When
a woman
says
go away' to a riot
-YOU CAN BET
SHE'S BRITISH
ALWAYS the every tough them in every tough spot. Calm amid tho.bul. lets of a revolution; con- fident during a coup d'etat that upbringing will solve all; imperturbably telling a riot to go away (and it goca).
A Brilish woman, quielly go- Ing on doing her duty.
She was
Like Dame Leslie Whateley, grandmother, Girl Guide chief, devoted gardener. Addis Ababa at a conference on the future role of the Afri- can woman--when the revolui- tion broke out.
Dame Lealle saw her duty to morshat the ladies of the -conference back to the anfety of their hotela. A rebel tried to put a bullet into her missed, went through her skirt.
Danie Losile went on mar- shalling. All her charges reach- ed safety.
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
SHIRLEY
THOSE
fascinating party puzzles Why did she marry him?, and Whatever did he see
in her?, are once more in
LORD
Why oh why are
"If you get the habit early
full swing at all the most even as soon na you leave school social soirees.
then marriage is all right, otherwise It's hard to lose your
When a few clues are provided independente.
as there are no rules to break,
to
somebody trually. Demy come up with the answers Etut what about the puzzlo the never married?
which goes like this; why was
This is where the gossips are confounded, for whereas one without necepts bachelorhood
single woman has comment, a often surrounded herself with a well-knit Aura of mystery-
particularly if she is beautiful. Just before 16 and marriage nble age I shared a trantle desire with many friends to remain decidedly off the shelf.
Whether the need to rush into matrimony at such a tender age is as acute today, I'm not sure.
She disagrees
I am sure, however that the majority of women prefer mar- ringe to single status, provided the husband is in the fairly reasonable category.
who disagrees
One woman "Just the sort of thing she with me happens to be one of would do, said her son, farmer the most attractive women 1 Raymond Whateley. of Somer-know. I suppose she should be, set. "When it was all over she because she is the chief beauty remarked that a miss was as expert at Max Factor in this good as a mile and there we country-Eve Cardiner. were."
her.
17
Eve, at 47, looks at least years younger-not flannel, fast. She has never married and today she's virtually at the top. of the beauty tree.
"Relationships ure deal it poorna until you love each other and then one always seems to 80 under-why, I wonder?"
GETTING
WITH IT
The latest trend in the beauty and fashion world is one that surprises me. Based on the old stage, if you can't beat 'em, juin 'em, the new polley in acilon now in to usk the beptalks, the Daddao's, the Teddy girls and boys what they want and try to produce it. Not, as before, nt- tempt to advise and remodel them,
Miners make-up started this in an attempt to reshape their
EVE GARDINER (Bee: She disagrees)
they still
single?
Earlier this year dress manu- facturers Sambo and Mr Mort and the Fifth Avenue Group of shops decided to be guided by taste and give up this beatnik trying to change it.
Pamela Lewis, who is Margh- anita Laski's sister, worked a one woman campaign for the two dress firms and at the same ime excentives at Fifth Avenue were getting to know this vast group of people at close Ind.
The answers they received were easy to work on-pretty, but practical materials in stork styles, loose curvey tops, full jivey skirts and short.
Now Fifth Avenue are scarch- ing for a full-time fashion con- sultant in real keo-rat territory
at every dance hall.
-(London Express Service);
THIS TYPE OF DRESS
is what the beatniks really want -they sald so. It's slick and made
in Terylene by Sambo.
The man's sult is light
Μπατ combined with Terylene
Jor washability.
STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Mrs. Cuckoo's Story
-It's Called "The Three Steps Of The Tin Soldier"—
business arid enplure the faces of the "modems." They sent their emissary, Marle Lake, into the jazz clubs, coffee bars and dance halls, where slic found carcer out that the girls wanted only light to white lipsticks, in long thin cases, with the stick point- ed at the end like a pencil.
They wanted, too, an uninted AT 12 o'clock every foundation, and told her "We want a hair lacquer."
The storm Remember Hannah Stanton. the Hammersmith almoner who found that her work in Pretoria brought her into conflict with Dr. Verwoerd's racial policies? I prked her recently if her She refused to be deported, cut- ambition had precluded mar- fered weeks of, solitary conthie-riage. "Never," she said. "Mar ment for her prinelpies while on rage to the right person would
interfere with a international storm raged about never
but for me it's always been of Then there was 35-year-old | supreme Importance to marry Josephlae Blanclifte, the bark my, desil, Morringe just for the manager's daughter from Hairo-cake of it was always out of the Rate, and Dercen Peck, from question. Relgate, Surrey, ut n mission Biolion in the Congo, who braved bands of rioiing Bahulu warriors to bring help to 300 Africans.
Now from Vientiane, stricken capital of warring Laos, comes news of 43-year-old Miss Phyllis Aldridge, working in a hospital without medical supplies, threat- ened by typhus, overflowing with wounded,
"Don't worry, am well, work- ing hospital," she cables to her father in Bournemouth.
And, of course, there are the nannies, who have seen that the rice pudding gets eaten up, though dynastles crumble about them. No question why Eastern potentates ilke to employ the unshakeable British; their loyal- ty to unquestioned, their bravery never in doubt.
The murder
More
After a year's research of this type Miners for Moderns was launched, and Freshman, a bro- her company, came in to make Hatrix aerosol.
"Obviously one isn't as happy married, unmarried is happily but I've found compensations— my work. And as I grow older seems to get better-like good vintage, I'm harder to please new, enjoy my independence.
bachelor girls, Two
"When we started," a director Barbara Shelley and Shirley
Fleid were outspoken told me, we thought we were aiming at a small extreme about marriage, too.
section, Now we realise these "Friends shy I fall for products are being snapped up stinkers,“ Barborn said, "but by the younger gegeration & this seems all too easy. Any pe- never ending market." lotionship is a question of two It's personalities--but something I do that makes a man what he is?
Anné
maybe
"Because I'm tall people have always considered me capable of taking care of myself-so I can, because I've had to.
I've
Like Nanny Florence Hazel-grown accustomed to being by dine, then 60, who escaped from | myself."!
Bagdad after the murder of
think
King Faisal in 1958 with three Shirley Anne Fleld hasn't. She royal princes, her charges, lying has a steady-but even so she's on the floor of the royal car. wary about marriage. "I
When plotters threatened, to whom did King Hussein of Jor- dan entrust his daughter, Prin- cess Alya? Why, to Nanny Norah Smith-as British as they
come.
And now from Addis Ababa aguin comes news of Vera Jury, 40-year-old wife of British schoolteacher, who has been in charge of the Emperor's two) favourite grandchildren,
When the bullets started fly- ing, someone had to set off for the nearby villa with the chil- dren. Who took them? Why, British Mrs. Jary.
Just another British woman with an odd, old-fashioned idea
about duty,
JOHN ELLISON
--Landon Express Sandico},
ARTIE...
"Read me some more from that bookler called 'A Women's Place,” Hear..."
«London Axbrkað. FRETIER.
career makes you selfish when 100 it's going well-probably clinging when it isn't," she said.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
LADY
your
By MAX TRELL
shawl around her shoulders and spectacles in front of her eyes night and tell stories to all her friends when everyone in the house as she knitted. was asleep, Mira Cuckoo opened the door of her clock-house and
in the Player. invited everyone room to come up..
happen.
A stairway would appear, leading from the floor of the Playroom to the Cuckoo clock on the wall. The clock itself would grow lace and roomy, And Mrs Cuckoo would sit in
0
a
All who camo
told him that she had come to grant his wish and give him the three little steps that he wanted In order to walk from his cor- ner to the stops of the privato house where the autiful Doil was walling.
The Tin Soldier was overjoyed. He told the good
Fairy that he wanted to inko - the three steps at once. But the good Fairy answered that - fore he took the three steps, she would have to tell him
whcro
the three stops came
From boy and girl
Paro 7
JACOBY
on BRIDGE
JORTIL'S Jump raise to four clubs was .the "exactly correct bid.
He had too much for a mero single anise and also his hand was, mcs unsuitable for no- trumps. At the same time a Jump all the way to five dubs drastic. would have been too After all, South might want to give some sort of belated spado rales in which case North was perfectly willing to play that std..
The four-club bid peres a
Should he problem to South, merely bid dva clubs and settle for gane er ehould he try for A samp
South decided to try for a slam and naturally askn for aces
NORTH
AK 1054 87.
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KJ033
WEST 4396
QJ100 K843
107
EAST
4Q172
VA9543
+942
喂农
SOUTIL (D)
K2
Q1076 XQ984
East and West vulnerable South West North East 14. Pass 14 Pots
'Pass
4N.T. Pars 5�
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Poss
Pass Pask Pass
Opening lend-VQ
with hla four no-trump bid. Playing straight Blackwood this is Blackwood. Playing Jacoby alan convention, this is also straight
because Blackwood, any lime the club suit has been bld by elther player Jacoby and Blackwood are identical.
If North held no aces ho would have bid Ave clubs and South would be at game only. When North showed one fee South went to six clubs which turned cut to be a lay down with the queen of hearts opon- ing. It would also have been o lay down with any 'other open- ing since the cards lay favour! ably.
♥÷CARD Sensek♦
Q-The bidding has been: South
North West Pass z♦
Only three steps separated 'the Tin Soldier from the Doll.
1
Pass
5
7
You, South, hold:
cach other,
Those who came to hear Cuckoo were Knarf and Hanld A lot of strange things would the Shadow Children with the from. For the three steps that Turned-About Names, Teddy, he was going to take would the Stuffed Bear, Hiawatha, the have to be taken from three
Wooden Indian, Small-Sized Mary-Jane, the Rog Doll, Miss Children. Gloria, the beautiful China Doll. Mr Punch and his wife Judy
"The first step would be and, sometimes, though not al ways (for he was often busy taken from a little Boy who Doll kept looking standing on guard at the Play was running. And when the step wishing they could sit next to room door) General Tin, the
would be taken away from him, onch, other, and neither of them Tin Soldier.
be would fall. The second step moved. But they really didn't would be taken from a little mind, because they both knew GE who was walking upstairs that somewhere a little Boy and she would trip and fall would run and not fall, wand when the step was taken away somewhere a little Gut would. from her.
walk upstairs and not trip, and somewhero a very little Boy who was just learning how to walk would go across the room
and reach his Mother's arms.
comfortable chair with
LUCK
CHINA MAIL
horoscope
THURSDAY, JANUARY 5 AQUARIUS (6) (January 21- February 10); If you have a good idea but Inck the necessary ability to carry it out, you will have to take a practical person into your confidence.
Don't discard that old egg-PISCES (7) (February 20- beater. It will make a perfect paint mixer for your future Paint Jobs The beater does a quick and thorough mixing job,
ם
When cooking or laundry work is going on, wut of the kitchen or laundry to keep
from the steam
Test of the House At the same time, open the windows to help circulate
March 20): Dovote zome time today to bringing your finances.on to a more secure basis for the coming year. ARIES (11) (March 21-April 10): Try to control your argumentativo Impulses and your. friends will be leas wary of expressing their opinions.
air and give ventilation to carry TAURUS (12) (April 20-May
of moisture.
Ja winier, set house plants in the bath tub for a refreshing clear water spraying of leaves. Huch treatmerit once or twice a month keeps leaves dust free and shiny.
To take the bitter taste out of coffee, add a pinch of salt.
Clean
of
hard-to-reinova ment from the baitoma bollies or glass vases by filling the vessel half full of warm soapsuds. Then add a handful of ''sarpot tacke. Shake vigorously.
The sediment will loosen.
те
20): Disregard of a re Jativo's devotion could be very hurtful, and you should try and be.kind even though you may not ciprocate the affection. GEMINI (5) (May 21-Juno 21): You will hate an opportunity quite soon, to ndd to your income without having to increnso your houra of woric.
-CANCER (1) (June 32-July 21): A telephone call from a stranger will bring you greetings from a distant friend LEO
Wheat, gerin sprinkled on pe nut butter sandwiches ádde tek fure and, a multier; favour. It may also be sprinkled on, muert dessert toppings,
(8) (July 22-August) 21): You are quite right. to be highly selective in your choice of friend, elnice you can only be sails fod" with, doey' and lasting - relationships.
22-
Now on this particular night, Mrs Cuckoo told a story which she called The Three Steps of the Tin Soldier."
"Of course, General," cald Mrs Cuckoo as she smiled at General Tin.
+
Well, said the little Ti "the Tin Soldier Soidler to the good Falty. I I'm going to tell you about 't don't like taking the step away you It was a very small Tin from that Boy and that Girl. Soldier who lived in a house But I don't think that they
here, very far from
All day will mind very much even if long, and all night long, too, they fall. But who will give me he stood in a corner of the the third stop?' room where he lived-and just **Then the good Fairy an- stood and stood and stood. And swered at the third step would the reason he kept standing come from a very small was that he couldn't walk.
Made him sad
The
Boy who was just learning how to walk across the room into his Mother's arms.
And if I give you one of that little Boy's steps,' said the od Fairy he'll never be able
reach his Mother."""
Stopped talking
Mrs Cuckoo stopped talking. Then Hanld'sked:
VIRGO (4) (August
"Yes," continued Mrs Cuckoo, September 22): A splendid's little Tim Soldier wasn't opportunity will present it-able to take a Lingle stop no self to indulge your love of matter how hard he tried. It travel and adventure.
made him very sad, indeed, And LIBRA (10) (September 23-l tell you why."
October 22): Try to co- Mrs Cuckoo kept knitting ceal a sudden revulsion of while she told her story. feelings towards a friend. faster she spoke, the faster she and what did the little Tin
knitted. You may soon get over it,
Soldier do. Mrs Cuckon?" but he would never forgive "Now tha reason the little "He didn't fake the three Tin Soldier was so anxious to steps," replied Mfrs Cuckon. you if he knew.
walk," Mrs Cuckco, went on "He stayed right" where he (3) (October 23- without Ufting her head to look was?" SCORPIO
sitting around November 21): Since the at her friends
fcot has made her, "was that just three fentive season
joway from where he was standi~ alarming larends into your Ing, sat beautiful Doll on the funde, you will have to cur-stops of her own Doll house tall your running expenses And all day long, and all night
for a time.
Wished for threo stops "So," said Mrs Cuckoo, "he vished with all biz might that someone good Fairy, perhaps would give him three steps
just three stops,
long, too, the, beautiful Dell smiled at the little Tin Soldier, SAGITTARIUS (9) (Novem- "And the one thing in the *ber 22-December 21): Try world that the little fin Soldier to overcome your reserve at wonted to do was to walk the a lively social gathering, or three steps that separated him your fallure to enter into from the beautiful Doll, But
this he couldn't do. the spirit of the occasion will earn you the very nt- tantion, you want to avoid. CAPRICORN (2) (December 22-January 20): A person born under. Pisco will prove to have a great many Interests in common with
Please, good Fairy, he kept you, and a further meeting mying over and over azalo, should soon be arranged.vo me throw" "stops. |Some Folks want golden palaeos, ànd LUCKY NUMBER! builful clothes and lots of YOUR
Count the lettera in your food, But all wres first name and add the total little stops. R to the number, shown in brackets after your slint of the Zodiac. This is your lucky number 2ör today,
“And that night#:: anlal | Stew |]; Cup, "while the cla: Tic Bolciler was swading in his cor very, the good Fairy cummer: 154
All day long, and all night long, too, he and the beautiful
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4K2 VAKĴ7 ●K9854 435:
What do you do?
A-You have a real close one.
here. I would recommend a mere five diamond bid, but would have no erittelem of a 'Jump to si día- monds.
TODAY'S QUESTION You still hold this same hand. Your partner responds two no- trump to your opening heart bid., What do you do?
Answer ToméZTOW
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