THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1953, Colonel UP, and Mr. DOWN
by Walter
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ON BRIDGE YOUR BIRTHDAY...... ay STELLA
JACOBY
Here's Point Worth
Your Attention
By OSWALD JACOBY
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19
PORN today, you are fond of beauty in all its forms. Bholds an expecluf attraction
Nature for you and your greatest joy 'would be in being able to transmit the beauty you see around you into great literature, fino musle or art. If you are not trained in the arts, you will probably take out this tendency by WHICH sult should you des sponsoring other artiste. Or you may show this trail merely in your desire to own beautiful things, You women will ke beautiful clothes and will want your homes tuatefully decorated, Without beauty in your life, you can be very unhappy!
velop first
when you pro] playing a hand at a contract of threo no-trump? Should you go after the longest suit or the You men are scientifically inclined and may make an im- most solid ull? Should you try portant contribution in this field of endeavour. You have the a finesse, or should you make ability to work long and hard on a project and will conduct 2 straight-forward develop endless experimentation to prove your projected thesis. You are ment play?
not one to shirk hard work and if something offers you u real Take today's hand for exam-challenge, you will work day and night to solve the problem. ple. West leads the jack of You may need to conserve your energies by learning to relax hearts. and
South wins' Im- tensions at Intervals when your work perlods streich.out for too nediately in dummy by putting up the quecji. Which wuit should South next develop? South may, if he wishes, cal rome diamonds to begin with, but he will still have to decide which black suit to tucitle first.
When the hand was actually played, declarer decided to take rudvantage of the fact that he was in during by leading the queen of spades for Alhesse This lost to West's king, and back x
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unless you let down once in a while, an interval. There is always the danger of growing stole on
An early marriage is best, for once you are emotionally adjusted you will be able to devote your entire attention to your You are not one to divide your interests and If you walted until you became what you considered a "success in life" you might never wedi
career.
To find what the stars have in store for tomorrow, select your birthday stur and read the corresponding paragraph.. Let your birthday star be your daily gulde,
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20
SAGITTARIUS (Nov, 23-Dec. GEMINI (May 22-June 21)- another heart, |22)—Attendance at the church If you have all holiday detalls well in hand, take time out to- day to really let down tensions,
forging out declarer's ace.
of your choice should bring you Now South could take two spirituat uplift which brings spades. two hearts, and four Joy. diamonds for a ton of only CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. eight tricks. When South tried (20)-It at all tenable, get some to develop his ninth trick in real rest and reluxation today. clubs, West stepped up prompt-You may need to build up your
reserves.
WEST
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3 N.T.
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CANCER (June 22-July 23)- Your church may be having a Christmas service which you will enjoy attending. Tuke the family.
AQUARIUS (Jan, 21-Feb. 19) Mental relaxation as well as LEO (July 24-Aug. 23) ---- physical rest is important to n Perhaps there are one or two Well-balanced Individual. .Get personal Christmas letters that both now.
need writing. Do it today without fait.
PISCES (Feb, 20-Mar. 20)... You and your family would benetiit from church attendance
Get today.
Into the true Christmas spirit,
ARIES (5far, 21-Apr, 20)—11 you have had a rugged working week-ant you probably have bad!-get some relaxing recrea-
lon.
TAURUS (Apr, 21-May 21) -- You will do well to seek
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept, 23)-
11 Falth can work miracles. depressed, seek spiritual in- spiration for your future plans. LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)—If paying pre-Christmas visits docs not seem the panelicul thing to do, then just relax quietly at home.
SCORPIO
(Oct. 24-Nov. 22) It is a good thing to remember spiritual guidance and mental that the spiritual nature needa relaxation from a week of really feeding as well as the physical hard work.
BORN today, you should develop a little more emotional
stability if you are to reach your ambitions as early in life as you hope. Your nature is one which is full of contradictions ly with the ace of clubs to cash
and careful and you have a temperament which needs. study three heart tricks and thus de-control. "Know thyself" is one of the best bits of advice that
could be given you,
feat the contract.
South should have entered Sensitive to criticism yourself, you retaliate by being harshly his hand.
with a diamond in blunt and even brusque-often hurting the feelings of others order to lead a a club betore try-
euke
You have natural gifts in the field of unintentionally, ing the spades. If West put up science and the nee of ess
Yet you need to cultivate the rigid mathematics. clubs at once, South
disciplines which accompany these professions, You are inclined would have enough tricks with to worry over things that never happen.
But when something out needing a spade finesse
that everyone else worries about-you are the one who happens that If Went failed to take his
remnatus calin and Bnds a solution to the problem.
of clubs immediately. declarer would win a club trick at once
Naturally
affectionate, you would rather die than let anyone
and could then switch to spikk discover it. You love intensely, yet you are too timilt to tell the
one
love about it. Watch out that you do not lose out when sit comes to finding your marriage partner.
In order to develop nine tricks. In other words, South must go after the clubs first beentise he can steal a trick without giving up the lead: and. having stolen that trick, he CH safely next to the spades. -
In actual practics. the best play
of all is to begin by running in
You know how to co-operate with others, yet you are highly
use all Individualistle and have to use kinds of persiusion to make others see things exactly
You have all the makings" of
as you see them. greatness, if you Just learn how to put them together.
To find what the stars have in store for tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph
Let
MONDAY, DECEMBER 21
four diamonds, ending in the South your birthday star be your daily guide.
Hand for a club play. West would
have a terrible me finding safe,
discards, and I West direnrded a
heart or two, the long it would SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. job, save it for later on.
1 longer be a menace.
Thu
This is a point will worth remem.22)-This is a good routine day boss will exhibit more interest bering; it often pays to run even but it can bring trouble if you aller Christmas.
a comparatively short rolld suit be atteinpt unfamilfor duties.
fore beginning to develop your
tricks of a contract of Quée no- CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan,
where the lightning will strike exi, from adhering. may try to protect everything and therefore micceed unty in disipating achieving your major objective.
CANCER (June 22-July 23)- up. The opponents, not knowing 20)-Let nothing distract you Really the last call, when it going Dver that rigorously_to_comes to
Christmas-1st How about-the- AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) windows decorations? -Better for you- not to try and
24-Aug. 23)- (July combine social activities with Might be a good day to get your
Their threats,
LEO
CARD Sense business matters. Separate your order in
Q-The bidding has been; Rou
Wel
North
1 Heart Fasa 1 Spade
You
categories carefully.
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)
East There is work to be done, even Pass
if there's a Christmas vacation
South hold: Spades 1-3 just around the corner for you. Stearts A-K-J-10-7-8-4. 12amendk A-KeJ, Chib 2 khai 4 you ta?
ARIES (DIar. 21-Apr. 20)- A-Ltd four hearts. This powerful Even if activities seem slow at zebiń shows a completely indepen- the office, keep rigidly ta dent kull. and a band. Heat is tuo pawerful to extend a mere invitation rehedule or you will regret It
to game. The hand is nevertheles} later on. limited by the fact that you could
heart
TAURF) (Apr. 21-May 21)—
not open with a foreing bld of 1wo You maybe able to take things
TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding is the same as in the little more slowly for a day or 50. You've been working harder Hearts than usual, Intely.
guration just answered. You South, Joki: Spades Q.B.3.
A-Q-J-7-8, Diamond#] K-Q-3, Clubs GEMINI (May 22-June 21)
If you get a "brain wave" on the
3-2. What do you do?
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LIBRA (Scpl. 24-Oct. 23)—– If you have been conserving your energy, then you should
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SCORPIO (Oct, 24-Nov. 22)—
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far, or in it the weather † (8) 14. Group of tables for bird. (4) 16. Pind in verae, (3)
10. Convert a tatile arrow into
Hound, (4)
1. Food for pantomime Jack, (4) 20. ftod Bid found squalid. (0) 21 its usefulness often ac
nl (0.
22. Homething to tear a hole in the householder's pocket. (4)
23. There's a clue I'd eat that would
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THE llences
Strabismus (Whom God Preserve) of Utrecht usual ly mean that he is up to something.
It was, therefore, no surprise other day bo moto heur the that he is on the Upper Amazon, with his friend Professor Grisch (leader the Grisch Expedition to Mancos in 1949, and author of "Up and Down the Amazon"), Strabismus be- leves that to reach the moon a rocket must have a enout made of zezalta, a viscous substance used for poisoning arrows by the Guajara Indians of the great Taguaral Plain. So there he is, pulling up the Amazon in a small, copiza to Pongo tie Manserlche, above Achual. From there he will go overland to the territory of the Guajara tribes. Up the Amazon they go
the brave follow TET
couple up the Amazon, their copiza puffs along, sentter-
axolotls ing the
from their waterholes under the banks, and sending the naslpacas chattering to the tops of the great maxs trees. Sometimes they pass a small landing-stage, where tall Indians, swathed in
shout insults, bucheras,
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wave their joyas. leans against
13
and
the deck-house →
keeping the cha
17. Provoking, like throwing a mat
at a monkey, (8)
10. Spring immigrant. (6)
SALMO PHEU
MUNDA APED
SOLUTION TO CHECK YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE
carpazas (giant gnots) at bay with a huge leath- er fan. Grisch is bent over his charle. Two Tulao Indians, picked up in Romágon, stand by
WHAT'S HIS LINE?
WALTER 0, I. PARRY
Re-arrange the letters to spell his occupation.
(Solution pn Page 24)
DART WOR
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Vides the start.. ing point this week and the fart word You L HONOUR. have to rearrango the other 48 words in such a way that tit a relationship between any word
And that next to it is governed by one
the
alx rules.
or
1. The word may
bo au anagram of the word that pre-
crd may be a synonym of the ward that precedes
3. It may ย found by adding one letter to, of subtracting ope from, or changing
one-letter-in-the- preceding word.
4. It may be naociated with the preceding word
START HERES
SWAY
DOMES
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SENIOR
OATS
RIGGING
KESDAY
DICK
SERVILE
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SCALP
REBUKE
ORDER
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in A saying, simile. metaphor, or association of ideas.
5. It may form with the pre- ceding word a name of a well- known person, place or thing to fact or action,
10. 10 may be associated with
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WOL
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RULE
OLDER/
SHEER LINE
the preceding word in, a title
In the action of a book, play. other composition.
MAURICII guecession of worda might be; loaTimer--Tamra name-Fatlier-Time - Tida
(Solution on Page 24)
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CHESS PROBLEM
By A. P. EERKES Black, 11 places.
White, D pieces, White to play: mate in two,
Solution to yesterday's problem:
1, Kt-Ko, anu; 2, Q, R, D, Kt or
P mates.
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