Colonel UP and Mr. DOWN
by Walter
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1953.
WINTER CRUISE
ON RECORDS
IF you want to make an Blues," "Way Down Yon-
imaginary winter cruise, der in New Orleans," the man across your record "Jambalaya,”":"Shrimp counter can be your "travel Boats" and other songs. agent."
Assuming that you've If you want to take a trip travelled down to the to Europe, he probably will Crescent City, you can got tell you to take a ride with set in the French Quarter Percy Faith on his Columbia for some real New Orleans album of. "Continental Jazz purveyed by none Music" with such stop- other than Kid Ory,(Good overs as "Mademoiselle de Time Jazz). Among the Pareo or "April In Portu- top tunes on the eight Dixieland numbers listed in "Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band 1944-46" are "Creole Song,"
and "Careless Love,"
gal,"
to
●JACOBY │YOUR BIRTHDAY... By STELLA follow Mercury's dreamy "Panama"
ON BRIDGE
Be Sure You Know Reason for Play
By OSWALD JACOBY
ta
TT isn't always necessary
know the exact ́reason for every defensive play that you make. You make some play be enuse they may Eala ad cau- not lure, or because
they lend
In the right general direction. The play of the sparte suit in today's hand illustrates the point.
Wes.
apades,
.
opened the king of
fice
of
and East eprefully overtook with The spades. He had no particular reason for doing so, He was sure, however, that Els partner hud
suit and very strong that it couldn't do any harm to unblock it by playing the
ace at the beginning.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12
PORN today you are genial, understanding, sympathetic, a good
Or he may ask you
""Tradewinds" and ""TTO- pical" with David Carroll and his orchestra.
Carroll's "Tropical" would set the mood for "Carib- | bean," Columbia's Intest
Then go back to the big town and hear Les Baxter and his orchestra's "Mari- hattan" (Capitol). You'll like his arrangement of this
song.
B mixer und astute it being able to judge the trend of public Paul Weston album which early Rodgers and, Hart
opinion. You would make a good politician and with careful development of your gifts, even statesman. You have an. excellent memory and are quick to learn. You are able to collate facts, analyse them and then present them so that everyone understands their significance.
There is another facet to your character which gives you a deep love for everything that is beautiful. You have artistle appreciation and considerable ability in. the creative orts. However, it is more likely that you will save this for your leisure hours, for you will consider that your first duty is toward the successful achievement of success in your chosen profession whatever it may be. You are a little too inclined to think everything on a gigantic le and sometimes will neglect the minúte detail which can be very important. You have the ability to keep everything under control in time of crisis and seem to know stinctively what needs to be done.
You will have a large circle of friends and are a good judge of character, You are rarely mistaken in your first estimale. You are not, demonstriktive in showing your affections but your love is a deep and sincere one. Your marriage should be one which brings unusual happiness to you and your entire family.
Let your
To find what the stars have in store for tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. birthday star be your daily guide.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec.
CROŚŚWORD
17
TO
1
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1-3
ACTORS
1. March, sirs take you out of
imo 1 (0) 18 This see bird fought in the war. It's a question of balance. - (5)
11. John, of Osunt, and 13hake-
gaunt in bois ACORTE}. {8) 12. C, on Pallon. (8)
Take the mathematical symbol from 13 Acroom. (8)
1: Noud-tide one bind, said
Čita orais mix them up. (0) Tennyson. (E)
19. PANT THISH (ie, (5) 20. No one is to his valos. (4) 21. No man dom this for, love *--* hat on by ntaur," Can Drydat. 22. ÚNGORY fellow seems to get into 25. Granit one may be found at
water. (5)
20..
Corsionally. (7)
pins i cere sin, incidentally.
Bir you're sorry, (9) È If you're an actor, you've ned as
Tonát opa, (4)
the
B. “Shall en swirl down wald Dobson, (d)
4. Olier's chin (BAS), (9) K. lakeshle diminutire'in Amarion.
(3)
Pub & dimá in the smallest of the litter. (8)
1. Aretic ass li 6 bit biting, (9) Pour noun in the ship. (8) 12. Burden. (6)
includes "Perfidia," "Magic Is the
Moonlight" and "Cuban Love Song" as well After that, you can take. as five more sultry tunes. to the mountains for the hillbilly song of the week: If you wish to journey "Scratchbritches Hill, Ten-you're worth thu, you're to the U.S.A., you can messed" by "Texus Jim" follow 'Jo Stafford and Robertson. (M-G-M).
Frankie Laine "Musical Portrait of New in their
And that's some travel- Orleans" (Columbia). This ling!
LP features. "Basin Street -WILLIAM D. LAFFLER
DART WORD OMESDAY DIO-
vides the start- ing point this wook and the last word HONOUR YOU have to rearrange the other 40 words la much a way that the relationship between sar word
and that next to it is governed by one of the six rules.
"1. The word may beard that pro
enagram of
cede it
the West 22)-If it is possible for you to
in accordance with the plan for, perhaps, with the lack of plan) Fast returned his seven of spades, and West won the second trick with the nine of spides, This Kuve chance to make a play bis partner could not really have foreseen. West led the lowly three of spades at the third trick!
Dummy naturally played the eight of spades,
East and realised that he was expected to ruff. Obviously, West had
GEMINI (May 22-June 21)- Take another day out and see that you are completely relaxed, Busy days are coming; be pre- pared.
du so, plan to get plenty of rest and relaxation. You need it..
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20) -Attendance at the church of CANCER (June 22-July 23)— your choice can bring you
while You may find it worth much-needed spiritual uplift at to pay a visit this time.
un some friends you may have been neglecting iately.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)
A good sermon might do you LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)-
great deal of good today. Try to forget the work-a-day Take the whole family along schedule and catch up on your with you to church.
recreation, All work will make PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar, 20)— you lethargie.
A line day for some quiet re- laxation and letting down of You hove
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the queen of spades and could have led a high spade at this trick instead of leading the three.
mounting tensions,
earned it.
ANIES
(Mar. 21-Apr. 20)-
Next week will be a very busy
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)—— It might be well for you to relax tensions now and get
some necessary rest and recreation.
LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)—
Christmas pre
one so make a real effort ta II all your
get some extra rest today. Reparations are finished-as they charge the human batteries!
~TAURUS-(Apr.-21-May-2 §) ---
If you are still behind schedule,
then you may have to sacrifice u
should be by now-then have a little fun.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov, 22) You should be able to receive
2. It may be a куповуть of the word that precedes
a. it may be found by adding one letter to or ubtracting one from. or changing one letter in the preceding word.
START HEREW
[SWAY JDGNESDAY SERTIET Į
BODY
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ros
RIGGING
TREBUKERI
SENIOR
SCALP,
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THUMB
4. It may, ba associated with the Dreceding word in
asying. almilt, metaphor, or association of ideas.
5. It may form with the pre- coding word a game of a well- known pomon, place, or thing in fact or notion
4. It may be associated with
HONOUR
TONS
ONIDOTA
จร
SAVAGE
SHEER LINE
the preceding word in a title of In the action of a book, play, or other composition.
A typical succession of worda might be: Lion Tamer-Tames Thames-Father-Time Tide -Edit.
(Solution on Page 20)
•
BY
THE • WAY •
by Beachcomber
"rest" day and make it a "work" spiritual inspiration from your A LONG rigmarole about the out and "Clutterbuck's" sub-
day!
church attendanc: today.
PORN today, you have an adventuresome nature and must throughout life guard against undue recklessness. The stars indicate that you will be fortunate in business and finance so tha: you will probably prosper, despite the dire prophecies of your irlends who, perhaps, cannot see us for phead as you can. Although you have the reputation for being impulsive, you have been born, it seems, with good judgment and if you hoed your Intuitions .carefully in matters of Importance, your luck will usually hold. clear to
You seem to have a rather special insight into things which is most useful.
There is a serious side to your nature which makes you enjoy You are fond or things of life. poetry and might have a creative gift in this field if it were developed. You know how to speak well in public, also, and would make a fine lecturer. Teaching is one of the professions which you might follow successfully, although you would never be one to follow any conventional pattern. You know how to encourage and inspire others to do their best work..
It was therefore Enst that South also was going
*
to ruff this third round of spades and that therefore high ruff was called for in order to force out a high trump from the South hand.
The situation was so clear that East actually ruffed with the jack of hearts without any apparent hesitation or thought, South had to overuff with the
of hearts, queen
of course, since no discard could possibly do him
uny good, This established a trump trick for West, and East eventually got | the setting trick with the king of diamonds.
The point I am trying to make is that bridge is a fairly simple gano. You can pave the way for very neat defences it you just keep aiming in tho right direction.
the cultural and intellectual
You are fond of the occult and the mysterious and yet are
not superstitious. You like collecting odd and interesting foots
(
marks for being this! (8)
doing well, (B) Sloppy card gene, (3),
HAND
igna (3) SOLUTION TO CHECK YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE
DUMB-BELLS
SIR, I WANT
YOUR DAUGHTER
FOR MY
WIFE!
YOU CAN
KEEP YOUR Wife
I REFUSE
TO TRADE
CHESS PROBLEM
By J. A. W. BWANE Black, & plɛoes.
impossibility of trusting the stituted. During Act III her evidence of our senses should back was a battle field for tour have had o footnote about men with different beers to Epictetus, the Stole who told the praise. At last the lady turned Pyrrhonists they were talking round and shouted "Stop writ- trash-as, indeed, they were, - ing on my back!" Crestfallen and ashamed, the writers put Epictetus trusted his own away their pencils. senses to tell him that he was not someone else. He said, "I Hair apparent I want to eat a morsel of food, I put it into my own mouth, not
His grey heir is brushed of into someone else's." If I could his forehead.
(Evening paper.) not trust the evidence of my
must be mates, E poor old heir senses, I might put my hat on your head instead of on mine, some sort of an acrobat, which, as Zeno said to the He balances himself upaide charioteer whose horses dropped down on the head of the man WHAT'S HER LINE? dend at the start of the race, from whom hc. has expecta- does not get us very for." ilons, but he is insolently brush-
Household hints
ed off. It would be kinder to cut him out of the wil at once. He was probably only trying to amuto his future benefactor
as well as beautiful things and might at some time in your life Is there any way of getting with a trick or two.
have a fine collection of art, antiques or books. Wod only If you find someone who is as deeply interested in the same things as
you are.
Let your
fluff out of erucks in a celi- |ing? Try standing on a pile of†,
tins, and scraping along the bent stair-rod. ceiling with a
the
To find what the stars have in store for tomorrow, select your The bent end will go into birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph, birthday stor be your dally guide.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 14
cracks.
For cleaning one-inch screws PENINSULAR
I use a thin'oil.
Toy alligators can bo glued to SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. GEMINI (May 22-Jane 21)-sheets of white metal. Use a 22)-You will need-and should Goor your social activities to Ano brush, frequently cleaned in water. To unglue have plenty of energy and vim your budget. Don't try to keep lukewarm
You can the alligators, dip the metal in a tackle almost everything up with the Joneses.
bucket containing a strong solu- still have fun if you don't.
tion of absidol and chloromote, CAPRICORN (Dec, 23-Jan. 20) Be optimistic when it comes to parts to three.
CANCER (June 22-July, 23)--- |milxed in the proportion of eight East.It's a good idea to keep up
Pros- at the future. Pass with your personal
corres looking
for you Just pondence. And a good time is Pects are bright now!
♥CARD Sersed to
Q-The bidding has been: Bouth West North
1 Heart Pass 1|Spado
.?
todiny.
You, South, hold: Spades 8-3. Hearts A-Q-J-7-5, Dia- AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) imonds K-0-3, Clubs K-8-5-Nows from old friends and
What do you do?
relatives at a distance should A-Bld une no-rump. This cheer you up immensely. shows that you have a minimum PISCES (Feb, 20-ktär, 20). opening bld, with balanced dis-Your energy should be equal tribution. There is no great valuo in rebidding the hearts to the tasks which confront you,
at time. Be diligent and
when you have such a fine accomplish a great deal. “
this
chance to show that your OPEN- ing bid is a dead minimum.
how.
23)---- budget it
24-Aug. LEO. (July Stay within your
A coiluloid ogg-clamp will not keep an egg any steadier than An egg-cup.
possible, even at this time of Advertising space the year. Try to add to your
savings
White, 8 pieces, White to play: mate in two.
Solution to yesterday's problem:
j), Kt-B4, any; 2, Q, R, Kt, or
ESTHER MCALL Ro-arrange the letters to spell her occupation.
(Solution on Page 20)
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19th April
4 pan.
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28th Aprit
10 a
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VIRGO (Aur. 24-Sept. 23)—| A ̈man at a recent niet night Dep: Hongkong 18th January
AN expensively dromed wo social and business was reported to have had. “ung
augment tatto-marks doailngs which can
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that if was one word, scribbled ARIES (Mar, 21-Apr. 20)— LIDRA (Sept. 24-004 13) in indelible pencil by [one of Are:
-24th January Perhape you can let up on the Best for you to stick closely to the mischievousman-abouts Dep: Robd
27th January town. Some of them use the AZERBAYCAgrind of daily routine and try business routinie, today, If you
Vast expenste of ban the rewards you political
of bard bark an "Ates Hongk The bidding in the ammo sa out; pynow?¦‚„adventuro
Soth January agitators anticipate,
w.blank LLED You, South, hold: Spades B-8, TAURUS (AKË, 21-May #1)-->
Wally to redord their thoughts SCORPIO (041, 24-Nov. 18) about life. As a fist - nightja Hearts A÷Q-3-2-5,-Dismondi A-Q-4, Clubs, A-Q-6. What do There is plenty going on, both -If it is up to you to so at lady had "Batterson's Beer you do?
professionally and socially. Do the family finances are solvent, Put You Right" written, sorose adiroli, în correlating your se- koop::¦ your mind 3 on your bar back during Act 1. During Abrway On Monday 3 Uvities
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| Act II “Batterson's”, was crossed
TODAY'S QUESTION
in the question just answered.vantageously.
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once again!
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