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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1961.

WOMANSENSE

COULD THIS FASHION EVER COME BACK?

LMOST everybody agrees that there is nothing quite

so dangerous as putting back the clock in fashion.

The desperately reminis- cent $900 borders on fancy dress - especially when the style is one so many remember,

All those carly pictures of mama on the beach at Le Touquet looking self-conaelously nonebalant with her silly big hat, her cigarette holder, and those extraordinary beach pyjamas arc conjured up at the alght of the Veer

Latest Culotte you

can call it a diviited

簿

skirt)-tipped as

forerunner of a totally new look in felsure wear.

PICTURE BY Jom

Kanikak

CULOTTE BY YOUNG JALUTA

LADY LUCK

YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE

MONDAY, APRIL 10

AQUARIUS (January 21- LEO (July 22-August 21):

February

final 19): A

You will reap the reward peaceful settlement of a for a past favour to a dispete of long standing friend in a special treat he seems indicated in the is planning for you.

22. VIRGO near future.

(Aux L September 221: An offer PISCES (February 20-March

received through the peat 20): An urgent job de-

you an unikual may give mands undivided attention

opportunity for its proper execution. You can do It If you make up your mind to ignore in- terruptions.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Stubbornness could lend to

on

new you

be

tu make

MOMC

extra money. LIBRA (September 21- October 221: An unsolicited kindness done yott when you mont appreciate it will restore any faith you may have lost in human nature. SCORPIO October 23- November 21): Pay less nt- tention to fecal gossip, and disregard any especially damaging allusions to friend's character.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 21): Refure

an injudicious move your part, and you waght to try and see the other person's point of view. TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

of Becau90 emotional attachment

may be spending more then you can really afford. If it is to be a lasting re- Iationship, you must frank about your resources, GEMINI (May 21-June 21: It may be rather difficult at first to adapt yourself to a decided change in your routine, but you should... welcome the chance to get out of your present rut. CANCER (June 22-July 21): An important job you have on hand should be attended to this morning. You cait enally deal with routing matters in the afternoon.

to take part in an outdoor activity which you know beforehandl Is not in

from

Veronica

Papworth

keeping with your skill or inclination. CAPRICORN (December 22-

January 20): An important'

written letter ought to be

if you don't today, even feel in the right mood for it. YOUR BIRTHDAY: If your birthday is this week, you will find a symbol of good

Before retiring each night throat to the chin line. Ten fortune in a gift of a re- production of a favourite massage a heavy cream into the good, Arm stroites every

hands and them slip on a will do wonders for a lined and thin pair of cotton gloves. Dur-abby throat. ing the alght the cream will have a softening and nourishing effect,

BEAUTY HINTS

Lemon Juice and cider vinegar are probably the best known liquida for alimming. For a cento loss of weight take a tablespoon of pure lemon juice in a wine-glass of warm water regularly every morning and don't add sugar,

picture.

JACOBY on. BRIDGE

ensure

South plays the queen of

spade tricks for two him. It also should lose his con-

tract for him.

East will go up with the per of spades and will see that two spade South now holds stoppers, East will also be foolt- ing at dummy's ace-queen of diamonds and will realise that his only possible chance to bent three no-trump will be with the heart suit.

East will lay down the nce of hearts; West will'signal with the nine and the rubber will all be going on.

A far bolier play by South

In the nine of spades. East will

see that he can establbh five for himself by spade tricks

V+CARD Serisea.

Q-The bidding has been: North 19 Pass IN.T. Pars Posa

East South

West

IA

Pain Pars

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You, South, hold: AKJ885 VRIR SAB54 $5

What do you do?

A-B14 ihree hearts. Even though your partner did nel ro- bid hearts Immediately, renc hand is well worth ibis rates.

· TODAY'S QUESTION- Instead of rebidding one no- trump North rebids two hearts after, your orie, space bid. What do you do now?

Answer TorANTKOW

23

·

Always soften a stiff founda-

tion cream in the palm of the hand, before applying in tiny dabs aver the face and neck.

A little rouge blemled into the chin and eyelids will help to give a round face length.

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simply playing low. South will take his ting of spades, - mix clubs and three diamonds and will be home with the rubber while East is still waiting.

thong In order to forestali readers who will write to ex- plain that East should not call for this play. I agree with them in advance. East should realise that irrespective of anything cise South will be able to run at least nine tricks in clubs and diamonds and that his only to beat the hand will chance

take the nce of spaden bo to and play hearts, but most Ebsts I have known wrong.

will still go

Reinelar brushing will trai and improve unruly epebrows, A drop of cologne or toilet water often helps to them down.

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night

SECOND PART OF A REPORT ON THE

FASTEST-GROWING INFLUENCE IN FASHION

Where what

a woman says

really

goes

New York.

ONE of the most fundamental truths to be grasped about

American fashion is that it IS a woman's world, run with tremendous energy and very largely by women enthusiasm to give to their jobs, and a professionalism that would leave most of their English opposite numbers gasp- ing at the starting-post.

The most powerful organisation inside the business ...the Fashion Group is 100 per cent feminine.

The most potent

the curiously influence IT EXPLAINS in the fashion world is

that a'aseptic boyish quality woman - Eleanor Lambert, striktes one about many of the

fashion

magazines. queen of the publicists; the most glosslest forthright and feared fashion (Even when the photographer critic is a wornan - Eugenlu is a man, be still works with a Sheppard, of the Herald-Tri- fashion editor breathing down bune; the chic-est store in town, his neck.)

Henri Bendel, Is run by a charm- It may even be part of

the ing 36-year-old women, Gerry explanation for the vertiginous Strute; and when I was taken to speed at which fashions bloom, lunch in one of New York's three wit and are slung into the gar smartest restaurants, the wafter bage-can. Men, after all, have a explained its Sahara-like empti- more highly-developed consere nets by reminding us that it was vative instinct than women. the day of the Fashion Group lunchron.

Concentrated

Hard to imagine the Savoy UI the Mirabelle being cleared by

Griggs

At £15 an hour, not

a second to lose

HE American devotion to professionalism is

very true of the modelling business.

I

In London, if a model is class English studios Much of the strength and much of the weakness of booked for an hour, nobody know could not raise a pair American fashion comes from worries enormously if the of white gloves between this feminist direction. And per-

hap both can be summed up in the word "professional."

sitting, over-runs by 10 or them. 15 minutes. But in New York, where relative new-

uny event in the English fashion Imagine it here! comers can be paid as much Elleen Ford, who curs the best-

calendar...

Tut The American fashion scene, la great gulping wind

of concentrated feminism is the

N

of every kind

on in

over

The same professionalism goes into the training of models.

as £15 an hour-HK$210— known agency in town, spends hours teaching her models how the American scene every second counts.

to use make-up properly, where the Fashion Group is

Photographer and fashion to get their hair done, how much weight to lose and how, first thing that hits you; and a major influence.

An anisation about 30 years editor work like demons, what mannerisms to discari it explains ranny things about

the then watches anxiously old, it acts as a clearing-house the girls turn up on American fashion.

IT EXPLAINS why the for information two most enduring looks remotely concerned with fashion minute and, if humanly their progress.

depart on the Typical example of her on the middle-prlee mar (automobile makers are among possible, kel art the perennial those happy to draw on its re minute. The time-frittering thoroughness: 23-year-old Pla

who members

recently filled shirtwalsters

those sources); helps Its und

chat, the gossipy coffee- Rossilli,

nearly a whole issue of Vogue. prim title sheath dressca along with their careers; organ- topped by teenage cropped ises fashion shows and displays sessions that go

looks, for informative, rather than English studios would be Fine bones point up the 2016. baleras-ttle-girl

Elleen talked her into shodding: promotional reasons, which gives unthinkable. IT EXPLAINS the de- them an added lustre of au-

a softer, ghter make-up re- places the bright soubrette mask llelous abundance of pret- thority.

the ("I always used to clam ty colton and towelling at-

make-up on thickly before Eli- home robes to slip into at is limited to women executives

een showed me how"); her hair the end of a tiring day for who have held down their jobs wear rond in fashion or related fields for

By the same token, New is soft and simple. tropically at least five years; and mem-

"In Europe," says Pla, who heated Ameil bership is regarded as a shining York studios are equipped

with a battery of neces- modelled thore in her pre-Ford can apartmenin, professional cochet.

"fashion days,

photography No organisation of the kind gories - gloves, jewellery, doesn't seem as serious as it is IT EX -

exists in this country, and it is FLAINS

the hard.

shoes here. scarves, to imagine it against a odd floods of fan- London setting. The English whereas at least two first- tastic Bowered have never been able to take hals that op fashion quite na seriously as

both of them.

pear

spring.

Its 3,000-strong membership

every that; a charming amateurism is

much more their line.

Equipped

-{London Express Servies).

To be continued tomorrow

STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

Friday Night Hunt

Friday nights I hunt big Lions and Tigers."

-Knarf, Teddy And Hi Are Taken For A Ride-

By MAX TRELL TNARF, the Shadow Boy with Use a spiral drush, twirled] N the Turned-About Name, between finger and thumb, 10 went up to General Tin, the Tin apply mascara. Two thin coats, Soldier.

*

applied with hot water, look

smoother than one thick one. He was standing as usual by Separate lashes with a clean the side of the door, very tall, brush.

"They're the same thing," arid Knori,

"They're bigger," said Gen- crai Tin,

Invited Knarf

General Tin clicked his tongue and Whoa began rocking b.ek and forth. Ho rociced fast and furiously.

"Faster!" urged General Tin. "Go faster!"

the Ceneral Tin held onto Horse's neck, Knart heid onto Tin. Hiawatha held General

tried onto Knart. Teddy

10 hold onto Hiawatha, but Hawa- tha was ico nooth and slippery. Suddenly Teddy slid down the Horse's tall and landed with a

"Wait for me!" shouted Ted-

very straight. very handserne, General Tin invited Knarf to bump on the floor. with his musket over his shoul- Join hán on his hunting expe- dy. "Stop rocking that Horse

Knart saluted. Then he said.

It is always a mistake to ap- | der. ply nall varnish In the direct: path of a fan or in front of an open window. Any alt disturb- ances will cause bubbles in the varnish which will transfer themselves to the nail surface.

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Learn to relax your eyen. You will find it helpful if you are engaged on close work such as

a dry-lined throat tilt seeing or Agures. Cup your head buck slightly and patina over your eyes and re- stroke

rich, lanoline-based for uni you can see nothing creain up from the base of the but darkness,

Rupert and the Paper-fall-22

DILENCE STATION

Following the direction that is already matchleg towards a door- way and the two pola follow. Edward is pointing Rupert stande in astonishment."

Now then firep youst valcer "Close buildings

dawn." whispers the little mater Fuck tight in the wood, they

∙as they tola him. "Daly, one of weren't there a minute ago i Or

you can come in. We can't have were they? Surely we must have

**They

weren't

Young elephanta in dirt, so the en them."

fitzla base must come with me. there," says Edward stolidly. They

The elephant mutar atay outside;" can'ı rak: the little fester. Cor he

ALL MIQUÉS NRSKAVED

dition.

"Meet me here at exactly 12 so I con climb on again?"

"Too late," said General Tin. "General Tin, are you going o'clock," he said.

Knart thanked General Tia "We can't wall Faster Fasi- hunting tonight?"

and asked if er?" for inviting him

the he would mind Teddy, Stuffed Bear,

Hunts every Thursday "Sir," said General Tin, I go hunting every Thursday night

said "Tonight is Frid: " Knart.

"I also go hunting every Fri- day night. Only he died, "on Friday nights I hunt Friday night Animals,"

and Hawallis, the Small-Sized Wooden Indian, came along, too.

Hiawatha

"Going hunting tonight (" Karf Baked Goneruž Tia,

until he alops, Then we ran all go hunting.

B'mo

Hi slid off, too

They waited for quite a while. The next terund "Why?" asked General Tin. slid off Whoa's back and landed Flaally Teddy started to yawn and decided to crawl under Ht- "Have they ever hunted Lions beskie Teddy on the floor, and Tigers before?"

"That's good," said Teddy. He awatha's blanket. A few min- smlled at Hiawatha. There's uten after Kharf did the Knart said he didn't know, "It's a wnste of time," :ld no use riding on that florze. It's thing..

"Faster Fasier!" they heard General Tin, "but let them not going anywhere. It's just come. Only don't blame me if rocking up and down in the General Tin's voice saying. And

same place."

to the sound of those they get caten up,"

Hiawatha only granted. Then they fell asleep,

'Knart cald, "Oh!" and looked puzzled. Then he said.

That night,

Right on timp

at exactly

he wrapped his blanket around

his herd and went to sleep.

12 "Paster!" shouted General

words

When they awoka

The sun, was streaming Into

"Pardon me, Gener: Tin, are Friday night Animals different o'clock, Knart, with his two Tin. from Thursday night Animals?" friends, Teddy and Hawaih", Whon, the Hebby Horas, rock- the room when they woke up,

"Sir," sald General Tis appeared at the skle of the door, ed eo hard that Knart was When, the Hobby Horne, Tharminy night like Friday They were surprised to see Gen- thrown out of the saddle. He quite still. General Tin

night?"

"No," sald Knarf, "but~~"

They're different

General Tin cut him

uft.

WHO

Was

oral Tin eltiing or the back of easne down on the floor.

back in his usual position by the Whon, tho Hobby Horse,

"Now we're all here," said aide of the door, landing tall, "Hello, General Tin saki Teddy gleefully.. Knart cheerfully.

"II, General!"

snld Teddy,

"Ten Friday night. Aalmals waving a paw at him.

Tried to get on

Kratt did his best to gaf en

Too Intel Too fate" shouted General Tin.

are different from Thursday Hiawatha didn't say anything, the Horse's back again. night Antonia, just as Friday Ticing en Indian he hardly night in different from Thursday ever spoke. But he nodded. night and vice versa.”

"Quick!" ordered General Tin Khort wondered what all this "Get on the Horsch meahl.

"On Thursday nights,"

-

straight, handscan and with his musket over his shoulder.

"Good morning, General Tin," sald Knart,

1-

*H, General," said Teddy, H awatha Just nodded,

"It let't too late ct all, Gen- "Bira," said General Tin, "you oral Tin," said Knert. "You'rz mimed the beat hunting of your Hve. I not only caught Lions zil right torch"

But General Tin wendirt and Tigers but big Lions and

Tigers!"

"Gosh!" said Knott and Tea-

Knaif and Teddy and :- CON- finued General Tin, glving watha climbed on the back of stop. Kaart a sharp slate to make Whoa, The Helby Here. sure that tra was. Infertig, "I hunt Liens and Tigers. But on

doesn't matter," Teddy

;

hope you can all rids” eaid kept saying. 10's not going dy. But Jawaiḥa-ho oneral Tia. "Here we go!". 'anywhere." We'll just wait here any a thing, except "Poohi".

didn't

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