1958-05-26 — Page 5

This Funny World

BOWL RITE

Bob Schulty

"Where do you think you're going?"

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 26,

JACOBY

ON BRIDGE

Recount, Long `Suit

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For Bid

By OSWALD JACOBY

LETTER from Chicago reads: "In a recent duplicate game i was one of the South players who bid only two spades on the second round. Naturally enough our partners all passed and it turned out that four spades was В cinch. South players only held nine points in high cards and had all been taught not to count any points for being short in partner's bid sult. What went wrong?"

The answer is that the teacher did not finish his job, He wa correct in warning you

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YOUR BIRTHDAY

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MONDAY, MAY 26

BORN today, you are a combina-

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prudent, of the ventional Individus and the active, Then two enengo progremaize trends are continually battling for mapremacy in your nature and the sovironment in which you live, t doubt, will to some degree deler. mine which side of your halure wind out. You are a god tranager

which is devastating in its effect YOUT whenever ft to let loosel talent for dinkmacy usually win out and you leam to count to 19 before answering in anger. You have psychle power. Learn in

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better judgment. Time will getting enthusiastic about being usually prove that you were right.

sod have a neat, orderly mind at although at the moment of decision short in your partner's suit but

well a neat physical appearance. You may the type of wonder who can play active canes without, a

"geting a har uut

yent may not have been nule toho should have pointed out that

wive any concrete reason for it.

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the four grooming of place. impeccable.

Radly and sympathet'e to mem- t of your own family. you have a tem code by which you expect them to live and which you wil śropose upon them "for their own good." A stern discipănarian, you sill manage to have a happy nature within the close family circle, You ensual friends do not even make

easily. Although your acquaintanceD may fesch into the thousands, your Soup of intimates will always re- momin small.

born on this date

Fiske.

Minnie Maddem actress Robert W. Chambere, author

the reason for this is the danger that your partner will be equally short in yours.

Your partner had opened one

and artist: Al Jolson, actor: Queen diamond but he had rebld to one Mary of England, wife of King

Edwards Jr.no-trump. George V: Jonathan

This rebid did not in high

early president of Union College show anything much

but it did atmust Washington A. Roebling Jr., builder, cards with a father, of the Brooklyn guarantee a balanced hand with Bridge: Abd-El-Kadir. Arab scholar

couple of spades that would and patriot, and Julius Steglitz,

probably include an honour, chemist and educator,

To find what the stars have In are for you tomorrow, nelect your birthday star and read the cozen- Although usually kept well under pundig paragraph. Let your birth- control, you have a high temper day star be your daily guide

TUESDAY, MAY 27

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Test your capabilities today new make the front of all favourable potential. Think positively to gain excellent resisita

CANCER (Junc 22-July 23 Pag close attention to the job at hand and avoid carelessne or undue harto which could br.ng

complicatioVIM.

July 24-AUE

23)- Stick to fabullar routine during the moming hours. Then you may examine an attractive opportunity

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VIRGO

24-Yept. 21)- Self-condence and the placing of restrictions on all risk-taking will carry out through a pertious day.

LIBRA

24-Det.

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SCORPIO {flet 24-Nov 221 Confidente in the future is an Im~ portant part of getting what you Carry out want in the pretent your pland

A day when taking penalble pre-

This would entitle you to count your spades as a suit that And been raised. You should add one point for the fifth card In a raised suit and two points for each extra card so that you should have counted five points for your seven-card spade sult. Adding this to the nine high esrd points, you would have a 14-point hari, which should be enough for gante opposite an opening bid.

WOMANSENSE

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A MORNING FACE is the foundation

for an AFTERNOON HAT

Aster

USE TREATED PADS to remove muscura at night and you won't have dark smears under your eyes in the morning.

morning RE you a A

could your glory, or A.M. appearance haunt. house7

What's to be done about it? It's a wise wife who rises first, jokes five quick minutes to make a few facial improvements. First, curlers or bobbyplas must be removed, hair given a hurried combing. A fast face- wash will make you look and

Too many women rise, but they don't shine. They stagger out of bed with a head full of steel curlers, a face shiny with feel awake. either

cream and black with mascara smudges. Groping for a robe that's crumpled up on a chai, blindly head tor the they klichen.

NAGITTARIUS (Nov, 23-Dec. 23)- Your correct bid was

three or four spades; not a mère two,

and avoiding anything with Cambiance of Tlak is lindoriant, CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20) it in need of clothing or ho furnishings, this may be a fine day to find bargains. Shop advars- Inge) 7.

AQUARIUM (Jan. Zi-Pob. 10)- De patient. quiet and reserved. although firm in taking a sind. You cars win cut over opposition.

203- 20-Mur PISCEN [Feb, You could become a victim of the jitters today if you don't watch out! Take a positive attitude. It helps.

ARIES {Mar

20) 21-Apr. Acting in haste con estan confusion. Size up the situation carefully be- fore you make up your mind. Examine all details,

TAURUS (Apr.

21)-

Profect personai Interest in any

under-

proposition offered for your con- inderation, cument exiert.

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What do you do? A-Pa. You have already

shown your 10 points.

TODAY'S QUESTION—— You hold the same hond. Your partner's rebid has been two dip- Tuonds instead of two spartes. What do you do now”

Answer Tomorrow

Women's World

London.

RS Joy Elspeth Baker,

to him by his mother's counsel, Mr William Howard. He de- scribed

difference between

M 94, went back to her worth and South Poles and

house at Heath Farm, Thux ton, Norfolk, last week with her seven children, after losing a further round of her three-year fight for the right to educate the children herself.

She had hoard Lord Evershed, Master of the Rolls, sitting as chairman of the Norfolk Quar- ter Sessions Appeals Committee, say: "It is her plain duty consider her children.

haw Sir Vivian Fuchs crossed Antarctica,

LAW BOOK READING

He was handed Volume 23 of of Laws of England from which to read. He did so with few mistakes, and Lord Evershed said: "I hope you enjoyed the book, as I was one of its sub- editors."

The boy was asked by Mr. 11. the Cassel, who appeared for

NOT PRETTY!

In the words of the poet, it is NOT a prelly picture!

Household Hints

With the new lower heels in style, i's doubly important to wash your stockings after each wearing. The slightest sogging around the ankles shows up immediately when you wear a Jower heel.

Brush teeth. Dab on a light touch of Upstick. Then head for breakfast-making depart.

the

ment.

BEFORE BEDTIME

Your morning appearance will also be improved if you take a before-bedtime prepara- few

tions:

1. Use the kind of cream that really vanishes into the skin, -doesnt-butter-coat_il__

2. If your hair's straight and stragaly, have a permanent Fo you'll have to set it no more than two or three times a week. When you do set it, conceal pins or cutters under the prettiest scarf or head band you can find. Spring cleaning time is here!

3 Remove

with mascara Fine steel wool moistened with turpentine can often re-special pads before retiring; then move stubborn patches of dirt I won't smear off and smudge

your face during the night.

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Write!

An uneven brim line EN waste a great deal height.

time and energy that will break up that round]

look will also become her. of women's

Hats with width are fattoring to the girl who has a long, thin face To look her best, sho We concede

should wear her hair fluffy chapeaux deserve the ha-ha under a wide crown.

and I have received from because they're absurdly

The girl who outlandish. The right hat,

wente glasses our grand children (now 18 of been those they however, can do a great meals should not be spectac-dietated to their parents before

must watch hat styles carefully. them) have den to make B woman ular or overpowering. They they were able to write. appear prettier than she should leave her forehead clear. I did answer the children,

really is.

RIGHT STYLE

The trick is in choosing the style that will play up your goodi features, tone down your bad

ones.

If you have 1 prominent Roman nose, don't wear halo or rounded off-the-face bala, Do go in for brims that come for ward and crowns that have a forward feeling.

llow many have?

THE

THE nkest letlers Mrs Myers

hats should you many more than a hundred of them, some two or three times, but finally had to give up with

A new one for each season is apologies. the minimum. Some, women, af course, have

many more than thal.

UNUSUAL LETTERS Many of their letters had

Following are exccrple from a few of them.

To keep hats in good shape, point, store them with care. Stuff the crowns with tissue, then place the hat in a hat box, crown-side

I From an eight-year-old: down. Cover the hot Itself with will keep on writing no malter a layer of tissue to keep It free how old you are, I am part Irish, from dust, Put a small piece of Scottish, English and a whole lot tissue inside any bow trimmings more nationalities. What are to keep them perky,

you?"

Watch how you handle your

hat when putting it on.

A puit nose, that tips upward

From an eleven-year-old: Ja a pert way, is flattered by off-

Don't have a big brother who just left the-face hats. Flat pancake brims are another good choice, be rough with the brim-In fact, for college, and that's all I have try touch it as ille as pos- | except a dog. I have lots of The round-faced woman is sible, fur it's easily thrown out friends, too, but I still miss my Ilmlied in her hat choices. No of line. Don't shove the crown brother."

styles small, face-hugging

for down over your head. her, She needs Π hat with with care!

Handle

Robert Fiance elifura A LITTLE HAT that sits atop a prettily curled head look well if your face is smail. It's out for a full face.

From a ten-year-old: "I am writing to you because I have no grandfather."

From an eight-year-old: "I kave a dog and his name is Jack and he is very sielt and ho may die. I hope he does not die."

From two eleven-year-olds: "Right now it's suppertime and I'm on the kitchen table. I hope Mummy doesn't chase me away. There is so much noise. here in the kitchen, milk bottles bang- ing. glasses knocking against glasses. What I wrote now won't make much sense. I guess my little brain is tired from the tests we had today in school,

"Beef stew is dragging me from this letter. I must say good-bye, and taste the liquid In that kettle."

-HELPING HIM WRITE Suppose your child of six, eight or twelve la obout to write a letter to a relative or 'friend. He probably asks 'you." "What can I say?" You may anawer, "Just write as if you were talk- ing."

Eventually, you may have to tell him what to write, Then you may look over his latter for spolling, punctuation and gram- mar. Knowing you will do this, he'll feel greatly hampered and may write a very uninteresting Ieller.

TAKE IT DOWN

Here's a suggestion:

Tell the child. "Say what you want to say and let me take it down for you." Then let him copy the letter.

For the bes: resulta, do not change any of his words.

-C. C. MYERS, Ph. D.

BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

General Tin's Parties

He Doesn't Always Just Stand In One Place- By MAX TRELL

to Norfolk Education Committee, to write as on exercise: "The

LYANID, the Shadow Girl with the people is the

Turned-About "However heterodox her own health of

I the

Name, law." Не looked views of schools may be, she supreme

isat looking at General Tin, the sucrifice innocent puzzled for a moment until Lord should not

Tin Soldier, for a long time be remarked: "If you

fore she said in a very gentie Baiturday's Solution children in the process. I hope Evershed

don't like that, Just write, "What | voice: "General Tin, do you I am not putting it too hardly.

(Laughter) "The children seem to be cut a ally question. off in a real sense from their Mrs Baker, in evidence, said mind if I ask you a question?"

CHESS

¡BY LEONARD BARDEN

straight,

.

to rest "And Miss China Doll comes. Mary Jane always brings a bag of blueberry muns, and Miss China Doll always brings a box of fudge."

General Tin was able himself now and then.

General "And sometimes," Tin went on, "sometimes I in- vile my friends to visit mo, And they all come? and

Who comes?" asked Honld.

"Mr Punch

comes,"

replied

"And who cine somos?" visited Hanid.

"Teddy, the

Stuffed Bear, General Tin.

Wooden

asleep in his bed, I take my musket off my shoulder stand it in the corner. Then I unbulion the buttons of my very ught coat and take off my hat and loosen my collar and sit General Tln. "He comes with his comes," replied

wife, Judy. And Mr Punch al- "And Hiawatha, the rtyself down in a chuir."

a loaf of raisin Indian, comes. And Mrs Cuckoo, ways brings bread and Judy always brings a who lives in the Clock, comes. And Mistress Cat carnes. And jor of strawberry jam,"

"And who else comes?" naised they always bring raisins, and

peanuts and cookies." Hanid.

Rog "And what do you do with all "And Mary Jane, the hear that Doll,, comes," said General Tin. the things that all your friends

Hanid Was Delighted

"How

cried

of the same that none of her children had General Tin, who always Jellow creatures

wonderful She believed | slood very tall and ta school. They will be unable to i been age.

gained knowledge with his musket over his should- Hanid, clapping her hands, for themselves into the rest of the children community. It is impossible to when they sought to acquire it. er and his eyes looking sternly she was delighted to

being effelently She had made all knowledge straight ahead, seemed to nod my they aro

evailable to them when Dhey his head ever so slightly. Hand educated.

wanted it.

heard him saying: "CREATURES APART"

Lord Evershed: If a child does are growing creatures apart from the rest of not get a certain certicate he and or she may be at a disadvant- England the people in

What do you Wales. I hope Mrs Boker will age in later life.

We have say about that?

Mrs Baker: I don't agree it is wil necessary.

In answer to further

"They

take to heart what

ventured to say.”

up

"I'll be glad to tell you any- thing you'd like to know."

Rupert and the Silent Land-

42

Stands In One Spot

"Thank you." ques-

replied Hanid. chlid-"What I'd like to know is this: and You stand all day in ono pot, right by the door of the chil- dren's room. You never move, You never sit down. You never the talk. All you do is guard

Mrs Baker declared: "I never send them to school, even

to leave tions Mrs Baker said the if it means we have

learnt.

geography her ren England" David. 12, oldest boy, was the only chila natural history,

in Lord Evershed: I may be old called into the witness-DOX support of Mrs Baker's appeal fashioned, but what about

The appeal was against fines Biblat [totalling £2 Imposed in Novem-

tho

Mra Boker: I don't belleve in door."

should one

ber by East Dereham magis- Christianity. No

trates for failing to comply with read the Bible until they are

school attendance order 2. secured by the Norfolk Educa-

Here in an unusual problem specially contributed by tha Hov. Nevill Robertson

Lord Evershed: You look the (Andover). What was White's

tion Committee in respect of oath. last MOTO ?---

David, Robin, 11, Felicity, 10, Mrs Baker, 1 bellove in God, Boluston No. 6405: 1

years but not Christianity. FXRARI: 2 HXQ, Ki==Q7ch; 3 and Wendy, nine. Two

"That's my duty," General Tin told her;

"Yes," sald Hanld, "but don't you ever get tired? Don't you ever walk a little? Don't you ever talk to anybody? Don't you over alt down?"

"Sometimes,"

Bakich 48-11ge Mrs Baker won a almilar sked about how her children got on with other children, the K==85ch 14 K-RI, KI-Kitch: appeal on technical grounds.

enld General GR. Atx9: and Black has David Baker followed his replied; "They don't like school-

mother into the wilness-box. children as such. They prefer Tin. "Sometimes late at night, WOT a POOK.

He answered the questions 'put' more sensiblo company,"

when everyone in the bouro:-la

kunden Kabrana Breto

A Rupert makes the balloon go higher, he can see the little people below watthing him in great excitement. "Well, what happens now?” be multhers," "I don't know what they want me to do. "I can't understand them at all

hot linkean they pay their fingers On

vermy head." He pauses.", "it looks

4 though I am free to do as } like, so I think I'll try to gei home. I don't care for that silent land where I'm not allowed to speak and nobody else makes any sound. It's an awful strain.” Riv ing and speeding up the propeller be there shoothly aver the logred mountains.

"ALL" NIGHTS KISSAVED

RUPERT

SPRING ADVENTURES

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Harld had a question

to ask General Tin,

bring when they come?" Hanid naked.

They Have Music

And

We have a party,” said Con- eral Tin, "And sometimes Chris. topher Cricket Comes.

And we' baya Canary comes. music. And everyone danobet, most of all.

*Bo you see, my dear, 'I don't. always stand in one spát. with my misket over my shoulder. I often have fun, junt am other

to do who aren't. Tin· Bolders and who don't have to stand by the door of the children's room, guarding It."

Having said this, General Tiles - fell silent again so that WhOrL Hanid walked out of the TOOKA, there his wos standing tall sad straight, with his musices › over his shoulder and his eyes sinr= ing sternly ahead, fat on he alw | waya dikk

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