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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1954.
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ON BRIDGE
Flim-flam Playing Makes A Contract
By OSWALD JACOBY
HERE WAS nothing sound
about the contract in 10- day's lund, South was too high, and he should have been Bet. He managed to make 11, however, by means of a flim- flam play that you may have trouble discovering even though you can see all the cards.
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THURSDAY, MAY 27
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To find what the stars have store for you forrow, select your birthday star and read the corres ponding paragraph. Let your birth. day ntar be your daily guide.
FRIDAY, MAY 28
GEMINT
21-J1106 21) Work never meetris dreary if you are working Anastriously toward one definite goal
CANCEL (June 22-July 21) -- "Think before Juli act today, Impulsive orthin reald destroy structure you have long been built- ing
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cross roads. 14, 0)
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gently. (4)
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The silk suit with Lallored Jacket கப flared, pleated skirt in a fashion inspired by the Queen's clothes.
WOMANSENSE
The Prevention Of
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Motion Sickness
By H. N. Bundesen, M.D.
many
NGINEERS have pre- son may develop a white pallor.
vented or twist for
not but they have able to prevent motion sick-
ness.
Designers Inspired By The Tour Dresses
By EILEEN ASCROFT
London. THE Queen's Royal Tour
1 clothes have set the trend of summer fashiona. Manufacturers were able to see pictures of the Queen's
warm
weather styles when
it was winter here and they judged which would be come publle favourites.
The remit is that many of the Aummer dresses, coats and nuts In the shop today have been inspired by the Queen's special style of dressing.
Two of the Queen's
favoured styles promise to become fashion classics.
First: The silk Atted princess coal, with flaring skirt, tailored lapels and cuffed three-quarter siceves, All through her tour the Queen has worn versions of this simple style in lavender blue delphinium, slate blue, while and turquoise (ne wool, lined with white and tur
uvise
patterned suk and worn over a dress to match.
#reys,
One model, which appeared frequently in Australia and New Zealand. was in white beavy silk, with a small black Beck design and nest black velvet collar.
Aiterl
Rix has sketched one of these
coats, now on sale in the London stores.
grosgrain
It
Is in grey
the sort of
Is
and elegant, simple style we shall be
secing at Ascot.
This influence will be seen next winter, too. Fifty percent of winter coat collections have the fitted line,
Silk suit
Another Queen's Classic is the a cold sweat, and begins to swal-
with a bump
tallored, Atted low excessively, giving of suit,
and flared the traveller, large amount of salive. Finally jacket
or pleated been he develops severe nausea and skirt, She wore these suits fre- throughout the tour in vomiting. In some cases, motion quently
all kinds of patterned and plain accompanied by
silks, usually with three-quarter
sickness dizziness.
One of the Queen's fashion favourites is a silk fitted princess coat with three-quarter length sleeves, It inspired the fashion designers. Rix han sketched this version of the silk princem Many ingenious devices It is believed that the disease sleeves and long gloves.
Sometimes it was a suit, some-
coal in grey grosgrain-an elegant, simple style. is caused by an instability of the have been perfected with
dress and matching balance mechanism in the inner times this intention in mind, but car.
her Certain persons will be-Jacket designed to look like a
She was not afraid to appear have all borne the stamp of In the saINE outfit in public personal choice. the average rider on n come sick even before they gel sult when worn together.
One of the Queen's obvious
more than once. She wore some have just seen a colour film boat on board a ship, plane or train, train, plane, car, or
favourites was in white silk, outfits again and again, like the of Royal tour fashions in Aus- de- due to emotional strain. These vo still experiences some
printed with pink and green golden yellow silk sleeveless tralia and New Zealand, and cases are very few, however.
cammations. She wore this again dress that she gree of discomfort. Fortun-
wore on Bondi one of the things that struck me Many drugs have been used to and again-first in Tonga and beach and later in almost every most was how over-dressed many have not ately, engineers
trent motion sickness,
for the last time in the sunshine Australian state, It had * of the guests at oficial receptions been the only ones seeking
of Ceylon.
scoop neckline and flared skirt, and garden parties appeared a cure for this.
is a pretty, young-looking trimmed with large tucks, which beside the Queen's plain styles, style,
which combines elegance were repeated round the neck- and comfort. Rix has sketched line. an attractive model of this type
Medical scientists perfected many drugs protect a person motion sickness.
One, known us scopolamine, has been used for many years have with good results. During the that wer, dramamine was discovered, which was also very effective in against
relieving motion sickness.
Recently, a new drug known as travel Very rough
can boine was developed.
new drug will make nine out of ten per- tablets of this
from travellers sona ill, Moderately rough motion sickness for twenty-four travel upsets ten to thirty hours. percent of inexperienced
♥CARD Sense travellers.
vulner-
Q-With both sides able, the bidding has been: North
Eart Bouth Wesi
1 Diamond 1 Spade
7
You, South, hold: Spades 8-3, Hearts A-Q-J-6-5, Diamonds
What K-8-4-2, Clubs 5-2,
do you do?
A-Bid two hearts. With 10 points in high cards, 1 pulat ex- tra for the king of partner's bid sult, and 2 points for the two doubletons, you can afford to push the bidding to a high level You are perfectly willing to in- vite a heart raise If your part- ner has three small cards in the atik.
TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding is the same as in the question just answered.
You, South, hold: Spades 0-3, Hearts A-Q-J-8-5, Diamonds 6. 2, Clubs 8-7-4-2. What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow.
CHESS PROBLEM
By L ANDERSEN Black, & pieces.
White, 7 places, White to play: mate in two,
Solution to yesterday's problems
Za 1, K-Kit, any; 2) R, B, Kt, or
P matan.
Motion sickness with drowsiness.
protect
most
of slik suit, now in the shops,
White shoes
Although The Queen also wore for the
in blue-grey with a small yellow first time cotton dresses which devotee of this most basic of all
Two
skirt. I oppearance
However, it should be remem- bered that these
drugs should often begins only be taken under a doctor's Then the per- direction.
she has become a
rules-simplicity--she exclusively designed fashion These
were chosen breaks many other rules in her rose design and a sunray-pleated were not
forecast the silk cult's for her.
diressing. smart from the £4 to £8 range of a At many
wear white aloes Don't
in Henley big maker of cotton frocks, ond functions-a summer
they are now on sale all over town or for formal occasions, any and the Royal garden parties.
But the the fashion experts the country.
Queen dki, almost every day of Unconventional The Royal tour has revealed her tour, sometimes with peep- strongly the Queen's own toes and even wedge heels and The Queen broke with many fashion senso. Although three ankle straps. of the old traditions of Royal different designers and three
Shoe shops report that this has dressing during her tour. milliners made her clothes, they had a marked effect on the sale
BOYS' AND GIRLS'
Mr. Punch's Mouse-Friend
-His Cousins and Uncle were Very Famous-
1 the cousin of my friend Arthur, He had a famous uncle too."
"He did," said Hanid. "What was the uncle's name?"
was
By MAX TRELL
4CWYJHEN I was a boy,** Mc
Punch
saying to Knarf and Hanid, the shadow- children with the turned-about names, "My best friend was mouse,"
"A mouse?" said Knart. "A regular, ordinary mouse?" said Hanid.
Mickey?"
Mr Punch nodded. "A regular, ordinary everyday-in-the-week grey mouse."
WRE
his name asted Knart,
"No," said Mr. Punch, "t wasn'i Mickey Mouse,"
**Was his asked Hanid.
name
Stuart?"
A Mouse Named Arthur
"No," sold Mr Punch, "the name wasn't Stuart Little. This f mouse's name was Arthur. He wasn't very famous himself but he had a lot of famous cousing and uncles. One of his cousins had that famous adventure with the lion."
"What famous adventure with what lon?” asked Knarf,
Boforo. Mr Punch had a chance to answer, Hanid broke in to say that she knew.
"It that case," said Mr Punch, "would you mind telling the story to your brother?"..
So Hanld quickly told Kharf the story of the mouse who had been, once caught by'a ferre on and who later saved the lion's life when the low himself was caught by, sorne Hunter,a
“And inat” and Mr Punch to Knart, "was the moum who was
"Maybe we know about him," said Knarf.
MAGAZINE
who год up the clock. "No," sald Mr Punch, "I'm sorry to say that I never did. But I did nect another one of Arthur's famous cousins. He was a very He dressed handsome fellow.
in the best clothes and he never went anywhere except in the finest trains and motor-cars."
"Did he have a name?" asked Hopid.
City-Dweller "Dear me," said Mr Punch, “I
name of forget the
Arthur's "E
Mr did" said guces ho uncle. What I do remember, Punch. "But I never could re-
is that he was though,
very member him because it was so fond of clocks, especially big. Long, something like March- old grandfather clocks with long banks, pendulums.*
or
or
jof white for summer, but I think this regrettable. White shoes. tend to make the feet look large and clumsy and very unamart when the shoes become sollød.
Don't wear headscarves the milliners. But the Queen. It's did on board the Gothic. probably one of the most inele- gant hoadstyles of all, but there's still nothing to beat it in a high wind!
The Queen's taste in jewellery a big, revival is going to mean in pearls for daytime wear. Nearly every day the Queen wore ¤ three-string pearl necklace, small stud earrings and a jewelled foral brooch or clip high up on a lapel.
Diamonds
Diamonds came into their own for evening, in blazing collars,
-earrings, and ' tföras.. drop Diamonds mixed with emerald
Marmaduke Maximilian. But the one thing
or sapphires are two favourite Kharf thought for a moment, I remember about him is that
Jewellery combinations for even- Then he smiled. "Was he the he has a beautiful apartment in
city mouse who ran up the clock?" the
and he hated tho
ing and at many formal oc- casions the Queen
wore "That's who he was exactly country,"
This particular mouse was very bracelet over her long gloves. said Mr Punch. "And when the "It was the City Mousel"
fond of big, old clocks.
Опо of the most attractive clock struck one, down ho came cried Hanid.
features of the Royal tour, ward- After telling Hanid that sho Arthur's famous relations were robe has been the hats. on the run.”
For Hanid wanted to know it Mr was right, Mr Punch went on to his three cousins named, Ray, many years, as Princess Eliza Punch had ever met the mouse may: "I think the best of all of Foy and Jay. They all lived in beth, she tended to wear hats
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the country. The most ramurk- | tint were too old or hard, for. able thing about thêm ́ was that her face.
But the small cap ceat away they had no talls,"
at the fores shape, cut head, that she has adopted A Tale of Tails
throughout the four sulfher Knarf and Hanid were · both | to Lection, SNE perplexed at hearing this,
Louler
black velvet cap that
"Why, what happened to their the Lur favourites were talls?" demanded Knart.
went with tho blacic and white said Mr Punch, Becked milk boat, the blue and white wathed
burban withs the rival in Bydney and the Title tie that she wore for her
"It seems, "that their tails were cut off by the farmer's wife as
mid
Kharf and Harild "knew all about that story. They laughed, heartily 'at' being; ros minded of it by Me Punch,,?
And were they really blind asked Hanid
Funch
Ob
They' bould really see everything. But as I think you can tell by now, my, good felendig Arthur the mods bertainy, bad biplanfy:nd / WOR tamous relationi in his famial:
cup mode of :- pink rose petale, which the a Queen must'e hava liked, because 18 appeared with many different
trendy Stipes
these attractive cap