YOUR BIRTHDAY
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12
THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1957.
This Funny World
.BY STELLA
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BORN today, you have a love of adventure and exelierment which probably will mark your life. It is unlikely that there will ever be a dull moment when you are around! You seem attract activity and you cant be happy in the centre of a whirl- wind and yel hecomplish a great deal of importance. Your talents lie in the realm of the arilsile, especially the dramatic, I wil be unusual if your life work does not, at some time or another, touch the theatre,
You are, however, may be drawn to publie life and will make good politicians. With the proper use of your talents, you can also become a slatesman of note in your own tine. You are not one to stick to the conventions, and it is unlikely that you could be "bossed" for any great length of time, You are too much the individualist for that,
You women, rather than seeking careers, probably are more interesting in having your own home and family. You co maku that a lifetime career and a very successful one of it, too. If you are drawn into pubile life at some period, you will be able to handle that as well as your own home. You are excellent managers and know how to juggle a lot of activities at one time.
It is likely that you will reap financial as well as critical muccess in your career or profession. You have a good head for business and know how to strike a good bargain. You belleve that the artist as well as the worker in busineRY worthy bis hire!
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Among those horn on this date were: Itamsay MacDonald, statesman; Mme Helene Modjeska, actress; Edgar Selwyn, theatri- eat producer; Alvina Valleria, sloger; Carl Dane. nctor; and Judah P. Cooke, noted chemist.
To find what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. Lei your birthday star be your daily gulde."
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13
on
ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20)-- After your morning devotions, plan some restful and relaxing activity which will change the pace for you.
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)- You may have a briefcase full of work that needs doing before you go back to the office. Do it!
LIBRA (Scpl. 24-Det, 23)- Take time to give thanks for all past favours and give prakse tu
Relax whom it is due, tensions and rest.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)-- Make sure that Ulving has
Long extra-special meaning Spiritual guidance can bring Inspirational pleasure,
SAGITTARIUS (Nov, 23-Dec. 22)-Personal affairs BTC GEMINI (May 22-June 21)- pleasantly
should be held provocative 10. Your ideals
All raise you high.
your Make the most of what
meet have; plan happily for the standards of aclivily to
them,
Don't compromise now. future.
CAPRICORN (Dee. 23-Jan. CANCER (June 22-July 23)- 20) One of those days when Let down tensions by Indulg- spiritual values are important. log in some special hobby or
which things and avocation
brings you Negate material consider life on a fresh level. special pleasure.
LEO AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) Take part in some community affair and you will find that you enjoy yourself as well as doing good.
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"Oh, I've been married four happy years. Those were the years I was overseas in the Army."
• BY THE•
By
WAY Beachcomber
looks as though the present thaos on our roads may soon
be looked back to as a period if uneventful tranquillity.
I rend of a new paint which may make ears invisible to the by a police radar-eye uscul
is inconsiderate i force which enough to interfere with crimin-
merely or
irresponsible motoriste. Increasing number of join in the war scientists will between drivers and police, and
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there will be a curfew for pede. strlans, Any pedestrian, found outside his house between daw and dusk will be heavily ned. and the fines will contribute to research into new methods of traffic-control.
The slaves of time TT was midnight.
cases
Somewhere
JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Young Players Use Plenty Bridge Savvy
By OSWALD JACOBY
MAYBE it is a sign of advone-
ing nge but it seems that af every tourment I attend run into at least one youngster who appears to play better bridge
Than I did at his age.
Here is a hand 1 watched John Green of Champaign, I., defend at the Mississippi Valley cham- pionships in St. Louis.
North's two club bid was the conventional request to his part- ner to show a four-card major suit. Soula's two-dhmond bid denied such a holding and North jumped to three no-trump.
PARADE
A COLUMN of the UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
Johannesburg
(July 24-Aug,
day. Minke A romantic receive a proposil This could happiest day be the entire life!
In the house a clock strick VIRGO (Aug. 24-8ept. 23)-- seven. "It's either very light for PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)— Be sure of your values today. Take a short trip today with morning or very dark for night,
"What Romance said Foulenough.
you Act only upon
things someone you love.
you should mean is the other way round," which hold fast to your highest is in the air and
said Kilcockrobbin. In both take advantage of It. ideals.
said It's dark,"
the Juhn opened the three of dia- Macaroon. AL that momentmunds and East naturally won Another clock struck fourteen. dummy's queen with the king
East retuined the seven und "Continental time," said Foul- enough. "Someone forgot to South covered with the len.
the wind it," sold
Macaroon.
John went into a huddle and "Or wound it too much." said Kilcockrobbin. A third clock I said to myself, "Here is where said they separate the men from the struck nine, "Time fles," Kilcockrabbin. "In every diree-boys."
"If tlon, Fald the Macaroon. we co to bed now," said Foul- the safe enough, we'll be on side." "Why not look youn watch?" asked the Macaroon. "What time does it say?"
always what it
says," replied Foulenough, 11.24. It's broken," "We might as well be marooned on a desert island,' sald Kilcockrobbin. "inca- rooned," said Foulenough, and howled with laughter, as a clock struck Ave,
Beet DORN today, you are social and gregarious hy instinct. You to understand people thoroughly, appreciate their motives and
to unravel their problems. You are are able especially interested in young people and would make a fine teacher or personnel director in charge of vocational guidance. You are patient, understanding and know how to give advic without offense. You speak simply but forcefully and can be de- pended upon to cut red tape and get down to basle facts instantly. You women, especially, have your full share of magnetle charm. "Fair of face and full of grace," the pocts used to say! You are the type who is able to adapt to changing circum- a fine stances with a great deal of case, and you would make marriage partner for some ambitious man who wants his wife to be able to keep up with him as he advances toward success. You enter- are ne homoinakers and reem particularly adapted to taining.
Both you men and women are loving and affectionate and will make ne partners for life. There seems to be a very fine bulance between the cultural, intellectual, artistle and practical Individual who knows how to make the most out of living, no matter what your original station in life.
It is likely that you will have your full share of materini
success, since you are good at business details and know how to make a good bargain. You are the type who may smile during negatlutions--but you always read the small print in a contract before signing?
Among those born on this date were: King Ferdinand VII of Spain; Walter Gilman Page, artist; John Wesley Hoyt, eduenior; Molly Pitcher, heroine of the American Revolution; und Irene Hich, actress.
To find what the stars have in store 1er you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your dally guide.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 14
LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct, 23)~~ Good fortune
to
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CANCER (June 22-July 23)---
says
Incorrigible
LITTLE girl who habitually
A told howling lies came home
one day and said to her mother, "I saw that great big tiger again in the street." Said her mother, lie. You "That is a wicked
Hittle know quite well it was brown eat. Go upstairs, say your prayers, and ask God to forgive you. When the little girl came down ogain her mother said, to forgive "Did you ask God you?" "Yes," said the little girl. "And God said, Pray don't mention it, Miss Taylor, I have often mistaken that cat for tiger myself.
Crisis on the moon
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Left unattended, an empty trnicar moved off down Incline in Johannesburg. In the course of a mile-long 00- mile-an-hour enteer, I injured 32 people, burled cars from its path, And
damage estimated at £19,000,
all John had to do to beat tree
Kuala Lumpur
Married on Friday, divorced on Wednesday and it didn't huppen in Hollywood
the
It was at Klang, Malaya, Merma, Abdul Aziz bin that 40-year-old adopted son
Selangor's brother, Sultan caused
married 21-year-old Norliah Abdullah, adopted daughter of the sultan's second wife,
Battering a path of destruc- ilon, the tramcar first hit a small car and throw it across the street in the path of an oncoming bigger car. There was a terrifle crash.
Then, in succession, it dis- posed of a truck loaded with Band, which finished up in a stormwater drain after crash- ing
龉 through
brick wall.
catapulted two taxis out of its way, and knocked over two more trama,
Al the end of its mad career, the tramer, in spite of having negotiated threo dangerous bends, was still on the rails.
When it stoppod, battered and torn, it still wore a surly, deflont air, with both front Hight on.
Kuala Lumper
Police in loud haller vany took three hours to enim three
people thousand
WCTC wło л medium's panic-stricken by
the Chinese declaration that goddess Elas is threatening to destroy their tin mining town of Bentong. Central Malaya, because they had ignored her birthday.
the
of
Two hundred people attended the wedding. But on Monday and an argu- the newly weda ment
Their marriage was dissolved on Wednesday.
Singapore
Ong Leng Hunt, a 61-year- old Chinese carpenter, tried to smuggle a thermos Dusk full of steamy Chinese brandy into the colony. Arrested, he told the
"I
tectotal magistrate:
I only never touch the stuff.
to use it to rinse my mouth ee chronic toothache."
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CHESS NEWS
LEONARD BARDEN
The Dutch chisempien Jan Hein Donner scored a sweeping victory in the Whitby tourney last week, winning all 11 games. Thirty-year-old Donner, who is the world's tallest chess master (ft. Gin.) told me recently that he will not compete agala la Wio annual Hastings congress, in which he has twice done badly,
Play at Hastings in in the and Donner feels mornings. better mentally prepared for the evening tournaments which are customary on the Continent.
Perhaps he will change his and after Whitby, where piny began atam, each day. By the time morning cottee was served most of his opponents were already in the last throes.
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monsoon-swelling river, which skirts the town, streamed to pray for Into the temples forgiveness.
the the
told were They
by that Chinesc modium goddess had relented and given them two weeks' grace to celebrate her birthday.
Police detained year-old medium.
London
the
For three weeks, Sally 14-month-old blend of faxhound and boxer-rattled, shook and rolled round the Anchor Inn, Kennford, Devon.
Most of all, she rattled. And her new owners, Mr and Mrs Ralph Dyer, listened in amaze- ment,
There it was again. CLINK ....CLINK...CLINK-as Sally bounded around.
They could stund it no longer and Mrs Dyer called in a vel. He operated on Sally.
Inside her he found 20 stones weighing more than 1D.
Sally was to have been guido dog for the blind. But she falled her course through lack of concentration.
Harrisburg
Meg O'Day.
u New Jersey hen who has laid 284 eggs in as many days, is to get VIP treat- ment when she attends the Poultry Producer Convention at Harrisbu Pennsylvania. She will be exhibited in a glass coge.
Meg,
Leghorn, WRS declared the winner of The Felmington (New Jersey) egg test when
her she produced 356th egg.
no-trump was to take his ace of New York
diamonds and return the nine spot whereupon his partner wouldt overtake and set the con- tract.
in
U.S. schools subscribing to the "leach by television" ser vice will receive a visual course
mathematica If East had started with king-illustrated with puppets calledt
Snorky, Gargle, From satellite moons anchored seven-small in diamonds (again
Bow-Wow. in the stratosphere the inter-the seven would have been the national police will Intercept correct play) it would behove and examine all inter-continental John to duck and wait to get his Lagos
is smiling, but Be alert and responsive to all don't leave everything to the opportunities for advancement.THE
can better yourself Do your You kindness of fate!
your Iremendously these days. instrument share
LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)--- SUCCESS,
Good fortune is still attending SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov, 22)- you. All efforts should be Select whatever Avenue
well-rewarded at this time. Gó success appears brightest and all out to win.
rockets suspected of being mili-two diamonds later. that particular prosecute
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)-
John finally made the winning tary in intention. An agreement Take Betivity with all your might
10 calculated risk
not to use these moons as play. I asked him his reason and SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. achieve a spectacular victory
launching bases for at feast six it was a good one. Ite said, "You
the your major months will have reached 22)-All partnership affairs are along lines of
never get rich taking losses. I favoured. Since romance is 1 interests,
genuine moon, which will have wasn't going to beat this hand the nir, it might be a marriage
to be divided into national unless we could run a lot of dia- zones. A deterrent war may then mond tricks and I wasn't play- proposal!
disastrous consequences, owing artificial to the to fall-out,
a
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-J BOYS AND GIRLS PAGE break out on the moon, withing to stop overtricks." 203-Promote yourself at work
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PINCES (Feb, 20-Mar, 20)...
Ir in retail merchandising, you probably will be able to make
· fine profit these days. Advertise; it pays.
ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20)-~ Good fortune riding with you now. Take full advantage of the good aspects and develop opportunities.
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TAURUS (Apr, 21-May 21)— It is possible that you anticipato a promotion at work. A salary increase could prove valuable
GEMINI (May 22-June 21)— Important matters come. Art. When they are decided, then take care of any minor «fenten * pending.
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