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The hats CUTURNOPHOBES, working birds perch on
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beling wine wed by ate-Intips, turk in t
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Dr Rhubarb's corner
TH CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1956.
YOUR BIRTHDAY
MONDAY, DECEMBER 17
By STELLA
travel
myatib and presalien) in your know countelen on earth. You nature. You have a will of iron and have a quiet dignity which holda once you make up your mind to do those whom you wish to make life. something, you let nothing interfere, loog friendo You are not one to You have a tremendous store of wear, your heart on your aloeva and energy and #lf-confidenor, :You 31 might be some time before the conder that the will to believe is one you love best finds it pull You indeed, the will to acced,
want the joys and conforia of your own home and should have A happy, contorted life.
BORN Loday, you have an unusual. You are fout of lovelen
combination of the idealistic id will want to visit all of the
You never doubt your ability to tackle a tough job and seg, always cundent that you
con lick any itwolf. present problem that may You enjoy doing the big things in ite and see annoyed if you have to handle detent work. Mako, full uno of your potential executive powers; build up a working staff under your direction and you will be able to suide a project through from a and bluepehi to succesful compla thon Capable of handling money. itoly that you w benge quite wealthy weil before middle life.
Amorat how born on this date Lakdwig Beethoven, composer; naturalist: Johri
Alex
reeninot Whittier, poet Bir fler
bert Beerbohm Tree, actor, Willkal astronomer; Jultors Edwards, music- Moyd, patriot: William texKnvers, lan and composer.
To find what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday sier and read to corrça-
dog star be your daily guide.
conding paragraph, Let your birth-
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18 SAGITARIUR (Nov. 23-Dec; 22)— A for day for buying and melting. it in retati merchandising. this
be your "big day" this
touk niontii
CAPRICORN
(Dec. 23-Jun. 20)-m Your Interests may be dividąd bo- tween the family bnú Jour Extra- munity; omne pre«C^2+1=1199+% event. ECTRON
AQUARIUS (Jan.
Take care of minor
21. Feb. 10)- alters during
the ring hours. ARVE Important decisions for later in the day,
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July LED
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And
that the festivities nie engerly awaited. (ЛИЕ. VIR425)
20-Sept. 23) Family and pubile affans are com bated an intentating anal exciting patiesa for von Just now
LIBRA Nept
matteon
Halicarnassus V. Compton when we put on
by the young Herodotus, who was born there. A cheaper trick info warm the hals of publi
Then when the works offle belast
JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Unusual Bid Sets Up Slam
By OSWALD ЗАСОВУ
COLTIPS «pening bl
of wo Chailan in today's hand was
bul.
na
bid of three bed lat showed his zult, Snære experts use this ITI: d of bidding. but few of then would bid the South hand
The hand was played in one matches of last
of the
Bummer's Furopean Champion ships, and the South player was try desperately to wipe out but iva that his opponents enjoyed.
West opened the ten of clubs of the very shaky contraet
of hearts, and South won in bis hand with the king. Declar- er BAY FRn dve rounds of trumps,
a gramophone record of our do barking. We tell them {l is only a record and that the do
they died last year, but
0411 object. What should we do"
Domnestie
24-Oct, take
TARGET
Dr Rhubarb says: Buy fr other dog and let it bark. they complain, tell them it 18 not a record, but the real thing.
Poor Rustiguzzi
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AFTER the moving death seen
Act II of 11 (Jasprizzl“ The body of Nasan has to be to the carrici off the singe
the funeral march. strains of According to a erille this what occurred the other day In Milan. "Conceding the obvious fact that itustiguzzi in bulit on one must regret KUTATUAR the abandonmont
of
at- ail templa to Carry her off the stage. The spectacle of half the cast pushing and the other half pulling turtis the whole pro
eechings into farce. Could not the 2 palace guaris have enrried her alternately, six at a time? As it was, she wus haut- ed and shoved into the wings like a suckful of serop-iron, and we in the stalls could hear her muffled protesta."
Memo to composers of opera: Enormous Singers should be kept "live unui the dual curtain and go off under their owli steam,
durerling both low clubs and Subject for conversation
On
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the
clumsy.
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cards, and the task wasn't easy. He could safely throw two dia- monds, but didn't know that it
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was safe to throw another. He 'couldn't tell it was safe to dir- card spade. By the process of 'elimination, he came around to
the idea of discarding a club.
This discard was all that South needed. He led a club to the ace, dropping the nine and the queen, and discarded the deuce of spades on dummy's ace of, Diamonds. Now he led a spade from the dummy and was sure of making his twelfsh triek with a spade, since East had both the
ace and queen.
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East South West
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TODAY'S QUESTION"
The bidding is the same sa în
the question just answered. You, "Boully hold:
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coming
significance and importance thomo Jam few days befort Chirint-
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. A new idea may be of great help to you in mapping out your future.
· Mako careful plans now,
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WOMANSENSE
A SHEATH DRESS OFFERS MANY POSSIBILITIES
WHETHER
W afford an
New York. it in a crisp tafféta y or heavy satin. Another moro dramatic you
treatment would be to gather
can
extensive the pane! underneath the
in a sort are hemlin
of harem effect, then pass the panel up under the bell at the outside
or
nockline.
waistline. Puff out the end pleat it to stand up and, coin- cide with the dress (Stitch to dress to hold up.) A panel the same width, is sug-
square-cut reddine,
wardrobe or not, you probably, like most women, eager to extend the wearing during potential of what you already own. Holiday time, with its
demands, brings home harder. If the fact
n sheath dress,' posted. you own
to why not give full rein thoughts that can change It? It can be fun and give you an individuality you may not
have experienced before.
nocemarily from Para?
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navigators. 12. Take of,
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How many
words ut foot lettGEN
or more can you ta
from the letters in the *quare
the left f In making ench word, the Jestere in each of cle small squares may be used once only. Fach
1 word must contain the farge letter to the pentre square, and there must be at trast ono nine-jetter word in the
No plurals no foreign wordai ito proper pamte. TODAY'S TARGET 15 words, good: 19 words, very good ; El words, excellent. Bolution tunturrow.
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often markm
the inn. (4) Saturday's solution
Walching fashion, you must know that the slim silhouette remains in high favour but it is undergoing some changes as designers ready their newest collec. tions. Necklines have moved higher in front and lower in back. The amount of back interest in growing, not diminishing. It often extends from neck line to hem. Two fabrics are often used in a dress, and this may give you some ideas on how to change the appearance
of costume — since you con hardly match its fabrics.
21
To make your dress look very new, try something ke Add a full panel, flying from the neckline in back. Have
with the
4
with a cut-out or deep-slashed Change the front of dress neckline by making cowl- ike collar to cover it or all in. whichever is more comfortable and attractive. A sult chiffon, стор
or silk will do. it could match, in the case
of a black dress, or contrast by being in a of The dresK lighter shade
Finish it colour,
in the back with long
streamers that end above the waistline or coincide with the hemline. To
Harrow
cover a bare back dress, try this
collar in reverse,
akaiti tucking it inside the dress or pinning ti securely at the bottom edge. The "cowl back" is news. For a sleeveless sheath, try little gathered sleeves that give the appearance of being pushed up or crushed on the arms well above elbows. Make them in white setin or chiffon with a black dress|
Combine salin with velvel: satin or velvet with crope. Chiffon, fashion's pet, combines with everything--with heavy peau de soic silka, woollens and even tweeds. Use it to All in in necklines or floating panels double layers to tie about the waistline.
you'll Before you know it, feel like a designer yourself.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
A light scratch on the surface that the sweet.
of dark wood may be disguised sachet will eliminate.
Brazil by rubbing it with a
nit, walnut or a piece of meat Bub wax into the wood, then polish.
Tuck sachet tablets into the pockets of your suitcase when going
a trip. Cases that have been closed for a time often have a "close" odour
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BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Picky Has A Problem
-He Wanted To See Himself Wag His Tall-- By MAX TRELL DICKY POO, the Brown
Then
to hang in front of me. 1 could see it wagging"
"That's it," sald Knarf. "All
came over to the you have to do is change
and
spl
himself around.”
Foodle, back step down. He looked up at his "I'}} do it al once," sald good friend Knarf, the shadow Picky.
with the turned-about
boy
Dame
(for the nervous)
alumi- THE new HIL B4-4219,
nised,
de- bolt-lock, automatic. T-tuned, tube-range, full pressure-grade, map-edge, Avire-frame, compression-turret,
Knart watched as Picky Poo sensitized, convolute stick-back,
began trying to get his tall not with absorption lovers
Не for poll
polariset down-come,
"Good-morning, Picky," said to wag behind his back. and tonisation - shafts
it.. wagged it and wagged layereit nt
harder and harder but it Intervals between metre-gauge
vectors, magnetic
wouldn't wag off, ciliptic and upsets every formula diffractive reflection, as applied to resistivity, except one: the 0.3718497 formula, which is itself non-existent. That leavey precisely where We were
Ion
before.
19
Foulenough's philosophy
"Good-morning, Knarf," said
Knarf.
Picky.
Knarf smiled.
Poo Picky
stood wagged his tall.
"I Was wondering something," said Knarf.
up
Then Picky wagged himself
and and tried to shake the tail ofk
It still stuck on. about
catch 11,"
Pleky Poo was about to sit down but it puzzled him 10 leam that Karf was wonder- Ing about something.
"I'll chase it and he said. "I'll get it off."
Around And Around
Then around and around he
10-12
"I was wondering about your
tall," Knarf told Picky,
Knarf went for a walk with Ploky Poo. And all the way Pleky Poo kept turning around, chasing his own tall..
Il was Knarfs sister Hanld
So he spun. And the tall spun around who finally told Pick Poo that kept standing up hc said; and around, too. No matter he was silly io pay any "What are
wondering how fast Picky Poo turned, his attention
CAPTAIN FOULENOUGH! has
evidently studied Panurge's | about?"
and bor- the
defence of debtors
rowers. other
He told n bailif day that so long as you are in debt to plenty of people. you are sure of having their prayers that you may live long.
you
about you,"
"I'm wondering said Knart.
"About me?" said Ploky. "About
tail," ankt
And the creditors will always Knarf. praise you fulsomely wherever they go, in the hope that their friends will lend you the money to pay back what you owe,
CHESS
by LEONARD BARDEN From actual play: Black tó .move and win material
your
told him.
tail turned just as fasile,
Не
He growled barked. He snapped his teeth.
At last the poor tired Poodic dat down He was panting His tongue hung out.
10 what Knart had
"No dog can ever sec his own tail wagging," she said to Picky Poo. "But you can see every other dog's' fail wagging and that's just as good."
"I haven't caught it yet," he
Picky Poo rodded and was This was very surprising in- said to Knarf. It's tired me all deed. Picky looked at Knarf out but Fil get it yet. I'll make sure she was right' but, even, for o full minute before he it wag in front of me Instead so, every now and then when
Knarf looked out said: "What is there about my of behind me. You'll see.”
of the to go inside for window he still saw Picky tall that makes you wonder?"
"What I wonder about your his' lunch: When he came out trying to catch his own tail lal," said Knarf, "is what good Picky Poo was chasing his tall trying to make his tall wig in is (1?"..
again,
front of him.
why," said Picky Poo, it's good to wag. You couldn't wag your tail if you didn't have end.*
"That only nakes It all the stranger," sald Knarf. "Who's the good of. being able, to wag your tall, if you can't see your self wagging it?".
Bewildered Vaice
n
Pioky anid slowly and in very bewildered voice: "I can't ad myself wagging my tall?"
"Of course, not ald Kharf.
Its behind you. Ter your tail and you can't even won it wig.” marthava "right,”
Poo after giving
some thought,
“it” no mod to
hanging benizad Knarf
Kharf had
Rupert and the Old Chimney-8
(and)
Play
patter
Alwald
toy soldiers to.bar
there? I can
fragrance of
Stainless steel knives can sharpched with a regular knife sharpener.
bo
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A girl with a sheath and a little imagination can work many changes in it for the holiday season. Left: The crushed silk cummerbond with long back panel emerging from a high Empire line in back changes the appearance of a black dik Two sheath. Try in red, beige or black silk. Top right: narrow bands of velvet ribbon and little bows mark the high midriff times of a simple sheath for new interest. Try thei In black on white or in two colours, as red and blue or red and green on black or belge. Centre right: This shows how to emphasise the lowered neckline of a shesih with banding for the neckline extending for a bow and long-streamer finish. Black velvet or satin on a black dress is most elegant. Add á Jewel pin or little lower over the bow. Bottom right: A qawl collar in soft metallic, fabrio changes the neckline of a sheath.
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