BOYS AND G MAGAZIN
Chirpie's Wish
-He Wants To Fly Across The Qccan-
By MAX TRELL
KYKSHAT I'D like to do one of
"W these days when there's
onough time,"
Chirple
Sparrew, "s to fly reruES the ocean."
Chiple Sparrow had come to The window sill, as usual, fur hus morning brend crumbs..
They're surprised
At this, Kner and aid, the Shadow Children wkh the Turned-About Names, raised their eyebrows in sumariza. At any rate. Build rawed her eye- "brows, Knart just raised his
eyebrow a 1e ba.
The rea WAS thet Kaart didn't know is much, about oceans as Bankl.
"A e Bird like you could never fly across the cccan," Honid said to Chirpis.
Seagulls do it
"Arxi why not?" asked Chiap- le. "The Sorgulls to
"Seagulls,"
"ren't. Sparrows"
said
Chirple said that
"
Hanid,
He didn't For what difference that made. The ocean war there. Seagulls had wings Seagulls
could fly across the 'ceran. Spirrows had wings. Why couldn't they also fly across the cesan?
Hank went back into the room and started looking for something.
Peored into room
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1980.
WOMANSENSE
"I'd like to see a picture of
an acuan," Chirple told Hanid.
all
She remembered them without the least bil of trouble. After thinking for a minute or two, Chirple said he chose the Pacific.
Hand opened the geography book to the page showing the Peine Ocean,
"Here's where Chirple, Honld said.
you
are, polating
to a tiny spot on the map. The spot read California.
Green space
"What's all that spice paint-
ed gren?" asked Chirpie.
**That's the Farific Ocean," sail unid.
"It's all full of water," $240 Knorf.
Chirple hopped over to the Chirple stared at the nc
edge of the window
sill As
and peened inside the room, are, he didn't re much for the inside of the rain. But hi was very curious about what Hanid night doing.
He finally asked Kaart.
a geogra-
"She's looking for phy book," Knart sud.
"What kind of a book?" asked Chirpit,
Koort explains
JIC
explained 10 Knart Chirple Sparrow that a geogra- phy book was a book about geography, This, didn't seem to make matters gy clearer than before for Charpie.
On Chirpio's king again what madr geography book different from
another
Epuce.
"It looks pretty dзv he said.
green
iu me."
The hep look...
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Harrid said that the Pacifie Dusan wazo wide that it would ́T ET'S toke Chhile many, many days to fly nerose it.
Where to rest?
"And what would you do if you got tired?" Keart asked. ' "Where wonki you res?"
"you cry.
give a party," And sud- denly you see yourself madly gay in black satin
TO YOUR PARTIES
with pearls, and everybody she was in her small corner all having a whale of a time. en her own tad her three men down the other end of the room Only when the invitations having a ball."
Insve - been issued.
ticked by usking acceptances
Chirple answered mother question.
"Where do the Seagulls rest when they fly over the occan?" Chitple hughed.
Hore Har said:
if
"I really don't know, but book, you'll just wail here a moment. Henld gave a better explana- I'll find out." tion than. Knart.
Again Hand went to the
She said a geography book bookcase.
wr a book aber countries and mountains red (ceans and cities aki rivers.
All about world
"It's about add the places in the world that a Sparrow could fty to if n Sparrow were strong enough," Henid said.
I'd like to see a picture of an ocean," said Chiple.
Hanld began turning pages and then Knur! smiled at Chirple and said:
"Which ceann do you want to sce? There are Ave of them."
Puzzled and curious Chirple was puzzled and curi- outs at the Bame time. He asked to know the names of the five cents ea he could pick one.
Knar! started naming
OCE. 43:
"Atlantic,
lantic,
Pacific Pacific and Knari came tɔ a stop,
"That's
caly 1wo,!
the
Al-
What kind of book?
"What kind of a book is she
This book is all about Birds od Animals," she aİ.
Le
the and well
are properations under way does it strike you that giving a party is very hard work indeed.
Is there a formula?
To find cut, I called on the Rahvis sisters, who are amor the keenest party givers (and goers) u town,
Chaos...
Sitting amid the pre-party chaos of treslle tables and flower arfangomonts, we etcsidered the Art of Ehieriairing,
Dora,
On my right was Raymonde. going to lock up now?" Chirpie the younger by 18 months-all coked,
long red hair, dark glasses, and Hamid came back with a Nat-egrantly lavish mulation mink
macintosh. cut like a tural History Besk
On my icft was shrouded in enough ranch mink to make a wigwam and shrug- Then she looked up the word ging lightly at the prospect of entertaining 100 guests at mid. "Scogul."
| night--"though it may well be is," she said nearer
tenight, "Ah. here it
200
because aloud. "Seagulls have webbed everybody rings up and
says feel like a Duck. They c.n sit Darling, what can we do with on the waler."
our dinner guests?' and we say, Bring them along.'
Rest, and paddlo
"You see," said Kharf to Chirple, that's how Seagulls rest. They come down on the Pacific Ocern and paddle along
lke Ducks."
Chirpio ato crumbs.
"That's the big snag lo midnight party,
"Otherwise 12 pm is the only civilised time to polish off
crowd for drinks,"
his last few art.
"Let us list the bare-bones of a goed party," said I. "Who are the talkers?"
There's Larry Harvey," they "L's certainly for told me. rood. informed conversation.......... and Lord Maugham, chat, chat, chat. The Wyatts, Moorea and Woodrow-hel always
start
something....Donegall, there's nothing he can't or won't dis-
Maureen Duferin, so gay ... and Albert Finney in his little leather jacket."
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Suddenly seems there are two positive and
Vory
ways
twa
Two
entirely different
of dressing types, two stances, two silhou
groups, maybe 7
On the one hand there is the BALY, elegant look. There I also the weird and wonderful, hippy hop look (shown hero) with low waista or no waiste above * awirl of pleats.
LEFT TO RIGHT,
Drass in navy Trical
with white braid, 91 En,
green
ga.
BRYY
dress in limo
dovskin. 14) jumper suit in
Trice! with
white saddle stitch- Ing, Dj gar.
CLOTURE MY HOLLY PEOK. PICTURE JOHN ADRIAAN.
MT
Looking for a
winter dish ?
HERE'S a dish for the cold (thinned down with milk if weather now with us a necessary); 1. cup grated rice pie with an unexpected beef Cheddar cheese; 1⁄2 teaspoon crust!
salt.
THE CRUST: tin (1 cup) Combine rlee, tomato soup. tomato stamp
cup bread salt, water, and cup of the orumbs; 116. ground beef; 1⁄4 cup cheese, Spoon rice mixture chopped onion; 4 cup chopped tato meat shell, Cover with green pepper; 11⁄2 teaspoons aluminium foil. Bake in salt; 16 teaspoon oregon; 1/3 moderate oven (356deg. F) for teaspoon pepper.
minutes. Uncover and Combine the ingredients and sprinkle top with remaining mix well. Pat meat mixture into chease. Return to oven and bake bottom and edges' of a greteed uncovered 10 9-inch pie plate.
longer,
Q
25
Cut, into ple-shaped
THE FILLING: 154 cups piecce. cooked rice; Un tornato soup
to 15 minutes
---{London Express Service.)
LADY LUCK-
YOUR CHINA'MAIL HOROSCOPE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1
AQUARIUS (7) (January 21- February 19): Be careful
irt matter of finance, particularly if a partner's money is involved.
and she hasn't run out of clever PISCES (8) February 20 things to say.
when "Knowing
to go." sighed Raymonde, running long "James Woolfe to the one hands heavy with gold bracelets who made Room at the Top. He through her vivid hair. "That's rang up last night to ask what what almost no one knows,
were serving. *Wot, to "And that's whe cocktail cavior..........?' He does so enjoy parties are such hell. the drinks and food."
WE
When to go
"Oh, these stickers that stay put-I've had to leave my own party in crder to shake them off! And the poor girls with
no dates. I'm so maternal I "And Zsa Zsa-we must list worry who will take them cu." Zsa Zsa because she knows" worry too," said Dora, when to go. She always leaves "No, darling, F'es not suatersal. and while her make-up is perfect I worry who'll take ME on."
Cushen Vasey Lazzolo, always
worth listening to.
It's easier to climb the
M*
with the right
Y greengrocer has a "nasty cold," and my doctor has the flu. But the keen business схесн tive who commutes from the far side of our village "virus in- green has a fection,"
So much for the first effects
of the cold snap, and I'm willing to but they all feel equally aw fu).
inces es à uccess symbol" intrigues me.
sort
social ladder of illness
Can think of three people in the Backaches
practically past week who hive suddenly unmentionable, and slipped discs discovered they have caẹ leg in common to count.
shorter than the other. Lumbago is "cut" but "gout is "My case is different." she "in" — surrounded as its by told me lɔfilly, "I've got one the faintest suggestion of lush icnger,"
Sideways
Meeting the Rahvis slters 13 rather like cutting in on a sophisticated "Gert" and Daisy"
The cross-talk zips endlessly living. lo and fro... Just before he dew away, hej "Not that we're ever entirely in favour of drink parties... raid said:
Ibout and "Sometimes I with I were all that standing
"blotting shouting....cod what fun "I've forgotten the rest," cald Duck. Imagine Knari.
would be to paddle cross the par. Food is best-must have crne logs measured.
blotting. Hot, snacks that leave the hands free-monthfula,
"Dinner parties are heavens tefth beautiful women (much as we hate them) and brilliant
Chirple.
"Ail.Ttle. Paclite, Indian, Autarcic," Hanid Arctic, and pakt smoothly.
Pacific Occan,'
Then he flapped his wings and flew away toward the park.
Rupert and the Purple Star-4
What Rupert has noticed w4 wide crack in the side of the gully. "I don't believe we can get down
the rock to the chore," he says. "The dark hole looks exciting,
are scrambling into a gloomy cave below. There's light beyond, saya Bilf." There must be another way out. Hey, what's this on the floor?" says Rupert.
Ie's a .
Shall we we where it leads ?," BAS-lit de sack. And look what's fallen
in Always keen for something new out of it. Surely it's a starfish.
But what funny colour for stardial It's purple 19
and soon, the two, pale have queased into the little space atid
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t."
no
11
"Charles Clore, on the owestic, tearing any subject to pieces, He's so desperately ptiraellye,
So desperately rich, darling."
The talkers
"Our formula for a successful party on a large scale is a hard- cord of good talkers, at least two helpera, a couple of silence- fillers-in and a clrgulators.
handful
one
The latest thing is to have
"Flity per cent hove slightly shorter than the other ....Dhcovered my whole body was out of balance," .. Hal the world, it terms, is walkingg Bideways.
Is it a career and is there any definite training?
The hard way appears to be via one or two years at an art school followed by three years at the Royal College of Art,
The easy way would appear to be via the 10-week course that Michael decorator Interior Inchbald is now running in his delectable Chelsea home.
It is, of course, absurd to compare the two.
"What ony of my girls could do on leaving is to become a sort of right-hand woman to decoratur, and learn by, experi- ence," said Mir Inchbald.
Know-how
with "Knowing what to do hideously proportioned rooms is
of "WELL, What are you going largely a mater fals, or
to be?" is the ery of 39
olso talent, or whatever
you many parents while wayward care to call 11.
flushed with success daughters,
they contemplate their "Knowing how to do it is O-level
a certain cerllicates, ilst the what counts and
of architecture ko many careers they are positively knowledge
essential. And in ten NOT prepared to consider then starting with shorthand-typing. weeks we can't touch that,
"And would you find any of the dedicated few who know just which way your trainees tacful?" I asked One of the silliest and most they are going. I find an increpe- his wife,, who helps him in the lovable hypochondries I know ing number murmuring vaguely business.
wocretarial "If they had rang me last week to tell me of "omething aritsile, where Ebout this leg-measuring bus there are young men, but not in training too," cold she.
Maddening. Isn't it this an office,"
shorthand
trd Which frequently leads on to emphteis on Interior deccating.
typing. But so important.
nces,
"So you've only just got Ground to it," I tensed her."
Selling aside
WOULD YOU NAME YOUR SON ZEPPELIN ?
Of
"HAD
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AD she been a boy we bocks she in Victorian dolles mauve-tinted humanity. Dawn, Hosttease, or Lovejoy, and dare would have called her and perambulators." "Alays excluding the human Zeppelin," Mr and Mrs Philip No clue to their curious name Nature lo de har worst?
Alternatively, can ons ensure Hoover. Everyone knows one at Harrison are reported to have chalce thes tore
a bay? à Anyway why only for
certain toughness with te Icast. They clear a roons in a wild of their month-ck," baby; matier of minutes,"
daughter when interwewed for. Bülowing, burgeoning, our present vogue for flinby mono- "I once unwittingly gave the current adillon of a glcary, Vecegim, and utterly pricious, syllables such as Cue, Craig
surely, there is worngileg sing or Rock? Hoover" home-making murdalne, um party for a human
Jarly feminine About a cigar-Though if there is the blightest "Just said Dora reminiscing.
possibility that children grow to The #kalsong) 131 ademon, age, 'shiped gas bag," ber and me and six men, je
The mining question is, of looklike; their names, then Three of the men played Chelerates and Young Colters:
in course What's in a tema?! little Master Zeppelin Harrison gin-tummy with me and I was tors. He specialises
Ingit a Juntified take to call who-newly-was hot had a very from mechanical toys, pub-type blissfully happy-apart every ilme I looked up and there musical boxes, amnă-space-fiction lib. doz. of bald and, bawling lucky escape..:
March 20): If you have delegated certain duties to aubordinate, let him get
a
1
brackets after your sign of the Zodiac. This is your lucky number for the week.
JACOBY
on BRIDGE
on with them without inter- ference and give him chance to prove his worth. ARIES (12) (March 21-April
South played dummy's seven 19): If you feel your deter- mination weakening to
of hearts on West's four spot with the reach a certain goal, make and lock East's ten
pack.
He lea quite sure that you are
diamond to dummy's ace end continued the right cust in the
The finesse of the jack lost to West's queen and West with
feel
#
aiming direction. TAURUS (9) April 20-May led to west's ques South won
20) If you feel frustrated
dummy's queen
and in your work and cannot cashed the last two diamonds. nec a way to make it more the ace of hearts and thres cluby for a total of nine tricks. to your liking, don't tied down but consider
Easi was critical of West'a heart continuation. He pointed suitable change.
out that a spode shift would GEMINI (10) (May 21-June
have produced four spade 21) You will have good tricks and set the hand. West news from a distant place, felt that, his heart play which will make your prospects for the coming year much more promising. CANCER (3) (June 22-July
21) Unflagging enthusiasm and the ability to learn from experience are
ways to success in chosen profession. LEO
was
NORTH
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(11) (July 22-Augus 21): A sincere friend will quite understand if you are unwilling to divulge a Becret for the time being. VIRGO (5) (August 22. September 22): If a rela- not running as tionship is
would smoothly as you wish, try to compromise on unimportant issues and you will soon be aware of дп improvement. LIBRA (2) (September 23-
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Bouth West North. 1 N.T Pasa Para Pozo
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October 22): A member of queen and che spade.
I agree with Wext to the ex- the opposite sex will present tent that a spade shift looked a very tricky problem, and Uke a losing gamble, but West you must keep your wits had gone wrong on his opening about you to cope with It lead.
He should have opened the successfully,
deure of spades; not the four of hearts. Of course, there are SCORPIO (8) (October 28
November 21): A very plenty of Instances in which emotional person is likely the heart lead would work out to make excessiva domanda belter, but year in and year on your time, and you must out I can recommend the lead beware of becoming too from an ace over the lead from a king against a no-trump deeply invalved.
was certainly BAGITTARIUS (4) (Novom-contract. This
ber 22-December 21): Don't one of those timea be tempted to relax in your efforts, as your reliability is one of your greatest assets to your employers. CAPRICORN (1) (December
ngary, 20) After a
successful
social gathering you will be kept busy for the coming months in maintaining the pleasant contacia made. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER: Count the letters in your first name and add the total to....the number. shown in
#+CARD Senses
West 14
The bidding has been:
North -- Exat
Bouls
Double Pass 3 Pau
You, Bouth, hold:
ARIA WRITE 4Q10648 AA
What do you do? A-Did four disroende.,; You still have a mighty fine band,
TODAY'S QUESTION West bids four spades" and "your partner doubles. What do
you do now???
Answer TenOTTEW +