THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1960.
WOMANSENSE
LADY LUCK-
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE
THURSDAY, JULY 28
AQUARIUS. (11) (January
21-February 19): Don't shirk the responsibility of , an important assignment. Your staying power wil see you through, PISCES (1) (February 20. March 201: You will find person born under TAURUS a most pleasant companion and given time, a permanent association is not unlikely.
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ARIES (6) (March 21-April 19): Don't be hurt by some constructive criticism which best is given in your
interest.
moment is not as balanced as it might be. CAPRICORN (4) (December 22-January 20): Your part- ner may have a sudden rise in status and you will be the first to benefit by it. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER: Count the letters in your first name and add the total to the number shown in brackets after your sign of the Zodiac. This is your lucky number for today.
VERONICA
PAPVWORTH
What did YOU do
the day the
world didn't end?
I
DON'T know how. those 7,000
All these things and a million more I have planned to do.
late,
JACOBY on BRIDGE ported sitting, on Mont theo khác, too lato," patternd
TAURUS (2) (April 20-May 20): It would be much wiser to settle a pending dispute in an amicable way than by getting involved in long-drawn-out litigation. GEMINI (5) May 21-June 21): A pleasant surprise is awaiting you in your deal ings with a close relative. CANCER (7) (June 22-July 21) If a partner does not approve of a change you want to initiate, resist the for impulse to act without his and kings with five no-trump. consent. LEO (8) (July 22-August 21): You are likely to meet a very interesting person of the opposit: sex Un holiday, and may well wish to develop the relationship. VIRGO: (9) (August 22-
September 22): centrating on
SOUTH could hardly believe
his cars when his partner Jumped from three diamonds to four spades. South had chosen to open che spade only and here
his partner showing was enthusiasm.
South's Art impulse was to. leap right to a grand slam, but the Blackwood conven ion was at his disposal so he checked
aces with
four no-trump
tou
When North bid six clubs to show no kings, South realised he would need a finesse if he wanted to make stopped at slx.
seven
NORTH
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EAST 44
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and
South
1 A
4 N.T.
West North East Pass
Pass Pass 44 Pass Pass 5
Pase
S N.T.
Pass
Pass
Pass Pass
Pass
Opening lead—♦ Q
South did manage to make seven, but it would not have been there for him if he had
bid it. He won the opening
痛 By con-
diamond load; trumped a dia-
many mond in dummy; drew trumps;
details you are upt to over-led the jack of clubs and let
look the main point at
issue. Delegate, some of the minor work to others. LIBRA (3) (September 23- October 22): Although you love to entertain in your own home, you must space
in these occasions cordance with the money can spare to make
you
ac.
them a success, SCORPIO (12) (October 23-
November 23): Don't be on edge if an application to the authorities appears to be ignored. Such things always take time. SAGITTARIUS (10) (Novem
ber 22-December 21): Postpone un important decision if you feel that
judgment your
at the
it ride,
Q-The bidding has been:
the rain.
Blanc waiting for the end of the world feel now. and set
I could, I argued, be practical my affairs in order, But with the rain belt- but to what purpose? ing down and the wind whipping my willow trees to ribbons, the day before Doomsday, I was quite prepared to give their predictions a second thought,
"So today may be my last full day." said I to myself, surveying my steaming bed- room windows-but what to DO? So much have I left undone.
What comfort would a last minule cheque be to the butcher when the big bang. came
And what of the people who have merited a
piece of
my
mind and not received it?
TOO LATE, TOO LATE
"You going away or some». thing?"
How Infinitely precious ane's 'children seem at times like these. If only one could learn to live every day with such heightened appreciation!
Everything, it seemned, that long wet day wore smelt, felt, and lasted better,
35 00,
Thursday morning too the rainwashed valley in the early morning, the sunlit crowds as I drove to London, the lift man joking with me seemed specially to ring X's wife and tell her I special before the rush of the think she behaves so badly to day engulfed me. him especially in public. she'll be on the Continent: Ou Mont Blanc, probably - she sketches, 1 lunched with one of doesn't miss a thing.
TOO LATE to complain about thy trains on the Marylebone line, the diabolical housing "development" in my nearest
household
I have never had a Turkish town, the hypocrisy of tele- bath
been to Burma vision advertising, and the
costs made a really perfect rising
seen inside St Bundry. learn-
souffle
At this point, East could Paul's Cathedral. .
of
I answered leilers, I made
the finest cookery experts in lown. I finished my coffee, said my goodbyes, and hailed a cab for Fleet Street,
In Piccadily I spotted a clock --and suddenly my heart, sang!
It was half-past three and nothing had happened,
1 can still learn to skade backwards, ad I might even
his king, but East ed to skate backwards. Precious moments become a J.P.
♥+CARD Sense have taken
was trying to boat six and
be- could ste that South would seen a child born
painted a wrap the hand up if he, East, come a J.P.
East simply picture with which I was took that trick so PASS Pass
played the deuce as if he entirely satisfied. . . driven 100 didn't have a care in the world my husband's car at
North
1
2
3.
East South West
14
24
Pass 24
声
Pass
You, South, hold:
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What do you do now? A-Bld six diamonds. Your partner is bidding in minimums and while he might have the right cards for seven you should leave it to him to go there if he has those oarða.
TODAY'S QUESTION You hold the same hand and your partner has jumped to three hearts after your bid of two dia- monds. What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
Ir South had been careless miles an hour.. or sailed he would have repeated the
lalone.' club finesse, but South was well aware of the possibility that East might have been holding the king back and South did not need any more! club finesses for the small slam.
Instead South went up with dummy's ace on the second club lead and then finessed his own jack of hearts, Since East had that king also, the jack held and South claimed seven.
And suddenly, how little t all mattered.
"Why the sad face?" said my son bursting in with his school bag over his shoulder "And why the extra kisses?
Rupert and the Squire-46
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FU never paint a picture to be proud of, and I'll never, never have the courage to tell X's wife just what I think of her- but oh, the bliss of being ALIVE
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The Bug-Circus
---Cbris Cricket Is An All-Round Performer--
By MAX TRELL
"NOW
to glad to go with Christopher Cricket to his Bug-circus.
two
TOW DON'T think for une Christopher Cricket took them second," sald Christopher down the street, and around the Cricket, as he sat himself down conner and under a fence-and next to Knarf and Hanid, the there they were, in a big vacant Shadow Children with the lot with a few clumps of grass Turned-About Names, "that we here and there, and one or Bugs and I don't mind calling buttercups and dandelions, and that nobody not one some old boxes myself by that name,
aud bit!-don't have as much fun as wanted, and some battles
some old in cans. anybody else."
"Follow
right along." Christopher kept say- ing. "We're nearly there!"
Finally, at the far end of the lot, Christopher stopped.
Hanid agrees Christopher Cricket said these words in a somewhat sharp lone of voice. He also looked sharply at Khart and Hanid as though he expected one, or both. ing. of them, to argue with him.
Hanid smiled.
one ever said you
me come
"There is!" he said, point-
There it was the Bug-circus!
Looked like tent
SUPREME
"Tickets! Buy your tickets!"
Chris was shouting.
All the Bugs were sitting on bottles and cans and pieces of wood.
Christopher Cricket was the clown.
Christopher Cricket was the
"Of course you do, Chris, dear," said Hanid sweetly. "No Somebody--perhaps it was acrobat How he somersaulted! didn't you just the wind--had spread open How he turned and twisted in Bugs didn't have as much fun an old, half-broken umbrella. Il the air!
as anybody else."
"Only," said Knarf you can't go to the circus like we can."
"I beg your pardon" said Christopher Cricket
We do. We will. And you two are invited."
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looked like a tent. Knart start- ed to say, "It's only an um brella," but Christopher didn't hear him.
"We can. "You'd better buy your tick- ets," Christopher said. "The circus is about to begin."
"Tickets! Buy your tickets!"
All this sounded very myster- Honid asked Christopher jous.
please explain what he meant.
Their own circus
"What I mean is this," he said. "We bugs all saw that the circus was coming here. We saw the pictures in the newspaper. We heard about it from the Birds,
who hear and see everything. So we decided to have our own circus."
own
Knart
t
a voice began shouting.
To their surprise. Knarf and
the Christopher Cricket was juggler, How he tuggled match sticks and buttons and bent pins all together!
the Christopher Cricket was tightrope walker. He walked right across an old clothes-line as though it was as wide as an avenue!
Chris, the lion
leaped
Hanid saw that it was their old Christopher Cricket was the friend Christopher, who was now, Lion. He roared and standing on an empty tin can around and stood on his high He was wearing a tall hat and pink shoes and a blue neck:le and he was selling tickets.
elsi"
"Come along-buy your fick
What price?
"How much аге
"But how can Bugs have their please?" Hanid asked.
circus, Chris?"
asked
legs!
Christopher Cricket was the Elephant. He danced all around and flapped his ears.
And finally, Christopher Cricket was the seller of pea- nuts, popcorn and pink lemon-
they, ade, оте buttercup-petal 2
thimbleful of each! "Two dandelion fuffs," said "Well," said Christopher Christopher, the Ticket Seller,
Cricket later to Knattend Knart quickly ran and pulled Hanic and how did you like "Chris, dear," Hanid said, "to off four Buffs from the nearest our Burg-circus?" have a real big top circus, you dandelion. He gave them to need acrobats, and clowns, and Chris. Then they went inside. bareback riders, and tightrope. But Christopher ran in first. walkers, and people who "awing"
"Everybody sit down! The high up in the air, and Lion atccus is about to begin!" cried tamers, and Elephanta
Christipher Cricket held
his hand.
up
Just wonderful!
"You were wonderful, Chris- topher Cricket," said Hanid, "the the Ringmaster.
thost Wonderful človy, and jog- gler and ticket-seller and The Ringmaster stood in the Ringmaster and lightrope "WEIR"""" "That's enough" he said. middle of the circus He was er and everything that we've "We've got them all. You come dressed all in white, white hat, ever seen in any circus!" with me to our Bug-cireus and white coat, white shoes. And "I think so, tool" said Kurt. see for yourselves."
he had a big white whip,
Cricket It whe Christopher Crickel!' smiled. He really was pleased
Then Knarf and Kanid nodded
and said they would be only
What a circus it wasi
And Christopher
with himself.
News spreads quickly and Rupert's friends have come from all sides by the time the Constable arrives to congratulate the little bear on being so much help in the case.
In the end we didn' -need the Nutchester police at all,
the Squire grins. "Well, now let me take my pals into the wood,” Laughs Rupert. "Bill's cricket. ball
SOUTH SEAS
is still on top of that stone hut and, oh yes, my Mummy's basket should still be there somewhere. 1 was carrying it when all this started. At last we can pick her some blackberries ! **
THE END.
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