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CHOCOLATE FILLING
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SPOON OF CORNFOUR TO A SMOOTH PASTE
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WITH AN EDGAWHISK
YOU'LL
LOVELY AND *THICK ~AND 'CREAMY
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"One of those things, pal. You'll just have to wait till
the fire's out."
• BY THE WAY by Beachcomber
INISTER happenings continue
SINISTER
to worry orchestras. The latest is a toli of plaster "which covered an orchestra in Leicester with so much grit that it had to stop playing.”
Are
Tastrumentalists
becoming very wary. A drummer in Mun- chester, more as a joke than any thing else. tapped his drum during and cried: "Is any- the toning To his surprise,
one ut
abend was thrust through the top of the drum, and out stepped rather Jolly Hirl. Who on earth wie you asked the dranmer. "Melame." vouchenfed the
visitor. Salicy Berching herself on als knee.
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By OSWALD JACOBY
"Tell it when you go down" WHEN the hand shown today was played in ย recent tournament,
de- OXFORD, the city
most of the clarera were allowed to make four spades. One pair of East- West players managed, however, to defeat that contract by proper use of the trump echo,
Ras-containers. Is in trouble again. A Gas Board lins discovered that the ancient buildings Interfere with and elast with the row of RUN- containers witch greets the traveller from the south. who approaches Therefore there must be more g containers, to strike dominant note; the cheerful, conlident note of the twentieth century. A broad read driven through Christchurch Meadow, and bordered by containers, is the obvious solution of everything. *Mare and bigger Bas-work," atd a planner recently. are not the least enjoyable of the lat enetiantments of the middle- aged."
Rallying round the novel
have to work harder than ever when the prices of novels go up again.
Publishers are alrently en- listy of Enfeoffed farging their bank-pluggers, and grubby hands are typing koosts, leaving a space for the name of the book and the One nyorsager ninny, whe author. sent in "Forty thousand coples sold before receipt of MS.." was rapped +harply
More over the "knuckles. onprecinted war "AIGT reading
, I could not speak, move, ent, or sleep far three days. It left me stunned but exalted, Is blend of tender 'realler and idyllic integrity. Miss Is Dickens and Ileary James rolled intu one."
The trum echo consists of play- Ing a higher frond than necessary
when you are junk following wi and not trying to win the trick, X you get a chance, you complete the echo by playing o ́lower inuno an the second round of that sult.
The point of the truing echo is ip show that you hold three trumps altogether. That sort of information is often mare helpful to declares than to your own partner, so you don't allomatically echo in trumpa whenever you have three eards in
You ack lime when it sa im- portant for 'your partner to gel the
laformation, usually », Ume when you want to get a ruff with one of your trumpa.
*In anday's hand most West players led the king of diamonds but never touched the mist again when they saw the threatening diamonds in the Humay. South was able to draw trumps safely and eventually give up a recond diamond trick.
At one table. West cuened the king of diamonds, winning the trick, wine af and then shifted to e hearts, 130mmy won with the ace, and East jolinwed stut with the dis euroging three of nekris. The king f shades was next fed from dummy, and East Carefully played the nine of spades.
YOUR BIRTHDAY .. By STELLA unbeatable if South had an eight
BORN icday you
THURSDAY: APRIL 17
have nde of yours. Yet are susceptible to moods Those reale.s.
if seperssian. Your ideals are hig active minds.
ad t you do not reach them with You must Have something to in-
inclined to Terest you at a tunes, It it is a
the rsi tey. you are Brente discouraged. constructive proiect, then you wil} anake rapid striks towards success. You women are highly attractive But, if you content yourself win Trivialities, you will "expend the of "energy and get - same minpunt
nowhere. Learn to understand this side of your nature at an early 052. Parents of children horn on this day can be of great help by making suggestions; never give "orders"! i
Your tatenus are many but, your gift for mule and iterature are Perhaps the most outstanding. You To find what, the stars have dn have an interest in and under store for tomorrow, 2s;lect your standing of science and may use birthday star and read the corres- thing in building your career. ponding paragraph. Let your birth- An exacting mind for research is day star.be your daily gunde.
-West wondered-whether-tls-could be singleton wine of spades, but decided that the contract would be.
card spade sult. If the nine were not singleton, East was surely making use of the trump echo.
Why won East bothering to show that he had three traines? Obviously, The he had runing ambition. situasion could Bardly be clearer, so West took his ace of trumps and went right back to the diamonds to take the diamond ace and give his partner à cult
opposite sex. to members or, the You combing psical charm with an intellect that hat humour anul kiminess. You wit be happlest when Wed and the manages of your own home and family. Inw- ever. If you do seek a career, you may not wed unit later on in fire. Don't delay selecting your life part-West ner too long, or you might miss out in finding your true happiness
FRIDAY, APRIL 18
Conim
blessings.
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ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr 20- with the family can bring joy and A fine time to hold a conference, contentment. make decisions and complete plans for your fature.
LIORA (Sept. Pur out the "welcome mal" for a 21 newcomer to your neighbourhood. Entertain your close friends.
TAURUK (Apr. 31-May Caprices of another-espectnily an elderly relative-inay need con- sideration.
GEMINI Blay 22-Juke 21) Concentrate on your objective, Coin-
piste jabs that call for efficiency
and inse attention!
Scoпpto (Oct. zi-Nov. 22}- Re politic and tactful when it comes 10 handling malices with a busines
executive.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 23)-
now.
nudget prakiems should be smooth- CANCER (Jane 23-July 23- ing themselves out nicety. This is a day to relax and have Relaxt Don't worry, fun with your family.
I.EO (July 24-10.
23)
Get some outdone exercise if you ezn. Spring's country air 19 a good tonie these days.
CAPRICORN (hee. 23-Jan, 20)-
A kood day for a short trip that might include courtship or romance. Visit a loved one.
AQUARIUS (Jan.
197 Good lo
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 73)-
A
21-Feb, contact
A quiet, relaxing evening at home whom you have been neglecting.
Telephone a cheery message.
PISCES
FINTELLIGENCE TEST
GOOD OLD BETTY
By T. O. HARE
GOD old Blatty."
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Fern, in aceents designed
to be sarcastic. The pelde et
the family has clocked up ga
You and 1. Kiddo, scored exactly
puinis have
each."
nine
Points
Mr. Teacher, dissatisfied with his three daughters' pro cross, has given them an un- ollimal examination. wara awarded, in each sub- Ject on a basis devised by Teacher himself: so many for the est pince: so many for the second one paint" for the third.
A pour show all round." Teacher told the giris, "excent in English literature, Ida comes list in that subject, and hai darie very well *ndeed."*
Who took second place to History?
(Solution on Page 10)
• BARPS
By HAL COCHRAN
too many apartment houses is that children should be seen and nos
THE theory of
heard-except som
somowhere else.
CARD Senses
-You are vulnerable against non- yalnerable opponents. The bidding has been:
North Earl South
1 Heart 1 Diamond Doulsie
You, South. hold: Sundey Q-9-0- 1-2 fearin 10-B-5. Diamond 3, Clubs Q-1-4-2. What do you do?
one shade. 'You
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have a A Ove card major sult that can be khown at the level of one, and the hand not really hopelessly weak.
I mays to mention your sult now for fear of never being able to sprak inter on it you kees allent at this moment. If the hand were even schwester you would PASE.
TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding is the same as in the que don ist answered. You. South. : Sgades 10-9-5, Hearts Q-7-4-2, Club Q-5-6-3-2, What Diamond 3, do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
CROSSWORD
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(Feb. 20-Mar, ZO)--
A fino working day. Get a 1st done.
It your held is creative writing, the Ideas should flow.
CHESS PROBLEM
By J. G. 1.LAMAS
Black, 11 pieces
10.
H.
White, 9 pieces, White to play: mate in two.
Solution 10 yesterday's problem:
1, B-Bi, any; 2, Q, R, or Kt niates.
DUMB-BELLS
HE IS SUCH
AN
YES BUT
SOMETIMES
ME Palice caught a man heading | INDULGENT for his home in a stolen car. HUSBAND! INDULGES
TOO." MUCH!
His wife can expect, him in
three months.
Some Americon banka report a Ehortage of ponnier, Maybe those little chinn pigs should gu to market.
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ACTUIS
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1. Unt-hand deomingik (7)
7. 1og breaking the Deoby in caso of pleurisy, (8) 11. EEEE. (
12. Regtore low, temperasures (9)
13. National Jockeys try to. (4)
b. Pralt of meeting?)
18. Alter later, (6)
10. Nocturnal sports acocnsory. (9)
2. Bee around polos. (5)
21. What befell the car shed ? (7)
10. On the small side. (4)
23. This before the boil. (3)
24. Make safe for a run. Bod? (0)
DORD
A prank but you're broke, (8)
2 Repay. (0)
Blater or duckling ↑ (4)
Game they played at LOBBY (4) Tones for the attack, (5)
4. Had a price the same as
tooth or a lifa. (9)
3. A very softly morning breaks.
Without regard. (8)
10. dãe youthful wild abs
(3)
14. No need for a ball to do this, fo
| ii. Haven a lot of bumpity-bump. (45
10. 110's a bay-turner. (5)
Bolution of yesterday's pusste
dermans
1. Nursery: 2, Endeavour: 0. Wild 12. Boll 15 Agent: 14 Facumatio:
10. Pet: 11. Era: 43, Hoses; B). Officers, PawnĮ, 1,′′ Newspaper: 12. UklBah Hecluded)4 Yorumla b. Kun: & Grii
Class: 17. Zero: 19, Graz..
Check Your Knowledge
1. · How many stars form the Southern Cross?
2. The Frenchwoman, Su- zonne Lengten, won an inter- national reputation in the mid- 1920s, What was she known fort
3. In fiction, whose motto was "All for one, one for all"?
1. What words do the money symbol, Lad, represent?
5.Who in the Speaker of the House of Commons?.
0. What
London famous theatro was formerly known as the Coburg?
ginaldera on Page 10).
FOR
3 MIN.
EASTER BONNETS FROM PARIS
EASTER BONNETS' from Paris are tiny and veiled, A large pink rose trims a black straw beret (above) swathed in clouds of, lulle,
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Turquoise satin, ringed with gold straw, makes the tiny cap left) with red rosebuds nesting under the brim at the back.
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blue slantung Pleated pised for the casual headgear (right), fastened on one shoulder with a gold ellp.
-(.ondun Exprasa Servica)
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
The Toy-Shop That Vanished
--Mr. Punch Said It Had Some Wonderful Toys. Tool-
"DID
By MAX TRELL
ID I ever tell you about the time," said Mr Punch, "when I happened to visit the toy-shop under the bridge?"
Knart and Hanid, the shadow- children with the turned-about names, shook their heads and said they had never heard about Mr Punch's visit to the toy- shop under the bridge.
"What bridge was it under, Mr Punch?" Hanid asked,
"That's just it," replied Mr Punch sounding puzzled.
And that able to never was bridge again, nor of course
1 ever able to find the toy- WAS shop. But I wasn't dreaming, I really had visited It, And was the strangest place I ever even hope
saw, again."
ur
to
Several Slow Puffs
It
fore. It was near the river, and midway. down the street I saw a bridge crossing to the other side. Under the bridge the brightly-lit windows of store-and to my surprise delight I saw that they were the windows of a toy-shop!
were
a
and
What A Sight! "Without à moment's Belay I ran down the street and stop- ped before the windows of the ey-shop. And what a sight I บ
saw!
"In the middle of the win- dow was a huge red top, spin- ning with all Its might. Or, I should say, spinning with
Wis A fat rolv-poly man
aplaning with all his might.
all Ee somersaulted and tumbled and 'dashed and his might. For when the top and rolled
window. with dorted all around the stopped spinning I saw
see astonishment that it was a fat, Then he leaped back into his
and
Mr Punch 1 his pipe took several slow puffs before he began once more.
roly-poly man standing on his box again and pulled the top Up-toes with his arms folded down over him! across his chest. He no sooner
"But the best and most won- slopped than
down, picked up a string, wound it derful of all
he bent
-were
the tin
A Formula For Keeping Young
By HELEN FOLLETT
IF woman cares enough about the matter, won't stint an beauty chores, she can keep the
of her youthful bloom plexion for many years,
com-
Massage is an excellent means of preservation and for keeping wrinkles at bay. The emollient should be heavy enough to offer resistance to the manipulations of the fingers. It should be used fairly generously. As the skin laps it up, and it will, keep spreading on more, All motions should be winard-e-in-skin isn't stretched, This is about the only way one can exercise) the delicate fibres of one's face Pot around the eyes, WACTE tissues are thin. Slap all the surfaces, including the neck, to make the blood streams dance.
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Evening sweater and stole
By GRACE THORNCLIFFE
CULLED from the resort shops is a brace of pretty ac cessories, First, a charming sweater blouse, is nice choice for casual evenings. It is of imported, yarn, soft as a
_ {lt with en's eue, in pale blue
bows, black satin piping and and for sparkic, a sprinkling of sequins. Very often there's Every woman should realise quite a breeze even that the state of her health has certainly plenty of fresi spring evening, and
Health and Beauty
011
a
mental as well as physical-has much to do with the condition it out on the deck of a cruise of her skin. Malnutrition will ship. So what better than thia make it gray, so watch out that prolly stole, complete
with Fashioned you have a balanced diet-the collar and pockets. right proportions of carbo-of boucle jersey with fringed hydrates, proteins and fata, Belends, it is circular in. cut, and sure you get your vitamins and lends itself to individual dmp- mineral salts. Plenty of fruiting. Nice over low-necked and and vegetables will do that for topless evening dresses.
YDU.
Loss of sleep is a
common
cause of wrinkles. Those crazy Household Hints
dears who become ambitious at late hours, shampoo their hair,
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do all sorts of tasks, are being serves good care and
A steam pressure cooker de-”
careful mean
themselves. They should plle
handling. Keep it covered when In between the
not in use. Be sure that it is. sheets before they are all play perfectly clean and well dried ed out.
before putting away. Put the ild on upside down so the air jean get into the kettle and keep
it odourless,
Plenty of Water
One should drink plenty of composed water; the body is largely of fluids and water aids the functioning of the digestive If you are storing garments, motors and the organs of elimi-be sure they are not only clean, nation. Some skins are dry be- but dry. Damp fabrics will mll- cause they are thirsty.
dew, and experts say that no magic formula has yet been de Getting outdoors helps chasevised for removal of the grayish away worrisome thoughts, and stains caused by the parasite are wonderful that feeds on outdoor sports
warm, damp
for preserving the youthful fabrics.
shape.
As a last tip, don't indulge
in emotional storms. They can To remove decals from a rch you of your strength, as painted surface, moisten a cloth well as happiness, as they are a and affix it to the wall over the tax on the nervous system,decals. Keep it moist. In about They don't got you anything, half an hour you should be able
keep anyway. So
sweet and to peel them off. Variety stores you'll look that way for a long have a special blotter for this time!
purpose.
VALUE OF THE FAMILY PICNIC
all around his legs, gave the soldiers. Or were they tin? I Some marched
By GARRY CLEVELAND MYERS, Ph.D. spin- don't know. string a pull and went
marched with muskets, Some "It was around Christmas, 1 ning again, faster than ever!
with drums. Some carried flogs.
and SPRING and summer are the wonderful in behaviour, had been to lots of toy-shops.
O the other side of the Some rode on horses, But all
for family plenies. family co-operation... Over; some But all of them had the same
window was
family a chess board, of them were real They lifted
with years 1 have been impressed kind of toys the usual thing filled with kings and
knights their legs. They swung their Many marbles, dolls, wooden
strange arms. They waved their flags spacious shady lawn or yard with what seems to me a sign at And often, eat outdoore. It affords such plenics of growing tender- cks, trains, automobiles that and castles and other.
Yes they
drums. creatures.
were They--beat their
attractive an
Occasion for ness by parents toward young you wound them creaturest They went when
were alive their, horses pranced and gal
there's usually more fun and ways in these parents toward all comradeship then at the regular the children there, "So I ran home to get some meal indsors.
The same is true when the money. And then I ran back to the street with the toy-shop family go together to a park or
At some of these picnics soma under the bridge. But it was other open place some milies from all
street, gone-the
the home. Often then some other tragedies occur, especially from bridge, the toy-shop, the won-children and adults join in this drownings, which should have derful toys, everything. And family plenic. When the whole been prevented. Often the plenie is held by d beach, stream or I've never, never been able to family help assemble the equip swimming pool. Not always are ment and food and partially
lic-saving find it again."
guards sometimes none at all. into the car, ride off together and Some children who can't swim,
Life-Saving Guards
up, tin cowboys on tin horses They kept jumping from one loped. My, how I wanted those all the children to help and children, and of understanding and all the rest. But I was square to another, pushing each un soldierst looking for something different, other, leaping over each other, though what that might be dashing from one end of the So board to the other in the most didn't exactly know, stopped before every toy-shop 1 extraordinary way! came to and looked through the window at all the toys, hoping I might. by accident come across the different sort of toy I thought I would like..
"And all of a sudden I came to a street I had never seen be-
.....
Out of His Box "And next to the chess board When was a Jack-in-the-box.
the top sprang open, out leap ed Jack, right out of his box:
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In aplie at the log Bill knows the way out of the wood, and as the air gets clearer the two friends go slowly, gazing carefully around them for any sign of the missing 'basket." (t'a' not likely that we shill find it, for a long time. murmura Rupert rather miserably.
Thai "rocket shot off, so suddenty: that we don't know where it went.. it may not have come in this direc on at all." A length they reach his cottage suppose I'd better go in," he whispers, though what Mummy will think can't imagine,"
And Mr Punch sighed.
RUPERT and the
WRONG PRESENTS
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food and enjoy it in the free going along with others who can, strong may venture into too deep water, open space, there is motive for the chlidren to inke if not properly protected. responsibility and for all to have on arriving with your child Food Umes together.
Larger Picnics.
at much a picnic, check at once op the apparent hazards; and ascertain. It proper safeguards Similar values derive from have been provided. If they have langer plenies, made up of many not, your child will be fortunate, Camilies from school, club, even at the cost of having some grange or lodge, or by the of his freedom curtailed, if you family clan. personally keep an eye on him assembling of a The appeal is to entire families or forbid him (effectively) to go who may maintain their tunity to certain places. Unfortunately. and identity in part. After the a few children, having failed to meal there usually are games learn reasonable obedience and sports in which the children home, will keep no account of participate: Children, youths and their parents ounselor com adulls make many now friend-mand concerning afty at ships and have wholesome planie. With proper training at PERSONA :) 6, hama, and safeguards, children enjoyments.
Though one may be at such a and whole families! can i tave plenie: some spoiled child, one valuable experiences at family falso" may, see many who are picnics