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THE CHINA · MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1957.
This Funny World
CROSSWORD
MARNIAGE
"Pay no attention to him, Harold-he's only my ex-husband"
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by Beachcomber
EVER since objectivist amorp- idea of the construction;"
hism was hailed by a yount artist as a new form of atorm-
alist non-expressivism, contem- porary art has been reaching out towards a synthesis.
let it pass, let it pass. Professor Simplepot's
PROFESSOR
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Mme.
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sip, you might say,
(5)
Mięty is mentioned to
10. Does this merchant IDBINE OD parrying an umbrella 7 (9)
21. There nothing bright about
this colour (4)
#theres nothing,
WOMANSENSE
Create A A Decorative Scheme With New Furnishing Fabrics
By PATRICIA DOUGLAS
Persian
graph racings - on" a London.
pilanter than this. Buld be THE peak period of the year blue ground.
18. IS KITOA 2013 a StarU KS BOLT. (3)
18. You never go this way to and
the bow of the ship. (8).
10. Lô 1Jes the Lion sat i
sho face too (8)
21. Put down the edge
pound. (51
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thin and
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SIMPLEPOT, I see that constructivism has just been described as a tech- who can detect the pre- nique free of mass and surface." sence of spinach with a glasa I should have thought that a disc,
challenged more accurate description would Zuphrona to a contest, have been "a technique In will attempt 10 predict the for- which both mass and surface
of fupe
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spatial
examining certain rare herbs, contours inherent in the obstract such
jitony as wolf-hemp. dadsbane, hentoil, Turkish rue, St Ambrose's-work, singmote, sasaiphryl, puff - me down
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LEONARD BARDEN
dilitory.
umbrage,
(pulvanis
majesca,
ngrestis), horse-mos". fumbletufi,
marsh parsley, quilch, nidder-grass, murge. jacket,
salarium. trumpeter's
anakowiep, matsfodder, teagle, tormenty,
owlsblood, Norfolk
ploughman's slipper. tufled sparrowbeak, and four hundred and seventeen other denizens of Weld and fuITÓW.
Another mystery
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A problem by O. Wurzburg fordshire post office, (Pittsburgh
1014).
Gazette-Times.]
White mates in three. Solution tv yesterday's problem:
↑ Kt-B5, P×Kt; 2 B-B4, B-Q3 (if 2... QxB; 3 Q-B8ch, K-K2; 4 QXR song); 3 BxB, R-K13; 4 QxKtch, Resigns. While emerges a plece up.
halfpenny stamp, with two lines of perfora- ilon and no gum on the back, is puzzling CP.O. spokesmen out of touch with authoritative circles. it was bought for £3 175. 4d. in a small Here- sold for £273 is. d. to a collector, and
2 bought for his collection by Belgian yachtsman £430 12 14d. A Committee Ways and Means has pronounced the stamp a genuine forgery. Officials are anxious to question a dark man wearing a straw hat, who was last seen cleaning a bicycle outside a Portsmouth
warehouse.
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for of
YOUR BIRTHDAY ....... By STELLA
BORN on this
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19
Arst day of the Incoming sign. Pisces, you are euled by Jupiter, god of wisdom, and Neptune, the god of inspiration and idealism, You have Д dual pertionality and, unless early in lite you learn to control your destiny, you may be torn between two poles of influence, However, it you learn to integrate the two halves of your personality, you will find the best in both emerging and you can be come an outstanding personality in your own time.
Your emotions are keen and you have
Intuitions
which Psychic should be able to guide you aright, if only you will Helen. You have an artistic temperament, at times fery and at other mes despondent. With musical and dramatic talent. It is ikely that you would enjoya career on the stage or screen, in radio or television. There is only one serious handicap! You will have to work harder than you enjoy deing-for without work you nat hope to reach the top of the success ladder. And it would be. depressing and frustrating for you to be second rate in anything you undertake.
can-
WEDNESDAY,
20-Mar, 201-
up for
PISCES (Feli A day in which to make loat time. Make tracks! This is the day you have been waiting for. Act decisively,
ARIES (MAT. 21-Apr. 201-** You will see the results of yester
Patience has Jay's netion today. brought its proper reward.
TAURUK (Apr. 31-May Friendly "rétations will assist
you
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There is a strong streak of des pendability in your nature. and once you have seen your duty, you will stick to it, no matter what happens. You are quite capable of making an important acrilice help someone to whom you believe you have an obligation. You know how to handle money and will never be without plenty to see you through any crisis, Baving, without Also being penny-pinching, you know how to make those pennies work for you and turn into dollars without too much effort!
Itrivedeg'a aviation
•JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
Dummy Entry Has Priority
By OSWALD JACOBY
THE opening bit of three no-
trump is rare, because it shows a count of 25 to 27 points, a balanced distribution and stop- pers in all suits. You seldom get this kind of hand, but it's good to know how to handle it when 11 dora come along.
South made the right bid in this case, and North was happy to pass. You usually expect n bod result when you pick up an
hand bad a
as North's, but in this case North could hope for a profit because of the tremend ous strength shown by South's opening bid.
West opened the four of clubs, and South had to make the key play at the first trick. He had to play a low club from dummy and win with the king in his own hand. It would have been poor play to put up the ten of clubs and let duramy win the first trick.
The point is that South was sure of three club tricks whether or not he won the first trick in the dummy. If he took the first trick in the dummy, he would
NORTH
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WEST ARS
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SOUTH (D)
And You
You are beloved at home your ties of kin are strong. will be happiest when you have a family of your own to manage and lovel
Among those born on this date were: Ernest Glendenning, physiola- gil Kay Doyle, author: Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomeri Jiminy Mme. Adelina Durante, comedian; Pati, inger; and Hope Hampton, actress.
To find what the alars have in ature for you tomorrow, select your
birthday star and read the corres sponding
paragraph. Let your birthday stor be your daily guide. FEBRUARY 20
toward your major objective. Make
new contacts, too.
21
GEMINI \(May≈ 22-June Speed up your activities and point them all effectively toward your chief goal. Success beckons now.
CANCER
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East Pass
never get back there; but if he took the first trick in his own hand, he could win a later club trick with the jack or ten.
South wanted a later club trick, after he had gotten the ace and king of diamonds out of the way. Hence he won the first club in his hand, cashed the top diamonds, and then led a low club. This guaranteed three three diamonds, and the three tcp cards in spades and hearts.
73)-clubs, 27-July (June
All matters which seemed to have been temporarily halted may now go forward, Business la excellent..
LEO
(July 21-Aug. 23) Consider detail carefully and then
If South wins the first club in dummy, he makes only two dia-
game contract.
act forcefully in affairs of personal | monds and this costs him the Importance to your future.
THEGIO (AME) 24-Sept.
23)- Act on confidential matters at this time. Don't talk about your plane until you activate them,
LIBRA (Bent, 24-Oct. Follow matter
Your
+
237- Bome Intuition in
impor personal lance and you will act correctly.
SCORPIO
(Oct 24-Nov. 27) Apply yourself assiduously to the problem at hand and you will and you can work it out successfully.
BAGITTARIUH ́(Nov, 23-Dec. 27)- You can be of assistance to vomIG- one in a confidential matter. Offer Your services.
CAPRICORN (Dec.
21 JAB Some friend may ask you to attend theatre. Accept and, enjoy yourwell, thoroughly, t
the
AQUARIUE. (Jan. Hi-Feb. '• 18)- Further your career. by, welwe metioni in a forward directionfi Your bemon mag. De weidne Stan zuen, BOT)
♥÷CARD.Ser130ko
Q-The bidding has been: North
East South West 1 Diamond Pass 1 Heart Pass 2 N.T. Pots
You, South, bold:
AAS ❤KQJ52 46 4KQJ52
What do you do?
AnmBid three ciats. You intend to 'bid a small, or, grand slam eventually, but first you try to find a duing suit,
TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You, South, hold: vettek AAJS VKQJB OOR MQ JIDS
What do you do? zuna
for weddings is approach- The bright peasant colours of Eastern от Near- Ing and the furnishing stores modern
in
are extra busy with the prob- Eastern handwoven rugs blend Jems of new home-makers, as well with modern streamlined
who
15 are furniture
with Young
they do couples
and
their never lose And un- fortunate enough to
Among these are furnished accommodation have
BOMO interesting examples, more choice than ever before of
traditionni furniture And
furnishing hand-mado
designs,
from imported Juggling to make their cholco fit their budget is usually their Yugoslavia.
The pattern of these greatest difficulty.
Yugoslavian rugs in woven to reversible. The Begin with the floor covering be entirely is the advice of a well-known colours are gay and made only decorating expert. A good from vegetable dyes, and as the carpet makes an instant im- natural oils are left in the wool pression, so moncy expended on the estimated life of the rug is It la well
it should 60 to 80 years' wear. always be the best one afford. It may then even last a lifetime or longer, or at the jeast the duration
the tenancy of the home.
For
con
Also from Yugoslavia comes a turnishing type of folk-weave
from wool, fabric hand-woven of
This can be used for curtains or divan covers and blends into different furnishing hall or living-room many which will get constant wear, schemes. it is an economy to take a long view and buy a good quality carpet, Rooms with less traffic can be carpeted in the lighter Looking at modern living- wool room in a
struck quality
furniture, one is
so low. carpet felt,
by the fact that it is Chairs and stools seem designed In carpels has for a
until it is plgmy race Bitle during the explained that the technique of
or even
The fashion varied very
last ten years, Plain colours living is so
so geared to television
In neutral, fawn or mushroom (the T. V. cet taking the place
bui
of the fireplace as the focal
op
Rhodes are still be is gaining point of the room) that it is oft
Wis
on
a
Important that nothing should obstruct the view wherever one is sitting.
1.
One Axminster broad-s also used for the UNE
neutral
6
5
An occasional chale with curved back and seat upholstered In black ribbed wool. 2. A lounge chair upholstered in a black and grey_flocked tweed used in reverse colouring for the sides. 3. This all-over pattern for A
shows Carpes branches of coral in coral colour, black, yellow, turquoise and green on a nenírat ground. 4. Designed by 3, H. Mellor with a very contemporary Influence, this carpet seems to have been Inspired by the sound waves from a wireless mast. The pattern is off-white with blus circles on 'a red ground. 6. A spoon-back chair with an unusual domed back in upholstered In black and white shadow tweed. 6. Here is a modern version of the wing chair upholstered in a flecked moquette. 7. A A traditional pattern on a wool tapestry la used for this hostess chaly. The seat in higher than usual and the aPTOS lower to be specially comfortable for knitting or sewing. 8. Triangular stools are useful units In's small room where extra
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The Pocket
Dynamo Can't Resist A Crazy Hat
By Evelyn, Irons
London. NITTING straight-backed
on the sofa of her drawing-room at Claridge's (to complete the picture of gracious living, it had a grand piano in it but no television), the pocket (5ft, 3in.) dynamo Mrs Anna Rosenberg, former Assistant Defence Secretary of United States, and now one of America's top businéas women, anid: "I made this. nine-day trip for consultai tions with clients. It's caslen and quicker than writing a lot of letters."
I would pick this trim little woman in the navy blue, slick-fitted, silk sult as. the American big business Woman to American big
women.
typify
الله
business+
SUCCESS PICTURE
Her carefully, waved chestnut- brown hair, with not a thread. of grey (the reference books say she is 54); her vivid red nail-varnish: her pearl stud currings and
single, expensive-looking lapel
very ornam
ment: her heavy gold bracelets jingling with outsize gold coina
It all adds to the
SUCCESS
picture of elrborately cultivated femininity that conceals a brain you can almost hear ticking
And Mko
other every American businesswoman ·. I have mol, Mrs Rozenberg likes to crown her business suit with crazy little hat, "Why, now, I just couldn't count them," she had to admit when I asked her how many she had. Her favourite number is a frivolous scrap at black velvet and: pink
a bright acid yellow popularity with many young married couples.
Green, which tow leading seller a years ago, is now loss in demand
Padded chairs
are mostly the is being and
replaced by warmer tones of red and brown, designed as units which can be placed together to form a sctice Modern patterned carpets and covered with a ribbed wool show interesting all-over moquette. This ribbed
fa designs. loom with a marine theme has ing of many
of the ung- room...suites. One upholsterer many coloured sprays of coral
bund, uses a lime background.
green
moquette
le cut Another pattern by the same in horizontal ridges to resemble
a striped fabric for a set manufacturer has a tree branch design in bright contemporary light polished wooden
Another
makes chairs colours on a charcoal ground.
square backs and Cushions
using unseating may be required round the dining table or for lele-relations firm in which she has
viewing." Upholstered in tweeds in bright contemporary moquette in pine green.
colours. 9. For the ultimate in comfort when televiewing there is an adjustable leg-rest. The top, which also foldM down into a flat-topped rical, is covered in mass green hop- up-
sack patterned in a palo blue darning stitch. hard-wearing, and needs the coloured felts will look gay on minimum of sowing.
the bed or can be used to sit on the floor during record play-Plan sho says: "My chief was, Of the father of the Marshall ing sessions,
of
chairs.
with
square
Two interesting new fabrics A carpet designed by J. H.
the Mellor shown a contemporary nike BCET used by design which seems to symbolisa holsterers. One shows a. greeń over 1 the sound waves from a radio spider's web design
The ribbed moquette. mast the pattern is in off- black
on a red other is a worsted tapestry with white and sky blue
needle design of yellow a ground,
black ground. A formal pattern suited to a stitching on a
A toom of her own, decorated hall or passage shows a design of toplary; little black trees to her own taste, and to which shapes are she can invite her friends, is clipped into neat
the ambition of every teen-age seen on a lime green ground.
daughter. For the sake of the Where all-over carpeting is rest of the family, it is an idea not practicable or possible a well worth encouraging.
With a few yards of brightly few good rugs can create a look
wool felt, an cost, coloured of luxury at much less Among
decorative goy contemporary enchantingly designs the doodling patterns scheme can be achieved by any are the most popular; for girl and her friends with very Instance, black 'doodles" over ile help from mother, white tramlines on a coloured The beauty of felt is that it
not fray, is tough white and yellow does ground or
the
BOYS'
and
t
more
roses
She is mokea
not saying what she out of her publia
her von Tom "married six years and aged 30, as partner.
It is a lot more
£5,000
Butt than the year that was salary as Truman's organiser under General George Matshall,
of America's vast conscript army, or 18-year-olds.
A bed-sitting room with divan covered in felt, the wash- basin concealed
felt by
An unusual window treatment and still is, the finest human screen and the dressing table
can be debleved with felt. The being in the world." with a felt 'drape' would make felt. curtains are used
SATISFACTION for
She got, she says, a specially any for their decorative effect than a charming room youngster.
anything else and the windows deep malisfaction from being The divan cover would take can be screened
Venellan member of the government. A with a approximately 24 yds. of felt blind.
idea is to "Public service," she explained, 54 in. wide. At each corner of scallop the pelmet (round a Does she regret being out of the rectangle a square la cut dinner plate) and a scalloped Indeed, I think it would be a power? "Not at all," says she, out and the cut sides joined to band should hold back the "Inde make the cover fit the divan waist of the curtain.
If the window exactly. A scalloped edge can
embrasure
be cut by first pencilling round holds a seat this will complete a saucer along the edges. Small the scheme if it is sited with a
of cusblons made
different buttoned felt cushion.
AND GIRLS'
Where Was The Ferry?
--Glive Had a Hard Time Making Anyone See It
By MAX TRELL
HIRPIE Sparrow came to the winklow sill for his break- fast bread crumbs.
"Morning,
tortoise shell green coat and glasses, came along.
"Good day, Glive,' said Bull frog. Why are you tapping your cane?
I want to get to the other Knari! Morning, Hanid" he said to Knarf and side of the brook, Buli," said shadow. children Glive. 'I'm waiting for the Hanid, the with the turned-about
names, fetry.!
*Ferry!' said the Bullfrog in Then he nodded his head and flirted his fail in greeting to surprise. "There's no ferry at
else in the room this brook!' everyone Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, Mary Jane, the Rag Doll, Mr Punch and Judy and General Tin, the Tin Soldier.
HT
"Any nows today?" Hand asked Chirpie,
"Well,"
sald Chirpic, haven't got any really big news, but I did hear a bit of a funny story about Glive, the Snail. In | fact, I was there when it
happened,
A Green Coat
"This is what happened. It was carly in the morning.. Glive, who walks very slowly- and no one can walk much moro slowly than a small-cama to the
brook, edge of the
Then ho travcia slopped. He always around with, his house on his back, you know. Well, he stood in front of his house, with the door open, tapping · Impatiently with his cane,
Ferry Gly
Glive called 'Where's the ferry?!!
söveral· "Mativo" stood minutes calling and shouting and tapping his cano › more and more impailently. But there
Just them: Bullcrosd
*“You're mistaken! I can sto
it from here! It's lying on the opposite bankel Ferry Glive
shouted again.
"The Bullfrog looked for the ferry. But he was unable to see anything on the opposite bank, So he hopped off.
Then along.
Blinky Mole came
MAGAZINE
How do you do?' he greet-
ed Glive.
"I'm waiting for the ferry to take me to the other side, Glive explained. 'I can see it from here!
"But Blinky Mole, who hus very bad eyes indeed, peered with all his might and could make out nothing at all on the other side of the brook resem- bling a ferry. So he moved off..
Explanation
#
"Then a Caterpillar came along, and a Grasshopper and a Bertlo, and a Mouse, and a Bluebottle Fly,
a: Grat, To all of them Glive explained why he was waiting.
BAL
and
that the Caterpillar, the. Grasshopper, the Beetle, the Bluebottle Fly and the Goat all cried that Glive couldn't be seeing a ferry,
"And the Mouse said all ho could see lying on the other sido
Rupert and the Windy Day-22
directing
老
Rupert edges" towards " -thick hAt", bia" bidding they listen and. clump of bushes and trees..
(again, there' conses the same small; Jauru Ihlarda, Boutid from this ; noise. 1** Why, that's Pompey's volen,?? erka Edwards ....!! But how "gay again;*;; faint, it is. Where can be be?!! Posice and gyThey make tissir way between the ald: end?bushies until they boy'atid, stace
AL DAM
pauses) "the", sogind") This time that is not (hé's calla, loodto
The Turtis ferriad Cilive across
the Brook. ⠀
of the brook was a small green turtic
That's the ferry! exclaimed Glive:
So everyone shouted: Oh, that's what you meaning
good thing if every adminis
frator resumed private business for
a while, It
you a real sense of pro
Money in New York does not grow on the trees of Central Park, of which/ Mrs Rosenberg dominating view from
has
her luxurious eight-room apart ment on Fifth Avenue.
"I work as hard as anyone,” she says. "Wakened at sevent with the papers, when I rend most diligently. Office from 9,80 until 4.30 or 7.”
But just as important AM hard work, in her view, I finde ing time for outside interests, The committees to which the. belongs
are probably numerous as her hats.
London
she has been shopping for old Worcesters and Spode china to add to her cherished collection. The drag shops look very attractive, but I passed them by" she said. "T detest shopping for clothes. In New York they are to
me"
HUMAN RELATIONS She has been here every year since the war when she was in London twice during the
bornbing excopt last your
th
better, and ··beiter - each visit,” she remarked ver time
I have been partici impressed by the mart painted houseg. " and the stew buildings that have filled in the bomb sites,”.
She married young, at 19. Does she think this is the best. "age to marry? · What does the think of the Nassau heiress who cloped at 177
"And the Mouse swam across the brook, and the Beetle and
You don't trup, me into the Caterpillar swam after him,"
geroraliantions kingailly and the Grasshopper hoppede answered, smiling but across, and the
my
brusque, | "Cates - differed Ducti
-and the Goat and individust is a "separato icing).
thom wolo up the green Turn This from the woman of who was only taking a nap, and
and whom Mayor Ladueria made him padile to the other "She knows more about human across the brook
sidó (and toko, Gltyg” tho ̈Boall, TOGE
than
Her favourite
- mart ́fri ¡the
гром
She
Looke
Halive; climbed on the son fishing. Turtle's back, very slowly and days off around Ch carefully, ares remained thate
with his house and all until the to the island of Anar
Bahamas," Turtle ferried him all the way fi and mostly across the brook bald tilo
PA wahoo And that "sald¦ ¦ Chirple
Called But Sparrow, is the Ramygatory? X! Pr beard numit alive and the ferry the sun, wolled WODEL MUCH I can get broke to in. A 30-DOUZENE