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This Funny World
Bob Schuity
"How many light years before you'll be ready to leave for the movies?"
BY
who
should
G
WAY
JACOBY
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1957.
WOMANSENSE
RAINCOATS THAT SHINE IN THE RAIN
ON BRIDGE
Peril Avoided By Barbara
By OBWALD JACOBY
DARBARA BRIER of Matni is
another young lady who surely belongs in the first 10. She can't. pot leave from her children oflen enough to play la many tournementa but has man- aged to accumulate almost 500 i master points. Her best single performance was when she fin- ishod second in the Nationel Open Pairs a couple of years beck.
Barbaro plays a lot of rubber bridge and in a very oggressive bidder. If you don't think so, look at her two heart bid with today's hand. Her jartzer raised her to four and West doubled and decided to open the king at diamonds for a look at dummy.
That was a mistake ainee a trump load would have benten the hand one trick.
Barbara
NOETA 4997 ĦAQDI
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10
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WEBT
EAST (D)
K2 10853 AKJO
AJ 100
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SOUTH
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K 200 64
No one vulnerable
Fast South Pass Patz
West
North
Posk
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to
They're
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pretty, two raincoats made from synthetles
and
guaranteed to make you feel cheerful, however rainy the
day.
ON THE LEFT:
From Canada comes this
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It is in sparkling white, has arrow-sharp pleats from
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By France Davies of Mon.
treal.
ON THE RIGHT:
British designer Wallace
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square.
THE
by Beachcomber
NOMEBODY
minding lee at the, Ki- crossrunds said the other day that "h man who gulps his wine is a barbarian,'
cullen
be glusses, sundling that beaming smile which you will see only Her among winc-drinkers.
worth all the philosophy was iniek, leathery theorising of to- day jumbled into a dirty heap. "Nothing," said u nihillat, "has any real existence." "Take this, then, as a mere fantasy,” replied
If there were ai medal present- ed for taking trash, this man would win it Ordinary table wines slikki be swillid, and the honest drinker, catching hịm nothing is more offensive then a powerful blow on the jaw, the spectacle of an affected nin-
compoop treating a glosy of two-
penny rotgut as though it were Romance at sea
a great Haut-Brio. He sits
and snuffie, holds it up to the Hght, and alps like a nusorben on the brink of a pond, instead of throwing his head back and drinking like a man
The happy drinker
THE
THE Jolliest dimker 1 ver saw was in a lavern on the Portuguese frontier. He had an kept the tavern said, "One must teeth-ur perhaps one or two- An the great woman who always remember that teeth got in the way of drinking. They are like rocks in a torrent. The man who has no teeth has no worries, because all worries come from an insufflelency of wine." Whereupon she filled up all the
GATHER that rojaks and they were. Some are down lo maharajahs are not what
Their last elephant. One of them hes to choose between abandoning his 23 motor-cara of his 39 wives. My guess is int If he sells the ears the wives will rub away to sea rather than face a life of sordid poverty. Swarthy adventurers who try to ensure wonlthy heiresses in bevan Liners no Jonger masquerade us Indian poten- tates. The new gambit is, "At home I've got my own squiffle- group. Meet mo on the jive- deck this evening and I'll play you something on my drain pipe". "And, mother, he plays the drain-pipe better than Earl Snitch Floddy."
YOUR BIRTHDAY
BORN
MONDAY, DECEMBER 2
Today, youa have free. brave and adventureso:ne . You love excitement and want something going on all the time. If things get too quiet, you're just the one to mart the bail inlling gaini For you, variety is not unly the splee of life it is life itself. For this reason, if for no other, you should plan to live and work in a large city. You will never find it dull or boing thetel
You are original, ingenious work in- vedive. If you can dream up a bew way of doing something, you would never think of following an old pattern. Actually, you wời Ɑnd that your new way 4 Tral short. cut and naves time as well as energy. And in culling? Corner you maku extra money, as well. In fact, it is ikely that you will become qiute comfortably wealthy
Delore you reach indelis age hang on to your wealth or vet is another matter. Curb it tendency toward extravovative.
Pass ** Pass
PAIN Double Pass Pase Pazn
Opening.lead-◆ K
ruffed low and led a club dummy's nee. A second diamond was ruled. the king of clubs cashed and a club ruffed iu dum- my. A third diamond was ruffed a fourth club led. Weat could ruff or not as he chose us clumny was able to overtuff and lead another diamond,
Barbara ruffed this with her last trump and still had two high trumps left in dummy.
or course, Barbara would have been down one trick i West had thought of a trump opening but you don't always have the most deadly opening lead made against you. Further. more, Barbara had passed, her opponents would have made a part score in diamonds.
BY STELLA CARD Sensen+
There's Fur On His Tie
TIKE "halry" look-this
season's fashion craze is spreading to the men's world.
Guess what was seen in Welbeck Streel? A HAIRY BOW-TIE
Aud guess who was seco driving down Knightsbridge In
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Pass
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You, South, hold:
blends
where you will meet people who will remain close (ur tức. More than many, your fate ivata in your own handa, so make of it what you will. Foliow up your anaktions nu! you may bclleva kprent near, let your love of plea- sure dominate your life and a plea- sunt mediocrity will be yours. Your Julesata are beyond the average. Make the most of them.
Tuct and diplomacy are second nature to you and you make good
ise of then et all
You
hould be onutious in romance, for in your selection of a mate lles con- lentinent uṬ dafilmowienst. for you to decide.
Amera 11:00e born on this date! were: Paul Allhouse, tenor; Harry Flagler, grmoler; Dr Joseph Gulilu. Un, French płyysleian: F, B. Kellogg Frankin
Inventor, ant
and John restore, statesmen; Fullert you
giben you are excepitinally tomi of travel, you are dešlined to visit most of the far places of the earth
Jesse Crawford, organist.
To find what the wars have in story for you tomorrow, select, your Birthday Mar and read to cortes- pendime paragraph. Let your birth~ day star be your daily guide.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3
SAGITTARIUS (Nov, 23-Dec, 22)- A fast-moving day for you Take
CROSSWORD
Across
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10. Ponnics from heaven.
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19. Job. (4)
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12)
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2. MOYDS gradually. (8)
25. Pegler obaracter. (4)
Down
1. anticipation,' (B)
HAVDE engsl.
3. Bin. (8)
4. Irrigation. (
6. Make pap93, (5)
1. Marauder, (4)
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9. Dog. (4)
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full advantage of the upturn in your Aftales and make the most of up. porttauties.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20)--- You may chance a calculated risk today, fór hissinnas trends are excel- lent and you should proper now.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21.Veb. 19) Put your inventive talents to work And you will find that you are | making · excellent progres in your
-work
PISCES (Pob. 20.Mar.
ne practicat in all matiere pertaining
to artistic or educational matters,
Lille on Inspiration.
20)-
ARIES ALAT. 21-Apr. Promote your major interesia and see that you make rapiù
favour signs are oil in your
Thie Today,
TAURUS (Apr. fi-May 23)mm
a day on which you can
| afford, to, taice chances. In a long
#hol bizness or in love.
GEMINI (MAY 27-June
21)-
One of your big days, this month,
A new contact în business and in exciting ronance in prospect,
CANCER
(STEK 12-015 23)-
A new proposition may call for care. ful coralderation, but don't be over- cautious or your best interents, Are defeated.
LEO
(July
One of those
high-prestare diye when anything can happen, Sorse- thing exciting la on your schedule.
The rowdy for it.
VIRGO
26-Bapt. 13)- You may be more adventuresoiELO then use!") und teipata better 11 Kvótorial results. Win an ad- vantada,
.
LIDIA (sept. xl-Det.
سر
Crowd every minule today with so- dog, for there are many new yo portunities opening up for you now.
&CORPIO (Oct.
48 WAK 765 SAKSTA AKA
What do you do?
A-Pass. Your partner his heard the bidding and has shown aspado stopper or stappers and no interest in a stam. You have told your full story.
TODAY'S QUESTION Instead of bidding three no- frump your partner has bid three hearts over your three diamonds. What do you do?
Answer Tomorroiv
TARGET
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How many words ur tour Jetter
or more a YOU Bake from the letters the ANALCC 3 the left making weit |word, tam letters i med tach. of the azinli squares, may be used such only. Each word, must contain The large letter in the centre WELKEO and there mus 30 L That she filne-letter word in the fist. No plorais; 20 foreign words; no proper QAIR?1. TODATA TARGET: 29 words, pood: 15 words, very good words, stoellent, Bout)au tomorrow.
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Aasturday's Bolution goal.
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That old-style selter Terry- Thomas.
BOYS'
Situations Every Woman Knows
'No, No, darling
I've just come in myself”·
AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
When all the pieces were "1 don't see,"
together,
TheMan WnoMadeClouds Drought the cloud up to the top Into the rity."
-Mr. Punch Told Knarf and Hanid All About Him
By MAX TRELL
ONCE knew a man," to Knari
sald
Hanid, friend "how he could have climbed up
of the hill behind his house and "I'm not surprised at your salted it up in the air like wondering aid Mr Punch, "He kite. When it was up high never could have done it with- and out a sky ludder. But that's a
story in itself."
with mist and fog and shreds of enough, he cut the string steam from tea kettles and let it font of. smoke from chimneys. When the sakk
basket was loaded up to the
the and top, he covered
basket Hanid, the Shadows with the tightly, tled it to his back and Turned-About Names, "who has brought it back to his work- one of the strangest professions shop."
"I Me Punch
in the world. You know what
a profession is, don't you?"
Hank said she didn't know. Knurf said he knew exactly what a profession was,
"Only," he sidd to Me Punch. "I'd like to hear you tell what It is so that I can be sure that you know what it is, too."
Mr Punch smiled and ex plained that a profession was work that someone knew how to da very well.
"Like being a doctor, or E teacher," Mr Punch said. "I
that what you were going to
Knar!!" Something like that," said
Knart
Strange Profession
Hanid sa "What was this strange profession that
| friend (had, Mr Punch?”
your
"He was n Cloud. Maker," said Mr Punch.
looked!
Knart
Hanid and astonished.
"You mean," said Knarf, "that The made clouds?"
"That's right," said Mr Punch. "He sat in his workshop and he made cloudia--white ones, black- ones, straight ones, curved ones, plain ones and fluffy vorm?
"How did he do it?" Hanid.
cod
"Woll,” said Mr Punch, “he' went out early In the morning with a large basket and Mned it
"Of course," said some clouds were make than others,
Mr Punch, "What's a story in harder to asked Knarf.
Itscir?"
saicl Mr the
The sky ladder," "For instance, le fluffy, Punch, "It was made by wispy clouds, like the kind you friend of the Cloud Maker who "What did he do then?" ask- see on a summer afternoon Boat- who a Sky Carpenter. He made e:! Hanid.
ingidly in n blue sky, were ladders reach the moon and quite easy to make,"
stars. How else could anyone get up to the moon and the stars to "Whut clouds were hard to keep them polished and shiny? inake?" Kaarf wanted to know.
Sowed Thom Together
to bis
"When he got buck workshop," said Mr Punch, "he took out all the pleces of mist and fog and steam and snake and sewed them together cloud machine,"
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Hard To Make
"The hardest cloudy to make," said Mr Punch, were rain' Knarf interrupted to hsk what clouds. They had to be sewn a cloud machine looked like. very carefully. Then they were "I can't describe it to you," filled with water. My friend, the said Mr Punch, "except that it Cloud Maker, had to climb jup looked ke a lol of knitting into the sky himself with them needles all jumping around at so as to be sure that they didn't
tip over." the same time.
Rupert and Rusty-
No sooner had the old gentleman spoken then there comes_x' calf Crom near at ind. “It's Rusty voice 1 cries Rupert and running ....110 a cleft in the rocks he spies Na - poor pal on the ground, tied hand and foot. Hurliedly they set him -free and Rusty mande in astonish
went facing his grandpa. -*** How did you get here♪ " he demande. "Did you know of this place? And why wasn't Rupert tied up as Rupert was Incily.
He got away and fetched me," saya the old man. And, oh my, it's becky for you that he did 1′′ CALL RIGHTS RESERVED: “
...
He sailed the cloud up in the air like a kite.
Knarf und Honid weren't sure that what Mr Punch hod-- told them about clouds and sky lod- ders was really true. They never could be quite sure that any was really true. But it was all thing that Mr Punch told them Interesting just the same.
MARK CROSS
FINE LEATHER
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