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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
Pago
The day a shrill squeal rent the air of a top store VERONICA PAPWORTH
SO -near
I came
to making news- woman bites boy
SEVERAL SHOPPERS GRACIOUSLY TURNED THEIR BACKS IN WELL-BRED SILENCE
ONE of the heroines in our
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family gallery is a certain Aunt M., who once crushed brand new bicycle to bits to prove she was a woman of her word.
She crept on to the pages of our history on a bright and sunny morning when her eldest luidd his machine across the path of her cur to prevent her leaving home.
He wanted to go too.
It soft musical tones she told him No. He must stay. He must also remove his bicycle at once, for she was in a hurry, or she would drive right over it,
He defied her. So off she drove
worth of pride and
reducing 18 guineas
joy to sixpen'orth of scrap fro DR she
went.
There's character. There's determination for you.
He bared his arm before me
His eyelashes Jay on his cheeks like tanned-out paint- brushes, his fat little hand clutched at his sleeve and his teeth were clenched in anticipa- tion.
"Poor litle chap," murmured the asslatont peering over pyra- mids of tinned tuna. "Has he been bitten?"
"Not yet," said my son meari- Ingfully.
I bent down and opened my mouth.
The eyelashes lifted and two. great dark eyes stared straight at me.
I scomed the well-bred backs fairly quivered in anticipation.
Those dark eyes defeated me. I closed my mouth, bent lower and pulled up his socks. Then..."and la demi-sel and
a pound of fresh ground coffer,”
I continued, straightening..
But she set a standard, and calmly and ia an atmosphere of the older sa sturdy, in his grey "That will be all, thank you."
that kind of thing is very hard to live up to.
It had been my son and my car, we might still be there arguing,
What do I mean, arguing?- drbating, that's it. Punting each point "for" and
"agains!"
JACOBY
on BRIDGE
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TALKING OF FASHION
AM lying under the apple tree thinking up a few hundred words on fashion.
In fact, I've never gentle reason.
flannels, the younger.
With which I rushed them either of them. NOT YET. Generally speaking-and 1 adorable, in his litle sallor takes a general to appreciate a suit. The pair of them all through to the escalator hall-
TOMATO mother's problems-I find we shiny, silken eventually arrive at a solution eyes, and me, proud mother,
hair and angel and the showdown.
"How could you? You little TWOSOME
I've never Given cine.
in my Otto Lucas hat of white beasts. Since school summer holidays rosts.
ashamed...." go on for almost ever, there's
NYONE who takes the Sun flakes dapple my arms and legs, the alr Suddenly, as I dietated my
Triumphantly the older one plenty of that at the moment, order, the spice-scented air of
trouble to grow toma-like champagne, and a great fat bumble bee was grinned back "I knew you But one thing my sons have the groceries department
toes will agree that this busy exploring the fallen fruit around me, thught me is, that I'll never rent by 战 shirt!!
squeal wouldn't do it."
Not much of a crop, and he's had the best measure up to dear Aunt M. I "Ow-ow-ow. He bit me."
"He bet you would. He was summer's crop looks like luck the resolution.
going to get my train and two being an absolute
abun- of
and winter, Please, carriages
"Ercling new autumą if you did. He dance.
clothes coming into the shops are.... But just because they are no plentiful they are so often un-
The newspaper boy la calling to me from appreciated.
garden ge—="CATCH.”
No "follow through"--that's my trouble.
I learned my lesson the day I warned then both; "Let either of you do anything cruel to the other and I'll do the same thing back to him just as
They stood there, eyeing me solemnly.
"Whatever it is?" "Yes"
IF you ever get to be declares soon as I hear of it."
with u four-four fit, con-
op sisting of nine spot high posite eight spot high you will probably want to go after the trump sult and pray for a three- two break. A hundred honours in one hand will kill you any-
way,
South wasn't worried about anyone having four spades against him. He knew that he would have been doubled in that case.
He also knew that once he got rid of the enemy's high trumps he could make the rest
of the tricks.
So there was nothing to the play. He won the Brst club and Jed a trump. He got in
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"Straight away?" "Certainly,"
Not a couple of weeks later
darling.
"Shash, Behave yourself!"
The younger stood with downcant eyes.
"Go on, crled his brother, "you said you would, Bite him."
"Don't be ridiculous." "You swore lo it." " meant at home. 1 him later"
reckoned it was worth it"
"So now will you buy me a train for being brave?" said my smallest virtuously,
can
If anyone reading this recall a time when she bumped into a furious-looking woman in a white rose hat who burst bite out of the swing doors at
Harrods
to shouting
two
There must surely be some
the
it!
I walk back to the shade of the apple tree. new way to serve them? There i my mind on cold-weather clothes! I toss the is. With a little knowledge and papers on the grass and a menacing headline imagination this Cinderella food jumps out at me "MOSCOW TO RESUME
H-TESTS." can be transformed.
I give you two reclpes-
(with a difference)
"You nald as soon us you sightly crestfallen small boys: GRILLED TOMATOES heard, and you've heard now." "If I hear another cheep out Several customers graciously of you today I'LL BITE THE turned their backs in well-bred PAIR OF YOU, I'd like her silence, and my youngest bored to know I didn't really mean
it.
we were shopping in Harrods his arm before me.
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CHILDREN'S CORNER
Marching With Teddy
-Everybody Ends Up Walking On All Fours
By MAX TRELL ATTENTION!
teet.
They only
"I'm a Bear!" cried the Stuffed Bear.
Teddy,
didn't
Soldiers don't walk on their hands and feet. Forward, stand upright and walk march! Left, right
on the tect." left, right Halt!" cried General Tin, the Tin Soldier.
He had been leading a march around the room. He marched Arst, of course. Behind came Knart and Hanid,
Bear.
Doesn't matter General Tin said 11 the matter. A Bear who marched
him
"Otherwise,"
Glared at Teddy General Tin glared back at Teddy.
"Private Theodore Bear," sadly, and led a Econd trump and sald General Tin, "what's the when both opponents followed meaning of this?"
"What's the meaning of what,
said General
WA
"You're standing on your
hands!" said General Tin
ed to lift him up, They ont him down in a corner.
"I was slending on my feet," Boid Teddy.
hands!" said General Tin.
"You were standing on your
Everybody else in the room agreed that General Tin was right, Teddy was standing on his hands they said.
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What can I do? What can any woman de at this moment? STOP THINKING OF IT. Get on with the work in hand.
typical of the new wide-skirted
lines for cool-weather dressES
But what will have happened by the time the cool weather comest More dirty bomb ex- plosions? More fall-ons?.
Couldn't we, the mothers, act together to kave our children? March, maybe?
with wide stiffened panels" for cary walking V March not with bands and banners, not with teenagers singing. But silently, gathering num. bers as we go
Enough of this nonsense-{
get writing.
"This delightful drear with its matching stole in Scottish tweed
So where would we marcht
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Hons of motherk.”
Who would ferd us, shelter. Who will pay
two hours. Add cucumber be-s, finance nat fore serving.
-(London: Exprter Service),
me to write my daydreams? Get on with that fashion copy.
LADY LUCK-
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
Shndow Children with the had to march properly. Turned-About Nanes. And be- hind Knart and Hanid, march Tin, "I can't let you march in ing very smartly, were Mr this parade. Now stand up!" Punch, Hiawatha, the Small-
"Yes sir" said Teddy. Sized Wooden Indian a Plastic Teddy now stood up.
Not
that "Not that way. Duck who had no name and, ninally, Teddy, the Stuffed way!" shouted everybody. They
shouted because Teddy now standing on his hands with his feet up in the air.
General Tin, who was a very good Soldier, shook his head "I don't know what to do with you,
Private Theodore Bear," he said.
What's wrong? "What's wrong now?" aak- od Teddy.
"Private Theodore Bear," Bald General Tin, "you're Teddy, standing on your hands! Get
LIBRA sold "That's what I was doingi I down off your hands and stand The Brst Dive tricks will be was marching left right, left, on your feet."
Teddy took his hands off the alternate leads of clubs and right." spades. If South leads A
Private third
Theodore Boar," floor. There was a loud thump
mory as he sprawled. apade he goes down. If he tries sold General Tin even
Kharf and Hanid and Hin to pick up four heart tricks he sternly than before, you were goes down also. The way to marching on your hands
he showed his hand and con-
coded
□ trick to the last top sir answered Teddy, looking
very surprised,
trump
Here la a hand that plays quite simply at four spades. 1
"Didn't you hear me say left, right, left, right?" asked Gen-
will also inake three uv-trump erai Tin it South knows how to play the hand.
make thres no-trump is to cash
the ace and king of diamonds.
1 East throws a club, South
,clears the spades; If East throws
a heart, Bouth makes four heart tricks. Simple when you see all the cards.
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sir," "I did,
Bul Teddy kept saying that all his hands were feet. Bears didn't have hands!
."
Four foot. "I've got four feet!" he 'said. don't see what difference it makes what feet I march on!" "Pelvate Theodore Bear" said General Tin, "It makes all the difference in the world what feat you march on! If you march with the wrong fent, your head is on the ground. Soldiers don't march with their heads on the groundi They march with their hands hold up high!"
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AQUARIUS (January 21-
February 19): If an 8880- ciate changes his mind about,
proposed joint action, don't try to por suade him against his will PISCES (February 20-March 20): A gentle hint to your partner may be all he needs to be reminded that charity begins at home.
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
VIRGO (August 22-
September 22): Avoidi asking too many premature questions about a matter o friend is not yet ready to disclose.
(September 23- October 22); A chance In- troduction may result in further meetings and tho possibility of a pleasunt
romance.
SCORPIO and watha and Mr Punch all help.
Rupert and the Secret Path—17
Ar he haves the tumbled-down' slogether. "I do wish then no thick disch bushes weren't building Dingo “becomes 'nESVIKI spin and per round in all muddled," be saya. "I found my directions beloes merring maily, way in but I can't remember how {orwarde - Don't look so scared,” to get back "They push through breathea Hapert, "I can't hear a the undergrowth and suddenly Bings se Rupert: waving and wound. There'4 nobody about." Altar faw minutes Bingo stops beckoning, not daring to shouts
ALL RIGHTS AUSENTED
Poor Teddy! Poor Privato Theodore Beari He couldn't march on the right set of feet no matter how hard he tried Everybody joined Finally Hanid said that the only thing to do was for every body to march on their four feet. And that's how it was Khart and Hank and Mc Puncis and Hawatha marched on their hands Right front foot! Left fect,
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The postponement of a date may be disappointing, but you can Use the time profitably to catch up with neglected chores.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A good turn you did n friend in the past is about to pay off handsomely now. GEMINI (May 21-June 21);
Certain changes which you, rosented at first may turn out to be for the best after
tack CANCER (June 22-July 21):
"Attontion!", cried General Tid. "Forward marekt: Left tront fnoli Tight back foot! Jught front foot! Left back foo11"
And that's how thì, parade went. "All around the room, front-feat-back- fasti· · Every one was happy-except Gener- al Tini
Have more faith in your own idons, and don't let othere porsunde" you, that, they know bettor. LEO (July-August 211
Growing opposition to your plans will force you to, yield - in the end to the majority opinion,
(October 23- Novembar 21): You would derive a good deal of -un- selfish pleasure, from ar- ranging an outing' for di lonely person
(November SAGITTARIUS,
22-December 21): Inertia in the face of a difileult situation is not going to help you to find a way out. CAPRICORN (December 22-
January 20):') Ang' unex~ | pectedly Kay evening wil]] fft you out, of the low spirits that have" mada you rather po
poor company of
· Tate." YOUR BIRTHDAY, IT your birthday is this week, you will find a symbol'of good! fortune in a gift of a table lighter
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"Reading from left to right' sketches; show a rose-red two-piece with jumper top and skirt cut in wide; shaped, and attened pancis. (9 m., Wallis Shops). "Next in a gentle little coffee-brown theatre dresa with concave front and con-
ver back (15 gar, Susan Small)...
"After Dior is a tailored tweed dress with bolero top, klek-flared hemline and a wide button-on stole of matching tweed (19 pm, Spectator).
"Then comes a copy of a Cardin sult with one long scarf-end that encircles the shoulders (12 m., Lundale).
"Following on a drea and Jacket (inspiration Chanel) in white brocaded satin with borders of crimson, blue and gold braiding and single pin fastening (20 g., Sužan Small).
"Finally a withd grass-green coat, after Balenciaga Note the narrow standaway collar, the straight front and caped 'back." (13 gns, Wallis Shops)..
I draw a fine in my notebook and look up
Into the blinding blue sky,
Dirty bombe are nuthinkable in face of such beanly. · What can I do? · WHAT CAN I DO? I can rejoice and be glad of · this un- forgettable morning.
I can fume at my impotence,... 1 сал сиг
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