1961-11-20 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1961.

WOMANSENSE

LADY LUCK-

YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

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tan

neighbours

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AQUARIUS (January 21- relationship with your

February 19 The wish to ingratiate yourself with Important members of your community should prompt you to donate more to charity than you afford, EN PISCES (February 20-March

20): Give an assistant freer hand in order to judge his ability to act your deputy S ARIES (March 21-April 19): Try to manage some early nights before the crowded weekend ahead.

without en- couraging undue intimacy

(August 22. VIRGO

Make September 22: effort not to show your im- | patience to an elderly visitor who chooвes an in- opportune time for a call. LIBRA (September 23- October 22): A highly con- fidential business should not cussed with friend.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 201: The same promise absent- mindedly made to two people may result in $13 embarrassing situation for

you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 211:

Your employer

be may quite willing to grant a re- quest which you haven't yet plucked up the courage to make.

CANCER (June 22-July 21,

Only a Atrong argument will overcome opposition to a plan which you your- self are

convinced will succeed.

LEO (July 22-August 21): You can maintain a cordial

SCORPIO

even

dis-

matter

be

your

closest

(October 23-

November 21); In your an xiety to perfect every de- tail of your work you must not overlook the necessity of finishing it on time. SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 211: A work- man who takes great pride! in bis skill may resent foo many detailed instructions from you. CAPRICORN (December 22- January 20): Avoid being drawn into another family's troubles by showing too much sytopathy and readi- ness to help. YOUR BIRTHDAY: If your birthday is this week, you will find a symbol of good fortune in a gift of a baro- meter.

Willy's New Business

-He Runs A Ferry Boat Thar's Really A Duck-

By MAX TRELL

OWN AT the edge of the lake

DOWN

lake-in--the middle of the park'somebody was shouting:

"Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! We're leaving it a moment!"

Kurt and Hanid, the Shadow Children with

Turned-

the

About Names, happened to 10 walking along one of the pretty patha that

the

wandered

pork. Hearing the

The It

through

stopped at once to listen.

Bounds

like somebody wi

know," Knart started to say

"Of course, it's somebody we

know!" exclaimed Hanid.

eyes sparkled with laughter.

Her

"All aboard!" the mysterious

voice called out again.

4t's Willy Toud!"

Knarf.

A white duck!

shouted

"Quack!" said the "ferry boat” Duck to Willy, the Toad, "Quack" said the ferry boat Duck.

That's the

Baid word,"

a flat white

Duck "} never heard of a willow tree at the edge of the being a ferry boat," Knarf said lake. He was wearing a blue to Willy uniform with gold buttons and

said Willy, "there a hat to match.

aren't many Ducks that are ferry boats and there aren't very many ferry boats that are Ducks, but this is one of them."

"Quack" said the Duck.

They found Willy standing on Willy.

ruck under the

"Come along, folks!" he said. when he saw Knarf and Hand "The ferry's about to leave for the other side of the lake. Step lively!"

was

a

The "terry"

whit Duck Willy's eyes weren't any too good. It took him a minute or two to see that he was talk- ing to Knarf and Hanid. When he saw who they were, he hop

and shock ped over to them their hands.

you.

"I'm so glad to 200

"Are you think Kids," he said. ing of going across to the other side of the lake omn my new ferry! I won't charge you any- thing for T It's free."

"Why, Willy, said Hanld." didn't know you owned a ferry boat."

His new business

"It's my new business,"

Well,"

Other passengers

She stuck her head down into the water again.

While Knarf and Hanid were take the deciding whether to ferry boat across to the other side of the lake or not, for they weren't really intending to go that way at all, several other passengers began coming up.

New ideas from the British shoe manufacturers

LONDON TOES THE LINE

Topping the bill at the shoe shows, the shoe with a buttoned bar, a rounder toe. This version is El Greco by Holmes of Norwich.

JEAN

by Jane Rogers

How about a pair of

shoes that you can switch from foot to foot, according to the way you feel?

Shoes that can be worn on either foot with equal comfort are just one of the new ideas that the British shoe manufacturers have dreamed up for the new London look in foot- wear, on show recently.

The look

First there is news about casual shoes and those flat- ties that we all like to creep into at the weekend.

to wear are lighter year.

A bunch of shoes with the Kookie Look by Young Londoner, in red blue and white.

Flattles are gayer too, like one pair I saw in shining black which sporled a white bow on the front, another design avaliable in shocking pink or blue,

The 'Kookle Look' in teenage shoes has arrived, and you cân spot it at once from the colour- They ings chosen-mustard, khak! and this olive green, all the tones of the

swamp in fact,

You'll find far fewer of those

cut out of the sides to allow your appreciate collector's items in feet to breathe comfortably, the form of a pair of antique

shrunken. others are made of porous mesa brogues made from fabrics or nylon lace. There is grain leather that looks, to me. ▷ good deal of the plaited leather just like an elephant's com- look around too, but this year it plexion. is confined to toe-caps only.

But dua't think that the Where has the uncompromis- lounge-lizard type of male has ing squared toe gone to? It is been forgotten. For him there still around, but the best seller, are

a pair of perfectly plain according to the shoe men is a black patent shoes with elasticis- silm but rounded to shape ing at the sides and an extra instead.

inch or so hidden in the built-up heel to make him look almost an tall and handsome as he thinks he is,

Chisel

Most of them have an antique them, achieved by clumping, heavy brogues that look about made you feel as though you had careful shading of the leather. half a ton of mud clinging to For the girl who really likes to dash there ure Kookie your soles. But this

year's cut a shoes are tough, and waterproof Look shoes with shining brass

This, the designers claim, is too, thanks to new techniques, heels which won't wear out. new materials used or soling.

the nearest we've been to for a Young in line too were the long time to the real shape of shapely court shoes in brightly our toes. Therefore it retains INAVINOVSKAASA; voloured patent. My favourite its smoothness better than shoes was pillar-box red, with Delft where half the toe shape is empty blue coming a close secona

and inclined to crease.

SOWARD

HERE'S A STEW THAT REALLY IS EXOTIC

THERE is

nothing satisfying from the amateur cook's point of view than appearing in the doorway clasping an enormous, steaming dish of something rather exotic, and hearing all the guests at the dinner table ex- claim: "Goodness! How gorgeous!"

Paella is

dish

So

3 rich finish off the real with some- thing simple; like an APPLE- PLUM FLAN, which is made

with the fruits most easily and cheaply obtainable in the shops

now.

YOU NEED: sponge au lib. cooking apples; lb. plums; ground almonds; sugar; 3oz. 4oz. icing sugar; 1 beaten eag. Add two teaspoons water with two teaspoons castor sugar for three minutes later transferred

The glaze. Few of the dishes with to

heat for słow

10 to 12 when 11 should be which I have experimented minutes.

You can then, perfectly cooked. are more likely to produce if you wish, put the whole thing this effect than a PAELLA in a big open dish into the oven VALENCIANA

or Spanish for a few minutes to dry off.

Stew.

Any sort of game or domestic can be substituted for

A paella may be plain cut- off-the-point-with-two-veg to a Spanish peasant, bul, to the avenge Britt, faced with his poultry Arst plateful of this unholy but

narries which

chicken and crawish, bacon and garlic, peas and saffron and riceto name a few of the ingredients--it is pure manna

colourful and salemulent mixture the chicken. But if this is not

Spanish Stew is easy to make,

but the preparation takes time.

YOU NEED

H young and tender bird, the meat must be cooked for about an hour before the fried rice is added.

TO MAKE: Cook the apples to a pulp and sweeten to taste. Fill and plums without water

Mix the sponge with the pulp. together the ground almonds, leing sugar, and enough egg to make a fairly soft consistency.

small

Pipe this through nozzle to make a lattice pattern over the fruits. Sprinkle with water and sugar mixed together and place under a hot grill just to glaze the surface. Serve cold with fresh cream.

-London Express Service),

Cabbage cookery

Drain.

with salt and

is tender erisp.

gound black pepper to taste. Crumble crisp baton over top. Serve at once.

Among the passengers was a

(to serve four Cricket whose family lived on people to repletion): A mediren- the other side of the take,

sized, tonder roasting

TAKE a sauce for conk- until cabbage chicken Grasshopper who was going to

eut into 12 or 14 pieces; lean visit some friends on the oppo-

bacon:

oil; gran lle; tomato; ing sour cream and sea site bank, and a Snatl who said that

invited to

paprika: peas, sweet soning it with salt, ground he was

have ground

poppers; rice; saffron; dinner with his Grandmother red over on the other side and if he baby octopus (if not obtainabic, black pepper and whole crawfish (2 per caraway seed. Spoon over said walked around the lake be'd be use eel);

10 hot cooked wedges.

Willy." got tired of being three days late.

ta flor, a barber, ahoemaker, dentist and all those cook,

other things, So I decided to

"Step aboard, everybody! Here we go!" shouted Winly.

run this ferry boat for the sun- "What about it, Knarf? Are

mer..

"By the way, corne over and meet my ferry boat.

Willy took Knart and Ilanid over to the ferry boat. At that moment, the ferry boat had her head "stuck" down in the water to look for something to eat in the mud at the bottom of th3 lake

you crossing, Hanid?"

The ferry boat had a broad back. There was plenty of room for the Cricket, the Grasshop per, the Snail, Knarf und Hanid

but none for Willy.

Plenty more ferries "Oh, that's all right," sald "I've got no reason to

person): salt and tacte.

pepper

Or shred cabbage and saute in het bacon fat for two or

three minutes.

Add Л few

A third variation: Chop raw cabbage very fine and combine with grated carrots, chopped radishes, chopped onion and chopped green pepper. Combine equal parts mayonnaise

and

sour cream with salt, ground black pepper and crumbled tablespoons tarragon leaves to taste. Blend

TO PREPARE: Put about chicken stock or bouillon, Cook with hot or cold meats,

pint of good one-sixth of a olive oil into a medium-sized saucepan, and when this is very hot, drop in the ples of chicken and try them lightly for five-minutes with the lean bacon chopped into small bits,

Willy, shouted Willy, put- cross to the other side. And, Add a small tomato, cut and

ting his hands to the sides of anyway, If I really want to go, peeled, a finely-chopped clove

his mouth. "Stick your head up there's plenty more ferry boats of garlic (two if you like here, will you? Ferryl I want on this fake. Just take a look!" garlic), a couple of red peppers you to meet two very good

green peas, friends of mine."

Willy pointed to a whole (sliced), and tho Rack of Ducks and Geese and round paprike, and 1lb.

add a ten-spoonful of even: a couple of large white rice which you have previously Swans

tried well in all, and a quart Knarf and Hanid. enjoyed the of hot water. crossing, of the lake. The ferry

Looked dryne The Duck Anally lifted her head out of the water. She looked perfectly dry.

Willy introduced Knarf and Hanid to his "ferry bont"

of

bost paddled quite smoothly, When the water boils, indd o The only thing that happened little saffron, eight small pieces was that once, in the middle of eal Cory baby octopus if you

Must went the ferry of the lake, the ferry boa Bave been able to get it) and ducked her head under the walt to taste. When the rice is

leaped over to Knar teria Tadpole, and Kaarf sniper person.

to Knart water again to make di Khatch, hall-cooked, and two crawfiki Serif "ademn't talk very much, Hanid and the other three passatge engulfin

Rupert and the Popweed—17

Two other new shades in

k is built on a wider tread patent tbal are well worth too, which gives a good nt for a oting are Burgundy which looks wider variety of foot types. wildly expensive, and Manilia, a Above all is the best shape to fabulous blonde mikshane combine with the curtent vogue chosen by Edward Rayne. the for straps over the Instep. Queen's shoe-maker, for a pair of court sheqes.

Breezy

Heels? The stiletto is not seen around so much. instead there is a more curvy 21⁄2 inch version with a waisted look and a larger base to balance on.

The sharp chisel toe that we have discarded has been taken over by the men, and it appears with a distinctly masculine look

WILL

Points to watch out for in the shoes that will be coming into the shops: The bar strap is here to stay for a while, and it fat for both country casuals and city come "neaker" tere all but the broadest feet, wear, though you need a shapely ankle soles in soft sponge rubber for to show off to the best ad- light-weight comfort, vantage.

Colours

are offbeat versions of brown that verge on mud colourings.

Some shoes have just one

For the man who really likes slender strap, the widia of pootlace, while others are as to show off there is a slip-on much as an inch wide. But the boottee in green suede with a It was designed girls who really want to make high tie front.

impression will look for the to be worn with the new collar-

less cardigan suit for called Gigi which has a :shoe

dreamed Up in triple strap fastening.

corduroy by Pierre Cardin,

Shoes for hot weather wear

feature a cool and breezy look.

men

Some have melon shaped slices chic, and more aggressive will

JACORY

BRIDG

A rubber bridge player would

see no problem at all with today's hand. He would win the opening club lead, study the hand a second to decide about the queen of trumps, play a trump, note the fall of the queen and eventually make his con- tract and win the rubber.

The duplicate player would have one of those duplicate player's problems. His contract would be safe, but how about overtricias? Should he try for six or take the best play for Ave?

In the team game, one South tried for six. He drew trumpe stopping in his own hand, led

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The other South abandoned the play for six in order to make the best play for five odd. After drawing trumps he led a mada toward during and put in the nine spot. This forced the ace. Later on the jack forced West's king and he was able to discard dummy's third diamond on the queen of spades.

The man who tried for six had taken o poor percentage" play He could only make six Bit diamonds broke very favour- cbly and should have gone offer five in the conservative intanet.