1961-02-22 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL,

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1961,

Pago 7

WOMANSENSE

LADY LUCK

YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22

AQUARIUS January 21- February 19): A relation- ship which has been strained for some time will begin to improve, to the considerable relief of both parties.

PISCES (February 20-March

20): A new venture which today sturling you re should soon prove highly profitable, if you exercise caution

every step of the why.

ARIES March 21-April 19): You may be called away from your normal occupa tion to help a close friend, and must

17-

even if it may mean spend- ing some extra time away frum hume.

August VIRGO

September 22): A vialt to close friends should not be postponed my longer, AK they are eager to repay a debit of hospitality. LIBRA

2.7- (September October 221: Don't lose patience with a colleague who ін not se quick to

yourself. grasp things an ffe will get there in the end just the same.

(October +31- SCORPIO

November 21): Think twice signing a paper which nay tie you down financially for many years ahead,

before resign yourself

to the interruption. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A daily task tackled with enthusiasm will put you ahead of any competition you may be facing." GEMINI (May 21-June 21):

An ambition of long stanel- ông will materialise today, and a small celebration is indicated.

CANCER (June 22-July 21);

An hour's quiet contempla- tion of the agenda of a forthcoming meeting will fortify you against any surprise move on the part of your opponent. LEO

201

July 22-August Take full advantage of a sudden turn for the better,

SAGITTARIUS

(November 29-December 21): In order to settle a dispute fairly, it will be necessary for you to study both sides of the question enrefully and without bias,

CAPRICORN (December 2- January 20); Agree to sharing expenses in a ven- ture which you would not have the courage to finance alone.

YOUR LUCKY CARD:

10

today is your birthday, your lucky card, no matter what game you may be playing, ought to be the SEVEN of SPADES.

LEFT. Joyce in the basic black

dress.

AROVE. The party-look achieved by the addition of two white organdy

TORES.

RIGHT. The same

but given the sporty air.

black dress

Do you feel like hurling your winter wardrobe

the window? out of

CHILDREN'S CORNER

Mimi, The Whale

Punch Caught Her When She Was Very Small....

By MAX TRELL

"UNCLE Punch," sald Knort,

the Shadow

Boy with the

"They did!" exclaimed Knorf. Mr Punch nodded.

The two Guldfish were big- ger and stronger than little Turned-About Name, "did you Mini. But pretty soon I noticed ever happen to nee n Whole?" that Miosi was beginning to

Mr Punch, who happened to be writing letter at his desk, looked up. There was surprise in his face,

"Did you say Whale, I' Boy?" he asked.

Repeats his question Knart repeated that he wished to know whether Unele Punch

had ever seen a Whale.

Now Mr Punch's face B

In a huge warm smile.

"Ever see one! I should say

grow. After about a week, she started chasing The Goldfah aroumi.“

"Oh!" said Knarf.

"And, by and by," continued Mr Punch, "there was no more room for the Goldfish, so I took them out. But I still didn't think

Mital was anything more than a Tadpole, a rather big Tadpole. kept waiting for her to grow

legs and turn Into a Frog. But

2

"Are you writing to your Grandmother?” Knarf asked

By SYLVIA DA COSTA-ROQUE

THERE'S no need to ask, for it's a cer- tainty. You have the winter bluas.. you and your wardrobe.

You are reaching the desperate stage when you are about to hurl the whole collection out of the window and burst into spring freshness irrespective of the fact that you'll most likely catch your death of cold!

But don't despair. There are only a couple more months to go and for that short period, it is senseless to spend more money on warm outfits.] The thing to do is to freshen fixed in the hair just above up what you have. In other the widow's peak. word, at this time of the year, For Tiki it was chiffon, roses your eyes should be on ac and a smurt Balmain hat. cessories.

The hat, a wine-red cloche Every wardrobe undoubtedly dipping into the

right cheek. contains that classic "the little gave the dress an elegant after- black dress." Black is wonderful noon air. It was teamed with on its own. It also the per- black loves but no fewellery. feet full for accessories.

For evenings, a madonna-like

It can be dressed either up effect was created by a chiffon nt down and with the right which was draped around touches, the one dress can be the head and held in place by a But Mr adapted for sports meetings, contrasting rose. The ends were

"You aren't standing. You're

she didn't. She just kept grow sliting." said

Knert,

ing bigger and fatter. A few Punch went right on as though shoppings jaunts and days later, her tall was sticking he hadn't heard Knarf at all,

evenings.

festive

allowed to flow freely down the And the adaptability of black back. This was also worn with I have! Why," he exclaimed, out of the top of the Goldfish A few days later," he said. was demonstrated recently by black gloves, and again

"do you know whom I'm wril- bowl."

ing to right this moment?"

Knarf sald ho couldn't guess, a bigger place?" asked Knart. "Are you writing to your

Grandmother he Bnally asked.

Put in bathtub

"I heard the noise of shouting

d

"My Grandmother?" Mr Punch "I did, my Boy, I did shouted in astonishment." "No Mr Punch. "I put her in the licemen. sirect I'm writing this letter," bathtub."

and he shook the letter in the

air as he spoke, "to Miml!“

"Who's Mimi?" Knart asked.

"A Whale!" said Mr Punch,

Po

But

по

Pearle Harford of the Centre jewellery was used. of Polleemen the suund

This season, chiffon is the Why didn't you put Mini in

on two of her

It has become hich blowing their whistles, I rushed of Elegance to the park lake. And there was models, Australian Tiki Bannan thing.

fashion, it is reasonably priced Mimi, splashing all the water and Chinese Joyce Gockson

Both girls were in plain black and there are a thousand and all over the park and squirting dresses Joyce in a cheongsam one ways of wearing it--flung said water into the faces of the

and Tiki in a Diur-inc wool casually across the throat and jersey.

flowing down the back, draped "Some of them were trying

The cheongsam was "dressed- across one shoulder ons tied on "That should have been rout te throw nets over her.

nets down" for a sports meeting with the other, as a cravat or even enough, Uncle Punch!"

big. The said she was very

a white heavy knit boxy jacket as a sash. hardly titted

of over the end

warning. one word and natty blue and white strip, ed linen shoulder bag. The While Each of these styles can party look was achieved by make your black dress look netlileial flowers, which are now quite sensational, they can also cause disaster. Be careful not to right back in fashion.

One white organdy rose was use too much of the one thing. at the base of the and don't clutter with too much cheongsam collar, another was Jewellery.

Knner,

"It was--but only for a week Mimi's nose.

"Then one morning I discovered her hanging over the skie of the

or so," said Mr Punch.

Rentle.

How trouble started

wan

quite

"Come here, my Bay. Sh your self down by my desk and I tell you the while story about bathtub, thumping her tall "Then I came over. When she Mimi, the biggest, heaviest and something awful and spurting saw me, she quieted down at pleasontest Whale in the whole water out

of the top of her once. She really entire work."

hread. So Kuart, who was very eager

That's when knew thot

"I found out that the trouble to hear about Mimi, the Whole, Mimi wasn't a Tadpole. She was started when Mimi very kindly sat down in the chair next a Whate!

"What could i do now?"

allowed Boys and Giris to sit the desk. Then Mr Punch laid

on her back and took them for down his pen and the letter und begni.

Punch's story

"I caught Mimi when she was

"I know," said Kuart. "You a ride around the lake. But the could have thrown

her back Pulleemen-they didn't like the Whale in a lake in into the ocent."

iden of a "Ah, my Bay, you're right, the middle of the park tried i That's what I should have done, to stup her from doing this, She become very angry. It was a shame.

no bigger than a Tadpole But I didn't,

Polliwog," said Mr Punch.

་་

pinned

JACOBY on BRIDGE

THE play of today's hand is ΤΗΣ

of Interest to duplicate

caught her in my straw hat " wrapped her up in a wet

Ho'll write ond took her to the at the blanket while I was swimining seaside. She flipped and flapped park and threw her into the

Mr players only, South hau a lay "Anyway," contumed jake. It was a big lake. But it

fool down for his two diamond con wasn't big enough for Mimi." Punch, "she finally grew

big even for the lake. So one tract and a cinch for at least

around.

"I put her in a small, jar andl

swim in a Gokish bowl with about Mimi," Koart two Goldfish,.

suici.

"They pushed her around a "Bat it's true os true an I'm

standing here!" cried Mr Punch, bli," said Mr Punch.

brought her home and let her "I don't belleve this story day I hired a big truck and one over-trick against ordinary

maidenly took her down to the seaside defence,

She was in- Even against the perfect de and let her go.

fence put up by Fast and West, happy about leaving me.

made nine "Don't worry, I told her. South could have

and tricks, but he slipped up at a I'll drop you a line now

crue.al point and held himself ften. Good-bye, Mimi.'

"And off she went, flapping to his bare contract. her enormous tail and squirting

out of the top of water

Rupert and the Winter Sale-16

The shop manager sermi amused Shall we put our parcels down and At Rupert's words and does not take off our overcoat ? He's warm stop until they enter an office with in here. Now alall we jot down two or three' doors and are coție game notes on who you are? fronted by a amiling motherly Rupert Bear of Nutwood, eli ? Lor nurse. “Well, well, and is this ʼn touch with Mta. Dear, th? Well. little lost person?” the

don't be frightened. All will com kindly, "Dear, dear, never mind. right. You're quite safe.”

ALL RIGHTS LEJKAPAD

SKYD

hend like a fountain."

Mr Punch paused.

picked up the letter.

Then he

"And just today I decided to drop her a line.

Drop it in water

CARD Sense♣♦.

But

of

NORTH

a

4AQT

♥Q 10005

Q34

454

WEST A 5

EAST

A393 873 AQ743

AJ 10804

172

+02

4KB2

SOUTH (D)

AK932

AX109S

J 200

POL ་་

No one vulnerable

Bouth

West North

East

14

Pass Opening lead—♦ 8

Pass

Pass Pass

East

trump This gave discard and

to

dropping club streng.h

oy

West opened a trump, South her won and Jed a heart. Bet won

€ played third the trick and played a second dummy's

queen. trump. South won in dummy;

chance to led and ruffad a heart; and bo

the nine. South led a third heart att discarded

a club. West won the trick and promptly under- t his DE of chas. Est took the lung and returned the suit. A third club lead knock- ed out South's last drump and Jeft him with a spade loser.

Where did South go wrong int the play?

"I'm going to toke this. letter down to the seaside and

drop

it in the water, Mimi will get It. It will make her very happy to hear from mo. I'll send her your regards, too, Kaart, Hoy."

my

"No. Uncle Punch Knarf ld ap

chair he Hot off the next to Mr Punch's desk, "I'll ray what I sold before. I don't. belleve this story about Mini at all, not at all at all."

But Mr Punch only smiled as

he folded up the-leiter.

Nerth 14

The bidding has been: Exot Bouth

Went

Pau You, South, hold: MAJSTI VÄSB4:+KQS15 49

What do you do? A--Bid one spade. With 18 - blah card points you consider un Inunediate Jump, · bai; reairazı yourself becauen of iba vold of Your partner's ahli..

TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner rebids to two clubs. What do you do now?..

Answer TomorrOTY

Ho should have discarded a club the first me he played a helt from dummy. Then the defenders would not have been able to keep South from setting Up chummy's anth heart for a keurd of the lusing spado.

THE ROCKER ROCKS

ITS WAY BACK.

FIFTY years ago the painter Whistler made a famous study of his mother sitting in a rocking-chair. The painting usually raises a patronising smile from the moderns, but at least Whistler's mother is bang up to date again.

a junk

i

Because rocking-chairs Bre Mrs Nigel Campbell (Barbaro swinging back into fusion, Goalen) found hers in and if Mrs Whistler's dress, shop years, ngo, Cover girl Trects a bit out of date, she's Rosalind Watkin tones

1 first met Princess Gourtelli

known

all right as far as chairs go. muscles and calms her perver Its soothing movements are in a chlitz-covered Victorian cinimed to give old people one. lenger tire. An article in the

medical leading

mogazipe promotes its good effects on the better

Helena health. And since the chair Rubinstein, greatest cosmetic when game back. It has become scarce nuthority of them all) in antique shop and brought a rhe was holding court flood, of Inquiries around the chatse tongue, bat now find she big stores.

prefers a purple velvet rocking-

DIR

Di a

Sothebys tell me they will chair in her Manhattan part- effer up to £80 for a traditional ment and plans to have one in

her Knightsbridge penthouse. Amerlenn rocking-chuir, are

of Donald Albery, impresarlo

plny. The Miracle has given up his attempt to buy a Colintal chair and had to hire ene instead. strange

the new Worker"

Positively the LAST word in contemporary chairs are now be

in leading furnituro

sold stores. Recently I saw some

furniture

a bar-

THE CHAIR for the anti-

rocker school: luxurious, superbly comfortable елеу chair with unusual windo. Covered in rough wool tapos. try. By Danish derigner Verner Panton.

created by Each of the braullful women Verner Panton, the outstanding and the women involved in item is called the Pedestal Chair. the beauty business hai

Something between falked to, has a rocking-chair stool and an ice-cream cone, and upholstered in cxolle

It is supported on a steel tripod shades, to tapestry tweed.

The trend is to have different coloured chairs around

in her home.

Tikl puts her black dress into a night-time role by adding

a chiffon scarf and rose. For a smart afternoon occasion, the chiffon is exchanged for a smart hat,

ཤaluuཡ-

four

a streamlined black coffee table and Panton has already design- of a Danish hotel cockfall room

with chairs.

Surrealistic touch;

Ils cone

from

chair entirely wrought chromium plated wire with an upholstered seal and back cushion.

Alme

Since the days when Recamier Arst prettily relaxed, the chater Traine has been around as a blt of fashionable drawing-roca furniture. Now, it is given a new look. 03 elegant as before but eyed to living rooms that prefer a mixture of modern and period furniture. Again the design is Scandinaviun.

But this time from the. Para- dise range and the covera oro superbly tallored with legs finished in natural mahogany or teak.

By ELIZABETH DICKSON

-(London Express Service),

KNIT THE NEWEST

WITH

眼圈

Emer

WOOLS

All Knit the newest! the latest fashions and styles in the most won- derful range of colours availablo. Kait for Your self, for Him, for the whole Family.

ALSO

"EMULON" YARN

ALL THE HIGH FASHION SHADES IN -

→ EMU DOUBLE KNIT •

• EMU DOUBLE CREPE

• EMU DOUBLE ZEPHYR

• EMU BABY, WOOL

Whiteaways

POPULAR STORES

(WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW O CO.LTO+

HONG KONG AND KOWLOON