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"Now, Tom, you know I buy nothing but the barcat
luxuries!"
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COMPLAINT that all the
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JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Slipping Defence Is Troublesome
By OSWALD JACOBY
NORTH was very disappoint
ed when South ran out of The double
Caree cluba. Actually, West would have fest
nly he heart, and two clubs
ariamenal.
in Western America saw is worth considering.
ace
the
The conch believed to contain school-teacher golden-haired comes tearing through Dead Mun's Gulch. So far, so good.
touch In
of Central African dun. It is being chased not by Indians but by
Now bring
elephants. And out of the coach
I
Jums rhinoceros! Is you- al from the deep South? shem not, huh, huh.
Cochlecarrot considers
"NOTICE,"
the matter
said
Cockle
carrot, "that the refrain of this song contains the lines:
Joily Old Colonel Bottle, he'r got a cavern, not a throttle. It occurs to me that much senti- ments, so expressed, are almost a invitation to the singer
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEM R17 TM4
YOUR BIRTHDAY
to minityle
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17
STELLA
BORN today, you are rather inclined An early marriage to someone whid in your gontur; who can Imagination andurit of creative beleven
originality, And inspire onit encourig, you in game gandus," "when neglected, is likely to of your "orasy Iden”—which aren't become dulled with dimio. "It may. Ma odd, as they weens at first might, be that you lack the agronel vezeto ones they have been developed which comes with vauning ambition, could, be the making of you. You For, andɑ you have bous Inspired to do something-and really pollewu in il-you can work hard and Sonar to achieve goal. It is just ponible that you lack faith in your own Rollity, for you are rather too asily influenced by others and become dis- couraged if at first you don't succeed,
CROSSWORD
15
Across
1. Dicen o sin (anas.). (D) 7. Cancel Wig toan's part of the
coupon. (4)
#. What's yours in TV problem.
14)
10. Main smart,
(9)
this settling day.
13. You take it LIRUALLY with
pinch of salt. (8) 14. il teathers, (4)
10. Weapon of a Bengal inhabitant?
are not one to "go it alone," You múay have someone around to prod you into action, once in a while!
DIWR
Fond of especially
the good things of life- food-you mat against overweight as you approach middle ago,, ki youth, you will be fond of giety; and you of the feminine sex are especially fond of social e One thing you musi |gused, against-and that in showing ||* high temper when your "will" le
CTOWE,
Among those who were born pe this dele are: rank. Vanderlip banker and author: Stephen Bymonds Forler. Aboilioniri; William Warren, actor; and Louis VIII of Frapes.
„To find what the' stars' have “ini store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corrES- ponding paragraph. Let your birth- day star be your daily guide.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 23 Not a good day to force jamies against the natural stream of events, Swin with the tide today for best results,
SAGITTARIUM (Nov. 24-Dec. 12)—- Cultural and intellectual matters are excellent. Make advances in theme neide to your satisfaction.
CAPRICORN (Dec, 23-Jan. 20)~~ A good day, bul especially fine ax afternoon corner Bave Important decisions or tough jobs for then,
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 10)- Morning hours its the best for you. Exert your full energy to get some thing important done then.
20)--
11. Phong trouble y No. exactly
the opposite to, ai" 20. Joseph, caned out for
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PINCES 22. Lift. 17
(Feb. 20-DIAT. 23. island without even gram-
If you have been postponing decision ona contract or an agreement, you phone? (0)
could sign I today.
Dow
1. Mako speechless. (9)
2 Glues crop gives you the answer, 8. Bury. (5) 4. MANO
that right. (4)
In-D
5. TradiWonal Scot, however far.
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ilanged for it. 191
a. Chulfer is usually glad to get
round se. 42, 3)
11. Fourteen Across just ones aro
renowned. (3)
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a grotesque nose, the pur- port of this dubiously Sabbator- wasan ditty being that the colonel's particularly sufe at spiders, but capacity for consuming intoxi-
South didn't think
10
he was correm abờng, foiling dis-eating liquors was his principal tisfaction will the double of title to fame. Whether such three clubs, As things turned
song belongs out, South had the pleasure of making his contract when the defence slipped
West opened the wave of hearts and then evilshed to lus single tot diamond. Declares took the
rather
the music-hall than to the concert platform Is a question to bc debated by those with leisure and taste for futile argument. What concerns this court whether i was the cardboard plucked off by the singer age and promptly rashed the at the climax of the song, king of diamonds, hoping that Pronstituted us infringement Wes had jed from a doubleton, those laws which make
Bish Sunday the envy of less able to rull the cultured natione; or whether
West second round of diamonds un should have cashed the ace of clubs at once to make sure #f defeating the contract. Instead, West foollably led his remaining tari.
South wont with the king of hearts and led a low heart right Lack
nose.
Engilsh
WIR
which
of
our
not
the
Bong itself theatrical in its contents and its intention as to bring the English Sunday into disrepute, without the additional stigma of red cardboard
nose of exaggerated proportions."
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the contract by ruffing high and cashing the ace of olubs, bu Wesi couldn't see the danger. |
Barking Girl
No wonder.
Bitten By Dog
(Headline.)
Mix Eleven Down with ado, and you get a sound answer, (6)
15. Go Away | (D)
10. Hundred in front of the poem.
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18. The end of the potatoes, (4)
19. The noroint is exact. (4)
21 Sailor obtained from conl (3)
ARIKO
21-Apr, (Mat
10) Get a very curly start on the job. Mid-morning shows dens of slowing down, but afternoon la okay.
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 11- You can turn affairs to your pera Interests today. If you take a positive, constructive attitude.
GEMINI
(May ZX-June
Be determined to recomplish what you set out to do. Ignore minor upsets in mid-morning. They will
paas
WOMANSENSE
YOU DON'T HAVE TO | Hearty
LOOK YOUR AGE
Mrs Furnau weare clothes which are good for any age; they have no dowdy "older woman" flavour. For outdoors; a tweed cost, worn with long gloves, pushed- up sleeves, a bucket bag, and velvet tambourine hát. For evening, a short dinner dress always, like this in black pleated tafeta which she made herself. For day,
a taceed dress with (now touch) a detachable moleskin collar.
are
HAVE been doing a dresses, concealing jabots, shel- "I spend a lot of time fiting good deal of thinking tering halo, medium heck, white a good foundation. touches, neat navy blue.
"I wear grey and black, you about the women I know You soo them in clothes which but strictly as a basis on which who are over 50,
the fashion. When skirta I can pile 'colour in my accos Bome
of them scem
de are long, they wear them long, mories. I Hike bright green, "older finately
generation." When arts are short, they bright red, sea-blue. You think of them as some wear them short. I have niways body's mother or somebody's maintained that if a fashion is aunt. They may be kind and a good one, it suita nearly worthy, fond of children, and everybody. good to animals; but, 08 personalities, they have thrown in the sponge,
Some of them bring life into the a room when they enter it. They
arc
SUCCES,
11
"I wear very small hats or very large ones. I hate the careful middling hats that are so deathly dowdy
"I think hair shouldn't just
wash
Because I feel strongly that happen; it should be done,
and net my own--fre over-fiftics should wear "norma clothes, I asked one mako a crisp shape round my quently--and have it out to woman, who always looks well-
head.. dressed, to give me her fashion policy.
bent
two
I
"I wear a lot of separates don't consider they are just for the young: they are an economy at any age.
"I like to wear accessories in new ways.
Flats at the right
fun to be with and a pleasure to look at. They are people in their own right. CANCER (June 22-July 23) The difference, I know, may Cultural and Intellectual affairs are be partly due to more bralna,
Mrs Joyce Furnau is 50-plus, well-favoureck. Brain-work con ad tually
She has luck, books, or char. has a grown-up son save you physical labour.
acter, But it is largely to
very common LEO (July 24-Aug
fashion 23 difference of attitude to age.
problems: too much For you, the day gets better as it gets oldert Late afternoon and evening The attractive ones Go not
weight and too little money. are fine for all your efforts.
think of themselves
To set against these she has 13 over- "They are just women, natural good looks (wavy hair, Arties And they do not dress as over-
blue by bo a fino complexion) fules. They just wear good and skilt as dressmaker. clothes,
She gave me seven good rules: "I drew to suit my figure, You don't see them in careful pleasure this afternoon, if you dresses, restrained colours, soft but I don't worry about my age.
hair-db's, gracious dinnerwear full or narrow skirts, mother and
loose or Alted jackets, all as mint, but she is Mrs Furnau to well cut as possible to minimise mo. my 20-inch waist.
-(London Express Servics).
SOLUTION
TO CHECK YESTERDAY'S
VIRGO [Aug. 24-Sept.
23 Ja If you have important projects on "days to hand, this la one of the work hard and get them done.
PUZZLE
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LIBRA {Rept 24-Oct 21J You could even combine
wished, with good results,
business
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Punch Makes A Chicken
-He Modelled It Out of a Large Lump of Clay-
Ashadow-children inter-
When viewed, the dog said, "She kept on barking at me, and I was afraid she would bite me. So I got in frat. Would any dog blame me?"
Prodnost: Surely it means that the girl came from Bark- ing.
Myself: Oh. I had not thought of that.
An outstanding fact
THE
resignation of two
Mr Punch explained, however, By MAX TRELL
that he was going to make a 17 NARF fund Hanid, the statue of a chicken anyway. "It's
with the fun making statues,” turned-about names, came into
Mr the playroom, looking for Punch. They couldn't find him. Then they went into the kitchen Punch's where they found Mr wife, Judy.
"I'm looking for Punch, too," Judy told them. "I wonder
where he can be."
white chickin.
While Kmart and Hanld and Judy watched, Mr Punch showed them how to go about making statue. First he shaped the lump of clay-it was so soft an lump of dough on a wire frame, pressing it and squeezing il until it began looking like the chicken on the table.
a
Mr Punch was ready to put the olay on a chicken frame
to make a statue that is good enough
to put in a museum.
like children must study
ec "It's a wonderful statue!" how to read and to write. But
While, he worked on the clay In Artistic Garb
Mr Punch kept looking at the They looked all around the chicken, just to make sure that house. Finally, up in the attic he was shaping the clay right. they found him. Ho Was
"Oh! It looks almost exactly dressed in a white smock. On like the chicken Hanld ex-Boulptors must study in schools a table in front of him sat a claimed when Mr Punch finish just school-teacheretics because they objected to playing tennis with young men in braces is a blot the size of a house on the national escutcheon. I suspect that the braces were humdrum and homely, and not in the colours. colours of the Guards or Lean- der. BUT-there WES onco young school-teacher who fell in his
મ
Mr Punch had a large lump of modelling clay in his hand. He turned around and smiled at his visitors.
. "Come in," he greeted them cheerfully, "I'm glad you've
come."
When West actually discorded love with a man who tied club, declarer rulfed the low
tennis-breeches up with string; "Why, what are you doing, heart in dummy and led another
not now string, but odd blts Mr Punch?" Hanid asked. high dhunond In order to dis-
from parcels, knotted together. card his singleton club.
"Doing?" said Mr. Punch. were against Now
Her people
doing something the contract could not be
de- marriage. But she insisted, and "I'm
Vey, amazing truth interesting. I'm making dinner." here is the -tie marriage WES very He held up the lump of clay and
amiled. of hearts, but there they would happy one.
feated. The defenders could get
three trump tricks and the ace
stop.
CARD Sense
Q-The bidding has been; South"
1 Spade
?
1
West North East
Pass 3 Spades Poss
You, South, hold: Spades Q- J-9-0-3, Hearts A-8-4, Dia- amonds 7-2, Clubs A-K-3. What do you do?
Even
A---Bid four spades. though you have fine high cards outside of the trump suit, your hand Is will in the minimum range and You cannot afford to mako a slam try.
TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding is the same as in']
a
CHESS PROBLEM
By J. SCHEEL Black, 6 pieces."
While, 6 pleces,
the quesilon Just answered. You, White to play: mate in three."
Knarf delighted.
"Making statues is a great deal of fun," Mr Punch maidi. "Do you know what people who make statues are called?"
and Judy were also
Knarf said that he knew. "They're called sculptors."
anyone can try to be a sculptor All before he begins to study. anyone needs is a big lump of clay like this."
Most Creative of All Kharf and Hanid and Judy spent "the rest of the making little clay
chicken They couldn't eat them of Mr Punch sald that was right. course but they enjoyed looking "And do you know what people at them. The only one who who paint pictures are called?” didn't
think
that
making clay "People
vory wonderful who paint pictures chickens was are called artists," sald Hanid. was the real chicken who sat on the table in front of them. Sha them that mid: "I
can make better making chickens than any
of you. statues for hundreds and hun- just sit on my eggs until they
"You can see hatch much dreds of years.
and there are the chickens They're not
Kharf and Hanid and Judy- especially Judy
- gasped
Mr Punch told
been' in sculptors had
astonishment.
"It doesn't look very
Ilke dinner," Judy said, pointing them in museums," he mió. "But little
to the lump of clay. "You don't it takes a long time to be able statues either they're alive."
anyone's going to eat that
think
"Dear me," said Mr Punch. "Here I am going to all the trouble of making a chicken for dinner and you don't want
"It's not
chicken, Mr. Punch," said Hanid, "It's only a. status of a chicken."
A Promlio
"That may be," agreed Mr Punch. “But when I'm through making it, it's going to look just.. Ilke a real chicken,"
All throu
this Mr. Funch had kept a very straight and serious expression on his face. Now, however, he suddenly burst into loud laughter. know I couldn't fool yoù,"!” ha wald, will chuckitng over his Jake. Nobody can ont a statue Qor Hof a chicken. Nobody can eat a
statiis of anything
South, hold: Spades Q-J-0-0-8- NOVAS
Solution to yesterday's 2. Hourts A-8-4, Diamonds 7, Clubs A-K-3, What do you do? problem.ünst
Answer Tomorrow...
Rupert at Greyrocks Cove- -24
David and Rupert pick their way carefully along › the rocky aheli
*This is a grand place to have discovered," says the boy, GaNo that the butt
tall the other Seputa he begins to climb Rupert is beckoning
and urgendy, so he retisens quietly
· and gates in astonishment. “There? curled, halsen/on Sa ; boulder. brightly coloured snake
full minuts they abare; Then the (wales, and looks
Pringle
Foremost
angle, gloves in the new length" Mr Furmau comes right in the good-to-look-at class, and I'm sure that when she is 60 or 70 she'll still look anything but dim.
Sho
may
be
Desserts
By Alice Denhoff
HEARTIER desserts are
in order now, Bome thing a little more |_ sub- stantial than the mousses and frozen dishes that are so refreshing during the hot weather months.
Here are desserts gearod autumn and the months ahend,
CREOLE RAISIN PIE Croole Raisin Pie makes excellent climax to a meal!
to
To servo, 0-3, rinse and drain thoroughly 1 e, seedless raisins. Cream together 3 hhap butter and H. c. brown me (airly packed), Bland in a lightly beaten eggs, 1 c. darkc comm syrup, 34 tsp. salt, 2 tbp. elder vinegar and the roisins.
Pour into 2-in. pastry-lined pan. Bake at 400° F. 10 min, then reduce heat to 350° F., and bako 30 min, tooger,
or until [centra is act.
make. Start off with a cracker Mocha-Graham Pie is easy to crust made by rolling 16 graham crackers into crumbs; then add y e. sugar, 4x 4 c. softened butter. Blend together thorough- ly. Press mixture Armly in a Ven layer against wiches, and bottom of a 9- pie plate. Chill
Make mocha filling from 1 package each prepared chocolate pudding and prepared vanilla pudding, 14 c. coffee and 1% c.
cool. Pour into crumb crist and milk, according to directions on package. Cover pudding and
dhill well before serving.
SPICE CAKE
Use your favourite cake, mác Just add to bake an old-time spice cake. top. powdered. allspice 4 tsp. powdered cinna
4 tsp. powdered nutmeg. tap. powdered cloves to the commercial mix before adding the liquid.
mon,
Then beat 4 tsp. powdered somebody's mutmeg into the butter cream somebody else's | leing "you spread on top. Or make it a cinnamon icing by adding to tap, powdered cinnamon to the user in the Icing.
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