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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1960.

WOMANSENSE

FASHION NEWS

FOCUS

By BARBARA GRIGGS

YES. PRETTY DRESSES

CAN BE

CHEAP

Came the day Miss Foolish coarse lineny fabric, with sum-. stepped into her beautiful new dress and then started a fran- tie hunt round for the right

eccessories

Her last year's good quality calf bag didn't right. Inspirations: A bag was needed!

black look pale

I present a parable in two TODAY

pictures, starring two girls and tagged with a moral that almost every woman could digest with profit (including, alas, myself). silver of peach satin which

Once upon a time there were two pretty girls who had saved and saved for a dressy occasion they saw looming ahead of them for which they wished to look very delectable indeed.

One One day both of them withdrew their savings from the stocking and buzzed off to do a little shopping.

M'

Sneered

Shu

mar sievolessness and a highly desirable price-tag

It's colour the sort of pale honey that takes beautifully to white or gold. She blued the rest of her savings on giving it both agant dangle of Italian gilt brooch; small, white patent Her only evening bag was a grab-bag neat, white cotton

gloves.

of Results: an appearance didn't look quite right, ended up with a large plain pale well-put togetherness singularly Breen bag. Gloves? a frantic refreshing to the eye, Bonus; à. check brought to light a pair of crop of fresh accessories that rather dusty black suede, some will still be doing duty two of good pigskin, some pale pink three years from now (and, in cotton ones and Ah! - the case of the pin, 10 years some long white cotton, evening from now), gloves. Rather too lang, per-s There's a choice of morals: haps?

One of them is: you can't have New for a little dressing-up. It both ways unless you're a very brooch? No, quite rich woman (who might have added glearning patent bag and kid shoes, glossy new white gloves to the richer of the two dresses).

ISS Foolish, armed with her savings, arrived Glitter

at a snappy store, and sneering delicately wrong. Pearls perhaps ("You at "Budget Dresses ("I can't stand cheap Can't Go Wrong with Pearls"), clothes" dashed briskly upstairs and presently Paris it was. (She took the plcked out a stunner of a dress in thick white off in the cloakroom halfway silk dotted with large black coin spots.

through the evening), Looked at the price-tag..

Slight shock. Slight pause. Five minutes later the dress was hers and almost her savings gone.

For a girl who believes in spreading her capital; & lineny sleeveless dress: in cool honey-beige: a whopper of agilt pin from Italy, white gloves, and a grab-bag in shiny white patent,

MISS

TISS Wise, meanwhile, having prudently taken stock of the accessory situation before leaving home in the morning, was also busy shopping.

She looked, first at "Budget" Dresses; und found a pale and plain and pretty dress in

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Another one is: it's a wise idea to cut your coat according to your cloth. A third is, and it's one of the most encouraging fashion facts about this summer, that a great many of the prettiest clothes are hanging on

the cheap-dress ralla.

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For the girl who be lieves in buying Я Really Good Thing when she sees it. Her choice is indeed a beauty; a sleeve- less, sheath in thick white silk, black-dotted, fully lined throughout. But her sccessories, don't really do Justice to such a pretty dress.

YOUR TABLE ENHANCES

Fanting ground

RANCE, the natural for

snappy clothes and good eating now stimulates another idea-one hitherto neglected by almost every

THE MUSICIAN IS A MAESTRO body but the gourmet.

T the Festival Hall, Jan

HOME years ago George SA Smeterlin, the famous

Kaufman in menting on a certain player Polish planist, recently gave said. "You can tell when he an all-Chopin concert.

a good hand in two ways. First his face lights up and then he misplays it."

has

George's remark might; well have characterised to- day's West. His face lit up when he looked at his hand

But he still found time to talk about people and food and cooking and the dishes that he himself likes to cook.

IN THE KITCHEN

It's called L'Art de la Table. In other words: how to dress up a dinner table-an art that's no mere sideline to good cook- ing, either.

quarter it aird arrange the over them. After a minute. I

dinner tables pieces in a suitable shallow drain them and put them dry

on a cloth.

serving dish. Strain the con- somme over them and chill in the refrigerator.

cooked

I melt a nice knob of butter or becòn dat in a large hying-

A display which recently opened in London, Included 18 from different provinces, representing different periods in France, each individually laid.

Traditional

the

I added some canned aspara pan and place each slice in it. gus tips, several skinned tiny At once tum the slices, in the An oak hewn table top with in which they Cooking is almost a ritual to whole tomatoes and groups of order

were wooden bowls from an early him. His wife, Edith, helps with quick-frozen petits pois, first placed in the pan, and give monastery stands cheek by lowl the garnishing.

for Less than three them less than a minute over a alongside a traditional supper

Season and party pretty good heat.

from Fontainebleau---- laden with Sevres dishes and Here is Jan's way: Cut calf's china from Limoges. liver in strips like spaghetti. A formal dinner set which Cook a chopped onion in butter the Queen ate off when she Make visited Versailles three years THE conversation turned. to until it is translucent,

very hot, add the liver strips ago is part of the porcelain dis- the subject of liver....

and shake them around.

play

He has a cookery book. For minutes, and his double of the open-Greedy People, in manuscript. ing spade bid could have in the introduction, he claims that "people are either greedier than Ipzy or lazier than greedy."

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been heard from Maine to California. His double of the final three spade con- tract was a trifle more quiet and he opened the king of diamonds.

"Have you discovered that wonderful consomme in cans?" he asked me.

Of course, I have! One of the

marvellous things you can do with it, for instance, is his Chicken en Gelee.

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Liver

serve.

today, three contemporary tables set the pace with lalique glass and colored pottery.

once overheard three Add a "drip" of dry white And in keeping with living women discussing how long to wine and cook very quickly, cook liver," sald Jan. "One said Season with salt only, garnish two hours; another said an hour with chopped chives and serve and a half and the third did not at once,

How long do you cooit

know!

"A matter of minutes" I said Very gently cook a double My way must be well known. poussin for 25 minutes in a can by now. I cut calf's liver into of consomme diluted with a can very thin slices, place them in water. Remove skin and a bowl and pour boiling water

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STORIES FOR

Punch's White Cloud

-He Had A Very Hard Time Catching It-

By MAX TRELL

R PUNCH looked steadily AV at Knari, the Shadow Boy ! with the Turned-About Name, One look zi dummy and he and at Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, shifted to the jack of hearts, and at Hiawatha, the Small South won with the queen and Sized Wooden Indian, and he led back a second diamond said:

whereupon West hit the panke "I'm sure you won't believe button. He slapped the ace of this. But it's as true as I'm clubs on the table and now there sitting here in front of you. was no way to set the hand. "I have a cloud-a while, West's play was bad indeed.fuffy cloud. I caught it last

night."

South really needed the king of clubs for his opening bid and West should have waited with his ace-queen-jack. In the hope that one discard on a diamond would not have been enough:

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SA TODAY'S QUESTION **Your partner continues with a bid of four hearts. What do you do now?

Answer Tomorrow

Jan's tip for cooking chicken livers is worth noting: "Have very fresh chicken livers. Throw them into bolling wine for half a minute. You wouldn't believe it-they double in size, fry them still whole, in butter."

(London-Express Service).

BOYS

When they heard this, Teddy shouted:

Then

How about cool, summery din- ner parties? This year. It's the look of lawn and white lace.

Lex Alken, tipped as the brightest interior decorator of them all (an Australian, still in his twenties) gets around to a lot of dinners and occasionally throws one-himself.

AND GIRLS

This announcement caused Knari and Teddy to grow more excited than before. They tried to get at Mr Punch's pocket, which they couldn't. do because he held his hand there.

But Hiawatha only grunted and still didn't move,

or look "Where Is it? Let's see i excited, or blink, or scratch his And Knarf jumped up and head, or anything. down and run all around Mr "I guess you don't believe Punch's rocking chair looking that I've got a cloud in my for it.

pocket, do you, Hiawatha?** asked Mr Punch.

But Hiawatha only grunted. He didn't even move. And it wasn't even a very loud or ex- cited grunt. It was just a low kind of a grunt.

"I've got that cloud right here," said Mr Punch. He pat- ted the pocket of his trousers.

Rupert and the Snowstorm-20

Rupert sit up and leans against it is!" he shivers. "My feet are ghe trea. My, L'en tired the freeing-f mast push on somehow---

"I wonder how often ↑ that, oh dear, my poor toes are Thoana went round that track before 1 going to hate it ! ' * He rises to go and then stops în astonishment.. managed to get free Erom those awful boots." Gradually, he realises "It's those boots!" he gaspi that be is besing very uncom They's going round on their fortable again. Oh, how co-cold own and later than ever!"

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Hiawatha didn't grunt this time. He shook his head.

Shook his head.

"Just what I thought," said Mr Punch..

"Let's see the cloud! Let's see ft3" Teddy kept shouting.

Knart said:

"Take your hand away from your pocket, Mr Punch, and let me look in."

3-22

Teddy, Kaarf and Mr. Punch stared at the little white cloud,

"Well," continued Mr Punch, "it was hanging onto the moon. Then it fell off, and landed on the lamp post on the other side "I'll let you all, see it," said of the street. Then it

came

Mr Punch “But frat I want floating into this room through to be sure that the doors and the open window--and I caught windows are shut. I don't want it and stuffed it in my pocket. It to be salling off again now Here it is!""

that I've got it in my pocket."

"Released it

Knart and Teddy made sure that all the doors and windows Mr Punch took his hand were shut.

away from his pocket. "Good," said Mr Punch, ". Teddy looked Knarf stared! don't mind telling you that I Out of Mr Punch's pocket had a lot of trouble catching it, floated a tiny white cloud. It I-noticed it last night. It must looked like a pult of smoke. It have lost its way in the sky, salled straight toward Elawa- There it was-Hiawathaf Do tha.

you have to yawn while I'm "Hiawathaf Don't yawnf" talking? It's rude, you know!”. shouted Mr Punch.

Elawatheslowly shut his Hawtha thut-his mouth- mouth. But he didn't look the and that was the end of the

cloud. It was swallowed!

least bit sorry,

YOUR COOKING

Plate-mats this summer, he says, are way out. So, too, are. candlesticks on the table be- tween meals.

If you care to contest this I suggest grey course linen mais, Bchool-tie type striped mais and fake tapestry mate-

LADY LUCK

your

CHINA MAIL

horoscope

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1].

AQUARIUS (January 21- February 19): You may have to neglect your daily routine in order" to con- centrate

on the subjects likely to be discussed at a forthcoming important meeting.

PISCES (February 20-March

20); Before deciding de finitely on a change, of domicile, be sure you have fully considered the wishes of other members of your family. ARIES (March 21-April 19); You should not necessarily expect your mate to get on "well with a person just be cause you Yourself And him sympathetic.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your aspirations are very praiseworthy, but you will find that in the end you will have to be content with less than you expect- ed.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21): In order to be able to relax more you must try and avoid worrying about things over which you have no control.

CANCER (June 22-July 21): Avoid discussion with a friend today about things on which you might not agree. It could lead to an estrangement.

LEO (July 22-August 21): Financial backing from an - unexpected source may be

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VIRGO (August 22-Septem- ber 22): By using just a bit more will power you will scon be able to control your impulses and to conduct your life along more stable lines.

LIBRA (September 23. October 22): Avoid con. templating

any changes which may result in a weakening of your financial

status.

SCORPIO (October 23- November. 21): Even though it may

seem at times that your partner is try to dominate you, he really has only your best interest at heart.

SAGĦTARIUS

(November 22-December 21): In your handling of joint funds be more careful than you would be if you were responsible only to yourself.

CAPRICORN (December 22-

January 20): Be sure to ac cept the invitation to a social gathering about which you are deliberating, as you may meet a person there who could be very important to you.

YOUR LUCKY CARD: If

today is your birthday, your lucky card, no matter what'. game you may be playing, ought to be the ACE of DIAMONDS.

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