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JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Trump Is Bad Slam Lead
By OSWALD JACOBY
ONE of the worst leads
CROSSWORD
Acrna
1. Ith brought up by 3 Down and
10 Across, 6, 6)
9. This kind of remark la mede in
the right place. (3) (5)
11. Branch of peace.
12. This and buy makes a charity
effort. (6)
13. Bright one may makamosey. (*) 14. Mite host is the boss here. (3)
18. Modal to the R.A.P. (4)
15. Bounds like a snow, plsything —but this in whas kiilor do. (4)
17. The yooks have this word for
it. [8)
18. They help เ летова น
Some Beottiah cakes are. (6)
23. Oossip. ()
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1956.
up. (7)
Thut
25. Chole wearinho. Ther
(B. 4)
help ohurchi.
5. Rule by a elique.
(0)
d. Often linked with orplans,
Time at ere!
(0)
ED)
10)
Down
2 March tui
Jower, (01
you can make against a slarn contract is a trump. Tida #eldem corts
учла directly, but it usually to turn control
nver
4
nick Nerved thic hund of decinrer, In most elam contracts, declarer welcomes the opportunity to take control 15 the hand at the earliest possible moment,
his
In today's hand. West was un- willing to lend away fro kang or trom either 01 queens, Hoping to avold The West therefore Jon of a trick. tipened a trump.
South Loka ful advantage of
De this feeble openit least clarer drew there
trumps ani
Thru mond, allowing the
Win the track!
rounds led a dia-
eterny
Yesterday's solution
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Varniore were not to chil the nes Stil Ceep.
B. About the commerciai travel
Jora (0)
(0) This is a deep one. To i hort thank for *
19. The tense is hidden hers. (4) 20. Relating to the ear, (4)
21. 10 Across keeps things shua,
(3)
SB) 4. It's appited 22. Middle of an ICU.
by thinkers,
One hundred (J)
from AcrosA,
BY THE•
WAY
By Beachcomber
an
NOTE that there is electronic brain which soon be ublo
to read 14,000 words minute. Talk about culturel One of these enachines La house could read thousands of good books every week, thus.
for releasing the human being television There
is also a brain which, "'on the pressure of buttons," (will do all that needs to be idone in a house from dawn to dusk. If it will eat for us, the Age of Leisure will have down- csi. But one more invention is essential--a machine which will control these machines. Then nobody will have anything do but colonise the planeta, Inconclusive session
SUD
to
QUET had arrived early at the social club, and had drunk two glasses of aherry to keep hin courage up. His usually dull
YOUR BIRTHDAY BY STELLA eyes sparked a little. He led
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28
arc
essentially BORN today. Sua
the dreamer You envision great things and the stats have given you malige talentu But, unfortunately not sufficiently practicni You are and will need urdereson if you are tu rench your rent
The defenders were now help Js East made ins best try by returning a club, but Soith put tip the king of clubs i
to save dummy's ace for a later
South then 4,11944+4 dummy top diamonds, a dininond.
Cashed
Fuffed
Eut back dummy with the ace of clubs in order to the last damind,
WIST
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Q4
NORTH (D) 30 475
AQ10703
363
AK703 KAM
BAST A82
Q1085
• J 10 9 5 J53
SOUTH
AAKOJ 10 6
♥A 72
+ 82
North-South vul.
East South West
Pass 2
goal in te
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This gave him has welfth trick, Allowing lurt to fulfil the slam Avantraet
We as uld have defeated the Blom if he had made
Ture
enterprising opening lend
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heurt Opening would have forced ut declarer's nce
ut
once When South eventually Have up a diamond trick, Openis would be able cash their hearts.
ther
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lend Capital! would love gocked out Bartier for the detenders South Wenkd win the list track with the king of clubs. to be sure, that East would get the chance ter force mit dummy's aer of club be T་1༥་
Junch the damnds
been established This wound defeat the sam in genud. it Pr to remember is that trump lead is desirable against slam ently when the bidding muke, at clear that declarer menns ruft extensively in the dummy
CARD Senseno
Q-The bidding has been: South
West North East Pass 1 Spode Pass
1 Diamond
7
You, South, hold:
41 VK34 4A Q10754 4A82
What do you dur
A-Bid two diamonds. Show the rebiddable suit rather than no-trump with a singleton.
TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You, South, hold:
MT VIK 54 DAQ 1975 AAJI2
What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
HOW words of
four letters
or more can You Diake from the letters in the square on the left in making cach word the letter 1A
each of the
empat squares maj De at once
unly
per
nvo
Mimsie to a table, and began to tell her about his upbringing, hig Aunt Phoebe, his Uncle Mortimer, and all the rest of them. Never had she heard him so eloquent--to so little
pusa En esan, theologian: Six
She nodded
beed ber pose. Walfred chepfel,
medial occasionally to show that she Inlationary. Arthur Symons, gritle:
was listening and the evening educator. Instiel Irving Mary Love, having deirean, Den Benchst, autior, wore on. He had just arrived at the death of a Mrx Cole, who To find what the stars
his parents. more for you toranitow, select your had lived near birliday star and read the curres-when Mimsie saw that t bonding paragraph Let your birth 10 o'clock. "There was some. day they be your daily guide.
thing Important you wanted to discuss," she mud. "Ah, yes," sald Suet. "I was coming 10 Mimsic PUCES (Feb, 20-Mar, 21)--Highly that." Out of patience,
and left that you balance gd bude him goodnight, Judgment agaitist mputer before him in the middle of a descrip- making any decisions,
tion of a Commodore Fowler, who had given lần a check emp
en his Bärenth birthday
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 29
isaportant
ARIES (Mar. 22-Apt. 20)-Ir You are properly prepared for all einer- geneles. asthma can surprise you when I dora happen.
TAURUN (Apr. 21-May 21-ne Sticky upper lip
Bro
highly practical and you will marked advance it reaching your ubjective.
GEMINI
WVAR
May 22-June 21)-Tim
A
MAN who fell into a barrel
"cursed of
treacle
can be a textung Dine for you Ex awere so violently that posers- cellent prospect if you avoid being by protested." Quite right. sületracked.
Sung (June 22-July )-Deal English CANCER
you
The
+
19
10
with people upon whom can struge out of the barret with rely. Be conservative in all netivi- ja grim smile, and to say "I ties for best results
scem to be batting on rather sticky wicket."
LEO uly-Aug. 23)-Femther routine in the best policy for today Any new ideas might have on
VIGO
certain recepi.Sept. 231-autos te Indicated even on your nurnal, routine schedule.
make waste.
(ENTER the fairies Grogblossom
and Quartbottle.)
Haste today canThe winged horseman
LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)-if you are calm, then confusion surround-
Nobody has ever thought of
ing you can have no l effects. You an use for wings, except flight,
will surmount it,
221-You
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. may be over-enthusiastic and even reckless virions you think twice to- day before you act.
down your progress.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan.
(A wisenere,}
THE great charge of Sobieski'
Polish envalry which saved Vienna and the West in 1603
WOMANSENSE
SMART OVERBLOUSE
By GRACE THORNCLIFFE
THE overblouse is good
a member of the sumunt
wurd 1obe. Here are two of the latest versions. The first
of the ride for good At.
WHICH IS THE WEAKER SEX?
By W. W. BAUER, THIS happened in 1962, far outnumber
and
M.D.
her
the widowers. gentier sex. In the emotional
woman discharges emotions through tears,
man Ibrough profanity or overt Woman controla her action.
and favour-
"RUGGEDNESS”
areas
has Dono
but the human race Look around you and see if the realm,
same thing isn't co. hasn't changed much sinco
where Homes for the aged, then, so it will do as a both sexes are admitted, starter. The Association of crowded with women. Localities emotions better in a crials, but docan't bother to do so under State and Territorial Health with mild climate
fon the ordinary conditions, when man Officers, one
of the most able living conditions
aged
retired of rhodest is likely to repress his feelings
just to show thut he can, important and respected
as if they were means look
entirely rightly so public populated almost
by All this in not just idlo health groups in the United elderly women, and so do counte
wandering, nor is it written of the de lusco suburban
merely to start over again the States, entertained a motion
where rich widows spend their age-old argument as to which, to investigate the causes declining yetta.
man or woman, is the superior for the "fragility" of the
Dox. Both are essential, cách In But the alarm- its own way. male sex. They tabled it,
Man, of course,
log predominance of women at They were all men.
DORKS oller 20,
the claim to ruggedness. He hae all ages
after Many people thoght the bigger bones, stronger joints and challenge to man to look
he
his health beller than ho does. muscles, eo incident was funny, husker
welgirts move
which woman although the author of the
HEALTH CHECK-UPS His skeleton does not cannot. resolution meant it in require adaptation for shild-
Periodic health examinations? deadly
don't birth, so he has athletic skills See a doctor I earnest.
when you don't think it is funny, either, denied to most women better foci quite right? Cut down your
that throwing arm.
weight?
Jess? Sleep because the facts are
to relax more? man, not worna, is the stronger immediate force. But play? Take a vacation?
And I am not his endurance is no better than Change your outlook?
Mr Ajax S. (for lomestic that of woman, and may not be yeah, Блуз
Strongfellow) Heman, "that's and the Man endures small pains and for the little woman the
inconveniences, as a rule, better kids. I've got too much else to the than woman. But great and pro- think about. And, what
us of child hell"excuse it, but that's what longed suffering, birth or of chronic diseases in- he sak-there's nothing wrong
with me." volving sustained and Devere pain, are better endured by the
wenker sex. talking about arguments, either. I am charter member of League of Husba s.
running
us good.
it
H
to
to
A man who has a child-his wife really has it-puffs out his chest and passes out cigars. It is a man chitd. he is twice an boastful. And well he may be, for though he doesn't know It,
boy baby has only 60 per model is of while, or pastel
cent the chance of coming washable collon fallle and zip ving birth as
e female has Siito
put it the other way baby. To from the searing down either side of the front make for easy around, it is estimated that for every 100 girls conceived, there 4t over the hips, Birdseye are 150 boys. Between concep- used for the secondtion and birth, the ratio is re- piquo is overblouse which goes in for duced to the normal proportion high and wide square neckline, of about 105 boys to 100 girls, the male buttoned back and a bow at the Even in the uterus, cuff line for back interest, embryo and fetus 15 mure Smart in while, und ke the fragile than the female. other model, would do well with a black or navy skirt.
Household Hints
Leftover ayrup from peaches is delicious it inlxed cup for cup with chilled ginger ale and couple of tablespoons of lemon Julce.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)-
by To keep cheese fresh, wrap it Your energy le at top efficiency, but from the Turks was made
and vul in a cloth moistened with vine- there can be obstacles
alow horsemen with engle That
ture wings attached 10 thelgur or cover with paraffin, Z0)—
In order
to strike Combine social and business acti-shoulders
of their Store brown sugar in an 15es with more than usuni Each word must contain
muccess. terror by the noise One complements the ottier nuw. approach, i remember seeing, in tight container to keep it soft.
AQUARIUI (Jan. 21-F-D 19 the National Museum in War-If it hardens, Legal matters, if carefully checked before taking action, can be settled BW, a Be-size figure of one of run potato or apple favourably now.
(these winged horsemenI.
24 hour.
the large etter in the centre winare. And there must be at least one nine-letter word in the IFL Na plumin: no foreign words:
Names. proper
TODAY'S
TARGET: 34 words, pond words very Dood excellent,
Solution tomorrow
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION Akin maktad kati kali Kilp knap knas клаг jursk turk turking link park parkin pink Junk prank pelute Faling rank Finke risk rank sitk wak akım whip aktri taktno spank spark sparkinu SPABKLINO
CHESS PROBLEM
By A. AKERBLOM
Black, 13 pieces.
【照
White, 11 pieces.
White to play: mate in three. Solution to yesterday's problem:
1, K-K5, any; 2. Q, B, or K males.
This Funny World
DELANGELO
"I want to exchange this for something louder!"
air
put in a whole for about
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
The Playroom Parade
-The Shadows and Their Friends See a Strange Sight-
By MAX
TRELL
IZ NARF, the shadow, was sil- ing by himselt In the corner of the room when he suddenly lifted his hend. Uistened. But he could hardly believe what he heard,
He
Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, was sitting on the other side of the room, He also lifted his heach
and listened. But he couldn't believe it either.
Punch Listened
Mr Punch, who
Was
Just about to take a nap, sat bolt upright with his eyes wide open in amazement. He listened,
Mary Jane, the rng doll, stuck head out from under the couch She listened.
Mother Goose came riding on
u grose as tall as an ostrich,
Simple Simon came marching by, jeading a whale by a string. The what Happed his tall and laughed.
Three witches came flying on broomsticks. A very young litle witch carme dying after them
on a whiskbrcom,
Jack. The Glant Killer, came dancing in with the Giant. They ball played bagpipes.
Alice game in with the Walrus an one side of her and the Mad Hatter on the other,
Then come ʼn crowd
of elves
Jack, The Glant Killer, and the Giant played bagpipts,
and sprites, all playing on whis- tles cut from stalks of straw.
Oh, it was a wonderful parade! Aladdin came marching by, carrying an old brass lamp. It The cat played the fiddle. The The cricket chirped. frog sang. kept lighting up and going out like a flashlight with a very bad The donkey brayed. General Tin, the in soldier, battery. listened.
he
Iliawatha, the Wooden Indian boy, listened.
Whoa, the istened too.
Singing Dwarfs Snow White and the Dwarfs Hobby Horse, marched by singing at
the top of their volees,
But none of them could be- lieve what they were hearing!
A Dragon marolied by.
And the last one in the parade was the Old Grandfather Clock, walking with thick cang and followed by a single little sleepy mouse.
All around the room marched the parade of the books. Then back into the bookcase they all The Lim and the Mouse went. And when it was over and
It was the sound of parndel They heard trumpets and drums marched by hand in hand. Be- the room was sill again, every- hind them came the Tortoise and one rubbed his eyes and won- and bugles and fites and fulest the Hare, the Crow and the Fox dered if it had really and truly and the Wolf and Red Riding happened. For how could a Hood,
Wiring like this be?
Tramping Feet
They heard tramping feet. They heard the snap of flags in the wind. The musle grew louder and clearer.
And where did it all come from? It came from behind the bookcase! Who ever heard of a parade behind the bookcase?
And the next second, there it wan, the whole parade!
First came the Dictionary. Ito was, the biggest and the fattest and the heaviest book, in the whole bookcase. He sat on white claphant and he had a great basket filled with golden letters, from capital A to capital Z, which he scattered about in front of him as the rode.
came
Behind the Dictionary the Geography Book, bending a great big drum.
Behind the Geography Book came all the Biory Books.
Rupert and the Gold Acorn-18
once more.
Bagerly Rupert tella hia mory`
The boy said he was taken by your enemies, bul he escaped orice and hid in a cave where Esund him." Then he describes how the boy was found and carried off for the second time. but again Raport cannot finish the
tale before, the 'eath marre to his (eet, shouts "some orders to his senencial, and strides from the ball calling Rupert to follow, ***Oh, dear, thinks the little bear. **Why won't driyone listen to the part of my story about the gold Acorn 7 "ALL RIORTE EXTRAYED
LIVE LONGER
life's who
cin
stride and
A botter He can exert a
Smoko Learn
Want to be17
SPEECH THERAPIST SAYS:
and
Rest? "Yeah.
Parents May Need Analysis If Their Child Stutters
N
A therapist says that if
understand
San Antonio, Tex. normally. This could be be Army speech cause they do not
the normal development of they want speech, or because Junior stutters, it may be Junior to outdo the Jones boy.
Speaking may become his parents who
pleasant to the child because of paychiatrist.
this pushing that he prefers not to talk at all.
need
2
50 un-
The trouble often comes from environment, a child's family
In cases such as these, the sold 1st Lt. Herbert H. Wilma, speech therapist may be able to co-ordinator of speech therapy point out the parents' mistalces at Brooke Army Hospital, F. and help the child catch Sam Houston.
through group speelal exercises and training.
קטר
At the other end of scele, too, it is wornan lives longer. II you are 題 betting man, and can get any- body to take the bets, the odds are that the women in your life
If your will outlive the men, parents still live, chances
He said, for instance, that the that your mother will survive
he your father; if they are both child who gets everything dead, probably be died first, wants may not learni to speak But Wilms said, if his prob- the help Mine did. My uncle predeceased because he doesn't need to. Or, lems are deep-rooted.
In our immediate parents may set higher stand- of a child psychiatrist may be my aunt. circle af friends, the widown beds than the child can reach needed.—United Press,
are
Whiteaways
with his
age
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