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"I'm going out for a while. I'll leave you and mother.
to get acquainted."
BY
by
THE ́· WAY Beachcomber
VIOLENT attack on the bud with
anners of hus conductors omitted to mention that these men rarely raise their hats to
when requesting Ladies
pleasure of a fare.
the
opinion. A Socialist public MP has suggested that, for the
urination, civilian
tande mizuuld band, take the place of milltary and he mentions particularly the Co
petative Suelety Hand of Glasgow. Why should not the Co-operative
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1953.
JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
Comedy of Errors Is Bridge Riot
By OSWALD JACOBY TODAY's hand was a comedy
of errors, and South had the best laugh, South began the comedy by bidding the hand badly.
Three no-trump was a bad contract and should have been set, but five clubs (or even six clubs) would have been un beatable.
WOMANSENSE
KEEP IN TRIM
Fashion Note: "Boxy" Hips Out
By IDA JEAN KAIN |
floor to partially HE newest trend in the forearm on
spring suit silhouette is support your weight. The left leg la straight down, right knee foot on floor. In the matchbox jacket and bent with
skirt. brief, you're reclining on left skirts side, then you come up on right elbow and forearm and bend Make no mistake... He will be really streamlined, right knco...au if you Wero and to allow for walking ring up half way to see some- strido and ease of move thing not otherwise visible.
West continued the comedy by defending the hand badly. just didn't look ahend,
West opened the king spades, Eust signalling with the nine. West next continued with the queen of spades, and Easi played the four. When South still refused the trick, West led a small spade. East played the and South once more played East shifted to hearts, South won with the king. clarer then forced out the of clubs and easily took the of the tricks, making tils traci.
and
De-
nee
rest
con-
low
West should have led a spade at the second trick. Faal's dicated that he held me higher
They do not even bow over the city itself take the place at the play of the nine of spades 1-
hand that holds the pennies, to Im- print formal ktu un 11.
Nor are their accustenal delicate attentions
no "Your appreciated. Blway wante blowing." wald a conductor to in the other day. "Yours wants punching," replied the uan, "ven- more than your internal tickets." Electronic food
UNTING are this efforts of the scientists to spare us the horrors and perils of frrah food. It is now possible to freeze tho tante out of pretty well any food-ilin is called but incans, of keeping it freu courat keeping it stale. But I now read that irradiation in to take the place of refrigeration. Food is to be
trons."
with high-spred olec-1
a word "speed ought to pursuade people that the result wili be good for them. And are not electrons crammed with riboflavin, Like, bicarbonate of sonogyll and vitamin Pinas halt an ounce of irradiated hake is bund to be more beneficial to the healite thun a steak, so who cares about the laste? In passing
t
IN
'newspaper cortespondence
· about the word "productivity" only one writer had the hardihood muggest the word "work" as an alternative. Work, of course, haa, LE winister pound, and today not only Inust we have long won to unpress
often
oldiers? "Bowler will be worn." myself would like to press the elabus of the Mougton Towns Band,
rendering ut susika (2 wit-known "O Sole Mo.**
Smart-Allick robbed.
DEVES bruke Into the head- anasterio houso at Narkuver late last night and ctolo 44 fur coats. Dr Smart-Alick told the police that the furs must have been "planted on him by one of the masters, who probably stole them back in order to involve hin in on Ono naster unsavoury Invident. who was questioned by the police produced Witnesses to prove that, at the tune of the robbery, he wa
The cellars of a local inn, "Sleeping what sleeping it off.
anked Inspector Malpractice. uffy" "A fteen-hour party." replied the master. A second master was able to prove that, at the tinc, he was In bout-hote by two kicked prefects who owed him they. "All this," said Malpractice. "uggests a curluus laxity of discipline, Do you Huspect anyone else?" When this sort of thing happens," wald the Hradmaster, "I suspect every boy and master in the place, on principle. are times when alnost There suspect myself.”
The right touch
A hostess at a reception m
and belog personnel, but taken the know ordelly how to greet each two or three worde to place ut one. The great thing is individual guest Bunounced, Oc- pomposity. Foud I nutrition or cording to her familiarity with him
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even
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Intake. nutrition Murder becoints #quidation ur eutsiinia. And it is not so lung cailed Bince free love was being companionate marringe.
Progressive thought
YES of course.
(Society note,)
Vienmieras ส
Beleton **.
"tello, Butchy! How's tricks?”
Kinse La Charbagnolles dea
How closely our carefully chosen. Durallout
representatives
keep 117 touch
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West
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Opening lead-◆ K
spade. (East's conventional play was his second-best cord in re- sponse to an honour led against no-trump).
West should the position
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forescen inve that actually about.
had If West came
at the led
low
spade spade trick, East would have won with the ten and returned then the sult. Nothing could stop West
continuing from spades until South took his ace.
West would regain the lead eash the setting. trick with his last spade,
YOUR BIRTHDAY..... By STELLA with the ace of clube in time to
and
TUESDAY, APRIL 28
to
B-laded
today, you are dogmatic, Although you have the ability
determined. attract Influential people int your circle of friends, you are always Once you get your teeth into Burne-
Jutle ready to pass around thing you never let go. Your am.
good blum are high and you are de luck.
life. termined to be a success in
and in atron? Your_seung vf duty
narrow-as-an-arrow
ment, there's a pleat just above the hemline,
It's plain to see that boxy come spring, hips will be out, so it is none too soon to get in shape. With speelfe exercises, smack
on the bearn, hip isn't slimming and trinuming much trouble.
deal. Brily First
with the muscles which control the sides
Acilon: Bounce, bounce, bounce...up and down smartly on that bump that boxes of the hips. That's all there is to: the exorcise action, but it will wear down the bulge.
From this wearing-down type of exercise, It's an
excellent plan to swing into a more ace tive movement.
Position: Lying on left side, both lega straight down, palm
make wide,
nt the hipline-the gluteus of hand on floor for support. medius and gluteus minimus. Action: Raise top leg slightly
right and and a hollow A hump
rhythmic where the skirt will mould the circles, about six in one direc-
lack of tion side hipline indicate
and six In the other..... tono in those side flanking keeping
knee straight. Then muscles. The action technique change sides and repeat the is a side swing and a circle. circling movement.
But first let's bring weight
with 'a Finish the session fat pad, with straight roll to to bear on that
smooth off all bouncing exercise. The only bulges. From a position of flat tricky part of this exercise is on back, roll to get into the most effective thighline, then roll slowly and position....
the hip heavily brick across spread to the other thighline. This gives a smooth finish...
Position: Down on floor, half reclining on left side, so as to rest full on the pincushion of fat. Bend elbow
and have
Wears down bulge...
across
to one
2-11
Fashionable Fabric
By AUCE ALDEN
TAFFETA is still whispering
its siren song and few women can resist the charm and beauty of this crisp fabric. Cell Chap- man uses boll navy and white plaid taffeta for a handsome cocktail dress that should grace many a spring evening. It hos ja tremendous skirt and a wide cape-collar with an over-collar of white linen that detaches for The dress a change of scene, is a buttoned sicplin type with a small waist and self-bell,
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
How Can You Find Icebergs?
-Chris Found Some for a Polar Bear in a Book!- By MAX TRELL
VICARD Senses "I DON'T suppose you'll be you happen to see anything of
Q-With neither side vulner- able, the bidding has been: North Fast
South
West
it
Here.
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Heurt 2 Diamonds? You, South, hold: Spades A- Q-J-7-3, Hearts 7-5, Diamonds 3-2, Clubs 10-6-3-2; What do you do?
Your emotions are quite near the once you have committed yourself "surface arut you should learn to use to anything you let nothing stand a little more aclf control when in your wall unit 1 14 sccum comes to love and yomance. plished. Your business Derive 11 you do not always know your own Keen you knew how to make mind. You may wed on impulse. manes. It is likely นมเ you will only to regret 1 later on. It's like never sunni for the material things ly that you wilt wed more of life, fur
intend to have once.
of And, since you are fund เม
you children, you will probably have a enough for whatever money svant, and that will be quite a lot large family. You will prave
over-indulgent parent. loving and See you, yourself dialike
your children.
during your Botime.
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Lelf.
On the other hand, you are pelplane, you will not foist R upen
Sympathetic toward generous and
others who are less fortunate
Juutel In fact, you are the 13'>0
To find what the stars have in
Who can be too early, Imported upon store tur tomorrow, sekret your Wath a hard luck story. Thir polnething of a paradox in
corres- 19 birthday dar and read the your bonding paragraph. Let your wirth. nature, but it's there, just the rame, (hy stär be your daily guide.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21) that Bend all your efforts toward being done. tactful and politie, au matter the inILA provocation to lose your temper.
GEMINI (hlay 12-June
2)
If someone who knows a lot offern good advice, be muart enough to aceret it and set Recordingly.
CANCER (June 22-July 23)- Patience is the password for today. You must grin and bear it, no inat- ter what midden upsets occur.
LEO, (July 26-Aug. 23) Promises may be golden, but wait and nee what really happens before you take too much stock in them.
vmaa
24-Bept. (ALE.
23)
сам you
get everything (Sept, 24-Oct. 22) Gear yourself to Anish up kome job which was begun at the beginning of the mouth. Work hard on R to- day.
BCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. Some serious reading, just now, may give you an interesting, new idea. Develop it for production.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)~ New opportunities may open to you. but before grasping them. examine all very carefully, "Nest.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan, 20)- Don't get embroiled in an argu A new idea should be developed inent. Better 10 keep silent. now, Schedule your time carefully ethers do the talking. You at back
CHESS PROBLEM
By W MAY
Black, 10 pieces
BO
White, 10 pieces. White to play: miate in two:
Solution to yesterday's problem?
1
...
1. K Kis; "any; 2, R, or Kt
mates. AKORNADAS
WHAT'S HER LINE?
Linth L. SAUNDERS trad pre-arrange the letters to apoll
uni:(Solution on Page 10),
and think of it.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)- You can find rmal bargains today if you keep your eyes open while Hopping. Read the ads first, too! PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20) Make plans for a very special oc- casion. You may help celebrate birthday or an anniversLTY.
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WE
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TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You, South, hold; Spades A-Q-3-7-3, Hearts 7-5, Diamonds 3-2, Clubs K-J-3-2. What do youw do?
Answer Tomorrow
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No Icebergs Here ***Iceberg!" I said. "Thera aren't any leebergs here!'
ing to sound as polite as it could in spite of iis gruff voice, 'Did lieve ihla," Christopher an iceberg around here?"
Knart Cricket was saying to and Hanid, the shadow-children with the turned-about names, "but it really happened. It hap pened last night when everyone in the house was fast asleep."
Honld Kaart and
begged Christopher to tell them what room!' had happened.
"All right," he agreed, "but I'll say what I said before. You won't believe it." Then he be gon,
Loud Splash
No Icebergs here? Isn't this the North Pole?"
"Why, no; this is the play-
NATURAL HISTORY
A big, white shaggy head came out from beside a book.
"The Polar Bear was so dia- Ol-Ob- appointed it said: pardon me. I must have gone in the wrong direction.' Instantly, it the pulled its head back into bookshelf and disappeared.
"The Polar Bear canie out and "But the next minute it stuck sat on the edge of the bookcase its head out again, from the (which is a pretty strange place for a Polur Bear to sit) while I other side of the book.
looked inside the Natural His- play. tory Book.
"The Polar Bear was begin- where is ning
get impatient, when water in the North Polo? I don't seem to finally I said: 'I've found it I've
two be able to find it,
found the North Polel It's full
fhu
"North Pole, please?" "No this is still the
"The clock had already struck twelve. I was making myself comfortable in a chink in fireplace, when all at onco' 1 beard a lout splash. Now, us you know, there isn't any wates in the room to make the sound of a splash except the the aquarium where the goldilah live. So I man right over "It's for away from here, I of icebergs!"
the said.
to the aquarium to see if goldish had splashed out. They hadn't They were swimming quietly up and down..
continued
room,' I said.
"Now, look here
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"Where Is It?' the Polar Bear
Page
Lament For A Dress
By Drusilla Boyfus
PERSONALLY I call it
the with seven deadly virtues....
the
You can sponge off spois and smudges without leaving mark.
You
A
1950: "Miss Pat, Smythe, the British horsewoman, recently broke the world's "high" -jumping record....
1951: "Mid, P. Smythe, on Prince Hal, toss the only rider Found to jump a second clear and so defeated the French...." cantall it up in. ball out
1952: "A crowd of 5,000 m310 a Ane display of Jumping from for. Mite Pat Smythe who, riding Tosca, carried of both events,"
In a rullcase, and shake it ready to wear hours later.
You can sit in the skirt
over and
crease,
It
won't
show
1953; -**Mian-Put Smythe, the You can put it away for only girl to ride: regularly with months and the mothe won't Britain's show jumping team, ia look at it.
due to jump at Algiers, Mar- scilles, Nice, Rome, and
You can wash it all the time Madrid.” and it never shrinks,
You can
slip it on hours after laundering.
You can
press the dress In a few seconds,
I met the girl in the sports
a few reports she was just off on her first hop on a show Jump- Europe, Just whole B trip round
like Colonel Llewellyn's famous Foxhunter.
It's goi everything except
elegance.
The
latest styles,
She is 24, with a pretty plak
smile,
made in one of the new fake and white skin, a cool fibres, are practical, hardwear and a sturdy silhouette. She ing, and tough, and about as wears loose tweeds, pearls, and
nail varnish. smart as a gumboot. The skirt shape- is boggy, the top is a
She is less square with a row of glass girl at heart, but she can bring buttons down the middle. The herself to be humorous about material is shiny, the colours a . washy pastel and it's too ex- pensive.
Have You Heard About-
TUIE first stockings to please
THE
the foddists who like to
ข saddle-and-bridle
Confidence
To begin with, I jumped for fun. We had a pony fed on Jawn-mown grass and I found it best all the other girls' horses fed on corn, Now I've got two of my own, oo, call- ed Prince Hal, after, Sir Lau- rence Olivier in Henry V, you know, Harry for England and all that, and a mare called
Tosca, after the uncontrollable
wear their nylons Inside out woman in the opera.- 40 percent of the women in England?
"My life is. a tough
опе. When I'm show jumping for Instance, I have to exerciso The new styles are designed both the horses in the morn- to look as though the scom bas
elso ing, because no one been reversed-you put them
them. strong enough to hold they look That takes a couple of hours. right alde on-and inside out.
The Baby
la
Then there's an 'ofecial recep- tion when we all stand around and get sore feet. I don't dare Urink anything and when I'm he talking to a guest I'm always thinking about memorising the After course for the show.
The latest celebrity for the children? A now baby elephant Is expected at the London Zoo
"there's “a long lunch, very
It's a girl, she stands about good food, but how much I eat
ft high and she will be com- ing from Assam.
The Singer?
Juanita Reina, well-known Spunish singer, who was offer- ed £100 10 entertain at aristocratic Matirid party?
an
depends on how scared I feel. Then comes the big show, and after that more parties dancing.
Uncontrollable
and
"The way to get a horse to win is to build up his COI The hostess warned her she fidence in your judgment. You was not to mlx with the must dominate his will, under- guests. "Fine." sold Juanita, stand his moods, and not ask "I
Lake £50 Just
then, him to do more than he please.
manage. And if you're losing It's no good giving way to the I'm-all-washed-up feeling. Spon the horse begins
to feel he's
Household
To remove starch or
Hint no good either.
can
"I wouldn't' change my life. plastic I love the travel, the fun, and from the soleplate of your the new people I meet abroad.
the. electrle iron, clean with any But some of the men ira mild, non-scratching household foreign teams talk about noth-
Rewax the soleplate ing but their special subject- cleanser. with beeswax, wipe off excess nearly always themselves!" wax and polish the surface cloth or with a clean,
The prizes far show Jump- from the cash paper towel. If the soicplate is ing, apart scratched deeply enough to awards, are not all they might leave a rough edge, you can be. "Abroad I win cigarette. remove
the roughness with boxes-and I don't smoke. And very fine sandpaper. Or, belter here they give you cups sul, have the soleplate re-used my last lot to grow, bulbs buffed.
in."--London Express Service.
dry
The Polar Bear sighed. How cried, springing to his scel. Tell Three-D Flowers on the Beaches
can I ever get an icoberg if 1 me where it isl'
can't find the North Pole? I'm
Chris tired of swimming. I want an **Then," topher, "I heard another splash. iceberg to rest on. I'm sure there It came from the direction of must be one around somewhere.
next I can feel the cold from the bookshelves. The
second, a big, white shaggy head where I am." 1
cume sticking out from besido the Natural History Book! It was a Polar Bear!" said Chris- topher. "I was very surprised!"
Keart and Henld nodded and said they would have been sur- prised, too.
Then," said Christopher, "the Polar Bear began talking to inc. 'I beg your pardon, it said, try-
Had An Idoa
Fight
"I wanted to help the Folar Bear," Christopher Cricket went on. Suddenly I had an idea.
"Picase come on out I told
"I pushed the book open. 'It's on this page. Crawl in and see!"
at "The Polar. Beor did so once. A second later I heard en- olher splash. Then I heard the Polar Bear climbing out of the water. 'And I've found a beauli-
ful leeberg! Oh, this is wonder- ful. Thank you! Think you very much!'
the Polar Bear. I think I know "And that,” sald Christopher where you can find both the Cricket to Knarf and Hanid, "is North Pole and an iceberg. Il the story. But, of course, as I tell you in a minute if you'll just said twice before, I don't ex-
pect you to believe it!" come out!'
Rupert and Morwenna-33
Once again the little friends bear the scratching noise coming *peater, add -<the giant, crab appeen." In one claw is a slender stick and at; she „, top) is a · star brighter than say they have vas”...." seen. Socusing to pay no attention in them, the crustace Jumber past.
Let's
The piky must have sent him to guide us,” says Rupert. kollow him. Walking is easier in the new light, and before long Morwenna calls out happily"? Increfiwhere, wa aru., We're been here before. This passagu „leadi to the Best cave and to que boat!" ALL RIGHED BEREAVAD
A
new
"Adventure"
RUPERT
and the ROCKING HORSE
$1.
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shades of
pink stand out: with three-
dimension
clarity on the shorts, bra and
matching over-
akiri of this Teddy Tinling · beach out
for Coronation year. It is in black cotton
moire.