1961-02-21 — Page 7

THE CHINA 'MAIL,

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1961.

FOR!

WOMANSENSE

THE QUEEN (by Hartnell)

THE

SPIRAL LOOK

Of all the brilliant gowns taken by the Queen on her momentous tour of India, here-seen in detail for the first time is one of the most spec- tacular. This is how Jill Butterfield describes it to me.... Once more the Queen's dressmaker, Norman Hartnell, achieves a sensational! success with this, a dress of true drama.

*

Forsaking his usual glitter and gold, he carves heavy white satin into a sweeping spiral.

And unexpectedly the train of the dress is lined with bright emerald satin to form a curving cascade..

drawing

by

Robb

-London Express Service),

Mothers, babies, and the Now, the

Charing Cross Experiment....

N hour before my baby

A

was born my journalist

husband carried on an

in-

terview with a Government

By JEAN STEAD

official from the mobile tele-(who had a baby there herself) phone by my National Health Servico bed. The official was,

I noted wryly, at the Minis- try of Labour.

women

modem

የጋ

All this was mere routine at Croen Hospital, My husband also had several Charing

have babies short, sharp phone calls to hs where

way-with news editor, reporting on

both the items of labour news-the Minis- starchy rules, no dragon-faced midwives made hidebound by too try's and maine.

many years of impersonal hos pital life.

Two minutes after the birth, I reached for the same tele- phone on ita cleansingly streamlined hospital frolley, and rang my mother, to tell her it was a boy.

Much earlier, when I was noted by a craving for the sort of food they were eating in the bustling, uncaring world outside, my husband had gone out and bought IT spley. smeiling hamburger, thickly overlafil with fried onions,

·

hidebound There is nothing about the midwives at Charing Cross-they carry books by Dog- toevsky and Andre Gide and are prepared to talk endlessly about the theories of the famous Graniley Dick Read.

No nonsense

Bo

nonsense

OUT there is BUT

about "paintess childbirth previous They sympathise with pals. never leave a mother to endure it alone and give her analgesics

He had spent the night near by, sleeping on one of the narrow examination couches in the ante-nstal clinic, sur- rounded by shiny instruments-- "I don't mind so long as he doesn't fall off" sold the house physician.

STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

Visit With Smokey

-Knarf And Hanid Hear All About A Fire-

By MAX TRELL

First there were arms and legs, then a fat blobby body which THERE was Father smoking became long and thin, and anal- his pine un usual while holy a wispy neck with a head at read his book. Knurf and land, Ute top of it,

the Shadow Children with the Turned-About Names, sit quiet.

cried "It's Jec Smckey!" Knarf.

ani, shoot-

"Sh-h!" wemed

ly on the far side of the room, under a chair, watching him. ing a look toward Father.

Will he come?

A

"Now, Joe dear," said Honid, "please tell us where you've been. We haven't seen you since

Since

"Since last night," replied Joe, stlt grinning.

"Yes," said Hanid, "but we didn't get a chance to talk to you last night. You went fat- ing right out of the open win- dow the minute after you came cut of Father's pipe."

"I was in a hurry." said Joe.

Why the hurry?

"Why should you have to be in a hurry?" Knart asked, look- ing at Joe and smitlag, "You always move like a Snaft,

You just crawl along through the air."

12-29

Joe niokey bowed and said, "Hi there!" to Shadows.

CALLING HER HUSBAND

from her bed at Charing

Cross Hospital- Mr. Shen Penman, of Crouch End

by

My husband won the Protez their babies are born, and the SUT'E approval

putting head of the unit wants to get Into practice his experience as back to this natural state.

30

From half-past Ave In the

we fed

when

the

a rowing coach at Cambridge and Svengall-like, compelling me to relax and do the breath morning, ing exercises I had been taught, babies, to 10 at night, we were

atmosphere became

scarcely ever in vur beds. We The relaxed

bathed the at one point that he looked ofter and

bables ourselves, hind them in sent himself off to sleep.

Having my first baby was a cots by our beds through most When I had my first baby, at disillusioning experience. I dis of the day, ate our meals in a dining-room overlooking the London covered for myself what al- Strand, went to Lectures on another well-known hospital. I was left in fear and ready knew in theory that the unbycraft and did strenuous loneliness in the dark for 10 world often treats the weak and

exercises under the ruthless suffering with callous hour. No one came to reas. the

sye of the physiotherapist, sure me or even to offer a eup thoughtlessness,

when she wants theZN.

go on for 24 hours yet."

During the afternoon, Wo used to rest for an hour-and- a-hair. This was usually the only oasis i be crowded, lively days.

even ปร

Bul My other wardinates included

claim was

instant fringe!

To fringo OF not to Friugo?

Easiest way out is to try. But the safest way is to get a fringe without parting with a single hair on your head.

Mayfair stylist Alan Spiers has entered for those with cold feet about the business by ph |ducing a false fringe which is made to measure to fit the head exactly, tinted to match tho hair,

It la

not cheap {£4 4x or HK$67 for real hair, £2 25 or $33 for nylon) but, as Mr Spiera explains: "I will do anything an ordinary fringe will do" and

six designs you

Examplea

to start with (below).

A vogue

comes

full circle

of tea. Just one curt comment

At Charing Cross I found from the midwie: "This might there were fugitives like myself from other maternity wards. It was a demoralising ex One was the wife of a painter perlence. And I knew from from St, Ives, In Cornwall, my friends that it was one that was only too common In Lon- don: und musty hospitals a stunning blonde from "the brokers by the visits of famous throughout the country.

Buildings in Drury Lane whose cbstetricians from the Unite bock gardon was St. James's States, from Russia and from At Charing Cross a new ma- Park and who used to roller- Polind They stored at terity unit was opened less skule down the Strand as a small incredulously as the medical. thin two years ago. Its head is girl; the English wife of an nail boasted of our prowess. exceptional in thinking that Indian who kept a cafe in the They are never in bed for mothers should have "unvary- Tottenham Court-road: an ex- long they used to say proudly. the chupe before when I first ing, cold-blooded kindness" and debutante who had been a that the ordinary_hospital_rules secretary at the Foreign Office; should be cut out as much as the wife of the possible.

a

owner of Mayfair coffee bar; a Nigerian, Hungarian refugee and We were given a high- Cypriot. powered course of lectures be fore the birth by conlor medical men-it was exactly like enter- ing for an important examina- Lion.

And we were given 1 stiff series of exercles with 511

But Father didn't hear any- Or rather, to be exact. Knari

were watching the thing. He kept right on reading and Hanid amoke as it curled out of the his book and puffing at his pipe. bowl of the pipe. They watched Meanwhile, Smokey Joe, or it drift across the room just Jce Smokey, having reached a under the ceiling.

point directly over the bends of Knert and Itanid, now started letting himself float downI, few seconds later be landed "So you think he'll come twillout u sand-for what can zight?" Knart whispered to land more softly than noke? because I had to go to a fire, one of the most wonderful to have the baby as quickly and

on the carpet. He landed on his He smiled, made a bow "I'm almost sure of "Hazid feet

to Knorf and Hanid brid sold, whispered back. "I thought I

* "Hi there!" saw him a few minutes ago." she added. Then site suddenly sold: "Look!"

1 sister.

She was pointing to the blob of ameke drifting toward them under-the-ceiling.

}

Nobody in the world could have heard the round of his velce except Shadows like Knarl and land.

"Hello Joe, what do you know?" asked Knar?.

Knart stared. Slowly, while Joe grinned and sat down, 'He he was watching the blob of was used to that kind of greet- smoke beyon to Lake shape. Ing. He liked it.

JACOBY

SA

on

BRIDGE

CAFETY plays which are dè- signed to insure a cociract aquinst bad breaks are pri- martly for rubber bridge, At duplicate you usually go after all the tricks.

Any

good rubber bridge dummy player would look over for i moment and note that

Reven no-trump would have been o alee contract. Then he would see that his six no-irump contract would blow up in his face if he tried for seven and all four diamonds appeared in one hand.

Then he would lead n dia- mond and duelt in dummy to insure his contract against that potential bad break.

+CARD SendeRO

Q-The bidding has been:

North

East Boath

14

Pana

2.

Paan Pato

T

You, South, hold:

NORTH

협

A32

TO

◆AKQ8054

02

WEST AQJ1

1004

+ 3 10 93

4978

EAST

487054

VQJB3 ◆ None

J1013

SOUTH (D)

AKD

AKBZ

+72

AKQS

No one vulnerable

South West North East

Paso, 3

Pasa GN.T. Pass

3 N,T. PosS Poss Pass

-Opening lead—4 Q

What should declarer do at West duplicate?

He should make the rubber Pras. Pass bridge miely play!

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reason is that declarer 43Z VATE ◆KI07054 4s should note that seven is a pretty good contract and that most pairs will have bid the only grand slam. Hence, his chance for a good score is to And all four diamonds in one hanc

What do you do? A-Did five diamonds. Your partner is looking for big things and this is your best way to slow Idm down.

TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner opens one club. You hold: AAJ820 WAGE6"+KQJ10 40

What do you do?

Answer Tomorrow

Furthermore, be should 300 that if the diamonds do break

he will all get a couple of points for making just six-no-, trump. Some North will surely be playing six diamonds,

Natural

my

always

The visitors were invited to question us, which they did. They asked, hadn't our husbands found 11 frighten- Jag to be with us while we had the bables? The Iron Curtain visitors, especially, seemed worried about this and looked doubtful when we said no.

The experiment at Charing ITALF-AN-HOUR after Cross menns extra demands on the intensity of a coach tram- II baby was born, I ing athletes for

got the patience and understanding the Olympic

slowly out of bed and of the midwives and medical Games.

walket down a lonz corridor staff. It can cook meals. It can watm

It is much harder for the bathroom. Charing them than it is for the staffs of "Maybe I do and, then again, up cold houses. It can melt It was stimulating, exciting to

Cross is one of maybe I don't," said Joe. "Any things

the few maternity words who are not that you can haver knew 30

they were concerned way, last night I was in a hurry iron and steel and glass, It's about how I felt and wanted me hospitals in the world where expected to trouble about how

that would be possible. Every the mother feels. enrily as possible. Altogether 1 one was persuaded to get out of

Dr Johnson said the full was in for ten days.

bed and to slay out-as soon

It was tough, tide of human existence flowa as they could. but it did a lot for our morale, at Charing Crocs. It did for

Danced all night

You can't have much of a fire things in the world." Joe added without smiling at all, "unless there's bit of smoke. Don't make any mis- takes, though. I don't care much for fires."

"But Are car burn down houses," sald Hanid.

"Only when somebody is care- Kwarf and Hond quickly less," said Smokey Joe. wanted to know what kind of fre it was, and whether were Are engines or not.

Not a big fire

there

So relaxed

where

London Express Service),

The next day I had an article mc.only hope that one day to write about winter sunshine it will be the same for women holidays on the Riviera-so I everywhere. JUSBANDS were encourage did 19 standing up.

We the baby was standard todas as using "Do you know what I did the rest of the night, after the being horn. The faint-hearted a desk. street fire was put out?" C041- were briskly shown tinued Smokey. "1 ficuted out sterile gowns and masks were The following weck, my port- brought typewriter was to the country and had myself kept and jolled along to the able

delivery room almost before in and the Sister gave me a they knew what was happening room to myself, an electric fire, a blanket and exactly an hour Occasionally, ane would in which to write the article. pars out, but they all said they were glad to have seen their Peasants go back to work in children born.

fields immediately

"I wasn't that big a fire," a visit with some friends of said Joe. "What happened was mine. They live in an old- this. Some Buys and I guess fashioned fireplace in an old, old a few Girls, too - made a pile farm house. of tenves and sticks and old papers and set them alight. Why did they do it? I don't know. But 1 can tell you this. It made

"We spent the whole night

and waltzing

quare-dancing There's over the hokery logS

a lot of hard work for me." no better fun than that?"

Smokey Joe took a deep breath. He swelled up to twice rose to his feet.

his size, then shrank down again,

Smokey

0s he

Joe laughed

"Well, I've got to be getting on," he said.

"I guers those Kids were pre- Knar and Hanid asked him fending to be American In- where he was going. dions,” he said. "They wanted tots of smoke,

in

I had to keep "I guess I'll take a ride dancing up and down for them the smackestack of a locomo- for more than an hour, 1 was tive," he said. Then he drifted glad when some neighbours came out through the keyhole of the along with a pail of water and door, put the are cut.

"Fire's good thing,"

n

Joe went on, "when it's used right.

"So-o-co 10-org" Knart and Hanld heard him saying as he squeezed through.

Rupert and the Winter Sale-15

the

THE PETITS FOURS TRAY

PET

By Helen Burke

after

DETITS FOURS, small fancy cakes, are, for the most part well within the scope of even the beginner cook. They are often finicky to make, but the reward in money enved is far above the little effort they require.

Tako, for instance, Tuiles, a few drops of vanilla essence those attractive curved, tile-like into them-or, better, tise vanilla wafeen with a few chopped sugar and omit the essence. almonds in their centres, Most Dent a good-sized egg until [recipes give two egg whites but, the mixture is very light, Next, after experimenting, I decided fold in 3 to 314oz. plain and that a whole erg was to be self-raising four, half-and-half, preferred.

First, arrange several bottles Have ready buttered baking

table and cheets er the upturned bottom (claret size) on

de of roasting; tins. Drop smali tea. them so wedge

mixture on 10 spoons of the not lura.

them, well apart to allow for their spreading. Give each a swirl with the up of the spoon, lo spread them a ille and drop | in the centre of each. a few of the chopped almonds

that they

Keep apart

Drop two to three cablespoons of abelled almonds inte bolling water. Leave for a minute and Bake for seven to eight min- the king can then be peeled pft uten at 403 to 425 degrees Fahr.: very easily. Dry them and place or gas mark 6 to 7. Slp each thom in a baking tray to colour off with a palette knife and to a pale gold low the oven. Re place,

warm while still move and chop them fairly pilable, on the bottes so that Key will curve and become Cream together 21⁄44oz. butter rigid. Store in an air-tight tin.

London Express Hervice), and 2oz, caster sugar and beat

"Ab, you'd Por some time Rupert standa terrible crowd."

Better come with me," anys waiting as a lot of people stream past him, and at length one of the the man, leading flupent into shop managers comes up to him. passage where a notice points to **Well, little beat, you

Ipok an office for lon children, **But le anything I needn't go there," declares worried," he says.

roughly. Rupert. not lost. I'm here t the matter? Yes. I've lost my Mummy," says Rupert, in this my Manny who's lost 1"

ALL RIGHT) BAJKAYIR.

and

By EDWINA

IT SEEMED to me I'd seen

tried on the newest style shoes. The Queen's shoumaler, Edward Rayne, told me just where and when this, "latcat" fashion began.

П

Way back in 1938 his father designed the shage (above in sketch) for Gertrude the

were such Lawrence, They success with her that he in- cluded them in his range, and they have been selling stearily throughout the country over 20 years

Now, to ile in with present Rayne has Edward trends, brought the shape up to inte with a slimmer heel, neater toe, Balter grosgrain bow,

for

The moral is: If you hang on

to something long enough it's bound to come back and save you money. The original price £4 14s, Od Today they Cost £10 10.

WILS

-(London Exorara· Service),

LADY LUCK

YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21

AQUARIUS (January 21- VIRGO (August 22-

February 19): By being too careful in money mat- ters you may be depriving yourself of some littlo luxuries which you could

afford. PISCES (February 20-March 20) Your optimistic nature will work wonders with friend who has been very depressed lately.

4

come

ARIES (March 20-Apeli 10): A financial improvement in your position will from most unexpo ted quarter. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your plan for a social even- ing may not meet with your partner's approval, and you must try to work out

a compromise. GEMINI (May 21-June 21): Trust your partner to make a wino choice in the pur- chase of an articla which will brighten your home. CANCER (June 22-July 21): Don't let meddling re- lative upset your happy. komo te, but learn to Ignoro bla unwelcome sug« Kestions.

LEO (July 22-August 21): After a rather quick day you can expect a very lively evening in good and chear -ful company.

September 22): Accept tho offer of friendship from a new neighbour. It could develop into a pleasant and

convenient mutually lationship. LIBRA

Tê

23-

(September October 22): A friend who has always rejected any useful advice will suddenly appreciate your sympathetic offer to help him. SCORPIO.

(October 23- November 21): A slight damper may be put on your youthful enthusiasm today,

but don't let it spoil your anticipation of a very plen- Aant week ahead. SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 21): You will soon be relieved of a heavy responsibility which han been a source of strain for a very long time. CAPRICORN (December 22- January 20): A very nico gift from a distant branch of the family will make you realize how much you are In the thoughts of ita mem- bern.

YOUR LUCKY COLOUR: If this is your birthday, out for DONKEY BROWN. It ought to bring

look

you luck,