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LADY

your

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1959.

WOMANSENSE

LUCK-

CHINA MAIL

horoscope

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24

household.

AQUARIUS (7) (January 21-

February 19): You will courteous. have a very good change tonight to clear up a miR- understanding with a mem- her of your family. PISCES

He firm

let

VIRGO (2) (August 22-Sep- tember 22 You win feci e great surge of happiness when you *ce 80 many members 441 (February 20-

of your family March 20: You may have happily united. to postpone writing a long LIBRA (101. (September 23- Jetter to

a distant friend

October 22): Since until after the holidays, ng will your social activities

take up all of your time. AHIES (11) (March 21-April

CL

have had quite enough living

to

you

of

your own, you should

now welcome the chance of finding a suitable

VERONICA PAPWORTH

Oh, why won't

Fathers act

their age?

THE great thing about one of the most hotly debated problems of the past week was in my opinion: "Shouki 18 marry 54?" It

19: You will receive partner. valuable ndvice from a SCORPIO (12) October 23-hot,

November 21): Although was WHY? always a kind and generous host, you will find this year's celebration the best!

fellow guest of party regarding your plung for next year. TAURUS (13) (April 20-May

20): Do only the most necessary jolis today and spend as much as possible of your time in the happy circle of your family. GEMINI 18) (May 21-Itiné

21: Accept an invitation from newly arrived neigh bour to share in their celebrations. It will μένη them sense of belonging. CANCER (1) June 22-July 211: Try to show goodwill and a friendly spirit even towards those who have not bren too co-operative In the past year. LEO

16 July 22-August 21: person: burn at the beginning of November may Fry to disturb smooth running of your

ever.

SAGITTARIUS (9) (Novem-

ber 22-December 211: In order not to apuil the pre- vailing

Why does a deb, with looks, vitality and a good deal of fun about her want a father-figure as a husband?

"The gulf between the children and parenta of this generation is narrowing." said the Bishop of Buckingham 10 me recently. "Children Parents atay younger

of mature more swiftly. atmosphere theerfulness and goodwill, longer." try to curb your tendency to sarcasmTI.

Which means, as I see it, that the Man in Au-" thority Head of the House — is out of date. CAPRICORN th December Today's Dads like to be known to their children by 22-January 20): Try to live their Christian names mistaken for their daughter's

up to your reputation for boy-friends

complimented their exul V- ance. and The splodal waƒ

wing the life of the party, on their figures,

even though you may not be they have retained their hair, feeling particularly gay.

YOU'R LUCKY NUMBER:

Cont the letters in your first name and add the total to the number shown in brackets after your sign of the Zadius, This is your lucky number for today. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25

Phoney...

Which Is a vity. Because children need to be ruled.

They like to low how they stand to know their "rights." Danunit, they've got to cut their teeth on authority some- how.

And if not at home, where can they gain the ability to sidestep....to diesemble....to "give way" gracefully7

The "best-of-pals" pareat act

falac, False because life noves so swiftly that even as ittle as 18 or 20 years maltes all the difference.

AQUARIUS CJanuary 21-

get long smoothly and February 19): This would achieve greater success, be an opportune time 13 VIRGO (August 22-Septem- bory the batchet and go ber 22): You are inclinedis bulf Way tu meet a)

at times to say things with- estranged friend.

out much previous thought, PISCES (February 20-March

and since your words are 20: Don't be hurt

taken to be a mirror by other people's sumbbish bes your mind, you ought to be haviour. 11 often conceals

more careful why LIBRA (September 23-Octo- ber 221: It is quite natural for you always to

a sense of Inferiority. ARIES March 21-April 191:

You are tiable to make other people uncomfort- able if you harp too much Un your uwn accomplish- ments.

TAURUS (April 20-May 201:

Learn to trust rather than mistrust people and you will be right more of the time. GEMINI (May 21-June 21:

Don't let

rather per- plexing situation spoil your holiday mood. Calm nerves

intelligent and

planning will get you safely out of it.

B

CANCER (June 22-July 21):

If you want to be liked, you will often have to listen politely to advice on matters on which you don't need

ny,

LED (July 22-August 21):

Your attitude to colleagues

have undergo a drastic change in the new year if you want to

may

of

be

striving to improve your- Helf. Don't be put off by people ridiculing your am- bitions.

"Fannie's father is absolutely hastly," I heard a 15-year-old gir sighing recently. "He JOIN IN."

til

ermpanion and switched back "Mine's NEVER in," said her to Marty Wilde and his morning.

Hard? No!

1

ubmit that what most

SCORPIO 1 October 23-No- daughters need is # ROCK to vember 211: Don't mind return to....a shoulder to weep having a certain amount of on once in a while, and a pair of rather dull routine work to big, rong arms for comfort in

this slightly bewildering world. do. It gives you time to

Teenagers may have hard, think

hard exteriors. But Ilke crabs, SAGITTARIUS

they are

terribly soft azid tender inside.

The

(November 22-December 21):

Don't forget your joy in today's

without

от

family reunion and remem the marriage of Earl

saddest comment

Beatty ber to meet again

(54) to Diane Kirk (18) i waiting another

Janr.

summed up 1n one bric CAPRICORN (December 22-newspaper lae "She calls

January 201: Try not to him Daddy," be too much of

per.

fectionist. Your failure to

rench

an impossible Koul will only make

you

dissatisfied.

YOUR BIRTHDAY: If this

Remorseless logic....

DEFORE

going

bed 10

Is your birthday, the doubleB President Truman always

eclebration

your

to

will very happy year and your family.

augur a wyshed his socks and for

you times even his underwear.

JACOBY on BRIDGE

WASH gathered in the first two

E, spade tricks and shifted 19

the jack of whis

South won with his ver and drew trumpe with two leads.* Then he took stock of the hund

got into a three{no-trump tract, but it was too late for that

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some-

PICTURE BY JOHN ADRIAAN

So hideous! But somebody

"At first I protested and told W on earth do they do with buys them-and what

No,

he

him that this was my job.

my dear friend, answered, my dear mother taught ine when I wax [child_that_this is a job which must be done by every person himact

C

I read this aloud to my son. "It's from an article by the President's chef-Twenty-five Years in the White House.**

"So what?" sald my son. "Rather touching, isn't it?" "A man with nis responsibill-

A President. Washing out htz combs, when he should have been thinking up lows or Something!

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WEST

EAST (D)

and decided that things weren't

ties

os nire. as they might be.

He

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rather wished his partner

had

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QB52

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SOUTH

KQ 1005

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so he looked around for ways und means to avoid losing two more tricks,

Bast could hold the queen of "clubs, but South thought that club unlikely; so was а

was

break to art up dummy's fourth club for a discard since it looked as if East had started with seven spades.

CARD Sensek♦

The bidding has been:

West North East South Double Рак

1.

7

You, South, hold: 4QJ763 WAKE HATI 487

What do you do? A–Bid two spades. This is not a forcing bid, but does invite your partner to take motion if he has a satisfactory' double.

TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner raises you to three spades. What do you do now?

Alswer on Saturday

North and Soulli vulnerable

West North Fast South Puss 1V Paks 3❤

Pos Puss

3 A

Puss

Opening lead-✯ 5

In that case East could only hold tour

cards in the minor suits and an elimination play was sure to work. Dummy's king of clubs was played immediate- ly and followed by the king and another diamond.

The way the cards lay either opponent could win that dla mond trick but neither could do anything after that, if East won he would have to lead a spadò and give South a ruff and a dis- card. It West won he could do the same with the last diamond or lead away, from his queen of club.

"But it was valy because his dear old mother taught him fo.”

then?

em Who receives and how do they stand up to the ctrain?

Never, never, never have I collection seen such a hideous of monstrous mis-design crossed with vulgarity and touched up with futility as graces the "gift counters" this season.

must buy them

bazaar stalls are in for a fear- ful windfall next year!

Have you ever considered HE

The kindness of people

ERE'S

little story to warm the hearts of those who are pruscating your nearest and dearest with some nutcrackers mildly impatient with some of in brass shaped like a pair of the false tinsel values Cirl's legst

Teeny weeny

Or a waling-wax zet com-

"Let that be a lesson to you," plete with teeny woony candles? said my son darkly. "You don't Or a hair brush with a domed want me making a foul of my-

a low- glass back, containing aclf in the history books

of relief view

Buckingham Paince? Lough

"No," said I.

THE

A change

of mind

do

•

0

The

of a

twentieth-ceTKUTY Christmas. demand for orphans to hospitality enjoy holiday-time exceeds the supply

11

ore

This

could be

you..

FOR the rich wh

doesn't look "right" In conventiona) furs who feels the cold who wants something daniingly different -- a while raincoat with a striking black flecked- while clvet concy lining. The cost is in "Aqus 5′′ astonishingly, per- manently proofed, water And oil repellent ard seemingly indestructible Iabric. The lining buttons In, and could equally well grace an evening cont

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BOYS AND GIRLS MAGAZINE

A Difficult Question

-General Tin Gives The Right Auser-

By MAX TRELL VERYBODY in the Play-

EV

roon was grouped around General Tin, the Tin Soldier.

* "Just give me a moment to think, please," General Tin wos saying:

Teddy's Orders

"Don't crowd 'hin!" Give him

a chance to think" excialmed Teddy. the Stuffed Bear, to Knort and Hanid, the Shadow with the Children

Turned- About Names.

it

"Stand back, Mary-Jane!" Teddy said to the Rag Doll,

For several minutes →→→ seemed to land like several hours-General Tin just stood inere thinking. not

B saying word, not moving u muscle.

that Hanid began to think General Tin had fallen asleep, so she said in a loud voice:

"But, General Tin, there must be some reason why it gets cold in the winter!"

Agreed Readily

Is

"OLL

there is there General Tin agreed readily. "Just let me think."

"Stand back! Let him think!"

Teddy shouted again.

At last General Tin said: "I think I've got it. "In the wintertime. it gols cold because the Fun doesn't get up very high in the sky The days are very short. The The sun nights are very long.

isn't in the sky long enough 10 worm up the earth. It's like a furnace that goes out too econ. That's why it's cald in the win

tertime."

"On the other hand,

there good to know

so wasn't mrmy kind and, selfless people wound."

the Rag Doll, very satisfied with this

Not Satisfied Mary-Jane,

explanation.

"Yes, General Tin. but why jare the days 50 short in the I report this mainly becaus: wintertime?" she asked. It happens only at Christmas.

Here. everyone else in the Why not an erphan for Easter room took up Mary-June's cry, ... or Whilsun dismal wet Sunday in Febru-

or some shouting:

ary??

Nothing like

it in China!

"Why

11-11

General Tin was explaining Winter to Mary-Jane. spins. But the carth doesn't spin straight up-it leans to one

And as side.

il leans to one side, it walks around the sun. And the top first, then the boi- tom of the earth, is nearest to the sun, depending on which side of the mm it is.

Summer And Winter "We live

of the earth, so when that halt rear the top half

leans

nearest the sun, It is sumuner. And when that half is farthest away, it is winter."

"Then when it is summe here, it is wintertime in the bottom half?" Knarf asked.

Tin.

In South America "That's right," said Ceneral "It's wintertime up here now, but in South America and in Australia It is summer,"

"You

General Tin," Teddy exclaimed, "that the boys and girls in South America and Australia go swimming at Christmas and lcp stating in July?"

mean,

That's just what I mean," said General Tin. "And that's all I know about why it gets cold in the winter.“

Thanks Him

Hand smiled.

"Thank you, General Tin," she said. "I know there was some reason why it gets cold

are they so, short in the wintertime?"

All Quiet General Tin held up his hand in the winter. and everyone fell silent. Then he said quietly: "I'm an old soldier. I'm not

It

Everybody was going to leave when Teddy suddenly said:

"Stand back........lët me think "We simply haven't any to ITH the builders making very much at books. But I have....yes! I know the reason why

(read one or two, I'll tell you it gets cold in the winter. spare,” said Mr Belben, who is W. fito

my kitchen, what I read in one of them. gets cold in the winter because

"The earth that we live charge of the entertainments entertaining has been

on it isn't summer any more," side of Dr Barnardo's et then Steprey. "They are all booked triumphed with some remarit-round and round the sun as it any attention to Teddy.

difficult. But I have to like a walking' top. It walks But no one in the room paid able dishes.

up.

hadn't ane,

with

more

It is surprising what one can get into a good-size casserole.

of chicken

and a good

The telephone never stops and I've a pile of applications. Have you ever received

It's the same with our Village mmustard por shaped like a bird Homes in Barking.

My favourite so far on being that squeaks as you lit 17 Or

tollat-seat cover in frilled if they could let

"I rang them yesterday to see presented with a Chinese doctor me have to dinner at four hours notice white lace with a rose in the couple-uot to disappoint a very

some succulent chuinp middio? Or в "winebottle

they chops, lb. of mushrooms, and cover" shaped like a miniature special applicant but

a tin of chopped bamboo shools overcoat with a funny litte

#No, I'm not speaking only all cooked very slowly together face on ip?

of Boxing Day, but for the in two packetfuls Yet all there things are now whole Christmas Holiday period noodle soup flightly thicker

TO

than as directed), of Churda

England on sale,

Homes id me a very similar measure of sherry. My theory is that frankle, Vetory, Actually "They've been

cried "Chinese food,” wild-eyed women- their ending people on to us.

second Guest castatically. glazed and their, foet ground 2-"Some of our little lads will don't know how she does it. Do "Oh I thought of that ages to pulp by days of fullio be sung the circus. three and you, doctor?" ago when I was tiny," said the "rchings actor the perfect four times.

“Madam," suld the doclar disenchanted infant airily, present-rush in and take the "Now I've decided to grow up first thing they be

"Not that they mind.." They turning to me with a falat bow jove it. You'll be careful waat and an aven fainter wink, “If into woman and push other Or could it be that these you say now, won't you? It was magnificent. women around."

"gifts" are only for present- would be terrible if this rendiéd. “We have nothing like this There may be a moral here ing not keeping?

-in ́s falling; off of offers next 'in China,” somewhere.

In which case the church, gear,

I believed him

seven-year-old daughter of a highly efficient, com- mittee-minded woman I know tirciess worker, born organiser and ardent feminist- was asked how her plans, to become a nure in later life were shaping.

our

Rupert and the Whistlefish-54

Hurrying back to Rupert's cottage the two friends show their wreaths of shells and flowers, and Sailor Sam tells of their haie-raising Journey pulled by the fishes through the fog, of the strange city built in the sea, of his stay in a sex-prison and finally, of their dining with a king, and Rupert. adde his interesting bits of

adventure. Men. Bear looks'roller': Blacked, "Now, now, Kir. Bert, she says. “I always knew that sailors were given to telling fairy stories, but you really shouldn't get my Rupert to back you up

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