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EDITORN-PELTO Szjevica, inc •udzyk toen:
"He wants a few minutes of your valuable time.”
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BY
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THE
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by Beachcomber
PODAY the ancient Murdrako in cellars, museums, cals, theatres,
receinantes take place
in
dairies, and mine17
Uloshop. They date from the in passing
12th century.
CoE Swedish baby boy
Every maced, wanau The Mardwide Crone in the inoritet er, as on a pile of sacking, bard eves her Alpes, which are then rown into a pit and mixed up tu- petiver The husbands uit out the des and bring them to the wives, wntle children dance round sing of The Mardrike e ng-
A muritrale a mardraket
Here she gore, there she goCT, On her beeta, on her tuca
Un then, etsi Jasper, a mardrake
it shall be
After this there is a distribution of rafinelenkes to all the children
30,500,000 pickles
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who has 73 Tech A
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xx age of months can look forward to a good deal of grashing when lie geta +gry Gustavus Adolphus whose green marble narcophagus le to a hapel of the Riddarholms-Katka, in Stockholm, had no teeth at all wati he had passed his extenth The inscription on his btrthday norcophagus imply: Gustavus Adelphan Magnus, with the banner of Sweden above 1. Nothing more. I went there to and the tomb of Axel Feren, but foiledi. The re- ons of Bernadette lie in a chapel of the same church, and in a vault below. thone of Desiree Cary, Napoleon's first love, who becure Queen of Sweden
fasth their work A making Not particularly helpful
WHY not. 21 Jolly Jack Hop-
their bruner too neat Foi esanyule. I have jan ng that Autanumanı ate 30 300,060 pickles lant wear the
and been 30,573,441 1 would have brea tume inclined to believe But when you come to think of it and we all came to Bath of th SAM1 the 11g nowadoyo-there Jm zaly one w In which
gures for pickle-eating can be ni
pulling a Metod in every household during incais. YOU could not vele on the honour ay of people to send in the Content Agum And there is always
serv! workin-enter
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kirt with Hght laugh, col- lect all the minha conts, stuff them inti matthaga. But the bag 21 Hull vann, 1nd no let all these robberies over, once and for all, in
week or no?
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Marginal note
A GALLUP poll has revealed the Currumpected, find startling Fact 1st mon people are wiek of ration- bona Who would have believed it, without the evidence supplied by these audacious offleinls? It in now time for a poll to dveover whether most people want war, or poses.
YOUR BIRTHDAY....... By STELLA
BOAN
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FRIDAY, MARCH 19
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To Bd what the stars have in
select your -Tote for tomol row. birthday alar and read the corres-
Let pounding paragraph,
your birthday star be your dally gülde,
SATURDAY, MARCH 20
30 MAT 20) A pleasant hubby can bring you At mktgit, it will become officially
picasan hour uf quiet wpoint I should bring a new and relaxation. A change of nelivity is exciting happiness to you thin your. utled
ARIES Mar 21-Apr. 20) If you work all week, this may be. your day for doing several répali jobs around the house Get them tone.
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 20) Pan a social evening, but don't Ro of the deep Mid and we tou extravagant with your plang for entertaining.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)-
Take Wine out this week-end to make some long-range plans for the future. Now di not is innment 100 soon!
CANCER Jine -July 23) Man your le so that you have bo equal klare of routine work and
lensbal recreation. LEO
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VIRGO (Aux.
24-Sept. 237-
PROBLEM
CHESS
BY E HOLLADAY
Black, 7 pieces.
White, 12 pieces.
White to play: mate in two,
Solution to yesterday's problem:
3. Kt-B5, any: 2. Q. I, or Kt (ch, or dul ch) mates,
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DUMB-BELLS
THAT LAST NOTE: WAS 'D" FLAT!
THATS WHAT 1.THOUGHT BUT I DIDN'T LIKE TO SAY ANYTHING
LIBRA (Rept 24-Oct. Z3)- This should be a day of compléte test for you. It powaible, got out into the country and enjoy" spring. SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov. 2) Take time out to go over plans which you have been making for your future. Test the out for practicability.
„SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 21-Dec. 22)— Be neighbourly. You may and that rome community project needs your assistance, Offer to help.
CAPRICORN (Dec 3-Jan. 20) Take time to have a look around, In leisurely fashion, at the bright new spring workit Reierso tenalous.
AQUARIUS (Jab 21-Feb. 19)- Be conservative today and avoid hasby decisions. Juniping to con- clusions can prove a serious mis- take.
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for the Knight at arma, (5)
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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1954.7
JACOBY ON I BRIDGE
Luck Plays A Role In Any Bridge Game
By OSWALD : JACOBY
HE bidding of today's harid
THE
wasn't "perfect," fortunate-
ly for North and South. North should have played the hand at six clubs, for that would have been a sate contract if the clubs broke 3-3 or 4-2. Even a con- tract of six no-trump would have. been better than six hearts, for that also would de- pend only on a normal break in clubs,
When the hand was actually. played, however, South got him- self into a slam in hearts. Here he needed good luck in the heart sult, and his chance. för this luck wasn't nearly no good as his chance to run the club sult without loss,
to
In some hands it's better be lucky than to be smart, and this was a good example, for the clubs did not break nor- mally, and good luck in hearts for the taking-for The player who was smart cnough to take it.
was there
West opened the queen of dis- mands, and South won with the ace. He naturally led a club to dummy and continued with a high club in order to discard
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Above left; A Paris model wearing wide-brimmed, coarse white straw hat, white kid gloves, long and wrinkled, and a speckled grey wool suit with jacket that is boned through Hike an old-fashioned corset-top width was inspired by a camisole top with gusset pleats over the high-placed bust and wool town, where shoulder straps used to lie.
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Above right: Star mannequin Anneliese of Berlin shows a dress in supple grey wool, with plunging neckline edged with white pique and finished with a man's dinner Jacket bow ile. Expensive long white suede gloves pick up the touch of white,—London Express Service.
One Woman Feeds 1,500,000
GIs With A Steak A Day
New York..
Mof Washington, means menu planned by Mrs Cochus beer bi to as days, a month.
more to the GI than Marilyn every month to every army unit. And much | Monroe, Jane. Russel) or any of the other pin-up girls that adorn his army quar
his losing diamond, to South's astonishment, West ruffed the second club with the king of hearts.
West then led · another » dja- mond, but South Was able to ruff. Now deelnrer had to flui and capture the queen of hearts In order to win the rest of the
tricks.
After some thought, South ied the ace of hearts from his hund, West clutched his cards closer to his vest and glower- ed suspiciously at declarer ал he dropped the blank queen of hearts. He was still muttering to himself when South claimed the rest of the tricks and scored up the slam.
West's suspicions were mis- placed. South hadn't pecked. South had correctly decided that he couldn't make the slam unless West
blank had the queen of hearts at that point.
West's ruff with the king of hearts was inconceivable unless West had the singleton king or the doubleton king-queen. It West started with only onc heart, East would have Q-8-7-3.
South knew that he would surely have to lose a trump trick to East if he had those four trumps. (Eust could afford to cover the nine of hearts with the queen, and would eventual- win a trump trick with the ly seven or eight. Or East could
even afford to play low trumps,
and South would be unable to finesse
him.)
tera.
For it is Mrs Cacherls who decides what he is to eat, As
ellaf menu-pismning
for tho Army Quartermaster Corps, she
hna rules. every meal the GI every day in the year, at home or abroad.
Dully food allowance per man is 7. 10d., so these menús can be
generous. Typleat dinner-seats
with cream gravy, potatoes and salad, followed by watermölan and iced tea. With it goes bread and butter.
from
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A DOCTOR'S ANALYSIS.
Contact Lenses Satisfactory?
By W. W. BAUER, M.D.
ELUCTANCE to wear makes walking, difficult, ยก glasses is slowly dis- sometimes happens with new bifocal glasses. There is a solu» appearing, but we have a tion to protect the eyeball from long way to go before there Irritation by contact with the is universal willingness to lens, but this. Is troublesome give the eyes help when to prepare, requiring measuring
and altering equipment, they need it. The reasons not are various. Some do wish to acknowledge that with age or for other rea- sons they no longer see as well as formerly. Others ob. ject to the appearance of spectacles on purely esthetic grounds. Still others,aC-
In consequence of the dikad-
vantages of contact lenses, many who trave bought then for pure- ly cosmetic reasons havo" diş- carded them of necessity.
THE SOLUTION
Contact lenses are better to-
tors, athletes, models have day than they were in the be professional reasons for ginning. On the assumption that
avoiding glasses.
UNDETECTABLE
the eyeball la a sphere, the
Arst contact lenses were made
as segments of perfect spher But the eyebal
Curvatu:05,
salt
of
and
not a
or Roda
The announcement of con- sphere. It has a number of tact lenses a few years ago detals
which the are complicated, Cop- seemed to be the answer to tact lenirs today take this all these problems. The con- into consideration, andi they tact lens is practically un- a better
with lea detectable except at close irritation than originally,
But Bohrtion range. Large numbers of the
the cup that goes into
of the them were sold at high lens before it la inserted bc prices before the reaction of tween the lids, is not yet şalis- factory. Investigation is pro- disappointment set in.
ceeding with a lens that will do altogether, away with solution Contact lenses, originally using the wearer's tears for that made of optically ground purpose. In the present stalo. of glass but now almost always knowledge, the wearing of con- of plastic, fit over the front tact lens should not be under- of the eyeball and are held taken without medical opinion. in place by the eyelids and
WHEN MOST USEFUL
by auction. They move with
the eyes. A special
technique is required to put There is no one type of con-
でも一
them in place, and to tuct lens suitable for all wear-
ors,
move them. The wearer may experience a number of difficulties.
ת!
the extr in order to see better. extra discomfort and incon- venience
de
A million and a half soldiers show that steak is far and away
Contact lenses have been most RS Helen Cacheris, 29, are fed according to the "master the favourite dish,
useful when there are occupă- Mra Cacheris's menus allow
tional reasons for their use. The actar playing a part in which Most popular sweet is ice cream,
CAUSE IRRITATION : glasses would be out of place; and the soldiers get it 12 times
the brown-eyed actor playing blue-eyed character a month in winter and up to 18 times a month. In summer, Other
Technicolour movie; or the Among the principal, reasons Tech favourites are fried chicken and for wanting contact lenses. Is thlete willing to put up with
But contact apple pie.
get rid of glasses, Mrs Cacheria was college- lenses often are impossible ta trained in dietetics and
woar for as long a time as the In a few types of eye disorder, the contact lens 19 useful One 1947 to 1949 was chief dietician usual dinner party or donco con
of these is a cone-shapod of a big hospital in Washington, sun
become irrit of сусп sumes. The But she says some of her best ated, and the lenses must then formity of the cornea (the clear cookery ideas came from the be removed temporarily. This window) of the eye.
is absence of the iris, days when,
involve embarrassment as one of a family may
"curtain" that of seven children in Pittsburgh, defeating the purpose oft
and contracts the she helped her mother in the lens. Vision is not as control light entering the
tory with contact lenses as
eyeball. An iris can be built glasses; fogginess has been chief menu well-atted-
course, give normal light con- troj, since it is immobile, but it will help strike an average, Contact Jenses riow moulded to fit the individual eye, but even so, comfort is, by, no means assured. Unless there' are occupational or good medical reasons for wearing Contact leners, most persons will be hap- pier with good-looking glasses.
Despite her powerful position In the army's economy, she sa elvillan, Hving at home with her husband, Mr John Cacheris, who works for the government as an expert on guided missiles,
she can, As often as
Mes Cocheris got's to army camps and barracks to talk to the men and find out what they like to eat. If she thinks complaints are justifled, she changes the menus accordingly.
kitchen at home.
She
satisfactured
Another
the the CX-
pupil
She laso has the guidance of planner for the Army since develops and there is a change into the lenses; this will not, of
surveys
of 1930,
taken frequently soldiers food preferences, These
BOYS' AND
in
perspective -(London Express Service) judgment of
that impairs distanco and
GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Pixie O'Scowl's Birthday Cake
By MAX TRELL
-It Was a Surprise, Though He Helped Make It!---
"What about coming with me 10 the woods," said Pixie VER
VER at O'Cheer Hall, in the McSpry. "I know where there's roots of the Old Oak where some fresh wintergreen grow
was ing. Nothing like chewing. 龉 the Pixies dived, there great excitement. For it was nice sprig of wintergreen.
Pixie O'Scowl's birthday, all the other Pixies had party. cided to give him a
Idea"
and
shadow-chlidren, with the turned-around names, happened to come along.
"Why, What's the matter,
dears?" Hanld naked. "Is some
thing wrong?"
Phine often enough through McBroad. "Only we've got
Since one possibllily (the singleton king) was hopeless, South had to hope for the other possibility (the doubleton K-Q) It worked, and South made his siam,
Several of the Pixies explained what the trouble was. "How can we get him out?" said Pixie Mc- Snooze.
"He just won't move from the kitchen." Again Pixie O'Scowl took the. Hanid thought of the plan de pipe out of his mouth. "Don't first. She whispered it first to surprise feel like chowing any winter- Kharf. "Yes, yes, that's woskler- Taite somebody full" he said. Then Hanid told green today. Pixie cise." Bold
it to all the others. "You just to It was the same with all of leave everything · to get him out of here. We can't them. No matter what they said. around while we're getting the just have a surprise party if he's asked Pixie O'Scowl to do, he refused and went on got to get him away." party ready. Somebody has smoking. "I like it here. Go
bother me." away. Don't "Where is he
Pixie said. now?" O'Boy asked.
CARD Senseoo
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q—The bidding has been:
East South":" North
1 Heart
Pass
2 N.T.
Pays
In the Kitchen
'me," she
No Invitations
he
Then Hanid went into the
kitchen. Sho nodded good
Pixie O'scowl was beating the eggs.
So they all went out, wonder- morning to Fixle O'Scowl, who ing what on earth they could do looked at her with a frown and
and
to get Pixie O'Seowl out of the said: "If you've come here to he couldn't avoid it. Soon Harid "He's allting in the kitchen kitchen of O'Cheer Hall so as to vite me to go somewhere with put an apron on him and he was
bother. smoking his pipe," said Pixie be able to bake the birthday you, you'd better not even mixing flour, and beating egas,
sugar, I'm budging from and measuring MeSauce. "He's been there cake for his surprise party.
this kitchen
buttering the cake pans, and But they could think of nothing. since carly this morning and he
"Oh, 'no!" said Hanid. "I'm doing a dozen other chores, staying right here, I've got to
And when the birthday cake "Well, I guess we better give
McSauce. 'But it's a dynamic."
West
1-Spado Pass
won't go away on account of it's
You, South, hold: Spades K-
Dia 3-7-0-3, Hearts Q-9-6, monds K-6-4, Clubs 9-5. What do you do?
A-Bid three hearts. Your bid original intention. Was to your spades Brat and show heart support Inter, and there. Is
50
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Professional Beauty Secrets
1
By HELEN FOLLETT
You may fancy
that
glamour girls spend great deal of time on their beauty rituals. This need not be the case.. They may have a schedule for good. looks duties that makes; overy minuto count.
for The models who pozo
photographs have magazine figured beauty things out to a ne point. They know what type what of clothes are flattering, so nice and warm by the stove, I can't bake his birthday cake if up the whole idea," said Pixie bake a birthday cake for a friend. was done, and the candles were harde will bring out their best of mine, Of course, you can put on, Pixie O'Scowl finally points. With them it is a busi- around he keeps hanging
It was just about this time, stay right here, You can even sald: "Who did you say when all the Pixies except Pixie help.
birthday cake was for?!!! watching me bake it."
that this was
O'Scowl were
around
O'Scowl growica and
dear, it's for you!!! nipossible. Some way must be old her doping cheer grundled, and and he wouldn't Happy birthday!" And he really found to get Pixie O'scowl out Hall, that Knarf and Hand, the help anybody... but in the end was surprisedi of O'Cheer Hall.
So they all went into tho kitchen to have a tolk with
no reason to change your mind. | Pixi2--O'Scowl and see what
This 'disclosure of heart support
I forcing since you could pass
if you had a bad hand.
... TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding is the same
EX
they could do.
Sure enough, they found Pixie O'Scowl sitting next to the stove, with his chair, tilted back against the wall, con- tentedly.
In the question just, answered, 1 adn't evening his pipe. Ho
look up when the You, South, hold: Spades K-rother Pikica camb in Ho
Just 7-6-3, Henris Q-J-D-2,0 Diag monda K-4, Clubs 9-5, What do
smoking. you do?
umay,"
4
Answer Tomorrow
WHAT'S HIS LINE?
#10 AUTONE
went on
Pixle the mer
Ag down
shed on the "other" side of", the road. There's a big lump of honey there that nobody wants Comb on along with me, O'scowly and I'll share the honey, with yog Polo Oscow took the pl out of this?” mouth":"Jurt”. anotish to UNOD
me."
Rupert and the Black Spark-5
A new story.
rved to the around blut, alighting on bla teré rjaling noire -- and hands and, finding that he towarda. U cannot get rid of „in - Podgy, thitha-
!!andi bolt. Ai Rusert, looks. On aining on the glow sɛɛma id die out of the t/o13-2 spain and it becomes, a file black daten kopeck and "awicis gwn matrom himmat
Rupert and the
Space Ship
this
ness.
The model puts cream on her face before taking a bath. Sho knows, the moist, atmosphere of the bathroom will help the cream do an extra satisfactory cleaning job. By the time the is ready for make-up, her com- plexion is soft and glowing. It she has oily skin, she applies an astringent before and after her bath.
Sho
removes mako up thoroughly. When her face is washed; the Jathor is rubbed into the skin with gentle Wirokda that do not stretch3the skin or force the flesh up... around the
A rood pure and gracef "ziókture, are ". Impor
to the model She"/watch Rnd-gets some į exerci
- Greco bezias in the mind; te. one- desires to appear, light of step / and:"bday of movement, Frace will come a” naturally, an Breathing