1960-12-28 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1960..

WOMANSENSE

Jane Rogers reports .

A great fashion victory

THREE cheers for the modern mother-to-be! By sheer por- sistence, and a refusal to accept second-best, she has managed to persuade the maternity wear designers that a woman can be pregnant and fashionable.

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The mather-to-be of the concealing, it makes overy wo-ngure, makes it possibly to weat nitroteen-sixties wants to go mun look her prettiest, and no the pants again after the event. out dancing. She wants to give one notices, her shape. parties, to swim, to play a little temis or ride. And she wants

.........And like the new matern- Ity suita In cbkc fabric and ...Like the tremendous papu- colours which are appearing in the right clothes to wear for larity of long, week pants in all the shops, to cater for the be stead of skirta for expectant me; growing army of women who every occasion. She won't fobbed off with a floral smock thers, Wom with the right kind want to go on working during the

mantha she of tailored top, they are for walling

and wont she knows what wants, and she sees that she gets more flattering than even the something elegant to wear.

best-designed skirt. Newest of ...Like the vivid holly-red all are the pank which have a velvet dress that is a best-seller front panel of stretch nylon in- in the maternity departments stead of a window this Christmas.

it.

fashion

Colourful, parding waistband. The nylon smartly-cut, but hardly figure clings kindly to your changing stance,

Spotted at the maternity-wear collections I've just been shown, are a number of new, bright

the an ex- ideas for

mother-to-be. Hoy tops, There are

for in- made Chanel-fashion with satin binding, and a cen- tre front fastening. After the baby arrives they make useful cardigers to wear around the house, to toarn with a casual skirt.

JACOBY on BRIDGE

TOW do you handle the South

partner

opens one heart and raises you in spodes?

You surely are interested in seven and six and maybe In

want to ask about aces. So you bid four no-trump and your

partner responds five diamonds.

one

is

In Blackwood this shows ace. If It is the ace of diamonds you want to be in six. It the ace of clubs you are not In any event you prob- sure, ably bid six on the theory that even if your partner's ace is the club ace, he may also hold the king of diamonds or a diamond may not be opened.

If you happen to be playing the Culbertson 4-5 no-trump you have no problem at all. His five diamond bid shows the ace of diamonds or no diamonds al all. With the arc of clubs he

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Tricol the now, washabla wonder yarn that stays white has made lis appearance maternity wær.. Öng model that is going to be a best-seller för summer is a simple dress made from knife-pleated while Tricel mounted on a yaked top. Two fashions that

kind to the mother-to-be are the Empire line and the trapeze dress with its wide-swinging hem. This year they are mak- Ing up there styles in uncrushable linen that looks and stays crisp, can be washed and drip-dried.

Two designs by particularly

new

I'VE Just been to a fashion I'VE

show pul on by students at one of London's most unorthodox schools of dressmaking,

Page Boy for the modern mother

A Paris look dress in shadow-weave rayon with no attractive button-and-bow

fastening,

A cool drip-dry linen-like fabrio makeu

· this weaveless summar drom cut Empire·· style.

The principal, Mm Francesca their dressmaking lessons be with glitter. To make them, Phillips, believes in letting the cause they start on too-simple two welders, supervised by the hours a girls tackle couture pattems things which don't excito their students, worked 14 right free the word go, instead imagination cough. This new day for 14 days. of being subjected to the tedium dressmaking school aims to give

Mrs Phillips thinks that many women become discouraged with

of turning up hems, and putting its pupile a thorough training in "We were particularly pleased fashion design and a knowledge because our design was one of zip fasteners in place,

of cutting and sketches as well fifteen submitted," Ben Joh

a purely technical grounding, told me. "Since then we have been amazed at the number of people who want to buy them for their gardens."

HOUSEHOLD

HINTS

would have bid five clubs; with two aces he would have bid; five no-trump. So you go to six with complete confidence.

With all these advantages why is the Culbertson 4-5 no- trump convention as dead as the dodo today? There are two . reasona. First of all, it was a

Dans, and you will trifle too complicated average player, but more im-washing up, stare if in a jar and that the soot will walk off portant still, it was too re-measure it out by rpoonfuls. It easily. stricted. You needed either two aces and the king of a bid sult or three aces to bid four no- trump

When using soap-powder for and for the

will prove more economical.

Before selling out on a picnic, soap the bottom of your kettle

CHILDREN'S CORNER

New Home For Chris

-Hanid Knows A Place Where It's Always Spring-

By MAX TRELL

CHRISTOPER

sitting under

Cricket was thin, leafless

bush in the parit.

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It was a cold and dreary day, And Christopher was hugging himself against the sharp wind

find a place where the flowers are blooming and the leaves aro green and the sun shines from morning to night?"

"There lon't any such place up here gold Knarf,

But all at once,' quite unex- pectedly, Hand exclaimed:

that rattled through the twigs * Oh yes! Yes! Yes!

of the busi

Hardly noticed guitar

Christopher's guitar

strapped to his shoulder,

Yea!"

Kmart and Christopher looked at Hanid in astonishment

"There is such a place," He Hanid said.

Was

hardly noticed that it was there.

"A place," said Christopher,

All through the summer he here the leaves are green had played cheerful songs. Ah, and the flowers

but those days were gone now, and the sun shirfes from morn- for winter was coming on,

Christopher was in this mig- ing to night?"

Chris Cricket wan overjoyed when he saw the greenhouse.

are blooming ing and the leaves were as green as they had ever been in the middle of the aummer.

And at that moment, just to crable plight when Knarf and Hanid said she wasn't sure

more Honid, the Shadow Children about the sun shining from make the scene even with the Turned-About Names, morning to night,

but she was cheerful, the sun who were taking a brisk walk, certain that in this place she through the clouds. through the park, beeldentally know of, the flowers bloomræd "It's beautiful!" gasped Chris-

and the leaves stayed green, all topher Cricket, through the winter.

noticed him,

“Oh, you poor Boy," said Honid, putting her hand around him to shield him from, the wind, "You're shivering."

"I'm e-cold," saki Christopher. Kaart looked at Christopher and shook his head,

"If you're cold now, when winter's just beginning, how are you going to feel in the middle of winter when.It's really cold?" he asked.

Seaks warm spat

That's for Chris

"That's the place for me," said Christopher,

But Knarf mid:

shore down

The next instant be dashed under the door of the green- house.

find

If Ben and Mike's hopes are TALKING points of the week

fulfilled there will be peacocks, around London are

the rather than fairies, at the bot ziant peacocks which adorn the tom of a good many gardens by window of Celanese House, in next Christmas. London's Hanover Square,

Causing more comment, even,

than

the angel decorations in birds Regent-street, these huge

one is 14 ft. long-were de- signed by two bright young students from the Royal College of Art: Ben John and Mike Hall,

Finger marks somelimes show through new wallpaper near light switches, Pain; over The Peacocks are welded out the old paper with nail polish | of half inch and before the new is put on.

teenths steel, and

three-six- are coated

LADY LUCK-

YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28

AQUARIUS (January 21- February 19): A bone of contention which has marred your relationship with a close friend will soon bo removed.

PISCES (February 20-March 20): This may be a day when you are feeling a bit off colour. Some cheerful company

the evening in will soon put you in a better mood.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):1

It may involvo á certain sacrifice on your part, but a debt of honour ought to be settled without further procrastination.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

Generosity is mirable trait, but you, ara; likely to overdo it unless you decide firmly to draw G ine somewhere.

When Knart and Hold a GEMINI (May 21-June 21): Christopher again. he was sit-

A proposterous idea will bo Ung under a banana tree inside

Rubmitted to you involving the greenhouse, strumming his such guitar and singing, singing, the expenditure of time can. Ill and monoy you singing.

"There can't be any place, fanld. When it's winter, it', winter all over."

Hantd smiled.,

"I'm telling the truth," she sald. "The

place I'm thinking

of te like a gueden and it's

"I d-don't know," chattered right here in the park, too!"

Christopher.

"I wish I could go to a place where the towers are blooming, where there are leaves on the trees, when it's rice and warm and there's no winter,"

от устан

Hanid again.

Then Christopher Cricket took Hanid's 'arm on 'ano aide and Xnart took her arm on the other. And down the path they went. straight across the park, past the: lalch, with the bits of

Christopher," sald ice Bosing in 1, and, past the trees without any leaves, and past the grams that now looked toy instead of green..and

"I wish I were a Bird" said

Christopher. "When it gets finally, Hands cried out

cold and winter bogiņu to come, "There it ist - There's?; the the Birds nil fly whore it's place I mean!!

warm and green and sunny.“

"It's no me willing to be a She pointed to the big round Bird," said Khart. "You're a gine greenbbuse that they sil Cricket and you'd botice: get, had looked at, before, but had tot 14 being a Cricket;

admost completely, forgotten?, ?

VELL Why, assc. Christophir, face enough, inside the'{X001]- in his sorrowful voice, “can't, g house, the towers were block-

afford. Turn it down right from the start, CANCER (June 22-July (21):

A splendid opportunity will present itself, today to vent a long nourished "grievance and you will feel better after having blown off somis steam.

LEO

י

(July 22-August 21): Yon will meet someone to day who shares many of your interests and whom you will recognise as 4 kindred

VIRGO (August 22-Soptom- ber 22): After some initial failure to secure 1 firm hold you will find that you have at last chosen the proper road to success.

ber, 22); a most ad- LIBRA fogander 28-Octo- have been walting impatiently for a long time for the fulfilment of a promise made to you, and the person Involved in now ready to keep his word. SCORPIO. (October- 23-No-

vember 21) Duo Ignorance of some Ballent facts you have not been able to finish the difficult tank you have set yourself, but after an unlightening talk It will be muchi, easier going..

Rupert and the Purple Star-26

in Oh dear. I dhul opel is to put the old gwper-ip."" he thinks. didn't knew then wes on spring. And now it won't ode again l And-Sahaʻa, bakkaltin key,

'Beck | irizide › Säilóe'Sam'à pháck Rapket.look at the little iron bas. *** wonder if I can find the place when he idea that."'" be mumsita, and, whether it li hoa heavy for me to carry." He.tugs it off the Allest one “hi, moge šte • Barena Tading but bust so he gets it into ble-*** What i was that" tulet ?AME arma the lid cheese, with a map, walepeze

"ALL" MONTE, KHERRYER ·

to

(November BAGITTARIUS

22-December 21): After duo consideration you will feel that a project submitted to you ought to be rejected, Bince it may involve you' In somewhat doubtful dealings. CAPRICORN (December 22- January 20) Your Imagination will be stiered today by news of a friend's great stroke of luck. YOUR BIRTHDAY! If this Is your birthday you can look forward to greatly. Ins greased activity sin, “you:

YOU MUST BE GENTLE WITH

POTATOES

OF all our daily vegetables, the potato is the most

delicately flavoured. It is also the most deli- cate in itself, in that it cannot stand the rough usage it so often gets. By "rough usage," I mean over-cooking and hanging about after it has been cooked.

Like a souffle, it is perfect only when consumed the minute it is cooked,

It does not fall

or look iii-

created in the way a souffle does when it has to wait, but it tokea оп п "stoleness" that nothing can remove.

That is why those who know food exclaim" over a perfectly bolled potato. - Potatoes when bolled, should be dried out over a low heat or before a fire,

It is an excellent idea to cover them closely with a folded clean linen cloth, which will trap the rising steam, but this should not last more than a minute or so.

It is against all culinary prac- tice but, when I mash and whip bolled potatoes, I do not odd hot milk to them because the creamless part of the milk tends to swap the delicato flavour of the potatops.

Instead, I reserve the potato- water and pour back a little of it, at a time, adding a nico lump of butler and a dollop of cream which I extract from the top of the milk with a gadget which resembles a huge fountain-pen

Aller.

You may not agree with this but it is worth trying.

COOKING

COLUMN

BY

HELEN

BURKE

stalks HE

of small white mushrooms will Croom do vory well for of Mushroom soup but 4 oz. wholo mushrooms, washed but not peeled, will be better.

For 4 serving, simmer a finely chopped Spanish anion in 1 oz. butter until It is truslu- cent, Sprinkle in 11⁄2 oz. flour and work it well in. Simmer gently for a minute, then atir in 1% pints stock or milk. Add the sliced mushrooms,

cover minutes. taste,

and simmer for 5 Add seasoning to

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After mashing the potatoes. I whip them, and the best whisk have found is a simple wire me, shaped like an Italian club but more co. I have several of Best together an egg yolk and these whisks, of different sizes, and I do not know what I would do without them.

The longer you whip, the higher and the whiter the pota- taes will be..

up

pint single cream or top milk. Stir them into the soup. Reheat but do not boil. Sprinkle · withi chopped parsley, it

and you like, serve at once.

-(London Express Servict),

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