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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, QCTOBER 9, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
Mint, a green leaf pattern on white for a dinner service and oven-to-table set. By Rorstrand.
A
travelling problem
MINOR horror of
travel often proves
to be the bon voyage gift.
Not only a problem for those who give, but also for the traveller, who may be [IT] the receiving end of something bulky, useless or fattening.
There is plenty of reope with gifts for people travelling by sea. A number of useful and pretty fashion items come under this bending.
FOR MEN
Ship travellers can always use a lightweight stole in colour- fut wool or silk, a soft brocade Jewellery case, a gay scarf or a little headed cocktail bag. A
towels fet
Quest
-
by JENNIFER
LANE
Stockings are always nicu te reveive, or perhaps a painted For Daimarú have some lovely nest, or ominidered handker. charba
BY AIR
Men are
slightly more dif- frall, but consider
penell. Nizo Bashlight, passoori wallet, a silk eravat to tuck in the neck of
a sports shirt blow, or the
when breezes
of humbugs.
Eatables of the chocolate and biscuit variety are not terribly
a nice reminder of Hongkong suitable for our climate and the and inexpensive to give.
menus' on board ship are usual-
NOW
London.
POTTERY GETS A BRAVE
THERE is a heartening
new trend in the pottery designs from Scandinavia which were shown in London re- cently and will go into the shops in time for Christmas.
At last pottery is be- ing given a drawing
NEW
LOOK
Francs that looks Scandinavian in s design bait is, in fact, much chumper.
The Anish may not be so per-
feet, but the effect is the same and the price puts this range
room rather than a well within the means of 21 kitchen look about its young couple selling op design.
For yours now the best- looking crockery from the Continent has had a distinct ly home-spun "I made it myself" look ubout it, with a thick, rough surface.
Oven to table ware made in this style is all very fine on the kitchen -shelf, but it
is difficult to partner with a
for the r time,
SHISK-KEBAB
hause
Among the newer Swedish designs in cutlery, by the way, is a starter set for a very small child consisting of a spoon, forit and a pesher to help the baby
roop up
foud,
For cunarmed eat-in-the- kitchen families there a cut apple patterned set of earthen
by
wure that looks particularly good
Cr
un Informal outdoor set- ting. If includes ceramie
highly polish-JANE ROGERS large
ted table, a fine fy le
fattening enough white damusk already. So better to give the cloth or or- ald box of chocolates a misu
nate silverware,
Now however,
this Ume.
platters which are Ideał for
un displaying
Q new
Eden, a set in ovenproof earthenware that is particularly good for kitchen or outdoor use. Also by Rorstrand.
earthenware that will become
usual salads or sandwiches. the antique pleces of the next
century. comes It There is Gifts to airborne travellers, if
fashion in presented at the Firport, should range of earthenware that outdoor eating, incidentally. Its With this in mind many of the sandwich leading commercial potteries, in- be small and light. Weight and is not only simple and well- the Shisk-Kubah in bulk are the things to be avoided |designed but elegant as form. Onto large turkey skewers cluding Rorstrand of Sweden,
here.
well,
delicate green leaf design which cheese and pieces of sweet corn. signs are some very simple
CASSEROLE
are threaded a variety of sand- are starting to produce limited wiek brunds including rye, editions of pottery made by A good paper-back novel
Typical of the new pallerns will help while away the
with a distinctly cititied suphis pumpernickel and white, Inter- hand. hours kat Might. A frozen tication
is the laced with olives, chunks about them
The newest among these de- cologne stick 13 another acerptable gitt,
edges one winner service de-
casseroles ond 100- For turists
You can thread a whole salad stoneware on round the signed by Hertha Bengison,
by Carl-Harry world trips, a nylon shopping
meal on a Kelab stick-a square pots designed img which Folds itself into
of luncheon meat perhaps, fol- Stalhane, lowed by cucumber, radish and purse-size is invaluable for all.
They are made individually Alange out of the why pinces
which includes lettuce or, if you prefer sume- under the designer's supervision, where modern fleas of wrap- oven to table ware would look ung hot, allees of frankfurter, and each piece is slightly
cockini onions and gherkins pig parehases just don't exist. good at a format dinner party,
different from the others, with Flowers are line for ship-but equally at home in the can be threaded into a wooden vuriations in glazing and colour. bard
stick, then dipped into a bar- nobody kitchen. Its great advantage is wants to make an elegant exit; the re-proof casserole that can
becue sauce for an extra tan. up the boarding steps their be brought to the table, yet mrcrail cloleking a large bunch which
Suzie As
Wong plates. does one
ur
send-offs, but
adili. would say, what
This
range
matches the
this new
Another idea for kitchen eat- dinner
ing has been pilfered from the Met I Boy
Scouts chrese dreams,
GOLD LEAF
LADY
your
LUCK
CHINA MAIL
horoscope
off a most satisfactory deal, and an appropriate celebra- tion will be in order. VIRGO [August 22- September 22): Try to ascertain what is going on
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 9
AQUARIUS (January 21- February 19): An astute business man of your ac quaintance could give you some valuable advice. for the unking. An English designer is making These are simply cubes of cheese a special range of storage jars PISCES (February 20-March
a softened from wrapped in
water for the kitchen in individuataí
20): A Viscali, Tien toasted over a fire patterns inlaid with gold leaf,
generous gesture you can easily &tford until they are brown,
Agalu each item varies slightly
would give Its neighbour in pattern trunk
of people colouring, and already a Ur
pleasure, museum has asked for some samples of his work.
To go with do with them inudde for good-have spotted some very simple
stainless ness sake?
steel cutlery
CHILDREN'S CORNER
O'Prank's Trick
-He Sends Other Pixies On A Silly Ecrand-
By MAX TRELL
Crickets to evickle," said Pixie Merend "Come along. Mr- NARF and Hanid, the Long! We haven't got any line
Shadow Children with the 'to fall Turned-About Names, were sit- Tu Pixie McBroad grabbed
K
And then, naliv. there was just one solitary Pixle left. He walked slowly.
was Pixie
ke
Trunk. When he saw Knarf and Hanid.
came over to The and laughed,
"What are you laughing for!" Honid asked Pixie O'Prank.
Did you "er alt lanse aller Pixies go running off to tench Grasuluppers how to hon and Rees how to make honey
ting on the bench in the middle Vixie McLang by the arm and Mosquitoes how to sting and of the park when who should pulled blan into the tail grass on Fishe` how Lo swim and all cane scurrying out of the grass and across the path but Pixie O'Sernet and his steepy assist. unt. Pixip. MeSnooze,
Good morning Pixie O'Scowl Good mporains. Pixie MeSuoored" Kaart and Hank both said,
Wanted to talk
McSnooze wanted to stop and talk bat Pixie O'Scvet
lil;
the ofher side of the park,
Funny lessons
exclaimed Honi.
those her silly things?" Pixle O'Prank asited. "Well, I'm the one that gent them.
"Teaching Crickets to crickle!"
It's a trick "Why, that's funnier than
's all a trick. Teaching
Won't they be surprised when they and Grasshoppers to hop,"
know the Grasshoppers "That's what I think," Kourt that started to say.
how to hop and the Mosquitoes At that moment
Me- know how to silny and the Fish Long suck his head out from don't need anyone to teach them behind a dandelion and said: how to swim
Pixe
"Sorry! Sorry! We've got no Ume this morning, We've got to "Stupid? What's stupid tabout teach the young Grasshoppers it? His could Crlekeis crickle. how to hous!"
if somebody didn't teach thear In crickjeri
In the next hour this is what happened:
Then he grabbed Pixie Me. Snooze by the arm and dashed off with him into the fall grass on the other side of the park.
"NOW that's funny," sald Knart to his sister. "Why should anybody teach Grasshoppers how to hou?"
"I think that's funny, too," Hauld agree.
At that moment, Pixie Me- Sneeze stuck his hend out from behind a dalsy.
Thinks it stupid
"I think it's stupid," he said, hen he WOR yanked out of
Pixie MeChuckie and Pixie: O'Gay went running by the parle bench <21 which Knarf 1
"Stupid? What's stupid about It naked Pixie McLong.
And Pixie O'Prank stood in the middle of the path in the middle of the park in the middle of the day and laughed and laughed until suddenly he heard the rest of the Pixies coming back. Then he turned and ran and ran!
JACOBY on
COMETIMES the two-way Hanid were sitting. They said nesse against queen is n they were going la teach thegues. On other occasions, You Swallows how to swallow.
have a little information to
Then Pixie O'No and Pixieguile you, bat suntimes you! O'Yes went running to teach have a sure thing if you just
the Bees how to make honey. bother to count your opponents"
Then all the other Pixles in distribution. O'Cheer Hall, some in podrs and some alone, went running off in
West leads the nee, king and different directions to trach the queen of hearts against South's sight againz.
Fish how to swim, the Pike's four-spude contract. South ruffs About ten minutes Inter, Pixle how to By, the Mosquitoes how
the third Jead with dummy's MeLont and Pixie Melroad to sting, the Robing how to ace of trumpa and notes that ataried to cross the path.
calch Worms, the Squirrels how be will have to locate the queen „"Good morning!" "Kilief and to crack nuts, the Moles how to of clubs to make his contract. tianid shouted to them. "Where dig holes, the Hummingbirds
are you going in such a hurry?” how to hum, the Owls how to:
"We're going to teach the hoot, the Roosters how to crew.
Rupert and the Secret Path-35
The two pala gate at each other. "If both scraps of paper belong to that weird steanger why is be sneaking about making mapa?** says Hinge ** Hush. I heard a branch map whopers. Rupert. He may be coming bark We mulen'i jo out and "get "caught
Don't throw that piece away. Pold it and pur 1 in your pocket and quick-we must hide in that upper Scrambling fast an
**
they came up the rough blocks they upléere through the knall spate and now it is Rupert's turn to insist on completa silence, ALL, REIHTA RESERVED
He also notes that West kas shown up with six
hearts. South draws trumps with three leads and notes that West has followed 10 all three. That
♥CARD Sénicas
Q-The bidding has been:
East Routh West
North 14
Pasa
Posa
❤
*Double
Pass
2 A
PREZ
Pans
3 V
34
Травк
Pasz
1
7
You, Soul, houl:
AR903 42 0752 4842
What do you do?
A-TAB. Leave the decision about further bidding to your partner.
TODAY'A QUESTION You hold the same hand. The bidding starts out the same way, but your partner's rebid over West's two honeta is threo dia- muntia. What do you do in thin chro?
Answer Tomorrow
BRIDGE
NORTIK
AK73 *៥
17
KJB4
WEST (D) A842 WAK Q10 6 1
185 47
EAST
82 +0243- 400032
SOUTH
3108
JTA
• K 100
♣ A 105
No one vulnerable
North East South Double Paus 24
IV
3
Faxs
PAAS 4A
Pass Га
Opening lead-♥ K
accounts for nino of West's cards,
South's next step in to go after the diamonds. West takes Hace and forces South's last trump with a heart, South runs the resi of his dinmondy and West follows to them. This marks West with threo dia- monds so that 12 of his cards are accounted for.
At this point, South has a sure thing for the last three Tricks, le lecals a club to dan- Tuy's king and returns the jack." It East covers, South makes the nco and ten if East ducks, South plays low also, 1to knows that West does not have another club,
OUTDOOR
Pottery that has been specialty Right at the other end of the designed to go with outdoor food scale, for those of us with small Includes a
special Kebak dish children, who want cups that which is long enough to take will bounce. I am glad to say skewers and is notched at either that there Is a new range of end to stop them rolling off the melamine plastie ware that looks plate.
and feels just like china, but is far more durable, With so
designs many beW coining onto the market pottery It doesn't chip and comes in is rapidly becoming worthy of up-to-date designs and sophis- the collectors", attention, and tlcaled colours that make it; many people are assembling col- suitable for grown-ups to use as lections of the kind of china and well.
Depending on
whether you
want to be dramatic or demure for the evening, you can change the panels on the dress sketched above according to your mood.
It is a basic sheath design in black silk crepe and has wrist-length sleeves which can be worn long or turned back.
a great deal of
behind the not to be taken too much by surprise.
LIBRA number 14
(September 23- October 22): A close com- panion needs
encourage- mont from you and will be grateful Inter for Komo prodding now. SCORPIO
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Unexpected understanding will come from a peraon whom you have known only for a very short time. 1AURUS (April 20-May 20);
After a
series of delays you will finally be able to conclude
agreement which should work out to your beneft in the future. GEMINI (May 21-June 21): improved circumstances will shortly bring you very much closer to your wish for 1 less strenuous working day.
A
a
CANCER (June 22-July 21):
Don't give
persin Recond opportunity if he has already exploited your generosity ante.
LEO July 22-August 21): Your partner may auor pull
(October 23- November 21): A relative will be very much in the picture this week, and your routine muy be somewhat upsut.
SAGITTARIUS (November
22-December 21):
Select something of lasting value when asked to choose a gift for yourself. CAPRICORN (December 22-
January 20): A casual rela- tionship could develop into something much deeper. If you have the patience nurture it along.
to
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