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THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1960.

WOMANSENSE

The End Of A Rainbow -Teddy Dips His Hand Into The Crock Of Galileu ;

By MAX TRELL

IT: HAD rained; then the sun

had started shining throughy the clouds while It was till raining. So there had been beautiful rainbow stretching across the sky.

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"Look!" Khar!, the Shadow Boy with the Turned-About Name, said to his good friends Teddy, the Stuffed Bear,

and

Hiawatha, the Small-Sixed Wooden Indian.

Looked at rainbow Teddy and Hiawatha came to the window to look at the rat bow.

beautiful!". Kasped

t-It's

Toddy,

Hiawatha didn't suy any- thing. He only grunted. But it was a pleased sort of grunt and there was a smille on his

Ace.

"I'm sure he likes. it, too," Teddy whispered to Knarf.

Knarf kept watching the rain- bow. He moved from une side of the window to the other. and looking twisting his neck an haritas he could. Teddy kept his eyes on Kharf for a minute Dr two. Finally he said:

"Why are you running from . one side of the window to the

ather?"

Knarf's reason

"I'm looking for the ends of the rainbow," answered Knart.

"Why?" asked Teaay, "was so good about the cnus 01 the zalupow? Have they got better colours than the miücher?"

"Don't you know, Teddy?" asked Knurf, giving Teudy surprised look.

ย

Hiawatha gave a sharp grant,

- Just to let Teddy know that he

was surprised, tuo.

Teddy shook his head,

"I guess I'm a pretty stupid old Bear," he said sorrowfully. "but I really don't know Why the ends of the rainbow are better than the middle."

Crock of gold

"Well," sald Knarf, "I'll have to tell you, then. The ends of the rainbow are better than the middle because there's a crock of gold hooked on to one of the

ends."

Hiawatha grunted. This was as much as to say that be had known about the crack of gold ail along.

"W-what's a crock?" Teddy stammered, quite ashamed of himself for being so stupid.

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Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, held a golden sunbeam in his Itand.

Sometimes it's on one end, and sometimes it's on the other.

"I have an idea," sald Teddy. His eyes sparklod. "Let's open the front door Lad maybe опе

A

Barbara

Griggs

SCANNING THE WORLD OF WOMEN

опсе

London. FRENCHMAN with whom I was strolling along Jermyn-street burst out: "This is the most marvellous street in the whole of London."

the He was not, of course, looking at architecture. He was thinking of all those mag- nificent shops which abound in the area round St James's.

Shops with fifty, a hundred, two hundred years of solid tradition behind them; shoirs where the fittings are gloomy mahogany, leather, and dim overhead electric bulbs rather than formica, walnut and glowing fluores- cent lighting.

Shops where they know far, far more about the things you have come in to buy than you ever will, where the salesmen look like wonderfully well-preserved old: bailers. Sadly, they men's shops,

The best

а spent

The flattery

behind selling

a cigarette...

are almost all I have in my time, I suppose, staggeringly large It has often struck me that, amount of money shopping. In despite the fact that men spend rare moments of extravagance perhaps. five minutes in shopping I have bought silk scarves in compared to a woman's three the Faubourg St Honore and days, they can still get far more handmade shoes in Rome.

I have ordered dresses from fun out of it than we can.

madam shops and picked out sweaters in department stores.

But I had never savoured to the full the delights of good old- shopping-the way fashioned men doll one day last week. I was in one of those dignised arcades of Piccadilly. The rain was teeming down. I had

with my hair- appointment dresser, two seconds away, in 10 minutes. And I was without cigarettes.

of the ends of the rainbow will Wo

come in."

the ends

of

I don't think rainbows ever come inside houses," said Knari,

Hiawatha grunted. He didn't think so, either.

"I'll just open the front door, anyway, said Teddy.

Knarf and Hiawatha sald they'd come with him and stand close to the door so that when Teddy opened it and one of the ends of the rainbow came in (which they didn't think it

bu would) they would

right there to pounce on It."

So they all went to the front door. Knart stood on one side of Teddy and Hiawatha slood on the other side.

Teddy stood with his hand on the doorknob.

Oponed door

"Here I go," he said worn- ingly. "I'm about to open

the door! Watch out for the rain- bow!

WOMEN'S

chops have, ostensibly, the best of everything. No expense is spared to create for us an atmosphere of glittering luxury,

No good. The whole business still, somehow, never rises above straightforward the level of a

commercial transaction,

JACOBY

on BRIDGE.

WILL finish up this week's slam series on competitive bidding with my all-time favourite hand. The game was rubber bridge, and I sat South. My partner was a good conser- vative player and West was a good spectacular player.

I opened one spode in third

The next second Teddy pulled seat and West decided to slow open the door.

play his lay down grand slum.

Suddenly the most extraordi-He was sure that if he jumped nary things started happening. right to seven hearts he would

defensive seve

The wind blew Teddy back run into a over his heels. The rain swept spade bld.

la on Knorf and Hiawatha.

Henco his double and mere five and six heart bids. He racin fooled me completely. I looked All the papers in the begun wirling around the walls at my two aces and doubled six hearts. Then West could not and across the ceiling. The ends

He rew prosperity. of the carpet blew up. A pic-stand

curtains doubled. I could get out of my lure fell down. The danced.

shades tapped own mess. The like angry wings.

Teddy Just lay on the floor with his eyes shut.

Kaurt and Hiawatha crawled under the sofa as Just as they

"A crock," sald Knar!, "is something like a big pot with a could. handle on it."

"That's what I thought," said Surprised at Teddy Toddy, who hadn't thought so at all, though he

Finally, when Knart and Hia- was quite

under out tran 50. "And with looked

the sofu again, they were prised to see Teday sitling the mlaule of the nuor.

ashamed 'to say which end of the rainbow is this crock of gold - hanging t, Knari?**

you could

Knarf said that never be sure.

LAB

NEW CAR

fl

ADY ATTLEE is buying

bizzer. better, faster car. For some time aho has been trundling around in I 500cc, convertible. Now she is going to get a Fiat 1100cc.

Fiat

This has a top speed of about 80 miles an hour, against about 50 In the little one. And It seats alx instead of squeezing in four.

A friend of mine who has one talls me that its great merit is its cornering and road-holding. "Even a novice can handle 1% he tells me.

The wind had gone away. The sunlight was streaming fato, the room. The papers had, all set- tea cown agula, The shadER and the curtains hung quietly, just as they always did.

"Well," said Teddy to his two friends, "I saw it, all right! The end of the rainbow was in this room, all right! I saw the crock of gold hanging on the end of |It, all right? And I dipped my hand into the crock of gold and took out a piece of gold, ali right!"

They stared

Teddy held someliting out in his hand. Knart and Hiawatha stared.

I went to six spades and West bid seven hearts. It was passed around to me and now I realised that West had 13 red cards. 1

NORTHI (D)

QJ864 04

16

WEST

None AKOJ 1072 AKQJ93

• None KQJIORA

EAST

10732 05 10 8 54 985

SOUTH.

AKIG 53

♣ None

+372

A732

No one vulnerable

North East South West Pass Pass

Double 16 Pass Pass 59 Pais Pres

5

Patt

Pass Double Redbi

Pass

Pass

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PASA Patr Opening lead-◆ K

Ibid seven spades and West had He opened the king of dia-

It was a golden sunbeamt Perhaps it was shining in to double. through the window, As sun- monda ruffed with dummy's beams atten do. Or perhaps Not that Lady Allee 18 D Teddy was right and he hud novice on the road. She has taken it out of the

crock advanced passed ber

driving gold that he said he saw at the test and go we all know,"

end of the rainbow Inside has driven thousands of miles

room. and, never been responsible for an accident,

car run

sho

"Good for you, Teddy!"

new Kлart

She hopes to have her

and humming In sweetly along by the end of Ho October.

the

eight of trumps; led the tour of spaces and stuck in the six spot; ruffed

a second diamond with the lack of trumps; Anessed my nine of spades; ruked my last diamond; came back to my hand said with the ace of clubs; picked up and made the last two trumps; seven by discarding my two losing hearts on the long clubs.

A wonderful result and ptr- ticularly so becaupe West had Cooled me completely in the early stages of the bidding.

Hiawatha didn't say anything

only grunted-but

that

meant exactly the same thing.

Rupert and the Gomnies-31

Rupert cudgelig bije" brašna, hors of the things around. Nút.. MYryer, we. bought elsaise wood," "growls the leaders** And Gornjer in a Nutchester shop," then come and tell me. This must A modalink: the choá nha be stopped Without more ado Was Mr. Benson, and, yea, he had · · Rupert'ia pdaled into a palagi, Falue more just like you-band. and soon and himself out later, and allies" Then gulas you into the sunshine through a crack

go and find out if there are any, iri tha, rocks,

'ALL-RİORTE Krakovku

♥*CARD SenseR4

·Q-The bidding has been; South Weat North

2

Paiz 3.

4NT. PANE

.

Zari Pass Pass

T

You, South, hold:

MAIVAKOITONINGENS

What do you do?·

Asshid, seven hearts or seven ne-friump as you please. If you 'don't bid this grand slam you will never bid one.

TODAY'S QUESTION Instead of bidding three dla amonds your partner has? rym sponded three no-trump to your two heart bid. What do you do In this casey;

Answer, Tomorrow

an

When. therefore, I saw the word "Cigarettes" written out-

buzzed

腦

Page

He gestured towards an arm- side a mail shop, I

ehair, I sank into it. Ho held straight in.

I found myself in a diminutive out a glass-lidded case, flicked

"He held out a glass-lidded case, flicked it open and revealed darkish alop lined with beauti- it open and revealed nine differ-

aine different lengths and thicknesses of cigarettas.” cigarette. fully carved mahogany shelves ent lengths and thicknesses of to the ceiling.

don't know what size one" he told me, “is 78. 30, for client of long and favoured Of that familiar glitter of red "I and emerald, of pink and gold- cigarette you prefer to smoke 25 only a little less, of course, standing, "a noble lord, who Bake gold, of navy-and-white normally, ... perhaps you'd than the one you have just been comes up from the country twice and light turquoise that usually like to try something just smaiding, But still, some people greets the eye in a tobacconist's little larger. Mudam?" I nodded Try it," he said, picking out nbox from the shelf behind him and flicking open lighter at the same time. I tried it. "This seems very pleasant," I said, and indeed it did.

no sign at all.

Which size?

I

dumbly,

COMEWHAT disconcerted,

difdently: "Do Inquired, you sell Virginian cigarettes?"

behind the counter of an inch The mun smiled faintly. "Madame, we sell Virginian cigarettes," he replied, giving the world a slight but significant emphasis,

BUFFET SUFFER of ready-to-eat foods includes Green Turtle Boup, Lobster Newburg; for dessert, Babas au Rhunt.

LADY LUCK-

YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2

21-

AQUARIUS, January

February 19): Don't be too impatient of a friend'a bad mood, He may have some worries which he prefers to keep to himself,

satisfy yourself that not based on fact.

(August VIRGO

September 221: If partner has made a definite arrangement. for vuti will have

to

But somehow the extra tenth diameter made it feel enormous, like smoking a cigar.

prefer the smaller one. Try it."

I tried that one, too. "Do you sell Oriental elgar

I asked. Another ettes?"" Jeeves-like smile. "I should say that we sell 85 Oriental elzar- ettes to every five Virginian."

Seconds later, I was trying one of those 100.

At five minutes to flye he uske ed me whether I would care for a glass of sherry. This amiable arose at the whim of a

"How much" I asked "is the smaller one?" "The Emailer custom

"INCE my husband, is

especially interested

in gourmet foods, 1 will ap preciate any suggestions from you and the Chef on the best gourmet foods to use," was the last request" to date from our bride of the week.

Needn't be exotic

"The words 'gourmet foods' cover a broad field, but they are not necessarily exotic or very,

I observed. queer,

"Ah, oul. Madame," agreed the Chef "They-start with the very finest of fresh foods and their preparation.

a year," and must greatly enjoy his chat, his glass of Año dry sherry and his quarter of an hour in this splendid mahogany refuge from the modern world.

I was hours late for the hair- dressers by the time I tore my- self away, and my cigarettes had cost me almost double what I usually pay.

Who cared? For the Best time in my life I felt that I began to understand what shopping about.

--(London Express Service),

Let's Eat

BY

IDA BAILEY ALLEN

Mango Fiesta Sundae A New Gourmet Treat

Fresh Blueberries and Cream Hat or leed Coffee or Tea

MIK-

All Bicunements are level; recipes proportioned to avre 2 Fur service for 4, double in-

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until butler melts. Serve toasted English muffins..

Add 1⁄2 tbsp water to pan, Stir and pour pan juice over patties. Garnish with parsley or cress, Enough for 2 meals for twe.

"For example, perfectly baked stuffed

with Bredients. potato

Beefy-Chopped Beef Patties: Smithfield ham spread, or per- To 1 lb. chopped chuck slenk, haps minced smoked oysters,

add e. water containing 1 tsp. beaten into the stuffing, would dissolved beef granules and drain and serve dressed with 3 be in the gourmet class. So are tsp. garlic powder. Shape into fresh garden peas, covered with round patties about 1 in thick. lettuce leaves and simmered with a sprig of fresh mint.

Herbs and spices

Broccoli with Nut Dressing:, Cook frozen broccoil according to directions on plg. When done, tbsp. minced chopped pemuta slightly browned in 1 tbsp, but- Place in alled pan. Brush pat- ter. This can ties with vegetable oil, Broil 10 oven. min. about 4 In from heat. When brawn, turn to browa

Just before removing from

in the be done

Trick of the Chef · Make up instant mached po- tatu according to pkg directions. Derving, garnish Just before

"The right herbs and splees, other side, used with discretion, can raise even ordinary cuts of meat into heat, dot each patty with 4 tsp. with oven-heated, earned French the gourmet class. Cheeses must butter and let stand in broiler fried onions. also be considered, especially

fish

the more unusual imported types. Also, the canned. hors d'oeuvres, especially from Scandinavia, should be invest!- gated-one kind at a time."

"Unusual fruits, 100, are classed as gourmet foods. Our bride might try them in reason,

Fresh mangcen

PISCES (February 20-March through with it whether 5 min. and cool.

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may

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The fruft is sweet and juley, rather like a peach-pineapple combination A delightful way to enjoy it fresh is to eat as you would a banana, or diee or slide cocktolla, to fruit it is it to add

salads or desserts.

"Canned mangoes 22-used when fresh are unavail- your able."

Mangoe Fiesta Sundae: Com- tonight,bine e. water, c. sugar and go grated rind fresh me. Boll Add juice of the lime and 2 peeled cubed ripe mangoes. (September 23- Scoop vanilla ice cream Into Border 'October 22): You will be stemmed shertret oups, very pleasantly surprised with the mangoes and to find that an elder couple fresh or canned Bing cherries, will contribute, consider- ably to the success of the party you are planning. SCORPIO (October 23- November 21): A really good chance for promotion may be missed, unless you your.Initiative, to 165 catch the attention of the person who matters.

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Friday's dinner

pitted

Clam Chowder (Frozen)

Celery

Rodishes Beef Patties on Toasted English Muffins Instant Mashed Potato Broccoli with Peanut Dressing

your best to live up to the SAGITTARIUS (November NOT amused

qualities with which it credits you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21); Take stock of the financial obligations which confront you in the coming month and you will be able to plan your

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LEO (July 22-August 21); Investigation of a rumours may be well worth the effort if youli want to

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