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THE CHINA · MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1959.
WOMANSENSE
LADY LUCK IS IT STILL A MAN'S WORLD?
your
CHINA MAIL
horoscope
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29
1
your
22:
JACOBY on BRIDGE
IN addition to being the prin- IN to the p
AQUARIUS
(January
irt (3)
careful
state-man convention (George Rapee isted with its carly develop- 21-February 10): Carb mente
make VIRGO (10) your inclination to
(August 22.ent) Samuel Stayman of New of the greatest York is one September
Facel
time as extravagant
bridge players of all expen- diture: moderation at this with a problem which you may be attested by his toom time is advisable.
definitely recognise as dif-winning this year's open cham- eighth Seult, you
marking his nitrst Cry to pionship,
Ir that blue ribbon oyPremme il with courage victory
event. and ingenuity,
LIBRA
PISCES 1 (February 20- March 20: If somebody tries ta impose an your nature, don't flare Round up, but refuse politely 157 enter into any commit- -Nellis,
Sam believes in gambling for
(2) September 23-game whenever justified and his October 22): You will have
an oxcellent opportunity to
yourself Int
shrewd retion, and you FIILIME 11001 184
chumer.
it
SCORPIO
a
ARIES 4 (March 21-April 19: If you are not enreful, it would be
very eggy ut this time to alienate
who could be very person helpful to you. TAURUS 7; (April 20-May” 201: An impending family gathering will give you great deal of work, at the pleasure derived from the reunion will chapensate for all your trouble. GEMINI 16) (May 23-June 211: During 11 heart-to- heurt talk with a superior it
by would
Ketl diplomacy to smile once in a while even though you may not feel
like it.
CANCER (9) June 22-July 21:: You ought 19 avoid somebody wise's assuming
burden when he is quite capable of shouldering it himself.
LEO (12) July 22-August 23: Since your friends always seem ready to ac- cept whatever you say 4A must be very
gospel, you
inch Drey
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etober 23- November 20:
4:24- An Conster with a person bora in the first works of Sep- timber could develop into a feling friendship. SAGITTARIUS (1 Novem-
ber 22-December 211; Be- ware of a person of very good appearance who con- ceals
rather dubions character behind an attrac tive cover.
CAPRICORN (8: (December 201: Your de- 22-January pendability makes you #1 very valuable asset to your partner, and your
col laboration ought to bring rich results. YOUR LICKY NUMBER: Count the letters in your Brat same and add the total to the number shown in brackets after your sign of the Zodine. This is your Jucky number for the week.
AAJ
1087032
EAST
17
Q2 10 8 6
AJ 10954
AQGJ +742
2
SOUTU (D)
AAQ87
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South
jump to three no-trump into this category.
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chub suult.
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Joact
diamond cleared up the suit for Fast und trala had left. West Int the South just ran off all dummy's clubs and East hed to make s discurs.
were The first ve
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the on easy enough tixth he had to choose between unguarding the spades or chuck- ing the ace of hearts.
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What do you do?
A-Bid Reven hearts.
Your
partner is trying to get to seven and all you have done so far is to give him a single raise. There
in no need to waste time show- ing your two kings
TODAY'S QUESTION Again your partner has opened two hearts. This time you told: AKG J 10905 32 $76 483
What do you dat
Answer Tomorrow
MANNISII grey frieze or grey flannel for a soft-shouldered, waist-hugging suit (wide sleeves and wide belt inspired
by Nina Ricci), MANNISH black bowler with
Teminine veil.
"
MANNISH Dlack patent for painted-toe high-heeled pumps.
STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
A Trip To Mer Land
Mr Merrin Takes Everyone for a Ride—
By MAX TRELL
KNARF
the
Shadow
Mr Merlin smiled. "It's called Mer Land."
"Oh. It sounds just like your nume," said Mary Jane, the Rog Dell.
General Tin, the Tin Soldier, "Of course it does," agreed ared Mary Jane, the Rag Doll, Mr Merlin, "It belongs to me." Boy and Miss Gloria, the Beautiful
Punch and Judy
Baron
Mr
and
with The Turned-About China Doll, and Mr Punch and Teddy and everybody else all Naine, blew the rain whistle, his wife, Judy, and
shouted with excitement. Mean- speeding He pressed & button and the Munch and Teddy, the Stuffed while, the train was train started rolling along the Bear.
aloug,
"We'll soon be in Mer Land," tracks, straight across the flour
td Mr Merlin
where would you "Nuw
all
of the Playram. When like to go?" asked Mr Merlin.
the wall, 1
Everyone in the train agreed reached
straight through it.
All Were Aboard
went
that there was just one place KO.
"What place that?" askeri
Hanid spoke for everyone, "We'd like to go to Coney land."
This wasn't strange beenuse Mr Merlin. M- Merlin, the Magnificent Magician, was aboard the train. He simply waved his hand and the whole wall' turned mist. The next moment the train was rolling merrily, clicking and clacking, through a green valley toward the blue sea.
into
Just As Good
"Well," said Mr Merlin, "this train doesn't go to Coney is- land, but I'll take you to a place Everyone in the Playroom that's just as good.'
aboard the ntagic
train: "What's the nanie ut It?" Hanid, the Shadow Gh, and asked Teddy, the Stuffed Hear
was
Rupert and the Whistlefish-6
Arriving home. Me. Bear, puts bia goldfish into the pond and then adds the one from the muzi bowl eather anxiously. wondering if it will fight with the others. *No, it's all right," he murmIZEN
at length. They all seem quite
Mr. Bear declares that it is time to go indoors. Near the cottage Rupert pauses. "Did you hear chat P. he says. "There was a
tiny whistling sound. He pausel.
and it comes again." It's different
from anything I've ever heard:"
happy and friendly." They all he cutters, 1 wonder whatever
witch for some time, and theo It can be."
ALL RIGHTA RELERVED
i
music
heard blow-
dark The train went into a tunnel. When it came out at the other side, It stopped. The sun was shining. There was 37) around them. They laughter. Whistles were Ing. Horns were looting. They could smell popcorn and courted pennuts.
The train went rolling along the tracks,
* * * *
*
Photographs
by Michael Williams
MANNISH grey overebecks for a narrow double- breasted overcoat-big pockets, bold cuffs.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
A discarded baby carriage clothesline is on a hillside. mukes a good laundry cart. The clothes basket can be pot inside
"All om All off!" shouted could break and stairs you could part. Everyone rushed of the train roll down without hurting your-o for this was Mer Land! And self.
And all the rides and every what a wonderful pince it was!,
It Had Everything
There were merry-go-rounds with golden Horses that bobbed up and down as they swing slound.
were roller coasters with hills and dales and curves, There were swings that look-
There
ed Uke airplanes.
There were little automobiles
int bumped one another.
There
were ice cream cones
as big as hats.
thai
There were balloons looked like Cats and Dogs. They chased each other ACTOSS the sky.
There was a clock that chook hands with everyone who possed.
But the best place of all was Mr Merlin's Fun House. It was filled, with mirrors which made everyone look round and fat, or tail and thin. It had floors made
of rubber that bounced you up
to the ceiling. It had beds you could jump on. It had glass you!
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A Fast French Woman
a
JACQUELINE AURIOL, the world's fastest woman, is a wife and mother who forgets speed flying by listening to classical music.
Mme. Auriol, daughter-in-law of former French president Vincent Auriol, broke the world speed record for women pilots in August with a speed of 1,335 miles-per-hour, 1.9 times the speed of sound.
This vivacious, pretty woman and the United States before a of 41 also is the only woman in new face had been fashioned for the world to be a hill time test her. plot for new jet planes.
מ!
For
Undaunted, she gained her Jacqueline was born in hellcopter flying ileence in the Iritanny
small
village United States in 1951 and also named Challans, Ske carly starlet flying jet planes, Sha showed a penchant for taking was awarded the coveted chances by competing with boys American Harmon Trophy the
sane your-one at games—and winning.
of her many example, each of the village honours as a flyer, children would ride a bicycle She gained the Gold Medal of down a slope and try to touch a the French Aeri-Club in 1961. wall at the end without using The next year she was made a brakes,
Chevalier of the Legion of Mme Auriol went to school in Honour after she broke the Nantes rid Paris and later world international speed record studied art at the Louvre's for women in a French Mistral I studio. At the same time, she jet with an
average speed of became a sports fan,
531.772 mph.
An excellent skier, she met Paul Auriol, the son of a French socialist Icader, at a Pyrenees ski resort.
They were married on Feb. 26, 1938.
The unexpected election of her father-in-law
•
The time of parties was over for her. Only one Interest in ilte remained To fly planes faster and faster.
In 1953, she broke the sound barrier in a French Mystere il Jet ghter.
the 10
presidency of the republie after World War II suddenly brough the young couple into the lime- light,
They found themselves stars of the Fourth Republic.
In the meantime, her rival and friend Jacqueline Cochron, the American woman fying star,
her.
the had taken the speed record from But on May 31, 1928, Jacqueline, dressed by high Main Auriol got I back with a fashion houses, was soon the speed of 715.189 mph. No. 1 of Elysees Palace official Then she took the job of test receptions. But she became the pilot in France's Brettigny Air target of opposition newspapers Centre. She is still there, when she joined the gay cafe so- risking her life clely life of post-war Paris,
Mae Auriol started flying i 1946 as a hobby. Soun she dis- covered it was the only thing she liked besides society receptions and gay parties.
On July 4, 1049, she look part In an air meeting in Auxerre. Eight days later, flying nearly killed her.
in new planes like any male test pllot.
Her latest record was an un- heard that Miss Cochran, now prepared event. She quddenly the president of the International Air Association, had decided to have
special spoed
records abolished as meaningless.
So she jumped in an acro- plane at the Istres Test Centre and set a new record just buforo A new sea plane in which she the decision became final.. was a passenger crashed when That day, she returned home landing on Lake Mureaux. She to spend a peaceful evening with was pulled out of the water with her husband and her two sons. terrible burns on her taco and She listened to Wagnerian music, armes. She went through 22 had 1 simple dinner and her surgical operations in France usual nine hours of sleep.
ANNE SCOTT-JAMES IS your child a TV
moron? Does he, robbed of initiative and thinking power, sit gaz- ing like a jelly at the set
and refuse to open a decent book?
Then you are exceptionally unlucky.
The new
asks ·
Is your child a telly jelly?
trend of expert can understand longer words. opinion is that children aro
TV has given them a wider reading more books and less range of interests, and they trash than before the telly was have become such specialists in Inventod.
certain subjects that the books Just have to be good;
I have been talking to an American publishing,
expert on children's Helen Hoke. Watts,
"Of course, there is a lot of trash, but it is short-lived, and who has just arrived in this children get tired of it. The country to buy and sell chul- better-written books arc in dren's books. Iler verdict
children's reading is hopeful.
on great demand and are read over entirely and over again.
Healthy effect
over
for
the
"I belleve that space fletion is on the decline, Children like to identify themselves with the characters, and they can't do that--not yet--with Д story about Mars."
Similar trend
"The American demand children's books has risen from 10 per cent to 33 per cent of the whole in about 20 years, and I think that
here Use scop
and water to re-pattern is much the same. move fresh mildew staing Ok "TV has had a washable material. Drying in effect. the sun help to bleach the "Children aro better roaders mad. Good adventure stories |than they used to be, and they for boys (Stevenson and
carriage, the handle is handy for pushing, and the thing in Mer Land was freel broke can be useful if the spots.
I checked with experts.over very healthy here, and they mostly agree that children are reading like
JUST FANCY THAT takes the lid off Madam's spending
Fact
The average woman spends auch year...
strip on cosmetics
£3 and bury's 11 brassieres
ori
and
beauty
1 girdle
But some believe
Unlike Gayn Gambol; they
in nature unadorned... Li don't suuander money on hats
Wunnen who don't use meta-ag
Le 16 26 43
33-44 23
65 and ret
per-cent
The average woman
spends
5d. a week on hats
Design MICHAEL RANU Facts FRANK HOYO
London Express Berrics,
Buchan); family stories for girls (Noel Streatfelld and "Little Women"); and the classics like Kipling and Dickens for bath, provided the editions have good pictures.
But the best seller in any country, of course, where a child's heart is in the Tight place, is a story about a horse.
Puzzle of the week
foot
WHY do doctors and epocialista keep launching attacks on pointed shoer? For the first time in my life I've got room for my toes,
Household tip of
the week
HUSBANDS-go round your carlle and check all the locks.