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•JACOBY ON BRIDGE
South Lets Foes Guess
By OSWALD JACOBY
POTH North and South bid B
their lands to the hilt today. and the result WDH a slightly shulty continel, Exchange The East-West corda, however, and South would have an easy time making the game contract.
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1956.
BY. THE. WAY.
by Beachcomber
HE reçen ruling that nailing THE
sponge to a wail is not a carpenter's job seems to be far enough.
It should not be dificult to drive nails through the holes in sponges, but I am surprised that nobody has asked what Is the purpose of such an activity.
Anyhow, we seem to be get- ting dangerously прог the burning question of who La to bore holes in what. Is a woode borer allowed to put
Д all to the hole he has bored? And is a nailworker allowed to bore a hole for a null when the hammer hos refused to hammer? And. it comes to that (and When the hand was played. will, my hearties. it will). West opened the Jack of din will a chemist who naila a monds and declarer planned his
sponge to his wall be sent to play quite curefully, His ubject Coventry by all the sallworkers was to make the opponents do
bis district, even if he his guessing for him, if possible, knocks the nail in with a tooth
handle. jn order with the ace of aplacate the hammerers?
Declarer won the first trick brush dummy
motels and returned a club. The in passing
king of clubs lost to the ace, and West continued with another diamond, taken by dummy's king.
Declarer next ruffed duminy'a min, diamond, cashed the que n clubs, and ruffed his own last elub In the dummy.
Thus
WEST
Ako
J03
J 305
#AJ82
NORTH
J873 ❤Q080
• AK? 443
EAST 40
31
❤K42
Q0032
40076
SOUTH (D)
A A 19042
VA107
+84
KQ to Neither side vul.
West North East Pass Pass
Sonth
A
Puse 2 Pasa 34
2 N.T. Para 40 Past Pass
Opening teud-◊ ♫
Pass
jrut St
Mition tox Inese the seveli u spaden around to West'a quzen
Weat couldn't afford to return a trump, since that would cost him his trump trick. His only choice was between the heart
and the club, After deep thought, West decided that South must have at least three hearts and That
saule discard would therefore do him no good. For this reason, Went returned ly last club.
Declarer ruffed
ips
dummy
to
This.
airports will be abused. he says, does not happen in the Commons, where House of there are no restrictions. It is
apparently only politicians.
foreign tourists. business men, and English ate-travellers who can be trusted with the priv Rege of drinking when they want to. The ordinary English- man is not at to be so trusted.
Dead Man's Gulch
Olluter Sir Laurence
went into hiding in kla exclusive New York hotel after talks with Martin Monroe.
(Newв item.)
DUT
Kuppakawice In- Dalang lit
a fire in the lift, and she saw the smoke, and Big Chiof Watalotohul led her by tortuous corridors, known only
the
to his braves,
and lonely lounge
remote to the
where the had exhausted fugliive
taken refuge with some cattle-ruatlers, A flaming arrow whistled across the cocktail-glasses, and stuck, quivering,
"Gel In the wall. him!" she said, and the sheriff's posse closed in, while she loop- at ed a rope from a chandeller.
NOTICE that a politician finds the iden absurd that increased drinking facilities
YOUR BIRTHDAY ...... By STELLA
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29
PORN m Leap Year the final day Self-assured
l cpaddent
of
of the long month which occurs yourself, you wil fight for your be but once in four yetes-mpana, you fiets sgulist any klâd of opposition. have, of course, a dated birthday but In fact, the harder you have to Once every foltz yegan. Consequently, fight, ut tunes, the happier you this is your year! It would room tut There seems to be my especial plea the stars. In recognition of the rarity.
combative Have given you few a special charin and magnelion that gives you rather special powers over all those with when you cone in contact.
You have an extremely intuitive nature, are religiously Inclined but not at all conventional In the ex- presyon of your beliefs. In additiờ, you have what are called "heating bandy" and wondd make tine pure", surgeona or physietaon.
In Wip*Jag over u Jure
opponent.
Fond et tave), 1 is likely that you will host of the earth's surface dented this, you will be
avid memehale voyager,
Arung those born on this date are Am Lee. founder of the Bakers, Lewis Swift, astronomer: Louie Lam and John W. Duinore, tints, Glöchimo Konalai, composer;
Your Kit of oratory is exceptiottol Stephen Chabuers, author.
you will be able to induener people by speak to publie You To Bnd what the stars have int ofanity will be able to debate well store for you tomorrow, select your and the force of your personality will birthday
and read the coires- star many over to your side of any pother paragraph. Let your birth-
slay etar yois guide
Calze
PICES (Feb.
THURSDAY, MARCH 1
30. Mar,
21-Follow NAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)— that fuch It's a Wine an Ale thinking of changing your job, Clay $ DECCIA a DW and exelCK than mikil be good day to do Challenge
something about it. ARIKA (Mar. 12-Apr. 20) A fine bustness day' Make
employment Kalne. Quod for partnershtu tsioneer
too.
TAURUS (Apr. Zi-May 21)-- Events havolving you friends are ikely tu have on
bit. important fluerice on your life as well
GEMINI (May 22-Juke 21)-
line of endeavour
detinie
A productive day I you will exent your best efforts
in some
CANCER (June 22-July 73)~~-~ get a fine stari on the new mouth by and discarded the Seven taking this a real banner day t hearts. Re next led a spade progreis. Homance is also favoured. from dummy, going up with
1.50 (June 24-July 23)-You may the are when East showed out. | even be more adventuresome thai
umat in business affairs and wati- Another round of trumps put clate an excellent success West in once more
VIGO (Ang 24-Sept. 23)- Fine prospects für almost any enter prise. All inental pursuits, however, Tare especially favoured.
23)-
A this
West pokl
had to inc น
for Juck of any thing else. South but fo guess whether West was leading from the juck or from the
king of hearts. This wasn't hard, since up West had already
shown swith 11 points in high
cards outside of the
If suit wart West turi also belt the kant of hearts. be probably would have taken some action during the bidding. For this reason, South played a low heart from dummy. thus trapping East's Ring of hours, was fulfilled by catching West in two successive end plays.
The contract
♥CARD Sensea
Q-The bidding has been! South
West North East
1 Diamond Pass 1 Spade Pass
You, South, hold:
47 VK54 AQ1075 MA J82
What do you do?
A—Bid (wo clubs. The hand la
■ minimum in high cards, but li pays to indicate the distribution,
TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You,
South, hold:
AT MAJER SAQID75 4K 84
What do you do?
1-6
Anwer Tomorrow
LIBRA (Sept 24-Oct. Partnership nitairs, are mehly bene, seini. Make a real financial gain bgabete matters noW
SCORPIO
10cf.
U-Nav. 221-
Get an early sturt this morning and fpeers are excellent
CAPRICORN (Bez. 23-Jan. 203--- Confidential matters can be handled with a great deal of muccess. Take friends into your confidence.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)- You can accomplish something im portent, which will give you a real sense of genuine soletźneflon.
CROSSWORD
ACTORS
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repeated, (31
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may be a clander on About the Bible story, (9)
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20. Compartions of jong ago, (3, di d. Broken, semetimes in the
musical instrument. (4)
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Stary telling.
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9. A hunt goes all serte, (6)
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22.
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WOMANSENSE
This elegant white felt hat is from Evend's new collection.
The crown is covered with grey-dotted white organza.—Agence
France-Presse.
DENTAL CARE
ly important.
serve NA
Discarded Foods May Contain Rich Minerals
By IDA BAILEY ALLEN {
course,"
{
"O says no wife or cooked, such
was quid in which mest has been as bolled beef, tongue or ham. mother
think of would
"How many kinds of food short-changing her family, minerals are needed
by the Chof, yet many do it be body, Madame?" cause they don't stop to think.
chlorine,
minerals
Principal Minerals "The principal "I am referring to the way needed are calcium and phos- they waste the valuable minemi phorus, which team up to work elements found in certain foods together: magnesium, sodium, that are essential to the body, potassium, Iron, sulphur and Copper, ladine, inan- Valuable Elements
ganese, cobalt arte! zing are "Unfortunately, foods Lon- present In the badly In very taining these valuable elements all
small quantities, All are often
discarded, For essential to the skeletal frame exemple, mineral-rich green work and the teeth and play an tops of vegetables, the auler important
part in cell struc- leaves of lettuce and raw meat tur
ture. However, it 3-meal-a-
are
bones of all kinds. Then too,
day balanced menu is eaten and although not affected by hest, the food Is cooked so as to these Incomparable minerals retain all minerals, a suffleleney are often lost through wrong of these elements is almost sure methods of cooking or careless- to be provided."
ness."
Dianor Mineral-Rich Vegetable Broth
Ah, oui, Madame," said the Chef, "such ns draining the water from cooked vegetables Minuto Steaks Mixed Vegetables down the sink; or failing to use the marrow from bones
FOR TOTS
By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D.
20
High-Protein Macaroni Morinara Sauce
Baked 3-Fruit Compote
Coffee
Tea
Rich
Milk
All Measurements Are Lavel Recipes Proportioned to Serve 4 to 4
Mineral
Vegetable Broth: In a 2-qt. saucepan, combine 1 c. course-chopped outer celery stalks and green
leaves, 1e, chopped green carrot tops, 1/3 c
season
VEN for a young child, more of the permanent teeth regular checkup by the time he 1-1/3 r. shredded fresh pinoch EVEN a more of
has all of his primary teeth, (outer leaves), 2 thep, scallion usually sometimes between the tops, c. A crown of a
chopped unpeeled permanent age of two and three.
mushrooms and 0 で。 cold tooth may touch a baby
water. Simmer 10 min. Baby teeth
You can give your child his a tooth. If the baby tooth own toothbrush along about this
Strain;
with plain guide for the permanent is decayed, the permanent time and teach him the convet.
sait Into heated cupa, put teeth which grow in beneath tooth my also deeny at the method of brushing his teeth.
cach chopped watercress, them and gradually replace point where it touches the
with
the hot vegetable them. If one is lost very decay.
Also give him ls personal broth. tube of dentifrice. Even a very
Baked 3-Fruit Compole: In a long before
21 there's
small child can spread it on the low qt. baking dish, layer 1 pt. permanent tooth to replace
brush with a minimum of waste. sliced unpoeled cooking apples, it, your child's jaws may
Then, too, most kids like the 4 alleed pooled ripe medium- not grow properly and the Also decayed baby teeth taste of toothpaste. And the sized bananas and 4 c. raisins,
after-testo will can send poisons into the pleasant
en- Top with 14 0. Fight brown permanent tooth may come
blood stream and to other courage them to make brushing sugar mixed with 1 tbsp, lemon in crowded and crooked.
parts of the body such as Morcover, a decayed baby the
heart, kidneys and tooth may cause one
or joints and cause no end of
trouble.
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
The Day Winter Arrived
-Grasshopper, Cricket, Beetle and Ant Look for Shelter--
By MAX TRELL
MR PUNCH
was telling
05 the
four riders of the wind made themselves
as comfortable They could in a crack in
wondiernel They ought to do.
you can accompilah wonders fad1lory to Knurf and Hanid, the rocks at the fool of the hill.
CHESS PROBLEM
By M. WROBEL
Black, pieces.
1:4
White, 14 pieces.
with the shadow-children turned-about names. He sat in bis rocking chair by the window while they sat at his feet on the soft carpet.
Winter Had Come
"Well," started Мг Punch, "The cold weather had set in for good. It was really win- ter.
There was a bite in the The north wind blew up Dir. one street
und down another, повеч and pinching people's
the ears, and in the park' in middle of a big field the leaves were running and scattering as Inst as they could go while the wind chosed right after them."
"Why was the wind chasing after the leaves, Mr Punch?" Knarf wanted to Icnow "Didn't he like them?**
what
they
we stay here, we'll be frozen, the Grasshopper said.
"You're riglit, sald Cricket, 'this is a bad place to be."
"I've got an ideo,' said Beetle. 'I'm going to dig myself a hole in the ground and stay there all winter.
**"That sounds good to me,“ said Ant.
"Then Ant and Beetle botla started digging as fast as they could, for they wanted to be underground before the wind came back."
Next To The Furnace
"That left Cricket and Grass hopper, didn't it?" said Hanid to Mr Punch,
"Ia anybody here," Grasshopper called out.
what he could do and where he could go."
"Oh deur." maid Hanld. "What happened?"
"The wind come back," said Mr Punch. "But he didn't blow hard this time. He Just breeze along, whispering. Grasshopper listened very care-
White to play: mate in two.
Solution (a
fully. yesterday's
nechiam
1. B-KI; Phrent 2, R-04, 1 DXP: 2, K-04; 1 2, R-QK14; 1 {D7.
This Funny World
RQG; P-K4; 2, P
| 1.5eðanight Brodiesta, Tae,
"I'd really like to be a fireman, but there's a lot of pussure at home. They want ine to be presfilent".
"That's hard to say," said Mr Punch. "No one has ever seen
has
Mr Punch nodded.
He
the wind. And, though many
no one have heard him,
him. ever spoken with does all the speaking,
Across The Fields
"Well, as I was saying, the wind was chasing the leaves across the field. Finally, he plied them all up against some rocks at the bottom of little hill.
Then he went away fo chase some more leaves,
"Now in this pile of leaves continued Mr Punch, "there was a grasshopper, a cricket, Q beetle and an ant. They had all been caught up in the swirl of wind and had clung to the leaves, They had flown across the field like pilots in an aero- plane.
"The grasshopper was the first to speak.
"Hello, he eplied out, "is anybody here?'
"I'm here, answered Cricket polding his head out from under a leaf.
"'So Am I sald Beetle, polding his head out from under another leat.
The Four Ridars
"Then the Ant called out and | ho said he wae there, too.
"90," said Mr Punch, . aa he went on with bis story, "the
* 'Get unier the leaves
'LIC araszy, Ute wind said. under them. Let then cover "Cricket didn't stay very you like a blanket, You'll be long. He cald to Gresshopper: siwig and warm. I'm not
'Do you see those houses on the touching this pile of leaves any other side of the park? They're more Good sleeping Good- all good and warm. They all bye!' have furnaces in the cellar.
There's where I'm spending the "And," said Mr Punch, finish- exactly winter, right next to one of the ing his story, that's furnaces in the cellar. So long, what Grasshopper did. He was
and as comfortable Grassy. See you next spring! as safe
Boelle And Ant under the "And away
went Cricket, ground and Cricket behind the the cellar of the leaving Grasshopper silvering funge in on his thin logs, and wondering house."
Rupert and the Gold Acorn-19
Still abouting his orders, the earl, teaches a courtyard, mounts his horse, and calls for Rupert to be lifted up behind him, "Your newa la of great import. little "bear," be says. "*My mum hays been marching on the wrong side
be hotfoot to cut of the miscreanti. Meanwhile, you and 1_will_ride_alone to that long line of cliffs. They see on my domain, but I have never hunted that wild sornet before, so you shall be my, guide,”? And he, cuntmen bedKÝ
of the castle," but now they will - Carough a woodland wack.
DECAYED TEETH
You should, begin taking your youngster to the dentist for a
don't hesitate
juice and 1 tbsp. butter or margarine. Cover; bakka 30 to min. In a moderate oven, 375
n daily habit.
Of course. take your youngster to the den F tist should he require dental attention
Trick of the Chef no matter what his
Season age. A toothache will hurt him
mixed vegetables Just as much ts one would with 4 top. powdered dried bother you.
mint.
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