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SPECU

FOR HONGKON SECTION FOR

17/21 Club photographic competition THREE CAMERAS AS PRIZES

A query answered

Enquiries about the 17/21 Club's photographic competition have been streaming into the office all week, and it looks as if there are going to be a lot of entrants.

The question bothering most people is, whether they can send in more than one entry, and if so does it matter if they are all in one class?

The 17-21 Club's five rules

Membership in the 17- 21 Club is open to all within that age group. Contributions and all ac- tivities of the Club will be limited to members only.

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Contributions may con- sist of anything that is publishable articles, letters, stories, photo graphs, drawings, verses, But only the best will be printed.

All contributions MUST be original. @ Written contributions should not consist of more than 350 words, photographs and draw ings will only be accept ed in black-and-white.

-MEMBERSHIP:

Fill this in and send it to the China Mail, 1-3 Wyndham Street, Hongkong.

Name

Age

Occupation

Address

THE ANSWER IS; You can send in as many entries as you like. in any section.

DO REMEMBER though, that the minimum size for en- tries is 8x10 and the maximum size, 16x20 inches. They MUST be black and white and they MUST be mounted.

The competition will close on October 2, and the photo- graphs will be judged during the following week by five highly qualified photo- |graphers.

As you must-know by now, the winners of the three classes portraits, pets, and general-will receive Minolta awarded to the three runners- cameras. Flash-guns will be

up, and the third place-getters will receive stocks of film and photographic paper.

Of course, your entries must be your own work. The

judges don't want to see your father's or uncle's work, they want to see YOURS!

To those of you reading of the competition for the first time, you can enter if you are a member of the 17/21 Club. Send in your entries together with an entry form which is printed in this sec- tion and which the China Mail

MIDVAL

"SUGAR- BUNNY ISN'T HOME, WILL SUSIE DO?"

Credit Card to Antoinette Rozario.

The story of

JANE

SUDDENLY she said to me:

Do you see that middle-aged woman, walking towards the market

is publishing every day. ƒ with a basket? No, not the one in red, the woman in black! Well, her

If you want to enter, but name is Jane. are not a member, you can

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Poo. Jane! She was my classmate, way back before your time. She wasn't become one if you are between always fat and dumpy no, not by for. She was the most beautiful girl in our

· spirited, daring and gay — and oh, we admired her beauty and envied her so. For even at sixteen, she had

the ages of 17 and 21.

Fill class in a membership form which is in the next column, and send it to us. We shall acknow ledge membership in these pages.

for

all the eligible bachelors miles around at her beck and call.

to handle men! She was coy to some,

Jane knew how Then go ahead with your camera, and send in your entries together with an entry form.

-THE CHINA MAIL'S

17/21 Club

Photographic Competition

HAME (in block capitals)

AGE

ADDRESS (în black cepāsk)

Class 1. Portraits

2. Pets

3. General

Site. Size

Siza.

(Denote class or clants you intend to enter wifi-a sck)

Mixings Mizma X 19, mesings sko—19X29

Entries will be received at the Chian Mail Office in the South China Morning

Post Building, Wyndham-street, wý to Mosday, October 2,

RULES

• Only members of the 17/21 Club may enter the competition.

● Photographs limited to black and white only. They must be mexxied,

• The judge decision must be taken se faal,

• No responsiðdility will be accepted by the China Meil for lata, ar destaga of păsto stops.

• Thi competition is not open to my member of the sta♬ of the South Chine Morning Post Lid, or to cng member of an employer's famūs,

(Signed)

harsh to others, sweet to a few and they all fell at her feet and worshipped her, gazing at as they would a second Venus.

her

"Yes, how we envied Jane! We were but children then and thought that beauty and boy- friends were the only two things that mattered in life. We know better now, of course, but In those days, Jane was the most envied and most unpopu- lar girl in our class!

JANE

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the trade to win his heart, and to the chagrin of the gentleman's wife, he responded to her charms, Two months later, he `left his wife' to marry Jane.

"They left town and I never saw them again. A few months later, I heard fer ~・・ gossiping neighbours that Jane had grown tired of her new husband.......... Tha oid- yen for seeing other men took, posession of her, ånd she began her former life anew.

“She dated all those who asked - her - out - fat or thin, tall or short, rich or poor. Her hus- band- begged and pleaded with her every night not to leave him, but she laughed, they said, and left him weeping.··

"A week later, he was dead. He had shot himself 'under

She

"The years passed quickly. Soon the girls in our class fell in love and got married. Families "But the next year, Jane fell sever mental strain,' so they sala. grew up before my eyes. Maria in love. She was

the Jane's grief was genuine. had six children, Jean had time, and the object of ber at- was fim-loving and thoughtless, three, and I myself had four! tention was a man five years but she was not cruel.

We were happy wives and her senior. No, my dear, be

what of Jane? was not exceptionally rich or start a new life, Jane, at 29, She came back to this town to mothers, but She was still as before, playing handsome.. He was just an or- became a widow. She never re- with all the men she could get dinary, man with an ordinary married, living in recluse, re- her hands on while her heart salary-and an

ordinary wife! fusing to see anyone. became more and more choked

Jane didn't care if he had ten

"Jane became a widow, yes, by the pleasures of life.

She doted on him and but so dia 1. For it was my Like wise old ladies, we shook meant to have him. Why she husband that she had married our heads and murmured, didn't fall in love with him 'Jane's life will be an unhappy before has always been a mys-

She will never marry, for tery to us. she is too fond of toying with

one.

men.'

wives.

Anyway, she began to work on him, csing all the tricks of

and killed.

Linda Ann Wu