THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1948.
SIDE GLANCES
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By Galbraith
THEY TASTE DIFFERENT
SPARE MOMENTS PAGE
EXCLUSIVE 'TELEGRAPH' PEATURE
YOUR BIRTHDAY
SATURDAY, AUGUST 14
BORN today, you react almost too infuriated if interrupted. This tem- keenly to your environment. peramental tendency is one usually You work best when surrounded Indulged in only by those who can only by thoroughly sympathetle and afford it! Unless you can, you may understanding individuals. You are and the road of life difficult to travel ambitious, and carly in youth know in your earlier years. what you want and will set, out to nchieve it. You will bear no inter- vention and can be bitterly blunt and co-operative when opposed.
Consequently, your fortune 1
When you yours to make or breaki wish to, you may be charming and diplomatic. But if engrossed in some work, not wishing to be dis- turbed, you can become completely
Bo
PORN today, you share your birth
day with some of the most suc- cessful individuals of your sign. You appear to have prodigious energy with which to cultivate your natural gifts, provided that early in life you And ultimate objective and bend every effort to reach it. Success is in your own hands, for the stars have given you all the initial advantages.
even
Remember, however, that born genius needs to work hard or that genius may never develop as it should. You are high-tempered and often say things which you regret an Instant later. Then you must spend
24-Aug. 23)-Seek LEO (July spiritual advice if confused on per- sonal or affectional problems. Make this a restful "at home" day.
VIRGO
24-8ept. 22)- Definitely a waiting day. Rest and catch up on your reserve energy, Not a time to try to beat a drum.
LIBRA
(Aug.
(Sept. 23-Oct. 23)-A good day for spiritual contemplation and thoughtful consideration at past efforts and future plans.
SCORPIO
Pour
by STELLA
creative talent in literature, especial-
ly, and should utilise it.
Especially fond of children, you will want a large family of your own. Denied this, you are the type to be "ount" or "unclo" to the progeny of all friends! You women are
your
inclined toward sociabill-
ly
You have a koen, sharp mind and hand out muned against too much one that goes to the heart of a prob- partying. Avoid fationing foods, Jem fusiontly. You are thirsty for too, if you want to avold losing that knowledge and will dig and delve girlish figure. into all kinds of things so that your
To
in general fund of information becomes store for tomorrow, select your enlarged. Be warned spalast the birthday star and read the corres- faull of storing up information and ponding paragraph. Let your birth- then nover using It! You have day star be your daily gulte.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 15
valuable time and energy mending fences and making apologies when a moment's thought would have avold- ed all that.
Although you give the appearance of great industry and energy
your health is not as robust as you might over-exert Imagine and you often yourself, When in the middle of a job, your concentration in high and you work without rest. Learn to be a little less spasmodic in your work
IL
be learned, ing schedule. even though dimeult for one of your temperament.
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SAGITTARIUB (Nov. 23-Dec. 22) close friends but Be tactful with make no journey unless competted to. Let other visit you!
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20) A better stay-at-home day for the majority. Use the time for rest and the storing up of new energy.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb, 19) Be patient with others and do not By off the handle if they don't come up to your expectations.
(Feb. 20-Star. 21)-
PISCES (Oci. 24-Nov. 22)- gur calm on troubled waters at home. The domestic scene may be confused; be diplomatic: helpful.
LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)--Be con fident that you can make this day count for something important. Be energetic and forceful for success.
VIRGO (Aug. 24-8epl. 22)-♫ fairly good business day but be on the alert for misrepresentation in an important matter. Checkmate it.
LIBILA (Sept. 23 - Ool. 23)- Emotions are still jittery but don't 1ct needless worries upsot you use- lessly. Calm and polse are best.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24 - Nov. 22)— Sidestep legal action today. Cau- tion in all your activities is very much needed to avoid accidents.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22) -Perconal affairs need careful checking before coming ลด any definite decision. Think before ac- flag.
Skeleton
IN the Skeirton Crossword The
black pyware, and glue gopi
the words are felt
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start.
The luck squares Tormaxy- metrleaf vatterii in which the two sides of the puzzle balance each other and the top half corresponds with the bottom half. You can.
CLUES ACROSA
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17. For many shoppers today it is. Hobsda chalco (AVO words).
22, Middle-class stuff for artista 7 - 23. Junt's_bit of gammon, maybu. 44. A level, bob, in batting.
CLUES DOWN
Allahy tale, this {
Falsehood? Iva a legend la the sing though,
4. When to tuck in-though out
*al bed 1. ¡two words),
The barmony of mais singiNKA Applause for tricolour? Could be: but not the tri colour (two words).:
NANCY
Romance needs a diplomatic hand today. Domestic affairs are threaten- ed unless you are very tactful.
MONDAY, AUGUST 16
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan, 20)-- A day of general irritability, but if you can keep poised and calm you may profit unexpectedly, thereby.
And what the stars have
Your affections fucc seldom CX- pressed in public and you tend to fot your head rule your heart, How ever, your loyalties are never to be trifled with, for you are ndarmant against those who betray your love. You are, however, loyal to those who are
You are are loyal in return understanding friend and can com fort others at times of despair, sl- though you, yourself, are near breaking point.
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To find what the stars have in store for tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corres- ponding paragraph, Let your birth- day star be.your daily guide..
are very
ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 20)-Be wary of a summer romance unlesa you'
sure of your heart! It driving, be cautious on the road. TAURUS (Apr. 21 - May 21) Elderly persons may have it within their power to give you real aid and assistance. Don't hesitate to ask.
to be
GEMINI (May 22 - Juce 22)- Morning hours contit, ue favourable for your efforts among yesterday's lines. Rest when after
noon comes.
CANCER (June 23 July 23)- Thoughtful contemplation can renew your outlook on life. Let mind con- trol matter; see how it works!
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GEMINI (May 22 June 22) Merchandising appears as good usual, despite the general unrest, Diplomatic patience pays off right
now.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)- Opportunities are at hand if you
CANCER (June 23-July 23)-- show the proper Initiative. Don't A neutral day but one in which
let others, less energetic, deter you, you can progress normally if you
PISCES (Feb. 20-3far, 21)-Shun avoid decisions on new ideas, worry and fears, no matter how un- stable conditions appear. Actually, they are less troublesome than you Imagine.
ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 30)-Slow and steady will win today's battle. Don't overdo tugs or let extrava- gance lead you into error.
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)-Tact and diplomacy will pay excellent dividends. If you can wear a smile] while others are glowering, someone is sure to remember it!
Crossword
Luerefore, in 12 are black nures in correspond with those given,
As there is no Across, the tuled square in the top line IL alan br u blark one. Nate pho Chat 10 is an Across clue; this means that the square imme- Glately to the left of that number can also be blacked In. Words of less than three letters are not used. except in pileuses.
0. Descriptive of that unwritten
rule ?
T Wander about vaguely in the
10. Not, however, a rowing eight. 11. A mahout should be able to
handle this call,
12. Invest. tollowed by a course
perhaps, if apitt,
13. Mörg applauso bere --- distin“, - gulhable amid the clatter,
16. Elegance before "3 Down "? 18. Bodies.. may revolve on these
cutters.
20.
19. A ruler as eeen in the mirror.
tanks, pomisty, 21/Animal which' seeme to stato
Reage in a rumi, sort of way
(Bolution on Page 14)
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OH, PEEWEE ---WILL YOU GO INSIDE AND
SEE WHAT TIME IT 15 ?
SURE
IT'S FOURTEEN
O'CLOCK
WHAT?
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"I'm writing a novel this summer, and I picked this as tho ideal artistic environment!"
WEEK-END QUIZ
1. Tudch is a new baby car, Hlegal Jewish army, Iranian -political party?
2. What is Wembley noted fort
3. Which a heavier-polrok or water?
4. An average adjuster is employed in-oricket, survey- ing, banking, insurance, naval gunnery*
5. When and' by whom was uranium discovered?,
0. What does Harry 8. Tru- man's middle name stand for?
7. Can you ΠΑΠΟ the largest province of China?
8. What country leads the world in the production of nickel, newsprint, asbestos, platinum and radlum?
D. In what part of the body la the jugular vein located?
10. From what is singlasa made?
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(Answers on Page 14)
BY THE WAY
by Beachcomber
What did Eve say to Adam, The saucy little madani} ? Oh Adam You should eat more
jult.
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de- the
somewhere there was a man voting his life to Increasing size of wasps. THE words of the music-hall "Down, Mr Bridgeman"
song, adapted from Mat- thew Arnold's "Empedocles on DOG shows are usually very mild Aetna," came
affairs, with the little pet fops into my head sitting quietly beside their ecstatic when I saw that the scientists had owners. But the other day "invented" a new fruit which looks Was + dog-fight.
A St B like a pear, but has no taste.
The
went for a sheep-dog, and the motto of most caters today is No ladies, screaming rather prettily, teste is good taste," since, if a food ran from the show-ring" I thought has any taste at all, it is pretty sure the story would and with the St. to be a horrible one. The new art Bernard chasing one of the ladies of freezing and fossilising food years and giving her a great big hug and before it is to be eaten ensures a a kiss, while whispering, "It's all dellelous flavour of nothing.
Interlude
HAVE long promised myself the pleasure of printing for you" the song the Catalan muleteera sing under the Cabareu, on the track from Bascaran to Estimarlu. Rough-
ly translated, it says, and goes on saying, mile after mlie:-
If this mule could speak,
it would say, "Time to drink, 'fool,"
What a wire mulet
The Wasp Enlarger
an
TWO statute weeks ago, and half a calendar month, I quoted an advertisement for a Wasp Enlarger, and asked what it could possibly be. A spokesman in touch with authori intive elreles has sent me illustrated advertisement for the sarne device; ad assumed that the
was, to be used for the emberlincotage embobellage and Dr Wasps. But when I had read that as soon as supplies of raw material increase,.
there will be more Wasp Enlargers for the long suffering home market," I realised that it is an instrument for the highest precision work. I am dis appointed. I wanted to think that
of
I SAID: FOURTEEN
O'CLOCK
CLICK
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right, I'm a man, not a 'dog.” But
this St. Bernard seems to have been a real dog. How dull!
CHESS PROBLEM
By S. F, E. FLATAU :
Black, 7 pieces.
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White, 11 pieces. White to play and mate in two.
Solution to yesterday's problem:
1, B-R7; any: 2,.Q. 'B, or Ktj
inates.
By Ernie Bushmiller
• MCKENNEY ON BRIDGE
Lead Here Gives
Declarer Clue
BY WILLIAM E, McKENNEY
hear one expert com-
Wpliment another one on the
way a hand was played, I get out pencil and paper and go to work because I know the hand was good. Oswald Jacoby compliment- ed Tobins Stone for the way he played today's hand at the Caven- dish Club in New York City. And when Jacoby pays Stone a com- pliment, the hand must be really good.
John R. Crawford of Philadel- phila
Stone's Was
partner. You may find the bidding somewhat confusing, but that was the way it happened. Jacoby made a rather unusual lead, the jack of clubs, Remember that his opponents were in a siam contract. If Stone could have Agured that Jacoby had led from a three-card club suit, there would have been no play to the hand, but he felt quite
sure that Jacoby had four clubs.
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Stone led to dummy's ace of hearts, cashed the heart king, and when Jacoby showed out, ha led the small heart and Anessed the ten-spot. Jacoby had to make two discards, which were the deuce atul four of diamonds, But when Stone led the
queen
of hearts, Jacoby was squeezed. He discard- ed the three of clubs, whereupon Stone cashed the club ace and led another club which. Jacoby won with the queen.
The deuce of spades was re- turned, Stone won with the ace and led the nine of clubs. Again Jacoby was squeezed. The discard of the jack of diamonds would make the ace and queen good. Ha let go a small spade, and Stone was able to cash dummy's three spades to make his contract.
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INSECT
WITH DET
When there's bif Ineedn't use my fist!
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