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• JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Making A Contract Has Many Factors
By OSWALD JACOBY
SOUTH should reach a contract
of four spades IF today's hand whether he is playing for a silver cup, marbles, or coin of the realm. Will he make
contract? The answer depends on witch of these three South happens to be playing for.
South has an obvious opening bit of one spade, with 18 points In high cards and one point for the doubleton, North's
raken
shows trump support in a hand Thant 13 worth about # to D
puintic This is clearly enough
for game but not criough for slam, #o South should waste no time in bidding four spades.
When West opens the deure of clubs, the correct play deponeka on whether Bouth is pinying for Intal paint or
match points. Curlutusly enough, nt Total points South should make has Contract: t match points he etřuld be detented.
In a rubber bridge game, un expert declarer would immed)- ately put up dumny's are of clubs at the first trick
South would then draw trumps Mat! give up in club trick. Duminy's extra club would give devlier o diutor discurd, so that the opponents coul! hover me than one club und 1 We
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defenders still must diamond tricks, and South therefore set at least one trick. If tlic defenders
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♥ CARD Sente),
Q-With both sides vul- nerable, the bidding has been:
North
East South West
?
1 Diamond Double
You, South, hold: Spades K-7-
4, Hearts K-3-3-2, Diamonds Q- 10-2, Cluby K-9-2, What do you do?
A-Redouble. You probably have a game, and the redouble Is the first step in the process
of showing your strength.
TODAY'S QUESTION
MIES
FIGJATE
To:TOSA PILIS SERVICE, 1×2,»KUTYA YAJN.
"MISS SIMPSON!"
YOUR BIRTHDAY...... BY STELLA
MONDAY, AUGUST 30
ROHN today, you are one of thore jolly, happy-go-lucky souls who semú tú care Title for anylig, bui the present. You don't mike plans: you don't weep over 30 opportuni- Ites. Vecause there's always pumo- thing better that could turn to morrow. This le a wonderful at- tibude it you do not become entirely too adventuresome and hazard every- thing you have on a single channel And even so, you are what the world valis lucky
1:
is likely that you will make lot of money, but the chances against your dying rich are very
You al38
spend everything as fast as it comes in. With you, t feast or famine. But you are Jolly even during the "faméis," for you are mure that you whi "feast" again tommorrow and you wily do
ar all the appears make
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1954.
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Irresponsible then there 36 inodíeum of truth in 11. Yet you ate my talented that you will always be able to Bed work of one kind or mottier. You have an easy-going
Birt temperament until aroused, once you feel you are being "put upon, you can fight pawlónately for what you bellevejet and right. Your emotions are hear tha surfacr An early marringe
khould bring you happines
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To find what the staru have in Atore for you borrow, select your birthday Par and att Die COITOS: panding paragraph Let you birth- day star be your daily guide,
TUESDAY, AUGUST 31
VIRGO LAWR 24-Hept. 23A apierubid day for getting that he work die eerstely and an inte Purt- pour decisions until later on
TEILILA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23). Ne- goyang terorgaw, things should be Tokig kap for you, with everything panost your way
SCORPIO (Det, 24-Nov. 2)-Take
itive attitude toward every Phong and you will fad vina jakém wolong uut exceptionally weif.
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224 tepronch for a locomotive, (8) 25 Tastes. (4)
20. Simply behendtod. (8)
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out now, (4, 5)
2. River for a poet. (4)
3. Transport for an army, pearly.
4. Just the thing for 10 Agrow. (3)
5. Puzzle by being more stormy.
6. Makes nti expressive phrase
with 22 Down (0)
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8. Just the implements for '18
Down. (4)
9. Garlanda in Hawatf, (6)
12, HAUSIY (4)
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The bidding is the same in the question just answered. You, South, hold: Spades K-Q- 7-4, Hearty K-J-9-2, Diamond 2. Clubs A-J-9-2. What do you
do?
Answer Tomorrow
DUMB-BELLS
HE CALLS HIMSELF A'CHIROPODIST
AND CAN'T. STUFF A DOG:
NTS
LIGHT
Saturday's solution,
BAGITTARIOR (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)- Map out your bluezrials for netium enrefully and then he deterialned to go ahead with aliem. You should
muccred
CAPRICORN (Dec, 21.Jan, 20)~Be linkful for part bier toge, You wil fuk Bat next month things will go well. Loka Make important
AQUARIUS than. 21-Feb. 10)- Don't let yourself be hurried. Taka your tha
You WIN
dreams.
beyo Juur fondest
PISCES (Feb. 20-hlas. 20)-Not o day for you to procrastinate. Take proper time to make up your mind but not longer Limi
really necessary.
The Brunch
Coat
By VERA WINSTON
LOOKING preity around the houre la corily attained with such aldo as this nylon brunch coat. The large sallor collar is
very much in the mood of the peaton en is the full swing skirt with its own lining to hold its tape. The collar is eelger' with double bands of white end elas at the welst two large white buttons.
WOMANSENSE
The second article in the challenging new series, LONELY WIVES
woman and her husband.
for every
The Neglected Wife Should Ask: Whose Fault?
HY do some women
W
sit at home, lonely:
and neglected.
By EILEEN ASCROFT
last for over
The man who feels that he has
always seem to share their peevish when it shows signs of fers to leave his wife at home. husbands' fun? Why do fraying at the edges. Bome mothers have to pinch new bride. But when it goes This is sad enough to soo in a |and scraps on an unfair divi
sion of the family Income, while other women have reasonable dress allowances and husbands who appar- ently enjoy showering them with presenta?
while other wives romantic Idyll to
and becomes unhappy, and more fun on his own and pre-
The answer lies not so much with the husbands, but with the wives themselves.
it a
or woman
fre
unkind. gay, a good com.
Most men are much the same at heart. Few husbands really unpleasant Valur and panion, a man likes to take her around,
And the neglected wife, more often than not, has only her- Bell
to blame. It has little to do with beauty, brains, sex appeal
of money; Many beauties, intellectuals and glamour girls have unsatisfac- tory marriages.
Idyllic dream
no wonder ho tries to forget it,
No man enjoys coming home' to a dishevelled figure still in her working clothes.
Sage advice
Better to make, the dinner n little less tasty and herself a The man who worships his lot more appotising.. A scented business.
bath and a ready-mixed cry The man who, has formed a martini will achieve far more on Into middle age it is far now attachment elsewhere. than the fanciest awoet, moro tragle, e
But the trouble in all three You frequently meet this
cigog
I am convinood, middle-aged wife, disappointed from teh same causes.
comes, and bitter that life has let her Theirs are the wives who have
I always remember this plece down, resenting fiercely all the let themselves
either of sage advance given to me many. go, interests which take her hus physically, mentally or both, and years ngo by that expert on band away from her.
expect their husbands to mark masculine reactions, Elinor Glyn. the beside them. In many cases "The way to a man's heart," she
moona,
dinner
She is the kind of woman you hesitate to us to a party because of her constant they are actively Jealous of their told me, "a not through his husbands success, which they stomach-unless the path is very blame for the rift in the home, attractively signposted."
Even if she has a busy home and several children, sho' should try t
קט
Frequently this very atlitudo to life refusing to grow
A bore emotionally has the effect of driving a man away from home.
and save a little mergy for Her hairstyle is probably the the evening. You know yourself That is why I think it is so came as it was ten years ago, how you react to people with
woman on newly married She is still wearing the same vitality. Better to let something to have some major colours and the same types of go undone and put her feet up Interest outside helps her to
her home. It clothes, still
using the same for half an hour during the day get her marriage shade of powder and lipstick. relationship into perspective.
and be fresh for her husband's Because she meets and talks centred round the home, so fa with other
Because all her interests are rest as important sho all Locial emotional outlet husband,
not
men and
dependent stimulation
upon
women for and
suffered from
As the
physical change is a new trental outlook.
her conversation.
I have
this
Bitterness never helped any her good-hearted type of woman my-
self at parties. She may be a one to recapture happiness. Like It will also help her to under- wonderful mother, but she can a boomerang, it often does more stand some
No damage to the bearer, of her husband's also be a crashing bore,
Nogging never solved. wonder her husband feels she is
a marital problems. Perhaps, even more
either. The
divorce cord of the Hollywood glamour important, it will help her to better left at home and goes off problem
courts are strewn with men who centre. And listen to the heart-
left good homes, worthy wives, and beautiful children, just be- cause of a nogging tongue.
Just look at the marriage re-
ex-
of one of those poor Utle rich girls with lve husbands to her credit. Barbara
attractive pique Hutton,
Woolworth with heiress, was telling friends sadly
in Deauville Inst summer: have really nothing to live for. I or just waiting to die."
The unpalatable truth is that too few women become adult emotionally.
Cool, Hearty
Salad
0 medium-sized Tomatoe; 1 ARIES (nar. 1-Apr. 201-A fine tin devilled ham. 4 tabitzpoons through on mayorale; #omeg Important, for you can celery: I chop, hard-cooked dfeed
day for you. Follow
satu any objective jurk ruw,
徒
cup
Too
share his clation at success,
Fond, but foolish
A man once told me the trou- ble in his marriage started just through this He rang his wife when he was offered a branch managership and said: "y put on the grind rags, We're going out to celebrate.
replied
on his own,
He probably never realise that she is lonely left behind, and longs for the companion- ship they used to enjoy.
Familiarity and boredom have dimmed his reactions. He still sees her as the queen home, but no longer as live person.
What can the neglected wife do to reawaken her husband's interest?
Reawakening
of
Soul-searching
The wife should quit trying hit to shame him into paying her a real the attention she craves. For a change she might try thinking that alle may have falled and resolve to do better.
Interests should be enlarged so that she can talk of other things besides the trivial of the home.
Now to do a little soul-scorch-
the ing
window-dressing,
ly guilty.
"Oh no, we're not,"
310 A woman is not as realistic this fond but foolish woman, about her love life as a man, "I've prepared dinner and I'm Her upbringing, her physical tired, And, anyway, you pro- make-up. her work the mised to finish painting the home, all tend to make this so. kitchen."
The answer is to improve the many girls marry ox- Her husband went out instead quality of the goods and Cool lunch salud for warm pecting the rose-tinted days of with a man friend to
party standard
There are some feminine habits weather days:
the honeymoon to last for ever, where he met the woman who like any shopkeeper who finds which make husbands really
They may
hold college de is now his wife,
a failing business on his hands, mad. And I am sure that many grees or have earned their own When I first started to plan Let's start with the window. neglected wives are unconscious- livings, but when they walk up this series, I decided to crom dressing. dresses, they really belleve the aisle in their floating white examine the husbands. I believe in that you can discover most about cart and 1 heart leiluge,
the fairy story cuding "they
neglected and unhappy wives lived happily ever alter." Cut slice from stem-end
And of
from the men who neglect them, course, the fairy who teatre and scoop alre pulp cooked up that story was
Most of the men i talked with into a
spoke of their wives with loyalty bowl. Chill the tomalo outrageous fibber. cups in the refrigerator: mash The blissful
and affection, "She's wonderful honeymoon The tomato pulp and then aud -with its escape to unreality-
with the children, but I'm afraid up and beauty care is worth the devilled ham.
If he does take her out, does mayonnaise and the trouble begins.
she's let herself go because she's seeking. One face treatment an and chappal celery. Mix thor-
husband young
gots busy" "She's a real home will show her the way to make she constantly refer to the even-
ingfa
rather than the attempt anything out of the doughly. Heap mixture in chill-back to his work. which dr, out of her depth at parties the very bert of herself.
pleasure ense
Does the refuse to ed tomato, cups, sprinkle with brings him
When it comes to choosing a take an intercat in his hobbies swiftly down from and things." Funk-enɔkėd
d surve the clouds. His wife, alone in Those were typient replies and new winter outil it should be because they bore her? each in lettuce now. Vield, d her new home, goes on with her came from all three types of in a new colour and fresh Dervings.
dreaming. She expects the neglectful husbands:
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21) (ind up your Business reports for Uds month. Chaners nor that you with be ahead of the game eight now
GEMINI (May 2-June 1-You may want to, balanes nasels ventst inlities and get ready to start off new page.
CANCER (June 27-July 23)
tolay. Belter fur you to stick to fasuar routine
1.KO July 24-ABR. 23-Test ull Idens today for their practicability
BOYS'
AND
GIRLS'
Two Colourful Lizards
They Changed from Brown to Green to Red-
By MAX TRELL
UST as Knarf and Hanid, the
shadow-children with
He had hamsters,
Dri
Over
co
MAGAZINE
clamsters,
lambster, and jamsters.
But his favourite pets
wero
the two lizards who kept chang- ing their colour from one minuto to the next. "I've never heard of such a said aid to
King Fat-Wat Tin and Knarf
"Let's go and tell all this to King Fat-Wa; at once!"* General Tin. "He doesn't know
the what to make of the changes and Hanyon't change
turned-about names, walked into
in colour of those lizards of his."
their colours. Zebras don't
the Plagroom, they heard Gen- A few minutes later, Knart change their colours. My shirts
is strengel'
dipped
and Hand and General WETO
day
eral Tin the Tin Soldier saying
Tin don't change their colours, my over the telephone to somebody: galloping down the road nose doesn't change its colour yes, Your Majesty, that to King Fat-Wat's palace. They then why should these
You say were riding on
of lizards change their colours?” the back wero brown
and
now Whoa the Hobby Horse, they've suddenly turned green? (The best way in fact the better after Knart and Hald King Fat-Wat felt much Are you quito sure,
Your only way of getting to King explained to him that the little Majesty that no one Fat-Wat's Palace is on the back lizards were really chameleons | them in a tin of paint?”
of a hobby horse. No other who did nothing else all
6-1) kind of horse in the whole but change their colours, Helping A Confused King
"I'll be over directly, Your world can get you there.)
Majesty," said General Tin. At last they rode inside the "That's what they do best of, General Tin listened
palace grounds.
They moment longer, then Knarf and shown at once to King Fat-Wat's "except for one
were all, Your Majesty," said Honid, spent the rest of the day catch- Hanid heard him say:
Very room
thing which ing flies for the chameleons. at the top of the tower they do better." well, Your Majesty, I'll be over where he kept all his pets,
A Good Supply of Flies "What's that?" asked King "The chameleons now have King Fol-Wat had goldfish, General Tin hung
the silverfish, up
enough flies for a whole year," around to
"They catch flies better," said Knarf sald to King Fat-Wat and Hanid. "That was
He had butterflies, flutterfiles, Hanld.
· The two chameleons were so King Fat-Wat, I was just
mutterfiles, and stutterflies, A very
King Fat-Wat, Genoal Tin, happy that they turned · bright spealding to.
Curious
He had cats that looked like the Queen, the Princes and scarlet, which is a colour that thing has just happened. Ho was out hunting yesterday. Ho dogs, and dogs that looked like Princesses, the Prime Minister, no chameleon was ever known
and, the whole army and navy to turn to before.
directly. Goodbye.
Vacante. Ho turned
CHESS PROBLEM caught several lizards.
By II. L. MUSANTE Black, 10 pieces.
White, a pieces, White to play: mate in twor
to
Saturday
for
They were coloured brown and when
he caught them, and now~~"
and brassfisherfish, froußsh, Fat-Wat eagerly.
cats.
Hanld Interrupted to explain Rupert and the Spring Chicken-38
exelledly: "I know, Generni Tin! They've turned green! Wo heard you say that on the telephone. But that's nothing to worry about."
"Chameleona ninwys, do that," sald Knart.
"Chomeleons?" wald General Tin. "By Jovel You're right! That's what those lizard's are. They're chameleons,” vad
Changeable Lizards
"Chameleons are
changing the colour) and Haba
"Sometimes they're dárk
Bomettries they're light
SomeUries the iw almos
Another
New Adventure
RUPERT
and the
LOST RAILWAY
If she hasn't changed her
shic a spoilsport?. `The kind hair in years, It's time she did, of woman who punctures bia
But she shouldn't ask
her best stories and deflates his ego husband first, Men are usually before his friends. When he is appatied at the idea of cutting sitting down to enjoy a rest does cr dyeing, but love the results, reminding him of all the jobs he she take a perverse delight in Professional advice on maks has left undone?
And she
style. If she's lost her pretty worst of all, is she a specialist in the pin-prick atboeke, figure she should go on to never losing an opportunity to strict diet and exercise regime, work in some dig aguset him? and get it back.
Many very charming women, should take extra becoming bitter over real care over morning and evening imaginary grievances, resort grooming. The memory her this fatal technique. husband carries with Him alt. day is the way she looked this morning. If it's one of an old wrapper, curlers and shiny face,
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