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YOUR BIRTHDAY .By STELLA

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28

PORN today, you are a natural organiser, and although you like to operate on a grand scale, you also have the ability to handle detalls efficiently. Since you have a tremendous capacity for work, you often and yourself handling minor maiters when you should save your energies for more important work. The sooner you learn this lesson, the faster your success will be achieved.

Interested in public affairs, you will want to bury yourself in humanitarian reforms and philanthrople work. Your sense of

justice is keen and you cannot endhtro to see one group morifeed to any other. Your standards are high, and perhaps tjo greatest unhappiness for you is to see one of your ideals fall by the wayside

for lack of support from the world. You are an ardent" promoter of your ideas, but there may be times when you lack the emotional warmth needed to rouse públic intereșt.

If you were to enter politics, you would not be a machine politiciun to be ruled by those higher up. Your keen mind and Inilleet would force you to follow your own lead. You may not give the

exterior appearance of being a fighter, for you prefer peace and harmony áñove all else. But, given the need for a fight, you ure just the one who can give batilet You are u fue friend but u bitter and unforgetting enemy,

Although you are not ope to show your emotions, you have a deeply emailonul nature and you are loyal and true. Your mate will have to understand that you are not demonstrative. With you, actions speak much more loudly than words, even in romance.

Among those born on this date were: Sir Arthur Eddington, astronomer; Perry Belmont, banker and legislator: Woodrow Wilson, US, President; St John Ervine, critic and dramatist; Lew Ayres, actor, and Benjamin J. Lang, composer,

To find what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29

CAPRICORN (Des. 23-Jou. 20)-A romantic day during which an event of oulalanding importance might occur. Make or receive that proposal,

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 193 This can be your happlest Sunday of the month. See friends and relatives whom you haven't visited in a long time,

PISCES. (Feb, 20-Mar, 20)- Your happiest and most favour- able Sunday of the entire month, so make future plans now for the coming year.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20)— Church attendance this morning should bring you inspiration and encouragement to advance your milions.

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TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21) -This can be a gala day. you are the host or hostess, unticipate very successful purty, Indeed!

GEMINI (May 22-June 21)— Your early

morning devotions should give you a spirituni lift which will inspire you to make plans for the New Year,

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1957.

This Funny World

JAMES, WHISTINO

“And you're Mrs Kendrick. From Joe's description, I'd know you anywhere.”

BY

THE

PARADE

WHERE'S An Englishwoman at the club house, carccred WALES? triend to read a re- through four streets of screech- Alstered packet to Ing trafle and then burst into on address in Wales from

post office in Johannesburg.

the cocktail lounge of a fashion- able hotel, where its appearance was hailed by the Chinese man-

The girl behind the counter naked, "Where is Wales?" She ager as a good omen.

was told, "In the United King- The hefty tusker was captured, dom." But she didn't know killed and served up for dinner. where that was, either.

The post offfee superintendent GAOL Reinhold Zang), 23. was called.

Ho conferred with BREAK preferred fe in Graz the girl. Then he told the Englishwoman, "You are quite right."

GOOD A 300-pound wild OMEN boot, hotly pursued by hunters in jungle near the Central Malayan town of Seremban, broke cover, scatter- ed golfers as it raced across the links, stampeded a garden party

prison to that in the prison of Klagenfurt, where he was serving a term for burglary. So he broke out and hitch-hiked the 180 miles to Graz,

In Graz, he reported to the local gtol. But the governor did not believe his story, and sent him packing.

In desparation, Zangl went fo the police in Gruz, Thoy check. od up and scat him back Kiegenfurt prison.

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SVERYTHING today," sald zły-tag stripes. As we have a a politician in recent pasworks near our house, 1 am

naturally wondering,

Resident of Nantwich,

wese

CANCER (June 22-July 23)--speech, "seems to be a question A fine Sunday for rousing out of the angle you take. That is the old year, evaluating the exactly what the bow-legged prospects for the new, and the man sold when he lent his making your plans accordingly. breeches to the knock-kneed

LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)-Ama romantic doy. Perhaps you will have

breeches

The These cbgagement to celebrate. Make it a day for famous bent ones inverted by the memory book,

Dr Axel Gries, who discursexi VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sepi, 23)--- the whole thing in a series of Plon

in the Stockholm a worthwhile programme cuticles

Svenska for the day. If in a climate weekly.

Bussondraft. where outdoor

course, the bend be In this case, sports can scheduled, plan to enjoy them. wan outward instead of Inward,

LIBRA (Beph. 24-Oct. 23)- and

knock-kneed thus You can increase your popul- arity by arranging a pleasant entertainment for close friends and relatives.

Some

SCORPIO (Oot, 24-Nov. 22) You may be asked to parti- elpate

in

community affair. It is philanthropic in nature, do a great deal of good by helping.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)-If you are entertaining at home this Sunday, make it an outstanding post Christmas gelhering of Blends.

PORN today, you are a person of natural talent and rugged in- dividualism. You have your own Ideas about things and you intend to carry them out, come what may. You have a high temper and, when crossed, can become a dangerous enemy. You have a mugnetic personality which draws people to you. However,

you repel some who feel you should cultivate more self-control, That probably wouldn't do you any harm, but on the cther hand, don't become so controlled-leaning over In the other direction- that you lose the humane touch afid become unapproachable.

floundered like a child in his grandfather's overcast, "There's room and to spare," erled the bow-legged man, who was look- at the alter from the Ing wrong angle. Interlude

on

save are so he putspoken and it umis, so bluntly impulsive that "I",

You have a fucile mind and many latent talents which can be developed. You are often called—If a man in business-a "día- mond in the rough. You usually get what you want, but you have not cultivated the mannerisms of pollte society to any great degree. If you are to reuch the heights to which your Inborn talents entitle you, pay more attention to the social conventions and you will progress more easily,

You have a sense of the dramatic and might find a career in the nu, radio or television or on the stage. You are fond of music and may have performing talent yourself. In these helds of expression your temper may be more easily excused as tempera- ment, tool

Since your personal loyaliles are strong, you will find your greatest happiness within your own family circle. Those whom you love and who related to you can do no wrong. Your home

were:

fe should be a thoroughly happy one.

Among those born

dute on this

Charles Goodyear, inventor and rubber manufacturer; Asa Parker, philanthropist; William T. Sedgwick, biologist; Charles Macintosh, inventor und chemist; John C. B. Davis, jurist and diplomat; William E. Glad- stone, statesman, and Andrew Johnson, U.S, President.

To and what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday stur and read the corresponding pangraph. Let your birthday stue be your daily guide.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 30

CAPRICORN (Deo. 23-Jan. demands upon your time. If it 20)-If in retall merchandising, is a worthwhile project, be sure this should be a good day. lu co-operate. You shoppers, too, will have real advantages. Find bargains. SCORPIO (Oct, 24-Nov, 22) --Not a day to neglect com- AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 10, mercial or business matters. -Community interests may call You can make a spectacuinr

fur your attention at this, imo. proût if you not wisely now. Devote your energies to doing

a good job.

SAGETTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec.

FISCES (Feb, 20-Mar, 20)— 20)—A good day for business,

JACOBY ON BRIDGE

Take-Out Leads To Slaughter

By OSWALD JACOBY

TAST looked at his collection

E or trash and held his breath when his partner made a bust- Froduose: There seems to be ness double of the two-heart

with contract. Fortunately, absund preoccupation

be held trousers in this column lately. hla breath long enough to pass,

Myself: My niece is foreman West opened the king of cutter in a big frm of West Trumps and continued with the End tailors, and can talk of queen. Declurer took that trick rothing else. Write about with the ace, cashed dummy's trousers," she keeps on saying, ace and king of clubs and led a "It will give our from a leg-up."spade to his jack. West grabbed the ace, played another trump Give them back their

and then led a low diamond. braces Enst played the queen and re- turned the suit, so that eventual- was trousers, trousers ally South was down four tricks the way," os Matthew plus the hundred honours. Amold cald. I have just read North and South blamed each that the Derbyshire police are other for the tragedy and have to be given "self-supporting asked me to assess the blame,

South If there is one body of men who cannot efford to lone-heart response to the double lose their dignity, it is the was all right and that North police. However skitu! the should not have raised him with Lailors may be the psychological only three hearts. He also con- effect of being without braces tended that North should hove will outweigh any advantage run to two spades. there may be. And imagine the mockery of the passers-by when a policeman's trousers fall while he is pursuing a criminal, and he has to hobble along like a Not competitor in a sack-race. even a truncheon can win a man respect when his trousers are heng.pd about Ils enkles. Again, imagine the shame and witness humiliation of a pollee who has to hold his trousers up In court with both hands, or borrow an usher's braers.

trousers."

Leslie Henson

ONLY met Leslie Henson once, at lunch with Hernan Flick, whom centenarians may. remember as the composer of He lott me "In the Shadows,” completely exhausted etin laughter, not by "rying to be funny" but by his amazing, spontaneous galety and comic genius. Apart from that, I have a vivid picture in my mind of tho expression on his ince when, as a rejected lover in a musical comedy he muttered in an asido, He reddened, and went to Africa,” It became a entch-phrase in my home.

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It's back to work but difficult so get an early start and wind DEAR SIR,

to takej perhaps, romance has things up for the olti year in been blossoming over the week, ine style.

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ADIES {Mar, 81-Apr. 20)~~-

If there is a celebration a little BOYS AND GIRLS PAGE

ahead of the oMělal New Year's Eve, save some enthusiasm for tomorrow night, tool

TAURUS (Apr. 31-May 21)---| A day when business mattera may have to take precedenco over recreation, no matter how dimeuil it may be,

GEMINI (May 22-June 21)— If you are planning a trip, then now is a fine time to make all preparations carefully. A gour diny, actually, to start out.

CANCER (June 22-July 23)-- A business trip can be highly If entertaining at profitable.

home tomorrow, make plans carefully

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BODY PANTO: DEAN; Anki; LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)—A {DrAls]; RAM; EILOW.

Anu day up until mid-afternoon.

Then there is need for caution

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caping!

VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 28)--- Take the lend in some enter- riso. You will Incropio your Fuccess potential as well as your personal popularity.

LIBRA (Sept. 16-Oct. 23)- Community interest may make

TRIANGLE:

KINGDAS

DEALS NEARS

CARE

FACTORS WOUN_SOPARE:

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writer of "letters the editor", has died in Durban, aged 00.

He wrote over 3,000 letters to South African newspapers dur-

the past 20 years.

As a young war correspon- dent he described the start of General Buller's ill-fated cum-. paign to relicvu Ladysmith.

Bull was born in Torquay, Devonshire.

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