1937-11-29 — Page 8

JUDGI

TWINKLE, TWIN

likely to be irritated by someone

thrusting upon you an annoying fortune

little fact which you had no wish engaged

publicity. to recognise.

By G. P.

(in the "Manchester Guardian")

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all sorts of ways. But what remarkable and unexpected talent for procrastination the stars in their courses, or rather their ad- vices, display! Curious that con- stellations whose own movements are so incorrigibly precise that as- tronomers can work them out for

GING by the popularity of nounce that in the matter of "many printed matter on the subject unenviable accidents and discom this seems to be an age which is forts" the position will be fully greatly interested in stars, but we attained next February" It usual

as any English winter Such, for instance, as the lament- Or more briefly (bus should be flattering ourselves un- ly is; duly if we assumed that all the in- wears to its exasperating close life able necessity for beginning an- further device on quirers were content to sit at the is only too apt to seem a bit hipped other week's work, many a man ful experiments in food an feet of acknowledged authorities and hopeless. And the stars in has noticed that distressing charac- cookery-which seems to be hark- Rest from entertaining until like Eddington and Jeans. Far their courses do not add anything teristic of Monday, though without ing back to that onion embargo): more of them seem to be satisfied on that subject which could not associating it with Saturn or any

mid-week. other heavenly body. But astro- with soothsayers, astrologers, and have been rationally foreseen

Such a state of things, if it logers, I observe with some sur- To any dutiful follower of the stars the modern equivalent of wizards.

mutter does nothing worse, promises a prise, know all about Monday, and Monday's name is evidently mud in that peep and that “Twinkle, twinkle, little star" lures them back to the Middle Ages and the somewhat dubious proposition that the planets above influence the personal details of lives below. There is now in existence a whole weekly paper devoted to horoscopes

winter of aggravated colds and are exceedingly ready to write it and astrology, and a copy of it

chills, with a likelihood of an in- off as a day on which one should thousands of years ahead should be lately came my way. I find myself

fluenza epidemic on a grand not expect too much from men or so ready to counsel rank shiftless-

stars:

ness on the part of human beings. less impressed by its contents than by the significant fact that there

Taking Chances Let Sunday And the human beings concerned should be a call for it. Where the Why not add that from now until

a bright will they be any happier and star-gazers of yesterday were con- the end of April Saturdays will see guide you as to this. If tent with the various editions of much interest in Association foot- idea occurs to you then it is prob- more content when they have cast Old Moore, whose usually ominous ball, that the Manchester Novem- ably worth trying out, preferably their destiny and responsibilities on either Wednesday, or the stars? Somebody does not constellations twinkled for them ber Handicap will probably be won choosing only once a year, the horoscopically by an animal with four legs, and Friday as the day for putting it think so, and that somebody is the advertisers in this new periodical minded of to-day demand their dope that the third week in December is into execution.

Or again:

How diligently they angle for the in weekly doses. Appetite comes likely to bring a great increase în

You will do well to make no im fears and frailties of mankind- some of us ad the amount of business transacted with eating, and

portant appointment for Monday Be Taller"; "Smoking Habit. Con- vance with more decision than ever by the Post Office?:

No except when they are offer- evening and to discount any feeling quered or Money Back"; "Are You backwards into the Dark Ages.

But not, I should say, with any ing quite unexpected advice about of frustration and depression. By Afraid of People, Marriage, Life? resulting increase of self-content onions, the fault of the stars seems mid-week the horizon will have Do You Suffer from Nervousness, They seem a fussy lot, those stars, to be a tendency to twinkle into cleared.

scale.

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Or yet again:

Monday is a day when you are

The trine of the Moon on Wednes-

if one may judge from many of the the obvious: pages of this new weekly. Look up at them on a clear night and they are apt to chasten and subdue by the prospect of the prodigious and! the remote. Look down on them ini these pages and, while they are certainly more personal, they are undeniably more pettifogging. call it impertinence, for example, to be told that because you were born between March 21 and April! 20, and therefore come under thej zodiacal influence of Aries, "onions! on ng account should be eaten." T suspect self-interest is at work in! the Zodiac; Aries, which means, believe, the Ram, must be trying to protect his earthly offspring from that last calamity of roast It seems mutton and onion saucé. a motive unworthy of the heaven- heights; but note in what ab- solute and unqualified terms the prohibition is presented. Was it by conspiracy with Taurus the Bull that steak and onions were also ruled out by the Ram? But onion soup goes, too, and Lyonnaise po tatoes and omelets, pickled onions. and even the fierce but simple spring variety. Preposterous, I call it; I shall write to the Wine and Food Society about this embargo from astrology on the kitchen's best and most beauteous bulb. But] there it is; for all time and in all forms the dutiful star-gazer (being born between March 21 and April! 20) is off-his onion.

But in large things as well as small the stars, it appears, are aut to be discouraging:

Astrology finds no great cause for immediate comfort in the contemplation of Saturn's pre- sent position. ̧

Why drag in Saturn? With or without any influences from that undoubtedly detached observer (even better fitted by circumstance than the United States to fulfil a position of splendid isolation) many of us "find no great cause for immediate comfort in the world that frowns forth at us from the headlines of the morning paper. And on the score of general prob- ability it seems something less dar

guess to an-

Equip with

Shyness, Inferiority Complex?"; "Glands and Sex"; "Remould Your (Continued on Page 9)

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