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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1960.
WOMANSENSE
"Off with those curls," said Jennis Hocking's hair-
dresser, Edward of
this
now
means
Bernard. Andre
har rateable zooming up.
Looking liko
valua
has gone
SHIRLEY
How
well do
you
know
the people
next
door?
CHILDREN'S CORNER
Chirpie Isn't Hungry
-He Explains To The Shadows Just What Happenil―
By MAX TRELL
bane Ksurf wheat able to ay thing. He was quite daya, Kharf and 1 able to gene at why Chir- hungry Han, the Shutoa Chillren på Sorrow, who gol with the Turned-Aljona Namon, every 15 minutes hadn't com
FOR
"Okay." said Chirpie, and wings. stopped fluttering his
" wall. What is it?"
Knart and Hand polted to
crumbs the bread
spread out in the window sill.
"Ch-them!" said Chirpie. Kuart and Ranid looke Chirple in amusement,
at
"Aren't you going to
eat
and put bond etamile on the window sill for his bread then asked Hand, winde sill. The waited for evner for three entire days. Chirple Starrow to come along
und eat them.
He didn't come.
He didn't come the first day, nor the second, or the tjurd als the fourth day, Manid was sure rums- aid that she thing must be wrong.
Not hungry
"Cord morning!"
Chirpi hesitated before a- Chirpiering. He squirmed aroun
In an uncomfortable way, stend- in frst on
one leg and then
Sparrow greeted cheerfully
"ikere I am"
"Yes here you are," said "And where have you Knof ixen?"
"We've been worried about you, Chirple," said Hand,
That's a shome," said Chir- "I didn't mean to worry pla.
Anyway, here 1 an and you. I'm ertainly glad to see you. "Not hungry itflor three 11 ans don't be worried if you dankt. "That don't for me as often as you day? can be right. Chirple gets twed to,, Well, I've got to go lie's now. hungry resy 15 minutes. apatys eating."
"I don' think anything's wrong." and Kaart. He's just Tot hungry, that's all"
Chirple Sparrow actually dut at that moment, Churple started Buttering his wings, but Jtunid began Sparrow Bntly Canis lying Knarf of the winiar sHI, H was shruting:
a got thing be cene just then,
l
-Wall! Wat?"
JACOBY on BRIDGE
Today's hand, previcusly ap peared in my
tele except
that have moved the six of clubs from the Wes to the East
the hand and
nice of clubs from the East to the West kandi.
I a previous artiel, cs- ellent defence by Eart and Wel beat South at foite hearts. The key play consisted of East pt- thig up the ten of spades whe.. the ruit was led from dummy After the hand had been stripped of diamonds and clubs. Several raders thought that South could have made the hand by adopting n different line of play and with the cards placed the way they are row South can make the hand against any defence. play is as follows:
WEST
AKJJ 52
+ A 1092
AAJIDS
NORTH
4705
KJ04
• 374 4KB3
EAST
22
410132
SDA
+053 47054 SOUTH (D) AAQB
AQ 1007 KQB
+23
Both vulnerable
West North East
South
The
A
Pass Рася Pass Opening lead—♥ 2
Pass Pass
South draws trumps with two lead and storts on dhe munds. West's best defence 14
discards the eight of spades and claims the balance,
tu lake the aes and lead the Why wouldn't this play have
suit back. South plays the last worked before? Because West diamond and lends clubs.
II muid have hung
he leads the club from his own hand West plays the nine and dummy takes the trick with the king. A second club loses to the ice und West will lead - a third club, Now South simply
*CARD Sensėk
Q-The bidding has been: North East South ZN.T.
Went
DA
Гало 3 A Taes F*** ANT. Pass Раст You, South, hold:
AKJAJZ W943 +K75242
What do you do?
A-Bid aix spades. Even though there is si noe' vif, at the worst there should be a fineme for this slam,
TODAY'S QUESTION
. Instead of going to five spades over your four ho-trump "your partner har bid five clubs to khow all four aces. What do you do now?
Answer Tomorrow
lo
the six of clubs and led it to
is partner's nine.
ONCE
LORD
CE in Salt Lake City a Mormon tackled me about my neighbour, and I had to admit we had never even been introduced. From that mo- ment on, he believed I was a dyed-in-the-wool, 100 per cent British snob and he would not be convinced otherwise, whatever I said about proximity not being everything. "Since then I've moved house and, oh, how I wish that Mormon could be around today, for at last I've discovered the secret of neighbourliness: Live in a brand new house sandwiched between a lot of other brand new houses and camaraderie is as catching as measles.
fact. I've learned that next door is the cock. From one Joy's fee has now gone up to In
one gns. for see her happily 50
photo sharing a builder is an easy way window 1 can
cooking to win frierkis.
Balt away.
"No wonder the surely session.. Invitations have poured people only want to know their Victorians called it "an interest- through my letterbox... both neighbours if they're at a loose ing condition."
I never ani-there the "do drop in" and the grander end? And "At Home" varieties, and Just aren't enough hours in the grown-up games of "shop" have day."
Kone
"
Farrustuess
with
underlying
us neighbour after
neighbour turned up their accus- SILENCE te or plumbing, problemos.
Although that Mormon bad
nothing on me, my attitude to IS GOLDEN
neighbours has changed tre- mendously since joining this cosy colony. Not that I think there is ey general trend to let's-get- to know the neighbours -
better. check on this I chatted to
three different households, big, Lasement and bachelor.
'No time'
Then model Jennie Hacking was persuaded the other day to part with her long, carefully dishevelled huir siyle. Now, back-und-sidea with a short look, her rateable value has zoomed to 5 gus, an hour here— and for Continental jobs it seems the ty the limit.
Then there's the man who's
never alone with his favourite cigarette, Terence Brook.
VE found a new meaning for that old, old saying Silence
Now that he has fan mali-- is Golden, These days in the pro- fession where words mean noth- about 40 lo 50 letters a week— ing and actions everything-the his rate has jumped from three world of modelling the shekels guineas to 10-15 guineas
mounting op for the hour.... So hard for him to are brightest boys and girls.
his keep
under-nourished Hearing that ethereal blonde look... And, d'you know, the model giri Joy Westen was now poor man really is camera-sky. a Mum-to-be for the first line,
TONIA and Donald Campbell, I said I would like her to model
for instance, returned a some monternity clothes. little over a week ago to thir "Delighted, of course," said
agent, near Reigate, her entry house
she
When telephoned Tonia, was still enthusing about being huine. Did her enthusiasm take
in the neighbours, too?
"I don't know them," she told
ከነሮ. "We've ved here for over a year now and our nearest I suppose would be half a milo down the road.
"I've been inside. that house just once, when Gina (Donald's daughter) was invited to a *the children's ball and said,
the Mums are coming to pick kids up, so you can pick me up if you like.'
*When I went along al} the Mums seemed to know me, for they kept saying "We never know when you're going to be home Mrs Compbell." So I suppose that's why I've 112 received any invitations
"In any case I was brought up not to know the neighbours. My mother always said, 'Be friendly and polite, Tonia,
but
If you don't want peoplu ringing on the other.
"I gatess I'm not very hun-up to borrow an egg or some- thing, don't encourage ziend Fry," he nally said.
ships!
Knart and Hanid were ever more astonished than before.
Chirpie looked at their faces A quirk is and gave a quirk. the rame as a chuckle, except that is made by a Sparrow.
"I suppose." he said, after
gweral more gulrking
times, "that you'd like me to explain why I'm not very hungry.
and and Karg nedded, Cierple walked among the bread crumbs on the window dill. cuching them with the end of his beak but not eating then,
"It it," he said, "that these crumbs c'e'l as delicious as they always are. I can see that they're brown and crisp and fresh. But let me tell you what happened three days ago, and ther you'll understand why I'm not hungry for any bread crumbs now,
Moved to new place "Three days ago, I moved out of the place where I was living. That place was a nest in the middle of a maple tree in the middle of the park. But with the cold weather coming on, I found myself a nice, raug, new ploce behind a loose brick in the chimney,
"Thot's, where I'm living now, "But," Chirple went on, "it isn't a house chimney. It's a chimney over the oven of a bakery,"
A bakery! Knarf and together:
"Whenever Donald and I talk about neighbours we incan our. friends Michael and Margot (the Marquess and Murchioness of Reading) and they're half hour's drive away from here. haven't time to cultivate more friendships."
an
any
Probably the Royal friends of Robin and Sandra Douglas Home -Princess Alexandra in particu- lar-have popped down the area steps into their basement home in Kensington, but have their neighbours?
"I've never seen them," said Mrs D. H. "And we don't have any neighbours at our country home in Hampshire either."
I got the impression the Doug- as Homes were definitely not neighbour-minded.
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Easy?
Is it easier perhaps for a man alfne to get to know his
he
to? wants neighilour- Thousands of love stories have been written about the male who runs out of tea in his bachelor flat and so meets the girl of his dreams who happens to have a full tea caddy next door...
Frederick Starke, chairman of the Fashion House Group of London, dues have a bachelor fat in a large impersonal block, but he has never run out of tea. "I've never run out of any- thing since I had my butler," he told me. He also doesn't know his
"The neighbours.
only person I've ever seen in the dat
Hunld exclaimed SOAP AND
"A bakery! A place where WATER GIRL
they make bread?"
"I was never so surprised in
my life," mid Chirple, "All they
do all day long is bake bread.
"And you've never, never en so many broad crumbs as I've been peeing--and eating for the past three days,"
Rupert and the Purple Star-11
and Buses the other bucket to pour ins, water, "Now it' be heavier," says Rupert, " carry it Brat and-00 [-Ow! -Bre - can't The whole bucket's electric now, Em tings ling all over And, in alarm, be drops bath tile spade and bucket
The starallies quietly in the. pail, and Rupert starts to carry it away, ** 11% making my arm feel funny," he grins. ***That thing must be still jus alive ] ** "Perhaps the poor thing wania some sali water," says Bill, it can't enjoy belog out of there." So they stop at the nearest pool hurriedly.
ALL RIGHS5. MeNBAVEN
HAVE Just caused a few mild casca of hysteria in the town. I beauty salons around told them about Odile Vernola, 30-year-old star of Out Of This World.
She had floored me with the remark: "I have never worn make-up, don't intend to, and wash always with soap and water
Bho looked so what did the experts think about it?
ane,
The girl who makes glamour pay at Gala screamed with laughter. "Well, it's entirely under- her own affair." I "can stand a teenager avoiding make- up, but no person can make the best of herself without it when she's older."
I arrived at the root of the matter when speaking to the Helens Rubinstein and Yardley's salon. Both admitted could be one of the very rare (and lucky) people with a per- fect skin.
"She must be very relaxed to like to be seen with a well- scrubbed face," #ahl Yardley's. aro * soap-and-water house, but prefer a matt finish after washing." Frankly, don't we all?
t'und
inculently
Silence is really golden-pro-
the
vided there is a 22-carat-type brain ticking away behind looks.
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