THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
PARENTS?
PAGE
Edited by Maureen Owen
PEOPLE who do things for children are usually very scientific about it. And another thing, people who do things for children on a large, improving scale are hardly ever parents.
Caryl Jenner, Director of the English Theatre for Children is un- married and has the cropped hair and ageless look which I connect with people who do things for children on a large, improving scale.
1
She put into words what The action of The Coral King Inve niwny suspected most (by James Ambrose Brown) child experta think about
In the Seychelles, kes place parily under the sea, and al! parents "once you marry
characters nd multiply you tend to use the
have French your chicetivity about children." names.
How's
bjectivity" Mine's silver ss Father back around my children. So when
your
I visited the Rudolph Steiner Theatre near Regent's Park to
REACTIONS
A note in the programme rays
sre Miss Jrmer's two protiuc- the show is written, designed Clons. The Coral King med The and acted for children and the Provoking of Pantaloon, I bok emp:y are not bothered about four-year-old critic with me, what the grown-ups will think, Child erities are all the rage
so concentrated objectively on critic who didn't the four-year-old this year, in care You know, and nearly all the proper concentrated objectively in the erities were equipped with their state, own Junior critics. We
in pairs.
all al
No company could have wish- e for a more attentive audience.
SMARTLY SNUG
DOTH fashionable and warm is this knitted hat Dinamed 'Twickenham Special"), designed speci. ally for the outdoor girl. Fush all your hair away or pull curls at the sides-the little hat is easy to wear.
-Reuterphoto.
Only one child (not a crilie) broke down when the octopus elder brother bare the horrid and sister off to the coral elva, which caused Mis: Jenner 10 mork it up in her audience re- zelion Sgures. She takes these ligures at every performance.
PARTYTIME-OR BEDTIME
SOMETHING SPECIAL, a hand. amooked dress for first ulzers In Clydelta with Nylon added lar longer woar. in white with embroidery.
SOMETHING WARM, which keep them cosy even when they Insist on sleeping
on top of the bedclothes. Bleeping sult in brushed dotion. in alres one and two.
LADY
your
Pake 7
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LUCK
CHINA MAIL
horoscope
not be discouraged from advising him on future oc- casions.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 13
AQUARIUS (January 21- Februniy 10); A ́ suggen- tion to alter a plan ought to bo rejected, as your own iden is definitely the better
one,
PISCES (February 20-March
201: A young person will ask your advice and then proceed to do exactly the opposite, but you should
About those
Children at the theatre: knock knees.....
true
After the show everyone waited for their child critics to give utterance, but like erities they refused then: sives verbzliy.
to commit
not
dix-
Miss Jenner was couraged. "We go by the letters
the children write after the show," she said,
funny the things they like best...
"They write after every per- formance and it was the things they wrote about, plus altr audience reaction figures that gave us the clues as to what 40 per cent of the awards and children really are interested in 24 per cent of the places; secon- when we st: rted the Children's dary grammar schools 27 per Theatre 11 cara ngo."
cent of the awards and 42 per cent of the places.
The things children like may zurprise some prople. Bost ef
ARIES (March, 21-April 19): A recently made friend will surprise you by Imparting some useful Information which you have tried to ob- tain for a very long time. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): An annoying little incident ought to be shrugged of and not be allowed to spoil your otherwise happy mood.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21):
An expenditure you have contemplated for quite a while should be made now, when you will get the best value for your money.
MOTHERS, according to CANCER (June 22-July 21);
a
in a well- known children's hospital, are getting not only mero health conscious about their children's bodies--but perfection - conscious
moro
too.
In the hospital I visited, the team of doctors and physio- therapists who treat spastics and other congenital enses are accommodation gives three-month courses in an trattorias), but
good people to talk to about tends to get booked up now for about the development of the Unusual variety of subjects.
courses which
In normal child.
the
Some Italian is necessary the courses are conducted in April. that
they language. though
English speaking The way specialise in The value of this analysis, as dimculties. The Italian 1n- all they like a story that leads I see it, is that it shows your stitute of Culture in Belgrave up to a happy marriage. boys and girls are very marriage
daughter does not necessarily Square give holiday courses de- they live-1:
of win signed to equip students with minded and romance has to be
enough Italian to benefit breught in somewhere.
the Italian universities.
Both
They love evil but prefer evil to be made laughable than vanquished altogether.
A "good" character musi Le shown to have some faults early
have a better chance
ning top academic prizes if she goes to a publie or independent scheel.
Filling
on in the retion. And although the gap..
the struggle between geod and
evil is, a mud, the more subtle
struggle between good and good PERUGIA in Italy is a
is out.
Unlike nekult performances, laughter and applause is not a sound sign that children are really enjoying themselves cording to Miss Jeaner and her Ogures
AVOIDED
"Anyone
a child con mike lough by falling on his bottom," she said. "We try and avaid that sort of thing here. And we And that children don't renem- ber spectacular shows. They gasp at the time but next day it's forgolica.
My child crictie now believes herself to be an octopus who can turn people into bits of coral and I am only trying toi be objective when uda that
It's nice to find a theatre where the seats cost five bob and you can park your car outside.
Where the
awards went...
university now much
in favour for school-leavers with that tricky gap to fill six months in a coffee bar is NOT the answorl.
Perugia is considered one of the best universities for foreigners (meaning us) and
COOKING "COLUMN
from
KNOW I
KNOCK-KNEES, they say, alliet about 80 per cent of all British toddlers and are gener- ally, outgrown by four or five.
ened well back and then "post"
A good corrective exercise is
to getting the chlid
stand, grandmother arides together, knees straight- A course at Perugia costa £18
who drums up a good books between the knee. and is open to students of 13
income from dressmaking Fathers und upwards.
Lons have been known to attend to and pattern designing. Hor gether, although I cannot see whole life revolves round that working out.
servicos and sho hardly over gons out.
Let it be known that Perugia is no dull university town. There Orc festas. night-clubs and open-air dance floors. They believe in templation.
On the other hand even 肆 meron would find it hard to miss
Marbles
FLAT FEET should never be allowed to persist after the age many infants Her dresses, etc., are conveyed of two, though
first by a State delivery rervies, one aro flat-footed when they
to walk. The necom- of the cheapest and least known begl In the country.
mended exercise here is the pleking up of marbles onl Her clerical werk is done by pencils with bare toes
out en culture with Perugia's an agency.
b:ckground of mystic scenery, opera and art galleries.
Living is cheap (stul 3s, for a three-ecuras meal at the local
by Helen
Burke
RING COOKING
Her housework is done who through another agency
BAD POSTURE is something on which you nerd expert ad-
send in immediate replacement vice and my tip is to go to your if the regular daily is ill.
doctor.
Best all-round exercis? She says it is cheaper to hire the development of
n ear for weekends and holidays
and swimming.
for
蝨 straight
with children than pay tax, in-and healthy body are skipping gurance and porking Anes. All her shopping is done on the DON'T WORRY If your son phone. She works a ten-hour thing out a lot between six and day to keep the service gelag eight (bows are more pronic but most of it is done from her to this than girls). He is in bed
the middle of one of the three
Her daughter says she is not a bit mad, and her grandchildren
is use less as a baby sitter,
-(Lansion Express Service.)
WT only possible with a little juggling: WITH only one electric plata or gas ring, the following love visiting her. She
Cream of Chicken Soup
Pork, Country 'Stüle
with Vegetables
Pommes Normande
THE SOUP
package) cun
(canned Interrupt
от
the
PLANNING your daugh. Berke for a few minutes and the
JACOBY on BRIDGE analysis of the awards
BEFORE someone writes in ta
tell me that today's hand is too simple for a bridge column, I want to print cut that there is no such thing as a simple grand slam bid, except possibly for such rarittes as a 13 card suit 24 points opposite cr a solid
an opening no-frump.
Of course, there are a lot of ways to bet to seven. The bid- ding in the box was used by Joe Klamy and Bruce JanEER of Phoenix, Ariz., at the Desert Empire regionals and since several paira stopped et slx. this hand contributed to their victory in the Men's Pairs.
The really interesting bid is North's final call of
KEVOI
+CARD Sende♣♦
Q-The bidding has been; South Wort North East Part 1♥ Рако Pass
20
7
Poss 2 N.T.
You, South, hold:
MAQUE WAQTE OR SAKIT
What do you do?
A---Bid four hearts. Your part- mer is signing off but you willf can't afford ta pisy this hand below game.
TODAY'S QUESTION ` Instead of bidding two no- trump over your two spades your partner has bid three hearts. What do you do now?
Answer TomoČTYW
NORTH (D)
AAQ32
KQ975 KJ
470
WEST AJO
13 +Q932 +QJ 1085
❤
EAST 474
J1042
+054
K943
SOUTHI
AK 103 85
AU
A. 1037
MAZ 4
Doth vulnerable
North
East
South
Wezi
Pass 14 PAXE
Fris
Pass
Pass
N.T.
PREF
Pass DN.T.
Para
Pass
PAKE
Рака
44
74 Par Pass
Opening Jend— QQ
spades,
·
Neath has opened the
bidding: Jumped in spades and shown his tee and two kings. Why did he, also, bld the grand slam?
do- The nswer is that he elded his partner
in- Was terested in
and was noven either worried about the spade suit or about the possibilty that Nerth might hold the king of elifba na one of his two kinks, North Dow he had very good
and spados
the Important kings; hence, his seven tid.
No apple dish con be rocked
נג
one but you can tell exactly advance and reheated at the what you want, but anlast minute.
and THE PORK. For ure person, the allow a pork cutlet; for three, entrances goined to women's colleges at Oxford buy a suitable plece of spare and Combridge in the year a delicious cold dish).
rios. (Any left over will make |1959-60 gives on acadomici Melt a litle of the pork fat
clue.
and
Dust the
teaspoon
Seasoning
anst
big "growing spurts" and will out again later. Other big owing spurts: infarey puberty.
-Maureen Owens
A neighbour whỏ has been helped by you will show hin gratitude by putting Aome remúnerative work your
way.
LEO (July 22-August 21): A closer relationship with n member of your family ent easily be attained if you show your desire for it. VIRGO (August 22- September 22): Don't hesitate any longer to con- tact the people who have offered to help you in your
Career.
(September
LIBRA
23- Delober 22): If idle gossip tends to upset you, consider the source whence it came. Some people enjoy, making trouble. SCORPIO (October 21- November 21 An in- timate friend's judgment
may be wrong, and you should not base your own decision entirely on his in- fluence. SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 21): A very pleasant weekend Is in store for you, providing you don't let business worries interfere with your enjoyment of it. CAPRICORN (December 22- January 20); A friend who recently pald you a long visit will give a most flat- tering report of you to people whose opinion you value highly.
YOUR BIRTHDAY: If thia is your birthday, a change early in the year will bring.
new
a definite turn for the bet- ter in your affairs. A responsibility wliil casily be assumed and finances ought to improve.
STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
The Mysterious Picture
-General Tin Solver The Case Satisfactorily—
By MAX TRELL
"I was awake all last night. I saw the picture being painted,
"One of them is the Wind. The second is the Cold. The third is the Air. The fourth is the Frozen Rain Drops. All of them together are the artists.
"But don't ask me how they could paint such a beautiful ple-
why the pleture should look like s scene in the middle of sum- mer! Because those are the things I don't know."
EVERYONE in the house was Dut. I couldn't see who it was ture. And don't ask me, either.
asking the same question, that made h.” who had painted the wonderful
The nightwatch pleture on the outside of the in a thick pot or iren casserole. window pane?
Everyone knew that General cutlet with a ilitie Independent
"All I know," said Mr Punch, Tin was telling the truth when public pepper and salt and
Then everyone in the room tools secured 27 per cent of of flour and fry it all over to a s that it was done during the he said that was awake all
night," the awards and 34 per cent of golden tone,
night. For General Tin always wondered whether General Tin, "It must have been painted stood on guard next to the deer the Tin Scldier, was right. And the places; direct-grant schools
they thought he must be, be- during the night," said Hanid. with his muskel over his the Shadow Girl, "because It shoulder. Everyone else in the cause, after all, he was the only wasn't there when I went to huuse slept, but General Tin me who had bron cake all
through the cold, windy, frosty stayed wide awake. bed."
nihi when the besuŭful plc- Remove while trying a chop-|
"I was standing here in le ture was being painted on the "But who said Teddy, the ped onion, a leed small picce
when I first cutside of the window pane. Brar, Stuffed
03 he looked room," he said, of parent, a diced carrot and ground at everyone in the room, atleed that semeene outside Lift there but and try a sliced could have painted the picture the window was painting a pic- in the middle of the night? And ture on the window pane, So small dipple. Replace the cullet Just look at it! It's all painted I walked right up to the window and cover with the vegetables in bits of ice!** and one to two alleed potatoes, seasoning each addition as you
POCKET CARTOON By FRIELL
Sensational
REDUCTIONS
- Wauja you mina telling ma If this is a men's atvedter counter or a soutient's sloentar
counter
Laxton Kerana darasou,
three whole little onions,
Summer sceno
and opened it and looked out- side. But there was nothing cutside except the cold wind and the ley stars and moon in window Sprinkle with three to five Everyone crowded around the the sky. 1 shut the tablespoons of water. Pince Ice-picture to have a close look again. But I made up my mind butler paper on top and put on at it.
to keep watching. I was deler-
sp.
number of mali disserl apples,
who was
the lid. Cook very gently for Strangely enough, though it mined to find out 40 minutes or, or a plece et was painted in fee, the picture palating the picture of ice on
itselt seemed to be that of a the window pane." pork, a little longer.
General Tin paused and shook POMMER NORMANDE. Feel the trees thick with leaves and his head.
eleummer garden. You could see quarter and core the required the clusters of daisies and but- "But I never could see who it Melt a little butter in a frying- tercups, while far in the dis- was," he said. "St I think I
tance, a herd of cows were graz- know who did it.". the apples, in onena on the grassy slopes of the pan. Add
Awaiting an aniwer turn them as they layer, and
Everyone in the ream walled cook.
"Now somebody must have When soft and a golden tone, painted that picture," Mary- for Goneral Tin to pay who he aprildo with sugar and a pinch Jano, the Rag Doll kept saying. thought it was who had patated of cinnamon. Burve as they are ho could it be?"
the picture in fee on the window> pane, or, botter all, að
AmaSaute
of rum or whisky, heat through and it alight.
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Then, suddenly, they were "It isn't just eno crist," ho startled to hear General Tin, the said. "It's four of them, me Tin Soldier saying:
more.
729
Everyone crowded around the lee-ploture for a close look..
Rupert and the Purple Star-40
Sailor Sam stares at the little bear. "What d'you mean?" he demanda. How do you know? If Back Pedrb hain't got the ancient paper, where is it?” "It's her 1" laughs Rupert. **I've got it myself ("When Brit beard Pedro coming I was scared,
I didn't know where to hide the paper. affed it in the only place I could think of. See, Ezera fin
in1. And from under hus jermy he pulls the precious; faded. aberi.
Sam ze it, and the
marprise la so great that for some moments be cannot say a word. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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