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WOMANSENSE
• JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Safety Bid Is
Rule Breaker
This Funny World
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1956,
CROSSWORD
By ONWALD JACOBY
the choles
TUHEN you have Wetween motor tit a
minor suit, you usually choose the major. Today's hand shows un exceptions to the rule
North knew that he couldn't afford to let West play the handl There was for at four spades
100 much danger that West would aoke
vulnerable this contract, as Indeed he
Kame
would. A sacrifice bid in hearta
or diamonds was Indicated.
Which malt shoul North choose" At the level of Ave, difference be- there isn't much tween a
and a minor. rajur Safety should be your chief cun- sideration. North knew that the partnership had nine or text dis- monds, but Bat they might have
Hence 3 only eight hurts. monds world seem safer
At ve diamonds, South had as pleasant surprise. He ruffed the opening spade, lead in dummy, drew fromĮ. cashed the top hearts, and suffer a heart Now he could
back to dummy get
ruft to cast The now lus con- By
with
sprude
Just heart
WEST
NORTH
A None ▼KQ1054
J2843
4054
MAKQU853
⚫ Q5
4377
South
3
Pasa
23
EAST AJ742 J08 3
• 10 AQU3
SOUTH (P)
▲ 100
A12
• AK762
AKIUS
East-West vul
West North El i4 2 ▼
LA
Pass
Opening lead-♣ K
tract was assured,
2
Pass
Brit HOVERISON
MeNauga Jezusuale, Ber
"I'll be glad when he overemines thus fear of water"
YOUR BIRTHDAY
WEDNESDAY, MAY 23
BOUN day, you are a bundle of
Poregy both nervour and phys mal and intrst be active all tre time You like to initiate action and will take the lend to any lot of ferenling experiment, You are not the type in xit buck and wait for thing to happen, ether. If you find Hings little dull, you can be traded to stir Mom Mo,,
You then have the gift of orntury and you woon may be interested to a career on the stage and screen
radio or televisiim You place much wires in appearances and als || kal ways want to pit your forward!
mpoèmes to play an Tumpurtant role in your life Lamik for something emperinity out to terms during the Best week of Maren The number 11, which seems to be a london to others, in a gusd burk synsbol for you! Keep an eye oR ursele if this isn't very true tuparegl
uf Since your people are 12471 to Recutate, it [ч
By STELLA
wise for you tout to be too trustinut trail you have tested &riendship first. Pukkig your faith in prople 100 early Fognintanes can be hurtful to you Although you
probably will
inake considerable imotiey early 113 life, vou need to learn to be more saviti turb extravagant fastes and conserve your resources. You have a pirosg love of nature which is very demanding
Alook those born on this date are William D Perkins. cumposer:
Segal, Vivienne
Helen actress Bufet antren, Lady Gregury, Irish playwright, Empress Catherine the Citent of Iluvia. Marl W. King party governor, anci Chart E Dudley de Henry W Keyes, states -
To And what the slors have
10 tene fun you dokon row select your burihulay vior and read the coite. pling parbetrapt het your buth.
stalt be your daily gische cay THURSDAY, MAY 24
QEMINI
21)- 22-£ute Pont affairs need your clow al- enthus Be sure that you manage everything with care and fact
CANCER
22-July (June
23}- This be one of your inportant day this month if you let Judgement rather than emotions prevali
150 (July 24 - Aug. 21)- You will be respect to de Atreat them and will drearn big dreams of
Sameinigli popitelement
even
develop
VERGLE and a club
(AUR 24-Sepl 23}- don be in. Do your own way. Jead towards the king gave him
huenerd by others' Not the tung to as overtrick.
criticise or eutuplain, ellher
At hearts North wouldn't have
mode eventræet. MT
overtrick. North is
ruff the first spude
alone an forced
Be draws two rounds of trumps, discover - Ing the bad brak He starts the diamonds, and East ruffs the second round East leads another spude, forcing North to use up his last trump. Even if he could draw thr last trump, North's situation would still be hopeless. East would save the ace of clubs and a couple of spades for the Just three tricks.
♥÷CARD Sensent.
Q-The bidding has been: South
West North
the peace
enonth Get a good early start today but avoid being hardy
AQUARIUS Jail 21-Feb 1) tianstad or exciting events are ake- ly to happen today but it beherves you to unmar
fonet) wisely
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and
(Fed 20-ar 21)mm You will need to be level-hended that any impending excitement doesn't affect your ustal good joda- ment
(Mar AMER
22-Apr 20)- The purful to avold any, posible emotional upset. If you can, porpane traveling just now Start later on.
TAURUS
(Apr 21-May ZE) Self-control is
Across
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(9)
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Peninsula of war. 15),
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hare. (8)
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Namos in court. (8)
prom
Soup plans for poor actor 7
Girl from a reper month. (3)
Bimon was ordied 19, (9)
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ready to overflow. (4)
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Dnth ruler once (4)
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maken varninh (8) 14. Lifeless, 197
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around. (DI 10. They 20 WILLI
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CHESS PROBLEM
By J. P. A. SEILBERGER Black, 1 pieces
SMART SILK COSTUME
By ALICE ALDEN
KEEP IN TRIM. . By IDA JEAN KAIN
FASHION ALLOWS FOR HIP VARIATIONS
CYMMETRY
tho
measure of n shapely figure. So whip out the tape and see how your hips measure up in proportion to the bust circumference. While this spring's narrow skirts would seem to make alim
Hip slimmer
W
Movement: Shuttle into action, crossing and re-crossing the legs in as wide an setion as possible, and Repeat 12 times relax, change aides and swing again,
Finish with this easy version of the bicycle exercise....
Position: Lying on side, head pitlowed on folded arm, palm of other hand braced on floor.
•
Flex Movement:
alternate them briskly knees, bringing toward chest, working the knees shooting a position action, legs straight down and bending chest.
hips de rigueur. fashion has to allow for hip variations. Some hips are just naturally fuller. By the way,
there is Relax. Repeat slowly 3 times, never any question about then do exercise with oppoedte where to
alternate inees toward mensure the hips, les and arm. Later stretch on Circle the tape around the the bias, raising one leg and his affords the same exercise
opposite arm-p-u-l-1.
as the well-known high bicycle taken with feet holsted exercise Whip into the side scissors for in air this side bicycle is another hip allmmer:
tar casler and safer.
fullest area so as to include the gluteus maximus muscle which pads and shapes the hips. If your hips measure Position: Lying on alde, head well-groomed not more than 21⁄2 inches pillowed on folded arm, palm of other hand braced on floor for in the larger than the bust cir.
support. recent spring parade as it pass-cumference, that is average
New York.
WELL-BRED.
custumes were featured
ted in
Patullo-Jo
+4
in review
Copeland's costume and this measurement is in typient of this desirable trend. į good proportion.
is silk in pearl grey for the slim, double-breasted bolero and
kirt
The blouse is of double organdy in dark grey spotted with white, and at the neckline the fabrics handled so that a rm of white shows. Set off by 2 white shoe-string bow.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
slender
In fashion parlance. hips are never more than an inch larger Iban the Inist-a for models standard difference and movie stors. Full hips mea- sure 4 inches larger than ihe but circumference. Anything beyond the full measure is
it-alde.
by
lone
With weight at or near normal and tone in the figure control- ling muscles, your hip measure- ment will be right for you,
Do You Carry A Bag Or A Wastebasket?
By JEANNE D'ARCY
club meeting She was at a FUNNY thing happened to a A friend of ours
the other and her bug, open and crammed and career girl who with papers, a newspaper day. She's a
standing on has to (or at least she feels she a magazine,
was
As
M
the
broke up, meeling sme zealous club member, who was tidying up the place, ush tray into the
If you are overweight gener- ally, then, of course, diet is in order. Bul when weight is hus to carry a huge handbag the floor.
there are So
many within normal range,
exercise because
things Here's an easy salad with 2
she absolutely can put a stop to spreading hips, "vital"
have with her-papers. fancy look and a sweet-tartand what is mure, can slim needs to
lavour, Roll grapefruit sections bulky inches off this measure-bills, notes, magazines, in honey and then In coconut men!
to She's chosen a giant-size bag emptied
bag In or chopped nuts.
that's heavy as a suitcase. fact, crisp lettuce leaves.
friends have seriously Who could
her? It blume worried that It will make her
looked untidy enough certainly lopsided unless she to be a wastebasket! appearance switches it about, carrying it with her right hand one day,
left the next. There's
Serve
restoring on fabby muscles. Toned muscles
are always more shapely.
This exercise tones both hip Here's how to give soiled
and girdle muscles: each veils
Shake now Hre.
mild In a jar of warm,
Position: Lying face down on vell
water.
several floor, head pillowed Rinse soapy times in clear, warm water, dry left arm.
sheets batween two and press
Krep
23}- and
TUu;Y-s- you may
e estetice of any achieve today. Huste will only make wasic
problem: 1.-3. aug. 2, B, or P (=Q disch, or Kt dbì ch) mates,
White, 7 pieces, White to play: mate in two. Solution to
yesterday'a
of waxed paper,
LIBRA (Nept 24-1 Blond to yestat normal routine don't be detrucked by the aperta-
Be conservative. cular
SCORPIO (Oct
zz)-- 24-NDV
This can be ther telntities wit
#imulator fun werk octind C usiness and Ananer Profit by I
BAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec 22)- Be direct ist all your perol alfairs, lust anticipate manne encustar I news regarding them
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan, 20)- Work effuple are active or the next
TARGET
N
A
L
East
1 Heart 2 Clubs 2 Diamonds Poss
You, South, hold:
AK75 VAQJB43 Q52 MA
What do you do?
A-Bld three hearts Slam is not at all out of the question. If North shows signs of ambition you will encourage him.
TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You, South, hold:
MA VAQE843 Q5 24K75
What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
BY
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T H O
Le many
worthy ot
toar feƐted-
or more Vikto
you
trom letters in the
centre
the left (0 making ench word the Fetters In rach of the stall squares may be used once unty. Each word must conlates the are letter in the aqunce, and there must be at Jeant alle aine-letter word in the ist. No plurals; ni toreign words nu proper maines TODAY'S TARGET 20 words, poud: 20 words, very good; 35 words, arcellent Holution tomorrow.
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THE
YESTERDAY'S
•
WAY
by Beachcomber
THE piteous condition of the translation
Jy already Ira Its
publishing trade leads me second printing.
to suggest that the best way to Oh, I say, look here!
restare vitality
to a moribund
public, and to convince people
that a novel wurth, say, fifty is not every day that
can English politician -startling slings, is 10 use titles,
nt
say
mother's scorn
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Do Stars Wink At Us?
-Policeman Settles An Argument Between the Shadows-
By MAX TRELL
NARF, the shadow, stood al the window looking out at the stars.. Then he turned to his sister Hanid. "It did it I Just saw it!"*.
Hand, puzzled, said to her brother "What did it, Knarf? What did you just see? I don't understand what you're talking about,"
"One of the stars," said Kaart, "Just winked at me."
Stars Just Wink
"But that can't be! Stars just wink. They don' wink at you for at me or at anybody else!"
said Hanid.
"My brother and I have been
He talking about the stars
at says he just saw one wink him. But I say that stars don't wink of anybody in particular. They Just wink."
Sitting On The Curb
When he heard this the Policeman took off his hai, took the out handkerchief, spread handkerchief on the curb and sat down.
and Hanid Knarf sat down beside him.
"Now." sald the Policemon, "what you want to know is whether the stars wink at you and at me or whether they just wink at no one at all? Well, it all depends."
The Policeman paused to out a wrinkle in the handkerchief. Then he con-
Knarf repented: "I sow 4 smooth star. And it winked at me. know what I saw and I know tinued: I'm right."
Now when Knarf said one thing and Hanid said another, 11 was time to go to someone decide who else and have him was right, So they went be- hind the bookcase and opened a
ittle secret door.
There they
Sheep, goals, cows and horren were also walking up and down with smiles on their faces,
of the time the stars "Mout
one another. just wink at They're all up there in the sky together. If it's a beautiful night- It is tonight they like to let each other know how happy they feel.
Strango Idea
"They can't talk. They can't
telephone. All they can do is wink. So they just wink."
Again the Policeman paused.
were, in a very Truthfully: "Suddenly I found pretty street with houses on myself being kissed on the fore- both sides. lamp posts that Cuban looked like giraffes, interesting These titles need have no re- head by a Cuban girl." ievance to the contents of the mothers usually tell their girls people, with smiles on their sing. They can't write or book. A girl weller has the "you must go about kissing faces, walking up and down. sound idea. She is colling her people, choose millionaires. first book "I Was Stalin's Valet." Imagine the The result will be telegramos of what the girl said "Yesterday
politician. quotable praise from a well- I klased an English known cricketer and from Mr "What on earth for?" "A Humphrey Bogart, and af over whim. Md. An impulse." whelming demand before pub- was a. Tory. I trust?" "No, Ma. lication. The next step is lo o Secialist," "Consuelo! nobble the reviewers at a cock- the room this Instant tail party, so that they will co operate for the ultimate good of Gee! Literature.
A regrettable mission
A
I.
"HC
Leave
READ of a cabaret star that she knows the works of all the great Russian authors, has FRENCH friend has nent had tea with Professor Einstein, me one of those UNESCO and has been "censured as, un- publications from the Avenue suitable for Christmas Week."
I wish I could attend a meeting Kleber which, seem to be based on my researches. On the cover of her publicity men and hear is what might be elther a. them deciding on which of there diagram or a photograph of a altainments the major emphasis bit of up-to-date sculpture: is to be laid.
Inside there is a wild and beau-
tiful bibliography of publica- Working on a theory
tions, omitting only Onsken
of Phytophtagma as related
A Bright Red Uniform
Finally, on the corner of this street, Krarf and Hanld come to a Poleman. He was wearing a a bright red uniform and he had roller skates on. But just the Bame he looked like Police- man becauABO that's what he was, a Policeman,
Knort and Honid went up and greeted him.
"Good evening, Policeman!" they said.
"A" spid the Policeman, looking up at the dark sky. "It's more than a good evening. It's abeoutiful evening."
Jabuz's monumental "Enquiry WHEN Professor Ulyato C. WRucksteller, Jun, attends Into the Molecular Magnetism
"Mr Policeman," began Hanid, month 'the' opening of
typescript of "The at the stars."
The Polloman smiled and svitly worné Kewers on Hydro- Canterbury Tales" with correo-
Impdded.
the physico-chemical desiccation Chaucer's grave he hopes to "I'm sure you've, often looked
of
to next
the together find
lacoses tione in Milton's handwriting:
Lake, Wakakawi:
Kerronology?" ·
3-6
"I'm aure you've often looked
at the stars," Hanid zald.
on folded
her
little point in men tloning that it's not the most item in the world. right leg fashionable and right orm a few inches off Until recently, however, Roor. S-t-r-e-1-e-h and hold.friend couldn't see it that way,
though he didn't really expect.. Hanie or Knari to believe him.
"Yes, they winke at you and at me. When the stars look down and see that we are all alone, trying just looking up at them, to And a friend, they don't hesitate a second. They wink right down at us,
"It's as if they wanted to say: Yes, I'm your friend, way, way up here in the sky. I'm winking ai you.' And do you know what you cught to do when you see star winking at you in such a friendly way
"Why, what ought we to do, Mr Policeman?" asked Hanid.
right "You ought to wink back. It's a simple rule to re- member. Wird at a star if it winks at you. Now don't ever forget it."
When he went on again, he And Knarf and Hand pro-
sounded
little strange, as mised they never would.
打
Rupert and the Winter Woolly–10
Turning the leaf over Rupert stringer walks briskly on to his gives a start. “Why, '}'wa great hand." Ow, it's cold and it's tick- cries. Sing 1" he squirole" says hairy caterpillar | he
and the cater". "Whatever can the poor thing be pilar drops all. doing in this key weather? I Rupert. “He seems to live walk; must be frozen.” Willie puts hiring over the snow, it would: kill finger near the leaf and the Eittle any other exterpillar.”
ALL RIGHTS KLIKKYED.
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Raise
OUT
Including Everyone laughed, our friend, who announced that พาล going this was it. Sho straight out to buy new, dalatier bag.
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