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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1959,

WOMANSENSE

VERONICA

PAPWORTH

REPORTING ON A TEAM OF NOSY-PARKERS WITH THE ODDEST MISSION IN LIFE

Why do these quiz men always

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PICTURE BY JOHN ADRIAAN

CHILDREN'S CORNER

Five Minutes Are Lost!

-But Grandfather Clock Gives Mrs., Cuckoo His-

By MAX TRELL

MRS CUCKOO, who lived in

the clock that hung on the wall near

the window, opened her door and looked out.

Now usually when Mrs

"wish 1 knew where those

five minutes went to," she said.

"You didn't happen to see them, did you?"

"No," said Knarf.

"I didn't see them,

Cuckoo opened the door of her sald Hanid.

cither,"

gave

u quick the carpet

and

"They aren't there," she mur-

Mrs Cuckoo clock, she did so in ordey to tell everyone who lived in the house glance under what time it was 1 mean, she shook her head, stood on her doorstep and, in a

fine, loud, clear volcc, she mured to herself,

called out the hour.

Just Looked Around

But,

didn't bother

telling anyone

She looked in the corner. She looked behind the chair. She looked behind the bookcase and

- what Ume I was. She didn't sald,

9-10

"Tve lost five whole minutes," sali Mira. Curicoo.

I

tonight. Mrs Cuckoo in the empty Bower vase.

"They aren't anywhere," she. later, "I don't think those were

my lost dive minutes at all.

they're "But how could you lose five think

Πνι

eld very Khar! asked

that the old Grand- Mrs minutes

father Clocks has been keeping for years and years.

call out the hour at all. What she did was lo stand on her minutes?" doorstep and loot all around.

Knart and fanid, the Shadow Children with the Turned-About Names, who were getting ready

looked around:

Cuckoo,

"Ou

Just Slip Away

they

sometimes

"It was very sweet of him to slip give them to me. Now my

clock is right again."

to go to sleep for it was al- away," said Mrs Cuckoo ready quite, late at night-dis- keep my minutes in a big basket tipetly heard her say, as she in the storeroom, but they're

Everyone know very small. I don't know

They where they how small a minute is. could have gotten to. They're just slip away and are gone."

"Now the clock wil be dve Knart and and saw that minutes slow, won't it?" asked Mre Cuckoo was about to turn Hand, and go back into her house.

"Mrs Cuckoo!" Hanid called. "What have you lost?"

*Five-minuten,“

lost and I can't find them."

Cuckoo,

replied Mrs

Five minutes!" Hani repent- ed in surprise. "Is that what Fou suid?"

Whore Have Thoy Cona?

"That's just the trouble," sald Mrs Cuekoo. "If, I don't And that five minutes before morn.. ing, everyone in the house is go-

ing to be late."

But Knarf and Hanid found Mrs Cuckoo's lost five minutes. They found them in the old Grandfather's Clock in the attic, where they had hidden them-

"I've lost five whole minutes," selves. Mr Cuckoo repeated. "I don't "I don't need 'minutes any Grandfather know where they've gone to.", more," said the

Mrs Cuckoo flow down from Clock. "I haven't fold anyone

landed on the time for years and She her doorstep, the floor. She walked up and You're welcome to them, years,

down worriedly in front of Knort and Honid.

"Do you know," spid Mr Cuckoo to Knarf ́end Hanid

pass me by?

DAILY the gleanings of the poll-takers litter my

desk. "Four out of five young girls wear three to four petticoats at a time”. "seventy per cent of women over 21 tint their hair" ... "two out "the of three can't tell margarine from butter" women of Britain buy one and a half brassieres a year" "seven and a half per cent don't know" "eight out of ten read a minimum of four maga- zines each week."

But who are they and how do they work — these professional nosy-parkers whose strange task it is to put so many seemingly pointless, sometimes impertinent, ques- tions to the hordes of tall, squat, old, young, and liquoricely-asorted women teeming along the pavements of our big cities.

1 get around as much as mosi prople more, perhaps, thon many but never, ever has anyone stopped me to query the quantity of my petticoats solicited my views on Liberal policy or pressed a rumple slee of bread and margarine into my hot little hand.

Since poll-taking appears to be a limited profession could it possibly be that the same women are quizzed again and again?

"Yes, thank you." Two hours later a Tattooed Man-turned up for lunch.

Every inch of skin squirm- ed with wrlihing makes and dragon", There were blue anes with red eyes, red ones with blue tail and a fear. some fellow sporting red smoke upside down

hls chert,

on

"T had to do it that way,”

Could It just be that the' same women nie quizzra again and again?

GIRAFFE NECK

LOOK

COMES

TO TOWN

he explained with the nir of By HAZEL MEYRICK

tin Vinci struggling against dim- other men, "but it isn't easy to culties that would have bested

Small wonder that what with all the washing and starching of their petticoats, the constant retinting of their hair, and the draw on your front. I've got a running repairs to their one beastly crick in my neck." and a half brassieres and all

"I thought you told me, you that magazine reading. they had something to draw on?" sometimes have time for no more than a desperate "don't know."

When a mother

can relax

Any mother of sons will agree with me that it is comparatively easy to relax when one bes them in sight.

Especially if they are roped to their father.

Not that I wish to decry the Mrs Elizabeth Fearon who, watching her two small boys saling

Courage

of

"I had," said he reasonably "ME."

JACOBY

on BRIDGE

on

London.

TAVER yearned for a long

LADY

your

LUCK-

CHINA MAIL

horoscope

on

unreliability and

must learn not to put your trust implicitly in others.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15

AQUARIUS (I) (January 21- February 19): If the re- sults recently achieved by you have not come up to your expectations, don't be discouraged but keep trying. PISCES (8) (February 20- March 2011 A proposition put to you seems to be s Father one-sided arrange- ment and you speak up boldly for your. LIBRA self.

ought

ARIES (3) (March 21-April 191: The best way to make શ ecrtain person who is consistently rude to you feel ashamed is by being unfailingly emurteous him.

to

TAURUS (11) (April 20-May 291: Waiting for the reac- tlon to a report which you recently submitted keeps You In a state of suspense; του have worry.

GEMINI (4)

210:

reason to

(May 21-June In order to strengthen your position against persistent oppo- sition you must have resource in reserve to be used if and when nocea.

sary.

VIRGO 19) (August 22-Sep- tember 22): During the coming negotiations you ought to be candid and re- vent all your aime and at the same time be ready to where make. concessions necessary.

(12) September 23- October 221: A charge brought againat you by - an associate can only bo properly dealt with by bringing n suitable coun- ter-charge.

SCORPIO 110) (October 23- November 21): You may be faced with insur mountable diflenities in your work, and since you cannot overcome them alone you had better atzept the offered help.

SAGITTARIUS (2) (Novem- ber 22-December 211; A generous net on your part will give you a very deep sense of satisfaction.

4CAPRICORN (6) December

slender neck, and a long string of beads to wind round it? Well that's what CANCER (7) (June 22-July you need for the fashion trade's latest folly. the giraffe-necked look that has just been launched in London.

21): Do not abandon 21 friend who Ands himself in difculties, but do your very best lo euse his tem- porary trouble,

(5) (July 22-August 21) You will feel let down. by someone because of his

It was all started by Dior LEO when they made their models wear chokers of ten rows of pearls. After several seasons of long strings of beads designed 10 hang down to waist level, the jewellery trade decided the giraffe look was just what they wanted to give sales a flip. So they've flooded the shops with the Jewelled chokers that really

live up to their name.

A LAN GREENBERG of, New A York had no trouble mak- ing soven chabe. He won opening space lead, cashed the

The best-selling style is a second high spade, ruffed the

trumps ten-row necklace of fake cry- the dan- Two spade losers, drew

and eventuaily got rid of his stals and diamonds that fastens gerous Wetterhorn through a telescope Just

dummy's at the back with a giant clasp, week, "calmly losing diamond

Kind is

hold guaranteed to king of hearts. delivered a running commentary

your head up, even if you are on the escent."

fired-you daren't let it droep or you would be throttled.

The giraffe-necked. look, It you don't happen to be a giraffe, can be dificult to achleve. But hair piled high on your head, or looped into a chignon, and a dress with a plunging neckline, all help to pive the luski of a long, alender neck, to display 自序 many rows of heads og you can bear to wear.

The hand was played at a At least she knew what they duplicate at the Mayfair Eridge were NOT doing.

My trouble is, I suppose, that

I have no imagination.

CERTAINLY I can picture my two falling out of windows on to flagged paths hence the Iron barred near-Institutional appearance of certain sections of the old schloss Papworth.

CERTAINLY I can envisage, and forbid, the more likely forms of reckiczness,

But in everything from the

unexpected to the bizarre, my

two are way ahead of me.

"Don't try to back the donkey lower upstairs"...

. "don't tuur brother from the balcony In a basket"

"don't flie your front teeth..

To be wise enough to say No before the event is my problem.

Only last week a request to borrow my ballpoint pen ("the one that writes in two colours") met with no more

careful aun; "Yes, if you're with it and have something to

write on."

"Actually I'll be drawing."

(A nice quiet occupation for a change. I told myself thank- fully.)

"And have you something to drow on?"

Rupert and the Outlaws-52

The men gather round to smile aside he blindfolds him securely when Rupert is all dressed up with headscarf. “Hi, what's again. "You say you don't want that for? Encinitas Rupert.

*We're careful men. We have to (10 be an outlaw; yet you want to

look like one," atins the Chief. be," says the Chief gravely. Even "Now we muat waste no more though we like you sow we don't time in

-mean to allow even you to se preparing for

your journey." Taking the little bear more than we want you to 1"

ALL MIGHTS SESERVED

and

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Bigger Ear-rings

Ear-rings which have not been Seen around much for a season |or so are back, bigger and better than ever. The most popular |size is over an inch and a half in

diameter, in the form of giant gilt studs, or pearl clips.

Remember the charm bracelet with minature trinkets you could elip on as you acquired them? This year's version is the charm necklace, a gift fringe on which you can hang all kinds of baubles 10 clank round your neck as you walk.

Watches are swiftly moving Club and the bidding by Alun into the Jewellery bracket, and

Reinach who Tony

sat one of the show pieces at this North is worthy of study.

year's Watch and Jewellery Fair is a £9,000 watch which has won

is a

a prize for its design.

Alan might well have chosen to open with a two bid but one

Called "ce Flower", club openings seldom get passed flower of while and canary yel- all around the table and he only low diamonds, set in platinum. had nine lop tricies. Tony's You lift the flower's jewelled heart response and Alan's two centre to see what the time is. spade jump were normal

and

then Tony jumped to three no- trump.

get on

he claims

More nylon stockinga four lackiered in the wash than Alan temporised with clubs and Tony miscx! to five the leg. That's the contention whereupon Alan bid ave dia- of one Londoner, who has fust

invented a gadget monds to show that ace.

will save you money. Tony proceeded to hid Ave It is a plastic cocktail shaker hearts. Alon interpreted this bid-or that's what it looked like as showing a good heart suit and to me.

You put your precious this was enough for him. He nylons inside. All it with warm went right to the chib grund soapy water and then shake the

Container slam,

until the stockings are clean.

♥-CARD Sense♣♦

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What do you do?

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A--Pare; "No-trump shouldā be all right and a two-dỉnh might get you too high.

TODAY'S QUESTION Instead of bidding one no trump your partner has bid two no-trump. What do you do now?

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Two dresses from the Linzi autumn collvotion which would be equally 'good to wear at home or at the office:

TOD: A mtu-coloured chock fabrio in brashad worsted, and nylon is used for this fikiried day dress with a square neckline, raglan sleeves,

curi

Bottom: Awpol poodle Cloth, available in Ex Gfferent colours, makos a dress that could be used for day or ovchi fail

with

belt.

WORT:

a; wido, side-lacing

22-January 20): Don't be too modest about your un- doubted talents, and don't withhold the valuable con- tribution you could make,

YOUR LUCKY NUMBER:

Count the letters in your first anme and add the total to the number shown in brackets after your sign of the Zodiac. This is your lucky number for today.