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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1961.

WOMANSENSE

JILL

BUTTERFIELD a girl in

å girl in NEW

W YORK

FACING UP TO THIS FACT: THE BIGGEST SINGLE INDUSTRY IN AMERICA TODAY IS WOMAN

AT THE TEMPLE

OF BEAUTY

Any woman can be Cleopatra -for £50 a day

New York.

THE only snag about discovering New York is that one isn't Colombus. For this is a town where the well-worn cliches are the truth. It IS huge. It DOES glitter. The steaks lap juicily over your plate, the Mar- tinis flow like Niagara, there is a new word born every minute and build- ings and salaries and tranquilliser sales are higher than anywhere else in the world.

Everything you've read about it in the glossies, goggled at in Cinemascope, memorised from those long-playing records is everyday fact. Everything, that is, except the myth that this is a woman's world.

It is not.

I a girl's paradise.

From the moment

you

step

IF you admit to 30 youre certainly not Americus.

IN New York City even the into the wur-conditioned, cen- Janguage of love is bady lik

trally livated

brushest. In

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cop-on-every- And the Luggest, corner atmosphere of the Man- boomingest beauty industry

whether hattan jungle,

world your the

prostrates before this youth cult. Teenage 300 militon girls alone spend dollars a year (that's £107 million) on cosmetics.

passport states that you are six or sixty, you're a girl.

IF you can't look less than

30 you're a fool.

BOYS AND GIRLS MAGAZINI

Chasing A Rainbow

-Knarf Gets His Hands On Pot Of Gold-

By MAX TRELL

NARF,

the Shadow Boy Turned-Aboul the

with Name, came into the room and friends sat down next to his Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, and Hawatha, the Small-Sized Wooden Indian, both of whom a make- were sitting around believe campfire.

Hiawatha had a blankel over

his head and shoulders.

Where was he?

ді You been Teddy asket. "We've been looking for you.

"Where have afternoon?"

Haven't we, Hiswatha?"

the From somewhere inside blanket came a grunt.

"Hiawatha

says Yes. He's been looking for you, 100." Teddy explained.

Knarf made himself comfort- able by the compare. He rub bed his hands together pretend- ing he was getting them warm. Finally he said:

"1 was hunting for the pot of gold at the end of the ralo- bow."

Doesn't know much "What?" asked Teddy in sur- prise. "What were you hunt- ing for at the end of the rain- bow?"

"Don't you know anything?" Knart asked Teddy.

"Not much." said Teddy. "You're a very stupid Bear," said. Knarf.

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"Don't you know anything?" Knarf asked Teddy,

the

Then, all of a sudden, in middle of the rain, the sun Be- g3b shining. 1 saw a rainbow. It came right into the room."

"Into the

room!" Teddy.

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Older "girls" get through 2,000 million dollars on war- per cent paint. Eighty-two of them regularly wear expen- sive perfume, and 5,000 mil- lion green-backed dollars crackle into the beauty salon tills every year.

Not Ior nothing did the American beauticians pledge "to serve

the

baths,

women of the through sunken world with the realisation that baths, wux baths, sun

Joam baths,

to them beauty exceeds in Hairdressers cope with lash and importance even health."

brow dyeing, with turning every And to the youth cul zu girl do a blonde (for that's une shodern million-dollar temple sphere uninfluenced by the has just been dedicated. Glass First Lady, Brunettes are tronted, glittering, il arrogantly rare as bird song here), holds its own among all the success and chi-chi of

Fifth- avenue, epitomising the import- unce of the 140,000 salons which have mushroomed up over the country in the last decade.

From the minute you step in-

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A pedicure by a lily-filled pool takes an hour. A body massage in twilight cubicles The hours tick Lakes another. by-the dollars melt. But it's the pampering side of this salon which to

me puts

to the elevator (velvet-padded the American beauty business walls, shining chandeliers, F in its right perspective. Not a

music trickles into your

ears

ob

Robb

takes you inside the House of Revlon

customers with

make-up to wear.

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Rand

IN NEW YORK..

Most of the big stores are in wafts, shops throughout New York. tains spurt, soft music

chair-to-chair there's a

food You seldom have to wait for on the beauty bandwagon too. For the perfectionist there is in a land, where s Henri Bendel will show you even a tiny salon where long and drink service, a rosy pink attention.

hairdresser can eari 25,000 how to make-up on a sculptured false eyelashes are applied Balmain-designed salon gown, a

Chinese torture fashion to the library of magazines, and golden dollars a year, his time is money "kkeness" dummy and you

Ds well as yours.

In this elty, Charles of con take her home to show the

root of your own. slippers on the house.

installed o husband. Bergdorf Goodman where here today is

gone to The midnight blue ceiling is the Ritz has even J ne

morrow, goods looks are good closed circuit television to flash supply their lattice, with spangled

gold

business, beauty is something padded footstools ("copled from appointments from one floor of elegant writing paper impres-

and vou almost can buy their Park-avenue salon to an- sively stamped "Under the Drier chairs. madam"}

youth antique gout

other.

a' Bergdorf's"

means more than a mink coat. rest by every seat, and in the

I met Saks of Fifth-avenue run a the touch of a

a brilliant, beautiful You

can always make-up room

We socialite yesterday. nail bank where real nails are button changes the lighting under the drier-usually, in this

her age - but she calorie-conscious from day to night, from sun to

grafted on to replace broken discussed

managed to lie about her dog's. or split ones. snow, from north to south, de- salads, cream cheese, saccharine- pending on where you're taking sweetened

fruit, and

For the busy girl there are all- night beauty shops-who don't your new custom-designed face. reduced bread.

The cost of

a day at

salon just cater for Insomniaca. Helens Rubinstein's boasts a resident physician to. For the budget girl there are advise

diet, 00

Cyclax of. inexpensive and booked solid- London make their bid for New courses in the best kind of York

Success with half-hourly make-ups just before the cock. tall hour of six.

the

sofa for our easily tired dullar has been wasted the works?-around £50. clients") al Revlon's plusby wall-street broker

and the palace, to the time you down a Madison-avenue Ad-man behind one-for-the-road drink, sweet all the glitter

sure make thal-but after an afternoon of THE

THE Revlon salon is, admitted- and hard cash pours from your the pampering 60 feels 20, 20 ly, at the top of the beauty both have tree but refinements beyond feels fabulous, and been brainwashed into gatis- our English shampoo-and-set faction

dreams are common to beauty

pocket.

practical side trained Nothing is spared to help you them feel good-coloured foun-

N the

beauticians

Jather

LADY LUCK-

new

gasped | AQUARIUS (11) (January 21-

February 19): Give a re

ides enough time to sink ip before discussing it with too many people.

(18) you PISCES

(February 20- March 20): A spare time in- terest, sufficiently developed, could become a source of ad-

"Right into the room," peated Knari. "The end of it was behind the bookcase."

"Behind the bookcase!" ex- claimed Teddy, "Did

the bookcase squeeze behind after it?"

"Of course I did," said Knarf. But when I got there, jt was some place else. chased it around the table and behind the chairs and under maily it slid "I guess I am," said Teddy. the carpet. And "But what's at the end of the behind the bookcase again, So rainbow that you were hunting I squeezed in after it again.

for?"

said Kharf, is a big pot full

"At the end of the rainbow,"

of gold. It hangs there.o a

Caught it

"And this time I caught it." "You didi" cried Teddy.

eye.

JACOBY BRIDGE

cat well

country,

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And this kind of emphasis on service is not confined to the snob salons.

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YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE

TORTH'S five spade bid rather unusual, but so

to his hand. I am not going THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28

criticise the bid one way or the days and start the new year other because there is no scien- free of unfinished business.

treak tific way to bid such

Furthermore, North SAGITTARIUS (7) (November hands.

2-December

21): Avoid did not want to get scientific antagonising a person whose and tell his opponents what to Actually, I would not help you may need, even if lead.

Pass 7 Pass you don't always see eye to object to an immediate six

Past: spade bid by the North hand.

Pass I happened to hold the South

Opening lead-Q (December CAPRICORN (12) ditional revenue.

22-January 20): Try to catch hand. The game was board-a- ARIES (1) (March 21-April 19): up on your neglected eor-match team of four and need-

had any partner Avoid overtaxing your capa- respondence, and resolve to less to say my partner's bid go down, one

had a doubleton club and thất a problem. city for work by delegating answer letters more promptly gave me quite a

I had a mighty good hand. suit were opened. next year. some minor tasks to others.

Against that I noted that So good that I would have TAURUS (4)

(April 20-May YOUR

NUMBER: made some sort of slam try there was no law that my part- 201:

to be void of hearts You should not

Count the letters in your first if my partner had only jumped her had be intimidated

maybe hearts was his double- by

name and add the total to the to three spades. It was strict

also ton. examiner if you are confident

number shown in brackets apparent to me that my part- after your sign of the Zodiac. ner held something along the for me. He could have

That left two things going controls of your ability to pass a test. GEMINI (3) (May 21-June 21);

your lucky number order of his actual hand and void and, if he didn't, the club

that even a six spade bid would might not be opened.

LUCKY

This is "And there was the pot of

hook. All you have to do is gold," said

Knart. "It was

get to the end of the rainbow hanging on a hook just as it and you can take all the gold was supposed to do. I looked you want."

"Gosh!" said Teddy. "Is that into the pot. It was full of

gold," what you did?”

"Well," answered Knarf, "I it?" asked Teddy almost did. I mean, I got .10

stuck my hands in the

"Then why didn't you take

the end of the rainbow all pot," said Kaarf. "I lifted out

right."

Overcome your natural dis- taste, for illness and visit a friend who was forced to spend Christmas in bed. CANCER (6) (June 22-July 21); After an unusually pleasant hollday break you should be relaxed and ready to start the

handful. do you year's work.

Loud grunts know what happened? All the LEO (0) (July-22-August 21)

Here awatha stuck his

head from out of the blanket

and gave several loud grunts.

gold went flying away. Some

of it fell on the carpet. Some

of it fell on the walls. Some

"He wants you to start at of it fell on the plants standing the beginning Teddy said. next to the window.

"All right, said Knart. Ted-

dy got ready to listen very carefully. Hiawatha, pulled his

Not real gold

head back under the blanket. Before Teddy could answer,

He probably got ready to 31sten, 100, except that he might have gone 16 deep. It was hard to Tell what he was doing under the blanket.

"It wasn't real gold at all. Do you know what it was?

Hiawatha stuck his head from under grunted.

oul

the blanket. He

"He said it was

sunshine" Teddy told Knurl

Maywherethe other room yes, that's what 11 wast

When contemplating & drastic change, don't fail to consider your partner's wishes. VIRGO (8) (August 22-Sep-

tember. 22): Don't worry un- about possible changes at work on the sole basis of un- founded rumours. LIBRA (6) (September 23- October 23); A friend's-de- mands on your time and at- tention should take « second place to your own urgent needs,

for today.

Rupert and the Popweed-48

The Merboy leads a bewildered Rupert (away from "the" députy's member to throw |room:** You're lucky?'t be umiles,

pop any al "The Judge Octopus, was in al And "now", EASE. good mood. You might have been Very severely punished for no

- Knari begaur "All of a sudden Knari wald. "That's the kid 800RPIO (2) Artland creature has ever done what-oplungei bick lates

It started to Fain, 1 looked out of gold that's in the pot at the

of the window. It was pouring, end of the rainbow.":

November 21): Try to lear

up your work in the next few

Lynu did. 1. It is retkely that you and Rupert, sholding the Ghell

will-aver: find any of our disistke 5 firmly," poés bédide him,

ALL NIGHTS RESERVED

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As long as I was going gamble I went the whole hog and bid seven. West opened the queen of hearts and

that was all, except that the ding, went the same way at the other table and our West made the same lead

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