapping so I can be folded over the cake after it is

done.

My oven has a thermostat, and I have a timer to alert me al crucial times during the baking.

NOW for the recipe. Here IL

freely translated from

the pre electronic kitchen Janguage of cooking:

12 ecza

I pound butter

2 cups sugar

4 cups foar

3 pounds seedless raisins

One modern convenience that

most enhances fruitcake today is the deep freeze, something as unheard of as atem bombs in grint-grameima's day.

After the cakes are baked, sprinkle

A

little wine or brandy on them, wrap them cnuggly and put them in the freezer. They will stay moist nntil lime to thaw and est them.

All of this adds up to a cake that is bound to be good, just because of the ingredients. I'm sull NOT convinced that it is any beller made with modern con- venleners. Bal there is no doubt that it is a lut less work.

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Should Bo Pleasurablo "There you are. Hop-A-Long!

Stand still Here I come!"

his stirrups, put two fingers In Eating should be a happy ex~! Knart Jumped down of the

his mouth and whistled. It chould bring daisy-blossom. He landed in the

Instantly, three other whis- perience.

He put his feet in the ties came from three other pleasure both to youngsters and saddle.

He held on to However, if you con- sirrups. adults.

the directions, all at the bottom of of food substances sistently admonish your child to bridle,

the hill, "Let's go! Giddap1"

old teammate on the Four "Come up here! which the nursing mother eats "Eat this because it is good for

Hop-A-Long gave a leap into here!" shouted Knarf

Aces, retired from bridge short- be found Inny

In the breast you," or give him the idea that

First came Kharf's alster, after we wen the first World's LIBRA (8) (September 23-milk. And an allergy to one of you are willing to feed him cer- the air. High over the daisies,

October 22): Although you these substances might cause an

Lain foods to get him to eat they went. When they came to Hanid, riding on a Dadly-Long-championship in 1935.

turned to competitvin in the 1039 feel that you are making attack for the nursing baby. them, then you may be head- the fence at the end

Lega very slow progress in one Food allergy is

Second came Me Punch, rid-Phoenix sectional and while his Aurious ing for trouble. The younger garden, he crouched down, then

bidding 13 somewhat old direction, you may find that problem.

play will especially since skin tends to reject these foods and sprang up.

Khart clung to Hop-A-Long's Ing on a Cat. (It was the In another Beld you Bre tests aren't always a reliable builds up an emotional case back as they salled over the Cat who had been washing her foshloned his dummy

do unul scmoone comes along face and curling her whiskers.) heading for swift success. way of finding the offending against them.

fence.

with ability to see through the backs of the cards. food.

A race home

His three SCORPIO (6) (October 23-

no-trump contract November 21); If you are

Third came Teddy, the Stuff-was perfectly normal and while missing valuable object,

astride a other declarers dicked the first Ile waved to Mrs Smith who ed Benr, sitting

diamond, Mike wanted all the don't immediately suspect of

windows. He Squirrel, was washing her waved to Mr Bill who was sit- Let's race all the way home!" trick if possible. He won in somebody. You have pro-

club Enst ting bably mislaid it in a fit of

under a persimmon tree. sald Knarf, "Get ready, set...dummy and led_n

played the ten. Mike went up He waved to a Cat who was GO!

the ucc absent-mindedness.

and promptly washing her face with one paw

SAGITTARIUS

(11) (No- vember 22 December 21): Don't give up hope if you And that the right oppor tunity seoma alow in com- Ing. Carry on in good spirits and the time of waiting will bo much castor to endure,

CAPRICOR!!

(10) (Decem bor 22-January 20): Don't feel too guilty about telling an innocent white lie. Your motivo excuses you.

NUMBER: YOUR LUCKY

Count the letters in your first name and add the total to the number shown in brackets after your sign of the Zodiac. This is your lucky number for the week.

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Mistakenly Blamed On the other hand, this type allergy ofun in blamed for

is

went, Down the street they hop, hop, hop. Kharf waved to the neighbours.

If your youngster really allergie, chances are he inherit ed it from you. So, for good

ness sakes, try not to build up an arlincial allergy in him, too,

Rupert and the Windies-24

With his even tightly shut doing dropping out of the clouds? Rupert lases all sense of what I it 1 hadn't dived my plante under happening until he finds himself you to catch you your adventure sitting astride of something hard. would have been over I" Rupert with somebody grooping his arm, opene his syes.*W/why, it's though stil rushing through the. Golly, Santa Claus's messenger, air. Now than, young

feagasps. "What sa you doing Rupert sayo a voice. • This i wandering round about the sky about the limit What are you today?""

ALL MIUNTA KESERVED

same

♥+CARD Sensen♦

Knart would have won the with and curling her whiskers with rnce only Hop-A-Long, the another..

Grosshopper, hopped into a Down the street they went, bush and Knart had to wnUt sometimea on the sidewalk, home.

sometimes in the roadway Mr Punch would have won pametimes over the hedges and the race only his Cat went run- bushes that grew in front of the ning after a Bird and Mr Puncl

He

houses.

In the park

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was thrown off her back, had to walk home, too.

...

Toddy, the Stuffed Bear, was Then Knorf-came to the park. sure he was going to win the "Go ahead!" he said to Hop- race only the Squirrel guddenly A-Long

ran up the perefmmon tree and leaps, In three bla

Hop- Mr Bill shouted and shook his A-Long crossed the street and fist (for he didn't like Squirrels entered the park, They crossct in his persimmon tree). Four the path and went up a hill. Teddy also had to bumble home, And that's why Hanid, who rodo very slowly and very un- riendly on the back of her as Dady-Long-Lega, managed to though he were searching for get home first and she won the

someone. Then, he stood up in race,

There, at the top of the hill, Knarf said: "Whoal"

Hop-A-Long stopped.

Koort

looked around

The bidding has been;

South

West North Exst

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PARE

2

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2 N,T. Pass..

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You, South, hold: 4Q113 454 4AST MAK 43

What do you do?

A-Bid three diamonds. Your partner is bidding in minimums but he is foreing you all the ilma and maybe he can me that dia- mond support. If not, he can make the appropriato rebid that his cards call for.

TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner bids four no- frump, What do you do now?

Answer TomOTTOW

EAST 4375

K109043 057 10 AOUTH (D)

AKES

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West North

Both vulnerable

Bonia

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Opening lead- Q

Anosed against West's queen, A

heart finess

come next, ond

when that succeeded aisu Miko was ready for operation squeczo. He ccshed his high diamond, took another club Anosse and dis- rarded spaće dummy's fourth club.

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On the Rith club lead East was squeezed out of a ɛvade in order to hang on to all his hearts. Mike discarded the heart deuce look another heart Annase and sashed the eco of hearts.

This put the squeeze on West also. He had to throw a spade in order to hang on to a diamond and three spado tricks completed the grand alum.