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By OSWALD JACOBY
IF you happened to drop in on
the national bridge tourna- int now being held in Detroit, half of the experts of your ac quaintance would give you bord luck stories and the other half ***** would probably tell you about ull the mistakes their partners had made. Years of experience at This have taught me to look sympathetic and say "Tsk! Tsk!" every twenty severuis,
Actually, everybody has his share Df good luck and bal Jurk at a kiru Tournament What's th
When you're at the toy of voter game, your poriner's mistakes sonetimes work for you instead at agalnal you.
For examping consider today's hand, which was played in the national chauplanthips of 1948. The hand played an impestant part in the victory of Helen Sobel, of New York nad Margaret Wagar, of Affatta, für the second year in a row.
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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1952.
CLYDE
LAMB
"Didja hear that click, Ed? I think I'm getting it!"
• BY THE • WAY
by
Beachcomber
Ankara, Feb. 24.
MAN who is described as an orthodox economist has sakl that what we are experiencing at the moment is not so much Inflation as refiflation,
So what
inust aim at. 1o bridge the target, is not disinflation redisination. And by the tune redisimilation ream its lovely head. we shall feel the hut breath of deredisinflation
aur necks.
These things go by eyeles, as the misanthrope said when the Saturday Tolstoy Circle set out for di annual A-ride.
Pradanse: Why do 3፡1 pretend I be wring from Ankara?—
Mykejf: To give heat cuteur to what I have to say.
A well-dressed egg DEAR SIR,
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hat on the epp after le toas old. But there did it get the bat?
Yra iruly,
"Mes.) Ada Webb. 'Mid the traffic's roar AHARLIE SUET'S Traffic Schedule Includes a startling innovation. 2 is proposed a make use where two concentric curves more roads crass, By swerving, Ad it were, an interior lines, oncoming trathio would than cancel out ongoing traffic. A nudel of an oval street illustrates the curve principio, based on the cone system.
When the, lines converge Keparate ught. The traffic dieribes a series of parabolas,
Oncoming
Traffic
interlude
HERE is
Barday
of or
they પ્રાપ
Outgoing Traffic
(News item.)
an atd. love-song with a retrain that will appeal to them bo:---
She complained that he no loper her about anything but talked red in DONT
sonne columu -time aga the account of
beer, 14 square con laid by a hen at Chepstow. One of our fiens, on October 20 lakt An eo with a stall hat on top. The hat, of course, fett off, then we picked up the egg, ita un prdlaru felt one, dented in the middle, and with a narrow band, it has no lining. It was to molt We 1 to be worn by a human being.
showed it to a poultry farmer, and Wagar Jamn to four hearts | he said the hey must have put the "Mistake" since say olayer with her manguificent tournament record hak
Many experts thought that Ms Wagar' juinn to four hearts was a distinct overban, I certainly en- eouraged Mrs Sobel to jump right to Mix hearts, a very shuky (contract.
cal Mis would heallate to
a fight to her own Ideas about Junin
raisti. However, that's the sort of f bli thot you'd have în may "Taki Taker about if it has Turned out hadly.
Actually,—all-turned-out-for-the hest West happened to pick th druce of dunions as openitu lead. He couldn't have picked 21 mure favourable lead,
Mrs Bobel discarded a club from the dummy and captured ing queen of diamonds with her ace. She cun- ace and king of tinued with the
hearts, and then fed the lack of damonds through West.
West played low, and Mrs Subel boldly fel îne Jack of gjunjunds mixte. Furtunately for tter, it held the trick, whereupon she ruled u kw canona With the Nearts. Next she cashed the ove and king as spades sod pulled a spade, lý leg own,land, When the mult Diuke' 2-3 saw count bord sigh of relief.
Mr Sopel next ruffed another around In qammy, catening, weaka king. This showed her to lead an Established spade from dummy, to discard je osim viub, West could Tutt, but that was the only trick De could take.
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You, Beth. inid: Swades A-D-3-7-4. Hearts A-Q-2. Diamonds 1-3 Clubi K-J-5 White you do?
This no-tramp. describes the total strength of the hand and the strength in the inbid sults. A re-bid uf only two spartes would be an underhid, white a re-uid- of 3 order would exaggerate tha strength of the sult in addition to being a light overbid,"
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1. Downtrodden feahlon, of print?
4. Consumable, (0) 8. F1.
In the neighbourhood, (B).
Then a bird in a tree Whispered to me
"Hush Your lover draws near! Your will use him, of course, By his face like a hor&C
And
hin with beer."
Bowler Hot dripping
YOUR BIRTHDAY BY STELLA
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25
PORN torfey, you are a
natural fleve in the freedom of
personal
innovator. You learn things action only if it 19 for the good of quickly and have a memory flat Celana kotviesige easily. Yet you
are not content with this. You wish to discover new methods und nut into the new Ideas, Your Imagina- is the creative;; constructive n type. You Waste Bile energy in thi vielinary Your ideas tej others, may appear visionary but you know that they are practieaf and set about proving it by putting them into po- Llor
You have a highly developed social nature as well as an ability to co- operate with others in the degree to which it is necessary to keep the wheels of progress moving. Your jadividuality is strong but you be-
You women, especialty, are fond of society and will make excellent husteesta. You are Inclined to be of #romantic turn of mind” in youth and must guard against being carried away by temporary infatua- tions. However, if you listen th should your heart carefully, you know when "Mr Right.comes. along. You will be happiest when wed, for #solitary life can never appeal to one of your gregarious nature,
To find what the stars hava in More for tomorrow. select you birthday star and read the corres- ponding paragraph, Let your birth- day star be your dalty guide.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26
ip-
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)- Not a gend day for making portant dreisions. Postpone them until later.
ARIES (Star. 1-Apr. 201- Adhere einsly to your schedule. Finish a task before einbarking
21)- releve and
upon a new one,
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May Your favourite hob' z will the bar.com Gut D routine
(May
anti
22-June 21)--- Stay clear of all cheers, Don't permit yourself to be careless detail it can be injurious. (June 22-July
CANCER
of
1)---
you call
If you miss distant friends. should write A telephone might also help.
LEO (July 24-Aug. 21)- Don't take on new obligations unt you have dispatched those already under consideration.
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 233- Best for you 10 fullow your own decisions rather than to heed
advice of offers too much.
the
JADICA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)- The younger generation probably nerds' help and advice right now,
Do your best to give it.
CHESS PROBLEM
By K. KUMMER Black, 10 pieces.
(3)
18
19. CAT
be anloot, (5)
14. Denuded to the graduate, (3)
10. The trends and out that blod
the hole in a net. 14)
Pound in the margin. (4)
30: head.
24. Bucolla. (6)
23. Owed, (9)
20, Block this on Tens side (3)
Sure, go and havo e grumble, (6) Danzumed. 181
Down
Ever in delay. (7)
Local dialect. (3)
9. Metal, (6) 1. Road spirit. tối
ô and u. It ogien, (4, 3) a
3. On the side 2,431
12. Containera, (0)
19. Egg on. (0)
17- Bhear at a lotter to your sunt. 16)
18. Pitchers in the singular wore
* 19. Telp. ` (4) European wife, id)
21. Brieny away from. (0) Solution of Saturday's puzzle. Across:
Picco, 10. Hyd
a 14 SalzRD: 13. Asoker.
18. 34, taks 04, Trendi 15, Edas.
Bporadial Oilajase Loudal 4. Kinnitat D. De0: 6. - Ered
Check Your
Knowledge?
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Africa,
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4. What is the chief
of dynamite?
Who were
Name
the
Lak
White, 10 pieces.
White to play: mate in two,
Solution to Saturday's problemi:
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov, 22) dossip has no place in your life. Discard rumours and stick entirely
in the facts.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov, 23-Dec. 22)- Be host or hostess to o few clou 'friende and you wit have A
Thoroughly relaxing ilme.
POTATO AND ONION PIE
THIS 19 NEW TO ME
FOR
GRIASE A FIREPROOF DISH
WOMANSENSE
AND FILL IT WID:
ALTERNATG LAYERS OF
USS THE 'COARSE. GRATER
GRATED POTATO AND ORATED ONION
SPRINKLING BACH LAYER LIGHTLY WITH SALT, PEPPER AND VERY UTTLE FLOUR
ADD ENOUGH MILK OR STOCK. IF YOU'D RATHER,
JUST TO COVER
THE CONTENTS
OF THE DISH
WITH A FGW FLAKES OF MARG
AND BAKS IN
A FAIRLY HOT OVEN
3/4 HOUR
GENERAL DAY WEAR
-the whittled waistline
Useful and pretty.
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Basque wool jersey dress.
than
quite pre
Paris
'clips' tourists
Anne Edwards
PARIS, wo weeks in Paris, and I'm sad to report that the
Tcity has joined the lengthening list of Things That
Are Not What They Werė.
The Gay City that always know how to take the money off you now takes it off faster, The Gay City that always claimed to cheer you up now proclaims an even grimmer view of life than the Britons do. The Gay City that was unfailingly gallant, eterhally sophisticated -it isn't any longer.
NAVY, a little fighter the usual colour appears
FIRST MEETING....that ex- and smoky and Intimate and the frequently despite all the dictions that navy, whatever its citing moment when you step on smartest place to go for slum- the fair felds of France, ming. We were about to hest shade, would be out. Mayhap to
108- when It is because so many of sin carried in your mind springs to best song-writers in France,
the picture you have the latest song by one
of the
way, tle red shing smocks, the a sinuous, slender blonde with
dele....the porters in blue, the
The tiny stage darkened, and shouting, the hooters, and the a husky, dusky voice murmured smell of garlic. (ex-
sess handsome accessories
navy blue that there mand for this colour
and
front. down the push-up sleeves complete detail of an all around com. fortable, dress for general day. time wear.
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THE accent,
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What was
the
.of
it is used for a useful pretty wool jersey dress
The moment, in short, when heartbreakingly into the micro- treme left) with black
braid the little turtle-neck you arrive in the biggest "clip phone, bordering
Joint" in the world. The collar, the shoulders, pockets, an
retrain sho and forming a dividing line moment, in short, when you whispered so hauntingly? How Comfortable are going to need your Guide to did she hold them so silent and
and a guide to the France,
the spellbound? What liest tale of latest rackets too.
love did she unfold?
What a surprise! The roug Four legalised rackets that she sang was a priggish little left me sizzling (and clipped £3 Victorian ditty the lind off me before I set foot in the thing that moved granny to this season, is hotel):-
tears, and that the English have on the waist, which must
The
porter who picks up your been laughing at ever since, "r slim, whether made SO by suitcases, graciously offers to wish I had listened to what my She song. nature or by artful device. A carry all the odd little paper mother told me."
a child at her parcels, 100, und charges a shil- "when I was basque dress (at left) in greyling for every one.
Knee" wool jersey has a stiffened, de-
Eternally sophisticated? The assistant porter (a man tachable girdle of black suede we've always got along with that hooks in back. It is a won-out in England), who keeps the derful waist minimiser especial-porter off the train and charges ly in contrast to the very fuli unother 29. for lifting your skirt which is gathered onto the luggage on to the rack corded band at the hip yoke. A The set-price meal
train crinoline-topped petticoat is op tional. The neckline is high and
be
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round above the rhinestone- buttoned bodice.
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
No Wonder Mr. Punch Is Fat!
-Wait Until You Hear All the Meals He Eats!--
By MAX TRELL NARF, the shadow-boy with CAFRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 26)— l'A the turned-about name, looked at Mr Punch and said: "Mr Punch, you're fat,"
Snend this evening, reading for en- matters tertainment. Forget serious
for now.
AQUARIUA (Jan. 21-Feb. 1)
A pelab day for you, no gẹl together with some congenial associates.
SINTELLIGENCE TEST
CLOCK GOLF
By T. G. MARE BADGER and six of bis
friends, mest solemnly every Saturday to play four rounds of clock gott. Every round must be won by oun of the players: Le.. if there is a tie for first place those con cerned in it play again.
(80
The seven players at Andger talls mes equally skil ful at this simple game. There is a small incentive to play an well as possible. It any of the seven wins three for all) of the four rounds played, be receives one shilling from each of the other competitors.
What chance, has any one competitor of winning at lost! three Found 2
(Soltition on Page 10)
• BARBS
By HAL COCHRAN THE biggest noise in the busi-
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ness world usually is smart enough to keep quiet about it. A budding love affale is just the R-84; threat 2, P-B4 (ch). dandy until it leads into ...RXB, RXP: 20 QXQPblooming expense of married (ch); 1... PXR; 2,,,Q-07; life.
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Belter Illuminated highways →†would, help' cut the traffic toll,
DUMB-BELLS
IF YOU INSIST ON. DRINKING,
AT LEAST YOU: GHOULD GET A LMNT: FOR YOURSELF-
00
L'ALWAYS
DO BUT
« I. GET ZIG ZAG BEFORE FREACH
says a judge. Fewer illuminated drivers might help, too.
Who really wants to collect the debt, of relatives who say, "We owe you a visit"?
Theac are the kind of days- we'll be wishing for when we rava, the kind of days, wo'IO wlahing for noW.;
More and more women, aro being employed in banka, SALES cording to "A repor
tellera, huh?
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“Well," said Mr Punch after glancing around at all his friends and seeing how puzzled they looked, most people ent three times a day. They get up break- In the morning and cat fast. Then in the middle of the
Mr Punch, who was standing day, at noon-time, they cat lunch. Then in the evening
often than that."
in front of his mirror shaving they eat dinner. But I eat mere himself, looked around in sur- prise. Then he smiled. "Ah, my boy, you're right, I am fat. But, what's wrong with that?"
Nodded Agreement
"You do!" Hanid exclaimed..
Taste Mighty Good
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CHEERFUL?
THERE
WAS the 191est success from the current on the darling of the Paris stage, Jean to Paris at 26s. You. Anouilh (author of "Colombe," have to pay it all, even if you "Ardele," "Ring Round
the only want coffee and a roll Moon, Point of Departure").
4 The black maskor taximen. And this is the burden of it--
who sit outside the Farien
station with the meter side of "YOU MARRY an angel and the cab away from you, and one day you wake up beside an charge three times the normal old lady. In curlers," price when you get out after the trip. No meter, so, you wannot protest.
SO GALLANT?<
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"MARRIAGE is like a long Sunday dinner at home. There are formalities you must observe, But after the coffer one can és- cape, and then. no more; re- atraints."
THREE WAS the invitation to cocktails" with M. and Mme. Fath, the "famous" party-. givera. He, the top-notch in dress designers. She, a woman "THE MOST a man and who celebrated elegance
for
in New ean-hope for is to keep afloat. York, Rome, and Paris.
swimming towards a life-belt, The room
was elegant with without ever hoping to reachi black cupids and gold chande.... It" -
were llers. There
champagne
and chic, butlers and bonbons, All that remained was to meet the celebrated hast and hostess. She
Iri assuredly his latest
creation; he in that famous pale blue velvet
vet dinner-jacket.
What, a surprise! M, Path, I learned casually from one of his
The place to cheer you up? SURPRISING ?.
THERE WAS Nancy Mit-
ford, the woman" who has
staff, had decided at the last made a fortune out of books moment not to come. He had a that extol the bliss of love in headache, And Madume Fath? France. I asked, her reasons for She wasn't there, either: She living in Paria was too tired.
Unfallingly gallant?-
"Well, nothing," said Knarf, ▸
Me Punch nodded. "I eat Mr. Panch starts off his dinner "only there's so much of you
else.
with roast beef. when you're fat, You'ro twice breakfast like everyone
But then I also eat awakefast, as big as you should be."
shakefast, takefast,
bakefast. "What do you eat at all those SOPHISTICATED? makefast. They different lunches? cakefast, and all taste mighty good, too. For Hanid, the shadow-girl, and awakefast I usually have a glass Teddy the stuffed bear and two of orange juice
But Mr Punch didn't stop to General Tin the tin soldier all several slices of toast with but- nodded in agreement with ler. For takefast I take a piece explain. "Then comes dinner.
or pic and
come milk. For And now I really and truly eat Knarf. But Mr Punch only
and chicken smiled again," still don't see shakefast I have a milk-chake heartily. I cat roast beef and anything wrong with that. Ir and scrambled eggs. For bake- lamb chops
and
Pretty Full
und
you like me when I'm thin you fast I have some hot-cross buns turkey and soup and ples and ought to like me twice as much spread with jelly or marmalade, quarts and quarts of milk. That when I'm fat. There's so much For cakefast (as you might gets me pretty full on most days. guess) I eat nothing but cake. on other days I wait for an
But more of me to like," ·
And for makefest I eat anything hour or so after dinner and then. Hanid sald; "How did you else that happens to be in the cat chinner. After chinner I get so fat, Mr Punch?"
cupboard or in the refrigerator, eat Inner. After Inner I eat": By that Umo I'm ready for Mr Punch suddenly paused.
"Why, Mr Punch, "Is that the last thing you eat? Teddy the "But-but-how can you eat stuffed. bear asked, "You shouldn't eat so much" lunch?" said Knart. "Look at sald Teddy the stuffed bear, all you've already eaten!". who ate a good deal himself.
Teddy the stuffed bear was al- most as fat as Mr Punch.
"Enting," sald Mr Punch, lunch." "Just enling, eating, eating."
"I don't eat much at all, a Mr Punch. "It's just," he said, "that I eat quite often."
"Olen?" said Knarf.
.
of
"No,, but I can't think what that last thing's... hmm. It's a really ordinary thing, too. is of folks cat it. Ahl I hava The last thing I eat-in sup- then plain supper. And
"Tut-tut,” chuckled Mr Punch, "I've just begun. After lunch I eat. munch. Then I cat
runed and bunch and clunch per and trunch and wunch and I go to bed." Eplunch and, if I'm really hun
And Mr Punch patted his gry. I also cat gunch."
"Mr. Punch!" erled" Hand, tuminy happily.
Rupert and the Pine Ogre-17
The old man cuma au he heard him name, being called. Bay, Gaffer,
to kill all the rest of the treeni Norwood forest and have only pines "there, zoo, arizla yat But Gaffer
Rupert calls breathlessly. Marge, gives a grunts "Hey, hey,
, beeg, in that pine wood and yus I'm too old for your fairy tales, were quite right. It is spreading) young Rupert," he wheezes. ** Pine Fabia wayer Ita the work of the Pine Ogres, what nonsense 1!!, and shr
· Ogre, and he mys that he is going!"walka.xway. grumbling.
RUPERT, and the
WRONG PRESENTS
SN ječma SA TAK and Sibobury Kừ Xhosa
THERE WAS the evening at the night club on the Left Bank. It was dark ind packed
What a surprise! "My mald Marics at least half of it," she explained. "She's the nort of person you And only in France. Maids are so much more important than men."
~(Loridon Express, Serpico),
Gladsome Glitter
BY ALICE ALDEN- GLITTER has gone, to the head, fanding on handsome hats designed to top and set-off-clothes designed for festive wear In the late afternoon. To set off a mark evening costume, Mr John has fashioned a brillant Jewelled, toqu level, on the head. It is made from gold panne
is covered with rhinestoned mesh, with an elabor broidered border pattern of gold and silver bullion met
(winkling topaz ptonés,