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This Funny World

"There's a man. out here, who'd like a word with the chef that cooked the French Delight".

YOUR BIRTHDAY

{{THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1957.

JACOBY

ON BRIDGE

Defence Too Eager To Set

By OSWALD JACOBY

mighty good

WEST had a

double of two clubs and

East had two diamonds pickled. When Soulh mn to two hearts, East and West had got into the doubling rhythm and West doubled that also.

North passed happily. He knew two hearts couldn't be punished and East passed along.

WEBL opened the queen of diamonds and it held the trick. Youth let go a low spade. Now West shifted to the six of hearts which South won. A club WES trumped and the king of dla- East Įmonds led from dummy.

played the ace and South dia- carded his lost spade. Now East led spade.

....BY STELLA fence was helpless

MONDAY, DECEMBER 30

BON today, you have natural

talents for teaching. You have a fine critical sense and are able to make constructive suggestions, for you are fine analylat and tutor. You yearn for freedom from con- ventiona id Although you can

adapt yourself to the restrictions of Mocfety, you often fret under its rea- traits. The stars have given you mulitude of intent talents and 11 may be some time before you die. cover which one you most want to develop. Until that happens, you are, apt to be something of a mia. At in your environment.

There will come a time, however, when you exert your real preference and, ince you have a stern will of your own once your mind is real- ly made up, you will start in go Pisces and fast. You do have an active need for social pleasures and sometimes. perhaps too often, you will postpone duly for pleasure. This, you will soon discover, le a mistake and with

experience, you

will learn to fuit your duty first and then play as hard as you have worked. Just cultivate a life mate

self-discipline in this regard and you will progress foster.

You have a feeling for words and probably will write and talk vincingly. Yeo are, fond of Battle. an Kould bo able to play soTA ® Instrument well. You have a good beauty. You want to be surrounded sense of design and ure fond of all

you

women by beautiful things. have a very definite clothes senior and know how to drem attractively in low budget. You make fine molliere and are good homemakers. For the best happiness, wed, early In youth and have a large family.

Arnung those born us this date were: Pablo Casais, cellist; Rudyard Kipling, author; William R. Alger. reformer;

Allgeld, John Peter Illinals Governor: Vincent Lopez, orchestra leader: Alfred E. Smith, wisterian. and Stephen Leacock, economist and humorist.

To find what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corres- ponding paragraph. Let your birth- day stor be your daily guide, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31

CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20)— This is all out formule for you to go

amusement You can have fun without being too ex- travagant.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 18- A day for optimisin and joy. It you think a few New Year's revolu tion are in order, it's a good ume to make them.

PISCES (Feb 20-Mar. 20) A high-speed day when things race

Don' along at a tremendous pace,

zo overboard at every new upper tunity.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr.

201-

A happy, friendly day loading up to an exciting evening. Moderation, however, should be the keynote of your celebration,

TAURUS Your

procedence

now

(Apr.

21-May Affairs personal

21)- take che

over everything Mak a few resolutions If you feel an inclined.

GEMINI Thizy 22.June 21)- A good day for a New Year's Eve

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16. Call. (3)

17 1916. (4)

19. King of

Opera,

but don't overdo it,

exlebration, capecially if you want to feel righi tomorrow

CANCER (June 21-July 23)- Perhaphs there is a very special date tonight, and a big reason for celebrating

up and go out on the town.

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you can put on a good party withobioined the lead with spade

out being to extravagant.

sconpio" (Oct. 24-Nov,

It may be the most fun to perd New Year's Eve with your family and close friends to make concrete plans for the year to come.

YAOITTARIUS (Nov, 23-Dec. 22)~~ Don't Indulge in too much rele. brating tonight. Face the New Year with a clear head, brightlyi

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NEW YEAR CALLERS-

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THERE IS A BOOM TODAY IN TEENAGE AUTHORS

BUT THEY ALL SEEM TO BE GIRLS ..........

Where Are The

DON'T put your daughter

on the atage, Mrs all Worthington--but by

means encourage her to. write novels. Business is booming for the under 21's. No Keeper of the Caliph's Harem ever kept a sharper weather eyo skinned for promising and personable young women, than your

Schoolboy

Novelists?

not moro

keen contemporary when she began to write Horse in Public Schools and Girls' publisher-though one can in the Clouds, a just-published Schools," be sure that the latter's in- book tentions are pure, and mero- ly concerned with financial gain.

Why a about horses in the

are there Argentin (I were only young reformers In the brave

Prototype

Lule 22-year-old Miss Sagan, she of the fast care and catchy tilles, was the prototype model. Berthe Grimualt, the wild girl from the French countryside, was credited with having more

round this magic age, I should tradition of Mr Derek Walker- perhaps feel tempted to write a Smith, now Minister of Health, book called Horse With Four who in 1930 when he was 19 Feet Firmly on the Ground.)

wrote a fiery novel called Out What puzzles me is why the of Step. Loom in infant writers should bo This sccount of the life of a o concentrated on little girls. sensitive boy at a harsh school the bright school- was ferocious truffetment of Where are

whose

British boys

exercise-books the

schoola public should be bouncing through the system, which said a good many publishers' letter-baxes?

harsh, not to say ride, things Our "younger" novelists about the tyranny of the OTC, he idolatry of athielles, and the which the flogging shouting orgies of

110

longer

within

or less dictated a very ferocious Amis, Wain, Braine-are already noval when she was 12-she was illiterate at the time, was later sent to an English girls' finishing school

and has ap- parently written, no more novels since then (cynics may draw their own conclusions).

a

now

Not to be outdone in the baby- writer race, England produced three schoolroom fantasists to keep the flag flying This being country of malevolent homes and noble talking

animals (especially the Iforso), England's young authoresses leave drink and sex

By AMANDA MARSHALL

distance of their teens, Bamber author passionately deplored in Gascoigne is only 22, but he has the training of the English chosen to write not a book, but public schoolboy (Mr Walker- the modish, microscople revue, Smith, who may have thought Sharo My Lettuce, Colin Wilson, belter of it all fine and folded it-acknowledged boy-genius of his revolutionary's flag away in to have mothballs, does not list Out of his age, is reported severely where they belongwritten a very folly novel on the Step in his Who's Who entry), namely, to the bold bad baby

theme of Jack The Ripper, but, And why, while we're about novelists of Paris-and concen-

for whatever reason, his pub- it, can't some of the poor cid trate on more fanciful matters,

lishers would seem to be in no forgotten Successful Men rum- hurry to launch it on the world. mage out a few exercise-books Odd tale

and recoup come of the glory their trens. they missed in before pre-eleven-plus publica- tion become all the rage?

Riveted

First novel

WDB 14 Miss Jane Gaskell when she wrote Strunge Evil,

This month will, In fact, see an odd moral tale in which the publication of two novels by humans and supernatural crea bright and tures are involved together in The Game is a first novel by some very alarming adventures. Michael Hastings, who is now

very young men.

The schoolboy Emlyn Williams wrote passionate and madly Miss Lindsey Campbell was 20, an extallor's apprentice and

who has already had colourful ople novel of Ancient 15 when she wrote Horse of Air, actor

And Egypt which when I wùs privi- BIG tureen of bubbling minced plekie relish and a few

which was published illustrat- several plays performed.

Aubade is a first novel written leged to read it in "manuscript, Boup keeping hot over drops of Worcestershire.

Cut crusts from sandwiches, cl by the author-this month. a warmer.

And at the age of 11 Plenty of sand then put together as usual with (The book is all about talking by Kenneth Martin, an Irish boy kept me riveted to the pothook- wiches on

the table, and the desired huling Cut in halves animals, and will confirm what who wrote the book when he ed page.

have long su3- was (hurray, we're off again) Terence Rattigan wrote a drama In many people

called The Parchment, conceni- up, slip more ready in the freezer, triangles, Stock

ed with the Borglas and designed Christmas

cookies galore. polyethylene bags, scal and re-pected about the British school- 10.

zal's deep affinity for her pony frigerate all day, or freeze up

But I want more of the boys for an all-star cast to include East and West

could have Steaming coffee and bever to two

thehe heroine actually turns into

Are there really no Jack Hilbert, Noc1. Coward and or three days in beaten the hand one trick In

And Mira Helen to join in. a horse,) ages of one's choice, several different ways.

food freeze. In the latter case, allow 30 minutes to thaw, Griffiths was guess what?-15 Angry Tinies, steadily pouring Matheson Lang.

vitriol into the School Mag and longing for a wider window on 'the world.

and led a second trump.

this

All

is academic. East and West had a lay-down game and should not ln of rung have sold out for a possible one- trick set. Each blamed the other for the debacle, and I om jellned to agree with both of them. West had a poor double of two hearts and East should have taken it out anyway.

THE

What more can guests ask on a round of calls on New Year's Eve?

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

If yesterday's school exercise- book is really the best place to look for today's best-seller in an where professionalism is age Why are there no bold suc- cessors to Eamond Romilly, who, suspect and only the innocent In the mid-thirties, wrote big and primitive has the stamp of

Make the sandwiches a day In advance, and refrigerate or treeze them, Ilave

clam

The leaning agents of cream Silk is weaker when wet. Be chowder.

ог shrimp lobster cause of this,

a short washing or liquid no-rubbing furniture autobiography at 16, and at 15 success, then don't keep harry- bisque, New England Ash period is recommended.

wax are said to be able to aeran away from his public school in your daughter to get back

a wildly explosive to her Latin homework. complish the same job without 10 chowder, oyster stew or potato

She's probably doing her best, soup ready to heal.

your furniture, harmful effects, leaving a dry, magazine called Out of Bounds,

against poor giri, to meet a deadline on which declared itself shiny, protective coating. Д Set a big table, buffet style,"dry" ft, is the advice fram

Reaction, Militarism and Fascism a three-part novel about which which clalms

and ready for service. Add a few wax

know nothing until in the Pubile Schools,"

you may of assorted olives, water can cause the grain to

Borrow song books from the carried articles with titles such she asks you to the cocktail- swell and crack, and may bring pickles, ar raw relishes on Ice.

"Icadmaster's Expulston party to meet the Press.

-London Express Service). With the first ring of the bell about vence failure by soften- library and build up a repertoire as

as you work and play together. Threat," and "The Sex Question the party is on.

ing glue,

V+CARD Sendek♦ | dishes

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Pass

Pass You, South, hold:

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What do you do?

A-Three hearts is the best bid but there is no criticism of tho slight overblu of four hearts.

TODAY'S QUESTION

lastead of rebidding two hearts your partner has rebid three dia- monds. What do you do now?

Answer Tomorrow

WAY

by Beachcomber

club in the Midlands

"To save me and energy, 1 suggest the ladies use the new frozen soups," observed the Chef. They are all really tops. Various To date, the soups of companies include oyster stew, fish chowder, shrimp, bisque, clam chowder and polato soup. "I would be a good plan for the hostess

two to have kirde. The poʻnto soup: can be glvon a vichysoisse touch by

Ittle u adding

and creom plenty of minced chivos."

Debut! Two Hot Sandwiches from the Taste-Test Kitchen

or

Don't wash

company

BOYS'

AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

Most Remarkable Eye

B

As theodo

It Enables Telescope To See Many Things-

see the planets with tiny moors. clrcling around them.'

How About The Gordon? "And what, I asked, 'will f straight ahead?' see if I looked into the garden

"You will see many wonder-

cocoon,

in my friend's room right next By MAX TRELL

That's to a big high window. RARON Munch, who lived in the kind of place telescopes like ful things, said Telescope. You Dhis own little house at the best of all. They love to look will see the little Cricket that

which out and see the sky.

lives all by itself In a liny end of Book Boulevard,

You "Instead of having two legs. crack in the garden wall. runs behind the bookcase, it his

its legs It had threc,

were will eco a Caterpillar spinning long clay pipe.

It had one Knart and called a tripod. said to Then he

You will see a tiny Hand, the Shadow-Children very bright eye. The rest of it Beetle bulding a house for itself Fish Slick Sandwiches: with the Turned-About Names: was made of brass, very shiny under a loaf.

and bright, like gold. And there "So," said Baron Munch, "I Dust frozen fish sticks with "Did you ever look through a

was one more wonderful thing looked through the eye of the monosodium utorate. Broil 8 telescope, my dears?"

Kharf and Hand shook their about this telescope. Sometimes telescope and this is the most turning THE refusal of a Conservative and contort his body, as Drone, ninutes

опес:

It was very ble and sometimes remarkable thing of all. Every to the master, thought he had

spread on a pan and bake

Serve

Wonderful Thing

It was quite small. could thing that it sald was true! And allow women into the billiard mad, but soon realised the poss!-minutes in a hot oven.

Baron March stood by the wild has been criticised as bitics when he saw the

in buttered hot

now do you believe me?" buns spread

"To bad," said Baron Munch. make itself any alze it pleased.

telescope.' enthusiasm of the other boys. rampant obscurantism.

with sauce fartare.

And though Knarf and Hanld wonderful "The telescope is a

Stood Near Teloscopo, The boy, was Induced to repent

very good

"One day, as I was randing had nover quite believed many

Baron wonderful telescope was quite Hot Ham-Bloculla: Bake this thing. I once had

other stories near the telescope, I murmured of the

they easy 10 bellove. hastily suminoned baking powder biscuits in rodrlend who had a telescope, and

Munch had told them. to myself: age and the amatory glances of from London. A representative | lays as

needed. Spread with the remarkable thing about this her male colleagues, surely she of a gramophone company made

"It only my eyes could see found that this one about the butler blended

tabla telescope was that you could not

as well as that telescope docs could also speak to it."

Knart and Hanld glanced at with its one eye, how happy I No one should be! each other and smiled.

"To my catonishment, I sud- as she shyly handed round the the whole thing is an impro- Now I'd like to suggest some could tello better

"If you admire my wonder-" chalk, or clapped her preity vition. It is called The Assorted Ailings for cold sand- Baron Munch, but more often denly heard a voice answering: hands to her cors to shut out a Baboon Twitch," The great wiches. They can be made in than not, hla stories were to ex- refrigerated or traordinary that it was difficult cavage oath. Choperoned by an Goppy Loatti commented, "This advance and

to belleve they wero truck aunt, she could engage freely in is the real magiizie. It's wide froze

1. Cooked minced beef, veal

Noticed Look conversation with the players pie, and I dig it deep. It's got

TOOM

Saturday's Rojvalen

CHESS

by LEONARD BARDEN

2. MA

It a woman can be a council- his performance in front of an lor, exposed to the rough langue impresario

wwith

Dan-

enn face the ordeal of even a a recording, and the bay is to mustard and put together with only look through it, but you Conservative billiard room. Her appear in a cabaret show in slices of hot baked or mere presence would have Lendon at £1,500 a night. He broiled ready-to-eat ham. softening influence on the game, urcs no musical instrument, and

friendliness, sazz."

her simple devoid of sil' eoquetry, might

convince tho most cynical

player that women who frequent In paising

billiard-rooms are above idle

dalianes, and are worthy rather

ог

lightly butter lamb, sauteel, grated raw carrots and minced colery, comblood with ketchup and butter.

Mustard Mayonnaisa 2. Chopped chives and

of a good man's respect than of

boy who told the police

that he wanted to be a fire- man, and admitted that he had

started dozens of ares, had logic spinach,

In bad man's impudence.

chopped anoistened

story thank

the

ful eyo so much, Baron Munch, I should be very pleased indeed to let you look through It..

"You mean,' I cried, 'that you will let me look through your eye, Telescope?"

Wonderful Things

replied ***"Certainly," Telescope. You will be able to seo such things as you werp ' "What things will I be able ever able to see before. to see, Telescopo? I asked.

"You will be able to see the moon, Baron Munch. You will be able to reo the mountainm Baron ·Munch

en- end valleys and dried-up oceans other puff or two at his long on the moon. And you will be able to see the stars. They will clay pipe.

look like sparkling Ares, ar fur stood away in the ghy. And you will

Baron Munch noticed the look on the faces of his two friends.

"I know." he said. "You don't think the story I'm about to tell you is, true."

Telescopes can't speak," said minced fanid. "They're not alive.

"Ah," saki Baron Munch, but cooked

this WAD П Very special sparingly

telescope. Lot me tell you on his side. Obviously, if one is with mustard mayonnaise. But- going to make a career of start- ter the bread before, spreading, about H." ing fees, it is a great advantago 3. Chopped cooked bacon, FTHENE was a curious scene at to have the skill and thu ap. cream cheese and minced clams

swith." Narkover the other day. A garatus to put them out. It is the † mived

homemade or clothes stood up conflagrationist who cannot put thned Italia sauce.

combined during a history lesson

4.Minood and out fires who is the danger to

butter, began to grimace and scream society.

with cream

Yet another

From actual play: White to boy in dirty move and Win

Landon Exprese spea

bam

Puffed At Pipe

Look

Then he begen:

Tirls telnacope always

They were sure it was me.

Rupert and the Thinking Cap-12

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