1961-07-06 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1961.

WOMANSENSE

CHILDREN'S CORNER

O'Scowl's Problem.

-He Has To Write Hundreds Of Letters-

By MAX TRELL "JUST LOOK #thi list! dust look at Pixie O'Scowl was greenbling. "Count the nunca! Go chead and count them! I've been working for a week now and I'm not hutt through! And do I get any help from anybody? No!"

Angry O'Scowl Hopped down on the bench outside O'Cheer Hail where all the Pixies lived. They were city Pixies. O'Cheer Bali was dowa tanong the roots of an old oak tree that grew in the idle the pask. not far from the lake,

**Who'd bother to help me?" Pixie O'Scowl was muttering. "I'm not important. Why should anybody hulp O'Scowi? He's no body!**

bench and go to sleep, but Hank picked him up. He was 20 larger diam pranet. She gave him a squeeze.

"What are those numes for?" she asked again.

"I've got to write them let- tera," said Pixi, O'Scowl. "Pul 1715 down

wille

Hamid didn't put him down. "Why do you have to them letters?" she asked.

**Ti ivil ther the snapped Pixie O'Scowl. put me down?"

lime"

"Now

Neither Knarr no Hand could understatel what Pixie O'Scowl meant. And all at once he sprang out of Hanid's hand.

Pixic disappeared Before she could grab him again, he had

"What are those names for?" Hanfð naked Pixie O'Scow').

"Yes" sale! Koart. "And there's summertine and there's wintertime!" *Thofa

Just C exclaimed Hank. "Yi've

Knart disappeared

through the tiny crack in the trunk of the old oak which led down into O'Cheer Hall. was

"But dear, will help you." Hanid, the Shadow Girl with the Turned-About Nerni, raying.

Don't bother. chen't bedber, tion ther." 'Seul mut-

1.

11.

guesse

Bave 12" asked

Knart +1 {tte surprise, not knowing what and guessed.

FASHION by Barbara

Griggs

My Summer

Collection...

OF THE

BEST (AND THE DOTTIEST) IDEAS SEEN AROUND

London. Galeries Lafayette.

America, TIGH summer:

time se when

social the

HI

holiday....a From often is annual naturally....where whole two months before even the most wessimistic can imagine that summer is actually coming in end.

Meanwhile Banid's brother names wire writsen down for Pixie 'Sex! has all those whirl beats up to its ODDEST intelligence of the

Bu

af 1st

SECAM aiket "Dont you "Now that's a shume," zaud

"Wintertane is nearly; Hand to Knari. " wish he Hanid.

Lover To a few days it will be nif. How will we hadn't ran

And that why all The springtime, ever and out what

Knarf still had long Keart was glancing at a

ters to write. He has to tell 31 in of name that were written names, He and

and alf the Fogs busiest, Hani Puked the Toads f Pre-comes and all the Bugs that it's al- longer pie down the line ( 1

*Toad-met 251741 peper. The names were puzzling and

Bug most springtime, mates and Bird-names They were all kinds.

and wondere.i why they were there.

even

Many names

There were memes rd Finga and names of Teads and benes kinds of Bugs. est different There are names of Birds -- Hebins, Swallows, Jays, Wien-

of "There certainly are a ht nutes here," Kourt sau akud.

"A 1

shouted Pixie O'scowl, hat eyes flushing with inili gratios. "There's Bundreds un hundreds of theg

fland to the list and kalped

over the names.

"What re they n aked. "What do yan have to do? Why are ibe naves of alf ther Frogs and Toads upd Dirds and thing written down here, Place O'SWE

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away."

O'Ser WL 'm te tired to

"Oh, you're zut," Hauid. O'Syowl was n

Hi E atenkeli

Pixe idk." sold

1.

JACOBY.

on BRIDGE.

SOUTH

www

un-

tecidedly happy when his partner doubled West's one heart re sponse, but things looked bet- Tur when East went to two clubs. South was off the nook

Ik he passed gludly.

North pay him back

[[1

but the

hook with a Turther take out double of East's two club bid. this

South wanted to BASA

bid and let East romp in two clubs, but South was 2 komi partner and know that b was

up to him 16 bid.

A we spade eat!

Was

least of the evils Having h

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Both vulnerable

The

"And what did The nean Koatf asked Hanid. "Why did

he way that ht had to writ, them letters to 4 thr tane?"

the

Y..u

Hanld hook her heath didn't write anybully a letter just to tell him what tim It

Wast That was foolish, Any

body could tell the time hy simply looking at a watch or at clock. Why write a letter abouk

Thought in silence

Kurf and Hand stood na si-

Bence. They were thinking.

ן

Suddenly Hanid let t shoul. Kart stared at her.

offense she cried. "owan, think I know."

Can come out

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را و

And what, when they have made a sweep of their summer stocks, will the store: be restock- ing with? Fars, tweeds, winter woollies?

the girls

who told in fri from Florence

ine that one of the first things their summer dresses the intended buging in Eudun are looking their pretti- as a stack of hairnets. "What, hairnets Ja Florence?" I

inl "They're all deep down pares est, and the days are as queried surprise. "Only where. under the ground, vader

the evenings men's," she said with a sigh. where it's long as socks, in caves. warm where they've been are dreamy.

COOLEST wake-up notion the excellent American idea of

The new Yard- fiving during

Just about the time, too, ivy cffering entled (regrettably) '11 Sparkle" a when

a Silly Season in "Sponge

sen-blue quid you

The

wintertime

rume

But now they can ogain. It's springtime?“

"But what about the Binde"

Zure

asked Kaari, "The net ev

saud Hvid they flew away before winter-

"Or Purse

time came.. And now Pixie

al! O'Seowl has to write them etters and tell then they rome flying back!"

van

splashy

fashion sets in, to match spange on (spinge provided. no the prevailing mond of Freues er collon-wool needed) irresponsible extravagance, to clear away all make-up and leave your skin feeling fresh this

my Mid- and breezy. Setson Collection of some of the daltiest, newest, most sur- prising ideas of the moment, For instance:

At that instant Pixie O'Jay and Fixie MeMerry came tut- ning out of O'Cheer Ball.

"We'd like that list Bames," they said to Knack and Pres

Why won't at least ONE on- terprising store do away withi this annual absurdity and stur!

a permanent bargain basement, instead.

Then their windows won't be a grisly mess just when Landon is filled with tourists, and all the English customers are still look- ing for holiday clothes or sume- thing seasonable to wear for the fist heatwave.

Take some on holiday to wash

Price De Gd. for a biggish bottle. the

was the film of sain-ition, . LATEST

xcarves

in chicon

tigers and the zebras, the reptiles Galeries Lafayelle sell scarf with a chilly the encodile-skin pelit áit over it.

Firm

f

enter-

THE MOST Beauty BEST thought-provoking as a chiffon

"1 recent days; the French company, waruing from a watch-maker's

fanid. "We're going to help in that suddenly dircoveted research department that NEWEST trend in rainwear

O'scowl write those letters."

-high

fashion-

1

in brandi-now, hug, and growing women who wear their gold-

wrist-watches "ilere you are, dears." said market BABIES, of course, platel

While wards, towards coût dylishness. Kuart beated her to explain. Hold

we think of it spraying their hair with, away from the classic belge. A As she gave the two wor didn't

launched He marlin' mass of all.

1cqner musin't be surprised if French Arm has food-naturent Pixies the ling before?

of Houmene raincoats they and both case and glass of clutch "Well,"

aling. list. "I'm glad you're helpines

Getting alt to a good start, the watch curiously pitted after which, they say, are "Dior - "there are all kinds of time. Pisie O'Seowl. He seemed しい they've

launched

Initial There are the different Lms be my tired."

range of eleven products, of which some are chiefly hygiente

of the day---1954 *eluck, ten "Wonder" said Knart, just nelack, and so on. And there's as the two Pizies Were about daytime and there's nighttime," to dash back into O'Cheer Hall

Kharf himself began to gonile. "what time it is?" "And."

Hanud, tntinted

Then ball Pixies "there are still more different watches cut kinds of time. There's a dinner and sald: time and there's a suppertime "A title before springtime! and there's lunchtime.

Then off they went.

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a time,

if it does that to a watch- and the rest frankly beutifying case, what in heaven's name can ....soRenting cream and soften- it be dulng to a girl's hair? ing milk. bath oils, purifying

tok their eau-de-Colugnes, and so on. GRIMMEST reminder

their pockets

Rupert and the Rugger Match-3

Neither Bill or Algy has ever seen a Rugger match, and they ale keek tu com Rupert, so Uncle Brano piles them alt into his gar and drives them away. The Rugger match is in full swing when they arrive and watk towards the pitch. ** There are not many people watching on this

side of the field," says Unde Bruno. "Let's stay here." And the little party stand to look at the fast game. All x Rupert ducks as the ball passer over his head. "Is that the ball" gasps Bill. Why ever is it that shape > It's more like a sausage!"

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

You can't ferm Important Habits too early, is clearly their molte. Not yet on sale ovër herë ....but stick around, girls,

of

Inspired" (Boussac, of course, owns Dlor....) inte which Lo many of the current fashion

ST END FINAL

RAIN

PLA

CLOSING CITY PRICES EVENING STANDARD

New look in rainwear: styled as carefully as a coat... with Dior inspiration breathing down the designer's neck. This one has a breezy "Grande Armee" look to it: high buttoned collar-which can be worn open, too; high breast-pockets, and low-slung holster-level pockets; tabs on shoulder and straps on sleeves... and a bright pattern of shiny buttons (but, unlike army ones, they don't need a daily cleant. By Royal- Blizzard. (Why not BlizzARD? Anything ending in -ord in French tends to be a rude word, that's why).

PICTURE by JOHN COLE

polnis: flared skirts, dropped waists, low-slung pockets, plus s Jaunty military theme that, with Lifeguards Blue and Horseguards the week: the fact that the summer sales are Red strongly tipped as autumn well emerge just around

Most colours. might the corner.

strongly from Paris next season. of them

this year kick off incredibly early, the rst week

Others in the range are dead- in July: a whole month before plain in cale black, could double

London Seasor offctally as evening

well do year-round duly as a browns, malt or irridescent. couts and a drep

in mind the voluptuous full-up pot (rather manth before olive hunting green, a deep mid- coat: with which

night blue, a handsome chestnut makers are also selling separate a pretty gold and grey one, too).

fake fur linings which can be costs te od. and a woody. grainy brown are buttoned in for chilly days, other good colours.

CRAZIEST in stockings: the

fine WHITE lacy ends. .a whole

Imesh nylon, price 45s, a pair, at the average English family pre

we're loaded with Christmas

Gifts" we're loaged with we're Christmas Gifts loaded with its

Christmas

The most un- seasonable

item in my

post last week,

received

from a

London

store.

The FABRIC is the Fruch equivalent of Terylene--they call it Tergaland the coats are

Prices alas, are high: but it's TOP shirt-seller

white

a trend worth watching, all the same.

the

A

crisp

like colton, cut man's, satin-striped in broad bands of pink, blue, lilac and eye yellow which That Chald-Store make up: stils for 20s. 11d....

Last Itellan colour in nowder-form so that year

shirts

completely washable, lining and HANDIEST

al....the more you wash them the more rainproof they are, say

the makers,

It can't collect into a thin line intch the same and much ud-

locking

of concentrated Krease along mired sold for around 5 the eyelid. Lancome make 11, guineas.

blues, greens, Hreys andi

London Express Service).

With winters. seemingly, getting

summers milder, and gloomier all the time, they could In

Look what Terylene looks like now

South

West North

Pass 1♥ Double

East

1

24

PART 26 Pacz

Рава Post Double

Pors 46

Poss Pass

Opening lead-- Q

North

am needless to say South was really unhappy whet jumped right to game.

Usually the pessimden of a player with a hand like South's is fully realised in the nat result and this time would have been no exception if East and West had been looking Into South's hand, but they weren't and everything turned out for the best.

partner's

ace with

East overtook his queen of clubs with the king and continued with the and Jock. South ruffed the Juck of spades;, drew trumps with four tends! and run off ve diamond tricks to make his contract,

VCARD Serisek♦

Q-The bidding has been:

West

1

Eart South

North Dotthle 14

You, South, hold:

AKJA ♥67 1005

What do you do?

KIT

ABid one no-trump only. You have a lot of Allers, but your 10 high card points don't include an woo and hearls are a weak spot.

TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner bids two hearts. What do you do now?

Answer. TomeITOW

LADYLUCK

YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE

THURSDAY, JULY 6

JAQUARIUS (11) January VIRGO (6) August 22-

you is

by Felicity

Ascot

Southern applesauce Recipes

6 tart apples, 4 cups sugar,

September 22): An 3890- cinte may show pleasant way to earn some extra cash this week. away

LIDRA (4) (September 23

October 225: Be as pleasant cold

21 February 19: The friendship of a colleague born under Taurus may be worth cultivating from the office. PISCES (77) (February 20- March 201: Your friendly approach to a newcomer at work would go a long way towards putting him at

ease.

ARIES (10) (March 21-April 19): Don't be impatient of other people's inability to grasp some of your more complicated ideas.

TAURUS (3) (April 20-May 201: You ought to be able to settle a dispute with a neighbour without resort- ing to legal advice. GEMINI (12) (May 21-June 21): Kowledge acquired in your spare

time could be

applied with advantage to your daily work. CANCER (6) (June 22-July 211: Be prompt in replying to A distant friend who urgently needs your special advice. LEO (8) (July 22-August 21): Don't be petty enough to disparage a scheme in which you have nut bean asked to participate.

2 cups water, 1 teaspoon mace. teaspoon cinnamon, whole

1

cloves and 2 temons.

Feel apples and drop into water in order to keep

LEH Voti at a family them from discolouring. Make

enn gathering. no matter what syrup you may feel about some and of those present.

SCORPIO

mace, vinnamon

from

Kentucky

should add which

by mixing the sugar water

together. Let

Break macarool into pieces came to the boil, then add the and cook in boiling water

'the and (1) (October 23-grated

until tender. Drain, cover with rind of the lemons. cold water and drain of at November 20): You must Stick 3 or 4 cloves into each one. When coal pul the took for more than mere apple and drop them into the macaron into a baking dish and physical attraction if you boiling syrup,

the cheese, breadcrumbs, want

a suund cover the apples. to ensure

chopped peppers, onion, milk, marriage relationship.

Add the julee of the, lemons salt and butter, and stir gently. nd cook rapidly for Ave Pour tomuto Fauce over SAGITTARIUS (9) Novem- minutes. Turn the apples and top and bake in

her 22 December 21: cook slowly until the apples are oven (350 degrees F.) Resist the invasion of your clear. Care should be taken twenty five minutes. privacy by a neighbour who] not to let them cook to pieces.

is much too curious about Remove the apples with a ladle and boll the syrup to the coli- making sistency of that for

your affairs.

CAPRICORN (2) (December Jelly, Dip a spoonful at a time

22-January 20); Your goodonto

the apples, letting

taste and officioncy in run-harden as it is dipped.

ning your home are a great

Bource of comfort to your

family and friends.

YOUR LUCKY NUMBER:

Macaroni pudding

the

a moderale

for

Baked peaches

G large peaches, a few cloves,

tablespoon butter, 1/4 cup water, 1 teaspoon mace, 1 cup sugar and a little grated lemon Tind.

Peel the peaches and stick 2 cloves in each. Put them in a

Count the lettera in your 1 cup manront, I eup bread govered baking dish and add the first name and add the total crumbs, 1 cup milk, I cup grated butter, mace, augar und water. to the mumber shown In cheese, 1 tablespoon sweet red Sprinkle with the grated lemon popper, 1 tablespoo sweet rind and bake until the peaches brackets after your sign of

green pepper, 1 tablespoon ontou, are done. This is a ciclicious the. Zodiac, This is your}1 tablespoon butter, 1 teaspoon dessert served either bot or lucky number for the week. | salt, 11⁄2 cup tomato sauce,

vold,

with

'CRIMPLENE'

-JA0

THESE

JERSEY DRESSEO

wash casily

spin or drip dry

need no ironing keep exact shape keep elegant

jersey

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