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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1960.

WOMANSENSE Exposure in the Underworld!

EXPOSURE 1. Sleek-fitting petticoat, lavishly lace trimmed with seductive side slit. Here in yellow Bri-nylon (other colours to choose from), By Charnos:

AT THE LINGERIE COUNTER,

Fashion A SUBTLE NEW SALES LINE Page TO MAKE YOU LINGER LONGER

by

JILL BUTTERFIELD

HK$960 MILLION!

It's a nice round figure. It's the cost of 30 jet passenger aircraft. It's over twice the amount Britain spends on Colonial development. It's also the number of crisp notes that will crackle their way across the corsetry counters in Britain by the end of this year.

For it's the amount of money the women of Britain spend in pursuit of the latest money-making mania -the craze for laying the right foundations. And I don't mean with a trowel either.

And I think there is one big, bold reason why you'll find more Inger over the lingerle counters now than ever be- fore-COLOUR.

were

The strong singing shades you chose for your main fashion garments alow to arrive in the cream and peach- coloured underworld. But in the few short weeks since they first hit the market the sales of coloured foundation garments, matching sets of lingerie have soared. The unmentionables have become very much the gilt-edged.

Mr Denzil, sales manager of the firm of Triumph, told me: "We introduced our new seven-coloured range this year and it has been a tremendous succese." But it took a woman to put her finger on the crux of the matter.

Anne Crofton, of the firm of Charnos, said: "I think women are getting so much more ambitious about their colour schemes for the simple reason that men find coloured lingerio so much more appealing."

I think she's got remething there. Women. may, as the psychiatrists are always trying to drum into our disbelieving, heads, buy their clothes to please other women. But lingerie is purely a taller between themselves and their

EXPOSURE 2. Little lace-trimmed pants to match the petticoat (four different sizes and three different colours). Also by Charnos,

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PICTURES BY NOWMAN KALKS

EXPOSURE 3. Matching yellow bra and girdle. (five colours to choose from). Both by Triumph.

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STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

Shadows Meet Peg

-He's A Wonderful Horse With Wings

By MAX TRELL

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into a passing cloud and lost to sight.

"Hi there, Knart, Hi, Hanid!" KNARF and Hanid, the King Nep was calling to them. Shadow Children with tho

Turned-About Names, were on They ran down the slope of their way to the lake in the the hill to where King Nep was middle of the park where their waiting for them. good friend King Nep lived.

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He had glowing green eyes nearing the spot where King Nep-usually sat, enjoying the and pearly-white teeth, He al pale winter sunlight, that they ways carried a cane with three suddenly saw something in the prongs like a fork.

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At first they took the thing It was called Blackwood and to be a Bird.

a Bird, "1's bigger than was both effective and simple. The Eastern experts held out cried Hánið.

As stated yesterday, the Cul- against it for a long while, but

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Grown smaller

Long-long-long ago, when the world was very young, King Nep used to be the great King Noptune, the Ruler of the Savon

"No," said Kharf, "it's small. Seas, bertson 4-5 no-trump was just eventually swam with the ideer than a Bird. I think it's a trifle complicated for the or- and today Blackwood is univer- Bee." dinary player and most experts sally known and almost univer- did not like it, because it could sally used.

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Then they both told King Nop, whom they. Iked much, that he really oughtn't to try to fool them.

"Because," Hanid said, "overy. que knows that a Horse couldn't fly around in the sky."

"Peg can," said King Nep.

Who's Pog?

"Per?" asked Hanld. "Who's Peg?""

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King Neptune explained that Feg was short for Pegasus, wonderful Horas with wings.

"He's been flying around," sald King Nep, "for hundreds of years. But most people have forgotten about him, too, so But what a beauti- a Seagull. now he's not much bigger than fut creature he is a

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Kaari and Hand locked

at Feg in amazement. with wings! Just imagine that!" his wings half spread out, ready Knart and Hanid said that to take off, if anyone should do they would like to get a good him harm. close look at Pek, the wonder- ful winged Horse.

Won't hurt him.

"Why, we wouldn't hurt you, "Ecg is pretty funny," said King Nep. "Sometimes he comes you dear thing," said Hand.

Knart had a bit of sugar flying right down and is really

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But nowadays most people friendly. But most of the time his. pocket. He offered it to By this time, the Bird or Bee. had forgotten who he was and he stays hidden in the clouds Peg and from that moment pa or whatever-it-might-be, darted ha had grown smaller an and won't even let himself be they were all the best of friends.

smaller.

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The note that Rupert has heard old paper and stuffs it under his comes NASIRE. There's somebody Hermy He is juss" in-time to outside, he thinks. That is not stralien up as the door buria

Sama footstep. Who can it be 7" open and a grim #gure in strange Though he pulla (svarishly at the clothes striden in. ** And who are lid of the iron bosit will not you growls the man. open. At last he grabs the precious thought the Sailor Eved alone."

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"Come overl Sit down! Make yourselves sug!" King Nop said, pointing to a white stomo on which the sun was shining.

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seen. But I try to coax him down just the same."

...Behind, clouds. King Nep put two fingers his mouth and blew. A

whistle came out.

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"In the good old days," King whispered to Kupri Nep Huald Jet Feg fly of the palm of her hand

and back

In again, he was big enough to loud let both of you sit on bla back. Ho could have taken you on a their ride over mountains and oceans, one white higher than the highest clouds,

almost up to the noon"

· Knarf and Hamid kept glued to the 'Knart and Hanid looked a: eyes King Nep. Their eyes looked cloud in the sky. puzzled.

In the sky

King Nep chuckled, "He was in the sky a moment ego."

"Oh, you mean that : Bird!". excialmed Hanld

"It wasn't Bird. It was a Bee" cried Khart,

"We'll know In a minute if ha's coming back," said King Nep. "He's bohhid that 'cloud somewhere. I'm sure of 1

Should eat more

"T" do wish you'd' growi dervor, Fog". Hanid said to the te Horro "You really ought to, est more." dang

The next second Knarf:) and Ifanid gasped. For down from that cloud, shining in the sun Buddenly Pog spied a Police- light, came the beautiful thing man coming down the path. He This time it was King Nes that looked like a small Bird flow away in a flash and dis- who looked puzzled. park or a large Bee, but which was appeared in the blue sky, d

Bird? Dos? It wasn't either, really swinged Horega Perks straid of Policemen," It was a Horse!" - Den Berg er allaited on the rock just seld King Nep, shaking his - Knarf and Hanld both shout in front of Knarf and Hanid, hord. "To thinks there's a rule ed together

And there be stood with mash against winged iforsas dying "A Horse??.

Ing-eyes-and-whipping tall and in the park.

LADY

your

LUCK-

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