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by Beachcomber
THERE are some things which purpose and outlayed its welcome,
THER
no progressive man or woman
car do without.
Does anyone really want a amoli merry-go-round on his hend?"
A long-felt
want has now been satisfied. in Au Rendezvous des New York you can buy an "inte:- planetary clock which
tells the ikme co Mars" and 1 presume, on the moon.
This will prove of great help to these who are working out the Ume- table for trip In space-rocksta Obviously people who land on the moon will not want to stand about in queues waiting for transport. The rockets will wood bẹ able to myn- chronise their arrival with the lungr coach time-tables. The only-teng 1 that, at present, we have no merca of letting the moon know what time we are to be expected.
The revolving hat
A FAMOUS West End hatter con=
donms the revolving hot as
COMBONE
has
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the
Cairs Megia suggested pub Beation
Gatronomic of A Guide to Grost Britain. What fun! A country hotel farmóus for its hash, prepared by the maitre-chef den aulinen according to a secret recipe. will be entitled to blaster kable with plagues and diplomas. And you will rend of another "temple of Lucullus“ some much sentenes ai "The specínište de la malmori is a choice of two tinned soupe pź a rich
brown polour.**.
"Gourmets delight to forgather, before the meal, In the Manhattan Bar, where the sluminium furnishings reflect a cheerful glow from a fire of sham Jogs. A glass of genuine Spanish sherry puts MA edge on the appetite.“
impracticable. He says that to begin All the rage
with, a hon at least two sites
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would be required, so that it could have free movement round the head. A ughly-fitting hat would become stikk But if the had was
big. more than two sizes lon revolutions would incommode the hat ears of the wearer. Aloo, she would wubbles. This halise mesker at the root of the whole controversy with this pertinent question: "What poke to the wearer Ex tu anyone che could such a hat be? It smurely a sign of a renilem age that It can ever be miggested that the monary or axed hat has served ila
lady whose petticoat fell off at a party in the White House She did the only thing possible. picked it up and wore it gracefully over her arm for the rest of the metalna8. Whon questioned. I hope
be kaid. "It's what they Gusterola," That would be enough to start a new fashion. Pelleçats to be worn over the arm would pour out of the workrooma of Jacques Sprath, who would eat no Fath, and all the more notorious of the society cluthes-horace would shout for their muney's Worth,
THE CHINA – MAIL--FRIDAY— FEBRUARY
JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
Here Is Standard - Way to Play Cards
BY OSWALD JACOBY
THERE'S a standard way of
two
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playing the cards. In the sort of hand shown today. When the hand was actually played, South didn't know this standard method, and he his vulnerable game as a result, West opened the queen of diamonds, and South won with the aco. Fio drew three rounde of trumps and then returned, to the diamonds, He discovered that West was bound, to win
diamond tricks, and spade pushed through dummy'a the defenders two king gave spade tricks, Down one.
South said that he was un- lucky that the diamonds were He was right. He sald that it took more than a bad diamond break to beat him; for he would hayo made his con- tract if the ace of spades had been favourably placed,
But he was was right again.
the way. he had wrong in played the hand, for he should have made his contract despite both of the bad breaks,
South made his mistake when he drew three rounds of trumps. It the diamonds break
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YOUR BIRTHDAY... By STELLA badly, it is important to leave
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19
BORN today, you have a hot, fory
temperament
which demands activity at the line. You are easily discouraged, yet with the least bit of encouragement your enthusiasms sgar again, These excemics of einotional expression can wear you nut and unless you learn to curb them a utile, you may find that your Life 1 A
short, tenipestuous, albait A litle more balance exciting ane. and can th
Life can prova most advantageous.
your
You ambitions are admirable and your personal courage exceptionai. You will try anything once--fust for the experience. If you are playing the lone wolf in life, then that is o well and good. But if you have others who aro d:pendent upon you, emotionally or financially, it may be less wearing upon everyone i try to rettle down.
Fortunately, you have the knack of making money and you will never suffer from a lack of the material necessities—even the Juxuries-of ilfe. Your touch of genius, at least once in your life. Je very sure to find its pot of gold. Whether or not yast hold on to it is another matter, You are one of those who would find It advantageoDELH ta put something aside for the proverbial rainy day. If you do that, the tough times will never comel
Although you appear to be excep- tionally adventuresome, there is a
caution wide streak of
in your nature and you investigate thoroughly either your tině. before Investing onergy ér money.
* To find what the stars have in store for tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph, Let your birthday stak be your dally guide.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20
PISCES {Feb 20-Mar. 20) Follow routine at home, if you have a day of odd jobs ahead. Do Artist dritt
ARIES (MA
21-Apr 201 Take time out today to make your future plans carefully. Revive the mind art fagging spirits.
TAURUS Kapr. 71-May 20) Begin a two-day rest period with relaxation "and" recreation which changes your point of view.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21) Perhaps you wlif have a more con- rental week-end if you consult the entire family before making pleas
CANCER (June 22-July Divide your time, today, equally between work and play and you will find you can be really relaxed. LEO July 24-ABE. 23) You may have brought a problem home from work with you, If so, get it scived efficiently and quickly
IM?W.
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 3) Altend to personal affairs, Do things
that you may have been postponing; No more procrastination,
LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)- Decide to have a free and easy werk- end. Do nothing—or es little as you have to get along)
SCORPIO (Oct
24-Nov. 12)----
If the past week has been a bury one, then today is the time to start
a real, relaxing week-end.
SAGITARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)- You may make
or receive visita
from friends you have not seen in
quite a long ume.
*CAPRICORN ***(Dec, 23-Jan,
It is possible that
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there w be
DUMB-BELLS
WELL, HERE WE ARE
CIN LONDON AT LAST!
YES, DEAR AND GET
TAXI QUICK! L'WANT TO SEE. EDINBURGH CASTLE
differences of opinion in the family clrele. Try to resolve them.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. [9) Use your leisure time to none pleasant,
yet practical purpose. Accomplish something Important.
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ACTORS
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YESTERDAY'S
some trumps in dummy to cope with the situation.
The right line of play is to win the first trick with the ace of diamonds and then to lead only one trump-to king.
small A is then returned towards
dummy's diamond
WOMANSENSE
If You Could Only Have One
Anne-Scott James' FASHION FORM BOOK, from 1 to Q—a personal A to Z on being a well-groomed woman
Warmond in how we fish-crochet,
you
Wear
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Desert Island.
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"THAT INFLUENCES white homespun dresses, hand- not all limp and floaty, but cut voice and exquisite hands, she lunches in New York.
knits, Irish crochet, Irish linen crisp and narrow and mounted can knock any young starlet something extra subtle, have a dress and how we look? cloaks,
up plain tweed cost and Hine I've seen a short, narrow white hope, you over fifties and with mink. What we read? Or what
That's called the Ince summer dress with an: don't give away everything to throw-away. (See also under Someone said: we, Bec?
crange cummerbund ...
matter Throw-away.) a long, your daughters. You "It's not what you read,
narrow dinner dress in white too. lace with a huge navy blue mash. but PEOPLE people you JACKETS: know
LEOPARD PRINTS: One of Short top-ccats, personally, people nearly always nice them-
best fabric ideas of the 'Afties prints. and tiger, selves, but made or ruined by leopard whose pictures you see-
skiri they
with. Exotic in velvet, unexpected who really shape a woman's the
NYLONS: 1 can explain the With Д full skirt-ma short in chiffon, newest in nylon
MARGARET, PRINCESS: The cause of all our stocking troubles clothes sense."
And so my jacket
they use stopping at the waist. jersey, which
in Princess who'll always take a in a FASHION DICTIONARY with
slips and a long narrow skira America for
few well-chosen words. panta. plunge. Rare for royalty, she The American nylons we loved, was born. Some of you shortish jacket to balance, but Also new and
Jungle la ready to try anything new. cadged for, swore by in the war, python printed Padded hips, peep-toe shoes, and which lasted for months or are calling it prejudiced. It should be full. With a short theme a
WILLIE
half-hats, pixie hats. Princess years, were 20 deniers, a thread Maybe so-but this kind of arrow skirt flared, boxy or Jersey,
Never put full Jacket. bulky
The an BEATRICE: ABC must be personal.
Who hasn't got all the conts, curved shoulders, street which isn't made in England at over Juli.
woman JERSEY: Knitted (as opposed natural attributes but has built velvet, lonely-shoulder evening all. We have to choose between
dresses, a cardigan chic 翻
woman to woven fabrics, now at their herself into
thrown, solid 30's and cobwebby 16's. student - wiov, Half the nicest things through sheer intelligence. She stude zenith
the But the 20's would always be round mistake of shoulders she from never are knitted,
made the
my choice I could get them: worn fisherman
to sweaters
to nylon trying
be pretty-pretty. them all. Unlike the Queen, underwear, from the new cotton But her pixilated caps, topping who is famous for her beauty INCORPORATED Society of cardigans to your next swim the humorous face and boyish in evening dresses, Princess Landon Fashion
have a Designers; silt. Borders, yokes, collary of hair,
style of their Margaret looks her best -in London's 12 Courture dress ribbed knitting are a sign of the own, have made her looks as something neat and fitled, "L., a
clothes times, garnishing a flannel dress famous as Vivien Leigh's.
Laliored velvet cant with a little OUTSIZES: The damning word makers, whose spring
coronet hal. Other amall women, which puts everyone or a tweed coat.
the in have been shown recently.
LININGS: A Number One please copy.
wrong frame of mind. It makes choice for a spring pepper- upper. (Fashion 15
MASCARA: The cosmetic I'd biggish women feel their caso is Important inside EL9 outside.) choose if I could only have one hopeless. It makes manufactur- better ers who ought to know (Last year, Tako last year's summer coat for a desert island.
dowdy and and reling it with polka-dotted I would have said lipstick.) If design inexcusably
advice to rayon. Make ព short jacket I could speak in a second, I'd ldcous clothes. My
women with over 40-inch hipe: and line it with print to match take an eye pencil, toc. Thick (1) Lose as much weight as you a summer dress. Cut a white black eyebrows, long, black towelling beach wrap, lino it lashes are the key with
towelling, make-up for 1854. orange
and
MASSIGLI. make it reversible. And don't
MADAME: make it with a front opening, golden example of French dress It should
be a sort
of loose ing. To know how plain the pullover without a fastening. best clothes are, just watch the
LUNT, Mrs Alfred (Lynn photos of
the French Fontanne): The
K
Their customers wili wear: good simple sults, often semi- fitted, the newest with collarless KERR, DEBORAH: The gir! cardigan jackets, sland-away who broke through all the con- ventions about what you can necklines, or sailor collars
wear with red hair, Last time short or ballot-length
evening 1 saw her she was wearing dressca dresses and sulis not dreary old navy blue, not with tightly atted
bui a summer diaphragms a boring green, and an emphasised bustline... dress and hat of luscious fee-
She looked cream pink/ beige and banana colours Aurora, all red-gold and rosy- placing grey...
of
pink. mixture fabrics, such as wool- and-nylon, cotton-and-silk coarsely woven tweeds. Biggest change: a squarer shoulder Une.
of Kent
TILASSER
INSTINCT-And if I had to rominate one woman in the country with real fashion in- stinct I would name the Duchess And of all the good things she wears I Link flint of her hats. She is one of the few women who
wear a hat (a) when it's news, (b) at the right angle, (c) with the right out. She wears either neat
correctly.
a vell
hand. If the mult breaks neat and tight, or else a
short eye-vell. She wcars
My til south will take the
A
king of diamonds, give up diamond,
draw
trumps, and take at least 10 tricks.
When the low diamond is led from dummy. East may either ruff or discard. If East ruffs and returns a club. South ห้ไตร,
draws one more trump with
the queen, and then cashes the king of diamonds. This gets by safely, and South can ruft a low diamond with dummy's jack to set up his last diamond. The rest is easy.
East discards when the Jow diamond 19 led from dummy. South wins with the king of diamonds and gives up a diamond. He can easily gain the lead, ruff a diamond with dummy's jack of bearts, and take 10 easy tricks.
*
♥CARD Sense♦
Q-The bidding has been: North Fast South West
1 Heart Pass 1 Spade Pass
2 Hearts Pass
You, South, hold: Spades K- J-7-3-2, Hearts 8-5 Diamonda A-J-9, Clubs A-Q-7. What do you do?
Q
simple hat with a fur coat. A
amall but amusing hat with a
suit. A large hat with
good
Of-
bold line with a print dress. She bas no inhibitions About "the only line that suits me." the-face, bonnet-wise, boxes, platters, berets, forward- Wilts all become her, and she knows it.
pill-
IRELAND: The unliklly island
that has provided two world fashions in one year (1) boom in Connemara tweeds used day, dinner and evening
for
dresses from Paris to California.
(2) a trendi for rustic-seeming
like
L
AgC
LACE:
The fabric
the
way
in Kor
that's on summer,
needn't
now as
point of actings can. (2) Instead of
Am
Woman who bassador's wife, in London. has proved conclusively that MINK: Apparently a sort of matter. Wearing high-grade uniform which must wonderful tea-gowns, moving be worn for (a) air travel; (b) like a queen, with a thrilling film premieres; (c) girls'
But which one for which one.
1*1
а
outsize clothes which
If the
Д
are meant to be "slimming," get normal, smart, new-looking dress in a bigger size. shops haven't got any, buy good pattern and make one, or have it made for you,
P
PANTS: All right, boys, grumble, grumble grumble-but weenen will go on wearing them. Say they're masculina, ugly, unsuitable, depraved -but the sole will still go up prut via elegant
(but in fact elegant) clothes by The jacket for a long, narrow The jacket for a short, narrow: The jacket for a full dress, Irish designer Sybil Connolly; dress, hip-length and swinging, dress, boxy to show off the skiri, stopping short at the waist,
BOYS' AND
A Visit With Robin Hood
.
GIRLS' MAGAZINE
-He Shows What à Champion Bowman He Is- By MAX TRELL
about except Knart and Hopið,
the bell They pressed
and
He shot the tip off a leaf at the top of an oak tree. He shot a mosquito.
He shot through a spider web without hurting the spider.
He shot an arrow across the pond so that it skipped over the water like a very swift and very beautiful, dragonfly.
THE telephone behind the immediately a neon sign flashed bookcase rang softly, and on reading in bright red letters: A-Bid three no-trump. With Knarf and Hanid, the shadow- "Come In."
The next instant, the lille 15 points in high cards opposite children with the turned-about
"But Robin hasn't shown you an opening bid you must make names, went to answer it. No- door opened and they slid all his best trick yet,” sold Little con-body else in the house knew the way down (for there were, John Little. "Go ahead, Robini sure of reaching a game tract, This jump to same shows where this phone was It was no stairs in Mr Merlin's magical' Show them the_trick.” *** your strength, your balanced a private phone between Mr house), right into Mr Merlin's distribution, and your stoppers Merlin the Magician and Knart parlour,
fa the unbid suits...
TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding is the same as in
and Hanid.
Hand lifted the receiver off the hook.
"Hello," said Mr Merin, "I've
20
Mr Moriin caught them they landed. "Robin Hood's in the garden right now. I knew you'd want to meet him. That's I alfred you to come down
Then Robin Hood showed Knarf and Hanld the trick...his beat trick of all.
He shot a sunbeam and broke into thousands of glittering tiny beamlettes.
12-1
ponts
for wearing at home; (b) tough serge or corduroy pants for women who garden, farm, cycle. vr do benvy jobs outdoors or in; (c) three-quarter pants, or jean, for holidays. Pants are now 80 well
cut, and there's Such variety, that women of most Agures eun wear them, especially for (b). Only the really tubby need give them a miss.
PLEATING. permanent: Fashion-child of
of the technical a knows how they agc-goodnaE
do 11! But, anyway, it works. I've sett nightdresses entirely suntoy pleated in sheer nylon ...white pleated tennis dresses made of a mixture of Terylene and wool...pleated slik 'under- pants
and pleated country skirts. All the pleating, com- plately washable end permanent. The future of this fashion— boundless.
gerated
POINTED SHOES: This year's shoe shape is slender and pointed -pointed hecis and pointed toes. The heels are still comfortable to walk in, the toes are not exag- or difficult to fit. POLO NECKS: The • new sweater
neckline that was inst popular in the early "thir-. les wothan.
Good on a very feminine
you're
the tweedy alde, beware; it can The
make you look "tough."" PRINCESS LINE: silhouette with a long life to come. You must have at least ne Princess dress for sumMET, if you've a pretty especially waistline. It means no scam" at the waist, a moulded line, fiting the body, closely, above, and below the waist,
QUEEN
Q
ELIZABETH
Easy for a dignified, middle- aged lady to dress like a queen, pretty girl. The problem; to Not casy for a young and
show a sense of royalty with- Knarf and Hanid couldn't re- out losing the charm and fresh-
the question Just answered. got a very interesting man visit You South, hold: Spades IC-Jing me. He's in my gardenHe took Hand and Fnart by the world (which I am)," said green, wore a feather in his esp. "Even the greatest magician in Robin Hood, dressed in dark -10-8-8-2 Heart 6 Diamonds right now, shooting his bow and the hands and led them out into Mr Merlin, "couldn't do a trick *K-7-6-4, 'Clubs 8-3. What do "arrow."
"Oh," exclaimed Hanid, "It was Robin Hood!
the sunny garden. And there like that! The only thing I can you do?
Hiawatha?"
Answer Tomorrow
CHESS PROBLEM
By ARTHUR & FAUL Black, 8. piece,
Which he didi
Rupert and the Compass-15
forsto
Very
much
freshness our
cut
He was dressed just as Kaart do," he added modestly, is to member when they ever had ness of youth, Queen alza- and Hanld had always pictured put all the little pieces of the more fun than this wilt with Mr bath has achieved it brilliantly. A Man Named Hood
1. Hood: Mr LJ Little and Mr Tullo him, or rather as they always unbeam back again,"
Merlin, the marvellous magicjant plus hata for formality. "No," said Mr Merlin, "It's a had seen him pictured in the
stories. man named Hood,"
He was dressed in "Hood?" said Hanid. "I don't forest green with a horn at his know anybody named Hood." side and a feather in his cap She turned to Knari and asked: arid a smile on his face. "Did you ever hear of anybody Robin Hood came over, und named Hood, Kaart?"" /
Knart and greeted Knart shook his head. "Knart warm never heard of anybody named
And
hora" sald Mr Merlin, Hood, either" Hanld said on the pointing to an enormously tall telephone to Mr Merlin, cre strong-looking : man“ whom they ‚änd- not ÷notised before, "is one Hanid could hear Mr Merlin of Robin Hood's best friends, laughing and calling out to some His name is Mr Lifterem pe body. They said they never and we argued
heard of you, Robin!'!
Chorled Hanid joyfully,
course
Hauld
Famous Friend.
John Lite!
shoute
A
In London, but in rich, fabrics, often velvet.
Cotton dresses on her tropical: travels, plus beautiful gloves. "short young dress for an in- formal party, plus an ermine wrap for the royal touch
In spite of her boundless, fairy story wardrobe, her per sonality transcends: hor clothes and 'ramsius constant end fami» Har,'' Bha Jt not fashionable da the Duchess of Kent la fashion- able: Sho, rarely changes her hairstyle or adopta" a brand new what^, Bút kho is "WB][« droseed, in that her clother - Đồn one her, bring out Her beauty