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This Funny World

ED JALKIN

"Now, George-Dr Stanley will think you're taking advantago of his friendship."

YOUR BIRTHDAY.

FRIDAY, APRIL 18

been favoured by the stars, fur no matter what the handicaps, it is Mkely that you will rise above them and become a tremendous sucONDS. There are times when you seem to have almost prophetę vision; you are able to see far ahead Battire and act accordingly. decisions may not appear to be wise at the moment, but they stand the test of time better than many made with much more careful thought

BORN today, you have

the

our

Leuh to graeg an opportunity at onew, for it may appear but once in your life, and when that chance Bone, it may never come again. You are one of Shame able to eut red tape and sen, right to the heart of the matles. You may cut a lat of cochons on route, but you, likely are to be there "firstest with the Inbetest.“

You have an exceptional, memory and a quick wit. Your crities) coin- menta can be rather eutung. t00.

SATURDAY,

ARIS (Mar.

20) It-Apr. Bo extremely careful in all burizem mmation. This is not the moment in Jet detall work slide!

By STELLA

Just make sure that you don't hurt The feeling of others Jean quick- wilted on yourself. It would be quite unintentional, for you Kradly and sympathetic. But you often speak before you think. And that can make trouble- and enemies.

You have a Joving and ardent nature, craving, refprvention. Wed Konsernia with 14 genuinely wwton- hearted and who, as well, is willing to let you take the icad in running ti family

Among the horn on this date were: Booker T. Washington, educa- tor: Charentes Barrow, muted defence attorney: fchard Harding

Davis, muthor; Max Weber, painter: Charles M. Schwab, Industrialist; and Joha Young Mason, statesman.

✔ THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1958.

JACOBY ON BRIDGE

Freak Holding Squeezes West

By OSWALD JACOBY

FILIFF RUSSELL of Mium,

Fla., is one of our coming bridge champlans. He is still somewhat of a wild man in the bidding but his dummy play is good enough to take care of most overbide,

His bidding of today's hand did not include an overbid. His choice of six no-irump rather When six spadra as the fal contract was due to the fact that he was playing duplicate and no-trump counts more than spades.

East won the opening club lead with the ace and returned the suit, Clir dis-

WEST

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carded dummy's six of hearts on his club King and counted 11 top tricks. The twelfth trick apparently depended on picking

Το And what the stars have in sture for you tomorrow, select your birthday klar and read the corres- panding paragraph. Let your birth-up the queen of diamonds but

day mar be your datiy fulde.

APRIL 19

mervative path, you should be able to make nuderate progress. Avoid laking any rik.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. cummunity will pay off,, producing Inizities goodwill as well as social pleasure.

TAURUS (Apr. 21-MAY 21)--. Friendliness to all those in your You are in the spotlight, but you may not. thoroughly enjoy the re- suilla. Twelfui fexlity may help you out.

DEMINI (May 22-Jane 21)- There can be considerable confusion uztam you have made careful plane and adhere to them conscientiously

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec, 221 Slay in slow motion today and sum push strains obstacles. Just attend to rouline essentials.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan, 20)- Someone may try to put over a fort one, but if you are akut, you can. on rietect any possibla dereplinn.

aver-

CANCER (Zone 23-July 2- Caim mill-control can easily Done mounting tendons. Keep your to and out of trouble.

LEO (July 28-Ave. 27) De diacrvel and wise in handling ang problem presented by mixed conditions today and you wil win out handy.

AQUARIUS

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Clift noted that he would have the diamond problem if Queen were the une hand that held the king of hearts,

Cl cashed dummy's ace of hearts and then run the spade suit. His five discards were the 10 of hearts and four diamonds. He was careful to include the jack and 10 among his diamond discards so as to be able to

the

with eight over-take dummy'a nine if that became necessary.

WOMANSENSE

THE NEW '58 BRIDE

FROM THE RING TO THE RECEPTION: I SEE

· EVERYTHING ABOUT HER IS BEING CHANGED

IRLS are still getting married in spring for the same old reasons→→→ love, the weather and the tax rebate-but at last the traditional way of doing it, with cover-up satin dress, the family veil, and a sit-down tuck-in afterwards, is on the way out.

There's a new trend. Everything from the. ring to the reception is being re-shaped.

To begin with, the ring. 'I don't like Hings- that's all," stated Nicolette Harrison, the girl who got engaged to Lord Londonderry last week, And Miss Harrison is right up to date. For the engagement ring is no longer a necessary sign of respectability.

Lots of nice girls make do with just a wedding ring — usually a whopping, big, gold Victorian stylo band,

Next, the presents, These days, a girl comes right out and says what she wanta, "A set of black and white fish plates,

-please. Third floor at John

Lewla, 598. Id."

Or she sends the guests off to a store to pick something of her list.

bureau

in

TOP GIFT Mrs Steele, head of the first wedding-gift

Bri- thin, now has a staff of live working full-me un lists, She tells me that trays have taken aver from loast racks. One resent bride had 55 trays.

'Champagne, madam ?“·

A (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)

Held your temper and don't spealt out of turn. You can avold an argument if you are careful

PINCES (Fob. 20-Mar 20) VIRGO(Aug. 24-Neptg thu nepago you.. akaira.... com- Confusion and delays may tend to petently, then minor upsets will not Impede swift progres. cep a level interfere with the result today. head: solve one problem at a time.

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On the last spade lead West found himself in trouble. He had to either unguard his queen of diamonds or jettison his king of hearts. The fonner play looked suicidal so he did throw the king of hearts.

This left CHF with no dia- mond problem since his queen of hearts now twelfth trick.

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What do you bid?

A-Four no-trump. You ask

for acts as a starter to get lo seven.

TODAY'S QUESTION

Your partner bids five hearts to show two aces. You bid Ave no-trump and, ho bids six stades to show three kings. What do you do now?

- Answer Tomorrow

WAY.

by Beachcomber

WHY is a hole in a melat bur same applies to the entrance to

to support a camera subject a cave or the mouth of a trem-

to purchase tax while a hole in tone. As the holes in sculpture a plece of sculpture is free of cannot be produced without the tax? Because the hole in the sculpture the case must even- bar is made to hold a screw, tually go to a higher court, and whereas the hole in the bit of ono with keener eyesight than

this court," sculpture is an empty hielo.

Little bridesmaids look sweet and fluffy.

A pleasant change for prevent buyers is that there's no longer any need to spend more than you can afford, now that the gifts are so rarely spread out for general inspection.

You can given plastic egg whisk without fear of embar- rassment. It will be received as a useful present, and you will be spared the shame of coming across it, with your namo attached, between a complete dinner service and a canteen of eutlery, at the reception.

drink is still champagne, but I must confess that we did a very big wedding recently with sparkling wine cup.

"The footman went forward and said: Champagne, madam? and nobody was any the wiser,"

Bridesmaids, too, have been getting fewer for years, but the latest trend is to have no grown- up bridesmaids at all.

SHORT SKIRTS

Anna Massey, who marries netor Jeremy Brett during the That is, if there is n reception, summer, is having a completely For many couples have stopped traditional wedding, except: "No having them: Daphne Abrams, big bridesmaids. I'm having the twenty-year-old model, is tile pages and little bridesmaids marrying this summer, and says who look sweet in fluffy dresseS. that they will be having a small Big ones never do."

and wedding for the family close friends, and a party at their new home when they re- turn from the honeymoon.

But the biggest change of all is in the wedding dress itself. This year, for the Brst time, it Mr John Cawston, an ex will be possible to buy a wed. pubile school (Downside) ding dress that is right in caterer, who often turns up at fashion.

parties and receptions dressed One Knightsbridge stora ja up as a tootman, says that in copying dresses from the latest the old days wedding reception Paris collections, and will bo meant sitting down to roast showing them at the end of this chicken, and jellies and trifles month.

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NEW-one big floppy rose with a flounce of veiling at the back. NEW-a very short dross in satin-backed Swiss organza, with a puffball skirt, and a waist clinched in with a bandana (in white, pata pink, champagne. Price approx. 19 gar.) NEW-instead of a bouquet a silk pochette.

Mrs Woods, the head buyer at Money. It's a simple as that. Harrods sums up the modern It's not that the modern bride and port and sherry and roveral I have seen wedding dresses girl's attitude to her wedding lacks romance. It's just that she kinds of wine.

with detachable sleeves

dress. "In the old days she used knows the modern father lacks "Now all that is rather looked with very now, short, short to spend £180. Now it's between finance. down on, Five customers out of skirts... with clouds of pastel £30 and £40. And, very senal- six prefer savouries, and have petticoats in the palest of bly, she expects to get a double- them standing up. The favourite pinks and softest of yellawn. duty dress for the money."...

LEGS by Anne Edwards

LREADY the first A feminine squeaks of dismay go up. For like every sweeping change in style, the new Leggy Look trails in its wake a wail of

JEAN SIMMONS

Sorry to be so unkind-bat considering she has so mach olve...

CAN ANYTHING BE

DONE IF

NATURE LEFT MUCH TO BE DESIRED? protest from the girls the the beauties pictured here shorten them want one lach new fashion leaves behind would have had it done.

On

the

of

and wear

Shirley Lowe

-{Landon Express_Herolow)..

CHAILSHAM'S.

thon two. Long skirts would CAMOUFLAGE

be conspicuous, and very short the girls with

skirto unwiso.

your other blessings and keep Plano Legs.

VET the fact remains that

the new quiet about your lega She won't forgo For them I hand out here and I here aro

But she'll

Garbo has big feet: Ingrid three girls with coloured stockings. now my first and last word of exquisite features and gorgeous dodge the bright rods, lilacs, Bergman is

Nila too tall;

was? a thick the Hayworth has figures who have cach been and yellow, earried along the road to gentle shades-misty green, dull and Audrey Hepbum is Bat- chested. But they don't waste success on a strictly utilitarian apricot, and soft grey blue, pair of props.

Ume worrying about It So this is this slogan, Like me, like my whatever they're like.

advice

tho subject acquiring alluring legs.

smoothieg

But it cure isn't possible, camouflage 19.

She won't forgo the coloured shoes, but she'll choose the highest possible heels, and the lowest possible vamp.

She won't deny herself the

The girl who le clover doesn't creep around in dark stockings or tuck her legs out of sight in

chg full skirts. She has a bath new stamless storicings on the at the latest fashions-with a often plugged theory that dash of common sense,

It can't be done and a great deal too much nonsene is talked about it. And by the people who ought to know better.

The beauty experta, tho cosmetic queens, the beauty-ls yours-for-the-effort are leading us up the garden

For if it were possible, as they keep telling us, "to make lege allmer by massage," tu "trim down the ankles through exercises.' to "reshape lega nearer to your heart's desire by THE girl who

SUT- or plastic physiotherapy Eɩry" don't you suppose that shorten her skirts.

BOYS' AND

Punch And The Rabbit

--Mr. P. Proves He Was A Smart Cooky- By MAX TRELL. Agalu Mr Punch smiled.

"I'll just give you a little idea "Now when I

very how smart I was in those days very young." sold Mr when I was so young and so Punch to Kharf, the Shadow Boy with the Turned-About

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EDIOil.

Name, and Teddy, the Stuffed Bumped Into Something Bear, and Hiawatha, the Small-

Sized Wooden Indian, I was "One day I was out" walking I had walked quite small. I used to sleep in along the road.

'HER CHOICE

is clever Bt

But she'll

seam slimming. It isn't.

KEEP QUIET

a

Legy

But isn't it lucky for worry men that we never about their legs at all?

Because this rum-looking pair is typical of what we

camouflage won't refuse to BUT the final and most useful can expect.

word of advice is....count

→(London Express Şarwica),

GIRLS' MAGAZINE

into something soft and furry, der if you It was a Rabbit.

can tell me some- thlog clse, I'd like to know where I can find a nice head of

"Hi, Jack,' I said to the lettuce,'

Rabbik

"Up to that moment, the Rab- bit looked very scored, but now he looked very surprised.

"I say, he asked, bow did you know my name was Jack?' ***Il's casy,' I said, "You're a Juck-Rabbit, aren't you?

"The Rabbit said he was "You're a pretty amart fel

If sculptors filled these holes Another suggestion with huge serows they would have to pay tax, the holes being CIR, house. Refocted by the regarded not as parts of a work film magnets, we now are to ipproach telle of urt but as independent the onner

peanut shell, eat my dinner several yard which was quito enities. That's why, in a test vision, Seesaw with dagground caso, Mr Justice Cockdecarrot tunes, but not them seegulis, on a penny and do my lessons a lot for me in those days-low, the Rabbit added, 'guess- when all of a sudden I bumped ing my name like that. I won- ruled that n large hole in on would hopen a new cerah and on a blade of grüss.” abstract stone diagram repre- we could be hinterviewca erbous senting "Evening" must be pro- duced in court without the work of art of which it formed an carential part.

| Cochlecarrot's ruling

THE defendant claimed that the hole was not detachable and that if it were it would be Invisible.

The prosecution res

"It you were any smaller," seld Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, "you wouldn't have been at all."

"Wow! You certainly were our hart, If offishule turn deaf small sald Knart even to weesaw the hunimploy mant figgers for seesawers will riae criarmingly, Orlreddy Kar- bulah, what balances the plank hon is belly, says is mussies la of gettin flabble from dizuze. If moosicle hiccumpermamint

co hixpensif, we three cuả gó la-la-la in time to the rothem.

We hare, ho pics.

Kazbulah.

plex that the same would be v - Ashura Rizamughan and

truc of the hole in the metal

bar if it were detached before

the screw was inserted. The size. In passing

of the hole would be tomaterial.

"So would the hold itself," A PECULIARLY concelled C-

Hiawatha grunted and said: copt a bug. You're no bug." "Nobody can be that small ex-

Ho Wasn't Angry

Mr Punch wasn't the least bit angry. He smiled at Kaart and he smiled at Teddy and gave a particularly big smile to Hiawatha.

"Far from being a bug." ho

*

observed Cocklecarrot, "A bolo,“ stark by an actress recalled sald,” “I Was very smart be continued, “la only viable in tomo story of Sir James cooky."

D

relation to its surroundings. At Barrio. An actress said that "How smart?" asked Knarf.” la against the background of a the names of the cast of one of Gruyere cheeso that the holes in his plays abould be followed by the cheese manifest themselves, her own name, preceded by the A hole in overcoat cannot word "And". "Why not 'But'?" exist without the overcoat. The said Barrie,

I wish I were smart," sald Teddy,

"I don't like being mart," (sold. Ilfawatba, '

Rupert and the Silent Land-10

The Professor and his servant talk for a few minutes, then the old man moves silently away, fot- lowed by Rupert, down to bla mudy. For a while neither spraka. Then suddenly the tremendous noise that Rupert, heard before roats at them again, shakes the

whole house, and is gone. The Professor looks very, very annoyed. "Noise, noise, poise 19. he cries. "Oh, how I hate it No sooner do they perfect one kind of airplane than thay try out another with more horrible naise than, ever l' ALL-RIGHTS, AKSKRVER -

At The Vogatuble Store

"That's easy too for a smart cooky like me. Just hop down to the vegetable store down the He's got all the road a bit. lettuce you want

"So the Rabbit thanked ma and hopped off."

"That wasn't very smart of you," said Knart to Mr Punch. "How could a Habbit get any lettuce from the vegetable man without paying for it? Rabbits haven't any money."

"It's just what I thought of second," said Mr the next Punch. "So I ran after that Rabbit and told him not to to the vegetable man.

But where am I going to get any lettuce?' asked the Rab-, bit.

"So the Rabbit', thanked mas and started hopping across the road,"

"Hi, Jack," said Punch

to the Rabb

Look here, X said, 'do you have to have lettuce? You come home with me and, I'll give you some cabbage,

But the Rabbit didn't': care. So ho Just look across the road for cabbage just then. I said. "There are

rows and went off to visit a friend of his rows of lethice growing in that where they could talk about lot former's field."

tuce instead of eating it,” N

"Pooh," said Hiawatha." "It you were really mart, you would have caught that Rabbit and kept him for

pet ("That "just" what I did? mid "That wasn't so very smart, Mr Punch. "I fed him, lettuce either," said Toddy. "Tarmers three times a day. Now wasn't don't like Rabbits enting their "that amarti?". lettuce. I bet he had a dog." Knart and Teddy - and even Exactly what I thought of Hiawatha admitted -- that Mr the next second," mid Mr Punch, wOBID-VITYŃMart, cooky “I stopped that Rabbit. when he was young, and small,

Not So Smart