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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 2, 1956.
JACOBY YOUR BIRTHDAY
ON BRIDGE
End-Play May Be Avoided
By OSWALD JACOBY
THE art of avoiding an
THE
By STELLA
MONDAY, JULY 2
You are original and inven- BORN today, you are what
mlht be called "global tive. You probably will be the mined," for you have a roving type to figure out some new way diaposition. You lie to travel to do a job, it against your will. in for places and you see the you are ever pressed into any world a very small nee, kind of steady routine,
place, indeed. You would probably do well no foreign corres pondent, diplomal, travelling Topresentative or an explorer. In fact, almost anything that heeps you on the move and In the mut of clove will have a very definite appeal for
You
♫
end-play is a rare cxer-you. cise in defensive skili, partly
are not one to endure because it is needed only long any kind of monotonous against the sort of declarer routine, and it would be fatal for who is good enough to you to be placed on any kind of execute the end-play. Per-a desk job where all you would haps today's elucidate.
Your emotions ero strong and you will be happiest if you wed quite early in life and have a large family of your own. Just be sure that your life partner has that samo touch of foot" or you may be traveller unhapplly alone! For travel, you must,
thoop born on this Among date are: Charles Chaille Long, explorer; Luelus J, Knowles and Nathan Reed, inventors; Richard
Stoddard, port; Robert
author.
band will see, all day long, would be the James #gway, naturalist and
West und the ten It <19- heurts, East plaved the couraging deuce, and South won It seemed clear With the arg that West would shirt la cluba if given the chance, and South had good reasons for not want. ing such a shift.
Declarer drew three rounds
ending In af Trungs. dummy, and then led the jack Fast stepped up of diamonds. immediately with the ace of diamonds and returned his
heart, allowing West
to
win with the eight. This wasn' us desperate a play as I seem- ed, since West find discarded
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back of the man at the desk in fronti Life in the city intrigue you most, for there you should be able to find the variety of activity which reps you ou your face.
To find what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, selcet your birthday, star and read the corresponding paragraph.
Let your birthday star be your daily guide TUESDAY, JULY 3 noun and this evening.
CANCER (June 23-July 23)- Combine busines and pleasure today Get an early start for the mid-week holiday. Make Pareful plans.
LEO
24-Aug. 231 If planning a business trip, why not start tomorrow, a day early, t AKANE pleasure along youth 112
(July
ARIES
begin your holiday
(Mar, 22-Apr. 20)—– Do that last-minute shopping which may be necessary for the completion ot tomorrow'a plesturable nelivity,
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)- You may enjoy competitive sports and this should be a day VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23) in which you can enjoyably Muke careful plans, then participate in them. follow them to the letter and
GEMINI (May 22-June 22)--- all will turn out exactly as you Plan a happy evening at home, hope they will.
Perhaps you will want to enter- LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oci. 23)-tain your neighbours. You can anticipate SUV SA 50 good time! whatever direction your netiva
There's
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leadi
you
Jola others
constructive
the nine of hearts on the third trump to make it clear thin he held the eight and could win the second round of hearts
West returned the eight of clubs, dummy played low, and East won with the jack. Eus! could still get out with his tow diamond, after which he could elt back and wait for a second club trick to defeat Uw contrael,
lit
Perhaps you noticed that East had to give the lead to his part- mer with a low heart as part of the campaign to avoid an end- East niso had to win the pluy first lamond trick in order to
out with a low Det
allationd later on.
If East hadn't taken these two precautions, he'd have been obliged eventually to lead clubs up to dummy's nee-queen; or he'd have led a heart, allow- ing dummy to ruff while South discarded a club.
East's precautions wouldn't have been needed against an ordinary declarer. The average South player would try a club finesse on his own, and East would be in no danger.
♥CARD Serise
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)-
201
sume type
which welt
activity combines philanthropy us ay pleasure.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 221-17 this happens to be your vacation time, take advantage of al vervational freilities offered you.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20)-If you are plannlog a trip for Tomorrow, unke all plans enrefully today so that you con take an surly start.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb, 19) -A good day to wind up in- |porkant business which cont after the
hold over untit holley
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 21)- Perhaps you can get away from business a lttle early this after-
CHESS PROBLEM
By J. SCHEEL Black, 9 plecos
White, B pieces. White to play: mate in three. Solution
Saturday's [0
problem:
1. B-Q4. any: 2. Kt, or P (dla chi mates.
TARGET
1.
S
C
H
A
East South
?
T
C O
Q-The bidding has been:
West North
I Club
1 Spade Разя You, South, hold: 462 #154 3732 AKJE
What do you do?
A-Plus, North may have trouble, but you cannot be sore chat oxa bo-irump would be a better contrset,, Besides, North might than Bit again, and you wold be in the soup.
TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding has been the same as in the question just answered. You, South, bold:
LAK62 - WKQ54 43732 453
What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
H worde
01 many
of
four lettern
or more can
Po make
trum
the
letters in the
aquare
Un
the left? In making each the word. letters in each of the Mali muares may be used oner Each word must contain only.
the large letter in le centre pitulare, atul there must be ut least one nine-letter word in the st. Na plurals: foreign nen. words; o proner TODAY'N TARGET: 22 words. good 25 words, very good: 28 words,
axcelient. Solution tomorrow.
SATURDAY'S SOLUTION.
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This Funny World
GEORÈS WOLFS
Why} Evelyn--how, uleverd.
1
Have o
CROSSWORD
Acros
hose should neyor be confused with grannion. (4, 5)
The girl in a grievance, (3) 1. Not far away, (4)
1. They are you backbope, 19) 15. Master MacGregor. (5)
16. durns without the onda. (3) 13. All vehicles stop bere, (5) 19. Certain. (4)
20. Cereal may wall bo. 151 32. bien rain (anag). (6) 28. Hammered in, maybe, (d)
work hard 111 26. They back
نا
olden days. (5)
7. Hours of Man, (*)
1. Defonis, (U
HEALT
2. Lady of the garden of dusk, jai 4. This rony be a blow--a u Nao
on your hat. (3-0)
4
Kiminal, (4)
They are prominent in
Juliste
Mix ale and a bun, (8)
3. Instrument for a blug, (1
MOISH
# if you're in this sort of thing
you may be easily ledt. 161
u. it's beloved by Americans wer
manda. (5)
Every rivat
matter of
18. Cu round. (B)
10 11 should
be logally
stumped to be
really signi Cant.
21 Unhelp laj
bind
equines. 141
23 Binks with
Vike the whip 131
24. A
marshal
of Napoleon's
(3)
has one An
100
gaturday's Solution
BOYS'
WOMANSENSE
Test-tube Furs Provide.
Provide The
The Luxury A Dangerous
For the country a casual cropped cost in a new fleecy fabric.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
If you have bamboo blinds in your house, dip them occasion. ally in a tub of soapy water with n [ew drops of ammonia added.
Rinse them thoroughly the hollow top and anet till bottom poles to drain the water out.
Let them dry in the air, then, while they are still slightly damp, hang the blinds and to the proper ajut the corts level.
When selecting a paint colour for the walls of your rooms, re- inember that green can be used with success on un area of uny rize and in any stelion of the
house,
green for the
not
If you choose bathroom, however, do choose a shade with too much That shade has yellow in
the en unflattering effect on complexion when you face your reflection in the mirror,
AND
Look-But No Warmth
London.
This week Minquilla
WO new arrivals in town
and Nutrilla, the furriest looking fur fabrics we've yöt seen, with a' convincing- ly silky sheen about them. They're ideal for warm ell- mates too, for with their light, luxurious handle they are cooler than real furs, but effect of Rume give the something extravagant to throw around your shoulders in the evening.
The secret of this. new fabric is that it is made by one of the biggest manufac turers of velvet in England, and they have now discover- ed a process by which they can make a fabric with two heights of pile. like the short and longer, silkier hairs of the mink.
ADVANTAGES
are
For town, a luxury coat in Minquilla, Collarless with fuinesa from the shoulders. It is lined in cream salin.
The advantages of these 'furs' are numerous, no coki storage is needed for thom
they
moth and spree, are buying up monster mildew-proof. You can also bogs in mink-like kolinsky, the
size of sultcases. take them safely out in the Favourite haunt of the fur- rain, for they are silicone- fanclers is a Hitle boutique in Arcade, where proofed to be water and the Piccadilly
designer Beryl Taylor makes stain-resistant.
demure collar and cuff sets in Test-tube furs are not just mink tails, für Allee-bands for used for coats and stoles, the the hair, and other extravagances new fabric
has inspired the to order. necessory designers to dream up Bornic Der fantasies. Milliner
SPREADING TREND Madge Chard produced a huge, As the furry trend spreads, wide-brimmed hat of imitation you'll be seeing fur button on
calunos sweaters, uni leather, ex-
stud ermine, light na a
of sliver-blue mlok, tremely luxurious and obviously earrings destined for
also There are belts of lat ponyskin Ascot, she
fitted only them, showed an upturned bucket hat with purses of convincing 'Persian Lamb.'
black
Neighbourly Gesture
By W. W. BAUER, M.D. ting
cowboy fashion, and even fur trimmings on shoes at Chris- tion Dlor'e Inst show, satin evering pumps had rings of minit round the heel, another shoe
manufacturer showed black suedo court shoes with tiny fur masks on them.
Film star Diana Dora mink Bikini,
startled Cannes Film Festival, may not the
which
be seen on many of the world's beaches, but in the gifts section of one London store you can And
discreet
mink-trimmed underwear and, for, the woman who has everything u Joke toothbrush with mink bristics.
08
NEW FABRICS
EOPLE do a great many
PEOP
foolish things about medicines and all with the best of intentions. A baby develops a cough, and the next door neighbour obligingly bands over & prescription for cough which 2
doctor gave her for å 12-year-old child. Between them they discuss the dose- which the baby ought to
Fabric names become stronger have and since neither of the new man-made fibres them knows anything about mingle with coltons, silka wools. New
ine
the
and
names to mystityit, each is free with her own
The shopper Include
result is gassed' opinions. yarn and blown' acetate which that the baby gets his right Spectator dose only if he is lucky."
appeared in the
Sports dress collection sent to Russin. Blown
acetate
looks
He may get too little to do
like silk but has less gloss. It him any good or he may can be draped effectively, and oven succumb to the effects makes up Into
party of fatal doses of the wrong
medicine.
dresses,
colours.
good comes In many vivid
D
Non-iron linen is on the way.
Passing medicines along After years of. research A
for British firm has discovered.
use by patients for way of treating this
were problem whom they
not in-. The new pro- tended is one of the 'most child of fabrics. cess means that not only will
common of neighbourly ges your linen dress remain cool, calm and crisp
In the hottest tures. One may admire the weather, but when you launder spirit in which it is done but it, it will practically need no the judgment is definitely ironing. So it is goodbye t
to the faulty. crisp linen coat which crumples up after an hour's wear, the pale, cool-looking resort dress ihat seems so smart, is so dim-pensive. cult to iron.
linen will be on sale both in left or half a box of pills. The
London and abroad from end of the year.
the
Prescriptions tend to be ex- Sometimes when the Minimumn-iron patient recovers halt a bottle is thrifty family puts them away, deciding to use them when the samo situation arises again. There are
many fallacies in Jill Carey this. First, an apparently similar
altuation; when it arises,
due to
entirely
TWELVE USES FOR VINEGAR
be
COLSKI.
may
different
UNSAFE ECONOMY
Second, medicines undergo chemical changes; by the time the stuff is used, it may be no good. In a few instances, meil- cines, éyag: kecorreditrerie,& end,
There are also cholters, spats, and even 4 Cover for your umbrella to help give you the all-over appearance at a Polar Bour. The markers of these now fur fabrics claim that even the animals at the London Zoo were deceived by them, but why do they just imitate the mink and the nutria?
By HILLARY WENTWORTH 1
would for rather have a frankly crazy stude 1. When boiling a fowl, vinegar. Paraffin is very therefore, dangerous. Someone of shocking pink furry fabric. or a hat in large-than-life-size add a tablespoon of vinegar useful in some jobs of kit may get hold of medicine, under the Impression that it is some- zebra stripes, than something to the water in which it is chen cleaning, but house-thing else and thus take. that Joules, in close-izp like a cooking. This makes the wives do not like it because powerful sedative when he bird more tender and ra the smell lingers 50. Athink he is taking aspirin, The duces the boiling time sponge of vinegar will sufficely safe and sano thing to do with unused: medicines de to necessary for a very tough to remove the odour of flush them down the tallet. If.
paraffin from an article that the bottle is to be discarded. specimen.
wash it thoroughly first.. has been cleaned with it.
A dessertful of vinegar A common practice, is to day added to the boiling water will attention to the doctor's good make the household towels.fresh advice over too long
w.period of time without seeing and white on washday.
pour relation of the animal imitates.
look is becoming The furry world-wide, and visitors from abroad, in London for the sea son, are seizing upon gay fUT accessories which do nothing
2. To remove fish
ог
whatsoever to keep you warm onion odours from the frying but give you an aura of luxury, pan pour a little vinegar into the pan while it is still fair- even in a hot climate,
Fur handbags in everythingly hot. from porryskin to persian lamb
8. The smell and taste of are selling well, and American teenagers, over on a spending paraffin can be conquered by
GIRLS'
Why Croaker's Teaching
I
A Lady Beetle Helped Him Make Up His Mind-
By MAX TRELL
beetles and grasshoppers
around for someone to
Just wall unitill I tell thews! right away?" Knarf. asked.
others!
MAGAZINE
tempered and not too natured.
good-
When they Anished asking him he would teach the youngsters how to swim and dive, he shools his head and answered 'No
"Why did he do that?" Koarf wanted to know.
"He said he was too busy.” "Doing what?"
And was early in the morning looked when Knert, the shadow give them swimming and diving name, le sons. That wasn't as easy as with the turned-about heard Mr Punch, saying over the it sounds."
"Didn't they think of Croaker A Wonderful Idea telephone behind the magic
"Catching files. And naturally, is Well, this bookense:
they were all very disappointed She Couldn't Swim My! Won't they harf. Mr
surprisench be
until suddenly one of the mam "No, they didn't. First they beetles thought of a wonderful On seeing
But she idea, (having hung up the telephone spoke to the duck. and sat himself down comfort- said she couldn't swim, ably in bis chair by the window) could only paddle. said: "It's about Croaker!"
Crooker was the bullfrog who lived on the white rock at the edge of the pond.
Kaart wanted to know what hear about there was Croaker.
He's a
4.
5.
6.
him
the
To remove stains from again. Many patients will con-
medicines flower vases, fill them with a tinue using the same! mixture of vinegar and used tem internally or externally your leaves and allow to stand over after year without seeing. night. Next morning rinse out the doctor again. At best, this with soap and warm water and is a waste of good medicine and the stairs will disappear.
good money. At worst, it can be dangerous because over-treat- ment or over-prolonged treat- ment may make the patient To prevent brass from worse. The fact that a physician tarnishing, rub it with table salt gave a prescription in 1940 moistened with a little vinegar, no good reason for using it in
1950. Add a few drops of vine- gar to the water in which green
Many modern drugs must be vegetables are being boiled, Thia used in small doses and with will help them keep their colour, caution. They do not react alilor 6. Carpots van bo brightened upon all persons. Andre- up by brushing well with an old |quires the closest supervision nailbrush dipped in pure malt by an alert physician to nesure vinegar.
the patient that ho is 'not-rum- ning into danger every time new drug is tried.
7.
D. To give a sparkle to your glassware, wipe over with a little vinegar and imit,
10. To prevent that unsight-
FOLLOW - ADVICE
ly shine on the material when pressing a man's suit, use vinc-
It the doctor prescribes only gar Instead of water on your a limited number of Kablets or pressing cloth.
[a' Miquid in limited quantity und
11. A teaspoon of brown tells the patient to return when vinegar added to rice will keep that de gone or to return to him the grains free and the rice if any unusual feelings
Decur
snowy white, the while taking the medication,
12. Hardboiled eggs can be this is a sensible and pickled by peeling them
She Croaker she said, 'if you'll Then they teach our children how to swim spoke to a sunfish. But the and dive, we'd also like to teach sunfish said he could only swim them something circ--something under water, and it wasn't much che that you can teach them good teaching anyone but a fish better thon, a canuty", better
The 1e folks asked Seagull lark, better than n than how to swim under water
to teach their children, Then they, spoke to a
teach We'd like seagull. Uhrush
you to But the rengull said he could them singing Because, Croaker, dive fine, but he wasn't any good you've
the most beautiful diving and singing. got Ho's Teaching
swimming. at
Then finally singing voice of anyone we've good teacher, too especially ofed with mixed spice, "Well," said Mr Punch, "he's they thought of Croaker be ever heard....nt ni Punch
night!!
swimming and diving.
"And you heard all that on become a teacher,"
"And, of course," cause they knew he could swim "A teacher!" Knarf exclaimed and he could dive, He seemed cald, "Croaker was as pleased as the telephone" Knart said. in amazement. "What is he like the perfect one.
can be. He salt to send the "Who told it to you?" "Well," gold | teaching?"
Punch, children around at once! So "Why, Croaker himself!" saldi. Mr Punch sald; "He's teach" "Croaker ig rather quick now he's a teacher of swimming, Mr Punch. And he laughed, ing swimming. diving anch Finging.
7
Knarf asked Mr Punch to tell [lilin all about this, so Mr Punch said: "As you probably know, Jots of the folks who live around here the little folks such as crickets and beeties grasshoppers are always
the bling into pond. They
ng around or about: doing one thing, or a
be hopping
other and all of a sucions,
they even
ven noticed
were
and
before there they off the bank, Into
falling the pond
"Most of them can't sw
swim,"
* into the pond, wam't the pleasantest thin
that could happen to them,...) In fact, now, and then, they'd even drown--and that's, about as t="" pleasant a thing as anybody can think of.
"A lot of the fathug of the young › cricketa
Mr
Rupert and the Winter Woolly 44
~Willie Mouse bags, is be toldswich" kur. Willis agrees, and the "where, the chinese? woollies that two pals acizdiser, over, the arlow. the found have gone and Rupert The old penclematises them
starts to tell hitroŊThen he 'stopaijas powsing Well, little bear;" Aren je would zake too long,,, Ha, stya, z boscos, *! Ate: thou: wonderful 1915 propolisdi, to go back to the caterpiders.mafu 231550 Yen ".: sayi
Cold"; Professor; BOʻLE you want "10.
10% fruar 1750 inatory, you'd. Batter:come
Ralpert (559 Ans not here. They soolt home;
Another New Rupert Adventure
RUPERT
and the HAPPY WISH
and precaution. It is also import y
cating them in jars containing the doctor tells you to fake mall vinegar that has been boll-12 tablets and you deal much better. after taking six that you 'do.not assume that you can him. quit without ! commuting Ha tinkloubtedly – had a ronson
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Why Children Suck for telling you to take 12,
Their Thumbs
that Physicians recognise
in small mat- self-medication, tera, is inevitable. If everybody won't to a doctor), for" every. kittle pain, doctoral: offices: would
Detroit, DR. Hans Fredon to to cronice to the point when parents often are to blame doctor and pallent would both when children suck their throw up their hands in despair, thumbs.
An aspirin or two Coron Dr Freudenthal sald` thumb occasional headache da ・ within sucking is likely to begin be the stadgment of any intelligent causa bottle-fod babies don't adult. Even an occasional Taxa get enough mouth exercise. tive can be juriided, or once, in But he cautioned, "If the habit a long time e stepping pil But continues after the fourth year, continuous, medicine doe, repeat- it means either that the child ed, headaches or dosing with feels rejected
and reeds more laxatives for chronic consticks- attention and affection or that tion or taking unnecessary win.
meat hith cont the child is maladjusted or stuff on the skin, to bool mentally rotunded. Pediatricians
uld prevents may only make could
Becoming.... addfabed ». great deal of thumb sucking by ill or pep tablets or
making contain that nipples on burning boltios Chavo arnell, boles to that the baby” harto
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