This Funny World
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FRANC
RIDGEWAY
"Helen, will you please stop worrying about that tree."
YOUR BIRTHDAY
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4
BORN today, you are an ardent And impulavely cathusiastic However, you are unse Indivich, of those who can turn on the ac}{- control when it de most Fleeded. You seem to have everything under Your Denonal direction and addition to
planning things on all large morte, you are talke to krey your attention on the tiniest detail. You appreciate, that even the most grandiose plan can fail if there is a alp-up in one Important detail. You don't plan to let that happen, to you!
You have a keen hand and at original point of view, You have the personal courage to stick by what you say, despite all kinds of opposition. Once you have natio up your mind to something, it is Baxi to impossible to change 15.
of
becoine evli, For there Art tinea when changing direction in View of changing conditions in the only wine counc Don't permit deter mination to duintegrate into pig.
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By STELLA
loaded mubborness! Sometimes it's the wiseat man who knows when ta make an about-face and inove with increased energy in another
direction.
Despite all the seriousness in your nature, there is another side to your personality which does not show itself except to those closest to you. You have a keen sense of kumbur Brd are happiest with 'Low ciume friends whose interests are winter
Your emotions | your own. are deep, and you might enally fall in love at frət sight and find last- ing contentment and happiness.
THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1958.
*JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
Is
WOMANSENSE
Fage
Opening Leads Must a tycoon's wife live with the firm, too?
Fateful Decision
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By OSWALD JACOBY
TODAY'S hand la a lay-down
for four hearts but South happens to have a perfectly nor mal opening no-trump bid and по One can really criticise North's jump to the Do-trump game. He hekl a balanced hand with nine points and two tens.-"
It West and opened a spade there would be no story. De~ clorer would Just have Kono down one trick, However, the club lead seemed more allractive and West fed the four spot of that cult.
South hopped up with dum- my's queen and led the queen
WEST
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West North ERAL
Pass 3 N.T. Pass Opening lead-♣ 4
Pass
Amung thuse born on this date were: Charles A. Lindbergh, avia- of hearts. West took the king tivn plonerr; Mark ilupki, #ducator: Joseph M. Carey,
Boleslavsky, im director.
turint and
sdfted to the dence of
and legislator. and Richard spades. East's Jacje forced declarer's king and now declarer led a diamond.
To and what the stars have in more for you tomorrow, bežect your birthday star and read the responding
paragraph. Let your birthday star be your dally guide.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5
AQUARIUS Glan, 21-Feb, 19)- it is likely that all the oervice
INVOU tredes will be especially Just now. Take a caletilated risk.
PISCES (Feb. Re-Atar. 20) You can anticipate A proper pront on anything for which you have EUR crit the requisite Dinaunt of work.
ABIER
CATER 21-Ap 20. Not your day for impulsive petion Think through any problem With the greatest of care and considera-
(API. 21-May 23)-
tion.
TAURUS
The fil moon" bringa added finis portar.co to property interesty, Questionable
have to be
decided.
GUMIN! (May
22-Inc 21)
An inheritance, coming to you at this time, could bring new interents into your experience. Be ready to meet them.
CANCER (June
22-July 22)---
The Ve Your Car la Stressiva spirit. It is aspecialty
Dortant if you Anc
merchandising,
LEO
tail
July 21-Aug. 223- Take care that your health in fr
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ACTUUR
1. Brest mountait ? ib. 41
6. THICK, (4)
7. Direction in Scotland. 1#
4. Floods. (9)
11. Amusementa, (9-8)
as. Troubio, (9)
14. Utippled,
38. Grense. (3)
16. Tynvols. (8)
19. Taverns, 13-d)
23. Dockney thief | (54)
24. Bass ways. (0)
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in the liner. (4-5]
gloves, (9)
Debection device. (3)
To blame, (0) Worriers,(7)
Overt low.”
120, re doare.
(4)
119. Payment to
church. ($1 17. Loud noise. "furn, (4)
AmericLI general. (3). (21) Lagt roon thi mort, (3) 123. V 18 MENO.
Vectrodes wherea
CHESS
By LEONARD BARDEN
(No.2544)
An ending from netual play: “WHATÓ LA move and will.
London 'Express Aarvión
COT-
good tip. If not, be mure to seek proper medical advice.
Lan't delay.
East won with the ace and re- turned a club. South won in his hand and knocked out the nee of hearts, winding up making four no-trump,
he
West claimed that East should have played a spade when was in with the ace of diamonds VIRGO (ADE, 24-Sept. 23) Your Intuitions abould lend you in In which case declarer would the right direction today, Just have gene down just as it the listen to that anell, still voice and spade had been opened art accordingly.
originally,
LIURA (kept. 24-021. 23) This can be your day to do a good deed. Help oumeare who needs assistance feed impulse: art upon
it.
ACORPIO (Det.
Assuming both Weet and South to be good players, there is uo question but that East was at fault. South was marked 24-Nov. 223- with exactly three clubs. If the A friendly. even romantle,
day | remaining two were the ace and Combine social and huiness activities with outstanding restůta.
jack he would not have gone up SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22). with the queen on the opening This is a busy day, and if you will load It they were the one and play your curds right, you can king the club auit was hopeless.
schlere some cherished ambition
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan, 20)— Some of your clef interests may Be in the realm of unreality today. Alake the ideal become real.
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Anything else and West couki have continued clubs himself.
Then West was marked with the ton of spades. Without that card West would have led his
spade, top
not h's lowest. Hence, the spade return would surcly establish two spade tricks.
V-CARD Seriacas
4
Q-The bidding has been: East South Went North 14
PART 24 Pass
14 笋
You, South, hold:
AKJ17
2 SAQ65 AKU7%
What do you do?
A--Bid four clubu. A strong bid is closely indiosted and your singleton beart makes no-trump seem inadvisable.
TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner continues with a bid of four spades. What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
By VERONICA Papworth
PICTURE BY JOHN FRENCH.
BLUEPRINT : il. and op. Hainly stressed waist and shurt, slim skirt.
FOR SPRING
1 looks like being every woman's blueprint for spring. It's an Fabric The With almost certainly, a Breton allor bak "kindest" ever-s good. em Jersey-knit. It packs like a dream. This dress-available in white striped navy of navy striped white aan Austrian import by Ros Casuals, (Cresia Shops next
month, 195 guineau.)
HOUSEHOLD
HINTS
Drinking glasses kept by the glass or cup full of a baking bathroom or kitchen sink should soda and water solution and let be washed out daily with soap stond awhile before washing and water. If cloudiness has
To make your new muslin formed in the bottom, all the
I admired the bathroom with [F you care about clothes I bot you I have sometimes wondered: What its ceilin
its ceiling painted scarlet-"to illusion of warmth." does Mrs Norman Hartnell wear? allo's a sparian. He docm't Is Mrs Victor Stiebel a snappy agree with central heating," dresser? And Mrs Hardy Amies.
Mrs G-Plan explainal. Is sho a latock-out? The answer is stair carpet with Ita
I admirext her rose-patterned mottled simple. These ladies do not exist. background-"I'd never have a plain one after this. Marks seem to blend into "
But in general the wives of the big fashion business men are the most magnificent advertisements for their husbands' continuing success.
Above all I admired her answer when I sakedi
"1 up
suppose you could call now stuff from the factory 2017 time and change this?**
See them gather together at any fashion trade reception trailing clouds of tulle, yard upon "I supposo I could," said Mra yard of velvet ("That's a nice bit of G-Plan-but I won't. My house is not a 'show place'it's a cloth you've got there, Charlie") and HOME." onough mink por wife to make a
fair-sized wigwam for two,
this, I have often wonder- ed, a standard upheld by ovcay other industry?
the
Can Mrs Frood call up a deep- frozen banquet when please?
Does Mrs Dishmaster
TACTFUL
This policeman VIVE came out of the skating WE
rink to find a policeman hovering round my car, note- boart book in hand.
the biggest washer-upper over? "Name and address, age?
And this being Furniture I'm not in the slightest bit Fair week at Earls Court, secretive about my age, but I how do the furnishing trade couldn't help asiding: What in
wives make out?
the world has nge to do with a parking offence?”
"Qulle, quite," said the police- man soothingly. "Ladies often funny about this. usually have to guess."
a.re We
Do they step from quilted beds on to inches-deep carpets ... padding through dressing rooms bursting out all over with fitted cupboard
to bath rooms where the cake of soap
I preked round his shoulder, Is for ever new down to but he had evidently decided dining-alcoves where there is to guess later. never a whiff of the breakfast
He did and he shoulą kipper to bring a touch of promoted for tact. realism to the spotless splendour It turned
up on my
ba
tocal
of the striped banqueite and police station's notification- the plastic-topped, guaranteed over 21." spot-proof table?
Fascinating
I called on Mrs Leslie (G- Plan) Gomme, who has recent
ly moved to a new house, to find
out.
Burke's Cottage is a fascinat- ing mixture of early Georgiah architecture with Edwardian additions.
In her drawing-room (palo green paint, panelled walls, and coffee-cream carpet) * Queen Anne bureau rubs aides with Victorian slick-back chairs and contemporary bookcases,
"With the exception of the. burcsu it's all G-Plan in a
sense," said Mrs Gomme. "My husband's grandfather made those chairs in his frat
factory In 1800,"
Intlo
"And when you found the house, did you simply call in fix it from the planners lo floors to cellings?" I asked.
'My mistakes'
"Heavens, no, it's all my own pion. The mistakes too, they were mine. We had dark-red curtains here at first--but they fought with the walls and the carpet."
ALOTI
Tho curtains are chints, patterned with palo green roses.
Through to the music room (crimson carpet and midnight ΟΙ blue chairs) with Sift. curtaining-one entire sido- from floor to ceiling. That's the way to see furnish- ing fabrics at their best: in this case, a John Piper print in in- digo, yellow ochre, and deep ∙red.
We agreed that colours were terribly difficult to "see" frem small samples.
"I had a midnight-blue blouse ironing board cover inst longer, and I kept lying on the carpet Leslie: 'Look before using it put it in the and saying to washing machine, with deter-darling, would this colour chair Kent, and let it go through a do?"
It does. regular wash cyclo,
I'll know what to answer next time.
Significant Detail
By GRACE THORNCLIFFE
"THE drape's the shape,” as seen in this coat of fine wool en, available in black or dark brown. The cowl draping to back emphaalien a line that is very significant this fall and carly winter. The front in drastically different slim straight and double-breasted, with vertical slit pockets,
.BY. THE WAY BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
by Beachcomber
A MAN walking along the boring, and it makes me hungry
Bayswater Road stopped And the faces of the people! suddenly and gazed at the Ught" pavement. Within 10 minutes,
during which he never moved. In passing
334 people had gathered round
him, ond
were pushing and
shaving to find out what he had seen on the pavement.
Knarf Looks For A Hill
think that SOMETIMES
invented the Foreign Offee,
I
By MAX TRELL
-How The Uphills Suddenly Become Downhills-
"AM," gald the Policeman, "now I understand. What you're not a joke. I remember a music-T
IT was a cold day, but the sun looking for is a downhill,
was shining and making an uphill." hall turn in which mountebanks
on the "Yes," sald Knati. sharp, white patches Within halt
furiously an hour extro back - pedalled
snow. handlebars
Most Are Uphi!! pollee were controlling a crowd bleycles with
Kaart, the Shadow Boy with estimated at 1,500, Cars and and collided with others on
the Turned-About Name, ran buses had stopped, and there bicycles with handlebars, but
down the street pulling his sled was a clamour of exelted talk. with no wheels.
behind him.
The man still stood gazing ‘at
the pavement. By midday police officer had forced his way
no
ቢ
And a bowler, I hope
on
one who is evidently dis- "think that anyone lightly-rolled
a
through a crowd now numbering 100 many people," writes nearly 18,000. He asked the man what had happened. Coming to illusioned, himself and staring in amaze who carries mont at the crowd, the man umbrella is reportable." said: "I was trying to remember
He ran after girls, and he drank my niece's telephone number.
ke a flah, "Oh," said the police officer.
A visitor to the Ministry
BIRD which escaped, from the National Cage Bird Show at Olympia very sensibly
lew
And deserted his wife when
the bailiffs were in,
His manners were all that his
cronics could wish,
And included a winic and au
impudent prin.
into en office at the His laughter was vulgar and
Ministry of Supply. As it lighter on the in-tray it is reported to have ankt. "Well, what are you going to supply?" "How do you mean?" asked a puzzled official. Back came the answer: "This is the Ministry of Supply, Ion't If? What about up- plying mo with some food? I'm fod up with sitting in a cage in that great draughty building. it's
horribly loud,
His small tall unfit for a
sensitive car,
His jokes were the joy of the
commonest crouch,
Bring all about card-games
and bookles and beer. Even better-class people muc-
cumbed to the charm ·· Of the tightly-rolled brally that hung from his arm.
At the Policeman.
corner, he
"Good morning, said Knari.
that's funny
"Now met the sald the Policeman,
Policeman,"
"Good morning, Kart," said Policeman. "Where are you going with your aled?"
"I'm looking for a hill," said Knari.
Bast Thing
"That's the best thing to look for when you've got alect," paid the Policeman. "There's a hill right bolded your house."
"I don't like that hill," said knarf
The Policeman raised his eyes in surpise.
thing," "Most of
the hills in this neighbourhood try where all the downhills are are uphills"
kept?" "But where' are all the down- What did the Old Man say?” hilla?" said Knarf.
Knarf asked the Policeman.
The Policeman was slient for
The
All Ovor
a moment or two. Presently to "When I was your age said
Policeman continued: and I had a sled, I also used to look around for a downhill "I "The Old Man said: "There's no one, my boy, looked all over, but all I could country like this
for downhills. They're all over and were uphills. Then, one
the place. You're not looking day, I met a very old man. Ho had travelled all over the world, for them in the right way.
"Tell me,' I said to the Old Man, where can I find a coun-
Rupert and the Lost List-2
While Rupert and his Daddy keep very quiet they hear nothing. but as soon as they start talking the sound comes again and this -time they both notice it. Some whispers Rupert thing's moving," "What can it be 7.
the noise is coming fmm," says Mr. Bear. Rupert looks into all "A hill is a hill" bo zald
the comers without seeing any why don't you like that hill?"
thing unusual, then he given it I'm looking for." *The hill
up. Pating on his scarf he goes. out. "I qulte forgot," he mure said Korf, "is a downhill. Tho hill behind mỹ house fa als up-
The queer murs promised to meet
Edward. Here he la waiting." him.
thing is that I can't be sure where That's why I don't. like
At."
1
ALL Biqure REIGNÝCH
"The thing to do is to climb up to the top of the hill right behind your house and if you look around from the top of that hill, you will and more downhills than you ever saw before.""
"And did you do what the Old Man wald?" Knarf nsited Police- man.
Kharf saw that there were hills all over the pixes.;
"I did, indeed," said the all over the place and they'll att - Policeman. "I climbed up to be downhills"
the top of the hill behind - my So Kharf thanked the Police- house and, when I looked
man and man back down the around, there. I saw a dozen
street with his alod. When he hilis all over the place and they reached his house, he climbed to were all downhills, every angle the top of the hilt right behind one of them!"
"Oh," said Knart. "Should I do the same thing?".
Don't Waste Time
"Exnelly," mid the Policeman. "Don't
waste another minuta.
11.
It was just as the Policeman had said. There were hills sil ba conta over the place and plainly seo that they were all downhills..
The best thing of all was this:
Go right back to your house and the very uphill he had climbed cilmb up that htik behind you, had itself suddenly, bersena a I'm sure you'll find a dopen hills downhill
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