Jerry Maricua.
This Funny World
MoHaught Byndlaste, Ina-© Collier'a
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"Baby, I could go for you...
if you weren't my wife"
BY. THE. WAY
by
Beachcomber
THE latest muggling dodge, march past a gigantic meter, to THE
small diamonds in eels, is a the strains of the
food idea. It is not easy for a March.
IT is only i
Gasworks
Customs officer to keep an cel Mrs Wretch hits out' still while he peers down its throat in search of diamonds, Officials dart to and fro, grab- bing at the elusive fish, which got mixed up with luggage.
Many a lady, declaring a pair of stockings, finds that diamond-laden Intruder
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1956.
●JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Finesse Play Springs Trap
By OSWALD JACOBY
today's hand W18 recent team
WHEN today's
malch, the results at the two tables were very different. One player had a terrible time ex- plaining to hik teammates just how he had managed to go
down at four spades,
In the xt room everything went quite normally. Easi took the ace of diamonde and retum- ed a heart, South winning with the are. Declarer finessed the Jack of spades next, losing : lu Enst's king.
East now returned another heart, and South won with the king. A trump to the ace re- vealed the bad break, but now
Printed nylon xhantung
is
chosen for this silm dress with flared overskirt,
declarer could return the wight IF BEAUTY
of spades and pick up the rest of the trumps with a finesse of the queen-nine, South still had to Jose
the club finesse, but he made his contract, losing only one trump, one diamond, and one club,
Declarer didn't have quite so easy a time at the second table. Dick Frefman, a ̈youthful Wash- ington expert, held the East cards, and concocted a plot to lure declarer into a Josing line of play,
property- owning democracy that you can give free play to the enter- prise and initiative of the chain- shop by raising the rales stopping the overdraft
shopkeeper. If he taken refuge in them. Sinister be bought out as cheaply, turned a heart. Just as at the looking men try to pacify angry evicted casily as a house-
has
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first table.
Dick won the first trick with the ace of dluinonds and re-
When South соп-
eals with bits of biscuit, and holder, without right of appealinued in the normal way with round
with strange to law, the anomaly of the one- them up
ja small space to dummy's Jack, cries, "There's one down my back!" shricks a girl, wriggling man shop would soon disappear, like a cabaret-dancer, while a (Mrs Wretch at Ormesworth.)
member of the eel gang walls As though I cared to bang it on the head na it emerges. And in a sordid Bish
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shop down a lonely alley, I
Hatton Garden merchant, dls-
next
consignment with concealed impatience.
The Gas Brigade
THE news that
that NOTE
commercial television has failed to create
gulsed in blue apron and fish- a disincentive to sales resistance. smeared trousers, awalls the Not even 20 minutes of Beeih- - oven can overcome the national reluctance 10 buy delightful hardware at Increased prices. "War and A reading from Penen." preceded by an appeal to the North- buy electric nail-cutters and Western Gas Board has followed by ardent praise of decided to put its meter-readers edible soap, made no appreci- into uniform makes me hope able difference to the sales. for a monthly parade, led by the hastily summoned conference is Combined Gasworks Band, with to discuss whether classical an inspector on a mettlesome music is the best method charger, and a gas-boy dragging getting people into the mood to the Board's mascot (an oven on rush off to order tinned, cheese wheels) by a string. And on or rubber wedges for loose Gas Day the whole corps would windows,
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WOMANSENSE
A NEW FABRICS SHOW PRESENTS
Foods Replacing
NYLON IN EVERY FORM Meat Must Be
TAIL
London.
By DOROTHY BARKLEY
ball NAILORED 'buits,
gowns, casual clothes, top coats, swimsuits, plain dresses, fancy dresses- they all camo one after the other at the Albert Hall.' At first sight they appeared to Jack any connection, apart from being up-to-date and 1956-ish. Then the audience Every spotted the link. item was nylon.
·
The show itself was part of
a nylon fair put on to illustrate the varlely of fabrics nylon can now resemble. A few years ago, nylon was just stockings and lingerie (and porachutes, 100). Now it means nearly every fabric you might mention, and quite a few besides,
Looking around the London dress houses and shops you find pique, grosgrain, printed taffeta different has sixty (one firm prints), cloth-of-gold, sari silk. heavy while jersey knitted 19 look like cable stitch and nylon printed with a lace-ilko pattern. There is an opaque tricot, rather Hike sharkskin, for shirts.
shape
Printed nylon crepe makes this garden party dress
scooped neckline and full skirt,
with
Of Equal Value
By Ida Bailey Allen
66
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NONSIDERABLE con
fusion exists in the minds of many persons regarding the meaning of the terms meat alternates and meat substitutes. How would you define the dif ference, Madame?" asked the Chef.
"Meat alternates," I replied, "are foods having practically the same nutritive value ng
They include all
meat,
organ
the
meata as well as ment sundries such as pig's feet, calf's muzzle, tongue, ete.; Poultry and game; seafood and fish; ceps. milk; all cheese except cream cheese; soybeans,
Secondary Proteins
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"Peanuts, the legumes, dried beons, lentils and dried plas may be included, if cooked with at least pound animal pro tein to
of dried pound legumes to complete and activ- ate the secondary proteins..
"Nuts azo also classed meat alternates, but as with the Legumes, animal protein should be cooked with or served in the same meal with them."
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substitutos,
What we mean, for example,
out of rouge 13 this: Fresh
First Use your lipstick instead. Boften it with cold cream. checks Thon use it to dot your
Blend with three liny spots. them in, just as you would if
Nylon, bealdes providing you were using cream rouge,
variety, mukes clothes easier to No eychrow pencil?. Use your under and gives them longer mascara brush. Make sure, of life. There are jersey dressed in course, that it isn't dripping
which their keep
And the meet Wipe off the nylon, with mascara." surplus with a tissue, then brush however often they are washed: Nylon also leads the now move- sill contrive to look like its old Madame?"
there are white pique dresses, ment towards
light self. This means that there is brows in place. The brush will practical even in town; dresses foundation
**This is a term applied to a giving news in stockings and lingerie.food served in place of ment give them just the right touch-
without Finest stockings now
are six with no regard for comparable up of colour.
denier, so fine that one thinks nutritive values." that it won't be long before they Coming to The individual are invisible. For those who The new "bulked" nylon gives styles, the two outfits illustrated like originality, there are nylons reveal something of the in pastel shades, including lac
and
pink; and nylons in the One is a lilac flower print in very latest style (they say), a fabric which resembles shan- knee-high with a garter band. tung. It consists of a slim dress mounted with an overskirt.
a
strong,
gorments,
in nylon velvel, which repels comfortbale control water: full skirted dresses with inelegance. slx petticoats, no longer # washday terror.
new look,.
here
variety.
warmth.
If you're in the mood for rent relaxing beauty bath and fabrics a completely there isn't a speck of bubble fabrics woven or knitted from bath loft, pour a cupful of sham-bulted yarn have greater thick- poo into the tub and let the ness, running water stir it into bubbles. Or use some soap
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YOUR BIRTHDAY....... by STELLA
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21
are 办 rather
BORN tay. You
You have a great deal of nervous complex eninbination et the energy and an intensity of purpose idealistic and the prictical. There that can bring you to an early and You have the are times when your impulsen ruin magnificent success. your life and others when you are gift of being able to write well and much too dellberative for your own a career in Internture might prove best good. There are
when most rewarding. Sing" you are▲
times you con be the life of the party and natural leader, you will want to hew other day when you are moody aml out your own pathway in life. uncommunicative. You are critical
and can see the Bows in something Among those born on this data are: Falmer, educator: inntantly. Learn to offer construc- Alice Freeman
Voltaire, Leonard Merrick, author: tive critlelam.
philosopher: Charles Scribner. pub- Your rullons are intense and it intrer: George L. Tracy, composer; you fall in love it is apt to be head, Nathaniel Rochester, ploncer
If the object of your To find what the stars have Dvar. teels. affections dore not reciprocate you store for you torporrow, select your are not one to like second choice, birthday star and rid the corres You will remain unwed railser than pending -paragraphs. Let your birth- compromine.
day star bo your daily guide.
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WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 22
In
PINCER (Feb. 20-lar. 21)-There AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)-You should be no risk-taking today. Stay can overestimate the rewards on a on the conservative side for best job unless you are very careful to results.
get the full facts, .
ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr, 20)~There is MG ZSÍRSKING PR
a tendency to he too adventuresome. Stick to things that you are sure of. TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)-There are powerful forces at work, and f you are cautious in your activity You urofl.
GEMINI (May 23-Junr 21)-Bix). new comes first today, if necesary, to finish a job, curtall social engage- ments.
CANCER (June 22-July 23)~~You can make progress if you proceed with caution Louk before you leap into anything y
LEO (July-24-ua. 23)-ge your bert Judgment today, Think care fully before you act or you may etr dan lipportant matter,
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Heyl. 23) Analyre all your facts before you make an important decision. Pure intuition may not be enough.
LIBNA, (Sept, 24-Oct. 21-Your health is important. Take care of it. Don't be pished beyond your endur- ance by outside inhuence.
SCORPIO (Oct, 24-Nov, 22)--Don't act on impulse. Take a second look at things before you make any trial decisions
BAGITTARIUB (Nov, 23-Dec. 22)— gittern! Beware of anything that Test it for pure gold before you buy Deception is in the air.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan, 20) You can accomplish a great dest if you will organise things before you begin. Financial matters foremost.
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"A substituto is never same as the real thing in food although it may taste good. But fine favour is not enough. The food served in place of meat must have comparable food Introduced value, otherwise the meal will
terin
The other, suggested for garden party, is in white nylon crepe printed "with green dots, lavishly trimmed lingerie, with be protein-deficient." The 'dress has a scooped out coloured frilla in coral, jasmine,
"There is still another has pink, flamerico and jade. They and the skirt When it comes
A marble makes a good damn-tiered panels to give it fulness are in very fine nylon, and the the ladies sometimes use; it is tion for make-up, you can sub-
tightly packed frills keep their meat extenders." stitute witch hazel and evening egg when you are mending without bulk on the hipline.
shape in the wash. tiny holes in glove fingers.
They are also called moat For evening the most un-
In the usuni dresses are made in nylon
household cection, stretchers, Cher," I told him. firms show
are knitted These
usunlly cereals, sari silk. Bright red nylon, is several crossed with rich bands of gold. nylon sheets which require no macaroni or vegetables, which, ironing. Some of them have combined with other Ingredients
Freanan dropped the seven some hand lotions for a base. of spades instead
These are just a few of the of winning the trick.
ways you can carry on when a beauty shortage hits your vanity
This card gave South same- thing to think about. It seemed clear that East didn't have the king of spades, and it was quite Possible that East had no mure spades at all. The only remain. ing possibility, as South thought,
was that East still had the fen
of spades."
South decided that his best' chance was to return to his own hand with the king of hearts and lead the queen of spades through West's supposed · king, This would work beautifully it East had no more spades or East had only the ten of spades left,
As it turned oul, of course, West was the player with ID
more spades. When the queen of
table.
-JEANNE D'ARCY
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If you must do dry-cleaning at home, do it out-of-doors, or at least with windows open and for away from my fire,
BOYS' AND
Flowers Move About
-Christopher Tells About Ivy's Climbing—
By MAX TRELL
spades was led, East was 'bound | †ZNARF, the shadow, was just to get two trump tricks, thus defeating the contract.
V+CARD Seriseks
Q-The bidding has been: South West North East Diamond. Pass, 1 Heart Pass
You, South, hold: AQ 53 WIZ JAK 105 ♣AQ24
What do you do?
A-Dld two clubs. This awk ward hand is too good for one no- trump but not good enough for two no-lrump. The best bet is to show a new suit and hope that North can find a rebid,
TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You. South, hold: AKJA WIZ 4AK 104 4A QJ4
What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
CHESS PROBLEM
By V, L. EATON
Black. 9 pieces
saying to his sister Hanid: "I'm glad I'm not a tree or plant or a. flower. I'm glad I don't grow in the ground."
Hanid looked at her brother with a puzzled expression. Then she said: "Why are you glad you're not a tree or a plant or Dlower? And why are you slut you don't grow in the
ground?
In One Placo
"Because,
sald Knart, "I was a tree, or a plant or a flower, and I arew in the ground the way they do, I wouldn't be able to move. I'd have to stay in one place all the time."
At that moment, Christopher Cricket, who was spending the winter between two loose bricks in the fireplace, stuck out his head and sold, "What was that you sold, Knart?"
"I said," said Knarf, "that if I was a tree, or a plant, or a flower, I wouldn't be able to move. I'd have to stay exactly in the place where I was
growing."
Christopher Cricket sald: "Oh, hum! You're wrong as wrong can be 1 know quite a few plants and trees and flowers that go moving about. Como over here and I'll tell you about 1hem."
On A Log
Knart and Hanid went over to the replace and sat down oh..log.
White, 9 pieces, ·· While to play; mate in three.
Jolution so westerday's Chelstoph
problems
Christopher meanwhile, made himself comfortable on thù, edge (1, B-01; anu; -2, Bor 23 of she of the bricios, He cromed
its
Of course, nylon, in spite of durably pleated frills, and oven and the meat, stretch or extend
recent developments, can a new colour-silver grey,
GIRLS' MAGAZINE
you really don't think she can
do that, do you?"
"What did naked Knart,
they think?"
"They, didn't think so, eliher," "There's be sold:
my friend
sald Christopher. "Blackie mid Ivy. When I first knew her, she grew down at the bottom it was hard enough to climb to of the old church wall. I'm the top of the old church wall going to climb to the top of even if you had six or eight this old church wall, she told legs. Glive the Snail said it he was to climb the wall (with his me one summer."
one leg), it would take him o "And what happened?" asked rood three or four days." Hanid.
Christopher Cricket ́unerossex) "Well," said Christopher, "Į his legs and crossed them again, didn't really belleve her, For Then he went on: "I spoke to a said to myself: How can a plant few more of my friends about ever climb to the top of a wall Ivy," said Christopher, "I think and a high wall at that? Itapole to Archibald and can't move around. It has to Clarence who are caterpillars stay in one spot, the spot where and Hop-a-Long who is It's growing."
grusshhopper and Blinky Mole, "Just exactly what I said," and Squire Squirrel and they sald Knarf.
all agreed that Ivy would never make it.
Д
Christopher spoka to Binky Mole.
Christopher Cricket
flavour and bulk, but decrease the protein value of the' laf‚”
Meat Alternato Dinner
Onion Soup
Fish Fillet Oyster Broil ·
Paralled Potatoos String Beana
Fresh Pours
Cream Cheese Coffee Tool Milkk All Measurements Are Level Recipes Proportioned to Serve 4,to 0
Fish Fillet Oyster Broll: Order 11⁄2 lbs, fish Allets of any kind. Brush both sides with lemon juice, then with cooking oil. Dust both sides with 1 tsp. salt, 1 tsp. monosodium glutas mate and 1⁄4 tsp. pepper, Broll 8 in, from source of heat until light brown. Turn once,
Cover the top with pt. shacked oysters. Dust with fine enriched bread crumbs, Dot with 2 tbsp. butter or margarine Continue to broll until the edges of the oysters ruffie,
Serve at once. Pass Fish Cocktail sauce.
Fish 'Cocktali Sauce: In small bowl, combine 1⁄2 c, chili sauce, 4 c. lemon juice, 4 tap. paused Tabasco, 1⁄4 tsp. salt, top. and shook his head. "But I monosodium glutina.5, 1 tbsp. was wrong," he said to Knart | Worcestershire and 1⁄4 c. pre- and Hanid, "I couldn't - have pared horseradish, been more wrong-not about """She hasn't got legs and she Blinky's getting to the moon. hasn't got arms, sald Blinky but about Ivy's getting to the Mole. If she can climb up that top of that old church wall."
"You mean she did it?" said Knarf,
Old Church Wall
"Yes," said Christopher Cricket. "So a day or two later old church wall, I can jump up Beetle and Glive the Snail and
into my friend Blackie to the moon,"
I ran
"Then we all laughed because Bald to them: I was talking we all know that no matter to Ivy the other day and sle how hard ho tried. Blinkie told me she was going to climb wouldn't be able to fump up to
Now the moon." up the old church wall.
Many Years
"It took her quite a number of years."
Christopher; said **But shố sure enough did it. She kept climbing and climbing and climbing....slowly slowly!
Rupert and the Gold Acorn-12 sometimes being pushed back
Peeling sure that the boy he has thats new, the turrets," he says,
and what is better, there is). ='sean; lavin, petions trouble Rupert
forgats all about veturning to Nutamolce coming through the trees wood, and thrusting the'ppiders mencer, still. There must be some dacom Into, Ms, pocket by walkka in one -- there."*-*) Hurrying on he Mh what he thinks in the dination of reachas a glada" when ha iples in the nearer damlas i At the top of another, small, figure in a strange
by the wind, sometimes' being dried out by the summer beat. But she kept at it. She never caid. much, just
11o whispering rustle, now and then while she caught her breath, It funt goes to show what a plant con do when it sets bout, to do St."
Knort wald: "I guess 1 Wyna wrong alt right; Christopher, Things that grow in the ground move around like your felend Ivy. But Jut the same, I'm glad I can run
and jump
can
''
and hop and skip,"
1. "Only you can't climb the joki church, wall like "Ivý dia”
sald Christopher Cricket, "g on that wall. pok. If you don't
Trick of the Chef
To make fresh bread crumba hurry-up, rub through a coarse steve or a wire rack,