ANNE HEYWOOD'S AT
advice on
CHANGING JOBS
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WHEN PEOPLE have lo ask. "Should change my job?" li's A Bitte like, "Should I leave my husband?" or "Should ❘ marry so-and-so?" K chances
YOU
have to ask,
Are the answer is "no,"
This is expecially true when the reason for Icay- ing is great dislike of the Loca present job, but
по
at all of what kind of job to move to. That kind of reneral discontent is not a reason for changing lobi, Not wisa Even when
know very well what you wat
dott is think sometimes unwise to change` right away.
or
you
you
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Any Job has periods of
T boredom. them we can just rida through them and things improve. Meantime, your best bet la to take on BOLTE extra-curricular
which activitien,
will
siphon off energy and the same Ume sive you a chance to try on the per- sonnel field.
Steps to take
First, you should read some good books on per- tonnella see if it is an in- teresting as you think.
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Second, you should try to take a course in the or, if none B
begluning
COUSM.
feld available. psychology
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Third, you should volun- leer to do some work with people. preferably in personnel or Interviewing kind of capacity. You might try your local hos- pital, or clubs ar welfare organisations.
H there is nothing like this, you should try to work in a fund-raising capacity. You will end up knowing either that you love work- ing with people or you will end up thinking that the grass is really green enough in your present job.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1960.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
HOME
Elving you a gimpma
Leto the homes of
people with a fizi
for laterior decoration
couturier John
Cavanagh is, of course,
a stimulating talker on the subject of interior decora- [tion.
鐵鐵路
Take three rooms and a taste
Hig adventurous mind and talent for experiment is evident in the colours and fabrics of his three- roomed Brompton Road flat in London.
for the unusual..
Strangely enough, the actus! furniture consists muiuly of period pieces and is not, I feel, as much a reflection of Mr
by BARBARA ANNE TAYLOR
Cavanagh's taste and personality has become a place of distinc- as the highly individual use of tion and variety. colour and materials,
Black, white, red, and grey is his colour scheme. There is a of pattern noticeable lack because he feels that strong permanent patterns are hard to live with and prefers furniture und objects to make their own pattern.
This way, he says, "one can
variations achieve constant sgainst a neutral background.”
FOIL
THIS lack of pattern' serves
as a foll to enhance the effect of the one urea of strong pattern. This is in the half which is long and narrow and in Mr Cavanagh's own words "like a hospital."
Mr Cavanagh has used great inventiveness and Ingenuity to turn his small and basically ordinary flat into
a place of great charm.
This is a good example of disguising something unsightly by deliberately singling it out and making a feature of it.
QUALITY
Today: The flat of tär. John Cavanagh
with
of
LADY
your
LUCK-
CHINA MAIL
horoscope
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20
21- VIRGO (August 22-Septem- bor 22): After a long search for a sympathetic person share your
artletic tivities, you will meet some. one who will be ideal. LIBRA (September 23-Octo
AQUARIUS. (January
February 19): Have a pro- per rest over the week-end. You have been rather over. doing it lately. PISCES (February 20-March 20): A chatty letter from abroad will bring you up to date about the activities of friends in a distant land, ARIES (March 21-April 19):
At a social gathering to night it will be most helpful to your future if you go out your way to be pleasant to an important guest. TAURUS (April 20-May 20); If you feel that you have to consult a friend on, an im- portant matter, wait for the avening and a time when you can sit down quietly. Don't be too impatient to ret ahead. Steady and good- tempered application of your talenta will bring the wards you desire. [CANCER (June 22-July 21);
On coming
ugninst opposition in a trivial mat- ter, don't lose your temper. LEO (July 22-August 21): Although it may mean for going certain pleasures, try to curtall your expenses.
appreciation of the special tex- Imited space does not neces-GEMINI (May 21-June 21): tures of plants and flowers, and sarily mean limited Ideas, his flat had the faint and lovely Fcent of green foliage, MANY of the materials used branze chrysanthemALITS in V in Mr Cavenagh's Bat are every room. He described flowers
own showoom. One as "a
very important part of chair-19 covered in Black Watch life," and it would be hard to tartan, the settee is black and put it better,
front la
with success.
CONTINUITY IMITED
space does, how
Д certain over, require feeling of continuity in design An example of this ingenuity
and Mr Cavanagh achieves this is in the living room, which is
Similar themes of fabrics and rectangular, and in one wall
white check and, indeed, Every object has beer, care has two typically small and undistinguished windows which mughout his flat there is this fully chosen even down to the colour are carried from room to
strong awareness of the quality last ushtray have been cleverly disguised by
the book room and coupled with infintle
variations. The matches which are black with feeling of uniformity, and the celling to floor curtains of and importance of fabric.
Coupled with this feeling Mr heavy red inen divided by a
Cavanagh's monogram in entire flat blends into one con- texture in material, Mr goki. long
calling height for Darrow
also has
n keen it is excellent prob that looking-glass, which makes the Cavanagh room appear twice as long.
Another example of hia ingenuity is in the bathroom which is very small and has one disproportionately large window looking out into the sort of view
Mr Cavanagh docm't particu- larly want to see.
He has covered one wall in black and white hexagonal check wallpaper, the celling is black to
So he has tied it in with glass lessen the height and two tall
shelves on which are arranged a pedestals carry vases of lens, connolescur-like assortment of And so a completely un- pottery, plassware, and indoor promising and characterless hall plants.
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STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
By MAX TRELL
NCE upon a time," gold the Professor, "I had a pet
Dunkel, The Crow
Crow. His name was Dunkel. The Professor Found Him In A Pine Tree-
He was as black as ink.”
10-
"By and by ho taught me enough words in Crow-language for us to spend long hours to- Rether talking about different Things."
"If I were
Crow," said
bor
RC-
22): "It you feel that merit your achievements promotion, don't hositato about. asking for it. SCORPIO (October 23-No- vember 21): Although you arc anxious to advance yournelf, you should not do
by
it
spending unreasonable amounts of money for en- tertaining. SAGITTARIUS
to
(November 22-December 21): Your ability to attract interesting people will lipyo full scope at a party tonight. CAPRICORN (December 22- January 20): It will soon be necessary for you work out definite plan about your holidays, since other people have to be con- aldered and you must try and fit in with their plans.
ENCOUNTER: If YOUR
today in your birthday, n meeting with a man named HENRY may have special significance.
Knorf, the Shadow Boy with folded-up blotter. The garden came. He could hardly fly, He Teddy, "I'd talk about lying. It {the Turned-About Name, and
I took him mist be wonderful to flap your his friend Teddy, the Stuffed was the green cover of a book was only a Beby.
The Professor was a very home and fed him. In a few wings and go flying." Bear, were listening to the Pro pleasant men, He wasn't old. months he was a ine bls fessor who lived behind the He wasn't young. Sometimes Crow."
"Dunkel and I often talked bookcase the was only four he wore glasses and sometimes
the Profeskt "I wish I were a Crow," about flying," inches high).
he didn't.
said Teddy, instead of a Bear, no wings and would never be #kl. "But he knew that I had "Where did you catch him?" I don't like being a Bear. If I Knart asked.
were a Crow. I'd fly all around." able to grow any. He said he
felt sorry for me. But he also lived in neste. When it rained "Up at
the top
"My pet Crow, Dunkel, liked said that he envied me, too. of a pine irer" the Professur answered, to stay in my back yard," the
the rain fell on them. When the
Dunkel taught the Professor to speak Crow-language.
Professor's house The Professor's house was made of penells, fountain pens, ball point pens and old erasers. The doormat was made of a "I shook the tree and down he Professor said. "He didn't care "He said that when it came to wind blew it blew on them. much about flying. I laught him running aCTOSS the ground 1 But if you lived in a house the could run much, much faster main fell on the roof and rolled than he ever could. And he said off And the wind blow against he envied me for other reasons the house but couldn't" get
Inside." as well.'
Rupert and the Windies-8
Hurrying back over a short rise Rupert sees his pal below waying for help while some queer objects are dancing about his head. When he reaches Pong-Ping he is con fronted by the arANGELI little figures he has ever ween, fying creatures wāli large beads and long
arma and filmy Frills that flutter constantly, Here's another of them," says the first creature in a thin, aqueaky voice. **Here, you, Can you talk more sense than this Peke? Did you throw it? it came from hereabouts. I'm
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how to talk.
"You did!" Kaarf exclaimed, quite surprised. "I thought only Parrota could talk."
"Lots of Birds can talk.” sald the Professor.
"Canaries can't talk," said Teddy. "They can only sing."
Canarios can talk "Canorios," said the Profes-
Knart and Teddy wanted to know what other reasons Dun- kel, the Crow, had for envying the Professor.
Road and learn
sor, nodding sing beautifully, "Well," said the Professor But they can also talk to one thoughtfully, he said I could another, Crows and Parrots and read a books and get lots of fun some other Birds can talk to out of it, and learn lot at the People.
same time. And he said I could
14 taught Dunkol to say write words as well as speak
'Good morning, how are you?' And then be taught me how to {talle."
them.".
Inside hollow tree
"If I were a Crow". Teddy said, "I'd live inside a hollow tree. A hollow tree is as good 18 house. I don't Uke houses. 'They're too small Trees
bbg."
are
"What happened to Dunkel?" Knart asked the Professor.
Haven't you got him now?"
plied the Professor, he looked "One Spring morning." re-
up and saw a whole crowd of
"It's easy to read and write," Crows of flying across the sky. "But, Professor." said Knart, Knart said.
They were calling, 'Come "you know how to talk!"
"Nol as easy as you think," with usi We've got the whole "Yes, I can talk English. But said the Professor. "And Dun- sky to play in!" And away he I couldn't talk Crow-language, kel envied the house I lived in. Dew," And that's what Dunkel taught
me.
"He said that he and most "I wish I could fly," Teddy
of the other Birds that he knew said for the last time.
•
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