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THE CHINA MÄIE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1958.

WOMANSENSE

WOMANS WORLD

Mother Gets A Kitchen Sink

Crash! Splad

"Henry" shrieked the good wife. "Henry, you've simply got to do something?"

No doubt about it, something needex doing. The ping dat pon had splited over. Now the low cupboard with the well cut into its top to hold the pan was

wast with

Ruds soop clanking with broken china. Water treated over the good. wife's feet and grew late pd diea on the kitchen floor

Henry had made the low cup- board with a vircular hole in its top. Ulking to lighten the end- Jess trak of dishwashing for his wife. Bul too often she falled to set the pan of soupy water per- feetly straight and level in the

frealor well,

"

come Henry thought about

Improve- way to improve his ment. What was needed was a really waterproof place for dish washing. So why not line the wei} +1 the cupboard with motal? Thu? No, that would rum too soon. Sheet zine would but right. Henry set to work.

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MARTHA BLOUNT CONTINUES

Take a day dress,

double it! For evening impact

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HERE is a new look for evening-stark, simple, straightforward, but glamorous as can be.

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Bronwyn Pugh, top model So the first kitchen sink was

Henry called 19 - In Paris, told me that the mode. procee! htterનાં Improvement formula for evening dress-

the metal "zine" bermuse at with which it was luned.

ing in Paris is simply But

this:- many admiring women confused that aure

with the fact that when it was used the dishpun would "sink" below the level of The cupboard top. So "k" b care the familiar feature of mother's modern kitchen,

"Take a day dress-dou- ble it. Make it exactly the same as the tweed or jersey dress, but in rich red velvet or sumptuous satin.

"Don't alter the neckline,

By LEE PRIESTLEY the hemline, the sleeves.

JACOBY on BRIDGE

THE unsound vulnerable over-

all is likely to prove a one-

way ticket to the poorhouse,

Fven per-sound prove expensive

one may

NORTH

28

AQ 10 7 9 3 ➡32 33

An

WEST

when partner

shows up with nothing.

Bast did wat renlly have

South's two-cart nung bid. overcall would ingef the most exacting standards antel West really had a poor double, yet when the smoke

had cleared away South was down two trieka, The defence was simple but interesting. West opened his king of spades, South won the trick und led the ten of hearts. Bast took the ace and after a lot of thought played the king of clubs.

VICARD SenJEKO

Q-The bidding has been;

East

14

Poss

South West North Duble Pass 14

You, South, hold; AKJ106 VAKQ985 403 44

What do you do?,

A-Bid three spades only. You have tremendous distribution bea can easily lose four tricks off the top Remember that your part- ver's spade bid guarantees nothi ing since you have forced him to take action.

TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner continues with a bid of four diamonds. What do you do now?

Answer Tomorrow

❤ 8

AJ872

◆ A 100 42

QJ03

EAST (D)

A 30054

A75

or an

Don't add ㄩˋ brooch, a bracelet, earrings artificial rose. The secret the is to keep strictly to underdressed look."

Bronwyn achieves the new effect by wearing her

with evening clothes

the

same untidy looking hair-do she has in the day.

The whole art of dressing in Paris today is to look untidy," she told me. "That is why I'm auch a great success there. I'm natural-

K 100

про 150

ly untidy."

SOUTH

-Joy Matthews

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North and South vulnerable

Fasi

Nouth West

North

14

1

Double Pa55

135

Pass Opening lead-K

When West dropped the deuce, Eest Wils sure that his partner

spade had opened a singleton Hence, he gave him a spade ruft. West made a very safe play. und He cashed his nee of cluba

PICTURE BY JOHN FRENCH

CHILDREN'S CORNER

Hanid And Pixie McDig

-She Finds Someone Takes Care of Wild Flowärs............

By MAX TRELL

led another club. East ruffed and South overruffed. Now there HY," Hanld, the Shadow

Gul was no way for South to avoid

with the Turned Name, the loss of three diamond tricks, About

asked Pixle From Santh's standpoint

"arc the McDig,

some Guwers called wild flowers and some sad feature really

about the

flowers had

ET whole thing wes that if he

called....calted what and West

other kind straply passed, East

are the

that aren't wild?"

oi

would probably have lunded at flowers called" I mean those

de-

three no-trump and South would have opened heart and (sted the contract.

YOUR BIRTHDAY

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9

BORN forlay, you have

By STELLA

The kindly old Pixle McL was digging in the garden be- hind the Old Oak where the Pixica ilved. He stopped digging And Jeaned

his shovel.

on

Crow in Gardens

"Flowers that aren't wild are

'cultivated"," called

Pixle McDig sold. "wid flowers

wlid very grow

and cultivated de ogen pryw. In gardens

“la ^llht, why they're gues entHapid asked,

qutdoor exercise, even if it is nothing

more than a good, brisk walk.

You woumen, especially, are

and demonstration

muations poned in you by the win Yet, if to cornpennaté, you have boss given in coperly for erpilier performance asagnet ipy king of PAY HERRER stiut desp/blur të dia your portion. You are prgcifth Big With Your early if Bts, fearn how to interpfel Jandy, where you can skprémi your your vision into action: You have in exceptionally

imagination vivid

and ar à chaki there may be a thin le in your mind between fact 1ư fiction. As you grow older, you wil be able to distinguid; that which is true from that which you believe to be true, Paronia of children born on this cry must be warned against Insely veusing their progeny of "lying. Rather, It could be an early

of inringinative zonitın' da is another trait ni those who come under today's aspect and, if not

can also be a une- ful gir. Yost are often fearful of the future. You women are often Laur Atrodd in the dark! Learn Bach day as it downe; do what is And let the

molt-cond anybod is the extreme of

currently demande

future take are of itself. It wily does, you know! Your despondent moods can often be dimipated by

WEDNESDAY, DEC, 10

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To find what i wiara have in store for you tomorrow, select your hrthday star and read the corres pondent paragraph, let your birth. day star be your daily guide.

SIDE GLANCES

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kho vilo fewers grow where- ver they liker ut cultivated flowers only grow in gardens?" "Well," said Pixie McDig, "I suppose you might say that was the reason. Garden flowers are caro of by people,

taker

By Galbraith

"Mother! If they koop putting you on committees, I'm

lable to be an old mald?"

They're watered, they're given the right kind of soll to grow in, they're kept from getting too cold In the wintertime. And when they bloom, they're carefully cut and the blossoms are kept in vases,”

No One Bothers

"That's too bad," Hanla said. "The garden flowers get all the caro. No ono bothers about wild flowers at all, do thoy?"

"I don't know about that, my riend. They get watered, you know."

"They do?"

11-20

MeDig stopped digging and leaned on his shovel,

branches, twigs, old hny and "Yes, Indeed," replied Pixie gras and stems. Not all of them of course, but McDlg. Every time it rains, get covered, they get well watered. And enough of them do for thefe they always seem

roots to stay alive so that they to get the right kind of soll to grow in.

are all ready to start growing At any rate, those wild dowers aguin us soon us the spring KAMAGRANT Bf="all, alwöyu

Pecan comes,"

30 have exbelly the right land

Oh, how does that happen, Pixie McDig Hanld anked.

Who Does It

"They get "walded? Bald

Hanld thoughtfully, "They get in the right place," Pixie Me- They are covered in the winter- "The seeds always drop just put in the right kind of soil.

Dig mig. "Or sometimes it is time. WHO," she asked, "takes the wind that carries the soeds, care

of the wild flowers so to the right place. Whichever well7" way It happens, they always get there,"

"Mother Nature," said Pixio McDig. "The only thing she "But they mist get

awfully doesn't do is cut the blossoms cold in the wintertime, far away and put them in a vase, She from people und houses, way let them stand and show their out in the middle of the felds beauty for anyone to see who and meadows or on the sidea of looks at Wem-for cowa and hilla. No one ever covers them beer and rabbits and birds and up. Isn't that so?"

beetles...."

"Oh yes, my girl," Pixie Mc- Dip replied. "They get covered!"

With what?"

"With leaves that fall off the trees," said Pixle McDis, "and

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"And for folks like me and you," sald Hanld,

"Right you are, my girl,” said Pixie McDig, and he picked up his shovel and went on digging..

`Rupert and the Carved Stick-33

Ruperts as excited as the gentleman as he begins to get the iden. * Please, may I take a pencil and work it out ? ** he begs. I'm going to put the sèrtion of the stick in the order of the figures on the handle.-Look, section anven has, the single word "osk' on it.

ALL RIGHTS

Section the bay-two words * to oik" Section two has the words: shall give." Writing very charly, and carefully, he puts down aft the carved words 'In their new. order, gazen authern for a phoment,, and then dances round the room gleefully..waving,Ym_papak.............

RESERVED

AT 13 a boy's height is com

4ft. 1011⁄2in., a girl's 4ft. 11in. Both are about to make a big spurt. Boya may gain 4in. In a year now.

Thoir weight in dst. 4b, and girio st. 8. Health is ex- cellent, and most childish in- fectious discosco apo ‘over.

A test given at this age will show possible ponmanent munity from diphtheria.

Both boys and girls aro cutting second molar teeth, and should have 28 sound, unálled teeth.

Both need 10 hours sleep but rarely get it, as the usual bed the for the 13-year-old is 9.30

to 10.

The girl is confident, the boy is not. Puberty brings earlier emotional muturity to ghls than to boys.

The boy is reserved, shy socially but with men and boys he is honest and open to all good influences.

The boy is very untidy and careless of

and appearance, loathes washing. The girl wanis her first perms and first tay-out in face powder and nail varnish The boy is fearless in sport He will swim, dive, and vault over a horse.

The girl is beginning to lose her nerve physically, but still

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209 far better balance gymnasium and head for heights than the boy.

Future type shows. The antist inusiness is already there, the man, or the intellectual.

in one year (according to mental festers) the child's in-

has telligence

reached 1Ls maximum possible quantity,

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The focus

LL his activities centre in the school. The girl is three-quarters school-fixed and one-quarter home.

So school costys are still poor and mathematics and selences are excellent,

The boy will take to Latin, mathematics, crafts, and tech- nical subjects easily. The girl will learn Latin, French, and whole periods of history by heart.

In films and TV serials, both exes prefer animal, cartoon, historical,

and adventuro stories.

Both need the same quanlity of calories as a grown man.

At school the boy is said to be more "educable" than over before. In English he is learn- ing parts of speech (adjectives, adverbs, propositions, and on), and constructing correct sentences,

Both have tackded

one Shakespeare play and met Scott, Milton, and all the famous stories from Home and Greece,

anelent

He likes 1, cumping and foot- bail; 2, Rugby; 9, bwimming; 4, cricket; in that order.

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She likes 1, rounders; 2, not- ball; 3, swimming and tennis.

Emotionally the boy straightforward and open. The dieult to judge. girl is withdrawn and more

Appeals to honour And courage and strength will get an immediate reaction from a boy. With the girt she has to "feel" her way in work and in play.

The need

You have Foi a child any longer now, you have a com- pleto personality on your hands, and ofte that may be very different from your own.

All children at this age want to be different from their parents But they also want to be loved, and approved of, 80 do you,

The Mistake

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to duminato NEVER try

child's will at 18, but never allow poor or ugly behaviour. The best way to bring homo mistakes is to show justice. If

boy is rude he must apologise. if a girl is deceitful she must be made to face the fuel openly.

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Loving ti person is having "concern" for them. When you love someone you love hun as he is-good, bad, simple, or complicated.

A 13-year-old needs pralse, love, and trust from you. Ho also needs to give these things to his parents in full messure. If your teenager la doing things, making

and things,

giving things to you, then the future lo full-gleam und for you both.

Household Hints

To

Busty

that lovely keup affect on chendie bedspreads

TUIE biggest aced of the and robes, hang them inside out teenager la to trust. To after washing so that, as they trust you

cheniile trim and trust himself. dry, the Especially to trust himself. against itself.

Puberty than any other age.

is no того

trying Children

rube

The best way to iron lacus is du not change overnight. What

to use a reasonably hot iron and they do today is built on the

iron the Uncm, while still thor- habits you have given them oughly dump, on the wrong side, during the past 13 years.

Freedom is the first cry of the 13-year-old. "I want to be If you cook with a pressure myself"

"I want to live cocker, never All it more than my life"

"I want to do three-fourths full.

For soups

to half full.

Both buy and giri still work through observation and memary-not from construc- things for myself." And why and other liquids, keep it down tive, creative thought of their not?

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