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THE CHINA – MAIL TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12
JACOBY
A BRIDGE
Jump to Spades, A Bridge Success
By OSWALD JACOBY
TN_ the bidding of today's hand, of this ope
ponents could make a game of hoorte. Ho jumped to four apados to. shut thêm out, and succeeded,
As the cards happened to lie, a contract of four hearts, could not have been made. South was not, howover, disappointed with his contract sinec lie had an ex- cellent chance to make the game at spades.
West opened the king of hearts and continuŤ the suit, South Declarer saw that his ruffing. contract was safe if the king of diamonds happened to be with East. To guard against a loss of the diamond finesse, South cooked up a plan that gave him an additional chance.
After ruffing the heart, South led a trump to dummy and re
club toward his hand.
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any pot to use capital letters, and wonder that nobody has thought of running all the words in a poem make one hefty togother,
If o poem great mass-word. need not make sense, it is silly to stick to conventions,
Busman's holiday
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perhaps been called to protest against unfair competition Covent Garden Opera House, and that the riders had churged up and down outside the build- ing with their exhausts open. I wind wrong. The headline referred to u mippet of opera om the television screen which had been followed too quickly by an hour of speedway racing. Tut, tut, and again tul. Saot-receptionettes?
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The expert noted what he said, prolonged debate, during which And made him stand upon his Councillor Rother was asked to
head. shut his mouth, it was decided to call the sweeps chimney. hostesses.
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glance,
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YOUR BIRTHDAY......... By STELLA
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12
BORN today, you are one of
the and art you may require quite A fime collection during your lifetime. Magnete and attractive to meme bars of the opposite sex, you may take a long look around before you select your marriage partner. You want to make sure that it is one
your who understands
moods and temperament thoroughly before You commit yourself. There a deep spiritus vein in your nature, too, and phd your standards of ethics loyalty are high,
date Amoristopher
thorn ban on thi
Columbus. cx- plorer: Mme Modjeska, winger: Hugh Miller, risturalist and author; Ram- Josiah my MacDonald, statesman; Cooke, djemist: and Edgar Selwyn producer.
"doers" of this world. You are active, adventuresome-even darbig, Your ambition are vaunding and you are a natural leader. Others less individualtatie. are mclined to off at your ideas. But this never dismay you for you are willing to Persevere against any and all kinds of odds to reach your true objective. Inclined to be einotional, dramailo
times end at
even flamboyant in to if you have a approach your vital "engsenos tyr-iving which 14 contagious. You have a Dino mind and right do onsething in the exact sciences which would change the entire trend of your times. You are astute in business affairs and
are:
at some period of your life you To find what the stars trave in
should became quite wealthy. You ate generous to those in need and will give unstintingly to a cause in which you believe. Fond of books
store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the correR- panding paragraph. Let your birth- day star" be your daily guide. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13
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LIBRA (Bept 24-Oct. Proceed ogni 41 4 normal pace. Always be quite open and frank in all matters of importance, especially today.
SCORPIO
24-Nov 22)-
A brand new iden, could be
de-
veloped accesatully today. Just keep a wary eye out for the un- expected."
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 21-Dec. 22)— Romance I now favoured. You could discover to the most um expected pince, 100.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20)-- You may want to put an important .new plan inio aparation. Don't be tuo disappointed it progress is slower than you had hoped.
AQUARIUS (Jan. El-Feb. 13)-- One of thore days when everything concerned with
persanat, Excel.
your
emotional affairs, turns out lently.
PIACER (Pab. 20.hlar. 20)- This is me of your best days. Make the most of it to promote a new idea with the boss. He'll probably like it.
H-Apr. ARIES (Mar)
20)-
Although an invention of yours, may be showing a mali prolit, resulím may be a little slower than you had hoped.
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21). You will and very definite limita tions on your netivities. Don't be angry. Instead, exert patience to koeg prace. REIN (May. 22-June 21)-*** Someone maybe trying to hood wink you Be on mard aguinat being deceived, oven by a very close friend,
CANCER (Jane 22-July
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A SUBOTIC trày Doaerent. Some. thing you held very ligh hopes LOT triny fall far short of your expecta- tona.
LEO (July 24-ADE. Someone upon whom you depended TDAY Bive away a secret you have been trying to keep if minien- tional, be, forgiving.
DUMB-BELLS
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VIRGO (ARE. 24-8ept. There may appear to be limitations upon your ambitions but hold fort to your ideals. They will eventually materials
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diamond, but South could put up the ace of diamonds and cash the ten of clubs to discard dummy's remaining diartiond.
This plan would have worked, except that East was a little too clever for South, When the low club was Ted from dummy; East made the very dne play of putting up his king at once. This held the trick, of course, and East speedily shifted to a diamond, thus assuring West a trick with the king of diamonds.
When clubs were led again, West took the ace of clubs and cashed the king of diamonds to defeat the contract.
East's unusual" play of "second hand high" was not as danger- ous as it looked. If South hap- pened to bo leading the club from dummy for a nesse, the king of clubs was worthless If South had any- anyway. thing else in mind, it could cost East nothing to play his king at
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WOMANSENSE
Entertaining Is A Pleasure-But
FASHION FOR TOTS How Often Do You Really
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Ask People In?
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By ANNE SCOTT-JAMES
gaining ground. Yet, when you', team of cooks available who can HIS is an attack by mo travel, the invitations you re- do at least one dish really well." Ton me. This is an on- member with most phala ported 3 advance, I always produce pleasure and courne ready in slaught, on my frightful in private houses.
threo courses. "Always, soup, two people then a hot Recently I Inziness in the matter of
main dich, then inviting our friends to our who really do keep open house, choose or sweet. I get the soup Both are women who enter ready the night before; and do house:
met two
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I like shopping, I like cook-tain without a lot of money and nome preparation of the other
without much help. In other dishes I love seeing people!; We have the space. the crocks. We even have the friends.
Yot some strange inhibition a comes over me at the thought of fixing a day. The idea of dialling a few telephone num- bers or writing a few letter brings on a paralysis,
more different.
We have ways their lives could hardly be leave in the morning before
Save labour on vegetables, One is a career giri, living in 4 You can see how squashed a flat in London on her own, my kitchen is: no room to West Country swing a cat. To save space and he other is a housewife with family whose time I use frozen vegetables..
are always welcome. friends
And I don't serve potatoes, be« I have asked each of them to cause so mony
people refune breakdown of how them, and a lot of give me o
dishes my how often, for includo rlee." six entertains! So we end up making Jont.
how many people, with what Have first-class utenelle. minute dates to lunch or dine sort of food and drink, and on
what sort of money,
"Besides the obvious pots and
I have a радя
garlic Each made me feel strongly squeezer, fruit juice squeezer, grinder,/ Baw-edged that entertaining to a pleasure, parsley
Each made me feel it is eaty scissors, and an omelette pan. 1 unco you've got the habit. F
loeep my knives razor-sharp and
sharp
and the mincer very
and clean. And I couldn't manage without a pressure cooker."
in a restaurant, which is twice
ing
az dear and half as ales as Lay-
people home. Wors
still, we end up with
SZP) Occasional
party, diabolical
the age.
large cocktail Invention of
Six o'clock or six-thirty seems to me to be the worst possible timing for a party.
do about a meal.
jike
When Cynthia Springman moved into her two-room base- Learn theclicap wines. flat two years ago, she ₺ "Wine makes the best and ment
deliberate decision cheapest party drink, made quite a to ask # 101
of people home. Spanish white winex. Every week sho hus friends
Make really good coffee. "I love tho new Italian in at least three times twite week for dinner, once a week machines." They work on the for ал drink punch and perhaps play fast and the result is wonderful.
evening party, when they
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I asked her to work out threa typical menus for the sort-of- dinner party she gives after a
day at the office. Here are her two best party meals.
MOST PEOPLE are tired from the day's work and haven't got their second wind.
SOME PEOPLE are going on to dinner or the movies and have to gallop off in the middle, THE REST (if the party is a good one and goes on late) are left hanging in mid-air around cards.
She doesn't pretend this costs 9 p.m.. primed with drink but
But she preters to For her punch parties, questa unfed, and not knowing what to and the money on food that arrive about 9,30-these are hec a lot of girls-on-their-own substitute for cocktail partles or would spend
movies or drinks-before-dinner: clothes.
About twice a year she makes For dinner, she makes up a huge quantity of punch and Now this disease of Inhos party of 4 vor at most 0 people, stores it in large jars, pitality Isn't confined to me, which is all she can squeeze I and that hordes of other round the trolley she uses for people feel just as I do, warding
table. and intending to ask more For a punch parly, she has people in more often, but never from 12 to 20 guests. getting off the mark,
First though, this It's a hangover from the war formula she has worked out for days that has hung on for too dinner parties. long.
"Do you mind if we have 1 Don't try in ant too early. dinner out?"
don't got home much "We don't see half as many before 7.00," she says, "and
as wo' used 10." ·
a hideous scramble; to found it get dinner ready by 7.30 or 8.00. "Come. In för a
Now, we don't attempt to sit "My husband sees people all down before 8.45 or 2.00, which
Make
the men bothered, in the evenings.
won't When the chicken is cooked,
These are remarks you hear
my guesta.. as place on a dish. Make every day, the last one the sad, kitchen maids," she says, "and sauce out of the liquid in the resigned comment of thousands I never ask them to scrape casserole with sour cream and of stay-at-home women who are vegetables or wash up.
Strain the sauce lonelier than they need be, "But I do make them cook. a 'little wine,
than they always and then put chicken and sauce perhaps lonelier
ask one man to come Cut the chicken into several into the casserole and cook for know.
early and cook one dish, and pieces and seald with boiling another five minutes. Serve And you hear
the same, most seem to like it, so long as water. Fry in tho casserole with
struc sprigs
excuses abroad. In America, I'm there to chop, scrape, wash Slice carroË
even in France, the restaurant things, and walt on them hand --JOYCE MURIEL and the cocktail
party are and foot. I now have quite a
A Tasty Chicken Dish
TERE is a tasty recipe from with the cloves and the grated Host a mous with of telenora
from time to time to
in Casserole, It has an, unusual Add a little stock or water. Wef's meet . flavour but is surprisingly quick Shake and easy to prepare. You'll prevent burning and add more need:--
stock if needed. Cover and cook until the meat is tender.
1 roasting chicken; 3 table- spoons butter; 1 carrat; 1 onton; 1 or 2 turnips; 3 or 4 cloves; bay leaf: peel of 34 lemon;
stock and sour cream
with the butter.
and turnips and add them, pena. together with the clon stuck
BOYS'
cauliflower
day, so ne poem't want to be given me plenty of time.""
AND GIRLS'..
▼CARD Sendes Sassy Hedge-Children
Q-The bidding has been: Bouth
West North
East 1 Diamond Pass 2Spades Pass
-They Say Hanid's Hair Looks Like a Mop!-
By MAX TRELL
MAGAZINE
"We' don't usually talk to people," answered the hedge. children.
"I'm voice.
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You, South, hold: Spade 5, Hearts 9-4, Diamonds A-K-J-B-
HANID, the shadow-girl with
"And," said Hanid, "I don't my hair looks like u Sue Hedge," sald one think V: mop."
"I'm Johnny Hedge," sald # the turned-about name, was second voice.
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6, Clubs K-Q-7-3-2. What do you do?
frown) all the branches that said a third voice,
on your
Hero Sue Hedge, who WOR
in standing right front of
in Hanid, replied
gontle walking along the edge of the Ton Harry Hollvey Hedge," voice: "We didn't mean to hurt hedge and counting (with 4
your feelings. Only we could tell from the frown were sticking out and would "We're Annie and Omacie and face that you were thinking to
Mary face
how untidy we All yourself looked with out -branches
So wo thought "I'm Tommy Hedge," said an sticking out.
tell you that you also other valce, but all the other we'd volcen burst out. angrily and looked untidy with your hair said: "You'ra
Tommy all sticking out." not Hodge at all. You're Tommy "Why," sald Hanid, "It looks Thistle, and you don't even be- untidy i guess because I wash- "She's more Umn silly. Sho's long here. You'd better move sillier," said a second whispering out before you're pulled out, ed it this morning!"
"Sho ought to take a Look at her hair the way it sticks out!"
have to be nipped off, when shu Helen and Amlo and is no harm in showing your suddenly heard a voice whisper Hedge," sold more volees.
ing:
Sho other Uddable salt. Your part-
thinks we're the ner's jump bid indicates An only ones who have to have a Interest in slam, and you must hair-cut! She'a silly," show all the information Uut may help him reach A wise decision.
TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You, South, hold: Spade 5 Hearts K4, Diamonds A-K-J-8-0, Clubs A-Q-7-8-2. What do you dot
Answer Tomorrow
CHESS PROBLEM
·By A. BERVAIS
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Sittier Girl
Washed in the Rain
~ Hanid heard severni volces
· from up and down the hedge.
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FIRST MENU {Continental); Bortsch
The famous Rumian beetroot soup; mostly prepared the night- before; not expensive, pe
Kebab
Ploces of meat, onion, bacon, etc, grilled on skewers and served with salad. A good dish for a guest to cook.
BPM Liptauer palet Cream cheese beaten up with butter or margarine and spices. Prepared in advance.. SECOND, MENU (English), Cucumber Soup One of the best soups in the: world; It is servod cold; pre- paro it the night before. :
Boiled Chicken,
Cooked in a. pressure cooker; served with fluffy Chinese rice; frozen broccoli; a creamy sauce.
Chocolate Form
A light cold sweet; delicious but not expensive; good dish to turn over to a guest.
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Help For Thinning Hair
JOMEN have numerous
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beautiful worries but baldness isn't one of them. This is usually a male problem, Just what, causes hair to vanish, nobody seems to know..
While, women seldom be- come bald, their hair may thin out some as the years go by. Scalp treatments sometimes correct this til. Hoold decided she liked all They usually include ...... a the hedge children. She even therapeutic lamp ray treat- Bloed the thinto who ment, massage, brushing "And our branches look un- was growing among them and
and the application - of sald Harry Hollver hoped no one would matico, Hedge, "becauso Wo washed "But they do seed a trimming, stimulating tonica... them last night in the rain!" she said to herwell so she walk-* "Hot", "off masange is an y affective home treatment, "Look Cat. my branches ed off.
Then he reafter her, even the thistle, the night before
pine
"Aw-lemme alone," said the: thistle (and Hanid, looking down, could see it plainly, Here several voices from up growing right in the middle of tidy," and down the hedge or so it the whole hedge-row). deemed to Hanid
"Well," sald Hanid out loud,: moment began humming a sort »y still can't really seo any of of tune. The words sounded more you Hedge children. But I sup- they're as tidy as pins," said "go do your" they all called The oil should be applied
pose that's because I'm not used Tommy Thistle.
at
or less as follows:
"Your hair, Mias Honid,
that
In everywhere, Miss Hantd, And your top, Miss Hanid; Is like a mep, Miss Hanld." "Oh!" cried. Hanid, greatly amazed. At this the humming Instantly stopped. Hanid peered at the hedge, along the hodge, under the hedge, and finally be hind the hedge
She could so no one,
It was just my imagi
Dozens of little voices s
Hinid: saldır
to talking to you. I don't umini peated, Inughing; "Pins, Jy laik fo hedges," she added.
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