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YOUR BIRTHDAY
by STELLA
SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1948.
SIDE GLANCES
By Galbraith
SATURDAY, JULY 31
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what lies for your time and energies to basle ideas today. your capacity for always dreaming of
your executive Buntiring work and your ability beyond, and behind the next hill. and plans. In other words, utilise
ulents. to the utmost. to handle detail can be a real asset llestraint and a feeling of being all if used properly. However, if you "fenced in" is abhorrent to you by permit yourself to get bogged down nature. Yet on the other hand, if using energy you fente yourself in on a job which with non-essentials; which should be used for more im- holds your entire, Interest, you can portant things, then you will become work long for months without in
fuss- lerruption, -not a real auccess, but o budget! Learn to know yourself in this regard and you can circumvent this possibility.
You are highly idealistle and per- fection is something you will always
You have strive for at all times. restiess disposition when it comes to search for perfection and are
2
happy
will tendency This conflicting
adjust make it difficult for you to unless, early in life, you find the answer. Plan carefully, but not so at trivia, De a job thoroughly, but intricately that you get lost in n mass learn to hand over minor duties to someone else so that you can devote
SUNDAY, AUGUST 1
Your emotional nature is deep and you are capable of a great and last- the opposite sex but are not unduly ing love. You enjoy attention from flirtatious. Once you have found the devoted "one person," you make a mata for life.
To And what the stars' have in for tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corres-
paragraph. Let store
your ponding birthday star be your daily guide.
time and don't vacillate between two make definite decisions at the proper objectives until you have lost bath. Personal devil unless yo this handicap.
can be your
Own
conquer
strong
DON today, you are impulsive and accumulate the material comforts of for life, have a spontaneous joy
Caution is a word which appears living which makes you compli, ate arch diplomats not to have been left out of your make. companion all times, are community "Mrs Fixits." You fear to trend. But your ability to are many-sided in your interests and adapt yourself to all kinds of condi- often show varying faces to different ions stands you in good stend and friends, Although you are genuine you usually land on both feel when
different
yan tumble! ly fond of each one in a
nol under- fashion, those who do,
As a child and youth you wil be stand this characteristle of yours are
something of a dreamer but as you
And what the stars have in Inclined to consider you flekle.
for con- grow older you will realise that suc
tomorrow, select your as well, show
than You men,
composed of more siderable versatility and although ceas is
paragraph. Let your intu ponding you are basically artistic, have con- dreams and you will work hard to birthday star and read the corres-
materiálise your ideals
Leart to. birthday star be your daily galle. siderable business neumen as well, see
substantial, which makes it possible for you to something
2)-CH- LEO (July '24-Aug. dren's affairs take on an important matters aspect just now. Personal
in the home circle should be favour nie.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22) Guard your health carefully right now for you will want to be efficient and ready for everything now,
Your emotional nature is and you will be happiest when wed to someone who can be a continual source of inspiration to you. Family ties are strong and you will do any thing to help your kin
To
store
ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 20)- Things are looking up so be prepared to push a new idea to its utmost. Be conservative in expenditures.
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)- A friendly day in which your own
family circle can bring you (Aug. 24-Sept,
22) VIRGO
their position to offer Those in a services will find good reception fo- day from superiors. Opportunity bec konz
rent
happiness. De sympathetle and un- derstanding of others,
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20)- if you can be helpful to an elderly person. then you will bring happi- huss to
others as well as content
GEMINI (May 22-June 22)-- ment to yourself.
AQUARIUS (Jan 21-Feb. 10)--
in Devote your day 10 spiritunt The fair sex can be influential
Don't attempt business or an event favourable to guidance. nanging 23-Oct.
schedules if they can inspirational work
avoided. your prospects.
(June CANCER
23-July 23)... day.
country would be stood thing for
you Just now, I your vacation can be arranged, you would bencft.
and
23) {Sept. LIBRA
personal Combine business affairs through some social event to secure a new opportunity.
SCORPIO
22)
An
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 21)- If possible, relax thoroughly, today A trip to the 24-Nov. (Oct.
work and Seck spiritual guldance if perplexed and seek respite from
country worries A
in the day today. Relaxation by the water at
would be good for you. the shore is highly recommended.
LEO
24-Aug. 23)-Begin (July the new week with new aspirations for conditions are good if you know how to utilise all unexpected bene- Bts.
VIRGO
(Aug. 24-Sept.
22)-
MONDAY, AUGUST 2
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22) office -A favourable day for employees.
people and specially sales workers. Make a new friend of the opposite sex.
to act
be
ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 20)
for your best judgment may call An unexpected change in your affairs Be prepared and a quick cięcision.
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)... CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 26) Use care in bandling business and A new proposal, elther in the roman- 1le phere or in the business world, may invite an unexpected journey.
finance. Postpone signing docu-, ments until details are made perfeel- ly clear to you.
A good day, even for travel, if you do not over-expand your resources when it comes to expenditures.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)--
Merchandising is more The arts and letters are favoured than strictly business ven- lures. Be cautious in all deals in- volving others,
SCORPIÓ
(Oct,
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb 19)
A tine day for a wedding your own or someone else's. A trip muy be, In order to visit those you love.
(Feb.
20-Mar. 21)-- General conditions are fair but a new business venture can prove highly problematical. Better wail for while.
PISCES 24-Nov. 22)- Avoid being too adventuresome when it comes to business expansion. When it comes to romatice-that's dif Zerent.
EN
Skeleton Crossword
Lis crucword
tiin Black ures and clue numbers, well i the words, are left for the solver to fit in. Four black squares and live clue numbers hava urro inserted to give you a start.
The pattern farmed by the black *riantes is symmetricní: the top alf of the pattern matches the CLUES ACROSS
1. Whore 11
Koma, WO
Hot a pain
In the front
1t
405274,
Bad-
6-where one
of
may, and number columns 17
the front.
. Five francs
will give a cortalg Aronunt of security.
10. With only
hak a doi-
lar gold
we have n
slow time.
11. Thor Juat
fall in their
estination,
the fools.
12. One would hardly expect him
to make a joko about
Hayworthbús ho does t
16. Welshman with a nouna
spend in the Telab Foun
iss
iB. More gradusily to the end of
the shelf.
19. Though no petrel, this bird has
is muring look about it.
20 A fellow from Mocha, perhapa.
d. Weapon not to be handied
without rank, of course. Herein you may find fruit or a yemenet town.
24 it's the talk of the
tinally.
27. Dishonent cosmetic mixer.
29. Wat! No break?
land
2 Cartainly was soft water
here.
30. Cost i usually in a pic
in a way, the brucens to res.
versed!
CLUES, DOWN
1. Farnwell in A plain way of
opoaking
In the end-1 so to the limit
before the rare.
NANCY
bottom alt, correspond.
and
the two lea
So you cua hill to 12 more blue squares at ener to correspond withi tline given.
Since words of teas Firen turer letters are not used, except where They rear in phrus
must be three-letter word
3. Food clit.
A stingy sort of misky
8 Back Lorne aitort maybe, but
not neceranrliy
this kind.
Presumably this
footballer
noidom needs to ase the doctor <two words).
8. A native hähtiät 'one matght.
any
19. Apparently no may teach us
irst and the girl afterwards.
14. Nation which has a tatter on
its fing.
18. The buring part of a sorrow
Kauge railway
17. This service is insincera,
10. Can you win
fuiind
thin
animal? Yes; br the nky.
22. Make no use at an order to
start with,
33 Posible product of an old
bipel bustori
24. Bandy?
Oddly enougn. it acid FC' Aweet,
(Solution on Page 14)
Honesty Calls for Distance
SLUGGO--- DO YOU
THINK I'M TOO FAT?
I SAID, DO YOU
THINK I'M TOO FAT ?,
GEMINI (May 22-June 22)-
favoured. Perhaps a few letters will clinch some future sales, so write them now.
CANCER
(June 23-July 23)- A beller day, for romance than for business. Perhaps you can plan your vacation for the next few days.
BY
SCINDS
SPORTS
COPR. 1943 IN NEA SERVICE, UNC. 7. H. NEO, Ù. 8. PAT. OF)
"I'd rather look at the comics, Pop-they're funnier than that stuff you're always reading about the Russians!"
WEEK-END
1.
QUIZ
Name the street in Lon- don which has set the style in men's fashions for the world.
the use 2. Who discovered of chloroform as an anaesthe- tor
3.
Name the flower which vanlifa is produced.
from
4. Is meerschaum a mineral. a vegetable or a manufactured material?
5. What is a macadamised road?
• MCKENNEY
ON BRIDGE
Contract Requires Best
Of Teamwork
AK 1032
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KQ 107
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Do turtles have teeth? 7. For the treatment what disease is insulin used?
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8. What famous garden is Mount of at the foot of the Olives?
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Dealer
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9. Between which. islands is Palau sliuated?
10. What is meant by statute of limitations?
(Ansuera un Papr 14)
WAY
THE by Beachcomber
THE question whether a non- In training
Tournament-Neither vul.
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North I A
Fast
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Pass
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Pass
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Pass Pass
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Opening-Q
15
BY WILLIAM E. McKENNEY
TODAY'S hand is a great exam- ple of teamwork In bridge. The bidding was normal enough and most pairs experienced no difficulty in malding four spades, with one exception.
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Now
golfing member of the pub TN a large building in the West End lie may claim a lost golf-ball as Captain Foulenough's agency is treasure trove should be placed at work. Those who intend to apply. before the Olympic Games Com- as foreign tourists, for petrol, food and clothes are being coached. I
labic At one
East gave some mittee of the United (sic) watched a Carshalton man, carrying
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He was thought to his opening lead, labelled Bergen. Nations.
mooch The ruling that had the ball been weing taught to say, "Jaw! I want instead of leading the king of clubs 703
Pectrol, suite off clow- as practically every other a wild bird's egg it would not have thing, and fuds, jaw. I am namet player did, he led the club been "subject to larceny," but had Harald Steyper. I
bag
am
and
East
queen. manncher He was not playing the convention Smaa- of under.cading touching honours. Pan hvad He simply thought that since
was vold in diamonds his partner might possibly be vold in clubs.
It been a domesticated bird's egg it Raadstuen Feesinworks 483 would have been subject to larceny strandgade. Tanks, Jaw. raises the additional question of the Tid Alder Middagsmaden?" egg of a green-fisek recently éscaped from its cage. Was that bird wild or domesticated? And then.
of
on
top
all this. pheasant crashed through the window of a motor- at Gravesend, and lak an
conch
egt in a passenger's lap. If
golfer had larded the coach and lald a golf-ball In the passenger's fup would it have been subject to Jarceny?
ND a golfer on
п
ship.
Further grave matters
board Arithis fiorini unters, takes a shot at an egg laid by a seagull in a mokestack and driver it into the sen, may it be pleked up by the mate of a trawler, who, finding it among heap of mackerel in his nets thinks it is a ping-pong ball drop- planc? And if an from escaped ostrich lays an egg on the third green at Sandwich, is it the property of the zoo from which the bird escaped, of the golf club; or of the ornithologist to whom the cad die sold it for eight and fourpence?
ped
CHESS
PROBLEM
Ey P. SOLA
Black, 6 pieces.
White, 6 pieces.
White to play and mate in two.
Solution to pesterday's problem:
1. R-82, any: 2, Q. R. or B
tat nולד
By Ernlo Buslimiller
YES
Another
he
-In every case where the king of did not West clubs was opened trump. But when the queen of clubs was opened West trumped with the five of spades. Then he led back a diamond which East trumped with the nine of spades.
club was led back, declarer
trumped with the six of spades. West over-
the eight-spot, trumped with turned a diamond, East trumped with the jack, and still had to make the ace of spades.
re-
Thus the contract was set two tricks.
declarer had trumped the
with second' club
the queen of spaties he still would have lost the contract because East would have been bound to make both the ace and jack of spades,
bif
INSECT SPRAY
WITH DOT
When there's bif Ineedn't use my fist!
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HONGKONG ANGLING SOCIETY.
"ARE YOU A FISHERMAN?"
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ANY FORM OF · FISHING IN HONGKONG;
In reservoir, sea, stream or pond, you will be glad to know that an angling society is being formed NOW..
Then
You want BIGGER BETTER and MORE fish. join the 'society, get the benefit of the experience of other members, put your own knowledge into the pool, and give and take the advantages that YOUR society aims to collect and provide.
A MEETING WILL BE HELD ON MONDAY, THE Oth; AUGUST, 1948 IN THE BOARD ROOM OF THE SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, WYNDHAM STREET, AT 5.15 b.m.
PLEASE COME TO IT.
For fuller particulars sec South Chinh Morning Post & Sunday Herald of Sunday, August 1st, 1948.
PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS
Copics of photographs taken by the South China Morning Post and Hong Kong Telograph Staff Photographers are on vlow in the
Morning Post Building.
ORDERS BOOKED.
MISCELLANEOUS
"ARTIFICIAL" Flowers, Ladies! .do
not
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EVER READY TO AID SUFFERING CHILDREN-
Hon. Treasurers:
MR. A. McKELLAR.
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