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THE CHINA - MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1956.
JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Passive Defence Sets Game Bid
By OSWALD JACOBY
BROKEN holding in
Aa suit may cost you a
trick to lend that suit. When you have several such suits, your best course is to Adopt a passive defence, getting out safely « each opportunity and allowing the other sido to open ench sult.
In today's hand, We didn't want to lead from the jack of hearts, the queen of diamonds, or from the ace of clubs. He wisoły played for safety by lead ing a trump.
Declarer win the first trick in dummy with the ace of spades
order to lead towards
W-1 won WiDi the ace and got out once more with a trump.
king of clube.
Declarer won in dummy again and this time tried the diamond
WEST
705
J743
Q1073
4A?
NORTH
24
▲ AK 102
❤00
+042
AJOUB
EAST
481
▼K 082
+95
4Q 1043 2
SOUTH (D)
QJ93
A 10 5
ФАКО
Ка
North-South vul
Went North
South
1 N.T.
PAI 20
East Pass
24
Pass 14
Pass
Pass Раза
Opening lead - 7
fluenser. West WORL with The queen of dimmunds and let 7
just trump,
South was BOW
Trouble.
He let the eight of clubs Lo force out the len, won the dias mond return, and cashed the
king of diamonds Nothing helped, for he hadn't set up the Jack of clubs nor had the dia- monda broken.
The hearts were no better. South led a heart to the queen.
Josing to East's king. turned
heart.
|
anct
Enst re- South
finessed the 100. This lost to the jock, und South was down uter.
South fell aggrieved at his bad luck. Every lnesse WHA GOUT. Bad no will broke well. The luck would have been different. however. now
West lad in- cautiously opened a heart or diamond. Either lead would sacrifice a trick, and this would have given declarer the game and rubber
♥÷CARD Sensese
Q-The bidding has been: Worl
North Basi South
Poss 1 Spade
1 Club
T
You, South, hold: 4862 K352 ◆K 104 4A QB
What do you do? ABid two
no-trump. This
Jump bid is highly invitational but not completely forcing. 11 North has a sound overcaji he will - bid again, and you will reach a game contract.
TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You, South, hold:
SK 104 VK152 4862 4AQE
What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
TARGET
ER
N
WOG
D
How many
words of four letters or more eso you make from the letters in the square on the left in each making
R word, the
lotter la each of the small squares may be used ouça only. Each word must contain the large letter is the centre equare, and there must be at irst one nios-letter word in the list. No plurains no foreign worden TODAY'S 20 proper names. TARGET]. 31 words, good?: AN words, -US good; 42-wards. excellent. Bolation" tomorrow,
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CHESS PROBLEM
By: L. LARSEN ....
Black, 9 pieces.
White, 11 pieces, "White to playi^mate in two.
@Solution to yesterday's Problem:::
{£; Q-K16, any; 2, Q, R, or
5-30 ljudioase, Ine,
'Want to take it with you or exchange it right away?”
YOUR BIRTHDAY......... By STELLA
TUESDAY, JULY 24
PORN on this Brst day of the imaginative and dramatic, you incoming sign, Leo, you are would probably do well in dramatic or Actional Tuled by the Sun, and have a either fery, dominating nature which writing. In addition, you are appears born 20 rule. You Intere died in the mysterious have tremendous mental and and the occult and may wish playaient energy, usually operat- to investigate such phenomena ling ou Impulse Fortunately, 418 Pomelo your nitention in
our intuitions are keen. They van Hetime always will warn you of trouble If you learn to heed those
in time
You
Con may Pain a reputa
tion for remendous foresight (in times of crisis
You TO good judge of oble to see character and are beneath the surface and get at inglividual's underlying motivation for on art Thị: cun expfienally untul when comes to long-term planning selecting personnel to do a Your memory is
t speelße Joh another attribute which can be past to good use, for once you hive catalogati
fuct th
You women ure highly emotional ant must learn to channel Your emotions Inta NOTIC constructive channel or you will And you are always in a turmell In your case, let rather than
passion reason, alone, guide your actions.
those born on Among
This date are: Alexander Dumas ord
Gillette,
Lord Dunsany, authors; William Ernest Bloch, composer; Benn betor playwright; Pitman, shorthand pioneer; and Lewis Miller, inventor.
To find what the stars have or in store for you tomorrow, a face and name, select your
birthday star and read the corresponding para-
memorised you never forget.
Stuce you have the gift of graph. Let your birthday star the written word and ar be your daily guide.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 25
WOMANSENSE
Left: From Larry Aldrich comes this youthful dress in a rusilo silk print, the full skiri falling from renile shirring + Now Children
Tat the waistline, a characteristic touch in his ourvent collection. The moulded bodice la topped by a re-embroidered white": Porgandie collar with a shoestring grosgrain bow.2 (2
Right: Hack interest above the wadet is nows ́ak Larry. Aldrich, and this paper-thin silk taffeln la a case in point. Tho‡ Edecolletage, balean in front,, dips low. În back and ties in small bows, one of which sends streamers to the hom. Lilles-of-*
the valley, are set Into ́s encaserbund, and tho ́skirt falls fall in soft plenta,
GLAMOROUS COCKTAIL DRESSES
VERY
WITH BACK INTEREST
New York. summer ward.
By MARIAN RAHL
E robe deserves a pretty Aldrich predicts a
For
trend Dipping lower than in front,
LEO
23) future, so think and look before (July 24-Aug. Have all your personal affairs you leap, well under control today Don't TAURUS (Apr, 21-May 21)-and flattering dress. permit your emotions to sway Not a day to be too adventure- those of you afraid of the away from the slim line. some have touches of lace
some but the temptation to be
impulses.
important decisions.
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)-— Use wisdom in all you under-
when it com?s take, especially to personal contacts and meeting
new people.
LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)- Not a good idea to be too ex- perimental on the job today. Be conservative and please
boss
just that ́ds great, Curb your
"GEMINI (May 22-June 22) Sudden events may take con- trol of your life! Be prepared to meet with poise and calmness anything that happens.
sheath, take advantage of the full silhouettes. Fashion has not confined itself to a narrow line this year.
Beautiful fabrics enhance the
The softness and feminini. or bows as accent..
of the collection is exem- plified in a group of dresses wider lines of daytime and short with shirred skirts, gathered evening dress. You can begin at the waistline or below it, your day in silk tweed, linen At Larry Aldrich, both Flattering necklines #re
and rustle sük, then proceed to slim and full silhouettes are made much of; boat shapes
slik taffeta, crepe and alpaca, CANCER (June 23-July 23)- shown, but for romantic late score afternoon prints, while
the For evening may be able to experi- afternoon or evening,
amphusia ment with something out of the
the in glamorous cocktail fas on lace. Alry Chantilly ordinary and have it turn out full skirt seems 80 much dresses, much attention is and rich re-embroidered Caints laces come in shades ranging very well, indeed.
more feminine. In fact, Mr given the neckline at back. from pale parchment to amber
the
You
SCORPIO (004, 24-Nov. 22)—
Soc
You
will need
clear thinking Today, for there are complications, especially when It comes to personal affairs.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov, 22-Dec. 22) There are chances for a change lodny in either your working or living environment. Learn lo adjust
CAPRICORN
23-Jan. (Deo, 20)-You
Increase your personal popularity just now if you go abou! It in the right
way.
con
“AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) -One of those big idea days when you will be able to put into production a brand new
Idea.
BOYS'
AND
Chirpie Helps Out
--He Does What They All Wanted to Do But Can't-
Jane, Mr Punch and were saying.
By MAX TRELL
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 21)—4TSN'T it a shame?" said Mary
An exclting day in which your personal affairs may interfere
with your job Use caution.
Was
GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Knarf
Jane, the rag doll.
Comfortable Nost
"Here I with Knart, the shadow boy
envying you rozne, who fellows for having such a com- ARIEN (Mar. 22-Apr, 201- the turned-about
on the other side fortable nest to live by and 1 What you do today may have was sitting
of
his find you're all dissatisfied." the playroom, raised a very definite effect upon your
head and sold to Mary Jane: "What is?"
CROSSWORD
Across
1. Pritters & mix-up. Heda
B. The lead. (8)
"Well," sald Mary Jane, "pleking flowers and arranging them in a vase is what I like to do best. And yet—"
"Well," said Mr Punch sud- denly to Chirpie, "why don't we change? I'm willing."
"So are we," said Mary Jane and Knart.
But Chirple Sparrow,shook his head.
In The Meadow
do
3.7
"No, I wouldn't let you i," he finally said. "One night Knart looked ot Chirple in out in the meadow and you'd surprise. Mr Punch would get wet through and through. have moved from the window And I'm afraid you'd only fall expect that he couldn't move on your head, not stand on it, at all.
Mary Jane just stood Mr Punch, And you wouldn't still and didn't say anything. like sleeping in the garden, Mary Jane. As for you, Knart, "Folks don't know when how would you like to fly back With his beak, Chirpie picked they're lucky," Chirple went and forth across the field a bluebell for Mary Jane, on, "Take me, for instance, 1 hundred times before you found don't care
anything do
about enough to cat? But I tell you. pleking flowers though 1 sec what I'll do." thousands of them wherever,
As for standing, on
Knari and Mary Jane ed his eyes. "There's something head, I don't do that at all. I Mr Punch walted to hear what you can't do, dear?" he said to hop. But what wouldn't I give Chirple Sparrow would do, Mary Jane, "What can't you to change places with all
"And yet?" said Knarf im- patiently.
"And yet,"
continued Mary June, "it's something I can't do,"
Mr Punch was taking a nap in the sunny window. He open- fly.
*
I
my
of
and
Put Dad Through College!
New York. TOW. It's the kids who
through college.
No putting
Pop
Exceptional children these, earning from $15 to $50 an hour. They all are on the roster of the Bonnie. Kid Model Agency, one of the few agencles In the country handling child models only.
The head of the agency Mrs Phyllis Chalzel, whose 12- year-old daughter, Bonnie, Is one of the busiest models on the registry.
Mra the agency in 1947, said she has from 60 to 100 children work- ing through her. She explained that the mamber varies con- stantly because children lose in- terest in modelling, or else they are away at school or camp.
Chalzel, who founded
LUCRATIVE FIELD.
Her children model for every- thing from fashion shows 10 television commercials. And you've seen dozens of them as cover girls, or boys,
on lead- ing magazines. Mrs Chalzel sald the most lucrative modelling hold now for the youngsters is in television 'commercials, where the daily minimum pald.in '170.
"And they may work Ave hours or only five minutes," she said.
"Some of our children are. buying homes for their parents," said the 33-year-old Mrs Chal- zel. "Some are sending Dad
.out
and navy. Daytime colours in-through college. One of clude light corks, mocha, navy. models is financing her father's Prints are distinctive In the way through medical school". blue and green range.
RICE FOR EVERY MEAL
By FELICITY ASCOT
ICE is one of the house- wife's most useful standbys. It may be served
R
Bonnie Kid kids range in age from seven or tight days to the teens. Mire Chalzel sald on oc- casion she has booked a child: even before it was born, in tho case where a mother already has one child working with 'the agency.
"A time or two," she said, "the mother's just taken the baby from the hospital right to
photographie' assignment."
ONLY QUALITY NEEDED
We asked Mrs Chalzel what
!model
at every meal of the day qualities make a successful child and, In some form or another, with every course "One out of a hundred ap of the dinner, from soup to she said. "The only quality
plicants may be a potential,"
dessert.
Date Or Raisin Rico
Using a double boiler cook
naturalness
...not necessarily good looks. The days of the Shirley Temple type are over, now an ugly Hittle tyko with
small tablespoons of rice in 1 personality has a chance.
pint of milk, adding 1⁄2 cup of
"A child · must be, trust-
raisins or chopped dates and able. There's no room for tem- sugar to taste. This makes a per tantrums- In this business, delicious breakfast cereal.
For overy child who gets diffi- cult, there are 50 to taka: his place.
Cheeso Rico With Tomato
Sauce
"Good grooming is essential- To 2 cups of cooked rice add, [one way, I guess to get Johnnie
1 cup tomato sauce," 1 cup to wash his ears,” grated cheese and 1⁄4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce. Stir the mixture well and pour into buttered baking dish and cook in a medium oven about 20 minutes.
Her advice to any mother who thinks her child could be a model is:
"Go ahead and see, Modelling provides a child wonderful education. Helps build poise,... teaches him the value of money,
be a pushy
Chicken Soup With Rice
Simmer the neck, wings and
"But don't bones of a chicken in 1 quart mother."
of water for 1 hour. Take the Mrs Chaizel sighed as she rem
chicken out of the water *and
Baked Castorole
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
and
separate the bits of lean from marked, "There's only one pretty And that's what
Chirple the bones, Return these to the child in the whole world,
every mother has It? Sparrow did. He stood on his saucepan and add,
1 chopped Pr Head in the air for Mr Punch, onion, chopped celery stalks, and picked a bluebell with his and 1⁄4 cup of rice. Cook slow- twittered a song from beak for Mary Jane, and 4p until - tender, 1:7 about. -30 the top minutes, and season with salt
and pepper. you!"*
"I'll stand on my head in of the tree for Knart. the air for you, Mr Punch. "Very nice chap,” sald. Mr Knarf 'exclaimed, puzzled; And I'll pick a flower for you, Punch later. "You would? Why?" -
Mary Jaño, And-and what do
Line a buttered casserole with “SULL It would have been you want me to do for you, "Because," replied Chirple, Knatt
more fun if he had really let 11⁄2 cups of boiled rice. Make a
Washable light twitch plates; "you all have this fine house to
us change places with him and cream sauce by blending are a good investments. If they livo
Just sing a song in-plenty of food-no
for me," fly like a sparrow," said Kourt. tablespoon butter, tablespoon "Teic-tak," clucked Mr Punch, rain to fall on your heads." saki, Knart,
aromade, öf' class or tile, just flour and a little salt But that couldn't bo,- "why don't the plek flowers
cup of milk and allowing to boll auds them with a cloth or mall. for 10 minutes.
To the souco sponge. It they are of metal, and arrange them in a vase?
add 11⁄2 ups of cooked faked follow the washing with a brisk Ash ankk pour into lined polishing m
In A Vase
"She can't pick flowers arrange them in vase"
and. Knarf
and one said.
Grst rate, across.' (9)
9. The omter's intrude 7 (3);
10, Vary spl for 1.0.0
pound, (D)"
11. so face. (4)
15.
14. This la pot very nice., (9)
10. Hurry along. (4)
18. Hit out. (0)
20. This may be criticism diegitised | Who's stopping her?”
21. Explosive poak. (4),
1
3.
Ha paya, who onile this.. (4)
The chosen. (0)
This a One
Down .18)
Down
Down Thite
A Aver out tanag,). (9) Tarribia ruler, (4)
racious potritabilon. (4,0)))
Tour by à different way., (4),
Bau'n data (annu.). (READ
d. Gelk los back And after
hoitation, broken cane, (9)
Mary Jone explained: "I'm never taken outside, where the flowers grow, How can I pick flowers when they're all outside in the garden and I'm all inside. here in the playroom?"";
"I've
never picked flowers, either but it doesn't bother me
a bit, Mr Punch said. "I'm, a.
3. Cathedral ofosed considerately puppet. I like to do acrobatic
9. Thla, gratern, saved many;
ship. (d)
12. 1,gifta parb
of the mojisy
making clRESİ
(0)
18. Drake badi
one and hai
Williams = eff
12,
of the RZNEJ
tricks, like manding on my
head. But do I ever stand
on
my head! No siree! I stand here on my feet in the play. room day aftte....
never moving an Inch
day,
KOBEL was about to say Bornathing when thew was Alttle laugh from the window mill. It was Chirpia, Sparrow. He had been there for quite a while Funch Find word alla bat Mary"
Rupert and the Fire Bird-17
gera de tot, walt long, ““ Ping, (You heard?^me, sale, "no" they have taken off graphing "to"Ching for it yester
signals for Rupart today And don't worry about
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*** Look at the Carokon à
Just arrived-
A new adventure
Rupert and the
Bottled Moonbeams
$1.00
1
intaa
carole. Sprinkle the top with ARPATION
breadcrumbs, dot with butter For a cool, quick dessert áll'a and bake 20 to 30 minutes in regular platry or chinted crumb moderate oven."
Toka" pple "shell" with: too' cveton!' and serni-sweet chocolate top with COME A MAN or coloured· coconut, Cook Klb rico in 1 pint of
Rice
milk: 20 minutes, add mugar to
Laste and set aside to cool treat dredge, thicklich of For a brolled; tomato-onion
Separate the yolks from the
whites of 3 eggs. Lightly beat
the yolks and add to the cooled broad crumb bod
rice, mixing well. Add W. cup
But
pleting them on (allow got
of coffee, which must be very Nongo Brolly then five to
sight
necesary a little more, mugar? | golden Finally Goutta the carb which arabad stimise and, föld gently into the adde to, the flie
claire, Turri into a bulièrack
dcrumbed ple aimi, dot
and bake foRANY
until they are