were weird and wonderful
THE CHINA MAIL. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1960.
WOMANSENSE
YOU CAN BE PRETTIER
THIS being the middle
of September, let us assume you have FOUR
No "miracles". no "trans- formations" ng "rejuvena-. tiens" are postulated.
TILE frat books on conWEEKS in which to things from the modern stand-produce a prettier you. point. They disagrood widely with, each other but all agreed on one thing. You need a very good hand for u fourth hand apening. The theory was that if you passed'you coukl not lose points, if you bid with a weakle's opening you were likely to.
The modern theory is to open quito light in fourth seat, You risk a loss but you figure to show more profits than fosses and the net result is what ecunts in the long run,
In deciding on whether or 210 to open one of these Light fourth hinders the prime con-- sickration should be the spado suit,
With 11 points South, has proper fourth hand opening be
This cause his suit in spades. time It works out fine. North
WEST (D)
472
AJDEG
+974
4A37
NORTH AEJAS Q7
43
+380
+10 32
SOUTH
EAST 490
• A 105
KQ#
♣AQ1080
K2
+Q32
4868
10 N 43
No one vulnerable
West North Fiat South
Pass Paus PASA 14
Foss Pass
Pass Pass
24
Opening load--+ 9
raloes to two spades and South lones three clubs and one trick in each red sult to rack up nice part score,
Now change everyone's hearts to spodes and vice versa. This .tine South should pass the hand out. He won't have the spades and he should not open. If he did open he might be able to buy the contract at two hearts, but I doubt seriously. West would stick in a one spade overcall and elther push South to the three level and beat him a trick or buy the hand at wo himself.
**CARD Senseķ♦
Q-The bidding has been: Bouth Wost North
Simply, for the millions who need it, a handful of suggeallone -the pickings from the brains of some of the leading beauty experts-te produce Tertilia,
Diet
They say that the
nd-
average woman
mlis to feeling 10ib, over weight.
What to do about it?
EAT LESS-just a half help- Ing of everything.
EAT SLOWLY-the sense of satiety comes as you spin your meal out to keep pace with your fellow diners.
EAT CAREFULLY-o need. for the umpteenth time, for us to list the low cotoried foods!
rules and Memorise these stick to them,
CHEW GUM-just for the
month of dieting. It does help that empty feeling.
INDULGE in body massage if you can-it tones and stimulates the Besh, and feels marvellous. Make-up can do a great deal for you, but the basic
Skin
- and
without a
miracle
by VERONICA PAPWORTH
And don't forget your neckl
A twice
Teeth yearly scaling
smoker.
simpler than to put this to the test,
i
Dissatisfied with the present remove, hair shade, today's women con toriar i es try out a washable rinse, a spray sentint-especially if you are a flat or a dye-happy in the knowledge that, shoilid sho dis- like the results, she can straight- away be colour-rinsed or dyed back to the colour nature first thought of. (Oddly enough soft, By-away hair sometimes gains body from this "bleach and tint back again" treatment.)
Capping for badly shaped or scarred teeth should be cans!- dered. but here the custom tailored job is a must.
A single crown can shine forth like a white china bead in a row of creamy peoria.
Lollons do
Hand, help, Moistur
Nervis
general, experts
in the
answer every
time ran alap
isers, in par- ticular, will up
agalast that formidablo, "plump up" dried and crinkled entirely mid-twentieth century skin. But, for results, the use of barrier of NERVOUS TENSION. hand cream should be a routine drill after washing.
Flaky nails, so say the experts, will respond to a 30 day course of plain gelatine, taken daily.
principles of "eleanse, tone, and. plastic "hardener".
huurish" still hold good.
Dryness, to judge by your letters, is a major problem.
OIL is the answer-complexion oll fairly lathered on.
MOISTURISERS, too
seen dry skins lap them up.
I've
If only we al could stretch, shiver and relax like catal
From falling hair to le lines around the eyes... from stiff necks lo faulty posture: Me? I swear by the new
from broken yelns to digestion whatever the problem I pro. The theory sented to the experts, "nervous that the colour tension," sooner or later reared of the hair its tiresome little head as part you were born of the cause,
Hair
with is the right and only one Hey! How easy, supple and for you is debatable. At all uflently RELAXED are ou at events, these days, nothing is this very moment?
CHILDREN'S CORNER
A Grandfather's Story
-li Told Why Pine Trees Are Ever Green—
By MAX TRELL
**1 WONDER," Knorf, the Shadow-Boy, was saying to his sister Hanid, "why the pine trees are always green, even in the middle of the winter."
"Pine trees are always green, even in the winter." Hani said, "because they are evergreens."
1
2NT INT.
Par Pasa Pose
1. 34
East Pods
Pass
Pow
"Hut why are they Kreens?" Kaart asked.
7
You, Soulli, hold: 4A8 ❤KQ9 $K176 4AQ84
What do you do? A-Tea. You have the same 12 points and surely at least one of your kings will be facing singleton in partner's hand, therefore you have no slam Ins torest
TODAY'S QUESTION Instead of bidding three clubs over your two no-trump partner has jumped to four no-trump, What do you do in this case?
Answer TomoTTOW
ever-
"know why evergreen trees. don't ever lose their leaves. My grandfather told me the whole story."
Hiawatha new eat down on the floor with his legs folded under film and Knarf and Hanid made a little circle around him. They too sat down.
Told the story
Then Hiawatha told the story which his grandfather had once
"Because they are ever green," told him. said Hanid.
Why don't they?
"But why?" Knarf kept say ing. "Other trees lose their leaves. Why don't the pine trees lose their leaves too?"
"Now long ago," said Kla- Even in the winter the pine tree watha. "long before America
was discovered by Columbus, there were many
more trees
kept its leaves.
growing in the fields and valleys to all the other trees except the and on the sides of the hills and pine tree. -mountains than there are today: "And when he reached
pine tree, the Great Spirit
the
At that moment, Hiawatha, "Now on the hillside, near. found that he had forgotten the the Small Size Wooden Indian, came into the room.
When Hanid told him what she and Kaart had been talking about, Hiawatha said:
LADY LUCK-
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE
21-
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
definite arrange- with a ment you have made, be firm and refuse to alter it. VIRGO
AQUARIUS (January
February 19): Keep a sense of proportion when Inced with an unusually trying situation. PISCES (February 20-Murch 20): Bo very careful what
letter to you Buy in a distant friend, and beware especially of aspersions on a third per- .son.
on
where my grandfather's wigwam stood, there grew a large pine tree. It was very old. The squirrels and rabbits and chip- munks and otters who lived. near the hillside said that the pine tree was almost as old as the hill on which it grew.
Lost its leaves
"Every winter when the oak tree and the maple tree and the birch tree and the elm tree all lost their leaves, the old pine trop that stood on the hillside lost its leaves, too. And when the spring came again (so sold my grandfather) the Great Spirit flew down from above and gave each of the trees a whole new covering of fresh leaves.
"But one day a terrible thing
watha
Knart and Hanid asked Hla- to tell them what he meant by this.
(August 22-happenod!" September 22): If you con- centrate sufficiently learning all the intricacies of a a new job you take on, Buccess will be certain, casting LIBKA
ARIES (March 21-April 19): A forthcoming change in your occupation ought to be welcomed, as it will offer you much more scope for your administrative ablilty. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Some dear friends will Boon celebrate thefr twenty-fifth wedding mini- versary, and you should try and contribute to the celebrations with a gift of silver.
GEMINI (May 21-Jung 21) ::
Hand-printed nylon organza with a flower spray design is chosen by Duprox et Cie for a party frock.
By HAZEL MEYRICK
AFTER years of cropped hair and jeans, pull-
Jovers just like their brothers and labour-saving short straight dresses, little girls are changing to the Victorian look.,
Out goes the short back and sides.
In comes the Alice in Wonderland hairdo, with each child trying to grow her hair longer than that of the girl next door. During the week it is prob ably done in plaits, but at the weekend it is brushed out, held in place by a satin bow.
Demure Victorian-style dresses are the top favourites now from toddlers right up to cenogers. The most popular fabrics are the old ones: Minute, black and white checked gingham (You'd be surprised how pretty It looks on a two-year-old) Blocje Watch terlan, or the even more sombre black and brown shadow 'check.
These plain dark dresses are enlivened by collars and cuts of broderie Anglaise and, of course, dozens of frilly white pelticasts.
Red
Red flannel is also a best- seller, but not for warm winter underwear this time. is used instead to make bright scarlet topcoats for children worn, pre- ferably, with a fur hat just like mother's.
Little boys
new leaves for the Pine Tree,
Then he said to the pine tree:
"You
old must use your
the leaves again. I will send
Now they have started making min and the wind to make clothes for boys, including a set them clean, and in the men of short tarian trousers cut con- time I will sec if I can find tinental style, and topped by a where I last your new leaves." reversible waistcoat, tartan one
"And dld the Great Spirit side, plain the other.
find the new leaves for the pine tree, Hiawatha?" Kasit aked.
In Frame they are putting One little girls into suits. of the best-known baby-shops Novor Found them In Paris is selling a pink and white check, wool skirt, pleated Illawatha shook his head.
like a kilt, topped by a matching "No" he, Bald. "The Great blazer and a beret with a pom- Spirit 'could never find the new pom on the top. The skirt can leaves for the pine tree, So the be bought separately, but most To pine tree never got new leaves mothers plump for the suit.
there are long like the other trees in the be really chic spring, but instead it never lost white socks and lace-up while Its leaves in the wintertime, glaced boots to go with it. other. I kept its leaves ail through the four seasons.
Shopping news:
Gave now ones (September 23-
"Well," said Hiawatha, "the October 22): It will be
Great Spirit came to the hill necessary to state your side one spring with the bundle point of view clearly to
of new leaves for the trees. He troe, day, and at the same time gave new leaves to the oak gro), is called Evergreen. Thai. Isa than pure wool knitwear. listen carefully to what tree and the mapie tree and the is the story my grandfather. others have to say.
birch tree unul the olm tree and told me a long time ago." SCORPIO (October 28- the November 21): Given choice of several opportu- nities to utilise your artis- tle talent, you must select the one nearest your heart. SAGITTARIUS
"And the Great Spirit alwaysOOD buys for children going. sot the wind and the rain lo into the shops now include koro the pino Troe's leares Orion chunky-knit sweaters in new patterns, better styles, locking fresh and green.
"And that's why the
their colour well, pine They keep
and cost rather whose
leaves are ever don't shrinic,
form
No matter how tempting, a CAPRICORN (December 22.
proposition may seem, it
would be most unwleo to
(November 22-December 21): Keep & vital decision about the future to yourself for tho time being, and wait for the right moment to
friende. your
A
carefully January 20) planned budget for the rest of the your will enable you
to improve your home CANCER (June 22-July 21):. without undue expense,
YOUR LUCKY CARD: It this is your birthday, your lucky card, no matter what game you may be playing, ought to be the. KING of OLURS
take unnecessary risks at this time.
Closer co-operation with your fellow workers will #malt in quicker personal
advancement for you.
LEO (July-22-August 21): "If anyone tries to interfern
Rupert and the Gomnies-41
Rupert cannot understand why
pulfe back a curtain, revealing two
• the shopman is so gloomy. Why rows of little figures of il sist can't you sell the other And every one la bright yellow l' Gamnitz ? be aski.,For, reply. the-man gets up, wtarily. Thay were all in the cast and others were in reserve when i went out to lunch," he says: "But when, (-), same-back-welt, look fit. He
My, they've worked quickly 1 gape Ruperte!!] only, gave, tilam: your name, this "morning." And I thought they only left thele home after dark and worked at night find
For school-age children thero is a new super-raincoat on sale in navy, green or brown which bas detachable fieccy lining for extra warmth, seams at the sides which let out, and a hom which comes down. It should Inst the -average child about three years. For schoolgirls the traditional white shirt, blouse in a drip-dry can be bought version which saves washing time, cuts down an clothes bills.
For the very mail girl one group of chain stores aro relling their well-known nylon lingerie scaled down for the one-year- eld, with lavish amounts of frilled trimmings. Since they I'wash and dry in a flush they are particularly useful to take en hallday. For litle girls at nursery school", starty,' stores are inporting from Franċeland Italy, those back-buttoning overalls in pale blue denim which cover d. dress almost complaiély.” yet mazing to look same "tling;
19