"Now what are you pondering?"
BY
by
❤
·
THE WAY Beachcomber
Do not wish to seem carping and ungenerous, but, la our admiration for people who play the piano for 210 hours without stopping, are we not tending to forget that it is the speed at which they play which really
matter?
Anute that une record-breaker, who has a trainer, nurnes, masseuru, and docters to look after litus, makes no mention of speed. What a chance for
young muste-lover tu SCHELR challenge Paul Ombus, who played the whole of Wagner's Rug Cyclo 14 firnen from beginning to end in 17 hours and four minutes (Greenwich Mean Time). A verliable tour de force, wo jab verdict of the Wob.
church Conservatoire. That we are ainusical nailon in proved by Rie plea for "floodlit plaito marathonn" út Wembley.
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ON BRIDGE
JACOBY
•
anic would keep the players and the audience on their loes, and the chance of broting ten Umeo as muchi me as usual in the allotted me would attract a discerning publie in
hundreds of thousands.
Dr Rhubarb's corner
M.F, writer: My daughter brought her flaner home to tea recently. He picked up a plece of haddock and pretended to play it like a flute. Nobody tanglied. When he had gone, my daughter said it was nervous- ures Cindid this be so?
Hr Rhubarb xays: Yea. You bould all hove Topied him, to put him at Bit raw, Next time he comes, kay casually, "Leën all play thụ bad- dock."
A scandalous
Complaints that children will be DEMOCRACY received
unable to sleep, in a house next to that in wireti a mun ia to piny non- stop have been met by his promilso There to play quietly at night. ought to be time, between dawn and dumic, for about 3,048 juilabies.
Speed up the concerts !
STATISTICIANS have
computed
that if the average concert were accelarated there would be time fur 60 or 0 items, expecially the Interval between the items were bollett A perfect hurricane of
state of affairs
a heavy whack on the jaw the other day when number of girls, defeated in a ballot to elect a Carnival Queen, prolested against the systern of voting. When Mimsle eucorner was elected Garbage Queen of Little Tycket! nnd Mompshain, Inany voting papers were spoiled by such Irrelevant comments
"Atta. Music "Up. Queen Mimsiet", abd Bock 'ein, honey!" One salicy young male yuter filled in 1,311 voting
sl under various names, a low trick which drew from the mayor the stinging comment: "This is the very anithesis of democracy."
YOUR BIRTHDAY··
TUESDAY, MAY 12
Player Exhibits. Skill
At Tourney
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1958;
WOMANSENSE
WAKE UP
Page
5
AND LIVE!
WHAT keeps the stars yoUNK .. Anna Nearls dancing romanilo W
roles at 44; Cleely Courtneldge doing' handaprings at 607 Their secret is to keep their bodies young by using every ́muscle and limb the war's child does.
So come along with our Exercise Girl, Yvonne Marsh who is appearing in the new film "Street Corner"-to show you how.
Relax flat on your back with arms outstretched. Now left leg over right to a 2 o'clock angle. Raise it in a semi-circle. Wi It's at 10 d'olocis, Legs together again; repeat - several unes before changing sides. Be careful to keep shoulders square. on. the ground.
DY OSWALD JACOBY TUIE everest test of a player's
skill usually comes, when he is playing a hand at a trump contract and must decide exact- ly, how many rounds of trumps to draw and exactly what order of is required for the playing hla tricks. Today's hand, taken from lont year's European Championship, illustrates this kind of dimeulty.
In both rooms of the match between Austria and England, the final contract was six spades, and West's opening lead was the ten of clubs, Both declarers Won the first trick with the king of clubs and immediately
WEST
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North-South vul.
South 14
West North East Pass
Pass 1
14
Pass
44
Pass
Pass Opening lead-10
Pass
Poss
cashed the king of hearts. Frant this point on, however, the play In the two rooms varied.
"at what a beautiful morning!" carols Yvonne, as she stretches growry limbs and keeps thish mascle in trim.
MAY BASKET PIE IS A TEMPTER
this menu" ex- patting his waistling, "But it is "REGARD claimed the Chef. "This Diet my considered opinion that the Corner is most helpful. Even ple was worth the sacrifice!" here in Washington's luxurious Mayflower Hotel dining
room
an
you can count the calories with the help of this reducing menu. It consists of boiled smoked tongue and fresh spinach, unsweetened baked apple and a glans of buttermilk 375 caforles,"
The Chef enjoyed his reduc- Ing lunch with enthusiasm, unit time for dessert. I had
spled a pic on the menu that was new to me-Moy Basket Pie Cond-which I promptly ordered. It
looked and tasted delicious.
The Austrian declarer tinued by taking the ace king of trumps, after which he discarded his losing diamond on Jummy's ace of hearts. Now he entered his hand with a third By STELLA trump in order to ruff a low
club in dammy.
tremen- Learn the lesson of concentration BORN today, you have
dous inentul agility and know to single objective and you will how to plan things
large with out a the end. vn a
You have D You are mainly the scale.
intel-
persuntality very strung, magnetic lectual who mist have a probleın and your minatiulis are very gear
boll: that utilisa
concentration top, Leum to be more objec- and mental «jsidgment...... Otherwise, tive in your reactions to life, ur you will become very bored with you a suffer many heartuches.
You Inve a deep copacity for love, life and can never be happy. Don't
affectioni altempt to be. cautent la profes but the object of your
Auth sion that calls only for muscular must be willing to devote
plele attention to you. You are work.
not the type to be content with You have a great deal of ntr- halt Jouf! You are Intuitive and, vous energy but it runs by "ts at times, even prychle. Pay aften- and raris. in other words you, then to your bunches. Diey will Will work at high speed for a time very ilkely lead you to make he and then slack" off, Train yourself proper decisions.
to find the job you begin beture
you-take-a-rest-it you leave T. fnd, what the stars. have.. in. task in the middle and ga un to store for tumorrow, relect your something else, this will lead 1 day star and read the corres- ultimate disappointment, if not ponding paragraph. Let your birth-
day star be your daily guide, disaster.
TAURUS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13
..
21-May (Apr.
21) or relative by paying a vielt. Be Keep in control, of things and joyful ant gay even in the face detil lose your, tempor. If you do uf upset. that all will go well with you.
AQUARIUS
(Jan. 21-Feb. 19)- GEMINI (May 22-June 21) asiallon may fall you, so depend Routine must be finished before for the best resuils upon persistent you start in un anything now, and conscientious effort. Otherwise, you will Fet bugged
down.
PISCER (Feb. 20-Mar 20)---- I called upon to handle electrical CANCER (June 27-July 23) or inechanfeat apparatus, be very Select a few cheerful friends and careful. Itaste can cause needless plan to relax this evening in their injury.
company. It will do you good,
LEO (July 24-ADE. 23)
203-
utinbat
ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. you Your Initiative in of the If others lose their tempers, make a real effort to hold on to importance. Ignuro bad advice, Bo yours. It can be important that proctical.
you do.
VIRGO (AUE. 24-Sept. 211-
If doing any kind of research, bo sure that you keep thoroughly up to date. Read all current material.
LIBRA (Sept.* 21.Oct. 2)— Use your best talents skilfully and the results will prove highlý satisfactory to your major in
22)- (Oct. 21-Nov. Don't-bank too heavily on peuple
Depend
terests.
SCORPIO
who make promises.
your own efforts.
CROSSWORD
On
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)—
Be very careful to avoid
gelling
Involved in the emotional prob-
lems of others. You have enough of your own.
↑ CAPRICORN. (Dec. 23-Jan, 20)--
Brin happiness to a close friend
DUMB-BELLS
CHEWHAT
BERRIBLE.
THAT PARROT FUSES, WMY. DID YOU
BUY IT?
15
bm tein it
I BOUGHT
HIM TO REFORM
HIM!
BYNDICATE
WHAT'S HIS LINE?
MARK, TOOLE Rorango the letter to spell.
-occupation"
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Across
1 Mary of Deo culiod them home.
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0. And so on, (3)
. Poristan atreos. (3)
10. The paper heart of 11, (6).
15 An oplum kissakar la, (7)
19 lite for U.s. cars. (4)
24. Unrestricted." (4)
15. Thousands make a roof. (4)
17 Fever, (4)
20 A basis of faith. (0)
iron made it all so. (5),
The R.A.. itrat word. (3)
25. Upright. (3)
26 Marea Bon. (4)
Letwork, (4)
2 g within," (5)
28
Lawa
1. AID SU Walking. (0)
A check on suma,
(5)
3. İran, they said, was this. (8)-
4 BAIK BIl round, (4)
2. Ale from a Belá, tập
6. Come into view, (8)
1. Wex rate? (6)
8. A paasi-sounding cipher Y (4)
13. Narraza, 1MELDE
14. The Maid of Perta wAS, (4)
10. food. quaker, · (b)
10. - one morning,
Pield of care. 1)
Burprising trick. (4)
EL Jewel for Beg. (3)
(8)
24. Champagnu musla. (3)
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Just a Small Taste The Chef bravely went ahead with his unsweetened baked apple, Finally he plaintively re- marked, "Shall I order a small faste of the ple, just to approve for our readers?"
you What would you do, if not
taste-tested for a food coluran? Well, the Chef did, it, too!
"About 250 more calories. I have added," he remarked,
Since the club suit broke bad- ly, declarer's hand was established by this time. He lost control of the hand and was set two tricks.
ler.
In the other room, the English declarer planned the hand bet- After taking the second trick with the king of hearts, he drew only one round of trumps with dummy's king in order to eash the ace of hearts and dis- card his losing diamond.
He then returned to his hand with the ace of trumps and rutf- ed a low clab in dummy. Since only two rounds of trumps had been drawn, dummy still had a trump left.
The English declarer led this last trump to his own queen, cashed the ace of clubs, and
gave up one club trick to West. 'He could then claim the rest of Who tricks, with his lost trump
and the rest of the clubs.
1
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CARD Sensel
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Q-The bidding has been: South West North Eart
1 Heart Pas9
1 Diamond Pass
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You, South, hold: Spades A- 2-J-9, Hearts K-J-4, Diamonds A-K-Q-7-5, Club 2.. you do?
COLD MEAT SHACK
CH DEAR.-
LATE AGAIN! COME UP AND HAVE A SNACK
Tomorrow's Dinnor Grapefruit Juice Corned Beef Ring Mixed Vegetables Creamed Noodles Tossed Salad Greens May Basket Ple Coffee
Tea Milk
All Measurements Are Lavel Recipes Beroe Four
Corned Beef Ring
the
with
The Bo-bo ON LEFT: bounce... for taking inches view! 811 off your profile erret with knees bent; bands to sides. Bounce really hard up and down, taking weight on .to hands and moving forward as you do it. CENTRE: Ankle slimmer li any- Number One....try wherein the bus Just Arts circles with the foot, work- ing the ankle joint.
Household Hints
in. gar- Reused wool, used
and from ragS ments, comes
discarded cloth- miscellaneous
high-protein noodles and border mixed sauteed leftover with
tinned or vegetables, or use frozen mixed vegetables,
Line a B-In, ple plate American pie pastry. Dust with 1 tsp. fine dry crumbs and press Basket Fill- in. Spoon In May ing; top with a lattice-work top of fluted criss-cross strips of pastry, and brush them and with the edge crust at beaten egg yolk, then dust with sugar. Bake 35 min. at 400 F. May Basket Filling: Heat 14 Through the food chopper e mixed cherry and pineappic put 1 small peeled onion and
juice. A
Add 231⁄2 tbsp. cornstarch enough oddments of corned mixed with 2 tbsp. orange juice, Ing. These fabrics are thorough- beef (or inned corned beef) to 14 c. sugar, 14 tsp. salt and 1 ly cleaned and sterilised, bow
tbsp. mar- make 3 c. Melt
tbsp. butter or margarine, Sur over, before they are shredded into fibres and blended with garine or fat; in it fry 1 c. soft and cook until boiling. Then add
new wool each tinned pineapple enriched bread crumbs. Add the 14 e. corned beef, 2 beaten eggs, 4 chunks and stoned tinned red
Cool and USE tomato ketchup, 2 tbsp. pre- cherries. directed. pared horse-radish, 1 tsp. table
Before storing inflatable plas- mustard and 1 c. tomato juice.
ile toys, wash well in suda and . Trick Of The Chof,
water, dry thoroughly Pack into a 3-pt. oiled ring or
To (16-oz) tin of grapefruit sprinkle with talcum border mould, and bake 45 min. in a moderate oven, 350-375 F. Juice add 4 heaping teaspoons to prevent sticking or tearing. Unmould
large-platter, orange Conceptrate and mix Store in a cool, dirk and dry centre with creamed well. Fill the
THIS IS ABOUT THE QUICKEST THING I KNOW- CHOP UP GOME COLD MEAT, OR PUT IT THROUGH
THE MINCER
NHS
on a
MIX WELL TOGETHER
TEASPOON
DRY MUSTARD
3 DESSERTSPOONS
Í MELTED MARO OR SALAD CIL
4 DESSERTSPOONS
VINEGAR, AND SALT AND PEPPER TO TASTE
PUT THE
MEAT ON
A FEW
LETTUCE LEAVES OR WATERCRESS
POUR THE
DRESSING
OVER AND
THERE YOU
ARE!
BOYS' AND GIRLS'
What Made O'Scowl So Happy?
---He Usually Goes Around Looking Very Grumpy!
By MAX TRELL
place.
A TOMATO AND
A HARD-BOILED
•
EGO WOULD HELP
To ExG FT OUT
and
powder
YOU CAN ADD A LITTLE CHOPPED PICKLES OR MINCED RAW ONION, IF YOU LIKE-BUT you'r „PROBABLY NOT,
JUST NOW
MAGAZINE
over that. Its blossom almost rested on the ground.
Just Curiosity
"O'Scow! walked over to have
them and walked on, with his a closer look at it. Not that he hoe and his. rake and his felt at all sorry for it-oh no!
to- It was just curiosity. What do NOW, no one hail ever seen shovel over his shoulder,
O'Scowi with
A-Bid two spades. This jump kid is forcing to Tame, whereas A rebid of only one spade nicht be passed by your part
You want to insist on n game contract in one of your theo strong suits.
ner.
TODAY'S QUESTION
Pixle
n ward the fleld where the Pixies
their mushrooms smile on his face. And the rea- grew son was very simple. Pixie turnips.
'Scowl never found anything
"It is Pixie O'Scow!!"*
"Aw-pooh! be
grumbled
and when he looked at it. I don't know why I should be bother- said ing with this bent-over old clover. It doesn't mean a thing to smile about. He much pre- Knarf.
a with ferred going around
"But why why why is to me. There are millions and millions of other clovers, l'a grumpy look on his face
and he smiling?"
Sitting at the foot of the Old just be wasting my time it
to the
of trouble caying "Aw-pooh!"."
Knarf and Hanid, the Oak they found Pixie McSnooze.
straightening it up.' shadow-children with the turn. He told them the story. hardly Al-about names, could
"So he walked away, then he "It all happened yesterday
Pixie believe their own eyes
Me walked back again, and finally when afternoon,cowl was working he got a twig with a forked tip The bidding is the same as in they mot Pixie O'scowl coming in the field, all by himself, and propped up the bent-over
up from the Old Oak, whistling question just Yen, South, hold: Spades A-Q-and humming and nodding his hoeing up a turnip patch, (und clover. There, he said, 'now 9, Hearts 7-3, Diamonds A-K-head good morning-and, above feeling very gloomy about it), it's all straight hain. But what's
broadest, when the with
his eye alighted
tise of
of it? I'm wasting my Q-7, Clubs A-K-J-8. What doll.
friendliest, happlest smile on clover little way off. The time you do?
his face they had ever seen!
cye alighted on It "And
Instant reason bis
the clover was bumblebee came buzzing was because Nodded Good Morning bent-yes, the wind, or perhaps straight to tie clover.
· ***Aw¬pooh...I mean, hey, "It can't be Pixie O'Scówlf a cow, or perhaps à buy or Hanid sald when Pixie O'Scowl girl, had pushed it or stepped what are you wanting with that had nodded good, morning to on it. Its stem was bent so far clover?' he asked the bee
the
answered.
Answer Tomorrow
CHESS PROBLEM
By L VALVE
Black, 13 pieces.
公罐
White, & places,
White to play mate in two,
Solution to yesterday's problem: peti
matér
Rupert and the Robins-1
on
One afternoon Mrs. Bear has sent becomes inquisitive when his daddy Rupert Into the village to and his joins him carrying a small jar full daddy and to tell him the dinner of some dark liquid. "Has the is ready. He has not far to search, profesor given you that? 7. is it. There he lay he murmurs, something to drink?” he asks.. .” And, who's with him? Surely it's, Mr. Bear: gives a chuckle. "Just "
the Old Professor. I wonder what i you wait and ace," ba ́says in a Jhey are talking, shout 2** Ha; teasing voice,,
the
at that.
THE
COMMON
THE QUEEN
with stand-up model:
the
Royal State Coach.
$2.50
C. M. POST, LTD. Hong Kong & Kowloon..
*
זי
dood.
Pixie O'Scowl, had a broad, friendly smile on his face.
"Why, sald
the bec. thought this clover was Did you straighten it up?
Full of Honey-Sweetness "Yes-but it was a waste of fime!'
elover at
straight
ON RIGHT: Lep (no bent knees), head right down, arms relaxed. Then touch the floor, three times. between feel, three Umes with hands outside left Al- kle, three outside, right ankle. then rest, upright, Repeat fen:.
times.
(More Tomorrow)
· New Cape Interest
By VERA WINSTON
THE ensemble is having. Itself Ume and is slated for a busy season, what with the drew and jacket appearing in every fabric, for every occasion, at every.. price level. This one is zomo- thing radically new in silhouetic and treatment. The dress itself is a simple half-sleeved design of navy gabardine, with plain round neck and a braco of flap- ped pockets on the skirt serving Es the sole rellet. All the in- terest la control' in the capo which is "as, short as a brief bolero in front, where it has a Cal- three button closing and 'cades down to full-length in back, showing off the matching faffeta with which it is lined throughout.
Go Easy On That Sun Tan
This Summer
your
Waste of time! You're very much mistaken, Pixie O'Scowl,' Laid the bee.. It's full of honey sweetness. Just look!' With that
Chapel Hill, N. C. the bee, reaching-in among the
Sunlight may Uny clover petals, brought out
give you a tan a large wad of honey-sweetness, healthy, but it increases
that makes you appear to be like a pices of taffy.
*Here,
Enid the bee, T chances of gotting, skin cancer, according to Dr Herbert Ze give you half. If it hadn't been
of for you, I shouldn't have found, Lund, visiting profesor ely honey-sweetness in that pathology at the University, of
Carolina. "Pixie O'Scowi," said Pixie, MeSnooze with a smile, didn't te meeting here that skin cancas “Dr Lund explained to a scien- take it, of course. He knew the more common in, the South bees
needed
the honey. than in the North and more com- sweetness they could find and mon in the warmer parts of the bosiden, with five meals a day, work than in the colder parts. 'ho didn't have much`room for
In-between snacks.
In discussing the changes that But for the first time in his take place in the skin of people ufe, he really fell cheerful and exposed to sunlight over long smiteful. And as he walked perioda, Dr Lund, waldi sida back to the Old Oak with his bitches, fine wrinkling and an tools over his shoulder, he aged" look are preliminary didn't once i say aw-pooh-he changes that could develop ink [didn't ayền think-a\-pooh!!!. skin cancer-United Fress.
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