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This Funny World

BaB

RIVATE

TIGINGS

"Ask him if he could use a better-looking secrelary,”

YOUR BIRTHDAY

MONDAY, MAY 12

BORN today, you have

o keen. wall-qurcijalmed ming with the mental ability and the physical energy la cappy thawuhi kupcessfully any task which you undertake. If you have a cauti, e a tendency tr work by fito and starts. You whf be

ting with, energy for a con- centrated period, ail en almost without warning, you become lethar. and could almost be rolled Lazy! Sals may be a result of ill health, Take good eare of your physical energles in youth end you will find your entire te more enjoyable.

Since you have an megin¬$five mind, you are always delving in now and exciting pujesty. You wn to get at borte theta anty then will you make a thorough evaluation and eventually MULT analy and report. You NY.

through research, revise many once- sccepted theurden and put them in.

An entirely now light.

You have a magnetic

personality

and will make friend wherever you ED But there are times when you want to be left alone to think you

TAURUS

TUESDAY,

(Apr. 21-May 211-

Although KuTIACE

promising, there is m

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 12, 1958.

JACOBY ON BRIDGE

·Takeout Cues For Finesses

By OSWALD JACOBY

WEST'S double was for the-

Words. He did two of airgio

ton spade but his hand was far loo weak to ask partner to bid.

Fortunately for West his part- ner held enough stud to guard against a bad set, but West was punished another way for his bad bid.

West opened the king of hearts ard shifted to a smail heart when East signaled with the seven, Enst won with the aco and led his last heart. South trumped, entered dummy with

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Kat emotions are terms and you have the power to express your- self in vivid speech or prone. this talent and you should reneh an

gitatanding speers.

date

Among thow born on th were: William A. Dunning. Ameri can historian: Edward Lear, art and humourist; Lincoln Filmworth, T'air expirer; renk Crime, tapira: Banal author Henry Cabot Lue,

Geunge sttemas

Lewis Preaties, theologien and educator.

Ton what the ATS have in

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the ace of clubs and led the Jack of trumpa. East's king fell o South's ace.

Now South ruffed a club to got back lo dumtuy, led the nine of Eudes and let it ride. This took care of East's ten of trumps and South made game and rubber,

How did South' know enough to play the spades the way he did? He had not seen the other hands but he might just as well hove.

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WOMANSENSE

✰✰ MODELS "MAKE THE CLOTHES"-

Many LOTHES may make the physical requirements.

average woman, but in attend Lucky's achool only for housewives and career womeri the Paris couture it is the posture and walking lemons, mannequins who "make the besides advice on make-up and clothes." The late Christian general grooming, Dior used to say "My mannequing are what gives life to my dresses, and above all I want my dresses to be happy."

are

Incredibly Mannequins severe style critics. No French designer would dream of insist- ing that a girl should wear any ecstume abe might actually dis- like. Mannequins seem to have an unerring sixth sense of style, and instinctively know the best models in each collection, long before they pro shown to the public.

If

ther occasionally turri "thumba down" on a gown, its creator can be reasonably sure he has a "lemon" on his hands. On the contrary, when a girl likes a dress and knows how to wear it to advantage. she is capable of investing it with rhythm and life of its own.

BORN

Christian

0

Dior claimed that good mannequins were born and not made; that if a girl did not possess

certain intangible quality and feeling for clothes, sio amount of specialised train- ing could ever öchteve it.

Curiously,

one of the most famous ulars at the house of Dior has created a muccessful enterprise by disproving this theory of the late master.

Syndicate of mannequins

Laicky, President of the Paris and founder in 1952 of this officially recognised Union Group, runs her own training school for fashion debutantes.

*COST

The course af collective lessons, which cost 22,000 francs (about £18 sterling or 62 U.S. dollars) Inste two months, with three sessions each week. There semi- also are

private and classes privato

directed by Lucky herself, who watches with ah cuglo eye for the

Navy blue and white surah slik dress with full blown- out back. Guy Laroche.

This bright and hard-working young woman is the antithesis of the classic conception, of an "clothes Indoleni and brainless horse," Besides directing the Lucky school where she is alded by ง staf of assistant mannequin-teachers, she passes the collection at Dior every alightest movement of the tele- afternoon, supervises ali the phone book precariously crown- South had stened to the bid-activities of her 10-year-old ng each pupil's besti. ding. West had stuck in a toke daughter, and illes o small out double without anything private plane in her spare time much in the way of high carda to buck it up. East bad bid no-trump and surely held the re-king of spades for that bid,

Role: tail prothalein confronting

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re able to produce the desired

which could defer your progress.

GEMINI

(May

If you have made careful plans, then you probably can upecalo Me- erfully despite any opposition from, vulside.

CANCER

22-July 23)- (June Steel yourself again any distracting Shuences today. There is work to be done. Concentrate on doing 11,

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24-AUK affairs. Reach a sensible solution of

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Teeling up 10 par, then all goes well. Otherwhe you can Curaged.

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That left South a problem Chrck your health, for if you are about the ten spot but it also was no real problem. It was very unlikely that West would have måde a weak takeout double unless

he was very short in Hence, West held a | Eingletsu apude unly --

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RAGITTARIUS (Nov, 23-Dec. ZZ- Concentrate on bettering carver. Take full advantages of a new opportunity.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan, 20)-- Take caret All thai glittern may nal be pure gold. In other words, be ware of false promises ur premisest

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)— No doubt about it, there are remiile- ilone, but if you are astute you can circumvent theen and tide forward to BUCCESS.

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What do you do?

A-BIG four no tramp. Your partner is not showing weakness and yen are on your way to a slam.

TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner responds, with Ave hearts. What do you do now? Answer Tomorrow

THE . WAY. by Beachcomber

THE time is approaching. If humans can then eat like horses the without fear of an increase in dream of physiologists comes true, when weight. Thus mie and men every human being who curtails will go forward into the down his dietetical nutrition-intake of with heads held high and con- body-fuel will be conferring un- ndent smirks. told benefits on the mice of the five continents.

It is suspected that a hormonic glandular secretion, can

Singer caught in

mousetrap

at weekends.

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-By PEGGY MASSIN

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girls, who endeavour to show employed. At the end of the their pupila that beauty can be reason girls toy dresses at a prostable busines, but that fraction of their original cost.

lifo the

of professional Mannequine who specialise in mannequin ja seldom more photography and freelance work glamorous Cham baby-atting. are obliged to have an extensive personal wardrobe, consisting of

costumes Many "hopefuls", especially buste

and varled young girls who come to Paris changes of accessories. In for, from the provinces, look on millinery, end shoe showings, a fashion modelling as a stepping girl is expected to furnish her stone to a possible theatrical, own "little black drem.” chrEOT or brilliant marriage. This illusion has been furthered Some of those young "om- by Soverni Parisian cx- bassadromes" of French fashion mannequins like Sophia (Mra Anatole Litvnk), Sylvio (Madame Bettina, Daniel Gelin), and Bangco of Prince Ali Khan. Their privata lives have headlines. But the average girl soon, finds the work is hore and "fashion door Lizing, with fow Johnnies", gold Cadillacs,

mink coals.

ENERGY

mado

or

KLAVO

have notually become_designsze In their own right. Tania, one of Christian Dlor's early

Tune her vedettes, today couture establishment in Italy. Brigitte who worked at Joequés Helm's for several years, gavo up modelling to marry Georges Charpentier, former world champion boxer, She has recently openod 0 tmail dressmaking house in Paris, and does all her own designing.

But it's hard work.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

One now and popular idea is the use of Indian silk cars for obeaths and chemises. Rich looking and cany

work with and launder, they will bo Mannequins showing a coller especially chic this spring, when

Always be sure that your washing machine is absolutely empty before you pop a load of clothes in. It's a good idea to checks

the upper rim of an automatio

sinco machine, too, that's where small" Dems like

Ron often walk three or four the emphasis is so strong on handkerchiefs are apt to lodge,

miles, and expend energy compatterned silkom. parable-It Is claimed to an equivalent number of hours spent digging a ditch. Girla burn up calories quickly but Lucky has D pet belief that Frenchwomen eat too much, and have more of a tendency to- Engilah or wards obesity than American giris. Her own figure, with an eighteen inch waistline belies the theory. So far, Lucky has by-passed the chemise in her personal wardrobe, pro- ferring belled dresses that play incredible hand-opan up her waist.

Many foreign girls come to Paris each year, seeking work as mammequins. The length of their stay is usually of short duration, however, as, unless a girl

In the top bracket, sho often finds it difficult to mako Salaries ends meet financially. for a beginner in the couture houses range from 35,000 france (about £20 or 83 US. dollars) to 45,000 francs (about £37.10s or 107 U.S. dollars) per month.

MOTHERS

The majority of mannequins in Paris today are married, and most of the Dior girls are mothers. Their private lives. By balancing shia weight, are the negation of the almoop- Laseley contends that the position here in which they work. After of spine and body automatically parading all day in the world's luxurious clothes, A become correct. This balancing most

Lucky believes that about 50 is not easy when there are stairs mannequin is happy to dona per cent of the young women involved, und the prospective sweater and skirt under a simple who come to her school have manneqtiin must awoop grade sport cont, and dash to catch the the makings of good manne fully up and down, and perhaps metra (elray) home in time

She gives quins.

trank cope with the train of an even- to prepare dimmer, cach candidate ing gown at the same time. appraisal to before she enrolls, and will not Another teacher at the school encourage any debutanto to is tall, statuesque Freddy from consider becoming a professional the house of Lanvin. The entire

I know of only one mannequin in Paris who owns a mink coat, though the girls have the advantage of considerable discounts in the

if she does not possess the basic staff are realistic, ard-working couture house where they are

BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

O'Scowl's Apartment

-Visitors Found It Hard To Keep Their Balance Here-

By MAX TRELL KNARF, the Shadow Boy with the Turned-About Name, and-Hiawatha, the Small-Sized Wooden Indian, started walking Deross the Pins Tree Grovo.

"We must be inside one of the branches," Knarf remarked to Hiawatha.

"Wow! Look at it shakel" sald Hiawatha,

Knart and Hiawatha could hardly keep their balance as the The dried leaves blow across whole branch swayed in the their path. Patches of mow wind, flew by. The wind kept blow- Jng harder and harder,

In fact, the wind blow so hard that, by and by, the two friends found themselves going back- ward. Suddenly, they bumped into a tree.

Two

Flights Up

"Pay no attonition to "Pixie O'Scowl said. "Come alonel I've got a keille boiling on the fre."

Out Of Breath

"What's going on down there?” called Pixie O'scowl.

A few minutes later, Knart and Hiawatha, quile out of

Pixie O'Scowl just chuckled Into Pixie stumbled breath, O'Scowl's parlour, They grabbed as he served the tea. hold of the chairs and sat down. did It was a good thing they because the whole room hoaved up and down.

"No, it's just the Old Ook giretching itself. This old tree is like someone waking up in the morning, after a long sleep. It's stretching itself...stretch- It's getting ready for next spring. But there's nothing to be afraid of.

won't break.

It was the Old Oak. Pixie O'Scowl, who had an apartment in the Tree (two Bights up and three branches across), stuck his head out of the window.

Pixie O'Scowl paid no atten-

to any of this. He went ing, stratching. "Hey! What's going on down lon there?" Pixie O'Bcowl called about fixing too.

"Nothing to be afraid of." he God Preserve) of I will remove their superfluous discovered that, while

Knorf called up. "It's the kept saying "This is a mighty fat. Then, while the elender singers grow fat on song, singing wind! We can't walk!"

strong tree. It's been in lots of Baturday's Solution mice alt back and guzzle, the mice remain slim. This is due to

worse winds than this one. It magic substance will be injected

back and bends the other." minute," Pixie bends one way, then it swings back into human beings by qualified practitioners. The

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the presence in the bloodstream O'Scowl sald. "I'll let you in." of what, for want of a worse word, may be called euthogabu- A few moments later, a small lin. Could not this

door in the trunk of the Old be injected into opera singers?

Oak swung open. Knart and No, says a spokesman. It woe Hiawatha

sprang in, Pixio tried on one of them, and she O'Scawl shut the door, grew whiskers, and developed

such a passion for cheese that "It's the worst wind, I've ever she got her Roman noso caught been in," said Knarf.

In her own mousetrap, singing |cólorațura-ll-addy,

coloratura-li-ay.

Points from letters

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"Blows you around like dead fear," said Hiawatha.

Only A Breeze

"Stuff and nonsense," apli Pixle O'Scowl. "It's nothing

To wind

By allowing her dog to drink but a breeze. But come und

from a bird-bath, Mrs my rooms. Thoro'z Whoofe is merely advertising her there. Follow mo." callous -aiitude to birds ar

Your correspondent - “who - maya. Kharf and Hiawatha followed her husbaïed, la # disgraco bas" Pixie O'Scowl up a fight couse of the gravy-stains on his of winding stairs. The walls waistcoat. should realise that graw narrower and norrower. At marrloge brings more seriaus length they came out on a small probicina than this. My corridor. They bad to bend blood boils when I read that their heads to keep from hitung Notlagham men are the tallest the calling-/+] 6A)

in England. It is just not true.

... Captain Stolt a very proud

"Come along! Come along!“

of eating tried eggs on cold Pixie O'scowl kept sayingang

grorolting. Ho switched on lighța: áll,

His recljo in for svages.... 3 nlong the way.

cracking

"How many spoons of sugar do you take?""

Knarf and Hiawatha drank their tea and tried to forget, There was a loud

while they were drinking it, that they were high up in the noise at this moment.

Old Oak Tree (two lights up "Tho tree is breaking!" Knarf and three branches acrosa) on said.

the windlest day of the winter.

Rupert and the Silent Land-30

Rupert is tich gi thu xin vui why, i can only are fog under- of the balloon into the samÓJAWABON Death me." Unfastening the front but still it won't go down. "Stars...” meap, and holding tightly to the ing the propeller "only causes the machina be very, very rarefully, fog to swirl store than ever and at Flera himmlƐ down. To his astonish laas he gives up: *** This thing le":"ment "hà · Kode that first wow foot beating 'sa filmly it might be on a then the other lands on something

*1' wonder

· Poor,” he thinks.

soft but. Arvi, "ALM: MIGHTS BRKARRTED

causing machine trouble,

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