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Shut-Out Bid Can Make You Worry
By OSWALD JACOBY
QHUT-OUT bids have a way
of making life very difficult. When Eat bid four diamonds, North was faced by a problem. He could hurdly afford to seli out and let East play the hand undoubled.
If North doubled, however, it WIDE quite likely
would blci
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When South actually bid four Spades If
the double, Wer doubled fercely. I took lot of courage for North to pong this contenot, but there w. rtually no difficulty and making You spades
Fost enuld win the test tick with aer of diamonds, but if he then gave his partner a dia- monel ruff, West would net only une other natural trump trick
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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1954.
• • BY THE
WAY.
by Beachcomber
Googeboote:
WHEN, perhaps, 81 Socialist
visit Peking, it is relevant? hoped that they will déction the question of the ping-pong match to be played there in Décem= ber, against the Yoo-Hoo Club.
We
M'jud
this
Cooklecarroti Relevant to
what?
WOMANSENSE
Accidents Caused
Home Hazards
Mrs W. I had one plum, and For Cocktails In Spring
Gooseboote: One plum or afty thousand plums, what has it to do with the song?
Yes, seeing as Mr W.
And must answer yes or no then again, no. According DR.
I
The Chinese are annoyed at you talk as though I had a full the insistence of the British bug of 'em in my mouth... team on the worde "table tennis."
They point out that ping-pong is a Chinese game, invented by Ping-Pong in the nfth ceptury. The Brilish dele- gation is naturally anxious not to take too strong a line, in case the Chinese refuse to pay their expens
cannot afford to
Unreasonable' prejudice love this match-especially after our ignominious defeat by the
the REGRET to way that Bulgerian (iddleywinks team,
the poor, which was
work of evicting a blow to Buch cultural relations. "It is dilly" the sick and the aged from homes is 100 often "to sakt a spokesman,
take their
hindered
narrow-minded by part in sporting events abroad,
We are prejudice.
ready to unless we have some guarantee that we shall be allowed
admit that the fact of a man win."
(or woman) having owned and iloed in a house all his life is not always sufficient reason for throwing him out; geo there is too great a tendency today
Slow progress
craft-
to
to
Snapdriver: Now, Mrs Web- expect the authorities to make out a plausible case for their
Too actions.
much valuable Mrs W. Wiberaft, if it's all time
is thus warted dia- the same to you.
cassion and argument.
Snapdriver (coldig) : It is. Now, you heard Mr Tinstall sing "Jolly Old Colonel Bottle?"
in
-Councillor Brimstone.
News item
THE Rajah
Mrs W. Phyeph,
of Dhamdhuril- pore walked out of a meet- do not Snapdriver: Please
ing of the Friends of Fumeless speak ag though you had a
sailor when a plum in your
Answer Power Houses month.
shouted, "Some Rajah's mother yes or no,
len't using Snibbo!"
Mrs W.: I did have a plum in my mouth. I've swallowed it. Snapdriver: Why you should cone here with plums in your mouth-
YOUR BIRTHDAY..... By STELLA
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15,
day, You Take connieber - Acaibur Yet abong will all Ital 1M o indieniten that རྩན་ཉེ།་ཤོt 37། need to be on the offensive set of life, to battle for your iden and win favourable decisione fordringte that vựu have a creat deal patien¥€ + abel perseverance Ini yene will set You are parfcal, have a gent dral of common penkis
at how Jow to rize up pregle
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you
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interfered with, either, and want to Dr
won't play! Affectionate and lovlig, you are disinclined 142 show your emotions except to your closest negociates and member áf your own family, 11 M
endly marriage would be bort for you. Among those who were bom on this date now: Się William Herschel, astronamer' : Lewis Stone. actos: William Pitt, statemUM; Richard Henry Dana and Edgar I.. Daven- port
ations; Thurtow Weed. Zich Gerhart uplnan,
sunuled to be trump trielts | fest sigl Where. Then He MOSER as the nee of detenida.
Now that
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You tom sa o bhrige font spades, let's not congranji-
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clonatist.
To find what the stars have in for tomorrow. nelect your birthday wine net read the corres
yonding paragraph. Let um
The island of love of 17uch it? 0:2, to clay the younge sally guldo,"
North Jackast
come you way again-out you will have missed the quick rond to stiETTEREN
club, which Faet doubled with well in jodithis but you r the type
got entir
South Have up, and North was
allowed to play the hand at
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You do but ke to be
doubled. North TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16
zucceeded me winning only X ant Ruetefore suffered a led pants instead of allowing his partner to make a profit of almost HOD points,
It was Hicult to HOSS The dotable of four spades, and North would deserve sympathy if i hard run from four spades Poate reupofurbly appetising cuft- fract
to
Seattrio fet, 24-Nov. 23) Exonl
Tot momthe leas tnterfere with the of life! Consider parajukematts carefully.
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CHESS PROBLEM
By I. and P. LE GRAND
Black, 11 places.
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White, 11 pieces, White to play: mate in two.
Solution 10 Saturday's problem:
1, P-BG. I... PxBP. 2, Q-B5; !... PxKP; 2, Q-KIS; } ... P-Q3; 2, Q-QUS; ̧ 1 P-94; 2, -83.
Invited for pocktails? Then this shoe style in glitter cloth, with matching 'spider' hat, is just the thing for the occasion. The shoe, called Electra, was shown in the Dolcin Collec- tion for Spring in London.
By ELEANOR ROSS
can be hurt in more
She
should
By
with
begin hande. Scrub
Yways than by falling off scrupulous nailiarush and fairly
a stepladder!
to
In case this is any news to you, here are a few favourite methode by which the housewife manages to injure life and limb: falling
light stairs properly, sprinkling the un- marked poison that looks Just like flour into the stew; touching electrical equip ment with wet hands-well, that's just a starter-there are lots of ways.
LITTLE KNOWN DANGERS
Even less well known are the hazards which occur because of unsanitary conditions In the home.
These include dishes and other kitchen utenalls which are not
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hot water and soap. Act though you're a surgeon. In a sense you are, if you have to clean, feed and youngsters Inspire, Colds and other · all- iments are frequently trans- mitted to other members of the family by Motherl
SPOTLESS KITCHEN Equally important are
spot- less kitchenware, well washed dishes and clean working areas. The kitchen floor should be well scrubbed, too. Dust and germs magnify
with trafc. Just walk- ing around is enough to stir up
of dust, you know. soupcon
then
For thorough dishwashing. scrape and stack dishes, all dishpan or sink with plenty of hot, thick suds, as hot as the honda con stand.
For a really professional job, rinse your kitchen gear with quite clean; hands that have not eve
even hotter water than your been washed frequently enough, hands find comfortable, pouring refrigerator or stove the rinse from a kettle or spray. See that the dishpon auds don't
Cracked ឆឆ
and chipped ware
and the which harbours food.
Not
contaminatedă
dramatic perhaps, but become too cool.
Real cleanness je come
quite dangerous.
vigilance.
hard to
takes by. It
constant Yet, without becom- ing a nervous wreck over the matter, the housewife can main- tain a reasonable degree of sanitation in her home.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
looking for in the trunk and for many other purposes.
If you've decided to be one of freezer or refrigerator until the handy things to have for chang those snart Kirls who
make next ironing session. They'll be ing tyres at night, for reading their own clothes, but are only safe from mildew for at least a maps, for finding what you're a beginning seamstress, don't week. make your first dress of a printed material which will require matching, such {LA
plaid. CITODGE
plain Inexpensive fabric that is Armly woven and does not have special pressing problems, and you'll find the | project easier.
If you And that you have more troning on hand than you have time to do, put any dampened clothes bundles that are left into Tu plastic bag and store in the
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
A Captured Rainbow
-King Fat-Wat Has It in His Palace
By MAX TRELL
IZNAJ¶ and Honid entered the TAPHORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20 playroom just in time to see Altar within the domestic circle When 24 wetually rescuesi will be new lunt trukned but your General Tin getting ready to Jerself t the eleven-trick
mount his horse and gallop off level in a four-card suit, how-
somewhere. The horse was North was deliberately | Br empecudly enceful of all social and wooden hobbyhorse. jumping out of the frying pan is the fire and had only him- self to blaue if he didn't like The climate there.
ever,
▼CARD Sense.
East
AQUARIUN
1 Jan. Zi-Feb. 19)
business contacts that could be
Samil 14 your future welfare.
PIRCER
Feb
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They were now in the king- dom of King Fat-Wat!
They galloped down the road unil they reached the royal palace. Then they went insido the gates and stopped at the big front door. They sprang off the
But late hobbyhorse. The door Was at night (which is what it was opened, and they went right in. now) 10 hobbyhorse could
Avoid carelesmes in handling detall horse
ID-hlar. 20)-gallop na fast Da any other King Fat-Wat was sitting in In fact, even faster. the Great Hall of his palace. And standing in the middle of the Great Hall, reaching from one end of it to the other, was the rainbow.
work and you should be able to get And it could get to places that through the day successfully.
no ordinary horse could get to at all.
"General Tin!" erled Knarf, running up to the tin soldier. "Don't go yet! Please]"
ABIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20)- Definitely not a good day for too much aggresive action. Stick to your ferals, but he politic about it.
Q-The bidding has been; South West North
TAURUS (Apr. Zi-May 2) 3 Sondes Pass Curb your muulses jat now, Pos
You will take sonder decisions if you itive things a second thought.
1 Spare
You, South, hold: Spades K- <2-6-3-2, Hearts A-8-4 Dia-
monds A-J, Clubs 8-6-3. What worth many kinds of cure! Con- An ounen of prevention, today, is
do you do?
and
You
OEMINI (May 22-June 21)
Mergently proceed with due caution.
Helpful Hanid
Hanid ran around to the front
of the hobbyhorse and held its 22-July 3) bridle to keep it from moving ok before you leap. Make no lin- } aff.
CANCER (Jane
It looked like a beautiful coloured candy stick. Only t thicker and rounder and bigger and the colours were richer.
Was
tho
97
General Tin was about to mount his horse and gallop off.
broke into millions of tiny pleces. Bits of rod
and green rod and
went and orange and yellow and purple and blue
Great whirling all around the Hall. "It's broken!" King Fat- Wat was saying. "My beautifuï
rainbow is brokea!". Then -all
Filty of King Fat-Wat's
A-Bld three-no-irump.
soldiers were holding the rain- have a minimum opening bid,
bow down at one end, Afty of them were holding it down at your cholce is therefore
pulsive decisions
rainbow other. For the and you will be between three no-trump and
safe; now, and not worry later.
General Tin, who hadn't yet was quito wet and slippery. four spades.
Since You have
LE O and no
(July 24-Aug
21) sprung into the saddle, sald;
"Take a good look at it, my the pieces blew out of the Guard against accidents if you are "All right, all right. I'm mingling
to: windows. in large crowds. Put leaving yet I'm just
getting dears," King Fat-Wat sald vaitables in a safe place.
ready to leave. My old friend Kaart and Hanid. "It Isn't very VILOO (Aug. 24-Sept. 2-King Fat-Wat has just found it. often that you can take a rain- Bite of your tungue before you say He wants me to come and see it bow in your own hands."
strength in three rulin dangerous short suit, you prefer
ibres no-trung,
TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You thing that might start a serious before he lets it go again,"
South, hold: Spades K-Q-8-3,
Clubs Q-0-3. What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
quarrel with a loved one1
not
Hearts A-J-0-4, Diamonds K-4, LIBRA Chept.. 24-Oct. 23)- All This sounded very
Prudesat behaviour will be the only mysterious.
Knarf and Hanid adequate
WCT
problema presented by this kind of a day.
naked General Tin to explain.
"Why" said General Tin, "he's found the rainbow, that's what he's found. I thought you could guess,”
"Hello.
SERVICE, THE
\regory:
Knarf and. Hanld were astonished.
A Real Feat
"It's an extraordinary thing to find the rainbow. Lots of people have seen the rainbow, but finding It, and holding it... that's extraordinary, it is!"
King Fat-Wat ordered one of his soldiers to break off a pieco of the rainbow and give it to Knarf and Kankl as a souvenir But that was a great mistake. A very surprising thing hap pened the moment the soldier broke off a piece.
Back to the. Heavens
the
Kaart and Hanid saw zainbow again, though, while they were riding back to the playroom with General Tin on the hobbyhorse. It had started to rain again. The sun broke through the clouds. And there was the rainbow, right in sky, one great big beautiful
The whole rainbow suddenly dropped to the ground and stick of candy!
On hearing this Knarf, nd Hanid promptly asked General Tin it they could go with him||||| and sep the rainbow, too, General Tin nodded. “I'm sure King Fat-Wot won't mind Jump on behind me."
So Knart an Hamid jumped. on behind General Tin on the
Broad back of the hobbyhorse A moment Inter- they galloping acrder the piny Fraight for the whisp Kyou'll find this hard to ball
Rupert at Greyrocks Cove→→22
*Rupert kemps watch on the alde of the big bushy and waita"); "long time,,, "That: butterfly: thuat
be reiting, sochawisèrg thinks," All it'oncer from the bay
ound the bush, the little bear sees
(čligaing -the 7 beautiful insder
tortor Devki barily prisés
the
Never put a tablecloth into
11
should be tossed out unless you use of it in an can make ornamental way to hold plants or the like. Such surfaces are likely to hold food particles and bacteria, no It's a wise precau- * tion to eliminate them.
OTHER PRECAUTIONS
After stove surfaces have cooled, go over the top with a soapy cloth. Keep the oven free from crusted food and
grease. Wash your refrigerator once a week.
The bathroom should always be kept Immaculate. Don't leave. on assortment of scrubbing rags dangling from pipes under the sink. Scrub out your cleaning cloths and let them dry out on the line before further use.
Most important of all, per- haps,
cleanliness. nursery
it is not a
The washing machine with Glass baking dishes are fine candle drippings on 11. First, for freezing baked goods, scrape off as much of the wax casserole dishes and leftovers. as you can; then remove what's You can freeze homemade ple
la left with cleaning fluid, and if in a glass plate and, when you Children love to play on the
to put the a colour stain remains, use mild bake it, it is afe
floor: Make suro chlorine sodium perborate glass dish directly from the place where germs may lurk. freezer into the hot oven. How- Washable floors, walls, furnish- bleach.
balding dishes Inga ever, hot glass
and toys are, in reality, should be thoroughly cooled ut good health insurance, because Do you keep a miniature, auto room temperature before they they can be kept scoured, with trouble light Ju the car? It's a are put in the freezer,
out much expense or effort.
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