1956-02-18 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, NATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1958.

Discipline? That word is banned

"D

My children must be HAPPY, not well mannered,

says the sculptress who is

London,

ISCIPLINE,'

said Mra Cut-

Te as she cuddled

her

baby son, "is a word

I

loathe. I don't like any con-

a mother-of-three

by MARY HEWAT

UWI. it makes life

more

the

Mitzi Sol men had made her name with "vuz-man” shows in the USA, before she met and married English author Marcus Cunliffe, Weturer In American history

at the University Manchester.

Ironically for

of

117-

their

a woman who believes in a wife's career, she

Ders

But was over. though commissions

rolling In: Came for the Festivni of Britain, design for textiles, sculpture and stone carvings for schouts, council, universilles,

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month

This

notation of it. It makes me should have a career of crawl inside."

About that moment four-teresting for them, for

husbands And for their el- year-old Sharon upæt her dreu.” cup of tea-flavoured milk

So she works 34 hours warck over the table. There were m her converted garage studio

-hari manual labour as well as no walls.

no smacka, no creative art, "I mished a panel

wollmen de- comunation at all,

tons of Portland 40 feet long by 16 feet livered cight Carving Mr Cunliffe mid mdly: "Oh, high two weeks before farm was stone through the studio sky- dear, you've spilled It. Would born."

light (the door was too smali). you like Mime more, darling?"

Mrs Cuniline, wearing a brand And she finds English mater- Sharm said: "Yes, please," did nity dresses

new shocking pink jersey and "dowdy and de- under a Tarzen aet

skirt. the table, presing. and went ofT to the kitchen to

sculpture univer-dy gel cloth.

job, with

a six-month jur.

But paradume of work 19 LEFT neglect fur the When children You

They "help" their mother working in clay,

and Sharon work in Tom

When plasticine.

mother cuiling stone they like lo sweep up the rust and collect the chaps.

"It is quite unpossible after a ertain stage to hide the fet

Mrs Cunliffe went on talking that you are expecting a child. quietly

The one thing that demoralises Sculptress Mitzi Cunliffe. you

that u cannot weur attractive clothes. Therefore, 301 But wear bright colours. feel much less ke a middle age anck, as most women do, if you wear a dazzling dress **

Jormts Matza Solomon of New York. has some highly English Ideas about bringing up children, worlding mothers and maternity clothes, Furthermore, The puts her theories to the test.

INSTRUCTIONS

Hor

own choice: one gold lame, one bright red. This blithe She bathes discipline. So her letnoclast wears her blick hair instruction to a new nursemaid jong over her shoulders and cul for the three children (Antonia, in a fringe over dark slant eyes. nged five, Sharon, and nine- She is tall, in her thirtles, with month-old Jaste) were: "I don't an engaging way of looking ab- care what Their matters. ara surbedly into your face as she like. Just 100 that they're talks. ,which, she explains, is happy."

She believes women:

because she is short-sighted.

for Her voice is low, warm and mothers still American,

"Wives

in careers

und

Mrs. Cunliffe with doughter Sheron, aged four-” We nog we agreeably as possible...*

started work

An

On northern eight-month desel-

will

W

me:

Can the Future

Foretold?

be

chatting

E had been

about horoscopes. One of our guests, an emminent Q.C., sald to

"Come, let's be honrat: An intelligent, sophisticated womati like yourself can't really believe in all this mumbo-jumbo?”

So I started thinking. The Answer caution, oven a murprised, yes.

Making full allowance for the vast #ecretion of quackery and rubbish that an inevitably gathered round this are old subject, I do think there is nouse- thing in it.

For instance. Once you beflu to dabble in horoscopology you learn that cermin Zodiacal algna hirve a special afnity for each other for vice versa). It is startling to apply this various marriages.

tu

Deeply happy marriages prac- tically always turn out to resisit from harmonising birthday dates.

CHURCHILLS

On a subject-be honest now!—

that secretly fascinates us ALL,

the

China Mail пож prints CANDID OPINIONS by three shrewd and successful people.

Yes, I'm

sure

by PHYLLIS

DIGBY

Mazurkos odite and preamwestie s above.

know moro about the whole subject.

I began to do some research Into the astrological charac

woll teristics of people I knew and whose birthdays I know. and find drain the cap

Time fitted

My work brings me luto touch with many people,

MORTON

Mitry Merite aramı, deniz,

particularly

woman, and by learn-

birthdays Ing their

am at once given an in- aight into their strong of weak

traits, their temperament, their lice ly renction to given circumstances,

An odd and nice ex-

perlence happened

my husband and

we

to

TTD

whon, a few years ago, Arst visited America. We were Introduced to a couple with whom found ourselves Can the store really influence getting on instantly like the pro-

Can we rend at least verbial house on Are.

to the top of his chosen pro- We may laugh and treat the fradou, or she han sume whole thing as a joke-buż wn our lives? Fucrative sideline that adds to will try to get the date fixed a part of the future in them? the family fortunes. Sho for a "lucky" day I possible. Twenty years ago I would never loves only the man

can After all, kings and emperors have thought so. greatly admire.

cot to mention Hitler) used to keep their private astrologers to read the stars for them.

Invannily right?

sho

Often at a party I many meet

Eventually my husband form→

satis ed a pleasant and most metory business connection with

I first became interested when the husband, who is president of the late R. H. Naylor offered to an Important U.S. company, cast my horoscope for me. More while I spent delightful holl- A couple who are plainly not

These horoscope books of ours or less as a joke i accepted, day with the wife at their coun get along. I Anal myself re 2 Transatlantle

I was try home. luxury then forgot all about it. automatienlly trying 10 guess which you can buy for a few particularly busy at the time, meir respective Zodineal sign, ecots at any drug store counter being editor of one magazine st sure I am that the ront fault over there. Mine is sent to me and having just been invited to we discovered that she and I

in the marriage will be there, I'm often right.

MONG famuus married part- Anerships I could instance, Sir Winston and Lady Churchill. He is Sagittarian (birthday November 301. Lister to this extract from my horoscopo en- nbou! tacyclopaedia

the Sagit forian as a husband:

The Sagitarian husband re- quires more than

Jury

other Zodiac type a wise, tactful wife. This type of man is not Or perhaps BOMI Important Ideally fitted by nature for business date has to be arranged. domostio life. His Interests in Will I or my husband commit world affairs are great. He is ourselves without a struggle to very much a pubile man

any particular day which The wife of this man had speel Ittle yearly personal best be

exceedingly broad- horoscope books have warned us minded, free from jealousy, will be unpropitious? No. It is necessary for her tinually to widen

her horizon so that she may see eye to eye with her husband.

Even if they get into mis- chief in the shida they are not

pankol.

"I would as ver touch one of my children," says Mrs Cun- HITS. "I have the idea. And I think the way tenders in this country are allowed to punish children

school is a most monstrous berly."

One of

the secrets of calm Versus Chaos in the lays the chlidren u: most, and their bedroom.

OWN ROOM

For Christmas there was stopler which they use

n

making itin books.

drow pictures

in

for Then they the bocks.

They have A mass

Chalks and

crayons, with

of coloured clip

boards for drawing, and a fuli-

size blackboard.

Their desk is six feet long. with office file drawers, and a Fermica top. Tirel beds are double-decker bunks, where sitting, standing or jumping Is permissible. In fact, in their own room, they can do almost anything they please,

In their father's library downstairs they have their own desk drawer. "It is their favourile room in the house. We have more paper clips than they haya

Says Mr Cunliffe: "Children are difficult only when they are 11. If they are well and happy they will be enormously social and sociable human beings.

"Of fourse you have to nag about table manners and things like that. But we try to nag as agreeably as possible."

As an ex-advocate of dis- elpline, { left the house ronvinced. The children аге charming individuais....and mean individuals.

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PARIS NEWSLETTER from SAM WHITE

MONSIEUR HERVE'S BOOK PUZZLES ALL FRANCE

Otriguing

There Paris

SPECULATION

left-wing majority

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con-

Dvyl

Now turn to Lady Churchill, whose birthday is Avril 1, and read an abridged verstan of the Aries wife:

Thero women make wonder. ful wives for ambitious men. They have brilliant Indepen- dent minds and are willy, elever conversationalists with wonderful social prescULE.

This is the woman who happiest helping her husband

THE CHURDHILL dagittarius (letta

staнa Arma tripkti

One day, quite by Bceldent,

every year by, of all people, the bring out another,

share a birthday while our exceedingly shrewd, hard-

husbands were born within 24 headed woman president of The horoscope arrived, "Yon hours of each other. Two signs

multi-million collar

fashion are abona to embark on a new of Gemini and two Sagittarlins ness, who carries hers round project," 1 sald "This will in all vast America! in her handbag, consults It daily, not be successful."

and wouldn't be without it for the world.

wasn't The folded up a year later.

magazine

which

true.

ORDAINED?

I still have that horoscope, Do I believe that good or bad luck is fore-ordained or that turned out

sets the "At some the astrological vinn

most

of

1 REMEMBER

CHE was horrified when she tonishingly

learned that I'd been riskinge during the year 1941" ran Anal stamp upon human beings?

prother extract, "you are t Of course danger of a serious acciden: you choose thr опе that in causing frissery to your left

years without onet

written to fit your own partleu- lur birthday.

Amerien k cxtremely horo. scope consuous. and the add thing in that the men are ** keen us the wonen.

site."

WAS

Of course not.

Heredity, upbringing_environ- meat-these are the things that mould a character and shape a life. But they need not cance the inluences of the

In 1941 I was in a ship that out

torpedoed in mid-Atlantic Zodiac. and my left arm was so badly wrenched that it had to be put ably be a blend of his

A child's features will prob- father's

Into plaster and as a result I "AR bunkur, of

course, still have a bone that gives me and mother's, but they will stul several of them have remarked trouble.

to me shamefacedly at different times, "but somehow It seems to All this Intrigued get yon...

elently to make

по

bear the super impersonal cast of iss particular astrological me

stuffi- sign. want to

when Some day perhaps, science has travelled yet further into space, there may be dis- covered positive indications of astral or planetary radiation which will put the reading of horoscope

a respectable scientific footing and prove that, ufter all, we bellevers were righti

THEY DON'T CALL THEM

TEDDY

BOYS

-but the teenage gangs in New York are a bigger headache than in London. For one thing, they carry guns.

New York

DARK, undersized

gangster of 17, who gloried in the nickname

of Tarzan, sent a note to

From EVELYN IRONS

or

Is it all a pure waste of time? I don't think 50. All of us, women especially, feel a deep emotional need in our lives for colour, mystery, enchantment, Perhaps a little mild magle now and then is good for us.

I am sure that this is one of the true explanations of the

sun tragle Background — the daily horoscope's appeal for men broken

the home,

drunken--an appeal so strong that most parents, the overcrowded tene-editors would as soon think of ment rooms, the grim poverty, rapping "What the Stara Fore- But once in a while the "hood" tell as they would the financial comes from an outwardly news or the sports page. his 14-year-old girl friend, murderously buckled belts, In hospital, James told police respectable home, and the blame "Let

I KNEW mo tell

sawn-off who tried to find out who struck cannot easily be shifted from you some home-made zip-gung, thing," he wrote.

"Don't shotguns and revolvers. In New the blow: "I hate all cops. I'll the boy himself.

York you car buy a "piece" take care of this in my Own

What is belog done to stop THE other day, at hang around gangs. Look (gang-sing for gun) for 30s, to way."

0 party the rot? Recently Governor 70s,

for given

the what happened to me."

Averell Harriman of New York noticed the director of a large Press, I In Chicago, authorities Shy The favourlie weapon is the that indiscriminate beatings and issued his yearly budget mess | advertising Tarzan wrote from prison. He is serving a sentence of switch-blade knife. You can buy killings by teenage gangs have age, and in it he asked for an women's page editor of a sobie dally newspaper completely ob- that anywhere. All the gangs reached such a pitch that they increase of about £700,000

sorbed in a graph they Were years' to life because the Viceroys, the Dragons, the overshadow the exploits of the light juvenile delinquency.

The kids he killed 15-year-old Billy Jesters, the Spanish Counts, the Al Capone mobsters.

New York City Youth Board, tracing with their fingers on a build

up courage with "The Blankenship by shooting Streaks, the Mighty Romans, the

have asked for about £1,830,000 wall. Pete" (a

cheap Dukes and the other grandlosely bennies" (benzedrino him through the heart with titled bands-carry them.

for 1950-57. tablets) a pistol in a Bronx street

and reefers (marijuana cigar- ettes) and roam theo strecta one fine evening last sum-

looking for trouble.

25

mer.

Im

nl..

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"I HATE YOU'

'MUI

1

to

agency

anki the

"During March," he was say→

"We're

chart

UNDERCOVER MAN the line shoots right up, Uke this" "But don't forget May," she said carnestly. "In aro hints that the five

Nearly half a million dollars May it has a very nasty dip!" NE of the most in- French Communists trave not possible without them, has

The "diddlebop" or sang fight is budgeted for the Board's most They both looked solemn. kept abreast defections that

of the changes ready produced a strong

Tarzan was not alone at the One Monday after lunch 14- is often reinforced by "Debs" imaginative experiment, which have occurred in Russia "nostalgia" from

among the ranks of since Stalin's death.

"Advertising or circulation?” 'I Socialists time. He was with a swarm of year-old Robert Kirby went to "Debs" are girl gangsters. More started eight years ago. It is a and Radicals for * Popular young toughs in skin-tight jeans his classroom in a Brooklyn than 100 girl gangs are affiliated system of undercover agents," inquired sympathetically. international Communism

Front,

and shiny leather jackets the school. A rang called the Cur to boy teenage gangs in New trained men whe inditrate into

"Good heavens, nothing Hico since Tito has just taken

The appearance of Com- Navajos, one of the innumerable soir Lords were after him be- York,

themselves by their conddence

the gangs gradually calling

winning that!" they exclaimed, brushing munists acquiring democratic place in France. It is that

gangs of teenage hoodhums in- cause he was trying to "date" a diminutives of the gang hamong members themselves. Once discussing our horoscope

and becoming aside such trivialities. But it is some strange events habits will make the nostalgia resting the streets of New York. girl friend of one of their mem- Pythonettes, Vampiretics and so inside, they act as father to the for the year!" of a 43-year-old university connected with the book's pub stronger. A point which has not

bera. lecturer, Pierre Herve, a intense speculation in

lication which have produced been lost aight of here is

Americans, who hive £1

gong. It fa A alow, patient handsome young man with The strangest of all is

France. belief among those who know picturesque slang word for most They punched, kicked and In the "rumbles” or gang wars process.

They had discovered they that the French Communist Party things,

have none for these thrice stabbed Robert, and left the girls often carry, the

were born under the same sign guns, "But

sold it works," a wild shock of wavy dark Herve has not yet been expelled best de that Herve has always young thugs. When they dress him lying im the pavement, since they are less likely hair whose wartime resis from the party or even formal had and sill retains very food up, discarding their workaday Until the gang fed no passerby the boys to be searched in a now 44 in the fold, in Harlem, I didn't laugh. I understood

than official of the Board, "We have of the Zodiac. tance exploits and savage pened is that

ly denounced. All that has hap. Russian connections. In short, icons, they go in for peg-lop dared to call for help.

L'Humanite has that he may have received sonre

police swoop. But

and the tough areas of Brooklyn and completely. pen have made him some published a review of the book very strong encouragement

trousers and gaudy satin jackets:

more the Deb gangs are acting the Dronx-all the worst gang- But there is no American trans- The same day a fight flared on their own, robbing other girls, infested districts of the city. thing of an idol among in the circumstances, a sur write this at this time.

lation of the British Teddy Boys, within another gang, the Astoria sometimes cutting off their hair Hundreds of boys have become French left-wing intellec prisingly mild one and the re-

The American boy gangsters Gents, in another" district of and tearing their clothes. good citizens in useful are even more deadly.

New York. ·Eighteen-year-old

through the influence of these Here, they fight with brass, James McGowan was stabbed in Behind most of these young nelde men.” knuckle-dusters, broken bottles, the chest. Fighting for His life criminals Investigators find the

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tuals.

view was signed, not by leading party member but with a detitious name.

A

1

ADY DIANA

widow

of

the

to

that

her

JOHNNY HAZARD

TWO PROJECTS

Now Harve, who was one n

COOPER, Communist MP and nasistant, This was obviously intended has denied to me reports cur

Lord Norwich, editor of the Communist daily to leave the party leadership rent in Paris of two L'Humanite, has published uncommitted on Herve's book credited to her that the

projects book while still a member of for the, time being. The fact is writing her memoirs and the party criticising a great deal that, whether premeditated or she plans to reindray, of Communist dogma,

rot, the party could the Harve's On the subject of book to further strengthen the memoirs, she made force of its present appeale

a wholly to convincing denial. "Of course I French Socialists and Radicals should write them, I've known for a Popular Front,

that for yours but the only IL, intend of expelling Herve trouble is that. I can't write."

RESULTS and and

LESS CURIOUS

This alone is a good deal less curious than many of the odd circumstances surrounding

it invited him to discuss

book's publication. Tivers are no book in the party Press ensations in the book, which is within the party dek little more than a mild plea for dreary admitted the validity streater troedom

his

of cladusión; {ame of his criticisms, the party

of OFFICIAL Bloć

Tinskio the Communist party.

om the rich cuatorial itself would taloo Ол an ax botritoryvoid

Its contral theme in summad, towels offcutive now look."-roncised Paris.

up in these words: “Communia),

Mataders in France have created

■ formidablo theologor, with the

romit that truthfula, mPRAISE

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follows. Régigitro 213,351) ballote

The.Milikmete of the present with a midority of,

only to certain esen.. sccording - French (perilarati

so that position : in the party. Communit

murorsaingis" pacing

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AS STEPHAN'S TWE BOME AND HIS LIFE RUN OUT THE TARKER PLANE BLOWS UPL

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TANKER..... YOU'RE SAFE NOW, MR. MEER.....

more

By Frank Robbina

YOU HEAR, MEER...YOURE EH? · POOR OLD GUY, THE STRAIN MUST'VR. BEEN TOO MUCH HE'S PASSED OUT!

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