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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1961.'

WOMANSENSE

VERONICA PAP WORTH

CHILDREN'S CORNER

The story I heard from Mr. Punch Remembers

WE

7E sat alone in a railway car. riage, myself and a red- haired girl with a pony tail and purple lipstick.

Begging a light for her ciga- rette as a pretext for conversation, she seemed delighted-even eager— to talk.

She had come to London from Ger- many via Switzerland, I gathered. "But in Switzerland the Germans are like bensis--we work until we full to the

floor. We count as nothing.

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ST. TROPEZ

TT is a fashion born to last—a new line that, starting In St. Tropes, has swept like a bush fire through

the fashionable French resorts.

It is the pelvic-belt" on hip-level pants-Elvis- wire.

To be fair, the flest I ever saw were abown in Lendon last March by Mary Quant—a designer who is always way ahead of the rësi.

Maybe great minds think milke T... Maybe fashion news travels fast ?

At all events, in France they are now popular fashion. Even the chala stores sell them.

In Londen they are stili difficult to flud—and lo the top price bracket

Newer still and in the ahope this week is the same

Iloe adapted for evening.

The belt is black silk braid on a black velvet skirt worn with a ruffled blouse in fine white lawn,

LADY

your

AQUARIUS

February

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9 (January 21- VIRGO (August 19) Although September 22): A

friend may make excessive demands on your time, but You must not forget your older loyalties.

you are not easily roused to anger, you are likely to have ample provocation to- day

FISCES (February 20-March It will be up to you to 20): make the Bnal decision in a matter of importance to the future of your family. ARIES (March 21-April 19):

Try to be gracious for your partner's make when enter taining a former rival, TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don't let inttery go to your hend, nu matter how pleasant it is to hear.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21):

Your aesthetic tasten of such a high order that you are not likely to find many people who ahure them.

are

CANCER (June 22-July 211:

The Batisfaction derived from your personal efforts will be denied you if Vall rely too much on entricle help.

LEO (July 22-August, 21): You will have to be very diplomatic to avoid an- tagonising either of two annorlaton who ask you to net as their arbiter.

LIBRA (September 2

Detober 221: Hely on your

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auch don't hesitate to make a husty decision today. SCORPI0

(October 23- November 21): Your part- ner will value your affec- tion more highly if You it Loo

avoid displaying

freely in public.

SAGITTARIUS (November

• 22-December 21): It would

England, it seemed, was a decided improvement.

"At first was bad," she "I was working told me. for foreigners. Austriana! walk out-go to the Church Army.

MYON know this place the Church Army? Is for bad girls? No"

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"I am.goo

"Next I take a job au pair,

This lady is very soft and lazy. All English women are lazy.

Terrible

"She sny:

4 cannot Pay/

a girl

a train

in a

"Now I have a job with Americans. Five pounds each

week, but all the time the man say: 'Kiss, kl.

"I tell him no. I am a good girl, But he say it is nothing -- just a little joke. I am not afraid. have studied ju-jutsu. Easily I

could break his arm.

"Once in Dusseldorf I was at- tacked.

A

"I am wise. I give false tele- phone numbers.

"Now

Is better 1 have boy friend 'Old man - British passport.

"He is a salior-selle things."

I this right? No. sules- man?

-He Tells Shadows About A Scarecrow He Knew-

By MAX TRELL

"And all summer long I would walk ou la the cornfeld every 'Good-day-

"Of course," Mr Punch corin tinued. "Jack was very good-

He didn't mind a bit nalured.

40 course." Mr Punch was morning and say.

saying to Knael and Hanid, how-are-you? to Jack Straw. the Shadow Children with the whieh wes the name I gave to Turned-About Names, "there our scarecrow, are plenty of things that I used to see when I was a Boy that you hardly ever see any more."

If the Crows in the neighbour- Mr Punch puffed out a whole hood helped themselves chain of rings from his pipe. and then to some of the corn. Be stretched himself out com- I guess he thought there wan fortably in his creaky, old- plenty of coru for fashioned rocking chair,

"For instance. scurecrows," he cold,

now

everybody,

and Crows have to, cat, too, so why not let thend share wit the farmer?

There was Jack Straw, with Crows all géound him.

head calling out in their hoarse voices: 'Straw straw strawr

were

"Well, old good-natured Jack Never saw one

Straw may have thought it was though the farmer thought they a good idea to share the Knart and Hanid sald they farmer's

saying: Cow-cow-caw." corn with the neigh which is had never seen a scarecrow.

what Crows usually "I don't wonder," Mr Punch bourhood crows, but the farnier soy

didn't think that was such a sald, nodding his head. "They've good idea at all."

Went to sleep almost all disappeared. But "Perhaps do not know if he has

we marry, but I

"In fact, he thought it was when I was a Boy, you could the worst idea he had ever "Finally."

sbic

Mr Punch money walk down any road in the We Ko always to Battersch

heard of, and what did he do the farmer went home to sleep, but go out into that cornfield for night was coming on and He is putting his money in the

and take poor Jack off the 'pole he was tired from sitting all bank, wonder?

day on the fence waving that and scatter him to the winda.

Knart and Hanid exclaimed stick. And when he come back to the cornfield the next morn- in alarm.

ing. what do you suppose he saw,"

"Was the man they have taken Fair and I must pay myself. country and see a scarecrow

to hospital --- not met

Bad place

"London is bad place I think.

I pm sliting in a coffee bar and man comes with a card. He has a nice club he says 1 must belong.

"I say thank you, no.

tell you

every cornfield."

Ir

"1 saw a picture of a scare- dear," said grow, Mr Punch.

"One thing I will never, never go back to Hould. "He was wearing an old Dusseldort."

1

Hanid feels sorry

Knarf and Hamid both asked

and the sleeves coal,

were stuffed with straw. And he had She was

straw bal. He Iravelling to Inter-un a big, torn view

"How did be do that, Mr A prospective

Dolc employer. was stuck on

In the She said:

Punch?"

asked Kharf, "How excitedly what the farmer saw, cornfield, and could he scatter Jack Straw to Punch with a smile, "he sw "He saw," announced Mr "Is a job with little middle of the children."

there was a black Crow sitting the winds?"

Jack Straw standing on his pole on his shoulder."

Me in the middle of the cornfield

again!"

"Then conies

another

mu

club

1 asked if she loved children mon and she shrugged her shoulders. He tells me; "That first man, "Is six pounds ten each week. his club a good, better."

For this I can love."

"He has a car and I will come

you much but give you nice to see London?

home and love!"

"After money is better.

week I think

"So I go for English Honour- able. I eat in kitchen what is left and cold. No television and nu one for talking. Was terrible.

The gay new look for bowling fans

A NEW look for a new sport -ihis bowling-alley outfit constets of loose fiatian stripes sweater, white leather culottes, and vivid knee-length socks,

The culottes, to he practical. come in black leather too.

But the Wilso smashing,

They cost 11 guineas.

are

Mr Punch smiled. "That sounds right," he said.

Knart's puzzled

"But how could that be?" Hanid asked. "Wasn't he sent- tered to the winds?"

Mr Punch nodded. "He was, Indeed."

"I was easy," replied Punch. "He shook all the straw out of Jack, The wind came along and blew the straw away, Then there just wasn't any She was, she told me, nearly "But, Mr Punch," said Knart, Jack left. There was just an 10 years old.

#aren't barecrows supposed to empty old coat, and a torn Feare Crows? I mean, aren't straw hat. Jack was gene........ ther supposed to scare the gone with the wind." Crows so that the Crows won't rat the corn?"

"Oh dear." said Hanid, really

Only Crows know feeling sorry for Jack

"Only the Crows know that!” even though she had never seen said Mr Punch. him, "and what did the Crows would never tell anybody how "But they.

RONALD BELL MP

IS SO RIGHT

"You're right, my Boy-the one and only job that a seare crow has to do is to scare Crows and keep them from eat- Ing the farmer's corn," agreed [ORNING school only responsibilities with them. Let Mr Punch. "But most scare-

friendly

Straw

"Thon how did he get put to- gether again?" naked Kharf.

think? Were they angry? Were they did it. They just flew all they said? Were they glad? Did around the angry farmer cry they miss Jack Straw?"

ing: "Haw-haw-haw!' though the former "Oh, you can be sure they that they were only saying

kept en thinking Him, and they were they always did: Caw-case-

cow"

And Mr Punch chuckled, and

M for children of five is them express themselves clash-crows Drones tiende staring th

traini for. the

angry about it, too," Mr Punch said.

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a thundering good

idea. and

Crows," future anybody, not even What is more,

Mr Ronuld hammering aquarc pegs into

Mr Punch took another puff Bell, MP, who suggested it round holes.

at his pine and settled himself The farmer took to sitting puffed on his pipe, and rocked in the House of Commons,

down again In his creaky old on the fence at the edge of the in his creaky old-fashioned is not the theorising old

rocking chair,

cornfield waving a big slick rocking chair. and dreamed "Now when I was a Boy, I with a rag at the end of 11, and again of the day when he was fuddy-duddy he has since

used to live on a farm," he said. the Crows kept flying over his a Boy.

been made out to be.

That's all

Keep them busy.. keep

He is the father of four huge, them. entertained that's the blonde children under six years cry

of age, and his wife copes with Perish the thought that they

all four magnificently. Entirely on her own, too.

is

No party propagando intendeil (vice-president of the local Liberals, that's me) and the only time I meet Mrs Bell is as we dash in to collect our boys from the same school.

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should learn to be happy alone,

Letting a child the fallow never did it a hop'orth of harm,

Giving it a quiet time to rend and encouraging a sense of wonder takes a

that's all. mother's time

Nevertheless, It's worth con- Andrew, her eldest, started, as did mine, attending mornings sidering that we might not have so many damn restless juveniles nly. He has now graduated to Junch

without at school and

of existing day incapable ending at 3.30 which some the constant jangling of a tran- educationists would

sistor radio, or so many precu- quite enough.

elous teenagers dashing off to get married before they are even behind the ears, if we

Say

#

It is a matter of opinton. But dry What Is rather sad is that ten- slowed down this early derness and nother love are forcing- out of date-likewise tranquil- ilty,

Park your offspring at the nursery school dvor just as soun us they can totter there--that's The fashion. And park your

JACOBY on BRIDGE

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be a mistake to shoy a aud-i ling to six clubs if you can den impulse to make an look at the North and South alteration in your routine bands at the same time. When the hand cropped up in a Cali- today.

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CAPRICORN (December 22-siderable problems involved.

January 20); If you want to avoid jealousy on

South the

always opened part of your colleagues, clubs. At o

club and North Jumped to three couple of tables keep quiet about your pro-South went right to four no- posed increase in salary.

trump and when North showed his two nees South bld the club YÒUR LUCKY CARD: If om. If North had shown up today is your birthday, with only one nee, South would your lucky card, no mutter also have bid the club slam bui What game you may be he would not have made it. playing, ought to be the ACE of SPADES.

Rupert and the Rugger Match-32

At other tables South bid three spades.

North players went to three no-trump. Some

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Black goes on

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little genius Miki Seekers has been showing me the fabrics picked from his col- lection by the Paris de- signers.

Very much in demand are his chiffona woven with a shimmer in every fold.

The secret is a warp in glitter- nylon and a weft of pure'slik.

New too is a brocade inspired by on out-of-focus photograph of something like a million petals.

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The result-shading in tones from rose through gold to palest yellow — is quite, quite beautiful.

The same design woven in gold and sliver makes a light- as-air lame that looks like being the highlight of, the Nina Ricci show.

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The tiny birds look had bad luck,” says one of them,

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mours wilk up and down deep in thought. All at once two of the bieda take to the air. "We've

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Now the question is, how are we

going to get you out?" They

hatched. "Shall we suggest to the

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Opening lend—ş 2

Choson by almost every House Gre all the green lonca-not the and, off-beat greens of fast winter, but clear sharp colours anging from a true "lettuce" through vivid frish green to a dark glowing emerald."

South players passed and North went down one against either heart or a diamond lend.

Other South players went un to four apades whereupon North

would bid five clubs only.

No. 1 autumn colour.

Green will undoubtedly be the

Only one pair found what our fine blacks," and

"But the big business lies in

Miki think in the right way to bid "Naturally enough! A woman the harul. That bidding is buying a dress from the French showi in the box. Bouth's couturiers may well nee notic Jump to four spates shows a big thing marvellous in cerise, but two suiter. Narth can count on if she is wise she'll order her his red aces to take care of any own in black, losers in those rulis,

"Cerise she may wear half mi Thus, he is willing to play six dozen times. A ittle black dress. clubs if Bouth has one ace and from Balenciaga goes on fur

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