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Lord
THE CHINA MAIL," THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
Going cruising
-not all it's
cracked up to be!
But I pity the host more
however good, at least half the there I was, waiting in the party were determined to dis- City Hall, with my curtsy
like.
at the ready almost over
If I've proved that being a practised, you might say. et can be hazardous, I pity the host more.
But it wasn't needed.
im-
SOMEWHERE off the sparkling Cote D'Azur, moving around the limpid blue line of Lati.
I He may own a yacht glowing
was so disappointed that, tude N40, there are, at this moment, probably with the sort of shining white instead of the brief bob and dip between two and three thousand little private mess a detergent company could of some, anti
the unsteady, use to full advantage In their wobbly curtsles of others. parties in full swing,
ads, but, apart from the ex mediately the Queen appeared treing cust of this sort of the digniltarles started to clap Parties of people crisply sunburnt and sea- entertaining, if he arrives of his and, after a short pause, every- of one seemed to sigh with relief tossed, reaching out lethargically to press bells home port without a plece
been and followed suit. sealed luxuriously in onyx to summon the next lucky: if he arrives without dry martini
furniture broken, be's
people exhausted by the weight broken ate, he's experienced has come in and curtsying gone of hospitality given under sail or funnel.
Above all people who would Mediterranean sturm; and what never dream in the ordinary way goal la a Dior dress with a pea- of sharing their holidays with green frest
a small miracle.
Curtsying:
other people-with strangers I once heard the story of the is it out?
even--but who would also niver must dismat cruise, made by a dream of turning down an in- beautiful yacht under charter. vitation tu juin su-tunt-so's boat
for a cruise.
Does this mean that clapping
out? If so it's a poor substitute, particularly as, with this sign of appreciation, there has never get been a "clap lender"-some- budy who could control the start and the end and because of this, to my mind, clapping al- ways ends in anti-climax, with a few resolute bodles pounding on when the main burst has sub-
The guest when telling me. WENT to lunch with
I WENT to lunch with, on whe
Hald "Never
Forgotten are the oressions from a recent when Scared to death by a squall has changed
again," but I see Paragraph shu her mind... N
Admittedly, a few hundred
And so it was on this day, lo
In the Serpentine they ruwest. I said, invitations to cruise are other people did, too, but everyone's embarrassment. Blisteringly fast burk to and rarely rejected.
who petrified ip
Channel promising to be good On this trip, however, the for ever. They willed the ferry guests are not particularly Boat to deposit them at Calais sympatique at sea, but once the When watching the jolly little skip put into port the atino- white seahorses curling up the sphere wnesened, a POW beach on a warin summer day, would devulup every time as fo they cried. "Think sodness, the best place to cut in the I'm on shore."
WORSE
lown,
One would insist that noth- Ing could equal the de luxe hotel there.
Personally, I can't think of
isnow the maitre d'hotel anything more demanding than welf, we will get a superb table spending one's
two even at this short nalive.” precious weeks, three months -- or what. ever the boss allows--at sea, at somebody
else's expense..
I feel this
one Wisy for very good reason--you can't get
off when you want to
Another would sneer that one might just as well have never left Southampton if they were going to eat in hotels all the time.
with
So the argument raged, not
Jy
even a corunumieation cord the list on board feally taken going to help in the middle of a like a hostage to a place which
LADY LUCK-
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 24
AQUARIUS (0) Glandary you a much broader outluok
un Bfe.
A
LIKE this girl wearing har August uniform-by Mariottini on the beach at Nice, I would rather stay on shore than ga dawn to the sea in ships.
CHILDREN'S CORNER
Silly Willy Toad
-He Tells Shadows He Owns Central Park-
the
By MAX TRELL
KNARF und Hanid,
Shadow Children with the Turned-About Names, had been old about it by several of their friends, Nevertheless, could hardly believe their eyes when they looked at the
It hung from a nail stuck the trunk of a tree.
they
from Willy. Then she grabbed hold of him.
"Leggo!" objected Willy, But Hanid gave him a shake and Anally made him stand up. Blinky, surprised, leaned on the edge of his hole to watch.
"What's the meaning of this, sign. Willy"" asked Hanid.
"You in don't own this park."
The remarkable sign read: Keep Off The Grass by order of Willy Toad Owner of Central Park
Knart and Hanid both let out shouts of amazement.
"He doesn't Own Central Park!" shouted Knari.
"Sure I do," said Willy, "It Leggol Give all belongs to me. me back my book. Make her give me back my book, Blinky!"
He's the boss
But Binky Just shook his head and kept on walching,
"You're the boss,"
he said. "I'm only the assisignt.
"You take Willy.
"O course not!" exclaimed Hanid. "Where is that Toad?" SCORPIO (4) (October 28. She added. "I'm going to give down at once!"
November 11 By keeping him a piece of my mind!" your eyes and ears wide open you will be able to
Way.
ber
other Worrich are dis. solving gradually,
They found him
They found
<ul
WIy was allting under n daisy, reading a comic book.
to break
their peanuts open wherever they felt like doing it. Blinky nodded.
"I told them to bury the shells in the ground or under the leaves," he said, "Moat of them promised they would.
"And then there were that silly sign
and Honid ondered Robins and the Sparrows
thewoll all the rest of the Birds,"
21-February 191: A trivial Incident must not be allow- ed to spoil the day for you,
"Aw—" started Willy. mur colour your outlook for the rest of the week.
"Go Dhead. Wiiky," said (February 20. grasp PISCES (10)
a rare opportunity
Willy stretched Hanid. She let Willy go. That should soon come your looking at the pictures in a reached March 201: Your partner's
comfortably under a daisy Knert gave him a boost. Willy the sign and took it work is beginning to go more smoothly, and your SAGITTARIUS (Novem-comic book. He glanced up and doc
smiled pleasantly. 22-December
He shook his head unhappily 21): Don't let a more easy-going |
as he read the words on the "If you want permission to sign for the last time. friend laugh you out of a walk on the grass, just see my don't see why I can't keep resolution
suld firnly assistant," he
Than 10 owning this park," he said. yelled out: made.
"Nobody else wants to own it
Gavo sign to Haald
in greater social activity were dark sunglasses
Then he handed the sign to because Hand who put it in her pocket. than your time and energy the sun made him blink, stuck It wasn't a
very large sign, can well
small his head out of a hole in the about half the size of a YOUR
NUMBER: ground a few feet away.
handkerchief. Count the letters in your
"Oh well." sald Willy, "I first name and add the total said to Knart and Hanid, "What "Good morning, folks," he
can have just os to the number shown in can I do for you?"
michi fun in the park even without owning ft.”
to
ARIES (2) (March 21-April 19): Don't take a friend's misfortune too much heart, as it would only spoil your own zest for life. TAURUS - (b) (April 20-May 26): Even though your day has been carefully planned, you may be forced to make a last-minute change. GEMINI (3) (May 21-June 21): Stick up for your own rights Armly today, fund don't let lack of initiative spoil your excellent chanCER of advancement.
CANCER (12) (June 22-July 21): Some confidential in- formation will dispel your doubts about a person with whom you contemplate doing busineAR,
1
LEO
}
Ci-
(1) (July 22-August 21): Don't let your thusiasm for a new acquain- tanee influence your attitude towards your tried and true friends.
VIRGO (7) (August 22- September 22); Your re
served nature
makes
it
possible for only a very few Intimate friends
L
Kot
through to you. LIBRA (6) (September 28-
October, 22);
Taking
ม
'. livelier Interest in the act|-
vities of others will give |
once
CAPRICORN (8) December "Blinky! Take care of these
22-January 20): Your popu- People, will you?" Jarity is liable to involve you
Blinky, who was a Mole and
brackets after your sign of "Nothing," said Knarf, the Zodiac. This is your Meanwhile Hanid
had
"Of course you can,
lucky number for the week. matched the comic book away cald Honld.
Rupert and the Rugger Match-45
Bill Badger and Algy Pug liave been searching for "Rupert and wishing he'd bring that Rugger ball but again. They aak Rex Rabbit and Pong-Ping, but neither has seen the little bear. Alay and I have had a fright thie notre Ing." says B· ** We were ..."
Before he can finish be has another shock, for a curious shape appeler ing in the sky inakes them all bolt for cover, Next minute Rupert lands salaly, the sheet je whisked away, and the first thing he sees in the scared face of Dili preping over a boulder. ALL RIGHT NIKAYED
the
What did birds want?
Knarf and Hank Osked what all the Birds wanted.
"They wanted permission to ning." replied Blinky. They were afraid they might be malt- ing too much. rolse,"
Roble and the Sparrows and Binky sald he gave the all the rest of the Birds permis- sion to make as much noise us they liked.
***Folks kind of like your icind of noise,' I laid them," said Blinky.
"Tell them about the Wood- peckers," Willy sald to Blinky.
Blinky amited,
to
The Woodpeckers came to get permison dig their beak in the bark of the trees," Willy," he said, "They were alruld they might be hurting the trees and doing it. But I told them. It was Wlity wouldn't like them to be
all right.
"And I'll be a lot tea work, too," saki Blinky from the edge of his hole. "I've been, Up đay and night giving permission to folks to do different things that they wanted to do."
Kuaff and Hand and Willy all sat down under the datay while Blinky, with his head Just out of his hole, explained what he meant.
"Well," he said, "there, were tho Squirrels. They kept com ing to Willy who kept sending
them to me,
Wanted peanuts
"I told the Robins It was all right, too, to make boles in the ground to pull out Worms,
•
Just sold nol
ппе bunt
"But when the Cals came to Willy and wanted permisalon to come to the pork Birds, Willy didn't even bother to send the Cats to me. He just said 'Not **
Hankl gave Willy back his comic book.
Knar!
"Thanks," he said to "They wanted permission to and Hanid. "You can come to Eredi operi
peanuts on tib my-er, the pork any time you Inwon and on the paths. The like." He smiled and signe said they had to the Blinky.
ail troch in the basket and ther, wert utraki to scalter the peanut shells around,"
20
"You can't really with them," Hanle
be angry
Bald to
walked
Knarf sald job hoped Blinky Knart as they both
Equirreli permission away.
ovo
*
JACOBY
WHEN THE BOSS OFFERS HIS FACE AS A REFERENCE
YOU wouldn't expect to discover revolution in
the sits. vac. column.
But for me, there it was. weight, colouring. peculiarities, Snuggling modestly between and marks.
plens for lubrication bay I would also like to know: operators and women wirers what sort of mult he wents in was Space-Age, Social Revalu- the omce, what he does in his. Lion. No less.
"Shorthand-typist," said the advertisement. Then, there volution..... a photograph of the man who wants the short- hand-typist. Not a very good photograph, more like n back- garden snapshot with the brick wall behind the face and the sun in its eyes, but neverthe- less a photograph of a genuine man,
"Thia," The udvertisement read, is Mr Peter Galling, our Engineer of Manufacture,
Spare time. what he thinks about the Common Market and nuclear disarmament, what ho har in the way of small talk,. and how much money he earns.
And anything else anyone can think of to say about him, including a reference from his retiring employee,
THE LOT
I wouldn't want to stop at the boss elther, und
It would be simply eplendid to have a sort of rogues gallery of all the ather employees.
he is looking for a shorthand typist aged 18-30
Не years. offers an interesting position in a busy and progressive depart- ment of...." And so on.
Well, that's what I call revolution,
SO CASUAL
This is Alf, our Hftman. always whfalling through his teeth, with a funny tale to tell. This is Miss Minster, who runs our typing pool with a fair but Bem hand."
Employers who, having izled the best photographers, The authors of the advertise- cannot manage to look attrac- tive to prospective employees nient were unassuming, even
could have their physical about the whole defects off-set by their captions. It could work. It will take time, but I'm sure it will work.
self-effacing.
tblog.
"Oh." they sald ensually,
"just a little iden we had for Thanks to Mr Peter Gatling.
Alling a sticky vacancy.
Our
I only hope that if Mr
clients have had 1 spot of Galling has a wife, she will trouble getting a girl for this understand.
particular post so we thought we'd show them the boss wasn't
a rough-neck type.",
1
Were looking for a job would be delighted to see not only a carefully posed studia shot (displaying teeth) of my potential boss, but also detalls of his marital state; height,
on
BRIDGE
THIS week's arteles will deal time, but it you follow these you will make t with principiés involve o principles choosing your opening lend, often enough so that you will You aren't going to make the be a popular partner. killing lead all the time, or even the great majority of the that in general you should at- The first principle to learn is
♥CARD Seride you
tack. Thus, with today's hand your automatically open fourth best heart agulast South's three no-trump con- The lead may cost you
Q-The bidding has been: North
Eart Sonth
West
tract.
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Pass
?
You, South, hold:
a trick, but it is also likely to set the hand if you catch your AK42 76 ◆KQ971 402 partner with one honour in the What do you do?
A-Bld two diamonds. A lot of players respond one spada with the mistaken idea that they are keeping the bidding low, but all they do is wind up confusing their partner.
TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner rebids to two hearts, What do you do now?
Answer Tomorrow
suit.
Why do you lead your fourth best and not the third or fifth?
Sally Vincent
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FHA
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PASE Opening Tead--YO
second heart lead will
It just happens that 100 years but u
la whist and its knock out one of his stoppers...... experience successors has proven that the fourth best lead is most effec- Live.
Your partner produces the Jack of hearts. Declarer prub. ably will duck in both hands,
He will lead
either a dia- mond or apade and you should grab your acc Immediately and knock out the other high heart. Eventually, you will beat the hand one trick.
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