Jackie West

Any One For Karate?

Lots of girls go in for cooking and needlework. A few more go in for ski-ing and a very exclusive minority go in for piloting planes. Most men don't like girls to go in for anything that will distract them from eventually becoming beautiful and domesticated.

Look out for JACKIE WEST.

This lovely young lady is beautiful and domesticated all right, but one of her ambitions is to become a karate expert.

She's taking lessons right now.

Who’s she after? Nobody in particular. She just wants to work up to the thrilling stage of crumbling a brick wall with a dexterous swipe of her index finger.

All this emancipation of women is fine enough in some respects, but if it’s eventually going to mean they’ll be able to sling us over the garden fence with a mere twitch of the wrist, someone ought to stop it before it gets out of hand.

Spick No 172 - March 68