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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1947.

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Old Moore Gubbins, the world- famous artrologer, has frequent- offered his inaccurate forecasts

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of future events to the credulous public. This week he will tap along behind more successful astrologers who earn a crust or two describing your character according to the month of your birth.

Unlike most astrologers, who write mainly to please women, this to written to annoy every- body-men, womer, and chif- dren.

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Fence

by NATHANIEL

GUBBINS

February

particularly, women, are obsessed with this iden of being always forgetting that Eve, Jan. 20 modern, he whis modern-more modern and daring than the majority of her descendants.

are

F you were born in this

period you

menu, grasping, cagey, and cun

ning.

At school you will be hated because

natural you are EL sneak.

You will also cheat at exams. and games because your greedy eye will be fixed on the prize rather than achievement for its own sake.

in

You will be successful business, so long as it is dirty business. You would also suc- ceed in politics.

So far, club committees have not studied astrology. When they do, they will blackball all people born in January. This will save a lot of resignations by other members, who will find January-born people rude, bourish,

vain, and tight-fisted.

Althougth February people believe they will succeed at anything, they usually succeed at nothing, unless somebody kicks them up behind.

In fact, this is the best thing to do with them--When you know them better, It will give you a great deal of satisfaction.

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Mar. 20

Feb. 20 WHAT a cocky, domineering lot you are. Like the February people, you know everything, too, And heaven help anybody who up- sets your vanity.

else.

You

Women are advised not to marry Geminis. They get bored easily, are not Interested in anybody but them- solves, aro inclined 'ot drink much, and are hardly ever faithful,

Although they havo two per sonalities, they are both unpleasant,

June 21.

A

too

July 23

BORN sucker, eh? Loyal, de- cent, dumb, reliable, fond of your family, always imposed upon, honest, truthful-what a mess you

are.

What hopes have you at getting on in this world, though you may be O.K. in the next.

You were a horrid little boy. You were also a horrid little girl. kicked little boys who touched your engine. You scratched little girls can waste any more space on it who nursed your doil..

You are even more horrible now you are grown up. The sooner you are certifled and safe under lock and key, the better.

April 21

May 20

LAZY but lucky is the best way

The

If

¢

never woman,

In fact, your personality is so dull except to advise you never to In- vest your money if you are a man. to spcak strangers.

A real astraloger writes of your type. "You will do well in all callings connected with liquids."

This does not necessarily mean ad- you would make a first-class

to menn

niral. It is more likely you would make a second-rato pot-

Blies. man.

to describe May-born people. The men are usually bar

women are usually slots. In fact, both sexes would be natural brains

horn splys if they had any for buying and selling. As it is, they lounge through life walling

not

ofter

them.

July 24.

...

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

L'a

"Personally, dear lady, i find that the first part of the trick is simple getting the sword out agairi that to so confoundedly

difficult."

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

August 23 THE first attempt to fly

Invite home the second time.

backwards round the world

will probably soon be made in

O. Here comes the great lover, ch? It a woman, a vamp; If a man, one of these people you never a Supersonic Retrogressor.

Also a bit of a political extremist, stratospherically controlled, O too? Λ frothing Fascist or

scheming Communist?

for somebody to look

them. And as they are born lucky, some You also believe you can do any hard-working wretch usually does. thing better than anybody

Although born under the sign of Failure after fallure won't make any Venus, you

necessarily difference to your self-esteem. You beautiful. In fact, you are inclined very funny will always think it is somebody to run to fat and not else's Inuit.

stories. You would make good bar- maids if you were not such good bar flies, good publicity agents If you knew some funnier stories.

Nevertheless, you will succeed, even if it is only by trampling on If you are a January-born man somebody else. If a man, you would your wife will hate you. If you are make a good, if unpopular, sergeant-

hus- major January-born woman your

woman, a goud and ex- band will hate you. If you

of n were tremely unpopular matron both born in January, your children'

hospital. will

be devils, born with hooves und

Whatever you do you will be un- tails.

Zodiacal popular. As your

sigo, Pisces, is represented by two fishes, which med 10 and drown yoter.

don't you go self?

When you were born,, the sun was pansing through the, the Goat, Zoding called Capricorn,

And you January people have one thing in common with goats. You

$link.

Jan. 21

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Feb. 19

FBRUARY

NEBRUARY people are

are

hores,

and

•

this соп

You will probably live to a 'great are, because you don't worry. You have no brains to worry with.

May 21

June 20

You were born under the sign of Gemini, The Twins, which means you have dual personality. This is unly a polite way of saying you a first- class liar.

You are every bit as lazy as the May-born people, but you are not quite so dumb.

In fact, your mind is too quick for most people. You have talked them into something before they know where they are, unless you're trying it on somebody of your own type.

Mar. 21.

a double-crosser and April 20 HITLER was born during you period, so most of nothing consider yourselves half, or wholly, restless, mad. vain, self-centred

always But yours is not the foolish, irres- worrying themselves

other ponsible madness which many young people about their health, talking people affect in the hope that some- rubbish about things they don't body will mistake it for genius. understand, joining societies and Yours is the madness of the fixed yapping about politics and religion ideo, the passion to impose your without the vaguest knowledge of views on others, the determination either.

to reach your objective ut any cost- You

tell them anything, to other people. know. They think they have

You

like freedom for yourself: advanced ideas and believe them seridum for the rest. You believe selves to be "modern," whereas they in keeping the lower classes in their are more conventional than most proper place. If you happen to be- people and usually have no ideas at long to this class yourself you will all unless they nequired them from always find somebody a little lower somebody else.

to oppress.

Th

P

can't

ORTRAIT

Thinking

Aloud

By PAUL HOLT

OF A WHITE GIRL IN SEARCH OF HER JOB: She was in the W.A.A.F. when I first met her asked. "Ol two years ago.

training

won't

A cheerful girl. necessary. You just go mund We used to call her Flighty tell them," said the oficial. Officer So-and-so.

д

Selentists say that it rhould be Fond of possible to fly round the world up- I think I can see you.

Icw good living and finery, argumenta-side down or sideways in a tive, aggressive, selfish, and greedy. years' time, and that these develop-

Keep out of my way, will you?

ments will certainly be used, for peaceful purjokes, It should also

Aug. 24...

Sept.23

be pusatble, by injections, of the

JUST a fusspot, aren't you? Fussy effects of which little is known, to and boy. Tidy and tyrannical accustom the human body to travel its/de. and at the speed of light. And if such

not put my. Worrying about your other people's insiden. Never really prognostications do

is and readers into a lather of delight, then happy unless somebody you can fuss over corne

From your crowd come the civil they are not the cratins I took them servants, the unadventurous respec- ters of law and order.

for.

Nothing much to say about dull, A ghastly prospect

sane people like you except to ed-

withholding all American films from Britain is

vise you to stop talking about your THE threat of operation.

a threat not only to art and culture,

Sept. 24... Oct. 23 but also to those who have no other

The

means of learning the American If the threat is carried women language. NOTHER dull lol.

are shy and homely (In both out, a generation will grow up which senses of the word), and are given will not be able to speak the Holly- to sitting around clicking knittingwood dialect, and may even be de- needless and asking silly questions.

The men are much the same ex-prived of the latest developments in

music. cept that they can't knit.

Superficial knowledge is one of Oct. 24... Nov. 22 【In passing

I daresay most spiva were born in this period.

your assets in making friendships, Although you are too indolent to CCORDING to this real astrológer. N ingenuous article in a paper Auska, for the nine rallionth time, sequire real knowledge, you can talk A have been reading. some

greatest people in te plausibly about anything under the the sun. As a crooked auctioneer you have been born in this period. would be a great success.

For it idleness is a crime,

w the punishment be?

what

to

It's no good sending a man prison because he sits in the sun-

You wiggles his toes. shine and can't fine a man for yawning. The prisons of Britain are already full of lndles and gentemen

DI

world

what our grandmothers would have But don't let this go to your head. raid if they had been told that their be able to You are cocky enough as it is. Re- grandchildren would

born under brealofast in London and dine in member that millions this sign have never done anything New York on the same day. They into might have answered that tomfool.

question in the style of Matthew Arnold's famous Temark. More probably they would have asked

much but poke their other people's business.

nosca

That is why you make such good policemen. Hiyu, fatfoot.

too Nov. 23.. Dec. 23 why anybody should desire to make

who

I'VE

•

did something to allow any great in- I'VE been right round the aux of ladies and gentlemen who do nothing

But there is another way. No

such a parade of his lack of com-

year without finding-unybody who mon sense............. doesn't seem to be either a fool or a

The Crisis hat natural-born basket.

So I'll try to say something nice only to about you, even if it is maintain some faith in the human race.

Again, according to this real as trologer, you're not a bad sort, any way.

а no meat leket-is work card, trick worth trying. The streets of Moscow are filed with tired gran- nies who sweep snow in return for a bread card. And it can happen

tough, be here. When things get and can happen here.

"I just won," said the girl, wildn't have the nerve."

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·

Like the June-born people, you Mr have

taste

THE back-to-front hat." says my paper, "is the latest millinery craze. Worn with double-fluted brims down the back of the neck, it resembles both the cloche and the fisherman's sou'wester." Very well.

a dual personality, the same How will you know whether a lady We should be grateful to

One quick mind, the same cusy friend- is a fisherman going out or an or- Dalton for giving us warning.

us. A ships, maybe the same

for dinary lady coming in? Especially She just couldn't wait to get She used to get a job as a con- thing more ne could do for

What Liquor. atudio. The definition of idleness, please.

as "They have discarded the east- The women are described as bright to west line in favour of the north- out and put on a frock again tinuity girl In a Alm

man told her he thought the work is this crime? and wear a silly hat. (Not would bore her.

beings, cheerful in adversity; the Shall we

Bring your compass, The typist who knits.

men as outdoor, sporty types, given to-south." *that I am suggesting She got a job with the O-wot-a-

slices of bread and to making puns.

madam, or try it on at night by the that W.A.A.F. headgear isn't relief Corn Plaster Co. for a while, dock her two

A pity.

North Star. scrope? A oman offered her free passage

woman silly).

The tle man who shuts up shop and £300 a year to go to Tokyo in When finally they let her out look after her two children. She and goes to the races. Take away she got a job as a kind of thought of accepting until she learn- his bacon ration? secretary in a dingy little house ed that the British in Tokyo

in an encampment - and there's in South Kensington which had nothing there to spend £300 been turned into a reunion club anyway.

Ilve

on

The writer who spends a week ini search of the perfect sentence. No caviare for him, sir.

L'ossips, The telephone girl who

No nylons for you for ex-officers. She left when She got a job in a cosmetics fac- I'm sorry, miss.

didn't this week. she found that it took no time tory in the suburbs. But it

That is what it will come to. And at all to turn a reunion club last.

can see how perfectly Finally they offered her a post ad- although I into just one more little after-

the equitable such a system looks girls leaving vising young noon drinking den.

WAA how to get a civilian job theory-fo each according to Next she fried selling lipsticks at This was loo much. As she couldn't needs, from each according to

perfect Plan for the the British

Industries

know it won't K she WOS going to advise other girls ideal State-yet I Olympia, but the sight of air at et a job for herself she was darned ability is the

work. posite face of the Great British how to do it.

For take

to away, mon's right Today she is back in. uniform Public, looming and receding, loom-

Officer So-and-ro. stand and stare, relieve him of the ing and receding eight hours a day, again. Flighty made her spasleke.

A regular. The postwar world, she choice to starve if he so wishes, and you've got his soul and he will die. rays. You Can Have It.

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is a crime. That's

what

the

Black deeds

in

his

his

The Ministry of Fuck offered her a jobs going round the country, telling

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