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LADY

your

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1960.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

LUCK-

CHINA MAIL

horoscope

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8

AQUARIUS (January 21- February 10): The week- end may not turn out as restful as you had hoped, but a new contact will make the change of plans worth while.

PISCES (February 20-March 20) Try to show sympathy for A friend's complaint. even though you feel he is to blame for his troubles. ARIES (March 21-April 19); Don't let a member of your family discourage you from going ahead with the task you have set yourself. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A business associate my withdraw his support tem- porarily, and you will have to get along on your own for a while. GEMINI (May 21-June 21): This may be your lucky day for swinging a financial dent which you have hesitated to consider up to

now.

CANCER (June 22-July 21): Unless you a absolutely sure of all the details in- volved, don't enter into A binding commitment today. LEO (July 22-August 21); You will contribute grently to the success of a social

LIBRA

22-

gathering and your partner will be proud of you. (August VIRGO

September 22): Delay the purchase of a luxury f there is any chance of an argent call on your ready funds.

(September 23- October 22): Confidence in your ability to do a certain Job a half the battle. You will manage all right if you are wire of yourself.

(October 23- SCORPIO

November 21): A serious discussion with your part- ner is essential before you

decide to go ahead with a ralhor unusual plan, SAGITTARIUS (November

22-December 21): You may find it impossible to keep n hastily made promise. If you are frank about it the. other party should under- stand.

CAPRICORN (December 22.

January 201: You will realise that friends romain friends even though you may have neglected them lately through no fault of

your own.

LUCKY ENCOUNTER:

H

today is your birthday, a meeting with a man named ALBERT may have special significance.

Some

A crown

of wool

Hand-knitted or bought wool

as glamorous

as mink

JUST A LITTLE SKID-BUT HOW IT OUTRAGED THE EXAMINER

The day I failed the driving test

How many times last week did you marvel that

the person operating the car ahead could ever have obtained a driver's licence?

How many weekends have you crawled along behind a single crooked line of cars straddling a highway designed to take four lanes of traffic?

I got tired of speculating us

to how the right to enrage ped- ple-not to mention injure them -lg awarded in Britain, I de- cided to take a driving test.

I also decided not to volunteer the information that I already possess D foreign llcence and have been motoring around three continents for the past 15 years with contented male passengers at that,

Offhand

three

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After waiting a mere months in between my applica- tion for a test and the great day itself, I beetled down to county

town. There a round- faced examiner und I took tour through the qulol streets.

At the end of our little jaunt, he closed a black book in which he had been busy moking cryptic marics, looked off into the dis tance, and said in an offhand kind of way:-

Your

Martin

Skirkd

'I want you to pretend that a child has just dashed out In front of your car...'

by SUSAN street

BARNES

turned around in an emply "Well anyhow," I sald without touching either chirplly, "the child's still alive." kerb. I backed around a corner The examiner said nothing. Into another totally empty But I noticed that the expres street.

sion in the eye he fixed upon I was not asked to park be- me changed from balefulne tween two cars, the part of the to something approaching re- test that novices in other coun- sentment. I also noticed that his tries dread,

complexion had, for some rea-

Is one of Britain's problems son, become the colour of putty.

"I'm afraid, Bilas Barnes, that very polito-asked me where my

driving is below the plates were, standard we require, But I shall As I didn't want to tell him do all, Miss Barnes, that I can that I was already equipped of urban traffic congestion, I with a foreign lleence valid in wondered, aimply that the to help you."

incurious about Whereupon he bonded me Britain, I had to resort to some examiner is plece of paper entitled Stale- thing I disapprove of: Hes. And whether you can park efficiently ment of Fallure to Pass Test of when I lie, I become hopelessly in a tricky space? Competence to Drive.

muddled, always trying to make

Wonder while I watched the examiner

I thought that the judgment the thing better by elaboration of this round-faced man was that grows madder and mudder mildly surprising,

as I go on. Partly because past driving "Ordinarily wae another car

the conditions in Mexico and the fu

Country Alpa and New York City have friend been considerably more complex arriving later today

Awkward

broke down ..

Silence

There was a minato of silence struggling with his sense of aut-

At last, in steely tones, he said: "Let u3, Mix Barnet, continue."

I 'stopped wondering, how- rage. ever, because we were in an- other deserted street, and the examiner had proposed an 10- teresting test of reactions.

Eventually we found ourselves "When I hit the dashboard back where we had started,

Having handed me the State- Competence to Drive, the exam-

Lan those, posed by the streets Utterly meaningless mouthings with this newspaper," he said, in which I took the test, which So it is possible, of course, didn't have narrow mountain that at the outset the examiner want you to pretend that a ment of Failure to Pass Test of pasues, nor three feet of snow thought he was dealing with a child has just dashed out is iner bade me goodbye, got out and ice, nor eight lanes of raving lunatic. Anyhow, after front of your car." traffic,

retiring Into his big building, he I glanced in my rear mirror of my car, retrieved his plates, re-emerged with some L-plates and checked that the street was and with quickering, pace, dis oppoored back inside his big of his own, and together we tied all empty..

building. "Look," -1 said to Ikem on to my car.

the Ibogar reading about examiner. "It's pouring with incompetence.

my As we set

off, he said in #

The statement constets of a long : list, of to learn, of my incompetence tone so gentle it was sinister: rain. Do you really want me to

Barnce, I want protend that a child runs in observations, and the examiner because in 18 years of pretty "Now, Mies

puts an X beside the one which constant driving, I have never you just to pretend 1 am, not front of the car?"

"Yes, he said "I do.”

appilas to the · particular Injured or caused to be injured here".

So I did.

applicant:

And partly, I was surprised --

e

When he smashed his rolled

an animal, --two-legged Or Which is rather like a dentist

My examiner. had put on X otherwise. A lot of hug havo saying the same thing just been squashed on my wind before he takes a grip on your paper down on the dashboard beside No. 7. I had failed; I screen, adenit. But that lo all wide-open jaw and thrusts. an CRACK--I luck out my left read, tostop the vehicle in

Sulf, I daresay the examiner edormous steel drill into your arm in front of him und" emergency under control!!

At "knows what's best,

hend and begins pounding up jammed on the Brakos

"least, I thought,) my The car sloped moving examinar Is perfoctly che, dri Let me repori, da accurately, your, favourite choppers. as I can, the test itself, and soo. But what followed turned out forward, all right. But it also his requirements", In: Britain, Li what you think.

to be simple enough I drove went into a sidd on the wat it is raining, you run OTE We got off, it is true, to an along a road until the examiner, irosd, We found ourzelven children rather than disobey the turn left, or turn resting coally with the cet nosed rules of wmooth, braking taught awkward start. The round told me to

faced oxaminer-to whoin'T was right; or atop or whatever. I in against the left karbitu "in driving schools,

MILLINERS are ones head in such a literal way.

́ILLINERS- are wild about wool. Never before has

They are knitting it in Norway and Denmark, crocheting it in Italy, and sawing it for the salons of Paris.

HOWS.

High and blown-up crowns are, of course, topical Some are quito squarish, others oro completely round. The Millinery Institute of Great Britain announces an almost complete lack of trimmings, since the materials and their interesting shapes speak for themselves.

Some are Turbans in Jersey are elegant and exotic, quite simple, just head wrapping and ear covering." Others have long draper and call for courage and a Mata Hari quality on the side of the wearer!

We have had a long hot summer, and it seems that the designers are expecting a long cold winter. At Christian Dior, London, collection, wool and tweed hats partnered suits and coots.

But this winter the smart woman will definitely let wool go to her head.

Don't be surprised if you find the sophisticated and the definitely non-domesticated counting stitches this sea- son for the "hand-knitteds" are definitely all the rage.

Right: From the Millinery Show a wool pointed hat with loops worked row upon row.

brushed

Below left: From the Dolores Glamour modol range, a high crowned cloche in black and white tweed trimmed with black velvet cherries.

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