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by Beachcomber
HE interception of change at Barlow, Miss
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1950
JACOBY ON BRIDGETM
Right Play Needs Thought
By OSWALD JACOBY
DRACTICALLY nobody makes
the right first play with the East cards in today's hand. The normal play is to put up the queen of bearls at the first [trick, but this is the
wrong play.
South lets you hold the first trick with the queen of hearts. You continue with a low heart, and South wins a dresse with the Jack.
Now South goes after the dia- monds. West wins the first diamond, he cannot lead another licurt. If East wins
first
diamond, he can continue hearts but will never got back to cash them. South therefore Imakes his contract
the
There is a different atory to tell i Eust plays a low hear! at the first trick
South must
win with the ten
Barlow was
Declurer must go after the
a bur is a the art ti mast accused of putting a fly-paper be done rapidly, but with #111 obsent-minded “air
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defendant
found Canony
to entch spRIDOWS. diamonds, and West beps up at She then sprinkled the By-once with the king in order to Foulerough, the widow with pier with cheese, and the mier | lead he remaining heart. East the beautiful eyes, and a ensual caught included two sparrows. acquintarsers
drinking Mr Justice Cocklecarrot gooklands Lavandou A. El- barman networth appealest, und wan tiandes change to the actuaine -
told to mind his own business. aner. Poblenough nudged hara (the aequandamek and distructed
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There is the famous case of the general who was referred to as A bottle-scarred voleren. This was changed, in the next edition, 10 battle-seared. A third attempt wifier led the trup, and produced "Thus zero of a hundred cam- The fourth edition paigns
honoured veteran revisi who has always been foremost in the flight
THE man who was fined 104
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selling a mousetrap to enten SPORTOWN
would have
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The contract is defeated.
of RESSMONGERS
world, unite! A designer of within the law if he had set the break clothes has discovered that play the queen of trap in a plazo, and pleaded too many
ignore the force out the ace that sparrows caught in mouse-commands of the fashion people are now established, traps in planus have only them and their publicity corps. Maison has the ace of welves to blame I refer doubt - Beachcomber, Beurl less lo De Case of Canon and Buxar Dime worth and the Barnstaple alarmed. Our Fire Brigade VATSAN
Includes Olive guluma tomfoolery
bulze cocktail bolero in a new shade of verdugels. with under cuifs of fluted passepartout and afreliissed edge of custard veljow jabarderie, Devastatingly chake.
CROSSWORD
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Across 1. Britain in
but a attie standofish at the same time. (8)
7. Worn by Eastern women, (4)
. Loosen. (4) 10. Roxy in a spasm of a sort, () 12 The moulding in a double one dnd sounds like an expletive. (4) 13. Called to knowes in a ballad,
11. Capable of making a comeback.
(9)
10. are shadow, crowns are
panty things," (Daniel Defor). (8)
21. Pound in the selections. (B)
23. Pay this—it enables you to stay
around. (4)
23. Withered poetically, (4)
24. Three in the wind may shove
how a toper in faring. (of
25. King of sunshine, (3)
Down
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way up from
rank in
rallway businesɑ 7 (9)
Oustom. (5)
the
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6. They are the sort to give
reply. (9)
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The correct play is far from obscure. When Weat teada the six of hearts at the Best trick, obviously his highest card in the suit, East knows that South hos the missing ace, jack, and ten. With that knowledge. the cor- reet
marked play is thoughtful player.
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WOMANSENSE
A Norman Hartnell couture design for home knitters, "Chequerboard," consisting of a sweater and matching stole,
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HIGH FASHION FOR THE HOME KNITTER
London.
NHE couturo touch has
THECA
entered the knitting
ntost
business. Britain's progressive knitting-wool manufacturers, Lister & Co. of Bradford, first ap pointed Mr Zika Ascher~~~ the textile designer who Bells his fabrics to Dior — us their colour adviser. Now they have commissioned the Queen's dressmaker, Nor. man Hartnell, to design for them a series of couture home knitting patterns. These leaflets, which will soon be on sale in the shops, include a distinctive Nor- man Hartnell Design' label, for the knitter to sew inside the finished garment to give it anob value.
The designs. which are from imaginative, vary thick, chunky knit jackets in double knitting wool to a decollete evening pullover, and a jersey with a wrap- around cowl neckline. By no means a lover of 'fancy' knitting. I am pleased Bce that the designs are for 8, simple, but striking.
NEW SALADS AND SNACKS
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JE like to serve some thing festive for Sun. day night snacks, and on of our favourites is a mould- ed potuto saind,
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chop green popper, c. pineapple
almonds ant
Molsten ene French
dressing
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blanched My vote goes to 'Chequer. T cubbig board',
straight, slim- mixture with
fitting sweater with 21 Fill whate
chequerboard with the contrasting
plimientos (comed)
By HAZEL MEYRICK
The new look in rubberised rainwear...a rubber-backed tweed topcoat with a snug lining of quilted satin,
salad. Place ouch cup in a nest centre panel, and a match- of lettuce and decorate the tiping patterned stole. My buttons and cuddle-stitching, in weights at the moment, Are with mayonnaise,
Angel Parfait
To serve 8, chop the 6 buited potatoes, tbsp. onion aud cucumber. Mix together and dress with bolled dressing. Use Just cough to moisten slightly.
Hard-boll
To make 2 eggs, then slice them. Slice 3 unprejed radishes boil In thin round slees. Mix 1 pką. lemon-flavoured gelatine with 11⁄2 c, boling water. Cool.
Droprute bottom of an oblong bread pan with the sleed rud- Ishes and eggs. When the gela- tine is cool just cover the eggs and radishes with it. Chill until hardened, then place the polate sand on top of IL, Pour the rest of the goiatine over and return to refrigerator.
C.
colour choice for this pair- rayon barathes. Ascher's 'Wisteria'—a soft mauve-blue, with white.
A
Bri Angel Parfait, e. Super with 1/3 water until mixture spins thread. Pour in a thin, steady stream, beating constantly, over the whites of 3 stiffly beaten That vid friend, eggs. Beat until cool. Add 1 pt. borised raincoat is of stiffly beaten cream,
Freeze way backthe only topcoat for 3 hrs.
the rub- oni its
that can be guaranteed to guard Serve in sherbet glass with you in a downpour. tbsp. crushed sweetened berries In the bottom, ple on parfait, then top with more berries.
To servo
im-
The most practical all-pur- pose
of the lot is a coat straight-cut topper in charcoal grey wool with a rubber back- ing. Lined with carict satin, It also has
red half-lining of for fabric, is particularly good for cold-weather wear.
raincoals
particularly snug-free and hard wearing. But, they are coRI- siderably warmer to wear than nylons.
A new
has arrived, version
type of home periri
or rather
a new
of an old favourite All the Telemac
which comes in three strengths hand!
attractive hats to mich, gentle, regular- and super. varying from Dutch style bon The unpleasant smell of Designe have greatly i
nets to this season's favourite, monia has been completely proved, incidentally, since the the high-crowned cloche which eliminated from the waving Those who aren't calorie days when we sweltered in D not only keeps the rain from lotion and the end papers are When serving, unmould the watchers will delight in a supper
Hermetically-scalod ruberized ruining your hair, but looks treated with lanolin to stop salad in the centre of a large special such as toed chocolate. bent which stuck stiffly out emart as well.
your hair fuzzing. These two platter. Surround with slices of
in doublo from the shoulders. The new B, cook
factors, combined! with a new tongue and baked ham, Gurnish boiler, 1 qt. milit, pl. water tables are softer, more pliable, How to clean rubberised kind of eney-to-apply neutrali- with crip lettuce, pickled beets and c. bitter choclate, Add 2 come in more imaginative de- rainwart Dasy. If it is unlined ser, make home perming and ripe olives to make a pretty thep, sugor and flavour with tap. Signs
aigns they are
usually lined you can safely dip it in a bath worthwhile proposition. and palatable picture.
vanilla extract, Chili and serve too-10 avoid that unpleasant of mild detergent. If it has a sensation-and come lining, hang it up and sponge with swoolened, flavoured clammy
in a wankierful whipped cream on top.
range of rub it, O, it is very grubby, Those who are a little afraid, ber-backed materials, in bright champoo it with a nail brush. of this concoction might perfer colours. equal amounts ot food tea and Telemac make all varieties
leted the Cold Inled chicken with
chocolate mixed of the shirt-style raincoat in a spcelal salad such as stuffed together in equal quantities and series of fashion fabrics rang- pimiento, chutney, along with served with the whipped cream, ing from corded velvet, in popovers, and an angel parfait It is an interesting combina- pink, sky blur and scarlet,
licking-striped for dessert spell out a supreme tion, cxolle and different,
mayon. There supper special in our book!
-ALICE DENHOFF is a blazer coat too, with brass
North
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West
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We like to serve hot baking this and, powder bisculls with for dessert, fruit, either fresh or a fresh But compote. Supreme Supper
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TODAY'S QUESTION
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Answer Tomorrow
YOUR BIRTHDAY ··
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
By STELLA
BORN today. You have great power sor. You make a good committee the ability to get a lot of chairman or leader of an organiza- work done under pressure. The mere Bon,
you are pressed against a deadline
Since you have
BOYS'
AND GIRLS'
Hanid Writes A Poem
and
--It Tells All About the Little Green Fingers-
By MAX TRELL
16\\}] JELL," sald Hanid, 115 W Teddy the Stuffed Bear, Mary Jane, the Rag Doll, looked at her, "do you know what. I've just done?***
There are millions and millions Wherever you go.
In meadow and field and on
plain;
The winter wind blows them; They freeze with the brook, But they always keep growing
again.
"Now," said Hanid 40 Teddy Mary Jane, "Please give me the name of this poem if you
"I'vo just written a poem," and Mary Jane begged Hamid
Teddy and Mary Jane both Just asked her what she had the capacity for done. the more work you seem to be able meeting people costly you will have to do. When thuies are slack, you a host of friends. You are popular can be the laziest worker 10 the whorever you go. You have a loving she said. ofler, too! This alternating high and demonstrative nature and will and low pressure volume may uit be happleet if you wed as an early you tempermentally, but you might oge and have your own home and read it aloud. And the results more rewarding farally around you. You will enjoy were you to learn to spread out your entertaining in your own home arsă production effort over a more level always make a fine host or hoste and mestained plane.
Among those barts, on thin
Baldso
Two items of shopping news coming your way from London:
Terylene stockings have pr- rived in the shope, will be seen overseas very soon. Just like nylons in appearance, they are available only In heavier
MAGAZINE
"No," said. Hanid.. "We don't. But cows eat grass. And if they didn't have
grass to eat, would'nt have any milk, cheese, butter, cream, roast beef or ice
cream."
we
"My goodness!" exclaimed Teddy, "I never thought of that!"
"We wouldn't even have shoes, sald Hanid. "Because the hide of a cow matoes leather which is turned into shoes. And sheep eat grass, too. And it they didn't have grass to est, we have lamb chops or wouldn't woollen mittens or any kind of woollen clothes,"
Keep Off Sign
Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, and Mary Jane, the Rag Doll, who had never thought of grass much
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Do Your Eyes Behave?
By JEANNE D'ARCY
E used to know a girl.
Who apparently was
80 glad to see friends that her eyes would literally pop open wide as she gave them a happy hello,
It was on awful habit! Made her look positively idiotic.
But she's not the
we've
only one noticed doing peciliar, things with herreyes;)) (Thero are a number of women, who, have some pretty unbecoming "eye-deas."
Wo stw a girl in a restaurant the other day with an attractive mun, whom she evidently was: trying to impress. She'd pro-); bably read some place that a man likes nothing better than getting undivided attention. So, as he talket, she stared at him,
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Mary Jane guessed the proper "I'm very fond of poems," she name at once. She said it must. be Blades of Grass. Teddy
Teddy and Mary Jane.
Did she look interested? Not 1," spid Teddy, greed with that, too.
all That staring Look is Teddy wanted to know who completely date "especially poems that I've heard You are able to talk well before are: General John Pecating, USA; before. Like Jack and Jill and Hanid went on. "If it weren't in the country and keep off when millions of bindes of grass.
STKIE "Grass is a wonderful thing," except as something to play on planted all the millions and gives the face
animation, n dull, stony the public and can argue your point Maude Railington Booth and John Who Killed Cock Robin and-" effectively. You seem, to thrive on Scudder, reformers; Sherwood Ander
that one hundred This isn't a poem like my of for those little blades of grass, a sign told them to, now knew "Nobody did said Hand.ppearance.
eat." portant than they had ever"It just by myself."
said Hania,...
Then there are the squinters, what's it
about?" asked Teddy burst out in surprise: thought.
Hanid thanked them both for. You see them all year round; "But, Hanid, we don't eat. They both thanked 'Hanid for giving her the proper name for but even more so in summer,
her poem. For a moment, Hanid hesitated grass."
when strong sunlight moltes them peer at the world,
navity, and back once all do any other gly am when a perfect that exist Band, it made ti fardly have enough to us, we'd thrt tress was much more in- when how does it snow/a per cent locks appeal.
are one of those who will better artist: Willam Henry Rinehart,
In an urban setting thin, con- sculptor; and Dr Walter Reed, noted
try place. When your environment physician.
up
is a relaxing one," you are apt to
To find what to stars have in Teddy relax! But when there is tension, excitement and speed-up, you put on store for you tomorrow, select your the pressure and work very hard, birthday star and indeed.
You are a fine protagonist ponding paragraph. Let your birth- before she answered: "It's about for any cause which you may pon day star be your daily guide.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
24-Sept.' 23)
read the corres-
Vindo (Aug.
PISCES creb. 20-Mar. 21)-- A Bne day for business, If Job You can press forward on both hunting, and exactly what you want, personal and business, affairs to reach A promotion for the employed ix in a new high of attainment.. prospect,
ARIER (Mar. 22-Apr; 20).m
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a lot of things, Teddy. But they're all the same things."
Teddy looked puzzled. Mary Jane frowned. Hanld smiled.
Little Things "Yes," she said, "there are
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effect it show progress, Make up for any should be able to Time lost recently, too,
peditiously now,
haps I'd better read the poem. TAUNUS (Apr.
11-May
Then you'll see what I mean. 24-Nov. 22)...........
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