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FIGURE ON YOUR FORTUNE

The fortune-teller

can luro you into her little tent (which may collapse on top of you) and tell you what's going to happen to you this year but it's much more reliable to work with figures,

Don't bu scared-they're quite simple, and tell you, roughly, the oddu against your marrying, having babies, being involved in car, train, or plane accidents for the year 1946.

Perhaps you have a bridal voil in the old hatbox under the bed, or an odd piece of orange blossom for the lapel, left over from Uncle Albert's wedding. What are

the odds, if you're single and marriag

26th June, the Combined Military Hos ullal, Wellington, S. India. you'll air them this year? It's to Evelyn Margaret (nee

THE RAINEY CASE

Maybe you are happily mar

garmenta.

But you needn't knit price need, because the odda for twins as many white woollies as you'll arriving is 570 to 1 against, it for triplets 05,000 to 1 against.

Odds of accident on your job are 25 to 1 against; so you'd better take care walking under ladders

CARNIVAL

∙Duck Tucker

By Dick Turner

• NKA BENVIOS, DIGIT, IL RIG 1, E PAY OFF.

"The paper boy is late this morning, but here is a maga zine that will hide you a little!"

AN ADVENTURE INTO REALITY

novor

often picked up in the most un- Hobbles bring friends who are

nry talent. Gradually We built

turo expected manner and

an imaginary world around each

stories, I picked Henry up this shadowed.

gradually other. His din domestic back- thenuelves into exciting ground Was completely over way: he palated so beautifully

Through the years we became that after an exhibition works I became his Fan Mail.

of his grent friends, but we wanted to keep our illusions, so we He replied to my letter with ali met. Then, one day, he wrote.ex- the pep and imagination of fiter-plaining that his wife had promot

ed me to the role of the Other Wo- man.

Dear Molly," he said, "I can't make Julla

sce that I write to you because we have so much in common, and it is Just a big friendship. There is hell to pop at home, I'm afraid she will leave me, and I love her so much-what can WO do? I'm heartbroken. Henry."

BY THE WAY

By Beachcomber

I was surprised to read the other day that Wagner, when he was a youngster, composod setting for Ronsard's "Mignonne, alions soir si la r

That scoms to me like using the Great plie-driver of Poole to knock In a nail for a picture, or employ- ing a ton of dynamite to pick a flower,

Reminiscences

the

A young man naked ne other day, in the awed tone of one who talks of the days before the Flood, what Fleet street was like when I began my career. Let mo CO... We act the type by hand, of course. Dickens and I used to drink together in Bouveric-street

at

the Argyll Head. We were of ten joined by Matthew Arnold, Rossetti, Carlyle, Ruskin and Mra Hemans. Further up the streot you would find Mistinguett, then quite a youngster, and acting_as forolez correspondent for the De peche de Toulouse, and you might run into Tennyson,

Browning,

Thackeray and the Bronte girls, the latter up from Haworth on a apree, and giggling mournfully ovory time Browning pinched their cara. But that was all a lang time ago now.

Choir Rampant

The choir lost Intonation and. fought unpleasantly with the urgan.

What can a solitary organist do against a massed choir? Ha can ignore the first dirty looke, and the coarse remarks mixed withi the singing, but when they rushi him he can only get ap and run from the place.

"Teas Idle Teas”

"It was so moving that their teas coursed down their cheeks," wrote a writer the other day in a novel. An at a sentimentai film, when teas and tears get mixed up In the nincpennies.

It Will Come In Handy

Cruddaaf wife of Lt.-Col. G. two to one against. J. Cruddns, the Dogra Regt: attached 1st Travancore Intied, and really believe your fantry, a son.

husband is working back at the office when he says 80. On the other hand, he may be hav ing n cute little blonde to help him. But I shouldn't worry. Your divorce chances for the The decision of Mr. George year are 280 to 1 against. She to grant Mr. Marcus da And maybe he doesn't work Silva's application for the re-open-back at the office, but comes ing of the case presumably makes home and tenderly watches you it unnecessary to proceed with a knitting little white, woolly campaign for James Arnold The odds for the wearer of Rainey's liberation. At today's the little, white woollies arriv hearing, we understand, Raineying, this year are only 11 to 2 will be represented by Mr. Leo against, so perhaps you'd better! d'Almada e Castro, and the mat-get busy, quite soon, ter can well be left to his capable hands. We were, of course, con- fident that when the facts were made public, response would be swift, and we have not been dis appointed. One thing, perhaps, needs to be added to our previous comment, arising from yesterday's proceedings. Mr. She was at

or cranes where the pains to emphasise the mildness of odds are based on cases reported 300 to 1--but don't have any pes look a bit worn. (Those mitting murder are high--714,-. the conditions of Rainey's deten to the Workers' Compensation truck with it. tion. That, in our view, is quite Commission.)

Murder is often heside the point. The only issue

committed by people who didn't Don't worry unduly about the mean to do it. is whether or not Rainey's record traffic on your way to work, or mediated burglary crimes.

unlike Bre- entities him to be treated as an get scared in a thunder-storm. undesirable, whether or not his ar- The odds are 500 to 1 against enough to die! Snap out of it- Perhaps you feel miserable rest and detention was an intoler-anything happening in the first you probably won't be taking able example of official blunder-cane and 2,820,000 to 1 against a draught of carbolic cleaner or

getting struck by lightning. headedness, and whether or not his continued detention would be well in the winter, and not lurk your own home brow in 1946. But you had better button up takenly with a test draught of doing away with yourself mis- la disgrace to Hong Kong and anion cold street insult to any sense of decency and [chances of going to hospital are this year are 8470 to 1 against. Your The chances of your suiciding fair play. In fact, whether or 10 to 1 against, and you mustn't Got Rainey's case can be terminat- flirt with them.

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are not nearly as short as going You have a 41,800 to 1 chance

in a car accident. to hospital-they're 26 to against being killed by a train. ployment. Dare we carry out an against." But don't let that 'en- urder for the deportation of a courage you in

And getting killed in a plane back I decided man who shed blood in the de-may be tempted to tuck a mink having quintuplets

crine, or you accident is almost is unlikely as ceased to be an Imagination in fence of Hong Kong?

cost down the capacious front of fact, they are 2,820,000 to 1 reality and so save his muring topics of conversation.

(In point Henry's life, and became a grim attcution to eliminating disturb of your new evening People go to jail for crime.

Kown. ngainst, which is the same riage.

Instead of that ho toasod hor For (if you're fairly grown by lightning).

chance you run of being killed "I think I'll go there, John," I about me, and her eyca would up and male) your chances of going to jail after your arrest you into her little tent looks is albeight. He gave me a dirty

But if the gipsy who lures, she husband. “If she sees dash eloquently. He seemed to de-

me will

know that everything light in disturbing her. are 220 to 1 against.

He was completely devoid of gloomy as she breathes heavily glare (he reserves a special line of fact. and above her crystal bowl, put it

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FRANCE'S TASK The overwhelming vote of ap proval (517 to 4) for M. Bidault's new

If

corners.

you're grown-up

It was his shortest, and most pathetic latter. After re-reading it until the milk saucepan burnt

By A MODERN WIFE

said to

sald to

castily

it was

time 1

The train journey was long, and I felt unhappy for Henry. I won dered if I could get in touch with him, and tell him I wanted to see his wife. Then I decided it would be better to take them both by surprise,

Dr. Strabismus (Whom 'God Preserve of Utrecht has invent ed a little bottle which unscrews at both ends, so that a wire can be passed through it. If the loose ends of the wire are clipped off, the top and bottom of the boltin can be screwed on again the wire inside. The aides of the beltle can

then be slipped hack, and the wire taken out, without having to unscrew the top and bottom again."

Elephant

with

Far off he wanders by Zambesi

side,

Preoning his splendid tusks in

savage prido,

Nor dreams that they will make,

and all too BOOT. Perpetual cannons

drab saloon.

in soma

seriously. "Where have you

away for five minutes. "Just walking in the meadow, Honry would giggle with a wicked wink. On the last night of all Julia's unfounded jealousy arose. I was fast asleep in bed at the

times ant of the domestic crisis p'll go and kiss the damn

woman- good-night," swore Henry, geaded to action, strutting. up the stairs, and followed by

$1.25 eachment gives encouragement that courage you about that fur cont. cruel fate ahe sees therein for her mind at rest," he replied been?" she would cal if we were coalition govern- female the chandes may on-down to her asthma, not the personal performance will not set him oved him so much she took' France will settle down to the They're 1450 to 1 against $1.25 each real task of the moment. It is The chances against you com- anyway, are 101 to 1 against.

you. Your

chances of dying, not much use trying to divide the new Assembly into Left and Right. Apart from Constitution

ing the seven months of its poten- making, what France needs dur-

tial life is more efficient adminis- tration rather than a spate of said the Sweep, "if that don't take "Well, car sufferin archbishops.” legislation. The political com- the Untley and Palmer." plexion of the next Assembly "What do?" I asked.

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"Ere we are," said the Swoop,

By NAT GUBBIDS

is of far greater importance "just about to celebrate the vir- that of this one. Nevertheleas France's attitude towards inter- national problems will be of great moment even during the next seven months. M. Bidault has ory, and we ave to send 70,000 tons of barley to feed them thero declared his wish to be indepen-Uttle old Germans." dent both of Soviet Russia and of "That's right,' the American dollar. Everybody knows what lies between, namely, closer co-operation in Western Europe; and that is precisely what

"And of many pints

"E sint said.

80.

"You can't expect them there iitto old American farmers to lot they git s good and andsome plu- their wheat and barley go unless በሩ።

"Certainly not."

"And they didn't grow it for Germans neither," the benefit of them there little old

"OL Course Hot "And you can't tell me that you'd like

to see honest, ard

Helping my theatrical ability by wearing A heavy isguise of elastic-sided boots, knitted knee caps, and with a virginal smile on my shining face. I walked alowly Henry's door, clutching my spongo has for protection, And praying his wife was vory 'small,

up to

She asked me in. She was small, and lovely, fair and viva- cious Will you have somo coffee?" she asked. "My husband will be here to a moment." I foll sick; I always do in life's Big Mements. Desperately I wished "You must, soo my darling hus. I played my last desperate card.

cor were at home.

band," I gushad. "I know At The biggest thing about Henry see us together you'll realise that you was his corporation. (You

can Henry moans nothing ta, mg.** never be sure what you got by Julia's large blue oyce looked moment had conte "I you away?!! she asked hopefully.

announced drama- I'm afraid sho

"I've come to say good night to you, Molly," he whispered, bending over my sleeping form, by

I awoke to a dark room, and a dark shape over me, scream- ed the house down and our- rowed under the bedclothes. I've always

und

a phobia about being seen in bed, which #comed quite lucky. under the circumstances. -

could you brow with 70,000 tons of a dollar or two, Why,

of beer workin, church-goin men go ahor.

of baricy?' asked the Swoop. --

"No idea," I said.

a bit of lolllication."

"And no more avo I. But quite the result of the recent French enough for a election secmed ta' favour, Apart

1400 true! altogether from the election, there

"Too

atote.

the crows, that alus the

way of life, certainly aint

American

And

what's Worse, ·wold the the same," said the Sweep, much wheat and barley, profits or am

Sweep, if they was to spare to oth We sat politely facing, gach up. Jato mine. Would be fatch

·with-n2 glint of a tear In moved I had."

aro

are signs in France of some econo-] follificati You' to 'ave a bit of no profits, they, wapidn't“ ava'ticay"

mic improvement and the promise "Nobody," I said.

of a good, harvest. It is to be "Look what a lovely war you've thant". hoped therefore that fate is relent-ad," said the Scep

"Look" I said. ing and political instability reced-Dried

me up

and

my and My descriptive Wire plas. And what would appen

wiro brought. ped."Begadi. Suddenly "Search me," d

sid Henry, John post-heste to the scope of "Why, cor-invaduck," said the were buying second-hand carvery stern, bristling with Army

down as it hathe crime. He is very large, and} France may resume her place in work paid the wor infg. If so, there is hope that and and a bit of menther day Sweep, they wouldn't be able to very nice, tool" He might paint discipline, and 4d to getting

avo am and eggs every day. And or write, but he had no ability me out of diamult positions the world more quickly than at

that ud be a nice thing, wouldn't to hand

handle delicate situatibaa.N one time seemed possible.

CONTROLS END

Ilington June 284

remaining

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H?!? bear in the ovenlas to keep your "So don't be selfih,

"Not it wouldn't," mind orf the sirons."

Sweep.

“You

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MYCE,” Bald. "So what are you <-grumble.

#Taint-#-grumblin.

you I can really know you? (coalinge I had one week

His wife was charming would

run with Wakel oaked anall, and deflated? stay a littlo," abo saked "'no' his mathie d Sonce had vanished.