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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1961.

WOMANSENSE

LADY LUCK-

YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22

find. VIRGO

AQUARIUS (January 21- for the best value you ent

February 19): Be grateful to a friend for his good intentions, even if you don't want to accept his help. PISCES (February 20-March 20): Your good sense en- ables you to face reality without counting on mira eles to improve your way of life. ARIES (March 21-April 19): A friend's unsympathetic attitude towards your family makes it unadvisable to in- vite him to your home. TAURUS (April 20-May 201; Don't worry too much about which of two alternative methods to adopt. They will lead to much the same result in the end.

GEMINI May 21-June 21):

Although you disliked the idea of altering your routine, you must admit that the change has been an improve ment. CANCER June 22-July 211: Let the discouraging effect of a failure wear off before you make up your mind to try again. LEO July 22-August 21: Avoid buying impulsively without counting the cost, but take time to shop around

(August 22- September 22): An ambi- tious idea may not be taken seriously by your friends, but go ahead with it just the same.

23. LIBRA

(September October 22 Your nervous tension may be due to over work and you should try to take things more easily for a while.

(October SCORPIO

23- November 21): You can't expect immediate success in your attempts to break habit of long standing.

(November SAGITTARIUS

22-December 21: You STING have 10 consider taking drastic measures to change a altuation which is becom- ing unbearable. CAPRICORN

4.

December 22-

January 20: You are for-

GEORGIA

BROWN

--

WOMAN TO WOMAN

To me, success is failure,

because it means you

stop moving on, stop

trying, stop discovering❤

GEORGIA BROWN-~~27, COCKNET AND SINGER.

STARRED IN THE MUSICAL "OLIVEN" AS NANCY

tunate in being able to enjoy SHE sat, like a dropped puppet, between two people in the back of a

the small pleasures of life even when things are going too well. YOUR LUCKY CARD:

not

If

today is your birthday, your lucky card, no matter what game you may be playing,

the SIX of ought to be HEARTS.

AND GIRL

O'Scowl's Cousin

-His Name, McGhun, Suits His Personality-

"NO

By MAX TRELL

[OW TELL. me the truth," ssid Pixie O'Scowl 10 Knarf and Hatid. the Shadow Children with the Turned-About

Names, "you think I'm pretty bad, don't you?"

Knarf and Hanid didn't know exactly what to say to this. So finally Knert. after looking at Pixie O'Scowl's sort-of-angry- face, said that he didn't think Pixie O'Scowl was exactly bac but he wasn't very cheerial, either.

They like him

"We like you just the same." Hanid put in quickly. She didn't want to hurt Pixie O'Scowl'e feelings.

المازة لا

"His name is Pixie McGiun," replied Pixie O'Scowl.

"Oh dear." said Hanid, "that's

"Why are your feet stuck in the

mud?" Knart asked McGlam.

small car. While they droned disconsolately over her shining head, she stared vacantly in front of her.

The spark behind her eyes extinguished, and she sang, with heart- breaking dramatic and glottal stops, the whole of "As Long as He Needs Me."

I had been, you might say Georgia a swinging evening.

friends had her Brown and

the tu snapped their fingers bone, worn themselves out with phrenetic conversation of the "Yeuh, man, I like that man. Oh, baby. I wanna like make it you variety.

It's amus

arguments develop. ing, but makes her fusing lecturer.

not

she

con-

ex-

↓

female? If I hate anyone hate her.

"Because

don't they

try. They haven't the faintest idea who they are. They just come into the world bleating. I'm a woman, marry me, give me u love home, give me children, me, and they never took further than that.

Woman

"There's nothing worse than the sort of submissive who makes the level for al other women,

the majority, "They're in making the rules. And I resent them.

look They make me aggressive and I'm not. I'm the softest nit that breathed.

That was the last 1 sow of hole. I love his collar. Dig his

darling collar.) Georgia Brown.

"Singing's showing off Of Course it is. But you've gol tu

"Once you are in a particular keep it humble. That's a mux.

(Do position, your need is to create ture, isn't it, but it's true.

create new you think he's done it for her? that position,

things." I admitted 1 was lost. Oh, lock. He's smiling at me.

"Growth is failure," Halio, darling.)"

There was, interspersed with plained. "And failure and dis- are the wonderful make it. *plashes of raucous laughter, cove Once you slay where

know?" the touch of fear one expects things.

from the contemporarily highly you are, because there's a suc 10 where "I've been making it cess label attached for 10 years now and, before I you are, you're really failing That's why, to me, success is any further, I told you I was 20, well I'm 27. I don't failure, because It means you stop trying, know why I lied about it. I've stop moving on,

done it before."

stop discovering.

"But whichever way you move, you must have the right to fail. Once you've made it, They won't let you fail. If you retreat it's no good, and if you change it's probably no good. baby any time and

Neuroticism

It was nut COR Miss Brown

typical everfing For Miss Brown, I suspect, there are no typical moments.

strung.

C

never

Tortured

"And if you stick, the level of work is never going to be; as high as the initial endeavour. So you've had it."

-She is riding the white foam- of the New Wave, buoyed up He paused, then went on by an exotic neuroticism thai, "In New York I met people to my knowledge, has never who have really made it. before accompanied a saleable They're right at the top. And singing voice.

do you know what they're like? "They're tortured. Because they've come up by separating

As though adding a themselves from whal they're

she Q.E.D. giving. I'm convinced that, phant although it's the easiest way of "Failure is Discovery."

the must Briskly she went on. "Now getting success, it's dangerous.

what? What shall we taik about now?"

Georgia Brown, in her own Idiom, has made it is making

R.

She is a girl temperamentally geared to glorious failure, who bas been obliged with nothing but success and, either by cause

want to keep hold of

or effect, B creature of shat- myself. When I act a pari I lering extremes, & snatchy girl, choose the parts of me to use."

held complex,

bewilderingly together in a syrup of delicious

Jewish sentimentality.

in a place like this, 10'2 reappeared superbly and it's muddy.

(she

A wink

trium- added:

"What would you like to talk about?" 1 said. "Me," she repiled.

"What's the most fascinating thing in the world? Yourself. if anybody says anything different they're either lying or stupid."

Difficult

I met her for lunch insisted on lunch). and she CPREADING her arms across

groomed, the table she announced: beautifully dressed.

"I am now going to talk about When she talks about herself, the right to fail. Georgia Brown has a fantastic

"Are you ready for me? The gift for concentration. She talks Hight To Fail. Capital Letters." in such a way that you really She cleared her throat, winked believe she is saying things she at the old gentleman with the THEN, Las though making

said before. even buttonhole, and commenced, has never perhaps never thought of be- fore.

"In this life," she said, "the only thing we are sure of is

one of her biggest dis- coveries, she cried: "I am ME. "That's all I want accepted

"Thanks," muttered Pixie O'Scowl. He remained silent for moment or two. Then he said,

"The Mosquitoes like it," said "If you think I'm not cheerful, Pixie McGlưn,

"If it's good you ought to meet my Cousin enragh for them, it's good

Cousin:" exclaimed enough for me." Hond eagerly. "What's tris "I've invited him

dozen name:"

umes " said Pixie O'Scowl to live with us at Knarf and Hanid, "to come and O'Cheer Hall, There's plenty of room for him."

But, at the same time, while death. The rest is curiosity." In this world. That I aix me. "I won't do it," growled Pixie McGlum.

what she concentrates "Just look at

As an idea progresses in her And it's going to be difficult. happens at O'Cheer Hali. Every- tracted by matters of impe- mind the terms and words she Because of the female-female body gets plenty to eat. Every-diacy an old gentleman sitting uses change, even get opposite it's going to be very difficult.

table

а with Everything

nearby thing is neat.

This is how meanings.

her Do you know comfortable. Everybody is po- woman, for instance. with me." lite. Nobody is mean- "He hatey

She was telling me what i "Except

Pixie

was like to be a singer. "You It's stand up there and sing.

a gloomy name, isn't it?"

Knart wanted to know where Pixie McGlum ved.

Hates visitors

"Just come along seid Pixie O'Scow!

the," said

visitors, but we can go and see O'Scowd. "I'm pretty mean."

him just the same whether likes it or not."

he

Never smiles

is at a

sbe is

તર્કો-

like being in command. You're giving and you're getting. Love. A sort of love. (Oh, bless him. Look at that swinging old man.)

"Only it has to creep up 02 O'Cheer you like a surprise. It doesn't work if you try for it.

Pixie O'Scowl led Knart and

to the Hanid across the park

"Don't make me laugh," said Here Pixle McGlum. "You smile other side of the lake.

marshy, once

a week. I never smile! old And what would happen

live

there was a swampy, muddy section behind some stones and a

Ine

the

person.

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SALLY VINCENT

them do, but I think there's a that. Then, one day you'll find want the home, tho special time

comes for you really do

you've the husband, the babies. You having babies, when looked at yourself and found want it because you can give,

not because you can get it.". something to give."

Frustration

THEN,

demonstrating

the

"That was charming," I said. "But what about you?"

She laughed. "That was me, by n process of elimination."

She raised her arns shoulder level and jerked her thumbs towards herself.

to

**Look,

same guilt as when she lied about her age, she amended "All I want is to be accept her attack on women.

I was in Paris, in a ed. By everybody, as an enter

it's difficult "Look,

for a restaurant with a boy I know. woman to give. She gets My feet had swollen because it tainer and by one man

but was hot and I'd been dancing. whole lot of frustration, "I want him to look at me she shouldn't be in so much of So I'd taken my shoes off. and love me and appreciate me #hurry. It's easy enough to because I'm

"Anyway,

this boy sold person, get a sort of appreciation. You someone, really there, actual can act at being a woman by me: Time to go home, put You know? Because that will washing up and darning socks your shoes on and be a prin- make me proud. And I want to and boiling napples.

"And I thought: What the have a baby.

"But it doesn't last, that on hell about shoes. I'm a princess "Any woman can have a its own. No, you've got

to anyway," most of search for yourself before

me а

cess.'

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like him! And he pointed Pixie O'Scowl.

a lot of weeds that if I went to no one seemed to know abou

Knart and Hanid had to walk carefully, for if they had slipped fallen, plop, they would have

the mud. anto

There he is now," said Pixie O'Scowl, as they pushed past an old log.

Sure enough, there was Pixie McGlum, sitting on a rock with bis feet stuck in the mud.

Look at me, everybody, aren't

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Knarf and Hanid and Pixie O'Scowl picked their way back over the muddy rocks, back

the sunny part of the park.

There was nothing they could "No, you've got to just get do about Pixie McGlum except up there and give, like

to leave him sitting with his accidental.

Because

feet stuck in the mud, just sit-you're not expecting it, comes back is fantastic. ung there and thinking how un-

11's

East won the opening club when lead with the ace and returned South's what the jack, West ruffed

(No, queen and put his parthier its

Brought company

said cheerful and gloomy he was. there he is, with the button-with a beart. The ten of clubs "HL, there, McGluma!"

O'Scowl. Pixle

"I've Just brought you some company. This

Kharf and Hanid."

"How do you do?” said Hanid sweetly.

I'm doing

Pixle McGlum.

fine," muttered

"Why are you sitting with your feet stuck in the raud?" Kner! asked.

They're my feet," growled Pixie McGlum "I can do what

1 like with them."

There do you see what I mean?" Pixle O'Scowl said in

a low voice. "He's really ornery." "And anyway," Pixie McGlum went on, it's going to rain In a couple of days. So I might Mr Well get my feet

all wet now. It'll save me the trouble ng them wel later"

catch

of

a cold, that's

Henld.

ald

Just to prove that Hahid

was right, Fikle MeGlum started

don't see," sul Khar to Fixie McGlurn, why you live

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in a very aliort time Rupartamooth water, at Mngth Pisting

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