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connection with the navy. (7)
18 Anything that's this is a Rood
sticker. (9)
14. Good one sets of a picture. (5)
16. Wonder. (4)
16. tis Initiafa 7 A.N. (5)
20. noy in the intimation. (3)
21. Tiger's home. (4)
23. This tide goes out. (3)
24. The minbow girl, (4)
25. Winter's one is by Shakespenre.
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3. Dreas trade; (3)
4. Sung to a showstring ! 131
5. "Ood made the wicked
Hung Clienterton. (8)
6. Beta in line, (3)
7. A rascal often in. (3)
8. Actore or pork? (41
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EDITORS PREED SERVICE, INC.-NURVA YORK
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1956.
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vacuum cleaner,"
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SCIENTIST who disagrees weeds to make faces at the with Dr Strabismus's ex- conduct. This instrument is planation of the vanishing hoses useful for parties, but is frowned says that some animal is eating upon by the leading orchestras, "Partially digested A still funnier kind of harp is lengths of rubber tubing" have the harharharp, which gives off
them.
1 M never been found in the stomach of a reek of bwning rubber when never, (4) the duck-billed platypus
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JACOBY ON BRIDGE
This Time King Better Than Ace
By OSWALD JACOBY
TF you had the South cards in would today's hand, which
you rather hold at the head of your clubs-the king or the nee? Naturally you'd rather have an nce than a king, but the actual declarer would debate the point with you.
in played, and has handlebars.
Australia. The foolish creature
mistakes hoses for worms. My Among the new books
ndvice throw
r?-
to Australians Is to XHEN the leader of the the platypus an old
American expedition motor-tyre, cunningly shaped turned to camp he w the like a hose, and to get on with
cannibals standing round the watering The only English cauldron, Forgetting where he animal that lives on rubber is
was for the moment he asked; "What's cooking?" "Mrs Boll," replied the cannibal chieftain sardonically.
man. He calls it meat. Printer's frolic
It was the rippling music of a harharp-Morning paper, THE harharp is a comic form of the harp, with a gap between the wires large enough for the .player to thrust her head through, from which position of vantage she pro-
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(From "Off the Becton Track," by Luke Fultigrew,) Passed to Suet, please Dear Sir,
that the
WOMANSENSE
Keep In Trim... By Ida Jean Kain
Hats From Jean Patou's New Collection What's Back Of
Paris' designer Jean Paton presents the above, two hats in his resent Autumn-Winter Collection.
Left:
for cocktails,
An elegant toque in pale gold velvet with accompanying veil., It is designed
Right: An original ocelot hat for morning wear, accented with
Agence France-Presse,
white fell band.
Do You Have Any Mannerisms?
of hair
1s
Do you will be if you want, this ginly positions, you just an exhibitionist trying
come detail of grooming or get into bad beauty habits,
when
ON'T be a marked woman. charm, If you slump, strut ог with strand
will ruin the fine, youthful lines to call attention to herself. Such
If you are of your figure,
a habits often spring from a senso teen-ager, you will diminish of emotionat disturbance. Or your chances as a popular danc- there is an unconscious
desire ing partner,
to conceal one's shortcomings, with the reverse result,
Unlovely poses assumed when sitting or standing may have a physical basis but re often due to plain laziness or pearance. They can be avoided thoughtlessness concerning up by keeping the spinal column extended, chest lifted, tummy tucked it and upward.
-HELEN FOLLETT
If you frown, you will have premature wrinkles, two little uprights between your eyes, If you do facial acrobatics you talk, twist your mouth and if your eyebrows, you will not only distort your features, you eventually change their ap- pearance. You probably know a girl who talks with her face, shoulders and hands as well as her mouth.
If Mr Suer thinks
lighting of our раз- container will be the excuse for Continental orgy, he does not know Smogworthy. Miss Slop corner, wha is to be our Gasworks Fairy Princess (not, as a local paper stated, our "Fairy Gasworks Princess, will there is nothing else about our gasworks), is not even to be
the subjected to square
customary on the left
ceremonial kiss of the mayor. Hearty fun above board is our motto. Honi soit, Mr Suet. Bridle your riotous inuagination, sir.
or more can you make from the
the
in
in making
each word,
the letteri
In each of tho small squares may his used once only. Each word must contain the largo, letter in the centra square, and there must De at frost nuo pine-letter word in the list. No ploria i no foreign worda; no proper names. TODAY'S TARGET : 15 words, good: 18 words, very good - 23
excellent. Bolutio words tomorrow
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION: Acute cuttia cais cless cleft oult cutler suttle facet jact fate fauces Jauls feas felt & ot FLUCTUATE nute lacet fate leas left luta tact factful talo tola taut real test Infu tuft sula.
Yours trusiv
A Resident of Smogworthy. In passing
THEY say that a motorist who
backed into a crowd on a zebra crossing, because nobody had thanked him politely for allowing them to cross, described himself as "a stickler for good manners,"
Be mindful of carriage.
Some women tap their fingers on the bridge table. You wont to slap them. There is the girl who bites her lips when irrit ated, causing them to be rough. They don't look pretty, nor does she look pretly when she is do- ing it.
A The woman who blinks her proud pose imparts dignity and eyes, swings her hips or fuesey
more
BOYS AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Why Parades Are Fun
-If You Can't March, They're Nice to Watch-
By MAX TRELL THE sound of music and marching feet como foaling
THE
YOUR BIRTHDAY....... By STELLA through the open window!
TUESDAY, AUGUST 16
Knart and Hanld, the shadow- children with the turned-about The next BORN today, you have one of Although not demonstrative, names, looked out.
they announced to Mr and minute thosc
keen, penetrating you are deeply emotional
moking Punch and General Bravo, the minds that gets to the bottom of have the capacity for
Tin Soldier, and Teddy the a problem almost instinctively, many friends. You have a re-
people Stuffed Bear and Mary-Jane the You usually don't have to walt serve that makes some
believe you oro to reason something
somewhat Rag Doll: "It's a parade!" "Warm-hearted have the answer instantaneously, "standoffish." Since you are inclined toward and generous, you will make a mathematics and the physical devoted marriage partner and a selences you also have the con- fine parent. centration
out--you
and ability that mako for success In experi-
mentation.
Among those born on this date
Lavoisier,
noted are: You have a
play- nor- chemist; Eugene O'Nelli, more than
Bernard Macfadden, sensitive nature, and to wright;|
sur editor; John Prindle Scott, com-
Dalla
the dummy, had only two club be happy you must be tricks instead of three. Naturally rounded, South tried to recover, by tak terests are similor.
by people, whose in- poser; John Pierce, scientist;
You
2r5 Mae Clark, screen star. ing the ace of clubs and running also rather sensitive to slights. his two remaining trumps. No Learn to control a high temper To find what the stars hava body was squeezed, however, for at such times, you are apt to in store for you and South had to lose two dia- make cutting remarks, which select your birthday star and monds at the end
the. when
you will later regret. It is much read the corresponding para- clubs failed to break.
wiser for you not to speak at all graph. Let your birthday star until you are very sure.
be your daily guide.
LEO
tomorrow,
"Ah, a parade!" said Mr Punch smilling. He seemed very pleased. So did General Bravo seem very pleased, and Teddy the Stuffed Bear
and Mary-Jane the Rog Doll.
They Dashed Out
"You certainly did, Generali And I used just march."
Hera Teddy the Stuffed Boar
ask interrupted to
what else Mr Punch did in a parade be- sides marching.
to de inore, than
"I used to beat a drum," said Mr Punch. "A big bass drum. I used to beat it sticks, first on on the other. Boom! Boom!!!
with drum one side, then Boom! Boom!
Never In A Parado
""That
inust, bave been fun," sald Mary-Jane the Rag Doll. "Fun isn't the word for It sold Mr Punch.
said "It must have been," General
Bravo, sounding ittle sad..
three?
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Mr Punch beat a big bass drum
Backache?
you're not bothered at .us iinish-washing the with backache and have dishes paring the vegetables, or cleaning the sweeping, never heard the term bathtub., Perhaps the sink is too sacroiliac, go merrily along high or too low. Have an extra 'your smooth way. This platform fixed, or put a column would merely bore under the legs of a work. Lable,
under your dishpan.
Blocks
In
you. From the painful de
or shortening the legs may angle, unfortunately, this will not hold true for many sweep small,
sweep-
the matter. heep the width of the xo Da to avold Backache is all too common. twisting your back. Don't over-
The cause may. be any reach
number. of things-poor position,
posture, strain from incor- rect lifting, a quick twist,
sagging mattress, over-
In cleaning-shift your
If you to desk work, swivel welght, or emotional ten- the chair; don't twist your sion.. Outside of habitually back. Think before you move, faulty posture, strain from whether it's in turning to speak lifting is perhaps the worst to someone behind you, in plek-
ing up something or in 'reaching, offender.
--don't twist. •*
That phrase "put your back
Why are we such weaklings into it is particularly vicious, that we have to be so cautious? for It amounts to strain. Put Modern daily living doesn't
your thigh muscles into the lift, afford sumelent museles streng- ing, put your shoulder to the thening exercise to keep muscles wheel, but keep your back in tone.
straight and do not twist)
For example, in lifting some-
woll-dressed:
Don't be a slave
thing heavy from the floor, bend Miss Crawford on how to bo your knees and get as close us possible to the object, then lift. straight up, keeping the upper back straight and letting the powerful thigh muscles and arm muscles do the work, Above all, do nol twist as you lift, Suddeni twists and quick turns cause trouble.
of fashion
Hollywood.
ONE of the world's mot
decoratively attired wo- men, glamorous screen star Joan Crawford, is a woman who doesn't believe in trying to keep pace with style
In shovelling or any similar action, take care to avold twist- ing. Straighten up, turn on the bails of your feet and toss dirt side, instead of twisting your back. In weeding, shift your position to pull that weed is almost out of reach. In every the side and do not strain if it variances.
task avoid twisting,
I
ot
"Women who blindly follow what the designers say simply betray their own lack of fashion knowledge," she said.
A good many back strains a window come from opening that is stuck. The wrong way is
Miss Crawford, is all for in- to stand away from the window, bend forward and lift. To avoid dividuality in dresses. "It's easy to look smart," she said, "if you strain, stand as close to window as possible ce as to get first find out the type of outfit your weight under It ...
you look best-and then which
stick to it,, regardless of what tasks what the fashion designers re
push.
Check to
geo
the
then
"PLAIN FOOLISHNESS"
make you feel tired, in making commend each season, a bed, do you feel a kink when Then you you straighten up? are reaching too far across the bed. Stand close to the bed so Not only docs a woman as not to reach out too far, manage to look her most be- make up one side, go around coming by this simple procedure, and make up the other side. she, conterids, but it's also a lot
which kinder to the family budget. Check, too, and note tasks result in a muscular acho Miss Crawford-belleves that monfolk have a right to put their foot down when it comes to wardrobe extravagances on
Household Hints the part of the spouse.
"Even if you can afford it,”! Cut flowers will keep longer she says, "It's just plain foolish-
the water
to CSA
a lot of money spend Decaying veget- for something so impressively stylish that it no longer will be Inshiceable
the new de- signs are
the drawing aboards."
if the leaves below are removed. able matter will poison the water/
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on
Nevor put the blade of kitchen knke into a flame. will impair the temper of the The famous actress has found steel and make It Impossible to that she looks her best in clothes sho describes, as "elegant- sim- march in a parade like you sharpen the blade thereafter.
plicity," and because she favours did."
It was then that Mr Punch
of window A coating.
smooth, simple lines, Miss that neither spread on a silver dish or tray. Crawford is able to keep dresses suddenly realised General Bravo, nor Teddy the will keep he silver from tarnish-in her personal wardrobe for Mall Stuffed Bear, nor
years.-China Mary-Jana ing and can be easily, washed off many the Ray Doll were able to walk when the article is to be used, Special.:
by themselves. They Werd just toys. They couldn't march.
He Wished And Wished
either. I just wanted to," he
"And I never best a big
wax
Paquerette Ltd.
Your "house of fashion”
bass drum either. I just wished Whether a dress for and wished for so many years
"Let's go and see " cried Hanid.
"I'm sure it was" said Teddy, Then she and Knarf dashed also, sounding a little sad out of the house and ran down y "Yes, it must have been
the the street and stood on
fun," said Mary- wonderful
To tall you the truth," said curb, watching the parade go Jane. Like General. Bravo and Mr Panch, lowering his voice, by. But they didn't notice Teddy, she also sounded sad. "I never marched in a parade South made his mistake, as
that neither Mr Punch nor we noticed, when he led the
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17
General Bravo nor Teddy the. "Say," said Mr Punch (and queen of clubs from the dummy.
nor Mary-Jane the sounded cheerful), "what's Stuffed Bear He should have led a low club
(July 24-Aug. 23) mw SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) had followed them.
the matter with you for a finesse of the ten This Stay on the sidelines if
ever march in argu You should be in good condition
Didn't you,
that finally I come to believe that "special" occasion would lose to the king, of menta
You emerge.
Meanwhile will do to solve all problems presented.
back in the toy parade?"
that I really did! But even course, and then South would yourself no good at all If you They
or a pair of lovely need not hold up your room, Mr Punch was saying to
his you can't for have three club tricks (with the get involved.
march In a parade, Mr Punch waited General Bravo and Teddy nha
shoes dainty progress nce, jack, and queen) instead of
VIRGO (Aug, 24-Sept. 23)- SAGITTARIUS (Nov, 23-Dec. Mary-Jane: only two. Even if the finesse Make plans, but don't be
"There's nothing friends to answer but they you can look at one!" too 22)-If things don't go along as like a parade! Now I wish I didn't. Then Mr Punch, looked
"And even," burst in Teddy, lingerie or a won, South would continue with
visionary. Keep at least one fast as you might wish today, were young again. Many's the from one to the other,
sounding cheerful again, new bonnet the ace of clubs and then a low
foot on the ground. Be practical. keep in mind that tomorrow is time I marched in a parade.". "Why," he said, "you all look you can't beat a drum, you can a' visit is club, thus making sure of three
day!
Listen to onel" tricks in the suit. South couldn't Keep your eyes open for the one
If you were about to cry," LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23) another
recommended CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20)
Everyone felt happy again. have misplayed this hand is important opportunity that could-This can be one of your best
"Oh no," said General Bravo.
And down at the 'comer of the clubs had been K-10-4. After drawing trumps, he would have throw wide the doors of future days this month, if you are
"Not a bit," said Teddy,
street, Knart kept watching the led the king or ten of clubs, muccess.
"WE're not going to cry at parado and listening to the
and even drume pardes, all," said Mary-Jane
enjoying every though we never were able to minule of it.
making sure of three tricks in
the sult. It was the acc clubs that led him into temptą- tion.
♥SCARD Screme
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South West North Buat
1 Heart Pass 2 Clubs Pais
2 Hearls Pass, 2 Spades / Pass
You, South, hold:
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White,{10 places.--/ While to plaisa, maledin.
ready to take full advantage of tho aspects now.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb, 19) -You will probably and you are very busy at the offloc, so plan to get some recreation this evening to offset it.
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)- Don't let the heat or humidity got you down. Just take things a little more slowly.
ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20)-- It would be better to make, a compromise and keep the pence than to insist on your own way and start, an argument,
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21) ---- Someone who know how to budget may give you just the suggestion that you need right
* GEMINI (May 12-Juno:31)- If a close friend Nas of birthday, why not plan ay surpriedosla britton"t could bearin://pl
point in
General Bravo, who wis,
standing by the playroom door, with his musket over his shoulder, glanced across at Mr Punch. "Did I hear you Bay
marched in you
Punch?”.
Rupert & the Distant Music--38.
dechlog, the group the Piper looks statnly and illankly,
Yet another new Rupert
RUPERT
and the
French Poodles
We always have something. new and exciting show
eek,
Prasses from $15.00
ning Summer Hats at $45.00