"
•JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Frustration At Drop Of Lead
By OSWALD JACOBY
TODAY'S hand was played in the Oregon State Pars and wan sent me by Albert Sundberit of Portland. He calls it a study in frustration.
If a heart is opened agaikat four spades South can make all 18 tricks. He amply trumps in. cummy;
overlakes dummy's queen of spades and draws thump, Then, since Wes; holds king and one club, n club inesse given him seveni club tricky.
WOMAN'S WORLD
SHE WINS A FIVE-YEAR BATTLE AGAINST ANTS
Esher, Aug. 5. They had eaten five feet of u The sun lounge was re- M. the is from buildMes vegas later affe
TRS Sylvia Higgs has bram.
Biggs back
her 14-1oomed house here opened the front door-and in after five-year battle marched an ant semy. which has cost her £800
If a trump is opened, Southund a great deal of sleep. con 'draw trumper and inuke 12 tricks.
If a diamond is opened and a club returned, or if a club a opened, the best South ean do là to get out for down unt,
The record of the hand shows
that top sure wens in a player who bid and made exuelty four
spadest 1 Laogine that he get a
WEST
053
AK 103
◆ K 1076
4K2
NORTH (D]
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KART
0625
1983
1004
AK 1074
300542
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SOUTH
East and West vidnerable
North East
Boul West
1
Puss
I
Faca
24
Pass
Разс
3
PARG
3▼ Pass
3
. Pass
Pass 4
Pass Pabs
At
Opening lead-♥ K
heart, opening and drive, trumps, but compromilset by scarding some of "dumuny's clubs befor trying the club Biesse.
The peace of the stockbrokers and wealthy city ren in rural disturbed by Faizer was erst ant five years ago,
While Mr Grouse William Higgs was in the city every day
is
wife fought the invasion, the swarm in the crushing ground floor moms of their picturesque home,
"When hatly I found them In my bed," he srid today, "I said this is the end."
She called in experts from the British Government
pest Infestation laboratory, run by the Department of Scientific
Mrs
blood was up. Hiton She joined the builder's men, who had 14-1b hammers, and using
four-pounder herself they ripped up concrete floors and tore down pine panelling.
The ants were everywhere. the boller house was stripped. the kitchen, the dining rooms,
The Higgu family camped in the attle rooms at the top of the house, The ants had the Test.
in the cold weather they had the whole house, for the heztless Higgs moved to a London flat. They left six ruined bedrooms, three reception rooms and three bathrooms,
all with a bombed outlook.
Trenches Ave feet deep ruined
and Industrial Research They the lush garden. Identified no ordinary ant, but the rare fasseur brunncus from
which middle Europe,
loves to cal tough oak trees.
Usin
At night Mrs Higgs hid in a torch In hand, racing
and trench, posted honey
ver as bait they tracked down the ant roles.
the lair of the colony which spread everywhere. was marching to and fro about
Finally, the ants
quarters, they
Polson wps
gave in.
dwindled away The Higgs arc
Chira
the house at will. I was in a Cut off from their original head- dead beam under the floor of the sun lounge, but floors had to day by day. come up and walls come down home again. before the ania could be killed. Special,
It ir possible that someone YOUR BIRTHDAY BY STELLA
open a club but my guss is that
all other spate déclarers shiply
played safe to go down a couple
of tricks rather than risk going down a lot should the clubs not be exactly the way they were,
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6
PORN Today, you have a poetie, given you literary talent, and it relay Bothered, and solve nature, be that in this expresident you wil Your emotions the near the mitface mrwal your truent
You are
of
I do not approve of this tech- and everything going on artikel you not a go-getting money-maker, Tou nique. South should realise that influences your thought eul action em be content with few interiál pveral of the Norths would have
There are those who think you have things You can see beauty in even little or no tind of your own but the wasplest living. Mature has a played three or four clubs and Are swayed, by the lost sermon you strong appeal to you, made the contract
have been with.. so that any
Wrd to the right person, you can To some exivat This le true, but it is not the entire have that peaceful harmony which have to be a bad minus would
story.
14 venducive to the production score, Therefore, they should
"You have or laner life, which you your best work. You are con have gone ali out to make their permit few to shere. Tista pari af tive in showing your affections
Your personality is definite, firin stad ward there you love, too. Wed come. contract and nos worried abask
tronist since your flowe often one who la respolve to your warn- how many they might go down.
differ frau thôre of the mufees- heartedness, ALO SHI dislike, causing frfelon Among Friends you wil
+CARD Sensen♦
Pass
Q-The bidding has been: North East South West I
PAS
Pass AN.T.
30
Puss 4.
Fass
→ You, South, hold: MADSE VAZ 4K3763 432
What do you do?
A-Bid six diamonds. There is no need to ask for xoes because partner surely Irolde at least one and you have no luterest in SCTED
TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding has been: North East South
14
Pass
Z N.T.
Pass
1. 7
Weat Pass
You, South, hold:
GABE VAZ #QJ7654 JAZ Answer TomOTTOPY
CROSSWORD
ET
12
TE D 114
15 16
110
18
Acro
1. Card game, (7)
10. Horze dealers
11. Muelctaus.
ones. (8)
(5)
14. With deep meaning. (0)
10. Wartime clothing, (5-4)
12. Suureted territory. (7)
20. Keep clear. (8)
21. Paindromic interfection.
22. Flying cricketer 7. No. 14.
Down
1. Look-out's hang-out, (0-4),
2. Puta into court. (8)
1. GowgaWS. (0)
Pao. 151
Throw. (4) Handy. (31 Dauger, (5)
P. it helps
with the sim 11
around
Joint.
13. Cancel. tar
10. Hote.
1O
7. Puh. (0)
18. Bound mir
rot,
Festerday'a solution
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1958.
WOMANSENSE
HAIRDO HIGHLIGHT Bobo, Flockie, Bunny
By ALICE ALDEN
AS the colffure Jooms
large in fashion interest,
we find the leading mil-
liners designing for ft
special hals and head-
dresses, Hattie Carnegie designs a "hilite" in the
form of EL whimsical
evening cap to top the
carefully tousled hairdo,
This summer evening de- light is a black velvet
cap, bow-shaped and heightened with a spire of blue blossoms.
Mothers,
Be Warned!
By VERONICA - PAPWORTH-
WHAT'S In a name? Would THEY SAY.
the Flockle Harcourt
MOTO
"I've been longing to meet you again ever since you wrote so gentlingly of frozen peas," sald cookbook writer GRETEL
Smithy and Bunny Esterhazy be
serious-minded but for those unfortunate pot names?
Would Bobo Sigrist ever have made such unhappy headlines (If she had been named Gertrude BEER to me.
or Clarissa?
"Listen-bere's how you must
As for 41-year-old "Baby" do then). rignaturi—that playboy who "Linc 4 pan with feiture has ousted Rafael Trujillo leaves...put the frozen block from the headlines I read that of peas in with a good knob.of his English governess pinned bulter and Gome snit....but this label
on him and "Baby" no water. he has stayed. "He doesn't answor to anything else,"
Mothers of little "Faty," "Cutie," "Poppet" and "Stinker" -you have been warned
QUOTE from u reader in Cardiff:-
דיי
"Cover with a lettuce leaf, put the lid on tight, and cook very slowly for three-quarters of un hour
"But what about vitamins?" sold I.
"Darling, we are discussing flavour," said Gretel,
"Helmet-shaped heads for the ain married with three children and 1 have no time to hair stylist RICHE. "Sliort hair,
autumn and winter," count my calories or watch my three outline. It 1 make time my
four inchea, wall children would mutter and I am
tapered and almost devoid of wave or curl. certainly not prepared, lo do
havo
that."
I also am "married with three chlidren." It doesn'
to
"Colours? My latest Scandinavian associations,
"There's Nordic Blond or Lake Danlah Blue...."
I said I'd sticks to
my Rich Mouse.
"Danish Blue" has strictly. What it does take to a little cheese-counter amociations for strength of mind.
any tano at all to count calories.
my
me.
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Looking For The Pixies
Do
-Knarf And Hanid Join In The Hunt
"MeSnooze!" he exclaimed die "Come out of next moment. there, McSnouzel”
Sprinkled Dowdrops
A few moments later, Knart Pixie McSnooze out of the shady and Honid succeeded in getting
bush, They sat him down on the bench, sprinkled some cold dewdrops in his face and got him hak-awake.
By MAX TRELL
OWN at the Old Oak in O'Cheer Hall where the Pixies lived, Knarf, and Hanid, the Shadows with the Turned- About Names, saw rolice
A pinned to the trunk of the tree. "Out for Lunch" the notice said.
"Now that's funny," Hand Among those born on this date | remarked. "They don't usually ment. The flingy that serice kives are: Alfred Lord Tennyson, poets
go out for lunch. They always consent works hepo. Others Inay Ruth Suckow, author; Paul Claudet,
eat right here in O'Cheer Hall," greene. but French author, poet and slate Mridan think that you are deep inde seu cul held fast to and Williain Daily Ticknow, Bostoni
lidir your own position.
Half-Hidden Door
remain
To And what the stars have in You have @_yanjitbette, Redly store for you tomorrow, select your soul and want harmony in your life. Wiethday star and read the corres Many an cutward cunced in a pond paragraph. Let your birth-hidden behind the roots of the In keep the page. The slams have day star be your daily guide.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 7
...
There was a little deer, half- old tree, Knarf opened it and called down: "Is anybody there?"
But no one answered. LEO (July 24-ARK :53 AQUARIUR (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)... You need a level hend to Janelle Lack of sleep can cause irritabifily "They really иге out for your miladi todays Where are cros early this inarning. Conditions Im-lunch," Hanid suld. currents of gion thal met be prove the day advantecs.
"Maybe they're on a plente," regimelled.
PIACER (Feb 20-Mar
Knarf suggested. 21) Make excellent progress in the arts
VIRGO CAUR 24-Sert.
203-
Be a pes of calm in the polist of You should be able to advance your Not being able chant. A smile can dispel dimeulty Take the initiative and bet
LIBRA (Sezek, 24-Oct 231-
sta considerably now.
ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr.
guess where z-the Pixies might be having lunch--or having a plenie, as If you are tactful and alert to the
the case might be-Knart and Hanld set themselves down on
A day for niringt routine. Dum's at duplications of undercurrents, tempt too much just now, fiet nienly con avert any difficulty.
of rest rebulk! your erergies,
SCORPIO (024, 24-Nov.
22)-
you
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 2)
An active day, but you can cope Avoid any health hazard bý getting with everything if you are alert and plenty of rest. If you have been
GEMINE (May 22-Jung
"What do you want?" Pixie McSnooze kept saying, "You're bothering me! Let me Anish sleeping
“I'm not going to let you finish sleeping"
fold Hand
him, giving him a shake to keep him from shutting his eyes again, "until you tell us where your friends are having lunch."
At the word "lunch,” Pixie McSnooze's eyes stapped open.
"Lunch! What's this lunch?"
about
Kuart showed Pixie McSrcode the sign tacked to the door.
Pixio Was Worried
"Oh dear! Oh dear!" he said, the little bench at the foot of sounding greatly worried. the true and hoped someone "They'll eat it all up before I might come along who could get there."
1ste good judgment in making de working too hard lately, nest today: give them some information.
cisions
SAGITTARIUS (Nov, 25-Déc. 2- Make a minor compromise If it wil Relax tensions and yuo wil be sur- sinooth the course of events
Just prised at how much you can accom- now, Pour 0:1 on troubled waters. jim. Man a pleasant even.
CANCER (June 22-Juty 23). Be careful of what
to ansible. Ainuje foods and avoid en upset,
dttractions Best for you to stocat today.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan, 20)—" The aspects are generally favourable. but a tendency toward mel be overcome.
SIDE GLANCES
By Galbraith
They hadn't been waiting very long when they heard a rustle In the bushes close by, Knart ran over to investigate,
1-10
McBnoose peered into the hollow tree but found no one.
Wilh
that, Pixie McSnooze sprang off the bench and raced through the tall grass that grew on the side of the hill,
Knart and Hapid followed him,
Up the
Pixie McSnooze, then down the mossy rocks and over the narrow brook and through the patch of ferns and snapdragons.
bill
went
Finally he reached a hollow irec. He peered Inside.
"Are
Kaart.
they there?"
asked
"No," replied Pixie McSnooze, and he darted off again.
With Knarf and Hanld follow- ing him, Pixie McSuooze ran through a fleld of buttercups and daisies. Then he slid down a rabbit holu hut no one Was there, either.·
For the next kalf-hour, Pixie McSnooze, Knart and Hanfd looked under the gooseberry bush, in the inside of a ruin barrel, under the garden wall
Rupert and Floppity-16
On hearing what has happened
•
CHESS NEWS
Solution No. 544” - White wins by 1 0-93 ch, R—Kt7 (F—KI7; 2 K-KI3); 2 Q—K4, K—K?8; 3 Q-KI mate, or also by 1 K-33,
London Bapred Service
"Ma, how's your sense of humour today?"
Rupert is now much too excitact
all Rupert's gloominess, has dia to explain and, thearing the appeared and he laugh in delight, paper carrier into her hand, he
You needn't worry, Mummy, dashes into his own room. There,,
"It's Floppity! It just as he expected, the bet" "Eh, what's that? front. "Well, you are a clever What do you mean? What's thing-1 Rupert chuckles as the Floppity gaps Bits. Beat, big dog prances up to meet him.!
he cries.
A
ALL NIGHTS REAXAVED
and behind the barn where the sparrows lived. But the rest of the Pixies were not there,
might
you haven't looked, McSnooze." tunning with all bis
Where? naked Pixie across the fold to a patch of the McSnooze,
sky where a black cloud, was forming and where, sooner or "At the end of the rainbow," later, there would be a rainbow. replied Hanid, It was Hanid who finally said;
Hankdi
lunch!" "I hope it's a good "There's only one place where maw of Pixte McSnooze, he was Knart called afler him,
One Place Loft
The lost Kaart nad
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