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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1960.

WOMANSENSE

LADY LUCK-

YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE

TUESDAY, MAY 31

AQUARIUS (January 21- time to go further into de-

February 19): A fricud tuils. who has gone through a VIRGO difficult time will appreciate any effort you can make to cheer him up. PISCES (February 20-March 20): You will have f splendid opportunity to build up security in your job, and should not mind accepting additional ponsibility.

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res-

ARIES March 21-April 19). Consult the other members of your family before important deciding on an purchase for the improve- ment of your home. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You may be worried about relative's excessive spending. A few words of caption from you may make him stop and think. GEMINI (May 21-June 21): The right word from you you at the proper moment superior .could convince a that you have a valuable contribution to muke. CANCER (June 22-July 21): Don't let pleasure interfere with your duties. Success in your job depends on your complete reliability. LEO (July 22-August 21): Doubts about a future pro- ject will disappear in a few days when you have hud

(August 22- September 22): Help pro- mised you for today may not be forthcoming, but you will be surprised at how easily you can manage the work by yourself,

(September 23. LIBRA

October 22): Be careful not to get too deeply involved with a

person whom you met on a journey and who has since written to you! SCORPIO (October 23- November 21): Others may give helpful advice, but it is you alone who will have tu decide whether or not to go ahead with the affair in which you are beginning to get involved. SAGITTARIUS

(November 22-December 21): Don't bring your business worries home with you. Relax with your family and tomorrow will take care of itself. CAPRICORN (December 22- January 20): Before sign- ing an important document, give the matter some more thought and be sure to read and understand every word of it.

YOUR

JACOBY on

VESTERDAY

We

Sw some experts at their best. To- day we find them at their worst. Of course, East and West did all right.

West's two heart bid on a three card suit is not recommended South but it worked out well. had the bil in his teeth and wasn't going to let his opponents play, a low part score. He went on to three diamonds and East doubled. There was a cheap out in three hearts but West had effectively stolen that suit.

The defence was elegant and the play ineffective, West opened the king of spades and led low South to his partner's queen. ruffed and played his low heart. West rose with the king and re- turned the suit. Dummy's queen

♥+CARD Sende♣♦

Q-The bidding has been: West North Eart Both Double Pass

14.

7

You, South, hold: 4643 VEJ92 A10865 42

What do you do?

A-Bid two hearts. This hand

LUCKY COLOUR:

If today is your birthday, look out for ROYAL BLUE. It ought to bring you luck.

BRIDGE

· NORTH

11

J 10984

❤Q 10 9 6 5 +4

+85

WEST

EAST

AAK532

X84

4Q7

❤72

◆K

• J10 9 8 2

A1074

AK832

SOUTH (D)

6

AJ3 +AQ7853 +QJ9

North and South vulnerable

Bouth West North East

14 Double 14 Past 24

2 Pass Pass Рака Pass Double Pass Pass

Pass

Opening lead K

won the trick and South led the singleton diamond and finessed bis queen. West won and led a third heart for his partner to ruff. Back came the jack of diamonds. South won and returned the suit whereupon East took the

is not worth a jump but la worth rest of his trumps and exited

ERE'S a wedding dress

HERE'S

with difference

鼈

-

it's drip-dry. Made from a

new Ascher fabric, a com-

bination of cotton and Terylene, it was designed

by Muriel Martin.

But why

must

By Hazel

Meyrick

THE

NEW BRIDAL

FASHION

IN LONDON

N all-

A impor

tant item in

any

trous- seau, a dress«. ing-gown,

be-

comes a roman- .

tic-looking negli-

gee when its de signed by Gaber of Rome. It is made from two layers of nylon-white over tea. rose. and is trimmed by elaborate ruffles.

brides wear white?

a second bid if you get a chance with a club,, South's jack forced SOME people-let's face it-look terrible in

and you should show your major West's ace and now West led

a four-carder.

sult first even though it is only the ace of spades. South had

queen of clubs to go down five tricks.

TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner continues with a bld of two no-trump. What do you do now?

Answer Tomorrow

white. It drains every scrap of colour from to ruff and lead away from his their face and makes them look positively ill.

Yet right now, countless brides are planning to walk up the aisle looking like ghosts-all because part score contract that would of a tradition that they must wear white for their

weddings,

Quite a loss to take against a

not have been made.

Banish bulk from

the middle

to feel silken slim

IF you loll lazily through the summer, tossing

a

4

Why wear white when there and the same pattern. In that is a host of delicate pastels to way no-one need wear a colour choose from? They look just as they hale, yet they all look as festive and Batter your com- though they belong together, plexion too.

Why wear white ww

can be worn coloured dress

I asked a young wedding- again after the ceremony with- out shouting, "Wedding" at the dress designer, Josephine Stock, to work out a rose wedding top of its voice?

Why wear white, all by itself scheme specially for you, and when you can get a much better here are her suggestions:

effect by using it over a colour?

But you must wear white

calorie caution to the breezes, extra pounds DO please enlist the help of a sneak on. It's almost unbelievable but there they make-up expert who will make look natural, but still are-an extra inch on the waist and another across healthy, against that all-white the abdominal bulge.

At the moment, the waist measurement is no longer snug is not fashion's darling. But and the waist wanders,

Exercise can put the gimp who wants to feel bulky in back in the oblique muscles and the middle! To keep bring the waist to slim terms, silken slim and lissome, one Here we go...

must keep flexible in the Position: "Sland" on knees,

middle.

in

dress that is fitted at the waist,

you

background.

Pastel wedding dresses are in for summer. If you are a blonde you might copy an idea from 53 W the couture collections, I a fabulous wedding gown made from sky-blue silk, topped with

white organza.

Adaptable

then simply sit back undil but- Actually, it isn't the waist tocks are resting on heels. Hold

wonderful, The dress had a that widens first, although at arms out at sides, shoulder level. shimmering

blue-white look appears to, particularly Now pull up-and-in smugly with about it. But after the cere

girdle muscles. Don't sit this out mony, you simply peel off the The spread originales in the act it out and you'll get the white organza, and you're left girdle muscles, specifically in gist of it right off.

with a blue silk dress for par- the oblique muscles. To get the Movement: Slowly bend totes. picture of what goes on, place ward the night side, alming to If you're dark, then pick a hands at either side of waist, touch right fingers to flocr at dress in one of the new Swiss thumbs. and forefingers encir right side. Come back to starting cotton organdies. A wedding- cling the waist area. Spread the position (glanding on imees) gown in white, sprigged with Angers of both hands fan shap- and bead to the opposite side. yellow mimosa, for instance, wearing ed to span the two sides of the Do not crumpte in the middle with the bridesmaids abdomen. Your fingers should keep pulling up-and-in forcibly, the same fabric in reverse cover the bina muscles which. When you get the hang of the yellow sprigged with white.

the side-front of the movement, progress by stretch- The way the bridesmaids look sbdomen. These muscles insert ing clear to fingertips with the can make or mar any wedding sawtooth fashion to the lower outstretched hand. Repeat four Dressing assorted ages, shapes alternating sides and ind sizes can be quite a ribs, thus controlling the waist times,"

holding the blas stretch. On the problem, and midriff at the sides.

spani

Exercise

final bend, really e-t-r-e-t-c-h| One "answer to this is the and by sheer force of the rainbow wedding: Put each abdominal muscles, at the hips bridesmaid in a different colour It is plain to see that when just slightly off your heels. Try one pink, one blue, one yellow, these imporant muscles become that again, it's wonderfully and so on. But stick to the soft lax, the

saine fabric, tulle or instance,

middle slimming.

For the wedding dress, pick a the top of your head, mounted thick lace Guipure, for in- on a shoulder-length veil of stance. Have it made up into a white tulle, ballerina-length gown with a The bridesmaids would wear high, boat-shaped neck, long dresses of rose pink organza, cul tight sleeves (they make your exactly the same as that of the waist seem smaller) and a bell- bride, but without the lace on shaped skirt.

top. For their hair, a circlet of rose-buds.

Mount the whole, dress on an underslip of rose pink taffets, The bride would wear pale then interline the skirt with rose pink satin pumps (they viene to make it stand out. You would be useful to wear with a can buy it in pink.

party dress afterwards) and the You will find the pink under bouquet, needless to say, should skirt will throw the pattern of be of pink roees. the lace into reilef, and give the When the wedding is over

Guipure and Roses whole dress a rose-pink glow. you can dye your dress any.

instead

of

the

traditional colour you choose lace can orange-blaasom er tiara head- be dyed particularly well- dress, Josephine Stock suggests then all you need do is take off you wear a really large pale the sleeves, and you're all set pink organdle rose perched on for a party.

The Baron's Story

-He Once Took A Voyage On Au Iceberg-

By MAX TRELL

"DID

ID I ever tell you," Baron Munch asked Knart and Hanid, the Shadow Children with the Turned-About Names, "about the voyage I ones took on an iceberg?"

Baron Munch stopped to light his long clay pipe which, he said, the Emperor of China gave him as a mark of friend- ship.

As he lit the pipe, the Barén gazed over the bowl at his two young friends.

Was an accident

"It was

an enormous ice- berg." he added. "It was two or three times

as big as a mountain. I didnt mean 10

2-13

The Iceberg was getting.

smaller," said Baron Munch.

take a voyage on it, It was took a strong cope and 'led all an accident."

the ship to the North Pole, Knarf and Hanid lost no time, which

convenient was a very telling Baron Munch that they thing because " were eager to hear about the "Pardon me please, Baron!"

look voyage that he once

on Interrupted Hanid again.

“Because — because — h'mm, dear?" before," Baron what is it now, my

an iceberg.

"As I said

Munch began, "it was all an asked Baron Munch. accident. I had sailed up to "You said you tied up the

the North Pole in a large ship

in search of Penguins-"

Hanid's right

ship to the North Pole, didn't.

you?" asked Hanid.

*I did," answered Baron

"Pardon me, Baron," Hand Munch.

"And that's what we

interrupted, "but aren't all he did. I saw it with my own Penguins at the South Pole and eyes."

that in a book," she added.

not the North Pole!

Baron Munch nodded.

I read

"But," said Hanid, "there Isn't any such thing as the North Pole. I mean it isn't

"You're quite right, my dear," really a pole. It's just a place." Baron he said, "and it's very clever f

"Dear

me," sald

you to remember reading about Munch.

As a matter of "I read it in a book," said it in a book.

fact it was Polar Bears I was Hanid. searching for. I had promised

сп

Right again

to bring back several large- "Dear, dear me," said Baron right sized ones for two or three zoos Munch. "Well, you're in different parts of the world. again, I guess that pole we "We reached the North Pole tied the ship to was just an toward evening

a very ordinary piece of ice that looked pleasant day in July and-" like a pole. And I guess I'd

Here Knari broke in.

better not tell you the rest of "Pardon me, Baron Munch!" the story how and six large "Yes?" asked Baron Munch. Polar Bears found ourselves on "Anything wrong?"

an iceberg floating in the ocean. Always daytime -how the iceberg kept melting "You said you were at the and getting smaller and smaller North Pole in July.

That's the how I kept getting closer and Polar middle of the suminer, You said closer to the hungry It was evering. But ut the Bears-how finally the iceberg North Pole in the middle of was no bigger than a door- the summer it's daytime all the mat and I was surrounded by time. It's daytime for six the Polar Bears-how all of a months. There isn't any even- sudden they all opened their ing at all. I read that in a mouthe to swallow me and book!"

how, at that instant at that Instant-?"

Baron Munch smiled, "It's a pleasure to be with

What happened?

two such clever Children," he "Baron Munch! What hap-

said. "Yes, Knarf, you are right pened?"

and I was mistaken. In the shouted.

Knarf and Hanid

summertime at the North Pole "Why, my dears," said Baron

And

it is never night. But shall 1 Munch calmly, "the iceberg. go on with my story?"

sank and I went down. Kmart and Hanid begged the the six Polar Bears ate each Baron to go on with his story. other up.

"Our ship reached the North "And that is something," he Pole and our captain ordered added with a smile, "you won't the ship tied up. So the sailors read about in a book!"

Rupert and the Snowstorm-37

When Mr. Bear starts humming cheerfully and goes to take off his dressing-gown the others satisfied that there has been no and

mistake about the medicnrily if Rupert turn, to ask

had better thank him yourself, Rupert," says Mrs. Bear." FIL magic boots didn't hurt us, and yours are nicer than ever they were, and now he has cured your Daddy.

So Rupert puts on his she would thank the Sorcerer for coat again and the two little pals what he has done. "I think you

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