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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY,

OCTOBER 29, 1954.

BY

THE WAY.

by Beachcomber

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to tờ 300 #2, well na those .reure from a competition good eyesight,

the other day, when I was Playing against_the discovered that it had been re- hearsing the wrong test-plece for three months.

with

binet audience VIOLINIST who plays A classical musts in a Loncion

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Ideo, which 1 pam on to con- order to be able to amurO people. One day he turned up cert performers. He said. at a party stressed as a Chinese people start to jeer, I give them a bit of Bach. That drives them mandarin. The first thing he

away." When, at a concert How was a bowl of goldfish. He

cries of "Cut it out!" and threw a handkerchief over it, "shut up!" interrupt a plano fired a toy-pistol, waved his fan,

or violin solo, the musician aut proceeded to pull out

O should at once give them a bit his mouth the flags of all the

of Bach, shouting "Take that nations on a string. When the and like it as the audience handkerchier with recovered

troops out in disgust and anger. from the bowl. the Hold.

In passing

to be people said this was absurd. HEY always seem

on the way to the hockey- He could have brought the fags with him. What they expected Beld," says a Frenchman, writing Win to see the guidfish bowl about Eng th girls. As it says 's Golden Hours": disappear. Whe ronjurri mitted that he had got things After secretly observing

and there the whole unstudied grace of her move- 59, ments, the most celebrated affair might live ende!

picture-maker of the province

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JACOBY

ON BRIDGE

BORN today,

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29

you have many of career for you. Once you have set Characteristics of greatness, your mind on something you have Quiet and reserved, you are oflen will to but your idea through Hotnewhai Dustere, especially when to completion. come what may, In the company of those with whom All you members of the fair sex: you are not very well acquainted. Are very attractive and have However,

which keema to you have m extremely inagnetic quality warm heart towardI those who nee draw you to member of the opposite within your own family circle. Those mex, without your really belon aware you love can do no wrong and you than one ronance before you settle will defend them to the lost. You down to marriage, but once that Mine of humour and happsas, you are most devoted, and becoine fino homemakers and mothers.

Know Your Partnerve keen

And You'll Win

By OSWALD JACOBY

QOUTH'S p overcall

of three hearts 171 Today'u tand was used to show strength,

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"To And

what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corres. onday paragraph. Let your birth- day stir be your daily guide.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30

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to necidem, so be careful and all will strike! Just be alert. Jan

ro well with you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 21-Dec. 27)—– GEMINE (May 22-June

21)- Most aspects are sufficiently, neutral You could miss things up by he

that trouble can be avoided. If you too imanisive. It's all right to be

(June 27-July

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of prepared to meet minor upsets. #NCE but not foolhardy.

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town, and all goes well.

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king of spades and returned a club to South's ace.

South now led one of his low spades toward dummy, and West shut out charany by ruff- ing with the nine This was the third and last

of hearts.

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act impatively on anything.

WOMANSENSE

Skirt With Unusual Design Arguing Doesn't Help

A full circular skirt in green all-wool felt (by Norman Martin) modelled by June Oakes at the Royal Festival Hait recently. Loose golden cords reach down from the waistband

to join an unusual design of contemporary pictures,

BOYS' AND GIRLS MAGAZINE

How to Mail a Pond

-Mr. Punch Sent One to His Grandfather- By MAX TRELL

*NTOW

"NOV when I was a boy,"

sold Me Punch to Knarf and Hamid, the shadow-children willi the tumed-about names,

" did sume pretty remarkable For instance, one day things.

sent my grandfather a whole

(pond in a letter."

and

21 pond to your grandfather. Now listen very carefully you'll understand exactly how I did it."

A Lovely Pond

happened

"Well," began Mr Punch, "it that my grandfather lived on a farm high up in the mountains white I lived with

Mr Punch stopped to smlic, my mother and father in the In this He waited for Knarf and Hanid city near a big park.

exclaim in astonishment, park there was a pond--a

large, which is something they did the quite beautiful pond in which very next moment.

the goldfish swam, the ducks "What did you say?" exclaim- puddled and the children waded.

I liked this pond very

much. In the wintertime it froze over and then

all went Ice- skating..

"One

ed Hanid.

An Impossible Feat

"Nobody could send a pond in o letter!" said Knari.

WA

Mr

continued day." Funch, "Grandfather came down

A cow drank the whole pond down in one swallow,

words: Hero is some of the pond.

"And that's what I did," said Mr Punch. "I kept sending drops CHESS PROBLEM tricks for the defenders. "My dear Knarf and my dear to visit us. I took him to see of the pond to Grandfather all West led another club, and Hanid," said Mr Punch. I just the pond. He liked it as much through the summer and by the dummy won with the king. De- told you that when I was a boy as I did: He said, 'Punch, my end of the summer he wrote me clarer

properly led the king of

I did some pretty remarkable boy. I'd give anything if you back saying he had dug a deep diamonds. from

the dumanythings

I meant what I said could send that East covered with the ace, and South ruffed. Now declarer in a letter to my grandfather."

Black, 10 pieces.

White, 6 pieces. White to play: mate in two.

Solution to pesterday's problem:

1. B-02, any; 2, Q, R, or Kt mates.

DUMB-BELLS

1 EXPECT

TORBEN AN SERVED. A COUPLE SUBPOENAS!

- DO THEY

SERVE GOOD ONES HERE

hearts

*** when I sold that I sent a pond my form in the pond to me to hole and was keeping all

"A pond Ja full of

mountains.'

"How can I do that, grand-

the pond drops in. it, and to please could lend his lost spade and "But how could you?" asked "father?" I asked.

keep on sending him more of the pond in all my letters." ruff with dummy's eight of

Hanid. In order to cash the

"Grandfather answered. Just

A Mysterious Find of diamonds and thus water."

South

"Toll

me, Mr Punch," said "It is indeed," said Mr Punch, mail it to me in a letter.' nodding. He continued: "There "So," said Mr Punch to Knarf Haid. "Did your Grandfather la nothing so full of; water as a and Hanid, "I did just as ever get enough drops to start pond, except perhaps a glass of. Grandfather suggested. I got a pond at his farm?” water which is much the same a. stamp and envelope and a thing. only smaller."

Mr Punch shook his head big sheet of writing paper. And

“An unfortunate..thing on the writing paper I put sadly:

the queen discard his losing club. casily won the rest with Ave highest trumps.

the

Eart.could have defeated the contract by returning a trump at the second trick. South would win, of course, but if he then led the king of spades, West

Knart and Hanid begged Mr. several drops of the pond.""" happened. One day a cow came would ruff and return the nine Punch to explain how he man- "How did you do that, Mr along and drank the whole pond

any

to his grandfather.

of hearts. Thus South would be aged to send a pond in a letter Punch?" asked Knorf. prevented from ruffing spades in the dummy. Nor could declarer establish diamond trick since dummy would have only one entry. At best, South would make nino tricks.

CARD Sense

Q-With both eldes vulner- able, the bidding has been: Bouth West North East

του

1 Heart Double Tedbl.: 1.Spade

South, hold: Spades 7-5, Hearts A-Q-7-6-3, Diamonds. A-K-3, Clubs 7-3-2. What do you do?

"A-Fan, Your partner's ro- double asks you to let the next bid came around to him. You havo', no reason. to deny request

this

TODAY'S QUESTION

2is jthe same as in. Your cles, 7-5, Hoarta

"bat do you do

"It gives me great pleasure to be able to tell you everything," said Mr Punch. "Some day you snay And that you wont to send

"kwn in one swallow. It was a But the strangest great pity. "Why," replied Mr Punch, “by thing was this. There, at the simply dipping my finger in the bottom of Grandfather's pond pond and letting the drops drip was a goldfish, and how he got on the paper. Then I sent the there Pinover know, I certain=; letter to Grandfather with the ty didn't mall him in the letter."

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By Garry C. Myers, Ph.D.

FANY mothers, write of, 1 doubt whether you can

brook up

the mutual Interest carly teen-age

between your daughter and that daughter who resists any boy since they go to the su attempts to restriot her: Bchool, About the only thing freedom, especially in rela- you could do, would be to limit tion to boy friends. Often the number of times they might

together. bo the accounts are tragic and about this, Your greatest hapo reasonable pathetic, and too compli- would be to contrive ways ut cated to enable one to know informal parties where sho what advice to offer.

might meet more boys and ho more girls. Whatever.. your But of one thing one can be restrictions might be, they ought SITO: The parents can hope to to be clear and 'definite, ‘and get nowhere with word battles reasonable, You just can't and

protracted or continuous afford to be angry all the tima periods of anger and irritatlon with that doughter and have between them and the daughter. her angry at you.

In one letter, for example, The chances are she is a fino from a mother whose "nerves girl, and will come through are about gone," one reads of a well, 18 you can manage your- daughter, 16 (doing very well at selves and win her confidonea school):

and esteem. Why not look for "She will not accept our ad- the many levely trails in that daughter and try to build on vice says this mother. "Boems them? to think we are always wrong The only time she has & smile is when the boy is around, The minute he leaves, she goes into a shell. We have tried to break them up, but cannot, Sho says sho is sorry for nothing,

has done no wrong and this is

a democratic world,

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she told him to go ahead, it phosphorescent didn't hurt, etc."

1 replied in part:

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