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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1960.

WOMANSENSE

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FOCUS... on a problem every woman knows THE TOP MODELS OF THIS YEAR

LUCK SEE YOU IN

CHINA MAIL

horoscope

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6

21- SCORPIO (October 23-No

ember 21): A newcomer to your circle of friends will Additional

AQUARIUS (January

February 19): You must Kain

confidence

more

in

your own ability, and you will thus be able to put it to better use. PISCES February 20-March

203: A reorganisation of your office personnel ough to mean an improved posl. tion for you. ARIES (March 21-April 19, Try and be more punctual. Some

people touchy about being kept walting.

are

very

TAURUS (April 20-May 20: You will shortly be able to

A close friend a do

very without any good turn sacrifice on your part.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21:

A spare time job which you will Look

on as a hobby prove more prefitable than you expected,

CANCER (June 22-July 20):)

A trip at short notice will

give you nil n boost.

SAGITTARIUS

THE HEEL BAR

W

WHAT is any woman's biggest wardrobe bug- bear? Ask her, and she will almost certainly reply: "Keeping my shoes in

heel."

I ben calculated that (November the awarage

woman Estda ber 22-Deermber 21: Today chees rehosted 36 times a year may turn out to be the (and if she goes to an amee in start of a very happy high-heeled shoes, six days a romantic experience for week. I can well believe it). you

But the average shoe rtpair CAPRICORN (December 22ervice takes three or four days

January 201 It you make to heel shoÓN. the effort to break away from your usual routine today,

New hope

you might find a real bargain without too much exertion.

IN the intervals of finding time to take and ume to collect CARD: 11 YOUR LUCKY

shoes,

other heels rodiny is your birthday, the

down, new shoes have your lucky card, no matterbought, others have to be given

mny what game you

be complete

hocks (roughly the 1 time), and money dows playing, ought to be

like water. NINE of DIAMONDS.

turn out to be both pleasant When

and remunerative.

LEO Culy 22-August 201: Repay the hospitality which you have recently enjoyed, |

and thus cement some en- during friendships. VIRGO (August 22-Seplein-

ber 22): You May yourself in a very awkward

EHOW

Wed to be

When you write right letters bring results

By

find ANNE HEYWOOD

Isition, but should be able

to extricate yourself with-61

out much dilleulty.

JUST can't write a decent letter," readers

LIBRA September 23-Octo-are always telling me. And

ber 221: You may be

then they go ahead and

clined to seek happiness fat write a very decent letter, afield, whereas you could indeed-frequently a quite find it very close to home if good

simple and

onc,

you only took the trouble to direct and eloquent,

look for it.

JACOBY on BRIDGE

THE kidding shown is that at

the Arst table in a team match. South played dummy's queen of clubs at trick one. East

Yet the conviction that they can't write

a decent letter good deal ar causes them anguish, and prevents their en- riching their dives the way they might if they wrote more let-

itl ters. Because let's face

en ability to write letters well end casily can have a profound effect on both our success and our. happiness.

Some Examples

Here

arc some examples 1 did played the king ord South know where a good letter covered with the ace.

an important trick:

Southi 14x1 played Euce "rounds of diamonds, discarding Three girls were being con- on the second and ruming the sidered for a very good job. third. Next came a trump lead After their Anal Interviews, one

WEST

J9754

A

♦ 10 GS

9862

NORTH

AABG

82

•AKJ872

3

EAST

Q2

KQ3

+Q04

23

KJ 10 7 3

SOUTH (D)

AK 103

J1097654

4A4

North and South vulnerable

South West North

Pass 4♥

East Pack Pass

P455

Pass Pass Opening lead-♣ 2

and eventually South got rid of o spode on one of dummy's dia- monds to wind up making his

contract.

He was rightfully proud of the result? since he felt that the game was a hard one to bid ond was really upset to and that his side had lost the board.

At the other table East chose to stick in a two club overcall, This type bid is not recommend ed. True, East had 13 points but he had a balanced hand with strength in ali suits.

South, bid four hearts but West docided to Gave at Ave clubs. He saved all right but the cost was a trifle excessive. The delence took two diamonds, a diamond ruff, two spades and total of the ace of clubs for ulx tricks.

♥÷CARD Sendek♦

Houth 2

West

The bidding has been:

North

14

Bauble

Pass

1

You, South, hold; 4AQ0765

Fast Там Fass KIZ 42 4A34 What do you do?

A-Bid three spades. Your hand is so strong (has it war- rents this jump even after your previous game foros,

TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner bids four apades. What do you do now?

Answer Tomorrow

never even wrote a thank-you note. The second wrote one, but

it was stiff and colourless. The third wrote:

Don't Try To Foren Thoughts When Writing A Letter

The five-minute

repair is

big business now

BY BARBARA GRIGGS

Within the last month, how

dawned. ever, høye hai

Two Selfridges and London stores, Camages, have opened heeling bars where you perch on a stool, hand

Ova the shoot you're woaring--and get them back in Ove minutes with now heel-tops for about 4s. Od.

one of us ever bad a good dra we'd go in on it together. Thin I went into the steal business and he were into marketing.

"Ọm: day my wife and I were 1ooking through a paper and wo saw an od put in by a handi- capped man who wanted work. It turned out he was trained in Before J Mir eyes, the old choc-repairing and we decided herl-lop je gently prised off, we'd like to help him.

and top selected, fitted new smoothed into an exact fit.

Already me local office girls have got wise to this and are forming syndicates to take the for office collection of shoes attention: some girls arive with up to six pairs.

Within the next year up to 50 mure of these heeling bars will be opening in ores up and down the country, and a few more in Central London.

Personally. I'd like to see as many of them as there #20 cigarette kiosks, but that dream is unlikely to be realised.

The snowball

wo

"BECAUSE he couldn't cope

with the ordinary equip

fixed up the Arst ment of the heeling bars in a local store. We use u standard plece ef nalling equipment: the rest was designed specially,

"The thing sort of snowballed from there, and Donald Ryan came in on it with me."

There

are now heeling bars from South Africa to Sweden,

and what started 21 generously helpful gesture has grown into big business.

MAGGIE BENN 5'8 34-23-35 :

ROBYN SKELLY 5′5£*•34:22 • 36

KATHY MURRELL 5'9% 35-23% 36

CONNOISSEUR'S CHOICE FROM ONE AGENCY'S PHOTO-GUIDE CHART: THREE FACES ANT PHOTO GRAPHER 15 HAPPY TO GET INTO FOCUS; THREE GIRLS WHO HAVE FACED THE CAMERAS THREE

* LIFETIME TIMES MORE OFTEN IN THEIR CAREERS TO DATE THAN MOST WOMEN DO IN

♫

FASHION industry that is undergoing

the model- Modelling business. major rehaul ling used to be a high-prestige but slightly fcasion.

Suddenly there

is a spate of dubious pro- pretty new faces

This youthfulness has one big

and mare

skins are ai a

they Financially,

couldn't have it much better. Accord- ing to Cherry Marshall, even the model who is just averagely successful can

down pu!! between 25 and 30 Kuinras a week.

A part-time model aan het 10 guineas a week with very litikë efforì, since standard pay twn guineas an hour. And for the handful of golden girls al the top, things are rosy indeed.

Picture guide

Models were rare exotics who were pointed out in stunned

at the hairdressers, advantage more whispers And the top models were a ruce photographs are being taken in and since colour Tof poised. remote, beautiful colour today,

cannot be retouched, women of 25 and over, like the pictures

young original Got-It-Girl. Barbara fresh

premium. Goalen.

O greal is the glut of de- the Jast month 07 In

lectable young faces that mysteriously,

trickle the

one agency has produced and into the business distributed to ellents a giant pretty girls has swelled into a rush: sud-

photo-guide to its own 70 girls, there are hundreds to

to be revised each Seventy

Overcrowded

TODAY, It is a profession at

uvercrowded and as mat- denly

secretary's. choose from. ler-of-facts One photospher cotimated dizzily that there must be about alone. And 2.000 in London parents, it seems are now active- ly pushing their daughters inlo

straight from

(or Finishing School, as one agency prefers to suppose),

school

*0%

All of them are pretty of face and lively of eye; all of them go to a crock young hairdresser.

All of them know the make- un tricks and seem to pick up within weeks that odd, ex:x- gerated, slightly unreal way dressing which, together the intensive eye make-up. Once a store has offered

the trade-mark of the model.. supply space, a'man to run it is photographer put it:

And, oddly, most of them are in the Brus:oks heart at priuent bred in Brussels trainod

the Even "They all look 23, but when blondes.

natural and equipment 15 In partnership with a college offe

you ask them they are 17 next brunettes tre usurlly fair within supplied. friend, Donald Ryan.

birthday."

weeks of starting work.

This basic-1900 all the best busMess- started in A romantically improbable way.

It was originated by a young American called Donald Phillips

Good idea

66/HEN we won at Harvard businas school together," he told me, "we decided that it

Result: average age of the new comers has reached an astonish tong

low. As one top fashion

Ninely

of the per cent clientele consist of women (lo nobody's surprise), and all the i bars need is soft music and a

to cup of coffed

keep you happy while you wait:

London Express Service).

CHILDREN'S CORNER

An Unwilling Present

-The Children Give China Doll To Grandmother-

wish they had picked me as a birthday present for Grand-

mother."

Nor me!" said Teddy, the

Stuffed Bear,

By MAX TRELL PLEASE don't make me be a birthday present! I don't want to be a birthday present!"

"I was once a birthday pres- Miss China Doll was saying.

Miss China Doll she didn't eat," said Whoa, the Hobby con-really come from China, she Horse. "It didn't hurt the least

a was only made of china little bit." you. Sincerely scunded very hurt.

"Just a nole to tell you how much I appreciate the is you gave me today and how vine:d I am that I could do good job for yours. :"

She got the job.

Letter Of Application

"You have nothing to worry about," Knari told China Doll

Hiawatha, the Small-Sized Wooden Indian, said that. Crowded Around

though he had never been a Everybody else in the Play- birthday present, he had been a room was crowded around her Christras present. He had heard private Doll House, which stood from many of his friends that present was on the floor between the cur being a birthday tains of the window and the very pleasant.

mother's going to feel when she Tw mothers, with their chl-end of the bookcase.

deen' get a birthday present.” after the went

"There's no reason for you to Nothing To Worry About siren gown.

And at that moment in ceme tame job, which was advertised feet hurt, dear," Hand, the

"There, you see!" said Korf, two little Girls, holding their the Shadow in their local newspaper. Since Shadow Girl with the Turned-

Boy with

by the the little old Grandmother was saging. it had a Box Numiter, the jou About Name, required a lour of application. "You're not really going to be Turned-About Name, to Miss hand.

given away, It's Grandmothe's China Doll, "you haven't a thing

Nevertheless, In spite One wrote a good, clear, en-birthday today. She's a very to worry about." thusiastic

but modet letter nice old lady. You'll like her.

everything, Miss China Doll kept The oh wrote a hard-hitting. very much."

the kind aggressive letter, sem: body had told her improra-

ed employers.

The Arst one got the job.

It isn't in the job :id alon that good let er-writing counts. There are letters applying for scholarships, for membership in D's clubs, for coneelons of for getting er dit. Most of all, there are letters to friends and relatives.

The capacity to write a good letter can enhanes every urea of life. And while some people are basically more tal nied at

than others, everybody learn and improve.

Here are some pointers;

can

1. Cook it in the back of your mind, if it's a difficult letter, while you walk or clean or gar- den. Advance thinking helps.

Rehearse It

2. Nourth it up at dret, Later, you'll get so you can do it dret time, right; but don't force t it pays to rehearse,

3. Say it out loud ap you write. Don't write anything that you wouldn't comfortably say. This is the real secret of warmth or “style,”

pre-

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Thero's Her Present

Grandmother,"

wald "Look,

Ittle Girls, as she on saying, "I don't want to be a one of the

the Doli House. birthday present. I want to stay pointed to

own house." There's your birthday present. right here in my

right inside that she suddenly She's sitting With that. turned and went into her house house." and locked the door.

Doesn't Like It "But I don't want to be

birthday Grandmother's Isent" insisted Miss China Doll,

Mr Punch said:

"She's your present," said the Then Knart and Hanid and second little Girl. "You can "The children who live in this house want to give their Grand- General Tin and Mr Punch and keep her forever."

Bear, and "Thank you." sald Grand- birthday present. Teddy, the Stuffed mother

you. Hiawatha all pressed against the mother, smiling. why they chose That's You're the most beautiful pres- window, calling to Miss China

Dall to pletse come out. ent they can give!"

"You have no idea," Hamid to feel compll- "You ought

"I called to her, "how sad Grand- mented," said General Tin.

Rupert and the Snowball~9

Rupert and Algy build carefully and steadily, making the bam wide and strong, and stopping the head when they cannot reach any higher. Then they put in Algy's "WO buttons for eyes and a bit of wood a nose, and deb on mark 100W

at the sides to make arma, poking the willing mick through one of than Rupert hat stepped away to admire the snowman, and: Algy la putting on the finishing touches, when the little bear gives a sudden shout and points up the long slope: ALL RIGHTS REBNÁVOD

She went over and looked in- side the house at Miss China Doll who kept saying:

"Go way! Go "way!",

But Grandmother didn't hear

ther.

She'll Stay Homo

"I think she's perfectly love- "She's ly," said Grandmother. the most beautiful birthday present. I've ever received from anybody. I'm going to make her a new party dress and I'm her right there going to leave In her own te house, right where she is now,-

Little "Good-bye my dear

Grudaouther

birthday Doll,

said. "I like you very much.”

Then Grandmother and the two little Girls went out of the

Playrocu

Knart and Hand and General Tin and Hiawatha and Mr Punch out. Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, all looked at Miss Ching Doll.

And all Mies Chim Doll could say whe

"I'm-Morry."

01 with is

winning heads and shoulders, seventy sele of vital stelistics, making up a chart to stop the most exhausted busi- nessman in his tracks.

Even the blossoming wealth of this spread, however, arocured enthusiasm in one photo-

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grapher,

"There are too many pretty trees in this business." be told me gloomily. "To many healthy, husky. sweet English girls. I've seen a million pretty

ces-and only coe Gozica,"

-London Exprene Service).

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