THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
LADY ➜LUCK
your
AQUARIUS
CHINA MAIL
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FRIDAY, APRIL 28
(January
February 19): Don't br too lenient with an incom. petent person, but insist That
becomes better qualified for his job. PISCES (February 20-March 20): A neighbour will be very helpful in making you in quickly settle down
Angust
The little world of curio shops...
TUCKED Oway on bed with a large map, or a friend who UCKED away in the heart of Hongkong, impossible to
has been thoro before lies Cat Street. An incredibly dirty and dilapidated huddlo of small curio shops and jumblo stalls where one can pick up for a comparativo song anything from a brass doorknob made that morning, to a Ming vase dating back three hundred years.
Two years ago now, almost to the day, my husband and I stumbled upon Cat Street for the first time, more by luck than anything else.
bidden Having farew
Wo
CAT STREET REVISITED
by Elizabeth Fox
The then, was two years ago. Colony, and has stayed here The other day I heard that Cat ever since. Street was not at all what it used to be,
Carpets had come to Cal
of change of employment hill in tome exasperallon as the were in snother world, a world Street showcases, order, no bar-
23-
21. VIRGO
An offer September. 22): ought to be considered very carefully before you decide one way or another.
(September LIBRA
Octozer 220 Forget recent disappointment and look ahead to a very plea- sant weekend.
23- (October SCORP10
November 21): Think well before raising your voice in a discussion, mules you are very sure of your facts. November SAGITTARHUS
22-December 21): Refore spending too much time money developing a new idea, make sure it has not been tried out before.
CAPRICORN (December 22- January 20): A business meeting arranged for An evening this week may be postponed until some time next month.
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changed surroundings. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Foll have to Trixon 10 doubt your ability to handle The more responsible joh you will soon be starting. TAURUS (April 20-May 201
A visit to distant relatives will turn out to be a much of a pleasure as a family duty. GEMINI May 21-June 21). Refusing a request for help would not be in character. and you would only regret it afterwards. CANCER (June 22-July 21: Jalur- Investment in raving devier would orriy lera༥te family, but
an YOUR BIRTHDAY: PHOTO reencany in the long run. LEO July-August 25+
Make sure that what you consider framess of chara- ter is not really a stubborn streak in your nature.
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If this
ix your birthday your financial position will grus cally herome more secure, mal you should be able to make some definite plans for the future.
Rupert and the Paper-fall-38
In a few minutes Algy is fit to get up, and he returns to his new ledge. Are you sure you haven't told us a fairy tale ? be lauglis.
No. my story was just as it happened," says Hupert. "Fer haps that spinning is only magic when one of Santa Claus', title
Hello,
must get home now, so goodbye." Near his cottage he finds Mr. ar waiting anxiously. Daddy" he calls. That paper. fall started such an adventure. Come indoors and I'll tell you all about it
THE END
Then is ticǝr you Anyway, we A New Adventure Begins on Monday.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
gaining, American iourists by
our taxi seams will every conceivable at the bottom of the variety of pot and plate. driver sildn't sem to have any belonging to the ancient Chinese
loving caro arranged the shipload. ore Idea than we did of where dynastics where bygone peoples We wanted to go-we climbed with
thougVare atep. ecwded
a corner, and suddenly turning ther; we were
Objets d'art
t
It had begun to ruin and was rather withing that It brought Umbria and a Blout pair of ploer, or eres home-but when we lay.d found on destination, it didn't stem to multer.
Poking around is there
bursing shop),
Hittle
at
and
flowers in these vanes and FIL-
Trudging up to investigate - Joyed food from these plates.
through the close-packed stall Shelves and cabinets reached of local vegetables, glistening tere celling
with the most with fresh, wel lettuces
of purple eggplant: 1 turned at extraordinary objets d'art, some very beauti lengi nio Upper Lascar Row and Cat Street, on it in more foi, kone
aid ous, familiarly known quity
ពង,
looked crammed in any old how, ranic largely unchanged to me. upen file.
ection
Fat Chinese buddhas sibed check. by jowl with delicate porcelai bowls on curved wind.n stands. Säver Buif ensex aber ends, old jewellery, coins, and black lacquered boxes my under the tiny desty glass licts of that fubl the cabinets.
Inside one of the curio shops.
CHILDREN'S CORNER
Glasses For Blinkie
-Willy Toad Makes Him New Ones
By MAX TRELL
Keart and Hamid were asten- ished that anyone was able to LAVERYONE in the Park was find a pair of eye-glasses. But saying that something they soon discovered that Mag- would have to be done for ple hadn't really "found" The Bunkie Mole.
"Now what happened," said He had stutca them from an Squire Squirrel explaining To old lady who had fallen asleep Khart and Hand, the Shadow with the glasses in her lap.
Children with the Turned-About
Names, "was that Blinkle left
his dark plasses on top of a
glasses!
Who sold them?
Knarf and Hanid made Mag-
rock while he went and swept ple put the glasses back in the his front doorstep. Somsone
along, stepped
came
an
8-16
"Where can a Molo get dark
the old tady's lap. Magpie did this glasses?" Knarf asked Squire.
glasses and broke them."
Everyone knew that Blinkle's eyes were very weak. The least bit of sunlight made him wink and blink and squini.
very foolish," sand "ile was Hanid, "to take his eye-glasses CHY.
1
Made a mistake
"Why did he do 17"
be
"Well," said Squire, "I came very cloudy. The sun was hidden and Blinkle didn't really nced his dark glasses.
"So he
thought
reluctantly.
Blinkie needs the glasses > auch as that ela lady." he kepi saying.
What Knarf and Hanid wont-
a
"Oh, what shame," said Hanld. "Poor Blinkle."
Then Knart, Hanld, Square rd to know was where Bangle Squirtel, the Grasshoppers, the hal sol the glasses to hugin Cricket, the Sparrows and sov
with.
Where had he bought the pair
that had been broken?
A new shop
He himself sees the change
In the sirect during the lust 10 years,
except perhaps that there are now more antique businesses.
In the clean-swept little shop, 1 eyed an ancient, cross-looking (very expensive) sione do! and asked Mr Chen where he got all his antiques from.
"They
used from Northern
"but fald.
many also come
collectors,"
Munsey keeps
ما
come
China," ho nowadays from family
all his
best
antiques cut of sight, in pod-
ded silk boxes. He brought ou! As I browsed along between Ming a copy
In large piece ot uitled grey
of on old the cd, stethoscopes at the bronze reseal Instrument walle Irons, followed by the which had arrived the day photographer, there was not a before from
Macao and
for cartet to be esen-nɔt a stự- which he had paki over $1,000. Eestion of an American tourist.
Mr Chen, I know, does not Passing by the moley din of bargain, but then he never han. On the other hand the price he offers will be a fair one and the object will be, to the best of his very wide experience, what he says it is.
ammering from a brass chop, and yes, a distinctly new sim full of washed stal neatly tied and time, I bottleg
in che shop, on shelf Just below the roof, stond com Ali Baba vases which would mak: Evely umbrella stands for the hall. On the fluor of another. ranged round like sentinels, wire Int. contented up used jar. stuffed with sbaw and Bdded, which ไปร were weTO toll were for gmden seats.
A hobby
the
Some of the shope reached quite
fr.m th A way back street front and had unexp, eled turns and twists. Rounding one
I bumped into corner, family at their midday meal, wiciding their chytalicks t
teble, incongruously sur- low rounded by relies of a past age.
Curiouser and curiouer as Alter said to the White Rabbit.
The study of porcelain has ΠΟΥ become something of a hobby with us, but that day many were the heated argu- ments we had with suave-look- In gentteinen in pale brown suits and gold-rimmed glasses.
"Oh yu 21 engine piece from the Chien Lung pencd,"
they would 53y
Mr Munsey Chen.
Mr Munsey
enoothly, eventually found waving a Singare art dealer's Chen, the man I had come to card before bur noses for talk to. udded emphasis,
A retiring soot, very much Having bought # hallow interested in his antique busi
and a large wall-plate Iness, M: Chen explained that was then forefly dragg:d time Cal Street derived its name from before
I cd buy anything a time years ago before the area elsu. The house-keeping had was built up. A time when trees already Hote and feeling Brew on the hillside and cais, ed mostly unwanted, lived amongst vaguely quilly, we Ogreed them,
as my
that the plate should be romebody's birthday present, to be fougly out fater hunbond WI blow if he'd have a plate as his birthday present.
And now...
we LECTE
Under the
counter
and
We
No
rule
chatted on about por- celain, Ivory and inde. How if piece Is
can you tell genuine or not?
hard and fast
There is no rule according to Mr Chen. Every porcelain dynasty has its own different designs
BHID CHEONG
CURIOT.
鋼型新
A view down the length of Cat Street.
With jade it is comparativ As I picked my way past the from children playing hopscotch on the cobbles, the title ተን፤ 1 to a beginner. bustly renovating
pristi Sung (more expensive than Soapstone is soft, real Jade is chairs and tricycles (starting Ming) you must know your hard Iron-otherwise like price 318) the walking sticks
ly easy to tell the new And colours. Faced with a piece of the old, even
self
whether it is one of the five types that
made were during that perlad or merely a
<py.
When it
very, old brenzo and lacquer, and spanners, sewing machines knowlege comes with interest that carpets had not, after all, and screws-I was glad to think
and experience.
come to Cat Street.
comes to
telling
your age, how far do
you stray from the truth?
(7OMEN who lie about their age have a modicum
of my admiration, for it takes a fair amount of FROM
sang froid to admit to thiry-eight when the kids have moustaches, three kids of their own and no longer ask
know, they do Lake LORD
muture
permission to knock back double brandies after dinner. SHIRLEY
Sons, strangely enough, are a worse give-away than Mr Chen once lived LI America, where his father radaughters, for, as most people an importing
exporting longer to grow up. A man who acts like n Some days later, on showing business Later Munsey opened thirty, usually is a mature thirty, whereas & teenage our acquisitions to knowledge-
Chicago.girl can adopt the aplomb and the style of an older age moving out of the country fable friends.
told an artique shop In
for six months like the frankly that
both Returning to they were
Hongkong for "with astonishingly little effort. genuine un-antiques and prob. few months at the beginning of
Julian Mores, the havoc war he was caught Deception. like grey ably from 10 to 20 years öld.
hair Chauvel, the wife of the French
causod to family life is So much for Chi'en Lung. when the Japanese invaded the and varicose veins,
seems to Ambassador, unveiled the Cor- wildly different busier in L
tapestry
usually tremendous. 10 open ages, and affect wildly different now part of my restaurant. This
For those without a two-year people.
has taken my time and energy breathing space, here are some for months.
down-to-earth moving tips,
the last
JACOBY on BRIDGE
THE East and West hands are not shown today because
eral other friends of Blinkie. they don't really matter. South all set out to hunt for Willyou will be declarer at some num-
'The Tout, who knew where to g49 | ber af no-trump,
logical He will number is slx.
start "Well," said a Sparrow, who dark lases for Bunkie Mole. had flown down at this moment,
proceedings by winning the opening heart lead in dummy and taking the club finesse.
just asked Blinkie the name
question.
Couldn't find him
Willy wasn't under the white
"He said he got the glaves from a Dr Willyum Tout who rock near the lake.
If i wurks he will be play- He wasn't in the hollow treeing for neven but let's make it to himself lived under i mushrean, hot car the side of the path, tough for South and have that if he left them on the fur foten clump of daisies He wasn't behind the bushes, club nesse lose.
rock for a few minutes instead somewhere in the middle of the
of taking them wouldn't matter at all
downstairs. il park.
"Bur Blinkle was wrongl
Called him Willy
оп
Was tender the not benches.
par:
1 was the Cricket who daaliy found Willy.
And where was he?
"A couple of Children came
"Oh dear, that doesn't help Without even looking, along.
He was Under i mushreem they walked
Blakle's very much," said Squire. "Mush-
Yoomer don't lant very long tear a clump of daisies. glasses,
"There
a little Unkly neliher do dalsies." noise of broken glass and that was the end of them"
was
Must replace glossos Squire Squirrel sold that the Job now wra to get Blinkle a
ow patr of glasses to replace
khow
the
Now he will need six tricks and diamonds to In spades
He also will make his clam. have one outstanding best play at his disposal,
♥+CARD Sende
West
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NORTH
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ADB
WEST
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EAST Not shown SQUTIK (D)
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North and South vulnerable
set
From Lly (who has 10 days in
I have known some charming charlodles whose mathematical "Always something new to acrobatics when it come to years work on that is the only way were to say the least, alarming. to bear growing older. For igen, which to move "upstairs"). - of evurse, iL ja equally "Reazzament of rubbish first. Actresses and durbenses are dimenti
It's the one time one is glad to (unfairly. I think) expeeled to
throw away, Phones in before
be vagie about age but I was But men, Bought 1, never lle carpets, ulherwise everything surprised to learn that female Phout their age--or do they? sples care too.
'It's annoying'
gets r.pped up at the wrong lime.
each t'me
new
As Dr Richard Docelting, the man who's going to put the rall- From Nigel and Patsie Fisher ways back on paying lines,, told (who have six weeks befɔre M- me: "I see no reason why a man Day)We inke things along I don't think it was reported should lie about his age. I'm Da
We visit the in the spy case 3itat passed that only 47, so the matter has never ne when Mrs Lana Cohen, alias arlaun. If you're young in heart, house-it helps to get things in precious that's all that ecunts and 1 like perspective Kroger, made rezdy vel another Identity Mrs Smith to slip to think I um." He'll certainly things e glass and ellver aro need to be when he takes up his better out of the way in tho if things got hot, clie decided 1915 was preferable in controversial position in June. 1913 as the birthdata to (Reclose
into
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South West North
Fast
GN.T.
Faxa
on her passport,
ON.T. Fan Раза
Pass
demi-onet,
Opening fead—♥ 2
As at the back of my mind I fclt straightforward
British
crush.
Becching haa think Dr
"Old curtains make Unings So for all of us. something for
colour and and octogenarians
inir, colours,"
Kw
anies
1 N,T. Fass
loo, rejoler, Just concentrate on hemca evolve from the cur women had somehow learned keeping young by heart. this le trick from the dashing
Frem Julian and Shella Moro
ATC off now), "A we're letting our house in Lon- furiched don and renting one in France our packing isn't
French (along with the wearing MOVING HOUSE (who That play in to win the next, of exolle scent), I rang Madame trick in dummy; lead a spade Prunier to hear what she had Pass
and put in the ton. If the ten to say. lones he a down one; if it holds He cashes the
said.
Gave squirrel a pair
Q-The bidding has been: North Fast South Pass 16
-1 A Така pair out of his 1NT.
7 it to Squire You, South, hold;
AKJBG5 KS2 $1684 46
What do you do?
THE ARMSTRONG
THE JONES'S have nearly the drastle kind. The one e3-
"Of coupe, 1 hrve dark "Dr Willyum Tand!" Knarf glasses for Binkie Mole," Willy exclaimed in amazement.
him very "Why, we well," said Hanid, "except that
He took we used to call him Willy Tond."
"It's the came Toad," Squire packet and gave
"It in very annoying to have ace of spades Squirrel saiu.
Squirrel, who ran at ence with
and all bis clubs, diacarding a to disclose one's age," she said. two years in which to sential in our wpe of move is The irst time we saw him." the glasses to Blinkle Mcle.
move house, quite a luxury a luggage rehearsal. "Don't you charge for those A-You can either pan; bk diamond from dummy. Then "but I do. I am 57. Perhaps I
for the pair that had been smashed. Kmart said, "he was living under
"So, as we're driving Klasses, Willy
two no-trump; or two diamonds, he takes the rest of the hearts, admit it because I know when in these hectic days, dear?" Hoak "Where can a Mole get a pair a white rock near the lake."
tell people they will say, 'Oh,
one is moving look whether
we have alrendy trie
Bit how do you do 11? You of dark glasses?" Knarf asked. "Let's go leuk for him," ralt asked, after all the others has A two spado rebid is not recom- finishing up in dummy.
mended.
Now he lays down the king so young.
from the second floor to empty zuitenser into the station Squire Squirrel was just about Squire Squirrel.
with our twin "No," said Willy.
the fifth like Liz Anderson, wagon, log "I make
Iook 'no
older the perfumery consultant, daughters, Nannie and various Tais Impedimenta, moving into the division bell pieces of
means we will folow a pattern area like the Nigel Fishera instead of pandemonium. We
to say he didn't know and that
and At that moment, Knart
left.
he didn't have the lightest idea, Hamid saw Blinkle Mole land- when several Grasshoppers and log in the doorway of his under- pleces of
Cricket etme naing up. ground house. shouting at the top of their zquenky volern:
Magple found him a palet“
oldi
wern
them out brown and #lass. They don't essi me any- The poor fellow had to keep ibing to make so why should f his pawa in traal of his eyes. charge
for... then?" The sunlight made them smart, good-natured Willy said.
anyone
TODAY'S QUESTION Instead of rebidding one no- trump your partner has rebid to two clubs. What do you do in this instance?
Answer: TomsIEVE
of spades. It Kast started with
w[}} "I know three spades the
I don't queen drop. If Enst started with (our) young, but perhaps no
apades or more
and four orj ikan 50. more diamonds he will
"At 02 I wrole my first
have of protec been apucezed out tion for one sull or the other. book. On April 10 Madame (he is MP for Surbiton) or hope!".
downi,