JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Deep Thought Wins For West
Br OSWALD JACOBY
TAKE a look at the bidding
and the West and North havuds only. Your opening lead of the apado king is taken by dummy's ace and the jack is shot back at you. Of course, you win with tho que but what is your next playf
Your first thought in to leadi the abe and another hear! in or- der to stop a potential spade ruff, and most good players would do that 'very thing.
Harold Ogust of
New York
who mi, West thought a te further and decided that if South
AD
43752
NORTH AJ
10
❤Q7
J 1004
10004
WEST @KQ 1094
BAST
49763
AD
304
8732
653
SOUTH (D)
42
109692
25
JAKQ
Both vulnerable
Bouth
West North
East
14 2.
Рабт
2
Pass
3
Pans
40 Pass
Par
PASE
Opening lead-◆K
hc
really wanted a sprde rul would have ducked the opening lead. So Harold simply let the deuce of clubs and waited to see what would happen,
Now take a look at the South hand. He had been trying coax a trump lead from Ogust because South had to find the jack of trumps to make his con- troot,
Now South deelded that Hor- old's failure to lead a trump clearly indicated that he held
Hence, South fed the the Jack. ten of hearts and let it ride. East made his juck und Harold's to red aces set the contract.
♥*CARD Serwe♦
Q-The bidding has been: North
14
2.
East South Wenl PARA 24 Pass
Pass བྷ་
3N.T. Fash
You, South, hold:
Pass
413 MK2 +1632 AKDTB
What do you do?
A-Pass. You have shown all your strength and nine irtoku neo easier to make than 11,
TODAY'S QUESTION
You hold the same hand. The bidding has been:
East South West
North
I A
Pay
Pass
JA
Pass
↑
What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
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This Funny World
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1958.
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Women's World
KHAKI GIRLS
TO MEET
London.
WOMANSENSE
Lady Edith's Mimi cooks for hungry
debs' escorts
ADY EDITH FOXWELL, tall, fair, and an unmistak-
Lable English Texty, latte wife, him, "produc
Major Ivan Foxwell. They have two fair-haired daughters, Zin, a 1958 debutante, and two-year-old Atalanta.
Lady Edith, one of London's busiest hostesses, enter- tains during the week at the Foxwells" elegant new house in Chester Square and week-ends at their country house in Wiltshire.
She likes dinner parties and her guests are likely to be a mixed bag-film stars, producers, socialites, writers, MPs. Lively mixture
"I believe in mixing people up," she said. "It's usual ly liveller." But just at the moment Lady Edith is de- Morshal Shr Robert George; voting most of her time to Governor of South Australia, Sir Charles Wheeler, President entertaining debutantes and of the Royal Academy; and Sir their young men. Alan Herbert, the author and
EX-members of the ATS are dramatist.-China Mail Special.
contemplating holding a reunion to celebrate the 20th BURGLAR ALARM anniversary of the founding of permanent the Service, now a and regular formation, the Women's Royal Army Corps.
Baltimore.
convicted WOMAN here of burglary was at least feminine to her fingertips.
Many famous people served
To break into a restauruni with the ATS during the war,
Ker
the and a tailor's shop she used her Majesty including
nie weezers, a nail Queen, then Princess Elizabeth, eyebrow who wore the khaki uniforms and a girl-size razor-Express
driver, and Sir Winston Service. Churchill's daughter, Mary, now
Mr married to
Christopher Soames, MP, the prosent Secretary of State for War.
QUEEN'S GUESTS
London.
It
N actor, a journalist and A legless wartime air acc. were among the Queen's quests
one of her "meet the people dinner partle at Buckingham
SO TIRED
Singapore.. IMIE beautiful 27-year-old Che
Binta Halimahton
Abdul Majid, urging women lo stand for Parliament at a meeting in Kuala Lumpur, said:
"Come forward more of you. being the only I'm tired of woman member in Parikument.
tired of being the. I'm oh so Alec ulity rose among 98 thorns," Guinee, the Honourable Alis- Express Service.
Palace.
Stage and
screen stay
inir Buchan, of the
"They're mweet people, bul
they do eat a lot," she said. appreciated, Mrs Mimi Slawin
If ever a good cook was well
ski most certainly is.
"My cook," said Lady Edill, "I so good, meticulously clean and her kitchen is spotless..." Her voice trailed off as she turned to introduce Mimi,
Yes, here was a "treasure" a German woman, wife of a Pole, who has beca living in this country for coms years and liking it very much.
"THEY'RE SWEET
PEOPLE, BUT THEY DO EAT
A LOT
Lady Edith Foxwell plans a meat with
her cook, Mrs. Mimi Slawlaski,
‚Í DINE WITH LONDON'S TOP HOSTESSES ... NO. 3
round pedestal table in the centre of the room.
Lady Edith's table was set for four and looked cosy and I was not at all surprised when she told me that at a dinner party that week for her daughter Zia ten people were seated comfort- ably.
Not too much Lady Edlih asid: "Mimi dors the most wonderful chicken sauces and dishes and cream when she serves one of them, as she did the other evening, we
by: MELENEBURKE
"I like food to be good and tasty and not too much of it The nabit of ealing buge meals which make you uncomfortable lias gone for good, I think. Some of Mimi's dishes are pretty rich, so we counteract them with a vely green salad with French dressing."
Bno sieve and stir it into the savoo. Also, I cook in butter, always very gently, lb. thinly allcod white mushrooms for a minute,"
"Seasoning?"
For a large party, you want a "Pepper and salt to my taste. large one, maybe two, I wrup Then I add to the sauce a pint the chicken in double grease of single cream and iwo egg proof paper, stand It in the yolks banten with a little of it. upper part of a steamer and I cook steam it very, very gently for two hours, if it is a young boiler, longer, it alder,
"remove the skin and take the meat from the main bones, cutting it in alices from the breast and top legs, but I leave the bones in the wings, I place
a very little to heat through. Then I place, a layer of chicken in a shallow, serving dish, then a laver of the muah- rooms end some of the sauce, then more chicken and' much- rooms and the rest of the sauce, which must be creamy pink."
"What do you serve with the
Very small now potatoes
"Ike the coolding of many countries," Mimi sald "I do American, French, German, of couroc, and English. English food is very good. I am very the meat in a dish, cover it with chicken?" I asked,
buttered greaseproof paper and New ruby carpet invariably start with something interested in learning something stand it in a pan of hot water plain belied rice and it must
We were in Lady Edith's beautiful drawing-room Every thing in the new house was splek and span..
in the dining-room; panelled walls of wedgwood inven; a
very simple, like melon, grope fruit or a cheese souffle,
BOYS' AND GIRLS
MAGAZINE *****
Obuv MADAME CHIANG How Pixie Caught Cold
and Group Captain Douglas Bader were all accompanied by their wives,
New York, May 17.
-He Tried To Help Fat Foolish Bullfrog--
By MAX TRELL he muttered: "It all happened The Quaid the Duke of MME. Chlang Kai-shek ax- Edinburgh had us their prin- Irived here by alr today from
and Hanid, the because I was so sorry for that for a medical NARF cipal guest another member of the West Coast
Dud to receive an Shadows with the Turned- Big Fat Foolish Bullfrog! tr Royal family, Princess check-up
Had A Busy Day from dégrée
the About Nemes, ran as fast as Allee, Countess of Athlone, . bonorary
University of Michigan next they could to the Old Oak where
"What happened was this," the Pixies Ilved, for they had heard that Fixie O'Scowl had he went on. "All day yesterday, beginning right after breakfast, caught a chill,
Sure enough,
they found I didn't get a bit of rest.
"Firal, Butterfly came to me Pixie O'Scowl sitting all wrap-
The other guesta, oll accu- month. panied by their wives, were; Viscount Knollys, Chatman of Mme. Chiang seld she felt Vickers group; Slr Ceell well and would stay with her Weir, former head of the British brother-in-law, Dr H. H. Kung, delegation to the European Coat at Locust Valley in New York ped up in a heavy overcoat with with a broken wing and I had and Steel Coninunity; Al, Vice- Stute-Reuter,
the
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Here is a position from actual play, Black to love and WID
....BY STELLA
WEDNESDAY, MAY 28
his feet in a pail of hot water, to mend it. Than Potato Bug Ile kept aneezing and blowing came to me with a toothache and I had to give him some
his nose.
Oh, you poor, dear, Pixie toothache pills." O'Scowl," said Hanid.
Pixle 'Scowl's story WAB
"Ah. chool". zald Pixie interrupted by a fit of sneezing. O'Scowl. "Go away!"
Don't Be Grouchy
At length he continued:
"And so it went on all day long. If it wasn't one thing, it
"Now, now, don't be so was another.
We've
grouchy," said Knarf
feel."
影
BORN today, you have an alert, ventional levelt. You probably will O'Scowl,
acquisitive mind. You are quick accept past interpretations but will
situation, so it up want to make revisions.
vo
..
"I had barely sat down for
Just come to find out how you lunch before a whole troop of Becs and Homets and Wasps around, angrily feel nwful," replied. came buzzing
demanding that I show them Hanid busled herself button where to store their honey.
Tears It Down ing up Pixie. O'Scowl's overcoat correctly and. then cot upon it.
big blanket over and putting gives you The statu What appears to an autalder to be
"The minute wo bulld a blve, Impulse deton la actually bou varsels of natural talents to the top of his head. "Now, how did many, perhaps, for your own good,
ever tomrune comes along and tears you intuition. Longing to accept gift and acting upon it, despite any At Derlod in life you will catch such a cold?" she asked it down,' they mild. So I had to
go out and show them. outside areasurer or influence, will have to select your area of CO
I reach out the sneezing Pixie.
Then
Mouse came along take you a long way us the rond 40 centration if you are
At first Pixie O'Scowl refused #cces You can then get there standing fame. Otherwise you will "Astent with the mos.est!
become a Jack of All Trades but to do any talking. But finally and said his whiskers were too Jong and would I trim them. a master of none.
Busy, busy, busy, all day long. And at last it was night and I started taking my clothes off and getting ready to creep into -bed. And ul that moment"
Agola Pixie O'Scowl was in- terrupted by a fit of sneezing.
"And at that moment," he went on, "there came a knock at my door. Who should it bo but that Fat Old Foolish Bull- frog who lives down at the edge of the pond.
There
Deveral Arr
contrasting
i elements in your nature which may,
Among thood born on this date James Thespa, famed athlete;
at tier, be in conflict with one min, Blologist; the Dionne another. You Pr self-confident, Louis sure of yourself and true is your quintuplets: ideala. Yet there are times when feminist and
Amelia
reformer:
Joseph
Bloomer
Thoma you are despondent and moody. Barish poet) Avery Lopwood. You have a strong emotional
and
and are fond of the society of the Gillelin, physician. world. There are also times, how-
ever, when you prefer to withdraw
Ignads
10
To find what the stars have
to your ivory tower for thought and sure for you tomorrow, select youT
There
A deep, birthday sise and read the COTTES meditation.
apiritual side to your nature, but I ponding paragraph, Let your hirch- may not operate on strictly con day star be your daily guide.
THURSDAY, MAY 29
upon
GEMINI (May 1-June 21)-- ki sone social function and improve A day when a calculated risk may your professional stutus.
Zi-Apt. ARIES (RE.
203 bring a high success potential Bo
travel make all
• new 1 planning to prepared in act
necery strangeruente well ahead (June 23-July 23 of me. This is a good day for You can make substantial gaine by doing it, too. co-operating in a newly-foran ed partnership. Inaugurate a business enterprise.
LED
SCANER.
24-Aug. 21) (July Concentrate on culminating
nancially attractive inminees doni, When evening comes, join a social prouts for recreations.
VifGo
(Aug. 21-Sept.
23) carcer
Concentrate on important matters, keeping a careful eye on financial delal Guard your bealth,
(Bent. 24-Det.
LIBRA
233--| The fortunate aspects of Juplier trifluence your prospects. The suc ceae potential is exceptice high.
SCORPIO (Act, II-NOT.
Your personal
excellent ampech.
Project
your
personality where it will to the BUDS good.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 21-Dic. 23)-- You will find that co-operation is the keynote of mucoes today. There is niso romance ki the air.
desiding.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-J29) Use good judgment in making docielone today. Binte will only moke warte, so take your time in
AquʻRIER Clam. · Il-Feb, 19 Jan) Trading one else, you notinliy may be helping yourself. The cum potential for you to bigta, Jolo » group" with alevilne, kokpipita
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21- in preming toward a schedule of security for the future, make new friends and fresh contacts.
Pixie O'scowi tried to sing. Just like the Bullfrog.
Rupert and the Silent Land-44.
The old Professor grabs his "At least 1 reached bile tha
balloon when it is within reach. "You'ye been very long time.!! be excisiona **Where have you been? I lost sight of you, long go. Did you go very high '?. Did, you reach the clouds ? "*"ce I cr tainly did declares Rupert
wasn't really a cloud st; all 1 *
"Eh, what 5" cries the old man.
This needs explaining Let's s
群
indoors. I'll fasten the balloon to
this bush so that it can't "drifi away I'm Balighted at the way you've proved it, powers are pe ALL RIGHTS RECENTAR
||
Now what do you want?' I nsked
"He told me, he had a sort Throat and couldn't sing. He sald that was an awful-thing to. him because his happen to sweetheart, a Lady Frog, WDS expreling to hear hin sing and had promised to marry him if he sung better than all the other Bullfrogs in the pond!
"So what did I do?" asked Pixie O'Scowl.
Knart and Hanid asked Pixle O'Scowi what he did.
Put Him To Bed
"I put that Frog to bed and
I went down to the pond and stood up
to my neck in cold water, singing at the top of my volce so that the Lady Frog should think that that Fat Old Foolish Bullfrog was the best sloger in the pond and that sho would marry him in the mora- tag."
"So. that's how you caught your cold," said Hanid.
"Ha-chco,ald Pixle O'Bcowl. "And did the Lady STON marry that: Fa! | Old Bullfrag?" „Knarf uzkod.
Foolish
"She fure did, Ha-chool" raid pizda oʻscowl
new, Her Ladyship likes Irish stew" (so do it] "and steamed pudding."
in
the
n low oven. The chicken be Paine, because it keeps whole must not become cold at any and does not go mushy."
Lady Edith described Well, Lady Edith can have me when this dish is being
chicory, cucumber, the steamed puddings because, Prepared and it must not get 100 salad:
hot either.
torriatoes and hard-boiled eggs as you can see, she is as slim as
"Now I make a fairly thick with a French dressing made of a lily.
sauce by cooking 40%. floor in one part jaman Juleo and four The menu
404. butter, without any colour, paris very good ollyy oll. “That To Mimi, Lady Edija sald; and adding chicken rock. In does not interfere with the wine. "Do give that wonderful chicken another pan, I have cooked very We had Montrachet with that dish we had the other evening. gently in butter a chopped chicken and they went beauti- "We call this casseroled onion and Ilb, tomatoes. When fully together. My husband chicken with creamy plak sauce, all is soft, "I rub it through a always chooses the wines."
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