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THE "CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1961.

WOMANSENSE

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LADYLUCK Here's quick slimming JACOBY BRIDGE

YOUR CHINA MAIL' HOROSCOPE

FRIDAY, JULY 21

AQUARIUS (January 21. GEMINI (May,21-Juno 21):|

February 19): Don't wait too long for encouragement to try out a new idea, but,' start putting into prac. tice while your enthusiasm insta.

PISCES (February 20-March 20) If you enjoy a friendly argument, you ought to have ample-opportunity for one today.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19);

A last-minute purchase whil please the whole family, and your excellent taste will be applauded.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20);

Don't be so gullible as to belleve a glib person who promises riches without effort on your part.

THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY! STRIKING a new note,

an American maga- zine has come out with a series of interviews on "How I failed to get a man,"

Which certainly makes a nice change from thuse endless articles un how to trap one.

Is this, I wonder, a trend? Can we look forward to pares

un

"how my effort to knock ten years off my age udth the Tight make-up Пopped"

"How I don't cope with my children.. "Row my in- expensive title supper for four proved uneatable," and so on.

Human nature being what-it is, and magazine renders bored as they must be with other people's success stories, I foresee splendid future for Top Flops,

Job that counts"

E

was tall and tough

H with magnificent side- burns. He was, I judged, about 18 years old.

For hours an end he Was working on a little plumbing Job in my bathroom and making singularly slow progress.

At tea-time I returned to find him propped against the wall with his eyes closed,

"Fedling faint?" said I. "No, miss-just caving meself for me evening work.”

"You go to night classea?” "Not on your Nelly," he told me cheerfully. "I've до д proper Job from six to ten-at Bs. an hour spot cash.

-Váronica. Papworth,

COOKING

COLUMN

A person born under Leo will come into your life, and you will be delighted at ills- covering

intellectual cqual.

an

CANCER (June 22-July 21):

even if you cheat!

HOLIDAYS start any time now. It's the moment

of the year when a woman, making apprehensive com- Someone who is in a post-parisons between herself and her swimsuit, feels the call tion to further your ad-

for a shock diet. vancement will

come for- ward with some very useful idens.

LEO (July 22-August 21):

If you break up an unsatia- factory association by . gradual stages, no one is

likely to got hurt process.

It the

I have a new one: it comes straight from Paris where carrying it out, every overweight girl with a yen to be sleeker is busy

It's the "Five-by-Five-by-Five” diet; and, apart from not eating at all, it offers the simplest, surest way of melting off excess poundage I've discovered yet. All you have to do is thist-

VIRGO (August 22 Twice a day you eat; 5 oz. genees to blush over, the Five- September 22): Avoidan grilled or cold, lean meat with by-Five-by-Flug diet obligingly unpleasant exchange today 5 oz. plain bolled green veget- removed Tib. in a day under by refraining from criticis-able or salad, followed by 6 oz. the week.

of fresh fruit and

absolutel ing an associate's action.

nothing else.

Ask the butcher LIBRA (September 28-

Liquid intake should not ex- October 22): Don't be too ceed one cup of sugarless tea difdent in a talk with

(or coffee) on waking, a small superior if you want to cup of sugarless black coffee Impress him with your fit-after lunch and dinner, and,

you must, a mid-afternoon oup ness for promotion.

of sugarless tea. SCORPIO (October

23-

November 21): Avoid ro- baking a partner for an awkward slip, if he is al- ready sufficiently embar- rassed himself. SAGITTARIUS . (November 22-December 21): A friend whose affairs have gotten out of hand will appeal to you to help straighten them out.

CAPRICORN (December 22- January 20): Don't spoil by worrying. your holiday too much about the work swalting you on your re-

• turn. YOUR BIRTHDAY: If this is your birthday you will be able to acquit yourself well when facing a number of challenges this year.

Fen days

This-diet must not (repeat not) be followed for longer than 10 days at a stretch,

French friends sticking rigid- to it for this period claim the loss of a stone and more in alternated the 8 oz. meat with 8 the time, Deviators who have

oz. grilled fish, or two balled eggs, or an omelette, have como to the same result.

Personally,

ovem

after

in-

dulging in various little So-

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word deviations — such na gloss of dry sherry before, in- stead of a cup of sugaricas black coffee ofter the midday 18 oz., or laking my 6 oz of supper fruit for breakfast the next morning, or the odd raw tomato or apple, when things got too much for me even with these self-indul

How to recognise 5 oz. of eat at a glance? The best way to ket your eye in is to order to this weight. Five ounces ast the butcher to cut your

makes a perfectly respectable plece of steak, quite à good- alzed chump, and a really whops ping veal chop.

Five ounces of liver, to my mind, is as much liver as any- one wants to eat. The came for kidneys. Five ounces of chicken is a quarter of a falily Impressive bird; it's two good rounds of cold longue, two thin slices or one thick one from a rib of beef.

salmon, etc., are best left alone. Pork and ham, duck, goose,

is all right-one

But turkey bird would probably do for the whole diet!

Vegetable

Five ounces of green veget- able means exactly what it says, so for the diet period leave out carrots and buiter and broad

CHILDREN'S CORNER

Teddy Hears Secrets

-He Hides Under The Chair And Listens→→

By MAX TRELL KNA

NARF, the Shadow Boy, met hla trlead Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, under the chair between the bookcase and the

i window in the Playroom.

"Yes, that's it, all right," said Teddy in a disappointed tone. "How did you and oul?"

"Everybody knows it," said Knart.

Teddy shook his head sadly. "I was sitting under this

"Hi, Knart," said Teddy, "I'm chair. I heard Father telling glad you come here. I've got a Mother that we were all, going secret”

to the country tomorrow. I said

though it was a secret."

"You better come out from

"You have, Teddy?" Knart, sitting down beside his friend and leaning_back_against under that chair," Kaart the leg of the chair. "Are you going to tell me the secret?"

Teddy's secret

"Of course!" said Teddy, "Ta- morrow we're all--"

Knart interrupted Teddy:- "I know that aceret. Tomor row were all going to the coun-

try."

By FELICITY ASCOT

Bake your own biscuits

Prune nut biscuits

2/3rds cup shortening, 2 cups brown sugar, 2 eggs, well bedten, cup milk, I teaspoon vanilla, 31⁄2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon tearpoon bicarbonate of soda, 1 teaspoon baking powder, i cinnamon, cup chopped nuts, 1 cup cooked pruner, chopped, Cream the butter and sugar, add the eggs and beat well. Mix and sift the dry ingredients and add alternately to the first mixture with the milk to which the vanilla has been added. Then stir in the nuts and the prunes. Drop from a ten- spook on a well oiled baking sheet and flatten down each biscuit n'bit. Bake in a moderate oven for about twelve minutes.

Lemon nut biscuits

warned Teddy. "Otherwise when everybody goes to the country tomorrow, they might forget to inke you."

"They can't forget me!" said Teddy.

Knarf went away. Bui Teddy kept sitting under the chair. "Maybe I'll hear more secrets," he told himself.

Sat in chair

A few mlautes later, Father came in and sat in the chair again. Mother came and sat in the chair opposite It, à few feet

away.

Somebody remembered poor

Teddy had been forgotten."

Teddy could tell that she knew the secret as well as any- body..

"And."

Maty-Jane warned Teddy before the Cat wheeled her out of the room again, "you'd better not keep hidden under that chair, Teddy, or no- body will see you and they'll forget to take you to the coun try tomorrow if it doesn't rain."

Wouldn't forget "Forget me!" exclaimed Ted- dy, hey wouldn't ever do "Ah! Now I'll hear more that!" secrets," said Teddy to himself. Poor Teddy! He stayed under "But if it zains tomorrow," the chair. He was there the Father was saying "I don't next morning. The sun WES think we should go. What do shining. It was a beautiful day. you think, Mother?"

"We're going to the country we're going-we're going!"*** he tang to himselt

He heard the lunch being put

"I don't thinks so, either," said Mather.

""Therel" exclaimed Teddy, "Now I know another secroti

"Mary Jane, come over here?" Teddy called out a little later after Mother and Father had left the room.

In the basket,

-And

up and down, getting ready.

He heard everybody running Then he heard the door shut. Then Teddy, sitting under the Mary-Jano como In chair, heard nothing.

that was the worst Mary-Jane, the Rag Doll, secret of alt. It meant every came riding into the room in one was gone and they had for. her own carriage, pushed by the yotten to take him: But it was Cal. Mary-Jane and the Cat secret that Teddy couldn't tell both came over to the chair to anyone, because there wasn't and asked Toddy what he was anyone left in the house to tell

it to! doing there,

"If's the best place for heat- Everyone was going to the

Teddy explained country except Teddy with a prout smile. “I junt "Come back! You've forgat- heard onet"

ten me he shouted,

1 cup butter, 2 cups castor sugar, 1 egg, 1⁄4 cup cream, en secrets," cup lemon juice, teaspoon ventila, 3 cupe flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 4 teaspoon nutmeg, Va teaspoon salt, 1 table- spion grated lemon rind und 1⁄2 cup shredded blanched almonde. Cream the butler and sugar thoroughly and add the gut. woll beaten. Mix and all the dry ingredients and add aller riately with the liquids. Last of all, stir in the lemon rind and nuts and drop/tiny portions on a well oiled baking sheet. Bake about 12 minutes in a. moderate ovan.

Soft molasses biscuits

Remembered him

Mary-Jane said she would like to hear Teddy's secret. The Cat didn't say anything but just I don't think anybody heard Hooked as if she also wanted to him-for the sound of a Stuffed hear it.

Bear shouting Is like the sound "All right, come closer," said of a handkerchief when it falls Teddy.. Then he lowered his to the floor. But luckily soma- voice. "We were all going to body perhaps everybody --- go to the country tomorrow, suddenly remembered that they

2/3rds cup butter, 2, cups brown sugar, 2 eggs, well beaten,But we aren't going to go i had forgotten him. 1 cup mokasten, 1⁄2 cup sour milk, 34 cups flour, 2 teaspoons "I know, it", it "rains)”, ald They found him still- ellling Bicarbonate of soda, 1⁄2 teaspoon salt, 1⁄2 teaspoon cloveg, i read spoon cinnamon, teaspoon ginger und 1. teaspoon nutmeg.

Creans the Bulter and migar, add the eggs and best well, Then add the moladres. Mix and sift the dry ingredients and add alternately with the sour milk. Drop from a teaspoon on a well oiled baking sheet and baku: about 10 minutes In a moderate oven. These bisculta should be anft, so they must not be left in the oven longer, then it becomeary to Uškë them

Shrough.

Mary-Janes

Only

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under the chair. "Off!" - unid. Twidy, looking wasn't latening for secrets any terribly disappointed again." more. What he wanted to hear

"Everybody knows, that was everybody sayingr seret," maid Mary«Jana; ""Don't "Come along, "Teddyt - The they, Kit?” she added, looking man in whining; and we are at the Cat.

going to the country)” an

And that's what Teddy did "The Cat (didn't, mijawer. : But |you, would tell 'mod at any rate, heart

DAYMOND Balte of New York was, one of the two for three greatest auction bridge players but has confined lus contract, play to rubber bridge. He may be found at the Re- gency Club every afternoon and while his bidding, would not please a bridge scientist hie play of the.cards is just about as good as therd is,

• Ray in firm believer in the adage that bridge is a ganie of aces and kings. Hence," while 10 points, opposite, an opening bid is not normally enough for a stam, Ray felt that since his 18 "points were almost entirely made up of nees and kings, hè wanted to be there.

He won the opening diamond lead, and counted up tricks. Ho had nine tricks in high cards and needed three more. They might be produced in either clubs or spades and Ray saw

by Jean Soward CARD Sere

beans. And, although they are berries than I can, at, the mo-

ment, afford, green, don't live on peas.

# whole grape... fruit, two small apples or one large one, a big orange, four plums, or three medium-sized tomatoes.

The quickest way to deal with this, of course, is vin one small

a bit extravagant, packet of quick frozen-but it's

The first three days of the Five, ounces of fresh fruit, diet are the worst. After that, by my calculation, is a small promise, you begin to enjoy bowl of cherries, more straw- it.

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Answer Tomorrow

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Opening lead--♦ Q

that the spades could keep for a while.

He entered dummy with heart; led the jack of clubs; and let it ride. West took his king and knocked out Ray's ace of diamonds. He had to make a discard from dummy and his choice was the, correct one of the six of hearts,

Then he cached his king of spades; went over to dummy with a heart; and discarded his losing diamonds on the ace and queen of spades. The suit fail- ed to break, no Ray led the eight of clubs and Dressed. When West showed out, Ray led dummy' last club and brought in the rest of the 'suit,

More about the little

black dress..

by

JENNIFER LANE

Polly Peck

Toplet.

THERE are two old fashion faithfuls which I am willing to bet have been in nine

women out of ton's wardrobe ever since their 21st birthday.

One is the little black dress and the other is the little black top.

Noth black, but again

Both these garments can way--and its surprising diagonally above and hori- shape of a little evening

out be trottetl

time and how littlo other people zontally in the skirt. sweater by Toplet. It has a time again to suit all sqrta notice

low neck decorated with a your clothes.

It combines the look that ple frill of satin of occasions.

Eapecially men, bellove it

counts this season the With a fresh plece of or not.

gold and silver look with with the latest glitter look skirt, a The sketch on the left is all that's new in line and is in silver-threaded wool, the Jowellery, a new

Bleovoloss, top flower or belt, you can ring a Polly Peck design. With ideal for cocktails, dining bloused, the changes and make the the bodice bloused and the And dancing. -

the right aita whole affect look entirely skirt flared, it has a glitter In. the centre is the in prottily over. A swishing different. To yourself any of gold, thread running disponsable black top in the pleated skirt.

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HOUSEHOLD

HINTS

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to which a teaspoonful of ving.!!

gar has been added: Dry with

a chamois leather, Then whisk. Add a tle olive oil to tha up the whites of two eggs with water in which you sÁVENČN, JUDGIN two tablespoons of turpentine Shangtung blouse, This aub this mixtury. Info "the keep", tha - milk ·• freshi... and, up- leather. Dry with a clean, crumpled. woft, linen clotti.:

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