THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1989.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

STORIES FOR BOYS & GIRLS

The Chipmunk Trial

-Knarf And Hanid Go To The Pixic Courtbour–

By MAX TRELL

KNARF and Hand, the Shadows with the Turned- About Names, had gone down to O'Cheer Hall where the Pixies lived. Just as they got there, they heard the sound of angry voices.

The row several Pixies run-

the back ning around to

O'Cheer Hell,

Stopped A Pixie

of

Knarf and Honld stopped a smail Pixie as he tried to run past then..

Would you mind telling us what is Koing un. Pixie McTiny" Hanid asked,

She held the Pixie between her thumb and forefinger.

"They've just caught binj Haven't you heard?" asked

Pixie McTiny.

"Caught him! Caught whom?" nsked Hand.

Cought A Thief

"Caught the one who's been taking our chestnuts" said Pixie McTiny.

Kratt and Honld were enger to see who it was that Pixio O'Chp had caught. For they had heard some days before that nomeone

leting himself

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down into the Pixies cellur under the roof of the Old Oak and was taking the cheelauts which the Pixies had been stor- ing up for the winter.

Handcuffed Chipmunk

When Knart and Hanld go Around to the back of O'Cheer

A large crowd of other Pixica were coming up from all sides,

"Watch out!" Pixie O'Cop was saying, "Don't come too close He's dangeroual"

Mizle O'Cop was leading the handcuffed Chipmunk.

petala.

The judge was Pixie O'Right The Chipmunk stood right in of him. All the other front Pixies and Knart and Hanid sat on moss-covered benches in the back of the courtroom.

Anne Scott-James

The girl who gets

all my marks for charm

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to

show bar fine I fomly believe that women WITHENEVER an article a country house, not a palace. simple

is She has pursed in a hospital, shoulders, her hair swept up to are better drivers than men. on royalty

Just take myself. I am con- she has sometimes been short of show her fine jewala

This tall, big girl, who vinced that I am a dream of e Hall, they found Pixle O'Cop top. The Pixie flag was made scheduled to be written I money, she has had her belong-

always say: "Please, not might so easily have been driver. Fast but stondy, nerve- Jess but considérale, a police- me." I have never met any in an empty car.

goes shopping on her gauche and clumsy, gets man's paragon. of the Royal Family per ewn, she sometimes buys clothes all my marks for charm.

To prove my point I asked racing driver Tony Brooks to sonally, or made any special "wholesale, she is quite happy

let me drive him round' London study of royal life and to be fitted in a corner of the

designer's office.

for an hour and be my critic, Somo of her dresses cost as royal history. So that any words I wrote would sound phoney, corny, ΟΙ

Byco bo only £12 12a, phantic.

I like the pictures of her. The with bare feet and jeans. But this week I actually The one in Lina, hand in hand wanted to write about Princess with a dusky tlle Peruvian child. The ones looking stately Alexandra.

but never sulky in ceremonial dress,

The Chipmunk looked very unhappy.

Going To Judge

"Come along? Pixie O'Cop was saying to the Chipmunk.

"I'm taking you to the judge! will come to you if you are innocent. But you'll be punished If you're the one chest- who's been taking our

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nuts."

The Chipmunk was taken by Pixie O'Cop to the Pixie Court-

Hanid let the little Pixie go. "There he is!" he shouted back to Knart and Hanid, house. "Pixie O'Cop

cuffed."

hand- has him

This was a hollow stump with the Pixie fing Aving from the

Rupert and the Outlaws-42

Hupert ran up to the Chief's wife breathlessly, only to be seized before he can explain anything. So my husband was right" she cries. You're a (raud The dog 'you call was a tracker came back long ago by itself. Where have You been all this time? And

Ai the where is my little boy?" moment the dog drags itself away from the other woman and bounds towards him. If only you'd let me explain," gasps Rupert."This big puppy is a tracker. It did it's job beautifully and everything is going right now [" ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

"Did you take our chestnuts, Or did you not?" Judge Pixic O'Right asked the Chipmunk.

Took His Chestnuts

I

"I took some chestnuts," the

admitted "But Chipmunk didn't take the Pixies' chestnuts. I only took my chestnuts.”

"What do you mean by that?" Judge Pixie O'flight asked in al puzzled volce. "They were all down the our chestnuts

in store-room under O'Cheer Hall

all the "Yes" shouted

around Knarf and Pixles

were Hanid. "They

all our chestnuts!"

"Oh no," said the Chipmunk, "I burled my chestnuts in that storeroom, too. I didn't know It belonged to the Pixies,"

Fread Him

Judge Pixie O'Right emiled. "Ah, then you didn't take our chestnuts at all. You just look thore that belonged to you"

"He's Innocent! He's inno-

centl shouted Knarf and

flanid,

All the Pixies in the court- rooth were happy that the Chip- munk was not guilty. They took off his handcuffs,

And just to show hów glad they were, Pixle O'Cop and Judge Pixie O'Right both open- ed the door to the storeroom and gave the Chipmunk per- mission to help himself to as Imary chestnuté as he could put

in his mouth.

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you can

tell she's

Because this girl's looks and behaviour are so attractive that a good 'un without any inside knowledge. I like the way she smiles. I is frank and sweet. The eyes, as well as the mouth, crease up She looks as with laughter. though she were not just grin ning and bearing it but really enjoying the human comedy.

I like the way she was brought p- not quite like you or me,

still with but

a reasonably earthy touch.

little as £5. A suit or coat may Women ARE

ona

safer drivers

no idea at all

Fashion's latest

STILL

CITILL the fashion news pours - and the Ilveliness spreada to Rocssories. These can be gorgeous, glamorous, or cufe, jurt anything but dull

RATS are beguiling, with two the others. shapes topping

hate bound on

Tory, who is now bring third there are any

driving to strips.

for the world championship, is a with chiffon scarves, which are great charmer and a courageous a dream for the winds and rains passinger, but he tore my of

look lice winter you can Marlene Dietrich even in on "Are you Aveling pale and open car in a gale. And there shaken?" I smid when we are enough hats of rich black landed back at my door, expect- fox to fill a 200. ing the answer No.

"I was only badly seared once," he said, “But I have a fine batch of criticisma,“

"One: You are rough on the clutch.

HAM-DO'S climb, high. Hair

is rwept up neatly for day, but piled into a big, high coiffure for evening, sometimes plereed with an ornament, and faintly Japanese,

And I like her beautiful taste, She understands simplicity... sili sult instead of a such as

She knows about hale — a big Buffy dress. one with a simple dress, a hule pillbox with a print. And what norve, and how right, to wear a velvet hat with evening dress.

was at fault or quite blame- be baffing for the man behind. slives. She is good with

no less in her car accident. use the fast lane all the time.

"Three: On the by-pass, you still good, but you must shorten

and tighten them 1412 and pointed, Pinigeled peeptors, no white shoes, and But it has let loose a flood You should pass and move back nearly chosen you.

no bows.

HAVE

"Two: You are over-cautious at cross-roads and roundabouts.

I whether Lady Attles if you stop unnecessarily, it can JEWEL thick beads are

Instead of having a governess, She is positively splendid in of the usual arrogant men's to the middle lane.". she went to school. She lives in evening dress, her decolletage comments on women drivers.

SHE'S AT THE TOP

THIS

PICTURE-WY, WILLIAN LOVELACE

you aren't young, you have to be well groomed, but I think very dressy hats are ageing. I prefer a beret.

́“But I have a fast cor," I said crossly.

"Never mind. The man behind may have a Bentley.

"Four: You should use the Thon more --- you haven't used it chce I hate the horn for binding and blasting people off the rod,

"But I think the washing toot, particularly to cyclists and children, is essentiră for safety, Arid also as a warning that you are going to overtake,

"Five: You have a good traffic renze, but, positioning at lights, you tend to back a lower, and get stuck behind a man who is going to turn the right.

"I always Nine up us crOSS- road traffic Hhts in the left lane.

"8bx; I had my one bad qualm when a van was driving towards us with the indicator showing that he was going to turn acTORS us. You drove straight on with- out braking. He was a correct driver, he stopped, and all war well.

"But you should have assumed he was a maniac who, was going

to drive straight across your

Path."

are massive.

Robb

Your

they

In spite of this collapse of my THE SHOE NEWS is bools, chiving prida, Tony Brooks for both Inside, and outside”, the Fagreed with my real contention,

house Little Joker bools of that women are politer than leather, fit or fell will trot

men and therefore safer.

"A man wants to be the only about on the smartest feet.

pebble on the road,”

Success

story

*

AM always cheered up by

success

stories, particularly

when something genuinely aetis-

tie or intellectual turns out to be

a popular winner.

It is nice when a man in-] vents a patent plastic soop God- tainer and makes a fortune.

But it is nlose when BOKIDDO works on a true labour of love, and finds that other people like ft, and will pay for it, too.

I have been thancing to Georgina – Mémon, over for a

BELTS are very wide, very tight, very shiny. Skimpy belts won't do for a minute.

In my pictures: pink leather boots by Delels; and Otto Lucas's new, romantic hat.

NEW

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O-preserve you from.....

Dew days from her home in Tommercial travellers,

Rome, who brought out a book J

in June called ITALIAN balliffs, canvassers or un- VILLAS AND PALACES.*

24 43,

It is a huge, finely printed welcome friends a tiny boule of thagulfcent arch-magnifying glass eye, fitted tectural photographs, priced into your front door, which gives you a clear view 'ol· Georgina Masson travelled to what's outside without ba every corner of Italy to collect them, and took them with two ing seen yourself. ancient, second-hand castoria, These are not a new idea, but one 25 and the other 35 y this particular version, on sale old. She dragged them around at the Ginigus gadīga" depart- in trains and buses, because she ment has new low price...-85 couldn't afford a car, and with ed each, plus instructions on

of the zelf. this antigues equipment to how to install the thin, Four photographed · some lovelles homes in the world,

I would havo said that book might have notted her. £200. It has proved a best seller, "I do not spend much time on beauty orders: fox: 932,000 copian Tware | FINDE culture. But I exercise every morning gone out to Germany alone, inthitice, vogue, is being for from 10 to 60 minutes, and I call it publice all over the world replaced by a curly-wicke

| are making her "What next?" work, faniture voguen?Bpai Yoga and Tilly."""

Glam working on three other moms, as cotavolatadi; und tans bocks of protographs already fastical shemale but now I'm doing it drawing can be ted

lisaky, my now baby car in antique she bought now

A woman who would take your eye in a room full of starlets THIS is Tilly Loch, once one of the most famous dancers in the world, and I'm not going to tell you, how old she is, because she is still so attractivé. that it doesn't matter.

English women, think about nothing but, their age," she said, (She is Vien neko, is visiting England from New York) "I find It quite absurd. If you keep thin and dress well, and have per sonality, what does your age matter?

"I usually wear my hair fairly long. I was talked into cutting it this summer, but it didn't sult me

The thing she did not mention is the si dress very simply, I never wear thing you'll see with one glance at the girlish, baby doll clothes, or babyish pleture that she has the most exquisite colours. For winter, I dress in three handwye colours only → black, gray, and red venres Alfeature that every woman over 40

I always wear a hat, because when I fiould work on, with extra cura, dat

£1 think ha dispergeet 16,

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