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THE CHINA MAIL,

TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1957.

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This Funny World

"Eenle, mecule, miney, moe--"

VOTERS

Sanshan

MaNangki Syndicate. Ing-

BY. THE

THE WAY.

by Beachcomber

HAVE just read of a very moment's prace, the seat should pretty idea which is being say, 'Good day," and begin to tried In America. If you buy sing a mournful love song. You stamp from a machine the may one day be able to watch machine thurks you.

yourself going to sleep On television screen which says, in England there is far too "Hello, everybody!" 10 times a much privacy und tar tco minute. Even the cut you boll Hittle talk. The politicians and in the morning will address you the radio do their best, but we courteously, and the saucepan

disembodied need

voicea

all will bid it goodbye wher Y'EMI over the place. A cigarette-bul! lift it out with a spoon which deposited in a litter bl should makes jokes. produce

A

talk about civic

ore

the difference

consciousness,

from ness, and voices

walls and This makes all refuse dumps and trafle glits should tell us what kind of weather we are having, what time it is, and what the answers to the 50 questions asked twice an hour by pave- If you sit down mein radios. on a seat in the park for

JACOBY

ON BRIDGE

WITHOUT the researches

of

Industrial statisticians you that might never have known there are 174,08) bubbles in pint of soda water. But does that

mean

bubbles that me visible at one given moment, or the total number of bubbles appearing until the effervescing is finished and the weary little fellows vonist? And does include bubbles which come up, bob up a go down, and then second time, like a stage army behind

wall? The next step is to classify the bubbles cording to size and weight. Can

it

c-

Right Discard Sets you off hand, state the average

Up Slam

By OSWALD JACOBY

TN today's hand, Al Sobel, a leading American player, capitalisedi on an opponent's mistake and thus brought home a very difficult slam contract,

West

breadth of Д five year-old horse's whiskers?

Nothing to do with me

Through the large French widows one glimpsed gardens blazing with flowers.

(Morning paper.) "LASS widows, velly likely," vouchsafed a passing

opened the king of Chinese, hearts, and dummy won with

the nee. Sobel jed a low spade Prodnose: The joke falls very from dummy and finessed

theft when it becomes

obvious

queen from his land, losing to that the word widows is a mis- the king. West was now so over-print.

Myself: Not at all. It is the

ass, that

anxious to defeat the contruct that he tried to cash the queen of hearts. This gave declarer misprint, you

the chance to make the con- tract.

Sobel ruffed the second heart, led a club to dummy, and dis-

WEST

AKB

KQ 10 4

NORTH (P) 20 AJT VAJS

A?

#AK9852

J84 174 4QJ84

SOUTHI

EAST

432

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◆ K932

410

MAQ 10988

Q1005

473

North-South vul.

North

1

Pasa 34

Pass

Seat South Went Pats 14 Pasa Pass Pass

Pass

P183 Opening lead-❤ K

corded his

other club on the Jack of hearts. This discard was the key play.

South could now ruff the second round of clubs, enter dummy with the jack of spades and ruff another low club. Sobel then drew the rest of the tramps and got back to dummy with the ace of diamonds .In order to run the rest of the clubs and discard all of his losing dio- monds.

♥+CARD Sensens

Q-The bidding has been:" South West North Bast

1 Diamond Pass 2 Hearts Pass

?

You, South, hold:

MAJ42 WKB4 SARJ94 42

What do you do?

A-Bid two spados. You expect

to raise to five hearin later, than

virtually demanding a nism.

TODAY'S QUESTION

The bidding has been,

North East South West

1 Diamond Pass Heart Pass JNT.

Pass .7

You, South, hold:

the joke.

Prednose: Exactly.

makes

Withou!

the misprint there is no joke. Therefore

Myself: Yes, yes, yes. leave it at that.

TARGET

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No plurala; no words, no proper Kates. TODAY'S TARGET: #2 words, good 20. words, very good wortle, excellent. Solution

morrow.

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by LEONARD BARDEN

From a Russian tournament.

Widle to move and win quickly.

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YOUR BIRTHDAY

TUESDAY, JANUARY 22

STELLA

aban you

BORN, today, you are usually the good brialnem suvorm. You seem to optimist. No matter how badly be quite fortunate and know-how things are all the moment, you to keep offles, matters to yourself, always seem to look at life through. As confidential adviser, you would rose-coloured glasses and hope for do well in any undertaking. You the best. You are essentially the are more strong-willed romanticle instead of the reallas, might; at firal appear and you can and there is much of the artistic become very stubbum, indood. temperament in your makeup. You you are crossed. Guard against have definite literary talent, be it making, promise which you cannot for drama, prose or poetry, AL- Krẹp. You are so hopeful that you though endowed with a

bellove anything is possible! Better, critical sense and ofte * biting

however, to promise less and deliver tongue, you have the wit and charm moret which makes it palatable.

keen

You of the fair sex are fond of bešutiful clothes and fine fowels, You should guard againat extra- vagancs in this regard and come to realise that clothes are not the only thing in life! Affectionate and romantic, you will probably have a number of romances before you will want to settle down to the selection of any one person as a marriage partner. Be sure that you pre not carried away with romantic sentiment during courtship or you may find that marriage bilage rade awakening!

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You men, although more interested in your career than in making a lot of money, will still have a fairly

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Among those bòm on this date wern: "Heinrich Abel, atorian Henry VII of England: Lord Byron, poet; Franch Bacon, ewanyist; David W. Orikh, producer: Constance Collier and End Bennett, actremos; Copernicus, mathematician; Konrad Bercovici, author, and Conrad Velds, actor.

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To find what the stars have stare for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corre sponding paragraph. Let your birth- day star be your daily guide,

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 23

AQUARIU

The stars ду everything auspicious for starting BOTTLE BOW enterprise. The road should be wide open for success.

PISCES (Tab.. 20-Mar. 20 You may be the peacemaker Da some family dispute, Put all your efforts into

compromising

differences.

ANIES

(Mar.

21-Apr.

20)

DA

A now contact, either social business, now may set you out on the right track. Introduce a bright, new idea.

21)-

TAURUS (Apr. Hi-May In presenting » project, deal with. thas its authority and get a de ellen from the one who 3 directly in charge,

GEMINI (May 12-June 21)- It invited to join some organisa- tion, you might discover that it is an important move for you to make At this time.

CANCER (Jua 22-July

27) Church activities may be demand- ing your energies in putting over some affair. Give of

your time generously.

(July

24-ABE.

سرة

LEO All partnership affairs

ртогрет This is especially true of Business associations where co-operative efforis pay.

VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)--- Buste affairs should be looking up for you. There may be a pro- melion or a salary, raise in prospect Yury-Boon

LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct 21)-

If you have been attending a series of lectures, then the one tonight may prove of special interest you.

to

WOMANSENSE

Topped with an extra short bolero, this figure-mould- ing evening dress is in white satin. The hat is covered with a tulle veil with a long train as that of the dries. The hure muff is trimmed with white fox. From Nina Ricel.–Agence

France-PressO.

How To Keep Ahead Around The House...

By ANNE SCOTT-JAMES

Bdecoration:

London. *། moke French-hendect DIG and good' nows in curtains-that is, curtains which provide their own finish at the YOUR top without revealing hooks or NEW

HOUSE IS DE rod, SIGNED TO BE CLEAN. "Or hang curtains an

rod which is a, 'decoration In itacjf. have done this with

blue linen curtains in Shelagh Parnell's nursery. The result is feminine and hygienie,

The younger decorators are chucking out pelmets, bringing In blinds, casing out wallpaper, bringing in paint....using a a hundred new ideas, fabrics, surfaces, to give you clean rooms without any loss of sheer and chintz prettiness.

"Or 1 make mock curtains bilnds. Annc Gunning has chintz bllads in You can still have frilled her new fint, framed by mock muslins if you like. Flowered curtains of topaz coloured raw

cottons if you like. Patterned silk." walls If you like. But you'll be able to keep them as clean as if you lived on the top of on Alp,

ON WALLS: "I am using more paint on walls and less wallpaper-never wallpaper in the living-rooms, But If you ke It in a bedroom or liall, then have it varnished for washability,

I have been talking to designer John Siddeley, who is decorating some of the prettiest "I am using a lot of what houses for the prettiest women,, I call 'dragged paint," Suppose (Mme. Mendoza, Mra John you paint a wall pale pink- Word, models Anne Gunning then you all your brush with and Shelagh Wilson, who is darker pink paint and drop is now. Mrs Charles Parnell.) down the walls to give R Here are some of his best soap- stippled pattern." and-water ideas:-

ON CURTAINS: "11 think pelmets and valances оге Anished," he said. "They collect dust and can be a nightmare to get up and down. design all my curtains without them.

THRIFTY BEEF TARTS

IT'S a

wise homemaker extra_tarts not eaten at dinner

lor and sorved cold the next excellent thrifty beef cuts day, either in the lunchbox, or that offer the same high for snack. nutritional value at prices much less than the luxury cuts. Good ground beef is a wonderful budget-boon if BAGITTARIUS (Nov, #3-Dec. 24)- used with a bit of imagina- Not the time to indulge in golytion and ingenuity.

SCORPIO

(DEL 24-Nov.

22) Attending a night course in your feld of specialisation can be made to pay good dividenda.

or rumour. Be outspoken and Trank

in all your relations with others.

CAPRICORN

(Dec, 23-Jan, 20)— This can be A romantic day for you. Joy and happiness are your for the paking.

Push to one

ON MUSLINS: "I never make musiins which are a complicated sewing job, I think dressing- inblo skirts or bed valances should clip on and off, and I ilke them with a lining under- 'neath which is pretty enough to be

seen while the muslins are off for washing.

new

}

"For net curtains I use the aluminium rallways and plastic runnery which can't damage or rust the net."

Other attractive ideas I havo scon in rooms dsigned by John Matching, chintzes Siddeley: and wallpapers (French); an ancient wooden dining table rally well marble-ised (looks very Venetian); roses cut but of chintz and appliqued on to white nylon (casy to do yourself).

And designed by his French wife, Jacquelino beautiful carpet speelally

woven in Iroland with a pattern of rows -ALICE DENHOFF, Dresden plates.

until

Push to one side and sear 1 lb. Spoon off excess fat and add 1⁄2 tsp. salt, 1⁄4 tsp. each

pepper and thyme and 4 e. catsup. Fill pastry cups with meat mixture and fold pastry Hamburger Tarts

edges over filling. Bake at 400° To make a tarte, make pastry F. for 35 to 40 min, or

pastry is delicately browned. with 5 c. flour, top, salt, 2/3 c.

For a decorative touch to give 5 tbsp. cold water. Rell to 1⁄4 in, thickness. Cut in the dish a party air, place strips 5-in. rounds and fit in 8 of pimiento crisscrees on top of muffin tine. In 2 tbsp. hot fat, each tart before serving. Serve Consider, then, the idea of cook 1⁄44 c. each finely chopped with sauce made by heating

of mushroom serving the family a batch of celery and minced onion and 3 tin cream Hamburger Tarts.

no tbsp. minced green pepper. Cook with c. milk. problem about leftovers, as any for 5. min.

There's

BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

Tree-Climbing Query

-When You Reach the Top. Where Can You Go?--

By MAX TRELL

I wasn't easy to do but Knarf and Hanid. the shadow chlidren with the turned-about names, finally managed to climb to the top of the big garden froc,

"It's lovely up here," Hanid.

sald

"I can see far and wide," said Knarf,

Knart sat júmself down on one branch and Hanid sat her self down on another,

"Look at us!" shouted Knarf, "We've climbed to the top of the tree!"

Family Of Chicks

Just then a hen, who was going by with her family of chicks, stopped and looked up.

"What's all that noise about?" the Hen cackled.

go any

"What thing?" asked Knarf. "That you can't higher once you've reached the

top of the tree," said Hamid.

Just then a Sparrow alighted on the branch next to them.

"Just look at us," Hanid said to the Sparrow. "We've climbed all the way to the top of this free

now we're dis- appointed."

"Disappointaxi?" Snid the Sparrow. "Why should you be disappointed? Is there any- thing wrong with this tree?”

Hanid explained that now of the tree they couldn't go any that they had reached the top

further.

can

"What's

ail that noise?" cackled the Ifen.

the branches of the tree, up near the top. Knarf and Hanid could Sto all the flowers in the "Or course you

go gardens, all the birds and bees, further," said the Sparrow. ol the grasshoppers ocd Knart and Hanid looked very crickets, They could even see surprised.

the Hen and her chicks climb- "Just watch this," said then up to the top of a little bli

and standing there, Sparrow.

And with that the Sparrow "Don't you see?" sald Knarf new straight up into the air.

and higher, higher

unut "I'm up in a tree."

disappeared from sight,

"So am I," said Hanid. "Cluck," said the Hen, "So you're both up at the top of that tree.

that?"

What's the good of

he

her chicks" said Hanid to "Just look at that Hen and Knorf. They've climbed to

the top of that little hill but they can't go any further either. Inarf and Honid looked at They're no better off then we each other and sighed.

Pleasant Placo

ore."

Sure enough,

they saw the Hen shooing her little chicks "I wish we could fly," sald down the other side of the hill. Kharf said it was very good, Hanid. "Then there Hanid agreed with him and sold be any trouble at all going saying: "Get along, my dears, wouldn't They were sure they heard her she would rather be up at the further than the top of this you can see there's no other top of a tree than down below tree under 11,

1

"Cluck," said the Hen again, "Once you get to the top of the tree, you can't go any further, The only thing, you can do is | come down again. There's no sense to it at all."

"No sense to it at all, no aeneo to it at all," chirped all the little chicks, as they all clustered around their mother.

Wasting Time

"Come along, my dears," the Hen said. "We're just wasting timo here," and sho

shooed them along with her wings.

Knarr and Hanid, watching from the treo, saw them all go.

Hanid folt very hurt. She

was sure that she and Knarf

had done quite a good thing in climbing to the top of the tree. It didn't com, sight for.. tho Han' not to praise them

Solution to yesterday's She's just jealous because ahe can't do it horself," Honid

ASES OKQ8I3: 402 4874 | problem;

What do you do?

Answer Temetrov

1 B-Kt5-mcyrlous double Black | finally asld; to: Knart."But she self-pins,

da_right "abówi one thing”

place to go than down."

In spite of everything, it was That made Knarf and Hand very pleasant indeed, altling in feel much better.

Rupert and the Old Chimney-36

he sys. Mrs. Bear sulles quietly."

you can, Rupert,"" he begs; !" More Our chimney's used for ita wonderful things seem to happen proper purpose, she answard,

lard and

soup

Whiteaways JANUARY

Stocktaking

Pater's joy snow completa.

chimney like that in our cottage !"

++

Do come and seg ua na ɑfter 'au

At

Both

Stores

in an hour if you ska hera ihan?" and that's good enough for me.

in all the rest of the year."!

Now, dorna and tell your story, to

Rupert thanks him and then mans.... Daddy," s

home to tell his : MommyAllTHE END, about it. **I do wish we hid ■ A. New Story Begins Tomorrow,

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