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A FOTORS PRTIG SIRVIST, INK, PARAVA TORK
"What have you got there-a new pair of shoes?”
JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
Here's Neat Play For Your Delight
By OSWALD JACOBY
THERE'S wahing
very drn-
BY
THE WAY
By Beachcomber
SONG.
A Viscoun had dined
laundress,
And
the restaurant were dim.
with a
light#
atlast the contract 10] He had proffered champagne
today's hand
declirer at only
Nevertheless,
South was
twas spruches, this little band contains a very neat point
hat will delight play thuk
student of the game.
of
every
West opened the ten of clubs, and dunny won with the ace. This was แ tulstake
At the second trick, declarer led a low trump from the dum- This was another mistake. The chances are that most de- claroru
would make the same two mistakes Both plays look very straightforward and logical. Now let's see where they Lexi South.
with the partridge,
And shyly she smiled at him.
Then, in accents throbbing with
passion,
lic offered his hand and its
heart;
But she saw the wine-stains on
his shirt-front,
And came to herself with
start.
อ
Firmly, but sadly, she
said,
As
Viscount hung
that sta head:
*
*
need
Refrain (maestoso):
what you is a laundress, Your shirt iz a perfect dis-
vrace,
West won the second trick with the queen of spoiles, cou-Viscount dear, tinued with the are of spades, and then ir third trap. Now South was in trouble. Ir he drew the list trump, he could take only for diamond tricks, together with his two trumps and the ace of clubs The mo- mint South tried to establish & heart trick, Eust would run the clubs.
and í đơn't want to crouch for
the rest of my fe Splashing soapsuds
the place.
all over
So, thanks, Viscount dear, for
Nor would it do South any good to leave the last trump out. Eust would gain the lead it with the uce
and of hearts would
clubs. Ley to run the South would eventually have to
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use his last trump to slop clubs, and West would get third trump trick. The defend- would thus take three trumps, the ace of hearts, and two clubs to defeat the tract.
con-
Declarer can avoid defeat by refusing the very first trick. It clubs are continued, South can get to his hand with a diamond in order to ruff his last club in the dummy. This ruffing trick is one that South couldn't get
as he played the hand.
If East leads
of a club
trump Instead
at the second trick,
the defenders can
the honour,
For the bubbly and also
grub.
is time to awake
daydream,
the
from my
And to answer the call of the
lub,
*
*
*
The Viscount replied with some
chagrin,
"Plegar, Agnes, don't talis
through your hat!
At the Castle, we don't do the
washing:
wife boliers
No Viscount's
with that.
You'll recline at your case trz
your boudoir,
Or playfully sit on my knce, While the rolled shirts 676
suitably dealt with
By those of a lower degree." Then softly that laundress
replied,
As he begged her to be
his bride:
*
*
Refrain (maestoso); /*
There's one little thing Vou're
forgetting.
In the blindness of love,
Viscount dear,
I'd be welcome, no doubt, at
the Castle.
But your mater and sisters, I
fear,
Would cashi in on the family
laundress,
And bring her their clothes
for a scrub. Could a grateful
offend them
Visscounters
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1954.
CROSSWORD
Aurora
1. Was some pariz
COTALT
of London, (7,51 1. I do morning ( (ADME.). (0, 4)
LA SUED on ·
bloyale ? (6)
1. Plane change for
the flower, (h)
10. motions are Jo
aroused by thin. (0)
11. It's capital ip a
way for
Turk, 18)
18. This card
12
AT
ippuenes this
Highest bidder. (6)
14. Bounds an, if this breed must be the algbt of popu
larity (4)
16. Her work goes on above your head. (a.)
10. There are mtways rained megabrows
at these itens on Pags One, (54)
Dowb
1. Are theso running
repairs
for
1 АСТОВО У 1971
2 I stares
some
potimista in the Jaco, incessantly i (4)
4. More Lalk! (8)
hundre
ARCA. 181
5. He may be a bit
of a blow hard in
the orchestra. (4.0)
(ansg.). (12)
7. He doesn't
out
faith in Grobe.
(10)
17. Montile spirit. (6) 13. The person's
nigaardly when concerned with Sheras. Bi
14. He wurk hard t
South America.
Yesterday's solution.
YOUR BIRTHDAY ....... By STELLA
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4
BORN today. you are one of those hunan "systematisers" who seema quin to take care of a great deal of detail, co-ordinate 11, and then uPO accurately As regular in your persunat habitu an you are in business inatters, you might bo a rather #evore person if it were not for another face to your personality. You have a creative, inventive mind—and although others may think you are guing through the same notions, it very. very different! You Agure short cut or some out some new intirely novel method. Actually, those are the reason your "system" is such a mucces
You
mut learn to cope with yu
da of deprendor. You are either in the clouds or down in the depths. This
is duo as such to emotional isprei
1 is to n pysique that is not an rugged as you would like to bellevs it in. Take care
to
be
If you are wise, you will melest one of the arts or professions as your ework. There a kernel of creative VOLLER within you which will only and its proper "expremion it you are allowed to go your own way in your own time. Your inst productive years are likely Those betweçu 30 and 38. De sure that you minke good un of them.
Your faslly Dew are strong and You Are Very devoted to meinbera of you own family. When you grow older and have one at your own. the same pattern will be repeated.
Anong those vom up this date are. Will Rogers, humorist; Edmund Keene,
actor: Stephen J. Field. jurlet, Goo P. Shaver, lisvertor; Luckum Hobinson, N. Y. Governor Eden Phillpote, author; John Branch, więteman.
To And what the store havo store for you tomorrow, select your birthday Alor and read the corr
WOMANSENSE
Evening Woollens
By AUCE ALDEN
WOOL winds its way smartly: and expertly into the afternoon
Pard
How to Arrange Bookshelves Attractively
ICERO said that a room without books is a body without a soul.
Most thoughtful persons will surely agree with him and plan bookshelves for an apartment or
By ELEANOR ROSS
good
laid
We saw one Imaginative scheme green, the planks yellow, Ivy or worked out in a rented apart- philodendron could be trained to ment where shelves, it fastened Twine around the outaldo sip- to the walls, would have become ports. This ladder most likely the property of the landlord, A would be placed against a wall d quality step ladder was lac so that members of the family house with careful attention to quered in deep black. Planks, would not be falling over it when a vivid red, were painted accessibility and convenience, the
While some people seem to installed,
horizontal There are endless mout think that the living room la tire
bit arranging Sounds un arrangement.
bookshelves only place for books, there is no wobbly, but it can be done.
tively. A littlo imagination, reason why a bookshelf or two For a loss arty look, the ladder some paint and plain wooduzi should not grace other rooms in might be painted a woodsy shelves and you're in business! the house-the you have
one, An Interesting kitchen wo - know features a shelf of cook
open, ladder steps, and onto the domicile at
dining room, if and the bedrooma. | p
books. These volumes, both recent and old favourites, add a pleasant touch to a room which
usually looks purely functional. AND
Arranging books is relaxing, a good therapy, in fact. usually prefer to sei
libraries
This
Scholare up their Decording to subject
matter, while the more frivolous may classify volumes according to binding colour and size so ES to make
attractive design. This method is sneered at
at by bookworms, however, as a brainless system of arrangement. Try not to cram books too tightly together. There should be sufficient room to volumes easily, without scratch- ing bindings or tearing dust Jackets.
LENOVO
Book bindings are apt to gwell
of your health, for it is one of your ponding paragraph at your birth and evening one of the season He a stout person's feet in hot,
must precíave posetMASCATI BL
day or be your daily guide.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5 SCORPIO (UCL 24-Nov. 2) There should be agreement between you and your sponsors on some in- vention you are printing.
BAGITTARIUS (Nov. 24-Dec. 22)— Tila in a pod day for all important smatters. You can even use uncon ventiooni inethods if you wish.
CAPRICORN (Doc. 23-3a12. 20)— An expellent time for consummating important businesse
Make ptane ртове.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 21-Feb. 19)— An inspirational day Love and runmice are also hieldly favoured You ren
bustness and combine pleasure,
An
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)- Romance is definitely in the air. Atska or periva propomal acceptance in very ikely, too.
ARIES (MAN) 21-Apr. 20) Abou soine signs are adverse, they are counterbalanced by others That bring you domestic joy.
TAULUS (Apr. 21-May 21- An unexpected surprise, perhaps in the realin of affairs of the heart. can bring you exceptional joy.
DEMINT (May 22-June 21) A good day for all your activities. Make the most of overy opportunity offered you at this time,
CANCER June 23-July 23) This in a banner dny for your efforts. Chart your roule càrefully, and then proceed.
LEO (July 24-Aug. 2}}- *Thin La A day when your drains cat come true. What uppɑns, how- evet, depends upon what you 056 drenigi
VIRGO CADE 24-Rept Original (dear should be used in you they will bring you business, for increased profits at once.
LIBRA (Sept 24-Oct. 23) Love is fine today. If wed, aftalts on the domestic front enn be en pecially pleasant for you.
DUMB-BELLS
WHY DO THEY PUT A SCREEN ON THE FIREPLACE
IT MUST BE TO KEEP
THE FLIES FROM COMING DOWN THE
CHIMNEY
ahead.
Wonted
for after-live
for
clothes, tweed
If they are too Important humid weather. evening wear
is the word. New tightly jammed together, the techniques that make for marvel-bindings may split.
Never let books lean against lous light, dropable woollens is of course
responsible for this in-one another in partially filled teresting trend. Paul Parmes shelves. Use book ends to keep
as we does
a beauty of an afternoon them upright, and nu the empty and evening costume in grey spaces with little plants or pretty
worsted jersey-textured
of bric-a-bruc, ન en- bellished with jewelled scalloping A figurine or colourful piece of on both the simple dress and the glass, china or pottery makes an easy jacket. The frock has tiny attractive note. For children's sleeves cut in one with the nook- bookshelves, one might fill spaces line and edged with ambroidery, with models of characters from The skirt is softly shaped over Mother Goose, Winnie-the-Pooh taffeta. An elegant and well- Or other classics. brod, yet easy costume.
Household Hints
Take
the creak out of D creaking floor by working moist soap into che cracks between the boards.
When cane seats on chairs be- gin to eag, sponge them with hot water to which salt has been added. This will take up the Black,
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
A Caterpillar Train
-Willy Toad Was Acting as the Conductor--
By MAX TRELL
ONG before they reached the Pine Tree Grove, Knarf and Hanid, the shadow-children with the turned-about names, heard the voice saying: "Ail aboard All aboard!"
They recognised the volee at
once.
An Amphibian Friend "Why, it's Willy Toad," said Hanid.
"That's who it is, all right,"
By ignoring the call of the sold Knort.
tub?
get rid of A bong mo
dummy's trumps and thus
"That's it," said Willy.
"Why. It's not a train at all," said Knarf. "It's just caterpillara and a snail."
the
"My dear boy." said Willy. "I'm afraid you do not under- stand much about railroads. The caterpillars are the cars,
All mall is the locomotive... aboard! All aboard!"
"Pardon me, alr," said a little short potato bug dressed in pants and a white blouse, as be ran up to Willy. "Does this train go to the Rocky Moun tain?"
The potato bug asked Willy Tond where the train went.
trains railroad
here in the
Then they both ran the rest of the
way to the Pine Tree "That's right," said Willy. "It Grove, for they were curious to goes to the White Mountains, wood." know why Willy should be the Green Mountains, the the
eliminate the ruling trick. In this case, however, dummy still "HE is so ethereal," writes a shouting. All Aboard! since Adirondacks, the Catskills,
keeps the ace of clubs as a
critic of ballet, "that you
her expeet
dematerialise to stopper, and South has time to before your eyes" Oh, I say, set up a heart trick.
South could have made his look here, what frightful rot!
remark contract even after making his prefer George Mair's
Pavlova, "Schoolmen If he is foolish about
used to dobate how many
first mistake,
cnough to win the first trick
there were no trains in the Pine Blue Ridge Mountains and the Tree Grove.
Rocky Mountains." By this time they had reached
Train on Wings "Oh, yes," said Willy, "We've had them for a long time. Our trains here are a little different
the middle of the Pine Tree The little potato bug thanked from tho trains that carry
Willy and scrambled
Grove and there, suro en backs of the caterpiliara was their friend Willy He was dressed in
blue rall-
ace of clubs, he must angels can dance on the point road conductor's uniform and
with the ace
be sure to lead the king hearts at the second trick.
of
of
# pin. Pavlova,"
If the defenders now get rid
of the trumps, South will still make a heart trick; and if they fall to get rid of the trumps, South will be able to ruff club in dummy.
VACARD Senses
Q-With both sides vulner able, the bidding has been: South West North East
1 Heart Double. Redbi, 1Spado
You, South, hold: Spades A- 3-2, Hearts A-K-3-0-3-2, Die- monds 4-8-2, Club 7. What do you do?
APAN TUE unlikely that your partner will double spades,
but you're willing to give him
The
IRSWET in
CHESS PROBLEM
Br 8, BIKO:
Black, 7 pieces,
the ouanon to do so. If he And White, 11 pieces. ·
doesn't, you can rebla the White to play: mate in two, hearts later.
TODAY'S QUESTION
The
Solutio o'n to
bidding is the mimo as in problem:
the question just answered. You,
South, hold: Spade 7, Hearts A-
K«J»6«3«27? Diamonds K-10-2. Clube A^1. What do you do?" (dh});kh
18; threat":2,
artoot," went the mail,
he was carrying a lantern, which again. he swung up and down. Only
and Hanid
one
on the people from place to place. For instance, that train you just saw can climb over walls and go up aboard!" shouted Willy
Once wo had
strange with a caterpillar Unfortunately,
Knart and train. Yes,
Bir Knart
couldn't sco Hanld were too big to At on the day all the caterpillars changed any railroad station, or railroad back of any of the caterpillars into butterflies and flew right track, or railroad train or any the "train" moved off.
iny. At last, with a final foot-toot, off the tracks. The strangest All they could see was a
thing anyone ever heard of." thing.
"But Willy," said Hanid when And having said this, Willy crowd of small begs and little
Drain "I swung his lantern Insects, all carrying valises and they were all alone again. satchels and duffel bags and didn't know there were any walked of knapsacks as they waited for
the train.
"Ah," said Willy, when he spied Knari and Hanid. "You're
just in time. Have you
your tickets?" BA
Rupert at Greyrocks Cove
-13
got
An Odd Kind of Train "Willy dear," said Hanid. "Wo didn't even know thero was a train 'hare. In fact,
WO can't опа
see any train.. Is there
Certainly there's
Bald Willy.
one there,!!
"Where is it?" asked Knart "Como, along,”//mid-Willy,
Suddenly be stoppedi
pointed: There it
And
Can't
Knart and Hanld looked. All they could my was a doze yellow caterpillars standing On bebind the other
mall in front.
ли
and
Trailing plants are a
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