THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
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LADY LUCK So this is what some people feel
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE
FRIDAY, JULY 7
VIRGO (August
AQUARIUS (January 21- your emotions well
control. February 19) Even though for A you are responsible youngster's behaviour, you must allow him a little free dom of action.
PISCES (February 20-March
have 20): You may
to exercise considerable puti- ence today with a well-mean- ing assistant who can't help being clumsy. ARIES (March 21-April 19: You can't blame a friend! for his failure to help you If family obligations stand in his way.
TAURUS (April 20-May 201: Take time off to write to a friend who may regard a sign of your silence an estrangement.
GEMINI (May 21-June 201 If you don't fed up to a strenuous action today, don't force yourself into it out of bravado.
CANCER (June 22-July 21: You must make an effort to be civil to a colleague, even thought you may thoroughly dislike him.
mort
LEO (July 22-August 21):
You
will make favourable impression at an Interview today if you keep
under
22.
September 22): What may start as a petty disagree- ment could eventually dese troy a long-standing friend- ship.
23- (September LIBRA
October 22 Although you mis buvo exhausted every known possibility, there is still a chance to find backing for a promising project. SCORPI0
(October
23.
November 21): Your ten- dency to dissipate your talenta could prevent you from gaining a foothold in any one trade or profession. (November SAGITTARIUS
22-December 211: Your lack of real interest in your job is no excuse for not doing your best.
CAPRICORN (December 22- January 20): A person born under Virgo would make you a dependable partner, and you could always be sure of his single-minded devotion. YOUR BIRTHDAY: If this is
birthday you would be well advised to postpone a new venture unil the autumn, urs likely when conditions
to be more favourable.
Rupert and the Rugger Match-4
The young pals watch the game as it becomes still taster and more boisterous. "1 say, there's not much football about this," says Rupert u he tries to follow the play. "They're handling all the time, And just look how they're knock- ing each other about! How they
mas: hate each other " But it It must be a good only grina.
"hould
lark. he chuckler. love to tumble about like thar 1" A length the game comes to an end, and to Rupert's surprise the
players, covered in mud. walk of! Together as the friendliest Fashion. ALL HIGHTS RESERVED
VERONICA PAPWORTH
NE of the absolutely aplendid things ONE of the absolutely splendid things smart party clothes no longer matter. Anything but anything goes.
Never, never slice Eve picked a lg leaf to form a modesty seat has it been easier for a girl to make the most terrifle Impression on
minuscule dress allowance.
And never has this been more clearly demonstrated than at Oxford
dawn At Dancing tit
the Balliol * Commem ball, I cocked and rolled alongside some of the most weirdly wonderful confes ilons ever to grace any quad
m
Naturally there were plenty of girls awhirl in layer upon layer of conventional tulie. And plenty more keeping young men at length in a sea of highly." couture” organdle. But the Impact Makers-and they deserve those Capital letters were out in force. Minus Dounces.
Stark is the word for the way they look
CHILDREN'S CORNER
Munch's Adventure
--He Was So Small He Was Almost Swallowed --
By MAX TRELL
NCE."
"ONCE,
the least bit unhappy about be- ing so smail. Not at all 1 was bath as happy as a Boy can bett Tere Knart and Hanid
play could you with the other Chil-
ald Baron Munch to Knart and Hanid, the
with the interrupted. Children Shadow
"But how "I had Turned-About Names, the very bad misfortune to fall fames
π was dres" Hanid asked. into a plate of coup. only by the greatest luck that I managed to get out again be- fore I was swallowed."
Knarf and Honid immediate ly wanted to know more about this remarkable adventure that Baron Munch had when he fell into a plate of soup.
"And how could you run or Jump? low could you read a book? How could you sleep in a bed?" asked Knart,
Playing games
Baron Munch smiled. "1 was just cuning.
"What a big noodle I've found!”
sall Grandfather.
10 all
room table.
And that's where they had heard that." he said. Of course
"Now as to how I could play the adventure comes in!
"One night, quite early, I was many stories from Baron Munch before, most of them just us games with the other children, put to bed in my peanut shell,
And that was easy. I was better at and the peanut shell put in
plate remarkable as this one.
soup plate, and the scup Munch always games than they were. though Baron
put, as usual, on the dining room cald up and down that the stor les were truc, Knart and Hanid
table. I soon fell asleep. had their doubts.
Now, for instance, about this Boup adventure:
How could anybody fall into
a plate of coup?
Baron Munch
Take hide-and-seck, for in- stance. When the other Child ren hid behind chairs and under the stairs and In the closets, you always
Strange dream
The
could find them. "Then suddenly." said Baron
But when I hid in a thimble, or Munch, "I had a strange dream.
pair of I dreamed I was sailing in sat himself in the finger of n
huge gloves, or inside a shoe, nobody beautiful occan filled with
that looked exactly like dies." glassy-looking rock in his gar- could find me,"
down comfortably on u
den-he said the rock was diamond!--and invited
11
think . "I didn't
of that," Knarf Hanid said to Baron Munch.
of
and Hanid to make themselves comfortable, on either alde him.
Munch's story
Boy." he said, small, indeed to measure me
small
Then Buron Munch began:
I was a "Now when
"I was very My mother used every day by standing me up next to a pin In th pincushion: And for
head was Just long time my a little below the head of the pln.
ព
a
Arh
noo-
Kharf and Hanid shouted: "What did you do, Baron?" "What did I do?" peated my "And now about running and Jumping and reading books and Baron Munch. "I opened
said Baron eyes. And there i war, floating
in my peanut shell in Munch. didn't bother -
If I wanted ful of noodle soup!" ning or jumping,
Knart and Hand gasped.
sleeping in bed,"
Fun-
to gel someplace in a hurry. whistled and a Mouse would come out of its hole. It was a trained Mouse. It had
tiny
on its back and away we would saddle on its back. 1 would get go, upstairs and downstairs.
On Christmas Eva
plate-
"And," said Baron Munch, "at that very instant Grandfather- dropped in for for it was he who unexpectedly
dinner-dipped
in his spoon. I let out a yell.
17:3 "He saw me just an he anying:
My, what a big noodle I've found. In this soup!!"
Evo, "And
of course you
The only time in the whole "Oh, I do hope you'll grow year it wouldn't take me my- up, dear, my poor mother used where was on Christmas
when the whole house was still, maved," Hund said to to sigh.
ald Baron Munch, and not a creature was allrring. Munch. "Then," "she'd fill up a huge pinto with not even a Mouse, good things to eat. But, being
were
meat and potatoes
ple, no more than put on
Baron
Baron Munch "Of course!" "And as for reading books," sold. "How could I be telling
this truo
story It A small, all I could manage to sold Baron Munch, chuciting, you
Do Final that i didn't weren't?"
That was the end of Baron a tiny bit of "I was
adventure got down whe
Munch's remarkable and apple oven have to open them. I just you could crawled insidef
"And my bed, well, that was in the plate of soup.
But Knarf and Hard walked shell lined peanut an emply Beron with cotton wool. It was kept away wondering i
the dining really over have happened.. was in a soup plate on
I
could
the fingernail of your mellest anger.
"You mustn't think," Mutch went up, "that I
THEY sat facing_each other-husband and wife across the well- polished table in one of those Ye Olde West Country hotels.
They were, I judged, in their late forties. No
more.
Alone at my table, returning from a quick trip to Somerset, I observed them.
Holidaymakers without doubt, touring maybe? For an hotel room key lay by her plate and
a motoring map protruded from his pocket.
bul dowdlly Expensively
wore unrelleved dressed, she belge and her face was expres- 05 they His too, Blonless. spooned down tomato soup in absolute silence.
"hot was very nice, dear," the anal alter she told him spoonful.
"Very nice"-and he sipped his light ale,
Roast lamb followed-still in silence.
He considered the Death of hanging behind her Nelson head.
is true
happiness
meuts
everywhere
JACOBY
on BRIDGE
WHEN a good partnership' is sure to watch it operate. Mervyn of Hous- Key and Bobby Nall ambas-ion are one of these good part- "I enjoyed that, dear," she broke the silence as she finished saderial apartments in Million-nerships and it is worth-while to see how easily they 'reached alre's Row, a sensational new the lamb.
"Yes," said he with another maternity-wear business-three no-trump with the North-
South cards. Hardy's in on that too-and a little sip.
Torre- Silence-the heavy silence of whole tourist town in utter boredom hung over them molinos. unt! the walter returned with a menu.
For several seconds she gave list (Creamed that sad little Rice Sherry Trifle, Fruit Flan Or Ice-cream) her full alten-
on.
Then, with a sigh: " the ice," she said.
"Sherry trifle for me," the husband.
take
said
Indecision suddenly played mild havoc with her face." "Well then, maybe I'll have the sherry
No holiday
"I'm flying to Spain next weck.
"No, not on holiday. I've no time for holidays.
"I take
cure al a week's Tring now and then, but this is my life and my pleasure.
"This and TV.
"I'm an addict. Got a set in every room. I'd have one in my
the steam."
trife leo, dear. Yes, waiter, Turkish bath-if it weren't for sherry trifle for me too"
MUTE
"Your OWN Turkish bath? Goodness, Lou, how grand.” "Not really-it's only to save "Remember Then suddenly:
time.
She looked out of the window with unseelig eyes, turned bacis the fun we used to have?" ho!
THE STUNNER IN
A SHAPELESS SHIFT
frills and fondant colours, they, in their brie? |--dellami too, and oddly touching. Scornlag dresses, were 10 ikule Aludge coloured absolutely with £1,"
Outstanding was a brunette with shoulder. arare length hair, beautiful legs, and shrouded in a black crepe sack.
Rarely have seen such a parody on "party dress" sleeveless shift with no pre- tensions to shape and a high neckline, 1 could have been run up in an hour for in than 1.
Around the hem she had tacked a wreath of fresh garden roses and round her wrist had bound a bracelet of the same.
The effect was mlidly mad, Opheits-se and utterly bewitching. Clearly her escor
dishy young man with a blond forelock and a permanent grin-thought so too.
My last memory of her as "dawn was breaking is of wildly flying hair and legs.
Only the roses were wiling,
Any girl who has successfully reformed an attractive wolf deserves to look like this when waiting for him at This serong bride shows here the latest the church..
idea from France, easily copied ... Instead of the traditional bouquet or prayer book, she carries a giant tulie rose, tied with green satin and scattered with blossoms to match her model hat by Madame Robe. The fashion In Paris nowadays is to be married in the country during the summer months and it isn't unusual to see wedding parties driving off to the wide open spacos for the ceremony. The idea has come from America where so many marriages are celebrated in a country home with an altar very often erected in the gerden.
-(London Express Service),
she After which effort mutely considering the diamonds above her wedding ring, and he, to Nelson breathing his lost.
Then suddenly: "What made your mind?" he you chanje demanded.
unid. "Remember my boy tear- ing up the High-street on your old donkey?"
I asked him if he also roniem- bered the blazer with the coun- cil school crest.
What about, dear?" "About the trifle. "Well I didn't really want any more but the ice sounded nice; And then when you said "trifle," I thought if you could manage so little time."
it, perhaps I'd better too, dear."
"I stil have it," he told me, "but I never have time to wear
it. There's so much to do and
Life is tough, we know, for
top.
It seemed a kind of fury those who strive to get to the surged within him.
"Can't you make your ot
Tougher sill, it seems, once decisions?" he would surely cry. they've reached it.
But inertia took over us
the
walter returned with the trifle.
Silently they spooned it in. "Cofee?"
"Not unless you want some,
dear."
BIRTHDAY
He gave a little belch, “Sha!! LIST
we move on?"
So, in silence, they went.
Goodness,
emptiness
marriages.
the terrifying "happy"
of some
ONE MAN
AND HIS MILLIONS
MY
business
to bo
O
favourite mon used thick-set, fot chap who smoked a handful of cigan 20 minimum of Q plus cigarettes a day and ron an outsize dress busincas,
Short, tough and ebullient, he thumbed his nose at everything and almost-everybody.
Half his life he spent in the country where he kept pigs and lounged around in a Savile Row blazer with the Aldgate-street on the Council School erest pockel
He was entitled to wear 11, he cald.
Proud of his old school 100.
His name
Louis Mintz, and until recently I had not seen him for four years.
is
My favourite bustness man is now my favourite millionaire, for in those four Intervening year he has-take-over bid by inke-over bid-made something as boss of over £4,000,000 Selincourts.
Of course, many other play ers would handle these cords right also. Experts don't
a monopoly have results.
all
Onz
good
Bobby has a normal double of West's one heart opening and Mervyn, in the South, has
one no-trump It a sound
NORTH AAKSE
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AK92 4KJ74
WEST (D) AQJ100 ❤AKE73 +97 0103
KAST
4015
062
31004
$945
SOUTH 672
1034
West
JAQ02 Both vulnerablo North
19 Pur
Разв
2 N.T, Pusz Pass
1 N.T. 3NT.
Kast South
Double Pass
Pass Opening lead-4 Q
potenilai heart points, two sponse. He has eight high card
and no interest stoppers, the other major sult.
∙in
to two no- Bobby's raise trump is the interesting bid of the band, He saw no reason to show one of his four card suits after Mervyn had bid no- only problem trump and his
to bid two of was whether three. His cholce of a mere two no-trump showed his cor fidence in the fact that Mervyn the bone would know about for bidding game.
and making
A
Sure enough, Mervyn went to three. There was nothing much to the play. West opened the queen of spades, Mervyn won in dummy and led the Hons is re IJERE, in its entirety, is my Jack of hearts. Eventually he
what he
wants for his birthday:--
"A trained ferit;
"A signed photo of B.B." Well, which would you start chasing?
Sh-s-sh!
set up one heart trick which was enough when added to his two spades, two diamonds and Your clubs.
CARD Sensen♦
Q-The bidding has been: Wast North East South 14
Double 14 IN.T..
Pass } You, South, hold! AK 34 87 4Q1005 4KJET
What do you do?
CAID & smartly-hatted woman
ot
Разя Harrods-- in the lift "Well, his mother's second husband was previously married slater. to her first husband's what does that make Charile."
"I don't know what that makes him, but I'll tell you he is sold the young what man with her.
and "Sh-s-sh, darling they drifted away.
-(London Express Service).*
A-Bid two no-trump. This is not a dental of hearts, but rather shows your partner that you had- a maximum uns zio-trump call TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner bids three dia- monds. What do you do now?
Answer Tomorrow
Ideal
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"And remained unchanged?" TUBE-FOLDING BED I wondered, as I drove off to lunch with him.
No smoking
He is a thin chop now. Well, thin-ish anyway, but ebullient
Da over.
He does not smoke. He has no farm. He lives in the heart of London to be near his work, and be invited me to cat in his boardroom "because I don't You know lunch out any more. how it is.
"People seo you with some and they other company boss Immediately suspect a deal,"
That's right," said I. "Some- one might spread it around that I was trying to buy you out or something."
He grinned:
"What would: you want with all this? Take it from me, one mililon is enough for anybody.”
I told him I believed him and asked how it felt to have four times more than enough."
"It isn't the money, it's the and the sense of excitement things happening. It's ment and drink to me and I cannot leave 1 alone. if i am 24 hours away from work I am miserable. "I've just brought up Hardy Amies ready-to-wear
Ilo's company, you know, great guy, isn't he, that Hardy!
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