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THE CHINA MAIL.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1933.
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WOMEN AND
BRIDGE.
"Not First Class Players."
AN EXPLANATION.
"Women" are
New York.
детег
first-class
bridge players, they are bad losera
Most attractive creation not only for-and they cheat" is the conclusion ladies, but also for cushions, handker- of one of the foremost American
chiefs, and ornamental articles for fadles' went.
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WE HAVE IN STOCK AND FOR SALE
great varieties of used and unused POSTAGE STAMPS
bridge experts-herself a woman.
Mra. Madelino Kerwin, who has taught and lectured about bridge throughout the States, makas this astounding Indictment against the modern "afternoon bridge-playing woman" in the American press.
She concludes from her ex- perience that the first-class male players are, and always will be, superior to Boy woman, that have not sufficient self- women control to be either first-class that players or good loners, and
they lack the nerve of the per- fect player. She refers to the hus-
in sets, bags, packets, single and in bands of bridge-playing women approval books for collections.
also
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from
Messrs. Sutton & Sons, Ltd., Reading Mexera. Toogood & Sons, Ltd.
Southampton
GRACA & CO.,
Dealers in Postage Stamps,
Seeds, Religious Goods, Toys,
Garden
No. 10, WYNDHAM STREET,
"bridge-widowers."
Explanation.
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"You see," she explains, "it is a mattor of the nerves system and of a certain business sense which you have got to have to make the best kind of gambling sense, and
guess they will never have it. And they do not have the nervous system, the cold nerve or the self- control."
Mra. Kerwin admits that women are supposed to be the greates!
P.O. Box No. 620. HONG KONG.cheaters at cards, and she adds,
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"Many women players, more than men, are not good sports in the way of accepting penalties. They are not good logare,"
"I recall one woman with whom
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LONDON FASHION
NOTED.
Sashes Again Adorn
Dance Frocks.
Something fresh for this season
I played, who owned, to my know is always desirable; and though Tedge, a large fortune. We played fashion remains much the same! there are many minor after- American Chemical Diamonds. for one penny a hundred. At the
thoughts. On dance frocks seshes; These diamends are ond of the game, she had lost ex- equal to real diamonds actly twopence.
She threw the are appearing, usually of valvet in all respecta
ao that they and in bright contrast, such as red Specially in brilliancy colas on the table
of lustre, hardness, etc bounced a foot up in the air and on black and white striped silk. "Well, I would Woollen evening dresses and fur- Can cut glass
like real she said to me: Proof against fire, Ble. never have consented to play if I topped evening frocks, shoulder acid, water, oil, etc. These diamond.
terhad known it was to be with pro- capes and velvet ruffles should now
diamonds.
can be washed with soap and water
and can be used for more than 100 fessionals."
Chemical
prove comfortable.
MENU SUGGESTIONS FOR TO-MORROW.
TIFFIN
Curried Fish Soup Boiled Chicken and Steamed Bacon Cabbage, Suct Dumplings
Fried Plum Pudding Part Wine Sauco DINNER
Hot Beef Tea Pickled Mandorin Fish Beetroot Salad Potato and Onion Salad
Roast Woodcock.
Bread Sauce, Red Currant Jelly Mashed Turnips Steamed Apricot Jelly
HOUSE WEAR FOR COLD WEATHER.
Modernised
Granny"
Shawls.
House trousera of fine stockinette are also for cold weathor. These are made with vary wide logs and vertical tuckings on the hips and
a wide top band with a row of but- tons in the colour of the atockinette at each side. They are usually navy blue or black, which allows of coloured tops. To go with them there are short jumpers with raised stripes.
House shawls and capes are an old fashion modernized. A "granny" shawl modernized for the young is made with a pointed back;' it is crossed over in front and tied balow the polat at the back. It is in bright coloured stripes. Short capes like evening capes, but in faintly ribbed Jersey materials, are other shoulder comforts. house cardigan has also smartened up, shortened, d prived of pockets; the longer cardigan with pockets is still to be found and is slightly waisted.
The
been
SANDWICHES FOR PARTY.
Hot And Cold.
Sandwiches ought to be renamod, such an impression of dryness and desolation do they convey. This is not in the least necessary and de- ponds in part upon the bread cboson, but also upon sufficiency of the mixture which is to form the ibalde.
It is often worth buying some- thing a little startling for sand- wiches. Smoked salmon of good quality is tasty, and a little goes ja long way. Lobster pounded up so that it does not emerge in lumps, and mixed with mayonnaise, also
Alla a sandwich well,
Creamy mixtures generally give ja pleasing moistness, and in them
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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beetroot,
It is far better really to steam can be mixed such trifles as nuta A short tunle of. silver lamo
There is and celery carefully minced, years. Price per carat H.K.47.50.
Bridge-Widowers.
made with a Raglan shoulder and bacon than to boil it. Terms Cash or C.O.D. Those who
Mrs. Kerwin declares that after-crossed bands of the lame on the no waste as to quantity, the flavour not so finely that they no longer purchase diamonds to the value of
Nuts flavour a good many things! HK$30 or more will get 20% dis noon bridge-playing women creat hodice can be slipped on over a is better preserved and the bacon scrunch. count. Send your orders direct to the ed bridge-widowers, just as golf black marocain evening frock and much more tender, as there is no American
Diamond Co-produced golf-widows. "But the can be worn in the afternoon or danger of letting it boil too fast. to advantage, and the hostess may P.D. Bux No. 246, Penang, S.9
dinner. A bodice-length Prepare the bacon as for boiling use her ingenuity, in combining
Steam according to the them variously with When ordering mention "China Mail.idge habit is with us and it is for
going to stay," she added. "Bridge, jumper crocheted in tinsel and water.
weight, allowing 25 minutes over. pates, cheese, and so forth. you know, in an insidious thing made with long sleeves and a It's a drug, and it gets you. It has throat frill of tinsel flowers, le a Boiled or stepmed bacon makes 4. Anything hot at a "cold" party got me. Night after night, we plan novelty for wearing with a black good accompaniment to voal and provides a surprise of its own. Hot one thing and another, and at the velvet skirt. Facenne velvet makes poultry, or it may be served alone, cheese biscuits are liked by many Hotongue sandwiches last minute we decide, 'Oh, let's useful winter afternoon and home with greens. Cabbage may be add-people. HONG KONG HEIGHTS play bridge"."
dinner frocks, and there is now ed to the bacon when partially and hot bacon sandwiches are also "And It's a marvellous thing for mushroom-pink lace with a dull cooked and is served with it. Broad a pleasing change. your old age," she concluded.
surface for dinner and evening beans are excellent with bacon and gowna; it looks well with jewels. could be added when the bacon has
Wool is now worn at all hours cooked for an hour. of the day. Thore are new wool-
Roast Woodcock.
For the information of visitors the following list of some of the bighest points on the Island and Malaland is published:-
Island
Victoria Peak
P
Feet
1,829
Signal Station
Mt. Parker
Mountain Lodge
1,774 1,794 1,725
The Eyrle
1,725
Peak Hotel
Taikoo Sanatorium
1,808 1,000 877 Mt Davia Bowen Road (Altarbeds) 297 Mainland.
Talmoshan
Kowloon Peak
Bringing
STAINS ON TOWELS.
fen 'jumpers in fine basket stitch! 1 bird per person, butter, toast, bacon, lemon, watercress. When a stain appears on a white with collars and cuffe embroidered: fat towel and thero is any doubt as to on like lace for wearing in the Pluck, and trusa the birds, brush its cause it should be immediately afternoon. A black jumper has a each over with oiled butter and treated with powdered starch. Rub black-and-white collar and a blue place a piece of fat bacon over the the starch well in and leave it until jumper & rust and beige collar. A breast. Roast in hot oven for 15 the towel is sent to the laundry. cardigan like a short jerkin fastens to 20 minutes. Baste often. Put Starch is excellent for removing high to the throat and is finished some toast buttered on both aldes stains from any white articles, but with a short frill at the waist and under the birds to catch the drip- to obtain the most successful re-on the caffe. Odd looking but cosy pings.. Remove tho bacon a few aults it should be applied as soon short jumpers knitted on old minutes before serving, flour the as the stain is discovered. In the wooden frames are in a trellis de- birds, baste them with butter and case of particularly stubborn stain 'sign, with long sleeves, like nearly brown them. Diah each bird on a the powdered starch should be all the new jumpers. For cold piece of toast, remove strings, mixed into a soft paste with milk weather in the country there are garnish with watercress and cut and then applied thickly to the jumper suits of knitted material lemon, and hand gravy made in the affected part and allowed to dry with wavy patterns in autumn roasting pan. The trails must
colours made with side fastenings, always be put on the toast.
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Change is, after all, the main thing, and a change from dry hread and insufficient ham chicken is not difficult to compass.
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61-Century (abbr) 62-Baga (abbr.) £3-in no manteri 61-Portuguese acin
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26-Robust
27-Diminutive of Helan 28-So be it
29-Tract of land
surrounded by water (pl) -91-Sneering
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43-City of France
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middle of a vessel Z-Perfumes 3-Egyptian aun-god B-Ahead 6-Pertaining to
punishment 7-And (Lat.)
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19-Waste away
VERTICAL (Cont.) 20-A conjunction (pl.) 21-Venzo (abbr) 22-8lck
23-A solution leached
from ashes (pl) |24-To remove the skin
26-Amang
30-Approaches. 32-Part of the arm |88-Ghost
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The solution of the above with a new cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's tesue.
Up Father.
THAT SON OF MINE WILL NEVER AMOUNT TO ANY-| THING MES JUST DUMB, WELL-THERE HE IS AN”, GERI LOOK AT THAT BEAUTIFUL GIRL HE
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TO-MORROW.
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