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"Now what do I do,. mother?"
•BY THE
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THE CHINA: MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1952.
• JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
Stay Clear of Slam if Four Ways With
Foe Has Two Aces.
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by Beachcomber
lo valai Ulisse del Suo Carn- min vaga of canto mio....
In America they have invented In
a siren which I hope they will call Parthenope or Leucosia, It is described as "Loud enough to cause permanent injury to the unprotected human ear."
What could be faiter than that? But the c
cultured public point our
najte i equal to the sourd of 200 at full blast, symphony orchestros
Fit one to your radio ant on. Wayner night, says Jolly Jack Hoo kin, with a light laugh.
In passing
TEXT
Nwhich cans
bilowed to see his wife's face in s naturn light disillusionment, despair, and the breakup of the marringn are bound to follow swiftly,
Nosebags for women
NOW that women's un-glaren ore I becoming more and inore like horses' blinkers ny impassioned plea for nosebags for women is being more calmly considered. All that is needed is for acne fe hehehe. Paris to take up the idea.
when
the beastien Bre wearing blinkers, sun-hals with Allts for the Garz, and notebak
pioneer
among the mannequinu
on all fours and whinny.
Ko down
Only two
words from a Dior or o Fath will be necessary: "It's smart.”
Mole rescued from
aquarium roof
kindness to antimals-
Kindness to the IF you wanted to have a horic puli ed out of a chimney, or an arinials you like: try asking a cul lover to be kind to a mouse)-ex! otrich rescued from the top of a what would you do? Casworks to kindness to animale as a ocial
bymmon the fire brigade. Last week Vite coines, kindness to woinen's
fliemen hauled a cow out of a 30- complexions. I read of a system of
in panchi on amber-tinted
foot well. Next week they will be ceiling, with a network of fluorescent lassuing a giralle on the roof of St. Pancras Biatlon, or looserking a king- lighting behind thein, la "how women at their best" taic). Now is Ing mouse's treat! from between the
Durough railings" of for solne "expert" to *the nomeist
band
office. in ever repeat that if to
a
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Jurveyor's
YOUR BIRTHDAY..... By STELLA
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
BORN today, you are one of the
rich
will.
terribly may never become elther. It is likely that you free spirits of the world. Iaving
and bave special talent In muste to contorin, conventionally, in your
literature, particularly poetic express- life or in your work seems to be
this to be re- Don't permit a leader in very difficult. You are
Parents tdes 'rather than one to follow pressed in your nattire. thase of others. Furtunately. you horn on this day are faced with may show aigu of have the charm that makes people children who Like
you as well of the executive that so-called "artiste temperament" Ability to carry out your idene. You at a very early age. Learn to cope or with Guide and corset wisely, are not suited to a commercial business career but will make your for you may have a near-genius on best progree in one of the profes- your handat
Your Your or the creative arts. alons originality can have full play and and it is likely that there will be life. for but one real love in your les demand there will be
Marriage to that "one Person" can having in "conform."
bring exceptional happiness.
Still, you have a certain threwć- hires when it comes to knowing when on kien is a profitable one and when st
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Opening lead—47
By OSWALD JACOBY WHAT sort of bridge hand makes you think of re- But works? Probably a stam. not just an ordinary stam, ex- pertly bid and played. Let's Lake look at alam that shouldn't have been bid.
Vegetables
For n n interesting Chilean way with cucum- bers, pare desired number: of fresh cucumbers. Boil in salted water, until tender, then dice. Arrange in but tered ramekins, alternating layers of cucumbers. und grated cheese. Moisten with cream, cover with buttered bread crumbs, and bake until brown.
Cuban Style Poas Peas Cuban Style--chicharas la cubana to Junior, if he is studying Spanish makes for a good dish right now.
WOMANSENSE
VENETIA MURRAY, GEORGE SCOTT AND JAMES LEASOR harvest the news and views souvenirs of people who have been going placer as→
ASSIS
Back They
BACK to her
green and
mauve draw-
ing-room in
came model Hur- Chelsen |bara Goalen. She went off three weeks ago with "the idea of cruising round Spain and the South of France in the car."
She had a smasti near Mar
bun seilles and had to take a to Cassis, which is not for along the coast: "We couldn't move after that," she said.
But Barbara calt.
bas brought back some fashion Ideas. One wos inspired by a woven straw mat-the kind hired out French beaches for trippers to sit on.
од
Cook one 'quast green peas until tender in as little water as necessary, with tsp.
In butter Heat thp oil or frying INTI, Start trying 2 minced onions in it. Add tsp. minced parsley. Chop 2 green peppers, tinned and seeded, in Cassis," she said, "and the and add with a minced by only thing handy was a mat. leaf. Cook slowly until every-So Experia
I draped it, ever shotsid stay out of a ziarn when the
Certainly there's nothing much tụ recommend in the in contract shown in today's hand.
opponents have two scen. But when tis hand came along in the Decora- tion Day tournament in New York. inosi of the North-South palis staggered into six. na-lamp.
In a way. It's not to be wandered nt The defence had just two bare aces between them, not a jack more. By way of compensation North ha a good five-card suit, and South hati an even better one.
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If the defence had held about the same value but not in the fonn of wo ares-the slam might have been ice cold because of the strength of the red quits.
I wouldn't compare this slain to fireworks if it were just an unlucky hand that was' art because the de- fenders and two ages. The astonish- ing thing about it is that most of the expert wht bid the simen managed to make it.
At most tables West opened a club, and South won with the Jack. He
a diamond, then ied
hoping thai somebody would take the ace and would return anything but a spade. Then he night make four diamonds. Ive heurts and three clubs.
- "I was terribly, cold-one-day
my
thing is soft and lightly brown-shoulders and belted it in-und
then add a few gratings of it looked fine with shorts," ed,
dissolved nutmeg
tsp. Fashion Idea No. 2: vinegar. Carefully Blir these filed seasonings into the cooked pras until they are well coated. Should be served piping hot.
and grown- The youngsters
won't ups, too.
have to be to cat carrots if admonished this dish comes to table!
To serve B, peel or scrape one large bunch of carrots, and cut In thin strips lengthwise. Pince in kettle and cook in boll- ing, salted water to cover for 20 minutes, or until tender. Iain.
Place
pan or
Chopped Chives
There was a
a walter in Spain who wore a waist-length jac kel in blue denim →→ high col- lar, puffed three-quarter-length. sleeves, patch pockets.
"I'm
denim-mad, anyway, and it was the most chic thing I saw."
Barbara Gualen is going. to have it copied in several dif- ferent colours and materials.
EDINBURGH
COMPTON MACKENZIE Look the High Road to Scotland. Не
AN ELEGANT FASHION IDEA IN THE
Page:5
Come...
One Coincidence? :
of his world," say the critics). He has most famous novels is called come over from New York.
For fiddling, literally, £12,000 is a big reward, Mr Primrose:
AN ORDINARY BEACH MAT DECOMES "Sintster Street.”
NEW YORK
has returned with one vivid im- pression "the ap- of the palling state 'Greal North Road- 2 tbsp. butler, byg: that narrow, winding
BACK in Bri finely chopped chives, and dash road where
. Speaking in the mdlowed ac- you risk
tain to play at 1
the north, that 20 of salt and pepper in frying
cents uf HANDS OF MODEL BARBARA GOALEN
Lynmouth heat, your life every other kettle over low
dicaster aid years on tour round the world "When When butter is melted, add minute.
concert: Scots cannot erase, he says: "No-I didn't actually have, n Sir Compton looked in on the carrot strips and cook for one
how to find Festival "but what born Wullam Primrose, who people ask 30 crash myself, but I might easily Edinburgh a different way of minute, stirring constantly
success, I always say: "Take a playing the hand. There was D that butter will be thoroughly have had lots. A stone hit the really interested me about the makes £12,000 a year playing walk on the north side of West good chance that East had no more
in the his viola ("the best mixed with carrots,
trip was that rotten rond. diamonds and there might be good
windscreen once," he said.
$2nd Street. For, that's how I
luck in spades.
had my lucity break,
As Dilna turned out, however, West played alow, diamond at the second trick, and dumny won with the king. Earl's nine-spot now indicated quite
05.
moet of the experta now shifted to spades, and Enst could do nothing to defeat the contract. He gould take his ace of spades when- ever ha Ulked, but he couldn't lead a
lemond to his partner's acc.
South manured to win three spades. ve hearts, one diamond and threa clubs, Twolve tricks even though
nce. the defenders each held an
notions deep-rooted CARD Sense♦
To and what the stars have in
select your store for tomorrow,
Avn. You probably birthday star and read the corres will never lack for
Q-The bidding has been:
Weat
North East
Redouble
1 Diamond Double
South
You, South, hold: Spades 7-5-3. 0-5-2. Hearts J-7-0-3-2, Diamonds
the material ponding paragraph. Let your birth: Clubs 8-4-What-do-you-cha?- goods of this world, alihough you day star be your daily guide.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
23)-
st
-CAPRICORN (Dec. 21-Jan. 20)— 24-Oct. LIDRA [Sepa.
correspondence. Don't experiment today. Better for Don't neglect your
you to follow familar routines Just Catch up on your letter-Writing
now. Innovations could backfire you want repiles,
AQUARIUB (Jas, 21-Peb. 19
SCORPIO (Oct. Zi-Nov. 22)— If you have done your work con. scientiously today, you can afford to go to the theatre and relax.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)~
today's race, Slow and rasy wins for you may have to rebudget your energy to get everything Lime and done.
CHESS PROBLEM
By E. PLESNIVY Black, 12 picces.
ON
White, 8 pieces. White to play: mate in three.
Solution to 'jjesterday's problem:
1, R-Kis, any; 2. Q, R, B; Kt, or P.(d's cli, or=Q; or B) mates.
DUMB-BELLS
WHAT ARE THOSE
SPOTS ON YOUR,
SUIT:
THE WED
MUST BE RUST, THE SALESMAN SAID IT WOULD WEAR LIKE
IRON
If you have been postponing an im- portant letter, this is a good day to the right got it off. You'll say thing!
FISCEH
20.ar. 20) (Feb. Don't Irry today or you may re- gret it. You will unly waste energy. Take things one at a timel
21-Apr. ARIES (Mar.
20)- Being careless with your personal appearance can be unfortunate. Spend time to acquire, good groom- InAURUS (APT
21-May 1)- Make your week-end plane for re- creation
relaxation. Forget and about work and dreide to play,
GEMINI
(May 22-June 212- Don't be too critical of others. Be diplomatic If you muzi correct
Ve a mistake;
gordeone for
friendship.
CANCER
(June 22-July
2
2)-
If you can't go visiting this even- Ing. At least you can get on telephone and say "hello."
LEO tautr
21-Aug-
the
23)-
PATR
Be sure you know where you cong before you dash headlong into something. Look before you legpl
VIRGO
24-Sept.
Make J'our plane· for the future. Then, as the month closes, stick to them. Hard work pays dividende.
EINTELLIGENCE TEST
SCARVES
By T.O. HARE
RUTI DJ nieco sid Nabbits the offer day, .~14 & physiotherapies - In S
but teaching MEDICAL. patients to WORTH BONITOS. Each of two contrasting cotouri.
'And bare's an odd story that Teuth told me. Pire of her Green LED sro pamed White. Boerist
and Yellow.shad each of tim
ʼfor his sɑR?? two
hes on colours of which to of the other four are the.
AKİ
No two patients have cho the same two Colo boss...
each of the coloura obowen by two patients,
I made some foquiries ABETET this.& found that no patient had chosen & dolgur of whian the namesko bad chosen the
color corresponding Sea$}
Own the Brit
by drewn
of the
The DR swo golours GËLOWER had both obosen, aa" CEM, their ** calours, yallow. chosen by Yellow, had
An old
Bastler 20 ter purp
hac conferiptuousky, rejec White.
What two "ašiaura. MICH,
(Holution on Page 10)
A-Bid one heart. A "free" bid, over the redouble usually shows some strength, because you can afford to pay any weak hand and let your poriner show his best kult The exception occurs when you have Ave eards in the sult that's cheapest to b10.
Your bid of one heart doesn't stop North from bidding one roade or two clubs if he happens to have a really good sult; but it does indicate a playable tramp aut if he happens to have fairly good three-card hold- ing in hearts.
TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You, South, hold: Spades J-1-6-3-2, Hearts 7-d-3. Diamonds 3-4, Clubs 0-3-2. What do you do?
Anawer Tomorrow
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CROSSWORD
14
16
19
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1. Hare noster.(0)
taid, soft at heart. (5)
10. Look for a south-east arch. (0)
11. End of the secrph. (4)
13. Fit for a P/L (omon. (3) ·
18. His tablon (anss.). (9)
10. A degree of depth
(a) ..
(4)
10 ting & Smoothing effect. (5)
10. Local airman's, "den.
124. Deduce, (D)
25. Let's hope you 21 when son
оп оде (0)
26. Dorpstol from this end,
27. A broken star. (4)
Down
1. Hos ao stay-at-home, ({})**
(4)
2. is often proved a mirage. (5)
8. Head dress," (8) ·
5. Pre & brakona chin. (4)
165 17 panu (0)
6. Mother's sons, (8)
a. Fuel from the broken tade. (4)
totora 14. (BE
14. The eye of a needle. (5)
15. Arrive. ()
17. May propel you towards. 10. (9)'
10'Use it to refuse 7 (4)
31 Mastened. (3).
21. 4 letter from the cair, 19) 24. Eroda. (3)
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AND
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THANKS,
MUM WISH ME
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Y1⁄2 TEASPOON
AND MO
IT WITH ...
BOLIC NOINO
A TEASPOON CHOPPED
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THEN SERVE ON BUTTERED
TOASTS
A NEW GORT OF EGGS-AND- BULCON, WHAT?
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Do You Know Meow-Language?
-If Hanid Did, She Could Talk With Purr-Purr-
By MAX TRELL
say to me, Pur-Pury dear? Oh, how I wish I understood meour- langunge! My goodness," Hand went on, more to herself than to "Just imagine how sharp cars. I guess you can Pur-Purr
different kinds
of hear lots of things that I can't" many
Hanid listened carefully for languages there arel. You (and TANIÐ, the shallow-gir), held several minutes, trying her best all the other cats) spoak meow. the white kitten in her lap, to hear any small sounds that language. The dogs speak bark. Pur-Purr made no sound, it might be sounding. From some language, and sometimes growl- didn't move. Hanid was quite where for off she thought the language. The cows speak moo- language, the bees speak hum- sure she must have fallen asleep, could hear a dog barking Then language, and the birds speak But when Hanid looked down, she heard the twittering of a
chirp or twitter-language. she saw to her surprise that robin or a sparrow coming, the Pur-Purr had her green eyes thought, from the other side of you understand all those differ-
the garden wall. Then she ent languages, Purr-Pur?"
a sheep
Whether she did or she didn't bleating. 'Now really," said Hanid, Uft- heard a cow mosing,
a duck quacking A Pur-Purr wouldn't say. ing Purr-Purr up and gazing bee humming, a a hen clucking into her face, "I don't know why
some and
wide open.
you aren't fast asleep, Pur-Purway, singing, en far, for
dear! It's as still as a pin.
don't hear a single sound!
Very Sharp Ears
I.
"Though," Hanid added the
There's
"Yes, Purr-Purr," said Hanld ut last, "there are plenty of sounds to hear all sight. That's why you can't sleep. Just too much noise for you.”
Hanid glanced down at the next moment as the put the hit-' kitten again, but Purr-Purr just ten back in her lay again, "per meowed softly. haps you do. Cuta havo-VCTY PUIT- don't they; sharp ears, Purr? And you're a kitten, which is the same as a cat cx-
OCE
Hanid went on: "I suppose the Hon speaks rear-language. But pig what language does the peak? Would you call if oink- language? Or grunt-language? And what language doce the hen speak? Cluck-language?"
17-11
me
"I was strolling along there ten years back when I met Richard Crooks, the singer. Doing anything?" he asked. "No,
sald.
"I'm out of work."
I
on a
Fine, said he at once. 'Come a tour with me. So I went, and it was a terrifle success- audiences of four o
or, five thou
sand people a night,
I asked
"Later, I
been
ked him if he'd
thinking of this tour for long, and he said;" No. But just hearing you were out of work made me want to take the risk.'
The result of a risk: Success.
NOVELIST
·E:~E~~Bates ITA is beck
holiday..... time to
from
pack
his bags and set off on his travels again. He has been on a three- week trip to France, Italy, Switzerland, and Germany. And he plans to sail for the sun again at the year's end.
The Bahamas House of As-
commissioned him. sembly has
to
write a history of the Bahamds. He estimates that this will take about three months, during which ke and his wife will live in a house outside Nassou.
says
Bates: "Hilary: St George Saunders was doing this history when he died in Nassau in December. I will finish it/" for him. We were great
friends;
I owed him a lot."
Hilary St George Saunders, a former
House of Commons librarian, was Batas's command- ing officer in the war when "Bates, as Flying Officer 'X,' was write short continiesland to HRDid
stories about the R.A.F.
In his spare time. Estos wrote a novel, showed it to Saunders words of all the songs the birds and asked if that had to appear
"Do you understand all those different languages?”
Hanid smiled, "Wouldn't it be, were singing. languages, Purr-Purr? I could
asked,
under his pen-name, too,APAN
"No," said Use C.O. "You keep
wonderful if I knew, all those Could Talk to Beck that one for yourself," Bates did.
Many Different Languagos
walk out Into the meadow and "And maybe," said Hanid, "It was "Fair Stood the Wind for hear what the cows were mying could hold a conversation with Franco." And it sold 500,000 Hanid shook her head. "I to each other, Then I could at some bees and grasshoppers and coples.
cept smaller so you have small, wonder what you're trying to under a tree and understand the crickets. Oh, what fun that
Rupert and the Butterflies-13
:: Before returning for his bandh of Bowers Rupert,tails of the odd thing that - ba and Algy have noticed. It seems to be that every brućinefly was flying in this direction." be anys; ** You're very observant alles the old Pro " fusnow*: **I can sxplain that. They
• were actually Bring to mm 19té
Then, seeing, Rupert's astonished expression, ba does a curious thing. Moving some curtains he takes
* Now then, - him into a passage, little bear, carl von une!!" any?.. thing 70% ha ask. Why, that's almost the same " quetion that Horace the hedgehog arked me.” says Rupert And he miffa cam Fully Jap
NO. 14
Rupert
in the Tree Tops
Has Arrived
would be, Pur-Purr! Wed talk about how to make wild honey.
COTSWOLD
SIMON ELWES, Court-
ly and expen sive portrult- painter he
and how to jump from one binde of
grass
to another, and how to make up a cricket song. I could charger 2,000 gulneas, for a full- even fold a real conversation length painting-returns with a with you, Purr-Purr...we really heavy tan. His friends describe could talk to each other, back 11 as a passport from Bermuda." and forth, just the way people But he got it in three weeks
runshine In the Cotswolds
"It was unnecessary to spend
do,"
Then Honid sighed. "But, BAWA
the best wp cản: do. 1. And oven | man who mo
C
but I guess we can't, Pur-Purr. anything at all; much cheaper than coatic Bermuda he said. You have your; maw-language
foo much butter, scoffed anch.. we have our
people! language. I understand a little drank too much cream, ate too of what you say, and you under much, food and lost a étono in stand a little of what I say. It's weight, I inust be the kind of on weight with !so, we do Alkovach othér,; don't worry."
wife
out of town for holiday becaulo 1. And Hanld, thought: muxo, she was despoiling my pictures and hourd, Pur-Purr utter a short eating my children, and gentle;meow which could Mei Elwes is
how!
back at have meant Xestic At any rate, work, completing a portraite of that's what Hanld thought; and the Duchess of Kent, 1997).
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The gave Burr-Pure a hug, sid smiled.
An(London: Kaupres Farelads.