THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
• Here she is the epitome of the Paris girl, easy to copy now that her clothes are in London too. The shirt, in burned orange silk, also comes in emerald and beige. The low-waisted gilt-belted skirt comes in red, emerald, mustard, blue and dark brown.
BHIRT: £4 18. SKIRT: 6% GNS
PICTURE BY LIDBROOKE.
A WHIRLWIND TOUR OF THE PARIS BOUTIQUES
The girl who strolls along the Champs-Elysees
IT'S funny
IT'S
to
by Angela Huth
think that though two great fashion bangs are shot off each year
the summer and winter good idea of what this line is. collections in Paris, London, The bouque clothes designers have a quick eye for snatching and Rome-only one in every 10 the best Ideas from the collec
women actually takes los und modifying them into
cheaper versions. These any notice.
bought up by the Parisian giris as fast as they are produced.
CHILDREN'S CORNER
Chirpie's Friend Coo
-Sparrow Introduces Him To Knarf And Hanid-
By MAX TRELL
Cine Window
the
ekou. And Star Bray, like Pigeons, cou."
HIRPIE Sparrow cime 10 Here the Pigeon marched to the centre of the window sill. bowed politely and made sev- oral soft sound. Knarf thought They
were sounds
a person his might make if he cupped hands over his mouth and sang conmega-cut several times soft- ly. Having done this, Coo, the Pigeon, bowed again and asked if it were all right if he helped himself to some of the crumbs. Started eating
sli for his crumbs and morning bread when he saw Koarf and Hanid, the Shadow Children with Turned About Names, he usk ed them if they minded if he friend of his to share invited the crumbs with him.
"Of course not, dear," said Hanid. "Bring as many friends of yours as you like."
"Well, I won't do that," said Chirple,
"because the more
"Have as much as you like.
himself.
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Chirple and Coo alighted
on Shadows' window sill.
ever.
That is, she may rend several hundred of the several thousand
about curry colours,
words flared
kirts, or whatever the new message is, but if she is a solid velour-hat-and-heavy suited type, so she will re- main.
mere
No Breworks from Dior will budge the deb from her caso- and pearls, ΠΟ blaring from Balenciaga will make the housewife give up her mid- enlf-length grey flannel akin it ste hikes it like that.
Play safe
And as for all those waists whizzing up and down, you'll End 90 women in 100 play safe and strap their belt round the narrowest part of their middle,
Ordinary
ате
I managed a whirlwind tour of the large stores and bouti- ques in Paris last week arsi everywhere I went i found: -- TWO NEW SKIRTS:
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JACOBY LADY ✪ LUCK
on BRIDGE
your
CHINA MAIL
horoscope
would take real genius 10 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27
go down at three no-trump with the South band and actual- ly the only real question is "How many overtricks?"
When West opened the four of clubs, dummy's six won the trick. The club ten was re- turned and since East gave a mild heart signal, West took the trick and led the ten of hearts. This produced the
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The classic Chanel shirt with a high neck and
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East and West vulnerable
South West North 14 Pass 2.
Fast
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Pass
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Opening lead
4 of clubs at table A
4 of spades at table B
Colours were chiefly emerald scarlet and sludge, and window with after window was filled aubergine or deep wine-colour-queen, kite, and ed accessories,
ace. South
With an ordinary waist and
proceeded to go after the dia- box pleats starting
So in one brief visit I saw monds. He played the frou
ace, led Just below the hips.
her A jazzed-
the three, Anessed dummy's up version of the old governess style. this
in tweed, flannel, Terylene, velvet, even silk. 2 A
comes
and
zippy cut-on-the-cross flared skirt. whose waist rests on the hip hone, like those cowboy trousers which were su successful this summer. These, LOO.
come in every imaginable material and colour, and are all Anished off with a hip-level gil belt and swinging chain.
arr size
New belts, incidentally chain belts, curb chain Bul what abou! the other
watch chain size, prisoner-chain cent? All ten per
bul the
size.bul, anyhow, chain, esoteric few who buy original
and Thoy dangled
glinted models go for a gentler form of from dresses, trousers, suits and
new line is skirts alike, but I whatever the modified and, of course, much
une leather belt. cheaper version.
didn't sec
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I found there was neck- Parts and-neck race between Iwo
well-backed shorts pretty a
A look round the boutiques gives one
the Paris girl who has emerged from the last collec- tions. In jaunty, swinging skirt, lacks, ran the rest of the suit, cashed the jack of hearts and Chanel skirt, and gilt-belted.
made the last four tricks with Nothing
revolutionary, spaces since West had to un- very
just
La enough a but a look
guard his jack in order to huld mode to make a straight skirta
high club. and hou-glass-figure look old- fashioned.
other At the
table South nude a very careless play at trick one. He won the first
In London the look is seep- ing into the shops. Already, ali trick with the seven of spades! A club lead to the ten was it ducked by West. West took the second club and led the ten of hearts.
those who are sensitive to changing line are hunting down.
ace
re-
(January 21- AQUARIUS
February 19): By dis- missing a detail as 177- Important you could easily spoil an otherwise good piece of work. PISCES (February 20-March
20): A prosperous lative will be more likely 10 offer his help if you make an honest attempt to manage without it. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Encourage an elderly re- lative to be as active As possible, in order not to become too dependent on others.
TAURUS (April 20-May 201: Try to overcome a ten- dency to anxiety, before YOR become
habitual worrier.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21): You may be spared an em- barrassing encounter
by
being unable to attend a
party tonight.
CANCER (June 22-July 21):
A rumour about a friend which you
dismissed as fantastic will surprise you by turning out to be true. LEO (July 22-August 21); A liking for change gives you the happy knack of adapting yourself quickly to new surroundings.
VIRGO (August 22- September 221: Ask to be relieved of a tedious duty. if it leaves too little time. for your other work.
(September 23- LIBRA
October 22): A new C. quaintance who seems dtrangely familiar may merely remind you of some- one you once knew.
And though I don't guarantec At this point South WES forord it will persuade the Unchung- ables to make a revolutionary bonfire of their sun ray pleats. 1 do guarantee It is easy wear,
and simple
chic-a fashionable risk well worth taking
to settle for three no-trump cashed his two high spades, played not and kink of monds. He euld SCORPIO
afford the Bresse because if to East held the queen, dummy would
be shut out forever.
can 1 say
What more gentle persuasion?
-(London Express Service).
After the wedding: should parents
still have to help?
P
REOCCUPATION with money rarely spoils married bliss-for these days both members of the partnership know they have to care about
£ s. d. desperately
to survive.
When one cares more than the other, provid- ing it's the proverbial old-fashioned breadwin- ner →→→→→ the man -
that generally works out well.
werk
in-law.
Shirley
Lord
in
J and Anthony Greenwood The has just been nominated by the Left-wing factor of the Labour Party to oppose Mr Gaitskell for the party chair- manship and therefore leader- ship} have two teenage daughters, Susanna
and Dinah 15, and to my mind are outstandingly Intelligent parents.
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Jill, when I talked to her about this sald quite firmly: "Just because children get mar- ried doesn't mean the parents lose the responsibility for them.
"Certainly we would help our daughters to the utmost if it were necessary, and if their husbands unfortunately turned out to be "spongers," we would still continue to help our daughters but
hus- not the
bands.
"It's not a matter of spoiling them, Spoiling happens when they are children--developing their characters. It's too late f by the time they are going to be married, they are spoilt. They are then set in their ways.
"Maney then
isn't going to architects, the change the situation, but lack of
Obligation
When it's the now-fashioned breadwinner the woman →→ certainly it can be the basis for trouble, and more relation- ships have been broken irre- vocably when man's natural friends I bring, the less bread Coo," said Chirpie, waving his Hamid were more puzzled than
instinct to provide is smother- ed by his wife's greater talent. crumbs there'll be for any of wing granuly over the ranks. us. Pardon me a moment."
was Chipie Sparrow who
A sad story in the news this Chirple Bew off. Kaarf and Suddenly be stopped
"I mean," he said, "have us finally made everything clear,
spotlights set another Hanid wondered what friend
much as you like only be sure "Coo means," he said, "thal aspect of money and marriage: he was going to bring back
to leave me as much as I like he lives on top of that stone
the case of the father-in-law with him.
"Of course," agreed Coo. "I statue of a Horse that stands 1 think,
who, having found a new home our foremost in spite of their
leave you all I don't eat. As
just inside
the park. Some for the bride and groom, also question here was not of a it could be disastrous." wondering, that they expected
I'm nut 11. happens,
very Birds, like Robina, live in his friend would be another
hungry anyway.
nests. Some Birds, like Swal-expected to be the landlord and family struggling
a dwindling bank balance. Sparrow. But they could not
Chirpic and Coo now started lows, live in chinneys. Some collect the rent from his son- have been more wrong. For u minute or two later, Chirpie cating the bread crumbs on the Birds, like me, live in chinks window sill. Knarf and Harid between two bricks. And some alighted buck on the window
were Birds, like Coo, live on top of and Chirple, too sili with fat, black-eyed amazed at how fast Cop was the heads of atone Horses," Pigeon.
at picking up crumbs and mak- ing them disappear down his Greeted Pigeon This is my best friend," said throat. He hardly touched crumb before it was gone. Chirpie to Khurt and Hanid.
Chirpie
about scampered To the Pigeon he said, "These
pecking
crumbs as are my best friends, Knart and
Up the quickly as he could but, even Hanid."...
so. Coo, the Pigeon, managed to swallow twice as many crumbs as poor Chirpie.
Very good breakfast," Coo said to Knezt
Hanid. and "Thank-cou very much." As he said this, he bowed,
а
"Howdy, Best Friends," said the Pigeo
know
"We're very glad to you," said Kham to the Figo
What's your name, dear?" Hanid asked..
The Pigeon repiled that his watne was Coo
"Hello, Coo," said Knarf. "I'm called Coo because
explained the Pigeon.
Knart.
repealed "What does coo mean?"
It's the sound I make," Fald the Pigeon.
"You see," enld Chirpio, Meme Birds, ice me, chirp. Botne Birds, like Canarier, sing. Some Birds, like Crows, caw, Some Birds, like Owls, hool Some Birds, like Cuckoos, C
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Knart and Hanld noticed that Coo had very good, mutibers. He was, always bowing: In the pork. "Where do you” ilve, · dear?" Hanid asked Cao,
"On top of.. Horse
sald Cao, “surprisingly? ji
Kharf und Hanid both ck- claried: "On top of a Horse!" "On top of a Horse in the park, Coo added, hoping thet Knark and mid would now understand. But Knarz Rad
to revive
As the father-in-law is
and celebrated musicion
the young man the son of one
I should think this was dad's forcible attempt to make
the groom feel he was standing of entirely on his own feet.
Rupert and the Popweed-23
makes The Leader
Rupert Sesserpent to bring me here and Stop Hough '7 stand before the group, "Now,
•How darg then what is all this about cries the Leader Merboy he demands. Tell you plus auch yarns to me
We'll cure your Impertinence.1" us what you are doing here. And whence came you? Oh, please; Take him, Luigi Put him away
An it started with my popping some until I decke" his Exte.”
Rupert Is grabbed by popweed), ays Rupert went bang so the Merboy told the another ruffians;
ALL GIUNTE ALLENVED
poos
Unfortunately, this seems tu have hurt his pride and three days after the honeymoon, he walked out on his young wife.
Depreciated
JOTHING could illustrate the fact more that today, al- though standards of dowries hava depreciated to a depressing lovel, many would-be groans, haven't grasped the fact.
FTERWARDS
to
I spoke Fleur Cowles Meyer, the American writer and hostess.
She has no children but her opinions were none the less de finite for that.
From ber
observations she fold: "Newly married young- sters need to share a home almost more than anything else I think parents have the ob- ligation to help them begin well (to the ult of their finances).
"More than that would be taking the cream of the cake not allowing young people to Wedding ceremonies may be find the thrill of working for a
real home together.", „q conducted underwater, with frogmen as ushers, and honey. Much as it irritatés, me to
Hay moons agreat on motorbikes, but
so, I know doen down in young couples stil
whaleheartedly with all that was said.
Someling one can never fore if one has children in the suddenly there's another grown responsibility for them.
mouth to feed?
**London Repress, Serbios),"
from home,pert help bones I agree
But
shoul
trying tienes
parents shoulder the rise
in their cost of living, when
my
His nine trick total consisted of four spades two hearts two dia- monda and one club. The penny wise, pound frolish play at trick one had cost him three tricks later
♥CHRD Sensen♦
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Bast South West! Pass 3
Pass
North
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Pada 2
You, South, hold: 4A1 VK965 +943.438 5 4:
What do you do?
A-Bld four spades. There is a tendency to bid four no-krump, but you should not take control of the hand from your partner.
TODAY'S QUESTION
Your partner jumps to six hearts over your four spades. What do you do now?
Answer Tomorrow
may
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