John Dempsey
TOMORA PREK SERVICE, INC.
"That isn't thunder. It's father."
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Beachcomber
THE man who recently creat
ed a scene at a London station by shouting at the book Ing-clerk, "You don't know your business" had apparently asked for a ticket "there and back" without going into any trivial detalls of destination.
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Bome years ago there - was similar incident, "when a manat Victoria Siation yelled at the clerk, "Third return-end quick!" "Where 10?" asked the clerk. "Here. of course, you fool!" replied the man.
Dramatic revelations THE scientists have discovered
that "the best taing rator" (in factorios), "are significantly
dil- ferent for different broad are groups." This
startlingly sounds like my own discovery that an old man will find it more difficult then #young man to adjust $imal? to a fast-working machine. Further research may even reveal that ma- chinery with a fast working-rate is more of a strain on the worker than machinery with a slow work Ing-rate, and that the old tire more quickly than the young,
Narkover has tried it
E headmaster of a grammar school, talking of the opidemic
of thieving in schools; sald:
"The
to
day seems to be coming when starte Bugmented by a will have to be member of the police force, relleva headmaster of Investi- rating crime." Narkaver Was the first public school to try this sys- tem. But at the end of a riotous
discovered that
the
term it was "palce officer" installed by Dr Smart-Allex was an old lag, who was on the side of the thloves from the start. He was succeeded by a resident detective (genuine) who, in the first week, caught a senior master rifling a colleague's, study. When it was discovered that the affair involved the headmaster the incident was hushed up. Enter the Swan-woman
JUST in time the Matson Misch has
opened its beauty salons Lo women with shorl necks. For cor- thin fashion designers have decreed that women are to be like wans, The long-necked look is being pre- pared, and already the process of elongation. by gentle pulling and stretching, has begun. Nothing else will BOL off
shark-skin the new reefer Jabats, with aide panels of
and stepm-blue organza,
over demi- toned radish-red sleeves of velours. To o with this costume madly amart little there will be
foghorn green atlets of pleated hurne-skin, surmounted by a single
Gyed hen'n feather
gas-grey cheese-yellow,
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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1952.
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Opening Itad-♣ 3
By OSWALD JACOBÝ
THIS is a play that every first
class player would make
on paper," Harry Fishbein fold me the other night, "but nobody would make it at the table!".
Harry Fishbein, the famous im- presario of New York's Mayfair Club, never gives me a dull herd, so I always listen to him very careful- by muggest that you cover up the
and East-West earda
decide tor play the yourself how you would Narth and South bands at a contract of six diamonds.
"You get a spade opening lead," Flabbein told me, "and you but o the queen from dummy. East covers with the king, and you win in your own hand with the acc. How do you continue?"
"I lead the queen and then the jack of diamonds.”
"Both defenders follow to the first Fialibon de- round of diamonds," clared, "but East throws a heart on the second rump."
Take it from here, dear reader, how would you assure the contract against any distribution?
The right play is to lead a Bird Stump to the king, dlacard the Jusing
YOUR BIRTHDAY....... By STELLA pad on the soo of hearts, and lead
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
PORN today, you are self-willed, determined and at times, much for your own too strong-hoaded best interesin. Just plain stubborn I what some of your competitors call you! Cultivate more mental balance when it comes to impor- tant matters and you will find that bel. results ore Lot the ultimate ter. Make use of that tact and iplomacy which you have in your make-up.
'You have many of the qualities of leadership and put on a good show when asked to head a dels- gation or take charge of a project. You can always be counted on to moving You enjoy gel things variety and activity-funt long as things are going your way. someone departs from your origi nal suggestion as to how a cam- palan should be run or a managed, you are apt to shing
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job
to
smoothly, now project runa too you get bored and want to leave
to others. Learn the detalls stick to a thing until it in comL= pleted or you'lli caïn - the repute. lon at being a good starter onlyi Remember, you, have to be a good "her" to win races.
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Wed early, for then the adjusts to ments from single blessednem
will be apsler marital fo
You enjoy home life and will not be contented without . Just don't wait too long to select a life part- ner. Your nervous energy is high, but your physical strength is not always capable of keeping up with It. Pay attention to your health in youth, rewards come in middle and old age.
To and what the alars have in Hlote fur tomorrow, sainct your birthday star and read the corres
your shoulders and go off in a Bonding paragraph. Let your birth- corner and mope. Likewise, if a day-star-be-your-dally. guide..
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
-LIBRA (Bept. ---- 24-Oct. 23 Don't get behind the thines. Keep apato with the world around you. Alertness pays dividends now.
(Oct.
volve you directly. aliem.
Then tuto
LEO (July 24-AUZ. 23)--- Business and financial matters are not favoured. Better to postpone decisions until later on. ете
VIRGO (ABE. 24-Sept
21)- All
with concerned publishing or advertising are par- Make future ticularly favoured.
SCORPIO
24-Nov. 22) Be friendly to thong who uninitiated in the office routines or the habits of your home neighbour. bood.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)- Caroless errors made today could plans, haunt you later on, so be very enreful in all detail work.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan, 203- If in charge of a group of em- ployees, lend an ear to wage de- manda Dow to avoid trouble.
hter.
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AQUARIUS (Jan.
21-Feb.
10)-
- Don't start worrying about those
hridges you may never came Just keep busy with current prob. lems,
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PISCER (Feb. 20-Mar. 20). Not a day to force decirtuns
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if you keep optimistic, all should
ium out right for you.
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ARIES
21-Apr. Don't do all the talking today. Do a little serious listening and you may learn something important.
TAUNUS
21-May
21)
Make plans fe
the future. Langi
term schedules are in order right now. Then, carry them out.
GEMINI (May 27-June 21)- Don't, hot oil the attention.. others make suggestions. You might even follow them, if they are. good.
CANCER
matters
DUMB-BELLS
AND THE PEOPLE OF PARIS ARE SO WELL EDUCATED – WHY EVEN THE
STREET CLEANERS
TALK FRENCH;
Let
LEDICER
23)-
2 July (Jáno Rumours can prove exasperating but, darogard them unless they in
INTELLIGENCE TESTA
BESSIE'S IDEA
By T. O. HARE "LOOK "Mr. itare,"
Bald
Bessio Badger. "This is my idea of an Intelligence Test. I've written it out very legibly be pro- duced four itim of vores: "How doch the young DUD
noista mup.
Fear de and not specif "itia crime or beldata at the
shop.
"Tác Giáo này conceal
A nossense chymo, hey?"
I said with perhapa: some
bidden meaning
The mosaing's perfectly clear I thought,” said Besto. What are hidden are the names of severni uplatala "U
HOW, MATINĀRnimals' names can you finat·
(Solution on Page 10).
CHESS PROBLEM
By A. NIEMTZOV Black, 4 pieces.
White 3 pieces.
a low club from
If East plays low, you take a safety Anesse of the seven or eight of clubs. You don't mind losing this finers. because the top clubs will then surely clear the sull. The finesse would slam would actually hold, and the then be on ice.
If Eat puts up the nine of clubs. you win with the king, return the law club to dummy' queen, and then lead another olub. through Kas.
It is important to note that you are worried only about a 6-0 break in clubs. If West has all the clubs, you can do nothing about it. If East has all the clubs, however, the safety play will bring in four club tricks.
CARD Senses
Q-The bidding has been:
East
Bouth West
North
}UICK-CHANGE ups i rithéred in a Globe Theatre'dreasing-room from repe stars Dora Bryan and Joan [izal :'1. DORA SAYS: "My eyes are bly... so I make them bigger by whiting my lower oselld,” 2. JOAN BAYBI got this crocheted colich hat for five bob because it was shop. selled. 1 think I'll sew, jet benda,all over to make it took grander.” JOAN-SAYS: Never again! I took someone else's advice and bad my airline reshaped by plucking my eyebrows too. And now it is pluck. pluck, pluck." 4. DORA SAYS "Ellen Terry used to do this before going on stage, Holding your hands up makes them pale." 5. JOAN gets thai sweeping glance effect with only half a strip of false eyelashes Like thin f." How do dix 117, Kaay. fixed to the eyelids
glamorous and want white artificial one with spirit gum. What could look indre natural **
6. JOAN BAYS: "When I feel streak in my bair, I siick on an
TINY. TUNE
FOOTNOTE to the socki-rise of the harmonioa: It waE heard at the Albert Holl
And now it is to be reen is miniature as a 'brocele! "charm thats really worką
This tiny harmonica: 1ļint long, plays a full octave
Character
CLEVELAND,
HOW TO USE
A FRINGE
FIVE ideas to put you in the fringe fashion-from more than one variation on the stole theme, to an unusual hemline. But a warning: Rule out the fine silk type of fringe it is newer to have the twisted cable style, hall
an inch thick
Revealed In Voice
on
PETTICOAT NOTE
HJERE is one of the prettiest autumn ideas for the dance-floor Your petticoat now is the main attraction, seen through'a trans- parent net overskin Natural-looking Bowers are sewn 12ins, deep lo: the hemline of the petticoat. In the sketch 'I bave lifted the skirta to show you on the left marguerites. and on the right pale-blue silk popples. '80- choose your favourile for your favourite dress
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Major Mistake Of The Amateur Decorator
By ELEANOR ROSS
NE fame decorator, a
ONE
woman, just cannot understand how many of us are,wizards.at assembling a wardrobe, working out beau-: tlful costumes and colour achemes, using harmonious accessories, achieving strik- ing results, and yet, when it comes to doing a room, we are sunk,
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The colours are all wrong, the room is "Jumpy" because' of too many accessories bad- ly placed, many of them neither useful-nor, ornamen- tal. And she has made an- other mistake-this a major" one-of. spending too much for extras and not enough for the necessary pieces of | furniture, such as sofà, arm-
chairs and table.
Pofessional decorators tell us that colour schemes can make or
"I Love You" In Swahili uue estour advent day to
Nipenda wewe..
New York.
mar a room. They should be based on one of three plans,
Sutton has spent most of his according to one expert. First, 'spare time during the past 10 a scheme of sharp contrasts, That means "I Love You" in years getting his booklet, "Quick much as white walls, a red carpet Swahill
Swahill," ready and it has just and block accents, or light beige been published. ̈ ̈
walls, depp brown carpet and That is pretty fast work con- strong rose accents. Or a room sidering that Swabill is entirely can be done all in one, colour,
Do you want to learn a little Swahili, Just so you could 'con-
verse Intelligently with some of the hundred million or so people throughout Africa who speak only that language?
If so, George W. Sutton, Jr.
New York public relations coun- sellor, is your man. He claims he can give you a rough-and- tumble version of Swahili in 20 one-hour lessons.
a phonetic language and has but this takes an expert, olher- never before been written. For wise the result will be one of example, Swahili verbs, with monotony. Then there is the prefixes and suffixes, have more room made up of blended tones than 60 forms.
Colleges Interested
Sutton says that while his One of the first things you book was still in the idea singe would learn is that "Let he had requests for it from daktari. Mtu kufa"
the second
hour
of various colours. This, too, seems easy, but it is full of nasty pitfalls.
Colour Co-ordinates
The amateur tecorator should
means various departments of the gov-regard, as her best friends the "Bring a doctor, The man lemment and from colleges and various manufacturers of rugs,
In deact you'd learn how to inquire: libraries, N
last night?" "Where were you You would simply say:
wapi weo usiku kosho Yuko
Sutton, who is 05, spent two years in Zanzibar 15 years ago,
Had to Learn le.
Then
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drapes, upholstery and drapers fabrics who have co-ordinated "I have taught pretty accept colours and designs. No milter what the room exposure is, ho able crude: Swatdll to American
colour individuals and expeditions go matter the style, the ing to Abion, to hunt or take cheme in mind (or a lack of pictures," he said, "A manu-ano), it is possible to do a good
of decorating with thes worked-out,co Department towards the end of World War II.”
ordinates. Store decorators can be a huge help, too, and they go all out for these co-ordinates.
script.proved 'ušeful to, the War 100 ly
Sutton says all convertations
"I had to learn to speaks O. Here's people reveal personalities in Swabill or not speak at all, he say8. "1 was the only white advice for office seckers for this their voices."
"speak with Consequently, with year's elections:
the man and had 250 natives work in Swahili should begin with:
One should never start a room "Yambo for Jambo), bwana hall advent of television
the ing for me. I started picking gani" which in English means: design "cold," but should have the voice of authority."
urged up be scche, political
a few phrases, condidates for French priest gave me a course. "How do you do, ur. How are some ideas; even if only .vagus That's the conclusion of Dr persevering
you."
ones, on what the room thould Faul J. Moses, assistant pro- public office to speak out "with
wo. "And to that the answer must look like. Plenty of well-chosen "About ten years ago,
a few good accessories," says colour, a fessor of Medicine at Stanford the voice of authority" which
ότι and
expert
the will, in turn, arouse in the were in a bar on Lexington invariably be: "Njema"
listener
"father identification." Avenue and I started talking a Sutton. "That means swell, end well-placed lamps that really.
1: Diamond Double Redbl 1 Spade psychological aspects of speech. Female candidates are on little Swahill. One of the boys you must answer that way oven shed proper light, and furniture,
Pass
You, South, hold: Spades Q-J-7-3. Hearts A-0-0-2, Diamond 4. Clubs A-K-0:5. What do you do?
Aid two spades. Your partner's tree bid shows at least a Îlve-card spade suit with some slight strength (or a four-card spade suit with mors than slight strength), with any such hand he should be able to make two spades easily, and there may even be game in the hand (If one of the opponents has been up to mischief). TODAY'S QUESTION
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The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You, Scuth, hold: Spades K-J-7-3. Hearts A-Q-6-2, Diamond 4, Clubs A-K-0-5. What do you d37,
Answer Tomorrow
CROSSWORD
Aerom
1. Stake the star sit the
Home dine hours to be
11. Properly a doua. (4)*
12 Hurfacom 2. (8)
Upoiler on the shore. (7)
14 Fall BioK, (8) -
15. Provides swoot brinishment? (8)
17. Boci back. (
24. In all fidow you'll and them, (5)
3 May be used to implement
colleation. (4)
of a pair of drengs. (8) Replace after rest. (3)
24. Turn UpD. (0)
To the ant
Unemployed.: (6)
Iarly. (8)
Daws
4. Often covered with:12, (4)
8. Bus Lem took one like this, tai
4. The suger af dremen. (3)
•b Magnitrido. (4)
linkos nos steady when it dues..
Bodeck (8)
74 Headroar, 40),
10. Part and the bus. 403
10. The very borte (6)
bill
I field erly, '00) ABTU (4)
Is Why loaYO
20. Down dosen't. (4)
Une by walah Deta return. 141
24 New Zealand parroL, (8)-- Bolition of Batarday a puckIES ACTÓNI
White to play: mate in three.imgdonormsig
Solution. to Saturday's problem:
1;'-37, any; 2,-Q;or R mates.
"Dieti
Portti 100 Power
Nunberes, 14
Dr Moses, at a volte pathology their own, Institute here, observed that Press,
he said. United suggested I write a book about if you have leprosy."United no matter the period, or how.
it. So I did."
BOYS' AND GIRLS'
The Way to Get to the Moon
-And It's Not By Magic or Rocket-Ship Either!--
By MAX TRELL
Knarf and Hanid were well aware that a remarkable magi- clan like Mr. Meriin could go anywhere he pleased. So they didn't look at all surprised.
Press.
MAGAZINE
"I'll show you," said Mr.Mer- can do it. All Iln. "Anybody
You
need 18
spoon, a fiddle, and a cow.”
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dish, a
dog. a cat
Finally He Whistled
As he sold
this, Mr Merlin NARF, the shadow-boy with the turned-about name, was
reached under his robe and took out a dish, a spoon, a fiddle and just saying to his sister Hand
"What?" sald Mr Merlin, a dog. Then he took off his there really "I wonder, is man in the moon?" when along frowning, "oren't you going to peaked hat and shook a small ha of it. Finally ask me how I'm going to get cut out came Mr Merlin the Magician.
whistici, and
black-and- Knart and Hanid noticed that thero?"
in he was dressed
"Oh, by magic I suppose," white cow who was grazing in a long black
the field across the road camo robe with pictures of the moon sald Knart.
"H'mm,"
Merlin. trotting over. said Mr and the stars all over it. Ho
hat Then he shook his head: "No, As soon as
all these things tall, peaked also wore a
animals were gathered with the moon and the stars all not by magic at all. I'm going and
In the usual
around him, Mr Merlin stood way." it, too. He also carried
"By by rocket-ship?" the cat on her bind legs and wall satchel with a tag on it reading: TO THE MOON. asked Honid, really sounding put the fiddle under her chin.
"surprised now.
Mr. Merlin smiled and said: "Howdy, Knart! Howdy, Hanid?"
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: "Howdy!" Knari and Hands
answered.
Never Will Guors "suppose you're wondering where I'm going?" Mr Merlin Bald. "Well, you'll never guess, so I'll tell you, I'm on my way. to the moon.”
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Mr Merlin took off his peaked
"Go ahead and play a tune," he
t started playing at
hat and shook out a small cat
!
Then with a shout Mr Meriln Again Mr Merlin shook his said. She head. No, my dear. Lots of once, Instantly a lot of strange lifted up his robe, and leaped folka about going to the things started happening. The on the cow's back!.
no cow began
dancing aroun
.. The next Instant moon by rocket-ship. But
talk
the cow
sprang
higher!
Disappeared Altogether "
one has ever seen a rocket-ship. kicking up her legs higher and sprang into the air.. It hasn't been invented yet, higher. The dog began barking higher.. higher. though it will be invented one, day or another."
But what is the usual of going to the moon?” Knarf.
Rupert and the Butterflies-16
such short, fast barks that they sounded lite cackles of laughter,
way. The plate rolled round and
way said round, and the spoon went
bounelag after it.
Rupert gazes fascinated at the how you get your collection. You strange, sight, and whish" he ta catch the rate ones and take them to your farm. Do you think you watching more and more butter could spare ma: & fittle of the flies come to join tha qihere on.
#sents to show my Daddy 720/ the plant, “This must be the: The old gentleman smiles and, rég small, that Horpon--the hedgehog. jurning to where the precious fluid of. ba cries. Algy and a stoned he pouta a few drops into
1,pok now. • Líny plans-bhial, PREM
NO. 14:
Rupert
in the Tree Tops
Has Arrived
..
Then both the cow and Mr. Merlin disappeared altogether, somewhere up in the sky.
When Kharf and Harlid look- ed for the cat, the dog, the plate, and the spoon, they were all gone, too. But late
they
that night, when glanced up into the sky, they saw the moon brightly. And the man-in-the noon, whose face they could. sce plainly, was smiling. And when they, both shouted up; "Is Mr. Merlin the Magician; up. there with you, Man-In-The- Moon?" distinctly shut
neily shut one eyd in a wink
the man-in-thegreat
course midit have been Of courtia-sains, in tists.
ot
SOCI
toll
moon "tlint' minde. wink. But, Knatt and Hanid preferred to believe that it was Mignal- "the", man-in-the-moon”--
ling back that his good friend Mr Merlin the Magician was with him up there in the aky telling Hink'n' Joški,
mixed the designs, so long
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the pieces are all in scale and fit the type of room-that's really all that is needed to make a pleasant, livable room.
Paris shows her winter fashions
tall tailor-made, in red volvot trimmed with mink, and OSE In white. embroidered, malta,
exclusive mation' designed; "An
by Kinary Houff and show at the roomms displayá, of! lewding: "> Pariara drewtonk