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BY

This Funny World

"This is ridiculous, Thelmaa!”

THE •

WAY

by Beachcomber

that

the person who

anka,

"What are

WHEN I Suggested W

buildings on our rocket- they building hero?" should be rites should be thatched, to de- tuli: "A calsment factory," celve inquisitive foreigners, I was only touching the fringe of For the well-dressed man

the subject.

TN an ffort to make men's Since the rockets will allek

trousera more exciting, de- up 60 feet or ao into the afr, it tchable turn-ups are being may be advisable to train tried.

really smart fool The rambler rosca round them. The will probably match this road-sign trick must also be dernier eri with

a detachable employed. A notice outside hat-brim, a be worn down the Cromer, pointing south-west- back, shoes with no ades to warda, and saying: "To them, ny round waistcoat Aberdeen, eight miles," would ending Just below the throat, be very myslifying. So would a an upside down sleeveless shirt dummy rocket sticking out of with a wiele collar bulioning the chimney of a draper's shop in Sheffield. Where a consider able acreage is being cleared for gite, any suspicious-looking

R

CROSSWORD

Acro

1. Trial of abilities.

and the waist, socks with no soles, which can be pulled up and worn as spats, and a vest which can be rolled into a balf Andi Wor of the shoulder. With this outfit will go 1 shooting-umbrella, which can

be sat on like a ghooling slick) he public baths or at boxing- matches.

Little Bo-Pest

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1958.

• JACOBY ON BRIDGE

'Unusual' N.-T. Sparks Game

BY' OSWALD JACOBY

NE of the modern gadgets the

ON

expert carries around in his

bridge kit in the so-called wik

WOMANSENSE

PARIS COPIES

usual no-trump, When the op By VERONICA PAPWORTH

ponents have bid two suits it oska partner to choose betweon the others and when the oppo- ments have bid a mujor It anks

Jim tu choose between the

minors.

North's two no-trump to good example of this bld. With Ave cards in each minor suit he is willing to go to the three level against the major suit opening. With a better hand North might have jumped directly to three or even tour no-trump. With a normal no-trump overcall he would simply have bid one no- trump.

South had a pretty good hand for damonda and jumped to four rather than a mere bid of

NORTH ▲ 102

KQ875 AK 1054

21

WEST

KABT

AQB5 ➡KQJ 196

A1 497

J9743

V932

J032

SOUTH (D)

A854

Ko

• 10 0632 JÚ B

East and West vulnerable South West North

East

Pass 1

2 NT. Pass Paks 5. F18 Pass

4. Poss

Opening lead-♥ K

three.. This encouraged North He could to o on to game.

have had a weaker tund for his unusual no-trump.

"DAD-DY, it half a coun-iry South.

deo-troy-ed, mass re- Is the ans-wer,

tni-i-at-l-on 19-1' 17"

"Yes, child."

"And is a see-ond 13939 re- tal-l-at-l-on the uns-Wer to the en-em-y's coun-fer mass re-tal- i-at-1-on?"

"I expect so."

"And so on?"

"Oh, go to sleep!"

OUR GERALD BARRY, the

Porthcowl nomist made famous the tune

(0)

0. Clocs with ends,

(4)

7. Untle. 14)

A preposterous idea

9. Harmon, (9)

10. RAP. nowoamer,

(31.

12. Rainbow giri. 141

14. Famous show.

14)

18. Employri, (4)

18. Pair, (3)

39. Influencība. (0)

21. Part of apech.

(4)

22 Monster. 14)

who "Piri- piri-pirt," has always been cepties1 about the ten of playing in 起

turnip-field

10

23. Partisa

Down

1. Bupplying, 191

2. German river.

3. Mower (6)

4. Kostirica, (4)

6. Reasealek-

(

6. Prkt. (4)

a. Consider.

(4)

13. Debate, 15)

18. pl. 1

10. terus-

tional witials.

13)

17. Arbiter

Of clothes.

19. Angle. (3)

Yesterday's ana

stimulate the growth of turnips, The Indian violinist who tobacco played the violin to phunts," said Major Didtold, hould try a trombone on his beetroot." But Sir Gerald in his "Porthcawl Memories," Sally, "Nothing leads believe that Bute-playing any appreciable effect on lower vegetables. I knew а sallor who played for hours to a row of radishes. He might as well have played to a head of celery."

YOUR BIRTHDAY

THURSDAY, MARCH 13

B°

ORN today, you have on agile,

ingenious mind. You men and women, however, appear to make varying uses of your talento nu that, on the surface, you appear to differ widely. You men are interest- ed in the mogę perious aspects of Me-science, the arts. satiilw.aphy and the social sciences. Quiet and reserved, you use your vect store of information to some good purpose. Since you have a talent fực, being able to speak well at publie and are convincing In argument, pOH whould do Well ng

defence attorney or in politics.

snys

mte

to hus the

By STELLA

and interesting people would gather to hear themselves talk!

Both you men and women are attractive to members of the opposite sex and seem to have a great facination for them. You will have many opportunities to wed but will not be one to commit yourself to matrimony easily. You enjoy being angle too mucht It is quite possibile that you might never wed, never seeming to find anyone who measures up exactly to your dinu).

Among those born on this date were: Joseph Priestly, chendas, Joseph It of Germany: William Der, inventor, and William F. Warren, educator, bod Ement Ingerbuil

You woomen, on the other hand, have many of the same talents bat are more eager to display thein an social graces. You enjoy being the naturalist,

You make a leader, of your pet.

charming, hostess and like nothing To find what the store,, have in better than to gather Interesting store for you tomorrow, select your and informed prople around you. birthday star and read the corres In another era, you would, head an pariling paragraph. Lel your birth- Interesting

important day star be your daily gilde. salon where

FRIDAY, MARCH 14

PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar 20)

VIRGO (Aug. 24-Bapt. 23) Bring all your talende to bear on a Complete me jab and make definite altuation and reap the rewards of plans for the next step. Have blue- past and present efforts,

printa carefully outlined, Liver (Mar. 11-Apr. 20) follow them.

ANIES

Make contact with those in power, officials perhaps and see that you

LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)— get proper recognition for work This can prove to be an important dene.

day in your ilte. Combine business

social affaire for the best

TAUNUS (Apr, 21-Мау 21)- If you are progressive and agtree- sive in applying yourself to the tock at hand you should achieve

code.

+

22-Juna

and

results.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov, **)- Get met for, some stormy weather shead, but that which, in-no- complished today will go, on the 211 credit also. today. business some major objectiva successfully and be ready to start out on Burnething new.

GEMING (MAY Gel down to

Terminato

CANCER

(June 22-July 2)- You can improve employment status by originating norge new iden which is praoliosi and beneficial to the company.

LEO (July 24-Aug- You may need some additions 10 your spring wardrobe. This is a Line day for shopping. Follow the adverkeerbenta,

BAGITTARIUM (Nov. 23-Dec. 12)— Don't A good outlook for today. bo no busy on the job that you neglect comince.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 11-Jan. 14)— This in coo of your best days s far this manch, A real personal Tucces period. Make the most of

it.

AQUABIVA

X-Feb. 11)---~ | Take stock of things.

Weigh Soter dovela neskiet your liabilitica. You'll Exibly come out absACE.

There was no defence against the diamond game played by East could never got in to lead through Seath's king of spades and South was able to establish dummy's Afth club for a discard.

Without the unusual no-trump North would have overculled South with two diamonds, would have raised him and they might have reached the da- mond game. They might also have made it but East might have thought of a spade lead in which case they would have gone down one.

CARD Sensen

Q-The bidding has been:

North East South West 1. Double Redbl. Pass

2 • Pass

Double Pasa 3

44 Pass You, South, hold:

4532 VA76 4932 4A943

What do you do?

A-PASI. Tour partner must

have good band but you have mado a strong bid and while you Ive two aces you have nothing else that looks like a trick. Taka a prout and be satisfied.

C

TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding has been: Weat North East 10 Double Redbl.

You, South, bold:

South ↑

486 19876 09422 4554

What do you do?

►

Answer Tomorrow

CHESS

By LEONARD BARDEN

(No. 7361) A problem by V. L. Eaton (UB.A., 1943). White mates in two.

London Express Service

TARGET

C❘T E

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V

D

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Howords of

four

many

letters

or more can you make s tromtho letters to the Bausto ha the left In inking each ward, the

Jatters. Jn cach of the small squares may be tacit once only. Each word must contain the large letter in the centre square, and there must be a Trait one nino-letter word in the 1st No piurals i no foreign wordand proper namica TODAKA TARJET 32 words, good: 38 words, very good 43 Solution words, axvolienă, LUMOTOW.

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION : Pajj elane pelang veel sedly stir ↑

Tere

TN the British wholesale

houses, every Dog- sible effort has been miado to rush the Paris lines and the Paris look to you.

Not the cheap near carica- tures, but dresses and suits in the colours, the cut, the fubrics, that the French produced only one month ago.

By the end of Murch the clothes you see in the pictures, and many more like them, will be in the shops supplied by Arms like Frank Vaher, Jarger. Dorville, Spectator Sports, Polly Peck and many more.

We may

Puris her envy designers, but there 't a Frenchwoman

know who doesn't envy us our woraltrful copies at a price she could never hope for In France.

I

Trapezo - Une two-piece in bright Dlor red jersey. Flared skirt, loose top, and three- quarter sleeves. £20 101.

FOR FLAT DWELLERS

The trapeze line in a short and shapely taffeta evening dress. Its full balloon back is caught at the hem with two Dlor roses. In rose, Versatiles blue, lime green, and black. In the shops by the end of next month. About £21.

Carnation pink wool sult The collar disappears into a pouched back in true Cardin

manner. About £15 10s.

and

Daffodil yellow men terylone two- plece dress- the very spirit of young 8 Laurent About £17 05.

HOUSEHOLD

HINTS

IS.

To tenderiss meal-cover steak Rub up light bulbs with with mixture of salad oll and methylated spirits, which vinegar, Soak chops in milk for moves dust and greasy marks

casily. half an hour.

These Gadget-Mad Wives Appal Me

By VERONICA PAPWORTH

I

At the Men's Wear Trade Fair -You fashion writers ore always looking for symbols," sald sports wear manufacturer Mr Lewis Aronson, so how about the Inverted Isosceles?"

NOSY or Clinical-how do

|kitchen? Are you all for smothered in huge pink cabbage "But with four children didn't ofter some spare the streamlined splendour roses and sugar-pink cupboards you banker

to match.

time, Mrs Puney?" of built-in everything-with

Spectators milled around 11- "Spare me what's that? press buttons to destroy the "probably because IV's the never had any. I could always It's the now shape for men waste, mix the cake, wash cheapest," said the chap who find a job to do. It l'd an hour -broad-shouldered and barrel- the woollies, tumble the showed me round,

or two I used to walk over 19 chested, with allm hips tapering I think it was because a mother's for an afternoon, Not to small, blunt feet. towels, and deal with the the most human.

more than two and a half miles I call it the "Mr Universe" dirty

dishes while you, There is also a kitchen cup each way through the woods- look.

on all sides in pine and it made a nico change,

good darting from one control to boarded

Well girls....mot any like an wood-looking oddly

Then there was reading. I'm triangles recently? the next, do more or less

Austrian bar and Just 09 nothing!

welcoming.

Sounds like Modern Times -doesn't it?

poor

Remember Charlie Chaplin the of the machine?

As I stood there, surrounded are thine in the real old days”— by push-button gadgetry, a and ske gave me a gorgeous couple of fur-coated characters grin. little passed by.

slave

"My dear," sald the Persian lamb to the

musquash,

Or maybe it's your idea of absolute uxury?

COMMENT

very fond of history, biographies --romantic ones. Oh, they had a

I

LEFT the Fair on the heels

of two male models.

"Decorating too," she con- tinued

"I papered my sitting

"I say, old boy," sakt one to In

can't bear to look. Gerald, the room and Emily's bedroom last old meanie, has just bought a summer.

"The boy, he said to me, 'Can old- Jaguar, Yet there om I slaving Me7 Give mo ап

a kitchen year behind you manage?' fashioned kitchen full of mouth away

watering smells (wotno eir- the times.

"When conditioning!) with a rag rug

I

of think

the

on the hearth and a pussy cat drudgery and what I might be

doing. in a rocking chair every time.

"No really--I can't I like doing things the hard look," and off they went.

way.

I wouldn't swop the pleasure

of wallowing up to my elbows in flour for any mixer.

'I LIKE WORK'

I wouldn't exchange the sweet SUDDENLY, but not surprie

Ingly, I was reminded of my scent of fresh ironing for all the old friend Mrs Daisy Pusey. sdrip-dry coltons in Manchester.

By HAZEL MEYRICK WITH builder working next W

door to my home and gigantic building project next to the office, I can sympathise with Mayfair Hunt,

Д

I wouldn't forgo the delights of discovering that my jelly had actually jelled for the finest pet of "shop Jam" in the world, You're right--I'm barmy,

the

the other "what a party. all my life I have never see quite so many lic that I be seen dead in It wouldn't. you see what I mean okt bòyi”

FOR EVER.....?

AT

the Carpet. Show- A "Indestructible,"

Mr William Thorpe, showing me the first tufted nylon carpet to be manufactured Britades very nearly."

You do the ceilings, I told him, and I'll do the rest.

"But" I naked, "suppose

cald bear to you'd had all the latest labour-

saving devices, Mrs Pusey don't you think you'd have been Freer and had for more fan?"

"I've had plenty of fun," said

How long does it last? she, "but what's all this carry on about being free and saving

"Can't say yet. We've given time and on?

it some very tough tests and "Free for what? Time for we're satisfied It's a winer. She's well into her eighties,

To what?

polish up

"We've had it down in a busy restaurant with a skin like a very slightly

kilchest entrance. wrinkled rose

leaf, a bright machinery?" bird-like glance and a neat little

The interesting thing about Ordinary pile lasted three week. my friend Mrs Pusey is that she Qurs has been down, for three figure that nips amartly over

is far from unique.

months and it's still going our common most mornings.

full of buthe strong." Our village She's made out magalñcently SO CHEERFUL

without any labour-saving aids tile women who have worked hard all their lives and at 80 TWENTY super kitchens are apart from the fairly

or more still glory in working. now on show in Knights- switch to electricity.

Will the twentieth-century So I called in to see her "Day in, day out since April, bridge-20 dream-workshops for

imes push-button wives

endure so "Mrs Pussy," said I, they've been

building any woman. doing

must have been tough for well? work opposite my flat," she told I've Inspected them all, and 'I

I wonder. me, "It's not too bad during report, with pleasure, that the women when you were young. white, near-operating- Did you ever dream that there the day because I'm out at work slark most of the time. But on Sun-theatre decor is on its way out, might one day be a dish-washer days they start at dawn and Cheerfulness keeps breaking or a cake-mixer?" work through without stopping. in:

"No," said she, "a good strong "The bathroom is the only The prettiest kitchen by far pair of arms won't fuse. I like

wallpaper work-that's my trouble." place where I can't hear them." has

Mrs Mia housewife.

Mrs Huat spends every Sunday lying, fully dressed, in her bath, with cushions round her and plenty of cigarettes and books to hand.

A

washable

BOYS' AND

What Does "Ugh!" Mean?

-Knari and Teddy Found Out From Hiawatha--

By MAX TRELL THE 'three friends were sitting on the fence behind the house.

the

because I'm not having any ad- ventures, Indians like me always have adventures,“

"But you're a Wooden Indian," Teddy reminded Hiawatha,

Ho Wants Adventura

recent

NEW SYMBOL I'VE covered

front this week....and

quote the experts.

GIRLS'

Indian can have just as many adventures as any other kind of Indian. I want to go somewhere, I don't want to slay in the saine place every day."

"A tree docs," sald Toddy. **That's right,” said Knart. "A treo stay in one place for years. and years and years. It never

moves

the exhibition

How much? 54-inch width.

26 a yard for

How many colours? Six, Red, by the way, is the best selling carpet colour at the moment,

"But if it wears so well won't

I it put you out of busincer?” queried.

"That's what wote about," said Mir Thorpe.

Then he laughed to show he didn't mean it.

worried

MAGAZINE

hunting. My Grandfather, Chief Falling Lear, used to hunt buf- falo. That's what I want to do." Knart was thoughtful for s- etal, minutes.

Chlet Falling Leaf?" he re- prated. "Was that really your Grandfather's name, H17"

Karl, the Shadow Boy with Turned About Name, and Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, looked "What's that got to do with gloomily. quite happy, but Hiawatha, the it?" asked Hiawatha. Small-Sized Wooden Indian, the dians are the same. A Wooden bow and arrow and want to go Hiawatha.

"Oh yes," replied Hiawatha. "He was a wonderful Chief." Hiawatha shook his head

"How did he get the name, "I'm not a troc," he Falling Leafy" Knart asked "All In- said, "I'm an Indian. I've got a "1 don't know.",

said

third of the friends, wore a día-

tinct frown on his bronzed

wooden face.

"What's the matter with you, Hi?" Knart finally asked.

"Ugh!" sald Hiawatha.

Many Moanings

"I never understand what Ugh means" sald Teddy cheerfully. "Sometimes it means fine, some- times it means terrible, some- times it means so-so.""

"Todny," said Hiawatha, "It means terrible."

"Oh dear," said Teddy. "Ugh! It's terrible," gruntex] Hiawatha.

"What's terrible?"

Knart.

asked

"I'm surprised at you, Hi. It's a beautiful day. The sun la ahining. We've all had a good breakfast, Teddy and I feel happy. I don't know why you Ahould feel terrible.”

This is why I feel terrible," mid Hiawatha. "I feel terrible

Rupert and the Lost List-32

The secretary carefully reada his new list. Even you have for. gotten one thing, little bear." he "There must be some Jaya. medicine for the sick reindeer. You alsall taken it back to Golly." Ha presses a switch and after a pause small toy storeman appears at the door. "What is it now, Gu?"

** We were asks the store mali. just knocking off work until next "One more job for you. year. Then you may have your to month holiday," saya' the secre tay "Here's the list Golly should have brought. Rupert will things check the

from YOU stores."

ALL LIQUTA BRANNVEN

From A Troo

"Do you know what I think?” sold Teddy to Hiawatha, turning to him with a cheerful smile. "I think your Grandfather got, the camo Falling Leat becausé ho came from a tree."

"Oh no," said Hiawatha. "I think Teddy may be right," said Knarf. "Was your Grand

“He was a wonderful Chief,*, I told Haarf and Teddy.",\

ho admitted. be you're right,”

buffalos that my "Maybe the Grandfather, Falling Leaf, used father Wooden Indian, too?" to hunt wire Just Wooden

"Yes," Bald Hiawatha.

"If he was a Wooden Indian,"

Buffalos." "And,

anyway," said Knarf

mid Knarf, "he came from a "irees have a fine time, mont of tree. Everything that's made of the time. They wave their arms in the breeze, they bow to cach wood comes from a tree,"

other and they row do,tall that "And so did you come from à tree," said Teddy to Hiawatha they can look down on every

"And," sald Knart, if you body else except the sun and

Hiawatha, the moon and the stars," enme from a tree, there's no use your boing, di.... -"Ugh,” mală‚Hiawatha. ⠀

"What docs Ugh mom now? appointed at staying in

arkod Teddy.. place all the time.”

Hiawatha felt. a abade or two better after hearing this." Mar-

010

"It means pretty good," mid Hiawathan