1958-04-21 — Page 5

BY THE. WAY.

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by Beachcomber

TORRINGTON. what seems to be the trouble?"

THE CHINA MAIE, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1958.

• JACOBY

ON BRIDGE

Bid

To the polling-booths To "I keep on dreaming of ferct," Play Backs Shutout)

the polling-booths?" That says the patient, "Ah!" replies

la the cry one hears on every the professor,

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voters,

cracking his

By OSWALD JACOBY

the gally-dreed Anger joints, that is quite a throngs surgo out to register common manifestation. We call it viverraphobin, Were you their votes.

bliten by a forret as a boy?" From far and near they come, "No," says the patient. "Good!" each with one object. in view replies the professor. "Ono of Skelton Street is a heaving mass the inyers of your mind is prob NORTH'S four-heart bld-was a desperato qjempt to chut of would-be

And in ably making a dimensional East and Weat out of the spatia Peploe Street it is like a victory counter-reaction to some pre-sult and it succeeded admirably, march.

Strangers greet each suggestive impulse cnusated by

Excessive non-inhibition- Every card lay right for them other with a Inugh. Dogs bark. Cats minow. Thus, in an almo- atimulus related to hate-fulfil and they would have mode four

town meat."

50?" spades. "Do you think phero of gala, the old

As it was South was whore King John was born pro- naka the patient. "I am sure of able to make four hearts by fine pares to add another page to it," says the professor. "Now, play.

history. take the emollient pill, close The queen of diamonds was many-coloured

say whatever | allowed" to bold the opening Many a tell-tale mark will be your eyes, and

lead und West played a second made on ballot-papers ere husk comes into your head."

diamond. South decided that full.

East was marked with the king of diamonds in which case the chances were that West would have all the other high cards for his takeout double. In that case

Interlade

Prodnose: May we asic how on earth you can manage to de- scribe scenes that are only now taking place, or have not yet even begun, while we are read- ing our inoming papers?

Mell: Hushi It is what we newspaper inen call a scoop.

Snail versus oyster

THE

THE 23-year-old oyster found in a letter-box nt Yeovil

the

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had probably climbed in for a bit of peace. Whoever saw him come ashore should have ringed.

inhabitants him, as Arcachon du in the migrating Besson. This unlikely Incident coincides with report that perimen have found shalls eat- ing letters in letter-boxes. The meeting of a small and on oyster in a letter-box would be worth seeing or not, according to

The souhla

may one's taste. come from nearby, but the old oyster must have spent most of h life laboriously working his way inland. Lord Palmerston once raced a small against un oyster at White's, but as the long day wore on towards dusk, the strain of watching for spurt grew too much, and the

abandoned. match wRD

CROSSWORD

WOMANSENSE

☆ In New York beauty treatments, like most other activities, go on round the clock.

NEW YORK. TEW YORK discloses endless facilities once you get over the fact that. the obvious ones like buses and subway trains are so grim you feel you are about to be deported in them.

After midnight in particular is not the amusementless. transportless pall that it is in Landon. You can have your teeth drilled, cash a cheque, buy recordn and books, as well an dance, eat, drink (up to four am), or go to the elnerin all night in the umal daytime manner.

or

But having a hair-do facial after midnight has a clandestine As well 09 eeric appeal that nobody brought up the great nursery called London could resist.

And it was with the certainly that

the British hairdressers' union and Mrs Jean Marin would shake their heads sadly that I went to have any hair set und thy five tinkered with at three in the morning.

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24. Bright fellow. (b)

25. Whinky partner (4)

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2. Miniature arbert, (8)

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YOUR BIRTHDAY

MONDAY, APRIL 21 BORN on this first day of the in-

soming an, Taurus, you are ruled by Venus, the goddess of love and beauty. You owe a oelf-reliant. peso-ovitut Individual who le

You think and builder or heart

Constructively and are always content about all detail work, Cos you have finished a jab, one can tow that it is done right and that it will endure.

act

Your straightforward approach to

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Opening tead—♦ Q

Nearly opposite a Nsh res- taurant "ealed Fishangri-Li

I have a

shampoo and set

as the dawn comes in

by ANNE SHARPLEY

BUT I

HAVE TO

WAIT AS

THE GIRL

A

GOES OFF

Miami beach salon" Beach la a convenient miles from New York).

(Minmi

1,000

TO WASH

HER OWN

HAIR

"For your convenience,"

found my all-night beauty salon large poster read, "try our new

LIVING TABLEAU

THE QUESTION

"What colour dye do you Wan?" North East

was the question thut Pass greeted ine. And perhaps be-

A painted decor of ladies with, cause the after-midnight hours are full of a dangerous persua- their hair dyed green, purple, sive folly that makes a girl pink and royal blue was only want to change her locks, there equalled by the living tableau girl of ladies, with their hair dyed was no indication on the

face that the flame red, titian red and carrot recepijonist's thought the question was startl red. ing as I did.

A Lali Hissome girl with a Agure Debbie crime action trudillon burst of hair ke a thrower, remarked: "Of course I salamander hands. "Put your coat

cup have a 1958 Caddie (pet name board," was told and I abat for a Cadillac). You know I al- plained that doned my cloth cuat

to the ways get the first in New York sliver, company of a very haughty set every year. Went to Detroit and "Maybe

platinum Kot it myself." of minks.

elimination play would be necessary and South saw that he could not afford the Juxury of oven one trump lead,

South played the king of West was in "with spades and the ace. He led his jack of trumps and South won in duminy, A diamond was ruffed high, apade was ruffed in dummy and the last diamond ruffed in his own hand,

Now he played a second trump to dummy, led a club and fnessed the ten.

West was in with the jack bul could not take another trick. A spade lead would allow South to discard a club from dummy and ruff with his last trump whereas a club lead would be right up to

South showed his hand and West concelled.

.By STELLA South's ecc-queen,

ok of

tacle as well startent of human nature,

You have way with people and ar outwardly miste gay-and care- free But underneath you are drodly wikows and incl upon following even the Jeties of the a

justice laz and griting abenture everything. Your spiritual nature is well-developed and your love One muse laked.

of

Among those bom on this date were: Charlotte Bronte Joha

autor: -14 --- BUDƑ #L—— and your unrelenting

-Peter search for the exxos truth moves it

Abelard. French theologian Max zumnout for anyone to argue with

John political room; been Weber, tour decision, once it has

chapter and fillings, humor: Queen - Edirabeth COLOR, YOU com cite

Bush. II of England: Henry K. vers. Although you may not

r. conventional Brown, emptor, and George always

D the

Gordan, inventor approach to a problem and uumlly inclined to be original and in- techniquca ventive in finding new

you will bually For ok methocks

combining paint by ve your both the old bird new. You are a

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TUESDAY,

23-

TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 22) There may be busines changes in store for you. Money metter have entire on the Adents bearing matter, too,

70- 22-June GKMINK (May Follow up something that looks like * Important lend. You can attord to take a calculated rink today.

22-July CANCER (June duard your health and experid your Ogled on a job already begun. Postpone new plans until later.

LEO (July 24-Atta 23)- Avold extravagant expenditures ar Enckiem motion. If you hold to moderation in everything then all EDE WEL

VALGO A highly your actions

CAME 24-Sept. 23)

Check speculative day.

carefully before into the error of making a Ne move.

LIBRA

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Interest, not tend to DORMANLY paralled, mosfum the picturO YOTH CUFF way level-headed and calm.

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To and what the sta have in More for you tomosrta, efect your birthday cla and read the corres- ponding paragraph. Let your birth- day mar be your daily guide. APRIL 22

hubbles can prove highly simulat. ing as well as pleasurable.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)- Tour friendliness and co-operation mutually with others sumulates advantageous activity now.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20)-

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Q-The bidding has beem:

North East West 14

Pass You, South, hold:

South ?

"None actually" I said defer- entially, feeling suddenly drab.

very

Itt the

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called

in the

" and

Sam treated me with the tolerance that deep

down nice people gira to mpions

Sam, the hair stylist, combed suggested without

Debbie cx-

flame her burning hair with patient, facetiousness.

"She heard dollars. I stripped it,

me

Eny toned it

40

of and patch-dyed it. Sho heard a trace

me say 40 and she tries to say

maal" "Siddown, I'll do you in a I said four,

muttered har Caddie who minute," said the girl hair Sally my head took the put- upholstery and all, dresser, who promptly went off lahment clearly intended for an-

go and washed her own hair. Ro- other, you ought

signedly I saddown and listen- 10 match,"

someone ed to the radio that it was added as I was passed across the "She is a reat screwball," the

room to Sam, still referring I поре La

the the lady with stripped, toned and patch-dyed hair.

Writing Today As A

Mother To Be

impossible not to listen to.

NO IDLE NOTE

"Bong" That's not an idle note-that's four o'clock folks," it said before any further notice was taken of me.

the

Sam treated me with tolerance that deep down nice people give to morons. He also disappeared for half an hour for A small white terrier with the coffee while retting my hair- She won't. Anyone who has bothered look of an idle woman's such is the leisureliness of the FEEL sorry for Sheila them is sloppy and sentimental,

whose husband weakly had anything to do with such pet was pattering round, and wee small hours of the mora- Winkley, the

baby. and

with this unnatural cases-welfare workers, priests, round the salon, "Mona won't ing

doctors-and-psychiatristalli be-long, poochie. Don't you just tell you that the mother suffers lovó, enlling round some place just as much as the abandoned | new," said momma from under

her hair-dryer. child-sooner or later.

MECARD Sende hating mother-who-has-attitude.

decided to give away her

HER CAT baby before it has ever been born.

DEING Π

good mother has The mother of three who nothing at all to do with would rather make sure of sentiment, Mrs Winkley points summer holiday than face the nopples and the night watches of a fourth child.

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AQUARIUM (Jan.

precedence

Domestic affalin take over other things now. Make the force of 30ur personality felt.

aly. Bach word must contain

And these are now well-accepted. the large letter in the centre

21-Feb. 11), and there must be

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201- If you are planning a journey the could be an excellent day to such a much- kive you out, It could needed change of scene.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 10)... A new iden can be queerfully moted now. So put it into prv-. duction without further delay.

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This Funny World

FLORIST

"I didn't do anything, dear!. Lbok, dear, do you want there flowers, or should I throw them out the window?”.

JUST THINK

out that she thinks more of her T ET her pause for a minute and ent Stripey than of any baoy Li look at it from the other in the world-even her own.

I doubt if her cat would think much of her if it knew,

She looked at Debbie. "an't she gorgeous? I just love having pretty people round me. I ad mire them like. She makes very good money,"

"What does she do?" I asked

TIDY—BUT CROSS

E

At last I was looking as I usually do after emerging from a hair dryer tidy but cross. The facial I had asked for scem- ed just too much trouble for us side of the picture.

all as I quietly crept away to the sound of Sam shouling. Most certainly 1 feel sorry for

Will she resent it if her eldest

"Copa, Copa, Copa, that's all you the baby she will not even take

daughter refuses to sco her in home from the hospital,

Cats are the most devoted and her old age because she is 1, "Honey, in New York you dames over talk about," to

to covey of gorgeous hat-checks don't ask what people do --may go to the most doting dutiful mothers and they never

ur toothless, or difficult? graunde in the world. It may heard of the word sentiment. Will she think it right and make money," I was told stem- girls from the Copacabana who 20 to rich and loving foster

It's just nonsense to say that proper if the children she does ly. She added more kindly, "Is were having their roots dyed parents. Or I may end up like mothers who love their toothless took after walk out on her at 18-it-because you are short-of-

The dawn streets and butid= 21-month-old alster in a and wrinkled babies are just and never see her again because money and would like to make

misty ings were chilly,

liko sentimental. It's more sent is sentimental and sloppy to that kinda money too?"

grense-proof-wrapped packages Whatever happens-it-will-misa mental-to-drool over baby-care for your parents?

In a deep freeze and there was A ROW BROKE OUT all the things any child has rabbits--in the best English

a thin trail of wanderers Jiow will she take it if the

missions probably just en harm- right to look forward to tradition-like. the Winkleys.

Sally, the hairdresser, was less as myself, Mrs Winkley need not think only member of her family who the love of its parents, the

but vaguely will get away with this turns out to be a raving beauty, security of a home and, in this she

or a brilliant politician, is the now prepared to look after me, menacing just the same. having fixed her own case, the fun of being one of a move of hers even if she is pre-

to own-and

hair. To the mad incantations "Something everybody should big family.

pared to face the boycotting of one she refuses

of the radio I lay with my head do onca," I told myself in rather But i feel far sorrier for is the neighbours and the misery who then refuses to own her?

landed mother who hates bables and of her other children

JOY MATTHEWS

a row broke out over a bill. thinks any woman who loves with such a mother,

113 home.

BOYS'

AND

Chirpie Hitches A Ride

-He Was Too Tired To Fly That Day-

By MAX TRELL

biles. The more I thought about It, the better I like the idea.

Passing Cars

"So," continued Chirpie,

blonde

Suspended over the basin while lame self-apology and weat

bed.

GIRLS' MAGAZINE

might just as well

have been

cven

"Most of them won't standing on the top of a flagpole stop for people,' he said. "But I for all the attention they paid can tell you how to make them

stop.

"This is what he told me to "I was about to give the whole lica, up, and put off my do. He said he would play the trip into town for a day or two guitar while I mng a song. He until I felt more rested, when would tell me what words to who should come along the Bing. "I TORd but my good friend

CHIRPIE Sparrow care to the window sill and, after eating nifty or sixty crumbs, looked up and nodded

Knart and to

"It all seemed pretty foolish Children kopped down to the main road Christopher Cricket. He had his to me, but as I didn't have any- Shadow Hanid, the with the Turnel-About Names, and stood on the edge, pointing guitar slung over his shoulder thing to lose, I decided to do

with the end of my wing-I've and he looked very cheerful. just as Christopher said. "There, now I feel bolter," he seen people do it with said. "There's nothing like cat- thumb-at the passing cars,” ing a good square meal."

their

"Did any of them stop?" askod "Why is it a square meal?" Knarf naked Knart. "Why in't It a round moel?"

They Won't Stop

"Christopher sat down on a pebble and started playing a to him tune. He told me to sing the "After I explained what I was trying to do, he words: Honey! Honey! Honey! "No," said Chiriple. "They laughed and said that no car All the flowers are full of hon-

cyl'"

·Hanid said she had often went by me liko a streak, I would stop for a sparrow.

"And what happened?" Harid wondered about that, too.

úsked excitedly,"

"Well," replied Chirple, "It's

an interesting question, I'll have

to think about It sometime when

I'm not too busy.

Hitched A Rido

"By the way, did you hear how I got myself a bitch on an automobile yesterday?"

Knart and Hanid sild they hadn't heard the atory, so Chir- pic, after eating another twenty or thirty crumbs, cloaned his beak on the edge of the window alll and began as follows;

"Youforday I wanted to go info. town to do a little shopping. But, I was too tired to think of flying all the way.

"It would be a good Idee, 1 thought to myself. If I could got la-ride-in star of those autoeno-

Rupert and the Silent Land-12

As they cross the grass Rupert' into it." He opens the door atid ́ ́ guza inquisitively at the building points to an extraordinary contrap- - ahead with its curious roof. “My. tion. There's a balloon that latest, and perhaps may greatest, cannot burst."*' he explains with invention in in there,” says the pride. Yen bur, what; dose "it "What are Professor. daigned it for my do? kaka Hupert, mervant jo try out. Now he is all those awliches and handles 7. Injured and I am 100 big to get And why did you make it 7

ALL RIGHTS RELEKTAS

"No car will stop for s

Sparrow," Cricket told him. -

on

to

fortable, Christopher Cricket "What happened was this," stopped playing his guitar end seld Chirpio. "All the Bees and all the Bees and Butterflies ail the Butterfics and Humming and the rest of them went back Birds and Cows and Horses and where they came from. Sheep and Goata from miles

around came buzzing and fut- "The city moved again down tering anx? galloping and run- the clear road and I got my ning over to us. In a few min- hitch into town and did all my uten the whole road was shopping with no troublo et ail” jammed up as they all went Knart and Hanki both agreed around looking for the honey in that it was a wonderful way to the flowers. The road was so F

ride into town. jammed up that none of the Automobiles could go. They had to`stop

"Only theron no uns frying' it' yourself," warned Chirpla "You'll never got a crowd, to ‚““Okay!" said ́ ́ Christopher to collect on the road, unleme you me, there are all your cars got a Crickes to play a gultan Take anyone you like. They're, and--a - Sparrow-to-slug= the all going, to town."

words."

***"Bó,"l1⁄2 mali: Cnipple, “I hopped

inaldo a big truck that, ZWA,

Thon Chirplá Sparrow ate the arrying lot of ptance. The lost ninetoon, or: Ewenty arumba minute £ bad made myself com- and few.briskly oc

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