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BY. THE WAY.
by Beachcomber
THE CHINA MAIL,^ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1955.
CHESS PROBLEM
By A. ELLERMAN
Black, 11 pieces.
White, & pieces.
WOMANSENSE
Far
East Influence
On
Paris Fashions
Paris winter collections bear the mark of the Orient. This arises from a recent visit of the Peking Opera to France. Clothes, for example, include Turkish caftans, jersey turbans and woollens printed with Persian designt.
By MARIE FONTAINE
to yesterday's
WHEN
White to play: mate in two. HE complaint of a girl'a teuderness for
Solution the tax-payer, father that a suitor said, on vero an artificial lake for spoed-problem: being Introduced to him; "So bonts, a theatre, a race-course, you're her old sausage, are and an art-gallery. A visit by 1, K-15, any; 2, Q, Kt, or P visited France recently, it opposite effect in front, where
of Kidbrooke you?" shows how lack of dignity the boys can wreek a courtship.
public school would fill them The young man should have with pity for the sons of the luken the
of Ernest idle rich." advice Bramak's Thang-LI, "By a ven-
erable clustoni,
10
the esteem of Songs of innocence the maiden's parents
the 19
He said he was a Baronet which to
the suitors
Bankrupted by the war, usually
themselves with apply the
greatest dillgence" The sultor should have said, "It gives this dishonourable
person - expressible satisfaction, border- ing on delight, to be
permitted to make the acquaintance of the venerable sausage who, to the applause of a gratified world, was chosen by the benign gods to constitute himself the father of the exquisite lotus-flower upon whom my
yearning
cye has fallen." You too can be healthy
And on the evening that we met,
Champagne and caviar..
How your norvc-terminals and Abre-zones react to Snibbo, In passing
Were ordered with a nonchalance That proved his noble birth.
So bold and confident ħla glance, He might have, owned the
earth.
Olt, what it must have cost his.
pride!
The shame must haunt him
still;
(ch, or Kt) mater,
• JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
Aggressive Bid Rests On Trump
By OSWALD JACOBY
advising
US
to
bid
π San
"BRIDGE writers are always In manly tones, he asked if I'd aggressively when we have good
Enough to pay the bill. distribution," writes Taken at his word
Francisco correspondent. "Don't these writers ever get caught in THE Raing of a man for pulling the meat grinder? How do they the communication cord stay out of trouble with a without reasonable excuse hand like the accompanying
story of George recalled tha Moore
tragedy? In ค train with Dr Gogarty, Motoroco ewoansd,n' Gogarty,
1
went
"I bld four spades with the hand, got doubled, and down three tricks like
The defenders book two
Moore was admiring a view from the window. "I'd BY doing things on the cheap give £5," he said, "to be able to
man, and look at that view." It is possible to build an up- stop to-date L.C.C. ecconday school "Nothing easier," said Gogarty, for less than a million pounds, and pulled the communication Kidbrooke cost, I believe, a mere cord. When the guard arrived £800,000. Some of the ameni- Gogarty said to Moore, "That tig omitted, in a moment of will be £5."
YOUR BIRTHDAY...... By STELLA
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
cothing-unless you сал cay something nice about a person! Learn to sit and listen while others are speaking.
PORN today, you have keen will be popular with everyone. Dintuitions.
and
you know You are apt to be something of instinctively what you should do a gossip and must learn to say under all kinds of differing cir- cumstances. You have a magne- tie personality and your reason. ing powers, combined with your other gifts, makes your judg- ment practically infallible. You are conscientious about your to get im- duty but are apt patient if there are snags in the operation of your plans. In ask ing co-operation be sure that you are as willing to give much as you take.
Os
It is likely that you will have a varied and interesting life during your early years. There
Never become disappointed ir there are minor upsets in your for they prearranged schedule, will straighten out without too much trouble. Your life should be a happy and successful one.
on this Among those born date are: Tolstoy and Mary. Austin, authors; Edwin LeMare, organist; Ward Stephens, com- posor; Benjamin Vallantine dramatist; Nell Hamilton, aetor;
is considerable travel indicated, Alfred M. Landon, statesman.
and exeltement..
As you grow
To And what the stars have in older, however, you will be more apt to settle down to a store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the more sensible routine,
corresponding paragraph. Let
You women, especially are your birthday star be your daily fond of social life and probably guide.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)— PISCES (Feb, 20-Mar. 20) -. This is a day to take care of A good day to spend around the
pay old bills house, catching up correspondence;
on those and get yourself straight for chores. you have been intend- autumn.
ing to do.
(Mar. 21-Apr. 20)— all information, Be careful of
most important. Accuracy is Make notes, if you are inclined to forget,
LIBRA
(Sept. 24-Oct. 23)--- Don't permit the emotions to get out of control today. Stay as calm as you can under any cir- cumstances.
ARIES
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov, 22)-- TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)- Today can be a busy time at It is likely that some honour home. Problems may come up will be bestowed upon you fo- for solution, but you will be day, Accept it graciously, able to cope with them.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)-Optimism poys in the long run. Be sure that you don't run out of good supply today.
GEMINI (May 22-June 21)— Don't be downcast. Things will look up again, soon. Business affairs are only temporarily up- set.
woollen Peking Operɔ grey
dress by An W really left its mark on the Paris it fits the body more closely
collections, In winter
thel and life
Just the waist to the morials, quite a number of the beneath
Bastline. The couturiers have incorporated all skirts of these dresses kinds of new idoes and amusing
if the bodice is perfectly straight plain
ого
details of Far Eastern origin. Astrulght, or very slightly These include Vory
Then there are the falso tunics.
sheath dresses, Turkish caftans, cut-away noddines, Jersey fur- unles These look like three- bons and winter woollens printed with Persian designs.
quarter coats with matching skirts, but they are really one- As regards style, however, ploce dresses. This idea 19 tunle, which made its first exocated. in 1 rusty-brown
In some collections
twood at Jacques Grife and in lant February (particularly In
a grey wool fabric at Jacques that of Balenciaga), has now Fath become
of the one
leading
fashions.
appearance
factors in the now winter
oncs
no
or
de
Dresses look
nt Like tunics Jacques Fathi and
Naturally, the classic suit is Jacques Griffe.
Variations on still to be seen, two- At Balenciaga,
Include sido ensembles hava pleve
long this style
buttoning (Jacques blouses extending to the knee oblique
extra-short peplums with fullness at the back; this Fath),
Dior) or bick- caught in midway between (Christian
and knee.
(Hubert These dipping the waist bloures are worn over very slim Givenchy), collars, high skirts.
velvet collars (Manguin) or At Christian Dior, long scarf collars (Jacques Fath). camisoles, flat in front and at the back but with side seams split to the armholcs, are worn over straight, very plain dresses, These recall the costumes worn Indo-Chinese women and the by caftan worn
The shoulderline is wider than last reason at Pierre Balmain, Balenciaga and Jean Patou, but it follows the natural curve at Christian Dior.
Suit skirts vary considerably the Turks. in shape. by a little
Of course, there are Coats also take after tunics by many straight ones but some at being shorter than the skirt. Fath have flared panels, Chanel worn with them,
uses gores end Balenciaga and Manguin favour alight gathernig in front.
clubs and the uce of diamonds, after which East eventually got three trump tricks. Even when it was all over, I still didn't know where things had gone wrong. How does this differ from the kind of hand in which you bid aggressively?"
The difference is very simple, You bid aggressively with good distribution when you have o
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South West
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Double Pass
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Opening lead- K
act
sound trump
suit. You cautiously with a weak trump suit.
In
this hand South knows that he has a bad spade suit, Furthermore,
that he knows he has forced North to choose between hearts and spades, and that North is almost showing a preference with two spades and two hearts, North might even have two small spodes, with an ace elsewhere.
If North had some three-card holding a spades, he would support spades carly instead of
More. bidding two no-trump. over, I North had a hand that was obviously useful for play at spades, he would jump to four spades instead of bidding,
CAPRICORN (Deo. 23-Jan. CANCER (June 22-July. 23)—only three spades, 20)-Braimvorke will go a long Be frm in your resolve to be way toward solving an impor- honest and fair-minded in tant problem for you now. you undertake. Never try to cut Think before acting.
AQUARIUS (Jan, 21-Feb. 19)
corners,
LEO
سالاری
1. Jacques Fath: The scarf collar trimmed with beaver and the funnel cuffs lined with the same fur are novel de- tails on this sit in a thick wool cloth of French military blue. 2. Christian Dior: The caftan coat worn here over a iwo-piece consisting of a bolero and a very full pleated skirt. The pleats of the
caftan. The ens come through the side allta of the
is in plain grey wool. 3. Hubert
de Givenchy: A fine black wool dress with a roving belt which crowes beneath the bust in front, passes round the back and re-appears over the hips. 4. Manguin: In black and grey striped wool, this youthful suit has a fitted jacket with a stand-up collar and a skirt which is gathered in the front. 5. Jacques Griffe: A tunle effect is nokleved by this dress in golden-brown floe tweed. This has a double skirt all round except in the front, where a panel running
up from the hem develops into a scart at the neok."
"
Pare
Delectable Home-made
Ice Cream
By IDA BAILEY ALLEN.' }
was from Franco,
Madame," said the Chef, that your great pre- sident, Thomas Jefferson, in- troduced the flavour, vanilla, to the United States.
In 1791, when he was Secre- the tary of State, he wrote American Change d'Affaires : Paris to serud him a packet of 50 pods of vanilla beans. “Mr Jefferson was 'a distinguished
gOLITICI,"
"Very Interesting, Cher," replied. The bean was the form in which vanilla was first used. The housewide cut off an inch ar so and scalded it in the milk or cream for making desserts. The flavour was exquisite, just ast the flavour of bottled true vanilla extract is exquisite to- Thomas In his cook book, Jefferson
day
gives a recipe for French ice cream, frozen with- out churning as we do today. Hero 1.1a, mache with puro vanilla extract Instead of A couple of inches od vanila bean!" Home-Made Vanilla Xoo Cream: Combine e, sugar, 1 c. whole milk, 2 egg yolks and tsp. salt; beat unul mixed. Cook and stir over a low heat- until slightly thickened the mixtume coats spoon. Chill.
metal
Stir in 1 tsp. pure vanilla ex- tract Beat the egg whiten until they stand in soft penas, Gradually beat in additional tablespoons Sugam“. Fold into the custard mixture; then fold in e. heavy cream, whipped Coats this season sim at being Cheviots, black and
white | sun, Dresses are practically all. The classic combination of
willi the black pre- Tum into a quart freezing very plain, without a belt or matching coat and skirt is losing comfortable and warm rather tweed
than ultra-fashionable. They dominating, and herringbone tiny. Place in the freezer ar in scam at the waist, with the ex- still more ground to the dress mostly loose-atting and twoeds.
aro
Also important are a the ion cubo compartment pf ception of those
This is of Christian and Jacket ensemble
slightly flared from the shoulder number of plain and fuzzy the refrigerator from 1 to 2 Dior. He adds a narrow strip scen mostly in tweeds such as line, Detail interest includes soft fabrics, which, because of their hrs, or unul frozen and ready of leather to give slenderness lo
to Shetland and Cheviot for
In to serve. Stir anco churing the draping at the neckline and fur warmth, are ideal for conts. the figure. The bustline is high. morning wear and in plain Impols.
A few have important their lighter weights, they are freezing period, and accentuated by seams, black woollen fabric for after- little bands of fabric and slight noon-into-evening wear. In the capes or tippets to widen the used for dresses, Lättle use is the shoulderline, as at Givenchy. For made of wool fabrics with a draped cfects. Lanvin-Castilo latter case, the dress usually afternoon wear, there are some crisp handle except the black winds narrow strips of leather very low-necked and often top redingotes which just fit the crepes used for late-day models round the bodices of some of his less except for narrow shoulder dresses, Hubert de Givenchy shops and is topped by a jacket, West and are moderately full in Icaves the waist
as unmarked as the rest of the figure. His dresses do not actually at the Necklines are often inspired by body anywhere; they are always Oriental costumes, being straight Although pockets are used predominates at the expense of lightly large from shoulder to across at the neck or buttoned less lavishly as trimming, there grey. There is also much black hem
one side. The boat-shaped are many buttons, always in the for all times of the day with
Recipes Proportioned to Serve 4 to A bloused effect low at the neckline is also prominent. For same colour, as the fabric, of a little green and black-cur
However, tong. rant
Bimp Pound Cake: Cream blue, back of dresses is emphasised afternoon wear, this is usually the model.
del 1 c. butter or margarine until Top of the by some designers, particularly, high in tront and low at the
llat of fabrics varying from opaline to Balenciaga, Givenchy
Paris and back. Another style in necklines favoured by the
cou phinium and sapphire, is often Buffy with 1⁄4 tsp. salt and 11⁄2
DUNE vonilla extract, Madeleine de Rauch. The latter is the high, squaro pho with turlers are Shetlands (plain or seen in Shetland and Cheviot op
Greilanlly cream in 1% C underlines this feature In a shoulder straps.
two-coloured)," the rougher cloths. -.
sugar! and
2 whole cras ime. Then add 1 c. sitted anriched flour. Beat in 3 more whole eggs, one at a time.
BOYS'
bolero or a short contee which buttons at the back.
10
AND
Mrs. Cuckoo's Clock
-Tick and Tock Keep It Running Properly
By MAX TRELL
S soon as Mrs Cuckoo opened her door (it was just eight o'clock), Knart and Honid, the shadow children with the tumod-about names, who were waiting on the cuckoo-clock-
CROSSWORD
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30
for
II
Acrose 1. Vile nater (anag). (9) 9. Time returna. (4)
all Strangely enough, the value of a sound trump suit la shown If South plays the hond at hearts instead of spades. West begins by taking top clubs and the ace of diamonds, South will draw trumps and. get back to dummy with the ace of spades to win 10 trickal fact, as the cards lie, South will make
four hearts
unless
(July 24-Aug. 23)-g Cash and carry" should be Give
to rearranging thought your slogan today. Too much the house. Perhaps you need à extravagance now will reset un- few new things for autumn, Get favourably later.
them now.
MAYIKE!
In
West hammers
the
away nt diamonds in order to weaken
declarer's trump command.
♥*CARD Sense♣♦
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North East South West
1 Heart 1 Spado Pass Pasa Double Равз
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What do you do??? A-Bla îne no-trump.. Your hand will probably, take three tricks at nó-trump or in defence against spades. You're a little wurer to get a blds score by bil-
ding than by plasing..
SEEMS TODAY'S QUESTION'
The bidding is the same za in the question just answered. You, South hold:AAKJES
AWžet do you
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thoroughfare | (4)
15. Come out
(0)
17. Take your esso. (4)
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the skirt.
Dinner
Tomato-Cabbage. Green Pepper Blaw
Sliced Boots Lemon Sauce Vandila Ice Cream on Pound Cake with Raspberry 'Sauce
and those with bloused backs Roast Lamb Pored Potatoes
Colours, on the whole, are rather drab. For day wear, brown, from nigger to rust,
GIRLS' MAGAZINE
door-step said, "Good evening,
How Grandma Cuckool. you?"
arc
"Come in, come in!" sald Grandma, Cuckoo,
It
They opened the door to one room and there, hanging from the wall was a large tapestry on which were written the words:
Time to rest,
And time to kaste, But never, never
Time to waste.
"I like that poem," said Knarf
She quickly got them inside, to Grandma Cuckoo. "But why then shut the door.
Is it bad to waste time? There's was one of the prettiest so much of it." little houses that you can Grandma Cuckoo only smiled Those who saw the and said: "It isn't good to waste imagine. cuckoo-clock only from the out anything. You never know
when you might need time,”
side, for it hung on the wall in
the children's room, could have no notion of how lovely it was once you got: in, through the little door.
Extra Time
6-20
in among the wheels.
"Yes," Hanid put in, “suppose Two little men were poking The walls were panelted with you were late for school, or sup- dark wood. There were pictures pose you were late for a train, on the walls showing forests and would be very good to have extra
brooks and ships,`sailing on bluo 1000"
water, and a beautiful portrait:
of a lady cuckos with golden feathers and shininging eyes, the
Lived In A Palace' "She
great-great- was my grandmother," Mrs Cuckoo ex- plained to them.
"She's so beautiful!" gasped Hanid.
it
wouldn't It, Grandma Knarf and Hanid looked at
Grandma Cuckoo," "Oh them- most interesting part of they're my two helpers. They 'whole house was the cellar. keep the clock ruming. One of All the machinery was down them is Dick Tick. The other ibere wheela and springs and is Jock Tock. Hello there Dick! levers and rods that moved up How are you Jock?" Mrs Cuckoo and down.
called back to her two helpers. "Everything's going fine" Dick Tick called back, smiling.
This is the machinery that makes the clocks go,”, explained Mrs. Cuckoo,
Then
"We lost, a couple of minutes "She lived in a palace," Mra
Knart and. Hanid dis- Cuckoo said. "She called out the covered something very curious, yesterday sald Jock Tock, "but Hime for the King and the Far off at the back of the cellar we just found them again, Queen. Do sit down. Would you were two little men in overalls. Knart and Hanid were alwayn They both had oll tins. They happy to visit Grandma Cuckoo. having went poking in among Were
the: There never was any question
like some cookies?".
While they
al. The insect from the pantech cookies, Kaart and Honid looked wheels and rods, squirting oil that she always had plenty of
around the house more carefully, here and there.
nicon. (3)
23. Nothing nye digested. (5)
29. Jolly Jacka. (4)
27. Cathedral town: and of
refr.
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20. Answer to many a query, (8)
28. Goes with ® roar # (6).
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ending isn't early, (0),
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3. ana may be sacred. (N
4. The chain may sounds like s
Jockey reducing.)
(-4)
A. Goes with a cow in the agri-
cultural reckoning." (4)
d. Charlie the gunuer takes hi
position in this.. (4)
4. kitaard restine Disos." (0)
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Transfer to ja well-alled Sightly floured 9" x 5" x 3", loaf. pan. Bake in a moderate oven, 350*· F.. four 11⁄4 fire, or until a cake cake, inserted in the centre, comes out clean,
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