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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1961.

WOMANSENSE

A NIGHT FOR THE GIRLS AT THE MIRAMAR

The long walk to Long Beach...

Glamorous Miss Betty Choo who come fourth in the contest.

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Miss Majida Razack, the second runner up, in a shaded blue swimsuit.

By

JENNIFER

LANE

MONDAY night at the

Miramar Convention

Hall was an occasion simply bursting at the seams with fashion and femininity.

Beauty was the order of the evening-for this was the finals of the Miss International Beau- ty of Hongkong contest.

The brightly 1!1 Fall was erowded with a sophisticated midience who wined and dined as they watched.

Down the length or the long, Jong room rom the narrow stage and it must have taken a lot of courage, as the lights dimmed around the rest of us and the footlights came up on the car- peted ramp, for the first con- testant to take the first step on that long, tong walk under two thousand watchful eyes.

Striking

But the beautifully groomed and poked girls who paraded before us admirably showed how It should be done.

There were many striking fashions worn as the contestants paraded first in day wear, then playsuits and finally in evening

dress.

CHILDREN'S CORNER

Mother Goose Book

-Knarf Visits With Liule Miss Dolly Muffet-

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By MAX TRELL

NARF, the Shadow boy with the Turned-About Name, had made himself small and had

the Mother Goose crept inside Book. This is how Knart di

11:

After making

he went behind

It was

street.

like

himself small

That bookcase.

She looked up as Knarf came near. She smiled.

"Hello," add the small Girl with the dark eyes and the dark curls. "What's your name?"

"My name is Knart," Karf, "What is your name?”

Miss Muffct

"My name,"

Bold

said the dark-

walking along eyed, dark-curled Girl. "is Miss

Many houses

There were house standing

one beside the other, Some

Holly Muffet."

"Oh," sald Knarf. And he im- mediately looked

at the up

branch of the tree that hung over little Miss Muffet's head.

thouses were tall, sum low. "Why are you looking at that Seme had gardens, some were branch"

Title Miss Muffet

"Is there a

plain. Some were old and shab- asked nervously.

Sume were brand-new

by arid confortable-looking Spider or something? I hate though they needed a cont of Spiders." paint,

Knarf said he didn't see any- and shining with colour but their thing. doors had not yet been opened. Little Miss Muffet smilled.

All these houses were the She invited Knarf to sit down backs of the books which Knarf beside her. He did so gladly. Stw as he walked along the But now and then, without fet- street in back of the bookcase. ting Dolly Muffet see him, he He came to a broad, low, glanced quickly up at the over-

comfortable looking head branch. shabby, house. The letter-box read: Mrs

"I hope it doesn't come to Goose. The door was open on a day," he murmured to himself. crack. A small notice over the Little Miss Muffet was say, door had the words Welcome ing, Would you like some of All! Come Right In!

It's delelous, this?

I mean, maybe you won't like it, but I do. Taste H."

Squeezed in

So Knart squeezed in with- out knocking.

That's how he got inside the Mother Goose book. Whether you or I or anyone else can do it I doubt very much.

Once inside the Mother Goose House, Knart walked through a long ball,

Be met a hunity Dog and gave him a biscult, He met a Cut with a fiddle. He saw a Boy sitting in one of the rooms with a plum pudding on his knees, de met a Girl hurrying off to the kitchen with a teakettle. He saw a Boy jump ing over a candlestick.

Finally he went out through another "door and found himself in Mother Goom's garden,

Indoor garden

She held out the spoon. Knart tasted it,

Puckered his lips

"What's your name?" Kuari asked the little girl.

The winner of the title, Miss In- ternational Boauty of Hongkong 1962, Miss Judy Chang.

Beautiful Miss Angelo Ho who was

unplaced in the confest.

A most striking evening gown worn by pretty Miss Helen Fu who was also unplaced in the contest.

Miss Ho again in on attractivo Howered cheongsam.

the 17/21st Lancers thoroughly

"

and relection of musie, and singing 'A Hunting We Will Go' with tremendous noise and enthusi-

Two of the prettiest outfits During the second Interval creature, in a scarlet carl bord-- Miss Philippines fluttered past were woгT by lovely Miss several of the winners from cred with gold; Miss China (a In a cloud of lemon, completely enjoyed themselves playing Angelo Ilo. whose first neighbouring countries made very popular quest) L tal, wowing the camerames. appearance was in a turquoise their appearance on the stage. stately girl, flowered white cheongsam.

Miss Malayn raced up and Over this she wore a sheer

down, followed by Leonte Main averblouse in matching tur-

from New Zealand in a black quoike.

tuiteta sheath with a pannlered overskirt.

Later che wore a brilliant scarlet wool playsuit under a little tiered cope of white bre- derie Angials.

of

Among the evening dresses,, one of my favourites was worn by prutty Mss Helen Fu, who wore a most effective dress black Chinese brocade with huge penny dots of silver. A tightly swathed cummerbund in silver lame outlined her tiny waist and she carried a matching silver fringed brocade stole.

Silver

Miss Dip Dee Chiny wore a

Visiting

First Miss Australia in a pink cocktail frock from Dior, then Miss Burina, tiny and vivacioda with a the swaying walk; Miss Ceylon a graceful dark-eyed

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

finally Miss Singapore was the last of these beautiful visitors, in a striking cheongsam with a low cut V at the back.

While the Judges went off to Altogether It was a sparkling make their decision the band of evening.

JACOBY BRIDGE

an

THIRTY SAIS go, Richard L. and his dummy

VECARD Sensek

play came as Frey of New York was one close to being perfect as possible. of my favourite partners, Be He has recently written 3 "How to Win at was particularly adept in bidding book entitles),

Contract Bridge in Ten Easy Lessons," and anything writ- ten by Dick is worth reading. In today's hand Dick was South and I was North. A lonic nt the bidding shows that Dick fet himself be pushed slowly into the slam in spades. If he had showed his tremendous freak holding, the opponents Surely would have saved at seven hearts which would only be down two tricks.

Q-The bidding has been: North

Esat South West Double Redbio 1

Place oh open Tinttle Įmethylated spirits in your ward-

robe to keep moths out.

of

2

other lovely evening dress,

A

Pai

Paso

short dress this time in a sheer,

loo much blue has bren

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Pars

pale blue embroidered material

water on

1+

Par

over silver lame and over it she put into the rinsing wore a matching evening coat, washday, add 2 tle ammonia

Providing most of the glitter to the water.

of the evening was the winner of the contest, Miss Judy Chang, whose final appearance was in a shaded pink cheongsam, one mass of sequins,

A

few quarters of lemon sucked, for a fishbone stuck la the throat, will cause the bone to dissolve slowly.

LADYLUCK

YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE

THURSDAY, JUNE 22

"Can't you get some MOTO. trying please?" asked Knorr, not to look at the Spider,

"Of course I can all title AQUARIUS (5) (January 21- Miss Muffet.

February 10): In your The instant the was gone,

ambition to reach the top He took a Knarf jumped up.

have twig and waved it in front of

Rome though! for the Spider. And, Instead of the others who are also trying Spider frightening little Miss

to get ahead. Muffet away. Knart frightened PISCES (2) (February 20- away the Spider,

March 201: Avoid over- praising a young person who already thinks rather too much of himself, ARIES (3) (March 21-April 19): It would be futile to aspire to a higher position without being ready to re- cept the responsibilities in- volved.

"Well," said Miss MufTet when she came back and down on the tuffet (1 mean the hillock of moss and grass and daisies) again, here's the bowl of curds-and-whey, Knart. it's all for you.

Has to finish it "And you must Anish it down to the last crumb, every bit of 3. It's really-really-really deli-

elous!"

Poor Knarf! Sitting on

the

He frowned and puckered up tuffet next to ittle Miss Muffet hips.

he had to put the whole bowl of eurds-and-hoy away! 1+It's cheese-cort-of." Miss

away inside him. I mean Muffet said, laughing al Knarf's spoonful after spoonful!

"I's sour," he saki.

unhappy face. "It's called curds- "I wish she weren't so afraid

the matter?" Knart

TAURUS (1) (April 20-May 20): You could increase your prestige in the com- munity by devoting sumų spare time to public ser- Vice,

GEMINI (4) (May 21-June 21 By listening to too many holiday suggestions

Rupert and Gwyneth—47

and-whey. You may think it's of Opiders," he told his sister sour but I still think it's deli- Hand later. cious. Oh dear _**

"What's naked.

Miss Dolly Maftet hughed rightly. Her laugh sounded like knives and forks and spoonia

thinking against glasses.

Eaten it all

"I'm glad you didn't want any of my curds-and-whey because. This garden wasn't in the fost Tonk, I've eaten it all up!" back of the house. It wasn't She held the bowl upalde down, in the front of the house. It But Khart wasn't looking at was inside the house. It was the bowl. Je had glanced up like a big, wide, handsome open at the overhanging branch for room with the sity for a celling the tenth time, and there it was and green grass and ny old oak tree for the door and the furni- ture.

Sitting under the tree on what seemed to be a hillock of mom

the Spider! It wasn't a very large Spider. Knarf wasn't ot all frightened of it. I started coming down, spinning out a thread as it lowered itself.

and gras and dalales WD3 4 Knart could hardly think of

small Girl In a colleo dress,

Sho had dark eyes and dark curls. She was eating rome- thing out of a large blue bowl with a spoo31, -

what to do. But suddenly, te thought of something.

"I would like some," he said. "But-but it's all gone," sakl Dolly Muffet.

The two pale watch nervously sa the broomstick rushes, towards them with Tabitha clinging to it. **Look, look, the owl has come too" exclaima Podgy. To their relief the fliers slow down and reach them gently. Then the owl perches on a cock while the broom

and the cat stand beside it. "Oh. How I wish Daddy could see this." ya Rupert. Well, go on," saya Gwyneth. "The broom atili obeys your orders. Tell it to show itself to your Daddy. I expect the owl and Tabitha will follow it, and we'll watch."

TAR SIGUTO AUJINTER

than

you will be farther ever from making up your mind.

CANCER (8) (June 22-July 21): You could count on a perans horn ander Pisces not to let you down in any circumstances.

LED (B) (July 22-August 21: Don't waste all your past efforts on a special job by failing to complete it in time.

VIRGO (11) (August 22-Sep-1

tember 22); Cultivate the interest of an influential person to help you get started on an enterprise of your own.

LIBRA (10) (September 23- October 22); A neweomer at work will prove very helpful once you get used to each other's ways. SCORPIO (9) (October 23-

November 21): Your orga

uising ability could be used

to advantage in natudy group that badly needs leadership.

SAGITTARIUS (7) (Novem- ber 22-December 21); Don't fall to give credit for the excellent reference that helped to secure your pre- nent position.

A

| CAPRICORN (12) (December 22-January 20); Give friend a chance to make hia exeusen before blaming him for keeping you wait- ing.

YOUR LUCKY NUMBER: Count the letters in your first name and add the tatal to the number shown. In brackets after your algn of the Zodiac. This in your lucky number for the weak,

20

Paxs Pass

3 A 7 You, South, hold: SABY UKQ34 +AZ 43832

What do you do?

A-Bid six clubs. Your partner Is showing signs of strength and you can certainly afford to bid the im

TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding has been: West North Eart South

Double Nedble 14

? You, South, hold: A8543 743 01042 A132

What do you do?

Answer Tomorrow

Of course, West could beat the spade slam. All he had to do would be to open the seven of clubs, East would trump would have a

and West club trick.

However, West opened

the king of diamonds. Dick won drow trumps; and the trick:

of clubs. led the eight

West the played

and Dick played low from dummy..

Seven

ISTT.

NORTH MAQU

8

9632 074 DADOL

WEST 45

VA074 *KQ932 AKJT

EAST A742

KJ 10,80 ◆ J10 86 4 4 Nona SOUTH (D) AKJ10003

Nono

• A Q101532

Both vulnerable

East North South West 14 Double Redbla 3 34 4.♥ SA 54 ** Doublo Pas

"A Tass

Double Pass

Opening lead-◆ K.

B

Pass

This constituted 2 safety play and protected his contract apainet any and all club Of course, if West had out on the club lead Diek would have gone up with

breaks.

shown

dummy's neo and led back to- ward his queen.

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