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THE CHINA MAIL,
MONDAY, MAY 25, 1959.
WOMANSENSE
JACOBY on BRIDGE
WHEN you held four trumpe Wit is generally advisable to open your long sult and try to force declarer rather
12
short sult in hope of getting in a ruff but West aw nothing attractive about a diamond tead and decided to open his jack of clubs anyway.
11 was a good deelston Indeed, South won the trick with dummy's king and led and fincased the Jack of hearts, West ducked. He wanted to get some sort of algnal from his partner,
Then ten of henris Wies played next and East obliged by playing the deuer of spades. South took his ace and led the queen of hearts bust
NOW
♥*CARD Sensek☀
-The bidding has been:
North 34
Ppss
Fast South best Pasa Pasa 44%
T
You, South, hold:
▼
AZ WAGET JAJOS SKOLA
What do you do?
A-Double, They might make I bui if you don't double this one you will never double any- thing.
TODAY'S QUESTION
Again your partner has opened thrée des. This in you hold:
AA32 WAGSE SAL? 4A90
What do you do?.
Asiwer Tomorrow
NORTHI
AK73
❤J 104
+70
*K0353
WEAT AJE
K082
♦AJ 20043 AJ
13
EAST
A28542
塑造
◆ KQ 2
10042
SOUTH (D)
AQ10
♥AQ973
+93
AQ7
East and West vulnerable Houth West North
Eart
V
inse Pass
Puss Opening lead—♣ F
Pass Pasz
West was ready for the kL He went up with The king and played
Another and
dated.
ILL
Bad won the second dimmond and a club ruff set the contract.
Before a lot of renders point out that West could havns benten Į the hand two tricks by talking the first heart and underleading his wee of diamonds twice. I might add that I am well aware of it but feel that West did very well indeed to set the bond #:11.
YOUR BIRTHDAY
at
By STELLA
are mure apt to centre. you home and family.
around
Both your men and women wifi be happiest ilving in the country, or you are fond of nature and the quiet Kfe, SII, there are tires whet you will want visit a large city it only to see how th
tet world
MONDAY, MAY 25
have PORN today, you
exceptionally strong nature yel one which is continually being torn between extreme emotionalism Vind rigid rution- allantion. You are rarely depen- dent upon another person, except perhaps emotionally. This, in turn, becomes quite frustrating to the one you love. Your Intui tions can reach psychle prupur tions at times, and the part of you which appreciates togle and reason beconies confused, since Among those born on this date Swiss you nt
Burckhardt, eflen mysteriously tire: Jakob
Lord Impelled to nel upori feelings Bistorian:
Beaverbrook, alone!
British statesman fand publisher; Helen Blackburn, pioneer for women's rights; Micha Levitzki, pianist; Ralph Waldo Emerson, author and transcendentalist.
xists! But you are always glad to return to famillur surround- ings.
You are an original thinker and have a spiritual trend which you must follow. You will dis- card anything Conservative
To End what the stars have which you feel does not meet contemporary needs. You women in store for you tomorrow, select perhaps are less impelled to- your birthday star and read the ward serious things and are curresponding parageph. Let usantly more carefree and gay your birthday star be your daily. with e. Your major Interests guide.
TUESDAY, MAY 26
GEMINI (May 22-June 31)—ed if you make exactly the right
A day to let reason rule, no derision between two alternIn= matter how strongly inspiration thres.
and intuition seem to impel you. CANCER (June 22-July 23)- There is no undereurrent of un- certainly which you can dispet by taking a sensible attitude,
LEO (July 24-Aug. 21)- Pleasure may be fatennixed with disappointment today", an optimistic attitude cut: prove
- helpful.
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)
sa
CAPRICORN (Dec.
23-Jan. 20)--Dou'l depend 100 mukh itpun The promises of others. Take the initiative and net your own.
on
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) --Your day for a personal trip although there may be hurdles to leap before you can succeed.
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)--
No matter what happens today, There are tensions in the air, remain calm and you will do but if you are ent
and slay
the right thing to counteract any alert, you can reconcile differ-
mishap.
LINKA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)-
Conflicting Issues may come up
ences to win oul,
ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20).
2
It takes a special kind of courage
to write YOUR HUSBAND'S EPITAPH every
day of the week
for six months
IT TAKES a special kind of courage to sit alone with scrapbooks and diaries and tape- recordings of the man you loved, slowly re-creating and re-living the happiness of nine years of mar- riage, knowing all the time that it can never be again.
But that is the and and Britain. He hadn't thought to painful heritage Jack Buchanan mention it. icft his young wklow Susan
For the man who lived a life rich in happineRT and success died pliifully poor.
Six months ago when I evealed that Susan Buchanan was to write her husband's life story she had told ma
"It is about the only heritage he has left me. And i treasure it dearly."
Important
RECENTLY
I talked
with Suran Buchanan, a tall, ele- Kantby beautiful American, about her very private assign- ment.
Speaking with a softness that - made everything she said sound remote and for away, she told
Ine:
Д
"So when I came to England and realised I'd married celebrity, I was really tight- ened. I simply wasn't used to the kind of society in which he moved. It was all so 'new and kind of overwhelming.
His
sketches
"BUT Jack was marvellous.
Before we went to a parly
he would give me his own pri- vale thumb-nail sketches of the people we'd meet. It worked like a charm.
"You see,, I was Jack's best friend as well as his wife. We were a team.
"And yet I never ever knew He had a how old he was curious reticence about discus- sing his age. It never ever mean! very much to him, I knew, of course, he was quite a ult older than me. But it never It's mattered.""
"It's very important for me to write the book. 10% not simply the money. Although that's important enough. that Jack would ing to do it,
have wanted!
"You see, you cannot live in the past. Jack never did. And he certainly wouldn't want me 10. But this is my way
of wrapply it up in a little box and saying: That's that, #' been fun, now goodbye.
"It was painful at the begin ning. The sense of utter loneli- hers, yet having his voice In the room with you. The long, Jonoly hours spent Istening to the tape-ricorded messages ho had sent my mother in America. He had such a beauti- ful voice,
1
There was another silence. A longer silence. But I did not fear of intrusion. speak for
Buchanan said, The Susan quite calmly
"Perhaps subconselously we both knew there was 30 little time. Perhape that's why we crammed a ilfetime of happi-
into nine short, wonderful years of marriage."
Half-world
NOW, 18 months after the A death of her husband. Susan Buchanan lives in п of rich- strange half-world "Bul now it's not so bad at poverty. Like this- nil, Now my persportive
"When Jack was allve hc better. You know.
it's almost wouldn't let me cross the street tus though
Now It all happened to without the Rolls.
I'm two other people."
finding my way about the There was n___small silence Underground quite well Lefore she added suddenly; "But my daughter gets angry "Oh, how I wish I'd met Jack's with me. She saya;*Mummy. mother. You know, she know you're the only lady on the the secret of how to instil Underground wearing a mink respect for women in a man cont and white gloves,"
"Somehow Jack always made "Honey, I tell her, I happen you feel feminine and wise, 11 to own a mink. Is it my fault 1 was a natural thing with thn, can't afford a cloth coal?" He didn't even know he was doing it. I think that has 1 lal to do with his success on the stage. His respect for women spread among the audience."
As we talked, Suson began to chlp away the corrosion of tine on tho memory. She spoke faster and excitedly, 15 though it all happened goster- day.
B
The future
DEFORE we said goodbye I asked Susan Buchanan whether she had any plans for the future, after the completes the book.
She said: "I used to be I remember we would go to frightened of tomorrow. But not parties together and he would now. Once I had plans, but never leave my side. We would when Jack died they collapsed Now I have no sit and talk as if we had never in 19 seconds.
plane, so there reen each other before.
can be
"I'll tell you something, disappointments." When I married Jack in
know
America I didn't even who he was. I mean I didn't realise he was a big star in
no
Peter Evans
(London Express Serutes).
STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
The Foolish Goldfish
--Christopher Cricket Relates A Near-Tragedy-
By MAX TRELL
goldfish
oby trouble' the answered. "They move in and and out of their house with no trouble at all. Look, there's fins. But you fouted through one of them now, moving the water just like a bird, salled perhaps he's swimming-down for decision Analyse pros and Your good day of the week. But cons enutiously before acting. even so, you should avoid risk-
Unough the air. So all through the garden path. If he can do the summer topher Cricket asked his
the two goldnsh it, so con 1.1 SCORPIO (Det, 24-Nov. 22) taking. Conditions remain theer-ID over tell you," Chris- Thla-is-your-got-day for the-lain.
frauds Knurl and Hank, the ved happily in their pool in the "It was useless for the gold- →TAURUS (AP-21-May 21) Shadows with Heurek of the garden Ash's wife to plead and be with week-perhaps your best or the
One last hurdle to jump before Abeut Naines, "about the Gold- entire month. So act accordingly.
"But one day," said Chris. husband not to leave The He paid no attention to RAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. the job you are seeking openssh Who Tried to Pick a Flower 22)-There is much to be gain up. Take a positive attitude | In “Hie÷Gartc17”—Sik, goldfish looked there was being's years of
very sad, His wife usked what was troubling him.
SIDE GLANCES
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"We didn't actually stay at this hotel, but Frank did go in and ask about their rates!"
Kuart and Hanid raid they hadn't ever heard this story aud urged Christopher to tell it to them.
So Christopher, after crossing five or six of his legs and mak- Ing himself rnfortable on the edge of the carpet, began as
follows:
Lived In Pool
"I don't know the name of This goldfish I'm going to 'tell Ju about, but he lived with his wife in a little pool in the middle of a beautiful garden.
"Just look at all those flowers that are growing in the gordon over our heads, he said to his wife. want very much to go nut do that garden and plek a Sawer,
pool.
flipi
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"Suddenly he gave his tall a
Looped Out
"Out of the water he leaped, The next second, he was tying un the round in the garden
"When
the goldfish's wife outside the pool. heard this, she opened mouth in plorm.
12 "Plentic'
her
"Fish like us can't pick lowers," said his wife.
"No, he couldn't pick a single "Poor goldfish Poor mistaken ong," said Christopher. "And by little goldfish who wanted to and by, he ran out of breath, she said, 'don't pick a flower in, the garden!” think of such a thing. Fish like Christopher Cricket exclaimed. If only I could get back into ty can't pielt flowers in a "He flipped and he flopped the water! he cried, opening Burden How will you be able among the daisies and butter and shutting his mouth." to swim without wüler?
"What happened to him?" asked Knarf.
cups."
"Now usually he was a very The children who live in "And couldn't he pick any?" contented goldfish. He and his the house don't seem to have Ilanid asked anxiously,,
wife enjoyed their pool very muck.
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"In a way." continued Chris- topher, "the pool was like o Barden itself, underwater garden. There were reeks and sand and water plants. Some of the plants looked liko tall, wavy grass. Some of the plants looked like vines. And some of the plants that grew in the under- water garden were like bushes. and even trees.
Like A Bird
sald
"Best of all,'*'* Christopher, as he uncrossed his his logs and crossed them again another way, "the children who Ilved in the house canin down to the pool every morning to throw crumbs of delicious food to their two goldfish.
"Being a fish was like being a bird. Instead of wings, you had
Rupert and the Truant-15
Whes, Christmas Day, arrives Kupert us up early in his eagernes to see what Santa Claus hai brought The stocking at the end of his bed is full, and he can hardly wait to empry it Later he finds large parcel beside his place at breakfast "My special prestisi
has come though my letter wai sent late, be laughs. "That littk postman has done jolly well. I worlder if he opens pillar-bout after Christmas. ) abould like 19 thank-you' send Santa Claus letter.
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