DUMB-BELLS
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TO MR. H. SMITH,
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BRS LAILLER
ST. LOUIS
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THE LEDGER SYNDICATE
JACOBY
ON BRIDGE More Than One Way To Play Hand
WEST
8042 52
NORTH (D)
OAK958
• AK1074
Q10
101 B
17
AK702
~EAST
4QJ107 ASS
J9843
SOUTH Nona ❤KQJ987
396532
68
East-West vul.
North 14 16
Fut South West
Pass 1
Pass
PASE
2❤
Pass
མ་
Pass
Pass
Рдия
Pass
Opening lead-◆ K
By OSWALD JACOBY THERE'S- usually more than
one way to make a bridge hand, Just as there's usually more than one way to kill a cat. In today's hand, sharp defence rubbed declarer of the simple play for his contract, but he was clever enough to find a satis- factory-substitute.
West coened the king of diamonds and realised the situation when J partner, dropped the queen. West thoughfully shifted to o trump, the best defence. Essl naturally took the uce of trumps and led a second round of trumps, thus killing dummy's ruffing power.
The contract would have been easy agamist any other defence, South was sure of tive trumps to his own nand and four top cards in the dummy, he could ruff a diamond with, dummy's ten, the tenth trick would surely develop. If Baal over. ruffed, the South hard would win six trump tricks East falled to over-ruit, dunung's true would win a trick.
Declarer won the second round of trumps with dumny's ten, cashed the top wonder and ruffed a spade, Next Ju drew the last trump with the
king of hearts and entered dummy with u clufa tu teal another low spade. East biayed the queen of spades, and Bouth calmly discarded
a diamond.
Now dummy's nine of apades was high as declarer's much-needed tenth trick. What's inare, East had to load a elub Be had nothing but clubs left) to duminy ace, thu enabling dummy to gain the lead.
CARD Sensēd
Q-The bidding la Weit
North Part
Bouth Pass
PAIS
1 Diamond 1 Heart 2 N. T. JN.T. Pass PASS
You, South. hold: Spades Q-10-8-7- 4. Hearts None. Plamonds 9-7-6, Clubi Q-10-8-7-4, What do you lead?
A-Lacd the inven" of clubs. The only choica is, of courąd, between spader and clubs. You
or four good cards in the sult that you open. If your partner fad that sort of holding in sundar la addition to hilo hearts, he would have doubled for a takeout instead of bidding the hezeta. However, there is a fair chance thai he hai elgh strangth with his hearta) he would be unable to double be-- cause of spade shortness.
that your partner holds three hope
TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding is the same as in, the question just answered. You, Sauth, hold: Spades 10-8-7-4, Hearts A-0-3, Diamonds 6-2, Cluba J-9-8-5. What do you lead7
Answer Tomorrow
• BARBS
You
By HAL COCHRAN
can always pin your faith- on a fat man, says a writer. Because he can't stoop to any- thing low?
·
Fifty ducks in British Colum-" bla were made 1 by eating mash from a still. Call in quack doctor!
With some girls, it's love at first sight of the fellow's bank account,
INTELLIGENCE TEST
Muse Valley
By T. G. HARE
Muse Valles no one tunes Balu, to anything bực, the „Tilrd Proarsinime, Among the members of this quitured opiony are the trag. Oracus Hanry, Wintam, and Germ
·and the tưptbar 770m and
Edwin Pink,
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BY
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THE
by
Beachcomber
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUÁRY 7, 1952.
WAY.
MUSHROOMS: ON SKEWERS
YOU WANT A FEW LARGE MUSHROOMA, TAKO DEP THE STALKS, POE THEM, AND EUT THEM IN SLICES
ACROSS
Pare
WOMANSENSE*
(CUT HALF ÁS MANY PIECES OF STALE CRUSTUN99 BAD
THE SAME THICKNESS AND MUCH THE SAME
··· SİZE
GLAND STICK THEM, ON SKEWB229, ONG PIECES OF BRITAD
TWO OF MUSHROOM, AND SO ON
BGASON THEUM SPRINKLE
*WITH
MARG
Jewellery Notes
NEW YORK hotel, realising incident in which a mature matron A
that even the radio cannot paring through her treille at dusk, heard a voice whispering: "ty with supply all that people ask of life, met Expo from it allt aly un la experimenting with "alking patient camel pawa tie dust, and chairs." When you sit down in the planet of love in sloft in the properly, one of these chairs you automat- she replied: "Get" . Quite
Duti tically start, "Three minutes af Pride of Lots Road recorded tall, followed by dreamy musfe,"
star-strewn
1
Rear-Admiral Bir Ewart Hodgson
So popular is this bound to be that, hefaro tung, we shall be met by a lecture when wa turn on the electric light, a dance-tune when we turn on the bath, and a question naire when we lie down on the bed, Bilent furniture gets on the nerves, and every cupboard. wardrobe, and desk in the house can, with a little ond Ingenuity, be made to contribute to our entertainment. This will keep people thorne, and the "strength in the bars of family iffe.".
ENTER U Ara Baw, hotfool foni Burm.
Behind the trellis
TN erecting trellized to hide washing" said Councilar Tufty yesterday, "Bromicy hopes to act to the amenities of the district. Un- fortunately, young men, their heads
with romantic
nonsense, Imagine that behind every trellis there is a languishing beauty. Thi is not to. I deplore particularly an
TRUST that that old sea-dor will not take it as a disomurtery; it I remark that his "flag-ship." the Saucy Mrs Plobster, soerna to be in need of the annual overhaul. I passed this astonishing craft the other day, as she lay at what could never he called her moorings, near
Power Station. Witheraedge, the feeding her cat in the lee of s caretaker, PVDS broken mokostack. I asked her how the old mow managed to loseg afloat. "I never adn't noticed it was
she bent
at is inud and allmp in which the ship lolled so apathetically.
M.ru
abit of tartrat peering over, a
..
Not that I care
COOKERY
AGAIN?
'BACH SKEWER SHOULD HAVE GNOUGH ONS PERS
AND GRILL. ČAREFULLY AND NOT TOO FAST BASTING
MELTY
MARG
Caring For Floor Coverings
It was the first time ho had ever called her Amy. She was so sur- prised that she dropped the saucepan.ARD (From a novel.i
Her name was probably Ealth.
-Landon Express Service)
YOUR BIRTHDAY........ .By STELLA
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7
Social events
not
As well as the creative genius in the arts and might do well on the radio, the stage or screen. Since you have a good instinct for business, the chaticos are that you may become well off at a fairly early age. You have a tendency to 'moodiness and inw #pirits. Cangtær this. Always looke on the bright side of things and you wilf and that an optimistic attitude reully pays,
BONN today.. you are a perceptive will do some good.
Judite of human nature and have, merely for pleasure alone do the gift of being able to dramative interest you too much, and picture ordinary events of lo You have certain. Imitative intenta wividly by the wrillen and the spoken word. Cunivate your Therary ability ai on estiv age, for it could become a lucrative career für you. You meg, especially, are interested in the bet terment of all those who are less fortunate than yourself and probably will use your "kifis energekeally in their behalf,
You have genial. convivial personality and like to get out and All kinds of people. woinen are especially good Jostersen. You are out to put your, birthday star and read the carrel- tulents to work in some elute or pending paragraph, Let your birth- philanthrople programune where it day står be your daily guide,
ineet
*
You To And what the stars have in
for tomorrow, zeiret is alre
your
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 18)-- Make new friends welcome to your lame. You might entertain a group to introduce them.
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 203- Some
klea creative
be whale developed Inday, for it can lead, perhaps to a new curcer.
ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20)-- Have complète conidence in own Ideas Develop them and you will find Bast they are good.
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)
str
A new approach to athleving a wisn can prove the way in accomplishment. He original in your thinking.
GEMINI (fay
237-
floor coverings
are
I growing in importance as the floor achieves 'new emphasis In the decorative scheme of things.
Rubber and composition tile and Unoleum find themselves at
By ELEANOR ROSS
away. More dirt and moisture enter these openings and 101- creased scrubbing is necessary. Gradually the noleum becomes home In all parts of the house hand and brittle, the colours and are used for the
fade out, leaving the living
Burface room in many of the ranch dull, and drab, Bumpe and house Type interiors, Good go- cracies appear, the edges split ing when there его lively and warp, and then the Foor youngsters and plenty of traffic; covering just has to be
placed. upkeep
Clothed In Gems and goid, too, where
CANCER (June 22-July Make a careful schedule and then adhere in it if you want to get every- thing done.
LEO (July 21-Aug. 23)- Entertain those who are new in your community and share your happiness Heavily encrusted with
stones 23)-precious (Aug. 24-Rept.
In the bolero A day for all the creative arts, shown here by Columbia film especially iterature and music. Make star Helen Gilbert.
She wears (Rept.
in the
at home with oilers,
VIRGO
24-Oct 23)
the must aľ it.
LINKA
your love for nature and beauty by getting outdoors if you can.
It
re-
must be kept at a minimum.. The way to do right by lino- Mind you, we aren't for one cum, then is to treat it to a
waxing,
self- moment suggesting that there's good
using anything to beat the elegance polishing wax, paste wax OT of a fine carpet, but the hard liquid cleaning and polishing surface floor coverings have wax as you prefer. There are their rootera, too, which isn't definite advantages, though, to surprising when you consider using self-polishing WRX for the advantages of a stain-proof, nors are subjected to
kitchen linoleum. Because these
easy-to-clean floor.
much heavy traffic, often
get wet and New Patterns
have things spilled on them, There are handsome new tile they are something of prob- patterns, vastly different
from lem. A good wax film helps
a
RY
the old checkerboard variety, the kitchen linoleum resist sol! come on true modernistic lines, ard the wax will not
allow perfect for contemporary in the necessary occasional mop feriors. There are handsome ping to harm the surface new linoleum patterns as well, designed to fit into living and dining rooms,
well 11.9 favourite, stand-bys, brought up
it-
self.
Cloan Before Waxing Linoleum should be clean
or
to date a bit, for bathrooms, before it is waxed. If soap or
detergent is used to mop kitchens, entry halls.
Looking after linoleum
to wipe up the door, be sure to
well,
A
detergent allow- keep it looking fresh and its
ed to remain colours bright is often made ex
will draw
out off more difficult than it should from the linoleum and when Alm "Thief of be. It is inoleum floors are
is mixed with wax this
Will and rightly cause a sticky finish, So rinse Enjoy your vocation. Indulge in Damascus". The bolero is very scrubbed away than are worn wall and see that the floor is
that more tight-fitting, has long sleeves
completely dry before waxing. traffic. SCORPIO (Oct, 24-Nov. 22) coming to a point over the backaway by normal foot Yatt. can brouden your horizon by of the hand and has a
Pour a small amount on the The secret is to protect proper- proach a business expenditure fust one careful reading on a subject infringed border. Helen'g-blonde the surface of linoleum,floor and spread with a soft.
whics you are interested.
cloth 'or then harsh scrubbing Isn't re
long handied spreader. Do not rub in. Ap- quired,
but ply even, generous cont, Harsh Handling not, so heavy that puddles form It is this harsh handling that on the floor. If properly loosens minute portions of the plied, a clean sparkling fibre which are soon washed should appear as the wax dries.
27-June
Be very cautious of how you sp
now. Wisdom is needed.
CHESS PROBLEM
By N, K. MALACHOFF Black, 13 pieces.
heavy
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22) hair is waved back from her Avold making husty decisions but face and round her head she try to discover some prakticn! way of increasing income.
wears a bandeau of heavy pearls CAPRICORN (Dec. 21-Jan. 20) ending in two silk tassels. The In an interview put your best foot earrings of semi-precious forward, but don't be "overaggressive when meeting strangers.
atones.
BOYS
arc
AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Chirpie Makes Up His Mind
-It's Hard to Decide Where to Spend the Winter-
By MAX TRELL
glve Chirpic Sparrow any advice they could. So finally, after eating most of the crumbs White, 8 pieces.
HIRPIE Sparrow come to
on the window slil, Chirple the window sil} White, to play: mate in three,
for his began: Solution to Vesterday's morning bread crumbs. Hear-
Knart him there, problem;
ing
and
1, B-Kis, any; 2, Q. B, or Kianid, the shadow - children with the turned-about, names,
fted the window.
mates.
CROSSWORD
13
Fro
迎
猪
1. One way to
Across
GT
didcreate the tileer deem
7, Shrub thas produces the net
do (5)
9. Oxide of Killoop. (6)
10. Valttabis in age, my lad, (8)
11. Fools return it anipahape. B)
18. The Frenda follow to spoon. (8)
16. The fall comes later. (0%
10: Cova ees mixed up with. (6)
19. Experimental, (7)
20, on guard, inter of coupe, (5)
21. The retum of X (3)
12. Money given away on Thursday
in Holy Wock, 10),
Down
1. Carpet material. (8)
2. Enough to make Bue live. (7)
3. Otary that and there la no
Kis, (2-4).
The very person to fron meat. (8) 5. Preclude, it's nothing but
PORE, (D)
6. Resim without an artist. (3)
8 Peruse. (4),
10. Taking the
engine (7)-
sir AWG7
12. No plain Jane in. (8),
1 Let into the Dee, (0)
17. Ace of spades. (4)
18 Eterna (4) .
"Hello, Chirple," sald Knarf. "Good morning, Chirple," sald Hanid.
to
Chirpio's Question
the
By ALICE ALDEN
A Delicate litter is very much part of the fashion scene with beautiful costume jewellery offering various tricks with which to brighten smart simplicity or pains up a distinctive touch. For instance, the stand-away collar is à feature of many new frocks and what nicer way to call attention to this pretly neckline than with a cleverly placed spot of sparkle? Coro brings glitter to the stand-away collar of this gold mole dress with big, bold solitaire pins of ruby, "topar and sapphire. Note too, the brilliant cabochon stones in the mamive link bracelet, and the cover-all ear rings which are all věry, new,
AN OPEN QUESTION
what age de present day acquira
. sons and daughters a latchkey?
.i
"Latchkeys should be a gentle- 'man's
lady'e agreement between parent and child," he Parents say...
The old tradition of giving the said sp-|latchkey on the 21st birthday is finish dead. Though in the Divorce EWS of parents today..... Court recently Mrs Irene Joan Wilbur Evans, male lead in Knowles, of Hayes, Middlesex, South Pacific Michael David revealed that neither she nor will get his key between 12 and |her sfater-in-law, who lived in 16"
the same house; was allowed, a Lind Joyce, radio singer-"My key.
ou can have his as soon as he Vogue's Book of Etiquette can hold holds that girls of 16 to 16 are Parent who used to belong to "Sparrows don't go sleigh rid- The robins
allowed to go to films or dances the old-fashioned school la 80- and the thrushes
in groups, without a chaperone, year-old Sir Harry Seller, pre ing. We don't go ice skating and the wallows
and most of though not to a prizefight. Girls sident of the Federation of Mas- either.
the other birds are gone. When of 17 cán We don't throw snow-
to night ter Builders. bails,"
the children see
go me in the
clubs chosen by the family, in winter, they always shout with groups
without Hapid said, "Not all the joy,
a chaperone, had to wait until he was 22 and 'Look, they cry. there's leaves drop off all the trees, a beautiful bird. No one calls though they cannot go to a prize had been to the war, for his Aght without an older person." latchkey. His daughter Winnie, Chirple. The pine trees slay me a beautiful bird in the sum
aged 62, got hers at : 23 “when green all winter long."
mer. And you must not think Hugh. Lyon, headmaster of she asked for it."
But his adopted daughter Again Chirple shook his head. I ever lonely either. Squire Rugby for 17 years, until 1046,
Squirrel stoys here. Blinky says he thinks most boys Veronica, aged 10, will get hers "Sparrows don't build their Mole stays here. My
enemy now leaving public schools at 17 much earlier. Times have nests in pine trees. Besides,” he added, "when the north wind the cat stays here and so do all or 18 have quite a lot of free-changed, says Sir Harry "but
the dors
Idom, including keys.
not until she's 10," blows, no tree is any good for a nest to be in.",
זי
A Good Change "Well," said Chirple, "that's
"My dears," he said," "every autumn I am bothered by the "I guess," Knarf said, "you'd same question. Should I spend be better oft down south with the winter here or should I fly
the other birds, Chirple." Eouth with my friends the "I think so too," sild Hanid. "The top of the morning
thrushes and the robins, you,” sold Chirple, "and the swallows? They really want middle of the morning and the me to come along with them. bottom of the morning, too. As They say it's warm down south; soon as I Anish eating some they say the sun always shines; more of these crumbs (and
plenty to drink and plenty Then I say to myself: Why do of
I need to live in a palm tree room for an airy,nest in a ask your advice about something."
palm tree,
when it's just as werm under the roof of an old barn? And Khorf and Hanid both guid
"They say," continued Chir-
Why do I need flowers and they would be delighted to ple, "that. It's cold up here, that green grass? Don't I see enough there is very little food to eat, of them 'all' spring and summer that there are no leaves on any and autumn? Isn't it good for of the trees, that the ground. a change to see the Aelds and covered with snow, that all the the mendows and the hills and
they're very good, I must say) and there's plenty to eat what I always think-at flrat.
I'd like to
10-24
from
“The top of the morning to you," mid Chirple to Kharf.”
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1. Is coral plant or animal
#2. Where is the White River?
3 Where is th
Causeway.
Glant's
Is i bandoler?
4. What is
In what country was the
Battin of the Bulge fought?
6. Deiție Dalisontology.
(Answera on Page 10)
he can fly to a
grass and the flowers are gone, even the trees and hedges and that taking one thing covered with snow and hanging with another a bird is foolish with icicies? It's uue I
don't who chooses to stay, here when go sleigh riding; It's truo I don't pleasanter go ice-skating or throw snow- the bails. But it's fun to see place."
children go slimming down the hill and sliding over the and laughing as they throw
now-balls at each other."
"And moreover,” he went on, "food
may be scarco up here
Chirple Sparrow paused, "The thing Is," he said, "should I go or shouldn't I? Should I stay here or shouldn't
17"
When the Snow Falls, It's fun here in the winter Ume, suld Knorf. "When the snow falls, you can go sleigh riding."
In the winter time but it you. look hard enough, you're almost sure to find enough to all your tummy from day to day. And food that's hard to find always ..seems to taste, better than food. Chirple Sparrow shook his that's all around you. All in head. "Not me”. he cold. all, it's quite pleasant up here.
Rupert and the Pine Ogre-2
Reaching the edge of the wood Gulda," appears over the layer. Rupert pausi. **Surely that was Got you that time, Ropere,”aha the call of the cuckoo," he thinks. laughs. “Yes, I'm afraid, you did,” ***How near it sounded. It must be says the little bear cheerfully, but clown in the bushes." He moves ought to have known. It wasn't -forward
inquisitively. Next mal cuckoo, They'va all flown mouse he hears a chuckle, and away long ago. I'm looking for fir the smiling face of Beryl, the Girl :-cones, What are you doing here?
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