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"Would you mind repeating the question?"
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THE Beachcomber
SEE that it has been suggested, once again, that power- stations should be beautifed, "to tone
twith the surrounding countryside."
Years ago I pubished aschen trejected with contanely: for thatching gas-containers and gorges and pleiving power station with Gothic windows, over which roses would trall in sweet profusion. The senthele in om all yeama to see a Ras-metal with praked hat feaning In a gunner twilight, from the lattice of a gasworks half-hidden in honey- suckle. And imagine the evening Mistelight calling through the stained? Klast windows of the power-houDE.
Black Seu is no more black than he Danube blue. Not even in once- romantic Budapest have I seen the Danube blite, and certainly not in Vienna. The Black Sea wax nu blacker that any other sea when I crned it, before the war, on the That gets its name from the Sack way to a Nutle place named Yalta, tags which somethiner cover It Is original name was the "nhngpitahte sea, not because of fugs but beenURE of the barbarous habits of the coastal communities. Later on.
Cufonists
changed all this, and the ara become the "spitable seu," ur Euxine, One of the great sights in be seen from it is the high line of the Caucasus an
you approach Sukhum.
Batters Here, there,
Loode singth wyrelesse TELL me, motorist, would you not
like to come to an olde Englyshe garage with tin flowers blooming in profusion in plaste window-boxes, ned an attendant dressed as one of Chaucer's pligrims? The petro) would be poured out of ole Englvahe ale-lankards, and realis would be done in a rude baver. Atted with an olde Engivane ivy-ruvere indio.
In passing
N
and everywhere
A aquarium-keeper who went to sleep with his legs sticking out through the window of his house complained that foys hung their caps un fila Zeel.
GIVING the name of Trinnon, a widow, aged ta, got her arm stuck in a chemist's jar Firenien broke the jar and foved her arıtı.
A DINER at West Hartlepool found
butterfly in die woop.
A PRESTWICH Woman who pawned as her brother, whom
found that the pawnbrüfter was
she bad The never seen.
HEAD report that recent galer have turned the North Sep back 41 depends, as De Jood used to say, on what you mean by black.
YOUR BIRTHDAY...... By STELLA
TUESDAY, MARCH 31
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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1953.
JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
Outcome of Game Is Decided by Players
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Opening lead-♥ J
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By OSWALD JACOBY
D
WHAT would be the cuterane
Wore the the ne bridge game? The answer would depend on the quality players on both sides,
+ +
The average declarer would cozaploin bitterly about the
concede a club and a diamond. horrible trump break and would
Down one.
The expert
declarer
SWEET ALMONDS
WHAT. ON EARTH ARE YOU DOING?
TRYING
TO PREL THESE MUTO!
- BUT THAT'S NOT
THE WAY-
JUST CRACK THEM.THEN THROW THEM IN INQUGH BOILING
WATER TO
COVER THEM; AND BOIL FOR
BOR 4 MIN.
ITO CALLED BLANCHING
THEM
WOMANSENSE-
ORAIN OFF
THE WATER
PLUNGE
THE
ALMONDS INTO COLD WATER
AND YOU'LL
FIND THE
SKING SLIP
OFF EASILY
IF YOU WANT TO MAKE SALTED ALMONOD...
HRAT
2 TABLE
OPCONG BALAO
OIL IN
A
FRYING- PAN
AOD 4 OZ SKINNED ALMONDS, AND SHAKÉ AND STIR TILE A DELICATE
BROWN
THEN LUT THEM DRAIN
ON KITCHEN PAPER, AND SPRINKLE AND
TOGS THEM IN FING SALT.
THEYLL KEEP "IN CORKED
BOTTLES
AND DEVILLED ONES ARE MADE BY MIXING
A LITTLE CAYENNE
WITH
THE
SALT
For Coronation day—66,000 rolls and 33,000 slices of cake
MISS FRASER WILL FEED 28,000 TROOPS
AT CAMP
[ISS AIDIE FRASER, 41-year-old Scot, is organising
wealth troops who will live under canvas in Kensington Gardens during the Coronation.
M the catering for the 28,000 British and Caning
would usually succeed in making his contract by the following tine the of play. Win the opening hour! lend with the ace of hearts, draw
one trump with the ae of clubs, and think a fine violent thoughts about the bad break in qubo
Recovering his calm, the ex- pert would continue, with an
and would other high trump eash the top spaces and the rus
hearts before con- of the top ceding a clubs
West, trick to West is forced to return
a dip- hears nond. since. would allow dummy lo
South avbile
dhearded losing diamond. diamond, dummy plays, low, and Bast' queen is captured by the ace, South can now fingre dum- y's ten of diamonds to make his sam
When West returns
ruft
his
Put an expert in the West sent as well as in the South seal, however, and the contract is defeated. Scuth goes through the process of stripping out the BORN today, te stars have given danger signait Get a grip on your spades and hearts before giving you a number of talents, ex- tell and stop sentiering your ener West his club trick, but West pecially gifts in me. literature les ton widely You meinbera of
comes up with a brilliant re- or potoling. But in addition, you the fair sex way find that an ex-
turn. pleasure and
Instead of Reading the restles begvagina desire for have been bequeathed
up-etting deuce of diamonds, West re- temperament which makes it dirk an exciting social life is cull for you to settle down to any your more serious plans. Still, it
turns the Jack of diamonds. one think for any great length of you wish to make a career nut of me. You may try art for a time, recity, concentrate on that? You decide you are bored, then try could be very micressful at t if that musle. Next you may think the is really what you want. stuge offers you p-real chance for faine. You try that Not until you
Beld team to arrow your
and Concentrate on some one thing will you become outstandingly success
ful.
of your
#21
new
This is a small
"This number, to
Will
be done Miss Fraser. As chief resthu Coronation evc at the
Training rant and welfare superintendent NAAFI
centre for NAAF1, she helped organise Totteridge.”
for catering
D - Dag Each lunch will consist of a operations.
cheese roll, meat-illed roil, slice Her staff on and before D-day of slab cake, 2ez bør of mile in Southern England numbered chocolate, a packet of barley thousands. For the Coronation sweels and an apple. Rulls gud it will be about 200.
cake
be wrapped Inverness-born Miss Fraser ecliphane.
The NAAFI staff will be in Joined NAAFI in 1938. She had been a domestle science teacher. Kensington Gardens Irum May
"I knew NAAFI
fo June, when all had some- thing to de with fol, but must be cleared away.
there is the tusk of And when joined," nothing more. she said.
ordering for the canteens and bar's.
Now Miss Fraser has 14,000 her-10,000 in workers under Britain. Women outnumber the men 10 to four.
For the Coronation 50 men handle the bars, 150 women
the canteens.
Biggest task
གཉ
canvas
Savoury or sweet? "I will be more tea than beer, and the savourles anch sweets will depend on whether majority af teopa ure die National Service or Regulars,"
sato Miss Fraser.
"The older men, the Regulars, "Our biggest task will be prefer the savouries, sausage and pack the haversack rations for cheese rolls, but the younger the mid-day incal for 33,060 on ones, usually the National duty on the route on Colonation Service men, like sweet enkes, Day," she said.
London Expraiz Service)
HOUSEHOLD HINT
Lukewarm, soapy water with through the water, using a soft a few drops of ammonia added brush to get the dirt particles will give sparkle to rhinestone)
out of the frames. Rinse and other make-believe gems in Jour costume Jewellery. To carefully pit dry with n sott wherewash,
swish the jewellery bath towel.
It doesn't matter South wins his trick, or what You have an ardent nature and he plans to do next in the suit.: wil be tappiest If you wed at on No matter how he squirms he early age. You are fond of children and wit want alargu must lose a diamond trick and family
own. "Setting will therefore be set. You are temperamental and must down" may be just what you need guard against fits of moodiness and to give impetus to your life. For depression. Success sends you to you wont lose whom you love to Live helgiste. But a minor upset can have the very best there is of toss you into a valley of despair everything. that it may make you weeks to re- To find what the state have in cover om, unless you learn understand yourself better! If you hirthday star and read the corrca- find yourself drifting along without pending paragraph. Let your birth-
day star be your daily guide. any articular pinbilion, that's A
ANIES
to
For example, suppose dummy wins the trick with the king of diamonds. If declnrer continues
by leading the ten of diamonds
and
MISS FRABER... She helped Army catering on D-Day.
BOYS'
AND
GIRLS'
MAGAZINE
the Pixies saw the Snowman
store for tomorrow, select your front dummy. East covers with Hot Tea's Not for a Snowman standing in his place as upl
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1
If momentarily discouraged today, keep in mind that blue skies are just attend. Bo cheerfully optimis tic.
(3tor. 21 Apr 20)- BAGITTARIU# (Nov. 23-Der. 23) When making plans, especially for your coming Vacation, don't expenses too final
now
20-Aug
21)
out
CAFIRCOIN (Dec, 23-Jan. 20) — vlog, systematic about your work makes it easier to get a lot done
a short tune.
PISCES (Feb.
20-Mar
the queen to set up West's ninc. If declarer continues with the low diamond, List can afford to play low. Either way, the defenders get a dlaruond trick.
VECARD Sense♦
Q-The bidding has been:
North
. East South
20) Heart
CROSSWORD
Pass 1 Diamond Pass
West Pass
?
3. Diamonds K-Q-J-10-
·A-Bid four diamonds. The
combined hands should be good
for a game in tilamonds, but your hand may be practically worth less at no-trump if your partner lacks the ace of diamonds,
-That's What O'Scowl Said, and He Was Right!-
to
and go to sleep (for it is really getung late, you know), but if you haven't...."
Knarf and Hanld shouted at once; "We haven't! We haven't
"Yes, indeed-for a dish of hot
lea-very hot tea. This is exactly
was as
Only they noticed that he look.d a little thinner than.he had been the day before.
away?'
"You know very well that a showman always keeps standing
Mr. Snowman stood near the gården wall all winter.
And then
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Meat Loaf
Without Apologies
By ALICE DENHOFF
GRAB bag of recipes today, and the first dne wo pull out may not be a prize, but just the same, it is a frequently used dish-a ment lost.
Ment lout cun be appetising, palatubüs, downright good caf- Ing. So the fact that it is res ceived usually with mumblings and grumblings is that it is enly foo often indifferently pre- pared, dry crumbly or tasteless. So let's remedy that state affairs right now with a recipe for a molat meat loaf that takes care of a generous portions,
Most Meat Loaf
of
Grind together 11⁄21⁄2 lbs, shop, ped bottom round, 2
arnail onions. 2 shredded wheat bis- cult. Add 2 tập. Eult 3 tp. pepper, 1⁄2 tsp. cach dry mus Lard and groted lemon rind, 2 tsp. horse radish, 11⁄2 tsp. Wor- cestershire sauce, one beaten to
C# and one e.. hot milk which tbsp. butter has been added. Place in loaf tin. If desired, top with bacon strips, Bake at 375 F. for an hour,
Another dish
that's very often just thrown together is meat croquettes, the favourite Deftover solution, Here's our entry to amend this stato of affairs, the
recipe for 4 erequettes or B patties,
Molt 4 tbsp. shortening; add 6 tbsp. Bour, 1⁄2 tsp. salt, trp. pepper and dash of paprl- milk; ku. Blend, Add one e.
cool slowly, stirring constant- ly, until mixture is very thick. Add tsp. lemon juice, tsp. grated onion, bap, each finely chopped parsley
finely chopped
bno
and
celery leaves, chopped pimiento and 2 C
diced, leftover meat. Mix well and cool: shape into croquettes or patties. Roj] in one cracker meal; then dip in ono heaten egg to which 2 tbsp. milk have been added, then roll again in cracker meal. Fry In hat fat (375" F.).
Shrimp Soup
For a wind-up here's a' soup for that you might consider, Lenten thenus but is a good lunch or supper starter any time,
or
To serve 4 to 6, saute tbsp. chopped onion in 2 tbsp. but ter. Add one
tin- C. cooked ned shrimp, 1⁄2 lb. processed cheese that has been cubed, 4 milk, tsp. salt, pepper to taste and tsp. Worcestershire sauce. Cook over low heat un- til cheese is melted and soup is thoroughly hot, stirring, oc- casionally.
The "Other
Woman" On The Screen
When
By BEN COOK
Hollywood. someone around this city of Beautiful women calls Audrey Totter a glamour girl, no one laughs. But it was not always so.
By MAX TRELL
O'Pumpkin, that standing out all "I'm afraid, remarked Pixie 46T WONDER," said Mr Punch what happened.
Knart and lianid, the "From the first snowfall of the day and all night in wind and shadow-children with the turned- winter Mr Snowman had been good. The other Pixies agreed weather isn't doing him too much TAURUS (Apr. 21-May
and
about names, Make aliowances for others
"If you've ever standing near the garden wali
with
except 1 how the not far from the children's house. O'Scowl, win gr
Pixlo OPumpkin-all don't be too critical. Just remem-
heard the story of nagged ter you don't like being
grumbled: Pixies invited Mr. Snowman with his tall binck hat, his long don't like it out, why does lie 'If he eitherl
AQUARIUS (Jun. 21-Feb. 19)—1 Club
to O'Cheer Hall for a dish of hot frock cont, his wooden cane, his keep standing there like a stump GEMINI (May 27-June 21)- Perlings you can return a favour N.T.
develop A fine day in which to
done you earlier and thus Teap
tea. If you've heard it, of w and display your especial talents further future rewards. Bo to the pubile. It will pay dividends generous.
You, South, hold: Spades 3-2, course, I'll just say good-night corncob pipe and the shiny, black of stand the list temp
shop-buttons he used for eyes. he
handsome
a gure as (June 22-July CANCER
ZJ perimentation is to be avoided. the exact in your timinit so that 7-3-2, Chibs 7-6-3. What do you
you'd ever expect to see on a for you don't miss out,
by a tow back to conservative routines
do?
wintry day. He was right proud
The curvaceous blonde strug- moment, on an important appoint. the best success, today.
of himself, of
too, and there wasn't In one spot, the others reininded
+24gled for nine years to convince LEO July
11)ent.
'Let's invite him into
people the should be rsted 'dis Adhere strictly to your previously- made plans. Don't be side-tracked
rabbit or a squirrel or a chip- him." munk or even a mole who 'Cheer Hall until he warms up.
anything other than the "other by something new and exciting.
woman" on the screen,' VIGO (Aug. 26-Sept. 231
***Warms up!.........„Humpk! [ sup- Better not to push things too hard
"Ever since I startet in pic- today. Let events develop at their
pose you want me to fix him a it right down!
· dreadful thing happened..
tures, I wanted to play the natural speed for once.
dish of hot tea!".
part of a girl fellows go crazy Melted Down
about," she said with "a siullo, "Naturally,"
"It's just the thing, all the I'll warin
"But the studios only saw mo But Punch, "the Pixies also noticed other Pixies snid.
"There, just look what you've jan" an unsympathelle mix.
He's melted The other actresses in the filmma donc. Mr Snowman. From the door of him up in no time at all!" O'Cheer Hall, which is down Pixle O'Scowl kept saying, 'It's gone and
In received
the under the roots of the Old Oak, the wrong thing I know that down to the size of a snowball!' I appeared
I sumptuous wardrobes and the farther down along the garden hot tea is the wrong thing for a excialmnes Pixie O'Scowl, wall, they could see Mr Snowman snowman!'
warned you! I warned you-hero for the cinch,
That is being changed in standing there.
"But the other Pixies didn't Columbia's Technicolour Tousi- "Well," said Mr Punch. "They got the Snowman Inside O'Cheer seem to think this was nearly as cal, "Cruisin' Down the River." Hall just as they sald; and sure dreadful as O'Scow! supposed. And I hope it's permanent enough Pixie O'Scowl fixed him. They merely picked up the fittle Audrey.mid. a dish of hot tea-of very hot snowball (which was all that was tea. The cold Snowman gulped left of Mr Snowman) and put it carefully deep down at the lowest part of the rools under a cool, dark rock where the sun- | light never come.
"And there Mr Snowman slept co, a baby all through the sum- mer,"
of
LIBRA_(Rept. 24-Oct, 231 -- The stars have given you lots real talent. Today is the time to promule your trust ambitious obe Jective.
SCORPIO
(Oct. 74-Nav.).— flard work and making full use of every minute will bring you ex- piting rewards today.
DUMB-BELLS
HE CALLS HIMSELF
A. CHIROPODIST AND CAN'T STUFF A DOG!
WHAT'S HIS LINE?
́RAY ́N. BUMNER Rearrange the letters to spell · his occupation.”
-(Solution'on Page-19),
Across
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Grounded webbing ↑ (8)
Hum Dia for the arbiter, (6) Gained after Cost? (0)
11. Pretend you sup with it. (4).
12 ark but moneyed, lady.
(4)
13. Pat or Charins provide sule
light (6)
14. Found in all ration books. (8)
16. Abger of inspired volüters.
18. Seen from Plymouth alio-
ments 2. (3)
17. Turro-sided but a tez ran 18 (8)
19, Ballor-like, 3 cut Alan,
22.
The range of 18, (B)
23. How
a damp steed panicred. 19)
Down
1. By 12 Jou learn (7)
I'm no starboard worker. (9)
9. I join the cublen for food, th
4:-it takes 10580.
(6))
Bummently trite to veto Albert.
(B)
6. Krokan tope.
10. Letted B. In: (0)
Estom. (d)
18. Often nettod azaineż dieorderii-
10. Where the insect was enug.. (5) 20. dames implement (3)
21. theiter in a Loods suburb, (3)
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2nd 24, Kind:
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TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding is the same as In answered. the question Just You, South, hold: Spades 3-2, Heart 3. Diamonds K-Q-J-10- 7-3-2 Clubs K-8-3, What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
CHESS PROBLEM
By M. KLEPACEK (BCF Tournoy 68) Black, 12 pieces.
13:
White, & pieces.
White to play male in three,
Solution to yesterday's problem:
1, PB0. 1... PXBP; 2, B-40;
1 PXKP; 3, R-K1; 1
P-Q3; 2; P-07; 1
2, P-R5.
"In that case," said Mr Punch, wouldn't have tipped their hats lighting his pipe and settling as they passed, if creatures like |-himself comfortably In his that only wore hats-which they
favourite annchair, "Il tell you don't," added Mr Punch. the complete atory of how Pixie' O'Bean, Fixle McChuckle, Pixle O'Pumpkin and Pixie O'Scowl in vited Mr Snowman in for that dish of hot tea."
.
Shadows Surprised
"Did they really invite a Snow- man in for tea?" the shadow- children inquired in surprise.
Air Punch Amiled, pulted at his pipe once or twice and began ng follows:
continued
Mr
Looked Thinner "One day toward the end of the weather had winter-for already started tuning warm
Rupert and Morwenna-11 :
Rupert goes on digging industris pulls it out and looks at . Then ously while Morwenns-puts the "he call to Morwenna, and runs to show it to her. What R sandwiches on the high shelf up the cliff. and then makes for the whopping big theil 1. she says. rocks to start shrimping, "This is *** My Daddy got one, as big. If the deepest hole I've ever dug,' you hold it to your eat you can' murmurs Rupert happily. Helo, hear the sea. All at once the` there's something hard here." He becomes silent.
ALL RIGHTS RELERVED, N
A
new
“Adventure”
RUPERT and the
ROCKING HORSE
$1.
.
Wont After Role-
Even this time, the role of the attractive southern hereina did not just fall into her lap- She had to prove the was right | for the role junh
"When I heard that · Colum- bio was going to make the plow iure, I decided I'd do my "What happened to his clothes turnedest to play
gally
sha -the tall, black hat, the long, explained. I went to the frock coat, the wooden, cano, the studio's wardrobe,, borrowed a corncob pipe and the two shiny clinging and low-cut: gown,, and black alroc-buttons ho used for made a round of my giri, friends cyos?" the shadows wanted to acquiring Diamond bracelets, earrings anda neciclaco, of baguettes.
"Then I went to the office of the producer, Jonle Tape, and turned on as much charm us. could,murler.
know.
السلم
"Oh," said Mr Punch. "Thoy were put back on the spot near the garden wall where Me Snow man lind stood-all but the corn cob pipe. The Pixies left that
She got the role, da swank sticking out from under the rock Jean Louis wardrobe with 11 so that they'd know where to find changes, and, as she says, “that him again when winter came, good looking Dick Haymes to Then they would feed film with play hero...
anow and watch him grow big “I hope the public likes ma and" fat""andi round, "ust us ho facimy o new ofran and uzod to bal