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FRANK, O'NEAL
This Funny World
"I'm worried about my father. He thinks he's Santa Claus."
Me
usual
reassuring
statement
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1958.
JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
Slam Bid Is Hard
To Reach
By 08WALD JACOBY
"How
10
should we have reach- ed six hearts?" writes a Miami reader. "I feel that my two-heart opening was a mini- mum and that I could do more after bidding both my suits. My Dariner "feels that ho did full justice to his ace and jack by making both a positivo response and n Jump bid. Were both of us wrong of just one?"
The slam is lay-down but really very hard to get to. Tho North and South hands it to- gether perfectly And while belleve it should be bid I doubt many people would get there, To start with South's two- heurt opening is doubtful. He has 23 points but no five-card
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WOMANSENSE
THE BACK VIEW IS CASUAL
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This "tendency sketch" from Lachusse typifies
the new look that has
come from both London and Paris, young, light-
heurted, and casual.
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The look
that says
phooey to fashion
by BARBARA GRIGGS
'T isn't just fun to be young any more: it's fastionable as well. The biggest fashion house in Paris is in the hands of 31-year-old; the most daring ballot in Europe la by that juvenile despondent Francoise Bagan; and the only people who seem to be best-sellers these writing
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days are schoolgirls.
And in clothes the French girls aren't trying to look 30 uny more they're trying to look 16.
They've given up the black hali-a- dres-pearls and vell-out of date anyway: they wear no hats at all-or else those big plain halo. hats -Just like a schoolgirl's.
They've uliched the compli cated short haircuts-and they're wearing the hair long
and dangling Wonderland.
and Alloo in
And now everyone's taking DO the Country Look-the most sensible and least sophisticated Way of dressing for the cold or the country.
Vivid
LIKE the girl in the picture he idea is to build your. self up in the fattest sweater in alght occentric bright stockings-whopping full skirts **choolboy muifiers and hair crammed inside a tammy.
Even the colours are half the nge they were the fashion fore caste are all for the bright rods and orange the sharp bljes and yellows. Instead of middle- aged black, vinies, or sage-green.
Everyone's happy. Especially the
who men
have been grumbling for years about the hard, sophisticated look the young girls used to love.
• BY. THE. WAY.
by Beachcomber
ANY people, ou reading that
National Debi now about the dispersion of rudlo- amounts to £27,007,418,874, will active full-out, and the opinion wonder who is supposed 10 01
at bomb-tests scientists saltic the debt, and who gets need cause no anxiety al pre-
sent, he said, in answer
the money.
The State as the advantage question, according to the report over an individual creditor of in a moming paper: "There is a of every sort of not having to repay the principal possibility
The Continental Sunday
on a ixed date, so that it can doubt about scientific advice."
the always increase
deal by borrowing more money at a low rate of interest. Since nobody knows or cares what is going on in this mysterious realm of finance, the astronomical figures announced avery now and then are shrugged off like champagne off a dowager's buck.
Dagger in the Dark (4)
PACH secret agent kept his place in the queue as the fomfool procession advanced along the Street of the Stinking Lotus. But no, One man, Javanese apothecary, cut in,
and pussexi fig-seller frull in his eagerness to Smyrna overtake the Solopaiig dancing- girl. This maneuvre upset the
Some entire crocodile.
dived hastily Again
into doorways, others pretended to be looking at the sky, yet others side- stepped into a harrow passage dark alicy. An Albanian washerwotnat, new to the me, lost her head, thrust a
Into
Greek folded paper grocer's land, snatched it back. memorised 1, swallowed it, and WES violently sick. By this! time the intrepid
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an
had lost his way, and, in attempt to shake off the whole gang, ran into a wedding-party. Other "guests," who had picked Up the scent, ROOD appeared and joined the throng.
Elephant out of bag
COMETIMES, in an unguarded
moment, a
politician Icts
TFn mun with a bald head
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Opening leaded A
sult and no singleton. How- ever, he did choose to open a two bit and I must assess the major blame for failure to reach the slam to North.
wears bowler while sing ing at a concert in a drouglity hall on a Sunday, is he con- Not only did South open with travening
the the laws ut
a foreing two bld but Souk In realm? The case question showed
diamond secondary was complicated by the fact that suit. North should have realised and the hat was a size too small arul that his shuttleton spade
doubleton diamond' mado Uierefore looked like a calc
and North theatriool hat,
stam most likely and
should have made stronger could be classed as part of a theatrical costume. The man's second bit than four hearts. defence should be that the bat
internation
Wag
therefore
not comic however funny it looked. Nor Hlath was his song--"Puhayra My Heart"-otule intention. "A false moustache is one thing; a small hat is another," as Low lord commented on shallar eccusiuni.
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BOYS' AND
Pixie McSing's Song
-About a Buail Who Helped a Non-Hopping Gricka?---
Now for a little blame for South and I mean a very little blame. South might have made one more bld. Holding the king- South queen and ten of clubs could be sure that his partner was worried about the club sult.THE South might have bid five clubs over his partner's four hearts.
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the elephant out. After making the
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YOUR BIRTHDAY
BORN
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26
By STELLA
A-Bid one no-trump. You are
too weak for a redvable.
TODAY'S QUESTION West passes and your partner bids two bearta. East passes. What do you do now?
Answer Tomorrow
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today, you have wide together you would make an Intellectual and cultural inter- beatable Lean. Actually, what you era and are always eager to know nerd most of all is well-card what is new in the world. You are praise and encouragement at regular
intervals. never satisfied with following the conservative partem of the trnd- You have strong emotions and ste tions of the past, but will want to attractive to members of the up- It takely that you Initiate ideas of your ow You posite sex. would prefer to leave the actual will have mire than one romance development of your theories to
before you decide to actúe down someone else. Once you have given But once you have made your selee- birth to no idea, you are willing for tion, your home life will be one of anyone to adopt Someday, when happiness and contentment. someone else makes a fortune on your idea, you'll be worry!
Hils dale Aninng those born on were: William F. Cody. "Bollaio
Conta, Luto
Henry scientist: Herbert
and Dow, chemist
manufacturer; Victor Hugo, author: для Eugene Schuyler, diplomat.
Show more inflative and don't be of pincer days; Joseph La timid about putting a plan production Just because It's never beco tried before. That's one way fortunes are made. You probably would be wise to select a businESP "get up and partner who has the 20" that you lack. It might be a marriage partner, and 1 you were
To find what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read tho comes
to retut the right person to ponding paragraph. Let your birth- complement your own personality, day star be your daily guide.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27
PISCES (Feb.
Bert to postpone a 20
20).... VIRGO [AME. 24-Sept 21)-
of your health. This until next Take care month if at all possible, The pro- count bra cause forgium mood tendon of music } especially if trying to promote new idea. favoured.
but perseveres
ADIES
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LIBRA fflept. 24-Oct 2}- Investigate all aides of a new pro- You probably can benens frum punition before emborking upon it. pressing a new idea if it is wome Don't leap into anything impilively. thing you Jave been long cost-
ldering. TAURUS (Apr. 21-MAY 21) Your Intuitions can be trusted as a If you put your mind to it, you can zule, but all the same, text every- thing today for fact: ignore hereby, GEMINT (May 22-June 21)— An active day if you are working on a sount base of fact. Not good time for daydreaming. how
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(June CANCER
22-July 1)- Take case on all mattera involving Interests. If you are in
CORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)- analys why there is a delay on a project: correct it and speed up today,
BAGITTARIUS (NOY, 23-Dec. 21}== Hok to your high ideals and you will and that there are special in ducement for advancement.
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CHESS
By LEONARD BARDEN
An attack with queen and bishop against the castled king is one of the commonest waya of winning quickly as in the following game (Gobel Y. Zippol). 1 P-K4, P-K4; 2K- KBS, Kt-983; 3 B-84, Kt B3: 40-0. B-E2; 8 R-K1, 0-0; 6 P-B3?, EtxP1; 7: BXP ch, RXB; 8 R×K£, F—QI CAPRICORN (Dec. 13-Jan. 2o9RXP, RXKt; 10 RxB, QXE If you have been over-extending 11 PXR, Q-Kti ch; la K-R1,
B-nd: 13 Q-K#1, QxQ ch White rosigns, for it 14 KXQ, R-K1 with unavoldable innto.
Solution No. 155; 1 KtXR dis ch, Howlite, 20–38 chì KNO 3 R-B6 mato,
Dervous energy lately, it may have caught up with you. Get some
Veith, energien the high, Tackle any problem succesfully, extra rest
(July
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By MAX TRELL
"Why don't you come up here
Do we can hear you better?"
said Pixie "Delighted,"
HE moon was shining bright-.
b, a big full yellowish McSlag. moon like a huge ripe orange. With that he gave a light hop Knart and Hanld, the Shadow and landed on the window sill. Chlidren
Turned- with the About Names, and Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, were getting ready to yawn six times when Knif suddenly raid: "Listen!"
Teddy and Ianid stood, stock still, listening.
the Coming
Farden froa below the window of the room, a voice they distinelly heard
tinging. They could also hear the harmonius strumming of a guitar.
of
the
Knart looked out windows and called down,
"Who's singing down there?" A volee answered! back! "Come down here and see!"
Too Late
"I's too late. for us to CO out," Hand called down.
At this, there was a stirring in the bushes. The next moment, A small-sized fat little Pixie
Sad Song
"I am singing a sad song." he sald "It's called, "The Lito Cricket Who Couldn't Hop."
"Listen to the words careful- ly, please," he added.
Begon To Sing
Then Pixle MeSing strammed a chord on the guitar and began to sing
Hanld and 28 Knart, Teddy listened just Inside the room on the inner side of the window sill.
"Once upon a time, there was a little Cricket. He lived in a with his very pretty garden mother and father and all his brothers and sisters. But this Cricket wasn't like the others. Ho was lame. He couldn't hop and he couldn't skip and he couldn't jump. All he could do was walk very slowly.
"When the others hopped over
stepped out Into the yellow a hedge, he had to walk around
moonlight. He was holding a gullar. He took all his hat and bowed to the three persons in the window.
"At your service," he said. "My name is McSing."
"We like your singing, dear," Honld called down to
the fat meadow little Pixle with the gullar.
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The Pixie with the gullar took off bis hat.
it. When the others skipped a ditch, he had to climb down and climb up to get to the other side. And when the othery sprang over the wall that separated the from the great green Garden
beyond, he couldn't manage it at all,
"But he tried not to let any- one know how sad he felt when the others went into the meadow. He would just say: 'I'm going to sit right here in the garden wall and count the blades
You cart't of grass. imagine how long it takes to count all of them he would say,
Pretending To Count
"And one morning." Pixie McSing song while the le lame Cricket was sitting at the foot
wall, of the Karden pretending to be counting the blades of grass, along came a Smail
So, saki the Snail, 'counting the blades of grass again, .ch. Cricket? D'you know there are millions and millions more
Rupert and the Lost List-19
CAN
tell
Before the clown Rupert the way to Netwood there is an urgent shout from behind, The Gollins and the Cowboy have heard the voices and coma tunning back. We've been to the new coltages and doon our work." Golly pulla. "But an awful
ALL RIGHTS
thing has happened. I've lost the list of presents that we made o Curfully for the whole of the district. I simply diren't face Sama Claus without it." Suddenly the Cowboy dashes forward art points. ** It's him I'' he shouts. "C'mon if bear, what do you know?" KALEAYED
GIRLS'
blades of grass in the meadow on the other side of the wall?' "But 1 can't mean stammered Cricket,
"'Nonsense!' said the Snail "You dont have to climb over the wall to get to the other side. I know a Phort-cut-a tunnel. and I'll Just sit on my back show you."
MAGAZINE
"So the Ultie lame Cricket sat go, the Snail sald, 'I'm slow but on the Snail's
B back and I'm sure. And I'm happy, too. I've never been. moment or two later, there they Even though were on the other side of the able to hop or skip or jump in. garden wall where all the other my whole life, either.*"
Crickets to
were playing.
happy That was the song that Pixie You can't imagine how
Cricket was to be McSing sang to Kant, Hand our little with them.
and Teddy as he sat. on the "You can depend on me to window sill in the yellow moon- take you wherever you want to light, strumming of his cultor.
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