1960-08-19 — Page 7

Shaggy dog

story

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1960.

WOMANSENSE

It's a dog's life being a fashionable accestory — particularly when no one is quite certain where the fur trimming ends and the dog begins. Mongolian lamb indeed!

That's what Pierre Balmain used for the hat, the collar and the coat lining on this pale beige tweed ensemble.

And Dollie the Poodle was precise- ly the same colour.

CHILDREN'S Eighty-Eight Friends

-Teddy Introduces Them To Kuarf And Hanid-

By MAX TRELL

KNARF, the Shadow Bay, with

the Turned-About Name,

was sting in the corner looking

at his sister Harid. And his

CORNER

"We haven't got anybody to play with," Knat said.

"Except each other."

Hanid.

"Oh," said Toddy.

said

And he didn't say anything

sister Hanid the Shadow Girl again for several minutes. Then

"OH!"-

with the Turned-About Name, he said: was sitting in another corner looking at her brother Knarf.

Just in case you haven't guessed it already, Knarf and Hanid were sitting in corners looking at one another!

No one to play with "There just isn't anyone to play with!" Hanid said at last,

"Except me," said Knarf. "And I think there isn't anyone to play with, either."

"Except me," sald Hanid. Then they both fell silent again.

It was at that moment that Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, came bumbling into the room. The reason Teddy burbled was be- cause he had fat bumbling-kind of legs.

Middle of room

He said this second "Oh" with

so much loudness that Keri and Hanid Knew al once that it meant he had just thought of something."

They were right. He had just thought of something.

Teddy's suggestion

"Why don't you play with my 82 friends," asked Teddy.

"How many did you say?" asked Knarf. looking at Teddy in astonishment.

Teddy repeated the number. "You've got 88 friends? Where are they?" asked Knart.

"Right here-right room!" said Toddy,

in

this

No one else there Knari and Hanid didn't even Sedug Knart sitting in one have to look around the room. corner and Hanid sliting in They knew that no one else was another corner. and neither of in the room efcent themselves them smiling. Teddy bumbled and Teddy

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Teddy showed the Shadows how to play with the piano-notes.

sure that your 88 friends are in this room—"

"Yes," said Teddy, nodding his head, right in this room!" "Then take us to them!" Anished Hanid.

VERONICA

PAPWORTH

THE "GARBO" SECRETS OF

THE FASHION WORLD

working apart from the main body of the Paris couture are the undoubted inspira- tion of THE REST.

TWO rebels

They are the Garbos of the French fashion world-Cristo- bal Balenciaga and Hubert de Givenchy.

All they ask is to be left alone. Entry is denied to the Press until the Buyers (with a capital B) have bought.

But when 300 buyers see a collection as important as Balenciaga's or Givenchy's (1 soon becomes public informa

tion.

come

Now Women's Wear Daily in that New York the paper. published an absolutely ac curate description of Princess Margaret's wedding gown) has but with a series of "buyers' sketches" of these two collections, 1 reproduce them above.

"No fashion tricks no hobbles - nothing violenti 1930ish-just great beauty and

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Left to right: Three designs by Givenchy, four by Balenciaga -

Shape," Tapori the fashion ing a wild success already. The experts who have started their house is swamped with orders big buying noticeable and Hubert surts work at i return to closer-fitting clothes o'clock each moming, ...intricate · seaming with

"We are all crazy, like living one Given- slight stiffening underneath, and on benzedrine

chylte is reported as saying, some belts."

An odd way to describe that sweet tingle of success!

They comment: "Balenciaga gets a little matronly at times." After so very many young- looking clothes from "the rest" this could indeed

be cheering news

Civenchy's wide-back, sport- ing low-belted coats in heavy gabardine are said to be enjoy-

Cooked grilled dinner indoors or outdoors

By IDA ALLEN

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tested, Madame," observed juice 4 lemon and 1⁄2 tsp. nut- the Chef. "It is satisfactory meg. Pour into and over. The because it is of table dessert. Refrigerale at least height, so cooking is not

Spoon peach juice over as back-breaking.'

sauce.

hrs.

on

LL by any treatment once. And for years I have expeti- mented, hoping to find a cure for dry and flaky nails. For the

past two weeks I have used a new, rigid protective coating that is painted on but is not a nail varnish.

Result? Not the trace of a

chip to date. Mine at the mement are as hard as nails should be.

ERVED to me. in Paris by

one of those clusive bachelors who "does for him- self and dues very well too -this Summer Soup is delicious and needs NO COOKING.

YOU NEED 2lb. tomatoes, 1 tablespoon sugar, 2 teaspoons salt, 1 teaspoon onion julee, 8 tablespoone double cream, the juice of half a lemon.

TO GARNISH (per person): 1 slice of cooked died ham, 1 heaped

diced Lablespoon cucumber, 1 teaspoon chopped parsley.

tomatoes

METHOD: Skin and pulverise in a blender. Strain and add oliter in- gredients. Chill and add garnish immediately before serving.

~~(London Express Service)..

WHY NOT TRY A TERRAPIN OR TWO?

66TT'S quite simple," said

"IT'S

my son-"I want just one thing for my birthday a vivarium-stocked." “A what?” said I.

"To put it simply," said he, specking as to an octogenarian with cotton wool in both cars-- "it's a half-dry aquarium for a reptiles."

"And where do we get the replites?"

With cooking longs, the Chef THE CHEF, ON "AU JUS”

"Anty self-respecting store deftly placed the food on a large "Au jus" is a phase often seen should have them. Just a grass paper plate.

restaurant menus when snake a couple of slow- "This meal could also be pre- roast meat is listed; 11 means worms (different sexes natural- parod indoors at the range. But the natural juices which ekly; there might be moдty In cooking on the terrace seems out from roasting meat Some- this), a few common lizards,

tle vacation," he times a very little hot water is and a gekko."

Idded, but no thickening, ever! CHICKEN LIVER EN

BROCHETTE

like

chuckled.

GRILLED DINNER MENU Chilled Vegetable Juice Grilled Frozen Steaks

Use a long metal skewer or brochette for each person,"

For six servings you will need

on Toasted Buns Roast Green Corn in Foil Potato Chips

1 b, fresh chicken livers, 4 lb. Olives . Pickles mushrooms (preferably fresh), 2

Perch Ice Cream

medium-sized onions, 1 large Coffee

green pepper and 2 tomatoes.

Wash the chicken livers and "I'm glad you made a large pot of coffee, Chef," I said. cut in halves. Brush with lemon

"Recently completed research juice and melted butter. reveals that coffee is one of the

Impale the chicken livers on richest sources of niacin, the brochettes alternately with Perhaps that is one of the rea- a washed mushroom, 1 slice sons why a cup of black coffee onion, 1 strip grem pepper and combats drowsiness and induces a tomto wedge. Brush the clearer thinking."

vegetables with ol. Dust both livers and vegetables with sea- soned salt.

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"A what?" sald. I, somewhat repetitively.

"It's a type of lizard-walks upside down on the ceiling."

Somehow I had imagined this affair with an open top. No

ceiling."

"That's right," said he.

"It occurs to me," I warned him, that we might finish up

with a very thwarted gekko!!

What would he

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After these preliminary-con- siderations let's look at the North hand. He certainly san afford

his three-diumond response to his partner's open- ing spade bld and when. South rebids to three hearts. North really is interested in a slam. How should he get to a slam it there is onet

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calm, soundly to six.

12 the reasonable

Lanes

any In other words he won't know mother learns what to do and therefore he

must not use Blackwood,

to mistrust.

"Now you

don't need to

The correct way to reach the WOTTY I've slam is shown in the box, North got the whole starts by bidding four clubs, thing under whereupon South will rebid to control.

four hearts. South has a nice iwo-suiter, but for all he knows the hand may be a misat. Then North can 'iffurd to go to five hearts and it won't be any problem at all for South to can- tinue on to the slam with his nice trump holding.

"They do best on mice or frogs. And one of either would last a snake a week.

"Don't fuss I'm planning ahead. You know my sandwich box-the plastic one? I reckon

that will hold a good-sized rati and two or maybe three mice.

"I've laid my traps and I'm waiting.

"I catch them. I pack them in-and sick 'em in the deep freeze 'till I need 'em. 'See?

1 telephoned my favourite store the following morning "Which department do I want "And please... please don't for grass snakes?"

get excited. "Brass snakesi I'll put you "Meat is meat-when all's through to Fancy Goods"-and said and done. she did before I could shout "There's turkeys there

Grass" again.

already.

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snake

"And if you were I rang off and began again, contacted the Pet department, you'd probably prefer a slice of and inquired for a male and rat to a piece of cold turkey."

"Probably," said L female slow-wom.

"That is very interesting, Ma- ['dame," He replied. "And the way I brewed this coffee alsa is of

Suspend over a pan. Broil 4 interest. It is method

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onid the in. from the heat from

"Alm afraid," pecially good for outdoor pre- min. Baste twice with melted assistant, sounding anything but paration."

butter. Serve on the brochelles. afraid, "that Al know nothing Outdoor Coffee Brew: For THE CHEF ON "BROCHETTE" about sex-in slow-worms." each cup to be made, measure The French word brochette I tried her on grass snakes- water into a coffee pot or means a pin or skewer, any size sex immaterial with success. kettle. Heat until the water from 2 or 3 inches to a foot and "From 15s." Larger snakes, it balls fast.

a half.

zeems, cost £3 a foot.

And

Measure 2 thip, regular grad In cooking, It means a skewer, coffee for each cup of water into onto which seasoned meat, fish a sack made from double-thick or seafood are inyaled for broil- meet cheesecloth. The suck must not ing purposes. Kaart.be more than half full, as coffee This is the French version of

grains swell when in contact "shish-kebab." Bear, with water.

The sack fight with a strong rather Hanld white cord, leaving the

ends long enough to fasten to the handle of the kettle

for easy handling.

When the water boils, put in the sack of coffee. Press it up and down in the water to be- come thoroughly wel.

"Because we want to your 8 friends," said Come on, Theodore!"

Toddy, the Stuffed smiled and walked-or bumbled Knar and over to the piano!

"There they are!" said Teddy in a proud voice, as he point ed a fat paw (for Teddy's paws were as fat as his legs) at the

them! notes. "Count

There

Into the middle of the room be- "Eighty-eight friends," repeat- are 88 of them, no more, no

ed Teddy. "And they're right less"

And I know in this room.

tween the two corners and said:

Why aren't you?"

"Why aren't we what?" Knart asked Teddy.

"Why aren't you anything?" replied Teddy.

"Anything like what, Teddy, dear?" asked Hanid.

"Anything like smiling and laughing and jumping and run- and screaming. ning around

Anything like anything," Teddy explained.

can

means

Cover; brew, which simmer, 12 to 15 min. over a low "But they're only plena-heat Do not let it boil. Occa- there are 88 of them because noles!" said Knarf.

stunally, move the sack up and I've counted them. And they "But you

play. with

downl always like to be played with, them," said Teddy, "Liston,"

When brewed, remove the And-"

szck. Serve as soon as possible. All come out

TOMORROW'S DINNER Mixed Green Salad Roast Beef au Jus

Hanid got up. Knart got up.

They both walked over to Ted-

And Teddy ran that same fat dy. Hanid took one of Teddy's. arms. Knarf took the other. paw of his indeed, he ran both fat paws of his over the arm.

"Very well; Teddy, dear," piano-notes and out they came,

"Since you're so said Hanid,

all 88 of them!

Some of them had high shrill voices.

Some

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Rupert now has another idea. **I wonder if we could tell when the wellow was put on and it is still wet?" he murmurs. Gently

beautifully painted: It's quite.

We muit find out more both about this. Letract we cast and any more clues like that blob on the boulder." He leads the way

rouching, the yellow figure the gives the and before they have gone hard. I can't cygn scratch it 11% thing else.

á gasp** Why, it's dry already." Out

he exclaims."Look, it's quife: very far he catches sight of some

ALL RIGHTS REBÉAYER

of thun had regular volees like boys and girls dng-

ing

Some were sharp, some were Bat, but most of them were natural

Never tired

You can sing songs with themand dance with them- and march with them and play with my 18 friends every, day in the week," said Teddy "They never get tired!":"

"I guess we will," said Knari. "I'm 純re we will," sald Hanid.

"You guess you will and you're sure you will what? asked Teddy

"Play with your 88 friends" rald Hanid.

"And right nowİN İNSA And 'they did.""

Pan-Roast Potatoes Carrots

Onions

Peach Mallow

Hot or Iced Coffee or Tea

or Milk Peach Mallow: Drain 1 Elberta can sliced cling or peaches. Save the syrup to use. us a sauce.

Lizards too I ordered.

a terrapin in lieu of the gekka.

"These grass makes," I ask- ed my son later - "Just suppos- ing I managed to get one,

7-24 Pan-American Coffee Burena

Place a layer of peaches in a THE BARBECUE GRILL is table height, so cooking the steaks and serving dish Alternate with toasted buns is easy. There's no need for the chef to stoop over.

The model wore her own wedding gown

8 a top London mannequin Jean Howarth has modelled many elegant dresses. But never, until recently, a wedding dress.

Then, it was a Hardy Amies creation and sho wore it for her own wedding to wealthy farmer and champion bob-sleipher Mike Davison.

The wedding was at St Paul's Knights bridge, and, with half-a-dozen model girls among the guests, girls like Charlotte Lyon; Sevilla Glam Hooper, Ann King, it was a pretty fashionabis affal

old Simon Humo-Kendall, godson of the fate Mike Hawthorn, to whom Min Howarth was fórmerly ́ongaged.

There were thres bridesmaids, one of them three-year-old Buzanne Wallace, who halted the bridal, march when she stepped on the bride's tralling vell,

-(London Express Service).

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Answer TomOTTOW,

LADY LUCK-

YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE

FRIDAY, AUGUST 19

21- and he will soon calm

down.

22-

(August September 22): Because of unsatisfactory conditions

at work you may feel that your efforts are wasted: Try to get at the root of the trouble. LIBRA

AQUARIUS (January

February 19): Your failure to co-operate fully with VIRGO your 1880ciates could weaken the structure you have built up together. PISCES (February 20-March 20) Before getting in. volved in a permanent at- tachment, make sure that the person concerned is October 92):

several really worthy of your de-

plana for the votion.

future may arouse your enthusiasm, don't get in- volved in more than one at a time.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Although a higher position is within your power, you will find the way up very strenuous at times,

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You will be surprised by a request for help from a person whom you always

(September 23-

Although..

SCORPIO (October 23-· November 21); You are entitled to be proud of recent accomplishment, but don't be content to rest On your laurels.

considered to be very inde- SAGITTARIUS .... (November

Do all you can

pendent. for him. GEMINI (May 21-June 21): in Refuse participation some extra work which would pay too little com- pensation for the time and energy demanded. CANCER (June 22-July 21): Your desire to add to your possessions is very strong, but you must be judicious in your spending. Don't go into debt over itali LEO (July 22-August 21): A colleague is apt to argue about the smallest trifes. Take it with good humour -

For-dies Howarth that march marked the lik end of her fashion career. I'm going to settle down to being a farmer's wife," who told me.

But first there's a touring honeymoon, with

There were page-boys dressed. In the uniform of Nelson's midshipmen, among them six-year." Istanbul as the last stop before home,

22-December 21): Avoid

the kind of social activities which are beyond your means and would encroach too much on your few hours of leisure.

CAPRICORN (December 22- January 20): One of your dearest wishes has a very good chance of being ful- illed today,

"YOUR BIRTHDAY If today is your birthday the year will bring a gradual easing of a heavy burden, and a corresponding Improve ment in your financial affairs, edu

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