1959-03-11 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1959.

WOMANSENSE

Nellie Opens Oysters

WOMANS WORLD,

School For Sale

Sydney. The school closed Inst August, One of Austentiu's strangest after 35 years, on the death of schools possibly the

owner and principal, Miss only the school in the

teach Violet Glubins. world to girls strict naval discipline-1. for sale.

The school Is The once

Osborne Ladles College, everinoking picturesque Kanlmbla Vulley near Sydney.

Hthat even if Hot

ПAVE you ever, thought

did give you a barrel of oysters you wouldn't be able to

open the perishing things?

There you'd be with a rapidly deteriorating luxury In your possession and all the resources of strength and modern science wouldn't be able to help you.

This frustrating contingency, once peen clearly, seems werth guarding ngainst.

being quiet, Oysters,

old- shioned things, neist a quiet, eld-fashioned hand

open

forga

Dhe

Everything about the school smacked of naval discipline. All them (native systems are natur- 50 students aged between seven ally incre insular than

blueyielding and sixteen-wure navy

and uniforms with gold-plated but-there isn't a hand in the world tos and velour hats. Senior that has tamed more tough girls had commissioned ranks Wallstr.ble oysters than that of and new girls were "Middies,"

Nellie Giles, "Nellie's total is something aver five and a half mililon in 40 years.

Only person at the closed school now is 51-year-old Miss Victoria Everingham, a former pupil and teacher, and a dog, Ench section of the three Nelson, formerly The school's storey incision was named after - mascot.

a warship-Reuter,-

Don't be nervous

by Anne Sharpley Good Grooming Counts For Success

Well, I wasn't nervous, I had one side of the oyster is tidier- worked it out tht the oyster looking than the other.

In Business

had more to lose than me and li Customers were starting to couldn't be worse than some of come in and demand whole the people I've had to interview, platefuls of oysters and I was Nelle lent me her lucky put on to the job of handing the knife, the one that she's used oysters to Nellie from thaXECUTIVE secretaries reach

barrel. As it was, just dolus emciency and good

succes via a combination of

for 40 years.

an

grooming.

It was sandpapered and that, I could hardly keep up sharpened ready for the day's wir her. Her strong pink hands Beth are as important to busi- battle.

nem success as a pleasant per- "Are they, alive?"" i devastated all before her.

sonality, esited, gnzing down at the enemy

eagy-en-the~CA.S. who were obviously

telephone manner, nice speak- their teeth hard at the sight of

ing voice and excellent techn- лю

cal skills,

clenching Sore?

Don't your hands get sore?" "Oh, you. But they die when

(mine were alrendy), ; you cut the muscle tant fastens sked them to their shell," said Nellie. confident of victory.

She picked one out, slapped It fly down on the counter and in a flash there was the shell <pened and an oyster blinking up al us with that look you see 1 the

eyen of chort-sighted people when they lake their glasses off.

What makes Nellie fascina-

She showed me where oysters thig as well as unique is that are at their wenkest--opposite she has never tasted an oyster, the hinge. Now dig your knife Nelile was clearly the person not in here." I found myself, after

to open

a few minutes, not digging but a ostler-bla whole new mutilating it. philosophy of restraint, as well, For while everyone else is busy

YOUR BIRTHDAY ....BY STELLA only to torah me bow

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11

PORN today, you are one of thomas ➜ who agreed with th edage: I at first you don't wurred. My, y 020int. You are industries and will work hard to reach your objective, You never berene dawndrafted minor failures, but areept the A challenges ja work all die Harder. Since you have an origiual point ef view, you may find Diat your ideas are not always acceptedt inundate

will find That eventually you faith in your own ki as is fully justified

You have a fine seme of tinour and this helps you ang in 110

JACOBY

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IN ever to get full value out

of your high cards you musi play them at the right time. East's queen of spades wre his highest card but bewed it to his opponents' advantage; not hin own.

South's Breg na-trimp en- tract was based on a minimum 13-point two mastramp re-pense and a alimen or sub minimum 12-polul ouening bid by North. West opened the jack of spades and South saw that his contract ves pretically hope- less. Also, there was nothing much he could do to make but East and West gat Rigethr to make it for him.

Enst played the seven 13 spades. He wasn't going to wa-fe his queen on hi. purtier's jack.

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You enjoy people, and like to study them. You have been given antydig Endesit, la 1 m up to you to flad De sterile aces di which i Till Bate

You de your test expression.

wink as your own boss, e you do not enjoy having tabern trak muggestions show to, da n Job Lis 1 fel, puts like to be the one in do the telling)

trying to make the world their Success oyster Nellie has been muiting the oyster her world.

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We discussed the matter with "Never. And I don't use any of an executive secretary whose those hand-creama either." boss is chairman of the board of She Somebody esked for sliced eu-a world-funcus company. cumber and without so much agreed that cffelency and skill es locking down

she alone weren't enough. whirred out a paper-thin pile on to a plate, talking and greeting

MUST BE ATTRACTIVE customers even more, animatedly to slyly emphasise her virtuo

"They-the bosses," she said. sity.

"expect you to look attractive "Don't

you get tred?" I ll day long." nsked.

With a hundred details to "Never gel tired cpening handle-reports, plane reserva- ysters. They say here that they tions, towers for a sick asso- can always tell when oysters ciate, & phone call to tell his Lren't in season because I look family of an extra dinner guest, so miserable."

dictation, typing that well- groomed look can be shattered, repecially if girl's casily rattled. An executive secretary con't be Poise helps her keep Iwell-groomed, ao matter how many emergencies shoot the day's schedule into shreds.

"I'll pick you cut six easy ones," said Nellie, so soothingly that began to suspect her of psychological methods.

nut

PERFUME HAS a place in the offlor, says a top secretary, who uses a cologne stiok twice daily to freshen fragrance.

bosses think perfume's appro. V per cent of the members of priate during clee hours?

the Los Angeles chapter of the "Yes," Gays this successful Nailonal Secretaries Association

revealed their bosses approve of and like them to wear fragrance during business hours.

At last I node a tiny breach She works In Sheekeys one and without actually

After terrible struggles getting of those look-luck-in-nostalgis down on the floor with

managed to produce a rather with 0 marble managed to get the knife in.

squalid pla eful of shattered counter, lots of ferns (persis→

shell and squashed oyster. tently mistaken for uspidistras)

"Cut the muscle, cul the "She'served herself one short, It begins with proper prepa- large mirrors that steam up musele," urged Nellie, while the sip one whille she's

As I had no looking." !

ration, our informant says. enthusiastically with the lovely battle raged on.

heard her whisper "My daily routine starts with and means of knowing where the to Mr Fielding. Although you may appear to be vapours of turbo, salmon

the manager. a scented bath," she said, add- I tried imagining Q, humiliation. Not only was Ing that she gets up half an TS-KORK and do have a kindly cel-und that plethora of white andre, you are not one to be iminen that makes middle-aged where it was and that seemed

a miserable failure as an oyster- [hour earlier allow time for Brosel ajrosi, either. You may be

to do just as well. For suddenly

epener, but I couldn't count up the lub. Bow to but you have a real middle-class gentlemen think of

I saw

ever-widening gap temper, once it reth rolling. These nursery days again.

to six correctly!

"I follow up by giving myself who know you well avoid crusting Nellie and 1, wrapped in white round the rim of the enemy

As I obediently chewed that an all-nver splashing with cau secretary. "I'm sure they do, 1 who, when surveyed recently, wrath, once idea-tied, this midday when the rush starts. you to erran miljects, for your overalls, got in a lesson before appearing.

magallicent day-al-the-seaside- de cologne. Later, I apply know gives them as much Twist the blade of the knife." In-one-mouthful flavour of my matching perfume. Fragrance pleasure as it gives me, because "I took me a week to open cried Nellic, authlessly, This six oysters I had one more ques-aids don't make you look well. I'm often asked, "What is that my first oyster. I cried nearly levered the gap open wider and tion for Nellie.

groomed, but they make

stort you're wearing?" you every night for seven days and the enemy, pale and, was it my "Why have 1/914 never had feel that way-it's half of the

We agree with this, and so do then suddenly it come to me. imagination but was it wincing? `ene?" I asked.

battle-wen." Memb Ma Other people it's taken fort--gave itself up.

"Well, look at it this way. night. But that's only when You then show no mercy, but deor," said Nellie, "supposing i they're nervous. If you're ner- cuth free of its other incoring didn't like them.... vous you can't open oysters." and turn it over. This is because

to be faced

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Tobes Smollet, author Salvador Dail painter: Frederick S. Cozzens,

painter.

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The Magic Grocers

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-Mt. Merlin Makes Even Ervanda Ex---

By MAX TRELL

and NARF

Kanid, the Shadows with the Turned About Names, had just started walking down the street, when 23-they mc1 hele friend Mr Merlin, the Magnificent Maglelan, It was a lovely day of sunshine, Mr Merlin was wearing a bright wire sult with yellow spots on it. The yellow gots glittered like sunbeams.

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24-Nept 21)

Take a backward took it it will help you tu tam up what is accouplisheið und what moig must be done.

"Ah, good morning, Hanidi LIBRA (Sept. 24-01. *0)—

this day

For "hopping-up Good morning, Knorf!" said Mr operations if an important job is Merlin. "I see you're going to nhusty Brushed. Complete it.

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He led the Jack of dinmonde. South won with the ace, led a low heart and played the eight from dummy. Etsi wes in with the jack and still had no spade to Icad. This gave South time to knock out the ace of clubs also and make his contraet.

How did West help declarer? He could have led his king of spades at trick two. This would have kept him in the loud and allowed him to clear the spade suit by himself while held the nee of clubs.

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SIDE GLANCES

Lucky Guess

"We have to buy salt and pep- per and mustard and vinegar,” sald Hanid.

Around The Corner

"There's a salt store right around the corner," said Mr Merlin. "And right next to the salt store, there's a pepper store. And right next to the pepper store, there's a mustard store, And right next to the mustard store, is the vinegar store,"

in a surprised voice, Hanid weld she had never heard of any of those stores,

"And besides," said Knart to Mr Merlin, "there's just a big

lot cmpty

around the corner. "How did you know that?" There aren't any stores at all!" asked Knorf, surprised that Mr

#1 Merlin should have guessed.

don't know anything about an empty lot," said Mr Merlin, "Hund is carrying a shop "All I know is that there's a selt ping bug," suld Mr Merin.

sture, a pepper store, a mustard "You're carrying a list of things, store, and a vinegar store, And on a slip of paper, Kurt. And if you want to buy salt, pepper, neither of you look happy - Samugard and vichoro no Tin quite sure you're going, to the places to buy them! the grocery store,"

you'd better just come along Khart and Hanid told Mr with me." Meriln that he was right.

Saying this, Mr Merlin inked „his, urmis, with Ihers Around

the corner they all went,

Knarf Was Wrong "But there's nothing but a big

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"The car you're turning in will take care of the federal, state and city taxes the price of the new car is in addition to that?"

So

empty lot around the corner," Kart kept saying.

The Mustard Store had a spton

Instead of a chlmsey.

The Vinegar Store was made of glass. It looked exactly like a vinegar bottle.

in the Salt Store, a man in a whlte apron sold Hanld a can of salt.

In the Pepper Store, a lady in

Hanid a box of pepper.

black and white apron sold

the Mustard-Store, on out mon with a brown beard sold Hanid a pot of mustard,

Tall, Thin Lady-

And in the Vinegar Store, a all thur boy with her par puckered up as though she was trying to whistle, sold Knarf a big bottle of soury vinegar,

Knarf and Hanid thanked Mr Marlin for showing them the wonderful Salt and Pepper and Mustard and Vinegar Stores. "We're going to shop there, all the time from now on!" sald For Hanid.

But Knort was wrong! (Or perhups Mr Merlin, ühe Mag- nificent Magician, hod just worked a magical trick), there, around the corner, on the But when Knart and Handd very spot where the empty lot went around the corner a few had been, now stood four stores. days later

have; another look

The Salt Store looked like an at the four wonderful stores, all Fenormous cult shaker.

The Pepper Store looked like they could and was a big empty a giant pepper nuli.

Jot.

Mr

"Oh dear?" said Hanid. There was no mistaking the Merlin just played a joke on us! Mustard Store. It looked like a You can only find the, Salt and mustard pot with a wooden Pepper and Mustard and Vine- mustard spoon Instead of a gar Stores If you're with a Mag- chimney!

nificent Magiclan ice him!"

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Rupert continues to wonder musta" "kel those, Mummy was about the strange appearance of careful to ask for usid irises. On the bate but ha, errand for hia - his way back he looks around as be mummy, is so important that he hurrica along. There isn't a wild Wastea no rodie time but preasca - iris in sight,” he zuarraurs. “They wants. „mun, be all over. "Anyway, there **There are plenty of flower “am other yellow Bowerd, Ul pick harr - ha... thinks, ..., ** though 1 a bunch. "They'il be, nice.'

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