This Funny World
DOS GAINES
"We probably wouldn't have been given our diplomas if the Dean of Women knew what we aren't wearing under these gowns."
BY
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THE
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WAY
by Beachcomber
HOPE the advocates of ensler
divnuce have taken nole of Judge's ruling that if a husband slands on his head now and. then fl is no ground for divorce. No man is forced to choose be- tween his wife and Yoga.
The question, however,
ugees comes more dilleult it Yoga bas nolling In do with hig anties. Surely the law should distinguish between ʼn man who tends on his hend for fun and one who does it for reasons of Yoga. The happiest marriage: are those in which both hus- bond and wife stand on their heads. The community of In- terest produces harmony in the hom.and encourages the children to follow the example of their parents. The spectate of un its entire family standing on head brings tears of happiness to the eyes of sensitive rela- tives.
Oh, I say, look here
EAR SIR,
DEA
to under-
It is not UDAY stand what object your contri butor "Beschcember" bas
narrating the obviously fictitious adventures of three impossible characters. There are, unfortu- nately, peuple foolish enough to drinking take these card and parties seriously, and to believe that this is what goes on in the North during the grouse-shoot- ing season. Pls can do no good to our essential tourist trade. Foreigners are not likely to be encouraged to lease a mour by this sordid drivel. 1 fatte myself that I can take a joke
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1957.
JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
Rebid Avoids Loss Of Game
By OSWALD JACOBY
TODAY'S hand is mainly inter-
the on
hose.
caling for the various things that might have happened.
The three-spade contract was mode
South trumped the second club load und played Iwo rounds of Trumps, stopping in dummy. The ten of diamonds was lei and when East played low South finessed the jack. West won with the king but that was this ride's only diamond trick. Eventually the defence made ita nee and i king of hearts.
North
that South
should have dropped the bidding nl two spades. He pointed out that West might have held both the king and queen of dammds, in which care South's three.
ferred a profit lulo a losa.
WOMANSENSE
THE NEW ROMANTIC HEROINE..
She Works And Likes It
By AILEEN ASCROFT
TO young
N
-Woman
has
Munty and A muriage. in the final changed so much since When love strikes
chapter, the heroine trips the war as the heroine of awkwardly over a thistle and the paperback love story. hears her true love declaring The star in our mothers day himself: "The first time we by titles. If met, smudged your lipstick. was surrounded
have one herself. Now I'm goig te smudge it the ldn't she was wooed by men who again. Any objection?" did. She w delicate and ethereal, with entrancing curves and eyes of the deepest bluc.
of FLORENCE L. zrclay, an- other of the old sentimen- much more sturdy build. She tulisis, who liked to sprinkle an works in a factory or a hospital
aura of
her religion through and falls in love with young love
for her men who are architects, fore heroine of The Rosury" the
stories, chase T.V. personalities or
men,
BLUEST BLOOD-
spade bid would have trans-archaeologists, She is invariably Hon. Jane Champion, with "the
South pointed out that North
could have had a better hand
for his spade raise and that a
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with the next man, but this is allegether beyond a joke. enclose my card as I do wish to see my nunue connect- ed with your contributor' dis- gusting onsense,
Symphony concert
MAN who is said to have fested an outboard motor
in his bath complained of the noise made by racing motor- ist who tuned engines on the floor below. Was there nobody in a flut above to turn on the radio at full blast so that none of them could hear what they were doing?
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pass by South might well have thrown game out of the window. I must agree with South He held only 14 points in high cards, but a five-four-three-one hand is likely to play very well when partner can give an immediate raise.
Furthermore, South's reḥid. was of great value to his ste If South had passed at two spades the chances are that West would have pulled himself together and made a delayed dozlate. This type double is not for business but merely shows a hund that was close to an im- ineciate takeout double.
would
This delayed double have brought East Into the bid- ding with three clubs. Then, if Senath bich three spades. Eost would probably have gone on to i four clubs.
gone down He would have one trick at that contract bul no one would have doubled him and North and South would have picked up a mere 50 points above the line instead) of 90 below.
bluest
slender, almost slunny, Her veina." looks are unusual rather than beautiful; sometimes down- right plain.
Her dreams are more soph sticated, tou, Having lost the husband she adores to a schem- ing woming she is prepared to look around for a more reliable substitute-nd she cares not a whit about his earning capacity.
A TIGHT SPOT
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her of blue blood in
Sara Sente, her modern coun- ter-part, gives her heroine, Ja, in "I Know My Love," mouney hair, eyes like saucers and body with the "slender incom pleteness of a young boy's." The archaeologist hero la no picture either, with his bad temper and calloused hands, but he does tum up trumps in the end with attle money.
UP TO DATE BARBARA Cartland has been
it
best-seller with
both
ETHE. M. Dell, one of the old brigade of romantle writers, was never so happy a when she got her herolne into u generations because she has to dute. tight spot under a desert moon, kept her heroines up
"The Hundredth Chance" In her that love story, written Mauci Hilan wliosit mother when she was 20, her heroine
yes her to wed the wicked received only
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falry 21
kiss
10'd Saltash, has
whole book. "brautful throughout the cyes
the darkest, deepest That wouldn't do today," says
invalid blue." To rid her
Miss Cartland. brother she contracts a marringe In naune only, "feeds her heart tuttering in wild rebellion, like the wings of a captive bird," but ends up bagily reailing her husband's worth and declar- ing, as she clasps him to her bosom: "You are the prince of my heart-for ever."
she
fo
faken novels were old up with the chase of a woman taking 300 pages before the happy ending. Nowadays. falls on page two, so there
must be plot and hellon sustain interest for the rest of the book. Love stories are not 50 proper now, with the break- How unlike Darathy,
the ing
of taboos and conventions."
has Of the 75 novels she hotel receptionist of Jan Tem- Pest's recent "For Those We written ob inve beeti Jove Love."
today Having been taken in stories, "Ideal hero for £500 by a confidence an American business tycoon," "and tells me, Irtekster in chapter one, she Mits Cartland
THOSI regards
ment through naders want far more details pant- of heaving bosoms and Tamoky-grey eyes, us chilly as a night breeze.”
ing lips, though they still like their heroine to be an Idualist at heart."
Plain and practical, Dorothy Is woped by Inimer Tobyn, with
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BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
A Ghost In The Can?
-Knart And Teddy Went To The Lot To Find Out-
of old
By MAX TRELL
I looked like a pile. tin cans, many of them bent and KNARF, the Shadow with the rusty. Only now, instead of
turned-about
and name, was host, the cans, stood up sitting on the back fence when Knari saw plainly the figure of a tall thin mзn. He even caught
By STELLA V-CARD Serie Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, come
amery; those who are not close to you.
Yeni
BOHN today, you are active
progressive, You are always a
Is Hely that your fortune wit ahead your own thines
ra in alternating cyrics of goKKÍ sometime
ard bad. Learn to take full advantage retions. What may seem to be future
of the good periods to produces Lie dreand to allier.com be made reality
low when the tide ly timed against by you. You have lille use for the trivialities of 11 t are always you and wall for the breaks.
large este probably will find that Tuesday of pinning activity. Be warned brant one in each werk is one of your most pro- Make sure that you have the rope ductive days. Tuke advantage of this. priznal under your direction to
Your Atuitions
Kharo and know how to take care of all
probally vivat your drants Are detail work for you!
Leam to interpret them, for it is: kely that they will hold some warn ing the future for you!
at
th
You have a natural reserve which
first meeting may make you
rather cool. But underneath yours.
loving and affectionate. It takes
meuns vise
Among those burn on this date nale the tint were: Helen Hunt Jackson, Maxwell Advance and then you with exhibit Struthers Burt and Fannie Huist, your true, respet nature. Fond authors; Jaines Truslow Adams, his of dilidren and destrous of having tona tienry O, Havemeyer, your own family, you. It will be bent u around chant and philanthropist, Slatey
you wed at nestry.
an early age. Since your tes of
are close, you will be happiest s
Rino these whom you Jove.
playwright,
Ballou, educator.
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arul
Hosea
f what the stars have to strangers often give you a feeling of store for you tomorrow, select your withdrawal-at least then you will birthday stay and read the corres
ponding paragraph. Let your birth- conducted day star be your daily guide.
have your own tamily at home, even
musl be if your work
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19
LEO (July
AMADE.
LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 213 dealing with today's problems, You Fate may play an important part in can win out if you are snart.
23}- todays, activities. Make the best ut whatever happens. You may not have You need wadom in making an Im- porisul decision today. Your entire much to any about 113
tuture can hinge upon the results.
VIRGO (Aug. 24-8ent SCORPIO
Personal affair need careful con- erstion, Romance is not the best Idea just now. Walt a while!
(Oct. 24-Nov. 22)- Think carefully before you act nu and the results should be financially rewarding. Also enjoy yourself Rocially
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)- You insy combing Busters ch social delivities with the prospects of better-than-average, rovulis.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 21-Jan. 20)— Today the fates decree -- and you Jest ngre. But. since fate, la kind, all chould being greal happiness.
AQUARIUN
19 Jum (Jan. 21-Feb, Although the good and boor tendon- cles are intermixed, you can turn the majority decision to good!
РУБСКА (Feb. 20-Mar- 20)- A day in wideli your relations with others pris. The margin between or failure. Be iseftui and Succes poutit.
ARIER (Mar. 21-Apr. 20) There may be exeltement this even- Ing. But it can prove plus or minus -according to how you handle affal
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TAURUS (Apr. 21-May Don't let o closed mind be bemess prohibit real-progress now. GEMINI (May 12-Jone 11. J Moda can play lave with your platu, so una sell-control and benest, CANCER (Fuse 23-July 、 D3)-
wisdom and − artulacionals
SBOW
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By LEONARD BARDEN
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Fess
You, South, hold: AKJ987 WAQ8I ♦JE ȘA4
What do you do?
This A-Double.
doolie primarily business and, if your partner can leave it, business will be good. If he takes you out, you have enough stuff 196 that he won't be hurt.
TODAY'S QUESTION
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The bidding continues with a two-diamond bfd by West. Your East passes, partner doubles. What do you do
Answer Tomorrow
CROSSWORD
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Across
Date Sound (anog.). (0x Pistol-panking howw ? (6) Anger. (3)
For certain, (4)
A friend in
Wake up"}
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Decorated inand,, (3)
21. It grew in Brooklyn. (4)
22. Precious alone. (3)
33. It's today tomorrow. (01
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Rabbit tall. (4)
3. Termentors. (0)
U., State.
(3)
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d. Desert animal, (9),
U. Town of cameras. (4)
V. Litio devil.
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LIYO, (4)
14. Love out.
13. Rocky point, (4)
J'oci, (3)
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did Gerald Abrahams (White, to move) win brilliantly here?
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waddling up to him.
"There's something funny go- ing on," said Teddy.
"Something funny?" Knarf. "What's funny?"
n
said
Teddy stood for moment, scratching the, top of his fuzzy head. Finally he said: "I don't know exactly how to explain It.. nean it really isn't a ghost
Knarf Is Surprised
a glimpse of a face with a big brown moustache behind one 'of the cons.
"It's a Knight in anaour!" cried Knari.
Fooble Voice
A feeble
voice called out from inside one of the cans:
"Greetings, friends, I'm Sir Lance-a-lot. Pray be good enough to help me off with this helmet. It's stuck."
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YOUR FRAME IS WHAT COUNTS
row
By
Ida Jean Kain
many pounds can an adequate protective reducing reduced you gain or loso before diet. So for I have anyone notices the change? is what i weighed when I was from: 220 to 182 pounds, which Is it three, five, tenor working. I um a registered more? Actually, the answer nurse. depends on your frame. If
makes me mad da you have a slight frame, see I've lost! My own mother people cun't even even a small gain or loss saw me last Sunday for the first "Why are you in this lot?" shows up quickly,
time for more than a month, and she said she couldn't see But for the overweight with where I'd lost the weight. Inrge frame, Just the opposite
Kaarf and Teddy set out for the vacant lot.
sold Kharf.
Kurt nearly jumped off the Kuart and Teddy hurried fence as he shouted: "A phast!" forward to help Sir Lanec-a- "Nothing wrong with that, "Not really a ghost," said lot lake off his helmet, Teddy mlad," said the Knight. "My Teddy, "It's just a lot of in had time to whisper to Kaari: name is Lance-a-lot. I belong in without "He's not a ghost at all, is he? a lot.” cans moving around anybody moving them. So it has He's a real "tenight!" to be ghost. Don't you think 502"
"It might be," said Knarf, " might also be the wind. Or it night not be tin cans. Or you might not have seen right. Or it might just be your Imagina- tion,
"All I know," said Teddy, "is that those tin cans were moving around without anybody moving
them."
"Where were they?" Knart.
asked
"In the lot on the other side of the road," said Teddy.
"I guess i'd better icke a look
at Those cans," said Knarf.
"
don't think it's a good idea for a ghost to be walking around."
So they both set out for the vacant lot on the other side of the rond.
Weedy Garden
It was rather a handsome lot. The weeds were knee-high with and a here and there a dalsy, bunch of dandelions
among them. Running through weedy garden vere crisscrossing paths.
4
this dozen
That ghosty thing is right along this way," said Teddy, or he moved along one of the paths.
The truth of the matter was that now Knarf could hear the clanking of tia cans.
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Suddenly Khart and Teddy came to an abrupt halt. For there, directly in front of them, not two yards away was the "thing" Teddy had been talking. about..
It took a bit of time and a Int of fugging before Knarf and Teddy managed to lift the cal of Sir Lat.ce-o-Int's head.
Strange Voice
is true.
It is not uncommon for
"What that some
a twenty-pound gain or less to size 42
"I was unable to get. Into a corselet, and am now go almost unnoticed. This is wearing u size 39 and it shows made startlingly clear in signs of being too loose, All leller from a Connectleul re- my clothes are far too big for dueer who writes: "What makes me. I intend losing another: me mad is that seme people 22 pounds, and then holding can't even see I've lost!" When my weight at 100 pounds," Instantly Siryou read the number of pounds
Good for yout she has lost with no one note- tained courage to stay with "Mind my cars now! Mind my nose! Mind you don't pull Lace-a-lot turned tall, but the
tin helmet back on his head. g, you will agree she has reducing routine when no uno my hair out...?
whipped out hla Sword and reapon for complaint,.
tells you how all you look, turned to go.
Sir Lance-a-lot kept warning as they worked away. them Finally it was off and there he stood, amiling and straightening out his moustache which had become all untidy.
All t once
There was the sound of an animal at the other end of the lot.
"It's a dragon!" he cried.
"Three
It takes sus-
A wide frame and big bones months ago, starting on our, anniversary, I decided to figure In total weight. get down to normal weight, I figuring your ideal weight, It's weighed 220 pounds. I am 8'3" ways take your frame into con only a dog barking!" said Knart.tall and have a big frame, but sideration. It is only excess fat
not that big. I put myself on that is a health hazard.
"Sir Lance-a-lot, walit
But it was too
late.
Sir.
gone,
Then the knight shook hands Lance-a-lot was already solemnly with Koori and Teddy looking for a dragon who was "Are those tin cans your really only a dog, borking on of armour?" sati Teddy the other side of the vacant lot. in a volee of wonder.
milt
"It's the best I can do," said
Sir Lance-a-lot, "My other sult
"Ike him," said Knart.
So do T," said Teddy. "And
of armour is at the tailor's be I hope we see Sir Lance-1-10t ing cleaned and pressed."
again."
Rupert and Rusty-
Soon they reach the house and Rupert is having a cosy tea with an old lady and a cat and a clog. The little boy will be here in a minule,” saya the lady..." It'i dull ́ for him here with two old people, sợ he will love to have you to play with,"
Although his new friend is so kind Rupert is shy and the country through which they are driving is, so interesting that he does not talk much, but at length he cries est with pleasure for the road runa along the top of a ridge and beyond it is «nlimpse of the sea.
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