THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1959.
WOMANSENSE
YOUR BIRTHDAY.........BY STELLA
WEDNESDAY, JULY 1
BORN today, you are highly success and recognition fairly
Impressionistic and eastly influenced by events and condi tiona, Learn to stand firmly on your own two feet and you will get ahead faster. The stars hove given you exceptional talent in the arts, but this talent will remain dormant unless you develop it al on carly age,
concentra
Determination tion on a major objective are the two qualities upon which your eventun success will be based.
early in life.
y
Altraclive to the opposite Fox, will probably have a But you number of admirers. will be happiest if you select a marriage partner early in life. You want your own home and find the greatest content in
You are family of your own.
with only demonstrative members of your own fatally.
Among Those born on this date
Ja n
Chin, author: Alexander the Great, cofiquerer; Sir Robert Bull, tronomer; James Ear) Russell, durator.
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You speak well in public, have an insight into humilly's foibles and wili probably be To find what the stars have for you tomorrow, able to write entertainingly and in instructively about contemporary select your birthday star and life. You have individual and read the corresponding para- original ideas which, if graph. Let your birthday. Star developed, will bring you be your dolly guide.
THURSDAY, JULY 2
CANCER (June 22-July 23)- Make last minute plans for the Fourth of July. Arrangements made early turn out best,
LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)- Do special weekend shopping early if you can, especially if
terialning guests.
10
CAPRICORN (1)PC. 23-Jun. 20)-Sticking tairly closely to rentine is your best palley today. Get done what needs doing.
AQUARIUM (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) Guard against a health upset. and be sure find you are not careless with personal posses- Sivis.
your
on - 0 Guard that
VIRGO (Aur. 24-Sept. 23)-- The general
FISCES (Feb. '20-Mar. 20)- outlook beiter than usual, so inake the most of Steguard your personal pro- everything
perly, espeeltilly when advance
Toront Phopping interests.
pocketbook. LIBRA (Srpl. 24-Oct. 23)-
ABIES Mar. 21-Apr. 20)- Be sure there are no luupholes
when deallag In your plans for the halday. Use your head
with others. This is no time to Check all reservations,"
be overemotional,
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)—
Don't let yesterday's contusion over detail intrude upon today's decisions. Get things straighten
ed out.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dea. 22)-Don't stlp up on some lin- portant detall of your plooning. Check everything carefully.
JACOBY
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 211-
Take care in personal matters. You may find that you need to change your mind about some thing.
GEMINI (May 22-June 20— Pat your best foot forward. Attempt to be patient and inet- dul at one and the sime tline.
on
AS Association of
S one of s promotions the American
Playing Card Manufacturers con- ducts an intercollegiate bridge tuumament in which teams from various colleges play a group of selected hand: sgainst Pare determined by the association."
Some of these para are quite compilented pnd must cause the students a lot of trouble. In fact, the hands might well stick most of the experts. Hand five le one of the easier ones.
It is n North-South par. They must bid and make four spades. If they get there the play is simple enough. Declarer wins the opening lend and plays spodes. This puts the defence
North
CARD Serisea♦
-The bidding has been:
East Bouth West Pass
Pass
14
2N.T
Pass
2
You, South, hold:
What do you do? A-Bid three clube. The play For game in a minor tuit may be better than no-trtop. A pass would be cowardly.
TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner continues with a bid of three diarionds, What do you do now?
Answer TomSOFTOW
SIDE GLANCES
BRIDGE
WEST-
KQ 073
• Q 10 942 4870
NORTH (D)
69732
ФАВО
• KO *AQ91
20
FAST.
A54 QJ1052 +JB3
104
SOUTH
AJ 1000
K+
A75 +KJ32
North and South vulnerable North
East
1
PATS
South 14
Weal
Pass
24
Pars
2 N.T.
Pass
34
PAIS 44
PARA
Pass
PALS
Opening' load-◆ 4
in and declarer wins the next trick. Another spade lead loses a second trump trick but now declarer goes about his business of playing anything he wishes and winds up making his tract.
con-
Three no-trump won't make and the catch in the hund is to set to spades. North and South ench have a bad four-card spade sult but one or the other should bid it whereupon the
spode game is reached easily.
By Galbraith
TA Rag, Ưâ, PA DIT.
"I know other men plant gardens, dear and their,
________wfyan_have, to string Soans all summer!""
AN-EASY-TO-WEAR FASHION BY THE
QUEEN'S DRESSMAKER
Supreme elegance is in every Bue of this dress by Norman Hartnell. It is made of a new Terylene fabric, but could be copied in any sunumer weight cloth.
Words Of Wisdom
From London
Page: 5
LINDA DOESN'T MIND GOSSIP ! SOME
why,
of the ladies who jazz about the world with millionaires`- when you meet them in the flesh, you'd think they were nuns.
They are so ready to blanch at the merc notion that anyone should want to write about them in the newspapers.
They are so frigid of countenance, so superior of men, that you be- come confused, and start thinking it must have been an honourable degree you read about them receiving, rather than a mink coat from a nightclub proprietor.
But you don't get con- fused with Linda Christian, because Miss Christian is a9.
jolly in life as she sounds in the gossip columna.
MOR that pushed up hair- | 6x
FO
Flattered
appearing
up
with
In the gossip
style that all the May-"No, I'm not fed fair hairdressers are push- columns, I am very pleased and ing there is a new type of altered anyone should think 1
have such an interesting roller with a special brushsonally. inside to stop the wet hair "Of course, I don't always re- slipping as you roll.
cognise myself from what they write.
My hairdresser is already using them and Ands that he can set hair in half. the time.
"They are the only type of curler for girls who do their own hair," he told me. "With an ordinary roller the hair slips ou before they have Anished with back rolling, especially curls. But don't think, as some people do, that you do not need a pin to keep it in place, Of course you do.
per-.
By Robert Robinson
to
BLS cac?
But now, she tells me, the is ustest bounc une's horizon, ready
plough back пет creative urge into films.
"Of course, I don't do it for the money. I work for my plenice.
"You're in a very
position," said
furtunale
"Aren' 1," said she. "Ah," said she, "publlelty it's just one of those crosses one has to bear." She giggled. "I don't like parties too much, they are a necessary evil"'-(that had
foxed) but I serious side.
FIC
Acting, she said, came very easily to her.
used to write in my diary when I was at school: 'Oh, dear, the nga they have given me longest part. The girls say should go to Hollywood Even now, I can't stand stage acting all those lines to learn at one
go..
No. I've never been to what you might call a real acting
1? have school,
we hnd ucting classes at MGM.... I'm play- ing a femme fatale in the dis- gulse of a very sweet girl in this present film. I don't think my friends would call that type- easting,
"I am very much pre-occupied with the conditions of existence.
"For instance, I don't always go out with millionaires; I KO out with rich and poor. I have only Junch once
tu
with mitonaire like Pignatari and they say we're engaged but when I lunch all the time with someone who isn't a millionaire. "
no one writes a word.
"People seem more interested in gossip than in serious thing, don't they? As a personality. I get front-page treatment; as an actress I am tucked into a paragraph on page 14"
Down at Elstree, Miss Chris- "Kin matter of fact, he an had been relivorsing a added, "Uiese new curlers scene from her new Bhn House make setting hair so easy that of the Seven Hawks. with I have forbidden the juniors to Robert Taylor-a rehearsal that Use them. It makes them had been marred only by The Jazy,"
low but penetrating snores of a stage-hand Who had fallen
FIRST-Ald
for carpels asleep on one of the cat-walks
above.
clinical-looking. kit, containing
five different "bottles, a sponge,
a brush, and a packet of tissues,
to deal with
tuny emergency spot or stain on a carpet, To fed out which to apply for
So Critical
DACK Ja her portable
what you just dial ink" or BAC
"Oil" on the dial-a-spot in- dressing-room. Miss Chris-
cluded in the kit, and get the full instructions,
-London Express Service)..
By JOCASTA INNES
What's The Answer?
Problem
Mwith
by a qualified-psychologist-
TRS Breen is thrilled the clectric sewing machine her hus band has given her. Mrs Brown her neighbour is equally thrilled.
sclt?
must speak up for her complicated at the beginning by the presence of a teenager who C-Persuade Freda that her is not likely to enjoy their way
mother has her interests of life,
at heart and thai Bisc Since ther have d good
should give the collere a trial and see how she likes #t?
Solution
She is planning to make new As Freda das conilded frank- carinius and loose covers any in Mrs Warren und is unable experts to borrow It as soon as to make her mother see her she bns bought the material.
point of view, B is useless rather unkind.
Mira Breen does not want to affend her, or to be moon, but she does not want to lend her machine,
Should she
AMake a
excuse that she
In using it herself. or that it has to be over. haules? B-Tell her plainly, but as
niorly
as she can, that she does not want to lend
und
If the facts are as they seem to be that Freda is unatted for bendemle work-to advise The girl to do is simply to waste
time.
Site Mis Warren is friendly with both mother und daughter, she is justled in trying to pre- sent the girl's point of view, 1 she does it tactfully, Mrs Tyler may well consider the matter again. IL?
Mrs Watren should CLead if she is esk- A. ed, but show by her man- not ner that she does ike doing so?
Solution
If Mrs Brown is as incon- siderate to nsk su big a thing of her neighbour, then she de- serves to be rebuffed. Mrs Breen should chouse B. She le per- fectly Justined in her unwilling- ness, and must make. It plain dhat_she_ cannot
the Lend machine even if the risk of an▾ noying her.
She cannot choose A. Mrs Brown would immediately offer to wall until a more convenient time to borrow the machine. To choose C would mean even greater unpleasantness than B.
'Problem
Mrs Tyler, emelant persona! sceetary before her marriage, b anxious that her 15-year-old daughter Freda should follow in her footsteps,
She plans to enter her in A commercial college, although her daugher has not done VETY well at school.
Problem
choose
Gan said: "I am so critical of my films, I don't even bother te see them.
"I saw one by accident once The port called on television. for me to speak in broken Eng- lish, wear a heavy black wig, a rug round my middle, and tattoo marks.
six
"For a girl who speaks languages. this was something of a disappointment.
I suspect it was the shock of seeing this Dal has kept Miss Christian off our screens during the last three years or so.
-"But--F-Have not been-fille," she told me, "I have done a lot of building-houses, roads, and so forth-on my land in Mexico, I designed the houses myself, also the street lighting. just cannot subdue my creative urge. "Architecture and design arc a passion with me. 1 have re- built my own house three times, and am just about to begin on
alternative for the girl, Dorothy should be bold and choose A With the best will in the world, she may not be able to Cry it for a fourth.
other "When I visit out B, and C is just cowardly.
Dorothy has the right tople's houses, I always look choose nnd A will be the wisest course for everyone.
peo-
about me to see it I can't im- prove themn.
Buddhism
HAVE studied practically every religion there is to be studied, and I find Buddhism and Reincarnation impress me moat.
"I am myself a Roman Calho- le bul," she said briskly, "one
Sne was called back to the sel. Someone had woken up the snaring stagehand.
She said, looking towards the director,
Mr the cameraman, Taylor: "I do hope they take me seriously."
Actress LINDA CHRISTIAN whom the Marquis de Portago was to have married when he had obtained a divorce from his American wife Carroll stands pensively on the spot outalde the village of Guidizzolo in Italy where ho was killed in the Mille Migila car race in 1957.
STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Mr. Punch Remembers
-He Took Walks To The Most Curious Places→→
By MAX TRELL
"NOW when I
was very small," said Mr Punch to Krf and Hanld, the Shadows with, the Turned-About Names,
Knarf shouted in astonish-
ment.
Couldn't Believe It Hanld, equally astonished, Dorothy, a middle-aged spin-"I used to go on long walks. 1 sold the couldn't believe that most curious myone could go walking Inside ster is to marry a widower with walked to the
a piano. don't suppose that a teenage daughter, and they places. 1
walked where 1 "You mustn't forget, my are discussing whether the girl anyone has
have!"
dears, that I was very small in
" shall live. with them and travel
Knarf and Harid ·Bald that thuse days," Mr Punch cold. up to town cach day to wurk,
they didn't understand what wasn't much bigger than or lodge with a Iriend whose
Mr Punch meant. Where had pin." mother would look after her,
he gone to? What curious places had he seen?
The girl and her father are
devoted to each other and Dorothy would like to make - a Teal hoine for them, but she not sure whether it would work out in practice. The girl is very modern in her tastes, Dorothy is rather said.
Should she
A-Be
frank about fcellur and Sell
and
"I
a
Knart and Hanid urged Mr Punch to tell them all about his walk inside the piano.
Here Hand interrupted to say that she had looked inside, à plano several times.
"Yes," she said, "it is Alled with wirco, Mr Punch"
What are
the wires for?" Knart asked.
"Just be patient, I'll tell you
all about the wires," said Mr "Let me get on with Punch. this walk I took.
"So there I was on this broad road with all the wires strung up on poles over my head, But When I took a close look at the poles I saw that they weren't really poles at all."
"If they weren't poles, what were they?" Knot wanted to know.
Pieces Of Wood
Mr. Punch: suddenly landed In his father's class.
close
Walked Into Faucet well," said Mr Punch,
Mr Punch smiled.
They were pieces of wood wif“ "The inside of the plano is an joined together and ending in a mors. All of them stood the cold water
to the wires, co close that they walked into faucet over our kitchen sink. I extraordinary place." he add. sort of shape that reminded me
seemed almost to be touching walked along a long pipe that It's like walking down a broad of a hammer. went on and on and on."
road with miles and mlies of
"There seemed to be hundreds them. of those curious-looking ham- "You really walked inside a telephone wires overhead." her pipe. Mr Punch?" Knart asked. bet *What was it like?"
sired 1
fiance that she would Honid. rather the airi accepted "It was like a long tunnel," ber friend's invitation said Mr Punch" "All of a sud-] and only Joined them in somebody opened the fauce occasionally 7
I think it was my father get- ting himself a gloss of cold B-Invite the girl to share water and I was swept off my
their home, and make up feet by an enormous wave. her mind to gel on with Tried To Hold On
her?
fert
Solution
d
"I tried with all my might to C-Be non-committat, and lot hold on to the sides of the pipe
ker flance Freda in despair, conildes in
but I couldn't. I went tumbing daughter decide whlehd over heels unsill finally- their friend, Mr Warron, that
solution they would pro- Splash-I lanted in my father's she wants to become a children's
glasa." nurse and asks for her support.
"Oh, Should Mrs Warren.
how terrible cried Hanic "What did he do?” A-Put the girl's point of
"Do?" asked Mr Punch. "Ho view to
rather Marriage at Dorothy's agė just poured me out into the ... dominating mother, even with a 'widower who already sinki Fortunately I let out
If thie
snoring has a daughter is not going to yell and he picked me up before mtans Mrs Tyler?
be without difficulties, though I went down the drain. B-Tell Fred that she cannot it may turn out to be very "And another time, I took
Intervene and that she happy. But they do not want it walk inside a pianoļi.
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· Rupert and Raggety--1
The days are drawing out fast. and Mrs. Bear's thoughts are naturally turning to spring cleaning. "I'm going to be very busy indoors, Rupert," she says. "Will you do the shopping today?" "Hooray, of coure i will" Hapert miles, feel like a run
acram the courmen. Wait till get my scarf!" Then his Daddy chimes in." The paper'says that stores are beating up from the coast. You must take carp,” he murmure. "Right-o, then I mu be quicker than ever declares Rupert. And off he goes. ALL RIGHTS BESZAVAD
"And then," continued Mr Punch, "just as I was wondering whether those farmers ever really did strike the wires, at that moment ono of them did. It banged down on a wire, · And do you know what happened?”
"What happened?" naked Kaart and Hanid together.
Beautiful Munic
"Out came the sound beautiful note of music,
"Soon more and more mers were striking more more of the wins. Someone was playing the piano.
of n
ham- and
"Every time one of the Ivory koys was pressed down, the hammer Inside the piano hit the wires and out come the benut. ful notes of mulc
"And that," oald Mr Punch, he flashed his story, was what I discovered on one of my· curious walks when 1-wRS (VICE, very small"