THE CHINA ́ MAIL,
MONDAY, DECEMBER 27,
1954.
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the invention would not could be used for peaceful pur-
the Bago five yards puses,
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non-warlike activities. In fact it can hardly be considered us a ut al No country weapon
to be the first to would want
uf uac it, and us a weapon defence of retaliation it would cause nothing but laughter
powerless that it mast an egg-cup
away starlled the scientista.
In the hands of a scrupulous State thin non-lethni weapon, incapable of wiping out an entire egg-up, might reduce war to a free. Already there is talk of still less powerful bomb which would not even dent Ure shell of mi PKR of a range of six inches it is believed that the Immer xmb has already been explocied na field. Field-m.c playing how this can be explained, Dr
with their 111' by went on
apparently noticed 21, al nothing unusual. Thus bomb. The Q-bomb, is the invention of Dr Strabismus (Whom Preserve) of Utrecht
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Take Tips From Tourney Players
By OSWALD JACOBY WHEN today's hand was play-
ed in the national team championship recently, it was difficult for South to stay out of trouble. In one room, the South player got to four hearts and went down one trick quickly and quietly. In the other room, as shown in the diagram, South got to three no-trump and muffed his chance to make that contract, West opened the queen spades, and South properly lowed him to hold the trick. West
with the jack continued
of spades, and South won with the
IL king.
was now clear that Wust had
u long spade suit,
hended by all of the missing
strength, since
otherwise ho
would have been so eager to hammer away at South's bad sult
queen,
South needed the diamonds to make his contract, so he led a towards the dumuny diamond
dunmy's and flnessed When this held, South drow a sigh of relief and cashed the sce South had sighed of dirumonds. too soon. for this was a mistake.
West naturally played the king of diamonds, and the next dia- mond trick was won by East. for East to return I was easy his just spade, whereupon West set the contract by taking the We
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WOMANSENSE
DIOR'S LATEST CREATIONS
Left: For New Year festivities, Christian Dior presents his latest creation-a white laco evening gown. Right: Also by Dior, a wide beige felt skirt with black embroidery on the hem
and a black woollen jersey pullover to match.---Agence France-Presse.
NOW MINK BLANKETS
WHEN
A
AND
New York. woman sighs for mink these days, she may have something be- sides a coat in mind. Say n mink blanket or mink blue jeans.
JEANS
the blanket, regulation size, 72 broadtail in front with a black
It required 119 velvet back. by 90 inches, skins.
Then the telephone began ring. With orders.
[o
to
for the
frm A spokesman
vest said, "We thought the Now he is in the mink blanket ought to be fancy at the back business and other
too, in case a man wants manufic- turers have turned to other furs
off his tako
coat."--United for bed coverings luxurious Press. Designers this winter enough to send grandma's patch
the quilts into storage. have come
up with luxury fur in so many new guises that mink coats sEEN downright old-fashioned,
Mink and other furs are used for blankets,
Kaye sald the blankets sell for $7,100 tax included. Каус called his customers to date for fluent,"
but refused to give for their names.
and Another New York furrier. Dorothy, makes the blankets in Eurasian lamb, a long-haired fur sheared 10 velvet smoothness. These come
acces-
in all colours, including black,
pink, greers and blue,
women's lounge wear, men's evening vests the m above and beneath you, trick to West rather thon to
ties, and for jewellery. One Esther The East in order to avoid losing a well as at and you.
farrier features 21 fur- a at. Uentre will be Alled with tount of four spade tricks,
When the finesse of the queen the fim, and you will not know
trimmed cigarette holder -- whether
at lightlangg (1 of diamonds succcesia, South
for must lead
a heart to his king white crmine tails dangling Sursed?
diamond from this jewelled Charle and return Peck as
towards the dummy, West must sory, play the king, of course, and he should be allowed to hold the trick. Now West can take only two further spade tricks, but he cannot prevent declarer from winning the contract with three BY STELLA hearts, four diamonds, a spade,
und a club.
LIPOJA SYNDICATE
Air Gregory magine.
YOUR BIRTHDAY
MONDAY, DECEMBER 27
BORN day. have an alert truİ,
'tu
You are intertely foyul
to play
It is quite true that West might have more than two dia- monds, but this wouldn't alter the
situation. If West is able to Д low diamand on the thome you love. Members of your second round of that suit, durn- wwn family can do no wrong! You my can play the ace and give the may need to school yourself to bren
third trick to West's king. ttle more stern and more of disciplinarian, if you are placed in
Your tendency charge of work.
mtd. a ympathetic heart and
w[1]
which
a dramatic approaeli to everything you undertako You trave Kiven the gift of words and probably be able to write effective- ly There is ime handicap you must attempt to overcome. yeti iwe inclined to underestimate your expabilities and consequently do nut have no much aeif-confidence us you should have. Remember that the world is too apt to evalunte you no higher than you evaluate your
rifi
You have an excellent, memory, know how to investigate conditions
be
M
to
14 doll-and let other loaf on the job, because you heilate push two inuch,
If West puts up the king of diamonds on the second round, he is allowed to hold the trick. This play makes sure that West wins the only defensive diamond
Among those who were born on trick. this date are: Louis Bromfield, author: Johann Kopier, astronomer Parteur. biologist, Niahplan J. Bosvelt.
Marlene street, actor:
William W.
honncler: Sidney Green&CARD Sendes
Curcuma,
and then present the facts. You al tree; apd have an interest in the natural philanthropist, melences, une of which might be ก find what the stars have in Q-With neither side vulner- selected as a cureer to bring you store for you tomorrow, select your able, the bidding has been: exceptional nuocem. You know how birthday star and read the corres-North to keep secret information in con- ponding paragraph. Let your birth. #idence and would novar
CAPRICORN
beway
day star ba your daily guide.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28
(Dec. 23-Jun 20
CANCER (June 22-July Take things slowly, today. See that if you ATC wide awake and you do not rush impulsively into a thoroughly alert to all the impitra- zoatter without sufficient thought. tions of an event, you can ward off
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 10) nible danger. Corelessness and hasty action con LEO (Juty 24-Aug. cause trouble, so be on your guard Do not overextend your erect or ngainat Any Doibliity of serious
eigtit take an added obligation,
error.
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)- Definitely not your day to Keep meletly to famillar routine and watch your step.
207-
ARIES
(Mar. 21-Apr. Don't get involved in an argument. It could turn into a sarkour quarrel. Today compromise for, peace.
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 213- Someone may be trying to pull the wool over your eyes, no torvestigato any propgation offered to you.
GEMINI
(May 22-June 21) Таке по chances. AdventuresoTTYE
action is really risky. Play things safe and pane, for now.
CB.O
Across
East South West
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1 Spade Double Pasa
You, South, hoki: Spades 3-2, icarly K-Q-9-7-3-2, Diamonds -5-3, Clubs 5-3. What do you do?
Why, mink for the bedroom? Said Kaye, "very simple mink keeps a girl warm."
Miss Dorothy is responsible for other mink things, in blue About those mink blan jeans and men's vests, kets.
....
They started, according to Lawrence Kaye, vice-president of Ritter Brothers, New York furriers, when a perfume manu- facturer wanted to give a colour advertisement
novel touch,
The advertisement showed a stunning brunette relaxing un- der the mink cover. Ritter made
BOYS'
exactly four-
The jeans are made like the traditional ones, plete with slit pockets at the front and patch pockets at the back. They fit just as tight too. Price, $3,000.
She is featuring evening vests of mink, fox, nutria, molo and broadtall. A sample of what we is of white American
mean
AND
Are Pins Wonderful?
They Certainly Are, as Mr. Punch Explains By MAX TRELL
ANTELOPE GLOVES
A pair of gloves in antelope with ocelot trimming-Ageloo
Franco-PreES,
GIRLS'
Mr Punch often did very curious things. But this was
"What's so wonderful about a Pin?" Hanid naked.
2 Clubs Pass Puss WHEN Kart and Handd, the the first time they ever heard
shadow-children with the him reciting a poem to a pin.
Into turned-about names, came
MT the Playroom, they saw Punch standing in the middle of the room. waving his Candy around. poem.
A-Bld three hearts, Consider. ing the fact that you passed over two clubs, this is as good a band and as good a major suli now, Being conservativo to inter as your partner can possibly ex- pect you to have. You must be
VIGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)
If driving in heavy traffic, be sure safe at three hearts, and if North
23)
has a sound re-opening double,
to
he will rafse you to game,
TODAY'S QUESTION
ful of the other fellowt He may not be a reckless one.
24-Oct. LIISICA
(Hopt. There are apt to be Imitations anything you try to do now, so don't expect too much. Follow routine.
The bidding is the same as in SCORPIO (Oct. 21-Nov. 22) Continue to be conservative in all question just answered,
You,
He ww reciting a
O Pin, O Pini How very thdr You are, O Pin Knef omi Hanid were sur-
that he
a
Knant said: "A pin is just piece of wire with a head at ane end and a sharp point at the other.""
Mr Punch was silent for a moment or two. "My dears," he don't really appreciate a pin rally sold, "I can see that you way It'e much
more than just д piece of wire with a head at a sharp point at one end and the other. It's a magnificent in- vention."
Make Left-over Turkey Into Tasty Dishes
By ALICE DENHOFF
THAT to do with that Place bones in large kettle with
bones); add alleed raw carrotą) í minced small onion, 1⁄2 tsp pepper, tap. salt, tsp. dried pareloy dales, 14 tsp. powder. cd sage and 1 anali bay leaf. Bring to boil and simmer, covered, for 2 hrs,
ly not the same old turkey hash or turkey sandwiches again!
are
To help you out in this annual dilemma, here some suggestions for turn- ing those left-overs into fine fare, such as Turkey Ple with Sage Cruat,
TURKEY PIE
green
Sauto 3 tbsp chopped pepper and 4 c. sliced muah- rooms in 2 tbsp butter. Add 2 c. chopped cooked rice and 2 tbsp, chop pimiento, stirring to blend well. Place in bottom of
gressed
casserole, Arrange 1 c. prepared diced stuffing on rice and top with 8 c, diced cooked turkey. Pour 2/9 c. gravy over all. Bake 15 min, in 350 F Over Cover with crust out bakso 12-15 min. longer in 450°F oven ar till crust is gold brown. Serves 6-0. Itycu do not have enough gravy left, cream of mushroom or creams of chicken soup may be added to make the right amount.
To prepare the crust, mix and sift together 2 c. sifted all- baking purpose flour, tsp. powder, 1⁄2 tsp. salt und 1⁄2 tsp. powdered sage, Cut in c. shortening, until consistency of coarse meat. Add 2/3 c. water and stir quickly just until dough forms-goft but not sticky,
floured Turn out on lightly board and pat or roll to size to At top of casserole. Make 1 or
3 slits in centre of dough, Place and bake on top of casserole us above,
TURKEY SOUFFLE
If you're a good hand with a Bouffle, then perhaps you might want to use some left-over turkey for this fine dish,
4. mince the To serve medium onion and cook? ›In tbsp. butter for 5 min. without browning. Add 3 tbsp, flour, then 4. scalded milk, stirring sauce reaches constantly unți)
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the boiling point. Add 3 yolks, well beaten with dash of cayenne or curry, isp, salt, 1⁄2 tsp. pepper and 1 c. minced, cooked turkey; cool.
Finally, fold in a stly beaten egg whites, Turn into battered souffle dish, set in pan of hot water and bake at 350°F. 40 min. This should be served
at once.
TURKEY SOUP
Remove bay leaf and bones. Chill and skim off fat, Add salbi
to taste. Bring to boll and add turkey meat, 1 c. peas, 2/3 raug rice and 1⁄2 c. chopped mush rooms. Simmer 18 to 20 min. until rice is tender. Tiny dump- lings may be cooked in the one-dish soup, if desired, for meal, Makes about 11⁄2 qts.
Smart Sports Wear
created
Vincent Mohnert this waterproof beige poplin Jacket for ski wear,----Agence France-Presse.
Household
Tips For Holidays
FOR
OR today a few house- hold hints, holiday and
hope otherwise, that we may prove helpful to you.
There are few things that are peakler to get rid of than the beedles that drop from tree and It's a good homemaker who greenery decorations. If you try utilises every last scrap of food, to sweep them they elude you 50 here's a recipe for turkey and scatter. If you try to brush soup that makes use of the them up, they stick to the bones and skin of the gobbler. | bristles. And after all the effort,
things do look Remove any meat from the just when bird, and set aside, Break bones. little tidler, you still and some under the rugs, on the rugs and on the floor,
MAGAZINE
"Well, I'll tell you. Before real pins were invented and folks wanted something to pin) things
together, they used thorns."
"Thorns?"
exclaimed Hanid. "Regular thorns like you find on fore bushes and blackberry bushes and thistles?"
"Perhaps... they used even longer thorns. And sometimes they used even stranger things in place of pins."
Knart and Hanid wanted to know more about this,
Mr Punch said: "People mado pins out of little fish bones. Oh, learn that. But fish bones are I know you're surprised to naturally sharp and when they aro dried and a little head is carved on them; they are quite as good as ordinary pins, But even the kind of pins we have were first made long, today shadow-children
of long ago, long before any us were bom,"
What
Punch to prised, on coming closer to holding a pin in his hand. A Valuable Assot "A pin is a wonderful thing," he said.
*The isvo looked
your actions or you may find some South, hold: Spades 8-2, Itearts smiled. dificulty has to be faced.
|Q~J~D~7-8-6-3, Diamarida K-
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)--
It driving today, keep your eyes 7-2, Club 3,
on the road. Otherwise you could
be involved in an accident.
SS WORD
1. Secret about the rick,
(10)
8. Pénélope's ending, (0)
v. Theron a famous placo'.
10.
for it la Parts, (5)
3. Jacket for a drug-taking
Zachman? (0)
6. LANpart of the
watch you can
buy new ? 10, #3
never
7. Wet sporran (axing.).
often hear about 19. tèt i marked snimal (
Wild ones "sown, estly)
18. Ha para pourt, (6)
11. Party në tüm avsniđe. (7))- 16. Grupta of literner famo,
14. Problem for any Govern-
ment,
15. There's a white one on
many sign. (4)
18. Únarkoter in the rowİNT
Doluma ↑ (8)
19. Oxuse harm, though al
30, 2018 Mya "ció, ahead.”
Down
2. Bo back in rof, (6)'
3. Bmail" bredie, for each
way men. (I
volved in a bering.
17. The tribesmen in
A
trim, pious land.
What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
at each
other
CHESS PROBLEM
By A. CHIC00
Black, 10 pieces.
and
"Didn't we always have pins, Mr Punch?” Knart” naked.
"Oh, no" said Mr Punch, "Then what did people uso?”
I always wanted to
Rupert and the Magic Ball—5
the days
by Rupart
zant." On Christmas
·
solts of bis excitement be sleeps soundly, 1563 karly in the morning'
ha la awalentiad by something land- Lon" kla; bed. Looking cup he 'we Afound parcel, tied many timmanwichi ytring and carrying
Mr. Funch was reciting a poem to the pin ha held.
now." sald Knart, "is why do pins have heads?" ́·
Here
Is one
way to
A
Cif-
currrvent them. After you havo
swept or brushed up the mase of needles, dampen, a „BOLE!“. thick, cióth, bỳ" wringing it out in solipruds. Rub this: over the floor and carpet and sep how the needles catch into the cloth and lodge there. You will be able to clean them out in short order
Instead of finding them
in odd corners for months to this is a good come. Incidentally, way to pick up those dangerous splinters such as you get from broken tree ornaments.
The
cloths used should be put to soak immediately in lukewarm suds instead of being put aside for the general household wash. Just soak for an hour or so, de- pending upon the amount 8011
Flowers are beautiful, but the tiny blemishes that falling petals sometimes leave on table tops,
aro not.
For a quick pick-up, a soapy Mr Punch was about to an- cloth rubbed over the speckled tio swor, then noticing that Hanid surface will often remove scored eager to answer Knart, farks and leave the wood an ho let her speak.
smooth as now, Follow up with a "If pins didn't have heads," clear damp cloth and thou a day. sho said to her brother, "and one. Finally, apply a new cout you tried to pin two things to- of furniture polish or wax, snu gether, the pin would go right there you are, through is 1 didn't have a The cooking stove gets a big workout at this time of year. So in between times to keep the burners
top emelenge at move grease from gas Hove topt by boiling them : for minutes. in soapy water.) the burners dry out betoro rinse them, thoroughly
placing, is
head.
Handless Needles
Knart said
bo understood, "Noddies have no heads, go right through. "Zagat
yewald Hanid, and they pull a thread after them. They have eyes, M
"Plis-have heads," said Mir To clean the ex Punch. And neodles have eyes, ; siciliats and rosters They're both quite wonderful, at this time, fill You may think nothing at all water and leg. when you lose a pin. You may minutes. Finishi say: "Oh, there's Alyard doctors and on dilempest: one around?, bui 2 juni