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“You're beautiful when you're angry!”
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by Beachcomber
MONG the exhibits at the Captain Fonlenough, salvamed A
Exhibition of Inventions is and disembarked. Answering a clock in a bottle. I expect the call of the wild, the intrepid this is an advance on a chip in warrior was on the trail of Vito a bottle. To be able to know Brevis. He knew she was the time, while you are drink Cannes,
Where else can dir Ing
So he had hired without having to look at your watch is probably a saving of half a second or so, or nine man-hours per year.
Next year I expect to hear of a bottle containing a whip with o clock hitched. to its mast. In the taverna of Portsmouth, sallors will be reminded of life alloat when they see the ship, and the clock will remind them of their duty, "Come, Ned, old
It is
time
we Avere
aboard." Without his elephant 66CORRY! Wrong yacht!" The Rajah of Dhamdhirl- spite of 4 pore, bearing. in liberal amearing of walmit-juice,
resemblance a remarkable
10
like that go?
a launch, and had tried all the itely yachts. He eventually ran to earth the delightful quarry
they. in Pagalto's Bar, where
a bottle sy, you can't throw without hitting either a Greek millionaire of an American im-slar. "How you must misa your elephant" said Vila, re- cognising him answer,
For
al once. the captain seized her hand and imprinted upon it
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kiss that reverberated from Hyeres to Menton. The sound nwoke the Baron Asphaldt- Zumsthausen, who cried guilt!- ly, "I'll come quietly." Without comment IN Geneva, at a conference on the peaceful (my italics)
atomic of
energy. made speaker
following the constructive suggestion: "In A where population outrange food supply, diminish- ed fertility, due to over- exposure to radiation, might not altogether be deplored." Songs of Innocence
uses
CHESS PROBLEM world
By O. STOCCHI
Black, 13 pieces.
White, 9 plecea, White lo play: mate in two,
Solution 10 yesterday's problem:
"No artifice could ever trace
A
may
The wild-rose beauty in your
face, Nor counterfeit
the healthy flow That only Nature can bestow," So tang the poet. Slie demurred, And stopped him, with Q
whispered word, Thinking he'd flattered quite
enough
The chemist who had sold the
stuff.
Stop Press
AN electronic brain, over- exposed to radiation at the Buxley Experimental Station, 1, R—Q3, any: 2. Q, or R mater."{ beenme so brilliant that it burst.
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1955,
JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
Normal Play Is Wrong One Here
By OSWALD JACOBY
TF you played today's hand 'at
IF
five diamonds, you'd be de- Highted with a spade opening lend. That would put you in the dummy Immediately for a trump lead; and inter on you could get back to dummy with a trump to begin on the clubs.
But West'u't obliging enough to lead a spade, What do you do when West opens the King of hearts?
The normat play is to win Iwith the uce of hearts and re- turn a heart towards dummy's Jack. This wouldn't work in to- day's hand, because West would take the queen of hearts and continue the suit, allowing East to ruff,
The defenders would trump get two
tricks and heart, defeating the contraet.
Soi was America's best chess
WEST
NORTHI
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WOMANSENSE
FOR 15 GUINEAS
READ 30 shillings
Copies of hats that normally retail at anything up to 15 guineas will be on sale at 30 shillings or less in shops this winter. This is due, to now technical processes evolved by British wool felt manufacturers.
By BETTY WILSON
London, budget prices will brighten the tones of chocolate, coffee and 【70MEN with thirty winter scene.
cream. It looked like a delect- W
Models and coples all followed able, three-layer ice, and Renes shillings--or even less a head-hugging cloche line, but Favy-also Inspired by food in to spend on a hat will be not the enveloping, hair-und- her choice of colours worked motifs into a able to find hats with that car-hiding line of the "Gentle shell-like felt
men Prefer Blondes" eru. model look, but at their price 1055/56 hats are infinitely more hat which
The shrimp-pink and fettuce-green fitted the head yet this winter.
flattering, and are worked and looked as light as air.
τα draped give art effect of
Amber
can
touch of
ornament.
AAGE THAARUP'S FELT CLOCHE
front and
and topaz were also
caught
In 0.
with 颖
Twenty-two different millinery manufacturers and wholesale distributors contributed to the section which showed the brilliant adaptations of model liats.
were
A better solution was found in; A group of felt manufae wonderful lightness. one caso when the hand was turers has put on a show in There is comparatively little shown in felt. Madame Vernier emerald-green and dealt in a recent tournament at London to explain just how extra trimming. The line is the combined Stamford, Conn. The declarerit
be done. They thing, and attractive colours are sapphire-blue together Rubinow, one
players, showed the original models only occasionally spiceti with a cloche which was draped up in
black velvet or are first the kind of hats that emphasised by the matching sapphire-set ornament. cost ten or fifteen guineas-glitter of a discreetly-jewelled then followed them up with three different copies of the same hat. Each was sealed down in price until the final
$ a prehrie to the show, copy-in one of the new As
Aaro The the
Thaarup forecast wool felts-came on.
All these hats, like the hats winter's startling colour which began the show, price? Less than thirty chart with a tiered felt cloche, styled by leading designers who, shillings
each copy This mixed orange, block and in this group, remained anony- - and looked like the fifteen guineu white, and was presented by a mous. Their anonymity, how- mannequin who wore an orange ever, did not take away from original's identical twin.
of this now glove on one hand, a white the importance
It looks a glove on the other.
development. British
wholesale millinery may He mixed Persian-pink and at last be following the whole- black together to make an open- sale garment trade which, by NEW manufacturing processes topped cloche, and twisted vivid drawing on the creative ability have given these new supple marigold-coloured felt into a of the few, is bringing couture wool felts an expensive, peach huge true lover's knot, which standards of design and work
ike bloom. Others
across the head in a manship within the reach of the are furry spread
of the many. soft, and are shown in the glow fascinating variation Ing, exolic colours which the popular, headcovering shape. leading London hai designers,
IRENE GILBERT SHOWS Designer Hugh Beresford, also who contributed to the presenta presenting model hats, launched
IN LONDON tion, have created for winter. kingfisher-blue, raspberry-pink Vivid дв jewels, us and rose-reds, and orange-golds arrestingly bright as a hunming- taken from a bed of zinnias. bird's wings, these new hots at Dora Cole made a cloche in
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Neither side vul.
South
West North
East
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Opening lead-♥ K
who is bound to make his mark Rubinow in bridge as well. casually dropped the live of liearts at the first trick instead of winning with the ace.
he
West assumed that his partner had the acc, since South would normally take the trick it could. Hence West continued with a low heart at the second trick,
This was just what Rubinow had been hoping for. He won the second trick in dummy with the jack of hearts, cashed the Dee of spades in order to discard the ace of hearts as a safety measure, and fed the lack of
YOUR BIRTHDAY ....... By STELLA diamonds from dummy.
BORN
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
ORN today, you are an inde- slow up after one good strlice, pendent soul and care little get moving and dig up a new. for what anyone says of your idea. actions.
EXOTIC COLOURS FOR WINTER
or
winter model clothes, a designer showed not only from Dublin stained glass window colours but u stained glass window topcoal. This was made in a new Irish tweet which is woven in huge violet and green checks, shot through black, and squared-out Lined with a narrow red line. with scarlet wool jersey, the coat
Pago
Top: A head-bugging bat is worked into a flattering brim line. It has a black velvet, bow-1led bana in- troduced in sharp contrast
to the
supple, Burmesò. pink wool felt. Next, bright
wool turquoise-blue
Telt hat which follows makes the contours of the head und is trimmed with a swathed drape of matching grosgrain.
of
made only hats that will isn't brighten the winter scene. At a presentation of
autumn-
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Pixie O'Scowl Smiles
-Hanid Takes a Gift and Chases His Gloom-
By MAX TRELL
"Now O'Scow! Hanid, picking
dear," said the pixie up IZ NARF and Hanid, the between her thumb and fore- A shadow-children with the fingers, "it isn't at all polite to There was now no way for the turned-about names, heard the grunt. defenders to beat the contract doep grumbling voice just as East could take his ace of do- they were coming nor the Old
"I'll grunt aut 1 wand," replica monds, but South could later
Oak
squirmed Ilved Pide O'Scowl as he where the plides draw trumps with the king of They had no trouble recognising and kicked and tried to get out diamonds, enter dummy wlin the voice. It belonged to Pixie from between Hanid's fingers.
"Lemme go!" trump, and take the club finesse. O'Scowl.
"No scree
.no sense at "You ryanki. give them something that's good for them and what
You know what you You of the fair sex, are con-
the cultural and tion and persistence. You have terested in an alert
Still, you are mind-one
which la intellectual arts.
Q-With neither side vulner- quick to grasp a new idea and not apt to be happy without furn it to distinct advantage. marriage, for
career will
able, the bidding has been: take the place of your You have a talent for business never
North
South West East will do well in own home and family. You are and probably
the
PASS commerce or finance.
who could learn to Heart 1 Spade Pass -type You
Pass and Double
?
want and go after it with dires- sidered "brainy" and mainly in- CARD Sensee thi" he was grumbling
enjoy the
u
You, South, hold; 86 0197632 D4 CQJ9852
What do you do?
A-Bld four hearts.
They Won't Use It
O'Scówi offered Hanid the comb,
was worn with a scarlet wool jersey dress and a little head-covering cap of the same
material,
This was one of Irene Gilbert's most
ost sensational contributions to a collection put on in London in collaboration with Robert Schulz, a young and talented' designer, who came originally from Booleroo Centre, a country town about two hundred miles North of Adelaide.
EASY FITTING, CLINGING
DOBERT Schulz used
Ro
much
Irish tweed, too, as well as wool jerseys and brushed-surface facecloths, which interpræted on
easy fitting,
Centre: Two colours are combined in a "layered" hat vivid emerald- green wool felt and spiced with black velvet. And (at zight) a gay little hat in- spired by Jester's, 'cap. This is made of rust-pink wool felt and drawn into ende which tinkle with gold banda,
Baltem: Here is a beret ! with a difference, Made in supple wool felt, it is cut into a flattering, petalled black slanted across with die-ends. On the right, a charming, colf-like bonnet made
topaz-coloured wool felt and trimmed with a paler topag-coloured band embroidered with amethyst beads.
in
yet clinging, line. Walsts were often marked by green feathers appliqued on the
gouging on
as in a hip pockets.
elastic, mustard fckd-yellow wool jersey Extremely
skirt
Ane
coloured
new. wool with a bloused shirt top and weaves were as outstanding as gauged waist-line and in a the dramatically seaweed-green wool jumper suit, tweeds. Robert Schulz used with skirt set round with un- gossamer-fine pale-grey worstedt "I'll let you go when you, toll
and pressed pleats do
a loose for a delightful
dress with do you get for all your pain? me what you're going to
comb and why we
Jumper (finished with an pleated
top Nothing!
and bib-front Oh, it's you!
And with that
outsize doppy tie made of coral- made of white Chinese lamb.. heard. what do you want?"
You say Be we came up here You try and give them
red jersey). This was gathered
Irene Gilbert chose the Gloomy Expression something that's good for them 've got a shell,' he said. 'I' in on one of these gauged bands
Mr lightest-weight Irish tweeds yet. what do you get for your take that comb if it's for comb-right down on the hipe
They were so fine that they Knart and Hanid had reach- trouble? Nothing! Didn't you ing shells. Then I offered I to Schulz called this "Gizton.
in looked
woven from spider's cd the Old Oak. Pixle O'Scowl
One of these new was sitting with a gloomy ex- "I certainly did" said Pixie "Oh, a cat has lots of hair!"suit made in a soft wool woven tweeds--in tones of sunlight- pression on his face at the O'Scowi "It's this comb. I can't sald Handch foot of the tree.
What puzzled get any of them to use it!" Krarf and Hanid was that he was holding
that something
and
say that?"
O'Scowl's Story
Hanid
put
Pixie
both balanced mind, combine huve a but your Intuitions are keen and
carcer quite succes if you learn to take full advant- Among those born on this date age of this gift you will rarely, are Charles Carroll, statesman; if ever, inske an error.
Upton Sinclair, Author: George You are
fond of money and Bird Grinnel, editor: L.
L. Clark power that it brings. Seelye,
Anderson educator; John
14 was looked like a comb. Your self-confidence
Elliott is strong and
Nugent, actors;
safe to hold back since it was Arthur Jones, dramatist. ant, although you like admira- Henry And what the stars have almost impossible for one spade Knart and Hanid both greeted down. Then he told his story. tion and sincere acclaim you
arc To quick to
discern mere Battery, in store for you tomorrow, select to be passed out I would be Never "rest on your laurels, as your birthday star and read the foolish, however, to hold back
Let the saying goes. One quick corresponding
paragraph. success is not enough to last a your birthday star be your daily
TODAY'S QUESTION lifetime. If things appear to guide.
With neither side vulnerable, the bidding has been;
West North
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)— SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dee. Before you uel on anything. 22)-Don't depend upon others check all the facts to make sure for your success. You make you are absolutely correct. better progress. If you invent
new procedures."
Play the role of
LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)- CAPRICORN (Dec. 28-Jan, 20) You could devote your leisure Stay on the fence if two of time to helping a friend who may your best friends try to get into call upon you for assistance now. an argument. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 221- peacemaker. Slay away from all controversial AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Foh. 18) matters. You may find that a
Tile pen prove mightier supposedly friendly argument than the sword today in an turns into a sericus quarrel,
argument of wits. Be positive
TARGET
How many
words of four letters
or more can you make from tho letters in the square, on
4. right? In making each word,
R
R T
U
E
C $
the letters in each of the small squares may be used once only. Each word must contain the large letter in the contre spare, and there must be at least one mine-letter word in the No plurais; no foreign
· list. wordat 'no proper names. TODAY'S, TARGET : 18 words. good;: 42 words, very good $1.
of
con
facts. your PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)— Curb restlessness, for there is Important work which needs to be completed before nightfall.
(Mar. 21-Apr. 20)— ARIES You will find that diplomacy is your best weapon right now. Don't argue; gently persuade.
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)- This can be a decision-making day. Weigh pros and cons, com- Ing to
a proper judgment of oftairs,
GEMINI (May 27-June 1
In bargain-hunting, make sure
that you are getting quality as well as
quantity
money.
for your
CANCER' (Juso 28-Jaly 23) Give as much as you can of your time and your money, to (some charity in your; com-
worthy.
Client,, Solution tomorrow. ] munity, -
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION{
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impule menu minust minute muld short a social engagement; but nesm pique piquet punt queen' quiet. quin), quinta quo" qui quite you ong đó, it graciously trayou
any more.
East
1 Heart 1 Spade Pass
You, South, hold:
South
7.
a cot."
Ideas from Irene
the joint collection to a webs.
in tones of feather-brown and yellow-made a ground-length green that looked ke soft dinner dress; another was used plumage a new effect in wool for a day dress which shaded was stressed by through from Parma-violet hém weaves which
of real brown and to pale sky-blue bodice.. the tufts
that I had two of them, fo
"This is a good comb. I found it to a dog. He wouldn't A plain, sleeveless Linen Sheath-
Brushed His Fur Pixie shook his head glumly. O'Scowl "But she didn't want the comb, She sald she combed her hair with her tongue. Then I offered it his master decided to give one of them brushed his fur overy
day and away. I didn't think that any he didn't need a comb. Then one would refuse a comb. Well, offered it to a mouse, a chip I've still got it. I can't give it munk, a turtle and a frog, and away, First I tried to give it to to a whole neet of ants! They "I'm not combing my hair," a robin, He wouldn't take it." wouldn't take my comb. They
In spite of his back humour, pixie O'Scowl with a cheerful good-morning. Then Hanid said
you're about to comb your hair, dear. Please go right ahead. We won't disturb you
A Close Look
"I soc
O'Scowl
answered
Pixie peevishly.
"It's a very good comb," S973 82 DK643 CK054 Knart said, tuking a close look
What do you do?,
et it in Pixie O'Scowl's hand. "None of the teeth are broken."
Pixie O'Scowl just grunted
Answer Tomorrow
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maybe
4. Would you BAY
this was too
total. dance!
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Feather Comb
"Why wouldn't he?" asked
because
said
I
didn't care to keep their hair (If they had any)" neat,”
Suddenly Pixle O'Beow! look- Hanid.
ed at Hand He hesitated for a then he said: "Oh--I "The robin said a comb was moment
just Thought-would you hair. He said he for combing
att feathers. 'I'll take it if it's would you want my comb?"
a feather-comb,' he sald. Well, it isn't. It's a hair-comb. Then
I offered to give, it to a beetle."
"But
Yes! Of course I wouldn' smiled Hanid.
"So would_Il" sald Knart. And now, for the first me in days, Pixie O'Scowl, the co- ing pixle, didn't scowl. He it handed
and Hanid the comb O'Scowl. grinned!
beetle hasn't any hair!" Knaff said
"No. |Ho_wouldn't take either," cald Pixie
Rupert and Dinkie-24
* The Guides are relieved to think
that their search has ended, so quickly," "1. age what muise hava
9. fappened," says: Stupert." The (Cat @mun hava“ discovered'? the.
her wand is found and thai Dinkie la_safe.”****** Ars" you altın. You know where Tigerlily le?” anks Janet. "! Oh yes,” declares Rupert. ” she le making her way up here);
·wind, and jumped on die in some › from the hollow." And he swinges
-Way 80 ks to become un-vinfabeds the wand around to point. it ag Benatiat sell “Tigetilly peanca, shatit derinhill.
by
Derbin
of Miami-
so Very Right for now—. and, so useful later, topped
by a cardigan or jacket.
colours
In lovely, easy to match sizes 10 to 16.
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