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me," said the conductor of a town band.
What a picture of scorn and contumely, I pee the culprit pointing bis trombone offen- sively at the conductor andf looking along and down it with curled Up and that wrinkling or the nase which betokens superturity.
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Even I flute-player. Con convey contempt by an Insolent #lance acrosa his small instru- nent. The planist lowers his head over the keys and look" aldeways as dirtity as'n grocer who palms thrie aprouts to short weight The violinim'n method is to flick the air with Iris Drive
affer t passage, a though
Take it or teave
The 'ceinst, heal bent, can even put his tongue but rudely, pretending that this schoolboy trick is due to roti - centrallon oth his playing.
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extra clash with the cymbals can not only ruin the effect of a piece of music but is the classi- en method of daring detanco of the conductor.
A complicated ritual PUN-BORENS,
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1966,
JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
LA
Minor Bid Is
Bold Play
By OSWALD JACOBY
this
Lachasse
110-
of
the men who make the holes in buns Into which the old currants are titled, will only consent to bore
FEW weeks 070 the under-side of the bun. Tho
column presented Bome upper side is work for the examples of the "umusual" currant pluggers, who are trump overcall. Such a bid la hundied the currants by bun-mily made at the level workers. The under-side of two, especially when it is clear
bitn is bored by
from the earlfer bidding that no- currant- if they inter- trump cannot possibly be prratives fere with the sides of the bun attractive contract, they cause a strike of lateral
For example, suppose that an bun-porters, who carry currants
she -bidding intended for the sides of buns, opponent opens The work of settling the eur-with one spade and that
ants into the holes is done by bun-nishers, and unskilled bun-
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and
Who bores holes in Ash?,
SHOULD
the necessary holes
In the Frother thongs attached to a sheet of cardboard
an
WOMANSENSE
Casamajh
one
Motor
This is passed around partner robes 10 two spades,
h
to your
klus
partner, who thereupon two no-trump. It 19 very un- kely that your partner really wants to play this hand at no- passed trump since he merely over the opening bid of
Here his sudden de- spade, cision to bisk Lwo reinforced with zine be bored by should show a different kind of no-trump lemtherworkers, cardboard- workers or
or zincwurkers?
The Birkenhead strike, even it does nothing else, will throw wavering light on this question. There has been no such delicate question since it was decided that
the edges of a ticket- receptacle
a fram must be painted by an edge-painter, not by 21 receptacle-painter, AS for sheets of
of wood, automation will bring us butomatic wood- peckers to bore the holes, the use of which
will have been
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Arnong expert players, the ** 11 "unusual"
no-trump overcall asks partner to choose one of the minor suits. This is a kind of takeout double, except that the emphasis is very strongly on the minor pults. A double would call chiefly, for a response in the unbid major.
As
In today's hand, the "unusual” no-trump bld was made at the level of three. South speculated on the possibility that North might have a long and solid dia-
forgotten during a nineteen-mond sult together Avith Д
The holes, when
month strike,
bored, will be led up again by agreement between the hole- bungers and the Aller-uppers after seventeen weeks of neguliation,
TARGET
How
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words o: four Jelters
Vi more cak 20 make From the Jetters in the square cut the lefty B making cach word thr letters in ench of the
small squarca may be used once only. Each word must contain the large latter in the gentre aussure, and there must be al least one pine-letter word in the THE No pluraia; na foreign mordu; ля proper
TODAY'S names TARGET: 16 words, good, 19 very good, 22 words, excellent. Holution tomorrow.
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION: Dint dirt drift drip pépin And Best fat frit indes the int print_rift_rind sift_anip apin SPINDRIFT *pirit spirt #pit sprint sprit afir strip trifa tříj
NORTH
AG
10
QJ 10702
WEST
K 10 7 5
A053
• A84 10 6
AKQ743
27
EAST (D) AAQ963 ❤J97
K953 ♣A
SOUTH AJ 42
KQ842
• None
#JU52
East-West vu!
East South Weat LA Pass Pass 14
3 Pasa Double Puss Opening leud-♣ 5
Puss
North
3 N.T. Pass Puss
single stopper in spudes. secined reasonably safe, how- Tower ever, for South to bid clubs. If North had support for both initors, the takeout to four clubu was vital. If North had a lott solid diamond suit. I would rescue himself at four eljamonds.
When 1309 PRINC occurred.
YOUR BIRTHDAY......... By STELLA South felt confident that he had
BONN today 200
drianatle
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24
10
made the correct interpretation of lus partner's no-trump bil. Hence he pushed boldly on live clubs as a suerifler against Easi̇n bid of four spades.
The sacrifice was a the idea. East would have mnde game and rubber with his bid of fotar
You would be wher la put THE V
and MTOT tulent which may be expressed quarta- 1
something regularly in the field of floattre muste fo the traditional "rainy day on the stage. You have al sense or humour and
feeling for t!དྷྭr« Your intuitions are keen and nume-
reach Daychic proportions, spades, scoring 700 points This lesif some in believe that you the rubber and 120 points actually have what is called "econd his tricks. At five clubs doubled, South managed to win ten trieks losing only 100 points. This ex-
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Loyal let your friendships, you are responsive and impulsive when Come affalis of the hear It in
*igh
kely that you will have more tigh Among the born on this date are:
have Rudolph Ganz, planial; Gertito Wa One rotsance Yet, once you
for for
gnade van chalee, you will show se Turtle and John Rubberton, author; cellent sacrifice would not have Burgoyne, pioneer been possible but for North's Window Homer, artist: iency Kirk use of the unusual no-trump Brown,
sculptor Chester Nimiz, overcall to invite A bid in a
Interest whatsoever in those nuteiste Gen. Briur own family circle
You are industrious and are alway USN finding Work
do. You canont tu bear to alt idke, doing nothing. To find what the stars have a Although you will probably make store for you tomers, select your considemble money during your life- birthday star and read the coITES" Time, you may not end up with a
sanding paragraph Let your birth- Frent deal for you are a lavish day star be your dally guide.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25
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Det 24-Nov 773-Act ARIES (Mar. 12-Apr 20)~~Act with reason whatever you under- speedily on nii opportunities offered take you will make stride In
the right direction.
today you are possible progress
to make the best
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GEMINI (May 22-June 71)—love n definite abjective in view and then follow it intough to successful enelitian
CANCER (June 23-July 21)-You may be a little more adventuresome than normally today, for the stars are propitious.
LEO (Jule 34-Aug. 23)—If you will alick to essentials. You will find that You are making marked progress in
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23)-The
CHESS PROBLEM
By G. H. DRESE
Black, 12 pieces
White, 13 pieces,"
White to play: mate in three, - Solution to verderday's
problem:
1, QxQDP, any), 2, Q, B, or miafes
Ki
SCORPIO
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)— One of your excellent days, o com- Vine business and pleasure with extra special good results.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan, 20) Artistic Interest and ali profesional careers are highly favoured at this fine.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)-One of there the days when everything reins to be going your way. Be are to make progress.
minor sull,
♥÷CARD Sensen♦
Q-The bidding has been: South West North East 1 Diamond Pass 1 Spade Pass
You, South, hold: 4K 4 ♥K34 AQT52 4732
What do you do?
A-Bld one no-trump. Il in better to show that you have a minimum balanced hand than to rebid a weak five-card suit.
TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You, South, hold:
4732 VILJA SAQTS JA 12
What do you do?
Answer TorsDYTOW
This Funny World
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"I know they're empty,, ... I ate the stuff while I was waiting in line
Harthell
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Enriched
bread
and
whole bath sponge
will
clean
the
wheat bread make important shoes as well us on expensive contribulans of iron und B- suede brush." vitræning—thitumine, niacin and ribo-flavin to the diet. Bread also provides considerable pro- tein und energy.
Suedes, buckskins and nappy leather shoes should be cleaned with a fairly stiff brush after being treated with liquld suede dressing.
Watch
brushes"
The Big Twelve Collections In London Present
Slender Silhouettes For
And Summer Spring
By BETTY WILSON
THE London spring line,
THE
as these sketches from the collections shown by the twelve members of the In- corporated Society of Lon- don Dress Designers indi- cate, is meant for the tall and slender woman the who watches her weight and somehow con- trives to ward off those deadly extra pounds.
Woman
She will look wonderful in John Cavanagh's 'streak line', int Michael's clean-cut two- pieces, in the pipe stem-straight skirts characteristic of these new streamlined collections, and in suits and topcoats with flying panels which are as arresting as an exclamation mark.
Happily for the shorter woman, especially if she tends to put on weight about the hips, London designers are also showing flared or finely-pleated skirts. Normal waistlines are set against a long torso treat- ment which sleetts down to cling tightly to the hips,
Casual Chic
There are plenty of these eminently wearable two-pieces, sults and dresses designed with of underestį. the right kind
they muted, casual chle. Yet are easy to look at and easy to
wear.
If these wearable clothes are and not written When food is fried on a gas not sketched
much as the starker range, popping prease
often about as spatters the burners not in use. Apring silhouettes, it is because Pie plates turned upside down wearability is seldom news. over the unilt burners protect them from splashes of grease, and are easily cleaned.
Use an ice cube way Star yuk tor "surde hardening fudge to give uniform with wire bristle pieces.
Butter the tray lightly They often break down the nap so the partition can be easily of the shoe, Al Inexpensive removed.
im- Balanced by much more portant hats three dimen- sional in their new volume-the predominant London line is as clean-cut and sharp as u яickle, Details help ɖeceive the cyc effect of in hinting at a new drawn-out length. From a re- jaxexi forse line, jackets and
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Chirpie's Discovery
-He Finds The Crow's-Nest Isn't On A Tree-
By MAX TRELL "WELL" said "Chirple Spar- row to Enarf and Hanid, the shadow-children with the turned-about names, "I'm cer tainly glad to be home again. Ah, see you've laid out some
**'Never heard of such a tree," I answered.
"The Crows all laughed."
Very Comfortable
You'll be very In that crow's-nest,
comfortable Chirple,
K
nice bread crumbs for me, the first Crow said. "Why don't Thank you very much."
you spend the night there? you like it, you can stay there If you as long as you please.
And now Chirpie Sparrow be gan pleking up the crumbs in don't like it, you can come back
his beal and swallowing them, But Hand interrupted," "What was that you were saying about being glad to be home Were you away?"
Chirpic's Story
to your own nest in the garden in the morning."
Hanid,
12-10
The Crow told Chirpie about the nest.
I
"Worth
Stübel
Amies
Michael
Sherard
[Muttli
Paterson-
dresses tend to it wallpaper- Jacket, which is made of char-
coat light at the hips, then ease into
grey worsled ftannet. straight, tight skirts.
Jacket front and back ure cut into a pointed wrap-over and Clean-cut panels flirt out at the same wrap is shown at the skir backs. Diagonál wrap back of the slender skirt.
treatments,
Intioned over down, have the saine reissore
Panels (see above skeleli) ure look, Jackets are often placed newsworthy throughout there to attract attention to u lower spring collections. hipline. In the case of Hardy
Amies he removes pockets from Hardy Amles nuts a sharply- hl jackets and places them on cut panel at the back of the hls skirts, so that they show narrow, pocket-Anished skirt.
beneath the lengthened slekle curve of waist Into hips,
Pink Dominant
Often yoke or bolero treat- ment, plun pockets, bands or lies put on at hip-level, sug gesta a dual line put on above and below a curved, but un- belted, waistline, without break- ing a stem-like' silhouette. This Is, perhaps, the shape of things to come, hinting at an ultimate ly higher waistline and the re- tum of the Empire look,
This he shows with
high-
necked jacket, with a long line curving down to where the skirt pockets empltasize hip im-“ porlance. The material is nuvy blue
tropical
And worsted,
exited jacket and pockets are with narrow black braių.
Centring the sketch above, lchael's navy blue wool fitted redingote is buttoned high in front. Loose panels are inset at the back from the shoulder the suams, are caught at the waist, then fly loose to within a few Inches, of the coat hem. This a worn with one of Valeria Brill's enormous und dramatte bu'westers, made in stliched white satin.
Navy And White
The sketches here show some of the highligits from London's twelve top couture collections,
The sketch on the left Is
Cavanagh's 1 centred by John streak prototypo dress, which is made in bright pink tweed. The sleevelesy bodice fits Navy blue is back for spring. "Well," said Chirple to Knarf
casily, then streaks down to the Most of the leading designers agoin? and Hand, "I should have been
tightly-fitting hips and into a feature navy' rather than grey suspicious at the way all those
Hero narrow skirt. It is worn with in the spring collections, Crows were nudging coch other
Simone Mirena Ty's circlet hat. Victor Stiebel user fine navy "Was I away!" exclaimed and chuckling. But instead, I asleep. During the night
which
consists only of a wide wool for a sleekly-fitting dress Chirple, "I never want to get flew down to the mouth of the
Mast tree crushed tulle brim.
with pocktt bands which extend that far away again!"
river and there, sure enough, I thought I fell the
swaying and the water lapping
to tle on the hips at back, The found the fall, straight Mast
Sketched beside it is another neckline is edged with white against the side. Then come the about. tree they were talking
my eyes. bright pink sult pink is pique, and there is a wide stole, It sounded as though Chirple Mast. I found the crow'g-nest."
And near the very top of the morning I opened
You know where I was?optimistically reflected through- made of the same one wool and out these collections made in odged with wool fringe to match Sparrow had a story to tell, so
"Was it comfortable. Chirpie?" I was out in the middle of the
crow's-nest fine ribbed jersey. Here the re- the dress. Knarf
ocean, Mast free, and Hand would like very much to hear it.
laxed Jacket line inches down
and to it mugly at the hips
Michael Sherard achloves the line is
In continued the panelled effect, without narrow skirt. A cluster of red actual use of panels by scaming cherries dangles from one side the square-necked dress which of the jacket and is matched by is matched by a jacket made of cherry red gloves. The hat is a the same pervenche-blue and beret made in the same pink white striped worsted, spiced wool jersey as the sult,
with just a fleek of black.
There
is interest, too, in Ronald Paterson's "Well," said Chirple, "I found
porridge- out. I'm glad I was able to fly
coloured canvas-wenvo wool Norman Hartnell's ginger nut He Foll Asleep
Evasive home. That's why I'm so hungry brown worsted dress is covered two-piece. Here the now. I won't listen
I don't like Chirple said: "It was already, Crows any more.
Lofts by a ginger, brown tnd white jacket is appliqued with a por
ito in ends at the back... The always flapping about, always dark. I folded my head
and shouting 'Caw-Caw
emphasise
shows 4 ot ench my wing
promptly fell you again for the crumbs,"
the casual elegance of the whistle-straight dress
button-on panel effect intro- other, always playing jokes. But
jackot..
which, again, tightens you have to be mighty careful
over the hips. The outfit is worn duced from a low hip level in of the jokes they play.
said they "Oh yes," said Chirpie. " and all
"First let me eat my break
fost," said Chirpie. I'll tell it."
"And then
So they let Chirple Sparrow cat his breakfast and then, after he had wiped his beak clean on the stone window all, he began as follows:
of other Mast trees all around. Some of them seemed to
bo
Flanid Knarf und
couldn't
was big and roomy. Standing on the edge of it, I could see lots help laughing.
"Chieple," said Hanid, "you're standing far out in the middle a darling bird, but you're silly. of the river. But I liked mine Didn't you know that a crow's- best because it was growing nest was on a ship at the top of close to the shore. I don't care a mast? Didn't you know that a much for water,"
mast was part of a ship?" "And what happened?"
"It all happened on account of two shadows asked anxiously.
down those Crows who live
Grove. the Pine Tree They're very funny birds, those They're
near
Crows; very funny.
"Now a couple of days ago," Chirple went on, "I was foolish enough to start talking to them. We all met on a wooden fence and it seemed rude for me not to greet them when they alight- ed on the fence rall next to me. After a while one of the Crows said to me!
Chirple, you've always lived in a pretty small nest, haven't you?'
**Yes, I always have,” I told
big our
"'Well,' said the Crow, wink- at his friends on the fence ing Tail 'we've got.a. Gne, crow's-nest that none of tomily to wing this season. Why don't you go und, live in 11? It's down, at the mouth of the river at the top of a fall, giraight tree, obiled s-Mart.
the
Clean Curves
the
under their kind of jokes, And thank The vertical stripes
blazer-striped worstedt jacket, row sell band which emerges to
front.
Rupert and the Gold Acorn-15 with a hat, shaped like an in-..
As before, Rupert is interrupted' he points to the great camile, mstalı before he can finish. fila. Kory nearer, that looms before them, "Ay, it can be none other," cries "Get you there at your beit "Demand the wooodman. Kidnapped, say. apred.""" he orders, you? My lord Philip in dire audience of the exel and tell him “Trouble. Come with me,” Hoita your heavy sidega, i will quench
- lhig Rupert through the treas uniit my fire sod follow as quickly an
they reach the edge of the wood......‚I can.""
ALL RIGHTS MENENVED
verted basin, with a white brim Fine Pleats
and ginger nut brown crown.
Seaming underlines the clean: Beautifully-handled and very curves of Lackasso's suit jacket; 'dné pleating folis'in' thờ sen- which Illustrates his new "pipe- son's straight lines in Matt's line" look. This is made in grey and white checked wool mushroom-coloured wool. The dress, which has a white' pique" curving bricket cut of the neck. band' inset at the square neck-" treatment at the back is an In- Jine. A neek-to-liem row of |teresting isiking-point,
buttons carries on the deceiving line of tho Beltless and straight, this pleats.. phort-sleeved dress, shown in
Mirror
the Diaby Mortan collection, is Staggered pocket flaps, set in worn with a curving Jacket" cut, groups of three on either hip, Into a pointed, button-finished ilustrates a new way to Intro- wrap-over,
duce lup interest. The colour .、
Worth addr "strawberry mousse pink"; the these pockets to ̈¤ grey »nnd. frie, a rough nubbly tword. white wool suit, worn beneath a
knucklo length, wrap-over
A big pussy cat bow of polka jacket with a triangle of bullonk dotted silk fills in the revers of holding the clean-cut are of Charian Creed's, sickle-curved the wrap,
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