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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1954.
"When they get to the Station he wakes her up and she drives the car home."
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1. 10. Bound like something cheeky au the Bever, (2, 3)
8. Before the centre of the tørst,
(3)
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prevent it calling was? (4,0)
12. Otherwise a name. (8)
14 Bounds no I it might be song
Bolant resort. (4)
10. River in the Wost, (D)
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pation. (3)
2. Murala, but no manjzscript. (4)
About the cratatudo it deuĪTA.
4. Pirat King of Ismai, (4).
D. Called by piper-parer. (4)
8. You'llways got at Konwer
from this
7. Something useful in Erta, (4)
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poola hutara, (6)
19. Parts of the window, (0)
Texturday's volation,
17. Hun-
often alu
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WHAT'S HIS LINE?
E. RALLINGS Re-arrange the letters to spell his occupation.
(Solution on Page 10)
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Fisherman knits are something new in the woolly workst for spring. These farge, loose pullovers and cardigans, heavy, ribbed wool, are inspired by the fishermen'A
replace last For casual sportswear they promise to darling, the blazer.
In
jerseys. SORBOIL'H
Men are falfing for fisherman knits for golf, riding and kating,
Above is a husband and wife ret skelcbod by artist flix.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
and consider what he misses !
They Don't Settle Down Happily-
I
By Eileen Ascroft
London. with
NOTE, wonderingly
a larger bank balance
than her mate. I any money
should maITY
that poor-little-rich-girl money; poor men should lepys
Doris Duke undaunted by rich girls alone.
two marriage failures-is
✡
reported to be making a IT is a pity that TV's quest for
third attempt.
glamour is leading them to present young women in dresses to quite unsuitable for tomo cópi~
Fumption.
At 42, still slim and blonde. Miss Dulte has said "Yea" the French singer Charles Trenet (38).
How do I rate her chances of success?
this
I am bound to point out that they are not bright.
Is For the brute foet Men don't settle down happily with wives more wealthy than themselves. Dives,
situa-
Howeyer nice the girl may be about the overloaded tion, however little money rear anatler to her, it is a constant challenge to a man's pride and self-esteem.
what
Consider
he misses. a richer wife The man with
that can give her no present
She she can't afford herself. does not regard him as the pro vider for the home. If he takes her on a fine holiday, he is do- ing nothing for her that couldn't do herself.
ahe
an-
NO GRUMBLES AND he is deprived of
other masculine privilege. that of paying for his wife's clothes and permanent waves after sultble doses of grumb- king and reluctance,
Anything that he may buy or do for his wife is probably
be- more than he can afford cause her standard of values is higher than his.
In the few cases whero rich wive
mode hove
happy
Miss Betty Paul, for instance, in What's My Line? Her low decolletage was ridiculous for a parlour game on » Sunday evening. A yery nice frock for the right time and place—a night club or a private dinner party-but not as screen enter- tainment for family viewing,
REVOLUTION ON WALLS WALLPAPERS for sprink W decorations have undergoe a minor revolution. Few of the old floral patterns, and postel polka dots and traditional ctio- mond patterns appeared exhibition rec
recently, Instead we anw burgundy ceiling papers
(so practical in London houses) and intrigutas contemporary designs,
Special room papers featured Scandinavian ideas. For bati- there WAIS a.ship-fit- bottle design on a dark sed
in an
green ground; for recreational Tooms bamboo or stone
slate
design papers and for the small bar of the house a cocktail re- cipe paper giving every known brand of cocktail.
Kitchen papers, too, are far more colourful today.. Orie attractive design in grey, white
and red
was
patterned knives and forks, Joints and fish and bright red tomatoes,
For ceilings there were a150 marble-design
which papers were most attractive in thp
110w metallic-surfaced paper
gives the effect damask silk.
Turkish towels used as both out in warm soapsuds. The view room curtains are decorative, may be surprisingly improved. economical and easy to under
from home To avoid danger A non-palatable body fuel | by machine. They need no iron-
ing, but will dry more smoothly fires, be sure electric currents marriages, the man has usually darker tonos, and, for walls,
safely carry toasters and been exceptionally talented or it
to win surfter: you rub tewel
Electric cir-outstanding in some other way. which appilances. make the pile more uniform, other
a cuits must be sufficient to carry Gloria Vanderbilt is one To hang towel curtains sew
reading nmple—she ns
married conductor casing or set of rings to the back peak loads, such
electric heaters, Leopold Stokowski.
husbands were of each towel, and slip over lamps, radio,
But for the average marriage James H. R. Cromwell, a steamiest and so forth, simultaneously. curtain rotis
the bathroom can't turn these limp. Corult a good electrician, if in it's making a dificult job much diplomat who is now married
harder if the doubt.
wife starts off Durban Hutton,
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hearts, then would guy to a passenger fketing Ally ACs energy auto nitglit. "Oh, don't eni Why what bukanable plastic butter- be pot to pool use.
not pay the excess fare, and voete old its to genuine near-fidietota-type.
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the way
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Twenty Years of Uproar
The orchestru would have smorded
+ Music ecltie ! YEAR or two ago Rustigtezi's
A singing was morred by what a
If you have been perkette Plains question, lately, now is Time to refurbish your wardrobe
SCORPIO (Orl 24-Nov 22)-better with fewer double bazers. Cinse, friends can bring you execu49 ·
Fojav Jumal happins, these day
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 3-Dec 22) If you Enve
beavy workor scheille that you get ut valle one to the words 1 hra ating Start on iE THE HIREDIDE
rebo in Dremler's "Morguerite" CAPRICORN (Dec, 21-Jan. 20)= | Barsotlibog: among the violin went Unless you get the wrek's Work upp, and a champagne cork hit the to date, you can't plan sactal Eesti- fonductor (Amoli)" on the brow. Vote St the week-en
Later (16. dorým a moving pat9JRC
nrite called "a mut strictly mustent As whe INtivity the orchewira.
admirer son sent an actres
horseshoe on her fret nig
Birt mich probably meant well. Reallinen may be misinterpreted, ne In Binstead's story of the boulevar dier who rent La Belle Otero horseshoe. "Why not a par?" asked another lady. "Itus perhaps she's got a wooden leg" It was one de Poury, Otero's rival, who, when the gerfoman with whom they were mapping offered Otero the menu, mald, That's what I call puiting the carte before the hose
BOYS' AND
AND GIRLS'
Four and Twenty Blackbirds
-The Shadows Saw Them in Mother Goose Land-
come to Mother funny thingy the Goose Land. For instance, folks the like you!"
CARD Senses shadow-children with
Very Rude Crow
Two
household
The
accessories, often neglected when it comes to and plc- cleaning, are mirrors tures. The glass is pleture frames and the surface of
seldom show mirrors
since dusty flims,
this
as not cumulate; so gradually to be noticeable, Go over plc- ture glass and mirrors periodical- ly, with a clean cloth wrung
their
no-
MAGAZINE
This seemed like a strange
but Knart and thing to ask, Han sald they might as well do what the blackbird had sur- Rested. So they counted them. Twenty-four." said Khart.
"You mean four and twenty," said the blackbird.
"It's the same thing," said Hanid. Twenty-four and four and twenty mean exactly
By MAX TRELL NARF
Hanid. Ared
turned-about names, mude them-
Hamid said sharply: "You're u sieves smalt (which shadows have no trouble doing). and very rude crow." crept inside the Mother Goose "I beg your pardon," said the
"I'm not a crow! I'm a same thing." A moment or two later, bird. Book. they found themselves on a blackbird. pleasant country road.
Then you're a Very road blackbird," said Hanid.
The bidding has been:
Easi North West M Pais Spade Pass
} Heart
2 Diamonds Pass
You, South hold: Spades K- J-7-3-2, Hearts K-5-3, Diamonds 9-4, Clubs A-5-4. What do you da?
A-Bid three must show signs pince you hold
Λ
On
kati
Rides of the
Strange Habits
the
"Maybe so," the blackbird re-
good.
"Sing a song of sixpence
A pocket full of rye,
Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie~"
these
"Come, Knarf," said Hand, as turned away, "I don't like she
ese birds at all."
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rude plied., "bul it doesn't sound ps stretched Gelds in which flowers At this, all the other black- Knart suddenly shouted: "Oh! on the tenee Four and twenty blackbirds! I were growing, cows were graz- birds standing
first one, the one know why you're so important!" Ing. and over which bees and beside the birds were dying But Knarf and had called rude, all began And he began to sing: hearts. You and Harid quickly found out to laugh."
strength that of
they were not in un 11 points in ordinary country. normal high cards, 1 point extra for the king of partner's bid mult, and 1 point for a doubleton. bid of only two hearls would show merely a weak preference. TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding is the same as fu the question just answered. You, South, hold: Spades A-Q-3-3-2, Hearts K-5-3-2, Diamonds 7-5- 4, Club 4. What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
CHESS PROBLEM
By A. AKERBLOM Black, 13 pieces.
For every now and then, the blackbird again. cows stood up on their hind legs and walked to another part of
በጋ
The bees had buckets for
honey over their arms.
did think they were rather rude.
they started
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"Still," she said two that very instant, soldiers in bright red uniform book again, they aren't really "I'm not afraid at all," said came galloping up 071 their the aclds, and the birds flew Homid angrily. And she turned horses, firing their guns. Knart going to be eaten, you know."
she sang in a loud again
and stood looking and Hand quickly took shelter down and stood on the fence back
whole line of behind some trees. But the cheerful voice! and talked to each other, and the severely at the
blackbirds standing on the fence, blackbirds just fluttered up and "When the ple was opened bees had buckets over their
She thought, as she looked at down in a frightened
of
The birds began to sing.” which they filled with
tham, that there were quite a lot way, bumping into each other in "And they did even more than is
of
the air. And finally the twn that," she continued to Knarf honey, and some of the flowers
from one "As
fact," sald a matter of
soldiers
stuffed all twenty-four "They flow out of the ple and got up and walked place to another just as though another one of the blackbirds, in of them (or all four and twenty into the garden where the maid they had leg.
a much more polite tone then of them) in a big bog and was hanging out her clothes" "Funny things happen
Mother Goose land, don't they?" the first blackbird had spolten, galloped off.
"we're very important birds."
Knarf remarked to his sister
"Are you?" sald Hanid. Harid.
"You don't think so," said the Before Hand had a chance to answer, one of the birds of the same blackbird: "Just count us!"
fence X looked like a crow-- said in a hoarse voice;
"And
DUMB-BELLS
YOU'VE BEEN BUT YOU!
SAID IT
HERE A MONTH, AND. WOULD HAVENT MET, BE JUST OFFERED
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"And nipped off her abse}" "Now they're going to be laughed Knart. "They really nré
famous birds!" baked in a pie," said Knart.
Honid couldn't help feeling a "They really aro," agreed little sorry for them, though she Hand. And she laughed, too.
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the athey ends with, the
coste being dropped "fat" and the the comme
16 opened: Te Poday's Aftamibent,
This mother and Constable Geseler: the tenants, lisplá
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