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"SHE
by Beachcomber
was seen," says an item of news, "on an elephant's back on her 04th birthday." Probably she had been unable to get down.
Prodnose: That does not explain' why she was up there in the firs
plače.
Myself: perhaps it was her idea of a good birthday. Or perhaps she
for elephant
Inistook
the
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minoceros.
Prodnoss: Why should she want to tide à rhinoceros at Jur age?
Myself: Perispe I was her firs: chance of riding one...
Frodnosa: But why should...? Mysql: Perhaps her mother owned the beart, and couldn't ride it herself that day. Now go away.
Procedure-schedule
SUETS department has laid dowsi
that the construction of a rabbit- hutch on ground previously used for ahen-houING requires
separate Itcante. On application for the Hoeboe an inspector will visit
the
site, to take measurements and so survey the ground. If the hen-house
itself is to be converted into a rabbit-lwich a special temporary licence is needed. The permit to apply for this licence expires after 14 days and must be renewed before the application for the llence Is made. This is to avoid redundancy. The odd man out
INNER was over at Whackstraw Manor. The ladies, such as they жето, nad
rowddy, withdrawn leaving the gentlemen to their ciran their British Napoleon Brandy, and their Vile cricketing mories. Beveral of them. Buahcü with wine, were boasting of their bracen, Waistcoats were undone, and braces were fetched ΑΠΑ released with ali insolent twang. Une gentleman made no attempt to "Show Your NOW DIT: his braces, braces, sir!" cried a rule voice "or are you ashamed of them?" He who was thus addressed smiled sadly. Titen, undoing his watcoat, revealed the fact that he wore ha braces. His breeches were tied with string. Mocking laughter greeted his discomfiture, Boxton's Braces Help You To Hold Your Head Up In Any Company! Don't Be The Let Doxton Brace Odd Man Out You!
YOUR BIRTHDAY... By
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1952.
JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
Any Great Play Demands Thought
THE
By OSWALD JACOBY HE man who dives from the top of the Empire State Building into a small barrel of water is always very matter of fact about his feat. "You need Inches of only four feet two water," he will say, and he will go on to prove that anybody at all could do. it.
The same thing is true of cer
Su gheives at the bridge. table. There's always a logical explana
ill look tion later on, but they pretty good. For example, the beautiful play made recently in a rubber game, by Perry L. Rus
ton.
take
Ruston opened the king of clubs and was allowed to hold the trick. He continued clubs, and dummy's trump from dumany to the see of
ace won. Now declarar led a low
upades in a own hand, and Rus- diva by fon executed his high dropping the king of spades.
There was a logical explanation, surely would Declarer of course. havo irled a finesse if he had held the jack of spades. Since no A
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12
temperament for politics--or even
statesmanship-if you develop your gifts in this direction, You are fund of foreign wavel and might make an excellent diplomat. You are a fine diplomat around your own home and neighbourhoods. You are probably a barn elvic leader and others in the to you for community will look Baristance.
2 Your home life will be an unusually There happy and contented one.
PORN today, you have une of those terial, magnette personall ties which make people like you at eight, Yuur main objective in life ja to be happy. live in peace and harmony, do your job well and tuifli your high ideals. You have a deep dreiro for knowledge and are a fine student. You would make excellent teacher, too, and since deid needs poople of your calshare, it is to be hoped that you will train for this profession.
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You have naturally artistic tastes, and are broad-minded sed sympathe- tle toward the needs of others. You women are particularly good judges of human nature and can size up a person accurately at Brat sight. You mien have some of this gift, but will de more impulsivn perhaps be
in showing your likes and dislikes. You of the sterner sex have the right
will probably be just one love in your hfe and unless that results in marriage, you may not sted, as you will never be happy with a second chalce. Just make sure that you are not too timid tu "speak up" when' that "one person" enters your life.
To find what the stars have in store for tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corres- ponding paragraph. Let your birth- day star be your daily guide.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13
SAGITTARIUS (Nay, 27-Dec. 22)— If you have a new iden, follow it through to completion. It should be
coolul.
CAPRICORN
(Dec. 23-Jan, 20)-
A
The less haste, today, the more accomplished. You might make mistake if you rush things too much. AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)--
debt. Money cannot always repay Sometimes sympathetic, understanding 1 more to be destrest
:
20-Atar. PLACEB (Feb.. Social obligations grow more demand- ing these days. Learn to plan your time carefully,
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INTELLIGENCE TESTS
Hocum Parva
isa't
By TO. HARE WRITING Bistory
Bald ProfeAKIT Snoughenough the other day. *Take the caso of the Ave literary ladies of Hocum Farra who nourished, about 100 years ago. There were Ave of them, you may recall; the sisters Anne, Emily and Brolly, Maria
and Maria's younger sister, Harriet Two of them Posts: two. were
Novetata One was a drams
tit. But who-if you follow meas which?
ot
E
Ho
* After a good dakl rosearch I came across categorical statements." produced a notebook. "Let me tell you what they were: (1) Anne was not a port. (2) Maria was the dramatist. (3) One Twaddle, at least. was a boot,
Emily was novala (8) Batli the posts weto Broliga 10) The dramas Sat was a Brolly. And, Ballave it or not, of suose statemerita in
You aurprise me, Bnough.
escut i lofd him
Can you deduce the voc tion of each of the..Give Exoracy Indies?
(Solution on Page 10)
DUMB-BELLS
THE MASHED POTATOES
AREVONLY HAL
COOKEDA
WELL CEAT THE HÁLF 15. CC
CED
ARIES (Mar.
20)-- 21-Apr. Make detailed plans for your future. Think ever everything very carefully. TAUBUN (Apr. 21-May 21)-- Excellent aspects tor giving HKSİN-
in all communlly tance
benefits. Give freely.
GEMINI (May 22-June -21)- Be optimistic even though things may not move exactly as you had hoped.
CANCER (June 22-July23) Lend encouragement to someone who may be faintheurted project.
about a new
LEO (July 24-Aug. *3) Attending the theatre or a good movie night be just the change of scene you need just now.
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)-- Do something Important that you have been wanting to do for a long Ume. A red-letter day!
LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23) - Belter not to make important de- cisions just now. Think all detalis over carefully beforehand.
(Oct. 24-Nov.
23)- → SCORPIO
You should be able to get a lot of the last-minute Christmas shopping
shed today.
CROSSWORD
Across
Erect cord, siended, of course; Found in all club carasan. (4) You're fair way out in this.
10. 1 plated to su sudianos, (*).
21. And if played-wall wii) this, (8)
Ruminanta tako zen, (3)
15. Bant-round but unwand, (S)
Produces sticky wicket
20. Open: able before accomplished. (0) 22. Hagged penetrator. (1) 23. tie is used jo turnover. (3)
Chilly but I'd follow the gel. (8)
ано
Way to tend the race. (6)
Way to an onur,
At the bar 16h damming (6)
On many farms either explosivo
of earthy, (1)
8. 18 po beat
6. Let brag about bost, (5)
-7. Holder. (4) MARADACHE
B. start of 1920 and tattere, (4)
12. Pardon the moris. (B}]
Rated as commero, (8)
10. The sap belongs to. We, (4),
17. Gold glow (3)
10 Unyielding. (4)
21 Marn that will carp. (9)
Solution of yesterday's puzzle. Acrossi
2. Marlert: B. Organised 11, at 19,
below
Alsei
was anticipated, East must the jack of spades.
hold
South's bidding Indiested that he held only tour spades, so East Was marked with three trumps. Henco
M defenders Morales
Fet the ปíc
"angle"
trick trying whether or not Ruston dropped his king.
came
The full beauty of the play be- came apparent later on, East was bound to win his jack of spades is time to lead & ficart, and this SAVO West two heart tricks in ad- cition to the club and the trump. Thus declarer was act one trick.
Now see what happens West keeps the king of spades when declarer plays the ace of that suit. South leads a second epede, and West must win with the king.
Now, what? If West leads bearts, South's king will win a trick. It West lead anything tie, South trump. rets in to draw the last Then South can run the diamonds, fram the one heart discarding dummy. Thus only one heart trick hla is lost, and declarer makes contract.
TEINTELUIAMHU
WOMANSENSE
DRUSILLA BEYFUS reporting
HOSE HEILBRON
Find the
lady
FOUR MIRRORS TO SUCCESS
HE distinguished advocate called Rosie is beating the men to the post. Rose Hellbron, the 37-year-old Queen's Counsel, has established a longer lead in the race to fame aince she was picked to defend the two young men, Harold Winstanley and Christopher Craig, each on a murder charge.
Recently I set out for Liverpool, the Q.C.'s birthplace, home and honey-pot. Miss Heilbron's practice there is said to be worth £6,000
a year.
She lives with her surgeon husband, Dr Nathaniel Burstein, and their four-year-old daughter, Hilary, in a big modern house over- looking one of the few green views in Liverpool..
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Their home has an air of comfort; there is a shiny Triumph car in the garage, a beautiful Bechstein piano in the sitting-room, bloom- ing pink geraniums in the porch, and staff behind the scenes to look
Heilbron. "I'll have the lady," lucidity, persuasion, and perfect after the place.
know why courtesy.
"But she's a pugilist at heart; you can't knock Rosle off her feel with an unexpected thrust of thought.”
"I think
Miss Heilbron, by Bar he said. etiquette, may not be inter- you chose her," said the judge
appreciatively. viewed.
Or the way she looks in even ing dress. "Rosie was the first woman in the town I saw wear- ing a black ballet length frock,"
So I trailed along in the tracks of Rosie, Q.C., pice- ing together a portrait from other people's impressions of her.
*
a woman friend told me.
HER NEIGHBOUR 1 LISTENED to the man who
HER TEACHER
"She defends a person more than a set of facts. I think it shown that she is a woman and it helps her."
HER CLIENT
at all
I LISTENED to the woman she defended for murder last nume she month and whos cleared. She wasn't what I was expecting, a stern, poker-faced sort of woman," said Mra Mary Standish,
I whispered to the policeman That's not her, is it? She was so friendly and quiet.
"And when
The town wears Rosie like used to sit next to her at she would become one of the when I fral saw Miss Hellbron medal. She will always be university.
"She was a pretty girl, but bright and new and young to the ordinary people there," she was always working in the Won't remember see- wouldn't nuss a word of our library.
ing lick at any dances, and I Rosie," they may.
know that although 1 tinually asked her out, she only came out to tea, twice.
The local people will tell you about the day the late Recorder got up in court and put all the men out of sorts by saying to Miss Heilbron: "I am delighted 10 see you here; I do hope you will come again."
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Or the day the judge asked a thief to select his counsel be- tween two men and Miss
con-
"She was a very hard worker I think I would have indeed. got a First if it hadn't been for Rosie's paper."
I LISTENED to the man who taught her at Liverpool Univer
she 'sity. "Yes, was a bright girl in class, but I never though first two women Q.C.5. Still I wonder will she succeed in the heavier business of the law?
"You need courage and lan- guage in criminal ativocacy. But in the remoter reaches of the the couri of appeal, in nothing can save you but a pro- found knowledge and expert ence of legal procedure."
Rosie, QC, was taidng shape, There was another brushstroke
cllor. He cast a clearer light on
Chicken Pie
And Salmon Loaf
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【HAT are the essential ingredients of a "good white leaf"? The best en- riched wheat flour; & little lard or other shortening; suit; yeast; a trace of
sugar or honey, and at least 6 percent milk solids.
But it does not Insure "good" taste" In bread. Many home-makors have to hunt to find this, and then pay a premium price for flavour.
If you would increase the use of bread, give us more. of those good home-made type loaves.
Varioty Needed
Feature
"
a variety of these breads: raisin, nut, "egg" more forms of nye, protein bread, 100 percent whole wheat, and the "cheese bread" popular in many restaurants.
Make rolls with enriched four, crisp, not soggy. Put more bite and less sponginess in coffee cakes and sweet breads, less sugar on top,
DINNER
Green Pepper and Celery Salad Chicken-Potato Ple Broccoll Sweet Sour Beets Pear Melba
Coffee
Ten
MILK
All Measurements Are Level Recipes Serve Four
Chicken-Potato Pio ''
Prepare fricasseed chicken as she was putting usual, wing a 3 lb. all-purpose my case to the judge, if she bird. Remove the meat from the thought he hadn't heard proper-boner; add 3 cooked bullon ly, she repeated what she had onions and 1 c. thin-sliced cook- said so he didn't miss anything ed carrot rounds. Prepare 5
fluffy mashed potato, Oil or but- about my side.
ter a 2 qt. baking dish. Line with "And I'll never forget it she the
in, thick. Fill with at meen fricassee mixture; top across the court. I don't expect with the remaining potato, giving HER COLLEAGUE on this canvas from a top soll remembered to unde
to meet anyone like her again." it a rough finish. Brush with
tbsp. melted butter or margarine THE VALUE OF A mixed-with-1-beaten-egg-yolk. ROYAL CUSTOMER Bake 35-40 min, in a hot oven,
400 F.
Note: This dish may be pre- Peterpared with 2 (No. 2) tins
chicken fricassee.
I LISTENED lo a fellow silk, the nature of her talents. "In
"Rose has a scase-of-form-in-court she gives you the feeling
•She has been oficially referred to de Rose since 1940, when the court. She's no mumbler and she stays awake at night over a
she puts over, a case with client. started heavy, work.
WE'RE hard up but welge
along." said King
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE W sald
The Most Curious Of Parades
-Can You Guess What the Marching Figures Were?-
As 1 keep all their things. By MAX TRELL
mentioned before, the room was NOW, as I've told you more quite dark, except for a spot or than once (and I tell it to moonlight on the carpet not far you again), there's nothing like from the window. 'Get in line,
ed. March!'" to happen."
goodness" "My
VCARD Sense the night time for strange things everybody, the first voice call-
-Q-With neither side vulnerable. the uldding has been:
North
Soul
7
West
East 2 Heoris 1 N. T.
You, South, hold: Spades K-Q-4, Hearts 0-3 zmonds 4-3-2, Clubs K-Q-9-8-4. What do you do?
A-B three clubs. This itee bid At the level of three is forcing to Fame. If North can stop the hearts ho is expected try three . trump. Otherwise, he must raise the clubs or show a new suit.
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TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding is the
лате
It was Christopher Cricket who said this. Knari and Hanid. "Who was it?" Hanid, the shadow-children with
names, to
exclaimed
Marching Line
the turned-about
"That's just it," replied Chris- what I whom he was talking, nodded topher. "It's exactly their heads and waited for was wondering myself. I look- Christopher to go on. For they cd as hard as I could. And all were quite sure he had a story at once, I saw a marching line to tell them,
of little squarish figures, each of them no more than an inch high. But the strange thing about them was their eyes."
Strange Parade Indeed they were right. After a moment or two of silence, Christopher began again. "Last night, I saw one of the strangest
ever seen. parades I've
as in stu the question just answered. You. morning sunshine but it South. hold: Spades 1-8-3, Hearts K-3, Diamonds 8-3-7. Clubs K-J-9- 8-4. What do you do?
seems quite amusing now in the
Answer Tomorrow
CHESS PROBLEM
By A. ELLERMAN Black, 11 pieces.
• White, 8 plaçes. White to play: mate in two.
Solution to yesterday's problem:
1, BB4, any; 2, Q, B, or Ke
mates,
BARBS
BY. HAL COCHRAN
A Michigan youth, chosen as was
a typical American boy, arrested for speeding: Evidently trying to live up to the title.
An offico is a place where some men go so`rave ́ ́ because samething i want
I
1 of
Chris-
tx
of Yugoslavia recently.
But how can his wife be bard up when she wears a fabulous the mink coat and practically whole collection from Jacques Fath, one of the costliest Parisian dress designers?
✡
She
Christopher thought he might Just watch the moon and stars,
started 'playing their game, and mighty queer game it was. They
his coats, weary dresses, his ball gowns, houserobes, and his slippers.
In
is
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.....Poar Melba
Chill 2 ripe prars. Feet and core them. Arrange in deep dessert dishes. Top each with a scoop of vanilla or peach ice his cream. Pour over Melba sauce, his or use defrosted quick-frozen
raspberries, live
The clue to it is that ther Paris, where a royal specially valued.
It is
traditional concession
to an elegant and royally con nected girl who is low in funds tu sell her clothes at a discount, I hear the queen is allowed 60 percent price reduction.
de
In Paris, as every dress signer knows, it often pays not to let Madam pay.
The value Mr Fath puts on Queen Alexandra can be seen as soon as she sets foot in the -up the salon... the queue
tairs melts in two to let her pass by, the entire staff plunges into deep curtsy.
Mr Fath is there to greet her in person, and the whisper goes enough for the und loud Majesty has arrived." American clients to hear, "Her
What a wonderful client
What do you mean, topher?" asked Knarf
"Well," said Christopher,. "the leader had six eyes on one side was was of him and six eyes on the other At this point; Knarf shouted. the
"I bet I know what they did, saw it in quite different as
after him had six eyes on one Christopher! They all lay down dark room with the moonlight twelve eyes in all. The man just coming in at the window.
side of him and five eyes on the on the floor, one after the other. "The
clock other. And some of them had and the number of their eye oueen'can be it pays old grandfather
If one fellow I mean Just struck midnight and
'three eyes on one side and one matched., was trying to make up my mind whether to take my guitar and ye on the other, or two eyes side and Avo on the go out into the garden and sing other"
had
a bit, or whether it wouldn't be better just to sit by the window
stars.
one one
О
to help
с
had four eyes on one side and her get along when she's hard two oyer of the other, he lay up. down next to anybody who had either four eyes or two eyes on elther side of him."
Hanid.
THE DASHERS AND Бау, Hanld interrupted to
THE DECOROUS and watch the moon and the 've never heard of such a "Just like dominoes!" cried
Didn't any Christopher! Well, I
de- thing, hadn't quito
Christopher Cricket chuckled. EBRETT was spilt in two at elded, when all at once I heard of them have the regular num-
ber of eyes?! cheerful
the wedding of the week ust what they were," "That's Just safd someone saying in a
one of them,"
Lady Caroline Child- voice, 'Come on, follows, let's
Christopher.
"He had one eye he cald. "And I never found between march down to the floor, and
Both sides were rich, titled, march, around the room and on one side, and one eye on the out for sure until the next Villiers and Viscount Melgund. other. And there was one of morning when the moon went
and latided, but the groom's then play a game! At this, a
from Debrett Docorous, the line whose eyes I away and the sun came in and 1 all the little figures with all whole crowd of other voices all them in
couldn't see at all. They wero
Jac different the
kinds of dots the bride's from Debrett Dash- crled: 'Let's gui'.
(which I had mistaken for their ing "For a moment or two," con- just blank.
For the Decotour with a tinued Christopher, "I didn't sto
the floor eyes) Jump up from "Anyway, sald Christopher, and scramble back into the flavour of tweed and beads: The anything. But I heart a jiggling and a rattling coming from the "they finally finished marching chest where the children keep
the room. Then they all their things." wooden chest where the children
Mighty Queer Game
around
Rupert and the Windwhistle-40
Was that fack Frost?" to the story of the journey and'
demanda
Dill as he reaches the ge." "I wish he had stopped cottage to speak to us." "He was much too busy, and I don't suppose we'll ace him agaip unta nexe winter, says, Rupert. Anyway, let's tell Mummy all about its arpock Ashe'll give us some tea." Ma
Bear listyne with growing surpcion
looks very suspiciously the -ion pille. M-m, 'I hear what you asyshe murmues slowly, but don't believe in keeping warm by magic. It's safer to wear an
even
THE END
BIOUTS BEKKÁVED.
*ÃƑnáw adventure begina tomürrów.
Don't
forget
your
Rupert
Annual
came
room's mother, Lady Minto, beside her husband and father of the groom, the Earl Minto.
of They were up from their home in Scotland.
Lady Minto arranged traditional ceremony outside the her church the bond from son's regiment in the Guards, who played the Border Ballad. For the Darkers with a flavour of mink and Monte. Robin The bride's mother, Mra
TRICK OF THE CHEF
Make Melba foast from refrig erator rye bread. Slice thin, place on a big pan and bake in a slow- oven-until-light brown and very crisp. Extraordinaire!
Popular Pleats
By GRACE THORNCLIFFE
PLEATS are favoured this year;
Wilson, who looked immensely beside former busband the Earl of Jersey," father of the and are seen with many different outats. For instance, this dress- bride.
use of sunburst Mra Wlison arranged an un- makes new usual idea at the champagne meent of the elegant Vionnet pleating dono in a manner re-
The
reception-aband of
fiddlers in
touch of yesteryear.
dressed in yellow and black. The top Dashing guests cluded Lady Derby and Duke of
trock in-is of lightweight wool jersey that
handles beautifully, Around, the banded neckiing and threa Marlborough, who was
rather put out in the church quarter sleeves are details of the of a pneumatic simple top. In contrast the skirt
・the nolain't someone | uses front pleating draped ↑
drill outside.
by
up to give the fellow Foto stop the beltine. The back of the work," he muttered,
lakirt is flat. A jewelled buckl
London: Express Hervice) is worn at the waist. Sh