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"This getting up and going to work every morning breaks up my whole day."
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BY. THE. WAY
by
Beachcomber
AVERYBODY who is anybody -and there is anybody who is not somebody, he ought to be on show at a circus-everybody Is talking about the new boller for railway engines, which will use the steam twice.
Prodnone: The same steam?
Myself: Obviously. If it was diferent steam the second time, the whole idea would be
boller Jaughable. The
would morely be using a second lot of
12
steam, which always docs, anyhow. Such 1 measure of 13 now proposed economy as should soon wipe off the losses of the railways. The Coal Board in would not be £17,400,000 debt if it could resell wed enal at the increased price. Use that lot again, Sid! IT is all z queation of condensa4 – 1 tion. The used beam is altered through the prettiest little gadget you ever saw, Into a double condenser. After a moment in its new home it is ready to be used a second
time. An automatic plunger projects prostor, out it
● JACOBY, and, hey ON BRIDGE
Point Count Isn't The Whole Answer
By OSWALD JACOBY
comes, the same steam, not looking a day older, and hissing sa merrily. Talk of pressure!
You never saw such a thing in
Time life!
was when your steam grew sible from use. But just look at this stuff! My
word! "Thank you, Mr Engine
for a most interesting driver,
"Not at all, sir. Thank run.' the boiler."
I would be hard to the Certified correct
correct bid In today's
by point count alone.
has only 14 points in high cords, yet he must jump to game when party North responds with one trump.
South HERE should be a chartered accountant 1 every big nowadays. The most no-important item in any descrip- tion of the aevels seems to be
enst of the whole
П
You might find the right bid the if you added 2 points for "Mr So-and-So's singleton, 1 point for a double But ton, and 1 point extra for each
in
ound sum.
a
affair £15,000 party." sticklers for accuracy are
be Hobbed off with trump over four solid suit.
want We
to read This would bring the count up
"Mr So-and-So's £15,321 79. to 20 points. An easier method 4d.
party...
... £17 6s, 3d. was is just to count the tricks. South collected
on the should
expect to
about unused, win
food Arm eight netual tricks, and it is not cater
of
W08
for
and
11
Bs. 8d.
Pg
£114 unreasonable to play dummy for... cuts of lighting, he one ur two tricks for the re- extra glasses,
waiters, beer sponse of one na-trump. The for detectives, cigarettes, cigars, total ought to produce a play dance bands, and floor polish for game...
are being computed by Messrs. Gossett, Peckfold, Binsbury and Hirst, Chartered Accountants."
There is nothing diffleult abont the play for the game contract. South must know how to take a simple finesse, and he must not be a miser,
In passing
has always been fun ex- West opens the jack of clubs,plaining to a foreign visitor dummy plays the queen, and to this quntry that the only East wins with the ace, East place in which on Englishman returns the queen of spades, can drink at a bar when be
pleases
the House Commons, where the imbecile drink laws are made for every- body else. But there is to be second example of
WEST
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NORTH
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North-South vul.
South
West North
1
Pass
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1 N.T. Pass
South
Pass Opening lead—♣3
Exit
Pass Pass
puts up the king, and West wins with the ace. Bad fuck, so far, with both black aces in unfavourable position.
West continues with the ten of spades and then with a third space. South ruffs the
third
spade, and it is here that he must avoid playing like a
a miser. South must ruff with the eight or nine (or any card from the eight up to the queen), but he must not ruff with the five of trumps.
lowly
The reason becomes apparent
South dummy's
as the play continues. leads a low diamond king, discards a diamond on the king of clubs, and lends the seven of hearts from the dummy for a finesse. East plays a low trump, and soul must play the of trumps and thús állow the lead to stay in the dummy. Then dummy, con, lend another trump to repeat the finesse, and the contract is brought safely in.
♥÷CARD.Ser13844
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South
1 Heart
Weel "North
PASA 2 Clubs
2 Hearte Pass
2 Spades
T'ass Pas
You, South, hold;
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1955.
YOUR BIRTHDAY
THURSDAY, AUGUST 11
By STELLA
to wed.
In
all
WOMANSENSE
Pare
Disdain Is So Old-Fashioned In 1955
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BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
The Vegetables Quarrel
-They Love Neatness but Morning Glory Doesn't-
By MAX TRELL wasn't among themselves that they were quarrelling. They all HIRPIE Sparrow. come to the, get along very well with one.
window sill for his bread another. "democracy"
Oh no, they were crumbs which Knart and Hanid, quarrelling with an outsider." the shadow-children with the Kart and Hania wanted to turned-about names, always know who the outsider was.
After spread out for him.
the "Morning Glory, that's who it Chirple had eaten enough of crumbs to take the edge off his was!" said Chirple. Then he par
"Well, doned himself while he ate a few Knart said:
:more crumbs because his break- wis catching up Sparrow this about fast-appetite
He knew with him again. that happened in the
no longer
to travellers arriving et or departing from an airport. One day someone
appetite, it worth while to treat the ordinary Englishman, Chirpie, any news?
will think
even if he does not use airports, as a reasonable human being.
Oh, I say, look here!
A
VERY small politician had harxlly begun to address the
meeting when a fishmonger at the side of the hall shouted, "He should have been thrown bacje!" "Or ploughed in,” cried a market gardener.
CROSSWORD
Асгов
1, 1 gale miat, (anng.) (9)
7. Spot for fritain on the way to
India. (4)
B. Homething deep, here I (B) 10. Otherwisn tea. (3)
11. Kentucky has ons too 1 (0) 11 Talkative. (D)
18. Kind. (4)
14. Drink, (a)
17. He an old cowhand, maybe. (8)
20. Printen of opera, (3)
22. Go to it, sluggard. (3)
2. Music of the night, (9)
24. Put on a show, (9)
Down
Gamer rain indag.); (9) lead differently. (6)
1. tent,
6. Cain brother, (8)
River of Summer, (4)
D. Netting, chen.
(forward n
ITILISMICA
· TODAY'S QUESTION, – EDITIER
#The bidding là the same as.In the question" dat’ahoworod. You,
must tell Chirple everything
to
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the
"Now the cause of the quarrel,” whole neighbourhood. That was Chirpie resumed a few minutes because he flittered about every later, "between Morning Glory where, spoke everybody, listened to everything and never and forgot anything that teresting.
was
A Bit of News
the Vegetables in in vegetable garden was this. The
"There is a bit of news," Chirple salt
vegetables loved things to be Glory wouldn't go! I've got my
neat. The
Pens
and Boons grow
roots here," she said. I'm stay neatly on poles.
The others ingl grew in clumps and hills and
Hanid said: "I do hope those "News?" Chirple sald, "now furrows but they all stood in vegetables got to settling their
rows like soldiers on parade. just let me see. Yes, there is a bit of news. There was a big And here right in the middle of quarrel with Morning Glory."
it's settled already," said quarrel in the vegetable garden. their parade grew Morning Glory Chirple. "I fitted over the gar- I was there myself when it hap- spreading this way and that pened."
way, up and down, and under den early this morning just after And of tangles and the sun rose. The vegetables "A quarrel in the vegetable and over, full
were as happy as can be. garden?" said Hanid in a very knots and curlycues, as slipshod
right there was Morning Glory
with her arms surprised volca "Who was having and untidy and helter-skelter as
in among them the quarrel?"
a kliter in a tangle of yarn.”
full of the most beautiful blue flowers that those Peas and "Everybody," said Chirple, “I
She Wouldn't Leave
and Onions Beans and Carrots and BearS mean, Pons were,
and Tomatoes wers, and Carrots were, and To-
"What did the vegetables do?" and Cucumber matoes were and Cucumbers and Knart demanded.
and all the rest of them hnd Onkoms were, and Radishes were
"What did they do?" repeated Those vegetables wouldn't have ever seen. It was like a bouquet! they all were!"
"My
Hanid!
goodness!"
exclaimed
But what is the reason for her ready smile and new vita
because lity? I suspect it is she is allowed to possess a few curves. She looks like a girl who occasionally enjoys a good square meal. I find her more
than
ber attractive looking predecessors,"
Help Children Develop A
more Good Sense Of Humour
W
By GARRY C. MYERS, Ph.D.
*
con-
WHILE # graduate "Not when you think you are, Notes on the recent collections;
student, I was invited Dad, but when you don't know Givenchy
dis. was frankly
you are funny." Then she took flying saucer to the home of my teacher, the risk of citing a low appointing. The hat of fur and swansdown was the late James McKeen Cat- crole instances. I hope I men- too grotesque, clothes suggesting tell. During lunch, the sured up well then: too strongly a fancy dress bal
tons dyed to sembles.
÷
We don't, of course, want our
In-
con-
Many of his dresses look like dishes near Professor Cattell loooo chemises caught in with began to move mysteriously, children to carry their feelings We can help draw threads in the most un-much to the delight of the on their sleeves, expected places. But
thent, most by keeping our feel. did children who were present, ings off our own sleeves. like his kidskin jackets stamped with gold and some metal but A few of them had rigged stead of joking at the child's match their en-up a clever mechanical de expense, let us act a good
vice that did the trick. Dr example by enjoying jokes
ourselves. Lanvin's Spanish designer and Mrs Cattell greatly Castillo Jengthens his day enjoyed.it and wore cuger dresses to 14 inches from the to learn how the device
Mether might begin on Dad, ground to balance a new slen worked. der line. For later in the day
inducing the children to skirts drop to the
When our youngest son was spire with her. When Dad has quilted cocktail conta and still in school, he once said of proved his skin hus thickened, evening capes
look like satin a teacher, "She can take a joke he and the children might work elderdowns
feather- or trick on herself and laugh on Mother. The next and last and are weight and reversible.
with us about it. She never step could be hardening the An unusual fabric mixture
children children. But usually we parents gels mad." All the was flannel and chiffon in the seemed to have high regard for stort on the child long before we are well-seasoned "to take same shade. Other interesting this teacher. materials
y-ribbed many werd
Even a tot only three or four it ourselves. tweeds.
notes Amusing
were may like "to fool" his mother or the neck-size belts, resting on father now and then. How won- when the the hips, and fan-like hostess derful is his reward pyjamas with such wide pleats joke is taken well, whether that they appear as a sldrt for is four or fourteen. each leg.
ankles. His
.
he
Unfortunately, we parents are inclined to laugh at the child, he is very beginning when young. Usually the effect. Is very bad, almost irreparable at times. When we really under- stand and appreciate the grow- We'll have a greater se ́se of ing chiki, nothing he says
or
New Salad Dressing compan' ship willi our cl.ddren does seriously--and he usually
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if we can enjoy their humour at is very serious-makes us feel our own expense. The trouble is like laughing. Want to give Russian dressing that we parents usually take But when he attempts to bo. Try adding ourselves too seriously to laugh humorous, however crude his especially at our endeavours, let us try to enjoy sherry wine, as in this recipe at ourses.
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We are ofte
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The family circle becomes a then in her early closely knit unit, when it is the said to me, “Daddy, you appreciative audience, always
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Chirple Sparrow. They ordered 1ct Morning Glory go away for REMNANTS-ODDMENTS
Morning Glory to go chase her, anything in the world!".
self.
"But let me make this clear," "Go climb up a walll' cred That being the end of his Chirple Sparrow went on. "It Beans. Go crawl behind the "nows," Chirple Sparrow ate the
porch!" said Corrots. Just get out rest of the crumbs, nodded efour row shouted all the rest cheerful good-morning and dow ef the Vegetables. But Morning away.
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