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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6 AQUARIUS (January 21- February 19: Try to pal a stop to distracting inter. ruptions at work, or your efficiency will be impaired. PISCES (February 20-Murch 2011 A friend's action may seem far from prudent, but your interference might casily be resented. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don't give in to a member of the family who always insists on getting his own way. He must leary to he more considerate of others. TAURUS (April 20-May 20)3 When planning preparations for the festive season, take eare not to deplete year funds prematurely triflex, GEMINI (May 21-June 21):

Relations in the family eir ele could do with improve- ment, and you may be able to bring it about with a few well chosen words.

on

CANCER (Jure 22-July 21): A friend's fourth wedding

anniversary ought celebrated wit H fruit and flowers,

LEO

bo of

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1960.

WOMANSENSE

Cossack

crazy

HATS THAT SHOW NO

W

PERSONALITY

By A CORRESPONDENT

E have a genius for squeezing every ounce of appeal out of a pedestrian garment-the twinset, the raincoat, even the pleated skirt can have its small moment of triumph when worn by: one of us-but we are not good on hats.

Taite the eossack, for instance

probably you have already. The vague for cossackswering has now gone beyond a furry. funny joke....

Style for all

to

would almost kift

July 22-August. 21). Your special knowledge will very useful t J come in meeting requiring than the usual exchange of ideas.

VIRGO

more

4 Augus

22-

to

If 12 well-

·September 22:

listen too much meaning friends you might be led into an embarrassing situation.

LIBRA

like to inati- Kurale a Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Cos- seks the inanimate kind- except the "Royals" love them, Lou. Every female member of the Royal Family wore one on Remembrance Sunday.

This shape has

now retched

trest in store followed holly by stiffened nylea caes. Although the manufacturers 325 they won't be making another one in the Now Year. I've al- ready seen In several spring collections the cossack creep- ing through, even though I may be worn pushed to the by ck of the head and with a small brim....and why not? The public just will not let go, not for some time until a new shape is evolved slowly by Cossack shape. varying the

little by little each season.

We like to be different, except when it comes to a hot-and th: would apparently just be trouble That's asking for

why today seen from the top of a bus Oxford-street, Park and even Hoe-street, Lang

lock as if they have E.17. least

been successiully invaded by female strays from Siberia.

the position occupied before by the Eva Bartok cleclic that is on top of every 1- wearing woman's head in the country The Milliners Gulla seems tu think at 2,000,000 are going around t this minite.

Saturation point

re: could sonably be expected any day now, but there's a lot of life le in the old hat yet. Satin Cossacks. could

for Christmas is a

September 23.

October 221: Be very care- ful how you word an im-

An portant Jetter.

Am-

biguous statement cause a serious misunder- standing.

Such a pity, because now the hat i no clue to the par- sonality....a hundred to one it's a cossack.

I'm just off to buy a beret....

SCORPIO October

23-

November 211: Don't furn

a deaf ear to a friend's #p

Helen Burke's cooking column

peal for help. You may b

the only one to whom he

feels he can torp.

SAGITTARIUS November CABBAGE, in one form or another, will be with

22-December 21: Be cure- ful not to puss ዲኑ ኒ some -information which

never should have obtained in the first placé. CAPRICORN December 22. An artistic January 201: pursuit will give you great deal of pleasure, even though

not you are able to devote much time to

YOUR

us for the remainder of the year and the first few months of 1961.

I

FASHION NEWS FOCUS by Barbara Griggs

Mrs. Rawlings; as she was (inset), and as she is now.

"I am afraid there is no hope for me," she wrote in her letter, but the camera shows how wrong she was

PICTURES BY JOHN QOLE

More than most this

type needs a Candid Friend...

Mrs Rawlings doesn't usually bother with make-up round the house, but admitted defeat when

with It came to outings

her! husband.

At Helena Rubinstein they plucked straggly brows and showed her how to apply a very gealle make-up with pinky-red ipstick.

Her eyes are very deep wet; they taught her to emphasise them with a te shadow the lids and a fint shading of eyebrow pencil too marked brows would have made her eyes. look follower.

The camera gives a charming

YOU'RE in your fifties; you have your hands hint of her delight at the end of

full, looking after your husband, running your the day.

home and keeping up with pour children.

It's years since you had time First point, as almost always,

to sit down and think hard was hair. A bad perm had left

Scooter

about your appearance, though her rather thin, popper-and-salt bridal dress

sometimes, when your husband takes you out, you wish, come- how, you could manage to lock rather better than you do.

This judging from the huge number of letters I received when I launched my Candid Friend contest recently is the predictment of enormous numbers of my readers,

So 1 picked one of them as my third and last winner just to see how much could be done about it.

Mrs Doris Rawlings, my win- ner, was in precisely that rul, as the said herself. She is 62, and her husband, their home, und three children one of whom

hair, looking dry and dispirited.

At French of London she wa given a brown rinse, to level out The colour in her hair, before Ivor cut it a lile and set to a softer, gentler shape with dick forwards on to her very high, round brow.

Cruel colours

Colours: the hard pine green of the cost she arrived wearing was cruel to her: black, and the 10 dark classic colours, tended drown her, and pastels to wishy-washy.

lock

Best on her were warm deep

DON'T expect to hear of a

more original idea than tho bridal outfit a dress-hire firm is pulling into Ils range for next

reason.

Designed for scooter-honey- moons, it looks like a long, full- skiried dros in white broderie anglaise with a ratin cummer- bund-until after the wedding when dress and stint whip off to reveal a nalty secoterkog cutat of top, cummerband, and sleek laraderie anglaise pants.

Look

a

is still at home absorb most colcurs jike Goya brown, Incquer new Greco

cf her time and thought.

"I am afraid there is no hope for me," her letter sald sadly,

Together, we proved her bliss- fully wrong.

CHILDREN'S CORNER

Punch Takes A Walk

He And Tabby Visited Strange Little Stores

1 tee you've got your shop- ping bag,' I said to Tabby.

this hour of the "Don't tell me you're going

shopping at night.

"'Indeed I am,' said Tabby. "That's the only time my kind of stores are open

What did she mean?

"So." sold Mr Punch to Knar! and Henic "I decided to go with old Tabby and find out exactly what she incard by her king of stores,

red, midnight blue,

Her figure slid with enviable

in Europe have fallen-well, some of them.

case into a size 32, though her THE mest famous long locks suit will have its jacket cllered on the shoulders to a better ; and the skirt will be shortened 10 abcut Zin. below the knee.. loo long skirts such as she wore don't make a thinnish figure look less so.

Jullelle Greco, whose long. tangled black

strayed mcae

OVET old, characteristically black sweaters and mink-coats

alike, has given in at last to the ple: of her hair-dresser The mail we chose was a

black and abandoned about six inches, deep blue and WHITEL check, in a near-classic shape; New style is Just-below-car "There was another store that long slightly ditted jacket, length with ends Alcked out- bold notes for planos and vio-streight skirt, it

frem wards and a low thick fringe, lins and whlatles for whistles Jaeger, price 151⁄2 gulness. and sputters for frying pans and bubbles for tea keltics,

A strange gift "There was only one store in

røver could get in because of all our whole town where you the crowds, That was the store where they sold laughs and I just chuckles and smiles. managed to buy a few. I'll give them to you now." And Mr Punch did.

came

The transformation from Left Mrs Rawlings thought her Bank Beat into Avenue-Matignon neek too long I took advantage Mondaine is now complete, new of this and filled in the neckline nose, shorter hair, bigger bank- with a thick black fur, pearl. balance and lots of delicious

At the same shop we picked a couture clothes.

The old, sullen, long-haired, peari to bloom in her lapel, and black-sweatered Groco — whom matched the pearl with plain many people, including myself, pearl earrings.

will perversely prefer-must now White gloves. a black patent go finally into storage along with bag, low-heeled

black patent other nostalgic memories .of Dumps completed & highly postwar Peris. successful appearance.

By MAX TRELL In homes where cabbage-into-eighths,--depending on its is liked, there is no problem. size, then, after removing the "YOU'D BE surprised," said

giant sitt leat pin with cors, cut the cabbage to thin Mr Punch to Knarf and Hanid, The housewife hus, by now, ich strips, Get a cup of salted the Shar'ow Children with the "how Names discovered the best ways water boiling very hard, drop Turned-About

the cabbage Lo it, cover many range little stores and of cooking cabbage.

tightly and boil hard for 15 shope there are in our town. minutes.

"Most folks don't know any- During the war, the Ministry of Food must have spent a

minutes, thing about them. As a matter suggest SCYEN millon telling Britons how to which, in any case is likely to of fact, I didn't know anything cook cabbages in what my stretch to 10 to 12 minutes and about them, either, until last always valled the that is more than enough. night when I happened to go LUCKY COLOUR: † mother

out for a walk with the Cat." "waterless way," wilch was not If this is your birthday, quite that.

Khart and Hand urged Mr TERRA-

A CLAIM look out fur

Funch to tell them about his

"The first store we came to," walk with the Cat art about

Punch shops and Mr

continued. "sold the strange little

It also sold Stores that he said so few folks purrs and meows,

barks on growls and woofs- knew about,

another depart- that was

Enid Mr

Punch, ment," In the house was Here Knarf interrupted uslech and I was beginning to ask what a purr looked like. feel a little sleepy myself, when At the same time, Hani sald who chould come along but old loudly that she would like to know whether you bought purrs Mrs Tabby Cat.

and mcows and barks I and

growls and woofs by the pound, "Good evening, Punch,' said as you did butter, or by the

COTTA. It ought to bring The Ministry's way was to

quarter the cabbage or cut i

you fuck.

JACOBY BRIDGE

Today's

new kind

problem.

hand represents of bridge Look at the North and South hands. You will see that they will make a grand glam spades.

You will also coe that

NORTH

4QJ874

♥A

in

• A964

Q87

WEST

EAST

42

It is easy to bid to six, bul hard to gel to seven on any logical aries of bids

If South uses Blackwoud he will never be able to find out about that singleton ace of hearts; if North fries Black-

he will never find wood about that singleton diamond, Nevertheless the bidding in the box is a logical way to reach

BEVERL

out

The opening spadle bid and Jump to three spades are normat nougil South's four club bid shows the ace of that mult nd suggests alom possi- bilities. North accepts by show. ing his new of diamonds at the four level and South bids ive diamonds to show, that he has

♥+CARD Sensens

Q-The bidding has been: North East South West 2 N.T. PAU 34 Pass

Pru

་་

You, South, hold: AKJES VQ422 42 5ITOK Your three cinb bid was Stay- man and asked for a major sült bid. What do you do now?

All four hearts. With six hirk card pointe saly you do not want to get into the slam range.

TODAY'S QUESTION. Again your partner has opened two no-trump. You boid: AK7411 99489K75% as

What do you do?

„Answer Tomorrow

KQ802 KJ7 49652

IB

J 10 57 5 + Q 10 8 3 2 * 10

SOUTH (D)

AK 10905

43

AK43

Both vulnerable

South

West North

2 đ

Pare Pass Pass

34

Pass

10

Pass Pass PAIS

ரக் Разв 74 Pass. PRE

Opening lead-K

second round control of that Bult South all does not went to be in a alam if North can't take care of one of the first two heart leads,

Now North bida Ave hearts and South knows about all the acca He is cure of six and con afford to bid six clubs as try for suven.

แ

At this point North can utd the grand slun. He knows about the noo and king of clubs, South has shown them. He known about second round diamond control. South has shown that. He is looking at the singleton nce of hearts and while he can't see the 200 and king of apados he knows that Bouth would not be trying for a grand slam without both those cards,

My mother always claimed that no self-respecting cook would ever boll cabbage "plain," The only excuse for cocking it, she raid, was when

Greeted each other Well," the bone,

everyone

the last of a ham, was available to impart its delicious flavour,

"'Good

Well, these days, few of us have a humn often enough to make ux of the bone. 1 suggest, instend, a nice lump of butter said. or a finely chopped rasher of bacon be added to the drained, Tabby, cooked cabbage.

Incidentally, when I write of include cabbage, 1

Brussels sprouts, which are little cab- bages on a stem.

Another delicious way is in serve the cabbage in sauce. Bol the cabbage the quick way, as above.

one, For good-sized nelt a seant' ounce of butter in another pan und gently cook 11⁄2-oz. jour in it. Strain the cobbage water into this, then add enough top milk to make of the sauce the consistency thick cream,

Add a good pinch of grated nutmeg and pepper and salt to taste. Turn the cooked cabbage Into this sauce and mix well.

evening, Tabby,'

10-11

“Good evening, Tubby," Punch

said to the Cat.

Rupert and the Purple Star-8

What has startled Rupert is a amall object lying between some boulders, an object with five points. "It's another starfiala. Another purple one I" he mutters. Going to it be beads down to pick it up. Then be topples back in fright for barely has he touched

it when the points curl up and a violent shock runs up his arm. Filting himself up, he gives shout just as is pal comes to join him. Whatever's up now?" Dili demande. "Have you had a tumble or lost something? Whet are you staring at? ALL NIGHTS RESERVED

but

to

or

dozen, as you did eggs, or by the quart, as you did milk. by the plece, as you did piece of cloth.

*

"It all depends." Mr Punch seir simply, as if that were the argwer to all their questions. Then he went on;

"And there was another store that sold tails."

Talls?" asked Hanid. Mr Punch rodded.

"What kind of falls?" asked Knarf.

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"All kinds of tails," replied Mr Punch. "There were curly talls for Cats, There was large selcellon of wagging tails were long Thero for Dogs, beautiful tails for Horsea There were Sparrow-tails and Robin- and trils and Squirrel-talls Raibit-tails, .

Other kinds

#1 bet," said Knarf, who was reminded of something he had oren carlier that day in a book, "there weren't any comot-tails,"

and romet-tails and

上

kite-tails and coat-tails," con- cluded Mr Punch. "I don't want to forget Mouse-tails," ho quickly added.

"I guess," said Hanid, "those two slorca must have sold everything strange and funny in cor whole town."

"Not at all, my dear," said Bir Punch. "Right next to them

·was another store that sold licks and tacks for clocks because, as everyone knows, some clocks

like ticles and sume clocks ilka Locks,"

"I like tocka,” said Knarf, "You're not a clock" Bald

·Harda severely',

"And what also did they 'self?" she asked Mr Punch."

-(London Express Service).

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