YOUR BIRTHDAY
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8
By STELLA
BORN today, you are a keen student of human nature and are deduser mulivations underlying netions. History, philosophy and literature are some of the fields in which you aro most interested. You are practical in making suggestions for social welfare and are not merely theoretical. You will want to fight for those when you believe are less privileged than you are, and you will succeed in making this world a better place in which to live.
Your sense of humour is keen, and consequently you con criticise in the jugiter vein so that none takes offence. This i likely to crop up in whatever you say or write, and you might do well on the lecture platform.
Although you are analtines to reach the top of your own You well your profemmon, you are not une to rise over others, turn and feel tim hard work always will bring its rightful rewaasi. This is usually true, but it sunetfines happens that a streak of good fortune will advance you faster than otherwise. Be alert to opportunity and be sure to take full advantage of it.
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You women, especially, are affecliorate, loviny home-makers. You will be happiest if you wed sutely and kurve your own family and household to manage
Among those born on this date wen Cashinar Perier. Pronen sialesman; Allee D. Stockham and Joer Chandler Harris, authors, Padrak Colum and Henry Tinrot. InHE August Belmont, Anançler, Queen Christianá of Sweden; and Eh Whitney, inventor, To and what the stars have mi sere for you thinorrow, selet your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraphi your birthday star be your daily guide
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. GEMINI (May 22-June 22)—— 22)-You will find that be If your will spend morning and best to stick to
your normal afterison in a state of complete Sunday routine, Don't attempt relaxation, letting down tension, anything too apretacular
SOTILAIN
vom van enjoy the evening.
CANCER (June 23-July 23)-
THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, DECEMBER "8; 1956. *.
Colonel UP and Mr. DOWN
PARADE
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by Walter
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT
PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
WAR
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They by England.
have diatighter, Selina.
Mother and daughter have been walling for a year la join Patrick. Patrick cannot live In A while
THOSE Who owns those coins y arrested and interned COINS that tourists throw in- Austean border guarda,
to the wishing form- lie explained his name
recently Nikolaus Bernuy Lain of Itome? Until
that has arid they were the undisputed pro- packed his equipment in his perly of neighbourhood children, rur, drove through Switzerland who uned tu
off take
their and Austrin 10 the
Ik trousers, changed into uniforin, parked shoes, pull
their DENİ paddle
shallow his ear, and marched into Hun- Trevi Fountain after them,
gary in search of the freedom But couple of weeks agu
fighters three of
these children were 131rt he found
freedom Judicial
Nighters. Nor reported to the
any Bghting at thorities. When their case came
So that the
turned
Found up, the judge ruled
murched mat again. He did not coin below to the
owners of the fountain the Home Muntet have time, however, to chenge
back into hie civillant clothes.
A thinkingt confining day when inspira-pality.
Trew to keen but enurgles rather
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problezas
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of the present
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and start today you, at home or in the office, is you will be able to Bnish your definitely the best policy.
work ahead of time. Spend
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21) pleasurable evening. Friendship can prove of the utmost Importance
your
future. Show a polifle and con- clliatory attitude.
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BY THE WAY
By Beachcomber
JOINTING out that music is
POINT
sounds, а contemporary thinker says that no orchestra Today should conüne iself to the conventional Instruments,
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body-
Realism in muse will soon be calling for road-mills und pile- drivers. I myself have written
symphony
for openers. telescopes art wire-
The cutiers
in operET Is played along the edge of a thế, the teleset pe is lengthened mi shortened with a lovely soft stundi, mund the wire-culler cuts wire. There is also a
pusange for two inen who p their thumbs against Dutch cheeAD maestoso
Incidental music
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CORRESPONDENT has sent me the following sentence from a music critic's account of
a planist's performance: --
The occasional wrong notes were purely Incidental and hit with tremendous conviction." I also says
that the "masalve power very rarely degenerated into mere force. As Marlin Luther said, "If you're
hit
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10-17
JACOBY ON BRIDGE
IN
South Set By Strong Defence
By OSWALD JACOBY
N today's hati. The star play masz by Heuber Peterson, » regular player in the Thursday night duplicate al the Milwaukee
West opened the queen of dia- monds. and
Peterson (East) signalled
Enthusiastically with
the ten of diamonds, South properly refused the trick, and West continued with the jack of diamonds.
The average playar would follow sult with a low diamond the East hand, and South from would refuse this trick likewise, Now the effener would be up a tree. West would get two dia- mords, a
club, and perhaps one Icart Al 1110st. easily bring Kull to
iricks.
South would in the
latex club make
ning
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Peterson made no such mis- take. He curcfully played the king of diamonds at the second trick!
South could not afford to win the trick. because then The entire
diamonet suil would be
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Opening lead-♦ Q
established against him When South heid off, Peterson shifted to the ton of hearts and thus managed
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two heart tricks for hik Partner Two diamonds, two hearts, and the king of clubs were enough to
defeat the contract,
CARD Senses|
Q-The bidding has been: North Kast
South West
1 N.T.
Pass
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You, South, hold: MAJI WKQ4 +9482 4KQJ
What do you do?
A-Bld four no-tring. I North has a maximum, he can bid a slum; otherwise four no- trump should be safe.
TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You, South, hold:
MARK ♥KQ4 $3433 AKQJ
What do you do?
(Auswer on Monday)
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a wrong note, hit it
The Norwegian your might." planist Oscar Sicjhommer often halds the piano down with one hand
the while be whacks
notes with the other, wrong purely incidentally, and with a which slaggers the
conviction Imagination.
Epitaph
Here lies, beside his favourite
horse,
Knock-kneed
Sir George, lodged by force.
So strongly
astride.
din-
he clamped
Returning from his morning ride, That four grooms had to hold
The geo
Upside down to shake him free. He landed square upon his head And specialista pronounced him
dead.
sald- and all Agreed --- "Better be bow-legged than
knock-kneed,"
His brother
Dr Rhubarb's corner
N. J. naka: Is it possible to draw the cork from a bottle of wine with a blcycle pump?
Dr Rhubarth says! Yes, if you attach a corkscrow to the pump.
In passing
A
UNESCO handbook stater that
there are 200 million
-radio-nels in the world, and that
two out of every five people
over 15 years of age are unablo
HIG)) Bares
may
Huny words U1 four lettern or more end Y make From the letters to the Aquare on the left 1 making rach
Word
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Words:
words
good to penda, very good : 20 words, axoslient Mokuton un Musitoy.
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CHESS
by LEONARD BARDEN
A new problem by the Rev.
to read or write. The chief N A. Boravio Hunt (Bedford).
imulus was lost when captions White mates in two.
disappeared from the filme
problem;
Soon only those who wish to be solution ¡ for yesterday's mire that they have got the autographs they want will be fúary enough to learn to read." But they would ran better; to:
money to apandi leve such things toalectronic
brains.
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