This Funny World
GEORGE CRENSHAW
"Well, if I can't have a vacation, I'm at least going.....
to wear my new bathing suit around the office for a
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THE
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by Beachcomber
RUMOUR ran thraigh the foods. bazbars this morning that spokesman,
"Commerce."
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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1957.
JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
Misplay Aids Poor
Luck
By OSWALD JACOBY
"MY Juck RetA WOTES
and
WOMANSENSE
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Link Between Fashion And Monastery
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werze," complained Hard Luck Joe. "Look what just happened to m4. Diamonds broke 4-1 with the acr East band and West held the
•If I had gone ace of clubs, effer the clubs first would hovo been aji right, but I know I was right to attack the long Bult."
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Joe was right to alluck din-
monds but he did not
then the right way.
Black
He won the opening lead with his ten and led
heart
diamond toward dummy", won with the ace and returned
East
a heart, whereupon Joe could
only make elght tricks.
lack, but easily avoidable,
Hard
Joe had an absolutely sure play at his disposal. All he had
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those scientists in the Northern cradle. The bables of England Territories of Australis had dis- have their part to play in over- covered why the aborigines trud coming sales-resistance, on one leg. It a 'grychological' sedutge of big business." reflex resulting from Teriority complex.
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Noticing that white-mea stand on two legs, they feel that would be presumptuous for mere native to use -bota lejes to stand on. In order tri, encourage them to dismiss thir Idea, 150 white scientists arv How stand- ing on one ICH
! The aborigines, who Gre painfully embarrassed by this corde cea sion, and are beginning to hop away into the desert,
The next move
THE THE next move expected early in 1958, towards an attempt to set up an Bentonic Super- Advisory Board, will probably be the setting up of an Interim Committee, with ample powers of discussion. watea develop- ments and to report, in time to lime, the trends and fen- ciencies.
will include a Statistical Bureau, which will supply figures in the foam least objectionable
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trades unions, and least likely to inse votes.
Giving youth a chance
who earn fortunes on the screen mast have gritted their teeth, if any. when told by their agents that a six-month-old baby has been given a two-year conitat.. on Television .to advertise Baby
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YOUR BIRTHDAY.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 27
As the cards lay. East could have gone right up with the diamond ace and led the heart; Joe
make four would now diamonds, four spades and two If hearts for a 10-irick total. Eust played low Joe would go after the clubs. He would now odd because West make live
held the club ace.
Change the curds around any way and
make he would sull
Give West the his contract.
Joe would diamond ace and have had time to clear both sults since West would not be able to lead hearts successfully when he got In with it.
both Give East
aces with neither minor sult breaking und
would still foc
make his contract since he would get in his four spedes and one "hear! plus two
In din- tricks each monds and cluba.
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WHAT'S FOR
BREAKFAST
tablespoon
By JANE FIRTH
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【ASHION now is linked worn in comfort on a warm day stiffened base to make it stand
and yet give you that extra cut. A monastery. warmth if the weather is not The other cutfit is for the Back
vogue is the so good
more sophisticated woman and famous wool embroidery Illustrated aro' lwo Swiss would need a skilled hond to from the old Swiss town of styles made up in Swiss em- 'nchlove the right effect. By
broldered wools. Extremely Rena, it consists of a St Gail. There the designers attractive, although the clothes slender sheath dress with
topless PO Laking motifs. from themselves лес not available plain draped fabric over the centuries-old luminations here, you might like to copy the bust, and a second, full-skirted,
hicas. in the local monnatery..
cover-up dress, silt to the waist The dress on the left, which is at the ecutre front and centre Combined with dress fabries, really a two-piece, is by Vicior back seams of the skirt to this embroidery is enjoying a Tanner and is particularly suit- roveal the sheath dress under- happy revival after a post-war able for the young and un- neath. depression.
sophisticated. The style
The sheath irons, worn on Its The industry is very ancient, purposely simple to throw full own, is perfect for cocktail and but the monastery from which emphasis on the fabric. If you informal evening wene, while it draws much Inspiration
атр thinking of making П the two pieces worn together even older. In fact the town, similar outfit, I would suggest are suitable for inust daytime one of the highest in Europe, that you attach the embroider- occasions, according to the ac- begun about A.D. 600 when ed wool for the skirt to д cessories worn with it.
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Gallus, JL Benedictine. mouk
from Ireland, founded the
monastery,
ILLUMINATIONS
AND FLOWERS
In The beautiful abbey library
manu-
are some of the oldest sripts known. The earliest was written 1,355 years ago. These with priceless treasures deal music, theology, medleine unl astrology. Included 100 are early maps ond still untrans- | futed travellers' tales-altogether a collection which can only be compared with that, in the Vatican.
too
are
Apart from the exquisite Huminations, flowers another popular motir.
Because of the intricate work involved, a long apprenticeship is needed to become skilled in SI Gall embroidery. To. , cooked Ash and mix with graduate to designer, about an- 14 16 of cooked mashed other ten years' training follows potatoes, a
of the apprenticeship. chopped parsley and suffelent Designs are prolife. Quite en to bind the mixture together, often a firm will produce 4,000 nat cakes. or more new designs every Mould into round
cout the cakes yar. and It is not unusual to When needed. with epy and breadcrumbs, and make costly experimental Iry.
lengths of fabric at the request Scotch Ears may also be pre-]ut à Paris couturier, only pared the previous day. Boil have them rejected. 14 dozen eggs hard and allow to MULTI-COLOURED cool. Shell and mould otto
By FELICITY ASCOT
"WHAT'S for break Cust
Mun." This is the early the hungry moming cy from family in most households. And It's mother's job lo produce a megi witch will satisfy and sustain the hungry pack. More often than not father and the children will not have another cooked meal until night, and so it is doubly important that they should go their
WAN good meal inside them.
Ilere breakfast suggestions:—
Frust, either cooked or fresh, makes a good start followed by, a cereal.
ore
semc
with
appetising
give the dish a piquant favour.
skinned sausage frmly around DESIGNS
Chicken
chicken
rice.
und
far
to
SEVEN SPICES FOR ULCER PATIENTS?
Coat with egg and each egg.
Although mast of the cm- brandcrumbs, and fry. These broidery is inachine-made much mur be served either hot or of the intricate working out of cold..
the design is done by home the mountain and Ham Kedgeree embroiderers in Scrambled Eggs on Toast is
is on excellent way of using up villages. Having the cational always a favourite and may be vurled by spreading the toast any odd scraps of chicken and demands of their smallholdings, with a litte meat or fish paste ham and makes a very satisfy they work on their embroidery
Mince - often
into the night, in Chopped ing breakfast dish, or vegetable extract.
about 1% cups of compitented designs, the opera Parsley, ham er grated cheese gether
hom and mixlors work from a chart enlarged added to the egg mixture will thoroughly with 1 cup of cooked to six times the original size. 09 20 coloura dre Place in a saucepan, add As many Kidneys are delightful when 2 tablespoons of tomato sauce sometimes worked in the design cooked with bacon, They muy and neat through. When thor-and it takes two or three days
cooked in the oven in
a cuelly hot pile into a hot dish to complete a yard of fabric.
It is not surprising, therefore, greased pan with bacon rolls, er and garnish with a sliced hard) fried in the bacon fat after the
that in a country where wages
New York. ulcers can tolerate seven herba boiled egg. has been taken out of bacon
SPICE flavoured diet and spices, if they also follow Toasted Sandwiches are easy generally are low, these skilled
their doctor's Another tasty way to to make and always a the pan.
carn between
recommended family operators
for the ucler set is on
ulcer dlet. sorve kidneys is to chop them favourite. Spread the lung. £100 and £150 per month, and roughly, and fry, adding a little which
with the most the way.
All that remains now is the may be ham, cheese, that fabrics
sell For пу chopped onion just before they chicken,
This doesn't mean that the development of recipes using mince meat, egg or claborate designs
thousands who at present are sale amounts of each spice. are ready. Then thicken the even baked beans, between two much as £0 a yard wholesale,
to bland foods may mixture with
This promised change in ulcer St Gall products are exported restricted Hitle gravy, thin slices 1
of buttered bread
use seasonings indiscriminately dicts comes at a time when the to taste and serve on season
and toast under a hot grill or in all over the world. It is not loast
every But
three-man medical use of herbs and spices in the.. an electric toaster, turning to cheap, but is worth Fish cakes may be made the brown both sides. Fried to- penny-and just right for that research team at a Boston hos- United States is at an all-time day before they are needed. matoes make an excellent ac- special dress. The fabric is so pital has concluded that persons high. A spokesman for Reinove any bone or skin from companiment.
fight and fine that 'It can be with active duodenal or peptic American Spice Trade Associa- tion, whose tants made possible the uloër diet research, said this boom was due largely to G.I.'a returning from Overseas duly after World War 11.
BOYS' AND
Can
A
GIRLS' MAGAZINE
The Travelling Smoke Man
A Playful Breeze Showed Him The Town -
MAX TRELL
а
Now everyone in. the room looked surprised, but not nearly as surprised as you might have thought they would have look ed. For strange as it may seem, they were quite ready to bellove that Joe the Smoke Man could really ride on a breeze,
"You're as wrong By
as wrong can be," said Joe. But there's Smoke Man JOE the
came to us trying to guess. I'd belier of father's tell you. I took a ride en floating up out pipe. After sailing leisurely just breeze." under the ceiling, he glided up the stairs, without even louch Ing them, until he reached the door of the children's room.
The door was open just on 2. crack, but this was wide enough for Joe, He slipped right in. - There, inside the room, he found Krurf and Hanid, shadows, as well as Teddy Stuffed Bear, General Tin Tin Soldier, Mary Jane the Rag Doll and Hiawatha the Wooden Indian,
the the the
on
After everyone shouted: "Hi, answered Joe!" and Joe had back: "Hi, everybody!" he settled himself down comfortably the edge of a lamp shede. Then he crossed his legs about eigh- teen times until he begon to look like a corkscrew.
Everyone Tries To Guess
Finally he said:
"Well, isn't anyone going to ask me where I was all day?" "I was just about to ask you," cald Honid, "Where were you?" "I bet I know," Koort broke In before Joe had a chance to speak. "You crawled into a loco- molive- the smokestack-and went travelling from New York to Chicago and back.”
Wrong" sald Joe. "I wasn't on a train at all."
"Then you were on a 'ship," sak Mary Jane the Bag Doll. "You went sailing, necess ocean."
"Wrong," said Joo.
the
"You Low in an airplane," said Toddy the Stuffed Bear-
Too Many Questions
It was Knart who asked first "What kind of breeze was it. Joe?-where did you find 117-- and where did it take you?"
By this time everybody else in the room was shouting ques-
thin hand like a wisp of smoke. Everyone fell silent,
"You'd better let me speak." he said. "Too many questions get me all rattled. This is whet actually happened,"
now
Everyone in the room wanted to hear the story of Joe's wonderful ride on a breeze,
A
"It came breezing by, thet breeze did, just as I was turning the corner near the drugstore. It was a southwest breeze, but it kept changing its mind. Ard every now and then It changed itself into a northeast, gr northwest, or a southeast breez without telling me anything about it. I just whirled around, not hard, mind you: It wasn't a cyclone. It was just a breeze. Sa away we went, with mo sitting on top of it like a leaf,"
The Breeze Disappeared
"Was it fun?" Honld asked; "Fun isn't the half of it," sold tions at Joe. He held up a long, Joe. "That breeze floated in all
Rupert and the Fiddle-5
When the stranger has good thing odder still, a man in a fas Rupert realises that he has not cap, striped tunk. heard the tiny mysterious noise, and.
c. long stockings **There, what "did" 1' tell you " cries Algy, laughing. for some tins so be, tuma to rejoin his pals. Well, did you "Rupert was teasing about trace that sound that we couldn't that noise and now he has made -hear?" demands Bil. "No," up an even better fairy tale lor
Rupert admita,” but I saw nocne us!"-
ALL RIGHTA AKCERVER
10-3
Joe floated past the church steeple.
•
around the town. It floated me to a ing pole. It floated me to a swallow's nest. It floated me
over the trees. It #onted me around the church steople. I felt like a bird without wings," "Like flying in an airplane," General Tin the Tin Soklier Bald.
"And what finally happened?" naked Mary-Jane the Rag Doll, Joe the Smoke Man anickered, as though he had just thought of something quite funny.
the
.
COOK-OUTS HELPED They brought back a taste for well-seasoned, food, and stirred a general interest foreign cuisine The spokesman added that emphasis on outdoor, cook- ing also has led to increased usu of splee items, many of which were unfamiliar to pre-war America,
Such herbs as oregano, thyme, and rosemary-have grown vastly in popularity, but pepper and cinnamon silt are the leading spice Items, Pepper is forbid- den to ulcer
sufferers but. cinnamon soon will be restored to their diets, along with allspice. mace, thyme, sago, sweet paprika, and caraway Beeds.
The men, responsible for this promised change are Dra. Max A. Schneider of Buffalo, N. Y. Vincent Delaco, Jr., of Derby, Conn., and Seymour J. Gray of Boston,
tests They found, In
BR patients at Peter Bent Brigham the seven herbs Hospital, that and spices oposed no discomfort and did not impede the healing.
the of
ulcers-provided the scasonings were taken at meal- trac, with interval feedings, antacids and antispasmodics.
- NON-DIET USES While the medical team per- feela recipes for ulcer patients,
ear: American develop their own formulas to suit families when a special diet is not a problem.
homemakers
"What happened toally," he The trade association's; test; said, "was unt the breeze sud-kitchen suggested this simplo denly stopped being a breeze. It formula for spice usago, asta! vanished. It disappeared. It start. To each 3 cups of saviço wasn't any more, And down 'I or gravy, or pound of meal, fali came, right on top of a police- or fowl, or a servings of othe mani But he really didn't mind. | foods, start with 1⁄4 (naspoon of a little smoke, black pepper and seasoned salts Nobody minds
(except.cayenne, which should He just waved me away."
be added a few grain at "And here you are!" exclaim-time), and 4 teaspoon of other
herbs and splees:
Allow only
ed everybody in the room.
"And here I am!" said Joe the one or two herbs to any dish. Smoke Man,
United Press.