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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1960.
WOMANSENSE
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FOCUS... on a problem every woman knows THE TOP MODELS OF THIS YEAR
LUCK SEE YOU IN
CHINA MAIL
horoscope
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6
21- SCORPIO (October 23-No
ember 21): A newcomer to your circle of friends will Additional
AQUARIUS (January
February 19): You must Kain
confidence
more
in
your own ability, and you will thus be able to put it to better use. PISCES February 20-March
203: A reorganisation of your office personnel ough to mean an improved posl. tion for you. ARIES (March 21-April 19, Try and be more punctual. Some
people touchy about being kept walting.
are
very
TAURUS (April 20-May 20: You will shortly be able to
A close friend a do
very without any good turn sacrifice on your part.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21:
A spare time job which you will Look
on as a hobby prove more prefitable than you expected,
CANCER (June 22-July 20):)
A trip at short notice will
give you nil n boost.
SAGITTARIUS
THE HEEL BAR
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WHAT is any woman's biggest wardrobe bug- bear? Ask her, and she will almost certainly reply: "Keeping my shoes in
heel."
I ben calculated that (November the awarage
woman Estda ber 22-Deermber 21: Today chees rehosted 36 times a year may turn out to be the (and if she goes to an amee in start of a very happy high-heeled shoes, six days a romantic experience for week. I can well believe it). you
But the average shoe rtpair CAPRICORN (December 22ervice takes three or four days
January 201 It you make to heel shoÓN. the effort to break away from your usual routine today,
New hope
you might find a real bargain without too much exertion.
IN the intervals of finding time to take and ume to collect CARD: 11 YOUR LUCKY
shoes,
other heels rodiny is your birthday, the
down, new shoes have your lucky card, no matterbought, others have to be given
mny what game you
be complete
hocks (roughly the 1 time), and money dows playing, ought to be
like water. NINE of DIAMONDS.
turn out to be both pleasant When
and remunerative.
LEO Culy 22-August 201: Repay the hospitality which you have recently enjoyed, |
and thus cement some en- during friendships. VIRGO (August 22-Seplein-
ber 22): You May yourself in a very awkward
EHOW
Wed to be
When you write right letters bring results
By
find ANNE HEYWOOD
Isition, but should be able
to extricate yourself with-61
out much dilleulty.
JUST can't write a decent letter," readers
LIBRA September 23-Octo-are always telling me. And
ber 221: You may be
then they go ahead and
clined to seek happiness fat write a very decent letter, afield, whereas you could indeed-frequently a quite find it very close to home if good
simple and
onc,
you only took the trouble to direct and eloquent,
look for it.
JACOBY on BRIDGE
THE kidding shown is that at
the Arst table in a team match. South played dummy's queen of clubs at trick one. East
Yet the conviction that they can't write
a decent letter good deal ar causes them anguish, and prevents their en- riching their dives the way they might if they wrote more let-
itl ters. Because let's face
en ability to write letters well end casily can have a profound effect on both our success and our. happiness.
Some Examples
Here
arc some examples 1 did played the king ord South know where a good letter covered with the ace.
an important trick:
Southi 14x1 played Euce "rounds of diamonds, discarding Three girls were being con- on the second and ruming the sidered for a very good job. third. Next came a trump lead After their Anal Interviews, one
WEST
J9754
A
♦ 10 GS
9862
NORTH
AABG
82
•AKJ872
3
EAST
Q2
KQ3
+Q04
23
KJ 10 7 3
SOUTH (D)
AK 103
J1097654
4A4
North and South vulnerable
South West North
Pass 4♥
East Pack Pass
P455
Pass Pass Opening lead-♣ 2
and eventually South got rid of o spode on one of dummy's dia- monds to wind up making his
contract.
He was rightfully proud of the result? since he felt that the game was a hard one to bid ond was really upset to and that his side had lost the board.
At the other table East chose to stick in a two club overcall, This type bid is not recommend ed. True, East had 13 points but he had a balanced hand with strength in ali suits.
South, bid four hearts but West docided to Gave at Ave clubs. He saved all right but the cost was a trifle excessive. The delence took two diamonds, a diamond ruff, two spades and total of the ace of clubs for ulx tricks.
♥÷CARD Sendek♦
Houth 2
West
The bidding has been:
North
14
Bauble
Pass
1
You, South, hold; 4AQ0765
Fast Там Fass KIZ 42 4A34 What do you do?
A-Bid three spades. Your hand is so strong (has it war- rents this jump even after your previous game foros,
TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner bids four apades. What do you do now?
Answer Tomorrow
never even wrote a thank-you note. The second wrote one, but
it was stiff and colourless. The third wrote:
Don't Try To Foren Thoughts When Writing A Letter
The five-minute
repair is
big business now
BY BARBARA GRIGGS
Within the last month, how
dawned. ever, høye hai
Two Selfridges and London stores, Camages, have opened heeling bars where you perch on a stool, hand
Ova the shoot you're woaring--and get them back in Ove minutes with now heel-tops for about 4s. Od.
one of us ever bad a good dra we'd go in on it together. Thin I went into the steal business and he were into marketing.
"Ọm: day my wife and I were 1ooking through a paper and wo saw an od put in by a handi- capped man who wanted work. It turned out he was trained in Before J Mir eyes, the old choc-repairing and we decided herl-lop je gently prised off, we'd like to help him.
and top selected, fitted new smoothed into an exact fit.
Already me local office girls have got wise to this and are forming syndicates to take the for office collection of shoes attention: some girls arive with up to six pairs.
Within the next year up to 50 mure of these heeling bars will be opening in ores up and down the country, and a few more in Central London.
Personally. I'd like to see as many of them as there #20 cigarette kiosks, but that dream is unlikely to be realised.
The snowball
wo
"BECAUSE he couldn't cope
with the ordinary equip
fixed up the Arst ment of the heeling bars in a local store. We use u standard plece ef nalling equipment: the rest was designed specially,
"The thing sort of snowballed from there, and Donald Ryan came in on it with me."
There
are now heeling bars from South Africa to Sweden,
and what started 21 generously helpful gesture has grown into big business.
MAGGIE BENN 5'8 34-23-35 :
ROBYN SKELLY 5′5£*•34:22 • 36
KATHY MURRELL 5'9% 35-23% 36
CONNOISSEUR'S CHOICE FROM ONE AGENCY'S PHOTO-GUIDE CHART: THREE FACES ANT PHOTO GRAPHER 15 HAPPY TO GET INTO FOCUS; THREE GIRLS WHO HAVE FACED THE CAMERAS THREE
* LIFETIME TIMES MORE OFTEN IN THEIR CAREERS TO DATE THAN MOST WOMEN DO IN
♫
FASHION industry that is undergoing
the model- Modelling business. major rehaul ling used to be a high-prestige but slightly fcasion.
Suddenly there
is a spate of dubious pro- pretty new faces
This youthfulness has one big
and mare
skins are ai a
they Financially,
couldn't have it much better. Accord- ing to Cherry Marshall, even the model who is just averagely successful can
down pu!! between 25 and 30 Kuinras a week.
A part-time model aan het 10 guineas a week with very litikë efforì, since standard pay twn guineas an hour. And for the handful of golden girls al the top, things are rosy indeed.
Picture guide
Models were rare exotics who were pointed out in stunned
at the hairdressers, advantage more whispers And the top models were a ruce photographs are being taken in and since colour Tof poised. remote, beautiful colour today,
cannot be retouched, women of 25 and over, like the pictures
young original Got-It-Girl. Barbara fresh
premium. Goalen.
O greal is the glut of de- the Jast month 07 In
lectable young faces that mysteriously,
trickle the
one agency has produced and into the business distributed to ellents a giant pretty girls has swelled into a rush: sud-
photo-guide to its own 70 girls, there are hundreds to
to be revised each Seventy
Overcrowded
TODAY, It is a profession at
uvercrowded and as mat- denly
secretary's. choose from. ler-of-facts One photospher cotimated dizzily that there must be about alone. And 2.000 in London parents, it seems are now active- ly pushing their daughters inlo
straight from
(or Finishing School, as one agency prefers to suppose),
school
*0%
All of them are pretty of face and lively of eye; all of them go to a crock young hairdresser.
All of them know the make- un tricks and seem to pick up within weeks that odd, ex:x- gerated, slightly unreal way dressing which, together the intensive eye make-up. Once a store has offered
the trade-mark of the model.. supply space, a'man to run it is photographer put it:
And, oddly, most of them are in the Brus:oks heart at priuent bred in Brussels trainod
the Even "They all look 23, but when blondes.
natural and equipment 15 In partnership with a college offe
you ask them they are 17 next brunettes tre usurlly fair within supplied. friend, Donald Ryan.
birthday."
weeks of starting work.
This basic-1900 all the best busMess- started in A romantically improbable way.
It was originated by a young American called Donald Phillips
Good idea
66/HEN we won at Harvard businas school together," he told me, "we decided that it
Result: average age of the new comers has reached an astonish tong
low. As one top fashion
Ninely
of the per cent clientele consist of women (lo nobody's surprise), and all the i bars need is soft music and a
to cup of coffed
keep you happy while you wait:
London Express Service).
CHILDREN'S CORNER
An Unwilling Present
-The Children Give China Doll To Grandmother-
wish they had picked me as a birthday present for Grand-
mother."
Nor me!" said Teddy, the
Stuffed Bear,
By MAX TRELL PLEASE don't make me be a birthday present! I don't want to be a birthday present!"
"I was once a birthday pres- Miss China Doll was saying.
Miss China Doll she didn't eat," said Whoa, the Hobby con-really come from China, she Horse. "It didn't hurt the least
a was only made of china little bit." you. Sincerely scunded very hurt.
"Just a nole to tell you how much I appreciate the is you gave me today and how vine:d I am that I could do good job for yours. :"
She got the job.
Letter Of Application
"You have nothing to worry about," Knari told China Doll
Hiawatha, the Small-Sized Wooden Indian, said that. Crowded Around
though he had never been a Everybody else in the Play- birthday present, he had been a room was crowded around her Christras present. He had heard private Doll House, which stood from many of his friends that present was on the floor between the cur being a birthday tains of the window and the very pleasant.
mother's going to feel when she Tw mothers, with their chl-end of the bookcase.
deen' get a birthday present.” after the went
"There's no reason for you to Nothing To Worry About siren gown.
And at that moment in ceme tame job, which was advertised feet hurt, dear," Hand, the
"There, you see!" said Korf, two little Girls, holding their the Shadow in their local newspaper. Since Shadow Girl with the Turned-
Boy with
by the the little old Grandmother was saging. it had a Box Numiter, the jou About Name, required a lour of application. "You're not really going to be Turned-About Name, to Miss hand.
given away, It's Grandmothe's China Doll, "you haven't a thing
Nevertheless, In spite One wrote a good, clear, en-birthday today. She's a very to worry about." thusiastic
but modet letter nice old lady. You'll like her.
everything, Miss China Doll kept The oh wrote a hard-hitting. very much."
the kind aggressive letter, sem: body had told her improra-
ed employers.
The Arst one got the job.
It isn't in the job :id alon that good let er-writing counts. There are letters applying for scholarships, for membership in D's clubs, for coneelons of for getting er dit. Most of all, there are letters to friends and relatives.
The capacity to write a good letter can enhanes every urea of life. And while some people are basically more tal nied at
than others, everybody learn and improve.
Here are some pointers;
can
1. Cook it in the back of your mind, if it's a difficult letter, while you walk or clean or gar- den. Advance thinking helps.
Rehearse It
2. Nourth it up at dret, Later, you'll get so you can do it dret time, right; but don't force t it pays to rehearse,
3. Say it out loud ap you write. Don't write anything that you wouldn't comfortably say. This is the real secret of warmth or “style,”
pre-
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Thero's Her Present
Grandmother,"
wald "Look,
Ittle Girls, as she on saying, "I don't want to be a one of the
the Doli House. birthday present. I want to stay pointed to
own house." There's your birthday present. right here in my
right inside that she suddenly She's sitting With that. turned and went into her house house." and locked the door.
Doesn't Like It "But I don't want to be
birthday Grandmother's Isent" insisted Miss China Doll,
Mr Punch said:
"She's your present," said the Then Knart and Hanid and second little Girl. "You can "The children who live in this house want to give their Grand- General Tin and Mr Punch and keep her forever."
Bear, and "Thank you." sald Grand- birthday present. Teddy, the Stuffed mother
you. Hiawatha all pressed against the mother, smiling. why they chose That's You're the most beautiful pres- window, calling to Miss China
Dall to pletse come out. ent they can give!"
"You have no idea," Hamid to feel compll- "You ought
"I called to her, "how sad Grand- mented," said General Tin.
Rupert and the Snowball~9
Rupert and Algy build carefully and steadily, making the bam wide and strong, and stopping the head when they cannot reach any higher. Then they put in Algy's "WO buttons for eyes and a bit of wood a nose, and deb on mark 100W
at the sides to make arma, poking the willing mick through one of than Rupert hat stepped away to admire the snowman, and: Algy la putting on the finishing touches, when the little bear gives a sudden shout and points up the long slope: ALL RIGHTS REBNÁVOD
She went over and looked in- side the house at Miss China Doll who kept saying:
"Go way! Go "way!",
But Grandmother didn't hear
ther.
She'll Stay Homo
"I think she's perfectly love- "She's ly," said Grandmother. the most beautiful birthday present. I've ever received from anybody. I'm going to make her a new party dress and I'm her right there going to leave In her own te house, right where she is now,-
Little "Good-bye my dear
Grudaouther
birthday Doll,
said. "I like you very much.”
Then Grandmother and the two little Girls went out of the
Playrocu
Knart and Hand and General Tin and Hiawatha and Mr Punch out. Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, all looked at Miss Ching Doll.
And all Mies Chim Doll could say whe
"I'm-Morry."
01 with is
winning heads and shoulders, seventy sele of vital stelistics, making up a chart to stop the most exhausted busi- nessman in his tracks.
Even the blossoming wealth of this spread, however, arocured enthusiasm in one photo-
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grapher,
"There are too many pretty trees in this business." be told me gloomily. "To many healthy, husky. sweet English girls. I've seen a million pretty
ces-and only coe Gozica,"
-London Exprene Service).
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