JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
Spades Are Lucky Suit
DF OSWALD JACOBY
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THE late P. Hal Sims claimed bol superstition had no place in a card game, but if he did have a fucky suit t was more spades,
is D
Of course, that pretty good superstition to have since the spade sult outranks all others and the man with spades con outbid anyone else,
in a
recent duplicate most North players liked their fence agains! hearts 10 gatek a great extent that they. slayed out of the bidding and watched | their vulnerable opponents. uld and make an eary heart game.
Frank Furicy of Fort Worth chose to make a light takeout
WEST
A85 X854
NORTH
K1074 ABC4
QJ 103
EAST (D) AAJE
• KQ 10942 1)
SOUTH!
AQ9653
♥
763
BADTU
East and West vulnerable
East
1+
2
South Went North Puss
Double 4 Pasg Pasa
Pako Double Pand Pars Puss Opening lead-♦ A
WOMAN'S WORLD
STAYING CLEAN
London.
re-appears under light.
ultra-violet
CINCE primitive women
The average woman, Ins scrubbed clothes clean told, fakes from 16 to 20 minutes on fat river stones washing to iron a man's shirt. A laundry day has been a headache takes one minute. The secret, when pressing these tractious for women. But nowadays parents at home, in collar and Englishwomen than neek-band, cuffs, steeves and the ever are taking the easy body of the shirt, in that order. And the next time you grum- way out and sending the be about your laundry, remem- family wash to the laundry, ber that nearly a quarter of alt And that Includes father's British women make a mistake drip-dry shirts, baby's nappies, their laundry list. A CLUB and the slating-room carpets.
Laundry prices in Britain are lower ban in America, Europe, the launderette that NE of the latest developments Qr Commonwealth countries,
The establishment with a battery of And profts nee zooming.
has "British Washing machines which Turnover in annual
sprung up in most districts. laundries 1 £65 million.
They have changed the krep- clean pleture in Britain--and made te considerably easter for since of wives icusands
ON RECORD
iz
Tthe Laundry, Dry-Cleaving and Allied Trades Exhibi- tion at Olympic, there are ex- bibils from all over the world Ideas for to demonstrate new keeping a nation spick and spar Take one example: tape re corders are now being gred some British laundries. The sorter "topes" the list of gr ments as coch bundle is u wrapped. This is played back for The benefit of the accounts and preking departments, Result: No innes ugly black-ink hierogly phies on your best shirt and
sheets.
Another marking method done with invisible ink
Wheir
eir Introduction here, rather midly, in 1850..
They are a place for wives to meet and gossip (one might al-'
while est call them clubs) the family wash is done before their eyes,
The
capit:1 velment is out £8,000 for a 20-imachine unit, £4,000 for a 12-machine it, but he turnover is almost 3 sprly as the clothes swish- dig around inside the Also- fronted machines,
-Michele Dearing
-{London Express Sormier's.
YOUR BIRTHDAY
FRIDAY, AUGUST 8
STELLA
BORN today, you have a tine mish ́ your · optimiteti", positive altitude
und Gure both puttulive
Toward die which makes it cany for logical in your thinking, Heal
you to dve problems, but other usually cut your impulse, and your Ferogaise this pit and are
always sense of togel
lends tu banging their troubles to you. You For your native vriginal. are always able to give good advice. B1.315 fact, you are 4 rallier
You live at umorates nature and goes toward making you a vivill, Wed mone interesting combination of tirees. It are demonstrative in your affections
Wh
star temperament and your TheTriage should be a. happy and contenteer prae. You will want a large Tamilly 100. Be sure that your life partner arkar ideas!
double and his partner Shurtleff went on to four epades which East doubled.
West opened the new of día-, mords and continued the
· RIB ruffed in elummy and play- ed the king of spades. Rail Touk his age and led the singeton club, Bill went right up with the nee: ruffed his lot diamond with dumuny's len of spadesj led dummy's last spade mid Anessed mains East's Jack of trumps.
Ile would ap by pudhing Bla's last trump and conced- in a tick to the king of clubs. Fuur mades doubled and made constituted a ine lop, but the funny thing about the hand was that four pades down one still have been or two would top. Every other North-South pair let East and West make their heart game.
V÷CARD Senseķ♦
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Pass 10
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You, South, hold: MADE WAZ +QJ7654 4A2
What do you do now?
A-ild alx no-trump. There tasy be sevea but it is going to be too hard to find out.
TODAY'S QUESTION You hold:
ARZ WIE +AK865 AJE43 You respond one diamond to your partner's one club and he Jump to two no-trump. What do you do?
Answer TomCITOW
SIDE GLANCES
Versatile personality,
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have Sine you
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SATURDAY,
Ameing those who were bury this date PTE: Marjorie Kinnu
Bowdoin, 260w Dup, outhor: Jones Machusetts Governar: tharles A Daja, maed editor of the New York Sace, and General Retses Appleton Mate, US, (Azny.
have in To Grid what the stars store for you tomorrow, select your alliday r and read the cultu ponding paragraph, er your birth day star be your dully guide, AUGUST 9
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"I'm afraid it's a waste of time teaching you all this!
I know the boss's wife, and when the "beta"
oyes on you-ah; wo!!!"
after 10: .. Before that, 2 godi
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CHESS
By LEONARD BARDEN
1 A
(No. 8119) Here is a position from actual play, in which Black continued 1...QXR. What result ?
Solution No. 5448: 1 B-R4. BxB ch; 2 R-KI3, B×# ch; s PXB, or 1 B-K13 ch, 2 RXB, KXP: 3 B-K13. There are some near “trics.”
London Expresa Service
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1958.
WOMANSENSE
Are You A Worrier?
HEART diseases can be graph readings that nie virtual- 13 Impossible lo distingulah from those following true
THE HUNTING LOOK
LOOK "catching."
JACQUES HEIM calls this pink velvet afternoon hat -"BRANDY"-Intercontinentale.
are
Of course, I don't mean they organic disease,
contagious. You cun'i "catch" heart disease from my- one, but, under certain circum: stances, you might "catch" similar symptoms.
Jn fatt, New York Clly Gelfand, rees so far as le stale Internist, Dr Maxwell
at the majority of patients who go to a doctor with beurt
any symptoms do not show Cl
evilence of organic cardiac cis- order.
For example, let's say that close relative or friend, maybe ព business pariner, becomes
vlcllm of heart
disease.
Strong Emotions
Emotionally Disturbed
and
If you are a person wh Rather, he
says, they strong
emotions, you night suffering from emollonal distur-
symplar banges.
netually develop
which closely resemble organic cartine disease.
There is convincing evidence, emphasises, that certain
The so-called "soldier's heart" serious and even fatal types of
is a good example of what I heart drewe van be produced mean. We
thirt know
this sutely by emotional distress, allment results from essential
legit has Although the changes the hypothalamus, the gun that control the Butonomie Bervous system,
Hard to Tell
Sometimes the emotional up- heavals are ro marked that they cause changes in electreerd
2
such
great capacity to absorts stress, we have reason to believe that strong emotional reactions are enough to produce carding symptoms in persons with nor- mal hearts,
By H. N. BUNDESEN, M.D.
HOUSEHOLD
HINTS
By VERA WINSTON
THE playsuit, that' perennial favourite for vacation wear, now comes in the dacron and cotton blends that are so easy to keep locking fresh. This one is done in tones of yellow
5
or blue in a one-piece design that features a convertible col-
l extra favour fo an temparature for moul omelette by liring a heaping minutes, Stretch it gently but tablespoon of our cream luto Comly while it is still wel. well-beaten eggs. Sour cream
also gives finer texture anch flavour to batter for cookien, To clean ples and pastry.
lar and medium-length shorts. The buttoned-front skirt that
corner of squni tops it is also of dacron and enke pans, coffee spouts and | cotton and has enough fullness percolator stems, minister to be worn for active sport Restore a shrunken blanket-cotton swab-and-dip-it-In weer_It can be worn--with- by soaking it in water at body cleanser.
other tops, too, of course,
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BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Mr. Punch's Airplane
-He Made It Out Of A Bluebottle Fly-
By MAX TRELL
"Now what you mustn't forget is what I said just a mement
about NARF, the Shadow Bay, with ago—–1 mean
being the Turned-About Name, younger and smaller than 1
and now. In those days, I was ba Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, Hiawatha. the Small-Sized small as a match sticle-after Wooden Indian, were silting In you break it in half-so that 1 a corner of the room.
didn't need a very large air- plane,"
Knart was just saying: "I wish we had on airplane," when Mr Punch, who seemed to be dazing in his rocking chair in the sun By window, suddenly sald: "There's in trouble about that There's no trouble about that."
Puzzling Thing
Knarf and Teddy and even Hiawatha, who usually wasn't astonished at anything looked Beross at Mr Punch in Surprise and puzzlement.
Mr Punch saniled.
"I was just thinking of what I once did when I was younger and smaller than I am now." he told them.
"One day I wanted to go for a fight in an airplane, too. Well, what do you suppose I did: ↑ went out and Taught an air. plane.'
more surpris- This was even
re- Ing than Mr Punch's Art mark.
Younger And Smaller
"I know it sounds odd to say so, continued Mr Punch, but I really did go out and catch own airplane!
Punch fed Barrer all the dainties he liked.
my
Knorf asked Mr Pudeh what
lund of an airplane be really meant,
Mr Punch chuckled. "A blue- bottle ty," he told them,
"Was that your airplane?" exclaimed Teddy.
"You couldn't sit on the back of a bluebottle fly," Hiawatha said. "It wouldn't let you."
"Well," answered Mr Punch, "you're right, Hiawatha. The bluebottle fly I caught didn't much care to have me eitling on his back. He buzzed and flipped ground and swept me uff his back with his legs every time sat myset!"down. But clever. I tuned it!"
I
[
Was
"You mean you really tamed a bluebottle fly?" asked Knari,
Mr Punch nodded, "I found out that blueboltle flies were particularly fond of honey and granulated sugar and drops of vegetable soup and now and then a crumb of cake dipped in syrup. I also discovered that my bluebottle fly, whom. I named Buzzer, enjoyed being scratched under the chin,
"So," Mr Punch continued, "I ted Buzzer all the dainties he liked best and scratched him now and then under the chin and, Anally, he let me sit his back. Then, out of cobwebs, I made a neat little cabin just large enough for me to squeeze In, I fixed head and tail lights under Buzzer's head and stomach. "And at last the day when I was ready to take first flight!
Took Long Flights
came
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"We went out into the garden and stood on a sunflower. This was our airport, I climbed into the cabin and gave the signal,
"Duzzer's wings beat up and down so fast that they hunned.
Rupert and Floppity-18
But this
*Wlut
are from," he thinks. time she only matters. very bad hradwriting," gazing, at it with a little frown, and neither
Recognising the footstep Rupert runs to open the front door, just as the pastman actives. **** ɗaly one letter, and it's for Mummy," he says. Looking at it curiously, of them notices that Floppity, Mrs. Bear slite open the envelope silent as over, is sniffing in an and Rupert waita quietly. She interested way at the envelope in generally tells me who her intiers Mrs. Bear's hand.
ALL RIQUES UKIZAYED
Then off we shot straight into and granulated sugar and vege- "But I say to you now if you the alt.
table soup and cake and syrup. want an airplane, all you have "After that, we flew over the Bat, dear me, one day Buzzer to do is catch a bluebottle fly garden everyday, I sometimen wasn't there when I looked for and train him to be your went for longer flights, too. My him in the morning! He had private airplane, just like I did airplane, Buzzer, often dew me flown off by himself and never when I was younger and smaller into town where I bought honey came back,
than I am today."
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