THE CHINA MAIL,
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1998.
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This Funny World
"No, you can't use the car, but please feel free to help yourself to the power mower."
BY
WAY
THE by Beachcomber
DR STILABISMUS (Whom God scripta
of
local takes heed Preserve) of Utrecht is or- custom, according to the valid- and ganising for the New Year an- lty of usages, precedata,
acen and other expedition to the Andes; ligatory variations, to be more precise, to Popaka- tecepted. Concerned as we are Unaketi, the mountain on whose today with statutory slopes he once discovered horrible fossilised food of
keep the we must
the minds the distinction
Aztece, and the almost extinct legal precedents Nosi poca, the
bird with
webbed toes on each feat.
11 principles."
This tune he hopes to find a
JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Bad Start Has Silver Lining
Dy OSWALD JACOBY
JOHN MCGERVEY
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WOMANSENSE
FURNISHING YOUR HOUSE?
By ELISABETH PHELP
WHAT should a prospec- lahes and oddments, or a child's
RESTRAINED
I moved on to look at fumi- admired a suite in lure for the DINING ROOMt and "restrained
mathematician who plays Tremely good bridge. He writes: the Furniture Exhibition? "The four-spade contract was As a bride-to-be myself, I not the soundest in the world but looked round with special I am sure there have been much worse ones. The hand really interest, and to my mind contemporary style." Onished in started off bndly. I ducked the every taste--and, more im- Tola veneer. Particularly prac
tical is the sideboard which com- heart lead in dummy and Eastportant, every pocket
in ono neat plece, a prises, the queen. Back
glass-fronted china cabinet, carne the three of diamonds and seemed to be catered for.
won
with
the
-
I finessed the queen, West look Armed with an indispen- wine cupboard with plastic-lined cutlery drawer with his king and led another dia-sable map showing the lay- flap, a mond which East ruffed.
out of the vast continent of sliding compartments, and three ordinary drawers. This costs "Three
tricks gono and Earls Court, I act forth to £30 4s 60. The dining table, possible losers all over hand. Still there was une roy of hope. East returned the three of clubs and West's jack forced dummy's king. It looked as if East had started with five clubs, ave hearts, Iwo spades
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with brass-tipped legs, costs £17 175. ed. The chairs, with
backs, £5 10s. 3d. (27 43. 6d. arms).
cost
with
of
explore the stands.
First on my list came THE brass-Bnished KITCHEN--where I suppose any newly-wed must be pre pared to spend more than half her time,
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A less expensive sulte Danish design, comprising A heat-proof plastic-topped For those for whom money tending table, sideboard, is no object, the perfect fitting four chairs, costs 02 gns. would appear to be a kitchen For the DRAWING ROOM I range of nine - seit - contained found another Scandinavian de- units, with countless cupboards, algna three-piece suite in wool rust-proof compartiments for moquette and black ebonized damp goods, vegetable racks, tubular steel, consisting of concealed "gash”, buckets, balze armchair, footrest-cum-bassock, lined drawers-in fact,
des. every and a two-person settee, thing for £116 109.
cribed by a blushing representa- tive as "Love Seat." This is for the well-to-do nt £04. Also for the comfortably off a luxurious settee and easy chales covered in long silky mohair.
AMUSING
ONE ITEM ONLY For the girl who must settle for one new item only, a novel kitchen table in blue and scar let caught my eye. The centre- plece has drawers at one end, And for
inatters,
clean in our
and There were mur-
between judicial
No one vulnerable
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dops.
muns of disapproval.
tribe of pigmics, whom nobody Amazing discovery
has ever seen. Dr Hasch, the
was told strange tales of this THE BRounding discovery that
Leipzig anthropopsychiatrist,
unknown tribe by Indians
of
gaping for hours on end at
for
from
Opening lead-♥ ♫
sheer amusement-
"Cora-
a twin-shelved cupboard at the the ultra contemporary
top ma table, with other, and the Formlea
opens out with two gate-legged comma"
Or, perhaps, she would
shaped
two "Inverted three-legged
sections in contrasting colours.
like They can be used separately, or
This is the Love Stat-a two- person settee from Scandinavie,
A Leader Looks
Back
By GAY PAULEY
BA
ANDLEADER Meyer Davis, whose presence
jat society coming - out parties and weddings is as Inevitable as the potted palm, sighs for the good old days of debutantes,
The reason sentiment.
business, not
Davis said I used to be that a "deb" came out singly, with maybe a whole ballroom and a 75-piece orchestra to help make her bow to society
succoas Pappa shelled out anywhere from $10,000 to $100,000 for the event. Now, Baid Maestro Davis, the trend is for the rancs debut, with anywhere from 23 to 250 girls presented
In one grand swoop.
for
"This," said Davis, with a twinkle lu his eye," cuts down on an orchestra's gross income."
Davis said the trend towards a highly compact four-fold joined together to form a cir-
the mass debut started about 10 cabinet which can be used as a cular coffee table (approximate- (230). "Brass beds are no long- double-decker bunks, which can
ago, apparently er grandmother's prerogative form single beds. They cost £85 years and a diamond. In that shoe cabinet and tidy for casy ly £9.)
"Now," he Finally, to BEDROOMS. For they are extremely popular with the pair. But if you want a lad- economy reasons, shoe cleaning, a step cabinet for the hand was home and I
der to help the not-so-nimbloid, "a deb can come (or rather our own!) young couples," I was told ceeded on that basis.
hanging curtains and cleaning my own
And for A SPARE ROOM, climb into the upper storey, its little as $150. Not counting led a diamond
with bed I chose ona with mahogany windows, a kitchen stool rosh
brang Lop with
could knobs what
be batter than will cost you an extra £2 72 64 jher gown, of course." po- and dummy. East stuck In his compartments for dusters,
of spades. It wasn't queen
case
pro-
the Ecuadorian paramos, and by a television screen is bad
суса (apart the Pichincha herdsmen. The chlidren's base crimp will be at Catchaknt, what it does to their minds) lead to special In the toothills of Popakaling will probably ked. From there the expedi- telespectacles, pald for by the tion will have 10 cross the ratepayers. The suggestion, by frightful Tintuc glaciers.
an "authority, that the telc doing him any good and
might embarrass me, vision set is what keeps families uppercut
the
together and encourages home overruffed with the king and to dummy's aco. Illes such a wonderful com-led a trump mentary on the present day East showed out and it looked tha: 1 forbear to add a word to as if everything would be all It. At least I will add only right.
"I ruffed dumy's last dia- this: A child of three or four,
The jack of duramy's nine. spedes picked up West's last trump and the deuce of spades squeezed Enst to death, He had to unguard either the club or discard the heart and either
as any
engrossed in a tale of murder, mond, led spade and fluessed will be just as kely other child to run away to nea when the programme is over, family thus breaking
up the
the life.
Sentation in court
THERE WAS a sensation in the Arst minute of the telat, the elements of which I explained yesterday. Mr Justice clearly Cocklecarrot naked Mr Hongy weather Gooseboute, for the defence, whether there were any recognisances. From back of the court a voice cried: "I appeal to the Ecclesiastical Courte!" Qlving the name of Cricosagotz,
the speaker was Mr ushered out, protesting. Tinklebury Snapdriver, for the prosecution, then said that, us the case was prima facie, he intended to subpoena Admiral Sir Edgar Powder. Cocklecarrot said: "Common Law or lex non
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Answer Tomorrow
IT'S THE SWEET SIXTEEN' LOOK FOR SPRING
The new-style Breton-in sisal raw, with
band and brim dining of flownted nylon chiffon
[27. 4. aprox.).
A classic big-brim "sale" of unni stran, trimmed with contrasting petersham ribbon. Hate the "crushed" crown, 159 60 ope:DX },
Another gay schoqiglif modal 15 stal strom, with cpg-over bilm and psteribar kuttom trimming 491. Tld arbres❘
ITERE is the Sweet Sixteen look in hats that I forecast for spring. In his "Back to School"
Feminine details are the flowered nylon hat-bands.
Hollection Edward Mann shows aimple straw bontus with turned up brims, and saucer-like
"sailors" with schoolgirl rounded crowns.
out for
about
Actually, I don't think Meyer Davis needs to worry frances. He has some 50 orchestran. bearlog his name on tup for social whing-dings and is booked through 1909.
Two of those 1060 dates are for deb parties," vald Davis. "Their parents booked me whan the girls were born. I played for their mothers."
:
Davis has been the sunve purveyor of dance music for the Hia nation's gentry since, 1913. mother
wanted him to bo o lawyer, and he might havo made it, except for a school incident. The orchestra in his high school In Washington, D.C. wouldn't let Fiddler Davis Join, So be organised a rival band and soon
was swiping party dates from the other outfit.
He's been playing party dates ever since, with his beat mostly the eastern seaboard. Now his bookings ro multi-million
dollar "operation.
for
as
-EILEEN ASCROFT
in 45 years of entering to high scolety, Davis has played sttch glamour Birla Barbara Hutton and Darls He thinks the most fabulous party of all was in the 1930's, when one of the Widmer giris in Philadelphia came out.
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Yesterday's mutation
CHESS
By LEONARD BARDEN
problem by Behoor (Magyar Baxkvilag. 1929) White matos in two.
YOUR BIRTHDAY ....BY STELLA
you, natural beauty is more import-
ant than man-made splendour,
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13
must guard BORN today. you
against becoming mentally inty. You have a fine mind, but you don'i always inake the best possible use of it. Since you like ease and com
you much icone conuincenat too e. You are somewhat lacking in Dit energetic, drive which for sensational fame and success. Yet, once you have conquered this ore bad habit, here is nothing for which you may not reach-and got.
BOYS' AND
The Busy Brick-Man
GIRLS' MAGAZINE
-He Built Houses For Everyone But Himself—
By MAX TRELL NARF the Shadow-Boy with Kthe Turned About went singing and
"Sometimes I bulld very strange hovers."
You make a fine host or hostem and enjoy entertaining in your own home rather than golug out on the town. You know how to select con- then serial groups of people and liow to give them a good time, You hove A Tamantle nature and prob | down the street. makes
#bly will have more than one love down to affel before you settle norriaga and Tolding a family. Yat. once you have made your thai de cision, there is no pas more loyal or devoted,
The stars have given you excep tional artistic tales, and once you have made up your mind to head traight for some cefinite goal, you Are quite capable of reaching R No matter what happens, you seem to be one of the happiest persons
"What Idind of strange houses Name, do you build?" asked Knarf. whistling
When he stopped singing, he whistled; when
Swarm Of Boon
"It was a house made of rocks," sald the builder, "shaped like a cave. The bear slept in it all winter and dozed in the sun- light in front of it all summer. And once I built a house for a bird."
"What kind of a house did you build for a bird?" asked Knart.
"I built it of straw and twig and threads and bits of ribbon," said the builder. "I built it in an long "elm tree at the end of a
road.
of
"Once," said the bullder," .ho stopped built a house for a swarm
honey bees. It was a round house whistling, he ang.
On the sidewalk, halfway with a point at the top and a down the street, Knart came to door at the bottom. It was All- Among those born on tila date were: Leopold Godowacy, pianist; a man who was loading bricks ed with little rooms where the Feodor Challapin, singer: Joseph L. from a truck. Linevin, author: and Sarojini Naidu, Hindu poet and reformer,
To and what the stars have irk store, for you tomorrow, select your birthday
Oor- star and road the
Let your responding paragraph.
Hits, Money, and pickuÏR DUS pera, means little to you, pro vided you are able to go your own
Your love way at your own pace. of the beautiful in inborn and, to birthday star be your daily guide,
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14
19).
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"Good morning. Brick-man, sald Knart.
"Good morning, boy," said the man loading the bricks.
"What are you going to do Калг with all those bricks?" asked the man.
To Build A Hous
"I'm going to build a house," said the man. "I'm a builder," "Do you build houses for any one who wants a house bulli?” asked Kurt.
21-Aug. (July AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb, Confidential business matters, in- A fine time to wind up the week's velying financial risks, came up for work at the office and to fest that Aarious consideration. Be carefull you have really accomplished, exda-
thing importani. PISCES
(FON. 22.biar. 20)~~
VIGO
26-Sept CAVE. This can be your day for action, Fraternal and partnership affairs A day of action in affairs pertaining teke precedence over other things to closa relatives. New opportunities row.
are yours for the lading.
LIBİLA (Sept. 21-Oct. 23)
"I do" said the builder. 17 Combine office and home intereste to good advantage. There will be build a house for anyone who benefita accruing from your efforta.
wants one. I have bullt house, (Oct, SCORPIO
24-Nov. 12) for all kinds of folks. the initiative in some debite loss, then today you should be a direction and you will find that you
ATHIES (Mar. 21-Apr.
207-
An unexpected honour in your pro
Caton may come to you at this direct rent or your time as
Joastertal.
TAURUS
(Apr. 21-MAY
If you survived yesterday without
to make a handsome, pront.
Ο ΚΟΙΝΕ • (DLY V-13-Juzo Take the 'Initiative' 'in sama
able to make a fine prodi,,
CANCER
Cso achiers soms long-desired goal
"Once I built a house for a very fat man. I built a very wide house. Then I built a house
13) MACHITTARIUS (KGr, 29-Doo, 21)~ | for a very thin mann. It was a „faint, surcom is in the snu Maka may tail thin, house.” businem enterprise and, you will be that you are getting yom Paris of "What kind of a house,” said,
stia 'zewards! Make dhancial gaine
Knart. “would you bulid for (Doc. 13-Jan. 30)-- | me?” 13)—'_CAPRICORN A good day for buying and selling.“ Originality and resouresfukoom will it the former, and Diegem; if the place you to the driverà MAL Prá
forward with all apood. latter, make a good preži
Jana 23-July
bees stored their honey.
And
once," he added, "I bufit a housa for a bear."
"What kind of a house did you build for a bear?" asked Kaart.
*
...Underground House "And once," wald the builder,
that under- ground house that asked Knari.
"I built an underground house,"
"Who lived in
you bully"
"I built it for a mole," sold the builder. "I built it under
Rupert and the Lost List-10
addresses to say where they come from, that he's trying out a pew scheme. We're going, night, into people's, houses before Christmas arch-likerging and, l'ye made a lint
the
.
"What are you doing with those
bricks?" Knart asked.
"We had a 100-plece orchestra ....20-hundred guests," sald Davis. Hanging in his office is a photostat of the cheque for his Lec-$10,000.
The orchestra leader also as been a pretty regular part of White House and other Washing- ton functions since the days of President Harding, when the guests' favourite tuna wea "Margle.".
He's watched dancers work their way from! the one-stop through the Turkey, Trot, The Big Apple (which he introduc- od), The Bumps-A-Daisy, Tho Lambeth Walk Jitterburg, and such
the Latin danc Maxixe, Tango, Congo, Rhumba, Samba, Mambo, and the Cha- Cha-Cha
A
Still going strong, he said, are the Folks, the Fox Trot and the Viennese Waltz. Ho considers
dance of all,
lawn la somebody's garden. It the latter the most beautiful
had tunnels and hallways.
The
moles stayed in it all day and only came out in the dark for a breath of fresh air.”
"You've
bullt houses for everyone, haven't you?" sald
Knari.
"I built houses for people. I built houses for bugs and boasts
*
How has society, changed 'in recent years?
"Well," said Davis, "in New schulteratod
and birds. I've built houses for York it's become chickens and houses for dogs, with the 400, ente society and And one day when I get enough entertainment Agures all mixed time, I'm going to build a house in. Balmore, Philadelphia and for myself
Washington silli draw the fine line, some of the capital'a' montá Knart seld good-by to the famous hostesses have never bulider and went singing
boen able to crack" tha inzer whistling up the street.
circle in Washington.”.
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and
The orchestra · leader
стом
'Rupert stares at the all stranger. ** I'va men you before ha mys. You're Santa Claus chief missenger, areah' you ? And what are you doing here? " **** We're on a special job."' mys the
Gelliwog.
who, built houses. for, EVERYODO "Santa Claus, han born
When he stopped whistling hi Bang; and when he stopped sing- ing, he whistled. And all the after all these years of hob- time that he whistled and mung, |nobbing with the hoi-pollos fan't. he kept thinking of the, builder, in the social register,
"På build a very small house", for you," onli thus - builder,
· getting so many letters, without
DARAKA MIRATO
¦ of? what the young folk wait. Nove goodbye: 31 muis get back." In éxcitement: Rupert stops him. Kaskarud SE MAN
but never had time to build one for himself.
"No desire to bó," said Davis. MORE FROM HI-Jung Hwork for them.” é
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