THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1987,
BY. THE WAY.
by
Beachcomber
DDRESSING. the school yes, of totalitarianism." Such tyriimmy terday, Pr Smart-Alllel can only be justified in a ume said: "It is to be hoped that of national emergency, when a con- when young Hector Korathalolos Special Powers Act
a temporary Interfer- Drives bere next term, he will, salutes
the Imprescriptible not be treated as an inexhaust once with (blo gold-mine, whose main rights. 01 рор singers. No acholalle fusation, like that of freedom-loving people the proverbial goose, golden eggs. 2
could
is to lay tolerate compulsory pop singing. One might as well make a res fusal to dance the boot a penal offence,
"I ask all of you to remember that his father has already con- tributed
generously to our various funda, and if we wish to give him further opportunities for woll-doing, we should con- centralo on him, rather than on hla son. By driving the son too hard in financial matters we might end by spoiling the market Restraint in all things even in the profit moive should be our guiding principle."
It seems silly to me
"F" eald the magistrate, "
thin man has a fat man's collar fastened to his shirt, however big it is, it can't slip down to his walst." "Is it comes to that," anald the man, "If the thin man has the fat man'a
collar fastened 10 his wat
"
can't slip up to his
"On the other hand," said the magistrate,
medium-sized "a
man, neither fat nor thin, could wear a fat man's collar roundl his chest, as well as round his waist." "The same collar?" came the courteous query. "Certainly, but not simultaneously," the tactful
response,
with
Was "Then,' said the man, "It seems to me that any man, fat or thin, could hang himself all over collats, like a draper's assistant anxious for a sale, He could wear collars round his unkica and knees." "That is an extreme czne, surely," raid the magi- strale. "You're telling me!" said the mark
The salty taste of Liberty
I
READ that a girl has "won the right not to go on pop singing," 1 either know nor care what pop singing is, but that anybody should have to do against his or her will "recks
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CROSSWORD
Acros
Kárý sting--but involved. (9) zna-lark has been called day's
19. Doctor's book. (4)
11. Enemy. (3)
1a à termi Edon an anagram i (9)
14. Plahermen use those lures some
imo (3)
10. More than just an
cabin surely, (9)
19. Clean otherwise. (5)
ordinary
10. The king of hold sounde dan-
gerous. (3):
21. Joan of Aro suffered at ik (5)
23. Last part of a truder i (3)
13. Vegetables inpopular at sen?
(0)
Down
The tent of the pyramid, 14) A. This dear la first stop at the
hotel. ()
8. Necessary), (9)
4. Prophet. (4)
5. This sigu enables you to read as
bight. (6)
5. 1 met by * Great BORD-
timnas | (8)
8. Date 1 an ́s mix-up. (8)
9. Count a tame runs otherwise.
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18. Bido
Cromwell.
16. Full them
up to revita
Lae yourself. (B)
10. Jus
Apot For
the
building. (4)
17.
away from ATR
BONG
BON
18. I atting ESISTENC
Yesterday's volně
•JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
Bridge Larceny Spoils Slam
By OSWALD JACOBY
ARCENY LOU held too much stuff against the spade slam
to expect to beat it by normal means so he worked out a con- fidence game that gave declarer a chance to go wrong.
The larceny was not, too com- plicated. All he did was to open iho Jack of bearis from his queen-jack combination
Dummy's Bee took the trick anet East signalied with the six spot. He really wanted hearis played again.
South went right after the trump suit. Lou took his aco and played the eight of hearts,
covered Dummy's nine
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North and South vulnerable
East
Poss
North
South
West
14
24
Pass
3
Poss
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Pass
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Pass
Pass
Opening lead-❤ J
South krumped East's king. South drew Lou's hust trump and took stock of the situation. The club Aresse was on but South, could not see where the queen was, However, South thought he knew definitely
where the heart queen could be found. Accordingly, he played
drop
king and then the ace of clubs to see if he could the doubleton queen.
Whon this failed he
played
YOUR BIRTHDAY ... #y STELLA duminy's ten or hearts. Enst fol-
TUESDAY, MARCH 19
BORN today, you have "permally for you the
- plight they **Talk
always
future la
day. And say you enn brighter and a better the birds down tion the once you get an Idea inle your head, trees!" Although a conservative by it behooves no ong to try and kei nature, you will var prochezive it out, for the tack ti hopelessl method to get what you want bul
of Mio. You" are always willing to You are naturally a hard worker, and it there is a job to be dobe, Kive advice about anythiut. Some.
times i would be better to keep you will do it. However, there is 3 your own coutezel waters
luxury-loving streak in your nature and you must not let yourself give
yult
are
· positive that you know exactly what
overindulge, will frustrate your beni ambitio
you are doing. You are so adven- In to it. Soelai pleasures, II you turesome that you are willing to try anything once--in the real of advice-giving. Better Wail
your experience warranty it.
a very
Among those burn on his date were: Benjaminu Gigli, Aftvelionate and kindly ly nature, William Jewnings Bryan, statesman, you probably will have
William Penn Nixon, nuted editori happy home to. You are fond of R. W. Goelel, financier, John Win- churen and will
want a large Uhirop, Colonial governor; Herbṛri failly of yuter own. Then, no A. Newton, Bakruajner; Dr matter how Ünited your feldt David Livingstone, explorer: and operations, you will have your own General Jơüph groups in which you are the natural Anny, Toader. The ators Bay that you should go far, If you will venture
W.
Silwell, U.S.
To and what the stars have in
much.
Do à little more adventure store for you tomorrow, pelect your some and you will realise most of birthday star and read the corres- your dreanu. There may be soine ponding parügraph. Let your birth- which remain in the future"-but day star be your daily guide.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20
message
PIACES (Frd. 20-Mar. 20) Excllemont comes from a new ́op- portunity, An Important may change tha entire trend of your futuro life.
ABIES
(Mar. 21-Apr. '203- Your interests are intensified by the day's activities, but bo cautious and atep only in the right direction.
TAURUS
↓
A
(Apr. 31-May
21)- active day but one which can ga right-or with the wrong push go very wrong! Take your choice.
GEMINI (May 22-June 31) Events are awirling mound you fast, but keep your feel in the whirlpool away by
and don't be emotions.
swopt
CANCER (June 22-July 23)- There are distracting tendencles in today's aspects, so keep your noso to the grindstone. Duty comes first,
LEO (July 24-Aug. 2) This is one of your good days. Take full advantage of IL Maké excel· jest progress toward your ultimate
CHESS
By LEONARD BARDEN
A problem by M.-Bukotzer (Bellish Chess Federation; I$48), /// White mates in two.
Solution to problem:
yesterday's
1B-13; 2 · R-KI (3 BxB; Q-B7ch; 3 K—RI, Q- Bich; forcing thate),::BXBch;
QXQch and TSH,
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23) Tire in exeltement and stimulation Ja activity. Just be sure that you are directing your energies properly.
LIBRA (Bept. 24-Oct. 233- Don't let too much diversification of activity throw you off the main pathway leading
your major achievement.
SCORPIO (Oct.
to
24-Nov.
22)-
An adventuresome day. Just make for the prospects of too little mure that you do not Tisit too much
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)-- Definite advantage for the one-track mind attitude. Refuse to let your
of be distracted by superficialities.
CAPRICORN (Dec. ' 23-Jan. 20)———- Self-control can get you what you want today. Impatience will only confuso kxives further. Stay calm.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) Definitely a propitious day for all your efforts. See that you make great aliihen toward success now.
lowed and South discarded his losing club. Larceny Lou won with the queen and that was all
South should not have fallen for the swindle. Ile hady played with Larceny Lou before and should have suspected, such a fake lead, de jock from queen- jock.
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Double Puss You, South, hold: AQJ1090 MAZ $543 4763
What do you do?
A-Pass! Your spade holding Indicates a potential big penalty.
TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You, South, hold:
AQJE WIZ QAQ10884 454
What do you do?.
Answer Tomorrow
TARGET
SNP
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T R
How many words of four letters or more can you make from the letters in the EQUATE ON the left in making rach word the Tettero ja each of the small squares may be used" ande only. Each word must contain the large letter in the centro Aqusre, "and there must be st least one nine-letter word in the Hut. No pluris no foreign words Do proper pamon TODAY'S TARGET: 20 words, good: 31 words, very good - a words, excellent. WIRDETOW.
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WOMANSENSE
INSPIRED BY THE KIMONO Pills For Everything
"Thierry", a woolien ensemble in houndstooth checks. Two features distinctly Inspired by the Japanese kimono are the big coat sleeves and the obi-like wish of the dress, Lanvin, the creator, calls this "la ligne kakemono”,--Agencỡ “
France-Presse.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
By HILLARY WENTWORTH
By W. W. BAUER, M.D.
THIS has probably hap- can result only in physical and about going to a doctor and TH
pened to you. It emotional bankruptcy.
having nothing dono for them. No sleeping phil can replace "Why" happens to me from time to normal sleep, and none should even give me a prescription" they say he didn't time. I am having lunch be needed to
make ordinary This over-raling of medicamenta or dinner with friends, when sleep sufficiently restful. The may be
in view of the somebody says, indicating use of sleeping pills should be many years during which restricted to occasions when the medicine's main reliance was the food-laden plates, Some doctor advises them. No drugs. Now, day we'll have pills for all
however, tho simulant can this we'll have pills for long for the natural energy is often more valuable than the substitute.very doctor's advice about how to live derived from proper recupera- drugs he prescribes. tion through normal rest, laxation and sleep.
ACCESSORY
on AccessOTY,
The
everything."
You go on from there, hearing about - the ad-
New drugs called tranquilliseŢA vantages of pills for every- have proved highly useful in
.A drug 18 thing. You'll quit wasting the treatment of mental and valuable in its place. time for meals; you can get were not restricted to proscrip illness; they give the physician emotional disturbances. If they tranquillisers do not cure mental your food requirements tion use they would be subject a better opportunity to study without eating what you to the same misuse as have the patient don't like; you won't have to been the antihistamine drugs, therapy into
and put the real action, The worry about getting fat; which have been so widely ex-
antihistaminics
not euro ploited for there'll be pep pills and
colds,
the allergies; they help the patient which at citroflavinolds, quieting-down pills and pills and the
e over the hard spots... same time are being for your nerves, and pills, condemned by the Council on The same drug which may pills, pills.
Drugs of the American Medical be 'Dimost miraculous in the
or
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Association, and widely pro- hands of a skilled physician, treatment of colds. moted to tho publle for the may be useless, unnecessary, or ·
dangerous in the hands of the People complain to the unskilled, And those unskilled
Medical Association hands may be yours.
Pills as partial substitutes for foods are with us right now, and they can be very good, or very bad, all de- Amerlean pending on how they are used. Pills as total substi- tutes for all normal food are definitely undesirable--any
GI. acquainted with emer- gency rations will testify to that.
FOOD PILLS
pan containing half an inch of guidance, to supplement
The chemical food re- quirements can be packaged in concentrated form, but man needs the whole sub- stance of his foodstuffs. He needs the relaxation of menj- time and the enjoyment of attractively prepared and served food. Food
pills, mainly mineral and vitamin combinations, can be useful under competent medical
diets which must be re- 6. Beef tea and egg provide
stricted, or during pro anourishing drink for an in-longed bouts of reducing, valic Beat the yolk of the egg slightly and pour on it one cupatravenously, the
can revitalise patients afler zur- of beef ten. Stir well and sea- son. Serve with thin fingers of ery or prolonged, illness, or toast.
shock due to injuries. Buch use is, of course, quite different from the silly indescriminate buying of vitamins and eating them instead of a proper diet, or adding them needlessly af considerable expense to a salis- factory dict.
1. Before storing silver, see that it is Arst thoroughly water. polished and cleared. Each flem should be separately, wrapped in tlasue paper, then stored
made of chamos in bags flannelette Silver should never be stored in woollen material, ns, wool contains sulphur which tarnishes the metal,
2. On dark furniture, work a little dark shoe polish into the scratches. Leave for a few hours, Rub with a soft cloth. Polish ita the usual way.
:
G. Fish bones provide valuable minure for the garden if placed in the ground immediately be for or at the time of seed sow- Ing.
3. Mahogany furniture should new look, brush the hat with a 7. To give your panama hat a
be washed with cold tea or
Too
vitaming
many people take too vinegar and water. Dry off with Eqsom salts in a litle warm and
solution made with a packet of many pills needlessly, uselessly sometimes dangerously. cloth before n soft
polishing water. Leave the hat to dry in Heetle personalities, trying to with a good furniture cream.
the sun. If the straw is then live 38 hours in 24, commoly 4. To prevent baked custards too stiff, brush it over with a use two kinds of pliis 'for 'op' από milk
· from --Ettle milk. White of egg ia also posing----purposes sleeping puddings curdling, stand them while bak- a good stiffening agent for tablets to induce sleep and pep ing in a ple dish in 'n roasting panama hats,
pills to provide nagy. This
BOYS?
Bare-backed Evening Dress
"""Tarragone”,” a. bare-backed “formál ̋evening dress" in blus organdie. It is embroidered with pale, blue-floral motifs. From Lauvin-Cantillo, - Agence France-Presse,
AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Merlin's Magic Whistle
-It Played Stange Tricks on Kuart and Hanid-
By MAX TRELL
NARF
git-
"Peep!" went the "Pe-peep-ce-ste-expt"
whistle.
Should Faite blow it shouldn't sho? Should she tum herself into a rabbit?- Suddenly she made up her mind. So she went peop-peep-poop on the whistle and the next moment, her cars became short and furry. But she wasn't a rabbit at all, like her brother, Knarti She was a foxi
Dear me, it was exactly the The next second, Knarf's cars wrong thing for her to turn grew long and furzy, his arms, herself into, For the instant sho grow short, his legs folded in spied the rabbitsha · started
the and Hanid, Kshadow children with the turned-about names, were Bointion
ting quietly by the window walching the snow falling when they heard a sound from be- hind the bookcase,
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION;
Fried Bed Dre tyin Held show wile slid stide voli vied vis visible.
This Funny World
ESPAN LOPPER MaNought Byndiente,
»D Wohan's House Conipanion
father and his son aliould do thin ́s togeth
Long And Furry
and his nose began to twitch chasing it! With listening eyes. They turned round just in hungrily for the lettuce growing and brown tail flying in the time to see Mr Merin, the on the other side of the road; winch, Hanid, the fox, went Magnificent Magician, come Without a word, he hopped, off - chasing after hin. hurrying out, all dressed in his to get some.
"Hmla! . Stop chasing mel overroat and overshoes, with a
Now Hanid was quite siz You're not allowed to!" bá fur hot on his head and a prised to see this happen She squeaked, woollen muffler around his neck.
picked up
the magic whistle As he brushed past them, he which Knart had dropped. Then him. She raced round and round But Hanid paid no attention to dropped something on the floor she hesitated for just a moment, the rabbit.
Silver Whistio
Knarf picked it up. It was a litla silver whistlo, **
"Mr Merlin! Mr Merlini You -dropped your whistle?te
shouted after tim
Knarf
But Mr Merin was already.
out of the; KOOMU
Hanid looked at the whistle.
"Do you thinje t'a o
whistle?" she said to: Was
It doesn't look very, magic, sald Knart. It looks like 1. BA ondiamy whistle."
Merlin-had Pity
be a magle whistle," said
U
A blow b
Rupert and the Windy Day-
46
three friends collects very excited,is, says Mr. – Beat. hìt and than" heidi "·"for" “Hava they been in an "adven- 1.It looks as though I may gaire Paloh Yep, they sure have 17 pacting “m- binger, kita Athan cock Rupert, vai Oh, sorry, Daddy,:
the, little mouse, uüleki, 1, insan they certainly have 1”, It ́a you must-both, help mejto viboen: most vakditing?" Do lerʻa nO that I don't gat, carried, i in. 7}You, and› Mummy" ought to Caway again 1}? CThe news|lave (|hear? all about state app? OSH Ronde a hi cotta and pamper. (27) 27. THE END ZALZAM.
What home we post A New Adventure Begins Tomorrow/
[ 27-25
"It must be a jnagio whistle,”**
Hanid told Knarf
Give Your Little Girl A Shaving Brush!
By JEANNE D'ARCY
HAV
TAVE you ever noticed.
that most men have. good complexions? Almost without exception, their skin is clear and smooth.
The reason is that, without realising it they give them- selves a comfiplexion treatment every day.
Dather
Rubbing warm, soapy Into their faces, preparatory to shaving, enables them to clean pores
more
thoroughly than the average woman does when she gives her face a quick washing.
The Iden's been picked up by several schools of
At
one modelling
wits about him, even as
Fortunately, Knant kept his young lingui chool,
rab- bring shaving We quickly leaped with all along with other clamoristas his might, alrodght over the fox's equipment. The theruity / mag- back. He reached the whistle gosted shaving brushes; 2 Instead and blow fl-one long, pe-ce- | of complexion brushies – becaniser - co-p just as the fox was upon they discovered students found bim.
the former more fun to use,
Oh, what a relief il was to be himachi again. It was a relief, too, when Hamid blow the magic whistle and turned herself bark into a "shadow girl.:
Just then Mr Merlin Mogen Mcent Magician returned to the room.ja
"Did I drop my whistle?
The shaving brush become part of the curriculum whon the faculty discovered what the young girls don't wash their
mothers have known all along
focos properly, With the brush they lather up effectively
This is somchting you might do a good rinsing for
job. try out in your own home young complexione
salda Oh, thank you, Thank you, Harfi I'm sad you
oren't.) an
didn't blow, it.. It would have changed one of you into a rabbit clear and pretty as they might and the other one into a fox their lathering up chatter ba The youngsters love it, and
a good thing I came back in prove Their comments run Be from "in't it nice and slooshy to
And Mr Merin took the tom rawy, How do whide and gucle it back in his white mustachel pocket. But there, weg a Histo Enco-washing becom senile on his lips as he went. He knew more than he was saying he didina
kids way, but com, that make young complexion" "the" "win
my
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