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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1960.

WOMANSENSE

"Off with those curls," said Jennis Hocking's hair-

dresser, Edward of

this

now

means

Bernard. Andre

har rateable zooming up.

Looking liko

valua

has gone

SHIRLEY

How

well do

you

know

the people

next

door?

CHILDREN'S CORNER

Chirpie Isn't Hungry

-He Explains To The Shadows Just What Happenil―

By MAX TRELL

bane Ksurf wheat able to ay thing. He was quite daya, Kharf and 1 able to gene at why Chir- hungry Han, the Shutoa Chillren på Sorrow, who gol with the Turned-Aljona Namon, every 15 minutes hadn't com

FOR

"Okay." said Chirpie, and wings. stopped fluttering his

" wall. What is it?"

Knart and Hand polted to

crumbs the bread

spread out in the window sill.

"Ch-them!" said Chirpie. Kuart and Ranid looke Chirple in amusement,

at

"Aren't you going to

eat

and put bond etamile on the window sill for his bread then asked Hand, winde sill. The waited for evner for three entire days. Chirple Starrow to come along

und eat them.

He didn't come.

He didn't come the first day, nor the second, or the tjurd als the fourth day, Manid was sure rums- aid that she thing must be wrong.

Not hungry

"Cord morning!"

Chirpi hesitated before a- Chirpiering. He squirmed aroun

In an uncomfortable way, stend- in frst on

one leg and then

Sparrow greeted cheerfully

"ikere I am"

"Yes here you are," said "And where have you Knof ixen?"

"We've been worried about you, Chirple," said Hand,

That's a shome," said Chir- "I didn't mean to worry pla.

Anyway, here 1 an and you. I'm ertainly glad to see you. "Not hungry itflor three 11 ans don't be worried if you dankt. "That don't for me as often as you day? can be right. Chirple gets twed to,, Well, I've got to go lie's now. hungry resy 15 minutes. apatys eating."

"I don' think anything's wrong." and Kaart. He's just Tot hungry, that's all"

Chirple Sparrow actually dut at that moment, Churple started Buttering his wings, but Jtunid began Sparrow Bntly Canis lying Knarf of the winiar sHI, H was shruting:

a got thing be cene just then,

l

-Wall! Wat?"

JACOBY on BRIDGE

Today's hand, previcusly ap peared in my

tele except

that have moved the six of clubs from the Wes to the East

the hand and

nice of clubs from the East to the West kandi.

I a previous artiel, cs- ellent defence by Eart and Wel beat South at foite hearts. The key play consisted of East pt- thig up the ten of spades whe.. the ruit was led from dummy After the hand had been stripped of diamonds and clubs. Several raders thought that South could have made the hand by adopting n different line of play and with the cards placed the way they are row South can make the hand against any defence. play is as follows:

WEST

AKJJ 52

+ A 1092

AAJIDS

NORTH

4705

KJ04

• 374 4KB3

EAST

22

410132

SDA

+053 47054 SOUTH (D) AAQB

AQ 1007 KQB

+23

Both vulnerable

West North East

South

The

A

Pass Рася Pass Opening lead—♥ 2

Pass Pass

South draws trumps with two lead and storts on dhe munds. West's best defence 14

discards the eight of spades and claims the balance,

tu lake the aes and lead the Why wouldn't this play have

suit back. South plays the last worked before? Because West diamond and lends clubs.

II muid have hung

he leads the club from his own hand West plays the nine and dummy takes the trick with the king. A second club loses to the ice und West will lead - a third club, Now South simply

*CARD Sensėk

Q-The bidding has been: North East South ZN.T.

Went

DA

Гало 3 A Taes F*** ANT. Pass Раст You, South, hold:

AKJAJZ W943 +K75242

What do you do?

A-Bid aix spades. Even though there is si noe' vif, at the worst there should be a fineme for this slam,

TODAY'S QUESTION

. Instead of going to five spades over your four ho-trump "your partner har bid five clubs to khow all four aces. What do you do now?

Answer Tomorrow

lo

the six of clubs and led it to

is partner's nine.

ONCE

LORD

CE in Salt Lake City a Mormon tackled me about my neighbour, and I had to admit we had never even been introduced. From that mo- ment on, he believed I was a dyed-in-the-wool, 100 per cent British snob and he would not be convinced otherwise, whatever I said about proximity not being everything. "Since then I've moved house and, oh, how I wish that Mormon could be around today, for at last I've discovered the secret of neighbourliness: Live in a brand new house sandwiched between a lot of other brand new houses and camaraderie is as catching as measles.

fact. I've learned that next door is the cock. From one Joy's fee has now gone up to In

one gns. for see her happily 50

photo sharing a builder is an easy way window 1 can

cooking to win frierkis.

Balt away.

"No wonder the surely session.. Invitations have poured people only want to know their Victorians called it "an interest- through my letterbox... both neighbours if they're at a loose ing condition."

I never ani-there the "do drop in" and the grander end? And "At Home" varieties, and Just aren't enough hours in the grown-up games of "shop" have day."

Kone

"

Farrustuess

with

underlying

us neighbour after

neighbour turned up their accus- SILENCE te or plumbing, problemos.

Although that Mormon bad

nothing on me, my attitude to IS GOLDEN

neighbours has changed tre- mendously since joining this cosy colony. Not that I think there is ey general trend to let's-get- to know the neighbours -

better. check on this I chatted to

three different households, big, Lasement and bachelor.

'No time'

Then model Jennie Hacking was persuaded the other day to part with her long, carefully dishevelled huir siyle. Now, back-und-sidea with a short look, her rateable value has zoomed to 5 gus, an hour here— and for Continental jobs it seems the ty the limit.

Then there's the man who's

never alone with his favourite cigarette, Terence Brook.

VE found a new meaning for that old, old saying Silence

Now that he has fan mali-- is Golden, These days in the pro- fession where words mean noth- about 40 lo 50 letters a week— ing and actions everything-the his rate has jumped from three world of modelling the shekels guineas to 10-15 guineas

mounting op for the hour.... So hard for him to are brightest boys and girls.

his keep

under-nourished Hearing that ethereal blonde look... And, d'you know, the model giri Joy Westen was now poor man really is camera-sky. a Mum-to-be for the first line,

TONIA and Donald Campbell, I said I would like her to model

for instance, returned a some monternity clothes. little over a week ago to thir "Delighted, of course," said

agent, near Reigate, her entry house

she

When telephoned Tonia, was still enthusing about being huine. Did her enthusiasm take

in the neighbours, too?

"I don't know them," she told

ከነሮ. "We've ved here for over a year now and our nearest I suppose would be half a milo down the road.

"I've been inside. that house just once, when Gina (Donald's daughter) was invited to a *the children's ball and said,

the Mums are coming to pick kids up, so you can pick me up if you like.'

*When I went along al} the Mums seemed to know me, for they kept saying "We never know when you're going to be home Mrs Compbell." So I suppose that's why I've 112 received any invitations

"In any case I was brought up not to know the neighbours. My mother always said, 'Be friendly and polite, Tonia,

but

If you don't want peoplu ringing on the other.

"I gatess I'm not very hun-up to borrow an egg or some- thing, don't encourage ziend Fry," he nally said.

ships!

Knart and Hanid were ever more astonished than before.

Chirpie looked at their faces A quirk is and gave a quirk. the rame as a chuckle, except that is made by a Sparrow.

"I suppose." he said, after

gweral more gulrking

times, "that you'd like me to explain why I'm not very hungry.

and and Karg nedded, Cierple walked among the bread crumbs on the window dill. cuching them with the end of his beak but not eating then,

"It it," he said, "that these crumbs c'e'l as delicious as they always are. I can see that they're brown and crisp and fresh. But let me tell you what happened three days ago, and ther you'll understand why I'm not hungry for any bread crumbs now,

Moved to new place "Three days ago, I moved out of the place where I was living. That place was a nest in the middle of a maple tree in the middle of the park. But with the cold weather coming on, I found myself a nice, raug, new ploce behind a loose brick in the chimney,

"Thot's, where I'm living now, "But," Chirple went on, "it isn't a house chimney. It's a chimney over the oven of a bakery,"

A bakery! Knarf and together:

"Whenever Donald and I talk about neighbours we incan our. friends Michael and Margot (the Marquess and Murchioness of Reading) and they're half hour's drive away from here. haven't time to cultivate more friendships."

an

any

Probably the Royal friends of Robin and Sandra Douglas Home -Princess Alexandra in particu- lar-have popped down the area steps into their basement home in Kensington, but have their neighbours?

"I've never seen them," said Mrs D. H. "And we don't have any neighbours at our country home in Hampshire either."

I got the impression the Doug- as Homes were definitely not neighbour-minded.

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Easy?

Is it easier perhaps for a man alfne to get to know his

he

to? wants neighilour- Thousands of love stories have been written about the male who runs out of tea in his bachelor flat and so meets the girl of his dreams who happens to have a full tea caddy next door...

Frederick Starke, chairman of the Fashion House Group of London, dues have a bachelor fat in a large impersonal block, but he has never run out of tea. "I've never run out of any- thing since I had my butler," he told me. He also doesn't know his

"The neighbours.

only person I've ever seen in the dat

Hunld exclaimed SOAP AND

"A bakery! A place where WATER GIRL

they make bread?"

"I was never so surprised in

my life," mid Chirple, "All they

do all day long is bake bread.

"And you've never, never en so many broad crumbs as I've been peeing--and eating for the past three days,"

Rupert and the Purple Star-11

and Buses the other bucket to pour ins, water, "Now it' be heavier," says Rupert, " carry it Brat and-00 [-Ow! -Bre - can't The whole bucket's electric now, Em tings ling all over And, in alarm, be drops bath tile spade and bucket

The starallies quietly in the. pail, and Rupert starts to carry it away, ** 11% making my arm feel funny," he grins. ***That thing must be still jus alive ] ** "Perhaps the poor thing wania some sali water," says Bill, it can't enjoy belog out of there." So they stop at the nearest pool hurriedly.

ALL RIGHS5. MeNBAVEN

HAVE Just caused a few mild casca of hysteria in the town. I beauty salons around told them about Odile Vernola, 30-year-old star of Out Of This World.

She had floored me with the remark: "I have never worn make-up, don't intend to, and wash always with soap and water

Bho looked so what did the experts think about it?

ane,

The girl who makes glamour pay at Gala screamed with laughter. "Well, it's entirely under- her own affair." I "can stand a teenager avoiding make- up, but no person can make the best of herself without it when she's older."

I arrived at the root of the matter when speaking to the Helens Rubinstein and Yardley's salon. Both admitted could be one of the very rare (and lucky) people with a per- fect skin.

"She must be very relaxed to like to be seen with a well- scrubbed face," #ahl Yardley's. aro * soap-and-water house, but prefer a matt finish after washing." Frankly, don't we all?

t'und

inculently

Silence is really golden-pro-

the

vided there is a 22-carat-type brain ticking away behind looks.

(London Express Service),