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This Funny World

"I'm getting sick and tired of being cooped up here every night while you're out living it up with the vice squad."

YOUR BIRTHDAY

BORN

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19

today.

you Dave endowed with exceptional abiliy and much latest talent which should be developed at an early age of you are to Tap the tuces white ti stars Indicate should be in store for you. You will be happiest m tho Arts and science and your ambitions could tend you bite au curly em centration in the Held of your curler.

You believe In Ruspiration, a begining, but you ulee kraw that hard work is a basic nec ad eras tinued #JECTS. You ne SUVED atraid of rolling up your sleeves junt getting on with a fatuat merc to be done. You have great stor€ of nervous as well as phy.cał energy and you can get twize much work done la half the tink an can the average individual fit

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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1957.

JACOBY

ON BRIDGE

Cue Hoodwinks West For Slam

By OSWALD JACOBY CAM STAYMAN of New York is best known for the famous Stayman convention. He is also known

resourceful player who believes in making to as difcult for his opponents possible,

IT 20

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Now, Suppose that you are West in today'a hand and Sam is sitting South. He opens the bidding against you with one spade and you fear the worst. North bids two clubs, your part- ner three diamonds,

WOMANSENSE

DOES ANY WIFE REALLY WANT

SENSIBLE GIFTS?

"Talways in your pocket," said our ROUBLE with an old house-your hand

architect friend. (He had called to investi- gate our windows and tell us how much they would cost to replace).

I'd heard that all before. It was his next words that stopped me dead:-

"What I should do, old chap," he said, "io.. give your wife a window for Christmas.".

All my life, whenever I think of an old-fashioned Christmas snowcape with pretty girls wrapped in ermine

laughing men loaded with seasonal shopping.

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SYLVIA LAMOND sends a

seasonal memo to husbands

two diamonds and Sam the tinkle of jingle bells over overything-those words busy to go on a

You decide to stick in a three-will heart bid for what it is worth and the bidding continues with

NORTH AA107

52

95 KQJDOS.

WEST

02

VQJ 10843

EAST 453 ❤97

♦ 10 0 4

* & *

By STELLA

KQJB73 AA12 SOUTH (D) AKQJ904

VAKC

♦ A2

03

Wally you, there is litle or no com- pratni.

You women are rather too fend of pernuṇial adomment, and may need to exhibit restraint in the matter of clothes and jewellery. To be invited To a party and not finve a new dress can be a major catastrophe Learn ka lan n little more selective in preus

JDE VOKSE desiren!

North and South vulnerable South West North

East

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Pars

3.

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3 A

4

Pass

6 A

1 Puss Pass

Par Pass Openlar, lead--Ħ Q

four

three spades by North, hearts by South, four spades by North and six spades by Soulli, dia- Your emotions are near the nur-

Your normal lead is a mid you have, a high teinper mand. Your partner das bid that You may need to learn self-quitrol In both arete, for unless you do, suit and it ought to be better your life con become

than your hearts. A look at all refles ut emotional ezires which can be very the hands discloses that The wearing.

normal lead beats the slum. East has a diamond established be form his, ave of clubs is knocked

Autung those born on This date were: Edwin M. Stanton, statesman Minate MadderR Fiske, actreszi Geurge. Merrill, matenan: 11. 2. out.

Prek, ateel magnate; Mary A. West did not open the dia- Livet mote. Torner: Oliver Jon. He reviewed the bidding

Jetar

and while you make many time and Forge, author, and Witam Seymour and ruled that Sam hal me to close frigid, you have the originality. and individòàlity which aber wi make onenales You are plant that if you remain at the hend

project, your directions are to be followed to the letter. You muke a wonderful friend but a biller enemy.

To And what the stars have 15 slure for yout totaorrow, select your ilettolay star and read the copper. pending paragraph. Let your birth. day stür be your dally ultr

FRIDAY, DECEMBER ZO

SAGITTARIUS (Nav, 21-Der. #---

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.

six spades by himself once North had given him a raise in trumps. West asked himself: "Way did Sam take the trouble to cue bid

come to me, muffled like a bad dream, "... give her a window for Christmas.”

THE JEWELLER; Never listen is really because he is too wife is a large quantity of n

dedicated routipe item on her shopping to him-unless you've hundroda shop-hunt? Is it asking too list.The last time you pressed to spend. He will always fit you much that he should skip just fiver into your secretary's up with something minule

real-in chip almonds or one of those importam two- hund wand asked her to make my but hour business lunches. just Christmas, I got a drum of talc seed points, but some good, ono-and head for the shops and eight pairs of identical - glamorous junk would thrill me more. Who cares about a real with a sandwich in one hand? my-foot nylonst

Of course

THE GLOSSY MAGAZINES: stone if it's too small to see?

OTHER MEN men who You haven't a dog's charge of news it.

fitting me into the right "gift always give her a cheque; men for her" category. I'm over who always give her something wand on useful for Use house; men who worked, but I don't electric bealer-I want a nice give her the same thing year

after year, because it robust charlady,

success once.

it isn't-and

he

I think the reason is entirely different.

I wouldn't mind if the conversation had been brought up later -on teasing thought.

But it wasn't. So I'm forced to speak-before the seed sprouts: I don't care if the architect did give his wife a new gravel drive for their old, crumbling house last Christmas; I don't care If all our windows fall out logether and the snow blows in.

I do NOT want a window for Christmas. Nor a hearth- nu; nor an essential piece of household equipment; nor anything that would have been paid for come time, anyway.

And I know a lot of wives who feel the same way. Why are husbands so stingy and dull about Christmas pre-wolf on the prowl,... sents for their wives?

What happens to the fair and imagination they had before they married when every gift was craftily calculated to make if indispensable to her?

Sentimental....

I remember some of those gifts-marked personal-alined at my weakness05;---

I think husbands go wrong because they take other people's advice. A man backs his own Judgment when he is 4 june

But once he joins the solid

husbands ranks of steady begins to lap up advice.

That's why I'm giving busband some advice year on the people to cleur of.

Routine

he

We o

I'm in my thirties, but I fool

1 would like YOU, unaided a lot older. Even if you pee me,

buy my this year, promisingly. as the nad utashamed, to woman with "loo much of Christmas present this year-on work. the assumption that you care. everything," it Won't

a £3,000 know more about me and what my You'll never rise to

my this classical temple for the garden; makes steer and would have to fall back on better than anybody else. Including our architect. that old magnetic bottle opener.

SHOP ASSISTANTS, .10 Little süver and enamel boxes which belonged to someone in

Liston, darling— Die past-often with the same initials as mine... bunches of begin with.

take hair advice, par- cloudy inimesa, finished after one night in a warin room, but worth rever a week of chrysanthemums in winter-time.. Alm-slar carrings, titularly et closing time an like green glass rocks-the year I got my fixation for emeralds. Christmas Eve,

All right.

know They don't So they were sentimental moments, a long time

me-evon k20. But, Pike a lot of other people, we are still suckers for a from your rough measurements ventimental Christmas,

and they're not paid to. SECRETARIES: They tend to thak a good gift for the boss's

Yet something happens aver the years to turn a husband's its from the sentimental to the strictly sensible.

BOYS AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

Mr. Merlin's Garden

-All Hia Flowers Went To Stay on Mary Jane's Wall—

By MAX TRELL

in Henris?" West came up with MARY JANE, The Hug Doll, in her sad, rug-doli valce.

the answer that Sam was trying to stop a heart lead and out 22)-came the queen of hearts.

It tezalons have been mounting, Guard against overwork, for without examine the reasoņi and dheaver haw you can relax then Finish 3 mar hepith

Christmas shopping, nethaps?

CAPRICORN (Dec, 23-Ján, 201–

You can get into the driver'n at 1

if you work things right. Postpone

new projects it later.

AQUARIUS (Jan

Z1-Feb. 19)- Lat reason. rather than Impulse, guide you this day. Finish up a job already begun before starling any 1ng new."

29-Mar 203-

Now the slam was a laydown,

the proper sest you might undermine Sum drew trumps and knocked

TARGET

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M

A

FISCES (Feb Even if now opportentiles are may offered, clear up detalla of an old job before fockling a new one.

P

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ADIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20)- Get organised now for a buggy werk ahoad. Make plants for flashing all Jast-minute shopping by tomorrow, at un latest.

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TAURUS глазия. 21-May 21)- If pinealegs visit relatives next week, make all pinns for the journey now. It's inter than you think!

QEMINI (May 22-June 21)- No matter how hurried the day, stay calm and collected. Clear thinking solves all compliestions or problemas.

CANCER (June 22-July 2}- Bold closely to importani "routine. This clearly not a day for beg ning anything new. Postpone such activities.

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LEO (July 24-AUR. Put your desk in order at the office so that you can afford to fill a care- free wek-end with holiday planning.

vmtuv

(AVE. 21-Sept. 21)- Hold to a positive polat of view, und no matter how harried you are, rep that smile na your facel

LINHA

HOW

Bular LettETA

at more en you brake tsom the letters in the Square GR the left $1 tuusking part word, the Ietters its roch ut the mall squares may be used ones only. Each word must contule The large letter in the centre square, and there must be ni teast one sting-letter word in the Ist. No plurals i na foretin words of proper INBLIK.

TODAY'S TAGGET: 20 words, gok 2 OR wordby, very good : 45 words, excellent. "Solution

YESTERDAY:3 FOLUTIONI ASME But mat AMBITIúns ambe dal he DOSTE boat avert busi Tænk, (zbDN ANH - nanti sabai sis sin siker!! 'fibia tomb Tubamba.

BY

by

i abenys recommend to

(Sept. 21-Oct.

- Who tire Procrastination never pays-au tio-

PTORL day is more than ever no time for

decisions.

out the ace of clubs. West had been right in deciding that Sam had a reason for his heart bid!. San: deânitely did not want a diamond lend and had used the heart bid as a double-cross to get the heart lead, not to stop it.

VCARD Seriseks

Q-The bidding has been: North East South West

Pass ?

14

You, South, hold:"

MET VAQER OJTE SA QUI

What do you bid?

A-Two clubs. Two no-irump Is inadvisable without a diamond stopper and you should have five hearts to respond two hearts.

TODAY'S QUESTION

Your partner continues with a bid of two dismonds. What do you bil?

Answer Tomorrow

WAY

THE

Beachcomber

of writing turgid

drinybig action. Make important A little bit of facite rhyme

As a relief from time to time. Only the nastiest prigs condemn This pleasant little stratagem, Which always keeps dull core

at bay When you have nothing much

to say.

CROSSWORD

Across

1. I. rab, helps (knaq.), (01

B. Mutorial, (6)

9. Calf warning.

10. Pull to waken,

11. Droop, (1)od 15. Expired. 15. Tong messenger, (13)

_liberty, (7)

20, Ring.

10

Down

1. It don't rhyme. (5, 4)

it adds to the acorn, 103:

J. POOT

Conser indirectly. (0)

those fitting over the top of the egg really "fulfils a long-left want." Why not a hat on ensiors, or a tea-poi with its spout at the back, or a sieve with no holes for sifting footballs, or a fork scooping with no prongs for meat, or a leather container for a bath-plug, or an overcoat that zips up the sides, or a rubber ring on the end of a blow-pipe blankel to stir soup with, or a

catch covered with glue to foxes, or a match that can be The disapproving aunt struck in the middle, or « glass Kimlet for denting bloaters, or a revolving horseshoe, or an VITA BREVIS'S aunt cannot

stard Foulenough. Since adhesive biscuit, or a triangular he day when he said to her, door-nall, or an electric suck to Mrs Tarromond, you ore the warm potatoes, or a stocking only rose I ever knew, without with no sole to be worn as a

a thorn," she has regarded him guiter, or a tweed paper-clip, or

indeed

vulgurlan,

"Captain, a pneumatic shoe-hora

she said to her niece. blowing fluff off planos?

"When I asked him what he WAS captain of, he sald, The Wapstoke Brewery Badminton team.' Cards and horses are his whole life." "The come may be said of Lord Owins- bfood," replied Vita, "whom you wished me to marry.” "Lord (Owlesblood's eyes are not red with drink," retorted her aunt. They will be," said Vita, PGIVE

time." *What Foulenough?" "He's full of Viln "Don't remember how, when he wns down and out, he had him

ht resources asked the aunt,

resources," said

you

B. Weeded. (4) a. tetors. (9) self left in a basket of washing

1. Wolsomó telegram! (0, 4)

・AWAY. (3)

at, our back door, and wilm-

12. Colous- AQANTARCH pered, and told the cool his

10-15)

mother Ind abandoned hikm

WB 1554650703here?" Mra Tarramond snorted.

dro (0).DEALGUTOP

10. A no lans

taria or LUNI HAU Christmas presents

17. Aloo (5).

APUNTOLTE NOBODY' will deny the of modern 19. Hon danger, JRPLERGAE Ingenuity

inventions, but I doubt whether the egg-cup with a conical d

Jagtering's station

CHESS

by LEONARD BARDEN

for

What the King's Gambit player hopes for is to open up all the lacs in the centre of tho board, as in this game (Herter v. Kap. 1 P-K4, P-K4; 2 P-KB4, PxP; 3 KI-KB3, P-KR3: 4 P-Q4, P-KH4: 5 P-KKU.. P-Q3: 0 B-84. P-KI57; -7 Kt-R4, P-B8; 8 B-BI. KI-Q2: 9 Q-Q3, Q-B3; 10 Kt-B3, P-QBS: 11 0-0-0, kt-K13; 12 P-K5. PXP: 13 PXP, Q-K2; 14 BXP. chi, Resigns. Mate followa by Q-Kte or Q-08.

Solution No. 5319: 1 K-20 (waiting), B any: 2 R-K5, R-B6, 2 Q-14, or R else; 2 Q-KI. A pretty miniaturo.

London Express fervice

was complimng to Hanld, the Shadow Girl with the Turned-About Name, un Hand carried the complaini to Mr Merlin, the Magnificent Mogi- cian, who happened to be water ing bla garden.

Mr Mertin had a very curious garden, Sometimes the garden was in front of his house (It was culted House O'Magic), some- mes it was in the back and somethues the garden climbed up to be roof of his house.

Magical Flowers

rizuen. They climbed on the wals and there they stayed!

From then on, everyone who came into Mary Jane's troon looked at her walls and ex- Plaimed: "What beautiful vall- paper you have, Mary Janel What lovely lowered wallpaper, wall morning glories, bachelor's bui- fon, roses, bluebells and forgel- Mr me-nots!

"I don't ever have any flowe's in any room Mary Jane suid "If I look oul of the window,

can see them around Merlin's house," she said. "Sometimes they're in front,

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sometimes they're in the back and sometimes they're on the roof of Mr Merlin's house, I wish I had. flowers like that."

So Hanid, who was one of the best-hearted persons J the world, went straight to Mr Mer- Hu There he was, as I said, watering his garden,

On His Roof

It was one of the days when You mustn't forget that Mr Mr Merlin's garden was up on Altrin, being a Magicent his roof So there he wan Mugdeinn, had magnificently squirting muytical Rowers. Unlike ordin ary flowers, Mr Merlin's flowers could pull thele rools up out of the ground and plant themselves wherever they pleased.

the water up to thei ronf, trying to reach the moru- ng glories, bachelor's button, bluebells, roses, forget-me-nols. The flowers were all jumping and dancing in the spray like children in a shower.

When they planted themselves

"They fave to get sprinkled In front of the House O' Magic, Mr Merlin's garden was in front, with water, the little dears," When his magical flowers de-aid Mr Merlin, us Honid come vided they were tired of being up. "Now what brings you here

in front, Mr Merlin, on cominit this lovely afternoon. home at night, would find the worried, darting." garden in the back.

Quite often, when his morning Bories and bachelor's bullons felt like getting a good view of the whole neighbourhood, they climbed on the back of the magleal ivy and grapevine and climbed right up to the roof.

But about this complaint that Mury Jane, the Rag Doll, made to Honid, the Shadow Girl.

Merlin chased after the

Bowers.

You look

"It's about Mary Jane," said and, "She has no flowers at All."

*1

Immediately Mr Merlin's smile I made him sad to vanished, think that there was anyone lu the world who couldn't enjoy

few beautiful flowers.

"My dear," he said to Hanid, going to do something were about this right away.

Merlin gol a With that, Mr ladder and climbed up to the root to pick a bouquet. before he could get there, the Towers all picked themselves up and ran down the other. side of the roof.

But

Mr Merlin ran after them. The flowers climbed down the backs of lvy and grapevino. Mc Merlin climbed after them, shouting: "op! Stop! I want you for d bouquet for Mary Jane!"

The flowers didn't stop. They ran around the house. Mr Mer- In ran after them. Hunld ran after Mr Merlin.

Beautiful Thing

And then the must beautiful thing happened. All the flowers right Into Mary Jane's

fon

Rupert and the Thinking Cap-5

Rupert waits and watches the. little Chinesa girl as she stands and looks at Gregory. Tisen she speaks Guineapig do can t'ink when standing up, abe murmasta. "P'caps if he stands on his head he t'ink better, you ?** *Dut

Gregory. My arms are too short. I always topple over!" "Hm. then we must and out why guides. Pig no can, t'inic," says Tigerlily. That too difficult for toe. Come, we go sak my Daddy. He velly clever.” And ihe kada them away -'can't stand on my Eend!” cries toward the Costurer's house,

PEL, BUKTI. AKKRAYER.

And Mary Jane always a

swered: "It isn't wallpaper. It's. Mr Merlin's garden."

But no one understood what she meant.

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