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This Funny World

"We'll have to dress for breakfast. Last night's party Is still going strong."

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BY THE. WAY.

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THE awarding prizes ut Ma?" "Come and look, dear. It's rubbish coming from Southend to people on holl- the

day who use litter-bins, instead Stadgetelgh. They look so tired. of throwing things all over the They must have marched

through the night" place, has its dangers.

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1957.

JACOBY

ON BRIDGE

Mistakes Foil Game In Spades

By OSWALD JAGODY TODAY'S contract was bounced back and forth like a rub- ber ball.

West opened the king of dia- monds and East played the three. West shifted to the king of clubs and East.made the mis- take of signaling an enthusiastic como-on,

West enme on with the queen of clubs and South ruffed. Now if South had been satisfied to make his contract on the nose ho could have breezed in, All ho had to do was to lead a diamond Either opponent could win and play anything but South would be able to get info dummy twice; once with a spade and once by ruffing his last diamond.

Thin

would have given South time to take two trump finesse and ho would have picked up East'a trumpa.

South wunted an avertrick. He led the jack of spades and over- took with dummy's king.

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The song ends, and all that is heard is Enormous mobs inoy converge the tramp of feet, and un occa- on the towns which offer prizes, sional cry of "To the bins! To

Out of the bringing with them all the the bins1 rubbish they have been able to Headquarters tumble half-dress- collect. The agitated litter- ed wardens and bin-offciala, wardens will have to deal with rubbing their sleepy eyes. Cheer

of gangs of organised teams and Ing breaks out as a convoy strings of lorries crammed with giant lorries follows in the wake stuly, from places where no of the marchers, and many

The native householder throws open 11 prizes are offered. who is accustomed to depositing done and offers a cup of tea and

a biscuit to the weary throng. a paper bag in his favourite bin will be crowded out. It may be necessary to issue Rubbish Per- Stately home mits to strangers vouched for by a J.P., a schoolmaster, and banker. And, obviously, huge bine the size of gasworks will have to be erected on chosen sites. But everyone will agree that the most urgent need is for a Miss Rubbish or Refuse

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"Wipe your nose, Erule." "He married Isabella, the

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"Mavis, don't with that armour." sack,

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Good defence would not have given South a chance to misplay East should have played his lowest club at trick should two whereupon West

Now live shifted to a spade. South would have fiad to lose u hc spade ruft no matter how played the hand. Furthermore,

bidding good would have given East and West the rubber. Five clubs makes easily if the diamond finesse

"This refectory table dates taken.

CAN Imagine, some early morning, the inhabitants of from", a town being awakened by the roaring of many volees singing the Liter Song, as they invade the quiet streets. "What is it,

"Sailors,' I says to 'er, la all very well,' I says, "but you watchi yer-step, my gal,' I says."

YOUR BIRTHDAY ........By STELLA

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27

While you are an interesting con- BORN today, you are a gregarious

always soul and seem to find real inversationalist, you do not

discuss the crious things in your iration in mingling with all kinds

Innermort of people. You are popular with all

best of them at a able to mingle so harmoniously that party. Yet when the time comes to ups and have the faculty of being along with the C cholier You can disppear into the crowd, say something important, you may 1:1 even if the group varies from tite And if you have been trusted with confidence, you will never give one in which you grew up. Actually, you would make a good detective, pway that secret. You know what Undercover agent or invesligator, is important to withhold and what can be told. You would serve in a You know how to make people like you while finding out what you post of trust with honour and di

{loction. want to know

Were you to select a career on the stage or screen, in radio or teic vision, you probably would be you could Shihly succreful. Still,

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use your gift for the dramatic in the field of iterature, for you have

Since talent for the written word.

you also have a keen interest in the natural sciences, you with yo

write and lecture in this field renuta i might be your fate introduce, explain and promote new idea which could greatly In- Buence the civilisation in which you live.

Among those born on this date were: Johannes Kepler, astronomer: Dr Louis Pasteur, biological chemist; Nicholas J. Roosevelt, Inventor and Corcoran, WIDIam W." engineer: philanthropist and art patrua: Louts Bormfield, author: Sidney Green street, actor; and Marlene Dietrich, actress,

to To find what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corres ponding paragraph. Let your birth- doy star be your daily guide.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28

CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan, 20) If you are getting out of lown for the week-end, then make an early start and avoid congested trame,

AQUARIUS

(Jan, 21-Feb, 19)- This may be just an average Salur- day for you, but at least you can enjoy yourself with relatives.

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20-Mar.

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ARIES

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21).

This might be, a good day for you to have a party for the children. Somebody's birthday, perimps?

CANCER (June

21)-

This can be a romantic, gala week- and Today can prove one of those times to be, long remembered.

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WOMANSENSE

BOYS' AND

Cheese Is The Answer

Baron Munch Says the Moon's Made of It-

By MAX TRELL

TOW you ask me," said "Non Munck to Kart, the Shadow-Boy, Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, and Hiawatha, the smoil- sized Wooden Indian, "what the moon is made of. That's some- thing people have wondered for a long time."

Knorf and Teddy bath started

the backs of books. Inside these houses live auch famous people as Mother Goose, Simple Simon. Jack Spratt, Alice in Wonder Jand, Hans Brinker and others.

MINK TOUCHIN YOUR BOUDOIR

I used to be the easiest thing in the world to go shopping for dressing gown.

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It had to be warm-in camel or tartan

or fruitdrop colours. It had to slip on

In one quick shiver-and fasten swiftly,

with a tie-belt or a top-to-toe zipper.

I would be into. a 'rphe. In a

-Bash, if I hadn't had the miss

fortune to stay. In a house with

A woman who wore one for the Vest part of the morning. accompanied by emeralds and hair-curlers.

WITH EMERALDS

It had to be classic in cut-like a THE NEGLIGES. Only the gown in silk man's. If you were very chle you bought most luxurious

a man's (they use such superb quality chiffon or satin can trade under fabrics for him to shave in) and cut it to this name. Mauve is the newest

Bize.

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TOP SELLER

colour for negligees and match- ing nightdresses. But be warned: mauve is a bad, sign? according to Daving West model turned archaeologist. She But how all that has changed. The says girls who wear mauve are progress of the dressing-gown is one of unfaithful to men

now

one

in

the big fashion stories of the past few. Catherine Boyle has several

negligees years. There is

for every long-sleeved

a yoke of lace, possible bedroom occasion-and a few chiffon, with

which she likes to wear, bound others besides.

with a satin sash-da nightdress, THE HOUSECOAT is the top seller. A nice morale booster when This is the ultra-smart gown-the mink you're slek in bed. of the boudoir. In it you can....eat But I still maintain, when you

your supper by the fire... take your first fottoring steps

of a sick bed, there mix a martini should the cul Smitha drop by.... or in- nothing qulic as comforting as the vast, warm, undemanding terview the plumber if he embrace of a man's dressing arrives before you are up. gown.-Express Service.

For girls with cash in

the bank, a full-length

white rabbit or fur-fabric Household

job is ravishing; and so is quilted satin with a warm interlining. For the rest of us, brushed wool, or velvet, with the lavish cut and colour of an

Hints

Starch may be used on syn- evening thetic fabrics after laundering,

coat, is the less expensive to restore crispness.

answer.

BIG CHANCE

THE SHORTIE in cotton or nylon, costing less than £3, is perfect for breakfast in summer, and to wear while putting on make-up all the year round.

A safe storage space for wool blankets, and seasonal clothing can be made by lining a dresser drawer with aromulle red cedar closet lining.

Lemon juice or vinegar, will rust stains formed on porcelain as a result of leaking

remove

faucis,

House

In stripes on a dark ground it's new-but for any woman with a passion for rose prints or forget-me-nots, this is the big

plants need to be chance to work dowers out of

ocesalomally to transplanted ter system.

make room for growing roots. THE ROBE made of towell- Use a flower poi a size larger ing....as seductive as a pretty than the one the plant has been girl wrapped in a warm, scented in. bath-sheet. Very Grecian spotless while with gold mono- gram and gold throng sandals, and extremely pretty in the now towelling prints.

GIRLS?

• A coat for cofco by the fro....or for coping with the early morning caller. This latest look in full-length dressing-gowns comes In white rabbit, cond L

the destan of Calman-Lunz,

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Veneered furniture is usually as good as "solid" furniture, f not better. In modern construc- tlon, strength is added by bond- ing together layer in which the direction of the grain varico.

Fine antique ploces, too, are often veneered.

Next time you

dunk your shower curtain in the bathtub for a clean-up, don't forget tho shower cirtain hooks and the shower rod,

MAGAZINE

"reminds me of an adventure I built houses.

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'I was on the had while travelling in moon and I plainly saw it was paying Minnesota. It was evening and made of brietes and the moon was out, resting on blocks and lumber and shingles." top of a hill.

"My dear friends,' I said,

who o

"I was walking Just as I am none of you were to the moon now, with three friends of mine. at all. In the darkness, you all farmer. fell down the hil: just as I did: sitting on You have all been The first man The second man was a fisher-

the moon looking at built this log

and seeing on it all the things that you know best."

The

third

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man, touses. Knart managed to make him-

"We all set out to climb the He said to self heard first. Baron Munch: "But what IS the hill and find out what the moon

curious moor, made of But e moon made of?"

thing happenedi

"It's made of cheese." Teddy

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to talk at once. Hiawathe kept broke in. "I know it's mode of

The three cheese because I read it in bis mouth closed. friends and Baran Munch were book." strolling

pleasant along the

Bookcaso street called

Road, which runs (as you might sup- pose) behind the bookcase from Just under the Canary Cage to just up to the edge of the Drapes at the Window,

Famous Residents

There are little houses along Bookcase Road. They look like

Hiawatha merely said: moon is made of rocks."

However, no one paid attention to him.

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Lost In The Dark

"And what did you see on the

Baron Munch?”

Kharf.

"Cheese!!!

asked

said the BETON. "Everyone knows the moon is made of cheese!"

"As we were climbing the

"Yes! That's what I read in a "The ill. a cloud suddenly passed

before the face of the moon. In book!" shouted Teddy again. the darknest, we all becnie lost.

Adventure In Minnesota

any

"Your asking about the moon," Baron Munch continued,

Rupert and the Thinking Cap-10

The Conja zxma Gxedly st the platy, shapes and Gregory, catching sight of them. looks up startled so that the thinking cap falls off Dos sher another the mists fade and vanish. Then the (san siendly lifts him on to the ble and ens at him in nator. lahmane. ** It's true *' he whispers. 'It'a' most 'remarkable. Me neYCI

ALL RIQUITE

before meet gulve pig with Nothing in naddle i da can do Do more for him, 'All my maric **Ch, daar,” maya no good!!! Rugen. Was there nothing 41 all in those thought clouds? Does that mean that he still has no klas for Christmas?”! *. Yes, yes. It great pity," says the Conjurer.

"Goodbye." Me wally sally," AXLERYKAŃ,

"I fell down to the bottom of the hill and, finding myself all alone, I sold to myself as follows: I'm too tired to climb up to the top of the hill again. rht just sit on this log and look very hard at the moon and sec what 1 con sce. It will almost as good as getting on the moon."

be

"About an bour later, my three friends returned.

"Did you get to the moon?' I asked them.

""Yes, Indeed,' they all sald: "And what is it made of?' I asked.

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"It's made of fields, of wheat and oats and com art barley that stretch on for miles and miles,' said the farmer.

A Fish Story

Oh múl1· súd the ishermen. 'It's made of seas and lakes and panda and rivers. They are full of the most beautiful fish that anyone has over soon," " ***I don't know how you can then who avid tho say that,

Baron Hunch fell down the hill,

But all Hiawatha sald wast for "Nonsense! I don't believe a "Fshow-pooh!" which is Indian word of any of it!"

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