THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER
1957.
This Funny World
JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
MH BOTH
"We're looking for the kind of young man who has the inner spark, the fire, the drive and determination to get to work on time in the morning?"
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rocket with in- American ferler wartend. I don't seem to take any interest in typing." Two weeks later
Diamond Trey Is. Key Card
By USWALD JACOBY
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was questionable.
He had
his truinp. suti, six cards length, but rather weak.
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WOMANSENSE
Mothers like the Duchess of Argyll keep their glamour without all this fuss about food. So why not their dieting daughters ?
only 13 points in high cards and WHAT thought fills the minds of our young daughters (today? What is the latest obsession? It is that tiny aial, that model figure, the stinky hips, the thin There was thing question-lega antaumy, able about, North's four spade. biel, H bact may exceptionally strong smile raise to start with.
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Lady D.: Yes, and six booster with his six of trumpa. Durany with the ck
rockets! Talk about air-to-air!
Lady F. And the new invis- ible 400,000-an-hour missile!
Lady D.: At only £53,000,000 a dozen!
The Scourge of the Moors
CAPTAIN FOULENOUGH has
ollee more
isenthed
had to overrulf and now East had his trump trick.
South still had one shot left
in his locker. He eashed his ace after the of spades and went heart suit. Il East held three able to sued both his clubs
hearts South would have been
emerged unfortunately Ean held only 1wo from his holiday hearts and ruffed the third heart
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the Riviera, leaving behind him lead with his king of trumps.
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The most interesting feature of the ploy is End's lead of the three of diamonds. If he had led one of his high diamonds, his partner might have forgotten to ruft in. In that case dumny could have ruffed with the three of trumps and declarer would have romped off with the rest of the tricks.
rurful fuces anony the mure Then he leg a club to his part- credulous of the wealthy. Anner's ace and set the contract, aman,ement by which he Al- Lermine engaged tu Jardess for two days gave her all the publicity she wanted. and hin eredit in places where He needed it. He left a pack Dr cards
yacht from whose owner he had won large sums. The tardily uneasy yachtsinan sent for the police. The cards were examined by experts, who
confident that they would find them marked in some elever way. There were no martes. Foul- enough had had the foresight to anticipate the calling in of the polle, and had left one of the unmarked packs which he carries to establish his hontaty, He told a reporter that he wan
"To pot going up North Kruuse or two," The Scourge of the Moors is expected with trepidation.
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"We should all be an anthin- citu better oft if we used less coal," says jolly Jack Hopkins, with a light laugh,
YOUR BIRTHDAY ....BY STELLA:
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
Bon today, you are lactined to be and you will find that life goes along
a worrier Lvng trißen. Yet, witẹn much more easily for you,
it comes to a real crisis, you can be Rother sensitive to the criticism of calm, level-headed and will toke the others, will try to please everyone helm without waking! to be midted, all the fane. Better if you were lo You are, at heart, in optimist, at pengentrate on following your own
nometimes, pleasing your
are extantly When are popular
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About
future. This is a combination which can fear you upart unless you leam to tukė Miings us they come, day by
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of both texes and will have a host of casual acquaintances, You are rather slow to make elvar friends, and I would be wigs for you to take your time when selecting a marriage partner. Your Among those born on this date
Your emotions are strong und you also have it; high. temper. friends are apt to ronalder, it artistic were: Myrtle, feed and Matgaret temperanti... but others, Lean Szagster, puthors; Adeilna Patti, generous, ca}} at 1-temper. It is
Griscom, educator: explorer:
kely at you will find that this kit Wharton James,
Etate of your lyslih has a great Pall Cook, comedian; Irma Seydel, deal to do with your temperament, vlojining; and Thomas Nast, famous You wilke, a great deal of nervous cartoonist, energy, and your physique may not be as strong as you believe it to be, Consequently, you tire more quickly than you will admit-and little things fend, to uprul you Lonen to take regular breaks,” to relax fenelons
LIBRA
And what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your
porkling paragraph. Let your day star be your dally guide, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
birthday stor and read the coile.
(Sept.
24-net. 23)- This is the peak day of several fine Be Pure that kobie Tecicl armblon become a realisation now,
SCORPIO (Oel, 24-Nov. 22)— The culmination of a fortunate weeke appears to bring you exceptional maccess and happineis.
ARIES (Mar 21-Apr
20) Miskale and gain a lot That can be the advice" of the fortunate stars shining on your efforts today.
TAURUS (Apr. 23-May 21J You should take time out for comme pleasant relaxation zuday, Plan a trip ____ SAGITTARIUS (Nov, 23-Dec. 2)- lo the beach to visit friends, Personal affairs are now in the lime.
(BERY. OEMINI
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21)- light and you can achieve ellerhed goal with ease.
You may find that your social com- CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan, 20) minents are heavy but very portant to your future welfare.
The speed accelerates as the month De mare you drawn bear its end.
have benekted from, the politon trend,
CANCER (June 23-July
14) Jaka re you are job-hunting, this may be the day you seo oxacily wliet you. AQUARIUS · EJan. 21-Feb. 19) want. De adventuresome and pak for This day can culminate in a fabulom it.
2. Aug. 2)- uccess, provided you have taken the XD (3uly
and achieve a Veature o steps for program along the way.
FLCES (Feb.
2 lot. This is your Your big day of the month, Every- VIGO thing you have been working for Recorallions for past stort m seems to Estne to happy conclus material gains should be yours.. One sien 'now
at your big shocean days."
When Jane meets Joan, what is their first topic of conversation? It is not a discussion about love, nol. chatter about the chiums. and capabilities of the latest boy friend, not about art, music, politics, or world affairs, or their job. Cer about- tainly not; it is THEIR DIET.
"My dear, I have taken two inches off my waist." u happy saya Joan, with gleam in her eye.
"Darling. I've just been to my dressmaker and hu all my clothes taken in just everywhere,”, says Jane, us she nibbles a piece of lel- tuce and sips black, sugar- less coffee.
own
I have watched my daughter, and innumerable friends of hers change from pretty, well-covered 17. and 18-year-olds to thin, maybe elegant 19- und 20-year-olds, wraiths of their former selves.
Vital scales
I EAT
WHAT
I LIKE
on
work,
50
adult
rigorous,
How they exist und play games and dance ittle food seems to me quite amazing. We mothers
pour vitamins, orange jules, milk, meat, fruit and eggs into our to give them health DAY by day, week by children,
week, month by month, and vitality for their the weight has fallen oft. al, and we at it thrown away
ft self-imposed. The weighing scales are a unbalanced dici. vory vital part of their lives. No Blattery. no coaxing, no persuasion, wrath éan persuade them to eat normally, or can change Do you know what they cal? Here is typleal menu their grim determination to for an average day in the life diet and diel and diet. of ene of our dieting daughters.
NO
Their menu
by LADY HUGGINS
49-year-old wife, of the farmer Governor
of Jamaica and mother of three daughters,
Please note:
BREAKFAST. One grapefruit only. No tonsi, butler OF marmalade, no coffee, tea or milk, no bacon or eggs, or fish, no cercals.
JUNCIL
Some days nume
វា
all, but usually a green salad with hard-boiled egg. Black coffee, sometimes white with
but. milk,
never Sugar,
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
King Nep Has A Visitor
-He Was Very Small But He Made A Lot Of Noise-
By MAX TRELL
at the bend
DOWN
in the brook, under a mossy rock, N+CARD Senlived Little King Nep. It was here that Knarf and Haid, the Shadows with the turned-about rames, went to visit him on this early summer's day. They found him walking up and down front of his home and dressed in is best clothes. He wore a funiz made of scales of golden fishes and a nagnificent cloak that shone with coral,
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White, here played 1 B-Ke and only drew. How could he have won quickly?
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As usual, be corried his magic tridient or three-pronged fork on a long staff,
King Nep was about as big as a thumb!
Friendly Smile
He greeted Knart and Hand with a friendly smile and bade them sit down on a fallen log nearby.
CO:11.
"I'm expecting some pany, he said.
Hanid unid: "Is it somebody we know?"
"I don't think you've ever met them," said King Nep. "They're all members of my family."
"Yes, that's the reason," King Nep had answered! "If everyone alto- forgol me. I'd disappear gether."
"We'll never forget Hand had said.
you."
Suddenly King Nep Klond stock still, Istening. "I hear them coming," he said.
"Who's coming?" asked Knarf, who didn't hear anybody.
Rumble of Thunder
At that moment, there was a distant rumble of thunder. "Oh, it's going to rain?" cried Hanld.
I certainly seemed so. A flash of lightning it up the sky on the other side of the brooks and the distant Thunder rumbled again.
Jupe was carrying a bundle of thunderbolts and a spear.
Hank shrank buck behind the
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Good Friends
no mayonnaise, no salad dressing, no roll and butter.
Page: 6
of top, models, with their streamlined foes, such DA Flobu, Campbell-Walter, Dow Baronem von Thysach, and wifo of a millionaire, or 'Nina Dyer, miürrled: to Jho, Agh Khan's - brother Sadruddin, with
£30,000 engagement ring.,
:fat
because they clitat: elathes look better, and are easier to buy if you are very Thin? Or perhaps they think it is glamorous?
But Is this extreme thinness' really glamorous? What of the admiration which surrounds many of their mothers? Or Cven n grandmother such as Marlene Dietrich, who I think asked for beefsteak and kidney ple and potatoes for her first incol when she last orrived in London,
What of the lovely Duchess of Argyll, with daughter Frances? Margaret Argyll's figure and that of many other mothers is quite lovely. What kind of diet do the slim women in their fortien follow? Enough at least to give them energy und to keep their goud looks.
Good food
The woman in her forties who wants to be trim and not too fat certainly takes care not to cat loo many aterches, or' sweets, or scones, or cakes or chocolates, but her diet is well balanced.
We have talked about the gleaming eyes of our daughters as they chatter about the lost inches, and their diets. What of their mothers, many of them <till glamorous? Their eye glenm at the thought of good food!
ono
I have often Junched with of my own forly-to-fty- year-old friends, and what de of licious meals we have had to-
gother, elther cooked by our zelves or at a restaurant,
TEA. Ocensionally a cup
-lea, with milk but no sugar. No scones, cakes, biscuits or sandwichts.
This does not mean exotle' DINNER. This is the only meat dishes, cavier, foie gras, oysters,
of the day when they allow but good
steaks, #ah ame Fres arul
wholesome
uny TeaL nourishment to and enfer their bodies. If they potatoes, or porridge, what- are out for dinner with a boy ever you feel your metabolism friend or at a party or even needs.
I still remember how in the dinys when my husband and
I
at home with their worried parents, the fullowing food is permissible: meat, fish, chicken, game, green veget- were first married, and had to ables, especially spinach or budget carefully, how we de-
elded we would salad, raw
save luxuries, drink and tobacco, or
but never on food. And we have never done. no
fresh fruit,
beans, #reen Tomatoes. Fruit salad
apples, grapes. Black coffee. No soups, rice, no potatoes, no grovy,
rich
по sauces,
creams, Fo
thlekk puddings, no
cheese.
In fact, the daughters
My menu
ILA
that
Who WILAT de I ent nowadays?
Well, here are the meals I
would
once glowed with health and had the other day, and I feel sure vitality, and know the joys of our deling daughters eating French fried
potatoes, rather like to run riot and cat hot buttered toast and jani, fve the same, if only it wasn't for cream, chocolate pudding.. now those horrible scales, and that say disdainfully when pressed 18m, waist.
to eat a normal meal, "I hate
the faste of potatoes. I don't BREAKFAST: A delicious like toast or butter or cream or cakes or puddings.**
Shrinking...
WHY
herring, fresh from Loch Fyne, In Scotland, cooked' in butter and oatmeal.
Coffee with two lumps of sugar and milk, toast and butter.
LUNCH: Cold
deter-
with
used
do they do it? What gives them the "Hi there, Jupe King Nepmination to resist the delights called over. There's no need to of eating the meals they look so angry. These are
tongue, salad mayonnaise, baked potato with LARGE lumps of butter.
Fruit sutud. Coffee.
theo love such a short time ago? two children 1 told you about. It certainly not the desire They're good friends of mine." 10 please and Impress their
It was all very pleasant after
young men. The boys them-. that. Jupe smiled as he sprang
solves are inclined to worry TEA: Cup of tea, thin with across the pond. He showed
sandwiches, asked Knort and Kauld the bundle of about the girls they are attach-
to getting thunderbolts and even let them inner day by day, with their throw two or three of them.
It caused quite a lot of noise lovely eyes getting larger and the flashing of lightly and larger in their thin little faces. They seem to shrink dally ke a rumbling of thunder.
Alice in Wonderland.
Little King Nop chuckled.
"It's not golag to rain at all,” he said. "That's just Old Jupe, coming down the path."
"Does he always cone thunder and lightning?" Knarf.
"He always has and he al- ways does und he always will," said Little King Nep. "Old Jupe never poes anywhere without throwing thunderbolts around."
ed
thinner and
" wish we could get some of
I am those thunderbolis," suld Knari.
sure the males of the to make species admire real curves and I like to, at least. some flesh on the arms, legs and body, so the boys can't
egg
DINNER: Fresh Morecambe Buy shrimps, with hot buttered toast. A lorge sirloin steak, French tried potatoes, crearned spinach.
Mushooms on toast. At that moment, fere was o
Coffee and sugar. · Kaurf and Hanld knew that crackling of twigs, on the other "I'd like to be able King Nep belonged to a very old side of the brook. The tail cat- storms whenever
Youth is naturally slin, with were bent Where can I get some?" and important family. Long, falls and bullrushes
delicious curves. Darling long ago, King Nep used to be buck, Out stepped a little man
daughters, But Old Jupe wouldn't tell be the reason for this dieting
that forget
18in known as King Neptune, Ruler (again no bigger than a thumb)
And whether he made
It may be because their waist, and give up your self- with a stern of the Seven Seas.
face and fery
imself or bought them in He was wearing a long thunderbolt store, or had stocks
generation has seen the success inflicted misery, eyes. "That's when people used to cloak draped across his should-
of them hidden away in some belleve in me," he once explain- er. In his hand, he carried
faraway mountab cave, no one ed to Knart and Hanld. But bundle of jagged-looking thun-. most folks have forgotten about derbolts. In his other hand, he Kraf and Hanid to come visit ever found out. But he invited me and my family these days." carried a spear.
him. He gave them his address. It was No. 1, Mount Olympus, right next to the Sun Rise!
"Is that why you've because' va small?" Knart had once asked.
*
Small as Jupe was, he looked lerce enough to be fightening.
Rupert and the Fiddle-32
At the last words of his comm you to enter my castle withou
knowing that ? panion Rupert gives a start and
But you don't looks at him. "Did you say your fools very old," saya Rupeet. “Ali. pipe and your bowl and your little flaiterer, perchance 'tis being · Liddlers three ?? ha- giapa, en merry that keeps.nsa young.".
** Then you mout the .........ch, chuckles the king. At that moment. please
are you really Ok King, they both awing round Cole ♪ !! ** Aye, of eques 1 am.", extraordinary noise echoes through uniles the nonateli. How came the gallery.
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