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YOUR BIRTHDAY

SATURDAY, JANUARY 18

BY STELLA

PORN today, you have excellent reasoning powers. You are seldom, if ever, fooled by superficialities. You have an ex- ceptionally keen mind and the power to push through a project which you thoroughly believe in. You are what la known as a "quick study" and your memory absorba facts as a sponge does water. You are able to store is information away in compari- nents of your mind and bring it out again when it will do the most good.

Although there are a number of fields in which you would shino-it likely that your best success will come in any career dealing directly with the public. You would make an excellent defence attorney, private or public investigator, newspaper You may be drawn reporter, lecturer or teacher of public affairs, Inio politics during the latter part of your life. How well you succeed will depend upon on how firm you hold to your ideals.

You are inclined to be a little more materialistic than you should be, for your desire for success is not entirely altruistle. You enjoy having wealth because, to you, wealth spells power- and, perhaps above all else, you desire power, Used properly, this can be a great good. Since you are not casily fooled by exterior appearances, you are able to uncover sham or decell with ease. You are also one who knows how to cut down 4 bluffer to his proper size! Sincere and honest yourself, you don't intend to deal with any four-flusher! You expectand intend to KC straightforward attitudes.

Naturally, affectionale, you are still not one to scatter your love and devotion over. 1oo wide a range. Your own family and close friends come first,

Among those born on this date aro: Daniel Webster, orator ond statesman; Seth Low, educator; Walter Satterlee, artist; Thomas Augustus Watson, inventor and shipbuilder; George R and Graham, editor

and publisher, and A. A. Milne, port playwright.

To find what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, Bulect your birthday star be your dully guide.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 19

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1958. This Funny World

"I can't go in the wales. I just ateľ

BY

THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. Let FOLLOWING the incident of transported in lorries to some the pack of hounds, a place within halling distance of Failing that, cars hunt which shall be nameless the hounds, has decided to hold the beasts may be used instead of horses, en teashes, so that the horsen By this method It would be possible to outpace and marround can keep up.

Another suggestion is that the both bounds and fox, ags and their riders should be cutting off every retreat.

Discreditable incident

can

another

this

CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. CANCER (June 22-July 23)- 201-A now moon brings affairs The new moon brings revolving around your early important day for you family environment to the fore. month. Achieve some goal for Put your foot forward now. which you have been striving.

LEO

23) AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb, 19)

(July 24-Aug- -There may be minor frustra- Guard your health these days. tions for the next four weeks, Today, especially, plan to rest but with

and let down tensions, making care you

future plans. circumvent serious trouble.

VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)- PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)-

for all your It is possible that friends will A pleasant day

Improve your position bring you honour now for work efforts. well done in the past. Accept and lay out plans for improving

your position In Ufe. It graciously,

20) ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr,

LIBRA (Berk 24-Oct. 28)- You may be asked to supervise Domestic conditions for the next stressed. will be your four weeks funculan in some publie

Give your

plans with bes! Combine business

this in mind. efforts. Have fun, too!

TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)- SCORPIO (Oct, 24-Nov, 22)-- today. A good centrated business effort ahead most-favoured

few weeks. sermon might give you during the next

upitti Make curetul plans today.

GEMINI (May 22-June 21)- partnership Business affairs in with another will take preced- Be sure to once over all cine. protect your own interests.

community.

There is pattern orthond Mental and cultural pursuits are

a real

́SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)-Business and finance are In the picture for the next four Make reni proft on weeks. e deal.

BORN Loday, you have a quiet reserve which often confuses

strangers into thinking you a cuch on easy-going individual that you can be imposed upon anytimo. How wrong can someone hard- bel For under that calm, detached exterior there is headed common sense and an energelie vitality just waiting for the opportunity to spring into action. When aroused, you are a veritable whirlwind of action. You cut red tape and get things done with dispatch.

Although you are loving and affectionate-even demonstrative to members of your own family-you are rather cold toward those you know only casually. Although you may have been romantic in youth, it is likely that the hard knocks of life will have made you something of a cynie by the time you have reached middle age. Sometimes you hide this quite well. Other times, trade upon It! You have a quick wit which can be good-natured or devastating-all according to how you feel at that moment.

you

You are not one to be tied down to the environment into which you were born-unless you like it. You have the will and You are not afrold the spirit to get away from distasteful things.

of hard work, und if that will get you what you want in life, you're the one who can really worki

Among those born on this date wera: General Robert E. Lee. Confederalu general; Edgar Allan Poe, nother and poet; Alexander Woollcott, critic and author: Oveta Culp Hobby, former WAC executive: James Watt, inventor, and George Trumbull Ladd, philosopher and psychologist.

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

new

MONDAY, JANUARY 20

•JACOBY BRIDGE

ON

Unlucky Expert Makes His Siam

By OSWALD JACOBY

THE unlucky expert blocked

my path.

Lo

thurs

PARADE

JUDICIAL In Bowling Green, girl, but it is perfectly legal to SPEED-UP Kentucky, three pull over to the side of the road Southern generals and neck. Why can't it be the of the American Civil War same with a TV set?”

Vice- former (including★

But Smith was found guilty President of the United States) Havo Just been cleared of in the first such case in Toronto. treason charges,

The chart originally made In 1962 and then lost, turned up lost November in a filing cabinet of the courthouse of Frankfort.

The three men wero Generals Simon Bolivar Buckner, John Hunt Morgon, and John C. Breckenridge, who was elected Vice President when he was only 35,

The trio were

accused of

"invading Kentucky for the purposs of compelling her to unfic marith tho so-called Confederate States of America" General Buckner lived on to State's Governor. become the General Morgan was shot trying

General Brecken to escape. ridge Lived abroad till he Was forgiven by the President. All aro fully pardoned.

tho

o! а

shock JINGLE Doctora got a BELLY when they looked at the X-ray pletures of Harry's stomach. For there, plain to 500, WAS 0 hoard of coins that would have strained

capacity

toir-sized piggy bank.

Harry was sent to a hospital In County Durham after he had complained of indigestion at the mental hospital where he is a patient.

no.cs

A month $20, 42- MORE

A clerk MONEY year-old

Kuppusamy sent the Governor of Tokyo a thick wnd of worthless Currency issued by the Japanese during the occupation of Malaya

to demanded

return six Japanese dolls. The Jopanese obligod

and

Pago

A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS

Prince I de Croy-Rogabt, tate UNCTEWBed rocket groups often report suç- - cessful launchings. One club in Belgium's California has launched rockets ground king, claims his park of that soared ton milos. The mico fun will be the most sense- travelling as prasengers were tonal the world has ever agon.” rescued by parachute,

But there teenage rocketcons are getting no officiel encouragZ DO AND A 17-year-old boy, ment. The National Fire

Nostrand. Russell DEATH Protection Association has re-

was killed on Long ported two deaths and many Island while playing the Injuries. In many states only of "Chicken"-in which Teen- people may legally agers test each other's courage qualided handle the "rocket" chemicals.

by walking along the track In front of a speeding train. First ane to jump clear is "Chicken"

The train driver sounded hi

星盟 whistle

ho approachat Thu Nretrend and his friend. other boy jumped clear. The driver fammed on his brakes.

POODLE It is now possible for PACER Emart New York dogs tg anishing

Now they may get a shock, school. People all over Melaya Bro searching attles for old occupa- on currency-to send them to the Governor of Tokyo.

NATURE Farrear Olavi Einola, 40, of Hurukscia in CURE

East Finland, woke up at midnight when he felt a metallic object strike his teeth.

to

Zo

hit Nostrand

him

Al Miss Kruger's classes they but it was too late. The train are taught all about good deg Instantly. behaviour.

No podle need worry any loayer about being a social fuffure Milsa Kruger teaches him how to behave in a cavely- ing door. In a sitting room and in litt.

He coughed, and out came the shell fragment which had SUB Visitors to the Brussels pierced his skull during a battle SUB World Fair, which opens In April, will be able to on the Russian-Finnish front

on October 31, 1941, It measured drive themselves in real sub-

marines. 17 by 7 millimetres.

•

•

brated

cele- 120th

TIJAH'S Jaji Tijah, Malayn's SECRET ducat woman,

her birthday this week. Her recipe for Long Life: "Marry de often I've burlod eight

od you can. husbands."

York

Latest New fashion in jokes da the shaggy dog

SHAGGY RIDDLE

Doctors

riddle. The submarines-20 never dared to re-

which operato move the fragment for fear the models operation might result in the feel of water-will be one loss of Olavi's rengining eye. the attractions in the Fair's 17-

acre amusement park.

midget in ion

of

Example: "What la green, has Avo logs and cala rocks?"

A: "A Ave-legged groen rock- caleT!"

angry BUDDING Parents are

becsurg Education BRAINS

Minister Leon

schools. They threaten to keep their children at home.

ONG ago I reported an occa-

And when surgeons opened Collard has ordered fried sprats sion when hounds turned and attacked the horsemen at a him up they found 5 lb. of and potatoes baked in their

366 coins:

halfpennies, 11 jackets to be served twice a Ladies bowlers were meet. Knocked off in the rush to get pomules, 17 threepenny bits, 20 week at Belgium's state-run back into the house, a butler, sixpences, and four shillings.

of path was carrying a tray bfiten on the colt, costumes were torn, and while the row was at its height up loped n fox. The Master attempted to thrush it with his whip, but the fox chased him round the house, and he had to go to earth in a the Meanwhile potting-shed,

After the operation, Harry tucked into a regular meal of roast lamb, with ice cream to follow.

Now the Case of the Walking Piggy Bank is to be written up in the British Medical Journal.

"Don't dodge!"re of whem locked themselves MOSLEM Thirty undergra→

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hounds were tearing through the as the demoralised sportsmen, rooms, giving longue as loudly he smiled. "I finally made

The whole thing in larder. hand in spite of everything."

was rather discreditable, if you 1. Was trapped and said,

who else would "Shoot,"

Here is his triumph ak me-and

you ask? ant tale in la own words.

partner Jumped "When my me to four spaces I would have bid seven if I weren't the un- luckiest player in the world. As it was I checked for kings end when he denied holding the one I missed I settled for the

amall slam.

Mothurst Grange (V)·

Collard so ho ordered this old-fashioned Belgian dish to be Borved to the schoolchildren on medical advice.

DARTWORDS START

ODAY Dartwords CIRCUMNAVIGATI

TRAL HERE

and Jode with LOAN You have to work jour way to the mat word by rearranging the other 48 words in the girls in much a way that the relationand the ce

DJ Word

between

next to it is governed by one of six rules,

Huler (1) The Word may be a GORETATI Of the word that precedos

15.

(2)

the

Some doctors claim that sprats But others aro a brain food.

worried about are more danger of bones getting lodged In the throat.

have

duates sidiying BANKER

Since the sput- banklug

TEENAGE Moslem college In

newly- SPUTNIKS alk New York

teenagers Independent Milaya have been told to skip a chapter dealing started another dangerous pes- time. Amateur rocket clubs have with Bink Fate.

appeared all over America.

Working on sports fleide mad in back yards theso

Islamic law forbids the giving or taking of interest.

Moslem banks, students have been told, will charge only three par cent rate for their service.

INNER was a niggardly meal that night. Edward's had- dock being the main dish. Lady Arabella, expecting à pro- pusat, was welghing her footing and reluctant suitor against at "Dummy came down and I lcast cight equally stupid saw that my luck Was stul dancing partners. Edward was horrible. Three hearts opposile moody. "Our chimney-sweep's my ace-king-queen, the useless daughter has won a fortune in doubleton queen-jack of dia- the pools," said Lady Borble- monds opposite my doubleton

borough. "This haddock," sald ece-king and three little clubs the tactless Edward, "comes opposite my ace-ton-ning. It

her from

"A very looked as if I were a goner

as thought," said Sir Charles. "Oh, sold I paid for it, of course," the heir. "Naturally," saapped his mother. Lady Arabella, laughing loudly, suggested that the lucky girl's father might well offer to sweep the Grange chimneys for nothing. There highway with an arm round a

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. can go seriously nstroy. 201-A

and week

new today if you can. opportunities, but exert reson- BAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. for able caution to make excellent 22)~~A short trip, either progress now.

business or pleasure, is indicat- AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) ed. But take care in travelling -There

be some inter- on crowded raude. ference with a pet plan of yours today, but take A positive attitude and all is well.

can

PIECES (Feb. 20-Mar, 20)- Depend on yourself today--nut others or you cannot reach the objective you have in mind.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20) This can be a difficult day un- less you have compiale control of the situation. Take an early lead and hold it.

TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)-- Proceed along familiar lines to- day. Botter noi take the word of a stranger, Test all things before acting.

GEMINI (May 22-Jubo 31)— Avold undercurrents of tensions today wherever possible.

It is

an active day, but try to play calm.

CANCER (June 22-July 23)-- Haste can make trouble, so think carefully before jumping into action. Guard again health upset.

CROSSWORD

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1. Duoby, (9) 10. PUDOT dňa, 18).

12. LET, (4)

Es. Musto of the night (0) 18. Musto of hazpy people. (0) 10, stage light. 14) 11. Footli ́ (4) 15. Strons. 101

21. Too plogennt-tnannsred

3. Zale Jets you out. (4)

4. fem. (D)"

1220 (July 24-Aug. 25)——| Partnership Affairs, domestic or business, come into the picture, Midday monia. (2)

now. Good health is important

to success, too.

VIRGO (ASE. 34-8opt. 23)~-~- You will nood. to be

wide-

awake and pay strict attention to your job if you are to win out today.

LIBRA (Bopt. 24-Oct. 23)--, A carnle accident could uppset your best-lald platis, ao exert 10. caution in all you undertako today.

·BÉDAFIO (Oct, #4-Nev, 23). Take care of your health nỘT for without day older plena

Dewa

It gòne s-winding in song, (4-5)

3. Chats up

Usual but there was one slight chance and I took it

was

"My Arst play was the ace of clubs. East recognized what I

up to and desperately dropped his king but nothing could save him. I drew trumps, cashed all my red cards and led the ten of clubs. If West went up with the queen he would establish drop East's jack and my nine. If he ducked, East would win the Jack but would tove to lend a red card where- upon I would ruft in one hand and discard from the other, Nico?"

"Very nice," I said. "It is also very nice to know that the sun la shining again and that even you can bring home a slam con- tract. Come around the next time, you make a hand."

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You, South, hold:

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ALT VEJU OQ UDEN MAOJ

What do roja do?

A-Pase. Tvar ralde to šhren. diamonds was sound bat' your `land-ju ubauitable for a slami.

TODAY'S QUESTION

The bidding has been:

North East Best Week

1 Pan

You South, hold:

AKIKI'$274424A Q 19 4.

What do you do?

ABswer on Monday.

MT Harold Smith, of Hamilton, TV Cannda, WAS fnedi Ave dollara for having an sin, TV act in his car.

Inventor Smith told the court that the set was so rigged that it could work only when the Scars were in neutral.

His lawyer argued: "You are on the to drive not allowed.

.

sphere,

plaster tell from the celling, SPUT A heavy metal missing the table by inches. NIX about 2 feet in dia- "Cals," said Sir Charles with a sickly smile,

CHESS

by LEONARD BARDEN

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with wire rods washed up an altached to the beach at Le Treport, near Dieppe, one night,

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area.

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Three earth tremors were feit throughout Brittany during the night. That was not Sputnik either, terrorised inhabitants, who rushed into the street their night clothes, were told which by loud speaker

reassure toured the area them

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On their tunics or lol cloths they wear "graduation badger" which identify them as "doctors' Balstopts",

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