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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1960.

WOMANSENSE

FROM SHIP TO SHORE... clothes for

carefree cruising

Dressing up and undressing up: tarmal, fairly formal and, informal; the clothes needn't worry any cruise girl these days

IN films and fairy tales a cruise in the

sun is always the remedy for the

heiress with a broken heart' or the invalid with a broken leg.

the suitably sun-tanned, second

mate.

Swimsuits

Through dazzling Technicolor The only thing that differs salt, en, and sun on her hale, long romanile evening dress. sunshine or under a soft, star- from the movies is that the There are two super hairdress- Cotton is a good fabric to airs spattered sky, gorgeous girts girl enjoying it all is seldom aing salons on board, so she-is-for- as it stays cool and crisp.~~~ "dressed in their best flirt with modern millionairess--although spared the agony of turning up..

by the end of the trip I bet she to a special date with half the, feels like one. For the big dif- swimming pool still in her hair. ference about a few weeks afloat is that the usual holiday

that the stand at WORRY about packing her all DOESN'T HAVE TO Hazards invariably looks her best.

into one small suitcase because the cupboard and drawes space HHE

DOESN'T HAVE TO in even the smallest tourist WORRY about whether the cabins is excellent? - elothes she packs are uncrush-

The Intriguing thing about the whole preity picture is that for once the myth is wonderfully. near the truth.

Hazards

OCEAN-GOING

ARE

SHE

want to swim or a sun cruise you are bound Sun- bathe, so swimsuit is an obvious necessity. But take : matching cover-up jacket, pr shirt for drinks at the pool-side

uble or drip-dryable because ʼn · BUT SHE DOES HAVE TO, bar, and a pair of slick shorts' liners

ship like the Oriana is fully WORRY about what to take..or trousers for deck games. luxurious (in the Orlana you equipped with laundry facilities. Because fe, aboard ship- You will need, too, a light, are lapped in a constant tem- There are Ironing boards in the casual, carefree as it may be pretty cocktail or chort evenlog perature of 70 degrees from the bathrooms, and a launderette does, have certain sartorial dress for dinner, and scrothing first minute you shiver up the and dryers which are just as standards. gongway at Southampton),

a litle more covered up for trips It is customary, for instance, ashore. to dress up to, the nines after And you will need a worm the first night cut of poft, and, júcket if you'venture on to the

efficient as anything you would The ports you dook In cn your ind anywhere, way (including Naples, Hong-

lulu, Los Angeles) ARE among Or if you feel like making a gala evenings tend to be grand open decks while the ship is the most fascinating cities in the real holiday of it and getting as the glossiest ball. So take one still in cold waters. world. What's more, the crew away from every chore, the SEEMS chosen as much for Its ship's own laundry will cope.

eye-appeal as for its undoubted SHE DOESN'T HAVE TO emciency,

WORRY about the effects of

LADY LUCK

-YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE

MONDAY, DECEMBER 12 AQUARIUS

January 21-

person February 19)-;- Although you. you may be unable to give VIGO a friend the material help he needs, he will take some

comfort from your sym- puthy.

PISCES (February 20-Murch

once very dear to } the.

August 22- September 22) In a mat-

of ter

by Jill Butterfield

PICTURK BY JOHN PRENCH

FIVE ideas for shipboard self-sufficiency left to right).

(from

GOING ASHORE DRESS with a boyish shirt neck and a girlish tie. belt... In boldly striped, – brightly... coloured fabric.

BARE BIKINI is beautifully` boned-in red, yellow or blue, with its own white towelling kimono-like jacket.

DINNER DRESS with a Paris-Inspired lowered waistline, a gentle skirt. In a Dacron and Tricel mixture, five sun-minded colours.

TREWS AND TOP in a Terylene and linen mix. ture. The top is sleeveless, slit at the hem. The trousers very slim. Choose from white, brown, mint green, belge and lac.

EVENING DRESS with galas and grand occasions in mind. Its skirt is full, spreading wide over its. own stiffened petticoal, Its fabric: cotton..

STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

Punch's Houseboat

He Tells Knarf All About His Adventures On It...

a

milea

**You never asked ine," "My Punch In reply,

Kaart anked Mr Punch 10 please tell him about

had come to live on a house boat and what adventures, any, he had, had while living

made of wood and there weren't any trees or bushes of grass."

"And no Birds, elther." said Knorf.

Plenty of seagulls "Oh, yes, there were

plenty

of Birds-Seagulls," said Mr Punch. "I used to watch them our house all day long. wheeling

sky over about the when I threw scraps of food on And

the water, they'd come swoon- ing down as tame Chickens.

By,' MAX TRELL Knar, the Shadow Day with

Tund-Alot Mamy, down on the floor next to Purch's rocking capie.

Mr Punch, was reading

"But the most wonderful After

a minute or p

Shut his eyes

thing about our houseboat hap- noited Krar!

sim Ung

Punch this pipe and pened when it stopped being a good-aluredly, as was always shut his eyes for a I m house and became a bout. his way, to asked Knart it the meaty as I to try to dream of was anything in particular he the days when he had fived on wished to sãe him atbut,'

* housebont

romance guarda against an impulsive action which could be misinter- preted by the other party.

20): A fine opportunity LIBRA (September

will present itself to lin-

for

prove your 'prospects the future. Take it with out hesitation.

ARIES (March 21-April 192.

A wrong Impression which you feel you may have created can only be rectified by a candid explanation, TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don't merely ignore rumours damaging to a

friend's reputation, but do your best to refute them. GEMINI (May 21-June 21):

After some recont excite- ment in the family, your normal routine

can again be resumed. CANCER (June 22-July 21): Shrewdness and peraovor. ance in the pursuit of a Hving will be much

morg effective

than depondence.

on good luck.

LEO (July 22-August 21):

You will have an unexpect

od meeting with an old friend and good news of a

October 22): You may have to adapt yourself to a' sud- denly changed plan and fail la with a partner's pre- ference. SCORPIO

Had a question | | Fron the floor, Knarf nodded his head. He raid he wished to

Mr Punch about something, garden and cullat a houstint

"It was in the spring," he rally boaan "We were live

he the Magisipp! River in a regular house with a regular

regular trees and 19gular Birds all about us. "What is it?" asked Knarf. “Then one day my father sald mean, is it a hour or is it a we were gang to move into a

w house that would do, ha "It's both," vylled Mr Funch. cald, a good deal of moving it SAGITTARIUS (November "It's a houre that sails to the set,

22-December 21): A favour (watte lik; a beal”

(October 23- November 21): An import- nnt decision should be taken now, as further delay may completely defeat your | boat?" original

purpose.

i

• Seemed stronge

"We'd loosen the ropes that held us to the pier. Then y father would steer our house out into the middle of the Mis- rissippi and we'd go calling down with the current,

Floated along "All day long we'd go float- ing along, watching the towns along both sides of the river waving to the Children and the Fishermen shouting greetings to the other boats that passed usand followed by wheeling and swooping Seagull».

"Sometimes," continued

Mr

to a friend which he 'scem "And do People live in Titis occmed strange, at Art, Punch, "we'd fishing from ed to take for granted will naked Kaart, rounding af be put understood it when we at our porch, as Punch's Ark went nuddenly prove

half thought. Mr what down to the riverside and floating slowly along. And eema-i 10 have more than been very much apprecl- Funch didn't really mein what caw our new house floating on times we went swimacing “ by

he was saying. ated.

the water. It was a houseboat." - jumping of our klichen door CAPRICORN (D:cember, 22.

Livo an water

"Did it have a name?” asked štẹp, January 20): Your sym

Khast. pathetic nature and ability. "But of ourse Preple live in

a houseboat," ra'd Me Pen to keep a secret make you"Intend of living needle the natural confident of water as a goat many Pup. your many friends. YOUR BIRTHDAY: If your

do, they live da the water..

"I crico lived in hobokat, many animals aboord "as Old "droomed." birthday is this week, you mymis,” he added.

Fond memories "Indeed, "It did have a name," zuid Mr Punh. " en led 11 sald Mr Punch, I wish I had

"Ah, those were the days!" Hunch's Ark. Just Ko Noah's that old houseboat now." Ark," Mr Punch added with a And again Mr Punch Jeaned

» mulle. "Only we didn't have aa back and shut his eyes and

Noch did. Ait was had wero a / And Knarf, who didn't. · lean will find a. nymbol of good You did?" cart excllmto. Cat and a Dog. They played on backs and didn't Kout his eyes fortune in a gift of a tele- "You never told me about that the deck, which took the place and wasn't dreaming at all, just vision table.

beturo."

of our - gorden, though, it was. similed and said; -

Panch's Aric was floating down the Missisipph

"I wish you had Punch's Ark, too,- I'd give anything to go salling on it!"

COPING WITH THE CHILDREN Here's a lesson for our hotel keepers

By SHIRLEY LOWE

THE purser of the Oriana had a seemingly re- volutionary thought. "Keep the mothers happy," he decided, "and you'll have a happy ship." I pass it on to all British hotel owners.

So many family holldoys now adays are spelled because the hotel that says "Children wel- come".merely puts a small bed in a corner of the parents' room

and leaves it at that. But in the Orions things are different. It is a children's.... pui a parents-paradise. The purser has seen to that,

which can separate the active tots from the scholarly ones.

So that the parents can have coma time to themselves in the evenings the Oriana also has a tele-nurse service.

A blessing

To start with, they serve the ship's telephone operators can Every room is wired, and the chlidren's meals separately,

The children are looked after heng if a child is crying or call- quickly, and given suitable foosing out..

and no adults are put off mothers is the room, with

Yet unother blessing for their food.

fridge in it, where they can

Then there are two playrooms, prepare food or bottles lite ut with trained nurses to supervise them.

The rooms are equipped with everything from books and cuddly toys to miniature chairs

night..

It is equipped with free tins of baby food plus hotplates, and saucepans

I'm not suggesting that hotels and tables, an elaborate climb- should or could provide all ing toy, a slide, a sandpit and these services for parents. even a paddling pool.

But I do feel that the purser'a

+

Cleverest idea perhaps, is ideas make good sound, econo the tiny transportable séréens, mie sense,

•

And with

FOOD that looks as good as

lastes

menus that

gourmets

BEEF SUKIYAKI

Ingredients for two-12oz, of switch nationalities as caally as toan beef, 1 cup of dasht (sub- a ship changes course.

stitute beer bouillon), 6 table- these are the specialities of spoons soya sauce, 3 tablespoons William Baker, head chef in the sugar, 2 tablespoons sake (or Oriana.

sherry or whisky), 3oz, spinach. lecks onions, hakusai (Chinese lettuce),

10%. totu (bean curd), 4 oz mushrooms, Chirataki (Chinese white vermi cell), 2 ezKS.

Here are two dishes he serves 3oz. on the Far East run:-

CRINOLINE SALAD

On lettuce leaves made into a nest, place a thin ring of peeled dessert.apple, then a thick ring pan on to the cooker with a

Method-pus a thick shallow

of raw pear. Fill centres with ittle fat in it and bring to chopped almonds and pineapple. smoking heat.

Place eight sections of men. darine in a wheel shape and unul brown. Add the dashi or Slice beef thinly and cook pipe four large rosettes of cream bouillon mixed with suger, soya cheese around the base of the sauce and sake or whisky. fruit.

Decorate nach rosette with a add the vegetables, shredded, Move the beef to one side and segment of mandarine and then bean curd. strips of red and green peppers

Bring to boll and boll for one cut into flower shapes.

Place a

minute. Turn into bowl in strawberry in the which centre of coch

the eggs have been rosette. Serve beaten. salad with French-dressing.

-London Express Service). -

JACOBY on BRIDGE

ERE -Is on interesting hand soat me by Court Rush af Bellevue, Wash, It was played by Joe Jaben of Seattle, one of this country's most promiting young players,

Joe did not like his four spado „centrrot after the de fince started by carbing two diamond tricks and knocking out dummy's ace of hearts, but The proceeded to make it by playing for a club break and exact trump holdings of East and West.

the

WEST

Q1052 KJ71 1032

He simply ran eff four clubs and discarded his lesing heart, West cramped and led a heart. Jue ruffed; ruffed a diamond to get to dunny

14 end led the could

NORTH (D) A9707

25

AKQJO

EAST AKS

KJ83

A 1090

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SOUTH

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76 Q42

A76

No one vulnerable North

East South West PAIS

Paza

26. PRIS 40

Fais

Pass

Роля Opening lead--◊ 2

queen of trumps. East cover or duck, but the defence could not make a trump triek. The play caused a lot of dis- cussion. Many players thought that it would have been better trumps and not more the three tanties for Joe to lay down the clubs and It would also have ace of trumps

before going worked with mess three-one after the clubs.

trump breaks, it the man with This play would not have three tranps les held four or worked this time but i would more clubs, have worked if either opponent

Since the argument zilil.seems held the singleton king of to be going on, I will not at- Lempt to settle it except to point out that Joe's pity. worked at the table and that is what sountri

Rupert and the Purple Star-13

Mr. and Mr. Bear tell the little pals to leave the purple starfish ar it is time to go home. “Oh, please, can't we take it with us? " pleads Rupert. We promised Sailor Sam that we'd bring him something. and we've men nothing an interest. ing as this 1". So Mr. Bear given

them a large handkerchief to tia: over the pail to prevent too much water slopping. They all get in. sad, he tries to start the engine. "Here, whit on earth'a happen. Ing?" he gaps. For the whole car ja now quivering and tingling. So is everyone in it!

ALL RIGHTS RESHAVAD

CARD Seridea❤

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