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your

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1959.

WOMANSENSE

LUCK·

CHINA MAIL

horoscope

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17

AQUARIUS (12) (January little; better be silent than

21-February 100: When aulting someone to do RN unpleasant job for you, You must no expect him His to go to the limit of endeavour.

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PISCES (9) (February 20. March 201: Fheing a com- plicated situation, you wil have to delve deeper into ita causes before yon af- tempt to cope with it. ARIES (5) (March 21-April

You 191:

benefit materially from a meeting with a relative whom you for a long have not seem time.

TAURUS 171 (April 20-May 20: Having been far from happy in your present en- vironment, you will leave when you do with few re- Frets.

GEMINI 44 (May 21-June -20: Don't build false

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proposition

which is by no means cer- tain to produce the desired *૧*૫:18.

CANCER (U1) (June 22 luły 20: Avoid being drawn into a discussion on a sub- jeet about which you know

JACOBY on BRIDGE

ANDY

of

CABRILOVITCH Washington, DC., whose team reached the finals at the Nationals this sunmer *** brated a short Dallas visi; by winning a local duplicate.

North's two-club opening war an artificial forcing bid and Andy's two diamonds an art- feisl weakness response. Andy's later club jump was

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embarrassed.

LEO (3) (July 22-August

21: you want the co- operation of others, you will have to learn to handle them more tactfully. VIGO mi (August 22-Sep-

tember 22): You must combat the tendency to alternate between deprea- sion and optimism, ha it disturbs those around you as well as yourself. LIBRA (1) (September 23-1 October 223: Incompati hility of temperament does | ne muke for happiness in

relationship, and should break it up before it is too late.

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SCORPIO 161 (October 23-

November 211: On return ing from a long journey do not expect everything to have gone wrong in your absence. You will prob ably find things exactly as they were. SAGITTARIUS (2) (Novem- her 22-December 21) Since you find it necessary to be alone at times, you

shonk make

a point of{ finding a spot where you will not be disturbed.

The most

potent

weapon in

a woman's

armoury!

This Exotic World

Of Subtle Scents...

HERE is only one ren- TH

son for wearing per- fume: because you love it. It does not visibly enhance your appearance, nor can it camouflage a boring hat or

an, unsuccessful dress.

It has, 153 many cases, an

trick irritating

fading 故里 20 minutes after you put it on, and your taste is not necessarily shared by the man you want to please, or the company you would most like to impress.

[CAPRICORN (10) (Decem-IT

in

True luxury

A dash of her favourite per- fume makes a woman feel pam- envied; it pered, loved and gives her a heady sensation of Wanton extravagance.

TT can be ludicrously expen

sive. But it is one of the her 22-Junuary 201: Walk-rare, true luxuries left in life, ing about the countryside which is why

women love it deep

thought blinds so much.

of the beauty you

There is a time nature. and place for everything. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER:

poorest It make even the Count the letters in your

woman feel like a princess and and add tho first name

a beauty. And it is the best total to the number showN in brackets after your sign Christmas present of all to give to a woman who needs hundreds of the Zodine. This is of practical,

utilitarian things your lucky number for the and couldn't possibly afford to week

buy it for herself.

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br JOHN BOLE

"Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the recessie ties," said a wise pld hedonist once

Dincare,

ELYSUS

BY BARBARA GRIGGS

next, The

stale

of

out

in spring. The only way to find the slightest whig conjures up

whether

BOHY perfume fura, expensive clothes, jeweli. pleases the man you love is to ir out.

Exasperated...?

are

impact when perlume appeals to what sort of most delightful

("Is he an Oul-Door worn by a woman of 30, while man

Try him with a perfume reses can Type? a whit of violets or

obvious on a 16- asght and flowery as the first be tediously

day of spring. year-old in a white ball-dress.

A Sophisticated Man nirut Town? You'll please There are moments in The supposedly summaer per- him with one that says sable any woman's life when this has fumes can be a breath of fresh and dry martinis. ..."). the ring of revealed truth. air at a crowded winter cocktail

Wearing perture is a luxury. party. Choosing it can be a headache. theorisings about what sort In 'rance they understand this very well, and in the delicious Ittle boudoirs where perfume... and nothing much else--is sold. they will let you stand for hours covering amall patches hand

arm with different perfumes, reminding you several times over which was the one you thought you preferred.

By ANNE HEYWOOD tend England salesgirls

you. radiating their INDS need a change strong conviction that three is the absolute limit anyone should be allowed to sample before making up their minds.

completely SOME inen

melted by one good whiff Others are exas- of perfume. perated by It. '("I quite like a 1ny hint," said one man to me, "but I don't like being hit with

All this is dangerous rot. The biggest wolf in toum might be sledgehammer.") the first to fall for a fresh day

In

tu rush

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Where to start

Get Mental Side

A

There are perfumes that make prople pause because they are so unfamiliar, so strange and co compelling. and others which people seem to have known and loved since childhood ("Oh. what is that wonderful scent you're wearing? I know it su well....).

man that you couldn't possibly. Line

To Rest Active Mind

Mof scene every bit as

much as bodiesy do.

Ir

ever

you've

worked against a deadline, you know how weary your mind gut and how you had to get away. You had to read a paper for a few musie or minutes or listen to

to

So

lighthearted

HERE are perfumes as tresh as a deep green forest during particular perfume may a beatwave. and perfumes so have unlucky associations for a gay and lighthearted you almost burst out singing when you

Til it.

But perhaps the loveliest of all the the true flower ones Edwardians loved the pure essences of reae er hellotrope or stephanctis or damp violets,

know be expected

about. Wear it, and you may summon up from the past the one great love of his life-er the girl who jilted him.

lake

arc

tions that I heard a perfume

At the end of a taxi-ride to a

Party the driver, to whom it had drifted through the open parti- tion, lesped out, rushed to open the door, and begged me to tell him its name.

The only safe rule is to wear the perfume you love most, and magically distilled into a small If you're coping with some- if the man in your life cannot bottle.

It was when wearing ene ol thing unbelievably vexing right stund it, perhaps he'll now, resolve to give the prob- the hint and buy you a bettle these a lingering aura, of carna- lem the best you have alt tien himself. drop it

to narrow the paid the greatest compliment of for

the a while. In

The best way

all. meantime, engage in some to-held down slightly before buy- on the sort of activity. tally unrelated

Ing is to decide might be music

you want to steep gardening or atmosphere

In-for perfumes checkers or crossword puzzles yourself or sketehing. 11 can be any-tremendous, creators of atmos- PAY no attention. Please your

self. But where to begin? fork at a beautiful scene before thing, so long as it has no con-phere.

There arg, perfumes that are Discard. for Start, those you could drag the overworked section with the problem. That

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way you'l recharge your heady 101th nostalgia and rich boring old classifications into mind back to the job.

"older

and the with Mind Rebels "mature."

into spring. Of young,"

Many times, when coping problems will be casily solved, woman's": wintry, or summery,

with a big problem, the ind Some of the freshest so-called begins to rebel unless we with "young giri's" scents make their draw it from the problem for a while and let it recharge itz batteries, so to speak.

CHILDREN'S CORNER

Time To Go To Sleep

-Blinkie Gets Ready For His Long Winter Rest-

from

By MAX TRELL

was just aboutt

noon and

Bees and Hornets-all ef are going to sleep."

"But it's so early," said.

them

Hanid

Blinkie Mole had come up his underground apart- nant to sit on bis study coor step for a few moments and quely smoke his pipe.

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North

EARL

South

West

24

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Pass

20

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3N.T. Раку

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Pass G

7 N.T.

P::555 Pass

F'ass Pasa

He hadn't been there long when Hapid. the Shadow

North and South vulnerable

Opening lead→♦ J

based on his six-card suit and] two queens and North's leap to seven no-trump an effort to get

the maximum result.

Blinkle was wearing his dark glasses. beesuse his eyes hurt when there was too much light.

Hanid Camo Along

Getting Late

Blinkie shook triz bead.

"I think it's getting late," said. "Late in the year. meur.."

It's Novem

hr

"Oh you mean ber," Hanid said.

don't know about the very months"

Binkic said "All

Is that all know

mo

Gil with tite Turned-About friends are getting ready to go Nome, came along.

to sleep and so am 1.

Blinkie was altting on his doorstep, smoking pipo.

Blinkie nodded i pleasant "And do you know," he said good-day,

"Good day to you, Blinkle," again. "how long we intend to Honid said. "How can you sleep aid Hanid. sec you not working. [most always are,

"I'm surprised 10

sleep?"

You ni- - Hanid answered:

you know!" "I'm ready to go to sleep." vald Blinkie.

Hanid let out a shout of sur-

**To sleep!" she wied.

If West had opened a spade Andy could not have made the hand but Wesi inade his normalprise. lend of the jack of diamonds. Andy cashed two high diamonds it's ant East dropped the ten of j hearts. Andy decided that this was an honest signal in which erse he had u sure thing play for his contract.

"Why.

"All night, of course;"

Much Moro

"More than that," Blinkic.

"And all day, too,"

only the middle of the day!" Hanid. "I know it," said Blinkle.

Puffed Thoughtfully

sald

satd

"Much more than that," said Blinkie.

"It certainly is a long time," that long? 1 don't think I could

I'm sure sleep that long. couldn't sleep that long. wouldn't want, to."

He Laughed

I

I know a famous business- man who keeps a small upright piano in his office, to which he repairs for ten minutes or 50 when his mind is beginning to flag. And I known fashion de- signer whe works crossword puzzles in periodic "breaks" through her busy days.

Long-Standing Problems

It's even mere imporfart to have such a mental sideline when you're working out long- standing problems,

I remember a wontan

who,

facing bankruptcy and ruin, still took me to withdraw pe- riodically and make 1. ten- minute rough sketch of a scene out of her window;

She told me later: "I was templed, to jump out the win- dow, but instead I decided to really look at the skyline and rough it up in pencil sketches. While I was doing one of them, a wiki idea popped into my mind. I dismissed it with my lawyer and, do you know, it was the germ of the Idea which rescued the whole business!"

Regained Success

She is successful azzin — and you can bet she continues that mind-saving hobby. of sketch- ing!

some-

Sometimes, when you've had Vocational tests and analysis Blinkie laughed. "But it isn't a bad idea to and have knocked yourself out trying to decide what kind of sleep all winter," he said.

job to tackle, it pays to drop "Why not?" asked Hanid.

the whole subject for a while "Becaure." Blinkle said, "If and busy yourself with

Often a very good you sleep all winter, you don't thing else.

Remember the story of Hanid just stood there look- have to go out in the cold. You idea will occur to you.

the don't have to shake and shiver.

vhose ating as if she didn't know what You don't have to silp and slide man

little dog ran Then he smiled as be. Blinkie He simply cashed dummy's his pipe.

Was talking about, on the icy ground and fall and away? ace of hearts and last high added:

bump.

Drop It diamond and ran off the club: "Everyone I know is going to Finally she said: Guit. On the last clubs West sleep. had to discard down to two spades to hold the diamond ten and Andy let dummy's last dlumond go. “.

East also had lo go down to two spades to keep that king of hearts so dummy's spades were gtk.

♥CARD Senšek♦

Q-The bidding has been:

West

14

2

North East South Double Pars 14

Pass

7

You, Sout, hold: 43745 WOD SAHIR 470

What do you

A-Unless your partner la an overbidder, you should jump to four hearts. With an overbidder ibren horis is sufficient.

TODAY'S QUESTION Instead of bidding two hearts over West's two clubs your part- mer hos bid two spades. What do you do now?

Answer Tomorrow

He sat for a moment or two, thoughtfully puffing away

"Please tell me how long you "Willy Toad is going to sleep, and your friends are going to Christopher Cricicel to going to sleep. Blinkie.

Just Sleep And Sleep

"All you have to do is tuck

He spent hours running after 11. and whistling and calling. Pretty soon, in disgust, he gave The little

sleep. My friends the Beetles "All winter long." sald Blin yourself in warm somewhere up and went home.

and the Caterpillars end the kie.

Rupert and the Whistlefish-48

The soldiers and servanta of the king do not delay. Rupert, and Sam are marched down the wide staircase out through the huge doors and on to the long causeway over the sea. The great gong is banged, and a box heads rapidly for them with ite odd rattling

noise. "Herr, I say. I hope those men have had the right ordera.” says Sam, no they are hustled aboard. "This in the same sort of boat that took me to that sex prison." However, it swings dway from the prisona and towards the distant water city.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

and sleep and sleep and sleep dog, ran up and tagged along at until the SLM shines bright his heels.

Problems frequently behave again. If you sleep all winter, why It's just as if there weren't like that.

any winter. You just skip it!

"Do you see what I mean, Hanld?"

"I see," said Harich

Blinkle knocked the ashes out of tus pipe against his heel. He got up. He stretched. He yawned.

"Are you gog" asked Hanid,

Getting Sleepy

"I'm getting terribly sleepy," said Binkie.

"Good night, Blinkle!" said Hanid.

Blinkie gave' stand a fast smile as he turned to go down the stairs to his undergroundi bedroom.

"No," ho saki, "not Good night, Good winter!"

春节。

The Dog Returned When He Stopped Hunting,

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