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"One lousy nickel! When's that kid ever going to learn to start saving money?"
• BY
WAY
• THE • by Beachcomber
N article about the diffeulty Aarting a conversation with a lady you have just been Introduced to omits the classical opening gumbit: "Do you collect string?"
'The lady, reeling from this aur. prime attack, may say, "No. F afraid I don't much." "Nor do I you reply. "I consider it a waste of time, don't you?" That sets the ball (of string rolling in an agreeable inanner. If he says, "As a matter of fact, i do
you reply "What on earth for?" and he will defend her hobby.
have to
roared the mariner. Why, she has given a atering Words caling one." Had Mrs Wilnerige gone down with her ship? The suspense was ended at 10.27 (Greenwich Ume). The barkwash of a stream of barges had gently lifted the old craft and wafted her into a sort of mudinio lay, or Jidget creek. There che wedged between a pile of rusty o- urums and a decayed traction engine. Men Witheredge was asleep, after a night at painful surprises,
sisering-wheel, a rudder,
Mimsie Slopcorner refuses MIMSIE SLOPCORNER han refused She will be an invitation to be Miss Natty Battered at your interest in such a671
Slack in
Cual Parvani at nual activity,
Wymondesleigh. She says that too many jokes would be inade about the name. and that silly peopl
Mrs Witherscdge
is at her post
tomed
MILKMAN, going his early A
rounda
the Embankment yesterday, reported that the Saucy Mr Flobster had disappeared ad her native mud at just engulfed her? Had she begun to float on a high Udo? Was she even now about the revçlies of the Thames of
the mercy
wind and wave? Thousand-throated ruinour trumpeted Elear-Adiniral the wildest stories, Sir Ewart Hodgson, Foused from hi bed as Loin toad, manned his tele- Ecope. I practised eye swept the brooding watern. "Has she a radi?** radio?" "A youth. Saked
д Faw
might even think it was her own name, as they did,when she was Mis Julpy, Liquorice at a bazaar. (Skrubit has the detergent power of Niagara Falls. One talinbieƒut would wash
liquos of Parliament, [7 inside and out, nine times as quickly de any other cleansing opent.)
Nothing to do with me
IT is now possible to make
recording of your voice on kaumage covered with a thin fhm of wax. Flavour the wax with vanilia, and you will be able to cat your words, says Jolly Jack Hopkins, with aight laugh.
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1953.
© JACOBY ON BRIDGE
☆
Freak Two-Suiter Is POOR MAN'S GOOSE
Very Hard Bid
By OSWALD JACOBY
DON'T sniff too hard at the bidding of today's hand. Nobody knows how to bid freaks two-sulter with absoluto assurance, and when this prob lem is complicated by. opponent's shut-out bid, you need luck as well as good_man- agement to land on your feet.
an
North certainly had to show both of his strong major muits, and West's high opening bid' made it necessary for North to show his two sulis at a very high level. As it turned out, South was very wise to instal on playing the hand at clubs.
Ho know that his long club suit would be worth five or six tricks at a club contract, but might well bo completely worthless at any other contract.
East certainly cannot be blamed for doubling five clubs. With the ace And king of trumpa, East could be quite sure
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that declarer was not going to make any overtricks! East hoped to win a spade trick or that his partner might come up with some slight defensive
value
YOUR BIRTHDAY...... By STELLA boldly and deserved his
FRIDAY, JUNE 19
to deal with.
Once you recognise
what
a strongly others know what your plans are in BONN today, you have
individualistic nature, You want advance. You are something of an what you want when you want it engine. The mars have given you and can be quite dictatorial about it. moodiness and emotional instability 100, if crossed. You are inclined 10 believe in the aristocracy of the mind-- which, of course, belong! You have very high ideain and hold to them against all kinds of
You would probably be happiest it do have opposition might not be a bad
Ittle more you wed early, for you idea for you to cultivate flexibility and recognise that it takes close ties of kin and seem to be most when at home with members of your own family. You all kinds of people to make up contented work!.
are, by right of birth a natural
not,
tlus. you may have the key to with bothers you and your friends) you
you, still waters do run deep!
You select your friends very care- dion because of no kate timidity fully and are not quick, to accept to push yourself forward. anyone into your emall circle of
pasociates. Once admitted, however,
To and what the stars have in
it for life Your loyalten cannot alone furlamarrow, select your be challenged, once they have been birtliday
alar and read the coTTER-
artlculated. You are never one to nonding paragraph, Let your birth- talk about yourself nor one to let day star be your daily guide.
SATURDAY, JUNE 20
24-June 213-- GEMINI (May Health should be your first considera, tion at this time. Plan a week-end to let down tensions.
(June 22-July CANCER
23)
It Here are Jobs that need doing around the home, ret them finished Today so that you can really play
tontorrow!
21)
woek-end. If tensions have been mounting, relax them thoroughly now.
AQUARJUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 10)→ You can make this a very pleasant day if you take a positive afiltude and plan carefully.
PISCER (Fab.
20-Mar.
20)
Don't let the details of your trip get you flustered. Stay calm and yous pan
(Mar. 21.Apr.
have a lot of fun. 24. Aug. LEU (July
ARIES people can be Now place and athmulating to your imagination and give you a real lift Just now. VIRGO (AUD. 24-8ept. Deliberale carefully when it comes to deciding upon future plans. New ideas need a lot of thought!
1.JIKA (Sept
1 won't do any good to force things. Take them as they come and smilet You should win the decision!
21)
23)
21)-
24-Ort. This can be one of those "what i 30 Tare as a day in June" days! Take full advantage of
SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov. 22)- If the weathernan 1 good to you, plan the whole week-ood in the out- of-doors. Maybe it's your vacollant
SAGITTARIUя (Nov. 23-Dec. 2X)~- I's a nice day, load the family intu the car and get out on a trip to nomewiterel Häve fun,
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20)-- This could be a banner, two-day
CHESS PROBLEM
By A. J. LEVETT
Black, 4 pieces.
HOM
White, B pieces,
White to play male in three.
Solution to yesterday's
problem:
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May
1t this is the start of your vacation. nake the most of it. Get into a recreational mood right away.
CROSSWORD
".
Actas
1. Do Daima spot tnoso y (9)
7. Describen a hostile sititude (8)
2. par Patricia and the 0.0.
scorsa durak, (5)
10. Lion's share of howing proba
13. Ata dood, her stercians, (B).
14 Morning, in mother. (6)
10. Brez, t)
17 Prohani Bunday afternous in a ́
maky roverso. (3)
16. A barral turps, (9)
19. Horse natterings. (4)
21. Bolo Capital, (d)
12. Fable spinner. (6)
24 Turn. (6)
25 T ranged (anag.), (9)
26. Varos a cat with buildosHT 7. (U)
Down
Momay 12 Rome. (4)
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Des pus by one hundred!
4. tre foarps the movice (B)
Gloomy)
6. AD) rosen (aneg.), (8)
20. 0.0, posma, so create, (1).
11. Teo, izula (ansa). 171,
1, KK, any; 2, Q, B, or 19. A dos loads up to father,
mates.
WHAT'S HIS LINE?
Ro-arrange the letters to apoli
his occupation.
DIOTTO ROMELES (Solution on Page-10)
15. & saloni derpsiched. (9)
ld Lady Macbeththadle out in one.
20. Wide boy
Bolution of TELLONČAS
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30: Down. VIEL
Feno 91
South was in a pretty chancy contract, but he played the hand good result. He won the first trick with the ace of diamonds, ruffed a diamond with dummy's only trump, and cashed the ace of hearts in order to discord his last diamond.
Having thus disposed of the diamond threat, déclarer ruffed a heart to get into his own hand, and led a low trump, losing to
East returned East's king. low heart with every appearance of innocence, but South was not deceived.
a
The trump situation was per- feetly clear from the fact that East had been forced to win the low trump with the king of clubs. South therefore ruffed the heart return with his queen of trumps, shutting West out.
It was now easy to relun as- other low trump, dropping the fuck and the ace on the same irick. After drawing trumps, it
to enter was safe for declarer dummy with the ace of spades in order to discard his remaining spade on dummy's top heart.
THATE A FUNNY NAME, I MUST TRY
IT WHEN I OUT
SOME MORE
LIVER
WOMANSENSE
PEEL
CUT THE C LIVER INTO SLICES
POTATOES AND
COVER
WITH
COLD
WATER
AND CHOP AN
ONION
BRING
JUST TO THE BOIL THEN DRAIN AND BUCE THINLY
E YOU CAN GET
A CHEEP'S HRART, ADD THAT ELICTO
AS WELL
AND
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JOOSTHER
TEASPOON
DRIED BAGE AND
BALT AND PEPPER
HOME MANICURE
By HELEN FOLLETT
Chinese of high rank used to grow long fingernails and pro lect them with exquisitely carved guards. They had little nood to use their hands and they were proud of long nails. The same principle holds good today.
If you have everything done for you, if you're able to devote all or most of your ilme to being ornamental, you can, if you like, cultivate long nails. They are, however, in question- able taste.
Oval Nails
10-
ex-
The oval shape is the
and should cepted ideal ind slightly beyond the finger- tip. The shape can be a little on the pointed side if the finger- naile Art short, wide and stubby. Not sharp, defined point, of course,
2
In decking on a good length for nails, it is well to consider one's daily babits. For shaping, use emery boards; they give a smoother
metal edge than
nic.
Don't fail to anoint your nails and the surrounding cuticle now then, especially if your are brittle, inclined to will not
and
nally
break. Lubricating
On
only keep them in good con- dition but will help you to avoid
Jotion hangnails. Use. hands, too, 20 skin will stay smooth and pretty.
White Pencil
stick While the orangewood is convenient for. keeping the cavea clean, a anil white penell will be found more convenient for the woman who is obliged to do heavy work around
it while washing house. Use your hands.
tho
Take a look at new polishes the shopping when you make rounds. It's nice to have A change. After all, one single tone doesn't always harmonize with every frock you own In general, light rosy shades go with light coloured dresses, deeper tones are good for dark wools and fura.
· GREASEĽA PIE- DISH, AND FILL IT WITH ALTERNATE LAYERS, OR POTATOES & LIVER, SPRINKLING BACH LAYER WITH ONION AND SEASONING, ADD A SPOONFUL OR TWO OF WATER
COVER WITH, A GREASED PAPER AND BAKE IN A MODERATE OVEN FOR ABOUT HA
SERVE WITH APPLE SAUCO
Holiday Suitcase
The Cruise
WARDROBE
for
cruising should con tain bright, clear colours that look good in the strong light at sea
I-For summer evenings. dancing or pra
dinner cocktails, a silk and rayon skirt in. china blue or green, fringed with white, worn with a crisp, white papiła blouse. 2-You'll spend the day in black cotton repp well-railored leans ari sloppy joe" In striped mattress ticking. 3-Good sunglasses are a 4-To protect your hair and skin from too much sun, a three-foot wida qarasof het in multi-coloured straw. 5-Sandals, smart and comfortable enough to
must."
wear the whole day in pale fomon subde 6-When you go ashore vou will need a cool
sult. Praziest colours for this modal aen café-au-lalt, slata bluo or dark green. 7-Strong, washable plastic handbag in
Imitation straw, with a gilt clasp.
London Express Bervice
DOING OVER AN OLD EASY CHAIR
INTO
By ELEANOR ROSS
[NTO her guest room in time for the holidays, a housewife tells us, went
Use Curry For- Gourmet Touch
By IDA BAILEY ALLEN
"I'm dreaming, Chef. Think- ing how wonderful it will be to eat outdoors on the piazza. At the same time I've thought but why young homemaker mothers' feel cooped up and And housekeeping and cooking dimcuit. It is becauRe have no płazzaa!”
મ
not do
Madame,"
they
understand,
Great Timo-Savor
"Neither do the architects. Cher. A
plazza, or Toumy
covered porch, is essential. It
Is a great time-saver."
DINNER
Grapefruit
Curried Frankfurter · Casserole Fried Noodles Buttered Kalo Mince-Apple-Cranberry _Torte
Tea
Coffee
Mik
All Measurements Are Level
*Recipes Serde Four
Curried Frankfurter Cassaroju
In a large frying pan melt 2 tisp.
addi 4*
butter or margarine, chopped onion; turns,
č.
saute until the colour
Stir in 2
tsp salt,
top, curry powder, i
tbsp. enriched flour and
Mix in 1
min.
c. tine ned. tomato. Simmer & Add 1 (No, 3) tin sauerkraut. Turn into an oiled 1 qt. serole. Top with 8 frankfur- ters, each slashed
сава
diagonally
in places: Brush the frank- furters with
Bake mustard. about 25 min. or until browned, in a moderate oven. 375° F
Minco-Apple-Cranberry Torto
Cream together c. shorten- ing or margarine, 1⁄2 c. brown sugar and 1⁄2 tsp. salt. With a already-
an old bedroom easy chair that she had completely done over. And all the com-fork, work in 1-c. pliments she received on her achievement have spurred her on to tackle some even bigger projects this year, including doing over the living room armchairs,
For the boudoir chair she used sómo ex- quisite chintz, and began by doing a careful measuring Job, allowing about two inches for tucking at the back of the seat and two inches for each seam. The loose cushion was measured Then the and the same allowance made. length and width of the petticoat were deter- mined and the extra inches for hem and seam.
Pattern Centred
ry
sified enriched, flour and 1 tsp. baking powder. Then mix in 1 c. uncooked rolled oats to make coarse crumbs, Spread half so a buttered or margarined deep-9- in, pie plate that can go to table. Mix together 134 c. prepared mincemeat, 1. c. choppe tart apple and 1⁄2 c. iinned cranber»
Into aduen Spoon
tha crumb-lined plate. Cover with the remaining crumbs. Bake 36 min, in a moderate oven, 375" F. Serve warm with hard sauce, or hot orange or lemon sauce.
Fried Noodles From The Chef
Half-cook noodles; drain, and dry, on paper towels. Fry golden, in deep fat, remove with a per- forated spoon and drain on
To cut, the material was placed, wrong side out, against the inside back of the chair, the pattern carefully centred. It was pinned firmly all along the top, smoothed closely down the back, and a two-inch tuck-in allowance added The between back and seat. fabric was brought forward over: the seat and down the front to where it would join the petul-crumpled, absorbent-towels... (coat, and one inch was allowed
BOYS AND GIRLS MAGAZINE
General Tin Isn't Very Happy
---He Wants a Hat and Cannon Like a Real General By MAX TRELL musket. I should have
B CID non!"
Hanld looked at Knort, and "IT isn't right," General Tin,
the tin soldier, was saying Khart smiled. "All right, Gen- Knarf and Hanid, the oral," he said. "You just wal
ed-about names. "I'm a soldier, cannon." I'm a General. What ar
to
CARD Sende andow-children with the turn- here. We'll get you a hat and
I doing General Tin didn't say any-
stood by the in this playroom with a lot of thing. He just toys?"
playroom door with his musket
Q-The bidding has been; North East South 1 Heart.
3 Spades Pass
Pass 1 Spade
?
West Pass
you're
Hanid was about to say: "But over his shoulder, which was the
Loy yourself, you way he always stood. know." However, Knart broke
0
You, South, hold: Spades K-J- in: "You're guarding the play-
do?
A-Bld four
| In your partner's bid sult. There
will surely be a good play for a
Only a Musket
No Iron Hats
both
уда
General Tin
pleased. "Thank you very much, my
dears."
:
for a seam and cut.
Before the sides of the fabric
were trimmed, it was fitted to: Material
the chair at the point where the arms and wings join the back, the fabric was stretched smooth-
y and the surplus cut. The Interest
the fabric, wrong side out, was pinned to the outside back, the pattern carefully matched with the from.
When the fabric was cut away, allowance was made for the one-inch seam. Then the sections were carefully pinned together. The fabric for the Inside and outside arms handled in the same manner. The fabric was removed from chair ready for stitching.
was
Final Chock for Fit Welling was inserted along before the the major scams structural joining was started. the The stitching completed, extra material was trimmed from the and cover placed on the chair, inside out, this for a final check for perfect fit and any necessary restliching..
7-5-3, Hearts K-Q-5," Diamonds room-that's what you're doing. "But Knarf," Hanld whispered A-8-6, Clubs K-8. What do you You're protecting the toys
Mary-Jane, the rag doll, and Miss to her brother, as they no-trump. You China Doll, and Teddy, the went out of the room, "why did you tell the tin soldier we would stuffed bear, and Mr Punch. ger him those things? bave a count of 10 poluts in high
Where cards, with 1 polat extra for the
You're protecting the children,
we got them? There con
aren't donbicton, I point for the fifth
too. You're protecting the whole any iron hats in die house and spade, and 1 point for strength house!"
certainly there isn't any
whistle. It yes there are, Hand round. Then he got a spool of There's an
iron bat right in thread and rested the whistle on "Hmm..maybe you're right here. It will just it General it with one end up and the other therefore he said after thinking this over Tin. I've
on Mother's end down, seen it
Now the cover was placed on Then the Blackwood Convention for a moment or two. Then he finger," Knart said, reaching
"My goodness1" Hanld ex- the chair right side out. added: "But all I've got is this into the sewing basket.
claimed when she-saw it. The came the addition of the potti- musket. 1tio tin
Who ever pulled out a thimble. heard of General with a fin
Hanld was surprised. "I didn't spool looks like wheels the coat, making sure of its oven musket? And just look at this hat think of that she admitted, whole thing looks almost exactly hang, keeping it about one inch from the floor. A zipper was "But what about the cannon?"
used in the back seam,, the question just answered. You, wearing hat with
feather in It! Is that a hat for a,
- General Tin was very pleased: A Ponny Whistle
with his iron hat and his cannon, round ones This time Knarf reached into "Now I'm almost exactly i that all the other soldiers wear. the pocket of his coat hanging a real General," he salt, Thank And I shouldn't have a tin in the closet and lifted out a you very much, my dears!"
| slam if your partner has two or
more aces, and you
050
TODAY'S QUESTION
to find out
The bidding is the same as in
South, hold: Spades K-J-7-6-3, Hearts K-5-4, Diamonds 8-0 Clubs A-3-3. What do you dut
Answer Tomorrow
DUMB-BELLS
REMEMBER CURIOSITY
KILLED
THE CAT
How
#
General? I should have an iron hat one of those
Rupert and the Bad Dog-2
Rupert promptly haule the small dog away from the hols and colds him. Why, you're lock. the boy Peter's little dog, aren't. you ?" he says. "You are very
mean by it?" But Jock only looka puzzled and is obvious, that he thinks that any flower bed, is tha right place for digging holes, However, he can see that Rupert naughty to come upsetting "other" is not pleased ad he trou dejectedly.
What do you away and Rupert shuts' the gate,
TVALA, BIBUTI BEREAVER'.
people's gandene
like a cannon"
Another new "Adventure"
RUPERT and the BOY PIRATE
$1.
Covering the loose cushion the job was was a cinch and complete, a matter for pride and for congratulations, too,
Household Hints.
Whatever, type or colour your floor may be, a good generni. rule for washing them is to use a wrung-out suday cloth or mop, then wipe
with an speedily almost dry mop: « Növer apply floor until it is com-
By GRACE THORNCLIFFE
ALL KINDS and types of material have been combined. to provide a tremendous fabric choice for clothes of every type. Acetale" and "pima cotton get-
La together for a fabric that part of the charm of a delight- and rism, For concrete, sourful daytime dress. The ÷ svedte wilts 'n stiff brush and hot soap- Heart neckline is cuffed and suda; rinzo, flush with a hose morges into a surplice that if the floor, has a drain.
wax to
pletely dry. For air asphalt tile door, mop with warm soapsuTİN
Here's an Ided: Coat candles eli but the wick, of course, with soupeuda, they will last longer and burn without smoking or dripping. Let them dry, in the candid-holders beigro lighting, te
Lakos a aharp turn to a diminishing waist. Three buti tons in talangular formalion take care of the fastening. Clustered knife-pients give full- heas to the crisp shirt"|that is worn over, a stiffened petlicónti