THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1961.

WOMANSENSE

LADY LUCK-

YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE

AQUARIUS

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24

your

22-

A point to more efficient

of handling method work. notice excellent VIRGO

you

21. (January February 191: Extra work taken on at short will provide opportunity

for prove your worth.

to

PISCES (February 20-March 20): Don't be too proud to accept help from a relative who

tAugust September 22): Your en- thusiasm for a new outdoor activity does not necessarily mean that you will master It quickly. LIBRA

(September is deeply concerned about your welfare,

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You would find an unusua}- ly congenial companion In a person of the opposite sex born under Cancer.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

Avoid the habit of

gen- eralising, and don't be too quick to judge othern by u single action. GEMINI (May 21-June 21): Let an ambitious project rest for a while, until a bet- ter opportunity to start it presents itself.

you

CANCER (June 22-July 21): A person on whose assig- Lance

wore counting muy not be free to help when you need him most.

LEO (July 22-August 21): A chance remark of a more experienced colleague may

23-

October 22): It may be difficult to keep a hastily made promise, and an honest explanation is your best way out.

SCORPIO (October 23- November 211: Make a part with your partner not to in- dulge in extravagances with- out consulting each other

(November

Arat SAGITTARIUS

21: You

22-December might find your evenings very pleasantly occupied by embarking on a new course of

study.

CAPRICORN (December 22. January 20): Two members of your family might make up their quarrel if you point out the distress they causing the others.

YOUR LUCKY

Are

COLOUR:

If today in your birthday, look out for BUFF. It ought to bring you luck.

BOYS AND GIRLS

MAGAZINE ***

Who Invented Glass?

-Punch Tries To Answer Hanid's Question-

Dy MAX TRELL

"INCLE

PUNCH." sald Hanid, the Shudow Girl with the Turned-About Naine, "you know all about inventors and mventions, don't you?"

Uncle Punch was sitting in his rocking chair by the sunny window IL wag bis favourite spot in the whole house,

Al

this moment, he was rending a book. He shul the book carefully, looked up and emiled,

" beg your pardon, my dear" he said. "Did you ask me something?"

Hanid repeated that she had asked about inventors and in- ventions.

"'in sure you know all about them, don't you, Mr Punch?" she asked.

Looked puzzled

(6,22)

"Did you ask ma something?" Uncle Punch sold to Hanid,

WOMAN TO WOMAN

'I love people

with problems...

all the friends

I have ever

been close to

have been

fantastic messes

BY SALLY VINCENT

Elaine

Dundy

SHE lives in a spreading Mayfair flat, which in the hours of daylight

seems to have a disembodied voice in each room. People unseen, stamp between the rooms, never actually meeting, and shout to one an- other.

Opening a door to discover me, Elaine Dundy, a flurry of grey-flannel pleats and chain necklaces, exclaimed: "Am I late or are you early?" and slammed the door to miss "I think I'm a little late.”

a

her circle of

"When I feel there's nothing clar, I just pick myself up and go somewhere else. I'm always dlsillusioned when I get there, but I still believe in IL

"I's not that I'm particularly gregarious, or need a lot of

JACOBY ... BRIDGE

NORTH

would have no trouble, maiding a five club contract since all he would lose, would be one. trick... In final cach black sult, but the contract was three no-trump played by South at every table In the duplicate and in every Instance Weat opened tho Jack of spades.

Some Ent players went up with the acc in accordon.co with the rule of third hand high. When this ploy Was made, South wound up making four no-trump. He simply hald off once with his king of spades. Then, when East got, in with the king of clubs he' had no spade to lead, to his partner.

The rest of the East play- ers made the winning

ploy

♥*CARD Senscht

Q-The bidding has been: North East

Pare

14 *

Wort Pass

You, South, hold; AQTIN KA70 4À75 412

What do you do? A-Par. You don't like the way ibings are ròing and should quit at the first opportunity, which to right now.

TODAY'S QUESTION Again your partner has opened. the bidding with one club. This time you hold:

Q132 K876 +ARS 432 What do you do?

Answer Tomorrow

COOKING COLUMN

NORTH (D)

42 AQR

BAST 4AQ7

0864

+J 3083

●AKE +AQJD7

WEST

310045 1075 +074

432

SOUTH

ФКАЗ

VE

• Q82

No one vulnerable

North EnaÌ

Boulh

1 N.T.

Piss

Payr

14 Pass

N.T. Paf

10004

Opening lead-43

West

Pass

of the queen. This play could only hurt if Southheld the singleton king and in that case South would

have re- not sponded one no-trump to the opening club bld.

Faced by that queen play, South could stil make Tour no-trump by ducking, but pus yourself in "South's position.

Would you duck? Not unless you had seen all the cords!. Wouldn't you look silly West held the ace of spades?

Hence they all took the king right away so that when East got in with the king of clubs the spade suit was able to sel the contrael.

by Felicity Ascot

Something tasty.

Asparagus soup with tomatoes

1 cup tinned tomatoes, 2 smell onions, salt and pepper 2 table spoons rice, a soup bone, 2 cups asparagus.

Boll scup bone at least two hours with enough water to make four cups of stock when finished, or make a stock of boulilon cubes, using I cube for each cup of water, Cut asparagus' into small pieces and add to the stock with the tomatoes, Fire and onions. Cook until rice is soft, adding more stock if necessary to | keep up the quantity. Season with salt and pepper to taste,

Hopping John

I plat dried peas, 1 cup rice, 4 lb chopped bacon, 1 quart waler, salt and pepper.

Boil the peas and the bacon in the water until the pros are soft. And the rice that has been washed and cook until tender. Season with salt and pepper. If the peas have been cooked with the cover on there should be enough water to cook the rice, if not add more water when putting in the rice.

activity going on around the Fish pie

she went on, "In fart I need lo be alone a lot to collect myself. I'm Ane on my own, 1 cup faked cooked fish, 1 cup milk, I cup water in which or in small groups of, say, fah has been holled, 2 tablespoons butter, 2 tablespoons flour, 1 two,"

tag. i tablespoon Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper to taste.

Make a cream sauce of flour, butter, mille and water, Add the fish and heat thoroughly. Add the beaten egg and sauce and put in a buttered baking dish. Cook in a moderate oven for about 15 minutes.

United

of

I imagine she retreated to her own private cell to prepare herself for the intrusion. When she reappeared, her high heels smashing the floorboards as though she had walked a long distance, she seemed like an outrageously noisy harvest bench or on the sand of the! mouse. Mr Punch nedded and said desert? I know because glass he certainly did.

is made out of sand and char- She is a tiny woman, but Imagined I'd shown суегуспе As the wife of one of Dri- coal and a

other few

little tough, with Bambi profile that mattend what I could do. lain's professional Intellectuals things and I'm positive that and round, deep brown eyes "So I thought the time had she was defensively vague about "If there is any inventor or long, long ago-long before I which never blink and could, come when I could sit back and the influener of

She pondered on the joys any invention that I don't know was born and you were born if the wanted to achieve an wait for them to come to me, friends on her work.

small groups of people for a about, I'd like to know it he and even before

great unnerving hostity. Likewise You know, offer me parts, 'cour! great-grandfathers were born her very

She began to explain that she while, then of solitude. small hands could my attention, and so on. And Hank now

phrases and she came up with what seemed sald that she somebody built a great roar make effective sis.

funnily enough, nothing hap- used her friends'

then like a hew thought. wanted to know who invented in compare

pened, I wait:d and waited, and ideas in her work, and the thing that Uncle Punch was logs and then later, when the In other words, she is one of waited, and while I waited I went back on it by saying that

fire was out, he kicked away those damentally

herself friendly

after conversing with them, and, shes, probably to make people who Have hackles. She started writing just to pass the she wrote to refresh In sure that the fire was out. orrang:d herself, like a hockey-

better still, to give them some thing new and tangible to ad- mire about her.

Bald.

Uncle Punch looked puzzled. the

silting in front of.

"The thing I'm sitting

front of?" he asked.

cur

and burnt many

fime.

"And what do you suppose playing cif, on a 10ft, sofa, and "Anyway, I became intrigued,

14

He peered sharply in front he kicked?"

nsited for diretion, "Please It began to work for me. "And of him

and peered right Hanid sold she couldn't im-usk me questions," she said. "I somewhire along the way out of the sunny window. agine.

am incapable of getting myself occurred to me L would <rganised."

published,"

"I don't see what you're talking about," he finally an- swered.

Piece of glass

The

ta

Then Baked asparagus

"Do you know what frightens

ahe me more than anything?" asked. "A group of right-think- ing people.

"You get a group of seven or eight people in a room, ail furiously agreeing with cach other, absolutely united in their opinion of something.

"want people to like me and be I suppose I'm always looking for new people who will be able

"This I suspect deeply. Maybe I admitted knilar falling That first attempt turned out to like me. I'll go more than

rrt::1 them it I there's some great lack in me, "He kicked a big piece cf and we nisly ngreed to to be the "Duri Avocado," which half way to mean the window," Hanld glass," said Uncle Punch. "The ponder

but I've never had any "not think there's any possibility."

roup describes mcchnales of she now sald,

spirit. bilier Are had melted the sand

awfully different, just Uncle Punch gave a startled mixed it with the chunks of

and writing,

"Last year I

grew a bl written than a letter to a good

Enthusiastic about nuclear dis- laugh.

burnt wood, which is pretty

friend." "Well, well, well," he said. much the scene as charcoal end,

armament and did a bit of sit- ting down, but couldn't do it "So you'd like to know who

any more because the whole Invented that most marvellous to and behold, he had made a

thing's become so groupy. lump of gloss!"

invention, the window."

Hamid nodded.

"Now just let me see," Uncle Punch said.

Don't mean window Hanid suddenly broke in en Uncle Punch's thinking.

"And is because that Man found out about how glass is made that we've got sunny win dows today?"

Uncle Punch nodded.

Waiting

over

4

Hyenas

She went on. "They say it happens,, und it does, that your I asked about her friends, and you and she worried how to explain There wore various

false characters take "1 wonder what that Man's

start following them.

them without making item

"Now they all go and sit in slarts, such as "Never keep a

recognisable.

Trafalgar Square and it's like name was," said Hanid.

"This is so true, that when "We'll never know," sald Un-pewriter in your bedroom or

a picnic with, Has Brenda "They're all messes, every one turned up yet?' And Yoo-hoo, you'll find yourself lying down you've written a book you get to ele Punch.

day."

and "Some forget which part is you and of them. Somehow all the steep all

wholo limes I spend the whole day which is them. It's like wonder people I've ever been elese in there's old John, The

I thing is absurd, $1 pen,"

but ing if they made you up or you have been fantastic messes, looking for

"Once people get Into was made them up. eventually

just love people with problems. beginning aiscovered.

group. I suppose.

no matter how sincera "I don't really mean the wine

"This is

they UFC, their intelligence particularly odd, I dow, Uncle Punch," she said. "Windows, yes. Sunny win- "1 airtel

find, when 1 Et luck, I, hayo The people I like are the quotient seems to drop. There "You don't?" asked Unele down, no. The sunnysics is thought I had made a name n found I've been thirdag about sort of people who get them must be some basic weakness

something no one can invent, an actress," she waki, "I'd had

and something quite different from selves hopelessly involved with in an Idea that needs a said my dear," he said.

fow good notices

what's going on in my story. Mst those bewildering changes ot lot of people bolstering each

minds can't other's confidence around it. nind starts wandering or I get heart that their to worrying about some probion catch up with. of my own.

Punch.

What I really mean," Hanid," who invented the 2lass"

Uncle Punch looked at Hanid for a moment or two. Several times be opened his mouth as if he were about to say RCTIC- thing. At Inat he opened his mouth and did say something.

"My dear," he said, afraid I have to tell you 19 une time when I can't give you the answer

question."

"I'm

Lant

to your

Hanid looked disappointed.

But I do know This." salit who

Mr Putsch. "the persoT

Brat tnvented glass was some- body who bull a eximpfire

olher at the seashore of

the sand of the desert,"

DTI

"How do you know that, Un- ele Punch?" asked Hanid in a volcy of such astonishment that Unclo Punch

laugh had 10 again

Plow do I know that the man who invented gines bullt a cainpăra either at the ocean

a

writing when

I

Rupert and the Secret Path-48

Constable Growler, can't make head or tall of what is happening. and Sare la pulled away by the little dog Blackie who has been frightened by the sudden Bash, but Rupert acts forward. "Came s" be my,This will lead ue to the old ruin although we

fuse powder burna and Tires alang ita fine, sometimes faster andametimes pausing so that they easily keep pace with B. The constable. In his amorali menti no questiona ar le gbes with Bingo and Rupert round corners and under bushes, güld The by the burning powder. AGE KIOUTH KABARVEN

came such a queer wày,"

Problem

"Then, in order to et on and slop, being slick, I just write down whatever the problém ja→→

"All I sak of people la that they get me and I get them. I suppose you'd call it muiual

Badge

R

whole

"I have never felt the need rospect if that wasn't a much to wear a badge or to belong to too dignified word. No, it's a mutual exchange or, better still, anything. Not even when I was a mutual digging.

chilid,

"Do you agree?" pho asked.

ar ham writing it down, the "And they have to laugh- I said I did.

She looked tronendously

problem breaks through for me, The charactora tako over the problem."

like hyenas."

pleased. That's marvellous," She began to talk without any he said, and began to tabulate prompting.

rl the things "we agreed on.

Then #ka did something 1

"I forrible," nhe Anid, There was a surprising number, Have never known a writer dó

We both liked MBër Davis, the "suddenly to find yourself alone before, She handed 'mo

urifinished and restless, when you can't manuscript of ni chapter of an unfinished novel, think of a single person you She even admitted that he did like, or you'd like to talk to.

paragraph.

Kiki Byrne einthes, and going to other people's parties. We both disliked. birds, particularly chickens.

discovered

Wo

not know how to begin the Arat "Sometimes I And they've all The accord

"Oh, I don't care at all who away and it and could not have delighted har mentally Keream, Isn't there mare. Before the whele thing | Joeku, ai my geluff while I'm something else?" The only way got croupy I left. And I working it out," she said mer. I got out of that horror is don't think. It would ever have riist. "Iửa" when fl'a în print it belleving in what someone once grown into a really big club, Jerkarens (3,"

called the myth of slsewherd,

(London Express Nerviso).

1 tin asparagus, 1 pint milk, 2 oggs, 1 tablespoon tai, I tea- spoon salt.

the

Place the asparagus stalks in a greased baking dish. Beat cegs well, add milk and seasoning and pour over the usparagus. Place in a moderate oven and cook until set, Sprinkle grated cheese on top just before removing from the oven.

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