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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1958.

This Funny World

• JACOBY ON BRIDGE

"Excuse me! I thought you were the approuch

BY.

to the Golden Gate Bridge!"

THE WAY 。

by Beachcomber

OCKLES which are too small will create the best Impression

to be gathered should be put back. That is the unwritten, perhaps even the written, of the game,

And that is why, some ngo, there rang out across

dreary waste of

law

Whether they will be able

stand up to pretty girl-cundid- ates in bathing slips is another matter.

If susceptible young daya man is invited to a house, given food and drink, and then shown

Hard Luck Joe Squaders Trump

By OSWALD JACOBY

ARD Luck Joo

wen

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opening diamond lend with the queen and lod the king of trumpa,

WOMANSENSE

IT'S HARTNELL FOR ME EVERY TIME

WELL, the couture col-

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lections are over, and

I've

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or

Says HAZEL MEYRICK

seen the clothes that London, though the

two cost and says: "This is nice. Did la oul, most of us will be wear- did show e half yo run it up yourself?"

ng our trin chopped off an London's most expensively- couturiers

n short

inch or so below the knee, dressed women, including hearted version with

#kirt in front dipping down to

HIS SIGNATURE the Queen, have ordered the floor at the back. for their spring wardrobes.

Weat took his ace and shifted to the six of clubs. East's king forced Joe's ace and Joe drow trumps with his queen And dummy's jack.

Joe's next play was the deuce of spades. West played the three and Joe went into a long huddle and finally played the

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Puss sand and rock on the seren a lonesome girl- the flaming challenge to a dumb- Candidate, with the whole family of Entherers: badgering him to vote for her,

founded group

"Holt la the

name of

the is that legitimate canvassing, or

South Wales Sea Fisheries Dis. Is it bribery and corruption?

or Over to Mr Justice Cocklecarrot. ing.

trict Committee!" Duinas

Stanley Werman could have

described the scene for us, and An amazing forecast would have made the defiance of

the lending cockle-gatherer 113

exciting as the defence of a stairs WITHOUT wishing

to boast

way by one swordsman agalestantuly, may 1 point

Dust

the nine infuriated men below that on June 14, 1957, I said

In the tavern kitchen, ut, alas, that on January 27, 1958, winds the cockle-hunters

le variable on high were armed would

only with their donkey-carts, ground.

and there was no swashbuckling,

no "Ventre Saint-Gris!"

Telepolitica

I

AGREE with the feading article which ended a com- ment on what will soon be calt-

In passing

IN

vase

C

are

of

cheated nuclear warfare, the selen- tits have another card up their sleeves; what they call metern. logical warfare, or the control of

Opening lead—♦ 7

1

West took his ace and led the four of clubs.

Joe ruffed in dummy with dummy's Lag! trump but had to

lose another spade and a club to be down one.

"Well," said Joe. "The year starts off us usual I couldn't

the spade guess

because both the ace and queen were wrong.”

Also, as usual Joe had pro- duced his own hard luck. The hand was a cincl. no matter how the spades lay provided Joe did not indulge in the luxury of pulling all the trumps.

are

a

I

ed telepolitler, with the unlin- the weather. The Russians peachable statement: "The best said to be ahead in this race, M.Ps are not nemessarily the and we must catch them

up. most beautiful." But if the next Then, when we can make enough election is conducted саль tele- ralu to our whole countries or it is the handsome buy them under snow, we can vision sets,

whe "augotiate from strength." men with acting ability

YOUR BIRTHDAY

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21

BY STELLA

BORN today, you are one of these the lively much runer than thione

idealists who believes he has a who at down and rewon things out. m'ator in fe to make the world The end result - usually the same. In better and finer place in which

them to

to live. Your reasoning powers r

and exceptional

Your critical vendties are keen. Take these two charecterialies and put work on rotue mucial problems and you are the one who will and a ulution Not content to theorie, you will wand to partielpate clively in the pinn for Feemstre.

tion.

There a another side to your

540 that you are opt to Ret moricet." there firstent with the

good brad ter this kit to me a start on everyone and you will find

and that you can reach na carly

factory success

Your emotions are bear the aura face and you will be happlew! if wed quite early in life and you have a family upon which you may with your affections. You women,

tunture which makes you charting, even if you have career, will not gay and bright. You have a be completely happy unico yua personal magrelims whleh attracts wed. Your social lo revolves people of both sexes and you are

around, your own home. usually the centre ut any social

Esthering: You are not cre to make light conversation, but wille

Among those tom on a date were Alice Fremon Palmer,

thd Cardinal Newiem, churchna

this Rut for promilgating your educator: Brander Matthews, Ideas and gaining populär mupport educator Ariel author: Voltaire. for your ideas. You of the feminine author: Charles Scribner, publisher, ax know how to dress well and are attractive physenily. Ilut in your case beauty alm has a lot of brains. Just make good use ht them!

Bince you are highly intuitive, you often

reach 4 conclusion in day star be your daily guide.

IN

To and what the stars have store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corres. pending paragraph. Let your birth-

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22

PISCES (Feb. 20-Alar 20

TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)---

Let down tensions today and relax Keep an alert eye out for some new by going to a good movie or to a You hate earned 201712

perty

recreation.

ATIER

(Mar. 21-Apr.

End

extiling opportunity for advancerovnt. Get exactly what 2012 want, too!

Bast

This can be a day when you will

rewards of

You can alford to

receive the

achlovermenta,

celebrate.

TARGET

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How many

words di Twar esters

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the letters ( the Agure on the left 7 in making word. the letters in Fach of the erall sabates Hy be used ange only. Each word must contala the large letter in the centre satiers, and there must be at Irast one nine-letter word in tir lin. Na

10 words no proper

GEMINI

22.Jann 213 May Fernps you can get away for the week-end and enjoy yoursel

cinity. Change

your pace காபி

benefit.

CANCER

22-July (June

21)- The results of today's activities are entirely up to you. If you work hardt, prits are fine.

LEO (July 21-Aug

23)-

t you have been pushing yourself lately, this is the tune to re tensions. Rebuild nervous energy with extra' seat,

(aur,

VIRGO

24-Sept, 23- Put Away workaday eared and have a little fun! All work and no play tends to make one dull and bored with life.

.

LIDRA (Beat 24-Oct 23)~ Combine businem and pleasure to

the good effect. Perhaps entertain toreiti

bow and increase your prestige at the offer.

surat |TARGET: 18 wart TORY WORKS, Lery good 20

good. words, dicellent Solucion SOIUGIEOYT.

YESTERDAY'A BOLUTION: Alta apostle apSE Alope natute enst opos ortop ensol lapse last Intest Jaast lost low lost" folur louse lust ost

oust nutjast pateat outset quistes palest p

past paste pastel paure perƐ post postal POITULATE pulsats pulse to salep salt salute sate Beal scat sepal nept septal seit step at alate, mlegt slow slop Mope slot glue stat soap sola sola BOUT HOW Spat spate spatule spuit spot spout spus stale staple mato matur steal stop ston stone sole step stut ataug stout stupe just salus taste test tourt tocala upas

HCORPIO (Oct, 24-Nov.

*Z) There are changes in viour, but it you are adaptable, you can adjust without much difficulty.

BAGITTARIUS (Nov, 13-Dec. 22)-~- This can be a good day for

Renteniah expedition, shopping clothing or twold furnishings.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 26)—

affaly Personel

in seorikiance. See that something you especially want is yours at this Linse.

(Jan. 21-Feb. ID AQUARIUS There's momanes in the air to yo [sodey, You can forget busbiens For de day and have a 20AN TURİ

. The clothes. were very pretty, very gay-but very ordinary, too. The coutur iera seemed to me to be trying to design what the off-the-peg manufacturers

woman

ፍሮ

Pleated Skirts are fout coming back.

with They're teamed little, full-cut jacketo or #allor- collated topporo, which all help to give that "Hitle-gir)" look.

Sack Dresscs are by no means Short Sleeves appeared all finished they've more shape over the place, from the puffy, about them now, and more de The Hartneli signature le on baby-doll variety, shown on the tall, but they are indicative of Short party dresses are almost the whole of his collection, from French evening gowns, to the the general loosening-up in the as untmaginative. Indeed, when the white saddle-stitching round Hardy Amies suit which hed silhourite that has taken place dress in a mint-coloured tweed cost, and sleeves which finished Just this season and looks like being one designer showest

hand-worked сога!

here to stay. silk crepe, I genuinely the

above the elbow. mistook it for a beach dress, tucking in a navy taffeta two- with its halter neckline and piece, to the fabulous strings of white beads which dangled gathered skirt.

from the hem of tube dress called "Twenty-One".

craft of

of

bands

of

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

The only man who dressed do so much better gay his models in anything like the

What goes to make a good casual clothes that you can grand manner was the best couture house? Handwork and

You can

encourage hand- goncy when you might have to couturier of them all, fine craftsmanship, according to washing with the youngsters by warn traffle behind you. slip on and forget you're known

Hartnell.

investing in some inexpensive wearing; little, under Norman Ilartnell.

"Quallly of material and ex-cologne. Adding it to the water A lelsurely bathtub soak in stated dresses and suita. If I were dressing at the pertise of cut,” he says. "Deft-will make washing seem a treat, hot water can more than make How I wouki like to see couturiers, I'd go to Norman ness of drapery, plupoint per especially to the girls, Boys are up its time in fresh ideas and fabulous woman agolal The Hartnell. This is the house fection of embroidery, cunning usually more interested in such new approaches to a problem. kind of

handwork-ali incentives as carved soap. niways where you can see where your and

Try it the next time a problem seems to have you up against imagine is dressed by a couturier money goes. For, though liari- these fundamentals should be at

with

A whole- diamonds, ncil's inste doesn't always co- the fingertips

a stone wall. -encrusted

dressminker,

the most апта urc One of

attractive dripping with pearls, clothed incide with mine, he takes care hearted

inexpensive contrepieces from head to foot in silk and that the clothes he designs took the elements essential to a de- and

A lint brush will help keep We

you could want can be made the cowing-machine repairman offered expensive. And if I went to a signer."

In couturier I'd want people to instead "good" ile sulls

What are the basic

Group them in a away from your door. List can Pointers with gourds. navy or black. sailor-girl out know ut glance that my that have emerged from the bowl or shallow basket with a interfere with smooth perform- Ats with plunted skirts. The clothes were custom-made. London and Parls fashion shows few sprayed leaves and choose ance, as well as causing abra- slon in the works. Brushes como collec- enly spley Item in the

the things that will affect us candles to match.

in washable nylon, tlons were the binck silk stock- But, above all, I'd want my when we go to buy something inga prescribed by Hardy Amies clothes to do something for ine. new? for evening wear.

while fox.

Wete

EVENING DRESS

THE TREND

You don' wear a couturier's label the outside of your dress, and it is galling it, as happened to a friend of mine, Shorter hemnes were shown The

really grand evening sorcone comes up and fingers by everyone and you can take dress hardly exists any more in your expensive couture-mode it from me that before the year

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It's a good idea to carry emall flares in your car at all times shear which make decorative Now you can buy special

Inexpensive, they can be scallops as they cut. Especially bought at most auto supply good for plastics and oilcloth for use in kitchen shelf linings stores and kopt in glove com-

or curtains, partment or trunk for an emer-

These Fashions Are "Grown-up"

from

Soft tailoring oilied to the suppleness of the now wool fabrics gives a fluidity to the line that

the spring

the collections of emerges Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers. The fine has been described os "grown-up".

By PATRICIA DOUGLAS

c1 designers

to

canvas wenvo

at

the more Usual reversal of silhouette. (These pleatieel skiria.

aro also seeTL Incidentally, Cobric Seme

2 or In lighter except in movement when they Hardy Amies and Cavanagh, and weight of a similar cloth

seem iterally blown against the Norman Hartnell has

a dress fine worsteds and jacket ensemble Brieny, the London daytime figure. He uses

in navy coloured worsied crepo or neutral silhouette is seen in its most in navy

which is almost fortn in RONALD pinchecks for these outfis.

entirely composed of pleating). THE feeling in the fashion countdual woman hough PATR

Though PATERSON' Kite line (though The devices used by the de- air is for youth. Short individual

many of their styles are ex- 1 10 naturally impossible to aigners

control the back Joe should have led the three skirts, freedom from any ported, these are made mainly reduce the inspiration of this interest are many and varied. of trumps to dummy's jack and

West could restriction at the waistline, la the same materials as the Soetery

to any MICHAEL folds it away it each then led the spade.

At WORTH, pink and wblig models. The buyers formula). Width across the elde, leaving the back flot and a simplicity of cut and original

wool is tailored sill have forced dummy to ruff

ally accent catching the folds with bullous into a suit with a figure-hugging club whereupon Joe would styling-all this is particu- who flock to the Continent are shoulders bypassus

models on bust.or waist, hugs the hips or with tabs. CREED beits the threequarter-length jacket over simply play another spade.

primarily looking for larly becoming to the very that can be quickly and simply and tapers to a short, though back of his suits, the belt hold- a. slim skirt, The colour is West would

mass be in the lead young. In France and Italy translated inlo produc- just below tance, her.

ing the bloused back fullness young and the effect gay, but it ugain but dummy would stil

above this idea was carried to the tion.

wear it pinin basque, needs sophistication to have a trump left to keep West extreme by showing "little

Cavanagh and MICHAEL with success, from cashing a club.

Soft tallering allied SHERARD trunkly blouse the

to the This effect is achieved backs at the hipline.

suppleness of the new wool fabrics gives a fluidity to the London line.

elkeet feminine in spite of an absence of body curves. So whether the waistline is hinted at below the bust with an Empire drape or stressed by a seam or Bash of hem of a middy jumper (at Michael Sherard and MATTLI, where both high and low line is seen) in a matter of no im-

CONCAVE.

The fronts of sult jackets and Fobrics always play a great dresses are 125шuly slightly girl" party dress styles and part In moulding füshion and outfits based on the school here the British designers by darts and scaming and shown their sidt. They are sometimes by the ends loosely completely ut case handling the indicating a waistline (which many lovely new woollen cloths may be Lanywhere from just of which they have first choice, below the bust to shove the

CARD Sensen♦ | girl's gym slip.

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East South West

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You, South, hold: AQ870 12' $A3765 4982

What do you do?

A-Bid thren no-trump. No carantee of success goes wiik This bid but you certainly want to try for game.

TODAY'S QUESTION You hold the same hand. The aldding has been: North

South East LA

Double 1 N.T. l'ass

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Answer Tomorrow

West Pozs

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CHESS NEWS

BY LEONARD BARDEN-

Solution No. 5352; I BROI, txQ; 2 0XP ch, -Kit; $ BXkt di ch, and male next move.

London Kepiska "Saraton

The spring collections of the Incorporated Society of London Fashion *Designers, though young In heart and guy In colour, arc rather more

hipbone).

the

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bc-

The

of a new mediate fashion importance

Jackets of suits remain short, particularly in front, and in some Instances they show To balance this the backs are definite downward curve

waist and hip at the "grown-up." They require This spring the emphasis is bloused in dresses or blown out tween certain palse to wear elegantly. on canvas and basket weaves by fullness from a yoke or at back. But in contrast the really

armhole in coala

and long-jacketed suit also makes (many This lead is given by

of these are from the Inekets. To fly a kite you need startling appearance. Is it per- the

MAURY collee. Royal Dressmakers, NORMAN DUMAS and

Finc worsteds, tion).

luce the wind which, if the material haps the forerunner

Michael introduces two HARTNELL and HARDY

fastened securely to trend? AMIES, from whose colleellons twerds

tweeds (CARIGUE), speckled were not

wooden frame, would models on these lines. He uses und ribbed cinths

a bold black and white tweed

The woman of taste can make the Queen will choose certain

billow, naturally

curving

respon- le blow out for one of these with Angertip her own cholce; the lines for her many engagements (usually used horizontally) are nat

also gen.

textured inwards in front Rough

jacket over a silmu straight stert, siblity is hers whether she is in the following months,

to suit theased with elegance Scottish woollens and two-toned backwards. cluding at least one royal inur

Yorkshire tweeds

OWEN of LACHASSE arc mado JOHN CAVANAGH plays on

also her proportions. She is not to to Holland in the spring.

into travel and

windblown theme with shows longer jackets—almost to be spring coats, this

reduced to

common British designers are more Often these

over some arresting tent-like dresses mid-thigh. These are worn with denominator of a single sack- ure shown

skirts either in the which setircely touch the body knife-pleated

like silhouette, of dresses concerned than heir Continental suits

ja-

BOYS' AND GIRLS'

Punch Builds Boat

-There Were Two of Them But He Lost Both-

By MAX TRELL

"NOW

made up my mlad to build an- oller kind of bout."

Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, asked other kind of boat Mr decided to make

JOW when I was younger

than I am now," said Mr want Punch to Khart and Hand, the Punch had Shadows with the Turned-About after his any-old-kind-of-boot Names, and to Teddy, the Stuffed had sunk.

Bear, and Hiawatha, the Small- "I decided," sald Mr Punch, Sized Wooden Indian, and to "to make a goose-boat,"

HT General Tin, the Tin Soldier, decided one day to build myself a boat;"

"What kind of a boat?" asked Knart. A rowbont? A steam- boat?" A motorboat? A sall boat?"

Mr Punch smiled. "I decided to build myself just an-any-old-i kind-of-boat."

Vory Polite Volco

General Tia, the Tin Soldier, asked in a very palito voice low Mr Punch went about making an-any-old-kind-of-bont,

"It was very easy" said Mr Punch. "I got any-old-kind-of- wood and put it together with any-old-kind-of-nails,"

"Where did you go with that boat?" and wanted to know.

"I didn't go anywhere," sald Mr Punch in an unhappy voice. "I took it down to the pond one day and it sank to the bottom." Everyone in the roam falt Borry for Mr Punch,

continueri "However, Punch, I didn't let that koop ino sad for very long. I quickly

Never Heard Of le

Sira

though the trend appears to fav- our the lower line.

MAGAZINE

'But

"Well," sold Mr Punch, "Tll you'd be quite useful and quite tell you exnelly what it was. I handsome, too. How would you drst got the idea when I was like to be a goose-boat?" down at the pond. I saw a lat *** wouldn't like it at all,"

Goose said to me. goose come down to the water the

what do I have to do?' and go paddling about.

That's the boat for me,' I

**All you have to do, Goosey, A goose-boat I said, is let me put a flag on Bald to myself. with a paddling attachment!"" your head and a flag on

your And, drawled General Tin," tall." how did you go about buliding this boat, Punch?"

Quito Handsomo

+

""Tint doesn't sound very hard, sald the Goose.

"And there's one thing more,' "You have

ride on your back.

"I went up to the Goose," said I sald to the Goose. Mr Punch, and I said: 'Goose, to let me No one in the room had ever old Girl, you're practically no And you have to let my friends You've got They use at all to anybody while ride on your back. heard of a goose-boat.

you're a Goose. But as a boat, to take us all for a soll zerosa wanted to know what it was.

and around the pond whenever we want you to.'

Rupert and the Lost List-15

For a moment Rupert is in clear patch and then the fog rolls around him thicker than ever. "Oh my, I wish it wouldn't do How can I that "be moans. get home in this? I don't know Which way to start. I wonder if there is anybody ear." He calls.

and listens. Nobody replies, but he hears nois not far away. "Somebody's coming towarda me,” he muttere. Anxiously he waits until a dia ahape looms in the mist and is gone again. But wasn't the shape of a man. was a large, strange animal. ALL RIGHTS RESERVAN

"At Drst," continued Mr Punch, "Goosey refused to be

10-1

Funch put a flag on Goose's head.

come a goose-boat. But fbally the pond, my beautiful goose- boat saw a bug crawling in the she agreed.

"So that afternoon, I invited mud at the bottom of the pond, all my friends to go for a Ball The next second, her head went tall went up, and around and across the pond on down, her

my brand new guose-boat with everybody on the Goose's back, paddle attachment. I invited myself Included, went dipping Jongs and Smith and Jenkins and flopping and dapping in to and' Perkins, It was a bit the water." crowded on the goose-boat but

Mr Punch burst out laughing. we all managed to squeeze our Everyone in the room burst out Bolves togetlier.

He Garo A Signal

Inughing.

"And that was the last boat I ald Mc ever tried to build," "I gave the signal: 'Ship ahoy, Punch. "From then on, I was Punch-boat. I Goosel' and away we went, pad- my own boat, dling straight across the pond." mean, I swam across the pond "I bet it was a wonderful trip, by myself. Everyone. In the Mr Punch," said Hanid.

world can be his own boat. All sald you have to do is Icarn how to:

"It was an awful trip,"

Mr Punch. "Hall-way ngrosa, swim,"