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YOUR BIRTHDAY
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3
BORN today, you have a great deal
of magnetic charm and rem to draw people into your orbit without tuo inuchi ettori. You are a natural jeadar, it behouve you to see 10 it that you me leading people in the right direction. For you have the
o make people follow you- De wrong Although you can be tactful and polite-it it pleasex you of can be of some benelit-you can also be inther final and even dumineering if you ran into oppoal- tion to your plants or ideas. You Food Unit nake are fine fritul enemy.
You are fond of the pleasures of living and enjoy a wines
attu good food. You must learn modera- on in this regard, especially as you grow nider or may develop a beakti problem. You entre how to fare l itte ut any party you allend make an excellent host or hosters
Your intuftions are excepitonally keen, and there are times when it secin be if you can aliment prejudge the future. You may appear to be for weld in your
but praved morz eventually, you maJudgment, right than won originally thought. You always try to be fair and hourst in your upinlems, but you are a storti
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1957.
JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Agnes Cinches Bid Properly
By OSWALD JACOBY
GNES GORDON of Buffalo can't be called a newcomer
WOMANSENSE
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TAKE your eyes from This newspaper for a
In bridge circles. She has been member of the top 10 women After being first and for years. second in the National mixed
cur in 1956 and 1955 she fell minute, Mr Jones, stare at off to third this year,
the ceiling, and ask yourself a poignant question.
As this article appears I will he playing with Mrs Gordon for Ume. The event the lat will be the Upper New York re- gionals in Schenectady where ihere is always a tough field and
I hope that Mrs Gordon and my ather partners will pull me Through to sane championship or other.
In today's hand Mrs Gordon found herself in a normal four She won the spade contract. opening heart lead in dummy and exindered briefly the possi billy of leading the jack of dia- monds and going after an over-
By STELLA¦wick.
linesplinarian' and 'muinetimes your NETING of duty forces you to do one. th of which your natural feeiings of kindness and sympathetic under- standing disapprovė.
Actually you are quite toppera- tentai and often do things which aro quile więxpected. You have been known in change your mind seemingly no reason at all. Your honche to doubt! But you will Mnd you:edit considered lesa you give a reason--even if, at the you have nune! However, imuntoil, when it coines to love and romance, you know your own miui. it could i have at first sight for you-and it Ionel Follow
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after lunch and make up for any Jos tine.
If you fell under the 6.15 train tomorrow morning, instead of stepping into it, would your wife marry again?
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Since the Pope's statement that It may be better for widow not to remarry, all the deep problems of widowhood, not often discussed, have ex- ploded to the surface,
Women everywhere are asking themselves secretly: "What would I do if it happened 10 me""
Your first stup judgment, Mr Jones, may tell you that your wife has been so happy with you, she won't want le moy again. She will live on memories of her marriage. keeping every thing just as you kept it doing things the way you liked them. She will be crillcal other men, because they won't come up lo poter standard.
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But 1 think your snup judg- ment is wrong. The widow of a truly happy marriage is the one most likely to marry again.
She is good at marriage. And
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You Marry Again?
by ANNE SCOTT-JAMES
then. The elder, particularly, now needs someone to take her around. She has plenty of boy friends, but she needs a father.
"I don't think a day goes by without the children saying,
'Mother, what a nuisance you are, why don't you get married "gain?"
Lady Dowding, wife of Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, is widow who did marty again. Her first husband was a pilot.
"My first marriage was 1 happy one," she told me, "and to is my second. I thirik 10 often works that way. HAPPINESS
AND SECURITY
"I can't believe for a moment that it's wrong to marry again. In my case I had a young son, and he adores his stepfather. It has meant a complete family ife for him, which he couldn't
have had otherwise."
Lady Davidson, M.P., sits for Hemel Hempstead, which was once her husband's constituency. She is a very human and well-
liked person.
She said: "I can see no rea- woman shouldn't son why a
te believes that her first hus- marry gain if she wants to. band, having truly loved her. "If she meets the right person it can bring her happiness and security and it can bridge
will undersländ
and approve
if she chooses a second.
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I have been talking to three wilows of very happy marri- agre, and ad of them were favour of marrying again. BOY FRIENDS
sad gap for the children."
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I asked her if she had though! of marrying again herself, and she said "No, but I certainly wouldn't set my face against the idea.
Nor would my husband
BUT NO DAD have wanted me to,"
Mrs John Derry is the widow of the brillant test pilot who was killed five years ago at Farnborough. She has two flau- ghters, now aged 12 and 18%
on my own.
She rew three rounds. butine work in something that runs and then led o dilamood to be done. Tony is day! A fendly bushions contact can mouth from her own hand. Now there yer pallway, to succe
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she told me. "I would again," Agnes lost two dia
end my days mond lekts and club only; certainly hate to one of danny's clubs being dis- 21)rarded on her last diamond,
noted that if It should be steady will win today's
Apes had tried the dinnand suit before pulling temps Easi 24-Oct. 23)could have dropped his seven on Your health in important now, for Duminy's Jack. West could have unless you are well, you can't what we want to do. Make wise taken the queen and laid down the are, whereupon East would have completed the echo with the three and West would have given hin a chance to trump a third diament. Agnes would still have had to lose a club and would be down one.
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"Since John Wed I have been too busy to think about marri age. I couldn't afford help at hout, so every minute has been
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house and bringing up the children, and doing political work in my few hours of spare time.
I found, in talking to many women, that none of them felt the slightest guilt towards their first husbands. They were sure that John ... Jaelt... Peter
Henry would have wanted it. So would Humphrey Bogart, happily married for 12 years to
Bacall, who
says Lauren frankly: "I hate being single. am not one of those emancipated women who like to live alone." Mme, Suzy Volterra, the love- me ly French widow, has told exactly the same thing.
Whenever I read that a man has expressed a wish in his wil that his dear wife shall not remarry, I always think: "I bet "But now they are older I he was a pig of a husband, and want to adjust my own life. A jed her a horrible life." No have been too cut off. I have loving husband would want his turned down so many Invita- wife to be lonely. tions that now they don't come any more.
Then, John is the last person
So when you usk yourself, Mr Jones, if your wife would remarry it you fell under the need to feel self-satisfied if the answer is "No."
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I may add, without democracy to have its letters Thursday, iftercepted and its telephone offending the rabble, that Titlen conversations noted down safe was Tintoretto's first teacher.
(TOMORROW: Was Dante an guards the freedte: of the State
Averroist?) and its
Finmily, the State becomes so atert and vigi-
that seemingly innocent That guy Homer Bant letters or conversations are suspected of being in code. THE people of Athens have
A telephone subscriber
been told by an American who says, "And how is your aunt lm actress thai. of all Greek ay be saying, in reality, "The authors. Plato is her favourite. tinmonds are in Joe's shed
stay a widow, I was so happy with him that he'd want me to be happy with somebody else.
"But I'd like it best of all for my daughters. They loved John and he spent a lot of time with
If the answer is "Yes," it may well be that you've done her proud.
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BOYS' AND GIRLS"
General Tin's Travels
-His Adventures Were Out of this World---
By MAX TRELL
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true,"
Hanid, Shadow-Giri, sald to friend General Tin, the Tin sailed Soldier, "that you have all around the world?"
"I've called around the world "said General Tin. many times," "And once," said General Tin, "I salled off the world."
Hanid Is Surprised Hand looked at General Tin with a face that showed her to be greatly puzzled.
General
"I beg your pardon, Tin, she said. "Did I hear you I believe the script of her say that you sailed off the
said "Pluto," but she world?" the docks. By spreading the speech
A fellow-
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system of party-ni telephones, misread the word: it should be possible. te ents star who once came to Athens At this moment, Teddy the
asked by
Stuffed Bear, and Hiawatha, the more and more people in the tipprepared was
Wooden Indian, Prowing army of spies and in- reporter, "What is your opinion Simoli-Sized
came over. Hand explained to, them that General Tin had once sulled off the world.
formers..
The little dyer .' "Two people
of
Homer?" Flushing, she answerid, "You en quale me as saying that Homer is a heel, al cross-
and we're just good friends. Few of her purposes are a delight to a
audience realised third person,' remarks, very that she was referring to Homer truly, a writer. What fun was B. Gioop III,
the violent argument in front of Give youth a chance Tintoretto's "The Rescue," In
On hearing this, both Teddy just 23 ard Hiawatha looked surprised and puzzled as Hanid. "I shouldn't wonder that you were so surprised," said General Tin. "It isn't often you meet
Dresden. "It's Tintoretto," PEOPLE are becoming very said one mnu. "Not at all touchy. I read of complaints someone who has salled off the
world."
"How did IL happen, General?" asked. Hauld.
sald the other, "It's a Robusti," that a young man rolled up his After an exchange of insults, it trousers above the knees in a was pointed out to them that restaurant and danced eccentri- Tintoretto's real neme was colly to music from a tape- But how on earth This position decided the Robusti, and that he was only recorder. second prize in a world team called Tintoretto, the the dyer, was he to know that the other championship. White played I because his father was a dyer or customers wouldn't join in? Any- Ktxt and eventually lost;ntore. 11s painted as how, if there was an impresario how could he have won ? Robust), and there is a pleture present, that young man will Solution No. 5309: I R-Qfuf hta in church at Murano, probably be famous in a month threat 2 Kt-B4, BXHt, 2 R where the glassblowers work. If or two, and will be danclog up. The wind blew harder and -86. or 1 BXR: 2 KL-BS, | 1 am not mistöken (and if I am, eccentrically with his trousers
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"Well, Bad General Tln, ". was on a sailing boat. We were far from lari. A, storm blew bärder. Suddenly the whole ship. gave a terrible shake. We all ran to look over the side. To our
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"I's called the Milky Way." "What were their numes, my
said General Tin. "because there dear?" asked General Tin.
are so many millions of stars
and moons all floating together
"Winken, Biinkin and
in a white light that they look said Hand. us thick as milk."
"And you saw the Big Beat?" asked Hiawatha.
General Tin nodded.
surprise, we saw that we had salled off the earth and were now saling about in space.”
Hanid and
Teddy
and 'T'in Hiawatha begged General
about his tell them more extraordinary adventure out in
"The Big Bear Isn't really n space. He gladly agreed to do so, adding that he hoped they bear at all, Hiawatha, It's only c group of stars in the shape of wouldn't interrupt him.
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"All around us," said General à bear." Tin, "were stars and the moon and planets, Cornela with long tails went shooting by. And on and or we sailed. We saw some very curious sights."
"What alghts?" asked Hanki,
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sald
Hontd.
Hiawatha Ineked disappointed.
wonder.** whether you met three friends of mine while you were colling out in space?".
It was General Tin's turn to "We saw the Muky Way, And look surprised And puzzled. I wish to report that there's no "Friends of yours, my dear?" he ⚫ said, "Salling around in space?" milk in 11"
called the
Hanid nodded.
.
"Then why is it Milky Way?" asked Teddy
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As they turn away Rupert stops explaining," mys the old gentle and pelata. This adventure man, “But we mustn't wait now, started because Runy spotted some Granny's already been so worried thing mysterious." he says, "The about you that she's feeling quite cottage chimney was smoking; but ill. So come along. As the there was no lire in the cottage. others enter the cupboard Ruper Now this explains it all" drops. "Oh, please do welt," he
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General Tin laughed.
Nod,"
"No. 1 didn't meet Winken, Blinken and Nod," he sald, "They must have sailed off to another direction. But i was when the wind nighty glad died down and we sailed back to the earth again."
Hanid Teddy and Hiawatha were lad at General Th hadn't kept sailing off into outer: omong The Blars and space. planets and comela,
They liked him too much to The ship had sailed off the earth, want him to stay away too long.
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