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This Funny World
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Bob Schweten
"Well, there's the main tople of conversation around our house for the next six months”
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE-
JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Partner Would Not Give Up
By OSWALD JACOBY QOUTit 'had to lose a space and
a club in today's hand. In a manner of spesiding, he was Luely to go down only one; but South 'didn't see it that way. He thought he was unlucky to have a pantar who wouldn't give him an inch of leeway in the bidding, and South was quite right.
North went through the mo- tions of bidding the hand intel- Ligently, but in effect he did six sundos right over one spade. South never had the chance to get out from under below the slam Jevel
Mind you,
North had a very good hand. It was dorrect to dream of stam when South opened the bidding. But North should have shown his strength and left the rest up to South,
The best way to handle such hands is to make a jump responsa to stor!. North should have
NORTH
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WOMANSENSE
HEAD OF THE MOMENT.
AND COAT DITTO!
If you do, then you will avoid strong imagination and likely
to great many an accident in life. lo carry you heights of fantasy Parents of
YOUR BIRTHDAY ....... By STELLA
FRIDAY, JUNE ZZ
QORN today, you have definite your netive Ilfetime.
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Uterosy Latenta and they should find expression in either fortunate, for you will then poetry, prose or drama You Brd yourself at home in any When you may select your medium and be part of the world. assured Í success from
the wed, sel
select someone who like: start.
You probably will have to travel na much as you do and a direct and definite purpose in you will have Jolly time life together with the tenacity junketing around the globe, to stick to it through thick and You ure extremely intuitive thin You should get exactly and must leam 10 listen 10 You have is those inner volres of warning. What you want,
it.
You have
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gift for languages.
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Opening lead.de 2
PICTURES ELBY JOHN FRENCH
children born on this day must Among those bom on
recognise
arul this gift early realise that this
"romancing",
signpost
type
this Rider Henry or Baggard, and William Rainie, Tipt to be Lulurs: Patsy Ruth Miller and Devore, BETERSEN, the future-l Dorothy
Gilman, educator; und
deliberate falsifying!
H
Since you are fond of nature, you will be happiest living in the country. You also have a
Arthur
Poet:
Wafter Learned, Frazers A. Lathrop, artist,
To And what the stars have
in ore for you tomorrow,
touch of "gypay foot" and like selert your birthday star and
to travel It is likely that you read the corresponding para-
will cover poxi portion of graph
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Let your birthday star the world's surface during be your daily guide.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 23
AQUARIUS (Jan, 21-Feb. 19) -You may be able to help comune at the office who nealk Be tact- issi-uney on the job, Cal in offering, though!
PISCES
Jumped to three diamonds at his first tum. South would rebid the spaces, and North would raise to four,
thva
This sequence of bids by North band, would show a powerful with slam possibilities. And this
is euelly the message that North would want to transmita sort
of slam invitation without going i beyond game.
but
South would be tempted, he would resist temptation. His opening bid is a minimum,
and
he has three small cards in an unbid suit. Making slams with- out high cards is like måking bricks without straw: it can be done, but the odds are against
CANCER (June 23-July 23)- A fine outlook for today See that you make the best posedbin se of all opportunities, offered
LEO (July 24-Aug.
20) The next two weeks should be
#t (Feb. 20-Mar. 21)~~~
It South passes at four spades, highly benefielal for employment Thike zan be a highly pleasurable
Make Thaler,
change, if wrek-end
the game told for you with your
be made with funity arid you wish
close friends Perkip a pienie?
ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 20)- wish:
emphasis There is associates to channels
now which may be broaden 41 nelvantageously making new contacs..
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)~-~- You may combine business and pleasure now, luvite busi
(inner?
LIBIA
To
J
you
23)
weck
row
(Sept, 24-Oct. Plans that you have been mak- ing for the past few should come Enjoy yourself thoroughly
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov, 22)- Mental re:ivity is stimulated by today's a pects and a new dea should prove higlily successful
carcer
by
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)--
concentrate You 20ny
Perhaps make romance today. plans for your future happinesk with "the one."
GEMINI
(May 22-June 22)- Plan to develop your new ideas for action in a practical fashion
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec, during the next two weeks.
22) Combine tumity and business affairs advantageously. This can prove a profit-taldng time, too.
CAPRICORN (Dec 23-Jan 20)-Personal affairs are in the foreground now. See that you dale care of important maiters
at once.
1
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time with thND, (-6)
Atraining
8. 1% rather like a salamander.
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parates mine host from his
as They help to fasten up some uniforms, the, erosier,1 (8)
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of
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TARGET
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words of four letters or more A zon make Icom
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LORACH qu the left
making each word. the letters in each of tho
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tanzorrow.
mes.
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION: Acorn airman Guran aria arnica aroma cairn camaron carman carina carp coir, era corm cort crans cramp crampon cran erin Trop tharm fran niscaroni macron manor Thare malocais mtoron minar minor, more norm ocarina erca orcin orpin patr PANO- RAMIC Bicamar plin proa rain
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CHESS PROBLEM
By A. KARLSTROM Black, 10 pieces.
White;-10 pieces. White bogaus mate in two.
Solutions yesterday's problems
1, B-B; Brent (if Kt-03, ~K) 2, KI-K}}
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rase and comfort,
LEI STÉM 'TOP AND TAIL, " AND STRAIGHT
Should a woman
TELL
her true
age I mean?
By ANNE EDWARDS
£ That's why
the tricklest stretch of all is the lap between
London she is pretty and looks thirty-ish, should she own up to being over forty? Only last week the plaintiff in a breach of promise cabe joined the ranks of those
**CARD Sense who like to stay the sunny
Q-The bidding has been: North East South West 1 Heart 2 Clubs 2 Dmds. Pass 2 Hearts Pass
You, South, hold:
MATI #Q82 AJ 10863 4
What do you do?
A-Bid four hearts. This jump adequately shown your strength. You can't afford to cav-bid ly apades and then raise in hearts,"
TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You? South, hold:
873 52 +AQJ98 AKIN What do you do?
Answer Tozorrow
WEBL
the
38 and 48. Most women around
this age, I find, are ready willing, and able to join the
bbing band of thirty-ninera
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Vagueness
women
AND
IT
GOES
WITH
THE
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JON ITEM TOP AND TAIL COAT. SMOOTH AND STRAIGHT TOO I'
brackets after people's names few years on -- If someone ad mean very little.
to 80, they always say she's 66. That's all the grati- preconceived tude you get.
"People have
mits
T always say 'I shan't
Princess Margaret is the first Londoner to take it up. The Queen's new hairstyle is moving towards it. In Italy, where the stylo originated, this is the look that has taken over from the La Lollo short cut
It's
lavas of what a woman of, say, 30 can do- and it doesn't occur to them that someone tell you, but I've got a son of who happens to be a bit older 40 and they can get to in the picture
can do the job just as well.
most "The people I admire and like to talk to are nature people Newspapers are largely responsible for training us into thinking that youth is
signi feant when someone achleves
AGE that something. It's significant."
JOHNSTON, to dodge MARGARET
would't say. "No the actress, one's over asked me my oge. It's an old-fashionexi Idea:
on that one,"
ta simple style, that needs skill to bring it off. The girl above, Enid Munich, says this: "It has to bo and your hair ARDEN properly cut,
● ELIZABETH wouldn't tell "I'm not in--needs to be quite long sad u bit terested in age. 1 think people curly at the ends.brush it who tell their age are
flat on top, fuit out the aides sloosely, and secure..
the ends You're as young as you fee with a grip underneath,
feel"
• CONCHITA MONTES (Spanish actress) wouldn't tell IT 18 THE COAT OF THE MOMENT-knitted, brass · hut- am 25 in the first act, 46 intoned, and straight as a tube the second, and 17 in the Inst net. Let's leave it at that,"
Only three women gave
me
יך
ND it is not only silly women
try either who
like a longer-than-long cardigan. the question, fib the answer, or the issue. Far from conduse
Casual and usually collarless, it SIX out of 10 in-
their pge, without side-step- smart and surprisingly dimming, telligent
questioned were not pre- "Age is only important when ping: and it could be because this is the coat thats proyek a on mer for hot seller in Paris, in Rome, in about antiques they don't depend clean on the you're talking
New York, and a notable zuccess. a their careers. It's or wine.
no judge of
in London too, she's woman. If
interesting
●PAT BORNSBYSMITH, Tho pleture on the right M.P. for Chisichurst; "Everyone above, shows the coat in its most knows mine- I'm 42. Onco elegant form saven-eighths
about their age
pared to come subject:
side of 40, no matter what the calendar or Somerset House may prove, "Miss Collinson," report, "said in evidence that but when counsel she was 39,
her
birth certificate produced she agreed she was 48,"
Personally
I've every the woman pathy with knocks a couple of years her age. Whether it's a 10b she's after or a husband, she is dealing with the Masculine Mind An Englishman reckons that a woman loses a percentage MRS STEPHEN SPENDER, of her charm for every year of wife of the poet, wouldn't fell: wouldn't middle age.
those
BOYS' AND
SYITI-
who
off
● HEDLI MacNEICE, wite of and she looks good -- a man author Louis MacNeice, doesn't care how old she is. wouldn't tell": "I never say my "If she isn't interesting and you're in polities it's public pro- length, in lemon yellow, apricot, age I'm always completely
think
figures in to tell. Someone always adds
or pale bule,
and added. от vague please don't ask me doesn't look good admitting perty
meticulously, each year. But such an embarrassing question," her age won't help her."
can understand some women Home-on the heath
• URSULA BLOOM, novelist, being cagey In some spheres tell. It's a mistake where There's a prejudice
against maldic-aged women and Now why should a young writer, in -those ⠀ days, they feel it might be a deter
choose to sleep rent to them in. a-job.";
on Hampstead Heath in a big?
Colin Wilson, the young man "The Out-
GIRLS' MAGAZINE
A Favour Is Returned
Tlias's Toro The Shadows Get To See A Gremlin-
By MAX TRELL
Hanid, NARF
the with the turned-about names, were walk ing through the field' the other side of the garden wall, At at once, Krant spied
Khadow-children
on
We'll give him his hat if he'll come up and let us see him."
the
"Well, that's not the proper way to treat gremins,' it up he was disappointed to worm said, "but I'll tell him." find that the gremlin had dis-
Then the worm drew its head appeared down a worn hole.
got down on his back into the hole, A few mo So Knarf
again stuck is knees and shouted down into the ments Later i hole: "We've got your. hat, head out of the hole. Gremlini Come up and get it!"
Five Paces
At first there was no answer
buttercup. He was just about to although Knart put his car to
plek when suddenly there.
acorn
for a
hat--and A tall
✡
"The Gremlin old If you
the hole, stand back five paces was a sharp squeal and a tiny the hole and listened as hard as leave his hat right here, next to ngure, dressed in green with in he could. But the next moment and told your hands behind your
he heard a scratching and feather sticking up at the top of scraping way down below. And back, he will come up and get worm stuck his his hat. Then you can see him." the acorn-slid down the daisy presently
hend out of the hole..."
Kharf and Ilanid anid stem.
"The Gremlin wants his hat." would do everything exactly as the worm said, "He sent me up: the Gremlin wanted it, So, while the worm went down to speak to go. it."
again, Hanid "Yes," said Knart, but we to the Gremlin want to see the Gremlin: Brol took the acorn hat off her little
Under A Rock
The moment it
reached the ground, it darted under a rock. However, In its hurry, dropped a hat, Knart picked it up. He and land looked at it. That's how They know it was made out of an acorn with a iny with feather tackeet thorn against the side of it and
standing stealgh!;up,"
鼗
"I think it belongs to a grem- In," sald Hapid. "L's just the kind of a hat a gremlin would
wear
"It's under that rook," mid 'Ktárf,
He gave Hanid the gremlin bat to hold while he ran 'Över Hanád hold it in to the rock. the palm of her, hand for a mos mont But she was ontzald of oering it, so she stuck it on the end of her little finger. It jus
Req0; 2, PEN
Hs Diappeared.
-K3 (ch); Kt others; 2, Meanwhile, Inart was liftlig up Ale rock. When he finally got
they
MRS JANEY IRONSIDE,, newly appointed Professor of Fashion Design at the Royal of 24 whose book College of Art in Kensington siders" was acclaimed last week "I'm 38. In my profession by the critics, relates that in doesn't make any difference. London he spent all his nights how old I am, but if it did I'd out of doors in a sleeping-bag. He without hesitation."
Didn't it'cause a lot of minor If he was at social. problem?
Flattering
a party and someone offered im a lift home, did he say care
• WENDY TOYE, one of the leasty, "Oh just drop me off any only two women film'directors Hampstead Heath I've a sleep. in Britain; "I'm not the least ing-bag there Did his fanéce look forward to setting up home bit offended if someone asks me, double sleeping-bag when
I'm 30% Women are always Ina Interested in the ages of other they were married? And, how women they either want to did he manage about reading in know if you're de young as you bed at night? look or If you could possibly in Mr Wilson answered my as old as you look, appella question with direct charm:
is Interested lu Really, I slept out because "If a man you, he doesn't care what a working in offices. I had two I didn't want to work. I hate [you are. I must say, the rege-
work office Jobs tion I got when I tell my age la
which didn't always flattering because I've but Then I had a job in a been in the theatre since I was plastics factory and quarrelled two and everyone, thinks I'm with, the foreman But if you
i don't work you haven't 200
money and
can't
the rent, finger and set it down carefully next to the worm helle. furicio) she and Khart moved back live met had. (de courage to put summer, Jayhis
in their placa on the looked after my book, and she and folded their hands men
Issue. "I long ago decided int behind their backs,
And sure enough. Just as they 32 is an excellent age to but was, living at Chalk Farm at wa met stead Her were watching,
Heath near by and s up popped the and 32 she has remained ever the time so I slept on Hampp Gremlin. He stood for a moment, since, although on her birthday.
for breakfast at a buman
abusman's just at the edge of the worm last month the speaker, Lady Lafe. hole, gazing at them. He had a Astor, was 77. round face, a wide motatha
Rupert and the Winter Woolly-36 p
‚'eder - of `aumrner woolleito kelp Smiling broadly', Jack, cutą piece of the icy cloth and givenj, ka oold;in the summer, Didn't if to Rupert Can't you gods. You ever wonder what happened. what it's for? ** ho Anya. Your to King Prost and his prople in the
Hot Weather 2 Those caterpil people at Nutwood; need rest winter woollies to keep you warm An'" the winter, but we need nomé
can, apin lice cloth.: STRANDSWHY they are so precious to is ty
"Thank you," said the Gremlin after he put on his hat
stubby rose and eyos ko blue Top and tail
marbles, M WEE
pay
out in the
Then when I went hom
home to found I couldn't sleep, Indoors, There's no move ment of air indoor, everything! Thank you!" he said as ha⚫ IT IS THE HEAD OF THE Loo sul So I slept under an bent over and put on his hat? MOMENT. a hairstyle that is apple tree in the garden But And then suddenly he clapped smoother and straighter, natter worried my parente a bit his hands sharply. There was and wider, longer
and they used to wonder what, the
neighbours would say ". whirring of wing in the air.
The next secorat, &-dragonfly simpler than before, Brushed n swooped down, the Gromlin fat on top, the hair tangs in Jumped on its back-and before WD swatches to the cheeks. Kaart: Bud, Hanid could & blink
their eyes, the Cizerolix (was) FEVE rone, but servirens
But they did not good look at him anyways, which, la more than "anyone “elet ever dicht
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