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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1955.
●JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
WOMANSENSE
Long Spades Nurse Trumps
SWISS MODEL for cocktailS‡
By OSWALD JACOBY
NODAY'S hand continues our
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series on the
of the trump suit.
When the
management
opponents hammer
uway ot
your trum
withi
their long
sul. усна
11
sometimes
of your own,
counter by developing long suits
A b ll -
West opens the monda, and you allow Eust win the Arst Trick
with the
queen of diamonds, if East in
foolish enough to switch to different sult you will be de- bighted.
Tust returnin mond, however, Vi-lin AY!. You bend trumps
another
dia-
and you take cannot bilthely three minul
The
ace. West would refuse the first Two trumps but would take the Mardi trump and go back to dia- monds. This would knock out
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NORTH (D)
♥ KQ 10 10 5 AQJO
WEST A 74
AG 64
• 10703 402
SOUTH
AJ 100
J0 82
• A4 K543
2%
EAST
AQB2 73 KQ82 1097
Both sides vul.
North
East
Bouth
West
1.
Poss
♥
Pass
Puss
1 N.T.
Pass
2 ▼
Pass
Pass
Pags
Opening lead-♦ 6
Suppressor, Atest to #telecopter. to
ivanirruet the effect of inter; }
in the atmosphere,
fetener from destruction particles of your last trump, allowing West to make his own last trump audi the rest of his diamonds to say nothing of East's top spades.
YOUR BIRTHDAY
BORN
VAN
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27
Alle lært sony of reless and vavail imagination. You have a delnite Labent for the writer word and sumad uplase tres fulent de marie Fening of wastinat You are ove
dramati
It
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intrigued
Will Te
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Instead of touching the trumps. you lead the Jack of spades al the third trick. East wins with
By STELLA the queen of spades and must
return something or other can East do to hurt your?
What
Assume that East returns # trump (as good as any other de- fence). You win in dummy and
or widen your environment, it will lead another spade, East Inke help a great deal.
Yours la (20 excellent memory--D valuable nawet. If you were to enter palities or pothe phase of the theatre, you will find it especially valuable. You WITHS), AN well as you men, are able to keep a confidence.
Among those born on thin date
Dietrich. Markene are
actress:
You are no grod-matured that A Sidney Greenstreet actor: Mine
kely you will flea be tupement Caroline Lazzar, singert Johang
Des 1 e who we attempting Mod
Astroburne Willlots M To you bec their awn Interkats Conran philanthropist Dr Louds You take everything at face value Pasteur, biological chemist: Nicholas and when atungone lets you down J Housevelt, laventor.
the ace of spades. He can allow West to ruff a spade now, but you can afford that trick
East's best chance is to re- turn a second trump. West holds off again, and you win in dum- my once more. You must now abandon the trumps in under to leud your good cards in spades and clubs. There are slow two you are amazed and so disappointed To find what the stars have in
trumps out against you, and you Bint it is apt to throw you to ature for you tomorrow, select your
to let black nood of
the despondebey
are quite willing You birthday stor and read the correspon-
your birthday enemy make tricks with both of
them.
will discuver, at mich times, that ing paragrapli
If you will search mat a new literent star be your daily guide
CAPRICORN
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28
(Der 23-Jan 20 midweek Select your assetates with care, your better reputation and the good will of your business are very aportant.
AQUARIUS
Dewatalion, You might
at Bosne this evening.
1. (Nept. 24-00l. 23)-Do - portant work late in the day (Jul. 21-Feb. 101- morning funds may furn out Steer clear of involvement in neigh, disappointing bourhood g
Don't be hulity of
pasi
PIACES (Feb,
SCORPRIO (Oct. 24-Nov. unexpected may Somethin
Thio
10 Be
ZZ)-
20-Mar. 20)-Catch that can turn the day from a dis-
autointment into a trai triumph.
up on correspondence This in a good Lay for
Let
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 223-
high peak; ARIEN (Mar. 21-Apr.
Keep ambition at a 20)
much you can in exordiony bow nothing that happens today either surprise disturb you Take every
actually Kel disse thing calmly
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21). Hely on your own efforts ti get a job done right Someune eire" "might" "he Incompetent and mess things un for
yuu
GEMINI (May 22-June 21)--Make Tự use of Viore mental capabilities right now to solve a perplexing Ku kiolly boltem.
CANCER (June 12-July 23)- Dori jet your temper get the best ot you, even 17 plans don't seem to work out as you think they should
LEO (July 24-ang, 29)—if you are Introduced to sorneɛng of importance today, be guarded in what you say,
VILLOO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23) Consider wirely before accepting
CHESS PROBLEM
By E. SALARDINI
Black, 9 plecos,
White, 12 piecus,
White to play: malé in two.
Solution to Saturday's problem;
CROSSWORD
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25
Artis
1. Muala between the note. ()
. flandel item. (6)
7. Foot this for a highwayman. (3)
9. This will help things up the
garden path, (4-5)
13. This has not really anything to
do with the fabe, (0)
13. Postic rofusal, (3)
14. Mon time epot.
17. Character with Borrell, (3)
18. Request (3)
10. One of the post-war bores, (4)
21. With this and that,
101
23. Cheerful drinker.
24. Appear and sounds like a cont
deposit. (6)
25. No learner annoys the daher-
man. 101
20. Scheduled to appear. (3)
Down
Indistinct. (9)
2.Bow, how
masses Gilbert, 103
3. No anub, thi. (5, 4)
bOW TO
The lion of the Zodiac. (3)
Whirlpool, Junior, (4)
Puished in an anagram. (B)
0. Partner, ulan 1 (DJ
It.
To Reno, all mixed up. (0) Ouldesa
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(ch). 1
P—26; 1, BXP1
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for shopping.
The centre
of the femur.
When somebody ruffs a spinde for a club, you will have two will trumps while the enemy
You are have only one trump. sure to keep control of the hand. josing
only two spades, two Trumps, and one diamend.
V-CARD Sense♣♦
Q-The bidding has been: North East South
1 Heart Pass 1 Spade
1 N.T.
Pasa
West Pass
You, South, hold: MAJ753 ❤74 •KQ963-45
What do you do?
A--Bid two diamonds. ' Yon cannot afford a jump bid, but you will make a try for gamie If pari- ner shows a sign of Ufe.
TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding is the same as in the question just answered, You, South, hold:
MAQJ76 W74 +KQJ62 45
What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
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A black wool satin cocktail dress from Macola of Zurich. The puffed sleeves are gathered into a round neckline The bodice is plain with a cross-over effect at the waistline, from which the full skirt flares out into large, unpressed plents.
GIVE THE LEFTOVER TURKEY A LIFT!
By ALICE DENHOFF
aren't accorded the proper sand Island dressing. honours. Just cold sliced or warmed over with warmed
over gravy, or BR bash,
Delicious Spread
of Swiss cheese, turkey, cheese melts. Serve hot. Makes [T"S a shame, but only too slice
hard-cooled CARS and about 11⁄4 c, spread. For a sup- crisp bacon on a slice of rye pet or luncheon dish. heut the that noble bird, the gobbler, bread, and cover all with Thou- mixture and serve
over fried noodles, tonit or muffins.
To end up this cold turkey Bormon, here's our big special for
and today. Hot Turkey Cranberry Sandwiches, the appetiser, recipe for 6. Combine and heat with the turkey now prac- whip until creamy one 5-oz, jar 2 c. diced, cold, cooked turkey. 2 c. gravy or white sauce, ibap. tically a year-round dish, it's sharp cheese spread. Add 1⁄4 2.
diced, cooked turkey and mix chopped parsley tbap. orion just as well to have at lightly, but do not mash, Spread Juice, tbsp. chopped pimiento. hand some nice recipes for mixture on crackers. Place on Place turkey mixture between leftovers, especially if you baking sheet and bake in 450 12 silces of French toast. Place or slice of cranberry sauce on top are a budget-watcher as we F oven about 10 minutes.
until cheese is melted. Or broil of each sandwich and garnish. 3 inches from heat element until with parsier.
that's usually that. But
are.
Grand enough to star at even
a company dinner is a Turkey and Almond Loat. To serve 4, mix in the order given, 3 c. anely chopped, cooked turkey, 2 c. coarsely chopped, blanched almonds, one C soft bread erumbs, 2 egg, A C minced colery, tbsp, finely chopped onion sauteed in butter, 2 c. milk, and salt and pepper to taste. Bake at 375 F. in bultered bread pan about
Serve 43 minutes.
in
slices with giblet gravy, ur, for something speclul, with a la king or mushroom sauce,
Toasted Turkey Buns
K
the sandwiches are on
something then Iry agenda. different than just a slab of tur- key. Combine équal amounts of
cooked
and turkey chopped diced celery. Add picullii, salt and pepper to taste. mayon-
alse to moisten.
toothsome For a
What To Do If A Child Is Choking...
By Herman N. Bundesen, M.D.
THE sight of a choking have someone call your doc-
child usually parents to panic.
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causes tor.
Emergency treatment such as this is not always necessary youngster swallows You're apt to grab him in when your arms and run about something he should not. Cons and buttons probably find their or stick aimlessly
your way into more juvenile tummies any other non-edibles. fingers into his mouth in an than
Usually, they do no harm. attempt to help.
These articles and even safely will be passed pins ordinarily While it is true that you
through the intestines without must act quickly in such causing any damage. Your doc- emergencies, you must also tor, of course. should be con-
sulled at once, act correctly. Putting your
No Laxatives
into a gasping
Cut sandwich buns in half: butter. Spread turkey filling on Angers bottom half of each bun and youngster's mouth might
with grated sprinkle
process only push the object which laxatives or medicines unless cheese. Ploce both halves of the buns,
sheel.
Don't give your youngster any
by
cut side up, on a cookie is gagging him farther into specifically ordered your
Toast under low broiler his throat. heat until cheese melts and bun tops are toasted.
If it's to be a cold sandwich, then why not treat the family Place д to some Dagwoods?
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Bubstitute
A crumb pie crust will hold and is a good Ingether better if it is chilled batter or margarine in the pan for 24 hours be- valorie counters. fore the Billing is added.
•
your
Upside Down
doctor,
If your child has awallowed a sharp object such as a pin, your doctor might advise feeding him The first thing to do is such foods as bread and mashed to seize him by the legs or potatoes. The theory here is that ankies and hold him upside these soft foods might surround down. With his heud the indigestible object and help pass it through the bowel with- pointing downward, pat the out causing any injury.
back as well upper part of his
You'll
the to make him bowel movements several times
several cough up the object.
days to determine whether the foreign object has been passed Sometimes this will work, with safety.
for which pads the sides
as the bottom of the sink.
•
for the
You
wash 22 Fresh lemon Juice enhances china and glassware safely
a rubber sink the favour of many vegetables, yo
use
BOYS' AND GIRLS'
The Merriest Pixie
-O'Joy Was All Smiles, Chuckles and Laughter-
By MAX TRELL NOW Pixie O'Scowl was the l NOW
grumpiest of the Pixies, though he wasn't really as rude and bed-natured and gruff as he pretended to be.
Pixle O'Cop was a policeman. And he was the busiest Pixie that ever wus, though some- times he kept on thinking he was busy when he really wasn't so busy at all.
And Pixie McSnooze was the and stretchiest and yawn est sleepiest
of the whole Pixle xie But tribe.
very often, even
when he was yawning and stretching, he wasn't really the least bit sleepy. He was just pretending to be to keep anyone else from asking him to do some work.
Iron embossed cottons on the wrong side, and with a lurkish brat lowel under them, to keep the it embosred surface frem becom- ner lag Ant.
Pixie Ooy wanted everyone the world to be as happy as he was. He tried to make cats
ke dogs and mice like eats.
He helped lille boys find their that were lost In rubber balls the bushes.
He helped little girls find but- tons that had dropped from their conts.
He
did all the jobs that no one ise kedi to do and he did them joyfully.
He woke up roosters in the morning, which meant that he hud to woke himself up even cariter.
MAGAZINE
10-15
O'Joy dug up a fleid to find a squirrel's chestnut.
sometimes it won't.
to have
watch for
If your doctor deems it neces- sary, he can spot the object
If it does not, and your with X-ray equipment and re- youngster is still gagging, move it with the aid of special get him to the nearest instruments,
hospital at once. Meanwhile,
urgent
such necessary.
Usually. though,
action
19 not
Setting A Pretty Table
By Eleaner Ross
EALS today are more
ME
mood Linens help to set the
A good setting. casual, but just the for the meal.
excluding pottery pleees, "will game, they should be look well on damask or chock- gracious, especially when ed cloth, or ou place mats.
the entire family is
As for the centrepieces, these assembled, and of course, offer all sorts of exciting possi
when there are guests, just family friends.
or bilities,
an
them too, none of necessarily entailing
extra outlay. If you have an old UT to odd soup tureen, it is just the thing to fill with fruits or gourds or piles of plastic or cellophane balls of shades to tie in with
The old "best" china seems be going into the discard, since the formal table-setting is the way out, too, except for a few die-hard households,
ค
As a malter of fact, tables
rango
or establish the theme for your colour scheme.
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and
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One of those inexpensive com- Pixie O'Joy who puffed out his today are much more interest-
ing and colourful than In the poles of pressed glass with He opened the morning glories. cheeks and blew them up inte old days. Thanks to the wide crimped,
scalloped edge, He shut the water lilies.
in modern
fruit dinnerware, lovely filled with He helped the butterflies and the air.
and the marvellous values ob trailing greenery. their way when they were lost. He was never too tired to definable, it is now possible to
Pixie O'Joy was so merry that a favour for anyone. He even collect a large and interesting Of course, cut glass is moro (it is sald) he court turn cour stayed up all night, baby-sitting wardrobe of dishes that can beautiful, but unless one picks nik sweet again.
for Mrs Owl, who never came be mixed and matched to give up a piece in a thrift shop, the back until the next morning.
interesting variety to the festivo cost comes high. We picked up such a compole and two dishes No one ever saw him frown, or routine mealtime sceno,
at on auction, and they set the or sulk, or mope.
stage for on exciting centrepieco every time
thom we use whether the table be set for Sunday dinner or a big holiday who feast,
The Happiest Pixie Bul then there Was Pixle O'Joy. He did nothing but sit When a squirre] told him one and smalle and chuckle and day that he had forgotten where
there Wash" And laugh.
a he had burled a chestnut, Pixie minute when he was smiling or O'Joy got a shovel and dug up Geld until he found chuckling or laughing when he the whole didn't mean every minute of it. it. He was as happy as he looked and as merry as he sounded,
Nothing in the world ever
disappoint seemed 10 O'Joy.
Nover Too Tired
When the wind wasn't blow- Pixle ing and klies wouldn't fly, it was
If it was a sunny day, he sold It was just the day for a plenie.
If it was a rainy day, he said that it was just the day for ducks and geese and that made him happy, too.
If it was a warm day, then he ald It was good for swimming.
On Cold Days
letters in the quare h the left In making egch word, the letters in each of the manal), aquarea may do used onçe only. Each word must contain the large letter in the centre square, and there must be at
Fast one pine-letter word in the fist. No plurals; no foreign words:
names, no proper
TODAY'A Tandbit 22, words, good gu words. Ders good. 84 words, ervollent. Boladon Loorrow.
SATURDAY'S SOLUTION: Akin alike anker ankle bake -baked baker baik baiked bank
banked bankar bark
barked beak bilk bikes blank blanker blinked blinker leak bitnie brake braad break, brink dank - daniter dark „ darken darkis If he had plenty of money, dick, drake drank then he bought everyone an ico debore diza ann DRINKABLE "inked inker
kalk" Kerb kern cream cone and enjoyed watch- F1 | Elba klar kin kind kinder
ing them cat
Jis
there ink Tinked makes nater rake, raked, rank, ranked rankle
If it was a cold day, he told It was just right for Eskimos encl Polar Beara,
If he had no money, he said that was dae, because then he had nothing to drop out of his pocket.
If he had a fluto, he blew it. If he had no flute to blow, be sang a song. If he couldn't sing a song, he just whistled.
"Me? Sulk? Frown? Mopo?... Oh, sure!" said Pixie O'Joy. "But do you mind if I smile while I sulk and chuckle while
mope?"
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It's a wise housewife I frown and laugh while I starts with one good basic pat-
tern that she can dress up ktown, just as she accemorises gold
That was Pixle O'Joy for yout that good
Rupert and the New Boat-5
what your friends want. That Rupert looks very astonished. *** It'a' like this," the toy police would save ne the trouble of going man explains, Santa Claus gets to every, house."!** Whee-co. 1 tired of reading the thousands of- know what I want." Gregory akys. letters posted to him every."My legs are short. I can't run Christmas so this year he la mend East, so 1 want roller skatsa 1” ing messages to every village to Half a mo,, Let me for thir Ond what the children want. We down," says the cowboy, looking thought perhaps you could call us for his notebook.
ALL MINUTE
BESENYED
with
basic dress.
White Expert Gives Tips On
ware
4 touch of Imakes an ideal basic design that
teams up beautifully with ploces Handling Vegetables
of colourful pattern for ordin- ary meals. For dress-up repasta,
Champaign, IL there are delightful extras such as individual covered onion soup the water when you wash of TIFT fresh vegetables out bowls or marmites, fruit saucers, individual salad bowls, wicker them so the grit which setlics basics for rolle und breadsto the bottom of the park plus beautiful pieces and sets of won't be poured back over the ginssware,
vegetables, says Mrs Barbaro McGrath, food specialist at the Of course, it does take a sense Univerally of Illinois. Somo of harmony, colour and balance other tips:
to work out a good setting.
otherwise, the result is apt to Store peus and beans In the Jook like a elina od glata pod to keep them fresh longer. closeout sale,
Book cauliflower, cabbage, broccoll and Brussels prout head down in cold salt water. before cooking to drew out ang or insects in the vegetables.
of glass If various colours ware are usod, they should con- form as to shape. For the holl day dimer, rich ruby red deep, blus is beautiful, Green is Inles for luncheon, wiper. or breakfast, But, there's nothing like shining Forgétal:] glassware, wparking area
Remove wilted outer leaves from lettuce, rinse with cold water and store in the getm labla drawer of the refrigerator,