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JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Good Defence Isn't Always Possible
By OSWALD JACOBY
QOUTH shouldn't make
Se contract in today's
hand against perfect de- fence. However, there's no reason for bridge player to assume that the up- ponents are going to defend perfectly. When the hand was played, South gave the enemy chance
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to we Wrong, and they obliged him.
West opened" the four of
EDITORI PRced agaviče, INC.-NUEVA YORK
THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1955.
"He's got the know-how and enthusiasm. Too bad
he isn't a bit heavier.
hearts and declarer won the firy YOUR BIRTHDAY............ By STELLA
trick with
dummy's queen: in
crder to lead a spade towards his hand. When South played the king of spades, West won with the ace and led another heart.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25. BORN today, you should learn you are
CROSSWORD
Across
1. They go from another, 19)
De door · 10
A. Troubled water soother, (3)
Belt-paddled by succomon · (5) Panniel due ()
AL AQIDEN the
mostly. (5)
- relata.
19, Brutal ten—it was all over the
wall, (9)
16. Neck là the modern expression.
__(5)
U khe washer
17. Linked with Woodent (31
rhyme. (3)
20. Put the lid on this for a nately device. (4) 22. Cunning. (3) Upper House man, thi
24. Dropped from Tourney's end
ostad. IBI
Down
1. Two Down in aften given to Mark & Fuccesul one. (V)
2 Girl plucks. this, often, fram
man's heartstrings (4) Not a lespull-it describes
4. The old
apt to retreat into"
Declarer won this in dummy
tu conquer your moods, or seclusion. also, Barring miraculous luck
.else It is possible that your You women are inclined to with the clubs, he needed a dia-
emotions will make it mond trick or two to make the
difficult be more practical and will settle for you to organise your life. for your happiness in finding a contract. Furthermore, in estab- lishing the diamonds he wanted You have a strong personality, good husband, planning and
this
characteristic heading a fine home and taking out West's diamond Yet, honour first (assuming that the makes you subject to so much care of your children to whom ace and king were split). Hence self-analysis that you become you will be devoted. This can
cynical and then overoptimistic. be a satisfying lifetime career. declarer immediately led a low. diamond from the dummy.
It is up to you to find the
Among those born on this middle path and stick to it,
..to knock
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A really expert East would hop up with the king of dia- monds. If the king holds, East
of
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West North, East
Pass
Pays
Opening lead-♥+
wants to lead his last heart. If the king doesn't hold, it doesn't much matter whether East has played high or low. The actual East
player wasn't alert enough to put up the king
diamonds
He played low. South
the queen, and West won with the ace. This play knocked out West's last entry to the long hearts. He could lead another heart if he chose, and thus establish his suit, but he would never regain the lead to cash his established
very
CAG (14)
something
French spout him. (4)
b. He must and a buyer to mμke e
deal, (3)
6. This Across is Corridora. (3)
__9. More than a word of praise, 18) 10. 12. Bir to work on. (4)
elephant. (6) 14. Feas Feurranted.
team does
this dependa
on the TOSK (B)
19. Took
Mi-
self bence.(4) 20. Bath, may-
be. (3)
There is a tough of genius date are: Ralph Waldo Emerson, 21. Ex Deris which the stars have bequeathed author: Misch: Levitski, planist; you, but you must discover what Gene Tunney, champion pugilist;
it is and then develop it. Don't Bill Robinson, dancer; Alexander expect that a brilliant ides will Dowie and John R. Mott, re execute, itsell
automatically! formers; Clara Louise Burnham,
You will have to do something author. positive and definite about $1.
To find what the stars have inj
You have great ambitions but,store for you tomorrow, seleef are apt to keep them locked your birthday star and read the inside. You have a rather shy corresponding paragraph. Let and retiring nature and unless your birthday star be your daily you achieve some early success guide.
THURSDAY, MAY 26
making any decision.
GEMINI (May 22-June 21) test all the facts carefully before Ba diplomatic with all on the home front or family dis- cussion could turn into a real argument!
CANCER (June 22-July 23) Use your will power to its greatest extent to overcome minor selbacks at this time.
LEO
23)- (July 24-Aug. Be warned that you must keep an eye open for an exceptional opportunity in order not to miss
out!
VIRGO (ADE. 24-Sept. 23)- today, but self-control can keep There will be upsetting matters
your temper from flaring.
Your
LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)
self-imposed seclusion may become a lite dull. Ex- pand your social interests, cultivate friends.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)-- If you have an important en- gagement make sure that you
cards.
West actually shifted to a club are on time. on the theory that the hearts were now hopeless. This gave South all the comfort and time that he needed. He could win with the ace of clubs and knock
out the king of diamonds. Nothe ing could now, prevent him making his contract. As a mat- ter of fact, South actually made overtrick, since East got
A
caught in a: squeeze."
East would have defeated the
contract if he had stepped up
with the king diamonds
of
the first round of that suit. His
SAGITTARIUS (Nov, 23-Dec. 22)-Take nothing for granted;
BY THE
WAY
By Beachcomber
heart return would have estab-15 the silence of C. Buet Esq. the
lished the suit while West still
had the zee of diamonds. The
defenders would get a spade,
two diamonds, and two hearts.
|♥+CARD, Senten♦
Q-The bidding has been: North East South West
1 Spade Pass
1 Club Past
2 N.T.
You.
Pass
?
hold:
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AXQID What do you do?
A-Bid four spades. This Jump indicates that the Dades, are woll bet that the first move to- wards a slam must come from North. If North has enough aces and kings to provide a slam op- posite such a hand as this, he will bid again; otherwise he will paT,
TODAY'S QUESTION {_ The bidding is the same da in the question just answered. You, South, hold:
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calm before another storm, an- uther chapter in his whirlwind
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20)-Be diplomatic with your loved one today-a seemingly harmless argument could be- come a serious quarrel..
AQUARIUS (Ján, 21-Feb, 19) -Polish off your ambitions and then work hard at achieving excellent them. Aspects are now.
i1
relish this kind o sberry -- and humour. (3)
(4).
CHESS PROBLEM
By J. HARTONG Black, & pieces.
White, 7 pieces.
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)- If you have been careless lately with expenditures, revise your budget and plan to save more.
White to play: mase in two.
Be calm if emotional problems problem:
ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20)- Solution to yesterday's
come to the fore. You сал solve them with common sense:1.
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS
For first aid to rust stains on cut down the electric current white material, rub the juice com
of a freshly cut lemon on the then held the material stáin, over a steaming kettle, and re- peat until the stain or dicappear.
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connecting
SUMMER
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SALADS
By ALICE DENHOFF
dry
paprika, also tsp. mustard. Stir in tbsp. lemon juice and tbsp. larragon
CALADS, sala dressing and and salad accompani ments sing of Summer, so vinegar. Blend into CTCAM. let's work over a song or Makes about 2/3 e. two!
Tomato Sherbet Avocado la n Inder Iden for 2, dne lunchoen.
If desired, one beaten until thick, may blended into the cream.v
yolk, be
To give the dressing, a little more colour and body, sprinkle
To serve 6, pool and pit three ∙ripe avocado. Fill cavity with the tomato sherbet. Top with the paprika over it in bow!. 2 tbsp. of euthor a elicumber
simple green salad with cheese' dressing or a paprika
bacon dressing makes a perfect sour cream dressing. Surve Im- light lunch dish. Use the outer mediately on a bed of crisp leaves of an iceberg salad greeŢIS.
and shred them.
letru.co
To prepare sherbet, combine Make dressing by cutting 3 12. tomato juice with one strips of bacon into bits, and bay
leaf, isp. each onion brown in a skillet undil crisp. and garlic salt, 2 whole Drain off fat and add tsp each salt
cloves, 2 tsp.
Worcestershire
paprika and milled onion, 14 sauce, and 2 tbsp. lemon juice.
isp sugar, tsp. salt and Simmer 10 min. Strata
tbsp. wine vinegar. Mik theroughly, heat slightly, then pour over chilled lettuce.
Salion 2 tbsp. unflavoured gelatin in e," "cold water, dla- scive In hot tomate Juice. Freeze until mushy.
Remove from tray and whip with a fork. Fold in, 2 stifly beaten egg whites.
Return to tray and freeze un- til firm, stirring gently every half hour until mushy.
the
For
cucumber-cheese dressing. mash A. one small package cream cheese. Blend in slowly 2 tbsp. olive oil, then tbsp. kimon juice,
Fold in tsp. salt, black pepper and 14 powdered. dry mustard. until fluffy.
tsp.
tsp. Beat
Grate coarsely one large cu- cumber, retaining some of the cucumber liquid. Chill unti ready to serve.
Sour Cream Dressing
To prepare the paprika sour dressing, place in bowl cream
c. thick sour cream.
more than two plugs to a Mix well together,
stains
more outlets,
Have enough electrical outlets so that lights and appliances B-B6; threat 2, KIPXP.need no makeshift wiring. Ex-
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)— } ? ... R-B7; 2; QPXP; 1 Caution is indicated, for your PX KTP, QP; 2, PB4; 1 own sign is somewhat depressed RxP; 2. Kt (K12)xP; I Be as diplomatic as possible. KixP: 2, Kt (K3)XQBP.
tension cords strung over the rugs, along baseboards for con- siderable distances, and
windows
or
doors, not
Dver
only
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Language of the Bees
-Pixie O'Scowl Says They Talk Humdrum-
By MAX TRELL
NARF, the shadow-boy with the turned-about ..walked down. .to
KNA
name,
"What's humdrum?" ask- ed Knarf.
Language of Bees
Pixie O'Scow! gave Knari a dark look. "You can't be that
courtship?" Or are Mr and Mrs O'Cheer Hull where the ignorant? What language do Slopcorner stuck with ал un-Pixies lived. There he found, you suppose, bees talk to each
marriagvable daughter?
Last week Minse was Plastie Pixie O'Scowl sitting on other?"
2
Litter-Bin Queen of Moffieborough,
with bt that this implies. She daisy, reading a book.
deposited Ühe first used bus ticket, handed to her by the Mayor, in the
Tasteful receptable. Chears broke
out, and the town band 4 played- “Serafina" so loudly that the open-
Learning By Heart
The truth of the matter
ing words of a speech by the local was that Pixie O'Scowl
M.P. were, luckilý, inaudible. · A. re-
porter who asked Mimaie a question wasn't reading. He
reply, "We are just friends." The
Knari said he didn't know what language becs used when they talked to each other.
"Humdrum," sald .Pixie
They
4. Scowl.
about Suet received the sensational studying, for every now and scues printer left out the thell, Pixie O'Scowl would O'Scowl, "If you'
curso bim for a merry rogue!
Ostersund
Handelskamrarnas
doyens
Jernkontoret
Nyheter pasien daybladet; Kemiskammoindu, vel forbund, Sjohal bildnings bundet boras. (Translated into Swedish from the
Portuguese.)
Mental Awareness
ROFESSOR FALLOWFIELD
AQU108852076 442 writes: It was not Borchmann
What do you do?
Answer TomORTOW
TARGET
HUWA
words of fuar letters
or more can you nako Trom EDA letters in the square ONL the right tio moking each word the letters in. each of the
SEN
ABT.
I
T.O
but Reculver who said. "Awareness
talk "ham-
And that's what you're was studying?" said Knarf.
"My dear boy," said Pixle don't know humdrum, you can't talk 16 shut the book, shut his eyes, bees**
"Why do you want to talk to and mumble some words Lover and over again as if bees?" asked Kaart,
Pixie O'Scowl waved Knar trying to learn them by off with annoyance. "Go wayin
heart.
It was at this moment that Knarf said: "Hi, Pixie O'Scowl!"
The Pixie opened his eyes sth a starter
is the prelude to all active thought" Go 'way!"
thus laying the foundation for Dr
Gripp's theory of turit but decisive
value-consciousness. Obviously, if
"Eut I just came to pay
thought-concepts are synthetised, it you, a visit," said Knarf.
can only be by purely relative
method of sciection. What Professor
Needleworth, for whom I have the
"I'm busy," said Pixie
highest admiration, said yesterday O'Scowl in a rude voice. about actually proves that he is "Come back some other fool enough to follow Barbauld
rather
than Rottenhaus. But pertime, preferably when I'm
haps his contemptibly silly attitude not here!"
to the formulae of correlated value
is a pose. Symthetization is a dan-
gerous weapon in the unscrupulous
"Now that's not a nice
hands of a convinced florchmannist thing to say to me," said
He loved Ada
.. PATIENT who carved
Knarf. You're hurting my feelings. What are you
Ainitials on a table in a doctor's studying out of that book?"
waiting room said, when reprimand
small squares may be used ones only. Each word must contain the large Jetter in the centra square," "Rad there shtat be at least one nine-letter word in the list. No plorsie; по foreign words; to proper namene sted, TODAY'S. TARGET: 29 words. good... 26. words, very, pood: 41 words, wzcellent. ¦ Boluzion LomoITUR.
YESTERDAY'S: B.QLUTIONA "Armiger, pama germ gleam gram premiat prim prime image_tinapo lame lamer tine loam meil male PLOTA AREATA-meals - miless -mila mirape mira' moil moira. molar moje moral „moraju more moret Dada, chen: ramis · realm· ́rcom TEUTTA: TEMOJɑ. BIGMAEQUE FATH
"But the table belongs to the
"Humdrum,"
public, doem't it now that the O'Scowl. State runs the service?". A hore pithy answer was given by the patient who scrawled on the wall of Harley Street specialist's consult-
replied Pixie
A puzzled expresalon came
ing room, "I Love Ada, you over Knarf's face. What
really can't go an like this said was that you said you were the specialia "But it's true," said
the ran with an offended air, "I do studying?"
Pixie
Perle O'Scowl was sitting on a daisy reading a book.
of
To Go With Salad
Toasted cheese bars go well with a green salad, br with tomato salad.
3
Cut a lot of day-old breed into one-inch bars....
In top of double boller, melt 1/3 c. butter or margarine and one lb. sharp, processed cheddar cheese. Stir until smooth. Add 2 tbsp. minced pimlenics. 2 tsp. powdered, dry mustard and
tsp. paprika.
Dip bread slices lato cheese mixture, Broil on baking sheet at moderate heat, with oven
until cheese door open, melted.
: For a
thick, spicy dressing. salads and for good both for stuffed tomatoes, place c. thick sour cream in a bowl. Mix 2 tsp. sugar, 2 tsp. salt, 16 tsg.
Isp. cach onion and
celery salt and tsp. on
Cry powdered, Gradually stir in tbsp. each
mustardi.
tsp. lemon juice and rider vinegar. duplex outlet shows you need salt, tsp. black pepper, Blend this into cream mixture,
tsp. each onion salt, celery salt Makes 2/3′′ c. dressing.
Special
OPPORTUNITY
PEPITA NAPPA OSTRICH
de-
sald Pixie
BORNEO
JI
the language "It's also magpies." said Pixie O'Scowl.
"But what's it called?" asked Knarf.
"It's also the language of little boys who have nothing to do," said Pide O'Scowl.
"But what's called!" he said. "I'm busy!"
manded Knart. But Knart didn't go away,
"Chatterbox," O'Scowl
now put away the 'Scowl. humdrum book. He took out another book. Again he started... An Amused Pixie. studying it.
After that, Knart didn't say and Khari, interrupted him. "What any InUTE. He turned are you studying now?" asked walked away, leaving Pixie
O'Scowl to his studying. Knart.
'But "The language of monkeys," was Pixie O'Scowl studying? said Pixie O'Scowl
Kharf wondered, for when he a "Oh," said Knarf. "That must glanced back he was almost be interesting. What's that sure he saw. Pixie O'Scowl
smiling.. language called?"
Rupert and the Cold-cure-1
The weiter is very wintry Soow lying shick over every thing and Rupert is wondering how he is going to amuse himself, when there comes a knock on the door. Why, ir Men. Badger. Do come Now" willingways Mrs. Bear. Thank you
love her to distraction. Then "Humdrum," repeated you must declare your love, elsa-
Where replied the specialist un Pixie O'Scowl
-Seelingly, -"Call yourselva doctor?“,
insured the "kovar, as he went out. you go away
but mustn't." Mrs Badger replies. "I have a lot to do and I've left- Bife home nor feeling very well, 1 wondered if Rupert would and cheer him up until 1 seturn. "Of course I willes Rupert as he runs for his cose and seat, FAEL RIGHTS ZŁEKRYEN
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