KEEP OFF THE GRASS
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This Funny World
“You'd think they'd make some exceptions!**
YOUR BIRTHDAY
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7 BORN today, you have a volatile wrap
temperameni no wit flare up and down at the slightest provoca tion. You have a natural tendency toward melancholy which you must do your best to counteract Bince subject to the influence of others, try to cultivate those who can make you happy and gay. You have enough serious introspection in your own makeup to do for one pornan!
You have the welfare of others deep at heart and will want to do all you can to make others happy You feel that each and content. and every individual should have an equal share the world's benedis and you are going to do all that you can to see that this done. You olifeet to seeing anyone being imposed upon, and when you opo Theme Inequalities, you will bring pressured to dear to correct them. Since you have the gift of the written and spoken word, you are likely to utilise this talent on behalf of others. You also have a ece of the dramae. f you should write action, you probably would
THE CHINA › MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY
JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Spade Trick Is
Gift
By OSWALD JACOBY
IF you want to make your
opponents happy, give them
a trick now and then, Todly's hand shows how to do this economically.
NEW
WOMANSENSE·
EXCITING DESIGNS SEEN PARIS LIFTS THE
AT FURNITURE EXHIBITION
London.
NOR the first time since the way my visit to the Furniture Exhibition was a
West opens, the queen of apades, and you see the dummy.pleasure, not a chore. You think of a few words to Among the usual display of Bay about North's overbidding, bulbous monstrosities I did but on the second thought, you find new and exciting Ideas, keep quiet and concerntrate on And what an advance has making your contract,
been made on the colour front, particularly among kitchen equipment linoleum, with new shades like shocking pink, canary and pale lilac.
If you wish to do so, you can ruff the spade in dummy. You will eventually lose two club tricks, and then you will feel unhappy about the bidding,
A better plan is to give up the first trick. Discard a club
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You are gregariow Boul ardi enjoy going out and meeting people. You of the feminine sex are hithly social and could be leaders in your group you chose. You will be happlast if you wed someone who enjoys this type of life. Other wise there may be some triction- one of you wanting to stay home. the other wanting to go out the town. The stain "have given you plenty of brains. Be mire that you make the most of your potentialitlen in this regard.
SOUTH (D)
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North-South vul.
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East
Pass
Pass
Among those born, on this data were! Charies Dicken Binclair
Lewis, and Pletre Yan Расст authors; Alfred Adler, psychologist: Ossip Gabrilowitsch, planist;
Ed- ward Nugent, actor-manager, and George F. Putnam, publisher.
To and what the stars have in
store for you tomorrow, select your -birthday ilar and read the corres sponding Paragraph, Let vour
birthday star be your daily guide.
Opening lead-★ Q
from the dummy, and beam generously at East.
East will naturally take the ace of spades and will return a club, Since there is such * thing as being over-generous, you refuse the club finesse, You put up the ace of clubs, draw a round of trumps, and discord improved and you may set
the last club from dummy on factorily upon those affairs
the good king af spades. The outstanding. GEMINI
2-June 213-rest is easy,
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8
AQUARIUM (Jan. 21-Feb. 1)
day for This can be an important you. Act decisively on something
ignificant to your future welfare.
PISCER (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)- Can be a rómantle day if you 80 desire. Anyway, something expectat ly rice ta likely to happen.
'ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20) A shift in plans van help you make up for lost time if things alowed ub recently, Galo a significant de- cision in your favour.
TAURUS
21-May (Apr.
20- Outlook for you is now very much
CROSSWORD
Across
1. Share out 7 You may draw
these. (9)
7. The day in ?
3. Have aretus. 10
10. Bring it back! (8)
Shots stockings, and gloves ed
fo them. (5)
14. Animal in the femur. (3)
18. Complain, in slang. (4)
16. Freya around 'in "Belgium.. (5)
17. Cold snap. (3)
sails-
النبي
(May A day of action. Now is the time for you to forge ahead. There la no cause for further delay.
You give up one trick at the very beginning, but this allowa CANCER (June 22-July 23)-you to discard two losing clubs A fortunnie
Two tricks espect for all your from the dummy, allaire, to see that Important de-
for
in a good rate one cisions are wisely made now.
exchange any time.
LEO (July 21-Aug. 23)- No more procrastination on affairs that will influence your future Now 11 the tune tu
with impact.
2017
VIROG (AUR 24-Sept. 23).m Improve your own position at the office or at home. Ask for and get—exactly what you want.
LIBRA (Sept 24-Oct. 2))- Combine business and pleasure you wish and anticipate advant- ageous resulta. One complementa The other,
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) Plan to utilise this fortumato aspect advantageously Act on something of vital importance.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)— Svema as if "Lady Luck", is really on your side now! Inslet upon getting what you want out of life.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20)- Be sure that you have a blueprint ready to follow now, for this in the time to instrument your plans exmetly.
BY. THE
♥CARD Sensen♦
Q-The bidding has been: North
• East Boufb West I Diamond Pass Heart Pass IN.T.
Pass7 You, South, hold: 4. AAQI VEJ842
K943 45
What do you do? A-Bid three diamonds. You want to reach game, but must try to suggest a suit rather than no-trump.
TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding has been: North
East South West Diamond Pass 1 Heart Pass 2 N.T.
Pass 7.
You, South, hold:
AQ85 #QJ752 463 4852
What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
WAY.
by Beachcomber
of
18. The girl in "La Bobams." (4) SCHOOLMASTERS are saying feather dusters in my 'Butterfly
20. Telling the teacher, maybel (6)
21. The bride may vow it. (D)
22. Stayed a desired. (7)
Down
"
1. There's some point in thim, (4)
2. Anger. (5)
9. Here's health 1 (0)
djd arms all (ausg.). (9)
5. Garden girl, (3)
Boothing words to a child-o any mother thinks. 15. 4) are often partners
form of wis ? Drug
10 The lowest
18. It provides
a poin
for many
reporter R
storier. (3)
that boys who carn money Suite, to suggest the delicacy of
in spart-time jobs have no time fragile wings In motion, was for study. At Narkover it is only understood by those whose only the younger and leas enter minds were receptive to new prising boys who bother about study.
1.
One prefect, who runs a bet- ting syndicate, has his
influences and trends."
News of the rivals
for office in one of the school build- Dley D are finding it
11. Torn. (8)
IRJANI
16. This officer DDEWI
is over 21
Obviously. (5) AW
19. The length
of a chip.
CHESS
by LEONARD BARDEN
&
From "actua play: how does Pinck break through to malo?
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One good find was a portable writing bureau, which can used on a table or a low stool, it, ilke me, you like to write letters Japanese-style on the floor. The bureau han adjust-
shelves ablo
and ir-out paper tray,
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Another note I liked--two- aldeg furniture, for dividing up big room: both sides look good, Tall, curved shelves aro effective for this and can be used for books and ornaments,
On our tour of the exhibition we had the advice of industrial designer Richard Lonsdøle- Hands,
A GOOD EFFECT
He thinks that contemporary schools are having a good effect on young peoplo's taste, though he says: "British furniture is still for behind the Continent in design."
on
His chief eritieism: the design of handles drawers and cupboards, "particularly the miserable little metal affairs on kitchen units."
My own crllelsin; the lamp- shades, Too many of them
The space-saving kitchen dining suite for two, seen at the Furniture Exhibition, Earls Court, London, recently.
The plastic-surfaood table at dining height can be folded hack, concealing the compartment with a panel,
The bench seat, containing cupboards, neatly under the drawers.
Gan be pushed
bright and Ught for a small example of plastic foam room with little window space. material, so light that a child Bedheads were upholstered in can turn it without trouble, The Chinese
white Icather, A 3ft, width weighs only 11lb. practical Iden-they only need
Other points of interest.... radio ponging to keep them clean.
cabinets designed to One of the best ideas for a match lying room suites, small
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HEMLINE...
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From EILEEN ASCROFT
Paris,
The button manufacturers will
theamart Parisienne, bo happy this spring. Patou
utilitarian or not...the 11900, fashion for spring, 1957, them, in profusion throughout wore to meet her. London his collection, counterpart,
For evening, they would
models wore make an oddly assorted dresses and carried small laco hair bandeaux to match their
couple.
tal fans caught with flower posies,
-(London Express Barvice).
The London Lady lengthened her day skirts last week to 13: inches from the ground. Tho Parlalerno ... according to Jean Patou's opening show will be shortening hers to just below the knee,
In London jackets are shorter. In Paris they have grown longer again
Colours are much the same in both fashion centres, · Navy blue
with touches of while,
yellow-white; lacquer-red and fighter blues. But Jean Patou's younger designer, Mare Bohan, | brings back grey flannel for spring suits and a no string- coloured gaberdine-smart, cool, with that luxury look.
Three-dimensional Look
Materials for day-wear · are anooth and subtle to suit the loose, fluid line of the clothes. For evening, they take on a My Fair Lady charm with floating chiffon and organzas.
Detail is more important than line this spring. Bleaves, for instance, are low-set and shorter with rounded shoulders, Walsis are belted again and many of the tailored skirts have their own alim leather belts,
Patou's skirts are really beau- tiful, with front seaning that' gives a three-dimensional look. Others have a straight wrap. around line,
wero fussy and ugly in design, young couple starting their first portable cocktail cabinets, and front, dipping lower at the back.
They would be dust-traps In
any room.
thinks
a kitchen cabinet which houses breakfast table and bench for two.
home is the unit fumiture. or uniform height and design, a these pieces can be added one by one to make a complete wall unit.
Mr Lonsdale-Hands the ideal modern room has the minimum of furniture. His own dat is a good example of this, with pale sycamore cup- the boards lining one complete wall.
My favourite bedroom suite at the exhibition was in Chinese white lacquer and natural oak,
Household Hints
Tweedy fabrics are a good choice for the amateur home sewer, since they do not show up construction mistakes readily.
Glycerine is an excellent sol vent for any tanning stain. It may also be used to loosen and soften other stains.
My award for the nastiest idea of the show goes to the Most notable. feature among mink-trimmed lampshade,
mattresses
Д was
-(London Rapred Service),
new
Necklines lend to be high in Coats follow two lines loose and straight or bulky, many of them belted.
Hats, of course or fine straw, have large puffed-out crowns and tiny brima. The effect. is rather like a bulb bowl.
Stay-slim Diets Tested In Antarctica
WOMEN beat the best ways mary me lum
may learn good
months planning food expeditions will be one of the best tests of dieling methods ever carried out.
of preserving their "vital Reports on the way in which stylistle" from the present these "minimum weight Antarctic expeditions, For maximum sustenance diets they are expected to bring back worked out are expected to be
information a lot of new
on most useful in keeping stay-at- dieting,
home waistlines down to a de- sirable level..
The men In the Antarctic may have to travel many miles through desolate, icy wastes on the minimum of food.
Leading dieticians
'BEST TEST'
"We can learn from the re- ports what foods, depending on when and how they are eaten give anost nourishment without creating needless fat,
THE FIRST
A floral touch from the London collections
A mowy white cloche by Glas Dayles, in darning wool straw topped by a red rose and swathed over the face with fencing-mask velling.
ROSE
féminine. Egyptian-stylð hat is draped in, blush«rad organiza pinned with three shaded"rod roses. By Edward Harvane,
OF SPRING
London Expreza Service
·JOAN HARRISON REPORTS i Only limited amount 02] ON CHANEL COLLECTION:
on
green vegetables was taken A leading London dietician the expeditions. They will keep Bays: "Because the meals of fresh only for a short time. The the Antarelle men have been enld weather is often a hind- spent planned so thoroughly these rance. In preserving food.
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Knarf's Solo Flight
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Then the window in the play- room opened up wide and out he flew, into the garden.
-Everyone Said It Was Just A Dream-
Like A Yellow Apple By MAX TRELL
The. next moment
The moon was shining like acroplane sailed gracefully off great yellow apple, He flow LAVERYONE in the playroom the bookcase and landed at over the garden; over the rose felt sorry for Kharf, the Knarf's feet. The propellers bushes and the lilacs and the shadow boy with the turned- were still spinning.
apple and peach trees; over the about name, and wished ho "It's come for mel" Knart birdbath and the sundial. would be able to get what he cried, springing to his feet. wanted.
But
Ho
Simplicity Is The Keynote
Paria, Friday. He curtain went up at 3.30
THE
this afit noon on the frat of the Paris spring dress shows Chanel's One might call it Not-so-Merry Widow in Black" or "The Simple Girl."
The clothes were simple to the point of starkness. As cut by Chanel they had expensive slylc.
"
Chanel, at somewhere around 73, still designs the clothes sho herself has always liked to
wear.
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SHE has not changed, but the wheel of fashion, controlled largely by French, faste and American buyers, has swung in her direction again.
Her fashion show Includes no Chormous
bouquets of fresh Bowers, no scent (not even hor No. 5), no champagne, no
bride-and tho
display of dresses insts only an hour. Toko it or leave it Chanel. The Grey Eminences
saya
flew over the place where the children had their swing, ¡AWN KEDGAREE'S pub- "If only," said Knart sadly, He wondered, as he climbed
And he saw the big white "if only I could take a ride in into the areoplane, how he rock and the outside fireplace, ings.
Another lives in the increasingly difficult to keep her
an aeroplane!"
happened to fit into it so easily. and the little house where father nearest town, where he owns a
before the public as a
kept his tools, and the gate, and one And then pawnbroker's shop. A third has star. More and more people are
day, the
Knart saw too, that he was the path with the coloured stents not been acen for several noticing that she continually children who lived in the house wearing a pilot's uniform. months, but is believed to be announces her plans, naming it wasn't very large, of course, much,
came home with an acroplane! he didn't bother to wonder too that led down to the pond.
Then
the plane flew back running a billiards salon under films which she is considering. It was just a model aeroplane.
As soon as he was in name. All this but never seems to appear assumed
the plane he turned a switch through the open window into The Moon was big and yellow"
as Knarf fiew by, teaches the boys to be independ- the screen. The demand for her
Knarf was almost as large as (he seemed to know just which the playroom again.
It landed on the floor. switch to turn), and then the ent," says the headmaster, and photograph to advertise boilers, the whole aeroplane itself. what they lose on the Greek and cigarettes,
propellers spun quickly again. cheese-paste, CATS,
Knarf climbed out. The room plane standing just where the Latin swings they make up on and so on, is
Whirring Noiso petering out.
And the plane rose off the floor was still daris. All the other children had left it on top of of the fashion world were all the business roundabouts. When
Trivia Tansy, on the other hand,
It had wings and a cabin and like a bird! a boy leaves Narkover, he hog after a year's rest, is actually propellers that
toys were asleep and silent, the bookshelf, high out of reach there, to take It
Perhaps it was only a dream
MAIN POINTS spun around Knarr circled around the Knart's pilot sult was gone., The an experience of life as it working on a film. She is in with a great whirring noise. It playroom, way up thought he wonderful trip it waal How That's what everyone else in
near the trip was over.
trip....perhapë, But what a Hvod
Main points in the show- could not Persia, where the musical ver- which he
was painted blue.
celling. Below possibly acquire in form sion of Ibsen's "An Enemy of "T'à just like to take a little could see Mary Jane and happy he felt!
the People" is being made. She
And in the morning, with the trip in it," Knant told Mary General Tin and Mr Punch. plays an Indian dancing girl. Jane, the Rag Doll "Just over all waving to him and he room al bright with sunshine, the garden and back. It would waved back Joyfully to them. Knart looked up and saw the be wonderful"
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room,"
On an obscure poem
Though rasked and torn and
- twisted every way
To make the kind of verso
admired today,
The tortured English language
still declines
To tell the secret of these turgid
Unes.
Solo for foghorn
A
YOUNG composer said yesterday: ""What struck me about this composition was ita caring. To score a fifty-minute Item for one solitary instrument which itself is capable of only one note, showed a confidence
in the misical education of con cert audiences which was fully
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But every night, before they went off to bed, the children carefully put the aeroplane on the top shelf of a high bookcase in the room. Try as he would, Knari couldn't rench it. All ho
Ark could do was look at it, the more he looked, the sadder, he became. N
Finally, one night a wonder- The ful thing happened. children as usual, left the neroplane on the top shelf of the bookcase and Kharf mat on the
floor, loolding op it.
The room was quite dark.
words: no proper names. Mary Jane and General Tirk TODAY'S TARGET to words: the Tin Soldier and Me Punch good 1. EX-words WON (2006 - 24 md all the other toys in the yesterday's justidod by the end. I reallac
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Rupert tells his pal why ha' came- hillitt såy; Edward, st Khera it goes to meer Geoffrey and is launching again, awishing up into the sky, into the story of the arranger and Whatever is it Rupers follows The flashing bghis when he realises hin gaze,? Why, muraly, it' thit Edward is no longer listening,” box-kite 1* ha 'tava" 35" Lan't«lem He has turned aside to stare across ⠀ beauty {{I've never seen rauch","m Withergrasa. 95!! Look, there isotnew"; "hig one? Let's get nearer und ses thing: bobbing, about: beyond: the ⠀ who's dyita it "Zanninakarsk
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the playroom thought,.
But Kopf didn't care. knew it had really happened.
Ho was happy at last,
Another Rupert Adventure-
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and the GIANT'S CASTLE
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AT.S. C. M. POST LTD.
TWO-PIECE SUITS with straight skirts and short square. Jacket in light tweed, wool, and shantung. »
from
NECKLINES cut well away. -the throat. (to show off jowols). Har-rinjts). made
match the sult buttons,
THEATRE SUITS inalle brocade, the jackets, cut !Ikka short/ Chinese tunies.
SHORT EVENING DRESSES in flowered chiffon trimmed" with artificial' *flowers. much ‹ liko ; an afternoon tea parly on the villaga lawn.).
-- HATS - Woro off, the face; Chanel only showed one style.... around Breton in black or white
MATERIALS wero all soft and supple, su Fine: wool, plenty; of lightweight jersey, shantung, and chiffonszRigh
EVERYTHING was looms and
overhuboth bones
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