This Funny World
JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
Ruff Is Easy Play For Game
By OSWALD JACOBY
THIS
His week we continue the direussion of how to play trump contracta with
few
hands that fenture ruffing frieks. Rumug is, of course, just un- other word for trumping, but you wmally think or Benefling Ly a rul, whVIDIN you might lose by trumplag. A rather
fine distinction, but not na ]}}- portant as the plays themselves.
LL
Today's hand shows the rufting tick in
of its simplest formis. South most sooner or inter rut! djumen in the dumany in order to avoid losing dinmond trick. Every thing djeje nds on whether he does at SUUNIT or later,
West opens the four of die- monds, und South lets it ride around to the queen in his own
WEST
AK 932 ་་
1984
A 1003
NORTH 4 Q1074
6742
• K73
437
EAST
24
AJS
J105 40
KQ8 34 2
SOUTH (D)
480
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40
East-West vul.
South West Norib
1♥
4
Pass 2
l'ass Pusa
Opening lead—♦ 4
East Pass Puss
the
hand, thus discovering the sull breaks to worse thun 4-1 Al worst, therefore, South will have to rutt e diamond in the dummy
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"Yeah, Joe, a twenty-one inch trout!
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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1955.
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The rating ink will the tip One of dummy's four trumps. Dummy's other three trips are not needed for any purpose of Nothing is lesst, therefore, if South draw, three rounds of trumps before doing anything about the diamonds. Hence South should proceed with the three rounds of trumps bnmedi-
сид In order to extract all of ately East's trumps.
Only then is it safe for South to cash the top diamonds and ruft a diamond in the dummy with North's last trump. When This has been done, South makes three further tricks with his two remaining Trumps and the last
and. Jointing haj
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South would lose his contrnet if he added abouf with this diam monds before he had drawn thre rounds of trumps. Fast would gladly ruf a diamond if given the chance to do so, and ther thus the frusive. abt . t the con- irref with two spudes and u elut.
This sample principle can be applied in many bands. Drow Os mony Trumps
as you can afford to before you go after ruffing tricks.
be getting mivolved in the affairs of obbers
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A BUFFET SUPPER TO SERVE GUESTS THIS NEW YEAR'S EVE
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my
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The big fest-kitchen table was covered with snow linen.
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salad
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of
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Strengthens Fingernails
By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D.
Do your fingernails split proximate time required to grow
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BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
The Sled Is Missing
| —Would It Go Sleigh Riding Without the Shadows?—
By MAX TRELL
THE first show of the winter tsad fallen. Knarf and Hand, the shadows, looked cul of the window. As far as they could see the ground was while.
"Let's get the sled." suld
By Beachcomber Kaart.
THE of a woonJA
"I was just going to say that myself," said Hankd. THE Boing
who dropped
bit of น
"Where is the sled?" paper "seven yurds from a litter bin,"
Knart, shows that we are determined to
asked
when they
"I think it's in said Hanld.
The
cellar,"
♥CARD Sense make our country fit to receive
Q-The bidding has been: North East South
1 Heart
Pass
1 Spade 7
West P155
1 N.T. Pass
You, South, hold: MAQI75 25 4KQJ62 45
What do you do?
Aild three diamonds. With 13 points and two strong suita opposite an opening bid you can afford to insist on a game.
TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding has been;
North
East Bouth
West
I Diamond Pass 1 Spade Pass
2 Clubs Pass
You, South, hold:
?
AK 1098S 843 442 MATE
What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
CHESS PROBLEM
By C. GOLDSCHMEDING Black, 3 places.
White, 4 pieces, White to play: mate in two.
Solution problem:
to yesterday's
2, K-K7, any; 2, Q, R. or. K
the heavenly twins
arrive in the spring.
Nut long aga A public-spirited ellizen, walking from Hyde Park Corner to Piccadilly. picked u much titter that his pockets were crununed with the oturt, and Exoti hands full of it. Nowhere could he find a b, and finally, worn out and despondent, he dropped the stuff In a heap on the pavement and was
at once arrested. A very amart lady,
on the committee of a Garbage Dis-
They walked away from the hill and by and by they met an old man who was shovelling snow off the sidewalk.
"We're looking for our sted," said Manid 10 the uld snow shuveller, **1 think it went sliding off by itself. Because sieda like sleigh riding. don't they?"
on
The ald snow shoveller nodded. "You're
he right," said "there's nothing that a sled likes better than sleigh riding
Hanld at to When I was a boy, I used
sted and ride in a sled drawn by a team Knart pulled it up the hill. of horses. They used to go "I think it's in the attle," said uphill and downhill. But
you Knarf.
don't see that kind of sted any more."
In The Collar
them
טרנג
shoulders carrying on my very much like the runners of a sled. I strap them to my feet and stand up on them. I slide all the way down."
Then Knarf and Hand walked So Hanid went down to the away from the old snow showed – cellar to look for the sled. jer and suw 1 man coming while Knart went up
And suddenly, ofter to the toward
wearing
Knart high,
Itanid left the man with his the skis and reached their own house again, there, just behind the back stops, they the aled, It was standing in the snow. It seemed to be waiting for them.
Over
attic to look for the same sled. laced boots and tight pants and and
A leather jacket.
the pair of skis.
on
1
posal Unit, alooped to pick up a About five minutes later, shoulders, he was carrying cigaretic-end from the utter her Knart and Hanid met way to a party. A man with fruit-barrow aw
first floor of the house, half way her, and with generosity born of suffering, took up from the cellar
and half "We're looking for our sled," stub from behiori his ear, and wald, "Ere, lady, "ave this. 1 done with ft."
way down from the attic. Hand sad to the man with the skis. "We think it went off to "The sled wasn't down in the go sleigh riding all by itself." cellar," said Hanid.
Sorting it out
10 were
THAT Cre
discussing maid. "Me to Marchant Interven ing." But when the lady attempted
"It wasn't up in the attic," said Knart.
All The Way
The man with the skis
their nodded.
cane
оп
the
"How did it get out of cellar?" Hanid asked Knart,
"How did it get out of the attic?" Knorf asked Hanid.
Then they both looked at the sled. But the sled didn't say a Lasko!" and "Assumpat down the street till they came sald. "If you give a sled a push Knart pulled it. And they all and walked "Sleds sometimes do that," he word. So Hanid sat on it and rostore order by expounding the to the hill in the park. Every from the top of a hill, it will go went to the hill in the park law of trespass as applied to partial before they reached" or tendenti conveyancing. but
hill, gliding all the way down to the and Knarf and Honid and there were continual interruptions they could hear the shouts of bottom. These skis that I'm stod all had a wonderful time. trum a maker of nautical Anstruthe children. They could
to intervene there were cries from
the solicitur benches of Fidel hats
So they both put
coats and
ventor Corklecarrot attempted to
ments named Dodder, who claimed sleds coming down
Asked where he was on January being pulled up.
to be
the defendant's
guardian.
1954, he said "Stevenage." Whereat
the 32 red-bearded dwarfs chanted
In chorus "Arbiltate, den't litigate."
Mr Claude Spooner, reprezinting
during the hearing of the case, and
Lentil and Farragut, denied al
the
and
By Itself
seo
sleds
"I think that our sled to on
knowleage of any matter brought up that hill," said Hanid.
"I think
the Snade Insitute of Technology it saw the snow and went out
shot in a pica of Mortmain, which | by itself."
was fortunately drowned in the up-
roar. When the enuri was cleared,
the salier Ian Barlow, was
found
"Steds don't go aul, by them❤
asicep under the judge's table with selves," said Knart.
his head in a battered, copy of Fisi
Ducros on Injunctions.
I forget why
A new method
Finally they reached the hill. They stood at the bottom and watched the sleds coming down. Then they went to the top and AN Amariesa, mine shop devised
watched the sleds being pulled of advertising it up. But every sled had a boy wares the other day. “A, road wedding or a girl. There wasn't ceremony was performed in the sleds alone. shop window, and "pieces of glacier
Jes were flown in from Alaika to
cool the cocktails at the reception,
any
Rupert and the New Boat-6
"Yes, "It isn't sliding on this hill,”
that werken nough to said Knart. "If it's out tálking znalos⋅ anyone boy his shoes from that shopt. Doment it prove beyond a aleigh ride by itself, it must dispute they chase shoes he the babe on another hill somewhere In the world).
The toy cowboy begins to write on a pad he takes from his sacchet and Rupert joina in the game. think I know what lots of people want for Christmas," he declares, *Bill wants a football. Algy wants a kite, Willie a joy. piens.
who is terribly
tho
brainy, wants a see of chessmeri.' And he goes through the list of every one of his pale. When he has Ginished Gregory jumps up, *** Come on," he calls "Let's Crun back to the village and tell everyone that there's no need to write to Sanga Claus this year 1V (p
Now Your's Eve Suppor Devilled Hum-Egg Salad Canapes Cheese-Olive-Nut Canapen Choice of Beverage Bombay Saded or Chicken-Nut Sulod Buttered Rolls
Coffee
Orange Cake
FOR
While some women noted im- provement after the first monil, the test was carried out over a three-month period, the ap
dissolved.
If you wish. you can sub- stitute three-fourths of a cup of any very hot bruth for the bouillon cube and hot water.
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