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THE CHINA_MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
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*Shirley Lord
PHLEGS and FLASHES
You're one or the other but the question is which? ONE
NE of my sweeter memories used to concern a strong, silent youth who swept me from my feet and hockey stick when I was just ap- proaching fourteen years old. The fact that he said so little, hardly ever moved a musele in his splendid, shiny, pink face and really personified a word I'd rarely heard of in those days phlegmatic had convinced me then of one thrilling thing: the boy was "deep."
1 realise
on
Avery Woman's wavelength
Would Dame Edith Sitwell, an optical department, speciails- for instance, be as impressive ing in the glamour
type of glasses, some with hearing aids bullt into the arins.
if she used a few of Danny Kaye's extrovert mannerisms? No.
Would Richard Dimbleby keep us altting serenely in our arm- choirs if his band TV look suddenly exploded into Bappa Ellity? Never.
They want
Next they turned another door to be alone
LADY
your
of their headquarters Into a hair salon where styles were IDAL SASSOON intro-AQUARIUS evolved specially for girls who wear glasses.
uplift
for
On
duced snazzy chaises longue in his open-plun They also introduced the "hair salon for clients to lie
everyone, which mean that for an unexpected boneath the dryers. He in- special occasion a style could be troduced tasty hot meals, renovated and even recoloured too, and always red-hot in just 30 minutes,
idens on styles, but were his clients content?
Hadn't Paul Getty's flanelal manipulations sometimes been helped atous by his apparent steer imperturbability? I'm sure they must have been.
Despite all those splendid
Recently the final step examples, 1 sill knew myself
was Eye to be a "ash"....my feelings introduced the Beauty
Joy Angliss, a would periodically flood across Bar, where
beautician from Washington, my face in reckless waves and I knew that even today anger now advises on eye colour and had the tendency to make eyelashes for day or evening me sweat gently on the bridge wear there of my nose, Joy dilate my eyes cosmetics to choose and fear my nostrils.
fascinating idea,
STUDYING
can "flash"
H into a "phleg" Not having a Sarah Bernhardt bone in my body, I did a little study.
I came to the conclusion that even people like Gerald Nabarro were "phlex," despite the huge grin that often nestled beneath
Looking back,
it evident, imprisoned forever hadn't in his early days given was undoubtedly part of his between static fair eyebrows, away one clue. utirocilon, so much
that the nuble features were immo- when we eventually lost sight bile, except for the mouth of each other, still occasion which now chewed gum-and ally remembered our friendship the conversation had it any with nostalgia and theorised thing, deteriorated, proadly on what he might be
What ck[ c this shattering the handlebar moustache.... experience prove.
duing In the world.
It was a wasty shock the other day to have him clip my ticket in the underground.
SHATTERING!
I
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me,
something I've often thought few fellow lashes" (like Jean I also decided that despite o
that it's fur, tar better to be, a
Billy Dawnny, Michael Miles, "phleg" thun "Mash"
Jack Collon-short better to bu Able to hide Butlin and
men aren't good at hiding any-
we deserved thing),
our old reputation abroad of being a nation of sit-upper-ippers....
emotions than have them Bash
at lighting up time
und
on to your face like a neon sign how invaluable is a biank face when there's a brilliant mind exterior behind it.
Here was my hero from the E hadn't been deep, he'd Bfth form--certainly no other. 11 been dense, but his hand-
thy mole was, some phlegmatic
The same
AT
SIMONETTA
ITALIAN SHOWINGS
Florenca. of
Rome
sees the Ideal Woman
of 1962 as a flat, narrow- skirt chested figure with a flaring from a high waist to halfway down her calf.
The suits and coats of her collection-presented at the Italian fashion show here have sleeves that have been brought forward to make the chest appear narrower, while the waist is placed high at the Empire level.
Both Simonella and her husband, Fablani of Rome, have lowered their hemlines to about four inches below the knee for daytime, and a little lower on evening clothes.
Waists high. skirts go down
In the streets, on the buses, erryhere I went I realised as never before that I was sur- rounded by deadpan people.... rushing. crushing dashing people all with little or no ex- 'pression.
When later at the first slicky situation I tried to achieve En touch of the old Jangffold-it didn't work. I gathered if I wanted to be mysterious, it would have to be verbally or not at all.
True "phlegs" are, therefore, born not made biat before I
Fabiani showed a cone shaped, usual narrow shoulders, a hip- | became too depressed, another steel rey cunt whose lower halt, length, high-waisted jacket and thought made of Persian lamb was sewn onto a flannel bodice at a high
waistline, It was narrow-sleev- ed and double-breasted.
Much admired was a revers!- hle fur coat, with leopard on one side and black astrakhon on the other.
Mink all lips, sewn along the bottom of the jacket were
bell-shaped skirt.
Except for a figure-mould- ing, naturally curved evening dress made of Lammoire fur, Fabianl's afternoon and eve. ning dresses all followed the high-waisted, narrow-chested caney allhouette.
They were softened, however, by the lightweight and gay col the aured fabrics, including chiffon, and a great deal of lace and satin-China Mall Special.
dy decoration of a black wool len sult by Fablani. It had the
CHILDREN'S CORNER
Chirpie's New Home
--He Now Lives In An Apartment Tree-
BY MAX TRELL
CHHAPIE Sparrow came to the window sill for his morning bread crumbs.
"I've just moved!" he an- nounced to Khart and Hank, the Shadow Children with the Turned-About Names, after be had eaten four or five of the crumbs. "It's much better than my old pince."
Hanid laughed and said that she was glad to hear that Chirple had moved to a pince That
ent families all lived in their separate apartments.
They all live in the same house, sald Hanid, "only they ive on diferent floors and have different door bells and difterëni mail boxca and different rooms,"
"The only thing that's the same." said Kaarf, "is the num- ber of the house."
"Well," said Chirple, when he had heard all this. "an agart- ment tree is prelly much the some thing.
Chipmunk ved down in the root of the tree.
would struck me havu been such a Gagarin success, if he hadn't shown with his sunny, expressive face how much he was enjoying himself?
think? Is t What do you better to be a "phieg" or a "dust".... Wille and tell me
and I'll pay 5 guineas for the best letter, 2 gns for any other published.
For girls with glasses
THO likes department
W store shopping? I do,
because I can flash through, collecting as I go, in one short sharp session.
Because of this frame of mind shared, I'm sure, by many---I applaud the Ingram family, Shella and Stanley, who now have under one roof a service that takes. care of everything "from the cars up."
Starting as a hearing-ald con- sulloney, they went on to add
urc 100
from...a
Apparently not all of them, for after being bothered and badgered, he has taken, I think, a retrogressive step.
BELOW. STAIRS
TO please the protesters who
ROMANCE-ON beneath his sparious ground-
A TANDEM
BEHIND THIS PICTURE 10 news. This tandem romance is developing so fast in France that many fashion houses hava finally decided it would be financially wise to back up thie athiatio pect of the boy. mote-girl story by producing matching clothes for couples on the saddio,
Long-time lovers of the bicycletto, the young French are now spending more and more of their courting days on blcycles made for two and so matching tandem outfits like the one shown hare in dark striped cotton are going into the shop all over the country. As straw boaters are often suggested to complete the ensembles you can tell the cycling is triatly the gentle klad with plenty of "walking and wheeling Mp the stcop hlJE!
The idea of matching outfits for sweethearts could easily move over here, but it's doubt. ful if they would retain the sanie name becauce. despite Me and Mrs Marples, dedicated tandem types, cycling *** pastime for those in love or net, doesn't increase in popul- arlly in this country... It'stl only appeals to 15 per cent of the population in the sum- mertime.
(London Express Service).
JACOBY on BRIDGE
Liane back most FOR some
hridge writers have TC- cognised the difficulty of cover- of minor suit "Cats in the trees!" crieding the subject
alarmed volce. Jump raises by Just forgetting
thing. Th all the about the whole up
"A whole lot of us birds all was belter than his old live in the same tree but encl place,
family is its
own, separate "Why are you laughing?" branch. Some of my neighbours piked Chirpie.
even live on their own separate twigs and leaves,
Hold in an "One of the neighbours lives But they'll eut
Birds!" was Is the roots of the tree and the didn't owner of the apartment
"And, anyway." tree know what Chirpie's old pince Bves"
"I don't see how a Cat can live on a leaf or a twig,'
Why sho's laughing Hould explained she laughing because
was.
she
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Here Hunid · interrupled "That's right, you never told, say that the owner of on apart- us," sald Knart.
mant house was called a land- his lord.
Chirple looked up frum
bread crumba in surprise,
"Didn't I?" he úsked. "Well,
my old place was a space be-
tween two loose bricks at the
Other birds
Calrple shook his hend.
our owner
du any that the jump frees une said Knar!, it three is a game force, but they never give an example be- cause it is too dimeult to have In paint out tha1
20 since points are necessary for a minur auit Kame you need more four strength for a minor sult_jump lego and a tail. I meant Cater-raire than for a major sult.
Chirule was shaking his head
and saying Nu-ne-no-no.
"You didn't let me finish,
didn't mean, Cats wilh
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pillars with about forty legs and no tail.
The
trouble with
The majority of toumament players get around this those simply using the. mlbor
boltom of the chimney of that wwe don't call old house on the other side of that," he said. "We call irim the Caterpillar neighbours," Chirple Jump raise as a strong the vacant lot,"
treeford. He's Squirrel. He went ов, я that they eat bid and not as a force, As he spoke, Chirpie pointed lives in a bole in the trunk themselves right out of their with his wing to the old house right
un Lie Brst Noor house,
at the other side of the vacant mean, the first branch".
loi. Khart and Hanid saw that
I was a pretty shabby place.
Knart and Hand Chirple to tell them who hla
Just imaging anyone cat-
that after
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Lives in calfor
a minor mult open- neighbours were in his part- Chirple said that the neigh- ment tree,
bour who lived in the root "Well," and Chirpie, "there's of the tree "I suppose you are you in bow?" unked Hand, the Robin family, and the might call it the collar of the really glad now to know that Thrush family and a whole lot apartment tree," he said-"was Chirple had moved Away from of Pigeons and another Sparrow a fellow named Chipmunk. his old place.
How's new homo?
"And what kind of a
home
heard of apariment
family.
"I guess he must like I down "I an apartment tree," he "I'm Way up on the top there" he went on. "I know, I sold.
branch. I've got the best view wouldn't live there. It's much Kharf nud Hanid said that in the whole apartment free." too dark nid darau," they had
Chirpie Chart reminded Chitple 'that
now finished eating houses but this was the first he had said that some of his the rest of his bread crumbs.
an neighbours lived on their own
only thing we haven't Reparate twigs and leaves. le go! In our apartment tron," he wanted to know what neighbours Bald just before he few sway. Chirple meani.
"ia a window sill like this. But "It's the Cala," anid Chirple, the whole tree is like a window. Kmart and fanid let out 11's a wonderful Improvement scream.
for a Bird Jike mu,”
time they had beard of apartment tree,
"What's an apartment house?" naked Chirole.
Kharf and Innid expininesi tlint an apartment hoilie was Ruse in which lots of dffer-
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Furthermore, the minar sulf should Jump raise to three Dually suggest the possibility of no-trump game. Thus, South In a sound opening bld of a Ahouki no-trump pattern, He rebid to either three spades of North's after free no-trump Jump ralin in diamonds. The three spade rebid la preferable And that gives Norih a.chance to bid the no-trump game which sutas.out lo baa lay-down against any defence.
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What do you do? A--Bild three ne-trump. This is no rení problema.
TODAY'S QUESTION Instead of bidding two no» trump your varihor has jumped to three no-turnp. What do you do now?
Answer TecneETOW
have cried to him con- stantly they "want to be alone,”
floor salon he is busily dividing a large room into several tig
iho idea that started going out of favour some years ago,
I'm so used to the fun of seeing other people's shampoos and sets, I could't be conxet! "below stairs" for anything.
private cubicles....re-installing
Aftondan Express Service).
LUCK-
CHINA MAIL
horoscope
FRIDAY, AUGUST 4-
(January 21- February 19): Don't run blindly against a sudden ob- stacle, but take time to consider how best to Kur- mount it.
committing
PISCES (February 20-March
20): Before yourself to EL binding agreement, make sure you fully appreciate the obliga- tions implied. ARIES (March 21-April 19): You will meet a person of outstanding intellectual ability, and your time spent together WIH lenve ♫ lasting impression.
TAURUS (Apell 20-May 20): Don't be tempted to evade a responsibility by passing it on to another person. GEMINI (May 21-June 21): You will be glad to d *some fands available for urgent oxpenditure
Ни
Rupert and the Rugger Match-28
po further, for on the instant he is surrounded by screaming, hiss ing, frowning birds who push him away, "How dare you contradict our King?" screeches the biggest No bird ever dreams of doing so. never heard auch impudence ! **
While the King stares at him, Rupert capers about in delight a what has happened. “This is a lovely joke 1" he cries. “My pał Bill Badger said it looked like a Azusage, and now you call it an egg! it isn's an ex. It's my Rugger ball, and..." He get
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