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Beware of Tricks At Bridge Tourneys
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By OSWALD JACOBY
THE national tournament now
being held in Detroit is de-
BY
THE
by Beachcomber
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1952.
WAY
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THROUGH A BIOVE THEN BRING TO THE
·BOIL
THE admirable C. Suet., Esq., this method is that nobody need mat with a wooden model waste man-louca by dawdling over
⚫a meal.
before him. He could not make Twenty Years of Uproar
head or tail of it. "I see no
One longed for him streets at all here," he said.
Then he laid the forefinger of hit plantat) to unbend, even if a few
inittakes oere made, right hand vertically across his ani
Musid critfc.)
per Him and eph Attempting
a sign of perplexity.
ONE good, trick, which puls
modern audience et llx శకం at a satirical manner, he said, Ab
ance, is to crouch over the Instru senen of reets is, I suppose, en ment, pedalling valently as though way of solving all the traffic prob- Tems," "Sir," ventured a leaiber one were on a cycling jambores in the lanes of Hertfordshire, As for faced secretary, Mr Mippell, it mistakes, it is useful, during a cul
model of the new car-mark and dance-hall at Swdibs Corner" paure, suddenly to whack a wrong park a car," said Suet, "the driver note. It is fun. tou, to pretend you reach the end of the cannot must have come from somewhert,
1ofa off your strof
smiled in a superior" manner,
How du they reach, the car-park" plane and Silence neigned supreme. Suet while making a frantie genb at the
clusive ivories. The gap in the target PEOPLE WHO
ping the model skuificantly. "You night as well," he sub), “show me a model of a harbour at Crews June.
Hoa
Marginal, note
To prepare us for the great day When we thall be able tu ciuk faser than sound, and digest out fond before we have enten it, they is a new method of cooking, when is to be tried in big her. A steak can be moked in 55 seconds, and a chicken in four mute Provided that butli have been pie- viously we frozen, they will l taste of nothing. The advantage of
Are outikl
the I
world of jugh inanee wil. expect. And dimeult to under- fand what exactly happened the other day when 21.000.000.000 was subscribed at the rate of £100,000.00
an hour." us the operation 26 more easily understood when it is realised that the whole thing was the old rollymoily and tumble-cILTI
discount trivy
banks and houses. For the benefit at thicku who had not read about this niful, ? suggest that the bank should do if all over again next week. Nabady would be a penny the worse.
veloping its own crop of bridge YOUR BIRTHDAY....... By STELLA
swindles, nalurally enough. "A11-
of the best tournament players look for changes to talk their opponents out of what is right- fully theirs, and sometimes the results
weld than
are
wonderful.
more
Memory takes me back ten years to the national tournament that was interrupted by Pearl Harbour. remember one hand in which both sides gut by with swindling cts.
South deelded he could play the hand at no-trump if he could stave at a heart opening lead a bit of two heurla was pa attempted wwindle. feading to the expected contract of three no-trump,
West, who had a very good nose, amelt mathing fishy About tite bidding and therefore opened the three of heartă în spite of South's heart bld. Declarer played the ten of hearts from duminy. and Eust
won with the king who belit East
Pater Leventrili,
cards, made the rather natural res turn of the jack of spades, anti South put up the ace of spades, to win the triek. West, who was Sain Tossant, tried his hond al aw!n- dling by dropping the queen Di spades on this trick.
This play
made je appear that East had led the jack of spades Decinrer from a holding of 3-10-2
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28
BORN today, you are raventally the
dreamer and will have to work hard to overentur u eertāla kaenlla for hard, physical work. You are in incurable bugkworin, and, as a child, probably will always bu found bent over 2 Book rather than out at robust play with ouer children. You have a deep, spiritual nature and this is apt to express itself early, in fe. Butory and philosophy are also two helets in winch you will become Intrjestel.
You are a hrajnworkteg amount of trouble and attention to dealt annoys you. But, if
by water, for you are very fond of Die son. You "pruhylly" would be imppast if you hved near the shore- or at least spielt your sunumers there,
Although you are shy about dis playtag, gory affections, your love nature is exceptionsity" stiông. - Yal must not let thu đite with members of the naposite, sex-ta whum you nye very katiburtiyg-keep you fram expressing yourself, or considerable Leniappiness can ensNY, For you, an would be the best early marriage. Thing, for only among your own do you displaye pe solf without x yall to do a bit of manuulabour. Tereios.
find what the stars have in you can be very disinterested, indeedi
toinorrow,, You are fond of travel and will likely store for
select Visit most of the far pest of the birthulay star and read the corres Parth darinst your kletime. When ponding paragraph. Let your birth. ever possible, you like to journey day star be your dally guide.
Del no
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29
PINCES (Feb, 20-Mar. 29)
If you have thightlessly hirt any one's feelings, now the time to
points and make u
LEO
Your
231-
(July 24-ANK. Indulge in vier aboreslation for music and art by going to a concert ou attending a showing
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept.
2.3)-
ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 201- There may be sung confusion today. A day in which you cant risk being but if you anu cuvful you can forgé individuaisig. Be adventuresonie in ahead.
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21) Show your intensity, in solving all grables that HFC presented Originally pays.
GEMINI ---(May 22-June 21) Make a study of the past month's progress and perhaps you can improve yu motis.cls. the deuce
therefore went over to dummy with a club to lead a second mound of "When Lev- apaden from dummy. entritt naturally
of spades. South finessed the eight. Rossant won with the ot pades and led another' heart. De- clarer looked anxinuly At the dummy' Q-6 of hearts and decided that his only chance t TeOver was to put up the queen of hearts and win the trick with
This way a ad mistake, да 11 turned Gul Leveniritt won
with the ace of hearts and returned the nine, whereupon Hossant overtookt with the lack of hearts and cashed the eight of hearts for the Aft defensive trick.
VCARD Senses
The bidding has been:
Bouth West North
1 Space. Pass 2 Diamonda
CANCER (June 22-July 23) Relax lv, rather than foie.ng portant deerstens Toke in av, perhaps.
sour approach to life,
LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 21)- Attend a texture er take a short trip to break up the daily monotony.
SCORPIO (Url. 24-Nov.
22)- Catch 2 un vorte- correspondence: Hentew old acquaintances advantage- bly,
SAGITTARIUS (Nov, 21-1>ec, 27)-- Concentrate on your objective. Don't let others distraci you run your duty.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 33-Jan. 20)- I you acerpt undvier or crilleism in the right spirit, you can approve yoLT Jinbits,
AQUARIUS (Jan, 21-Feb. 19)
Be sure that your tamay is provided for to the hest of your ability.
INTELLIGENCE TEST Make future pinns.
GREEN DRAGON
By T. O. HARE
SLASHER Holt Molebul for
Bory, and Prudze Spry for Molehill. simul: Laneously, Tüey also arrived Kimultaneously at that TUSDOCLive destinations,
covere
the
East
Pass
You, South, hold: Spades A-Q«J»,
7-4, Hearts 8-5. Diamonds 9-3., Clubs
A-Q-4-2, What do you do?
A-Bld two spades. You hate to keep quiet about the clubs,
but
your hand is not strong enough for
a re-bid at the level of three. Such
<
a re-bid would promise a band game-going strength, and you are li no position Io make that sort of guarantee Compare with yester. day's hand, in whiten a re-uld of twe
hearts was qulle proper.
TODAY'S "QUESTION
The bidding is the
"same 28, in
the question Just answered.
You,
South, hold: Spades | A-Q+J+7+4, Hearts A-8-5, Diamond 3. Chibs ^- Q-8-2. What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
CHESS PROBLEM
By R. FONTARA
Black, 2 pieces.
鮮生
White, 8 pieces,
White to play: mate in two. Solution to vesterday's problem:
(ch).
1, Q-83; threat 2. Q-KA K-B4; 2, Q-BQ K-85; 2, B-87 K--K4; 2, B-B3 P or R-K15; 2,
(ch);
(ch);
(ch); } B-Kts (ch),
• BARBS
By HAL COCHRAN DEADING between the lines, the curse of the age is "Blast those!.wrinkles."
REA
Higher golf scores would re-
per hour; then increased his post to do maller pine Journey. the remainder of Drudge travelled at 20 miles per hour for one-third of the distance, and then increased hin speed to 40 miles per hour. The two motorists passed another at the Green Dragons which is 40 miles from Molehill.
How far l it from Malehli to Bory 7
(Solution on Page 101
CROSSWORD
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YES, DEAR, LIKE THIS
AND CUT
THEM IN
*BUCES ACROSS,
YOU CAN
USE THE BEST PART
OF THE ORSEN AS
WELL.
Child
AND WHICKEN WITH FLOUR.
MILK.
ORA CHESSE, IF
YOU LICE
Expert On The
hos- hundred
Tpitals in Southern Eng- Use Of Dummies"
land have just been told they should spend no more than 21s. a week on feeding
By EILEEN ASCROFT
i
The
B
jeach patient. But the house- and £1,500 a year for their DR AGATHA BOWLEY,
lecturer and author of wife, who does not enjoy household budgets,
Natural Development of tho Repiles varied between 305: Child, believes that there the benefits of mass cater-
and £2 a head, but those who something in both ing and cheap buying in allow 308, said it was especial "Sucking a dummy is not ad viewa bulk, must allow more per ly difficult to manage at prevocated on hygienic grounds," head to feed her family.
my
sent with the meat shortage.
she says, but she agrees that psychologically it often has a soothing effect,
Women drivers
bons! DECEMBER roud casualty
How much does it cost in
Cheers for 42. Britain today per head to feed a family of four adequately? CONGRATULATIONS to the
Looking back through
oulalze dress firm' introduc*. own old housekeeping books
Their I Ing 42 Attings. And that before the war I al- that alterations have been al- figures published recently, lowed 10s a head for each per- most eliminated is endorsed by were
start son to cover a week, and this stores., Prices Included laundry. Today the 11d., and most outsize figures Agure has risen to £2 á head. can now be fitted from stock.
I asked 12 housewives whose husbands, carn between £500
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PRESSURE-COOKED
Dummies
the heaviest for that
28. month for 10 years.
The woman driver, buti of. many a music hall joke, does not appear to be so guilty the male driver in accidents
115
15
THE habit of giving babies where the motorist is to blame. dummies is "very wrong Próbably because a woman and dangerous," according to naturally more cautious, coroner Mr Jessel Rycroft,, of Manchester, at an inquest."
CHILDREN'S DENTIST.
This tribute to women drivers comes from the Automobile
The views of some child ex- Association "The woman driver from cooked vegetables. Close c. milk. Separate 2 eggs. Whip ports about dummies:
is a little more cautious, parti- the cooker, bring 10 15 lbs, the whiles stiff and the yolks
cularly about drinking whom MIDWIFE - "Midwives are driving. It is unfair to meer pressure and process 10 min, light. Add. the yolks to the
against the practice of giving at the woman driver." Thicken the liquid with 2 tbsp. first mixture; then fold in the dummies. A well-fed, content- flour blended with 2 tbsp, water whites. Transter to a qt-size ed baby should not need che."
Try a lemon or tomato juice. Add tsp baking dish. Place in a pan Worcestershire sauce. Arrange of hot
water. Bake
week's
hint beauty THE on a heated platter and sur- moderate oven, 350 Fabout 35-Definitely against it. "Dum-
comes from Countess Ric- round with avoury carrots and min, or until golden brown. mies spoil the shape of a child's, cardi, wife of one of the Italian buttered noodles.
When done it will be firm on mouth and teeth."
attaches in Washington. top with a creamy custard
DOCTOR underneath
MA to serve, warm.
net as a sauce,
The Countess has a remark- hygienic Iden. Disapprove of it ably lovely translucent akin, strongly. Usually a sign of and attributes this to the lazy mother."
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BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Mr. Cobb-Ler Is Kept Busy
-He Mends All Kinds of Shoes, Even for Flies
By MAX TRELL
and shadow-children
KNARE
Hamid, the
with
the "turned-about names, slit down the bottom of the Blue China Plate to visit their friend Ting- a-Ling. They fount him in his garden sitting unde a cherry tree and talking to a tall, thin man with a mad fare.
Atur greeting them. Ting-a Ling introduced Koat and Banid to the tall, thin man with the sad face. "This is Mr Cobb- Lev Ile makes shoes," Tin-a- Ling whispered to Kourt and
Hanid.
Sorrowful Voice
Mr Cobb-Ler nodded, smiled sadly, then sald in a sorrowful voice: "How are your shoes? Well, I hope."
"Oh, yes," said Hanid. "My shoes are new."
"And
Across
1. Many a noa la turned out of
wood (B)
been
11. Concerns the nose, (5),
12. Becms in retribution. (7)
13. Speak. or dined 7 (5)
14. You would be rapt in this, (4),
15. This box has striking possibili-
iba (5)
18. Beginning
iniaator (3)
번호 & woed exter
10. Buch kin is a tuft of Sowers, (3)
21. She comes and goen. (4)
22 Regret of all true penitenta. (9)
soles."
put
Here, Ting-a-Ling, smiling, turned to Mr Cobb-Ler, “You've
Hanid Immediately thought of the line:
"There was an old wemon
who lived in a shoe, She had so many children she aldn't know what to do,"
Three-League Boots
"And then, the day before yesterday," Mr Cobb-Ler went on, "I had to put new heels and soles on the boots belonging to omebody named Puss, I also had to fix a pair of three-league But the hurdest job of ll was to mend a crack in a pair of slippers."
bools.
"A. crack in a pair of slippers?" said Hanld.
"Oh yes," said Mr Cobb-Ler, mournfully, "they were glass slippers."
Kurt exclaimed: "Cinderella's slippers!"
never heard that name,"
Mr Cobb-Ler fixed the boota belonging to somebody named Puss
last week, I had to. fix a wooden shoe
for three little boys to go fishing."
It was Knart who guessed who the three little boys were,
cald Mr Cobb-Lor, much to "Wynken, Blynken and Nod,"
to
he shouted.
Wynken, Blynken and Nod
one night
"
he
DB
Knart and Hanid's surprise, my shoes have just fixed them
who for someone fixed," Knart
in. said she was a fairy godmother. 7. It's a dah, not the innkeeper's "They've got new heels and new Perhaps she
them to Lave apouse. (7)
Cinderella later on.. Who's Sailed off in a wooden shoe This news cheered up Mr Cinderella, anyway?"
"Mr Cobb-Ler smiled. "OI Cobb-Ler. "I'm glad to hear it," Hanid explained to Mir Cobb he said.
Ler who Cinderella
said "Axing a was and course,"
Isn't nearly the glass wooden chee why she needed slippers and what happened hard as axing an iron shoo, I been pretly busy lately fixing after she wore them. "Well," he fix shoes for horses, too," he after the story added. "And," he said, "I also shoes, haven't you?"
sald with a sigh; fuppose that make shoes for files." "Too busy," sald Mr Cobb- Prince will be around to my
was finished,
At this, Kharf, Hand Anished mending a very large shop with the one glass, clipper Ting-a-Ling exclaimed in one
voice: "Shoes for files?" he found, asking me if I know "Only one shoe?" said Knarf, the owner. But perhaps I won't Cinderella because mention Mr Cobb-Ler. nodded, "Only
every- that would
only spoil
her children. She had inora
Wooden Shoo children than she knew what to Mr Cobb-Ler paused do with."
moment, then he said:
23. Ho on the move, (9)
Down
1. What tree does the animat go to F
(8)
Ler, *This morning
2. Tren man appointed by the cityje | xhoc."
rutom (8)
3. Bteersge.. (4).
4. A very small, hooter. (5)
Pine, to
5. Provos
any engineer will
6. Nothing rude hera, (6)
d. It's sure nien, but unsafa, (0)
V. Loyal, (8)**** 10. A perfumia. (7)
10 150 refreshing, (3)
17. Bweet means of punishment? (4) 20. track, (3)
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sult if players told the truth, the Check
hole truth and nothing but the frith
Your
Knowledge
of Eng
Spade
F. In what King Land'a rolga was the
Guinea coined?".
8.What are lanyards?
13. "Name" the capital of New Brunswick, maritime province of Canada,
4. What Is Great Circle Sall-
6. How is ani arpeggio play-
When a swife pays for exerciso lessons it keeps her bending ending?. her husband broke.
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Klephants Live much longer “thirp buman" belings and never Zwart gednbons... trying, to
0. When Was" Waterloo Bridge Arst opened? Give Its opproximate length.
(Answers on Page: 10) s
I
Just
ene. But it was as big as a house, A woman lived in it with all thing."
and
Mr Cobb-Ler simply opened his mouth and started singing In the saddest imaginable voice: "Shoe fy, don't bother me."
And, more surprising than for a
anything else, Mr Cobb-Ler "And actually winked!
Rupert and the Pine Ogre 20
Rupert standa pondering over idea strikes hime Why, of course, what he has heard.","1 "all the... I know who may have taken them.".
acorns are diappearing
ng it must be part of the Ogre's work," he muses, though, he sounds" se though the meant to destroy the wond more quickly than that. Then a bright
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RUPERT and the
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