This Funny World
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"It's easy to see who really rates around here!”
YOUR BIRTHDAY
MONDAY, OCTOBER 7
BORN today, you are defertusų, 12 forceful and, it could be sale. naif-centred, The world retter around your persona
life. What does not touch it, does not fourly you and you remot unconcemied with it. Yet. by suirie
strange paradox, inuch that dots go on, does appear to touch you. and hence your internet in aroused You have is magnetic personality which (at, tracts people to you, and your gƏKİ humour, fairness anal grod judgment mark you as the to whom others will appeal to belo and advice
Bines you have the ability to eut through red tape and get at the heart of a matter, you can be de- pended upon to be fletent and to
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By Beachcomber
BY STELLA
get a job done in short order. You
ntw us inspired teacher and hote the ability to ignile the spark in a child which Mazes ittee for leaming. You may, nut conform to previous pattern" in your methuda if teaching hat may wish to break pew paths. Some of you, who ofta Have a RyDay fout and the urge for adventure, might make explorera or plungers in the truly phystenl seline,
You are basiently an idealist and you may find that not everyone ( comes up to your high standards. Dan'l lel this disillusion you. Rather, accept the fact that not all 171- dividuals are capable of reaching
the heights you may have design- ated on the goal. When selecting INSTTILES Bartner. chouse auincome Border your own eign or Aquarius for the best happläest.
Although not essentially interested In businew or rance, you have a good level head and usually cos out on the right side of any deal. A fortunate streak of good fortune may bring you a mrprise succERS. Avöld beginting new enterprises on the ith or any month.
date Among these borts on this were: Jame Whitcomb Jey.
A COMPLAINT that there are bunnist George Abernathy,
too many Admirals at thege recalled to me a story told in France at the time when Ad- miral Darian had succeeded, la getting jobs for a large number of Admirals under the Vichy Government,
Cardinal Lienort in Paris was reported have said: "I soine- times wonder ir, when I die. there will be un Admiral avali- able to replace me." Carry your bog, sir? "I looks as though we shall
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Oregon ploneer; George McLean and Frederick Male, talemen; Derkzer Blinger, actress, and Jack Mulhall, actor.
To find what the wtork have, in store for you tuinorrow, select the your birthday star and read correponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your doby, guide. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8 LIBRA (Beyt, 21-Oct 23)- Full moon ushers in
highly- productive period which continues three with increasing results for weeks
SCORPIO (Ork. 34-Nov. X23- Consummate a real estate deal if ane is pending: zee that an employ- ment condition in to your liking.
SAUTTARIUS (NOV 23-Dec. 223-- e progresive enough to inke calculated risk, yet be ealin Ba excouting 11.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20- Ullise your talents to their best pdvantage, I romance is your ob- Jective, then thin in the day!
AQUARIUS (Jan. 25-Feb. 1- You Ahould be able to develop plans, made a long time ago, in accord- ance with your future good.
have to do some shooting today," said the Macaroun of Maetroon. "We can't expect birds to drop down the chimney every day." said Klcockrobbin. Foulenough was silent. Present- ly he said: "Leave it to me." In two hours he was beck with 14 birds. He explained how he had gone to juk [31] Shrillwille Moor, and had distracted atten-
Pisens (Feb. 20-Blar. 207- tion by raising a terrifle clamour. Exceptional activity in your money and shouting "Fire!" One over department Make man unexpeel- cager baronet thought it was and prone and prosper necordingly
AMAN 21-Apr. order, and blazed off into the A business trip undertaken at this empyrean. The rest came run- time should twing exceptionníly good ning full pet in the direction of results. Prit 100, from great experl- the uproar. Foulenough spredence,
TAURUS
21-May CAPE. away, made a wide circuit, and Be alert to the trends of today's helped tumself to some birds, succesy potential. You are in line
for a worthwhile part of the day's bag. That
pomoller: that you get it. night there was a great fenst.
observed The Macaroon Foulenough: "If your talent for acquiring grouse can be extended to include phensonts partridges, we ought to be able land for some to live of the considerable time!"
In passing
THAVE often suggested
I when cats immobile those
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that have become who atli love them will live in then. I have Just read a description of a new cer which could, with slight alterations, be applied to house All I missed was the hot and cold water in every seat, and the "two minutes from the aca." I hear that the motor trade is already planning semi-de- tached cars, each with an anchor for very wet weather, to be sold in blocks of 20 to counelis. Passing the time
People who become bored at a play
cerntrat should try to their boredom for the salce f ether.
--(Critic)
NE way of passing the time is to bend down and quietly tle your neighbour's shoe-laces to fue leg of the stall, without disturbing anyone.. Another good trick is to sever his braces from the back of his breeches. I always I know a man who
death at the theatre. bored He writes on the back of the lady in front of him, in indelible pencil: "1 Love Mrs Sproit." Gherkin
ODAY the people of Walsalt celebrate the 100th anniver- anry of the Invention ol the gherkin. It wes invented by a barrel-cooper named Albert Cheritin, living at Lymington. As a boy he pickled everything ho could lay lils hands on. One day he was pickling a cucumber when it occurred to him that a smaller size of cucumber could be plekied just as easily. He moved to Walsall, and experi mented in a friend's garden, and on this day in 1857, he exhibited the amali cucumber which bears his name. A plaque on No. 23, Daryle Street, in Walsall's.buay centre, commemorates his vention He married a Eaton of Bishop's Stortford, and left a son, who became a re- gistres at Wincanton.
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GEMIST (May 22-Jutr 3 Handle all your affales with amet- ency and dispatch, for this can be come an important day for you
CANCER (June 22-July
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Pat forth the appropriate effort for sucerea for a long-sought goal in right.
LEO (July 21-Aug. 23)- Big things conie. your way now Make sure you take full advantage of all opportunities at this me.
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THE CHINA-MAIL, MONDAY, - OCTOBER -7, 1957. -
JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Desperate Play Brings In Hand
By OHWALD JACOBY TODAY'S und wa, played by
Henry Atslunder of Pitts- burgh the 1939 Natio,rd championships.
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Bosta ganes of heart ollowed to find the first trick and Mr Austariter's Bing jook the second. He realised at desperate measures wete necessary to bring home the contract and proceeded to give the hand a tremendous play.
His drat leng was the incic of West ducked and te spades. went right up with duminy's king. The
and another dimming were played next and the diamond sult broke favour- cbly.
West led another beart to clear that suit and declares proceeded to run the lintnond sull He discarded the ten of clubs on the last diamond and
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Mr Auslander ht Lect watching the aderes diwards carefully and when West let the Juck of clubs go he simply took his are and quest 10 males three no-trump.
If West Ind let go a beert he would have been thrown in withs the ace of spades and forced to lead away from his club king while it he ditched the guade nco delarer would have been abla 10 clear the spade stit safely and make four Dill instead of three.
The sad feature of the hand Is that four spades would have been a wrap-up. All'declarer could lose would be two spades und a diamondl.
Today Mr Auslander would hove bid three hearts instead of three no-trump. This could not have been read as a slam try but rather as offering a chole for the final contract. With his pronounced twu-sult hand North would have bid three spades and Mr Auslunder would have raised hls partner to four.
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WOMANSENSE
How To
Without
Face
The Sack Switch Going Into The Red
the over blouse, It is killing the tuck-in shirt,
WATCH FOR IT: WATCH FOR IT: the straight-pleated skirt, which
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is killing the full kind you wear over petticoats.
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Gardener And The Ivy
-It Was Hard To Be Angry At Anything So Cheerful-
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By MAX TRELL NARF the Shadow Buy with the turned-about went hopping, skipping the stree, and jumping up singing as he went. It was a beautiful day and the sun was shining in a cloudless sky..
started to do the minute she came up out of the ground?"
"Whai?" asked Knart. "Ivy started climbing OVER the fence and dropping Into the next garden," saki the gardener. "O" said Khárt, "Ivy plants always climbing, uren't
Are
they?"
in the middle of the street,
Tbut seems to be what they most like to do," the Gardener Kanet Law un old man in over-
hedge. Ile sald, nodding, "This Ivy of mine alk, trimming a stopped to watch him work.
kept right on climbing up the Boy." said fence. Good morning.
I didn't do any good scolding her. The moment my elimbod back was turned, she up a little more."
asked "What did Knarf.
the Gardener.
Why are
hedge,
you trimining Gardener""
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Gardener looked at Knarf for
A monsent. Presently he asked:
Why Bov
do you
get a
It's Too Long
Beenuse my
haircut,
Loo
hair gets lang and needs to be trimmed," sald Knarf.
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"Tut's why I trimming this hedge," said the Gardener.
long. getting toe't look neat. Sometimes a gardener is like a barber."
sce." id Knart.
I'm itle you do," said Gardener.
some-
you do?"
Under His Window
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"Good morning, Gardener," said Knarf.
by ANNE SCOTT-JAMES
NICE BOW
problem into new day clothes and stay- A faces the ath
for How to as-you-are
night. The fashion is not change in parly get the Lone Look without so violent, and last year's dance
FOUR: Use the
new needs-
going bankrupt. Make no dress won't disgrace you. mistake, this change in fashion is sensational. It's the biggest upset since the New Look, exactly 10 years ago. in 1947.
orkes to help you make the switch, A shoe, sweater or a belt can be the key. Much better your uld fitted dress with pointed shoes than a new loose
WOMEN everywhere are dress with round-food shoes, arguing about it.
To help you, here's the new recestory ende:-
THE INDUSTRY is buzz- ing with it, ready for a boom in every sort of fashion from overcoats to brns.
GOING OUT are the fuck-in
blonge and the shori, 21-inch sweater, COMING IN are the- and hip-length
Overblouse sweater.
EVEN MEN, In their pubs and clubs and trains and offers, OUT are the sunray pleated are talking about shifts and skirt and the circular skirt. IN sacks, arguing whether they are is the straight skirt with knife And when a pleats, box pleats, or no pleats
it all.
SUNY
or not. shion story pierces the Briton's normal comin you can be sure the news is pretty big.
The news is not just the Sack Dres itself, which has been so quickly copied in the cheaper ranges that i doubt its future.
OUT is the tight waist-length bel. IN is the hip-length belt, particularly clulh belts to match your coat or sult. Get one made front the piece you cut off your kit, wear it low, and you'll like it.
OUT is the elaborate hat, the much blocked and trimmed hat,
It's the switch to bone- simpleness in every field. Every sweater, every shoc, every hand IN is the crushy little hat which is ech heaven to wear in the
bag, every jacket, every pleat, every belt buy a new uspeel.
wintert
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(Remember hom, Lokth the New Look, even pour petticoats became out of date aventight?) OCT is the spike.- healed, So the problem is, what are round-ford stree. WELL IN you luck with? How can you (you've got them slready) are drets well this autuhn without thrrow, pointed shoes, their putting your clothes on a bon- heels 24 Inches high or 224 Are and starting from scratch? inches at the most. Newest of
all ne one-bar, T-strap fabrle shoes, big rising faghlong you can't afford to miss.
☆
I think there me four shrewd answers.
ONE; Get in the right frame
for one, mean to stick to longish skirts and a belied waist.
or
OUT is the large handbag you IN is tho curry by the strap.
arın.
of mind. Don't fight against pochette you thek under your the Twenties Look und say you,
You see, it's not so much a of hoards of new question clothes As
detalls and You'll change your views attitude. next spring, and you'll have wasted six months buying out- of-date clothes.
TWO: Cul everything shorter. THREE: Put all your cffort
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shut-sack+ If you like this chemise-Chanel style you can look terrife in it,
Personally, I've kone brad over heels for the thing.
Women Aren't The
Only Offenders
By JEANNE D'ARCY
HE research division of a
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to
3. Refusing to use deodorant large company walch beenuse it's 100 effeminate, manufactures typewriters, razors Stuff and nonsense, say “wives! and other such items, has just Everyone needs, déodorain released the results of a survey have social security, whleh show that husbands aren't the only ones whu criticise appearance. Wives have some felling comments to make on the subject, too,
MEN'S FAULTS
GROOMING TIME
4. Spouding too much
time
in the bathroom. Men com- takes women too
plain that
teng to beaulify,
Well, say the ladies,
there's
no cause for comment. Men get
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In the
fume
bathroom to stay, and
About
It
1. Stopping around the house stay, and stay. They fuss and
appearance, looking like out of work tramps they have only two locks of when they're not going any hair, they ean spend twenty where. Wives resent the tact minutes combing
ihem
relaxing around home,
sweet
place.
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Ladies also don't like the
way men hang clothes up on the floor, slop cigarette or clgar ashes around, never seem oble non to fluct
clothes the dirty Why, ask the hamper.
that they get groomed up for business, then 1st down so roof and all Lround the completely when they're chimney."
"I hope she didn't full," said home. "Do?" said the Gardener, "I Knarf. Anally
"Not her!" said Gordener, as 2. Not shaving moved that ivy away from the fence, I put her he picked up his shovel again. | working days, close to the house right under "She knew how to hold on. Jadies, must they think they're weather, she beauties when bearded? How my window where I could keep Come wind and
shook my eye on her."
and shivered but she lung, they ask, does 11 take to are two sides never let go. She knew what shave? Isn't ten minutes Meu can't let down in groom"..
"And?" asked Knart...
was good for her. Ivy did
worth 0 wife's The Gardener shook his head.
Knort said good morning to glance? it wasn't any use. She climbed right up the wall. She used to the gardener and went skipping, look in at my window and say jumping, hopping up the street good morning.
cgala.
An Ivy can
climb," he said "But it was hard to get angry at her she
fresh and to himself, "but an ivy can't I Anally hop or skip or jump. I'm glad.
WILS SO
green and cheerful.
"Being a gardener must be lats. of fun, sold Knari. "I let her climb wherever she I'm a boy. I can hop, skip and fun to go around trimming would. She climbed up to the Jump and climb fences, too!" hedges and planting plants.
"Sometimes it is and lunes it isn't," replied Gardener. "Sometimes instead of being o gardener, I wish I 12s 19 Plumber or a Policeman or ♫ Fireman."
"But why do you somelimes wish you were a Plumber, a Policeman or a Fireman instead of a gardener?" Knart asked.
Planting Is Fun
s
"I'll tell you," said Gardener. great fun "Planting plants is and watching them grow
But when more fun, pinola do things you don't want them to do, then it's no fun at
even
ali."
Knart looked surprised. "What can plante do, that they shouldn't do, Gardener?"
"For Inatinee,” said Gerdener, shaking his head as he thought about it. “I once planted an ivy, Do you, khó Tranh nhất Ani
Rupert and
the Fiddle-40
The dier sternly aika the jeuant why he has been away so "In truth I had meant to long. be well on my way back.id.the castle by now."* exclaims the fiddler. Dut affairs, have gone Rather than carry my Jawey,
precious Bidle further £hid it for
safety in a hollow tree. Now, search as I will, I can find neither tee nor
"Oh please, know where the_tree_‚11," CRICK Rupert and running to another part of the forest he points, it pu3, and the Riddler follows with expectation.
It just goes to prove there to the story.
approving ing habits after marriage any
more than women can.
ROYAL DOULTON
FIGURINES
FALCONER'S
ALEXANDRA HOUSE, -
Chater Road Hong Kong Tel:22143 Established/1855
All Porcelain goods' at discount for this wask!
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