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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1961.

WOMANSENSE

LADY LUCK-

YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE

MONDAY, DECEMBER 4

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to your

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Liit you financial and ayod pending more than you can afford on vuur hendi." entertainment

Home

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when planning duphrate a project unre sucer zfui

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(July

occasion.

chuse for a special unless it satisfies both your taste and your pocket VIRGO (August 22-September 22) An unexpected meeting with an old friend may result in a weekend invitation to his home in the country LIBRA (September 23-October 22) If you have taken expert

invest advice regarding an

unduly don't ment, about a temporary depression SCORPIO portober 23-ovent

worry

ber 21) Take time off from

work for regular

nstead of waiting

relaxation

until you

am too tired to enjoy it SAGIVTANH S. 1 November 22

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YOUR BIRTHDAY:

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JEAN

SOWARD

SPOTLIGHT ON THE

PSYCHOLOGICAL PLAYTHINGS..

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Well, do YOU

give your child

HEN I was a child

crow

admittedly ય

as

hundred years ago

flies - toys the were for fun.

when

Trumpets were for blowing, drums for banging, dolls were for a Mum, playing at being of anxious

and a jigsaw puzzle was for stamping on one got in a rage.

There wasn't a psychological thought in the whole high-paled play chest. In fact, in the good

ir days the surest way to child's black books

the Christinas or birthday gift of

something useful."

wailing

10

thai was

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211

birthday Is this W13! tin ambul fortune

case.

week.

Avoid making a hasty pur-

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in a gift of what

BOYS AND GIRLS'

MAGAZINE

King Nep's Niece

-He Boasts That She's Whiz With Needle-

By MAX TRELL

LITTLE King Nep smiled and

nodded his head and said to Knarf and Hanic, the Shroow Chlidren with the Turned-About Names, "My mece Min soon be coming

Wij

I can hear her

now Yes, he's coming!"

Knarf and

They heard

Han istened something

thai

sounded like a stirring in the breeze but they couldn't

any foolstons

bar

I had been a long time since hey had visited their old friend King Nep

LURE

25

a

long, ago. King Nep had beep, known far and wide Neptune, Ruler of the Seven almost Seas But now he was

under He lived forgotten. mossy stone at the edge of the lake in the middle of the park and he had become smaller and smaller the more people forgot him. Today he was no larger than a small-sized daisy.

King Nep's niece

*,

8-1

"I have a present for you," Min said to King Nep.

Uncle

*

Changed

was

or

a toy just for the

A$

Kooking to please

by Alex Simmons

IT'S PARTY-TIME ONCE MORE So how do you rate as a hostess?

S Christmas looms larger every moment, the party season becomes more and more hectic. Make no mistake-this is the biggest test you'll Iever face of your ability as a hostess.

cater for at Perhaps the most difficult group to party-time are the teenagers. Some are quite satisfied with dainty morsels, whereas others wish those delicate offerings were three times as big.

The

secret of success is to come à good trifle or jelly. But Don't again, you can vary the types atm to please every one.

or tarts which will think only of cucktail savouries of sweets and sandwiches; a hot, savoury be most appreciated. plate tart or savoury fan won't come amiss.

Here are just a few ideas for such a party.

well-garnished

it? Shrimp snack

fun of it?

with some constructional toy unci jigsaw. or cutting out pasting games."

They ask for the name of the

and ils naker, anu

E

toy away, the light in their eyes purposeful as the piece of play equipment with which they bow intend

simliur measure of peace and quiet in

Today all that has changed the home.

of the toy with រ And i u5. is on the culd will exeup -

1-4-4ate

The era purpose Is only Fly

ไป secure

The child hasn't a choice Bi parents do not get off free. There

is nothing like

a spot of psychology for leaving you feeling you are standing o the wrong foot.

who does not tua itsen being "done good to almost from its

Take the

Climbing Frame, stní grab a dang-

one of the most popular pieces ing wooller bobble.

play equip thus of D-ychological What has happened A

"It has replaced the+ the cult

and mere. psycoologi-ts

one fac- school Ticking horse," and primary NYUSUN

turer told me. "It has the same the los 01 BOL leachers have

durability, can be passed o manufacturers.

from one generation

and another

pro-

A ld needs D disfying and on

the to tuy

Thery

Say fixing

eye.

makers with their quelang. vides the same possibilities for

"Something high adventure," compelling

"The Climbing Frame sub- which will occupy its attention. aleat its imagination, stimulate stilules for the tree said an-

other firm. s thought processes, and help

airport it to come to terms with life.

11 also serves as an tower and even as an

but raised

truck with his deep-rooted urge to play with trains,

the

Clockwork and electric mulets are old hat. "All you need to do with these is fix up rails, often for 160 difficult sm for a smalt child, operation wind up the mechanism or turn on the switch, and what is there left for a child to do but watch?"

By hand

буть

which the

Today's trains run on wooden

which Tracks

con be fitted together as easily as the simple jigsaw pieces child was weaned. Once the circuit is established, the small wooden train, with its long line be of coloured trucks, has to pushed round the track, up and over bridges, and stopped by

hand at stations.

"It

"The child plays with this said the train set. himself."

toy dealer

in psychological

I found it. whose shop avoids the frustrations of just and watching still sitting

at being driver, Daddy play guard, station-inaster, signal- man, and all the other things he wanted to be himself." the inadequacies of "Oooh-Mummy! It's a little choo-choo!" said a three-year- Such statements ате likely old girl delightedly spotting to leave aary conscientious the psychological train from a modern mother who encounters vantage point

the shop's basement staircase, and rushing Even a simple everyday soul them with the suspicion that,

of this toy," her headlong at it--nicely proving like the Old Woman Who deprived

well develop some that whatever else has altered, Lived in a Shoe is suspect. child may

the jargon has not. There she is, locked up with fearful psychological qulik.

takes Dad Loo

knock. a

Thank goodness! chil- all her coloured wooden

toys have

-(London Express Service).

It connects children And out of their philosophy airplane.

up among the uniquely with past and future. are springung

Britain those Climbing on it, they are not only Loy Biops in

elevated in space specialised establishments where

be above harks play-with-a-purpose nind every doils house unit, childhood." every musical instrument, every car'd game, every nursery rhyme.

dren inside brightly-hued Psychological

wooden hout. Fair enough, you iM B wait. The t the boot fastens with long red shoe lace and you can't get at either the old woman or her children until you have unlaced

and released the

hope Als you, dear." she said.

"What 15 it" asked King Nep

say it and you'll see. "Unfold *uld Min

Knart and Hanid watched as Nevertheless, in spite of his King Nep unfolded the tiny ball small size and the fact that he of cloth. First it looked ike a was no longer the Ruter of the button Then It looked like a Ruler of coat. Then it looked like a coat Seven Seas but only

still and trousers Lake. he was the Park cheerful and happy, and never "It's a suit of clothes!" cried more cheerful and happier than Hanid. when he could meet his old friends Knarf and Ifanid.

"You're lucky." he had told them a few minutes before. "My niece Min is coming to visit

He's grateful

The suit of clothes seemed to be made of the finest and silk

What was most iest cobwebs wonderful was that it stretched Is to King Nep's size the minute

hatch

"It teaches toddlers to undo and do up their shoes without realising they are learning, said the makers blandly, evideally delighted with it.

Catch a child with something like this at 12 to 14 months and you've got a sucker for psycho- every logical toys throughout stage

03

Slimming biscuits

NOW

[OW eat biscuits to slim-that is the claim of a well-known manufacturer of weight-control preparations.

The firm, whose products sell in Hongkong, is now producing biscuits in addition to its liquid preparation.

It claims that nine of the spice-flavoured wafers are the nutritional equivalent of an 8 oz glass of its liquid preparation-a 225-alories ment.

Thirty six wofers provide a complete day's diet of 900 calories, "In appropriate quantities the waters can be used with weber or other liquid as a tota diel for one or two meals daily," the makers say,

in its development-a Min repeated Knarf.

chlid able to take all the sub- he pit the suit on! that her regular name?"

The wafers are not a low calorie diet snack. Rather they "People used to call her Thank you, my lovely Min!" sequent educational, character-

аге bits of new-fangled "I think of building

a nutritionally complete dietary for weight control: The "She said King Nep. Minerva," said King Nep.

waters add the variety of solid food to our concept of weight ured to be the most skilful Girl you every time I wear this love-play equipment in its stride.

There is the Screwing and

control. needle that ly suit!! I told Knarf and Hanid with a thread and

that you would show them some Unscrewing Toy-said to satisfy of your tricks with the thread the urge to unscrew less suit- and needle.

able thirs, and thereby possi- t the child from Min was delighted to show Dly prev

bottle and swallowing the Knarf and Hanid--and especial-taking the top off an aspirin

contents.

anyone ever knew!"

"I like to sew, 100," Hanld had said.

Appeared suddenly "Just wait till you meet Min,"

promised.

King Nep

"She'll teach you sewing tricks like no

in the one else could

world. Just you wait!"

It was at that moment

whole

the

ly Hanid a whole sewing bag of tricks. She showed her how to mend a tear in a Butterfly's

Like fun wing she showed how to sew

silken bag for a a Firefly to There is the Simple Cot.- that carry

moonbeam i

ini. she structional Roundabout; King Nep said he heard Min showed how to sew a silken Fitting and Matching and Sor

scarf with pictures of trees and ing Toys, which include the Geome- Bowers and Birds and Animals. Levelling Board, the

the trical Sorting Board, and Square Fraction Board-all got up to look like fun with circles In and squares and triangles bright assorted colours.

coming.

He was right. Suddenly, right

out of

the

air, Mán appeared. standing right in front of the astonished eyes of Knarf and Hanid.

Min was even smaller than a

She was no taller than

daisy buttercup

a

I'm delighted to know you,* she said to Koart and Hauld.

Then she kissed her Uncle Nep on both cheeks.

have a present, dear, for

you," she said.

Best trick

Then she showed Kanid the most wonderful trick of all. On

a Spider's web, she stitched the figure of a rosebud that looked

Everything has changed. The

so real that all the Bumblebees old style dolls' house, decor-

in the whole park came buzzing ated, furnished, and ready to

and humming over to it, think-move into, is OUT.

Hanid

well as King Nep's noce. Min.

ing it was Alled with honey. In its place you buy your!

Later that day, when

daughter a single-storey unit was at home, she tried to sew

of plain, polished, satisfying something with a length of cob-

wood, with oblongs cut out for She handed him something web for a thread Poor Hanid doors and windows. Tolling that looked like a tiny bull of she couldn't do it nearly as away with the needle

and cloth

thread and bits of felt and cotton fabric, she then turns out carpets and curtains to her own design and colour scheme, and furnishes it as a bedroom, sitting room, kitchen, according to her fancy.

Rupert and the Popweed-29

The voice does not come agail and the two pals then breathe thore freely. Tell me, how did you att caught by the pitates ? mdemuri Rupser," "I was Dabing wlone just after dark, rather long way from the shore," says Jon I had no chances They took

me and towed my boat away. It's. tied up somewhere here,” Moving round the cocks Rupert apien a anal craft in a creek below, But this le grand," he says. can get away." "No such luck, night the boy. When I was taken 7 lost both my pars.

"ALL BRIGHTH NISKAVED

W

In units

When this room is completed, you can buy the next storey (228. De unit and 5s. 38. for the roof) until she has a sky- SCTAGET.

And if you find yourself with a talented Ave year-old Interior decorator on your hands, who winger at the bits and pieces you inherited from Granny and what you've done with them, you have only yourself to biamo..

For parents as a whole are taken Meducational toys, Schools and nurseries report "amazement on the part of mahers who come to fetch bhar rohildren and Jind thems quietly and busily occupied |

The wafers, like the liquid, contain identical ratios of protein (30.8 pe) fats (8.8 pc) and carbohydrates (48.5 pe) in addition to mecting or exceeding minimum daily requirements of vitamins and minerals.

"The waters represent a significant technological advance in the development of nutritionally complete, high protein, low fat bakery product with good taste qualities," the makers add.

Imperial

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Imperial Meals are Tastiest

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CHOOSE YOUR FAVOURITES FROM

OVER 25 DELICIOUS VARIETIES

Sole Agente! Hong Kong Refrigerating Co. Ltd.

2

Quiche of shrimps: Line two sandwich tins with short paste and leave them on one side fur 30 minutes. Then divide 41b of shrimps between the two tins.

Beat 3 large eggs and Goz of milk together, season with salt and pepper and pour the mix- ture over the shrimps.

Put the tins in a moderate oven-375 degrees F, or regulo 4--and leave them until the egg has set and the pastry is brown, This should take 30 minutes.

Five minutes before you re- move the tins from the oven, sprinkle grated cheese over the pastry. For these last Ave min- ulee, flash heat.

This dish, incidentally, can be made beforehand and then heated.

Puff pastry

re-

Make

Jelly lining

Page

FRANCE

Sole Meuniers; Wash and dry as many fillets of sole as you need, dip them into four and then try them in butter, cooking both sides.

Decorate a serving dish with fans of lemon and sprigs parsley. Place small mounds of diced beetroot at intervals round- the edge of the dish.

it i

Put the fillets neatly in the centre of the dish and sprinkle lemon juice and chopped par-

of butter until

deep stey over them. Now heat 202. brown and pour it over the fish. Finally, sprinkle the fillets with freshly-ground pepper, Serve at once very hot. +¥*1*jaea+iffdendefnmmie#whskilw«

Jellied chicken and egg: Chop Decorate this jelly with over- lapping slices of hard-boiled

everly round the tin

the spreading il

Box of cocked chicken, and add egg in a circle. Now add Zoz of boiled macaroni, 2oz of chicken mixture. chopped tomato, salt and pepper to taste, and -teaspoon of fine- ly-chopped parsley.

Pour aspic jelly on top of the chicken mixture and let it soak Sur all these ingredients to- gether, but try not to inash them ugh. Now add some more

Jelly until it

comes level with more than is necessary.

the top of the chicken mixture. Now line a fan tin with aspic Leave it to set in a cool place.

This is done by pouring Empty the jelly out on to a♣ jelly.

then plate. Cut it into wedges and put these on top of croutons of toast spread with parsley butter.

the jelly into the tin emptying it out again, leaving a film adhering to the tin.

JACOBY

on BRIDGE

MAKE a good look at the bid-

do you think of North's three- spade bid?

Savoury Pastry Rolls:

The particular North player 2-lb flour into puff paste. Cut! who made it thought it -lb from the finished paste and just the normal bid that

NORTH (D) AKJB

❤

• AKJ1087

◆ J 10 2

WEST

EAST

AA6432

75

109 10968

942 4Q05

SOUTH

Q75

AKQJ82

474

18

85 AK803

• Qa

East and West vulnerable

was

any

He

North

East

South Weat

1+

Pass

10

Pasa

2.

Pass 3

Pass

the

3 A

Pass 4

Pass

Раб

Fass

roll

it out to a quarter-inch good player would make. thickness in an oblong shape. could not very well raise hearts liberally with grated with a singleton, and a four Sprinkle cheese, fold it into three and roll diamond bid would take out again--this time to a thick-hand past the three no-trump

level. ness of an eighth of an inch.

As for 3 three no-trump bid, Cut the paste into strips 4-

long. inch wide and 9 inches Now roll these strips round tin funnels three inches long, in the same Way as you horns.

Opening lead 5

North was just a trifle afraid

♥CARD Sense of the club suit.

After North's three spade bid South went on to four West hearts. He was more than a Pass

would do

Q-The bidding has been: Narth

East Bonth

2❤

Pass

Pass

24 ?

Bake the rolls in a hot oven of 400 degrees F. or regulo 6:

15 minutes for approximately until the pastry is a rich-brown colour. Remove the rolls from the funnels before they get cold. Fill them with a mixture of ham, chicken, rabbit, prawn, crub etc. Bind the filling with a good white sauce.

After alling, sprinkle each end of the rolls with chopped pars- ley and set them out decoratve- ly on suitable plates.

You mustn't forget that some- thing sweet is very welcome, teenagers will wel- too. Many

Clarks

Children's Shoes

You, South, hold:

trifle afraid of the club" sult, West opened the five of clubs.

shifted to

Q1087K614KQJ2 East cushed two high clubs and

spade to hold de elarer to 10 tricks.

What do you do? A-Bld four no-trump. If your partner shows three aces you will bid alx spades: If he shows four aces you will go to the grand slam.

TODAY'S QUESTION Instead of raising you to three spades your partner has jumped to four hearts. What do you do in this case?

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At the other table North was

not up to that three-spade bid, He

bid three no-trump. simply South Icok

at his solid heart suit and dec.ded to trust North for stoppers in both black suits. The trust was misplaced. East opened the six of clubs. After rimming off five club

tricks, East shifted to a spade to set the hand two tricks.

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