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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1961. TM***

WOMANSENSE

LADY LUCK The First-Born

YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8

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January 21. VIRGO (August 22-Septem AQUARIUS

11 will be ber 22: Don't be tou February 19: much better for you to dis patient to attain the goal card the idea which you you have set for yourself: consider doubtful than to minor drawbacks and delays stick stubbornly to it.

are inevitable and can easily PISCES

be overcome with persever - Ance.

(February 20 March 201: You have a good chance of learning a valuable lesson for the future from someone else's mistake which could easily have been your own. ARIES (March 21-April 19):

11BRA (September 23-Octa

ber 22) A hunch which you had some time ago and ot which you set so much store will soon pay off handsome. hy.

by JILL BUTTERFIELD

The rock on which a marriage

can flourish or founder

al- More wives are working long- THE first-born

er (this year's survey puts the tiny. So number at one in three) and the double income is much a part of modern marriage as the

ways

80

(October 23 dependent. So very, very

Don't squander Your SCORPIO talenta indiscriminately. November 21); Your sound but see them to the best

Judgment is at times im advantage.

paired by bias and unfound- ed prejudice, and you ought to try to avoid these in fiuences.

TAURIUS (April 20-May 201. In order to obtain the assistance which you feel you definitely need, it is up to you to make the first move towards getting it. GEMINI May 21-June 21:

You will have some good news from unexpected quarter.

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very most

CANCER (June 22-July 21: You ought to stop giving in to your frequent moody apells; they could spoil not bappiness only your Own

but that of others Loo. LEO July 22-August 21›: Your financial worries will auddenly be eased and you will be able to devote more thought to your steady pro gress.

November

sweet.

He's always the prettiest baby your nurse has seen. He's always the spittin mage of Great Aunt Jane. Be's always exactly what you wanted.

COSY

SAGITTARIUS

22-December 21: Try not to magnify the diffenltäenc

And for a few halcyon flower approach bowel lying ahead, but

whole days the them with optiraism and cotton-wool world of maternity forlitude.

revolves around just the two of

You doze. You dream. blan

CAPRICORN

December 22-

Some labour January 201

which you saving devices have so far refused to em

much play will give you more time for leisure and heblares

ار او قالت قرار

YOUR BIRTHDAY: If your birthday is this week You will find a symbol of good ftene in

that a gift of per fun.

Rupert and the Popweed--7

Mr. Bear examines the CUTIONS seaweed. It's new to me," he

"Go and ask your tewend says. the Captain what. Well, young Rupert, your pal Bill has had a good find," says Cap'n Binnacle. Have you had any luck Only his." rephes Raper Mummy says it may be

a sort of popward. Do you know "Him, seaweed. what is "

The old Captain doesn't sound very interested. "It's popweed I suppose those bobbles wst pop, so why

TI squeeze

one and see.“ **Right-ho, that's good idea. I'll try," murmuri Rupert

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

MARVEL

over

double bed. For the first few

babyless years marital bliss is a rushy society-sanctioned ex- tension of courtship.

GIGGLES

Arst weeks alone with her Arst- born the most unsettling of her life.

The rush of sweet maternal

in charge is submerged by the terror she feels at coping with something so small, the tired ness she feels after interrupted by real economic sleep, and

feeling she left when Sister was,

worry.

AR

Above all, a girl who has held any kind of job before the baby hofes THE girl keeps up her job, her

her transition into appearance, her cloakroom verworked body with an under- camaraderie, and giggles with stimulated mind and hate: the girls. The man

keeps his herself most of all for feeling pockel-money, his hire-purchase that the precious baby is not payments, his two-seater car.

V enough. Evenings

arc ΠΟ rarity. You Friends, as often as not, are un- married, and chosen for laughs. But, whether home is Kensing-

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out

WORRY

"I".

ton Palace or a council house, T seerns silly looking back,"

plus one is a pretty difficult

a friend told me. "but Sort of equation.

mad with worry nearly went about my looks. I had put 01: pounds over my pregnancy and it seemed it would never dis- appear I felt old and ugly and unwanted."

The adjustments the! were previously made gradually over the first few months of marriage when a girl got used to the

DUT US you marvel over the

fact thal

has eight he fingers and two thumbs. and a kitten's ery from a crumpled face, it's as well to remember loneliness of being a wife, when

the coping you're

u iman got used to coping with seven pound or so rock on which a wife instead of a girl friend. your marriage

must suddenly be sorted out tourider

With the added complication a red-faced dictator laying down the law on four-hourly feeds.

reau,

may flourish

Or

However many books you've however sane and sensible your altitude, however vitamin and calcium packed your blood stream, your first-born Is the entalyst that sparks off a marital

ས་ Frevolt, fian.

Take a look at today's marri- uge pattern,

of

Lite for father 100 15 never The

same again. Visiting his wife, his delight in nis child is often marred by the feeling -- unnecessarily enforced at all but the most humane hospitals--that the whole thing is a woman's

The tug of the eternal triangle business. often begins before the bedside grapes are eaten or the lowers begin to fade

Ano while every mother along with the seems to inhale

air a pair of rose- gas and Immersed in her strange new world of twilight

steer and coloured spectacles for viewing her child, such blessed blindness time feeds,

entranced is not given to fathers. the sleepy togetherness it all, the wife resents

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marrying dawn More people are younger than ever before

[last by year half the brides were under 21. and nearly two-thirds of the the men they pledged to honour and oɔey were not yel 25).

ON FRIDAY:

The best age for

child-bearing

CHILDREN'S CORNER

All About Names

-Postman Tells Knarf Some Funny Ones-

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By MAX TRELL

friend named Miss Bean another one named Mr Pluni.

Sóme People Long.

were

were named

Fair.

Snow.

Some were named Old. Some were named Young.

Some

named Some were named Storm.

Sume were and

nanied Some were named Frost.

What's your name, Mr Post- man?" asked Knarf.

"Mine?" asked the Postman. He looked surprised. "Why, I haven't got a funny name at all."

What's his name? "What is it?" asked Knarf. "It's Miller," said the Post- man.

66 JAMES are funny things," "I know સ Girl named

the Postman was saying Daisy," said Knart. to Knarf, the Shadow Boy, as

"Daisy 7"

repeated the Post- they both walked down the man with a smile.

He looked streel.

at the envelopes in his hand.

It was f lovely sunny day. "I've got some letters to Girls Knarf had met the Postman on named Ivy, Violet, Rose, Lily, the corner. He stayed with the Iris and Buttercup." Postman all the way down the The Postman said there were street except that NOW and many strange and funny names then, the Postman went inside Some People were named the houses to leave letters in

Street. the mailboxes.

named

Some People were

Some People were named Glass and Stone and Steele.

Some People

"Yes," the Postman repeat- Lane. ed, "names are funny things.

"Funny things," said Knart. "What's funny about them?"

"Well," said the Postman, as Short. he took a handful of letters out

of the bag and looked at the names written on the envelopes, "here's a letter to a Mr Fish.

And here's a letter to Mr Wolf.

Here's a letter to Mrs Bird.' And here's a postcard for Mr

Fox and Mr Lamb and Miss

Colt and Mrs Beaver.

were

name:

JACOBY BRIDGE

"I know somebody

named

Smith, sald Knari.

"That's A good old name,"

said the Postman. He took some

more letters out

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"'Here's letter for Mr Car- so-called "obligatory finesse." penter, and one for Mr Baker, The obligatory finesse and one for Mr Butcher, and gain a trick for you for Mr Farmer, and for Mr never cost you a trick, so it is Hunter."

that is

a

play

"I have * friend," said knowing.

Knart, "His name is Summers." North would have

Knarf "I'm

"Oh, you're a Miller," said

Postman," 2

said the Postman. And by this time, Mr Miller, the Postman and Kharf, the Shadow Boy, reached the end of the street and they both said Good-bye.

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The Postman srolled and took to have better trumps for his another batch of letters out of raise, but unfortunately he had hig bag.

to get along with the cards dealt to him.

More letters

South took his ace of spades *Summers, ch?"

said, and unmediately saw that his he "That's a good name. Here's only hope of making the con-

another good name. Here's one tract would be to get away with

West

Pass 1❤ 1.

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Pass

It was reasonable to assume

that West would hold the

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of hearts as part of his vainer-

for Mr Winters. And here's the loss of just one trump trick. able spade overcall. If he held

one for Mrs Black. And an-

other for, Mr White, and an- other for Mr. Brown, and an other for Mr. Green."

Me knows

somebody

ramed!

The

"Here's a nice, a letter from Mr Brock and here's a picture And postcard or Mr Rivers. hele's something for Miss Field and for Mrs Wools and for Mr Forest, and

Miss Branche,"

My

father

bald Kharf,

"knows somebody named Mi Oates?!"

"That's a good name," said The Postman. There's an old friend of mine whose natie in "another

exactly one trump with it, the

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aglanst him.

South led a low trump to- Q-The bidding has been: North East South West Ward dummy's queen. West Paplayed the nine and dummy's

queen held the trick. You South, hold:

Forum Ar trump was led back and 40737 VK876 +AKI 412 East Laive-carded with the Jack. A A tutile play, but the play of A-Bld fear no-trump Tom the ten spot would have Jufend to bids: slate it your

uneless alap. partner has as many as two ace

What do you do?

Je of

boos

Buth know where the ace TODAY'S QUESTION ·

hearts was. East, surely Your partner opens the bidding would have put it on the queen with two spades. What do you - if he held it Hence, South spond holding: Kanese played a low heart West had *K** vi dicas akit miny, the ace and the obliga-

tory: Brame, kad, worked by

intrusion of the brash,

bustling outside world. Along with his clumsy-seeming, parcel- bristling presence the husband an unwelcome slap of brings reality with all his talk about his struggle with the baked beans lin and where-did-you- put-the-sheets..

But it's when you get home that the big let-down comes.

A leading gynaecologist told a woman often finds the

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be

My godchild's father had to revived with stiff drinks and stern words when he first saw her. He didn't think it at all

funny that she looked ilke Terry pretty common. Spinks, and such disillusion is

Once father gets the pair home most of the things that made marriage fun have had tu go by the board.

DIFFICULT

DINNER

means

for two is darned hard to arrange when it another pound on the bill for the baby-sitter. Spbis in the two-seater are impossible the carry-cot won't go in the back.

The girl who

once matched

him joke for joke and drink for drink, who cosseted his colds nd bought her own clothes somebody new has

mother.

else

to

But psychiatrists agree that months are the

the first

hardest.

The

the gas

six

problems of where to Fut the pram and how to pay bill--certainly don't dimir.ish. Children eat money and scatter possessions, thick as mustard seed upon the ground.

The worries of whether baby is too thin or too fat or back- don't dis- Knar! walked up Peachtree ward or precocious

elther. But Street while the Postman walk-appear overnight

radually they become the kind ed down Broadway.

“And what's your name, Mr, Postman?" asked Kmart.

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Life can never be the same The heavenly again for either.

indulgence of selfishness-tes in

bed, meals at all hours, impal- sive shopping sprees--must be subjected to an even more basic selfishness the Instinctive selfishness of a phild.

A MISS

THE acquaintances you called

friends spin

Their AWAY place is taken by solid couples like yourselves who

talk babytalk thots. But

want to

and swop snap- you miss some of the froth and the flavour.

The home you tried to make

glossy-magazine perfect the white walls of fashion, the spindly chintzy chairs — is dimmed by sticky Angermarks and disordered by armies of plastle space-men.

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But the Marriage Guidance Council, who helped nearly 12,000 couples last year. told that interesting fart seems to me to put the problems in their true perspective. Of ail divorced couples, one in three are childless.

There could be something in that,

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