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1. Plie the hay here, (4)
3. Aims for a forecast, (5)
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CRITICS
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BY. THE. WAY
by Beachcomber
of Narkaver and ultra-modern system of educs- tion must be feeling abushed today, |A headmaster 23 în adcrest, come out boldly for treedoen.
Among the neare remarkable of his emberances war dabe; “if a bay
| doesn't want to Jesus mensarmatiei.
| that's nobody's businem but
|own,” A blunt hit to parents, not to interfere. Firating chain-smoking
| PANTYDANÉ: Among the younger boys, |the "Bendraster suggested a rule to curb the habit. But he was "ouĖ– voted by ars enormous majority of the boys." And, of cou
"mounta
| headerscaten's
the
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more than any, boy's vote." In this jschool there is no religions.
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ca:156 the children are too busy aving to think about God." I can
} weil "believe that,
Ground. (9) 17. A prayer (8) 13. The drink is cut short,, (3) 14. A tale bore is often over this 17. Pety without sincerity makes
an ancle, (4)
20. The pool may be in lakeland,
22. Memories often are. (9) 23. Acid-penned-artist dom. (4)
Doublel
KI African
terrorist. (3)
15. Bombastic, fellow does. (4)
24. Social climber may Achieve
high one. (5)
Dowb
1. This will soon be compulsory
'on all cara, (9)
1. Tan to 30 Across and you get
a Spanish rhythm instrument with Angertip control, (8)
3. This indiestes
hat the
B
Acres are IT propitious. ((7)
4. Not just a rewr. (4)
5. An after a patise in converan
tion. (4)
6. The end of 2 Down. (3)
1. Oors. (1)
B. There is something heart-rend-
ing about his sound, (4)
11. Do you mind if someone calls.
you this when it's time to go home ? (3)
15. You can stand this in good
company. (6)
10. Before due, put down two points of the compass, (5)
18. Restricted one is marked by a
rondalam. 141
19. Sounds
the itno's
jald (4)
20. But a turn-
about means
that you 2011 a trainD the wind (4)
21. Find
the
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these make the play. )
on the day whas the boys vote in What happens to the hastmaster li block for no more lessons of any sort After all, it's none of his business.
Virtuosity
THE
to rush to a psychiatrist every 'time ons's hat slips on one's head, the nonly result will be painful BRL)= Consciousness. There are more, tri- parent *Things straight hat.
Yours truly, Arlette Bibbing
JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
This Contract is Very Difficult
"By OSWALD JACOBY A CRITIC the other day repeated
the old phrase about on actor TOURNAMENT experts will
Bradshaw TOU sound interesting. So could 1 if my assure you, if you ask them,
who could make even
audience consisted of people who wanted to catch trains. Trebault,
talls the story of In his Merneirs.
an officer on Massena's, staff who harringt and his fused to make
audience ery by reciting the names of the months. With March, Tears would come
with Saxta bir eyes, April his voice would gäller. and when he got to August he would break down completely, sobbing AT A though his heart would. break.
a suburban literary Society
| Shropshire, an extract from the List of Huntingdonshire Cabmen was IN
called poets **Frastration.” The applause www
lukewarm. Many were puzzled.
2
The slipping hat
DEAR SIR
who
The suppestion that a m12.06.24 wears his hat at a jaunty angle is trying to be saucy with
i girla is absurd. The sauciest young. I ever kneo wore hử hat тая
|perjectly straight on his head, and
my uncle, & verger
for 39 years,
peneraliis ta
always were his hat |one car.
almost ever
Tractation
One cannot these matters. And if
one is going
KDITONE PRESS SLAVICE, ING.-NUEVA YORK_
"Well! Did you see how she looked at you, George?”
that the most difficult of all con- Many tracts is one no-trump. game and slam contracts are absolute lay-downs, but you will seldom play the hand at one one no-trump unless the strength is so evenly, divided that it's very hard to tell which side can make a majority of the tricks. In today's hand, for example, the high-card strength equally divided-Bach-side-bad 20 points in high cards. The
went struggle. sometimes
and sometimes the other,
way
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Opening lead-- 3
when his hand was played in the recent national tournament
in Atlanta.
At many tables, West opened
the deuce of hearts. This gave
South the chance to develop three heart tricks immediately, and declarer usually made his
contract without trouble.
At one table, West opened the fourth-best club on the theory that he preferred to keep his high hearts for use ne entries later on. This opening lead struck oil. East held the first trick with the queen of clubs, held the second trick with the king of clubs, and continued the suit South won the third trick
ing a small heart from the
YOUR BIRTHDAY....... By STELLA with the ace of clubs, discard-
Ing
THURSDAY, MARCH 31
BORN today, you possess outstand. tml taleria and A must do all in your Dowe develop them do the strmont. You are incized to be rather restles with your lot and will fit from one thing to another. hoping to find something that will bring you com-
The
tep-sometimes in a brooding if melancholy which you, yoursell, hardly understand. Learn that the latter means yra probably do not have enough cultural interests your life. Widen your horizon of in- terests by what goes on around you. Love and romance will play an im- portant role in your lifa, 20 be very
Among
tentment. Just leam that you will never be a hundred percent con- careful in adfecting your manzinge tended. You are too much the de- partner. fectionist and expect the practically
those born on this date impossible.
You like to plan things on a large are: John La Farge, artist; Hayden, scale Since you are also able to composer: Edward Fitzgerald, handle minute detail with mach achnior: Desce phtowner speed and exactness, you should be Pope Pius XI: and WMiam M. Hunt. warned optimest being pushed into cla
a type of work which will explot
FRIDAY, APRIL I
1
ARIES (Mar. 21-Apri 28) Business plana Publicizing them Finish the necessary desk work at toy only impede your objective. the office. so that your week-end -SCURTO (Oct. 21-NOT, will be free for recreation.
Seek emotional bolance so that the wil be taken and happiness on the
on front. It la up to you
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)- Procrastination is not a good sold tion to any problem--especially wi day. Finish the fab!
dummy.
nine of
CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1955.
про
WOMANSENSE=
GLITTER YEAR
SPRING 1853
Paris bringa a
sparkling look to fashion
and furniture.
Paris.
match the sparkle of these spring days, Faris adds a bit more glitter to....HATS, made in natural panama with all the colour concentrated on brims edged round with tiny, many-coloured mirror discs....HAIRDOS, scattered with huge pin-on rhinestones to match earrings made of outsize brilliants................ ŠPIKE HEELS — thirteen centimetres (five inches) high and studded with brilliants......New furniture, ALL made out of sparkling glass.
The new exhibition of contemporary furniture at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris (it is hard to find, because the little museum is tucked away in the Rue de Rivoli facade of the sprawling Louvre) is start- ling a lot of young-marrieds glass who thought that went out with all-white drawing-rooms.
Now they have learned that some of the best-known- interior decorators in Paris are using glass for furniture designed for the new apart. ments which, as in London. are being squeezed into re- constructed houses here.
SPACE-SAVER
of
Left: A plain
·Paszten
hat trimmed with rowS small
coloured
mirror discs.
Right: A Bower-
ed cotton dress
for Spring.
powder and a new-lipstick which is called "rosebud.” One of Robert Ponsart's
They all wear petticoats, space-making ideas is a too-although these are not living-room cabinet made up meant to show. Mademoiselle
The
Paris prices for dresses like shop. Pet buys over here include these range from seven to fifteen twin-sets, cotton dresses, shoes thousand franes (about 27 to and low-priced knit two-pieces £15) but although French from well-known Oxford manufacturers 'are anxious to Street store. export to England, duty, plus purchase tax, plus the store's
THE ANSWER For the women who
can't
-Betty Wilson
COPYRIGHT RESERVED (London Beprasi. ServicH)
Novel Fashion Note
Fruit Basket
SIMPLE BUDGET DISHES
By Alice Denhoff H dishes that are easy on
"ERE are some simple
the budget.
Salmon and - Macaroni Casserole makes a good luncheon or supper dish.
To serve 4, combine 1 c. cooked macaroni, 2 tbsp. butter and 16 tsp. salt. Ar- range in bottom of greased baking dish.
Combine I c. flaked tinned or leftover cooked salmon with 1 tin condensed tomato soup, 1 c. sour cream, top allspice, tbsp. chopped sweet pickle, 4 powdered sage and tsp. tap. dried parsley flakes. Four over madaroni. Bake 20 to 25 min. in 350 F. oven
COTTAGE PIE
Old-fashioned though it may be Cottage Ple still offers one of the nicest methods of using up cooked beef, veal or lamb.
To serve 4, put 1⁄2 lb. chopped, cooked meat in casserole. Add salt and pepper to taste and 1 c. hot water or gravy.
hot
Mix tsp. salt, 1 c.
mlik, tbsp. butter, 141⁄2 tsp. celery garlic salt with 2 c. hot, mashed salt, tsp. pepper, 1⁄4 tsp. potatoes and spread on Gaynida well with
paprika. Bake at 400° F. until bubbling brown.
meat.
CHICKEN FRICASSEE For something special in the line of fricassee of chicken, try the following recipe, which makes to 8 portions.
Have 2 "fryers" of 2% to 3 lb. each. Clean poultry and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
Melt 4 oz. butter in large, heavy frying pan or deep Dutch oven. Turn heat low,
of bottle-green and black Chanel loves the femininity mark-up, would bring prices opaline glass panels.
WORLD of hand-embroidered slips way up past English. prices. cabinet is raised up
on worn under the simplest day. " spindle legs so that the dresses. Her evening dresses whole thing is out of reach
are worn over petticoats afford to buy new spring dresses of 4 femme-de-menage's edged with wide bands of at curent haute couture prices broom.
fragile lace.
which, as one of the top dres And-good idea-an oval-
houses, may average the equiva Handwork is also going
lent
£180 for a sult and shaped opaline glass tray is
from £400 to attached to one leg and it into the summer dresses evening gown, the answer is
to £500 for a
a gala can be swivelled out of the which the French whole that most houses will reserve way under the cabinet when salers are showing a ready. dresses from their collections for it isn't being used as a to-wear clientele. They are their old clients, who can get at the end of the season | handy coffee table.
using lots of flower-printed for maybe a A new emphasis is being cottons vry feminine as original cost.
handbag to continue as medium-sized, put on femininity this well as satin-surfaced cot- · "Even with these reductions a favourite accessory with Ada
chicken to spring. Chanel's mannequins, tons in tender rose-pink, there are still plenty of elegant features fruit and flower cook slowly another 10 minutes,
mannequin-woITY models summer cottons. One line paprika. Stir together gently for instance, don't wear any white, citron-yellow
rouge at all; use transparent peony-red.
and
them
Handbags
New York.
Finely chop 2 medium-sized onlons and spread in pot; add chicken. Cover and saute gently about 10 min. taking care to. brown neither. chicken лог
aquarter of their LOOK for the basket onions
Scale, akin and cut up 4
ripe tomatoes. with 2 tsp.
Mix 3 a thin cream or rich
Frenchwomen who think it well worth while flying to London to decorations almost realistic
top milk with 4 tsp. balding enough to pick.
soda and pour over chicken. Typical of this group, made
Mix gently. Cook, covered. from outsize baskets imported until chicken is thoroughly from Madeira, is a huge square
cooked, about 35 min. basket enamelled in gay yellow- To serve, remove 'chicken... to and ornamented with miniature platter and strain sauce, over oranges and lemons. It comes top of chicken, although whole.
co-ordinated belt of clear Sauce may be served it pre plastic with cluster of the ferred.
BOYS AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Why Trees Undress
-They're Going to Sleep for the Winter-
By MAX TRELL
nights had turned cold THE
and sharp, for it was already spades from his hand West winter. Most of the trees, in
no advantage in covering the garden stood
South now led the
SAW
"Natural?" said Knarf, won- dering at this answer which he didn't quite understand.
"If you were a tree," said Mr Merlin the Magician, you'd with bare want to get rid of your leaves,
"Yes, but
with the king, so he played low branches. Here and there a too," without hesitation. South. let few withered leaves still clung the nine of spades ride, and to the trees. But by and large said Hanid
the leaves had gone away.
East won with the jack. Best returned the eight of hearts, and West put up the queen to force out dumuny's ace.
Declarer didn't know that he could catch the king of spades by just laying down the ace, so he returned the nine of hearts from the dummy in the hope of
mond or heart return
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)~ | guess A really good opportunity ray be offered you toder. Be prepared to make an immediate decision.
Where Do Leaves Go "Where do they go to and why do they go away?" Knarf the shadow-boy with the turned about name
asked his sister Hanid.
"They fall to the ground."
c
we aren't trees,"
"And we never can be trees," said Kaart
"We can take care of that," said Mr Merlin.
He
mumbled something, waved his hand, twirled around one ice, then suddenly on reached out and pulled Knarf Mr Merlin came out from behind and Hanid under his leaf-.
the bookerise where he lived.
"I'll blow your leaves away,” said the wind.
Winter Dreama
this taleart and tenore your personál To And what the stars have in promoting a trick in that suit. Hanid said. "Or the wind decorated-dressing-gown. Initiative and individualem, You ore for you tomorrow, select your
There was West won with the king of blows them to the North or the
a puff of smoke. were born to lead.
birthday star and read the corres- However, you are also a persons of ponding paragraph. Let your birth-hearts and promptly cashed his East or the South or the West. Under the dressing gown every- moody, Sometimes you will be on day star be your daily guide.
last club, dummy discarding & But she didn't know why the thing was dark. But Kharf and
And it plucked them all off. spode.
Reaves should break away from Hanld felt their feet sinking
the with its windy fingers. Some it West could see that a dia- the trees just because winter deeper and deeper into
dropped at the trunk of the ground.
trees. Some it carried over the would came,
And all at once, there they hill and far away. And finally "Somebody must know" why," declarer, so he plumped 22-help
sald Knart.
were, out in the garden, dummy in by returning the king
all the leaves were gone except Just then Mr Merlin the
Mr Merlin was an oak tree, two or three on each tree, of spades. Dummy could cash Magician came out from behind tall and sturdy. three spades but then had to
the bookcase
Knart and Hanid were two where he lived. the best way of leading
was wearing a away from the diamonds.
dressing slender birches, thin and grace-
Let them stay' on,” said Mr gown decorated with (of all ful
The cold winter wind was Merlin. They'll sleep with us! At the end, South guessed things!) oak leaves so Knart and
Good night, until the spring." wrong by leading the jack of Hanid stopped him at once and blowing
The three trees had all their. | diamonds
"Good night until the spring, out of the dummy. asked him why leaves fell off
Hanid Keart and
answered. West won with the queen and the trees or blew away with the leaves,
"But we don't need them," Mr. Then they all went to sleepl returned a diamond, allowing winds just because winter care.
"It's natural," said Mr Merlin. Merlin was saying from deep. Of course, Knart, and fanid At this table, therefore, alert
inside his trunk "We're going woke up in their beds the next to sleep. We have to undress morning They weren't trees defence managed to set the
before we go to sleep. We have my move! Perhaps it was all a contract two tricles.
to take off our
they did under- leaves."
dream. But "Yes, that's right," said the stand why trees undress them- two slender birches. "We have selves of their leaves, before to undress before we go to they went to sicep for the long deep."
winter.
GEMINI (May 22-June 411 A new approach to your work may be the basis for excellent prošta for you in the near future. 22 July CANCER (June Routine will prove the most reward- Just now It often sny thing stagising or venturesome.
CAPRICORN (Dec; 21-Jan. 20) Crett is always Important, to be 231-re you keep yours in the A-1 class!" Pay til hills promptly. Take one they at a time; finish and then go on to the next in that way, you wil, maire the best prom STOR
LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)- month with a "the now Begin positive, agtresalve attitude and you will be able to reip excellent, warda,
VIRGO
(AGE: 24-Sept. Let fact, riot Aation, determine the course of yær We, this month, Save dreams for the serping hours!
LIBRA (Sept 21-Det.
23
Don't minik
too much about your
DUMB BELLS
East to win the last two tricks. AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)
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PISCES (Feb, 20-Mår: 20 Pay close attention to detail at this Ahne and you will discover that it rexily pays dividends.
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four letters or more CHI yan make from the let- tera in the. square of the left? In making each word the JALEARN in each of the “small squares may be used once only. Each word must contatur the inrte letter in the contre square, and there must be at least one nine-letter word in the list. No plurale; se proper namesto foreign wordsmed0*) HAY'S TARGET 17:28. WONDE, POOL: 32-WOLÁS-very good;, 39 words disallent." söfntion': tomorrow+H
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CHESS PROBLEM
By 8. MITRINOVIC Black, 12 pieces.
CARD Sense Q-The bidding has been: In
North
East South
West
1 Club "Pass 1 Diamond Pass
1 Heart Pass
You, South, hold: Spades K- J-2, Hearts 9-7-5-4, Diamonds Q-9-8-3-2, Club 3. What do you do?
A-Bld two bearia. As yesterday's hand, you have only points in high cards, bat you have four-card tramp support and a ́singleton. You might exally Ilus... "game. if you passed.
TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You, South, bold: Spades 8-7-2, Hearts Q-7-5-4, Diamonds K-J 6-3, Clube K-3. What do you
Answer Tomorrow
White, 10 pieces, White to play mate in two.
Solution to yesterday's problems
5 threat
**QxQB; 2, KtXQP (dis ch); 1B (87)XB or F 2. Kt K2 (die ch};
2. Kt Kid (disch)
BXB
K
B2 KR5 (die ch); 1 Kix P. 2, Ktxt (dis ch), etc,
Rupert and the Inventor-3
The faster Rupert moves the he is sure he is being followed, and
faster goes the poppy, always kerp.
when the little bear rounds the
ing a few yarda ahead, din 1 dapest, comer the mischievous puppy
believe you are asking me to have is no longer in sight. ** 1 must ask Lily Duckling and Willie. Mouse i ja pime with you 1"" Rupert laughs.
HAWENCH to spare many they saw where he went," thinks minutes. Where do you want to Rupert, hurrying forward to meet go?" Sauffy puts on speed when his two friends:
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
with
of
oranges and lemons hiding the
LAMB CURRY fastening.. Another, called
Try a curry to take care strawberry parfait, is-enamelled leftover lamb. Melt 3 tbsp. white and covered with lac-butter in heavy skillet; add 3 quered strawberries.
medium onions, coarsely chop- Mita Jonas, the designer of this ped. Cook until onion is line, suggested the basket bags slightly browned. Blend In 2 flour, tsp. salt, add 2. C
until formal cocasions.
Why do women seek the novel mixture bells: Add 3 tsp. curry in accessories?
1.bouillon cube, 3. c. powder, "To be different from other cubed roast lamb. Cover and wonken of course,” she said. simmer 20 min. "They
want !conversation Serve on mounds of hot, piece."-United Press.
cooked rice.
for town wear as well as for in- I TDSP SUrring constantly
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(young) Americe loves
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