This Funny World
"Don't bother the plumber while he's working, dear."
YOUR BIRTHDAY ....By STELLA
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13
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ROAN today, you are aftracted by ➜ the gulusryl priswung it Rfe and you will be happiest If you enter gua of the arts or the professions. You have the gift of the spoken b Well as the written word and you can charn the birds off the treen, Be the sayın kou“, with your flow of werde. Yuti ure poche and dramatic Is your expresións and should cul- tive this gift from an early age.
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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1957.
JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Discards Halt End-Play Plan
By OSWALD JACOBY
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THE no-trump opening
bid la so standard today that in a recent duplicate every South player opened two trump and every North raised hún to three.
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West opened the Jack of spades and each declorer wen In his own hund and immedi- ately played the king of dia- inands. This play insured threo,
odd against any normal diamond
break but most declarera had no trouble making an overtrick.
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WOMANSENSE
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As One Little Woman To Another...
Girl.
over
"ESTERDAY you were
The Career Sophisticated chatter gay little lunches with girl friends: a neat, black suit over brisk,
Following Anne Edwards's query 'What- ever happened to the Career Girl?' comes a reply from a woman who knows exactly what happened to her she's having a baby.
A
13 neat trim figure; efficient telephone calls with business contacts, hend for Maternity instead of
Today you are The Expectant Fashion, Mother, Domestic gossip over tea and cakes with different girl friends;
figure draped amorphously · In something floppy; brisk, efficient telephone calls falling on the deaf ear of colman or bulcher,
The starting metamorphosis that overtakes the modern girl when she becomes the modern mother has far more to it than the loss of a well-pald job and a 24-inch waistline. It is Blade of mind.
boaste
SURPRISE
INLIKE Fashion, which
whole, Д carpeted floor to itself, Matern- Ity is tucked
away discreetly and Children's behind Proms
Wear.
Used to a wide
ronge
BTCY
of
Sho
fed with the wrong foods or left. The men hover over you, tell alone in front of an unguarded you that you never looked Are,
prellier, gol ydu orange Jaieb "I've brouglit te Mrs when you ask for martini, and Jones to join you," she' beams, talk easily about the beauty of "I know you'll make her feel motherhood and the joy of at home,'
children.
By SHIRLEY LOWE
is white-hatred, 10- married, and colls you "ducky" or "love." She looks you over
The large, milten women give critically with an expert's eye you a brief, appraising look and lind gouges: "About four months, are you, love?" She is so friendly and motherly that you leave the store with two moss crepe smocks,
SO HAPPY
OSIEST
of all
are
return to the posters.
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Not so your women getonds. The colleague with an eight- year-old son refuses to discuss men, the theatre or fashions, and insists on dwelling clinic- ally on everything she went through eight years ago.
The nurses at the hospital are entirely different specles They are brisk, business-like. 1t is their job to drill you through exercises which, you are assured, The married friend with A made all the difference 10 baby invites you ostensibly to the Princess Grace and Princess Ira. tea, but actually to admire her nurses at the clinic, "We'ro
it in every unby. You sea You wonder if Princess Grace possible intimate position. While family big, happy here," they say, With your 24 and Princess Ira were marshall- cooing appreciatively, you pray rail bearing dozen bags inches at only 20 inches, you el in the same barrack-square
earnestly that your baby will fraudulent when manner. And if they were given not be like this one. garments in mess crepe. These feel rather
nurse cries: "Ah! Another new the same advice. the are called smocks and come in
mother come to join us." the the sort of colours mother con-
sider phase in 1930,
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She is the same girl. She feels the same. She acts sune. The reason for change is that everybody re- Jutely refuses to treat her the
same.
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It begins when you enter
and, for the Brst time,
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South 2 N.T. Para
Went North East Papy 3N'T. PRIR Pass
store
Opening leadm♣ J
While thase are tunes when the challenge af perpetition in the big city maprara Important, you UTE urfually kanubert in the country mont and continue the spodes. schere you cac be clox 10
the South would win with the queen Latin E nušien The cente your
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and lead another diamond. East
social itte preterally, is youn twn house and whs, wed to just would win that third diamond
the right persen, your tastinge con and lead his last spade. On the
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be a campistety mods and contenteamond lead West would dis-
Arnong Babae last on thi. atfeard a club.
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and
choretan Beinzieh Hettie port: Now South would by In ultra- Judy Savage, part, and dramatist: my with the ner of spades und Mark Cammelly, Maswight: Ambrose Spencer, noted at4: Bad l would cash the two good dia-
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 21-Dec. 223-- Tine getting shots if you have
ng on your Spend sip things to
day.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 21-Jara Conclude your budday, plaas put de everything you can idend of Time
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This will by an active day for you? Get an party start a pack ras
puchi wa you eus.
(Feb
20-Mar 20)-
FISCES This can be a very busy day, but it behoven you to get a bitch done as goon as poslate
ARIES (Mar 21-Apr.
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If in rete merchandising, you wil find the busiest Baturday, wo far. this month, Make a hamisole piant TALAUS (Apr. 21-May 211- No matter how fast the world around you seems to be whirling. if you keep calm and collected, you Wil accomplish your tasks.
GEMINI (May 22-June
21)-
If you work at top pitch today, you Can plan to let down tensions to
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South would asstone that West let that last spade go in order 10 guard both the queen of clubs and king of hearts and therefore would simply take his nee ond Įking of clubs and throw West in will the queen whereupon
eat would be end-played.
One West player was made of sterner stutt. He diseurded two
Perel you find finas dopolnit for Bearta without any upparent Hay, and 241 puutiof-town pires in worry and hung on to his last
Chie de vatting very short, spade.
LEBRA (Sezi
South would have simply taken VIRGO CAME 21-Sept 2:1). Plate should be "ate of june mts nee of hearts and made four productive days so far this month. thut way but South was not Achieve a goal you have then shiv-looking Into the West hand. ing for
24-01. 23)-South look the heurt Anesse and kyl save" avoided proevaslination test to the unguarded king. in the matter of Christmas plans, whereupon West's last spade they now you can take flow off theid declarer to three no-trump for a very bad score for North 22)-and South
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SCORPIO (Oct. You can neuleve excellent results by winwing wisdom in concentrating now on major objectivĖN.
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THE
SOLUTION
West
CARD Sensens
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North
Double 1
Pass
44
You, West, hold:
South 24 Pasy FOR
MAJI WAJ9873 44 MA 65
What do you lend?
A-Your singleton diamond. The best chance to beat this hand in to develop a diamond guit wälle you still held the son of trumpa,
TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding has been: South West North Eart Pass 1 a Past Pass 9 N.T. Poss Pass
1
1 N.T. PAST
You, West, hold;
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What do you lead?
Answer ToISOFTOW
BY. THE. WAY.
by Beachcomber
GATHER that food fossilised structions to sell his chip, and and rendered tasteless by he's going to look for a job."
Gosbrackett
started excessive refrigeration will soon Lord be out of date.
violently and dropped his tork Scientists now know that food on to the floor. His wife frown-
atomic rays
lasts ed at him. "Is he like what you exposed to longer (or, as they would say, expected?" asked the dear girl, But "Not exactly," said her father. rembing fresh longer). Instead of testing of nothing, "We-er "Your father was the irradiated food will have nisted,"
sald the mother,
styles and colours, the expectant
mother is surprised to And just
herself face to face with one
The assistant in Maternity is your introduction to the cosy type. You meet her again and again in the next few months.
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COMPLETE PELATIVES wholed previous-
"You con practise this one She shows you into a wall-
while you are peeling the Ing-roum, crowded with large, sullen women gazing discon potatoes, ladlen." This is sitting
lately at Government posters cross-legged like a contemplative sent youa bath salts, per
to Badih. showing what can happen plump, bonny babies if they are
What's the latest in Paris? Well, for Christmas here are two hairdos by famous Fernand Aubry. The one on the left is called "Envoler," and la inspired by an 18th Century hair-style. The other, reminiscent of the ray 1920's. Is the "Charleston. — France-Presse
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Faraway Land Of Plum
-Knort Learns About Strange Places And People-
By MAX TRELL
NARF, the Shadow Roy with A the Turned-About Name. was halfway down the street when he met the Postman,
"Good morning, Knart," sale Postman.
"Good
morning. Postman."
don't know what you mean, sald Knarf.
Poslman smiled.
"In the Land of Plum, there Js a man named Bang-Bung. You know what he is?"
"What is Mr Bang-Bang?" rsked Knart.
"He's a carpenter," said Post-
said Knort. "You go to lots of man. And the girl next to him
different places, don't you?"
"I really do," said the Post-
Pardon me a moment."
man.
The Postman put some letters through the slot in a door of a house.
"What was that you were saying?"
፡
is named Tap-Tap."
do?" asked Knarf.
"What does Miss
Top-Tap
Washos Dishes
"Good morning,” Enart said to the Postume,
course." sald MA Postman, "There's lots of other people "She works on the types with wonderful names in the he asked Kaart, os writer," said Postman'. "And Land of Plum." they continued down the street. next to her lives a woman "Oh
ye--about all those named Clatter-Clutter." different places I go to.""
Mrs "What does "Faraway places," said Knarf. Clutter do?" asked Knart.
Strango People
"Where strange people live," Postman. "Pardon
me
en unpleasant, burnt tastes. All coming to the rescue. "By your
he thought Sidney said that now remains is to start a postcard gigantic advertising campaign owned a proper a big-well, a again."
con- ship, if you see what I mean." to persuade people that
He put some sald Sidney, "I
more leiters tominated Inelunden's Jew
food
"Fancy that!" In good for
to those Greek through a slet in another door. them, and that to eat fresh, leave that
Bóth parents unpolluted food in the "atomic millionaires."
"Once," said Postman as he
CHESS
by LEONARD BARDEN
age is to be left behind in the winged like galled horses. I've and Knart continued wallting, ruce to the moon. We are not no use for them," added Sidney. "I visited the Land of Plum living in the Middle Ages.
"Have you, dod?" "Oh, I don't
know," said Lord Gosbrackett, "Is that far away?" asked Gourmets in the laboratory with an expression so mournful Knart. THE restaurant of the future, that his wife quickly changed
itled like a laboratory, will the subject.
THE
be too hygiente for words. It
will be stuffed by selentists, and.. Oil in troubled pipeline
"Oh yes," said Postman. "It's beyond the Land of Peach' and the Land of Pear and almost as for as the Land of Bananu."
pre-cooked atomie dishes,
THE question of Arab owner-
2
ahip of Middle East pipe. The Postman put more letters
trained technicians w zerve
will expected to deliver
short lecture on the Ingredients, lies is bound to be complicated through slots in more doors, lle
contained in each by the dummy pipelines, tead-returned to walk with Knarf. itom of the stockplie, and the g nowhere, constracted by the
The dogne
chances of ill-effeels to the 10th Khur
or 11th generation.
Hope Deferred (VI)
Di Khashdown and Getawelt, Experi Investigatora Bny that the confusion and tangle of pipelines in somze
66 A RE you making a long stay areas is like the Hampton Court A ki England. Mr Dulb-er maze, especialy As many oll
Sidney 7" asked Iord Gui- companies have their own bracket!. "Just to celebrate," dummy lines,
- Wonderful Names ·
"Now in the Land of Plum. the
wonderful Inve people
Homes.
"What's wonderful about to blur their their names?" asked Knart.
sold, Sidney, gulping his cham- rivals. The result is that oll in pagne. "It Isn't every day a going to and fro, all over the "The antes are wonderful,"
into the From master play; Whilta to Bulb marries
Gas- place, and the Bug of Tiki has | said Postman," because they de- brachetta.? move and win.......
"It's like this,” become a millionaire overnight, scribe exactly what the people zaid Marjorie, "Sid's loft in through no fault of his own.
Bendes Supress Service
do.
Clatter-
"Mr Wheat is a farmer. Mr Strong is a Policeman, Mr Steer is a driver. Mr Brick is builder,"
2
"She
sald" washes dishes,"
"And what is the Postman's Postman: "And at the end of name in the Land of Plum?" the street, there's a store owned Knart interrupted. by a man named So-"N-So."
"What does Mr So-N-Sɔ do?" asked Knarf.
*Mr Stamp, of course," said Postion.
And he said good-bye to Knorf "Ife's a talior," sold Postman, and crossed the street with his
saws and he sows. Or bagful of letters over his back.
"He
Rupert and Rusty-52
laughs
At last they all reach bone and Rup Much too real
**And a tudied out real Granny's liet at acking Rusty and, Rupert safe and sound is very Rusty. ** This used to be auch a great. It is far too late for break. quiet place when I had nobody to fast but alte para a special meal play with. And to think that all before them and then listens to this has happened, before: you've their hair-raising adventure, c been with us one day I' all started with one of Rusty's
THE END
"let's pretend" pon” sara: A New Adventure Begína Tomorrowe
ALL RIONTE MERRAVED
Or: "Do this when you are relaxing in on armchair atler This involves supper, ladles." panting quicidly like an out-of condition greyhound.
ALARMING
IT is these exercises which bond. Once he has found you The kitchen cross-legged floor, panting heavily the silting-room, be is never geile the same again.
starble and alarm your hus-
Proviously, he has treated the white thing ha a conspiracy be tween you and the doctor to put up his cost of living. Now, he realises that something is Indeed happening.
He becontes shangely
tume, or chocolates begin to send you strange knitted things -- in assorted sizes and colours.
A cot and a prom appear in your spare room. Your hus- band sponds his free time stick- ing brightly coloured transfers `over every available bit of palkit- -
work. Before you know' where
you are, you have a nursery.
Suddenly, into prams outside the local you begin peering super-market. You busily knit white baby wool. You even 48k people to i
The metamorphosis is co- plete. And all the people who bave brought it about fok
he anther los surprise,
at
"But it astonishing," they say, "the difference having kind baby makes to a woman?"
d thoughtful. He even suggests heaving the coal from
the coal-cellar to the "Sitting" || HOUSEHOLD HINT
room fire.
If it takes a lot to turn the the washing of pets and pans
man you live with into a lender, protective male, you need merc. ly to mention that you are pregnant to revolutioning the attitude of men by generat.
CHANGES
These few simple rules make
easier:
Fill the
hard-to-clean
pand with hot coop or detergent suds and let the soak,rto loosen the food from the Inside surfaces. Then a few strokes with a well- luthered vegetable brush will LL at once you are in your wash them clean. To get these proper place. No longer apots and pans dry quickly with- Women in a Man's World, you out a towel, drain theim Arst, are the Little Woman Fulfilling then set them on the range top her Natural Destiny.
lo Anish drying.
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