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THE · CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, LJANUARY 9, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
WHAT YOU WILL WEAR THIS YEAR
by Jane Rogers
DON'T need a crystal ball to predict what you'll
wear next season, for the shape of 1961 has already been settled by the wholesale dress de- signers.
By last September work had begun on the clothes that go into the shops in February:
Your
tult will be collarless rik dresses around this summ!-- and, more often than not, but mer. Look out for them. toned to the side. If you pick For thone transitional tres hot for ccat, one of the intent variations of when it is too the Givenchy Bre, you may too cold for cottons, you'll pick neket, for almost chovos a dt that fastens with a dress and bows instead of truttons,
every dress designer is includ- Your sut may be trimmed, ing end in his collection. Some Chanel-style, with contrasting of them or in wool, others In braid, but it is more than likely a new tibre that looks TIN that' you'll plekt, one trimmed thought it might be wool t with thick wool fringing in- isn't. The newest form of the stead. If you are young and dress and jacket hus a top light-hearted you may choose which buttons at the side like Other designs next season's best-sellers, a suit a Cardin suit.
dress in se boucle tweed with glant to look out for are the wool pom-porne instead of but with long sleeves, which has n alcoveless jerkin over the top. and the Dior dregs which has a lowered waistline and a softly gathered skirt.
tons.
No browns
Your shoes will have lower,
The colour of your suit wil be light and bright, no muddy more shapely heels and many brown but golden toasty brown khops will be selling shoes that top have squarer toes. Some of the or mint green, another
heels are newest coicur, Manly women are bound
made from brown patent.
white felt, or straw banded with grosgrain, and for the girl something really who c tallored there is the new buh- fashion form of the perked up with a rose tucked
Your hat will be less high, to fall for lilac again, and there stacked leather, are curved into will be a good deal of It around a wide base so that they won't rising, and, the chances are that for spring. Tweed will still be catch in gratings, or grooves in it will be two-toned with a Colours: Black brim in one colour, the crown the
top Tabele of the season, the pavement
The pudding-basin particularly if it in coarse-tex- palent is ull tops, but there is in another.
a che newcomer on the scene bal makes its appearance in under the brim. tured.
Your coat will also be collar- lees, or it may fasten high st the neck, mandarin-fashion. If you follow fashion in a big way you'll look out for a coal with the new shorter-than- bracelet-length sleeves which stop just below the elbow, have wide turn-back cuffs.
Coats will still be slim and straight cut, but the curved scam will indicate the shape of your figure,
Rough
bowler,
RIGHT: The hat of 1981. It has a felt brim,and a crown covered in spotted silk. Comes summer and you can re- move the silk to show the straw beneath; By Henry Heath,
LEFT: The hat of 1961-atrietty for swimming. It is from a new range of bathing caps by Playtex. The hairstyle? Its the 1991 version of, the shingle.
Who really makes the sacrifice
WE working wives are
under the micro-
scope again.
It any social worker, in- dustrialist, or research scientist makes up to me at a party, I mny Colours? White is going to shell know that it's not
blue eyes that fascinate him, but be a top favourlie, despite the fact that I've got a husband, cleaning problems But help
'a child, and a part-time job, -comes-from the new rough and
The part-time worker (or the Tough Terylene fabric which part-time wife, depending which washed frequently. side you're on) provides a con- can be There is news, too, about an-stant stream of mutterial for the other now washable cost. made from Chunky-knit Orion, and comes in vivid colours,
coat Look out for 1 new fabric from Italy which will
It is pamphleteers.
NO WAIFS
-
The latest
put in un appearanen soon. It Wife and
is
if a wife goes to work?
By
"SHIRLEY LOWE
But no woman with children can go out and do even one hour's work without sacrifices.
It's not the children who
companionshilp In the evening. while she did it.
The Grumbling Pixie
-OSaml Tell The Shadows An Interesting Thing-
By MAX TRELL
YOUD think, Pixie O'Scowl
was drumbling (to ušunily · grumbled), “that they'd know their own Chilldren. But no-nut at all! I'm the one who has to go around and tell them! I have fo tell them who their own Children are!!
With that Pixie O'Scow] grimbled agzin (for wrumbling www.what he did most of all) and was about to walk away.. when Kort and Hamid, the Shadow. Children with 1ho Turned-About Names, grabbed hold of him, and-held him back, He had been talking to. Chem. Only they didn't understand what he was talking about,
Pixie 0'Boowl was standing on Hand's handy shouting.
Shouted at them Duck, and n baby Elephant, and
a baby Fish." "Leggo!" Pixie O'Scowl shout-And," interrupted Hanid na cd. "I'm busy!"
she 'amiled · at · Pixi- OʻScow), "Oh no, you don't!” said Kaart, "it's the same with a regular circling his hand, around the Baby- tho Bables grow up angry Pixto.
to be Popple
Hanid picked up Pixie O'Scow between her thùmb' and' fore- finger and sat him down in the middle of her hand. He was no larger than a Grasshopper,
T
"I'm not letting you go any where until you tell us all about those People who don't know who their own Children are!"
Frog Babies
"But take Frog babies,” sald Pixie O'Scowl. "Do you sup- pose they look like Frogs?"*
"Tay sure they do,” said Knar!..
"I'm sure they do," sald Hanid. "And take Bulteřily babies," said Pixie O'Scowl "Do you
"They're not People! Let me suppose they look anything ilko gol" Pixle O'scowl kept shouting Butterflies?" in a voice that grew angrier and' * loudor every second.
Knart and. Hanid both an- swered that they were sure that But it did him no good. Hamid Butterfly Bables looked exactly refused to let him get down off like Butterflies, her hand until he had explained. exactly what he meant.
Sat down
Finally Pixie O'Seowl saw that It was no use struggling, so he sat down quietly on Hani's hand.
asked
It's the grandmother, who can't just dote from a distance, but has to help with the hard work and discipline
(out of three of the mothers who work during theplied Pixie O'Scowl."** afternoons * regularly rely on a grandmother to inke
of
Two
care
the children for the last two hours of their shift.
And, of course, it's the women themselves who often find that they are getting the worst of both worlds.
NO, TIME
·
"Suppose I told you," mid Pixlę O'Scowl, cocking; his head • to one side, and looking slyly and mysteriously at Knart and Hanid, "that Frog babies looks lie Fish, and Butterdy babies look like: Worms, you wouldn't believe end for a minute."
"It's Old Man Frogs,” he said. Didn't say anything "And Lady Butterfiler. They're the ones who don't know their. Knopf, and: Honid" didn't- cay own Children.
anything. They looked. won- "Why don't they?" Knart deringly at Fido O'Scowl.
+ "Frog "bables" Bid Pixie Because of their looks," re- D'8dbwi; "are Tadpoles. They
Bve in the water and they swim Hico Fish. And as for Butterfly Knart and Hardd continued to bables, they're long and squirmy
like Worras. look puzzled.
They have legs "Now take
but no wings. They don't look a Kitler" gald Pixle O'Scowl. "A Kitten is a any more like a Butterfly than baby Cat, isn't he? And a Killen I do. They are called Cater-. looks like a Cat. It's smaller pillera..
a
She's a hard-working, selfless woman who sacrifices the gossip tong, over the fence and the Jeisured lunches to provide a higher standard of living for the whole family.
Her children are not under- delving privileged little walfs,
the corn unaided into
flakes packet, taking themselves off to school. On the contrary, the
Which means that after pacity- mother plans her working to ing the baby and answering the report, Woman completely round her children's ceaseless demands of the toddler Worker, reports on comfort.
the mother is prepared to give a mixture of jute and wool, 2,400 married women at a. Ber-
In the factory the research up the only peaceful part of her make themi biscuit factory-just team investigated admittedly day to earn some extra money. It's the firm which employs
but still it locks like a Cal. And "And that's why, e continued is used to make off-beat topmondsey
The women, with school
Puppy is a baby Dog. It's Pixie O'Scowl, Frogs have to coats that look as though they one factory load of the 3,000,000 one which takes the trouble to
married vomen Britain who fit its routine to the needs of children choose the 9 to,
4.30 the mothers.
smaller than a Dog. It doem' be told that Tadpoles are their might have been made from
work.
they can married women-only a quarter shift, so that
This particular factory allows leave sucking,
bark as loud as a Dog. But all' Children, And Butterflies have The authors, a team from of the women employed are home und return with the its women time off without pay.
They make time for the you have to do is look at a to be told that one day the ugly Your dress, if it is a cummer London University, backed by full-timers.
children, Ör they choose the It knows that a child with housework, the sewing, the Puppy and you don't hava any little squirmy Caterpillars are will almost certainly be the Government's Department of
afternoon shift, which means measles is far more important cooking and the shopping, but soubts that when it grows up it's going to grow up to be beauti- Scientific ond slooveless. You may plek it in
Industrial Re- HER PEACE
children off to to a mother than a sales chart. can't find time for the walics in going to be a Dog." they see the search, linch or shantung. but if you 200 women, got some to keep questioned a sample of
school and get the housework The firm even arranges for an the park, the day at the shops, choose a print you are bound diaries, went to see them in the married women, come in at leave for the factory.
The part-timers, most of them and cooking done before they overseer to deal cach day with the shops, or the children's teali
the requests for time off.
or the children's tea party. to fall for one of tho now their homes.
"Of course]" The firm expects absenteeisın.
Knarf The researchers found that smudgy abstract
different Umes of day to work designs in
They go out to work, but "Everybody knows that!" Their report reveals that the black, brown and white, or one woman
on one of four short shifts. the mother with a part-time job
It's the husband who doesn't there are no lunches with the with
home
Phlo' Oscowi nodded. and There are no mothers with runs her pi. the stained-glass blues.
home If children who does a
efficiently, get the comforts of slippers by girls or drinks with the boys,
Forgot to ask · And it's the same with a lime carefully the fire and has to make you like something more sop-job isn't a self-seeking monster
part-time young children on the morning organises her
do and they don't get promoted baby Cow-". shift. histicated you'll rid that there mad for a telly and a Coa-
and looks after her children with a fry-up instead of a partly because the boss is al
And Pixie D'Scowl had dis- "You mean a Call, don't you?" appeared in the grass before But on the evening shift two conscientiously. will be many more inexpensive tineatai holiday.
solid meat and veg. meal.
ways expecting them to leave or asked Knart. out of three women bave They hadn't a hard word Lo
The men whose wives work to sick.
Клапт suddenly remembered chlidren under Ave,
"And a baby Sheep" said that he hadn't asked him a Bay for her.
the evening shift put tic There's no doubt that doing Pixle O'Scowl after nodding most important question: chlidren to bed, clear away the a part-time job out as well as again. meal, and set as baby sitters. a full-time Job at home is a lot
more work.
"You mean a Lamb, don't you?" All the husbands were pre- I'm only glad that all the asked Hanid. pared to help with the house- women admitted that it was a work or, do without their wife's lot more fum too.
one,
LADY LUCK SWEET CORN DELICACIES
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE
AQUARIUS
MONDAY, JANUARY 9
other walk of life,
Sweet corn fritters:
11
in-
be
HOUSEHOLD
HINTS
Mix and sift the dry gredients, add milk and egg and 1 cup milk, 1 cup drained beat together until light. Add Linned sweet corn, 14 cups the corn and melted margarine flour, 1 tablespoon melted fat, 1 and bake as usual in a walle egg. 2 teaspoons baking powder fron. These waffles need to bake a little slower than usual Mix dry Ingredients, then and
Itle longer 10 add milk, corn and beaten egg thoroughly cooked in the con- VIRGO (August 22-Add meited fat. Fry in deep fe.
September 22): Before fat to a medium brown then assuming that a friend'a drain on paper. The frying fa Sweet corn loaf: long silence shows a loss of must be hot but the fritters interest in you, make in need to cook slowly enough to quiries to see if all is well cock at the centre before they
are too brown, with him. LIBRA (September 25-Sweet corn chowder:
October 22): In your long
1 cup fresh sweet corn, 4 lb term plans for the future, salt pork, Heed, 1 quart boillar and arrange it in a casserole in dingy appearanICE consider the possibility of
with water, 1 quart potatoes, par- Sprinkle the top with crumbs, to either the cleaning agent not sine. spending some time abroad. boiled and deed, 1 cup cream dot with fat and pimientos. being thoroughly dissolved be- SCORPIO (October 23. or milk. 1 onion dieet, salt and Bake slowly in a moderate oven
November 21): You will pepper to taste.
in the water, or to insufficient
(January 21. would be less happy in any and teaspoon salt, February 19); Don't be flattered into-taking a lead- Ing part in a venturo whose failure could easily mar your reputation. PISCES (February 20-March 20): Before making ani expensive household pur- chase, weigh against it the nuraber of smaller items you could buy for the same money.
ARIES (March 21-April 10): Lack of co-operation on the part of a colleague must not discourage you from going ähead with your, part of an essential piece of work. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Greater stability in your affairs will give you tho peace of mind you need to function properly.
* GEMINI (May 21-Juno 21): Since you are nož always ready to come to the aid of others, you can hardly assume their willingness to help you.. CANCER (June 22-July 21): If you aim at an unquali- fled success in one field, you may have to sacrifice most of your other interest. LEO (July 22-August 21); Encourage a youngster to develop his undoubted talent for the creativa"aria on the ground that he
not achieve success merely
Fry out the pork then remove by talking about it,
from the pan. Brown the enlon Only
in the fal, then add the water dedicated work can bring in which the potatoes were you near your goal.
cooked. Add the potatoes, com SAGITTARIUS (November and seasoning and cook together 22-December 21): If you until tender. Slir, In the cream want to establish a reputa-and pour over rounds of toast. tion for reliability, beware Sweet corn souffle: of the small lapses that I tup cooked sweet corn,' 1 could so easily lose it for cup white sauce, 3 czem you.
Add the beaten egg yolks to CAPRICORN (December 22- the while sauce, then the orn January 20): A forthcom- Izally fold in the stimy beaten ing family celebration will egg whites. Pile in a greased entail a great deal of work, caserole and set in a pin of boiling water. Bako 1 # but your fatigue will be
moderate oven for forty forgotten in your whole minutes. hearted enjoyment of the Sweet corn waffles: occasion. YOUR BIRTHDAY: If your 2 cups four, 2 cups sour milk, Birthday is this week, you of soda, 1 teaspoon baking 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon bicarbonato will find a symbol of good powder, 11⁄2 teaspoon
malt, 4 fortune. In a gift of a tea tablespoonsmelled margarine, Bot.
1⁄4 cup cooked sweet corn, ma
1 Tin sweet corn, 1 cup. medium while stuce, 2 eggs, 1 cup bread crumbs, 2 tablespoons fat, 2 tablespoons chopped pimiento, salt and pepper.
Add the com and well beaten eggs to the white sauce layers
for 40 minutes.
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fore the sheets" are immersed
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staine,
Knark agrees
Guld.
ful: flying Butterflies with black' - and gold and yellow wings.
"And now let me go!",
Which is what Hand, did, of
courso,
"Do baby Pides look like Iguiar, grown-up Pixies or do they look more like Tadpoles and Caterpillars?'' "Yes," mid Pide O'Scowl. " "We'll have to asic Pixio “And it's exactly, the same with Scowi the next time," sald a baby Chicken, and 4 baby Hand, as they walked away.
JACOBY BRIDGE
the
on
for NORTH'S band is ideal
Staynak two club Tesponse to his partner's open- ing no-trump. He really wanis to check for a tour card major. suit in the South kand.
When making marusalade, bolt rinsing. Wash the sheets again, the peel in a litle water. The rinsing them thoroughly in peel will then become soft and several champes of clean water will shred more easily.
and they should look as good
When South shows his four GA new again.
cárd spade holding North sees New sheets often acquire a
To remove creosote
ja possible, but not too probable after they
slam, breadcrumbs, have been washed. This is due rub with a cloth soaked in ben-
If he is playing the Jacoby slam convention be can check For nces without retting påel Το tenderie a tough fowl, cover with water to which has dame and does so by his four club bid. Remember, in the been added one cup of vinegar Jacobs ainm convention a jump and took overnight,
to four cluba, si clibs have not boen previously bid at a suit, Stains in decanters and par-janka for aces The Stayman. row necked bottles can be re-convention is an exception, moved most effectively If a mix- South's four heart blå solvej lure of vinegar and sale is poured all slam problems for North. in. Add about an equal quantlyNorth is only looking at, one of warm water, replace the stop- per, and shake the bottle' well, For oid stains leave the mixture In the bottle for 24 hours,
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What do you do? A--Blê ene,'alub, Ton furlönd It is Intereating to note that
[aco' and 'Bouth is showing only ono ace so thorearo- two aces. off the hand.
North signs off at four pades and South has no trouble mak- ing five odd
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to take off if year yeriner tan fhu jack of clubs opening will You can avoid untwissing a MEGA KUKKOLses, unde ting kan boat thres no-trump. Bouth sash orais aprda tla sa 'you iron | opestar maken it very sang fee will have to Iowa four
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The end attached to the garmenti tron towards the loose end. you, premi Jowards die and sof FB::KA÷Will untwiss tieslE,
You may wonder what North' would have done if South's re- Your partner, responde: one bid over four clubs had shown (^two atom. That will be auswfared.
Buthtond. What is your rubldt
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