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THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
MAN was awed the other with his hand" Che
day for eating a mouthful of
of food of a straniter's plate in
a restaurant
way he one Those Packets who CAUTY
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little fork with which
fo speur what takes their fancy"
Let us Visualise the scene Did I must restaments the ritie
Jump
he stoop to the plate and one person per plate, mat count-
did he seize gobble, or
ang dogs.
This Perhaps picked out a very pay party, crawled up on all fours, and Heked the land of some garru- ious lady before exploring her plate itsal To gu te so much Hestible, ne minst have been very very PRAR, very hungry, and
CHESS
PROBLEM
By P. FASTOSKY
Black, 10 pieces
White, 12 pieces.
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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1956.
JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Double Sparks
By
THE
Cheap Rescue
OSWALD JACOBY
THE play of tochty's hand can be covered in a few words before we come back to the bidding. South had to lose two apne, a heart, a diamond, and club whether he played the hand right ide up or standing on his hend Hence he was down five, for a loss of 900 pulata.
Such a loss is no enuse for re- joicing, but South managed to muster up a smile. He'd have Jost far more it East had passed! the double of six spoxies instend ut redoubling. East's total score would have been about twice as large us
us the actual 100 poliats.
Ener's redouble was rather nalye, as a matter of fact, lic was sure that he was going to Yel make his slam contraet. some misguided wretch had the nerve to Double him! The redouble came out promptly and with obvious conviellon.
South might have thought twice about a resque If East had Lem crafty 1 pk. In that
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stupid. I would be simpler to | dress up as a cowboy and lassu
a polato or a cutler
There is at least one West End restaurant where, on galu nights. you can throw little sausages, with an elastic thread attached. They return to You with il melodious
and only twrong.
very quick hand and eye can capture one in its fight As the sausages are made of rubber, no gourmet
Tries J Catch
them.
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Solution
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case, the redouble might have bren a manoeuvre to panie South or North into running out of the redoubled slam. But East was on honest sort of chap, and Sunth decided to trust him
The moral of this little fale is Don't redouble when it
pate '
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TARGET
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How many
tour
worda uf letires
of more cab you make from the letters in the square on the left to making each word the each of the sinal squares may be used once only. Each word must cobain the large letter in the centre square, and there must be at least one nine-letter word in the But No plurale; in furrlan word Do proper games. ODAY'S TARGET: 61 words pood; 78 words, very good
84 words, excellent. Solution tomorrow.
SATURDAY'S SOLUTION:
Bice
Ller bribe bruise ecza crena cruise
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Will
method. by doing away egg-markers and marking de
would ensure that a new- pats.
the
ald R. after going through hands of the checkers. surtors, festers, probers, sulffers, and graders, could be sent direct to the registration depot. and from there.
through the local
certification station and the re- gional distribution centre, to the assembly point. From there it would be sent to the observa- tion unit, which would forward it to the clesiring station for re- testing, regrading, and packing. After proving, processing, spray- ing. munising, fortifying and licensing. it would BO To The
Grocer
Nothing to do with me
The car, which had run into
a free, was left there all day.
(News item)
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Engud robur ribez rice rise rue scribe sice sire suberic SUBSCRIBE atsya user.
Welsh policeman, "was
parking up the wrong tree."
YOUR BIRTHDAY... By STELLA
MONDAY, APRIL 16
a strong.
BORN today, you have
positive chaineter which, when combined will your native ruft of Inventive Henlos, le opt to put your for alicnd in the world quite early I lite. You are a stem diciplinarla and exact a great deal from other as well on yourself. You know how to make yourself toe the line and accomplish what you art out to do, Although this is a little more true of you men who are involved in big ojects, you women have the same tendency when it comes to rouning your own home and ile affairs.
saad hold your imagination, without Elvis 100 much thought n to t
There may lylaablity at Die tine eone line when you may win you had thought first, before com initting venteself,
Your effectiuni are deep and you are highly emotional, You may try to restrain This not
deal
Let your heart be, your guide when it comes to love and romance.
Among those born on this date are: explorer; Fin Sir John Franklin, LINDY.
actree Anatole France, Frederick W. Putnam, st: Herbert B. Adams, histor- lag and educator: Charles Chaplin, actor; Milton J. Crase, opera au- thority, and Charles J. Folger, jurist,
-A. dem bellever i Justice for all. you cannot be quiet unlew you know that eneb and every one has un equal opportunity. Fortunately, you have a keen sense of humour and this aver you from being whai otherwise might be something of a "stuffed shirt" You enjoy the ax eltement of new projeclis' and will, pending parotroph. Let your birth- expose kamelling Which "eatelies" day stür be your daily guide.
To find what the store have in tore for you tomorrow, select your birthday stor and send the corte
TUESDAY, APRIL 17
ARIES (Mar.
20) 22-Apr. Make it a point to demonstrate your items fully today, for there can be opportunities for expansion.
TAURUS (Apr. 11-May 21)-- familiar Huld to practical end routine on all fronts today if you expect your quota of succes
GEMINI CHAY 12-June 22) You may combine family seat com. munity Interests to the benefit
both. Meet the public...July
23)
of
... CANCER • (June Your feelings will guide you right today, so don't be persunied against
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your better judgment
LKO You may have what sectra "like morg: than your sightful share of detail to handle now, but do Donseleriously,
VIRGO (Aug 16-lapk." #3) (adopt.'s positive and octistrusive attitude and your work will progress Javourshly along Kil front,
23)
LIBRA (Bept. ` 24-Oct. This is the day to clear, tip any postponed work, See that all detalis
To taken care of now.
Be
WOMANSENSE
A black crepe dress with draped white organdic at the shoulders. By Jacques Fath. Agence France-Presst.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Spomage vod liver of stains ed in sotne with glycerine
carbon ravelling. DE tetrachloride. Then launder,
Libraries
clear
matter to
envers Inele
ront book
shellac to When buying dresses, examine wit scams carefully. They should be them easier to clean and to seal
wil yo It Whet enough to allow for ad- in the colour Justment, and pinked or finish- stain when wet,
KEEP IN TRIM.....
fot
HORS D'OEUVRES TO SERVE AT
PARTIES
By IDA, BAILEY ALLEN 66XX7HAT hors d'oeuvres
"WIL
VY would you suggest
for partics?" is a question the Chef and 1 are often naked,
"It is smart to have several that are easy tu prepare and two
or tree specialites,
"A choice of two or three dips with crisp potato chips or corn- meal enckers is quick and easy. Add plenty of vegetable nibblers, such as celery, innocchino and carrot or rutabaga sticks, small flower cites ot cauflower, rodiedres, stulks of endive.
Horb Salt
"Stand sinkers or herb suit, such as dill or garlic, nearby for Pensoning"
"For hot bors d'oeuvres," said the Chef, ny cheese biscuits right from the oven are good when spilt and pat together
with thin-alfeed smoked hom. They should be baked in relays. "And for a surprise, Madame," le uilded.
Buzest Cuck Lail Keunks. ney newent
creation.
Cocktail Kebabs: Cut slices of choice Cheddar cheese and salami oe bologna sausage into 1 squares
Pierce the ingal squarer with a skewer; cut tiny plugs out of the centres of the cheese squares with o pointest
Thread one
of square cach cheese and sausage on short slim pretzel sticks, with a silce
small onion between each
knife
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Jalece.
Dinner
Fruit Cocktail Fish-Oyster Chowder
Hot Green Beans Vinaigrette Coconut Custard Ple
Coffee
Tea
Rolls
Milk
COCKTAIL KEBABS taste good with assorted olives, scallions, pretzels and spley tomato juice coclitall topped with temon slice.
tbsp.
salt, I tsp, monosodium gluta- cabbage; or cooked or tinned mate and 2 c. thin-sliced peeled asparagus ups, string beans or white potatoes. Cover and bolt sliced beets,
To until tender, from 15-20 min.
Make Hot Vinaigrette Meantime, peci und thin- Sauce: Fine-chop I pecter slice enough onions to make small onion.
Saute until yellowed in 2 Add 4. fine-chopped dj!?
1 margarine, Add pickic, tbsp. butter or
fne-chopped to the coolting pot es.
oll, tbsp. salad parsicy, 1
table-mustard, 1/4 tsp. Next, add 1 tb fish allets ap
Worcestershire, 1/3 tsp. salt ark (any kind), cut in " pieces. 1/3 c. mild vinegar. Stir until Cover and simmer 10 min., UK until the fish looks flaky.
Add 4
while pepper and 2 tbsp enriched flour stirred smooth in 1/3 c. milk. Cook-stir until boiling.
Then, add a pt. shucked me- dium-sized fresh oysters or use tinned oysters. Cook until the edzes curl.
Serve with crisp crackers.
boiling.
Add chopped hard-cooked $88.
Mix with 3 to 4 e, of the pre- pared hot vegetable,
The Curve
or toasted rolls
Har Vegetables Vinaigretto
From the Chof
art:
Hot
*
vegetables vinaigrette pleasant
OC-
change All Measurements Are Levet Rectors portioned to Seixe f to a casionally from a tossed salad, Fich-Oyster Chowder: To 4% The vegentle might be cooked c. bolling water, add 11⁄2 tsp. hot chopped kale, spinach or
By IDA JEAN KAIN
Good Posture During Pregnancy Can Be
small
Pregnancy Can Be Figure Saver
lof Fashion
The
By ERNESTINE CARTER the curve of fashion ways this season from Cavanagh's sinuous line, through Michael's barrel-shaped Jackets, Digby. Morton's Djellabah coats, Paterson's carved-out concavity, to Hordy
Amles's billowing Victorian effulgence of spread- Ing, widely pleated skirts, top- Ped by 100se, boxy jackets This series of exercises with a com- of the bock causes an feel more comfortable. Hold- is carried well under, the extra pass is the emergent line. And
Weight is carried more comfort-
all these designers BarDugh outeurve of the abdominal wall. ng tay chest up elevates the
the ably. ribs, and more important,
in show their versions Arst Consequently the weight of the baby is thrown too far forward. crowded space below the ribs.
their most startling emphasis, The one exercise recommended posture Slumped
results 1 Practise holding your chest_up
theses into elegant and wearable when you are sitting, standing during this period is walking, they have each developed their undue fatigito.
In fact, walking is a must. and walking. Keep
clothes. your
bis Cavanagh cases. If shoulders relaxed... think of walking in good posture la sa
presented much more effective than walk-"Stink" and then allowed it to Let's get down to
shoulders in 2 you
nut gre
expectant squaring the
Let ing in a slumped or off-balance evolve into a slim, elongated mother, you've probably stopped relaxed, "at-case" way.
If the litt be through the midste-
frock, its fullness gathered at the reading ere this
tion and ribcage.
Here's a promise...if you will the back into a curve well be- you are expecting a baby and as perfectly your posture is not as
good
posture while How the waistline. This point of aligned as it might
you will
you're carrying the baby, then no return he marked consider-
nodding rose. want to know if anything can
follow through with corrective afety with exercises be done at this late date to
restore tone to the
Distilled Essencos correct It. Certainly. Start
muscles of the abdomen, you can
Michael's barrel or beetle- have a nicer figure than you had chest up. by holding your
backed jacket made its most before the baby arrived. actually this will help you to muscles.
jeffective entrance in chalk- white Terylene, over a siriped with fisherman's collar, asking
ment at any time is all is possible that the opponents PERFECT figure align- to the good. But at no time is good posture mure important than during the nine months of pregnancy. The way the mother-to-be carries herself determines the way she carries baby.
▼ CARD Sensers
1 N.T.
Q-The bidding has been: North East South West
Pos
? You, South, hold: A97 17532 Q1084 453
What do you do?
A-FAR. You would bid the trific hearts if they were stronger, but as the band stands you can't be sure that you'll be Felter off ni hearts than at no- tramp
TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You, South, hold:
4073531 14QJ84% 463
What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
CROSSWORD
ACTORS
Le. Handies (anag), (0),
G. NORE BARs it may be, but it's
stiil British, (0)
B. The besar to make the gun tura
round. (3)
9. The grape imeli never reaches
Buch dimensions 1 (9)
10. Omar never found the key to
this. (4)
12. When to away it's ali a? sex.
(4)
13, Bagw and boots are irretrievably
linked with these, (D)
17. Ann makes it with, tin. (0)
18. Dark mill-owner of BAKON? (0) 19. Hidden. (6)
20. Fekes drop the ends. (3) 21. Why don' they
wo
virtuous souls for life Into that moral centaur, man and wife?"
23. Very old, 2
Down
FACE BATET Jannd.). (03
The girl to dine by return? (4) He denies knowledge of Dod. lai
4. It's a struggle oflen, to make
both these assemble, (4)
5. Bends auit,to make sure fl
kept up. (2),
22)- offer
1.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. Tie morning and evening special benefits for you. Property interests especially are favoured,
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 12}-- You may consider combining your social and businem Ufe expeditiously at lily time,
CARPRICORN (Doc. 11-Jan, 20)— Good fortune should be yours if you will stick to the project at hand and not experiment too muefi, **AQUARIUS
Be original and above some iniustíve and you will make spectaculse, pro- grem on the job today.
FISCES
-Mar.
"There is a great deal that needs in be done, but this is not the time for
Ape man with a hundred for Oleo. (3)
B. City of Aberdeen. (7)
41. Washed out. (0)
12. It'anoren
14. dụb
t
id you'll set
of
the
49:0
esterday's, mežution
bad But first, let's look into postures, for they become pro- ng the baby gressively worse develops, Sway-back is the most common posture fault, and this exaggerated incurve at the
BOYS' AND
an
anyway.
Sparrow Plans To Move
-He's All for Taking a Place in Town-
posture.
Another all important rule pracuse carry your hips under. The pelvis is held in proper position by the down-and-undtr pull of the buttock muscles and the up- and-in lift of the abdominal When the pelvic girdle
GIRLS' MAGAZINE
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for "Sparrow was slient moment or two, then he said: But they have clocks in town. Squirrel. Wherever you look, you see a clock, You can tell to one another. Every tree is a the time whenever you please! house for the birds and the chip-
and squirrels like me, "Squirrel nooded and said: "D'story," said Mr Punch to Beas live in big apartment 'Here in the country, Sparrow, have two clocks-two In their basement very big clocks," and there's hardly to live in apartments
"Sparrow looked surprised. 舒婚 inch of ground in all the
ID
By MAX TRELL
tell ever
you the munks
Knarf and Hanid and Teddy the houses and so do the ants. Tho we only
Stuffed Bear, "about the spar- ingles live row who town?"
wanted
felda and meadows and ponds
Knarf and Hanid and Teddy and brooks where some creature
as comfortably shook their heads, saying they isn't living
had never heard the story of your folks who live in town.* the sparrow who wanted to live
in town.
"Why did Sparrow decide move to town?"
Mr Punch.
to
Hand agked
Several Reasons
"Well," said Mr Punch, as he settled himself down comfort- ably in his chair by the window
Living in Town
0.9
Two Clocks
"Squirrel went on; "Yes, - only two clocks, the sun and the moon. One tells you daytime.
But
"Thinking of moving to town?"
Squirrel salted› Sparrow.'
деск
jus strict cardigani
Paterson carried
moon
his
new-
curvo throughout his collection; from suits of almost extravagant simplicity to cock- tail frocks of tweed it by Lurex. Digby Morton showed the original Djellabah which had
then Inspired him and developed it into a new version of
100se coat, in outline like
with we
well-dropped parentheses, armholes, saddle-stitched for
emphasis, best shown in rough-textured wool.
Hardy Amies has produced delightful variations on 500
the bulky, but
feminine ful
skirt of the Victorian age, which are worn with loose box jackets,
These are. the distilled Essences
which Emerge from the efforts of twelve top denign- ers and true. But there are many detalis for you to observe and store away squirrel-like for when you buy or make.
Forecasts
andl
The other tells you nighttime. "The thing I like about living But if you look very carefully, Interrupted, you can tell other times, too. In town, Sparrow
is the lights that come at even without a clock. You can and night. There are so many of tell when It's Springtime them that you can't begin to Autumntime
and Summerume
Jackets curve up in front count them."
and Wintertime. Well, goodbye, Sparrow. I do hope there's one "But Sparrow didn't go to town shorter than before and curve priet "I see what you mean, sald time you have when you move after all," Mr. Punch said. "He down in back-flattering have a decided to stay right where he slimming. For afternoon and it his pipe, there were Squirrel. You mean there are to town. I hope you
was, right out in the country, evening frocks, drapery in several reasons why Sparrow as many lights in town as there good time."
'Here's where I can have the swirled in extravagant fullness thought he would like to move are in our sky on a dark night
side of side
back Mr Punch paused and stalled best time of all,' he said, as he to to town. Ile went to see his as many lights as
at Kmart anck Hanid and Teddy, now back to his nest."
(perhaps blown by Channel winde); width friend Squirrel who lived in the stars,
on the hips is maple tree not far off.
achieved by many means, by bringing back-fullness forward, low belts under sido
folding drapery,
inset up godels in an intricate fashion; and in evening dresses hooping to almest farthingala
"So you're thinking of mov- ing to town, eh, Sparrow?' Squirrel said,
"It's wonderful anewcred Sparrow,
In
town.'. *You can
By for miles and miles and not come to the end of it,'
salet
"I guess that's right,' Squirrel. But come to think of It, you can do quite a bit of fying right around here. You can fly down this road from morning till night and still not come to the end of it. In fact, I've been told you can fly for weeks and wocks and still sco the road before, you. Not that I've ever done any nying mys and
ho added.
Sparrow. But thoro aren't any houses.In town there are houses are coxt to the other,
***Well," saic Squirrel, (Se kava: houses, too and right ngott!
WC
hayo
Rupert and the Black Circle-20
Willie Mours kas caught Rupert's whisper. “No, I haven't heard anything' yo," ha; says, ** but"-1" have seen something.”
"What funny marks on it." " was on the track whare the dark men were," exciaims Bill as an Idea strikes him, “* Pathaps those
society, though the circles on It are not, blachga't Let's think.
*** It may be a dus. says Rupert. ALL ́AIGHTS RESENTED: SAA GERMAN
And, running forward, he picks a : ate the magic signe of the secret.
round object out of the grams, and brings it back. "Tomay, that's a jolly good ball 1” says Rupert,
Another New Rupert Adventure
RUPERT
and the
HAPPY WISH
Elona.
спо
Look
plastrons. out for bottoned on to coats, frocks anch jackets. And for flying panels almost as ubiquitous as flying caucers were. Look out for. pink as a powerful colour and for iridescent prints (the most seen and most Auccessful was Archer's pure silk in parakoot colours
by
Lachtage,
Hartnoll.
and Suebel billowing coats over full-skirtod frocks); for parasolo matching their print frocks (Bliebel and Amice); for gauzy coats of, net.
ovtc.
$1.00 chion
pattemed or
Brooks
solid.tokur