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Number 22 Decendan

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wonder at the continued enthusiasm for it. It at hæcomes upeessary to nearly 900,000 children were born in Britain last year.

rate is going up.

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July 22 August 21 Accept other people's actions at their face value, without always Fast for hidden modives.

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ad

Rupert and the Popweed-26

The boy seems nervous and Talks quietly. Those men have told me to bring you sorer food." Si herr and eat it. That's night Now then, who are

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But tell me, who are those

"Can't you guess ?"

ALL RIGHTS

boy They're whispers the wicked

guarding the pirates treasure in this secrer island unt their ship returns from another raid. You must get away before the ship returns." But how

They go up to the says Rupert. opet: space and peer across the rocks to the se

KASERVED

CHILDREN'S

Sergeant Snowman

-Tin Knew Him When He Was Just A Snowflake-

By MAX TRELL

CENERAL T16" said Khari, "GE

the Shadow Boy with the Turned-About Naine, to the Tin

u friend Soldier, "there's

ان

yours uitside in the street

General Tin didn't move Be- ing & Tin Soldier, he couldn't. But his vulce sounded anxious.

"A friend of mine?

the street?

Out in cold

"He doesn't mind the cold." -aid-Knert. He guanced down through the window. "He's just standing there."

On a bitter norning like this?"

said General Tin.

"Frozen, "He must be frozen."

To General Tin's utter dis-

Knari said simply. "He is. may

"What! He's frozen! And you let him sland there without doing anything!" said General Tin in a loud voice.

"Do some- thing! Open the door and let him in!"

Knarf shook his head.

1 couldn't do that! If 1 opened the door and let him in Knarf smiled he'd only run **

as he repealed this. "Yes, he'd only run.

I'm sure of Who

is it? All this had made the Tin Soldler so excited that he for- got 10 ask who this frozen friend was. He now remen- bered to ask.

"Why, I thought you knew," said Knart, knowing very well that General Tin didn't. Sergeant Snowman.

Knarf burst out laughing, quite proud of the way he had tricked General Tin.

Simple though it seems, this statement quivers What it really means is that every year close on 1,000,000 British women have to sit down and ponder anxiously-but not, as you will see, for too long--en how best to deal with this fairly natural process.

Not at well as early morning compilations

Sickash

Lanics.

txeba' lolas

18

16 back up her And even that little mustn

home round the corner" wants smart of the

Lr: ante-natal law, has to be and Kymerecogien mark

pregnancy braggs them face Face with fo mout malemky questions, the most argent being

Confinement & home or in hospital'

More feminine

Hacing a baby at home -pack- vided the both will be hurtmal currently considered mura Particularly H. Bke Pru Margaret,

Cap also, the ameufies of modern maternity anal

2

SKY

If she bouks the moment she STIC pregnant knows

But it is safer Mands a chance

by some two of to anteipate

free months, and then cancel if there' gang to be a baby

Mertical affiraldom further complicates the situation

Hare it at hom}(4) if at all slike pleads the Ministry of Health whenever the case jr. Junges to be straightforward.”

“Cão do a despălat at all costs say the top gynaecologists and

elastetricians.

"Home," moons ton of midwives.

"Hospital,"

An assuĘTA -

shaaply

ex-

dicts another,

It is rates sa 1tle more Nineteen year-old fertette Lady Londonderry, who had her first eluid at 17 and zow perts a second, puts it this way "The thought of hospitals and

frightens me Bursing homars

plan to have it at home again"

Even 50. 54 per cent of wo- me du have their bubs hospitals

But the shortage of maternity to attend and midwives titds them is rule to many areas- in the 200 to 300 are needed London area alone. And some- thing like 50 women a week are at present refused beds.

To be sure of hospital bet a mother-to-be, with no apparent

CORNER

"I'd appreciate it." General Tin said to Knarf, you'd raise the window a 11ttle from the button.

Knor did as General Tin asked

Thank you," said General Tin. Then he valled down. "Sergeant! Sergeant Snowman! Are you all right down there" Sow him salute

[1 seemed impossible, but Knart was almost sure that be saw Sergeant Snowman lift hus snowy fingers to his cap in a The Sergeant had three He was big stripes on his art. and sold and strong

salute

He had two blue marbles fur He had a wooden medal eyes. on his chest. He had a wonder fully happy smile on his face.

You could tell by just looking at him that he loved everybody, and that everyhoxly loved him.

"I'm doing Ene, sir!" he call- ed up to General Tin.

"'d invite you to come in. General Tin, Sergeant," said

what happens "but you know to you in a warm place."

"know very well, sir." re- plied the Sergeant "I'll just stand here, if you don't mind " Knarf shut the window again and wheeled General Tin back to his usual place by the Play- room door.

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Knarf made a snowball and gave it to the Sergeant.

"During the spring and sum- mer and Autumn I never see He's up in Alaska him at all. and the North Pole country, standing on guard. I have a photograph of him somewhere, standing on an iceberg. queer fellow.

He's a

Later Knari, after putting on his coat and hat and muffler and woollen gloves, went out to ask Sergeant Snowman if there wasn't something he could bring him.

Seem 4:1

contra

5 ns a day, plus extras.

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IS

The second big question mother-to-br must face Should my husband be present

! the birth?

Again: medical (and feminine)

ption is sharply divided

because

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as

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A Jusband's decision to stay , and hold his wife's hand is

dell's decrieci by top "eranky. pandering to suitonalism./ und "An upper middle-class habit " But i s

1- upheld by others Emporian

the happiness of the marriage It increases a man's SNS of responsibility

10 Als wite and child.

A London hospita) which delivers

some 3,500

babies a year says: "Husbands present just a are often They faint." Another hospital, with 1,300 deliveries a year, takes prelimi nary precautions against this When a father expresses a wish

The only point on which all at the birth

arcord is the first musunce. baby should, wherever possible. be bom m hospital. But even this stugie bred of undisputed advice has no detractorS

Alternative

Are

you rough enough for a hospital confinement? That is the underlying theme of letters, petitions,

from The now

tim

心

5,000-member-strong Organisa

for the Improvement in Matermaty Services.

"I was left alone and untend- ed or hours to the labour ward lungh in great pain," reports DRE OLEM

"The midunte told me to stop making a nurse like a come the a Feld, though I was suffering terribly says another.

hospital "My experiences in while having my first baby were su terrifying I have never dared to have another," says a third.

There is another choice, of course the univate maternity Count on at least 50gns.

home

to remain with his wife," they explain, "we insist on his seeing film of the birth of a child Arst After that, he generaliy changes his mind."

A minor point of dispute the mother-to-be must also face is. How long to stay in bed?

Grandmother's four WEYER minimum, embalmed in band- ages, had shrunk to 10 days and no our worried But now tie latest hospital notion 13 48 hours--and then home"

Cries of Brutal," Inhuman,”

"Unheard uf" are drowned by the statement that this both

frees badly nceded maternity beds and is also good for the mothers, since getting them up early prevents the formation of clots in the veins which might threaten the lungs.

But it does tend to spoil things for the woman who likes to get a week for a room in the most

the maximum amount of sym- fashionable establishments, plus pathy, coddling, attention. and

Eynaecologist's fees care out of heaving her baby (100gns to 200gns.).

-London Express Service)

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JACOBY on

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Justrates the luck factor in tram play

What would you do with the South hand after your partner has first doubled diamond opening and then raised your heart response?

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Each South player considered three bids: pass, two, no-trump, and three hearts. One player took the conservative viewpoint and passed. The other decided to go on to three hearts,

This

three-heart call left North a problem of his own. You must be hungry," Knarf Should he pass or #o on to North finally decided game? said.

"Me?" asked the Sergeant, that he might as well try for grinning broadly and winking something worth-while

went on to game.

The play was the same at both tables. West opened the king of spades and for want of anything better to do continued

one of his marble eyes.

"I

tell you what you can't bring

me

Wants a snowball "All right, what can't I bring you?" asked Knari.

You geant slowly. "You can't bring me a cup of hot coffee. can't bring me a hot dog or n sizzling hot doughnut or a plate of hot soup."

"Let's see now," said the Ser-

"He's a fine fellow, that Ser- geant," General Tin remarked to Knurf. "It's "It's

great pity he melts in a comfortable room I'd enjoy having his like this. company. He could stand right beside me.

We'd have lots of things to talk about."

Knarf said he thought that the only place Sergeant Snow-

Knart was about to go back man would be happy in if he Into the house. The wind was came inside the house would be making his ears and his cheeks the icebox.

General But I'll tell you what you "Not big enough," fellow would hardly be able to big, fat, juicy Tin said regretfully. "The poor can bring me. Bring me a good, anowball. hold his head up."

There's a good Boy," said Ser- Known him lang?

geant Snowman. Knarf asked General Tin it he had known Sergeant Snow- man a long time.

As for the General, he finally Joined Kharf in laughing and said that he himself should have known better than to have thought, even for a second, that Knatt, would let anyone siand outside in the street and freeze without doing anything to stop ""And, of courge, my lad," added General Tin, "I under- stand about the Sergeant run- ning if you let him come into our house: He'd malt."

"Snowmen Hike the cold," said Knart. They enjoy freezing, They hate being wanh."

Knarf Blood General Tin on a roller skate and wheeled him over to the window.

"I knew the Bergeant when he was no bigger than a snow flake, as you might say," said General Tin, smiling. I don't really see too much of him any more, though,

Knarf made up the snowball. "I don't have to eat it," the Sergeant chuckled. "Just slap it on my stomach. That's where it will go anyway."

Kuart was aure of it now. loved Sergeant Bnowman everybody, and everybody loved bim. How could they help t

♥+CARD Sense

and

Q-The_bidding has been:

Bouth West

North

2❤

You, South, hold: 415 W3976548582 $14

What do you do? A-Most experts use a special convention here and jump to four hearts to show a blank band and good heart'support. If your partner - understands this con- - Yanlin-moe, M; otherwise, bid

BRIDGE

WEST (D) AAKJ

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Both vulnerable

West 10 Pass

North East

South Double Pau 1 2❤

Pass ? Opening lead-♣ K

with the ace and jack. South cashed dummy's two high trumps, entered his hand with the king of clubs and led the queen of diamonds for a finesse. When the finesse worked, South was able to take two diamond tricks and to rust one diamond and discard the viher on the ace of clubs.

Where did the luck come in! Didn't the pair that bid the gathe reap a deserved profit.

Possibly, but would you want to be in game just looking #l Had the North-South cards? trumps broke 4-1 South would have gone down and

would probably have been doubled. It either high spade had shown up in East hand, South would probably have lost three spade

TODAY'S QUESTION Again, your partner has opened two hearts. Thle time you hold: SEQUOIY VA OKET M 5 4 8. You respond two spades and ha rebids to four hearts. What ks. If the diamond finess do you do?

Answer TommeTKOW

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