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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1961.

WOMANSENSE

LADY LUCK-

YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27

21-

an

AQUABIUS (January

February 19): Don't let appeal to your emotions affect your judgment, but come

to

& conclusion based solely on facts

20-March 201: Follow your instinct in a matter of romance, rather than the advice of a well.. meaning friend.

PISCES (February

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Portpone tasks which can walt until after the holidays,

in

cad of crowding too much into an already busy week. TAURUS (April 20-May 203: An

issue which you can't avoid facing eventually will easler to deal with now than Ister

GEMINI (May

and not spend on the basis of expectations.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22-

December 211

of In spite your fears, a relative's visit will interfere very little with your normal routine

22.

CAPRICORN (December

Consider The January 20): source of a piece of flagrant flattery, before you allow it to turn your head YOUR LUCKY CARD: Hf today

is your birthday, your lucky card. no matter what game you may be playing, ought to be the SEVEN of DIAMONDS.

be

Helen Burke

21-June 21: You will be glad of a chance to do a friend good turn, and thus repay him in part for his many favours

CANCER

(June 22-July

21)

An outdoor ccupation mayi suit your temperament better. and you should accept BII offer to try it out for a while.

----KUNINGTON-

-RECIPE

JACKET POTATOES

EALLY large potatoes (and there are lots of

lend them

LEO (July 22-August 211: When them about)

*

Shirley

*

Beating the blues-it's woman's biggest enemy

--and thou- KNITTING, travel, Scrabble, bottling, philately-all these irresistible activities

sands more, of course, have been devised to beat the blues, combat the boredom and knock] the bottom right out of ennui .. unfortunately, not one has ever proved sufficiently compelling| to win a permanent victory.

That people continue to be bored is one of our greatest growing problems. Admittedly, it appears to she wrote- "As for looks--the change radically before I find The more of a female

trouble is one is simply never myself 10 years older." com-

It's simple," said Jackie seen any more." plant than a male one....

Killearn. "Decide what you his lethargy of spirit

really think you can de and get down to it.

is

suaily confined to Sunday Exciting

MELLORS

wrote

?

Hadheli

agreed. of my neighbours grumble,

tou, but

Mauree: afternoon, when, poor chap. time apparently ticks away

DHOEBE

from "So many after Putney interminably slowly

an grumble. air the Yorkshire pad and Oxford BA, wife of a success they're not really prepared to

but get down to some sort of job.

delegating part of your work selves to many interesting fore the tinned salmon for ful advertising

First, to an assistant, choose some; | presentations.

nerd

one you can trust not t supervision.

VIRGO (August 22-September 22): A document to be signed on the first of the year should perusal until

left for not be the last moment LIBRA (September 23-October 22): Before plunging into an adventurous undertaking, be sure you are fully aware of its considerable risks, SCORPIO (October 23-Novem- Ever 211: Resolve to live well within your income next year,

JACOBY on BRIDGE.

serve with cold meats:

of the hands, pressing the break up the insules

10

tea.

ins

to

their

Slash three-quarters length and pop a pot of butter into each potato. Have ready four to Ave tablespoons

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"There's

"Nothing I hopeless," Jacitie sell went o12.

"When my husband and first retired we had to give our chergies to something, for finan- cial reasons, apart from thing" else.

"To keep

the

any-

please tell me how to make in-

a general attitude self and my hic mort exciting. Apart from 13 Jul in his To find out more about these fat one is not really up to it that any ambition is hope- both I invited For four servings, bake feat week, he just can't understand lagging egos large washed potatoes art thes

what the little women means Maureen and Phoebe to lunch less to achieve."

meet women who had all when she murmurs about the to skins. This will take 50 60 minutes in a hot even WIEK:

and outside tackled the of stimulus Jack

problem of they are soit enough, roli mach

with in her life... there's sufficiency interests

verve a cloth in

between tav

always shopping isn't there, nagination

I invited Lady Susanı Pal dear!

How often has that sentence brooke along ... four years husband's death. been thrown at a woman?

ago after her

home in the I finally came to The ron she went to work for the first clusion reenlly after receiving time in her life, by opening a country going, we decided on sour an, enormous mail on the subject small-now Bourishing-Bawer the duck farm. or cultured cream, to who has that a woman's morale is easily business in Sloane street, Mar-

"Now that is successful--we been added a good teaspoon of sapped when there is no one gery Hurst, who now control the

sell about 1,000 ducklings a week dried chives, first SORTE in

day to give Bround ali

It the largest employment agency warm milk. Spoon

tion occasional hoost #

country, but who started it I want to find something to utilise the asset of our London into each potato-und servic

11 feel positively furlous at all because of financial reasons Fome--perhaps entertainting for soon as possible.

my way of fe," wrote Mrs by taking in typing when she a arm or something. Maureen Hadfield of Stansted,

35. was Essex, for example "I know I instigator and brain behind the "But then you're born am fortunate in being happily Presents

and shop.

Lady organiser," said Margery Hurst married and having two healthy Jarqueline Killearn (wife af "I could give you a job uny day children, but I fall to under- Lord Killearn, wice Ambassador of the week. The cabbages were stand why this should preclude to Egypt and Special Comrals born to be cabbages." one from having a career.

sioner in South-East Asia) now running a small duckling farm

sun

DS

For light supper dish, allew a baired lorge jacket potato per Cut a shallow shee of The full length of each and rules of bidding that I have spoon out the inside. given time and again in this the shell.

ONE of the important general

colmm is:

Don't цве Blackwood when you have two potential losers in an unbia sull.

the

leaving "As far as 1 can see I am in Sussex. just enough to form a wall for virtually unemployable. How cap one overcome ane's lack of and part-

Whip the scooped-out "flesh" with a little butter and milk beated together, and add salt

B: cak and pepper to taste.

al

oven to heat

Of course, if your partner's egg into each potato "shell" and response to Blackwood shows top it with the whipped mixture that your side has all the aces Return to the you have no worries, but when through and cook the eggs. one ace is missing you have no

idea whether to bid six.

South's two spade response is

weak by some standards,

not by mine, and I am

use

but

gure

a

not by those of most of you reuders.

If you don't Jump shift with this hand you just don't ever use one.

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North's jump to four spades

training, experience time availability"

This from woman with an

Oxford degree in politics, philo- ❝ Sophy and economics, plus tuent Italian and French.

Dorothy Davies, the

A decision

"avoid those," said Phoebe firmly. "It's all too easy to live in a

of tea woman's world parties.

"As a man grows older, if he's successful, be becomes more and work, more absorbed in his therefore a woman must achieve some independener if he doesn't

OFTEN tell my husband I'm just an economic chatte," Phoebe Mellors. "I know I can do more with want misery.

qualifications. Į want ter

suid

Her particular depth of de- pression showed still more when my

CHILDREN'S CORNER

Simon Is Puzzled

-He Doesn't Understand About Eggs Hatching-

By MAX TRELL

was sitting on the ground, too. At least that's what he seemed KNARF and Hanid. the to be doing. But I knew better. Shadow children with the "Hello, Cal,' I said. 'You're Turned-About

- Names,

made not really sitting on the ground. themselves small and squeezed You can't fool me. I'm not themselves inside the Mother stupid.' Goose Book. They found them- selves on a sunny country road.

By and by they met Simple Simon sitting on a fence.

Simple Simon looked puzzled, "Good morning, Simon," said Knart and Hanid.

He's puzzled

"Gooti morning," said Simple "I just can't figure t out."

"What can't you just figure out, Simon?" Hanid asked.

not Simon.

is also proper. He does have much high card strength,

but has good spade support and

a sound opening bid.

m

He

nol sitting 117 the ground?' repeated the Cat. looked surprised. "What am I sitting on?"

**Aha!' I laughed. 'I know what you're sitting on. You're sitting on your eggs. You're keeping them warm 50 they'll hatch into Kittens."

Knarf and Hanid burst out loughing.

"What did the Cat say when Fou told him that?" Knarf asked.

"The Cat," said Simon, "said and was sitting "About eggs," said Simon. He he was tired

Now we get back to our first looked more puzzled than ever. on the ground to rest himself. paragraph. South does not use He pushed his straw hat back He wasn't sitting on any eggs. Blackwood because he has two and scratched his head. "No. He said Cuts didn't have eggs. worthless diamonds. Instead He bids five clubs and this five I just can't figure it out at all."

club bid is enough for North. "Eggs are eggs," said Knarf. He realises that his singleton "What can't you figure out diamond is what South needs about them, Simon?" for the stamh and North bids it forthwith, in accordance -the theory that when you know where you want to go you should go there...

"thia

with "Well," Beid Şimoni,

morning I met a Hen. She was sitting on the ground. At least that's what I thought.

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A WIMBI COME MOAMes. You wonta Kumb anime play for 30 tribe only, if your partner can stand

ERSTODAY'S QUESTION,

Instead of bidding one no. trump your partner has biä two hd-trump You go to three die

monds just to see what he will ido heat and he bike four diam Togd. What do you do now!

Met Mother Hubbard

1/04/0

Why are you sitting on your egge?" Simon asked the Hen.

"I told Mother Hubbard that I was sure she was going to sit

the eggs and keep on worm until they hatched.

"She smiled and said: "You come home with me. Simon, and you'll see what I'm going to do with these eggs.'

to do

"I'm one of those elusive married women whom Sir David Eccles IS Father ineffectively pursuing to return to teaching, suinething I'm reluctant until his friends at the Treasury ensure I would receive a little more oloney and my husband would have to pay a little less tax."

So lonely

46 MERTAINLY a woman works either for money or prestige- nothing else," said Margery Hurst.

"Oh.

no " said Susan Pul brooke, "I started because 1 was desperately lonely.

"I sat down and thought what

on earth can I do. I decided on flowers because I'd loved them all my life. Now I'm obsessed with my business.

life,

"But work isn't my although I'd hate to give it up..

aty think it's mine," said Margery. "Of course, I adore thera my family,

but my children have always had a nannie.

"Even when I went to work in the first place through lack of finance I found a nannie for £3 a week, and earned if I re- member correctly, £12 myself."

"So I went home with her, She broke the eggs and put them in a frying pan and made

Said Dorothy: "I think just

me an omelette. And now," said as men are reputed to have a

-- Simple Simon to Khart and seven-year Itch, so women reach

"So I walked down the road Hanid, "I'm all mixed up. I just a stage in their lives when they again," continued

"I can't Sgure out a thing about long to act on whatever creative Simon.

instincts they have. met a Duck and she said she eggs." wasn't sitting on the ground to She said she was rest herself. sitting on her eggs.

the not sitting on

"Then I met a Squirrel and ground at all, you stupid Boy,' he said he wasn't sitting on she said. Ten sitting on my eggs. He said he was sitting on OXES.'

the ground to get ready to eat a peanut.

<<<I'm

What's the reason?

your eggs for". I asked her.”

And then," said Simion, "I met old Mother Hubbard. She "What are you sitting on was coming from the grocery

་་ "I'm sling on my eggs to store with a whole box of eggs.

"Good morning, Mother keep them warm, the Hen tok! Hubbard,' I said. "I bet I know me. If I sit on them long what you're going to do with all enough and keep them warm long those eggs." enough, they'll hatch."

I

"Of course!" Hahid broke in.

Asked a question

"Didn't you know that, Simon? You do, Simon, you clever, Chickens have to sit on their Boy?! she asked, 'Well, what eggs to keep them warm to am I going to do with all these make them hatch.**

"That's what I thought after

1 loft the Hen," said Simon. “I "What did you tell Mother walked down the road a little Hubbard? Hanid asked Simple further and I saw a Cat. He Simon.

Rupert and the Popweed-47

**Where did all this trouble take place aaks the learned crabt was at Rocky Bey. Where we're on Holiday, ways Rupert The Judge Octopus gripe the book of records and renda slowly and wolemnly Ho the antean) deems to be

truthful," he says, "There was a storm, force ten, last week. Also an undersea earthquakè.': force 30. No blame to anyone. Prisoner discharged with a severe caution not to do it again And the bell, is rung, this time to show that the cause a dismissed. ALE NIGHTE REZRNYED

"But women have to fuel useful and after their cliffdren are grown most have to go outside their

own

homes to get the necessary stimulus. How else does 8 Woma pand her mind when she gets older?"

ex-

Maureen koked relice- live. "I'm sure a wife 1s more stimulating and in- teresting to her husband If she has

job.

"I feel I'm up against a brick wall, though. 1 want to work in broad-

Lord

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every Woman's wavelength *

302

DOROTHY DAVIES

MARGERY HURST JEGODELINE KULLEARN

THE GUESTS ROUND MY TABLE...

BUBAN PULBROOKE

Business la best.”

AMOEBE MELLORS

want chanse

MAUREEN HAÐFIELD

Forteneto.but*

What about

most

some way --but just rating in foot I haven't a chance."

We all rounded on her. "With your qualifications and looks why you could do anything."

So home they all went the "Oh, looks," size said,

"The important thing is to two readers momentarily stimu- don't bother About those. I think more of

yourself," said later at any rate, chcered out never wear make-up during the Dorothy. "Saying 'what's the of their depression by four who day and just stop around in the point of make-up at home is a had simply given a little thought most awful old things."

negative approach, Don't listen to their own problems. to the downgraders."

"You would make the Interpreting at home until then?" said Susan, marvellous manageress for one interviewing Organisation of my branches, and "The Flower could always use you surely," potential staff," she said, sald Jackie Killcart.

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It seemed as if we had reach- ed the axis of Maureen's pro- blem. Not caring how she look- ed, no confidence in her obvious abilities.

"Take a shorthand said Margery Hurst. can get you into

course." "Then I

the BBC."

Quick job

A

ND what

Helena Rubinstein once said to me: "Work is the only ex- citement which lasts." None of my guests agreed with her, but did any of them want to stop? No.

the cases of only in about Phoebe? Phoebe and Maureen--to start.

Easier, for Margery Hurst

offered her a job right away

They could hardly wait.

-London Express Service).

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