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YOUR BIRTHDAY...... 8y STELLA

SATURDAY, AUGUST 28

ORN today, you possess a real touch of genius and it should

life un

reach the heights of achievement to which you should aspire. Musle, drama, the arts as well as philosophy, mathematics and history are but a few of the fields in which you could and be measured by the The degree of your succem will SUCCESA,

Whatever you desire degree of your confidence in your ability.

to do that you may accomplish.

1

Your mind is one for analysis and reasoning and you are not You sist it person ever to approach a problem superficially. upon reaching down deep to get at the busic roots and facts of Your very thoroughss makea you outstanding in n everything. world where tuany think that once over lightly" is all that is necessary for success.

you

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Intuitive, almost to the pot of being psychic about people, Your dest good judge of character at first sight. impressions are necurate and you rarely, if ever, make a mistake. You have an excellent cartung capacity and will be able to work carry on by or under others on well as being able to with yours!

Although not demonstralive, you are deeply affectionate and shroud Br great and lasting hoppiness in marriage.

Among these who born on this dute are, Goethe, poet; Sir

I' Sankey, Falward Harpos-hors, architect,

evangelist: charlotte Woodruff, netress, John Ferguson Weir, sculptar. James Oliver, inventor; Charles Boyer, actor

store for you tomorrow, To had what the stars have select your birthday star and print the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide

SUNDAY, AUGUST 29

sinties

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1954,

DUMB-BELLS IS

WE HAVE NO

SHOWER CURTAINS, WILL AN UMBRELLA

·DO?

THE LEDGER, BYND

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

OUT OF DATE?-H.K. REACTIONS

(Continued from Page 13)

really thinks English is simple or hard) of English may not be the chief factor in the problems

at all.

We

So much for the article itself. with the Iwo nced bear questions:-Does Eudish

"modernising"? and Will K reduce "modernising"

literacy?

He says we have refused, any authoritarian supervision, over the form of the English language; a few lines later he tells us that the publishers and editors Exercise 1 newspaper rigid and conservative control over it. The statement, that wo write an Dr Johnson decreed that

should, does wa

not examination. Who writes now na Johnson did-except for tun? And if he means merely that we apell as Johnson did--a very different thing-even that is very far from an accurate state- The notion that news- ment. paper editors are conservatively determined to make us Write like Johnson is fantastic, seeing Surn out English which would nike him rotate in his grave,

JACOBY that they regularly ON BRIDGE

Be Careful, Avoid Foolish Errors

By OSWALD JACOBY

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WHEN today's hand was play- WHE

in th between England and Sectiund, the South player at one table **Itw" culi game Try play- and see ing the band yourself. PISCES (Tel. 20-Mar. 20)—if you're tempted to make the

of Jupiter some mistake. Torlay

give you exceptional West opened the ten of dla- health

12.

SUSTR unexpected mons, and East wen with Br

king. derlat fashion

Fast now made an ex- cellent shift to clubs, and South ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20) -

won with the ace. Deetarer pro- cceded to draw three rounds of trumps ending in the dummy, and took the heart fluiesse, losing to West's kingt

VIRGO (Aug. 21-Sept. 23) Attending the church of elee could bring you spent joy and pleasure at Seck spiritual advice

this ima

LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 231 ...

1 car fod if you are driy ong on Want and firavy with t

1:

1 fr the other fello

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22. Wind up a pleasant week al it away from hotie, kt only

laacol

'71

231

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Der.

22)-Sorte

art-time!

are internet

with

th

-

rellent, but #f

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aretut you will be able to go along

CAPRICORN (Dec.

23-Jan

20)—This can be

best day this

of the Olt:

th Enjos

yourself, but take time out

make buture plans

Your Job valls fot working

Sunday then this could turn at to be a propitious time for

linnal profits.

TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)-

sure that you do not forget otandhing of read importance. Chek over your render 1st

entally, at least

GEMINI (May 22-June 21)

pood, setive day, vel vou must

Wanted That enly uite- Balkhens and city will get sea what you wan31

CANCER (June 22-July 231—

Cot permit haste to thrust you or impulse to cause to disregard suportabi Dash delach.

(July 4.Aug. 23). optimistic. philosophten! AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Mar. 191 An

will bring All tony You may find it wise to seek

into your gunp. spiritual advice in a muniter of decroups over

importara e .. Kreat

V DOL Now get what you want unit of

activiib

If

..

hose und combinations of DORN today, you are inter B

whimay, caprice, bright humour, yet with serious atuludes toward all the serious things of life. You seem to divide all of your working day, when you are austere iving into two parts

and devoted to the business of making money or gaining tome and saccess in your profession, and your playtime hours, when you forget everything except having a good time * entstequently are able great deal of energy Things at one tart the sie im

You have a le to many

You

You are fund of people and are a time host or hostess

your own home to enjoy steal life but prefer entertaining in poing out for the evening and attending public entertainments. I likely that you will cultivate a gruigi of people who have the exclusion of similar interests and enjoy their company to

Foud of musde, literature and my and equatextances,

pation or an appreciative audience arts, you may become e Father than a perforiner or active participant

the

Your fortune seems to rus in eyeles Learn to take advant- age of the favourable periods but avoid emanatting yourself to Important decisions during the month of May. In marringe, wed someone born under Scorpio, Libra or Sagittarius for such is apt to be the most congenial.

Maurice Macterlink, Among those born on this date are

Holmes, Wendell Oliver

nuthor: John Locke, philosopher.

G. Brownlow philosopher, Albert etue of Virginia and Wm

f Tennessee. statesniti.

To td what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, selvet your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide

MONDAY, AUGUST 30

VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23) try to make up for

then. Good ideas should be a dime a

lozen, so select the best and

Put operation.

Into It

one

lost

Would you play it the saune

I 320 way up to this point?

Itter have an alibi realy yourd

you're

to Roing

до

#town.

West took the heart esse with the king met led the queen of clubs, forcing out decinrer's int rump. Duminy still had a fusing club and

losing diu-

mond, and there was no way to prevent the loss of four tricks. It's quite all right to draw three rounds

but Trumps.

WEST

443

K 100

• 10 9 2

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NORTH

4K 702

♥J703

• 35

10 95

EAST 4985

42

AK74

K876

AQJ432

SOUTH (0)

A AQJ ID

♥AQBS

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Q863

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North-South vul. South West North

24 Puss འ་ .Poss 3

Pass Pats Opening lead-♦ 10

East

Pass

Puss

Pass

there is no excuse for waking the heart nesse medlawly. South must lead a diamond to knock out the ace.

It the opponents return clube, South rufs the best defence, with his last trump and cashes the queen of diamonds in order to discard dummy's last club. It is then easy to cash the ace of hearts and lead heart towards cumy, giving up one trick in the suit. By this line of play. one heart declarer loses only

twu

no diamonds and

and

clubs

♥CARD Sense

both Q WITH

sides vul- nerable the bidding has been: time North

Eart South West Diamond Double

GEMINI (May 22-June 21)- Immediate You may judiciously combine business and plensure if at all times you keep your wits about

LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct 23) - you. You should be able to' trust your hunches today. Act upon whatever comes to mind,

You, South, hold: Spader Q-7- 4, Hearts K-6-3-2, Diamonds J- 10-2, Cluba 6-3-2. What do you do?

all thing

A-Pass. Your hand is weak, but you ate about as well pre- CANCER (June 22-July 23)~pared for diamonds as for any - Brst. You can be confident that

you do today, on the job, will bring its

compensation proper SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)- and even a profit. Even if the flow of ideas appears

LEO

It will be right

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TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding is the same in the question just answered, (July 24-Aug. 23) You, South, hold: Spades K-7- at its penk for you, it Is im- Sift your bright ident care- 4, Hearts K-J-3-2, Diamonds Q- portant that you become highly fully today, for you may find 10-2, Clubs K-9-2. What do you

some are much better and more do? selective.

practical thon others!

SAGITTARIUS (Ñov. 23-Deo, 22)-At home-but on the job an in- especially make use of novation in advance yourself.

procedure

to

Answer on Monday

DARTWORDS

HE word HOR START

T (Deo. 23-Jan.

CAPRICORN 20)-Investigate the detalis of a suggestion made to you by an- Be other before adopting it very sure it la right.

AQUARIUS (Jan: 21-Mar. 18)' -A single, bright Ides today could pavo the why to your fame and fortune, so be on the lookout for it.

PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)- One of those Umes when your brain is superactive and sens tive to all impressions. Select only the bea Idans.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr; (20) →→→ You should have the green llaft for anything that you want to do now. Make excellent progress in your career.

TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 31)—

24 during Mila early morning hours. Don't

GOBLIN provides a spiritod beginning

to today' Dartwords. HERE

and from this nobgoblin you set off to resca the HPIDER In the middle of the circle. To get Shero, by way of thy other 48 worde, you must arrrage them, RO, DIET the relationship between each word and the ons suext to it in governed ny one of six rules.

RULES

„The word may be an anagram of the word that precodon 160

El. 13 may be ano mm of the word that

adding ons letter to o subtracting, one felter, Pross, or changing ond letter in the preceding WORL JK It may be associated

the preceding-word in

newooding worA A TRUSS

AM: HORGORMILLIS,

HAVER BLACK

PRUCE CAN

prooeding - Words 12cm

typical 12000Mion of words

2 or

on Page 30)

The spread of Bleracy in the Soviet Uusint I surely far mons duc to the Chot that the government spent much more money on education than ever the Tiars did than to any Leninist "remodelling" of the Innguage.

For Russian still has

I

I 'should give a' firm "No" in reply to both questions, and will confess to TIS much prejudice in both cases an you please to charge me with

not suggesting that the English language is perfect. I should not object to some minor changes in spelling, but I should

education. If you pay a teacher less than an liternto bricklayer, what can you expect? Will the children find in their homes น hook worth reading? If you regard reading something you are made to do at school, but never as something which can give you endless delight, will you ever read for your- self?

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What chéouragement is givòn Or to to the children to read? think? Governments and nowa-

in papers are interested

paganda and "sensation," not th promoting thought or Intelligent interest. Everything is done to make the rising generation mentally Jazy. Apart from

the schoot, the chiết "educa- tional" Influences upon the

to his eyes.

not expect them to diminish child are those which appeat not

My fundamental tentions to "modernining" are The pictorial newspaper, the

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the

com cinema,

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why

Any

illustrated

All the

iwo. First, that language is a living thing of extreme

magazine, the comic strip, plexity, and it is far better television, the nidvertisement leave it to grow in its

hoarding-In them as i has done in the past; and appeal is made through pletures,

Uus mum

The muin not through words. a larger alphabet than English.

case "Improvements” and initely more inflexionis, suggested by authority wifi be function of the radio is to play the Russians can tackle illiteracy

reither used not worth

using, musle so as to make thought or Wiren why

I regard the should the Sveundly.

convermilch impossible. notion successfully, English, with a inngunge which

At all that thi

in- things are Inevitably

it talks, we switch it off. costs we must not think. Mr Barkley calls "a miracle of

proved by modernising them as practical ximplicity." And it No

the vulgar

the age failney of hard? When he speaks of Eng-

My brother ance

ance streamlined fish children leaving school at

an ordinary ittle to h.p. car the nge of it after ten years of

until it went like the wind, and compulsory education, one ought

Coured!

ftum lordly WHY tube chuiritable enough to

Dalmiers in traffic blocks like a SUDK

a misprint.

rocket. We undoubtedly went from place to place a good deal faster But the fact that all conversation WAS Impossible, that my ferent rested on the

that there was a plugs, and

mo

the

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windscreen. forbadi.

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them

regard the experiment mprovement

language

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English

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The English langunge paratox 迪 simpler than the French Russla, lett (we

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which the French, and

most continental langunges, re-

presume

else why all the use " English Iterate His children are less

to make the English remedy is language even somplert it does not occur to hum that the comTR ~ parative case or difficulty for Ft 25 hard 14 kw whether he

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of

words There re even that "miracle of practical simplicity," the English language, is too hard for us. But, raya Mr Barkley. wo ean "streamline" it for you. Alas, what a vast amount is given educational crETRY "making it easier for the child.

of to

The giving him

to master and the means his difficulties, Recently a corn- mission of psychologists, no doubt after a well-paid six months The public

utnounced expense, that to write un a green board things with blue ehalk made

than with casier for children

blackboard. This white st to

well-intentioned rubbish

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for

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to Rive words, the lenses thousand three, the alphabet to a dover letter, the

Kramner

To half -And then puge

perhaps our children will be able to read it.

Finally, I should like to stress But it won't be worth reading.

most articles 28 in that. at the whole heritage of our

popular consumption, only literature from Shakespeare to

hair of the picfure is presented, Churchill will be a closed book. Magnificent

or stressed. (Mr Barkley

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of

"Ike wildfre" | "LAOS" English spread proving

the things-Unl

educational medium all "VIET-NAM” as an fatuous faith of today--and no over the world. But as it doesn't doubt we could have English

Bt in with his preconceived con- reduced to half a dozen simple clusions.

he drops if quickly). learned But could be

it is also a fact that the by an intelligent ape in six people who can read are reading "ANADYR" weeks. and reduce the illiteracy more and reading belter than "TRAQUADDY" of English children by perhaps they ever did. When "Penguin" 50 percent,

books sell translations of Homer und Euripides by the end of thousands, there is no

need to be too depressed.

The

noises which

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lining" that language exists to language is nó bar, but sh

do I

make not

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open

express thought

not gateway to the richest Hterature pretend to know why so many in the world. I hope, Indeed, English children cannot

read that they find out why the child- well. I could suggest that the reu don't rend well. But I would dislocation of schooling during wa

wager a large such that "atteam- the war years has something to Bring" the English language do with it. the overcrowded will

more classes; the poorly paid teachers; iterate" nation in any valuable and above all the fact that the sense of that word, but will children come front literate

simply dissipate the riches of our homes.

I remember in 1935 or finest national heritage. 1938 the Government of the 1. B-K14, threat 2, KI-KG (dis day sakl that it could not afford

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