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BY

This Funny World

WE INTERRUPTE

THIS PROGRAM TO BRING YOU A BULLETIN- YEVEL CHANNERS GETTING COLD!

THE

ALKAUSMAN

WAY

by Beachcomber

THE CHINA · MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1957.

JACOBY

ON BRIDGE

Headwork Good For Bad Dummy

WE

Dy OSWALD JACOBY JEST'S overcall turned out to most expensive. ile didn't get doubled or anything like that, but it gave William Grieve of Boston the clues that enabled him to romp home with

amali slam.

West opened the jack of hearts and did not like the dummy.

small Those three spades were most annoying cards to show up there. Or course there was a simple play for the hand. He could draw trumps, lead a club to dummy's queen and return a club and Anesse his ten spot. Should East hold the jack of clubs, that play would allow him to discard one of those spades on the king of clubs.

Bill decided that West would bold bdth the nec and Jack of clubs for his overcall and that the simple play would not work. He also noted most the complicated play to make hand against that holding operated as follows:

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Lin TITERATURE must come into insisted on a cake large enough with evalempurary to be crowned with the 84 thought. The meals and parties candles which represented the given to viinin publicts for a old man's age. The candies new novel are too staid and were *, and grandfather dummy's eight and a low heart Victorian, when compared with approached the cake, conserving the arrangements for boosting o his breath for the blowing-out new film.

ceremony. Being short-sighted, ⚫ Wembley Stadium, floodlit, is he stood very close to the mum- the place to launch a novel. The moth cake, Calmly and patiently guests would be greeted by the he tira nut candle aller candle. staff of the publishing em, to the applause of his descen-

*There!" dressed to represent characters cants.

cald 11 in the book, and chouting its wearly, having disposed of the title in chorus. Helicopters Blvd candle. ghostly bush would drop copies of the bioak, fell "Father," said his eldest and there would be a car-rally. son, here are Bi candles, You a beauty competition, freworks have blown out only 83.

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to spell the title in letters Rame. a show on ler, dance- music from empliers, Brey hound racing, a parade of illin-. stars. At midnight the uninvited public would be admitted free, and given free drinks, Chinese swords

Cutting-paper, black antique horse-collars, gondola Dutch ironmonger's Allod with bruss boble: end thermometers, and models Swedish factory boilers IN, alabaster.

have counted wrote." The old mun hung his head. "I'm sorry, Bob," he said. "I didn't see the

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BOYS' AND GIRLS'

What Does "Cat" Mean?

-Punch Explains It Has Many Meanings

By MAX TRELL

By STELLA

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FIRST Kharf, The Shadow

This big book?" said Punch. "Why, it's a dictionary."

Knacf turned to Teddy

"He's reading

Oh,

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Boy with the turned-about Hiawatha.

then Hiawatha, The name, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12

Small-Sized Wooden Indian, Knarf said. and fually Teddy, The Stuffed member, sometimes means repentine Bear, came to the door of Mr

Punch's com and stopped.

Mr Punch was sitting on the floor looking into an enormous book. It was the biggest book that Knari, Hiawatha or Teddy had ever seen.

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At this

Mr Punch moment, exclaimed: "Well, I decinrel I never would have thought it passible. Oh, hello, there, boys!" noticing the he suddenly said, three friends standing by the door. "Please come in!"

Big Book

"What's that big book you're reading, Mr Punch?" Knarf said after the three of them line come up to Mr Punch,.

Drawn

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ABOVE-Robb recreates made women overboard.

the New Look that

their entire wardrobes The skirt was nearly, ankle-length and extravagantly full, the waist nipped in where a waist ought to be, and there was not a single bit of padding in the shoulders.

MAGAZINE

On hearing this, Knarf, Hja-

watha and Teddy

with disappointment.

all granried

Teddy said: "I don't see why you have to look up the word cat. Mr Punch?”

Mr

"Everyone knows means," said Knart.

what cat

and

dietionary,"

"A cal." said Hluwatha, always a cat; four legs toll- whiskers eyes that can see in the dark-likes mico."

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dictionary,"

Hos Other Meanings * Teddy, "What's a dictionary?"

"Very good." said Mr Punch, full of words," "only If you look up eat in the "It's a bookt

dictionary, you'll be surprised sald Mr Punch.

Here Hiawatha interrupted to to see how many other mean- say that every book was full of ings the word cat has.

"For example, eat also means tions and tigers. They're bly cats. Then it also means u sh and a bird."

words.

Meaning of Words

agreed

Mr

"That's true," Punch. "Only a dictionary 't a story. It's a booit that explains what words mean."

"Like what words?"; asked Teddy "I mean. what words are you looking up now?"

#m looking up the word. cat," said Mr Punch.

Rupert and Rusty-25

makes

In their surprion at finding, a nervously. "Can it have been the man who made those footprinta in room right in the middle of the chế thì two, friends gaze about the sand ? And where is he Thena pochluusly, Encept for now?" Then a noise themselves the rooms is empty and them start. They dodge out of there is absoluta silence “Surely night just as the doors of the great Fogwbody must have been here to cupboard open and a figure wérides light the fire,** Rusty breathes out.

KEL NEONIES RESERVED

Hiawatha,

"Cat does?" said Teddy. "Catfish," sald suddenly remembering,

Knari remembered, too.. He said: "And there's a bird railed catbird When it sings 11 sounds like a cut."

Mr Punch, went on.

Also À Game

Cat also means a whip--a cat-o-nine-talls-a whip with nluc lashes, And cat also means a game."

What kind of game?" sald Teddy,

"I'm surprised at you," said Mr Punch. "There's a game entled one-R-rat, two-a-cat, three-2-ent and so on depend- ing on how many boys play it.

They hit a piece of wood about the size of a clothespin with a stick of about, half the size of a broom handle. And then there's a catboat, which is amall sail boat, and cainly which all cats Ilk"

"and cattails," said watha.

Mr Punch nodded.

Hia-

"So you see, my dears, there are more cats in the dictionary than there are on a back fence (on a hot summor's night"

Panch was sitting on the floor, reading the book.

What's Happened To Mum?

By Hazel Meyrick

THERE have all the

mums

[W

gone? That's wondering

what I'm left

after seeing the newest col- lections of clothes designed for large ladies.

from

The

Disappearing test designers' sketch-bookn dico thoso little numbers we always carmarked for

poor dicar mother: The so-suitable matron's dresa In puco-coloured crepe with its low vet-neckline, fast- ened modestly with a brooch, its wrist-length gleaves le rover every inch of flesh,

and it# familiar skirt with that fan- tastic drapery that was supposed to make its wearer look sylph- like.

The mums of today won't rland this kind of nonsense from the designers. They don't see why they can't have bright, Attractive clothes Hke Ulielr daughters, and I'm with them. daughters. They're buying up dresses with wide-cut portrait necklines, crisp sheaths in dark grey wood, trimmed with white plque, and evan gay colton dresses with swirling skirts-for if the mums of today are large, they're making no attempt to disguise li.

Because mum has suddenly become interested

in fashion, many of the lending wholesale designers who at one time cater- el for stock-sizes only are now making large-size:) clothes in high-fashion styles like the dream and jacket i saw the other day in crisp sca-blue linen, 'The dress had a low-cut rounded neckline of the kind that only large women can wear. and it was eciged with an embroidery of large white daisies. Also ear- marked for the outsize depart- ment was u cocktail dress in furquoise blue. It had a wide, draped shawl collar, outlined in white and an attractive bell- shaped skirt.

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