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This Funny World

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by Beachcomber

COCKLE The ones who are interested in JUSTICE CARROT began the hearing politics, and a whispered

number yesterday, in the Court of Fish- quest for a telephone eries and Probate, of the case of during a debale on Engine-Room Artifices,

Class, Harold

Buttress

Sladway Improvement'

vers:19 Tinchbrass and

the Sewage dicillu- Third Estimates would soon

und son any peer who made use of Trust the old stage-toor approach,

Gay

Foundries, lighthouse keeper Without comment

Oswald Flint, and Mrs Pasture.. Canon itevery and Baron Hugo ven insuslehnen Intervening.

The plaintiffs appealing under the Traction Act of 1873 for

a restraint of injunction ugainst the defendunts, who

are

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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1958.

*JACOBY

ON BRIDGE | BILL

Generous George Is Quite A Pal

By OSWALD JACOBY

GENEROUS George trumped

the king of clubs and went about his business without even one little remark.

His Brat play was the king of trumps; his second a #mall thump to dummy'n ace. Now George played the king of dia- monds and continued with the deuce.

This was too much for East.

He put his little trump on that **Thank deuce and remarked, you George."

"Not at all" replied George. "You are welcome to that trick but I trust you will have no objections to my taking the rest?"

Enat played a second club. George ruffed, led a damond to dummy's queen, played dummy's ace of spades, returned to his hand by ruffing a third club and

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proceeded to discard dummy's two remaining spades on his

last two diamonds,

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YOUR BIRTHDAY

By STELLA

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12

BORN, today, you are mare master

of your own fate

many.

1 to be prive, You are vie pe who becomes better beloved

The uteri have given you excep- the longer you are known.

you

-xD

It is ely at you are secretly though you may not arous per nu. Once you get an idea late your head, you will work hard to achieve the goal set up before you. The dilcully is in getting you lo set up that goal

You are loving and use t

tinal talent, but it is up to you to develop it to its best posible primion. Your late le quite in your ow hands

negieel the powers will you. then blame nu ដព

tou but yousuf Eins.cally much the dreamer, you must lean to make those dreams come truc.

You have a firm will, so You have good reasoning. but sometimes you are a little too low in making a dveliun. I ins act en inspule, you are apt to do the wrong thing." Thick twice be tore making any Important decision and you will come up with the right auwer. You are not the type whÓ can afford to take risks or to rush headlong into Bungalow fiel

steady" is how you will win

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Dowels,

Jour

You have a magnetic personality

which attracts many friends. But

affectionate

and will de almnest anything for Boss you love. The responsibilities bia family whl serve to sherpen your bition and set you on the right track headed for succCTS.

Among those born on the date were: Charles Darwin, Abratiam Lingein, U.S. Prezident John Winthrop, stateemas: F. E. Cotton Blather, Ornaby, educator:

clergyman; and nutrd

William Menùn, poet.

To find what the stars have, in you also have the habil of making store for you tomorrow, select your enemies. This is probably becaus birthday star and read the

Let your you are not correctly understood, responding paragraph. Lince your frit imp:colon in not birthday star be your daily guide.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13

cor-

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)- penk of an auspicious trend just

You may take carefully calculs- 40. ted risk on the job, but be sure you avoid conniving or intrigue. Ba above board.

РІВСЕВ (Feb. 20-Mar 20}}- You can urn the trend of this day Jo whatever direction you desira. De optimistic and comtructive and ali goes well.

LIBRA (Sept. 20-00%

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Candleling interests may throw you

a 10 off balance now. You're walking a light-ropel

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov. Being envious of another is not for what you you!" De content with have. You may find all Labelter then you thought:

ARIEB

[(Blar;' = 21-Apr. 20)- There are fin opportunies offered today. If you are just siert enough SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)— Execute personal plans important to your future. Keep an eye out for that advorac cross Current, though

to Rize ind develop tiem to your advantage.

TAUNUS (Apr. 21-May 2))- This is a big day for you; important istums come up for decision. Maka. sure that your decisions are wise.

GEMENT (May 22-June 1) The bath, un can be highly im portant. You do your best work when lodiing it and your energy In tilat.

CANCER

(June 22-July Tricky cross currents are all too apt tombs up the master plant

*** matuta. En: string up a new altuation

LEO (July 14-Aug. 23 Wind up parsons?· · affairs to - Jour satisfaction

intercals, now. Other mainly business, muist take the lead..

M-Sept VECO (Auke, Make the most of this day in your work or protamsion.. You aco at the

CAPRICORN (Dec. 21-J

20)—

Pay close attention to your work, 'You can get a lot done if you:side- step oulade distraciona

CHESS NEWS

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dia-

WOMANSENSE

And Juliet

Romeo

Maurice Roger has chosen this romantic illa for his dress, coal and hai ensemble. Taken from his 1958 collection the dress is deceptively simple and the coat although lined with fur for warmth possesses the slin line favoured by most women.

BOYS'

AND

The Forest In The Sky

-Why It Wouldn't Stay In The Pretty Little Village----

By MAX TRELL

the

Brides Beware

of trying to reform him!

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CHE'S brought

By ANNE EDWARDS

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minding Bertie Woester) "to rise home, is a gracious hostess, on the stepping stones of his good mother and 'a loyal mate- it off. dead self to higher things." no woman I ever knew ever Ir hovels it often comes off. managed to reform Д man She's done what all

Ouka heroines could bring a except in a few small ways and women long to do. She's hardened rake to his knees with after many long meaths. reformed the brute. And Cold Scorn.

A flirt will always be a fit, without so much as a word

won over a wanderer will always be

Д bora

Dickens's heroines

" will

the

of criticism either. Yester- their dissipated rascals with the wanderer, and day's news that authoress Sheer Goodness technique And always be a bore.

some heroines like Gig pull it But it is tribute to Joan Henry had reformed of simply by Being Pure. resilience of men and the the man she is going to In real c. nias, it seldom wishful thinking of women that

to work out quite like so many, wives keep on trying. marry (film director Lee seems

The divorce courts that. J. Thompson) gets an

NOTE... thick with proof of it. astonished accolade from me. For her husband-to-be was a heavy drinker and she cured him.

are

Even Sylvia Ashley, I remam- IT would save a lot of heart- ber, couldn't persuado Clark break and a lot of time too able to give up golf for her, it only more wives would take Rita Hayworth couldn't stop Aly note of Johnnie Ray's own epitaph on his own brief marti- "Joan stopped, me drink. Khan going on safaris.

Ginger Rogers couldn't pre- age:- ing," said Mr Thompson, vent Jacques Bergerac driving "Man, it wasn't that chick's "and yet never once did she too fast. And Barbara Hutton fault, because man, that chick

her dinner parties.

say 'Don't have a drink couldn't make Cary Grant like tried." advice that only brings more defiance and more drink."

She's lucky. Most women and that any kid of attempt at re forming a man is a washout,

A MYTH

HOUSEHOLD HINT

my view and in spite of that a woman can reform

Miss Henry's success, the idea To clean a solled paint brush,

aslap it back and forth over man is a myth.

washboard propped up in a pail of

In my experience it is only in

Even if she takes the advice fiction that the watchful cara and of the people who are always love of a good woman can save handing it out-even if she a man from himself, help builds his wolf-esteem, feeda him him

2 provides (as Jooves is always re- well,

welcoming

or

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thick soapsuds. Dip the brush down into the suds, then rub it across the board.

Rinse in clear water: lot dry, wrup and store until needed.

MAGAZINE

"At this, the Poplar, the sky where everyone con see uncomfortable because of the

And heat in the summer tallest and proudest Tree among them to this very day.

and the them, replied: 'I can SCO a Grandfather said that it was the cold in the winter that no one beautiful meadow far off where' wind that blow them there." cared to live there any more.

But no one really knows. the sky begins. That la the place for us to go.

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the

“And what happened to village?” asked Teddy.

"And that is the end of the story that my Grandfather told disappeared,”. Hiawatha me about The Wondertul Forest

and the hawks except

"And so the Trees, with eagles. And yet there was a great rustling and crackling, "It NARF, the Shadow Boy with time when the sky forest, stood flew off to that meadow in the said. "Bome say it became so That Grew Up In The Sky.

the Tumed-About Name, at the edge of a pond very close and Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, to a villoge. and Hiwatha, the Small-Sized Wooden Indion, had taken a walk through Uie Pine Tree Grove. At length feeling tired, they had sat down on a log to

them, the

rest:

All about

trees

East had simply discarded George might have pulled the rose up straight toward the sky, last trump and conceded

At the foot of the trees, the case mond trick. In that

height was dim ond there was a would also

need the spade stillness all about. finesse. Or George might have

For several minutes, aelther played a third diamond. In of the three friends spoke. Then that case East would be able to | anally, Hiawatha broke the trump a high diamond, not a small one and have needed dummy's last trump to ruft a losing diamond.

George would

CARD Seriseks.

Q-The bidding has been: East South West North

Double 2 Double

Pass

You, South, hold: 4KJ92 2 4AQ65 45672

What do you do?

A--Pass. Your partner is sup? posed to have heard the bidding and to know what he is doing,

TODAY'S QUESTION Everyone passen. What do you lead?

Answer TomOTZOW

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blow.

Pratty Little Village ·

"It was a pretty lille village. "In the summer it was cool. In the winter, the coldest winds the could not reach it because

protected it. beautiful forest The trees kept the village cool weather and shady when the was warm, and snug and shel- when the north wind tered

"Now you would think that the children who lived in the village would have loved the forest of trees that made their home to pleasant to live in.

"But if they did Jave the trees, they showed their love in a very strange way."

Knari "What did they do?"

"I remember," he said, story that my Grandfather once told me about a Forest That Grow Up In The. Sky. My Grandfather was a very wise asked

"This is what they did," said man. All the stories, that he

Hiawatha. It 19 whut my told were true stories."

Khar and Teddy begged Grandfather told me. Ho sald Hiawatha to tell them the story the children of the village broke about The Forest That Grew Up bark. Thoy dug holes in the

off branches. They cut In The Sky,

trunks. And when anyone told begin Hiawatha.

things were "Yes," "There was once a wonderful them that these

forest

the

forest. It grew up in the sky. wrong, they would answer: Il My Grandfather knew it very doesn't matter what you do to well, but no one could ever gel trees. Trees have no feelings.

"But one night a very curious to this wonderful sky

It happened thing happened. when the moon was behind the .clouds and the stars were

looking the other way. At that moment, the trees clustered to- gether and began whispering to one another,

"Why do we stay here?" Oak Tree asked the others.

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Why,' said the Oak Tree to the others, 'do we keep on living near this village when we are treated so cruelly? What have wo ever done to have our limbs broken, to have our bark cut, and to have holes dug in our trunks?"

It is plain to sec,' said an old Hickory, that wo

are not wanted here any more. Let us go away.'

Tall And Proud

"But where can we go?' nak- ed the other Trees.

Rupert and the Lost List-

Rupert hurries alone in growing anxiety through the patchy mist that is sometimes thick and sense times vers, light," soem to be

direction, he is moving uncertainly when a slight, noise -makes him turn and from behind one of the boulders, there appears the figure

off the track,, he mourners after a of polliwog. Hallo, it's Rupert while. I don't remember Chess · Bear, cries: the little ́erseture. boulders. Ou dear I wish I could "Why are you got in a fax bha terbit farther." Chinging"fala?! this ?

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