LADY
your
AQUARIUS
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
LUCK
CHINA MAIL
horoscope
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26
1951 You
(12) January VIRGO 16) (August 22-Sep- tember 22): It would be a mistake to dig heavily into
тексттев yea
to just satisfy a momentary desire. LIBRA (10) (September 23- October 22): Don't be re- sentful if a superlor Allg
of improving gests ways
Lo your work, but be ready learn from his greater ex- perience.
21-february should be able to resolve conflict by your emotional nking a difficult decision without further delay. PISCES (11) February 20- March 20: Your previous hints may have been too subtle; try 11 straight- forward request to get what you want.
ARIES (0) (March 21-April
19); Keep your partner's taste well in mind when nking a purchase for the home talny. TAURUS (40) (April 20-May 20: A family obligation may seem especially bur- densome tonight if it keeps yon from accepting an at- fructive invitation. GEMINI 5 May 21-June
eatablish 2ia: You may most useful future contact by your cattrtesy in han- ding a trifting commission. CANCER (3) June 22-July
A
SCORPIO (2) (October
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November 21): You may not have realised! - your you secret ambition. but have
110 reas ashamed of what you have already achieved. SAGITTARIUS (8) Novem-
your
Her 22-December 2111. By sticking to closely to hard and feat raket you may be missing some of the best things in life. CAPRICORN (1) December 23-Ingmary 201: By up- common plying your own sense to an ambitious iden Df
partner's, you should fod a more prae- tical way of carrying it out, LUCKY NUMBER:
your Count the letters in (7) (July 22-August first name and mid the total
Clear up
to the number shown in before leaving bruckets after your sign of your work, if you want the Zodiac. This is your for the number lucky mine to- enjoy peace of
week. night.
21: Sume funds that you feared were unwisely. In- vested are safer than you think.
should earn YOUR and dividends in time. LEO
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crepancy
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BOYS AND GIRLS
MAGAZINE********
Merlin's Magic
-It Takes Everyone In Playroom To Playground-
By MAX TREL.
AT one end of the park, there
was a playground. Lale f night.
when everyone WAK asteep, the swings and the see- the there in
saws just stood
light of the moon No one used them.
The playground was a lonely place.
Knart and Hanld. The Shadow Children with the Turned-About Names, could see The pluy- playroom front their
Krotita window
It's a shame
"What a shame," Hanld saki
to Knurf. "Just look at all the fun that's going to waste. Thr swing. swings are waiting to
The Reesaws are waiting to
up and down. The sand pit is waiting for someone to come and play in It. And no one is there at all."
"Everybody's
asleep." said Kanrt. "No one's awake
on the swings or swing
to
ride
up and down on the seesawE
or play in the sand pit."
the
"Tin awake!" crled Teddy,
fram Stuffed Bear,
other side of the room
the
"So om 14' said Mary-Jane, the Rag Doll.
Hi's awoke, too
"Me, too," sald Hiawatha, the
un flanted right
hia
Then Mr Merlin, the Mag- licent Maglelan, stuck head out from behind the Book-
case
"Can't go to the playground? Who said so?" he asked,
Hanid explained that, every.... one in the room was ready to go to the playground but that none of them could walk.
Go by balloon
"Nonsense," said Mr Merin. ««You don't have to walk to get to the playground. You go there by balloon.
He
Small-Sized Wooden Indian. Ite second there was a big balloon
was sitting in the corner of the room with a blanket head He stuck his head fron
He enapped his fingers. mumbled some words. The next right in the middle of the room. said Mr Merlin, "Climb in," over his
big waving grandly at the
ballon. the
"There's ruum were wide open,
Gloria, the Beautiful China enough for everybody."
General Tin and Miss Glorin. Mary Jane, Teddy, the Sluffed Bear, Mr Punch and his wife Judy and Hiawatha and Knatt ond Hanid all crowded Into the balloon. Mr Merin climbed in last of all.
he cried.
out of the blanket, His eyes basket that hung underneath
Doll. opened the door of her
doll house.
"I'm wide awake," she said, "I'd love to go to the
play. ground,"
"My dear," said General Tin, " be delighted to take you
He was standing by the play-
"Here we go!"
room dour with his musket over "Huld ent"
his shoulder, He put down his
musket and held out his arm.
Mr Punch and his wife Judy
Floated to playground
No one in the balloon could
sald they were wide awake, too, fell how Mr Merlin managed
Loves soosaws
"There is nothing 1
it, but somehow the balloon floated up to the calling of the room....up, up, up Into the
then down enjoy moonlit sky.
more than a ride on a seesaw. again Into the playground, my dear Mr Punch and to And all night long. Knurf and Hand and all the others weat
Judy.
"We'll
zo on one together." swinging on the swings and rid- Judy promised Mr Punch.
ing on the secawa and playing Itaniu saw with in the sand pit, gatonishment that everyone in Never did they have so much
Chart and
the playroom was ready to go fun."
to the playground.
Never did the wings and the
"But how enn you all go?" secaws and the sand pit give so much pleasure to so many
asked Hanid, "You're only Toys.
Toya can't waiki 11ow are you wonderful ittle People.
even going to get to the play-
around, answer me thall”
Never did Mr Merlin feel so
and that he was such a mag-
This was something no one in nincent and good-natured *** the room had thought about. Mogician.
THE most momentous changes in fashion are not always the most obvious ones. Look back through, a shiny maga- zine of the early fifties and what jumps to the eye at once?
The unbellevable length of these droopy skirts. Can we EVER have worn theni almost down to the ankle?
kut another. even mure 10 curious fact about fashion years ago sinks in subsequently: It is the extraordinary formally of the town clothes,
Ten years ago, the good little black suit was a inast In every well-dressed woman's wardrobe; perfect secretaries. wore them with Atarchy white blouses. Knightsbridge women with a sable senet, everyone with pearls,
The good town cont was a Princess ne in blurk. Town shnus
black calf were good pumps terean shoes in winter would have seemed incurabig frivoluas) town heck were high. Light, bright colours were sat for town; autumn brought its crop of block und dark grey, spring its harvest of mavy. A
coat alood ! 15 beacra. Brown was strictly for the country.
starlet
Tweeds were out for lowih, to -all but the smoothest, plainest tweeds in the swatchbook; and
town fabrics were silken plain baralheas and worsteds,
One tedious result of all this was that lown clothes and colit- try clothes fell into
two com-
pletely separate categories, and anything that looked right for town looked hopelessly wrong for the country.
Thrown oui
Tudny severe little black suits have been thrown out for the
Chanel suit
in of a swagger rough tweed with a floppy silk shirl.
Today, the brighter the colours you wear for town the better scarlet, warm yellow, deep
BARBARA GRIGGS PICKS THE CLOTHES THAT ARE RIGHT FOR TOWN ★☆ ★
The
two
fashion
purpose wardrobe...
Chinese blues, all the pinks, made you sprinkle it sparingly emerald green. Brown is chic on your hair (closing your eyes
even
fur accessories. If you want to wear pale shoes right through the winter there wil be plenty of them in the shops. And fashion today loves rough tweeds, deep-textured wools and fubrics, botl beautiful pile checks.
Not the least pleasing restill of uil ls is that much of the distinction between town and country
clothes hay blurred HWDY, Ko that the town girl Di the depths going down to the shirea need feel no more impelled to rush uul and buy herself some new clothes that the country woman cuming up to Londen for a day's shopping. here to prove my Shown point: a town-and-country war- drobe of dress, suit and coat that might have been pleked by either.
Instant beauty
DRY SHAMPOO HE
for when your hair is looking DESPERATE, you have a last- minute date, and there isn't a
to the hair hope of getilag
Swiss is dresser. Tils
one
to the resultant duli grey look): leave a minute, then brush til you arms ache.
Be super
esult: Not quite head of shining hair your hair- dresser will give you--but a very driinite improvement all A shaker container containing enough for 30 gora -coals 9s. id.
the same.
Instant beauty — 2 THE TWENTY QUESTIONS service that the American cosmetics frm of Revlon have set up in the beauty department at Selfridges.
at
Four red telephones are your service: You dial the num- ber of the agonising question you want an answer to, and the smooth, French, reassuring volco of Revlon's expert Francols comes parring back at you from a taped recording.
Questions range from the des pairing wait of No. ("I have an oily skin, open pores, black- heads and pimples. What should I do to the placid philo- sophical Inquiry of No. 20: "What is the secret of beauty?"
AND RIGHT FOR THE COUNTRY, TOO
THE TOWN-AND-COUNTRY COAT: Made of plain frieze tweed, loosely belted, in glowing red: the sort of coat that gots as omicbly with pigsties and Wellington boots as with kid gloves and your best little black. By Windsmoor. Price 13% gns. at Swan G Edgar.
Rupert and the Secret Path-50
100
car
Growler walls umil the sinuster figure in well away from them "All in good time," he mullets "Let's find where he came from. They all move forward. and almost si once they find the old ruin and, after a careful look round to see that all in quiet, they
At Rupert's warning the others mand very still and soon they
something moving Keeping well in the cover, and peeping through the leaves, they dark figure passing through Are you the undergrowth. going to catch him nowe
Constable Enter. Whispers Rupart.
ALL. MONTE RESKAYED
When
your man can't help a bit...
OLD
LD illusion that went for a burton last week: the theory that a man's eye is an invaluable aid to the woman pleking herself out a dress.
come
on
✡
THE EASY LOOK that Chanel sent round the world-town and country clike: Made of pine green flecked tweed, it's bound with deeper green braid, has military brass buttons front and cuffs and flop pockets, slightly flared skirt. Price 1 gns. af Maryan, Knightsbridge-in other colours. Worn with Chanel shirt: silky pale with * bow- tled collar, huge cuffs. Also at Maryon, 69/6.
pose, but isn't it a wee bit gloomy" "Oh, but you've got to imagine it with my pearls, and white gloves, you know." "Oh, I see, well still don't think much of 11." Despair.
She vanished again. A fur- ther seven minutes ticked Bock she came, finally this time In a bright red wool dress. "What about this one?" she asked a Title uncertainly. . watched truth struggle with an overwhelming desire to get the whole ghastly business over. Truth didn't win.
"Just the job," he said. She bought it.
She looked terrible in it.
lots of it: the
cn
Pogo 7
THE TOWN-AND-COUNTRY DRESS: Black and caramel houndstooth check creamy-white wool: easy box- pleated skirt; loose tie-belt. By Marcel Fenez, it sells for 6 gns. at Harvey Nichols' Little Shop who also have the black fur beret, by Chez Elle.
Pictures by ROY CUTHBERT.
JACOBY on BRIDGE
THE Cavendish Club of New
York is the scene of a lot of high powered rubber bridge, After play is over, many of the discuss participants gather to
the day's and analyse some of
His misfor- hands. Woe betide the expert who leaves early. tunes are going to be low-rated to the closs of mistakes.
South wont home early, but North and West were around 10 discuss West's club lead against the six spade contract. West, with the air of a cat In a Knightsbridge shop I
and wife WATCH FOR IT; the three-in-that had just swallowed a watched husband
canary, remarked that his club "What in.
about this. one propelling eyebrow penell. opening was a cinch. He knew #Bie end inleker from the bidding that both op- darling?" "Not bad, but I'm not fine puint
point the other end. It screws mad about either." She van- Ished into the cubicle again. He apart in the middle to reveal a built-in sharpener. By Harries stled a yawn.
Hubbard Ayer, it costs 19. G.- Reappearance,
end of electric blue. "NO". Another in stores here at the ave minutes tlcked by. Black tha month. this time. "ALL right, I sup-
-¡London Express Services
this time in
COOKING COLUMN:
ponents were ready for a heart opening and also knew that there was an excellent chance to And his partner short in
As you clubs,
can see. East could not trump the first club,
Z-CARD Sëriseks
Q-The bidding has been: North
Easi South Weat Раз 14 Pass Poss
You, South, hold:
1
by Felicity Ascot
1 N.T.
Onions on the menu
Delicious onions
medium azfed onions, 11⁄2 cups sweet corn, 14 cups milk, 4 tablespoons butter, 11⁄2 teasporti salt, pepper, 1 smalt tin asparagus,
lb cheese.
Remove the skin from the unions and cut out the entre. Drop Into boiling water and cook until tender. Heat milk and butter together in a saucepan and add the sweet corn salt and pepper and cook about 20 minutes if fresh corn is vee, 5 minutes for inned. When the onions are dune, remove from pan and turn upside down for a minute to drain. Place onions in a shallow ipan with just a little water. In the centre of cuch onion sprlukle a little grated cheese, then place in each three asparagus stalks with the tips up, then all the contre with sweet com. Over the top sprinkle grated cheese and a little paprika. Place in a moderate oven long enough to melt the cheese. Serve on a dish garnished with belled tomatoes and parsley,
Onions Mexicana
2 unions, 2 tomatoes, i green pepper, 1 cup tinned sweet corn (drained) tablespoon butter salt and pepper.
Cook onions and green pepper in water to cover until tender. Add the tomatoes and cook for five minutes, then add the sweet corn and cook slowly for a further ten minutes. Add butter, pepper and salt.
Dutch potatoes
7
Quiz K870 ●AKS 432 What do you do? A-This is easy. Just bid threo no-trump.
TODAY'S QUESTION Instead of rebidding to one no-trump your partner's rebid is one spade. What do you do how?
Answer Tomorrow
WEST 4A8
KQJTG +32
7432
NORTH (D) &K 102
ADNA 05 AQQE
SOUTH
EAST
A764
0004
• QJ874 10
QJ953
♥ None
• AK 100
KJ84
North and South vulnerable North
East Roulli Wert
1
Раду
2
24
Pass 3
PAST
JN.T. I'039 4.
PA
Pasa Gale
PADS
BA
Post
Poss
Pasa GA Parts Opening lead-2
but when West got in with the ben of spades a second club lead knocked South out of the box,
North was bitter. He blamed South for loss of the slam: His contention was that South was too selentine for bla own good Just and tht if South had
after Jumped to six spades North bid two spades that West would have opened the king of hearts and South would have made his slom.
Needless to Bay, since South had gone homo the concensu agreed with North.
HOUSEHOLD
HINTS
To clean wrought Iron filings, tartar, Let the paste remain on brush with a fairly hard brush for five minutes, then wash with fu remove dust. Then heat warm water and dry thoroughly. alightly and apply iliseed oil with a soft cloth,
To obtain a blick finish, cover with insced oli and then burn
it off with a flame.
•
`Boften a hard sponge by soak- ing in a bowl of boiling water containing a lump of sõda and song. Bicep In this
and
Make
filo small "pull up" a ቤ square bag with a hole in the solution for 10 minutes centre, place a ball of string in then rinse well in cold water. the bag and thread the end through the holy. This will keep the string tidy and pru- vet from unravelling.
A good boilled sliver pollit is excellent cleaner of Ivory
Using an apple corer, cut a hole lengthwise through each of six large baking potatoes. Draw through each cavity a frank-ornaments, and even piano keys. furler. Then pince the potatoen in a pan with rome dripping and loy over each a thick alice of bacon. Pepper sparingly and bake in a hot oven until the potatoes are tender. Baste frequent ly with dripping.
Clean playing ends will a piece of material molstoned with spirits of camphor. Dry with a clean plece of cloth.
Το remove stains on marble rub with lemon falen, then rinse Clean Incquered or varnished with plain water. When dry. brass by applying a paste made polish with a good
and ercam or polish, of lemon juice
white max
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