1957-10-04 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER

1957.-

This Funny World

• JACOBY

"No, you can't use the car, but please feel free to help

yourself to the power mower.”

YOUR BIRTHDAY

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4

BORN Inday, your tact, diplomacy

personal charm was further your major objectives at all inca. 11 may appear that you do not Work at hard as many to achieve your goal, but you have the habit of care- fil planning and the capacity for working hard without appearing to put Dellent much effort. You have rx- Jugement and are vinrently practica in all that you undertake. 1here no lost motion as far AS you are concerned.

.By STELLA

own fully growing up around you.. leaving the business of making living to the menfolks. You are 10 apt to be too much interested in a career.

You men, on the uther hand, will artote mort of your effort to attain ing success. Any career which brings act in touch with people probably will be most congenial, for you have the Krunck of making people feel at home in your presence. You have a hose for news anti a gift for judging the popular opinion on any subject, Promotion, advertising, newspaper work or polities si will offer you satisfying career,

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You women have a gift for making A ittle money so long way, You know how to trudget and keep to it You have originality and good taste In clothes. With training, you might become a designer. You have a keen eye for colour and your home wil the bright and Roy, Font of soclai activity, you will see to it that your house in the well centre 21 your neighbourhood. You blad know how To to entertain on any budget and make a good show of it. Your train happiness undoubtedly will be in having your own home and your

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Among those born were: Rutherford B. Hayes. U.S. President; Francols Guizol, French Historians; Grace Leatie, ningo Charles Thorne, agriculturk, and Datnon tunyor, sulor for and what the state have tri store

you tomorrow, select your birth- day star and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5

24-Oct. 23)- GEMINI

(May 22-$1106 Z1)

ON BRIDGE

False-Card Play Saves Contract

By OSWALD JACOBY

THE false-card is a play of an

unnecessarily high card in on effort to confuse your apponents.

Larceny Lou is most adept at thle play and here is one of

his best.

WOMANSENSE

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How SHOULD you dress your child?

By AMANDA MARSHALL

LAST MONTH most of the Mothers of England, that gallant, underpraised body of woman (together with tha Quoon of Sweden, whoso daughter is starting school in Bri- West opened the five of dia-tain), havo more or less accomplished the herculean and monds against Lou's optimistic remarkably expensive annual task of equipping their young three no-trump contract. Lou with the kind of clothes domanded by English schools, the won the trick with the ten spot English wintor, and the English Tradition-throo forms of and wisely decided fo altock his own spade sull. He led the honourable lestitution which foreigners have always deuce of spades and when West ragarded with a mixture of alarm and respect. ducked he went right un with [dummy's king. It held and he

returned the ten.

West won with the queen and decided to attack the club suit.

He led the deuce of clubs. East played the nee and Lou dropped the king, This false card gave him his only chance to make the contract. If Lou

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had played the ten spot East would have led a second club and East and West would have three club tricks In

A the day for social activity and Again, combine business and les-made romance, if you are seeking it. Let

sure. Perhaps you can make plans addition to their two spades. for wedding. That takes business acument

down tensions; rest and relax, tou.

SCORPIO (GFt. 16-Nov 22) If you are plaining a week-end tip, bearity as possible. No need to be extravagant to have fun)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov, 23-Dec. 2 A day of outdoor sports with con- genial friends may prove the solution to relaxation happy change of paco.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 201- Don't slow down, even if it is your holiday for you. Time 14 vi 1 essence, Take advantage of luck.

East should not have fallen 23) for Lou's false-card. It Lou

out-

mighty

CANCER (June 22-July Participation in competitive revitalise your physical energies alber sports would relax tensions and really held the queen of clubs well,

as he was going to make bla cort- LEO (July

any event, A lecture can

23) tract in

but that 24 - Aug.

entertaluing as king, play had been well as fistrusuve, this evening, convincing Attend with close friends and enjoy maybe Lou held nothing at all East decided that

(AMK 24-Sept 23) in hearts and East led the ve Bavak file unitera of your routine of hearts, AQUARIU: B (Jan. 21-Feb, 19 get out on the town. Accept an Shopping

come to the domestic maiters new invitation, perhaps, and have fun,

tore if you have been

neglecting them attle of late.

20)

PINCEL (Feb. 20-Mar, Perustal Cestres may be achieved now. Pleasure and romance can be yours. Make this a time of celebra- tion:

ABIES (Mar, 21-Apr.

-(0%

A good day for a trip into the coun-

try to relax tensions. Stay over the

week-end if you can

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TAURUS (Apr. 21-May Hopes can be realised today, fut, when evening comes, stick to your Don'l venture too normal rou Une.

much then,

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Lou went right up with the king. He did not know that

East held both the queen und Jack and cared less, Another spode lead cleared the suit. West led a low club in despera- tion and Lou mado the rest of the tricks.

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This thon

being just the moment to taka stack of the fray, I offer some applause and cat-calls on the subject of dressing the younger generation,

'I LOVE...

TREND THE

(which sometimes seems anall-slow, but 15, in fact, something of a major ....SCHOOLS who historical revolution) for drets- realise that the traditional ing a child simply, and

that gym-tunie, with its pleats he or she looks like a child and that nover atay pleated and not like a doll-sized replica of

father or mother, mercilessly revealing still attached to this adult-copy its

America is line, is not the kindest formula, and last season all the thing in the world for the smartest little girls had Empire- I doubt growing English schoolgirl's no dresses: thoigh major aesthetic problems much of a stir in the nursery, whether the sack will nake the bust and the knee.

dear

ате

since it more or less originated there.

An Hour of Holl

The traditional gym-tanic

I on the way out...

that

200k

To and simple, fresh, eny- lo-care-for party frock doesn't make a toddler liko a parody of Shirley Temple in her flossiest heyday is difficult indepe

THE WAY, no matter how you plan it, practically

every shop you visit ham't à garment in stock the size your Child needs, The new stock ham't come in yet, or the new stock was sold, every stitch of it, yesterday. ог l's botween seasons,

Lost or Purloined

Knee socks, no matter how arctic the winds in Kensington Gardens, can never in my ex- perience be found in beginning- to-wall sizes, Shoes can teke you the best part of a day's march to run to earth. Match- ing mackintosh soutwestora,

lost or purloined by fashion-conscious small friend (and murely this happens to everybody?), will take weeks of telephoning and call-in-when- you're-nexi-parsing to replace,

oace

... THE WAY, although a women's shoes are now นค and glove-soft and in size flexible, a small-child's walking

carded clothes, furiously angry, ments they are passionately blocked tired people runging in age from convinced are suitable two to 00, and enlivened by for four-year-olds, but which in shoe la often as bullet-proof and bloody battles for possession of fact do very well for my no unyielding the shop's only resident rocking more-than-average-stout two- polse. horse.

THE SLOW (very slow) but mercifully steadily increas- ing interest on the part of the manufacturers in good design in

year-old daughter.

Reluctant

modal girl's

Please, NO!

More and more schools coming round to some sort of uniform built round the skirt- and-pullover plan. (But while they are about it, couldn't they Be the way to obolishing the

Gone, old traditional while-

mercifully, are the petticoats, long blouse-and-house-le for ever? button-boots, In London

skirts, fure, feathers and Ince of schools particularly,

... - THE WAY we make a go only the last century (the only thing even drip-dry shirts

child look enchanting as far as part of the way to solving the to be regretted being the pass children's clothes; and tho ... THE VERY evident fact the neck, and ruin it all at the

giring of the adorable, but prob- emergence of at least one firm that manufacturers are laundry problem, and no

still hairdresser's. Little boys with not over-comfortable, that is trying to combine lively reluctant to accept the fact that baby curls too long and too late, looks appetising when collars ably

And and cuffs are mourning-edged sailor-sult.)

no telf-re and sensible" design with very a very small person cannot take little girls with slides axt bows Are twin-sets specting boy is now expected to reasonable prices. by lunch time.

much clutter. A girl can hardly and despondent, microscopic for the classroom too revolu wear velvet in the Little Lord

stand on her own feet before pony talls and perms and tionary altogether?)

Fauntleroy manner unless he is

she is expected to burst into a sophisticated seta that couldn't nolay riot of frills, collars, cuffs, be faulted

later-- ...THE GROWING fashion an infant prodigy on the con

20 years for comfort for the very young. cert platform or bludgeoned

bows, appliqued doggies and please, no. The prettiest wo- No longer need tie girls into being a page at a particu-

THE CRAZY confusion bunnies Tad angry-looking year-old I saw this summer had brave an English winter in larly slap-up wedding.

over sizing in children's gar- gnomer, pockets, buttons and shiny, straight pudding-basin short

dresses

their

ments, cach one different, most Inset embroidery, and tle some 'cut like a brisk little Joan; of while

THE SHOPS

that tell totally unintelligible even to the sort of sash round that part of Are-and it was, sad to say, a mothers enjoy the comfort of you: "You can bring it back if assistants, and few apparently her anatomy where, in years to great grlot to her mother. alacks, Small female legs. can it docan't fit" thus saving you bearing much relatio

with bright an hour of hell as now be provided

the come, there may well be a waist, you cram size of the particular child you pants from the earliest age your loudly protesting child into are trying to dress, I seem to elegantly inpered, anl

with a

hideous succession of gar- spend an unreasonable amount jolly hooded and warmly-lined ments in a sort of Black Hole of my life trying to persuade belet topcoats to match,

of Calcutta, knee-deep in dis shop assistants to sell me gar

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I HATE...

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London Express Heroico).

Spelling Without Tears:

BOYS AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE Try It With Your Child

Punch's Strange Story

-Everyone Was Glad It Had a Happy Ending--

By MAX TRELL

NARF and Hanid, the Shadow

"What is it, my dear?" I ask- ed her.

"She few down and perched

North Children, and Teddy, the on my shoulder.

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A-Pass, You are pleased that Your partner has did hearts but your double was just about a minimum.

TODAY'S QUESTION West bids two spades and your partner doubles. East posses. What do you do?

Answer Tomorrow

• BY. THE WAY.

by Beachcomber

Stuffed Bear, and Hiawatha, the Wooden Indian Boy, and Kit- all tery, the Hobby Horse, gathered around Mr Punch,

"Welcome, my dears." Mr Punch, nodding to them from the depths of the rocking chair. "I've been expecting you.”

asid

"We want you to tell us story," said Hanid.

a

"I've been expecting that too," said Mr Punch. Unfor- tunately, I haven't got story to tell you-"

any

Just One Story

Everyone, looked disappointed and Mr Punch went on ex- cept just one story, I don't know whether you'd care to hear it or

Everyone shouted that

THE question now arises, If a stored your head to lis pristine not."

chimpanzee sends a picture normality, would be the first to

to the Royal Academy, what will deplore the penalisation of n happen? Are animals allowed to tiny being who can have no say story. exhibit pictures at Burlington in the allocation of a name." House?

Financial note "It would depend on the 3. Just the places to ny to for a pictures," said a wary spokes-

wesh and brush-up, (4-5)

4.

Down

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The cost of two Expresses. _{3})

induce people to invest more

ps

comfortable

"Make yourself at home, I Bald to her.

"Thank you, seld Mrs Cuçkaro, speaking right into my

Td like to ask you car. favour.

Will you promise to do it?' asked Mrs Cuckoo,

"I will indeed. I said. 'No matter what it is, I'll do it,

Mrs. Cuckoo perched on Mfr. Panob's shoulder.

Four o'clock. Five o'clock. Six o'clock.

***I hope,' said Mrs Cuckoo, 'you're as good as your word. This is what I'd like you to do. Three o'clock. I'd like you to take my place while I visit my brother, who lives in a clock in a house on the other side of town

Mrs

By GARRY CLEVELAND MYERS, Ph. D.

sume advice Tommy's teacher DURING a leisurely conversa-

with my 9-year-old did. They encourage the child grandchild, I asked him how to test himself on a word ho thought he did in school before he has really learned it. last year, He replied, "I was promoted all right, but I don't. But I should not he puzzled. very well in Many spelling books, and books Yet I am a good on

Leaching I read a lot just for spelling, urge the child to close Maybe my rending wilt his

look away eyes, or belp me do better in spelling" spell the word before

think I did

spelling.

reader.

fún.

inethods

of

and

having practised it enough.' The child

I tried him out, on a few will also be advised to wrile words like "horse" or "could" but he didn't do so well.

When I asked him how ho studies spelling he replied, "I look at the word, pronounce it and spell it once while looking at . Then I shut my eyes. and spell it six times

more. That's the way our teacher tells us to do it."

A BETTER WAY "But by seven o'clock I wris so deepy that I forgot to call it

"A better way," I told him. out and everyone in the houses to spell it five or six tients forgot to get up!

alowly and carefully "And as you see," said Mr

Her

the word front memory after spelling it while looking at it only a few times,

WRONG GUESS

When you are helping your child to learn to spell a short ist of words, try your best to persuade him to pronounce and spell the word over and over while looking carefully at it before ho tries himself out on

If he should guess wrong and while try himself out too soon and

of

Out Sho Flow

they ""Take

Punch, pointing to the clock, looking at it, and then spell thus spell the word Wrong, your place, wanted very much to hear this Cuckco?' I saked. How can

that with don't get angry. Just calmly I "Mrs Cuckoo hasn't come back only once after

persuade him to look back at lake your place? I don't look yet. clock is stopped, I your eyes shut,"

"Oh, I see," he answered. the original word and study It "Very well," said Mr Punch. like a Cuckoo. I can't call out don't know what to do. I can't "But don't blame me If it doesn't the hours like a Cuckoo. And oven keep on pretending to call can spell it right before I try

"You want me to be sure I more. end up the way it should. I'll most of all,” I said, I can't make out the hours any more."

myself out on It."

If you are choosing words tell it to you exactly the way myself as small as a Cuckoo,'

The Clock Ticked

for him to learn It happened."

to spell, 2. China, it and ain all go together, man. Encouraged by the success in Industry, borrowing must:

He got the point and, being choose first those **You've got to do it, she 3. Hun ATRY (6) of the artist Bongo, keepers at be mude more difcult, because With that, Mr Punch nuade

a philosophic chap, said, "Tm syllable and not as said, 'you promised." And "out the Zoo are trying to interest increasing investment sumulates himself

more than 6. The top ofiour jains the Hwy. the animals in the arts.

Just as his rocking chair, she flew out through the open saying this, there was a fulier see that when I spell

Mr Punch Anished going to try your way. I can three or four words a sitting. 6. An, the last sawer is all mutaod ustricht, presented with an easel. "Credit-equeeze" tightens

All Inflation. Therefore, as the possible in

word After his skill nodded with satisfaction as he window into the darkness!

improves, in- of wings at the window. In flew wrong while studying it, I troduce a few words nte it. But a parrot sang-- the Bank-rate rises, and the themselves on the Boor et als clock It was nearly one o'clock. 'clock

of two saw his group of friends seating

*I looked up at the cuckoo Mrs Cuckoo, straight for way the Jewel Song from cost of living goes up, everyone feet and then began as follows:

Byllables mado Up of short It has always ALT "Faust" for a Covent Garden. must save more, in order to con

Thank you, Mr Punch!" she why so many teachers give the pancake, blackbird. officini. I wouldn't do," he tribute to the investments which

"Now this story is absolutely Upstairs in their rooms, Mother gald. "The public could stand increase Inflation.

true. None of it is made up. It and Father were waiting to hear called out as she shut the door the volee all right, but the ap- must

But people

Mrs Cuckoo call out the time, behind her. Instantly the pendu- all happened. As a matter of save the

for they were still awake. I lum started, swinging. The clock money needed fact, it all happened just last tried as best I could to Imitate started the bird as for

investiment to pay Income night."

teking. Mr Punch Marguerito would destroy the inx and additional

and started smiling

Koori, taxes оп illusion." "Animals," sátel a their savings.

Hoald, Teddy, Hiawatha and Apart from all coloratum soprano "should stick that, it is as casy as falling off cuckoo clock. R hung from

Mr Punth glanced up at the

"Cu-kool Cu-kool' I called Kittery all started hughing. For a thousand-foot pole,

hook on the wall just over his

out in a high, plping tone. All everyone was glad that Mr through the night 1 kept calling Pusch's story had this happy head

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by LEONARD BARDEN

From actual pily Bluer more and `win material

pearance

to painting.

Family conference

·IGHT-HEADED, the postman

Li

returned from the barber's,

Psychophobia

and

I have discovered a new discase. It la described as

to be once more the torget for the psychological

of effect

1

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For the first time, everyone in

a thousand fulsome compliments, worrying about the psychological the room-Kuart, Horld. Teddy

"We will call our

OB,

first boy effect of being paychoanalysed: noticed that the cuckoo

Hlawatha arst Kittery alt

Strabismus," ho whispered to The cure is probably to paycho- had stopped.

clock the blushing Gertrude Malt. analyse the paychoanalyst who

The pendu Arnold!" she simpered, diagnosed the discose as fear of

wasn't moving it usually did. The mother overheard, "Arnold," being petychoanalysed, or psychotick nor lock.

There was no sound, neither Buys she, "neither you nor phobla. He would then reding- Gertrude, will, I hope. ever nose the discuse as a purely door to the room in the cuckoo They also noticed that the have caust to... ECTURO

imaginary one, a self-induced clock where Mrs Cuckoo vod car state of psycho-resistance, due

was standing wide open,,

dipping

my unwanted

will

Ints your matrimonial waters. to psychononco-operational-ten- But this would say. A little donales in the patient. innocent babe who is inflicted

with a name which do not Night thought

hesitate to classify as grotesque

But Me Punch was going on with his story before anyone had

la deadmed to be the bull of his UE explosion of an atom here when, all of a sudden, he comrades. Choose..bog of you, bomb underground in order:

a chance to ask any questions. "Well, I was sitting right Cuckoo's door opened and cuf o'clock:: 1. expected her to call dose that, you know it to out twelve Enter the WIR surprises ahoj mogły okiled, dura

woma wholesome English name to help the wady of carib she came. It was jurb twelve for your helr. Your father was quaires means that it will not be to Ived plain Altrod ho died, the craies of a volcano adds a plain Alfred Plain Alfred he long before a bombs exploded in Gratitude in a noble emotion, but now wompon to the amoury of the wotentiat htmself, who “aus peace.

Mrs Cuckoo's voice.

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Rupert is delighted, it the wor then jeug "Simmons Thaar reUZİKLİ that he has been alveri and he runs : Hasliala la, bad, Eddler is better to be lifted in front” of the, rokler

patorize. Inspoo. "Th Simple: Słuport ? Isa'k:bieTM Corning Klage and Shannon ways soodbyn ant Nay, not-yet--aays the zoon, the hdre. La" jogging: awai Hyg. Flest Jawala aba - zetum from, the castle and through the of the truant, if he cometh, not,tri marrounding woods.

her

keep on getting it wanted me familiar words like cowboy,

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