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This Funny World

MAGASINET

"How do you know somebody might not come along and treat me?'

E.

BY

THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

Storer strument itself that wobbed, as WHEN somebody. In

Clouston's ***The

Lunatic happens when a small

player al Large" Wag esked if he succumbs to 1ts weight, or danced much, he said, "As a whether It was the tone which general rule, rarely. More wobbled. The latter accident may be due to technical Inep- often than not, never."

titude

overpowering emotion. An experienced trom- bonist knows that he must be ke a surgeon performing on operation: cold, efficient, emotional. A fine thing it would

I asked a politician which he would rather have co-operation or co-ordination, After hum- Ining, hawing, and hoing (what a jolly name for a firm of sult-

itors,

and a

alt curse upon parentheses, brackets, and other impediments), he said gravely, as one who has wrestled with a weighty problem, "Neither ever any good without the other, more often than not." It

he trots that out next time he contests a seat It will become the rallying vry of his party.

Tra-la-la

r is a sound principle of

modern economics, as Mr Alun Wood has pointed out that where food prices rise we Pay more to the shops, and when they fall we pay more in taxes to the producers. As the kong goes:—

Whatever the price of things,

Let there be no possible doubt That what we lose on the swings We lose on the roundabout.

Twenty Years of Uproar

THE only fault found by

THE

to

10

un.

be If he started to sob at the critical moment,

A revolutionary suggestion

THE CHINA - MAIL - MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1957.

JACOBY

ON BRIDGE

Partner Plumbs Bidder's Stew

By OSWALD JACOBY

NE of the essentials of win-

ONE

ning bridgy is to be able to put yourself to your partner's place and visualise the problema that may be confronting him. The following hand bid by Cap- tain Harok R. Flock, USIR (Retired) of Tucson, Ariz., and Captain

A Wright, USH at tho

Naval Base Japan, illustrates this point.

Hal Fleck's opening spade bid was minimum in high cards biat when Hart Wright responded

NORTH (D) 4A8733.

•A874

A98

WEST AKJ95

A32

KAST

Q100

10854

• 103 47642

+52

1053

SOUTH 44

KQ76

KQJVO

No one vulnerable:

North

East Boath West

14 3+

Pass 24

Pass

Pays

PAST

Pass

4KQJ

Pas PRE Opening lead-�A.

with two diamonds Hal couk! find only one satisfactory rebid. In spite of holding only 12 points in high cards he raised to three diamonds.

Now Ham had a real problem, Be had a tremendous hand but he did not hold an ace He wanted to bid four no-trump but there was a fly in the oint- isment,

FTER some 40,009 frantic letters cursing the television programmes, someone wrote to the paper concerned and quite briefly suggested that it possible to switch off the internal gadget. There were no ropiles

to that, as such anti- social conduct

had not been considered by the victims. let them into ú secret. It is not yet compulsory to own a television screen, and there are a few people in be- nighted places who, warned by the agonised and writhing lead com-

I

will now

professional crities, paratively happy ilyes, knowing" what all the about.

That explaine it all

IN

even

never fuss is

the second volume of "Jadis," his memoirs, the late Edouard Herriot records a charming phrase of Goering: "The ancient Greeka were Germans who

came from

musle critic in a recent con- tert WEA that " Irombone wobbled at the end of the lrg movement." What we are not toid is whether it was the 1. North,"

YOUR BIRTHDAY

Bo

MONDAY, APRIL 29

QORN today, you have a clear, active mind. You are also strong-willed, proud, and some limes considered somewhat im- perious. Since you have an ex- celleni memory, you have no dimculty whatsoever in memoris- ing anything you wish. You can atore up great quantities of facts in your mind and bring them out for use at any time they are needed, This is a valuable asset. Make use of itt

His partner did not have to hold three aces.. With two aces, his four no- the response to trump bid would be five hearts and they would be overboard.

fate for A particularly bad two Navy

captains. A heart or club bid might be taken to show the ace rather than the king and queen. Captain Wright decided on the simple bid of live diamonds.

Now Captain Fleck did what I mentioned at

at the start of the article. He put himselt in his partner's place. Duplicating his partner's reasoning, he decided wanted him to bid his partner the alam if he held three aces and since he did he went ahead and bid it.

There would have been по trouble making the slam in any the ovent but West made

things easy by opening hearts.

the ace

♥+CARD Sense♣♦

Q-The bidding has been:

North

..By STELLA West

rect solution. Since you are not a patient Individual, it behooves you to utilise this intullive judgment more, for then you will achieve the quick action that you so much desire.

You are fond of the luxuries of life and will want a beauti- ful home as well as fine foods and wines on your table. Since you are definitely the domestic type, your marriage should be a happy, fruitful and contented

You have a deep appreciation one.

of the beautiful in all the arts, Among those born on this date whether or not you develop the were: the Duke of Wellington, creative talent which the stars Naval hero; Lorado Taft, sculp- have given you. Rather than an tor Alexander II of Russia; individual performer, you may Chlof Justice Oliver Ellsworth; prefer to become a patron of the Mathew Vassar and William orts. You will always encourage Harris, educators; Charles R. those who are young yet show Otis, inventor, and Sir Thomas real promise.

Beecham, conductor.

Although you like to believe that you act entirely upon reason

To find what the stars have in and logic, the stars have given store for you tomorrow, select you keen intuitions and it be- your birthday star and read the hooves you to pay attention to corresponding paragraph. Let your bunches. As a rule they your birthday star bd your daily will lead you instantly to a cor- guide.

TAURUS (Apr.

TUESDAY, APRIL 30

21-May 213-- #LCOME, Stars my It's a money- An Important day for your future. making day! Combine apelal and buinem altairs VIICES (Feb. 20-Biar *20) to your advantage. Make Fae pro Cumbine balnews. pleasure and

·gress,

romance in a happy, wiccessful day, GEMINI

(May 22-June 11)-- All mk on interests are favoured, Legal matters involving businnom ad-

ABIER (Mar. 21-Apr. 10)- vantages should be seitled to your A progressive day with bright pros- complete satisfaction and personal pecta for your future, Act decisively mvatinge.

when a new opportunity beckons to CANCER (Jun 22-July

D) (One of your very fortunate days. You have two favourable planets on your side and your guire' could be spectaculat

LEO (July 24-Aug.

The stars

say romance and travel join hands today. Could it be a vwedding and a honeymoɑn? All signs

are highly propitious,

13)

VIRGO LANE. 14-Sept. New opportunities open to poistilis way toward, succend fis your

achieving

ultimate goal, Place should

work out well.

LIBRA (list. 14-Oct A good money day for you. CLATORI ACV, that you can maka a proft on a deal or got a 'raine, 11. * salaried worker.

SCORPIO (del, 26-Nov. Good fortune and prosperity are dive keynotes of the last, day of the ad month,, All signs point, toward new prospecia

·SAGITTARIUS: (Nov. 23-Dec. '#2)———- Your biggest day of the month, even though the last onet, Prospects for the future: ans. Exceptionally . Cavouk able now Jilat Murugangan

CAPRICORN.: (Dec - 23-JAN, ·29)=4 De sure to oblatts' your fair share of the good foETIDE-WISIORE în now potog the roadal que svations-count

you,

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TODAY'

..

Double-1

24 Double Pass

You, South, hold:

Bouth

Pas

燹

CA

465 YKJ954 905 $10975

What do you do?

A-Bid three bearis. This bid merely shown a band with which you might well bave taken notion at your previous opportunity. It is not a force.

TODAY'S QUESTION

The bidding is the same os in the question just answered. You, South, hold:

465 476 4Q654 4QJ 1087

What do you do? :

Answer TomOETOW

WOMANSENSE

Fresh from the baledremers-ready for the photographer.

Facts Behind The Glamour Picture

MBS HOY BOULTING — famous fashion model gives a day-to-day account of how she keeps her hair looking like a fashion picture: "It's hard work all the time. I can't leave my hair unwashed for more than three or four days-so I wash it my- self in between act I pin it up with hairpins then brush it out vigorously so

⠀⠀ that hardly a curl is left.

"I hate going to bed in curiers, so I ret my hair with big grips before my morning bath, go to work with a scarf tied round my head, and brush it out there. But pincurling takes lots of practice.

Pierre Cardin predicts the future of the Paris couture industry

A Clinical-like "Lab"

Will Take The Place

Of Luxury Mansions

Paris. This failure brings the death THE closing down of toll of big, namo dress houses Jacques Fath's high of World War II. Even the to on even dozen since the end

"I never, never, nover use a comb. I THE

never ass lacquer unless my hair has just been sot. And I never use those ghostly fashion dressmaking busi- most optimistle "couturiers" are steel or lead curlers. But if my hair get ness formerly the second beginning to wonder how long really desperate and I haven't time to

wash it, I scrape it all back, and pin it biggest in France- sad they will last. over in a sideways, bun. Then at least dened but did not shock the Paris will continue

It looks neat"

A day later. Brushing into place with upward stroken.

UK to later. Two days work, pincuria hidden by scarf.

Three days later, She sweeps hair_back, anchors with pins.

Four days lateṛ, & wash and act. Loose pincurls secured.

Paris fashion world..

RADIATION HAZARDS TO CHILDREN

By W. W. BAUER, M.D.

Council rally balleved

But all are confident that As the fashion centre of the worlik

Young (32-years-old) !dresS- maker. Pierro Cardin, recently nominated by the master, Christian Dior, as most-likely- to-succeed, sees it this way:

"In five years. the haute couture industry wil} become an experimental" laboratory for the ready-to-wear manufac- turers,"

He also predicts that only five out of the present top ten designers will survive the in- tervening years.

that all forms; Dec

some 60 per cent of his bus. ness

He spends the difference on a large variety of taxes, overhead up-kvep and hours of hand- sewing on his creations. Dior estimated that one machine serves thirty seamstresses in his workrooms.

HE National Academy of that even the smallest exposure THE

Sciences National. Re- of reproductive cells to radiation

Fashion dictator Dlor himself search Council in the United Produces changes in the genes,

and that those changes are has gone so far as to say that States and the British usually detrimental. It is gen- the "haute couture" has already Medical Research

becoem а "lab", although, prí- vato customers account for have published, almost sim- which reproduce actually follow ultaneously, reports on the the same genetic pattern. possible dangers of radiation The danger from excessive But he nels only 30 dollars from atomic fission, especial- radiation would be that in the on a custom-made dress even next generation, or subsequent | though the client paid : 400 ly to children.

generations, there might be off dollars. What is the allowable amount spring with increased suscepti of radiation to which the bodies bility to certain discuses or to of human beings can be ex congenital malformations. There posed without donger, including might also be increased trends cosmic radiation and that from toward miscarriage or stillbirths. aborie industry Rod weapon testing? Both British and Americask reports agree that li is the genetic effect which

Radiation

must

be held safely

below a level which United might

the damage reproductive

30 years of age or tissues, resulting in sterility or less; nine-berths to pacetate annual in defective offspring.

Both the British and Experimental data derived American scientista agree from fruitflies and mice indicate the average accumulated dose of

radiation to the

should gonads not exceed 10 roentgena (x-ray units) from conception age of 30 years, Note the italics, Accumulation means the sum of all exposures to radiation; the significant radiation Ja that which reaches the pex cells,

governs.

BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

Zilly Finds Some Cheese

-It Was Put There to Trap a Silly Little Mouse-

By MAX TRELL

HEARING

some

pleasant guitar music coming from the bottom of the cellar. stairs... Knar, the shadow boy with the turned-about name, said to his dat friend Teddy, the Stuffed Bear "Do you hear

what I hear, Teddy?"

Teddy cupped his hand to his ear and listened,

'"I don't know what you hear," he remarked at the end of a minute or two to Knart, "but if you hear a gultar-song sung by Christopher Cricket, that's what I hear," too!"

Then Christopher Cricket told the whole story,

"I was coming down the cellar staire last night when I heard a mouse calling out in a squeak--- ing volce from the back of the collar

"Hey, fellere-look what I've foundl

OT

"The next minute three four young mice came scamper- ing out of holes in the cellar wall. I followed them to see what the first mouse had found.

Crowded Around

Cricket had a long talk with Zilly's father,

X-RAYS

Half of the children in the

Slatea

parents

under 40.

com

that

to the

MAKING ENDS MEET

Both

The couture Industry's "bi- sales to wholesale manufacturers and store buyers bring in most of the revenue. leave large deposits or "cautions money before even catching a glimpse of the now line. And they pay anywhere from US$800 up to US$3,500 for their purchases.

The most famous houses also depend on sales abroad of everything from perfume and stockings to ties and corseta: na well, as ready-to-wear creations in order to make ends moet.

The allowance of 10 roentgens is in addition to vera.stated normal radiation to which man -has already been exposet. The amount added by the fallout

testing

Only Pierre Balmain has been of mucicer weoporus

able to is believed to be negligible.

remain above Rich Son to dealings. He has the largest Medical and dental radiation to private cilentele in Paris and which man

exposed counts amounts to only three of the 10 and Marlene Dietrich among his

actresses Vivian Letz roentgens permissible applied faithful customers.

to the body as a whole. Much Balmain does such a good of this does not reach. Live

businods that he dared to "open gomis, which is where it counts most.

a custom-order house in New York where most couturiers fear to trend.

The cheat, head, armis and lower legs may be exposed to radiation from x-rays, and vir- tually none of it reaches the gonads. Because of their location in the abdomen, the ovarios are prot between likely to receive much less than the male gonads, when radiation is applied for diagnosis or treat

PRECAUTIONS

"He started to" said Chris-munt to the abdomen or topher. "All the other mice; lower spinal region. yelled and grabbed his tail to: "They

were 'all crowded -hold 20lly back. I held on, too, The Last Step

around something

Fortunately, it that moment, Zilly's father, a very wise "'Look at this, air?' the first

mouse, came rushing out wid CROSSWORD went down the cellar stairs to demu big place of cheese, sir.

Knard nodded. Then they both mouse sald to me. It's a won

see Christopher and sit next to It's hanging on a little bit himit there was room enough wirel'

10

Acros

1. Remember it. From Naortte." (5,8,*3)

on the last step-and listen to his guitar-song.

was room

-

THE GOOD OLD DAYS.

But despite the disparity in private and wholesale purchases, the fashion world hates to see the end of the custom order clientèle ibe whose diminishing Incomes can no longer afford" · "such high- priced wardrobes.

So, sheltered that the rarely ects foot: on the pavement but from rendezvous to nor rendezvous in a Ilmousing, the

This saintific report should glides hole. In fact, he chased all the radiation in medicine, dentistry theless ordered Zily to go back in his not be viewed with alarm,

should the necessary use of elegant Parisian woman never- of mice back into their holes, too. | or industry be adversely affect- not week tedious days 12

"No, there's something wrong There

with it, Zlly!' one at the other enough. Kurt sat down on one side or mice suddenly squeaked out. something Christopher, and Teddy squeezed. I'm sure

there's

in on the other alde. These are wrong with it!" the words to Christopher's guitar-song:

*There lives a moise

In this old house,

O wally, wally, wally!

And nothing in the whole

world

pleasea

Little mice as much as

No, No.

cheeses..

B.-is performed., bls strides for

musical comedy." (B)

19. Croon se another way.''(7)

11. Is made a happy merry-go-round

Bort of. WOW. (8)

15. Try, 15's written in school (8)

10. They're the bent dare, of Foir

21. Bhy people have it. (7)

23, 94, 35, 16% expanse and, imagine i

· (6, n. 5),

Down

1. It's passed on in the Olympiad.

(D)

2. Terrorist organisation, (4)

3: Cowa, for the count, maybe,

Boar withous ship. (8)

D. Its on mom EWALDOJDE4}}

17.4 hours of kanty talke

ADRA DEYA of the Mast, (6) 13. The Tank, Baxt sir, Tiedoute 14. Growing greed on the ́trees. 15. Tils/other- this is

"Here, let me look at it

I said.

Long Talk

a

"Zilly's father and I had. long talk.

"Moet folks don't like us,' he I said to me as we sat on this very step. But we try to keep

preparing and per od.

But

precautions must be fecting one ensemble. Intensified to

avoid

Ever since

the

beginning of accessary exposure to radiation, the "couture" back in Marie especially of persons under 30. Antoinette's days, this fabled These facts are being

be-diamond, aristocrat has in- widely used the Parle dressmaker to disseminated among physicians

her.

and dentists, to reinforce their

create the styles which made exlating realisation of the im- this luxury business France's. portance of minimising radiation second largest export,

whenever possible, Famous pre-World War II "Sure enough, there was out of their way. And now and exposure

was then we try to help some of the particulanty in the young. designers. Molyneux,* - Lelong. something wrong with it. It was, biggen qnimals. Once a mouse

Shiparea Chariel, P

- Piguet and "When radiation is adminis-Patou catered almost exclusively great-great-great- in a trap! It was bait to catch he was my the mice in the cellar. But Zlly grandfather's grandfather saved tered by a well-trained person to individual customers. Pich still didn't believe there was the life of a lion. Everybody there is no actite hasand (for the

high society: matron, had anything wrong with Ii. Silly knows, that story. It's in all the patient X-my time should be favourite, whose "look" was as

obiadnext, of course, wheneven it Zily."

Many obvious as a label wom outside At this point Knant and Teddy "Oh, I know that story aldamate of medical his creation

There should certainly grew very excited and begged Krant to Christopher Cricket, be no i

be no limitation of the

Use of ECONOMIC NECESSITY Christopher Cricket to tell them "It's the story of the Lion and properly administered roent- Krimf, without delay whether Billy the Mouse!?!!?? after, he had finished, "why are Zilly slucic his head in the “Mice are nice.” Teddy, the early detection of diatases that · But today's, big name de-

Stuffed Boar, said, smiling,

Fotherwise elude: would

Telude recognisigners all promote a somewhat you singing that song?”

But mind you keep youm Er

wits, old chips,

For lols of cheeses imong

In traps!"

"Christopher," said

inousotrop

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