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By OSWALD JACOBY
THERE isn't a good name in English for the end position Some experts In today's hand. call it by the French natne "en
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WAY
By Beachcomber
I must be three or four yeers since scientiam tr the Bibbo laboratories announced that they had discovered a chemical formula for making Claret and Burgundy without any of the trouble growing grapes,
of
could
They claimed that they produce, in o matter fully natured wine which would
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1955.
YOUR BIRTHDAY....... by STELLA
FRIDAY, DECEMBER '16
A
BORN today. you have exceptional and actually resent criticism.
versatility and can turn your far na you are concerned, conven- hand with equal skill to a number tions are just something to ignore of things. Belonce and arts are apt and get as far away from to be your happiest medfunt of ex- posible. Yes are inclined to get your can da presion but you
#imowo thoroughly involved with anything that demanded of you, career and professional life that you For this reason, alone, you will have little here or interest left for nover lack for the material goods of love and romance. It is very This world and whether you ex- possible that unless you marry at piluftty no out after it or not, you a very early age, you may never probably will achieve wonith well before nitúdle ago.
deceive even the connoisseurs. And now, smiling behind Smibbo, comes progressive America. The ChlongDO Tribune announces the discovery of 13 chemical substances which, whet ended, wil make wine, At first phasant" borrowed from chess, ary wine. Then later, I mupport, a
trunponeretion which will be mistakened in mystic Finer South makes his
Whatever name Haut Brion of "in passing."
they will probably make an ordin-
in used, the play is very line. Gracious living
West opened the king of dia-
monds, and
declarer
won
In VINDIACTORS
1924.
dummy with the uce. At first lending, grape-gathering. glance South was very happy he with his contract, although had hack misgivings during the buckling The complications iple Pesreel later
and All
aro convinced that the slow business of vine-
the technicollites of making the wie do not fit into the rhythm of the Jet-age. It is reckoned" by in- justrial sintiatletana that in countries where wine is made by the old processes, many million Í TLAX- hossro are wasted every manth Every hour 4,000 $130 of creamy At the second trick lectorer Chateau Snitwolą
the rome of Jed a Brunate Frearst thre dumpy conveyor belt A'new Sibbo Aqueur It is and won with the king fo his is utomlard for next year
described is a supervitaminowa, non- He own hund,
got hack
druholic, sparkling brandy
Sooth dummy with the ace of hearts in every bar, you will hear barmen to lend another spade, and this
saying "No need to ask what your order is. Sir Ceorge A double time won with Th QELIEVE
Smutsbrandi,
Che" "That's West's light, Henderson. spades in his own hand
discard
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tha1 Visitors maspected
We had trained him by making him stand Com frot bricks, and asked why we could not employ a human being. who would perform far better. We wn/ci It was ineant to be a comic Burm fater, wo old the dog to an okļ rightwatchinda In Dorking Creek "He'll get пр more harp- glavi." sold the old man, not unreasonably.
For your anthology
Time's want abstraction's innocent O Time's own perious intent,
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You have a vivid imagination as well as the ability to exprem your Jdok with dramatic portent. Although you may not appese be doing so, almost everything you write boa a "inessage" wrapped up im bright colours. You are interest
and the occult solenco.
Originality of idea is your middle name and you are so independent. intellectually, that you ignore, restat
wod at all.
Among those born on this date are: George Santayma, philosopher; Noel Coward dromallat: Jane Austen, author: John Lawrence Smith and Abbot Lawrence, scien Urte;
Giimke, John F.
jurist. numeli, Lililer
actrome George Whitehead, evangelist.
1n To And what the stars have store for you tomorrow, molect your birthday star, and read the correr- pending paragraph. Let your birth- day star be your daily guide. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec, 22)— The day
ait when
chares around the house aliquid bo started, bright and early Thea
you cen play
CAPRICORN (Dec. 21-Jan. 201- Your ideas should be put to work for you if you don't know how to capitalise on them, po into partner-
itp.
AQUARIUS (Jan.
OEMINI
(May
It-June 21)- You could fad yourself right in the middle of an Interesting romance. An unexpected meeting” may play an importam part.
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CANCER (June 22-July 233 If you will first take time out think something through, you wil direover 1's an easily solved prob- lems, after all,
LEO 21-Feb. 19)-
(July 24-Aux. 233- Have Calmon and patience are the win
д happy and pleasant Biny- ning attributes in handling today's al-home day and you will discover problems. Don't let the neighbours all over again how much fun the irk you.
family can be. PISCES
28)- 20-Mar The taglien remark you let out impulsively
witherst thinking could hurt someone you really love. Just be careful what you say ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. You
reb
Th
20
must be very self-confident today it you are to reap the harvest Take the initiative, hang on to it
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May
21)-- This is
good me to take
of your wardrobe See tha your clothes, even if not wew. cleaned and premed
JAMA
art
VIRGO (Aur. 24-9ept 23) If buying supplies for the house, be sure that you get first quality,
真紧 especially
you aro bargain-
hunting.
LIBRA
24-Oct (Sept.
23)- The old budget may need pruning. Go over it with members of your family; let them all help.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24.Nov.
--
Be tank to any problem and you will find it pays better in the long Being secretive about things never does any good
run
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fashion in bygone 18. It tay describe a days. (6)
watch-or a yokel.
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Fretty enough for the zayest Christmas cooktail party, Simone's hand-crocheted beret recalls the Swan Lake ballet. In palest aquamarine blue, it is trimmed with Iridescent "Icaves."
--(London Express Service).
PATTERNED CARPETS MAKING A COMEBACK
New York. dimensional textures on the floor, The new cottons and synthetics TRADITIONALLY a
and colours,
Twoman cures her bore- look well to bold cool grew
dom with 2 new chapeau. by leaps and bounds. But these days it's also like-
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NEW DESIGNS
a
It's Time To Put Your
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Kitchen In
Order
By ELEANOR ROSS
NE sure way to add to thick coating of carbon and that
ed by slamming, she know tha prevent you and the family reason for her baking failures. from enjoying the holiday,
is to leave until the last with grease that scouring Isn't If an oven is so badly burned minute the task of putting enough, wash it with ammonia
the kitchen and its equipo one of those fine degreasing ment to rights,
liquids. Apply ammonia with a cloth, let stand overnight with Now Is the time, and high even door closed. In the morn- time it is, to get every bit of ing, clean out the residual rust
with steel wool. and to go equipment in order, over all utensils, china, glass ond
To keep the oven clean, wa'va aliver. Discard the obsolete, and
found, It's wise to put a layer of put aside pieces that can be re- aluminium foli in the bottom of professionally or the oven to catch the spill from
pretty-
paired either
at home. The last-minute
Ing up of the kitchen since it leaky ples, and so forth. Is becoming поте на Πλάτο
And
It is a good idea to in casserole
popular as a smackery-can come only two-thirds full so that it later.
Now is the time to get won't run over when it boils. (after stovs and refrigerator, and cooking and serving equipment.
and sco
That range, be it gas or elec-
Get after every other bit of tric, won't give the best results, equipment likely to be in use however fine the Ingredients, during the holidays, however great your skill as a that it is in perfect condition. cook, if isn't in Bral-class Buy those items, either gadgets working condition. Elements thut
Or basic utensils, that you have are almost burned out or that been meaning to get for soma have become dull should be re- time. If you really need
thz, Gas burners should be now is the time to stock up. renewed if they are wom out. Last-minute purchases, unless of Sometimes all that a sluggish gas basic, always-in-stock items are burner needs is a really good unclogging of its vents.
Of course, the range will work even if it is dirty, but it won't work
Cas-from burners well. can be cleaned casily by boli
an enamel pan with
op to be disastrous,
Along with the range, the re- trigerator should be checked and any necessary repairs mado at once. It's a good time, also, to invest in one of those self-de- frosting units, since frost can a refigerator from func- keep tioning normally. When frost 19
ly to be with a new carpet.
Patterned rugs are making
Now, the stress is on pattern, ing in
for generous helping of baking soda, quarter-inch thick, it's time to comeback after years of plain but .ere are quiet designs culour underfoot, and the carpet the conservative. For the more When grime and rust is loosen- defrost, but we don't always get
ed, surub with a brush. Holes et the task then. industry says
carpets have big daring, some
should cleaned with hairpin, bored neutral background but one bold sho
shock
line wire. of colour inserted to toothpicker Gnderscore
coffee
table or amazing what can be
of an
apparently grouping of chairs. Some decora-out tors now combine American-burner Treat the oven to a good The patterned
carpets were
of oriental going-over, also. made reproductions victims of the stark simplicity carpets with modern furniture.
there's one reason-Women Just got
with lack of pattern.
STARKNESS OVERDONE
It's dredged clean
Household Hints
A laster of gravel on the top of your window boxes will pre- from spattering
rage of the 1930's and 40. Even designs reminiscent of the We remember a friend who vent the rain They went the way of ornate Victorian era are back, big red just couldn't understand why boyour windows with dirt.
sald
cakes began turning out poorly. After eliminating all the possible
furniture and gregows in archi-
roses and all. icclure.
But the Carpet Institute
The Insitute sald there is an-causes for fallure, someone sug- Sudden and extreme changes We apparently overdid the other good reason for the re-gested that the stove be check-of temperature may cause metal starkness. People yearn for turn to pattern underfoot - aed. Nothing was wrong with it, cooking utensils to warp. Don't warmth, colour and design In pation or song texture con-mechanically. But when she dis-run cold water into a hot pan, their household
surroundings. ceals signs of trafle. United covered that the inside walls of nor pour hot water into a vessel Carpets were one place to start. Press.
a that's been chilled.
The
Institute said the first signs of the return to
pattern came with
three-
tweed and
the oven were cased with
Calling
Al
Bracke South
LIFT Soth fed
a mother club to knock ont the
JAR BIND returned another
dramodel fo ogodn
South ruft
Now Nouth wk down to the blank jak od soartes at East wilt hard the wee dell How was South in avond the loss of tACH trung tricke
The only deraan was to eash ali theck Trink And frand Mummy at the twelfth Mence South Candiest the
from
trick
und queen of hearts,
followers
by the king of clubs,
king
Fel d follow suit to all
of the poly alter which he was left with his two tramps When dat R
let War Tast ella. Barre w.la
for HD why East to shut and declarer's jack of stand pe EN would make
only the m Tavartu
South Juifled las contrasi
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North
Heart
IN.T.
East South
Pass 1 Spade
Puss
You, South, hold:
West
Poss
AAJ 10 832 62 J 10 3 452
What do you do?
A-Bld two spades. This bid does not show a hand with which you hope to reach game, but merely a band that will play boi- ter at spades than at no-trump.
TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You, South, hold:
4A4982 9785 ◆K 102 42
What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
TARGET
How many
PU words of
Fear letters
or more cap
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from th-
lettern to the
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CHESS PROBLEM
By E. J. PNIAK Black, 12 pieces.
White, 3 pieces. White to play: mate in two.
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BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Unhappy Little Brave
Knarf Tries To Convince Hiawatha He's Really Lucky-
By MAX TRELL
WISH I were 1 real Indian boy instead of just a wooden Indian boy," Hiawatha the Wooden Indian was saying
to Knart, the shadow.
But Hiawatha, the Wooden Indian boy, didn't sound any too convinced at how furtunate It was that he didn't have to cat such things as pic.
"You wouldn't like potatoes,” wold Knarr, "You wouldn't like Kuart looked at the little spinach O string beans, You wooden Indian boy for several wouldn't like soup.
moments before he said: +I
think, Hia, you ought to be glad you're a wooden boy instead of
real boy."
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"I don't see why that," replied Hiawatha.
"Well," said Knarf,
you say
"wooden
"Maybe watha "But I wish I could eat not," agreed His- the things that my grandfather used to eat. My grandfather was an Indian Chit," he added.
"What did your grandfather, boys don't have to bother dress the Indian Chief, used to eat?"
Knarf asked Hiawatha. ing and undressing."
Ho Wouldn't Mind
con-
"I wouldn't mind that," said Hiawatha. "And
boys," wooden inued Knarf, "don't have to brush their teeth or comb their
their necks 1. Kl-Klá, any: 2, Q, or Kt hair or wish
cars." mates.
Solution to yesterday's problem:
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"Those things aren't so bad." sald Hiawatha. "Are they?"
"Some boys don't like them," said Knarf. "And wooden boys don't have to cat."
"He ale buffalos" said Hia- waths, proudly.
9-20
"You wouldn't like spinach," Enarf told Blawatha.
and roast the buffalo steaks."
"Mmm" sold Knort
that showed how much he was "Oh," said Knart, in a volco
Only In Story Books impressed by what Hiawatha
Hiawatha nodded. ""They must had just told him; "that's differ- have been delicious all right. ent. It really is a shame not to But my grandfather was a real be able to eat like regular Indian. I'm
nothing but Indian. How did your grand- Wooden Indlan. How can I be- father, the Indian Chief, catch come a real Indian?" the buffalca?"!
several Knarf was silent for Hiawatha said that his grand- minutes. Finally ho said: father had told him that he "There's only one wooden boy hunted for buffalos on the great that anyone ever heard of who west a plains. "There were big became a real boy. His name herds of them hundreds and was Pinocchio." hundreds of buffalos. My grand-
bow
"No," mid Hiawatha, and his voice sounded little sorrow ful. "I don't have to eat at all. father and all his Braves used to "I'd like to meet that boy," I'm made of wood inside and hunt thern with
and zult Wooden-Indian-Hawatha, out,"
Knarf aigh d. "The only Hie- "Then," Hiawatha. continued, plcze you can and him, anid Knart. "You don't have to "they would build a roaring fire watha, is in a story book." bother vating at all. Just think
"There, that's what I meant!"
of all the time you save."
"Yes," said Hiawatha, and his voice sounded ΠΟΣΟ ΣΟΥΤΟΝ than ever. "But just think of all the good things I miss eating"
"What things?” asked Knarf.
Apple Pie
"Apple pie."
"Do you ple?"
wald Hiawatha. think I'd like sypla
"I don't think so,” said Khart. **You wouldn't Uke apple più un- less you liked apples. Do you
like apples?"
"I don't know," wald Hiawatha, "I never tried, any."
*You
ou wouldn't like cherry ple either." Mid, Knaef. "Cherries are, too sour. You wouldn't like pouch plo. Peaches are too ción't think
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