FASHION NEWS FOCUS.
by Barbara Griggs
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NEW STAR for summer-wear: work ing-day denim, shaped into ballooning slcoves, Night bodice, a full skirt, with a girdle knotted loosely. White brodoria angfalte frosts cuffs and neckline-which plunges drama- tically into a deep bared-back look.
Put
on
your working clothes!
THE CHINA' MAIL," THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1960.
WOMANSENSE
VER since Chanel first used workmen's flannel!
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for a suit, and Schiaparelli sent out her! wealthy clients dressed like railway porters, de- signers have been fascinated by the possibilities of all the cheap, common, working materials.
In turn over the last two decades, mattress ticking and terry towelling, schoolgirl serge and kitchen-curtain- gingham have been pressed into service. Fabric de- signers have boasted of producing expensive woollens with an appearance like dishcloth, and cotton firms have exult- ed over cottons woven to resemble coarse sacking.
Next of the worker's fabrics due for a spell in the sun seems likely to be the denim of an electrician's over- alls. Already the South of France designers are casting their eyes on it, and children are being fitted up in it.
And one pace-setting London shop already has rows of denim dresses lined up in their workrooms ready for summer, some cut into simple charmers like the one in the picture, others tailored into tunic dresses with full-over- straight skirts,
Favourites
Their designer, Mary Quant, has used imported Swiss dendri dyed to a range of line, dark and pale blue, pale and deep- stwined pinks
More
comea from Belgium
favourile
(where two
more
colours are prune
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brown and dark faded-looking pink);
and much more is English.
She
likes
sur-
the
plain colours and grainy
Why duni?
Ince as
from repetion smooth pastel prettiness of cur-
rently popular gingham.
What
nanbles," ex-
put it into her head?
"A those
plained Mary, "in their denker uniforms
stockings."
and black Chelsea
NEW LUXURY LOOK
FOR YOUR LEGS
For those with money to walk around in-and pretty legs to wear it: America's most eye-arresting stooking, made of black nylon woven into a cobwebby Chantilly lace design. A London clore han imported a few pairs and cells them for £2 58, a ilme: fully fashioned, they come in two stretch-sizes-large and medium (less daring colours are Smoke and Rosewood). Making the same Bort of effect at a third of the price are binek nylons woven into a diamond pattern, at 15s 12d. a pair.
It's a winner -and
it's BRITISH
Ireel
the
not
every week I out like running fiago
for a major
British soon, but if may Arm deserves that amount of applause, it's the enter. prising skirt-manufacturers with the following pro- digious achievement to their credit:
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They have designed perfectly platu skirt.... In pure wool worsted with one small Dlor-pleal at the back.
They haye lined It throughout,
They have made it in no less than 130 different colours (19 bluts, for in- stance) AND taken the trouble to match up tho Hlaing exactly.
And, best of all, they have devised an ingenious way of getting it into the past the buyers: storta shops which don'i stock the full range of colours will
Alow have chart with the full range of colours, so that you order tha one you want and get it in about a week's time,
CAN
on
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PICTURE BY TERENCE DONOVAN
Shops all over England will have it by mid-April.
Abandoned by the firm as stark raving madness: the nice thought of team- lug up with a knitwear I firm to produce sweaters in 130 colours CO ordinated, But
you can do your own mix-I
matchin by taking
you † alone with Aweater anyway, I hardly seems worthwhile,
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By Gor-Ray, The skirt will sell for £4 45.
-London Express Service),
-KITCHEN. HINTS FROM AMERICA-
Party Sandwichos
Rolled sandwiches have party took. Combine
ona
3-ounce package of softened
with chesso cream 234-ounce
of can
davillad ham and 1 tablespoon of phopped chives. Mix well and spread on 8 slices of whole wheat bread with the orvets removed. Cut dill pickle into B sticks and roll cach
sandwich Bround 5 plokie, stick in Jally roll
with style: Faston-
tooth- picks if necessary.
Somo Crust Molted oatm eruat is en. with chiffon patially good ple filling, Pour 1 cup rolled oate into a shallow pan and togat in 376 degree oven for to minutes. Mix oxir
well In 4 cup of brown Lugar, 1/3 cup of melted but- Ler and oup of flaked or redded coconut. Pack firm- ly into bottom and eldon of 9-inch pie in. Chill until firm. Add filing and chill. until. It wa
East. Moots West
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East meets wost In the piquant combination of A New England favourite, cranberries and trosh western pears.
Chop or grind 2 cups tranh Granberrice. Add 4 Cup sugar, 1 teaspoon lemon juice and 1 tablespoon horseradish. Mix thoroughly and let stand 1 hour for floveure to blend. Wash, core and halva é fresh winter peare (Anjou, bend or comica). Arrange paur halvos
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serving dish and li cavities with heaping table- spoonfuls cranberry railak. This 12-serving realpe is a refreshing accompaniment
for ham.
Say Choosa For Dessert Cottage cheese, long popu- far in salads and dips, makes A Good dessert, Michigan Blato University home eco- nomlate report.
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Press 1 cup of creamed
choose cottage
through alava or whip it with electric, mixer to make a fine
· curd. Add 3 tablespoons of awest, or sour cream, sweeten and with Bugar to faslo, whip until, fluffy. Serve a -tapping on fruit furts or pics. baked applos, or fresh fruit "nalads 'and' desserts,
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IF YOUR CHILD'S BRAIN FRIGHTENS
YOU...
for
HAVE a mesinge
parents. Pull yourselves together. Stop this defent- ism. You can still make rings round your children if
you try,
It started yesterday with the the news from America that State was going to remove a four-year-old girt from her foster-parents because she is too intelligent for them.
All right. Perhaps she is. Some prople are
more Inteligent
But what appalled me was to meet several parents who seem positively cowed by their own children.
We
others. than
"They're much brighter than were," said one father glcomily. "I can't begin to do The questions, oil my son's exam paper."
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by
ANTHONY LEJEUNE
The little girl who is just too clever
When De Quincey was, walt- Ing to be interviewed fop, the first time by the head indser of his new school, he amused himself by translating a maga- zine article into 'Dati
Not many 12-year-old boya could do thot nowadays,
Fashions in learning change. Who is to
It takes zay that "Daddy, what happens to the How does automate drive more intelligence to understand
the TV pleture when we switch work?
working of a jet engine Wirat ol?"
minimum than to write Greek elegiac "Duddy. my hamster's had velocity which a rocket needs to couplets? Personally, I'm in- seven bables Why did Mummy escape from the earth?"
clined to think 11's the other anly have me?"
If you can't answer all these way round. "Daddy, why did Agag walk questions off-hand, it doesn't In any case, Intelligence delicately"
necu.sarily mean you're a dunce, not just a malter of knowing Agag, he felt, knew a thing or You needn't start fooling interior facts. It is knowing what to do two, There were probably whenever you meet those intel- with them. chlidren about.
lectual giants, your children,
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I can play this game too. Consider зото Comforting Here arc zame Jolly little facts, non-technical
from items real exam papers:
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When your children ask you a For a start, your children are question you cannot answer, do trained to answer questions you blush And stammer Ала
QUESTION: What is Occam's like these. Heavily and expe- reveal your ignorance? I hope sively trained. A 10-year-old not. I hope you tell them how bay has been learning how to to find the answers themselves answer examination questions so much better for them.” for 11 years.
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ents
And he started reeling of a QUESTION: Are list of things he didn't know grey in the dark? about. Boyle's Law. Different QUESTION: Can you think types of rock
formation. of any original ways of making Ancinometer readings. Quid- enemies? ratic equations. The difference Or try your hand at these, between a gerund and a gerun- which I overheard being asked dive, The War of Jenkins's Ear, by boys in the D-12 age group The next pustianimous father at the recent Schoolboys' Exhi shuddered arid quoted some of bition. the hard questions with which What is the Mach number, his young children had been full out, of a Lightning jet trying him recently:—
Sghter at 40,000..?
it would be a poor show it at the end of it he couldn't per- form more dexterously than you and me, long cut of training as
we are.
"But," you may say, "I never did know the answers to some of these questiona." No; nor di I. But I knew the answers to other questions just as dimcult and at least as important.
I hope you put their questions in context, give them the bene- ft of your experience, show them that the mere possession of trivial facts is not necessary for wisdom.
In short, I hope you use your Hittle intelligence to keep the brutes in their place.
They' like you and trust you all the more for it.
London Express Service.
STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS JACOBY
Teddy's Idea Of Fun
-He Likes The Thump And Bump Of Falling Down→→
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By MAX TRELL ANID, the Shadow Girl with Turned-About Name, happened to pass the top of the stairs. There she saw something that made her stop with a gasp. "Teddy! Watch out! TEDDY" she cried.
But it was too late.
Foll down the stairs Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, who was standing on his head on the of the top step, suddenly edge
LADY
your
lost his balance. Down the steps he went. head over heels, heets over head, bumping and bound- ing and rolling and twisting and whacking.
Teddy lundek in a heap at the bottom of the stairs, Hanid ran down to pick him up and see if he was hurt.
"Hurt?" asked Teddy, as he stretched himself out on the door mat and folded his hands someone behind his head like getting ready to take a nap in the stinshine. "Huri? Me?"
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horoscope
THURSDAY, MARCH 17
hastily, as the first Im- pression may have been more
than Is favourable ranted. VIRGO (6) (August 22- September 22): If you have
AQUARIUS (6) (January 21- February 19): An im- portant decision within your close family circle may be delayed for a while longer due to circums' nces beyond anybody's cuntiol. PISCES (3) (February 20- March 20): If you feel that you have recently made a new, good friend, don't spoil the relationship from the start by some ill-advised impulsive action, ARIES
war-
"But you fell all the way down the stairs!" said Hanid.
"Pooh!" said Teddy, "I do that all the time, I feel Anc. Look," he said, jumping to his feet "there isn't a trump on me,
single not a
black-and-blue mark, not a scratch, nothing!--I . think I'll do it again."
"No!" duricked Hanid. "It's great fun," sold Teddy. "It's much more exciting than falling over a choir."
Hanid grabbed hold of Teddy and kept him from going up the stairs again.
break "You're not going to your bones in front of me!" she paid.
Stuffed with sawdust
"How can I break any bones when I haven't got any?" asked Teddy, "I'm stuffed with saw- dust, How can you break saw dust? Let go of me!"
But Hanid wouldn't let him go until he promised not to do any more tricks at the top of the stairs.
"Oh, all right," said Teddy. "14 bothers you that much i won't do it. But falling can hurt anybody who's stuffed with sawdust,"
Hanld cartled Teddy up the steps again and put him in his
room,
"Now you just stay here," she Bald sternly to the fat little Bour.
Hanid saw Teddy on
the window BÜL,
This Ume Hanid saw him. He was sitting on the edge of the window sill looking exactly like Humpty Dumply sitting on the wali.
"How is it down there?” Tedu d called down.
"It's terrible," said Hanid, "I can't even find the path. It's all covered with snow.
"I'm coming down," said Ted-
dy.
"You are?" asked Hanld in a worried voice.
"Here I come!" raid Teddy.
"No!" shouted Hank. But Teddy paid no attention down to her. He got all rendy
jump.
"Teddy! Please! No! No! No!"" Hanid shouted.
"But why can't I fall some more stairs?" Teddy asked. Didn't answar
Hanid shut the door without answering Teckiy.
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He counlod five tricks outside the irump sult and proceeded to
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Teddy was all ready to stop off. Then he stopped and called
She pui on her coat and went down to Hanid: "If you don't
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"No!" said Hanid.
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-He rose with dummy's ace of trumps, led a club to his king and a second club back to the third ruffed a ace. Then he "I mean," she added the next club, played D diamond to
como dummy's second "yes. You can down the stairs. Teddy"
Hanid walted and listened.
Trump.
she heard, bump. bump, bumpl Hand shook her head sadly.
out into the garden for a walk, want me to jump down into the make five trump tricko na fol- tima over the It was a sunny afternoon. snow, can I come down the lows: wenitend you ought to The mow covered all the places stairs?" make up your mind to visit where the flowers had bloomed an alling relative whom you last summer, and where they have been negiccting lately. would bloom again when the
come ogain. LIBRA (12) (September 23-poked in the snow with a slick October 22): When planning to see how deep it was. It was a rather expensive purchase, qulie deep. don't select the first one you (1), (March 21-April
good look round see; have a 19): Although there may and make sure you get the be a chance of increasing
best value for your money your earnings, the new job offered to you may have top SCORPIO (11) (October 2
November 21): If you have many draw-backs to com- pensate for the extra moriy the impression that a young TAURUS (8) (April 20-Mayson of your acquaintance talent, encourage it 20): If a superior asks you and be helpful in any way
can.
to do a particular TARIUS (7) Novem-
job, do it cheerfully well; he may be putting; un trial for a more im portant assignment. GEMINI (4) (May 21-June)
21): Given the proper wen ther, you ought to have a most enjoyable outing en Sunday.
CANCER (1) (June 22-July) 21): If you do not see eye to eye will a member of your group, lot a third person be the judge of which of you is right. LEO. (10) (July 22-August 21): A recent acquaintance may be very much; taken to you and urge for tun early meeting. Don't respond too
22-December 21): K
you have your wits about you when given the choice of two gifts, you will select the one which, although leas detentatious, represents the
value.
(2) (December
letter from an old
friend abroad may announce A visit from a mutual friend. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER: Count the letters in your first name and add the total to the number shown brackets after your sign of the Zodiac. This Is your lucky number for the wook.
"Hanld! Hi there! Hand?” where, above, cam Teddy's voice from some-
She was
Hanid inoked up ntartled. Where could Teddy be? "Here I am" Teddy shouted down again.
"It is a good thing he's stuffed with sawdust. Thank goodness sawchust can't break!"
Rupert and the Windies-30.
Rupert wings the toy plane round and upward to try to regain height and reach the land of the Windies Passing through a patchi of clear aky he can see far beyond the clouds and to his horor, br spies something rushing at him. In fright he dip the plane just in
time to avoid the rocket and ita shower of sparks as it huttles past, Then the aries again. "Goodness I Whatever's that?" he breathed. For on an outlying part of Windy lind is standing a solitary inimit that was certainly not there before. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED '
and rufted chummy's out club while East dicarted a diamond, Next ho led a diamond to dimmy's king, ruffed a third diamond, led a heart to dummy's oce played dummy's list, diamond..
and
to
At this point South had nino tricko home at was down the singleton queen of trumpa, He had to make it since it did not matter what East tijd be couse South played after him,
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TODAY'S QUESTION
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Answer Tomoi Jaw
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