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This Funny World

"Did you call?”

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YOUR BIRTHDAY ...... By STELLA

and

WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 7

you can leat

ROBN today, you are astute elever dilferring High-spirited and qwek-tempered] to curb this tendency before it gets you luto deep water! You have a real understanding of human beings and your work should have some- thing to do with handling people You have charin and, with a keest sense of humour, you are delightful company at all times You Love the ability to help others without their

11 at the Ume You even knowing must guard agatrast being Traposed upon or you will And that you are spending all Your Lone solving problems for others while you FWWICS hemain untangled!

You have a deepis attoetamate nature and are happiest when aning those whom you have A Rimal deal of happines on in store for van ond

JACOBY ON BRIDGE

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avne maringe should be a peaceful

an ontented voe

You enjoy activity and cannot be happy unless

you are bay doin wething all the time You enjoy travelling, that at the same time vou ulwars will want a "home port"

which vou

return Your wandering dayn are apt to be co- thered to sonu vorlier years, for an Yew older you tend to mettle down

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+ rather more interested Can worn ses the mysteriou and the dewall and might wish to make sepuis study of it at some titre In your kie Do not become too redulous but Approach the sub. Jeel from the selentifle and expris samtal Nint of view You have the gift of the written word and should! Je life to make good case of your imagination te fertion MLINK

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+91 this date Margaret Leech Bovellet: Hoval N Popeland Peter Ten Eyck

Andrew D White statemen Marie Curie dentist Stobert stri Leafrien

Manner

Dale Owen dy. actress

To wsad the slays have store for you tosuoname, select your tartay star and read the corte

Kathy be yena Gaily Bolde

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8

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THE CHINA MAIL, ⠀ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1956.

. BY THE WAY.

by Beachcomber

THE scoring of a piece of it kept waiting This enhances

composers

music for vacuum clooners · neither the charm of social in- shows that

pre tersoUTDO nor the Case of "bringing a new realism into gracious living. music"

But what we want is super-

realism; not simply the sound of In passing the cleaners, but the sight

of

Isobel Front.

I

of

the orchestra cleaning a dirty AMONG all the millions

A works, of correspondence carpet fald on the stage. The inclusion of a road drill in un about the proposed Oxford road orchestre is a step forward, but there was one satirical tetter super-realism demands that it which, in a couple of lines, went should break up slabs of pave- strnigist

In

to the root of the ment or pieces of road material, matter. The writer anid, thus leaving nothing to the in- effect, that beauty is a joy for agination. The imaginative man, ever-until it begins to licon- on hearing the noise of a drill venience motorists, or a vacuum-cleaner, can supply the rest of the picture, but the ordinary concert-goer demands visual as well as audible delight, Do the Martians smoke?

קט

OING on the theory that U anything odd

picked anywhere today comes from some other planet, experts are to examine the bundreds el queer-shaped clay pipes found Whitstable beacli Have astronomers detected any signs of smoking on Mars? Are the pipes part of the stock of submerged

Or pipe-fretory?

on

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the remains of a recent yokels' outing? On the answer to these questions depends, etc.

Nose-bags for women

DEAR SIR,

How could a woman look her beat In a nose-bag, however artfully designed? Moreover

would be impos- conversation sible, unless she kept on taking her head out of the bag every Only time she wanted to talk.

the most poised and sophisti- cated women

do this without appearing ridiculous. A noted psychiatrast who has con- ducted experiments with man- to restaurant walls. gers fixed

has found that the women tend to paw the ground impatiently

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foreign plurals no wards: no proper iamco. TODAY'S TARGET : 14 words. good: 21 words, very good, 26 gpedia, escollen", Solutioq

DINOSTOW. YESTERDAYE

SOLUTION

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Wisdom of the ages

HE who cuts off his nose to

spite his face should Orst ascertain whether his toce is of the kind that can be dis- improved by such an operation.

(Persian proverb.)

CROSSWORD

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A sheath dress of dark grey wool by Jacques Fath. F has a high neckline and dolman sleeves and to worn with a bolt of the mme material. - Agence France- Premre.

HOW OYSTERS ARE SERVED IN. DIFFERENT COUNTRIES

By IDA BAILEY ALLEN

Buffet Dinner

Crackers Oyster Stew Potato-Egg-Celery Satad

Sliced Tomatoes

and Cucumbers

Tea

Coffee

Milk

LL over the world, "And what about the United 'A'

wherever we travel, States, Chet?" I replied. "The Oysters Bockefeller of Antoine'a Madame,'

remarked tho. In New Orleans, the oyster pic of Chef, "oysters are gourmet Maine, the oyster roasts of foods."

Maryland, the panned oysters at the oyster bar In the Grand "Remember, in Australia Central restaurant In New Y

City are also excellet!" they were delicieux served on the half shell with cock- must hasten also to pay trib "tight you are. Madame, tails, just as they serve to the incomparable oyster st them in England. In France of New England, for which you they were served on the half have given me the recipe. shell with Chablis wine; in Italy we ate them served in stantial in itself, how would you shucked oysters in 14 c. boiling

one

"But I have

questions, Madame. The slew is no sub-

two sholls put together like plan a doner around it?" a sandwich, with

the raw "That's very simple. Chef," I oyster and lemon juice in sald. "With lots of stew, go casy Now let's one shell and caviar touched on the other foods!

a do-it-casy family

with cayenne in the other" star it at

kitchen buffet,"

Is Lack Of Femininity An

Occupational Hazard?

By JEANNE D'ARCY

YOU can be a woman and dress she was wearing (sandals

Ynot

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feminine! mutebed it) was perfection. That's the sad, awful truth and it was brought home to us emphatically by a very successful career girl we met.

What was the flaw in this perfect plcture? It was a com- plete lack of femininity. Oh, she looked Ruffy and pretty but and

A Big Flaw

this was the hitch as soon a she opened her mouth she was unything but that!

We'd

this girl bet al

in a enge full of hungry Hons, Poor animals, they'd never stand a chance, She could

cope with

Her ippearance? Stunning She was well-groomed from the top of her stylishly curled head anything unct come Out the to the toe of her expensive vietor. leather sandals. Her clothes couldn't have been more becom- ing. From

the standpoint of colour and design, the pale blue

like

a

Alt Measurements Are Level Recipes Proportioned to Serve 4 to 8

Oyster Stow: Combine

1 qt. whole milk and i e. Ught cream or undiluted evaporated milk in

a double boiler and heat. Add 2 tbsp. bulter, 14 1sp. salt and '1⁄4 tap. pepper.

Meantime, beat

pts.

water until the edges curi. Add to the milk, Serve at once in bowls. Pass oyster cracicors,

Plum Cake Squares: Métusaro C. cach butter, or margarine, cream cheese and 34 tap, salt into a mixing bowl, Blend until softened and smooth, Work in 1. already-sifted enriched flour.

Transfer to a floured surface. Roil to 1/3-in thickness, Fit into an olled 7x11-in. shallow pan.

On top, arrange rows of 1 lb. stoned, quartered fresh pluns, skins left on Pour over a o commercial sour cream. Thon sift over evenly

сод fectioner's sugar mixed with 1⁄2 tsp cinnamon.

fortunate giri thinks timetable.

and so She knows, does everyone around her, just what she and they--will be Bake in a moderate oven doing every single second. She 376 F., about 3 min., or

until has gone a step beyond being the plums Bre tender and well-organized and has become slightly browned. just plain bossy.

Dust with 2 tbsp. additional confectioner's sugar. Serve warm

or cold, cut in squares, plain or with whipped cream.

The Chof's Oyster-Cocktail

Sandwich

enriched Spread with

Tous 2 half-silces bread for each person. with sauce tartare laced horseradish, chill amice and 2 drops Tabasco.

On

Working Personality

How did she get

this way? We don't know, of course, but we rather suspect it's an occupa- ilonal hazard. So often career girls have extremely demanding She is a person who hag every jobs. They work under tension, detail of her life-husband, job,

inust be terribly efficient. social activities, friends, maids,

What housework, just everything

happens? When well-organised What could be o'clock comes, they can't shed

slice, arrange 3 more depressing? We'd be will their working personality, so toystors, sauteed in butter, and a ing bet her husband would goes along with them into prl-small leaf lettuce, Close the welcome just one evening that vale life. Preity soon their sandwich. Garnish with water- Choose fast colours, Non-fast wasn't "scheduled." He'll never social self is brisk, busineseress. Eat With Imife and fork dyes require cooler water, mil-bave it, however, for this un-like, anything but feminine,

or out of hand. der soap and shorter washing time than is necessary for effec-

Household Hint

Thuesday's asininen

tive cleansing.

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By OSWALD JACOBY

WHEN

WH

defender has doubleton, 14 is often wise

SAGITTARIts (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)--

for him to play bite higher ward They appears in be a real patter first and then his lower varel ор миссени Tong In your life This signal shows has doubleton | Mose rapid autsances Con and indicates but he willing g

and able to ruff the third und. CAPILCORN

YOU?

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When today's hand was play- (be » Rifle more adventuresome thoon

doubleton aikai ed, the

Wan

Amal

missed. West opened the king profis

味します

21 excellent

of diamonds and Past signalled AQUARIUS (Jan 21-Feb. 19)—

for a continuation by playing Weigh bunness

West continued

the nine

La -Katrin

with debilities and dissiver your success

the queen of diamonds, and Fast Potential Then

schievement

completed his signad by dropping the four

When West continued with

PISCES

Excellent prungserla

work hard Low]

25. MAI

Ta Praching your highest immobil (loa AUT at and then go 45128

2. Apr

20)

it what you

third diamond, declarer saw that after It it would do him no good to ruff

in dummy. Fast was obviously ready Kr OYTETA

thereture UAPAN

AJUEN

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beurts from the dammy, allow- || importand

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North East South

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Ing the enemy to take three dia- mond tricks, but no heart telek. South had no further trouble in making his contract,

Eust should have played hia tower diamond at the first trick, West would switch to hearts, and East would get hia heart trick at once. Eust could then return his other diamond, after which he could overruft the dummy on a third round of dia- monds.

♥÷CARD, Sensoke

Q-The bidding has been:

West North Enst

Bouth

1 Diamond I Heart 1 Spade Pass

?

You, South, hold:

43833 VAR SAKQ75 435.

What do you do?

A-Eld two spades. With good support for a major snil, don's

1.

consider no-Erump;

-TÓDAY'S QUESTION

TAURUS Apr

«M«y 21 J Aine dies for starting ty te enterprio, especially if it han to do with business or professiona) matters.

GEMINI (May 72-June 22) Take Bae akantie Aggressivenes toward a Major objective In what you need See that you bend every effort toward succes.

CANCER Lune

23-July

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If you feel you have cutied it. nuw could be the thue to ask for that

TAX ST anyway!

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July 24-Aug. ¡Open your eyes le úpportantly, and (nee that you get what is coming to

you. Bedness” interests show pruvement.

VIRGO (Aug 24-Sept, 23)- You can be a little adventuresoLTE today. There in romance in the air If you want it, go out after it now

BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

Was It Just A Tall Tale?

-Did Punch Really Have A Balloon And Airplanes?-

By MAX TRELL

WIK

yerry

TOW. when [

mali," sald

Mr Punch, "there was nothing that I liked better than going up in the air in my own private balloon."

"I sat in the basket and used to go sailing over the garden wail, over the Belda of daisies and buttercups down to the pond and back."

"Didn't It ever burst, Mr Punch?" asked anid.

Hearing this, everyone in the

Mr Punch nodded: "I could playro turned to look at Mr always get a new one," he said. Punch In astonishment. Mr There's nothing in

the world very tall stories, so easy to get as a soap-bubble which is the same as saying balloon.

Punch told

ไพง

that his stories weren't as true as they should have been.

"But what about those

airplanes of yours?" Khart and Hanld, the shadow Private children with the turned-about ked Knarf. "What were they

like?" names, and Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, and Mary Jane, the Rag Doll and General Tin, the Tin Soldier, all started to speak at once. They all said one word: "Impossible!"

Two Airplanes

Mr Punch "Impossible?"

LIBRA (Rept. 24-Oct. 237"Not at all.

Combine social and buskers sets. The rewards should be than satisfying.

CHESS

Ar-

bere

by LEONARD BARDEN

A problem by T. Kardos (Hungary, 1948). White mates In two

The Arst

back.

Punch used to sali over the folds in bla balloon,

35

It was the air.

as fast When I come flying said Mr lightning. one," Punch, "was a dragondly. It had along every other plane two pairs of wings. It whizzed appeared from the sky. It was through the air as I sat on its called the Hornet-because

It flew me all around that's what it was, a hornet." the pond a dozen times without stopping and it always landed us gently as a feather on E water lily leaf. I was very fond of that dragonfly plane,”

"And what about the

Just smiled. ho repeated, own I had my

other

Everyone in the room was pleased with Mr Punch's story of his private balloon and two private airplanes. Only General Tis was still doubtful,

man,"

private balloon, it's the absolute one?" Mary Jane wanted to he said to Mr Punch, “that no truth. And if you want to know.

know something, I had

two

private airplanes."

This was too much for every.

body.

Black And Shining

you

Were

"It seems to me, old

matter how small you were when

amali, you rever could have been small enough to ride in a soap-bubble balloon or on a dragonfly

or

"The other one," said Mr hornet airplane. And yet, I "It's not only impossible," Punch, "was black and shining, envy you even for just thinking sald General Tin in a very It had powerful wings which you could do such wonderful

atern voice. impossible! No one except a prince could have' a private balloon and two private airplanes."

"It's absolutely hummed as they beat through things."

"And you, Mr Punch, were no prince," said Teddy, the Stuffed Bear,

None of this seemed to bother Mr Punch in the least. He kept on miling more than ever.

"What you forget, my dear frieris, is that I was very small -Very, very small-when I had ibat privato balloon and those two airplanes,

"Now Just let me describe

The bidding, is the same as in Solution to yesterday's that private ballcom

the question just answered. You,

South, hold;"

ARJIS VAS OAK QTS: 495)

What do you do?.

problem;

"It was made out of a soap. bubble within basket made of RxBch, QxB, B- cobweb. It was lovely Q6ch; K-83 (3 KI, Balloon, It sparklech in the RO), B-Kiseb; 4 QXB, Q-87. mardland and war fit the colours ・mate,

the rainbow.546

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