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Woman's Page

THE DAY I WENT

TO HAVE MY

EARS PIERCED..

Twas a particularly smart dinner

IT

party. The guest of honour had

just leaned across his medals to address me. And then my humilia- tion occurred.

One of my heavy clip-on earrings slipped off and plonked down into my soup, disappearing with a splash into the depths of crab bisque.

I brooded uver this mortification for some days. And then I look a decision, a decision 1 had always wanted to make bat had always, in terror, put off.

Several hours later, fortified by a martini I found myself on the front steps of a May- fair House which bore the sign-

CYRIL WILKINSON: EAR PIERCER.

The door was opened by a small man with white hair. He led me up a narrow stairway to a room whose walls were decorated with very bad paintings of women with very pink flesh.

On a table lay some surgical instruments. "Akiveeeeeee..

I really was * terrifying shriek that

shattered the silence of the room.

Clearly

1 leaped towards the stairway, there had been some frightful error, and I was somewhere very different from

where I'd meant to be.

'It often screams'

But the little man spoke soothingly. "It

is only my bird that you heard cry out," he explained. "If often screams like a woman." Apparently noticing that i was still in a state of acute anxiety, he motioned to a wall where there was a piece of paper framed, and on it 1 rad the words:-

CYRIL WILKINSON

Ear Piercer to the Queen. Reassured-sort of-i sat down on a chair beelde the table where the surgical insiru-

ments lay.

"Everyone," said Mr Wilkinson, "is scared of the unknown.

"A lot of nurses come to ne to have their eals done, and they tend to be especially frightened. Yesterday, a woman came ia, and

1 had just started to work on her when she jumped off the chair, cried out.'I can't have it

done and started for the door.

"You're worse than -nurses,' I said.

"'I'm a doctor,' che explained."

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as symmetrical as possible,”

"But aren't my ears sym- metrical?" I asked.

While he was talking. Mr certain I make your ears look Wilkinson had taken black pencil and made some kind of mark on my left ear. He now walked backwards, narrowed his eyes, and stared at me in- tently.

He returned, made a mark on my right ear, backed off and once more fixed his sights upon

.me.

"Nobody's are," said Mr Wilkinson. "The extraordinary thing is that the majority of people have never noticed this. Last week I had a woman with one car an inch lower than the ather, and when I told her, she

the mirror and then said: "So I

'Don't be alarmed' said: "Have I?' She looked in

"What is the matter?" I final- have!' ly burst out,

I would have pursued the "Oh, don't be alarmed. It's subject further if I hadn't quite all right. I just want to be noticed that Mr Wilkinson now

LADY LUCK

YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE

FRIDAY, AUGUST 5

AQUARIUS (January 21- February 19): A social function may take up too much of your free day, but you owe it to your host to be gracious about it. PISCES (February 20-March 20): No matter how serious you may be by nature, you would do well to bring a lighter touch to ordinary social contests. ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you are finding your daily routine rather "irk- Bome these days, a short spell away will make you appreciate the benefits of an ordered home. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): By bringing the necessary enthusiasm to your work you will be surprised at how much more casily you will get through your day. GEMINI (May 21-June 21): A letter which you hoped would clear up an uncer- tainty will not have the de- sired effect, and you will have to make up your own mind without waiting for outside advice. CANCER (June 22-July 21): Lack of confidence is the main cause of your ing-- ging behind, Make up your mind that you can do a job at least as well as the next fellow, and you will have no trouble in holding your own. LEO (July 22 August 21): Don't let conditions at work over which you have

no

control worry you unduly. The people respon-

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY: AUGUST: 5, 1960.

London

by

Susan Barnes

SO SMOOTH FOR THAT FIRST. HOLIDAY EVENING

What's your worst-holiday horror? Apart that is, from wandering whether you locked the dear and turned the gas off? I'd say it was that first' evening at a holiday hotel when you have to change from a dress crushed by travel into a dress crushed by packing. On the left to one answer in really uncrushable cotton lawn. It comes in several pastel shades—by Young Janger, £5 158.6d.

"There," said Mr · Wilkin- sun. "One's done."

I peered in the mirror, and sure enough there was a little gold stud through the lobe of

bad my left ear. IL

been plerced and the stud put through it, all in one operation. And it hadn't hurt a bit.

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The only question was whe- ther I could bear to hear that repulsive noise on the other side of my head.. I could. I did. And I felt, vastly pleased.

"Do any of. your chients

ever

faint?

I asked Mr

Wilkinson,

"Never," he

said. "But..

I've had them

come in when

they've been

for me to do

drunk

too

anything

PLOTURE BY JOHN ADRIAAN

.Wilkinson told me more about

his clients.

"I do quite a lot of men. Not just the sissy type. Serious- minded men. Last week a man

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in with his wife, and after I had finished her ears he said: 'I think I'll have mine done too. Put a couple of rings through them.

"I did.

"A week later he came back end said: 'I'm fed up with these rings. I want studs instead." So I put some studs through his cars. He's a director of a motor firm in Birmingham."

1 left the Ear Piercer to the Queen and emerged into the daylight of Mayfair. It seemed to me that every passer-by Elared with admiration at my ears. Certainly I found

staring

theirs,

at

myself at ell, Last Thursday pecially the ones under bow- ler hats, to soe if I could spol the company director from Birmingham.

I had a nervous

woman who Was so in advance that she had bought a bottle of brandy, drunk half of it, and brought the rest with her. Every time I got, near her to mark her ears, she embraced me. I couldn't

had in his hand on instrument come for, and pierced ears I get on with it. I told her she

which looked like that puncher would have,

thing that typists use to make holes in paper. I found my eyes darting towards the exit. Then

“Rekkkkkkk."

It was a perfectly revolting

I remembered the crab bisque, sound-like the noise of a gave me small bird's bones being crush- Pierced cars I had ed between strong teeth.

The memory courage.

would have to come back an- other day. I kept her brandy bottle for her, but I've never seen her again."

While I contemplated my new reflection in the mirror, Mr

CHILDREN'S CORNER

Tom Catt's Adventure

-His Love For Music Leads Him To A Concert-'.

By MAX TRELL Knart. Many's the night that I've met with my friends--my NARF, the Shadow Boy Cal-friends, I mean--an the ΚΑ

with the Turned-About face at the back of the yards. Name, saw Mr Tom Call, who And there, as you know, and lived in the house across the all the People in the neighbour- street, came out on the front hood know, we've sung our. steps and lie down in the sun. songs all through the night-" So he went across the street and went up the fronts and sat dowIL

steps

"Hello, Tom," said Knari.

Just looked

Until interrupted

Tem looked at Krarf but he sible are the ones who couldn't say anything.

Then Knar! must find a way out.

remembered music," he said, 22-something. He ran back to his (August VIRGO

September 22): You will own house and got it. It was gain enhanced prestige by hanging in a secret place be emerging successful from hind the bookcase. It

16-10 Where have you been?" Knarf

asked Tom Catt.

Tom shook his head.

"Or until someone shouled 'Scat and threw something' at

for keeping you

them all awake!" interrupted Krarf,

Tom Catt laughed. "Some folks don't like our “But I like

"Not yet," he said, "I went music just the same! And it's

saw I was in the beginning of because of my liking for music a bit further. And then I that: this thing happened

an enormous rooma room so I'm going to tell you about.

awfully enormous that hundreds "You see, I was taking a stroll and hundreds of People were When Knarf put the piece of down a street that I had never sitting in it. And all of them blue ribbon around Tom Catt's been down before when, all at were listening to a whole big neck, Tom immediately said: once, I heard music-not Cat- crowd of Men and Ladies sit- "Why, hello there, Knart!" singing but really beautiful sing in chairs in the front room. The blue ribbon was the music-not too loud, not tog And they were the ones who

a long-drawn-out litigation. piece of blue ribbon, LIBRA (September 29- October 22): After having groped in the dark for a long time, you will sudden. ly be able to put your finger on the cause of your difficulties.

was

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that

Have you seen him about?

-(London Express Service).

The ordinary run of the mill bridge player would have m difficulty about going down at six hearts. He would lose one trick to the acy of spades andī a second trick to West's jack of hearts. He would complain a ttle about his bad luck and possibly some would point out that six clubs would have been a lead pipe cloth.

The particular. South who was declarer happened to be a really great player and after winning the second trick with his king of spades, South led a aud trump to dummy's ace then went into a long huddle. South was sure that East held at least six spades; it was un- likely to find him with a single- tor heart.

Eventually South decided to risk three diamond leads just to see if East would follow to them. EO South played a low diamond from dummy.

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South, had time to do some

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South took his ace and aban- dened any thought of a further diamard lead or of a finesse against, the fuck of hearts. It was too much to expect that East would have two red singletons, South led a heart and went to dummy's queen down just ke any ordinary player would have.

Rupert and the Gomnies-7

FLAWIAL

BARDEN GNOMES

Around the next corner Gregory shop window. points into

Lovely

There, look." he says.

lat little men for the garden, to stand among ferns and things, or on the rockery." "M'm, they are nice." Rupert agrees. One ob them would do for Daddy. He's

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always in the garden. But I didn't know that was how to pronounce The the word. Let's go inside." shop man smiles when Rupert aska for Gomics, and quickly under- stands "I made the glazer

he says. gnomes myself. the plaster hares too."

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Tom gave a Utle chuckle that it was coming from the through, and things they hit slate.

deep down in his throat. It open door of a big building-a with sticks that went boom and SAGITTARIUS

(November might have sounded like a purr really huge building. So I crept rat-a-tat-lat! And I was just

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chuckle.

Man in the chair woke up and more time to it and become

"Something funny must have,

saw me, and made a jump for really expert.

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"Where

Different things was the beautiful music coming, from Tom?" ask-

"Oh, no, ed Knart.

They were playing "That's what I began to won different things things with der," said Tom. "Then I saw strings, and things they blew

"It did." Tom chuckled.

Kaart.

friend?

Crept in quietly

To tell you the truth, I me and said 'sh-h' when I didn't replied Tom. But I moved. knew somebody inside was mak

Chased him out

"He chased me back out

"I hope you'll tell me," said ing it So I crept in through the open door, very quietly, on "I wouldn't be a friend of the tips of my toes, just as through the open door, back in- yours if I didn't," said Tom. though I were hunting a Mouse.

Then he curled himself

I came all the way home around the other way to give I found myself in a hallway. to that strange street again and Tom Catt, you went to a concert, you did!" said Knart, "That "was an orchestra you

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one knows, that I like music, the music?"

Tom anbed as Knees took

"and" walked inside.

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