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This Funny World
RIDGEWAY
McNaught Syndicate, Inc.- American Legion Magazine
"You will find your pay envelope a little heavier this week. The company bought a better grade of envelopes"
THE
BY. THE. WAY.
by Beachcomber
E complubt that strange noises are lang beard in a Government department should be investigate at once,
It
There may be footprints. may be the Abominable Yesmen Juga in TOMORROW: The Watton Test for Telling Chalk from Chrese is discumed by the head chef at a West End umbrella stop.
Stop this dawdling
THE obvious pressing need fou д new water-speed record to stop all this loitering about at 230 untles on hour, raises a question which 1 studled with
tiles, until it is moved out in VIDA TO FL destination, ench van beinst toaded with its com- plement of varnish by
The puckers. Tomorrow I shall de scribe the internal organisation and administration of a typleal varnish warehouse Getting nowhere
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1957, 7
JACOBY ON BRIDGE
South Ducks; Upsets Foes
By OSWALD JACOBY
Wo
In
WHEN West opened' the nine
elinmonda,
today's hand, it was clear that East had lou diamonds headed by the king-queen, West's lead Wis surely top of a doubleton.
Declarer played the ten from the dummy and allowed East to holti
the the first trick with queen of diamonds. This was a key play
East couldn't afford to load another diamond, for' South would let it ride around to dum- my's jack. Enst hit on the best retum, a trump.
South stepped up with the nce of trumps, his best play, and led his singleton spade toward | dumny. West put up the ace at onee and led bis remaining dla-
NORTHI
KQJ7 10543
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EAST
1042 ❤ 8
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WOMANSENSE
This full skirted spring dress is in a very light weight yellow woollen fabric resembling a fine irregular tolle. The roited collar and crossed belt in sett-tabrto add originality to the gathered lop with short sleeves. Front Jacques Divoy.
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the
Neither side vul.
South 1❤ 2❤
West North Éant
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Pass
Pess
Pass
Pass
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Poss Pass
Pass
Opening teadm◆ B
The
mand, but school was out, South could win with the ace of dla-
unt set meet Atters who set out to meet each One starts from Roms- ther gate, the other from Cleethorpes, but
cach
wrong takes the
arrives
at RIKE
wut the other at
a plan has
one
frantic interest, byer who
At what point will the skin- Ining of the surface of a lake и, вау, 1,300 miles an hour, become flying, under the rules for of EMSOU? If the surface is
14
Ailing
The Ramsgate man
In wells.
touched every now and then by fores man saves a fireman i monds. enter dummy with the
the boat will that satisfy local pride?
Industrial Snapshots (1)
LIFE IN A VARNISH WAREHOUSE by
Laetitia Rickihorpe,
[OBODY who has not experi- enced life in one of these warehouses can loow what
actly It Is like. Here the varnish is stored in large quion-
CROSSWORD
Across
Class i beg (anag.),
(D, 4)
6. Invartble from, the surface of
Roma. (B)
2. Laid out without help | (9).
10. 356 valley goes dowɑ
04. (D)
11. Educated.
(8)
13. Afinus Mrs. Mopp ? (8)
to the
19. Twin onzas are novolettish eynn.
17. Old game for Mr. Baker in the
(4)
Panting animal,
tube, (a),
18. Scandinavian.
(4)
(0)
20. Mother'a not out, (4),
21 It's a Welsh symbol, (4)
31. It goes with "shainpoo, often
enough. 13).
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people. 14-51
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3. Nole. (9)
4. He's learning nii the time, (7)
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might say,
(5)
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you corner
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(3-0)
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dose
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CHESS
by LEONARD BARDEN
A problem by A. Dossenbach (U.S.A., 1921), White mates, in two.
Solution to Vesterday's problem:
1 PKB4, D-03; 2 P-KI, -Bich; 3 K-RI, Ki-Ku; 4
and discard the ace of clubs. losing diamond on a high spade, one diamond, South Jost only
one spade, and one trump.
folling into a sand quarry, The whole thing is an allegory of the futility of trying to get to any definite place, and the cilmax comes when an old cook
There would be a different reading in who is
11 ditch, story to tell it South won the reveals
the fact that the two first trick with the ace of din-
to meet men who had hoped
take the West would monds, botween Ramsgate and
first spade with the ace and lead Cleethorpes had forgotten to his other diamond, allowing And out each other's name.
East to take two diamond tricks. West would eventually take the
TARGET
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How many
four
wards At lettern
or more con you make from
the
letters in the e un
center
the teft F15 making each the word. letters 11 cach of the amall squares may be used once only. Each word must contain the large etter in the square, and there must be AT lears une nie-letter word in the Js No plurala: po foreign worde Do proper names. TODAY'A TABLET 1 21 words, good? 27 words, very good; 33 words, excellent. Bolution
Colorrow.
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ing DONATION (t.e., relationship
senstian setina, CONTADION confance HOUSE Kein eight tr
retina
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len inget foil* riation niten mothe
Kun fine lanina tante fan
selling trick with the king of
{hearts.
♥CARD Sense♣♦
The bidding has been: North East South West 1 Diamond Pass 1 Heart Pass 2 N.T.
Poss ? You, South, hold: 4AJ3 KQJ6 ◆K2 AKQ10 3
What do you do?
A----Bid seven no-trump. Since North shows 19 to 21 points, the combined count must be 38 to 40 polnis. The opponents have at most a queen or a couple of jacks between them.
TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You, South, hold:
482 KQJ10742 463 405
What do you do?
Answer, Tomorrow
YOUR BIRTHDAY
་་་
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21
under
THE duality in the sig
which you were born neems to come out to such a degrea that you are a rather dificult person to At times, you appear understand.
plen- to be glity, frivolous and nure-seeking. At other moments, you are deadly serious and seem to have too life patience with those as aludious who are not equally and as dedicated to some idealistic abijective as you,
By STELLA
from false. This talent would make you a good critic of the creative artw. for you at only recognise something good but you know why 11 s good,
You have deep emotions and ore demonstrative in showing them. You could fall in love at first sight and Ind great happiness in such a marriage. In turn, however, you demand the same devotion, loyalty and Adellty that you are prepared to offer.
"I
T
Children Will Like These "Milky Way" Favourites
to
By Ida Bailey Allen
these popular "milky T is always interesting Try
food way favourites next time your notice, the
small children are picky about people order in a restaurant, food, Often I can prophesy what Frosted Float;
In a blender, will be on the plate by combine 0 . chilled milk and merely, looking at the per- drained from
C% 13
fresh
fruit syrup frozen or tinned frults. Buzz 1 min
son.
Hamburger; Mix 1 Mila, ground sound of beef j; isp. salt, 4 tsp. pepper, 1 tsp. Worcester. shire and 4 tsp. thyme, poultry sensening or powdered ginger it desired. Mix willl very smoodi, Form Intó, & lurge, round 'pat= ties. Brush all over,with plenty
A fatty is, almost certain to Put
2 recops lee cream (any of mulled butter, Slow-grill 16 order frled food, potatoes or flavour) in a tall glass. Pour in min, or until done. Baste onco |apaghetti and salad with mayon, the blended milk.
with melted butter. naise at a single meal. She will Ezg-Nog Mlk Shake: In o eat too much bread,
top the blender, combine 0 az, chilled
Three minutes before they will
sundae and, milk, raw #R, 11⁄2 oz, fresh be done, top each patty with a
drained thin live of syrup or syrup
meal off with 1 finally. as à sop to her con- fruit Relence, virtuously drop
ke cream, Blend 2
grilling.
substitute tablet into her see from frozen or tuned fruit and and a slice
1 senop A thla person, needing to min. build up, usually orders meat and vegetables,
bread passes up Innd buffer, ents fruls for dessert
and avoids milk.
Of these two dictary extremes, the latter is the more healthful.
Children will beg for aweet foods. But on our visits to some restaurants, We found some Intelligent mothers tactfully sub- stituting a mulik drink,
which combine all the food elements needed for a meal except bulk. Others overcame this problem by pouring part of the mile drink over a bowl of cornflakes at ordering a peanut buffer sand- wich for the youngsters to eat along with it.
there
without fashion
civilisation”
is
Paris,
no
mild-mannered
Mexico.
euture, there would be no opened local Dior branches in
England, Australia, Canado, THANK providence fashion industry."
and "And without fashion, there Chile, Cuba, Venezuela for having reserved is no civilisation."
The Dior salon in New York me a privileged place in the The
but sells ready-to-wear creations world," said "look" dictator powerful dictator said that "the for made-to-measure prices Christian Dior, when cele- wholesale manufacturers are $105 $995. The "master" en the designa these himself, but 10th anniver- completely dependant brating the sary of his rise
experiments in adjusts them to Yankee needs. to haute couture dressmaking fame the other fashion. We are an indispens- And anyone who can afford
rible
laboratory,"
can buy pay $69.50, the most successful authorised replica carrying the By for day.
dressmaker
wield a magle Dlor nome and Paris needle and thread, Dlor con- touch.
to being fessed
"obsessed by dresses,"
an
life"
nerous
con-
to ever
LUCKY COMBINATION
to
an
*revolutionary" Despite the lines of his styles, Dior con- siders them to be "logical evolutions" from the previous
"Of course. there are Some inconveniences in being in such envied position, a to do one's job, is the best thing in the plump dressmaker said in an exclusive interview.
Master of a luxury empire
"But I am an authentic collections. stretching
four
But he says "fashion is not tinents,
Dior Norman (his native region) and the 52-year-old dresses the carriage trade from never forget the business sile always logical, because women dress to attract and please, They the skin on out, and from hat < fashion."
combination has don't wont to dress always in This lucky to shoes.
fashion <nabled Dior to rise from selling the same styles, so
their sketches to
กะ ล $2.50
result of imposing changes $2,400 gowns on his mink- impulsive reflexes. swathed customers.
Judge these Being able to He grosses in the neighbour- reflexes has assured the dress-
of a maker
rumoured $75,000 hood of $7,000,000 a year.
and three He feels that his fashion income,
houses, in Riviera and a Asked what he thought of the house "started a world move- Paris, on the
But for week-end hide-a-way mill neur reputedly shaky future of the ment toward Paris"
to take their the elly.United Press. fashion business, he replied, those unable "without the Paris haute money out of the country, he
-BARBARA MILLER
bis bi-annual According to whims, hemlines drop to the anitles, or soar up to the knees, Bosoms fall at or expand us world-wide manufactureta obey his dictates,
BOYS' AND GIRLS'
No Circus For Mary Jane
-That's What She Thought Till Knark Got an Idea-
By MAX TRELL and General Tin and Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, and Mr Canary MARY JANE, the Rag Doll, and Mrs Cuckoo, and they all fumbled down a flight said in a loud chorus: of stairs and wasn't feeling any see, Mary Janel We'll bring the
clrcus here!" ino good,
Mr Punch said she had to stay in bed until she felt better.
General Tin, the tin soldier, said that no one who had tum- bled down a flight of stairs could hope to walk around again until all the aches and pains went
nway.
"But I miss the circus," wailed Mary Jane, "The circus is coming la town and I won't be able to go,”
DINNER Frull Cup Hamburgers
with Grilled Cheese and Bacon on Buns Tomato-Lettuce Salad Orange Sherbet Coffee Ten All Arcanurements Are Lovel
Milk
Cheddar chçeso of bacon. Finish
Servo very hot; each on a toasted bun, Garnish of lettuce, pickles and watercress. Servos 8.
TRICK OF THE CHEF
Serve tomato and lettuce salad with French draising, parked with pickled onions,
This new creation from Matti worn here by Barbara Miura is in navy blue wool. It has a pencil-slim skirt and fitted bodies, topped with a low round neckline and cap Kleeves. The draping on the skirt gives a boll effect, Arence France-Presse.
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and
rode barebacic on six white mice, and trambled, somersaulted as they rodel
The third were the Juggling Beeties. They balanced blades of grass on the ends of their noses.
The fourth were the Jumping "You'll Grasshoppers and Hopping Toad. They jumped over each other's backs, and twirled in the alp-flops so fast nir, and did
Jane almost grow that Mary dizzy watching them.
Sho had nover sein such acrobatsi Nelthor wonderful had anyone else in the playroomi
"Right here in this room?" gasped Mary Jane.
"Yes, right here in this room. Mary
Jano didn't
really
believe it could ever happen that way.
But it did!
Knarf ran outside. He came back a few minutes later with a whole circus!
Playroom Circus
"But where are the clowns?" asked Mary Jane. "I'd love to see some clowns!"
"There's only going to be one clown," said Knärt.
12-4
Toad and Grasshopper jumped over each other's back.
The truth is, of course, that you have two sides to your nature
on this date Among those barn which, when welded, make for a
Then Knarf made Teddy, the turvy clown than Toddy, the Newman. noted strong and commanding personality. were: Cardinal
These were the performers in Stuffed Bear, put flour on his Stuffed Bear, was never seen in and
Leonard Your Individuality
magnetic churchman:
Merrick, author: charm make you a natural leader
Voltaire. philosopher;
face, and get into one of Mr any circusl Matthews,
Khart's playroom circus, educator: in thought as well as in action and Brander
Scribner. publisher: you are apt to become an important Charles
Hochester, which Nathaniel
planter: fluence upon the era in yout live. This can occur, of course, George L. Tracy, composer: Alice your talents E. Palmer, educator; and Arline only if you develop to the utmost. For even genius, if Judge, actress. undeveloped, may lie fallow.
Your reasoning powers are excep. dional and you are able to rational- ise whatever comes to your Alten- tion, You are quick to know true
PISCES
To find what the stars have in sire for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corres sponding
paragraph. Lat
your birthday star be your daily gulde.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22
help
Give
(Feb. 20-Mar 203- Four
advico, and A business trip, begun today, shoul graciously. prove highly successful, Combine it YIRGO" (Aug. 24-Sept. 2) with pleasure if you wish.
Should you have a legal inatter to settle, it is the day lo qu into ANIKя (MAT. 21-Apr. 20)-il and what you want, Property tontters, even if they have LUFTA Cept. 21-Oct. been to involved for comfort, may The signs are in yoise favour for now be clarified to your advantage, the edimpletion of "come important
TAURUS
(Apr. 21-MAY It). Financial affairs can be settled you wish them to be, Act to your. persorial advantage,
piece of work.
Knart and Hanid the shadow children with the turned-about names, nald that the circus had already arrived.
Oponing Today
The first were the Wonderful Pinch's big baggy suits. And Mary Jane had such a wonder- Spiders. They walked the when Mary Jane anu how funny ful time at the homemade circus, tightrope from one corner of the Teddy looked as he went tum that she felt better almost be celing to the other. Mary Jane bling and tripping all around the fore It was over. By the next chouted with joy.
playroom, she burst out laughing morning she was as good as "I's opening this afternoon,"
For a new pain, even though a ra The second were the Mar- at the top of her voice. Hanid said.
"But how can I go if I have vellous Trained Fiess. They funnier, merrier, more lopty doll never looks very new. to stay in bed?" said Mary Jane. -------
General Tin said: "You can't," Mr Punch said: There's nothing to be done about it."
Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, and Whon, the Hobby Horse, and Mr Canary and Mrs Cuckoo, who lived inside the cuckoo clock, all sold the same thing.
"O....Ohr" sald Mary Jane. It was then that Knärt sud- RCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)-denly got an idea, One of those busy days when "Mary Jane," kald
Knari everything seems to pile up for
stamling in front of her and decision and then action, Keep smiling.
"If you can't go to the circus, we're going to bring the circus here to you"
OEMINI {May 12.June #1)- calm. Prestige and personal popularity long wallet should" bring you,
making this your banner Success,
༔ - ;
day.
CANCER (June 22-July 21) Take care today that you do not
tion into an argument, ärises, postpone ovitement of contract.
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__BAOITTANIUB (Nov. 21-Dec. 221- Stick to facts and see that essential matters are handled „wieży, Don't
"B-but-but...how can you waste motions.
CAPRICORN (Dec, 23-Jan. 20)—do a thing like that? Mary
If to promotion, or advertising, a | Jono anid, her eyes opening wido new iden shotild, develop well”, for
In astonishment ( as shoebutions In the air. you. Romance is also
often do when no one is looking.) AQUARIUS (Tan, którah. – 18)--- "You'll ice," anlık Knart: LEO (July 24-Aug. |13)—. Plan ahead for the future, but be Pay close attention to. children's sure you take care of today inlb affaire. Home teenager, may need something already begun.
*!. Then Kharf whlapered some. thing to Hanid, and My Punch
Rupert and the Windy Day-24
When his eyes wet used to the that's "amazing)", says ' Rupert. dim light Rupert sees that there" Fancy a baby falling on to these in space at the bottom of the hard stones and still keeping. hols leading to one side. Ha erayin cheerful 1. You, mum be as tỢURĂ. into it and there before him is the e-Edward.". He pulls him back missing baby elephant. To his to the bottom of the hole and selonithment Pompey welcoming, then tries to it, bằng: ““Oh, my, him with a happy, ande, in Wall! you're heavy lệ Babies,
Another Rupert Adventure-
RUPERT
and the
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$1.00
AT S. C. M. POST LTD.
How experts make this popular dish
London. WHAT is the fashionable dlah W the moment, the dia
all the smart restaurants are serving, the dish all the pretty ladies are losing the figures for, the dish you offer foreign visitors as a national Creaturé? Steak and kidney: pudding As a keen fancier of this fine old English food I have been asking the experts how they make it.
The Caprice make it succulent 'with red wine.
The Ritz add Worcester sauce (a heresy?), use best lamb's kidney.
The Cheshire, Chinese cook it at great length-seven. hours, In
They do not. line- the steumer. the pudding basin, but give' a light roof of nuet paste.
Keltner savour it with herbs (parsley, bayleaf thymne).
Simpsons cook it with oysters,
As an English slenk-kidney- recently and-oyster -- pudding won a big world cookorý prize, theirs is the recipe I give,
'
You want 2ib, beefsteak, 44b. kidney, lb. mushrooms, B oysters, one chopped onion, ilb. ruot paste, wall, ground black pepper. Cut the steak into thin allces” about three inches long. Cut up the kidney, mushroom, and onion and mix witİLƏ DAM pepper, and a very litle flbum. Spread and line · basin with half the paste. Put in the meas, add oysters and cover with water. Roll out the rest of t
the paste, cover the basin.
Tja over with 'a, senided" and floured cloth Boll for threa and a half, hdsarma Laks
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