THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1959. '
WOMANSENSE
LADY LUCK
your
CHINA MAIL
horoscope ·
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
AQUARIUS (Јаличку 21-
I
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blo to uncertain if the which you are Course planning is the right one.
· February 19): After period of depression will soon feel on top of the world again and be ready to
your social activi
Texume ties. PISCES (February 20- March 201: Unless you tre very vigilant,
someoris may be trying to stel a march 011 you and make suggestions at work which were originally yours. ARIES March 21-April 19): Since your association with a member of the opposite Ax is by
open Averot, you ought to st hiding the fact. TAURUS (April, 20-May 20): Since you rightly feel that a rise is due to you, you must screw up the courage to approach your emplayer with a well phrased request, GEMINI (May 21-June 21):
TOW An
Your great energy and drive must be used more con- structively and not dis sipated on smafl unreward- ing trilles.
CANCER (June 22-July 21): Nothing makes you happier than peaceful enexistence with others, and this desire han a very soothing in. fluence on your mory quay- rebome friends. LEO July 22-August 201: Only by trial will you be
A FEW HARD FACTS
"I AM writing to you because I don't know who
to appeal to in what I think is a serious matter"...
That was the introduction to a remarkable letter I received the other day. ::
It was from a woman Jis- "My daughter had a long turbed by the treatment she confinement, Her baby wos alleges young mothers are being born on a Saturday night, and given today, She belleves on the Wednesday morning the modern methods are on the way had to climb 35 steps to the to creating great numbery of top floor
make room for "Invalid mothers."
other enses coming in) and had to go up and down those stairs each time she visited the toilet or bathrooms.
This in What she wrote --- "I don't meet a lot of people, but VIRGO (August 22-Septem- even in my own litúe circle I ber 22): Although you are know of four young mothers spoiling for fight, you who are being treated
again to specialists after their confine shoukl try once patch up the mutter ment. amicably with
ad-j your
veronry.
LIBRA September 23-Octo- her 221: A fine chance may present itself to earn nome extra money in your spare! time, and you ought not to pass it up.
23- SCORPIO (October
November 21): In order to work with greater interest,
should try to Jista
tackle present job from your new angle. SAGITTARIUS
21
(November 22-December 21 Feeling rehsonably competent toi handle your new job, you must plunge right into it and learn as you progress, CAPRICORN (December 22-
January 201: Your creative! gifts will soon and ample scope
by
for
"Also, she has to go
down half that number to carry her unby up to feed him. She went walled on four more patients,
to the same floor for meals and
Isolated?
By MARY HAMPSON
A WOMAN COLUMNIST IN BRITAIN
a weck, but why the difference kod för ten days. Fortunately, my mother could afford to ar- I don't know."
The letter ended: "Please try range for a nurse to look after to help these mothers."
the bally, but what about other Is this an isolated case, or do mothers who are not so lucky? Outer mothers have similar
**Modern mothers are being ecmplaints?
far too encouraged toʻget up to dozens of I have talked
Goon. it may be good for the housewives and manys felt that hospital, but I don't think it's mothers were being made to get good for the mother." their bables. up too soon after the birth of
"Why are all moderni, house- wives tired?" said one. "Why
Why?
some days, she feels tired and, ndequate for any won't because the muscles have the specialist, become lazy and forgotten how to work.
2. The fear that stitches might burat through exertion has been removed by the discovery that burst stitches, and common com- plications after child-birth, are Modern caused by infection. druga havo even reduced that danger.
3. It has been found that pa- feet after lents soon on their chest operations, for instance, are less prone to blood clots (or em- boltans) which could cause death.
4. The psychological advan- tage to a pallent who is encour- aged not to think of herself as an Invalid.
"Having a baby is, of course, a tremendous event for a woman Why are mothers getting up and she loves to be flattered by so soon?
was told by an official:
1
friends bringing her grapes and presents," said the specialist,
"But she must be told that to normal healthy womka.
"My
dnighter, Own Instater, had her second baby in a slate nursing home, and
are no many of them unable to feed their babies when they get though able to go about a
home? I think it is because they Usmal, is not as she should be. and I know of these vihers in
"Is it any wonder that she is have not been given the proper "Ench hospital patient is treat- the same way.
treatment. After a five-day ed as "My opinion is that, because not as she should be, especially labour I was sent home-by The modem obstetrical policy child-birth is nothing more Une there are such good drugs, as she was stitched as well."
tram-on the tenth day. She added: mothers these days are not being
** mother treated
**When I seriously as they goes in a nursing home she is
arrival at
my should.
ordinarily kept in bed at least mother's house I had to go to
as
CHILDREN'S CORNER
Knarf's Two Horses
They're Really Trained Grauboppers-
By MAX TRELL
For expression, tuZNARF, the Shadow Boy with your own and others' great | A the Turned-About Nome. came up to his sister who was sitting on the back steps of the house and said:
pleasure.
"Let's go for a ride,"
YOUR LUCKY CARD; If today is your birthday, your lucky eard, no matter what)
"A ride!" exelnimed Hanld in game you may be playing.
know what ought to be the FIVE of surprise. "I don't
you mean, Kaart. What kind of DIAMONDS.
u ride?"
JACOBY BRIDGE
THE fact that you play the 15-
17-point opening no-trump does not alter in any way the necessity of having at least ap- proximately 20 points in the combited hands for game. Therefore, as responder with a balanced hand and eight polnis or loss, you should pass your partner's opening me no-trump. Sometimes this leads to nice dividends,
Dallas I recent duplicate, those Norths whose partners were pinying this con- vention passed to one no-trump, If East passed also, South would make oi-or two-no-trump, de- pending just how he played the hand, but a couple of East
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Q-The bidding has been: North East South West
Pass 10 Pass Puss ? You, South, hold: MAQTO WEL KJ65 $803
What do you do? A-Jump to four spades. If your partner wants to head for a Alam 791 are wllilar to zo slɑng.
TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner opens one club. You hold:
ABC 863 K32 40941
What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
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NORTH A0102
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+975
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WEST
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+ K 108
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Both vulnerable
West North Eart Pass Pasa Pers Openlog land---♥ (
South IN.T.
players decided to get into the six-card spade
net with their sults.
This gave North a chance 10 double with his eight points and East would be held to six tricks for a 500 point loss.
At the tables where
10-18-
point no-trumps were lu vogue, North raised to two and South always carried on to three.
Needless to say, no South player managed to pick up nine tricks so they all wound up with minus scorca.
John
Clarke
"I've been showing you for two years now. Won't you ever get the hang of it?”
Two Horses
"Well," said Knarf as he tried to explain in a patient way, "I have two Horses."
"Horses?" asked "Where are they?"
Hanid.
"keep them under a stone in the garden," sald Knart.
It Rapid looked surprised be- fore,
she looked amazed now. Finally she shook her head and sald:
"I don't belleve a word of it. You haven't got any Horses to begin with. And if you had any, you certainly wouldn't be keep- Ing them under a stone in the farden.
Different Kind
"They're Grasshopper-Horses. I've got them trained. I made saddles for them."
"I'd like to see those Grass- hopper-Horses of yours," said Hauld.
Under A Rock
A few minutes later, Knar! was lifting a surgill, flat rock off the ground at the back of the gorden. Under the rock was u hollow space which Knart hod scooped out of the ground.
STE
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Hitting on Hop-a-Long, Korg went over a tall busk,
'There they arel Knart said. Hunid was on her knees, look-
down at two large sharp- the pond in the middle of the eyed Grasshopper. They were pork." hitched by threads to two match sticks in the ground.
"They're all ready to go," Knort said. "I'll put the saddies
on them."
Hopping Along
Hop-a-Long and Skip-a-Long sudderily stood still and refused to go any further.
"What can we de now?" asked Hanit. "Can't we get to the other side of that pond?"
Just then a Duck came pad- dling up.
A Forry Boat
It wasn't many minutes later that Knarf and Hanid were hopping beröss the garden.
"Now we can get across," said Shadow Children can make Knarf. "Here. comes a ferry themselves any size they please boat. Giddap!" he said. They filled vory comfortably on
Hop-a-tong and Skip-a-Long the backs of Hep-a-Long and
the Duck's back, jumped on Skip-a-Long.
They were paddled across to the other side of the pond.
Knart led the way. "Giddap!" he said to his Then Knart admitted that the Grasshopper, Hop-a-Long Bares he was talking about Over a tall bush he went! weren't the kind of Horses
Hand followed immediately Hank thought he Was
talking after on Skip-a-Long's back. about.
They crossed the road in two they went "What kind of Horses are they great Jepps. Then then?" Hanid demanded.
hopping and skipping down the Knarf smiled,
street uni finally they reached
Rupert and the Outlaws-33
At first Ruper does not know what to say that can help the anhappy woman. Then, all at once, he jumps up with a cry. "This big puppy." I exclaims. "It's only half trained but it's jolly clever tracker. Your husband, the Chicl. was very angry because he
thought it was trailing him, but !! want. It was after ce and it followed me hare although I was on a horse. Can you show it some thing that belongs to your little boy The dog might pick up the Cent Slowly the woman opens
chem full of clothes
ALL OUT'S RESORYED
ZOOKS WHO
PRIVATUNGAN LOUX
THE BLACK BEAR IS THE 'MOST BE ABUNDANT AND BEST IWTOWN MEMBER OF THE BEAR FAMILY,THREE OF HIS UN- CLES ARE NATIVE TO NORTH AMERICA, THE POLAR BEAR HAVING ITS HOME IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS, THE GRIZZLY BEAR FOUND IN THE ROCKY AND SEL/ KIRK MOUNTAINS AND THE GIANT!- KODIAK BEAR FOUND ON THE NORTH PACIFIC SLOPE
CHOPS
THE BLACK BEAR THRIVES ON A VAST AS- SORTMENT OF FOODSTUFFS.10 AN EXPEAT „FISHERMAN, BERRY PICKER AND SCAVANGER' HAS A SHEET TOOTH AND WILL HARAY THE *STORES OF HONEY BESS, PORK 19 HIGHLY:
ESTERMED AS FOODM
Later, as Kmart and Hanid were racing home, they had a
excare.
A Swallow suddenly swooped down out of the sky and tried to eat Hop-a-Long" and Skip- a-Lang.
Shouted At Swallow Knart and Hanid waved their erms and shouted:
"Go away! Eat something cise!"
But Skip-a-Long and Hop-n= Long hadn't waited for Kuart and Hanld to chase the hungry Bird away. They had jumped in different
leaving directions, Knarf and Hanid allting on the
Sround.
It tothe Knart the rest of tho day to and his two trained Horses again and lead them bocic to their stable in the hol- low place under the, flat while
• rock at the back of the garden,
QUESTIONS
and
ANSWERS
By JANE
My cat had kittens 10 days ago and my mother won't let me keep them. She says 1 con have one but not more. I'm only 10 but I'm old enough to tabo care of the four kittens and I would. Don't you think my mother is mean not to let me keep the kittens? -Marca H.B
klitens
A
Four
and
A mother cai are too much for you to handle, Martis, and Țu have to agree with your molker. Before you knew it, your kittens would be grown up and would have killens of their own. Then “those kittens, would grow up and havo kilions., Your nola hibauru would be, mad with won': for having all those exia unä kätteam Brounds. You can make three of your friends very happy with effia of kittens. Just meka jura they have good homes and wil be, loved.
casc an individual
*
a stranous event like a race.
is to get the patient up as soon
as possible."
To find out about modern obstetrics I interviewed a lead- ing London specialist, who said: **I tran delighted to heur that the enlightened treatment of mothers is so widespread. This form of treatment in the greatest advance there has been in years.
medicine in the last 30
"I encourage the mothers I treat to get up as soon a possible after the birth-come- After mes on the same day.
bath, they usually feel-fine." In the medical world this is called early ambulation, which means getting the patient her feet as soon as possible.
Proved
on
"Selence has proved
that making a patient rest after child-birth or an operation only delays the convalescence," said the speelaist.
Enthusiasts of early ambula- tlon base their assertions On four things:
The longer a patient is in bed, the weaker her muscles be- If she does not get up for
come.
Training
"Like un athlete she must
any athlete, she will go to be properly trained for it, and. che stays in bed and stope using the muscles she has been so carefully training."
Five days in hospital-not necessarily in, bed-should be
́HOUSEHOLD
HINTS
mother, saltă
to
"The women who want spend more time then that in a entitled to be cockilod, since they private nursing home are quito are paying for the privilege.
"But they must realise that they may be doing it at the ex- pense of their general health, take them since it in going to Jonger to recover."
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