YOUR BIRTHDAY..
By STELLA
Bo
SATURDAY, AUGUST 3
PORN leday, you are quiet, reserved and at lines too self- elfacing for your own best good. Thó stars have given you fine talents and it is up to you to develop them to their utmicest
You have a great love for the beautiful and are facile with words, alther spoken or written. You are inventive and ingenious and you should put this talent to work for you with profit,
You have a good lead for business but are more interested in the development of ideas then you are in the accumulation of inoney. If you become a militonaire it is more likely through inheritance than through your own efforts.
to be
Your rense of justice is strong and once you get an idea into your head, takes a lot to change or swerve ill You are pretty well convinced that your way of doing things is the right way and In your quiet, persistent fashion, you get others to follow your lead. You are inclined to be rather impatient with those who may differ from your point of view.
You tve a rather uvid Longue when you choose to use it. Curb your critical comments, for you are apt to hurt the feelings of those whose wits are not as sharp as your own. You have the capacity for making friends. Cultivate, as well, the talent for holding them.
Your love of anlure is an ardent one and you should make your mate exceptimally happy and contented. You are not uno to fall in love at arst sight. But when you do fall, it is a case of "head over heels" in lovel
Among those born on tais dale were: Frederick William
of Prussia; Hamilton Fish, Satesman; Elisha G. Dtis, Inventor; Rupert Brooke, poet; and Adrienne Ames, actress.
you tumorTOW, To And what the mars have in store for selcel your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your dolly guide,
SUNDAY, AUGUST 4
JEO (July 24-Aug. 23)- AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb, 19) You may gain real aspiration This can prove an interesting from a good sermon this mom- day, but put a guard on your Ing. Later on, nu outing can tonjare. Don't Speak Aut or bring pleasure.
turn, no matter what happens.
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)— Thi should be real day of rest for you Store up new more busy days to energy for came.
LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)— Best to postpone a trip, even a short one until later où in the month. Better, today, for you to rest and relax.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov, 22)--
Continue your restiul week-end,
for you have
considerable to
PISCES (Feb. 28-Mar. 20) --- Avoid any possible risks while travelling, even for short dls- lanews. Carelessness never pays.
ARIES (Mar, 21-Apr. 20)-- Sock spiritual inspiration through eituref attendance this morning. Then take 21 drive into the
Country
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)--
Get out into the sunshine if you
can to build up your energies, gain from relaxing, preparing 'Health restives can prove im- for netivities ulvad.
portant.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1957.
Colonel UP and Mr. DOWN... by Walter
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WIFE
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT
PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
schools In a letter to the government HOUSES and other bulld- they said: "At present we are ings constructed called male sisters, much to the
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Greatest proportion are italian children, whose fathers work in the brick works of Bedfordshire, LTL West Wales since 108 merriment of the patients. Un- Next are Polish boys and girls, have grown - some as much less this is changed, we fear we
and third are American children
the three inches.
are with The experts may end up as mental cages our whose fathers adreit that but they cannot selves."
United States Air Force al understand how, or why the
Chicksands, Bedfordshire. Others phenomenon should appear to be
Include Germans, Jamaicans, Indians, confined to West Wales. Officers KUALA A man walked into Latvians, Ukrainlans,
the Building frem
research KRAIT Surgery
Kuala West Indians, Yugo-Slave, Afri- Stalion of the Department of
Lumpur, Central cans and Hungarians. Selenlife and Industriai Re- Malaya, clutching a head wound search, called in to investigate with one hand and an eight-inch complaints that the stucco facing lerait-Malaya's deadliest anako on the outside walls had bean with the other. cracking in newly-hulli pro- perlies in Pembrokeshire, marthenshire, Cardiganshire and
Car West Glamorgan, have issued a repr.They blame the eNets of the chemical reaction of the
soluble sulphate salts
The man explained he had been bitten by the male and hai brought it along to ask doctors was poisonous
in the bricks to the cement PESCY Twenty-three in the mortar, which
is thus PESSO made to swell and is responsible for the cracked brickwork.
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Mrs Paul PITCH When
Darner got home she POST
realised she had left her bar behind at the ice cream parlour she had stepped at some way out of a distant town
alien
pagos' worth of new one pesos coins issued by the Buenos Aires govern- ment carller this month, are to be recalled because the obverse shows a faint impression of the,
hend when late Eva Peron's held against the light.
up of
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Up for auction Singapore: thousand
MERDIKA CONFIDENCE in eight hundred surplus pairs of
orie
Handcuffs which government audit inspectors found in the stores of the Singapore polles department. Also unearthed: three thousand police whisties which have
iri been store for nearly ten years,
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EDEN'S The local counc!!
in Eastern LEAVES Obudu
Nigeria has banned nudity, Under the heading: "A wise decision," a Lagos news- paper editorialised, "Thote areng in the region in which nudity is still upheld as the people's way of Ife and culture are now most kely to borrow a leaf from the Obudu local council and eradic ate the practice,”
JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Diamond Lead
Threatens Slam
B) OSWALD JACOBY
FRED Kilchestein of Pitts-
burgh writes:
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hand that may interest you. Practically all tables reached six spades' in our regular duplicate and except against me the ace of clubs was opened whereupon the hand became a spread.
"Ágatust me, West got his fin Les on the four of diamonds. I played dumniy's eight and East's ring forced my king.
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my problem. Should trumpa break evenly, I could draw trumps and establish the diamonds to make seven. Should West hold three trumps I would have to use up dumeng's last trump, Then I could get one discard of a club and would have to wind up lending a club loward my king. If East hold the ree of clubs I would be home. Otherwise I would be.set.
"With the ace of clubs in the West hand I could make the hand by simply playing my king of clubs and ruffing a second
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BEDFORD Bedford is one of the
most
4N.T. cosmopolitan BABEL
provincial towns Mrs Darner did not know the England. There are now 425 SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. GEMINI (May 22-Juno_21)--- Hamne or address of the place, foreign children in the schools, 22)—if traveling, especially by There are indicallons of con--
So she addressed her letter to made
13 nationalities. cur, take all precautions as the fusion in today's aspect. It is
It thus: reclaim
*To Led roads may be heary with holl- up to you
resolve all
Cream Parlour Right Off Route day trafic.
problems calmly. CAPRICORN
23-Jan.
88 going couts on the left hand CANCER (June 22-July 23)---
side going towards Wilmington 20)—Avoid na argument by all Morning hours are important in
Just outside the city limits, I means possible. Compromise it the buling up of your spirituul
Think". Later on, join sume be the only reserves, that appears to why out.
community event.
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PORN today, you have a quick and perceptive mind. You are
Ban out one step ahead of your nearest, competito
Your alert, active mhad gives you a thoroughly practical outlook on life.
You may appear to be calm, quiet and tactfully requiescent, but let someone try to put something over on you-and there is little mercy in you! You have very definite opinions and although you may not foist them on others needlessly..when the time comes to take a delnite stand, you take it and stay!
There I something of the poetic dreamer in your make-up, Bu you are inclined to suppress this side of your nature and display Italy to tapse who are closest to you, Outwardly, you may appear charming, but let anyong take advantage of your natural politenes, to become too familiar, tuo soon, and you will exhibit the clunnighness which is a real part of your true self.
You are home-loving and domestic, and will he happlest when you have your own family to love and cherish. You will do anything for the good of those you love and in your opinion your own kin can do no wrong. Your loyalty to them is out- standing.
You cannot be pushed into doing something. You must be allowed to do it in your own way und in your own lime. How- ever, since you are a stickler for always duing your duty, one can be assured that any job to which you are assigned will bo done promptly and efficiently.
You will be happlest if you live in the country, since the rush and turmoil ef elty life is apt to push you beyond your pleasure. Thrifty and careful in all expenditures, it is likely that you will accumulate considerable wealth during your lifetime.
Among those bom on this date were: Percy Bysshe Shelley, port; Russell Soge, fancier and philanthropist; Harry Lauder, comedian; Knut Hamsun, muther; John Mowbray-Clark, sculptor; Ouren Mother Elizabeth of England; and Anita Poge, actress,
To find what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday alar and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your dally guide.
LEO
One
MONDAY, AUGUST 5
(July 21-Aug. 23)- TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21-
of your big days this Co-operative and partnership month, for the actdevement of business affairs prosper at this some major goal for which you time, Mako the most of new have brew working.
opportunities,
YIRGO (Aug. 11-Sept. 23)..
GEMINI (May 22-June 21)-
A busy, active day. See that You can be adventuresome in you are thoroughly ulert to a following through a new idea, that is going on around you. arki may anticipate execptional- Take vigorous action.
LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)—ly One resulta,
CANGER (June 22-July 23)—
A day when you can bʊ adven- Emphasin is upon a new job, turesome in your job and usk: but it may all be linked up with fer something you intend to get. romance, Marriage may have You'll get what you want, too.
deciding voter in the projected
SCORPIO (O¢£ 24-Nev, 22)—
Make the best possible use of plan. this day in forwarding all your business pinns. You should prosper handsomely "now.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Doa 22)This is a productive day. See that you have made your plans carefully so that they can be followed accurately.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan, 20)—The beginning of four good, days. Make plans and set them in motion. Make gainful j profits now,
AQUARIUS (Jan. 31-Feb, 19) -You hayo als good days lit which to press, for an advant- ago, See that you get all that is coming to you,
FISCES (Feb 20-Mar. 20)-- Frontote new business plan, even if it means taking a trip. You will find that it pays la) increased profits,
ARERN” (Rar, 21-Apr. 20)' on Your major interests to forward your plans may, bo ag a die- Linco. "Takd a trip and cement a new contract.
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UNDERGROUND The Seventh
sector wen;
BY THE. WAY 。
by Beachcomber –
year, for
the Office cannot run One letter says, "Place the HOME GUARDS Metropoll-fairs without losing tongue at the roof of the mouth
tan Kent
1 £40,000,000
few moments and the of the Home. Guard some "underground"
when it is obvious that the public is, urge 15 smoke will disappear."
Here are a fow tips- the stand down of Home Guardie blame. begins on July 31. The sector has purchased its own rifles and unce il werk, as in the past, in the form of a rifie
club.
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By an excess of telephoning, buying stamps, sending tele- groms, letters, and parcels, and using post office
and pens bləting-paper,
uj! give unnecessary WOTK
the to employees, and out an increas- ing strain on the administra- By MISSILE
hall- tiun of this pubile service, PRESERVATION stones as big naking the cost of all these prohibi- walnuts thoughtless activities 05 tore to shreds the finest vineyards Live,, it should be possible to in Lavaux, Switzerland, the chorten tho working hours of offelals, and to dis- Federal Institute for the study postal
the
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public from
of avalanches and snow broad-courage cut to people in the region of quandering its, money on the Lavaux to keep the hallstones instal facilities. their refrigeratom "for study."
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MENTAL Three mele nurses, CASES promoted
rank of "sister" in Singapore mental hospital under a Malayanisation scheme, are threatening to resign unless they are given a new designa-
tion.
Facing Facts
Smear yuor cigarettes with marine glue and asafoetida. Always put the lighted end in
your moulb. Soak every cigarette in water and use upent matches which won't "strika, Pierce holes in the cigarelle
so that it won't draw. Put the match in your month and throw the cigarette
away.
Use a dummy holder blocked
at both ends,
A tricky question
WHEN a man tries an egg on
THE problem of how to take cur during a heat-wave, and the
cur eventually exercise without missing a
moves on, and moment of the television pro- the driver cats the egr, is that!
You driver guilty of theft? The low, grammes has been solved. at a stationary bicycle to your in all its majesty, began yester armchair, and pedal violently day to deal with this question. the The frier who pald ninepencs to while you are watching screen. All that is needed now a roces for the egg, which bore is a Uny refrigerator to attach the stamp "January 1057," is to the chair, so that you can claiming his nincpence from the
The motorist cat your pre-cooked frozen faci- motorist.
the Some counter-claiming slices without moving.
egg, as watchers are buying bed-chalts treasure trove, quoting Sutcliffe BOYS AND GIRLS PAGE in which to sleep between tele versus Billcraft (Miss Ursula vision hours. They nre Tarrant intervening), in which SOLUTIONS:
nwakened by a steel hand which case it was ruled that a whale grips the throat and offers the washed up on the promenado of vletim an energising pili. a watering place was the pro- perty of the town council, unless elaimed within eight days by the Ministry of Agriculture and
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SUDAN DIAMOND:
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CAREERS ARENAS REPOT KNOS FAT
SCRAMBLEGRAMS:
tires, reuit, tries.
Tiera, riica
DEHEADINGS: Blow, low; Snow, now: Trap, rap; we, ice; Crown. reen.
WACKY COMPAÑĄ: A new broam akorda clean; Looke before you leap.
CHESS NEWS
Solution No. $540) 7 R×H1; Qx8; 2.xxF, Q.-Bl; 1 DS 8. QxB; 4 KI–RIS, B—83; $
Q: 7 BXP mate.
Cejandon Express Strydom
I only want to help
EVERYONE springs forward Fisheries and/or the Thames
cure for amolding. Conservancy Loard.
This Funny World
"I don't know how aho did it, but she koopa a'bird in there,
and it's trained to call me names every hour on the hour!"
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club in dummy. That play would collapse if East showed up with the club ace since he would be able to give his partner o dia- mond ruff.
on nally decided
the simple play. If that did not work I wouldn't look too silly. I went after the apudur" and the muit talled to break. I drew the last trump end it now appeared that the whole hand would hinge an the location of the club nOG,
"However, there was one other shot in my locker. Someone might hold the queen of hearts doubleton or even singleton. laid down my ace and king of red, lo and behold, the hearts queen did fall."
Nice work, Fred. See you at the Nationals.
VECARD STAJERS
Boath
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The bidding has been:
West North East
Pass 2 N.T. Pass
You, South, hold:
4A3865 WAI OXY54 MIG
What do you do?
A--Bld three diamonds. You have some mild interest in a slam and maybe thai slam will be in diamonde,
TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner continues by bidding three no-trump. What do you do?
Answer on Blonday
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11. A heavenly messehase of cold
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