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This Funny World

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"No ruise, but they moved me one desk nearer the

THE

BY

electric fan."

THE

Q

WAY

by Beachcomber

decision

refuse admision to people who come to football matches, carry- ing batties must be applied with discrimination.

Is

An empty beer bottle usually intended to be used as a weapon, whereas a full bottle of altour, 1929, is more likely to

fus drinking during the game.

arm is

the shy

illustrated

when, to quote an paper. "there was a coronet in bed- the wardrobe of every room." Mr Wett says to him- self. "Thus

FO bloodless revolution."

Without comment

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1958.

•JACOBY ON BRIDGE

Double Creates Added Hazard

By OSWALD JACOBY ARCENY LOU did not

likes

11 when the opponents but a slam against him. It also oc- curred to him that the slam

✩

WOMANSENSE

EILEEN ASCROFT has just celebrated her 42ad birthday, JANE BACON is about to hara *her 23rd. Both look back to their twentieth birthdays and disagree. "Terrible,' says Eileen,

I wouldn't be 20 again." "Wonderful'says Jove. 'It was my Golden Year' Who is right? -

WOULDN'T BE TWENTY AGAIN

QALAD Days may have

SA

should make, He did not like their own nostalgia,

the position of his king of clubs

In front of the opening club bld.

Strong

measures

seemed necessary and Lou decided that a double might cause South to 20 wrong.

Lou's next step was to open the four of clubs. Without the double South might well have taken the bull by the horns and

around let the lead run

La

his queen but South WAS Lou trad to be positive that Jeeding a shor! suit.

own

South went up with Dummy's ace, ruffed a club in hla band, cashed the king of spades and'led a spade to dummy'n nce. At this point Lou showed out of spades and South realised that he had been bamboozled.

WEST

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is the

IE'S gifted, but what Hure of gifts set are merely

(Picasso, of Rubens.)

The Conservative voice the voice of Individual human growth and human dignity.

A rough-locking fellow with employed to produce bad stuf? magnum of an inferior brand of champagne under hig always suspect, but fellow with a Uny sample bottle of cognac is more likely to be a genuine drinker than a rowdy, If he goes wild during the game, bla tile bottle, even Hung with unerring aim, wll not do much baren

Telaspeakerence

BELIND

the úcerco thot female television announcKTS are to be called "speakerenes"

is the story of

a good man's

love, an old mother's tears, and

a bag of land delivered at the

address.

wrong

Aller much "speakerette" and were rejretrel

Www

drivelling, "announceretle with contumely. So "televisionaries as being ou vague. Before taking you over to Ankara for a dissection of u dand crayfish by Dr Tramin here is a tape-recording of a Eremophone record of Mme. Kodiya Oyul singing 38 songs hy Schnipfel.

Mothurst Grange (VIII)

CITAY! What is this? In the

offices of Pipp. Chalgrove. Hipp, Nibblecraft, Pipp. Whack- straw, and Weft, solicitors, Alfred Sluid, hardly recogals- able without his covering of soot, stands awkwardly before the desk of Mr Weft. He has come to make an offer, on has daughter's behalf, for Mothuast Grange, bailiffs and all.

It is to be wedding-present Nellie Sludd to her husband the shepherd on their marriage. Mr Wett is so amazed that his spectacles fall to the floor with light thud. He coughs, fidgets, and coughs again. "Amazing?" he mutters, for he remembers the Grange in its days

glory,

but I wouldn't be 20 again, even if I could put the clock back 21 years.

I wouldn't want to work six days a week from 9.00 till 7.30 for £4 108. a week, and spend the whole of Suu- the day catching up housework.

The ties

on

of a two-year-old

baby at 20 are tough. I mean I never did care much for mice staying home nights, because in quantity and setting trops was baby sitters were economically even worse.

by EILEEN ASCROFT

-BUT TWENTY WAS MY

GOLDEN YEAR

TY twentieth year

Ma Golden Year

a