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"I'm beginning to see things in it.”
YOUR BIRTHDAY ....BY STELLA
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1958,
•JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
Hand 'Reflects Hardy Spirit
By OSWALD JACOBY
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THE bidding by Norths and South certainly reflected a hardy spirit. There was nothing particularly wrong with South's
WOMANSENSE
Fage 5
THE MAN WHO SET
SET THE "TRAPEZE"
TOT so long ago 21-year-
Noid Ives St. Laurent
used to dress his slater's dolls. Today the French papers are hailing him as the now Dior.
He is fashion'a Daring Young
ono spade bid although there Man on the Flying Trapeze-his was nothing particularly right | new line is the trapeze. with it either. Similarly North cannot really be criticised ble two club reoid.
for
South'n two diamond bid was really bad but would have caused no harm if North had simply gone to two spades in- slead of trying three diamonda. When this was passed around to West he cried, "Double"
West opened his Ringleton heart. East ershed the ace and king and West discarded a low
NORTH (1) 4974 ❤13
14
AKI SAKIODO
WEST
EAST
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the To
Buyers from all over world have neclaimed him. get tears into a buyer's cycs.......... that has to be seen to be belleved.
Shy S1 Laurent looks Uke a drawing by Boz of David Copperfield. Long, thin, and pale, with tight, dark trousers. Ha light-brown hair falls over his eyes like a schoolboy's
He lives in a small, two roomed bachelor apartment. He has no car, rarely goes out:
Now all Parls alms to pull him out of his shell,
SWINGING
Yves St Laurent
BORN today, you
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11
иго friendly, pleasant and obliging. You have derate miad of your own, but all too often, you hesitate to express your opiniona trankly, for fear they may offer winegar, You are al inclined to (illy-dally and not prese forward with the full energy of which you are capable. It is not a much laringe 40 procrastinauun which causes you to all beek and let the busy world
by. You think that you will jump và the merry- ro-round tomorrow! Sometimes to- inorrow is too katel
Learn to be more decisive at the right ume and you will advance more speedily toward your chosell goal lekely that you will be Eappios in the arts or the profes dons, siner you are not at all happy when forced to,
under the work direcion of another. If you can ko along at your own peed, working like a fiend when inspiration strikes and slowing down when you get 1 attack of the "lows," then all s well with you. But to be given order to do "then and su" at any given to irks you to the point of exasperation.
Your critical, faculties - are sound er you are able in separate the true from the false, the authentic from the spurious, the gold from world probably the dross. You make a good art midle or an export antiques, provided you are willing to be abrolutely talul rather than politic. This quality, which is such in awet, could become a Stability were you to permit yourself to mirik to the level of mere fault-finding. Th:le woning, perhaps, is more for y' menaberi of the femmine world who may not have enough to keep your active mentality tiuxy. Finds for new hobby te i tera Interest can cure Dis lý short onderi
Chud, author and
Among tho hern on this date were: Thomas A. Edison, inventor; Darinl Boone, pioneer; Lydia M. philanthropi!: Henry Mort, scientist; Otto Lud- wig, Gonnan dramatist: Washington
Glädde,
and noted clergyman author; and Melville E. Yuler, Jurist.
To And what the stars have in store fns you tomorrow, select your birthday war and rood the cor= responding paragraph. Lat Your birthday star be your dady guide.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 14)- Time to be cautious if you are sign- ing a contract or making on agree- ment, especially with strange; s. Play safe.
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20) The maternal ide of the family muy come in for special consideration fu- day, Act wisely; perhaps portjotie strip.
21-Apr. ARIEH ... (Var.
2༽-- Welch pro end cons of any W tukion before muniting any sinai decidon on any matter of importe unce to your future
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or
TAURUS rapr. 21-May 21- Your beat Day the anath for Corghi atas, be they marital business. Decisions
St your are
favour!
GEMINI
(May 23-Junk 21- There are going to be made if yatı are co-operative with your mediate group. Ne bi day for traveling.
22-July
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club.
TIKE 20 architect, like a philosopher, like a young man looking at life and love and women for the first time. Yves St Laurent, saviour of
house of Blor, presented the hard practical fact that the shoulder to hemm ilke a tent with chemlas stopping just above the nothing mournful about them-
or walat and the same no stops for waist, hips,
widening they just looked smart, affrge- skirt with jackets to match. live, and what men like to gbe.
Others had the same soral- fitted tope with full box-pleated
skirts.
Acclaimed as the new Prince of Paris Fashion is Yves St. Laurent, aged 21. Iven succeeded the Iste Christian Dior in the Fashion House of Dlot, and he has proved that he has moooeded him artistically as well. He has produced the senes-
tion of the fashion world—”The Trapeze Line”. Xvos in platured here in his Paris apartment surrounded by bls fashion out-out,
the
one
.of
the most beautiful buyers rasiat buy.
He calls hip new line the kneem. young collections of clothes ever
trapeze and the silhouette he meant to convey was that of a triangle with Its top off.
scen
The cheers were louder than those for a prima ballerina; the lears were tears of emotion for the new young genius--not tears
for the old one.
If the ghost of Dior found its
chopped
your
from a high bust line or it was
STAR SPOTS
.
in
OT
· FOR EVENING: Practically every dress in the show, some FOR MORNING: Suits
very short, some ankle length. light
tweed or grey rough
DRESSES: The huge tent Thero The straight, straight look was
the Wert
young heavy Dlor mademoiselle dresses in white out, the hard, sculptured look navy blue or belge, with short cut dresses had gone. Either
skirt cropped jacket just above the alls, in linen, in tweed-in any- falle, white straw, white lace- many echoing the modern line flared out neatly to the hem waist over stimy faring skiria thing.
Blous of white organza
They were starkly simple, but with a softer, more shapely chiffon or linen were waist with only Л few bows or look, high and very simply cut wih butions to relieve their
HATS: Tiny, narrow sallor geometrical lines. Yet they were or boater hats for the morning Elther your dress was a two- square neck.
Skirts to just below the knees, masterpieces of construction - worn dead straight many Such a show it was all plece with a simple middy top
WEAR: the stopping just above the
FOR DAY
Two and they had a very alluring matching exactly and trimmed line; there the
discrendly with organza or a row or linen with look about them, feminine feeling: the beautiful over a lond-away skirt, or else pieces in tweed ip-
shoulder tops and colours; the ravishing evening was a huge affair that dowed sleeveless
Д triangular line from straps scooped out like a many, dreases; the galety; the romance; in
The obvious lead the spade jack which would have set the hand three tricks but East became suddenly Lued with kindness to unfor tunate declarers.
He led back the ten of dia-
this monda. From
point on South proceeded to make the
any upset that could be a hazard in hand. your work.
LTO Jsty 24-Aug-
The diamond Wus WOD in Itiner upsels today could postpone dummy and the ace and king the eventual outerine of a major
way into the salon I am sure it amiled with joy of the доп SUCCESS
new
a billow of box plenta.
waist
FOR COCKTAILS: The of daisies,
black dresses, many
---JOY MATTHEWS
IT'S NOT HARD TO TELL IF YOU'RE IN RIGHT JOB
effort, although you profli Lathe of clubs and a club rur follow-How can you tell if the thing that they continue to
Jong run.
Extravagant promises can be
with a big grain of salt|
ed. Now South led the queen
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Dept. 71)-- of hearts and West ruffed. He leading, to take everything you her had nothing better to do. A spade Was discarded from
(Sept, LIBRA
23-dummy and West had the lead Opportunity Beckons along so many for what it was worth. Nñés put you thay have dimoulty in selecting, one thing among many.
24 ch.
22) Trump. South 24-Nov.
ACORPIO (Oct. Surface, appearances may look fine, but look out for an adverse under
urrent sad work out how to com-
bat it.
He did make his best lead, n with his Won queen and led the Jack of hearts. West chose 10 rust; again a discard would do him no good.
South overraffed with dur-
SAGITTARIUS (Nay, 21-Dec. 22)~~ Moking, concessións Just
because i simgebody is a very important, person will get you nowherel Suck tomy's last trump and discarded two spades on the lust two clubs (one spade had gone curlier on the king of clubs).
CAPRICORN
(re. 23-3an. 20)- Avoid dispute arising from even a small difference of opinion in caso South all had to lose a spade
B serious argumers | but be had his nine tricks. it grew lo
today
TARGET
How many
you are doing a right for even after the financiel you, if your lifework is really has vanished.
the one you should have chosen? That's how it is with
The best answer to that is Olma, who calls herself that you love it so much - you would do it for fun, even if you had all the money in the world. Unfortunately, not many of us can any thai.
HATES HER JOB
The girl usually hates her job so much that she can't wait to give it up if she marries a man who can afford to have her stay home. The houswife usu- duties ally hates her domestic
so much that, as soon on her husband can afford it, she hites a mald to do the bulk of her work. The person who inherits the
VACARD Sense money, resigns his job in
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You, South, bold: AKIDZ VS SAQ65 AKSJE
What do you do?
A--Did three spades. Your partner is showing strength bui It is the wrong kind of strength to help your hand. At the same time spades should be better than no-irumg.
TODAY'S QUESTION
You have the same hand. The bidding has been:
EMA Bouth Wert
1. Double 2 Pass 7
What do you do?
North
Double
Answer Tomorrow
BY THE. WAY
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On the other hand, there are a lot of rich people who do the work they do just out,of sheer love. And there are many others who love their jobs.
Bo much
work,
need
work has been fascinating and very sallatying
By ANNE HEYWOOD
That's what?"worit - ought – to "visiting stenographer.” Her job coincide with their school hours, “ Helen takes her to Essex and Union Ther had their lunch at school ought to love what we do with be, but it reely is. We honestly a Counties, New Jersey.
and I was able to be on hand Here is what Mrs Olsen saya before they left and when they it for love if we didn't have to our days, so that we would do retyped me. When they had
do it for money. We should a day off,' or were ill, that was
wake up with a good feeling on my day of, too.
contemplating the day. ahead, and go to sleep with a satisfied glow of the fia wo've had in the job.
about it:
SMALL CHILDREN
"My
visiting stenographer service grow out of a necessity to supplement the family In-
come.
"I decided to do this rather than take a full-time job be Causc my children were still very mali At that time, a full- time position would have meant hiring a baby-sitter-and using up all the proâts.
"With a rented typewriter and some newspaper advertir-
BECAME A HOBBY
"Eventually, our Anancial It sounds impossible, I know, position straightened itself out, but there are many people - and the job that started as a myself included--who feel that necessity became a hobby. The way!
HOUSEHOLD
HINTS
When drying a plastic table. When you choose paint for Ing, the business was started. It cloth or curtain on an outdoor walls, remember that the colour clicked almost immediately, for clothesline, weight the Jower will look stronger on the walls there was 4 great need for edge with spring-type clothes- than In the sample. It lo
If You Were an Heiress. Would You Qult Work-A-Day World?
stones.
"As the children my hours could
pina. This keeps the plece from generally a good idea to selecț Kot older, dying in the breeze and sticking à colour a little lighter than you be made to to itself.
BOYS AND GIRLS"
Chris Goes Visiting
-He Found Many Old Friends In A Tall Building-
By MAX TRELL
"He means the church," said Teddy to Knarf and Hiawatha.
Christopher Cricket nodded. Only Building
HRISTOPHER Cricket cume walking down the elde of the road. He suddenly stopped and smiled as he saw his three friends sitting on the fence. end of the street on the other There were norf, the Shadow side of the bridge," said Kurf,
"It's the only building at the
I
want.
MAGAZINE
on the other side of the bridge, up near the top of the steeple, heard someone calling: 1 saw somebody waving his 'Christopher! Hey there, Christo- wings at me. In fact, I BRW pher!'
five or six somebody's waving their wings at me.
"Naturally," said Christopher, "I looked up to see who was calling me.
дегу
" Anally recognised them," said Christopher. "They were good friends, Poly... and Christopher smiled as he put Patrick and Paul and Peter and his head way back and showed Pansey, Pam, Penelope, Pris- how he had looked up.
cilia, and Pemberton. I waved to all of them."
it
"You have no idea," he went en, "how tall that church tower Boy with the Turned-About Hiawatha said: "I don't know was. The tippy point of Name, Teddy, the Stuffed Beary anybody who lives in the scrapod the sky.” and Hiawatha, the Small-Sized church. Wooden Indian,
over.
He
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It's A Stoople "It'an funny thing” said WAS unaware, when I said our iden is to show films in one
Christopher tippod bis hat Christopher. "I didn't think I
a church is "eggs should be sent to dry- of the rooms."
"The tower of One or two of politely.
walked jauntily knew anyone who lived there, called a steeple," said Knarf. cleaning Arma after being the owners have objectad to the indica
either. by sorters, graders, huge posters designed for the coders,
"Thanks," said Christopher. stampers, markers, facades of thels" houses -
"But early this morning as I "I have several messages for
remember that. Anyway, packers ete." that nouncing the films, but the
was walking along that can now be classified publie response is expected to eccording to colour by an be encouraging, especially R3 electrle gadget which measures, atura w13 appear in person their reflections in photo-electric every now cells,
loaders,
lemora
you," Christopher said.
"Mesinges?" naked Knart.
Folded His Cout
and then Daya Kedsareo has offered to wing "Rockin' Round the Moon" in There are 7,320 variations of the minstrels gallery of one colour, some mere nuances, in a country house, healthy lemon, as against 2,571 Tansy, not to be outdone, has variations in the colour
folded It neatly of promised to dance a mamba on erungen. By listing the lemons the roof with the owner. In a number of colour-categories,
cach category having a cods In passing
number, R is possible to satisfy
the whims of a public which is
increasingly colour-canacious in ADVICE to
the matter of lemons.
Hotting up the home
and
Trivia
the young, to “Travel the world over and
"I was visiting," said Christo- pher as he took his coat off and over a fence rail Then he sat down beside his three friends.
"I met some folks who know you all, very well. They pent their regardi.”
learn about life," as an article Knart and Teddy and Hin puts it, recalled to me on ohi watha promptly
naked who man in the Solome who - bad were the folks whom Christo-
HEAR that Sol Hogwasch come home to bila villngs after |pher, had been visiting.
iras been considering o 12-years in exile across the seas. schemo for brightening the coa He said, "All that I have learned of the great of value about men and about
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ducted tours country bouBOST,
"Well," suld Christopher, "all
that these folks live in
YOUT
As one of his life my debier bould have told tell building, down at the end From actual play: White toakina-de-compresaid, "The · me. And he was never facibor
of the street on the other aide move and win.
crowds get sick of ́eriour and from bomo than Bosarger and (old piztures and fuzilbare, and Orieson,"
London Expreal Service
· of the bridge. - 2t has a pointed tower."
street "I'll
Rupert and the Lost List-8
want mething awful was coming at us!"**" Well, murely Feg'a bad enough |" says Algy "Suppone is get dense. We'd better run back while wW CLI MED anything at all. So they separate" and.esch trits to find the shortest way. barite je
Wondering what is causing you Algy's excitement Rupert and Edward hry up the slope and stafa towards Nutwood, but of the village there is nothing to be seen bogason of a thickening mist drift
1 that all 7
•ing tweds cher,
says Rupert in, relied, ."'I thought,
"What were their last names?" naked Teddy
"Pidgeon," Gold Christopher. "They wanted me to come up to the top of the tower.I mean steeple-and see them."
"How did you get up there?" asked Hiawatha.
Chris promised to deliver Owi's MeMage.
"I flew," said Christopher. "I mean they all came down from
the top. Priscilla carried me sure to give you their regarda hor back The others and ask you to visit them soon."
Where
did you go after followed me to pick me up in
that?" naked Toddy.
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сал I slipped off, which I didn't."
"I started duwa the long "How was it way up at the fight of winding stairs," said way, I top of the steeple?" Knart Christopher. "On the waked.
Wonderful View
meta bird named Owl. Ha serids his regarda And lower down in a kind of open window I met a family named Swallow. They acad thoir regards, too. "Wonderful view," said Chris At last, I got away down to the topher. *You could see for cellar of the church. And that's miles; houses and smokestacks where I met the last friend of and people and other churches yours who lives in the church". and other steeples. *The
Pidgeon had their nests under · Khorf's face lit up. " know great iron bell. When it who that was," he said. "IL rang, the whole, steeple seemed was the Mouse-Who÷LAVés«ID« !
The Church."
to
“I víalted for quite a while, Christopher | Cricket måd They served bread crumbs and "That's who it was all rightl xreen lenyen. Before I left, "And, of course, he sende
· they · made' - meʻprienise to be regards,"