This Funny World
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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDÁY, JULY 22, · 1957.
JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
South Talked. Once
Too Often
By OSWALD JACOBY
WEST was mighty unkind. te Wepened the seven of clubs
uguinat. the three no-trump von- tinet, East and West made six club tricks and two spedes and picked up 400 charity points.
Ho
South was indignant. blamed North billerly and said. "If you had to det:ble WILA pingleton club why did you ever Tnure me to three in-truhip? When I bld Two ba-trump
you have bit couldn't hearts would inve rnized you. to four and we would have made our game?"
three
North was cut as voelterÐUR IN South but he felt Unt South was
at fault and appealed to me to assess the blame.
My answer is that South is entirely at fault, South's initial response to the double was rea- monable but he had absolutely no axquie
for his second bid.
WEST (D}
AAQB43
32
102 AQET
NORTH AJO
30
AKQ9
◆ KQJ983
10
EAST *485
J 108 074
KD5432
SOUTH AK 1072
9754
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affe
Both vulnerable
West
North L
Bouth
14
Double Pa
1 N.T.
Pass
2+
Pacs
3 N.T.
Foxs Pass
2 N.T.
Pass
Pass
Opening lend-♣7
Over two diamonds South should havo bid twen hearts. not two no-trump. This would WhoW exactly what he had. A fair hard with Your little hearts,
North would have jumped to four hearts and voless We come up with the lead of a low club South would have made five edd.
*It isn't that I object to getting married, Joan ... but the wed
ding and honeymoon would use up all my vacation!"
YOUR BIRTHDAY
By STELLA
artistic - you may Got always be perfectly understood, Your good days are Thursdays 1od the last week of cath November should far especially 1011wapte for you.'
MONDAY, JULY 22 PORN today, ou are one of those strong, intrepid souls whose conformity to duly is un- disputed. Apparently calm and retene under el ekteur Lives, you are the one upon whom all others call in times of trouble or crisis. You are em stently peneli- cal and have tremendous energy, You are essentially a builder, and
You women are me emotion- t and will find that womance plays an importent part a you life. You will be happiest if you
your outl
to care
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บน tuke the constructive wed while quite young and have atitude i everythin You family of criticise only if you have some- for. thing better to suggest,
Among these bo You are also emotional and moody. You have orary, date were: Ovid, Komai poel; F. musical and dramalie talent, but . Cushing, noted etiologist; that you will Stephan Vicent Benel, author It is tot certai develop these latent gifts to a fad port: Thomas W. Harvey, port of professionalism, Rather, venter; and Heku Fergusit con will enjoy these arts. Ap- actress. Preciulku, rather thin creative effort, is likely to be your nude of expression.
To floud what the stars havè in store for you tomorNEW, select your birthday star and read the Beenuse of this conflict i correspondag paragraph. Let temperament-un jenter strugule your birthday star be your daily between the practiest and the guide.
TUESDAY, JULY 23
CANCER (June 22-July 23)- You should proth bday from Finally, South's analysis
WES yesterday's careful and constru- as bad as his bid-tive parag. See that you do! just about ding. If North had become de-
LEO (July 34-Aug. 23- clarer, of heaply East would have| Aspects are right for just about opened the eight of spades, West
anything you intend to do today, would have cashed two spade
A wonderful tricks and the nce of clubs and
vacation! led third space. This would establish a trump telek for East and beat the hand one trick,
V+CARD Sense.
Q-The bidding has beent North
South
East
1.
Pass
14
Pass 3.
Werl Pass Pass
Pass AN.T. Pass
Pass
?
You, South, hold: 4876 KJ85 OKD54 4A2
What do you do?
A-Bid Ova no-trump. If your partner shows both kings you will bid razen diamonda; other- wise you caù slop at xix.
West
TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding has been: North East South 14 Pass
You, South, hold: 4596 VKG5 SA108 AK 10 B7
What do you do?
?
Answer Tomorrow
CHESS
By LEONARD BARDEN
22
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VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)— Promote your interests; advertise what you have to sell! This can be productive time for all your efforts.
LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)- pur- Cultural and intellectual suils e especially favoured at this time. A keng journey may prove profitable.
SCORPIO (Ori. 24-Nov. 22)-
A visit to relatives muy prove the high point of this day for Perhaps it is a family you. celebration.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-1}cc.
↑ 22)—If others use us co-operative as you are in a project of mutual interest hen the results should be fine.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan,
WOMANSENSE
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Praner-Prose,
Marshmallow Treats
By IDA BAILEY ALLEN
44 MARSHMALLOWS in bo-
"MThailand are
coming a gourmet food with the charming name 'moon cakes," remarked the Chef. They are enjoyed with ten or wine.
"It is "interesting to Hote Madane," he continued, "thai marshmallows went to Thailand Through your recipe.
"You remember tini a delight- ful Thai lady found the recipe in one of your cookbooks. Be- couse her friends liked them to intuch, the learned, with your help, to make marshmallows for sale."
"Anti, Chef,” I replied, "whra we returned from our recent tour I found a package from Thai- land, containing a gift of thanks from our friend. It was an an clent ceramic culled "The Reclin- ing Buddha. The sleeping, pro-
robed phet is gracefully
ກາ wears a gold cap on his heud.”
All Measurements Are Lestel
C
MARSHMALLOWS can be conted with a cornstarch-sugar mix, with chocolate-conkle crumbe 'or toasted shredded
coconuts.
Sift together 6 tbsp, each of crushed chocolate cookie crumbs confceLioner's sugar and corn- instead of coconut.
16" pan, Turn in the marsh. starch. Use, part to coat a 7′′x11'- allow mixture: smooth the top
Marshmallows Special: In a double boiler top, mix i envelope indavoured gelain and with a knife. sago. Add 1/4 c. water. Place
ever bolling water; revasionally unti the gelath dissolves.
Cool about 1 lr,
or unul firm enough to dent. Do not refrigerate,
To loosen from the pan, run a Pour 2/3 e, light com syrup knife around the edges. Dust the and 1. lep, pure vanilla extract remaining cornstarch-sugar mix Into the large bowl of na electric on a cookie sheet, On It turn nulxer; add the gelatin. Best 15 out the marshmallow. In one 171171 on high speed, or until of plece. a soft marshmallow consistency,
Helpful Hints For The Homemaker
1. Brend which has become lity can be cut into small pleers and dried out in the vych, These any зhen ize crushed and stored. Thes erumbs are very handy for meat and vegetable Allings for springllog over vegetables.
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extení upon the plans you made yesterday, Carly them out to the letter.
ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20)- You shoull be able to attain the 200 for which you have beenj Concentrate living. perlant matters exclusively,
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)- Clear sailing ahead, provided only that you used your best Julgrant in a decision yester- day.
int-
GEMINI (May 22-June 21) Your own efforts are the key to If the degree of your success. opportunity knocks, be ready to
wer immediately.
To reiluft old feather cushions that have jost their softness, undo just a small plece of one of the seams of the cover and inte thila insert the tube of a bicycle pump and pump. 3. Paint a
ring of luminous paint
around the electric Tight switch, is then quita easily seen in the dark and zaves
the ingermarks on wall
BOYS AND
By HILLARY WENTWORTH
4. Dou'l wash wooden table
ware in the ordinary way! wine the dish or bowl after using and give un pecasional polish with olive oil.
and polish with furniture cream, It is then a plensure to draw the curtains.
Dinner
Tossed Salad Ravigote Chleken en Casserole Flaky Rico Asparagus-en-Toust Strawberry and Fresh Cream Hot or Iced Coffee or Teu Milk or Buttermilk
Tossed Salad Ravigots: In a salad bowl, combine 1 medium head crisp lettuce, shredded and washed,
thin half-slices Cut into cubes with a sharp cucumber, 1 c. well-drained knife dipped in cold water. Roll inned bean, sprouls and 1 diced the marshmallows in the corn- fresh temata. Tos In 1 recipe | starch-sugar mix to coat all ravigote sauce mixed with 14
over. Stand at room tempera- tbsp, soy sauce. ture 1 hr. butoro ́using. Makes about 6 doz.
Coconut Marshmallows: Pro- Lend us above with this exception
Chop and oven-toast 3 shreckied coconut.
Lightly butter the marshinal- tow pan: line with e. of the co. conui, Spread in the marshmal tow mixture; cool until firm.
Spread the remaining coconut
0. Smells and grire may be dispelled, from the dustbla 5. To bleach luce which is still
by buning newspaper after it has been emptied. strong but is yellowed try boiling in soapy water to 10. When
• stroking anything on a cuokle sheet or board. Turn which you have added some
through muslin, clip the out the marshmallow; bornx; silffen it with some
cloth
10 the starch before
rim of the cubes; coat with the remaining gum arabic
iccriving bowl with spring coconut, drying,
clothes pegs to leave the hands free.
6. Edemic) ware that has
become discoloured can be 11. Wash cleaned with a paste made
of coarse salt and vinegar.
picture 12.
7. Onlon water is an excellen!
cleaner for gilt frames.
8. When heuse cleaning wosh the wooden curtain rods
poulity thoroughly inside and out, dry well, and store in a cold place until time to cook. Use up old rough towels by quilling two or three of them together, Into a bath mat,
AND GIRLS'
GIRLS' MAGAZINE
20)-Alake the most of your job Merlin's Bubble Trick
and see if you cannot improve its productivity. Amticipate highes profits, too.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb, 19). You may be a little more ad- venturesome than usual today ang make progress. Be alert to opportunity.
'PISCES (F.b. 20-Mar. 20)- Today's progress depends to some
CROSSWORD
Across
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for dremra, (4-5).
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a clown. (4-5)
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country. (3)
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hould
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He Blew Most Unusual Shapes for The Shadows→
By MAX TRELL
HANID, the Shadow Girl, had
self as he started to blow The pipe.
on
The first bubble that came been blowing soap bubbles out was big and round with four for about half an hour. Her legs, a tail, two enormous cars, brother Knart stood in front of a pair of teks and a trunk, her. Sometimes he chased the bubbles ceress the garden. But mast of the time, he just watch- ed them go Boating by with the Sun listening on their sides.
"They all have windows in them!" he said to Hunid after a while.
It's an elephant!" should Kaart.
The
bubble twent floating neross the garden. Knari went chasing after it. It hit a sun- dower and burst.
"Never mind," said Mr Mer- **They're not real windows," lin. " blow trother one."
scid Hamid.
Little Houses
"Maybe they are," said Knar?.. "Maybe bubbles are like le houses.
"I'm sure they aren't,"
Harid.
said
Just then, Air Merlin, the Magnificent Magician,, came elong.
"Ah, my deara," he said, "I see you're blowing bubbles."
He sat down beelde Hanid. | Knart sat himself dawn, fou.
said "Years and years"ngo,”
Mr Meriln, "I used to blow very handsome bubbles,"
"Better ones than these?" ask- ed land.
"Well," said Mr Merlin, "I wouldn't like to go so far as to the say they were better than (bubbles you are blowing. But they had adder shapes. Here, Just let me show you," he said. "Would you mind lending me that pipe for a few minutes?"
Hand gave Mr Merlin soap bubble pipe. Hò dipped it in the water.
Yesterday's valuća.
the
"I hope I can remember how I did it," Knarf and Hanid heard, him murmuring to him-
But Mr Merlin was already blowing a third bubble. This ene wus shoped he an enezmous egg. except that it had a tall, two eyes, scales, and was golden colour.
Knart and Hanld both shoul- ed: "It's a goldfish!"
The goldfish swam ccross the Carden and disappeared in the direction of the lake other side of the hill,
Lady In White
DAT
the
After this, Mr Merlin blew a frog, a policeman, a ballcon, an veroplane and, finally, a castle with spires and towers and turrels and Ange.
13 M
An elephant shape tase up from Merlin's hubble pipe.
to blow my kind of bubbles."
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Sauce From the Chof
French raucs
Havigote means
classic
containing · green herbs and usually served cold. The name comes from the vers "Tavigeter." to revive. I use this Sauce with fish and shellßsh; ales, bland salads that need a that, fragrant dressing,
Navigote Sauet: Mix together 3 tban, vinegar, 4 tbsp. olive or cut in alad oil, 139 tisp, minced seal-
long, 1 tbsp, table mustard, isp, sult, tsp. ground block pepper, 1 tbsp. minced parsley.. Chocolate - Cookie-Coated and 1 tsp. fine-minced basil or Marshmallows; Use 3 e no- fresh'dili,
GRANDPARENTS EXPECTANT
By W. W. BAUER, M.D. ONE of life's greatest with the parents is the sensible
pleasures is awaiting colution. the arrival of a new grand to realise that time has elapsed Grandparèhts 'expeétant need child, especially the first, since they were parents them- It's next best to having selves. It may seem only yester- your own. But it involves day that the, young mother wan some problems, too, which a girl, or the father a boy. But time enough bas elapsed for had better be faced in an many changes in Ideas about ticipation, before needless baby feeding, baby training and similar mollers. Why, even childbirth isn't what it used to
errors occur.
First of all, the news of the be blessed event underlines the fact
'The young mother is going to that you are growing older. The have a lot easier and safer time shock is greatest with the first then did her mother, and she is grandchild. You soon get used going to have a happier, more
3 comfortable pregnancy, to it, but it certainly does
She is tablish the fact that you
with are going to be doing things, now among the "old folks." The her doctor's full approval, that compensation lles in the fact "grandma would
to
never
have
that in a sense, life now begins done whic carrying her all over for you, Your daugh- children. And she is not going ter is to be a mather; your son to do a great many of the things a father, You are an ancestor, that grandmother used to do no less, And 'so you swell out faithfully. Grandma had better "Just look at all these win-
your chest,
remember who is having the dows!" erled Knurf, "Docs aty. how
baby, and remain discreetly one really live inside?"
And of course you want
silent, no matter what she ta tell everybody about it.
Do thinking. Just as Knart said this, be However much Knarf and careful. Maybe the young par- saw one of the windows open. A Hanid begged him, Mr Merlin enta want to do their own lady dressed all in white with refused to tell them how he telling, in their own way, at golden hair locked out and blew his strange and beautiful their own selected time, and to This time Hanid shouted. "It's waved to him.
bubbles.. u motor-czy".
their own selected prople.
Ha a good idea. for parents baby--only your to keep hands off a young marri-
That's
The second bubble that came out of Mr Merlin's pipe had four wheels, two śrala and mucier,
ຕ
Khart and Honid chased the car
over es It foaled
the garden wall.. They heard it bursting on the other side.
remember?
· NEW FACTOR
..
Then the whole castle rose I just a little trick cf isn't your "I want a ride in it" cried straight up into the sunshine and mine," he said. "I can't explain grandchild, Keart,
became a speck.
an what you'd better remember, ell ge at any stage, but when a 8. I just decide to blow
if you don't new baby is expected, and for a elephant era frog or a castle the way through, "Well, that's it," said Mr and cut they come.
It's just a want to stir up troubled rela- while after the arrival, the marriage situation is patieizer- Merlin, as he handed back trick. Anybody can do it." tionships in the family.
ly precarious. A new factor has Honld's reap bubble pipe. “I And away he went, chuckling
entered into the relationship of guess 1 really haven't forgotten to himself.
CURB ENTHUSIASM
the young couple, and they need to be let alone to work it out, Helpful, watchful, tactful, and Your second Impute, crowding unobtrusive readiness to be of hard on the heels of the wish to assistance when wanted, is the tell the world, is to give the cat posturo
expectant, baby something. do something grandparents. The young couple for the baby. Well, that's OR.will ask for help if they want of the things grandparents art, and when they ask, the way for-but be careful again. decision as to what
Rupert and the Old Hat-20
Rupert waits for a long time and is just thinking of climbing down when he is startled by *sharp voice behind him." Well, and what are you doing up here ? A bright coloured bird is staring at him indignantly. We don't Want strangers here. I'm just
building my neat."
• Oh, pleas, it's about, the cuckoo," 1175 Rupert. "Are you really going to prevent it from coming ? **** What impuilenes |" says the bird.
·" That's absolutely no business of yours! It's our affair, so be off with you | Get our i (ALE MIGRTÀ, RELNÁFED
Just arrived-
RUPERT
for
Lei
is cleared.. But uni hey do you hands off...
SPRING ADVENTURES shall give be made by the young
2 Exciting Now: Stories In full colour
Rupert and the
Rope Trick Rupert and the
Lonely Cottaga
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parents rather than by yourself,
The peace of mind and tran- They have a well-thought-out quality of young puren's' is im plan for the baby's life and his portant to the young mother needs. An ill-considered gift can and her coming baby, Grand- upset such plans, Since the gift parents can do much to make comes from grandma or grandpa or mer this phase of the pre- er beth, it cannot be diecrectly gnancy, If you have werries, put cut et sight, or maybe sent, keep them to yourself. If you as a gift to another new baby have suggestions, broach "them de thousand miles away. Baby, tentatively, at appropriate times, can't use two bath-tubs on baby and don't make an ile of them. carriages; the clothing you pick --Don't woITY about young may not sult the plan of the parente; pbabetler,san, Improved Jayette. This in no time for wirin alt la branches, even to the prison. A cheque, or the #glocovanotic Fooding of the ex
ion of a girelin' [consultations, pectant falters