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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1061. 17

WOMANSENSE

BARBARA GRIGGS, in Florence for the fashion Mothers of the moment:

shows, reports on the latest trends THE VENEZIANI LINE

IS A STAR

Florence.

FLORENCE'S fashion week, like Paris, is

planned as a musical crescendo. After the weekend chopsticks of boutique and beachwear, we got down to serious business the other day with the first four haute couture collections: Corosa, Marucelli, Antonelli and Veneziani.

Italian decoliètces are rarely as disturbing to French ones, This time they are almost non- existent.

Of these feur, only Veneziani Dior could always bp neled on can be seriously considered us to include in his summer collec- high fashion by intern tical tiotz. standards. Antonelli and Corosa have heaps of Ideas, Aashes of inspiration and plenty of petly thoughts.

Marucelli frankly designed to grailty the more vland taste of the buyers who throng the Pill Palace, to drop in on Florence for a pot of glitter and sensation.

Forget about the flower-prints. Italy, at any rate, has put them into cold storage for this season.

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Solid colours of pink, green, orange, crocus yellow and lurquoise won hands down and

Sugar pink the fow prly.ts shown were

Coress and Veneziani showed nearly all abstract-many of one of the pretficet thoughts them with a mout so scattered to emerge from the day's show they almost

ing; the lightweight col coat with a contrast wool ining and

a dress to match the lining.

Corosa Uned a sage-green coat

counted as plain

colours anyway.

Star furn of the day: Veneziani whose line was slim and simple by day, delishly

with sugar pink and put a su faltering oral deminite by night

pink dress beneath it.

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And Venezial showed whole series-sagar pink coat

in chiffon or marocane.

Triumph

Woo

lined with peorly donkey brown Triumph of her collection, I over donkey brown dress; deep thought (certainly the garmeals pink-ined cont over a pale pink I'd wish to own myself) Fuit; scarlet coat Ined with navy the worn with a navy two-pleve; a donkey brown co.1 lined with white wool, worn with a white wool two-piece.

serica of short-sleeved straight costs simple as those of a sophisticated schoolchild in bright pretty wools worn over a matching dress in linen or

Sults of the lightest possible shantung each of which was a weight and flutterly texture beltless chemiac.

lending themselves to pleating I also liked the marshmallow are already obviously destined pink wool over paler pink shad-

to play a fuvenile load in the tung with a shiny straw hat to manmer's 1981 fashion story. metch,

Coroza

matelied

used an orange and Variations on the short-sloved lomon abstract print in fine silk coat theme straight, low-belted for a straight short-sleeved top cost dresses in fine wool, and worn over a finely pleated skirt print silks worn over and showed it under a cont of chemises. bald orange-rother likely Topping the 1001 style.

TURN

Veneziani's weightless. evening took in a sleeveless chiffon dress (left) and one of her light-hearted young spring coats fo vivid marabmallow plak.

IT IT does seem as though the

British have some odd idens when it comes to ele- vating women. Dr Edith Summerskill, for instance, who has been raised to the Peerage, says and does the very things that raise the hackles of most. British Mums.

and says:

they should be in the Lords

"Children

are very

cnally conditioned lo travelling *** it's the mothers who aren't."

Anyone still haggling about the use of her husband's sur

The Ministry of Health could name while what most career benefit from her experience. mothers need is someone to holp RITA HAYWORTH (Some- with their tax problems seems thing in the Senate?) monstrously old fashioned today, eleven-year fight to keep her

much publicised daughter

ACHIEVEMENT

For an

Yaa-

PARENTS PAGE Edited by Maureen Owen

min out of the limelight, away bean busy with the holiday If you're a city mother, you'll

from the European gay spola (could anyone do more than de- brochures.

deposit of £35,000

scon and that prams with a What we want in, the House and a

But unless tourists go to the small wheel base are a nightmare

for menoouvring herbs, of Lords are mothers who have against her safe return every same place every year, it takes

Points to water Springing broken new ground with today's time she stepped out of Ameri- a few days to assimilate

thepok

for C-springs and strap liner points of your chosen resort. problems and are in a position ca?)

Last year, for instance, we suspension. Springing carut be

ted by gging, the were within three days of leave handle up and down. Jointless ing before we found the best tyres, ball bearings and good

to hand out advice all round.

My short st would include MARY MILLS, wife of John Mills, the film star, and mother of three.

GOOD JOB

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cating-place for miles Bround. time the

locals.

children

pram

brakes will last you through With five husbands and Another For realising in time that her everything against her as a ma bruised themselves to pieces on more than one baby.

Make sure that the bed lengthị three bright offspring were bored ther, RRB is now reported hap- a stony beach before finding a Just eating their heads off at py at last and has made a Rood Candy cove only known to the is not less than 32 Inches and home and school,

that the hood is ligh enough and giving job of bringing up her children'

Talking to Mrs David (Juke to allow the baby them a feeling of Behlovement in a home which is secure ni Box Jury) Jacobs, who lives at properly which older. A good by enabling them to contributo most to the point of dullness. to the family income.

the Treasury.

Her advice is badly needed at

LESLIE CARON, French

ac tress married to Peter Hall and mother of two small daughters, For being the new-style career mother who takes her carry- cotted young with her wherever she goes-on locatlan, or on holl- day and administers their feed- ing schedules and clothing changes according to complicated chart which would fox mast mo- thera, let alone a glamour puto.

She studies local conditions

to sit up

She has marie put of Yasmin, Angmering, Sussex, I realised quality, hood in essential and, daughter of the latu Aly Khan that she saw her home town in most important of all the and now eleven, a nice normal very different light from the balance should be right. Never

Bacrifice lightness to security. little girl under the most abnor annual holldaymaker.

"People mal circumstances possible.

come to Angmering The Ministry of Education expecting a quiet, unspoilt little might be able to use her.

village," she told me. "Actually I'd say the social pare is a shade faster than London.

FAST PACE

5 one who can say with Kingsley Amis like it hore" whon

it comes to

For some reason there is a long waiting list for prams, Dc- very sometimes takes as long as three or four months. Don't attempt to hurry over the .nc- "There are three dining and tual buying though. Most sales. dancing places. (The Blue Peter men rightly regard seiling a is the most famous) and in the pram as a very important core summer there's a party going al- mony and you will get the most wonderful treatinent wherever most every night.

"Masses of theatrical, adver- you go, tising and big business people

ke the Queen before her tour holidays in Britain, i havo take houses here in the summer.

PARENTS AND BABIES

Young WHAT is behind pretty

clothes were huge, plain, hats in glossy

Marucelli ured bright orange extinguisher

the belief of the many mothers who claim that they silk for a blazer and pleated straw, always in the same colour "instinctively” know when their children skirt ouint, while used yards of lightweight silks charming bit of nonsense--a 'sik are in danger even when far away from

Veneziani as the coat and often with n

in abstract prints for a whole scarf wrapped around crown or them?· teries of the short sleeved brim. pleated dresses which Christian

London Exprate Séroled).

LADY LUCK-

YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE

MONDAY, JANUARY 30 AQUARIUS {January *1- but could pave the way to

February 19): Take full

more satisfying commu advantage of a change in nity life.

(August 22- your way of life. Although VIRGO at inay mean harder work, September 22): You may the results will be that be distracted from your much more satisfactory.

usual routine today, but PISCES (February 20-March should not let it worry you. 20): A tie with very The unexpected may prove

very advantageous.

close friend seem to be weakening, but no blame attaches to anything you have done, ARIES (March 21-April 19): A business trip will enable you to visit a relative whom you have little opportunity to see otherwise. TAURUS (Ápril 20-May 20); This ought to be a pro- pitious day for you to con- clude a business deal which has been awaiting your final decision. GEMINI: (May 21-June 21): The chance of a romantic asrociation with n person you have recently met is not too promising, and you should try to divert your thoughts to someone wor- thier of you. CANCER (June 22-July 21); Refrain from using By funds for speculation today, and keep RWAY from gambles of any kind, even where money is not In

volved. LEO (July 22-August 21): A social contact may not be very enriching emotionally,

1.

HOW is it that young babies sense if they are unwanted by parents, even though not ill- treated?

Is telepathy the link?

WHY do babies so often start "playing up" By CHAPMAN PINCHER

when their mothers plan to go out in the evening, though elaborate efforts are made to hide the fact from them?

Dr Joan Fitzherbert, a psy- chiatrist with long experience of "With some it appears impos- children, believes she has found sible for them to have learned the answer to these questions the true position by ordinary

Mothers and their young babies conscious channels. unconsciously communicate with one another by telepathy to such an extent that this is the main way in which an infant learns during its early life.

Sixth sense

was planted in your mind during

• childhood by telepathic com- munication from your mother who had been there or seen picture of the place.

"The most probable explana- tion seems to be that the resent- ment is due to unconscious tale- pathically obtained knowledge that the adoptive mother did not bear or breast-feed the child."

The evidenco suggests that if telepathy occurs I can act over; A baby, whose reasoning pow- real mother cease to communic

ung distance. So why should tho ers are not yet developed, knows ate with her child when they what is going on because the are separated? mother's mind unconsciously produces a running commentary. The answer may be that any In' support of this startling mother willing to give up her theory, Dr Fitzherbert, who is child to be adopted soon stops medical director of the Chatham thinking about him even uncon- Child Guidance, Clinics, draws aclously. So few "waves" reach SCORPIO (October 23-on her 14 years' experience with his mind.

November 21): Conditions normal and mentally disturbed

favourable fur children. going after the kind of re-

She is convinced that babies are cognition you so eagerly so responsive to changes of the desire.

mother's mood that they quickly SAGITTARIUS

BRA (September ** October 22): You will have a splendid opportunity to strengthen family ties which have recently thren- tened to become rather strained.

are

now

22-December 21);

was

•

Herd instinct

1.

The telepathic sense in babies (November realise whether they are loved or may be a vestige of a sense which

once A com-unwanted and reset accordingly.

highly Important throughout man's life and may parative stranger may bring In a medical report entitled still persist among adult birds you good luck, and you "The role of extra-sensory per- and animals: should seek an opportunity ception in early childhood, to thank him in tangible Fitzherbert writes:

form.

CAPRICORN

Dr

Flocks of birds in flight wheel) with such precision that they

Though I have been Impressed by telepathy experiments in which I have taken part, and

(Average: £25 a week).

"The beach is really all stones jexcept for some dazy stuff at low tide." That's why so many people have swimming pools right by the sen, but the big advantage is that the beach le so huge it never gets overcrowded.

"Clothes are casual, though de- finitely not the 'any old thing

Well' cut sincks variety, shorts. That sort of thing."

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and MOST doclarers make it a

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habit to win a trick with the highest of any group of equal value cards, Tacy thinks they are making brilliert falce card, but on many; 'oben prom is

sions the best deceptive play-is- almost as difficult as to win, with the lowest, selecting a car those days. South won the first Every season brings o new with the ldng of spades and

tried diainend, Ancase. avary typo of mother, pro- not require much thought on sumably, babies being most- his part to see that it would be useless to return a spade to ly the same shape.

his partner.

crop of prom models to suit trut the diamond. An esse. East

If you are always going away

Obviously, declarer held the know several front-rank minds or moving you'll need the low queen of spades since other- who believe the phenomenon is fold-up kind, with a detachable wise West would have held a well proved, I do not go all the body that can be used 39.a spado sult headed by queen- way with Dr Fitzherbert's fas- carry-col.

Jack-ten and would have open- cinating mother and – baby: If you live anywhere withed the queen, not his fourth theory.

stairs or narrow passages you'll best. But then I am only a father. need to watch the weight and Now all Earl had to do was

London Express Service. width carefully,

to choose between clubs and hearts, and he decided on the

CHILDREN'S CORNER

Jack-In-The-Box

--Mary-Jane, The Rag Doll, Lets Him Out-

you heard him or you didn't. You couldn't almost."

By MAX TRELL TEDDY, the Stuffed Bear, had Knorf and Mary-Jane listened. looked at the box-stared stead- Then Mr. Punch came over and lly at it-for most of the after he listened. Teddy listened again. noon. Now and then he put his So did Hanid. car against it and listened." "You can almost hear some-

It wasn't a very big box. It body inside that box," was about the size of a large match box.

Teddy

instated on saying. "Just as he's about to move, he stops. So you don't hear anything really. But you almost do."

Mr Punch walked all around the box just as Hanid had done. more slowly. Only he walked He even looiced under the box.

"If anybody's in there," be he's doing in there."

Shout from inside

Rapped on box Teddy rapped on the side of the box.

"Who's in there?" he called. No one answered. "It is dimcult to account satis- seem to be in some kind of in-with the Turned-About Name, finally said, "I don't know what

Then Knart, the Shadow Boy (December 22-factorily for an infant's aware- mate communication. The un January 20): You will ness of its mother's unconscious casiness among a herd of antel.came along. And a few feet have an opportunity to meet mental conflet except by the ope or cattle which causes them away, standing by the door of a set of people entirely hypothesis of telepathy."

to stampede may be the result the room, was General Tin, the

Tin Soldier. of unconscious communication by: different from your usual Many mothers claim that they telepathy.

"Somebody's inside Uils box," companions, and should And know when anything is wrong

If the power of telepathy exists Teddy told them. it a stimulating evening. with their children "by Instinct," as a natural sense in all infants YOUR BIRTHDAY: If your but this is a meaningless phrase why are its effects rarely ex-

unless it implies some "sixth perlenced by adults? birthday is thle week, you sense communication between will find a symbol of good two minds. fortune in a gift of mantel clock.

Rupert and the Purple Star-54

What Sailor Sam has produced is 'tr'a no language that, i know,

the precious faded paper that was "do, believe that it's old Sta-o

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Going into his library : be „Anken'

the cum of the whole adventure. Spanish, We imént look into ili.

and now iw tells the Professor of the

escape, they have had,. “H'm, it

must be more than squally import

down a small volume and studies

the wording on the faded paper

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Let's men, what's it written in ? shows a satisfied emiw.

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"Jack-in-the-box," Mary-Jane called in again, "what are you doing in there?"

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At that moment somebody in waiting to get out. That's all I shifted to the club, but there is

side the box shouted: "Let me out of here!" "There" said Teddy. "I told you somebody was in theref

But Knort and Hanid and Mr Punch and Mary-Jane oll jumped back in alarm the min- ute they heard the volce. They hid behind General Tin, who kept saying:

What's there to bo neared of? There's nothing inside that to the

If telepathy occurs at all- So perhaps the mind develops) Then Hanld, the Shadow Girl, box! I didn't hear anything!" and there la some selentiae a protective barrier to telepathy and Mary Jane, the Rag Doli "Let me out!" the voice from evidence to suggest it does which can be penetrated only came over and looked carefully. Inside the box shouted again. Dr Fitzherbert's theory helps to when its guard is down.

at the bax. Hand waiked' ail explain why continuous contact This could explain why tele-around it. Mary-Jane: climbed with the mother in the forma- pathy is reported as occurring all over. It live years is so important for most often during the half-awaka the child's mental welfare.

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Tin foll over This time General Tin fell

state, when the mind is fatigued Mary-Jane.

"It has a catch on it," said over backwards.

"Please," said the voice again, It may also explain why child- or during periods of great emo.

She pointed to a small hook "I won't hurt anybody. Just lift.

fbo hook and let me out,"

Mr Punch and. Knart helped ren who are adopted so often tional atress.

at the top of the box.

Nobody wanted to do, any- General Tin back on his feet. learn that their parents- are not

. Top must open. thing, except Mary-Jane, the their true father and mother, death the barrier to jelopathic:

"You see? What's there to be without being told so.

transmissions breaka · down, ac- Then somebody sold that the Rag Doll. After a minute or two scared off" General Tin sald, being soilà 'und - the king"; of: Perhaps they are unable to counting for strong telepathla | top of the box must come open she said to all the others "Ifello fiere, Jack-in-the-box}{ "spadow in purely the right klag. "tune In" to a foster-mother to distress signals often described. If you touched the hook and "He sounda - very nice. He Welcome! I'm glad you're going for you to be holdiBE. the same extent as with n mos Póralalence of repressed mem¬KOV KLANGEN,

but can't be very comfortable, ajl to slay with us--or are you?” a

"Are you?" asked everybody.. ther of their own flesh and blood, ories of information received by hit no one wanted to touch it, squeezed-up inside that litt and codsoquenity and starved of telepathy also

it box. I'm going to let him out!! alert an ex- "Somebody's in there

"Of course!" said Jack, mental nourishman singe planations for thai bámipa Iright"|Teddy kept saying," She walked up to the box staying in my box; -- I'm

Children who traballaved to have been here before feeling Almost heard him, on va park his

his name be unaware of being adopted of when you are certain you have Hanld looked at Teddy and

I'm

- staying in this house, I'm stay- ing in two places at the same *g* #You-In=Ubere,” she called in, time.” low could you almost hear what's your name?" reizen And he grinned all around

the room. | berbert writer, ng mas mata (which gives rise to this feeling | anybody; you skily Dear? Kilber "Jack," answered the voice.

ten show marked resentment of notte SALINAS ave him a funny smiley, their adoptive mother, Dr.FileMaybe than misty memory

TODAY'S QUESTION,

Again your partner 'opens one. club; you respond one diamond; and your përtrier bids two

pads. You holdi SEX AN ◆REDISKA ANİ

What do you do?

Amenčur Tomorrow ......