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horoscope
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9
21. will be lessened if you have
at least one alternative. VIRGO (August 22-Septem-
AQUARIUS (January
February 19): You nro approaching a dreisive point in your career and must do all you can to face it fully prepared.
PISCES
20-
February March 20): Baving Trad the one wank point in your character pointed out by & shrewal critic, try 24FICE cradiente this trait,
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
A Mituation ная arisen
of
ter 22); You seem to be headed for a certain course of action in spite of your
definite feeling that it may ranse trouble; think twice before going ahead with it.
LIBRA September 23-Octo-
ber 22: Thanks to your patience and perseverance, you are at Jung Inst out the threshold of success,
which seems to be quite SCORPIO (October beyond your comprehension and finds you in a state bewilderment. Some pertin- ent advice might help you to cope with it.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Having realised that a re- cent deal did not turn the way you experted, must make the best of a und bargain.
GEMINI May 21-June 21): You will earn the gratitude of the people concerned for arranging a transaction such a way as to be fair to all.
in
CANCER June 22-July 1):
You are fortunate in hay- make Ing the ability to profitable use of everything that comes your way.
LEO
July 22-August 21);
Do try and avoid staking aft your hopes on our source only: the disappointment
JACOBY
N
average
A would
bridge player
have Jazi trouble with today's slim contract, He would have worried about the club suit but eventually he would have played ace and an- other club and West would have been forced to play the king.
23-1
an
November 21): You Are wrong in pursuing argument when the matter has been settled and nothing is to be gained by further discussion.
SAGITTARIUS
(November 22-December, 21; In your struggle to get, to the top you must learn to anticipate The other person's next move and keep him from guess. | ing yours.
CAPRICORN (December 22-
January 20): You are inclined to dread certain event which lies in the near Cuture and will be surprised at how smoothly the whole thing goes off.
YOUR BIRTHDAY: If this is your birthday you will be able in the coming year to enlarge your business activities and thus assuro yourself of greater prosper-} ity.
on BRIDGE
Unfortunately for North and South it WIK an all-expert game and South hul what ap- peared to be better ideas. He won the first heart in his own hand, drew trumps, coghed both dummy's high spades and king of hearts and ruffed the last heart.
♥CARD Sense♦
North
3
3 N.T.
The bidding has beent
East
Pass
Pass
Pass
South West
2 34
פיג
PRES
You, South, hold; AKJ87 VE JAJI SK Q10 64
What do you do?
A-Bld Øve clubs. This con- tract should be safe and if your partner decides to go to six you are delighted.
TODAY'S QUESTION Instead of three clubs over two clubs your partner's rebld has been, two diamonds. What do you do now?
Answer Tomorrow
NORTH
AK K93 AJ85 Q974
28
9876543
WEST
AQ 10
Q3 10875 732 K8
EAST
64
• None J102
SOUTH (D)
A2
KQ10064
A053
East and West vulnerable
South West North
编 P055
East
Pass 3 N.T. Pass 5. Pass Pass Pats Pass Opening lead—❤ Q
Now South had to attack the club sult, Since West has al- rundy shown two spades, six hearts and three diamonds he could not have more than two clubs, South led low club and West, had-nU trouble playing the eight. It takes considerable intestinal fortitude to blank king that way but West had it.
South played dummy's nine. East won with the ten and led back the deuce. South played
low and West's unguarded king set the hand.
A HELEN BURKE RECIPE
STUFFED AUBERGINES (EGG PLANTS) Aubergines are plentiful Just now. For four servings, out two large ones, length- wise, in half and,' with a sharp knife, cul deep, criss- flesh, cross marks in the taking
not caro
to out through the skins, Sprinkin with cocking salt and leave for two hours. Drain them And fry them, cut files down. In one to two tablo- spoons of butter or olive oil or a mixture of the two. maill the flesh is softish. Remove the aubergines and scoop it out:
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A
FROM LONDON
Will YOU take the plunge..?
IT'S COMPLIMENTS ALL THE WAY
WITH THIS LINE
by ELIZABETH DICKSON
table set
T
for romance..
A
London Express Service
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PICTURE BY NORMAN EALES
HE SITUATION: Cocktails, dinner, maybe. THE TIME Now. THE PROBLEM: How to cope with the Paris inspiration that makes a décolletté the deepest in years.
the No-Colour Look gives it sparkle
NEW trend to start the conversation buzzing round your dinner-table this dinner-party season-the No-Colour Look. It is all part of the hack-to-essentials trend of polished wood floors, plain white walls, solid colours, richly textured fabrics.
ANIT the razzle-dazzle of dinner tables in recent years it is as refreshingly, effortlessly pretty as a clear stream in the sunlight.
Ingredients? Against polished table (protect the sur- face with small cork mats) the austere elegance of an all-white dinner service, its good looks a matter of strple Lines, a flaw- less high-glaze finish.
Match this with
#
phantom
conucopia of shiny white frult und vegetables,
Next step-sparkle. The glit- ter of crystal for glasses and candlesticks, ship shinless sivel for cutlery and condiment sels,
By JOCASTĄ INNES
*
Nina Ricci bared it to the actual waist. The solution is to take one
side of a dual plunge. If you have a generous supply of woman's best natural asset, then buy a party dress with a neckline lower than you have ever worn.
If you are of willowy,
lissom frame, then get round it this WAY: BCLLIC for m dress that plunges deep behind. Either way you arẻ
in at the debut of a crmed that tuskes
proper sense. And There is no limit to the amount of compliments that will be coming your way. Next step. Frankly, outrageously glamorous is the new low look in dend black or dead white. In Booty velvet that old black magic has never been more powerful. White Batin and the effect of a grand entrance-baš paver been clearer. Whichever side of the plunge you
dare choose, com- bined with black or white you hare glamour plus, VIVID, CLEAR NEW RED lip. stick as exciting as the street it's named after is: "FIJI Avenue Red, ifow on sale at beauty counters everywhere. It to the logical answer to the problem of how to look alive In your "sult of unrelieved
Morale boost
NOTHING in the world has the built-in security of fur. Either Battery or prestige- wise. Now you can budget
them as small as, they must be realu ke, but One of the best boasts to the morale around the shops at the moment is a bow-trimmed real mink het. In natural real mink or pastels, it is much easier to wear, les exacting than the high, fluffy toques predicted to catch on next Exuding luxury (which. after all. in what any real hat should do for you). It costs, surprisingly, Just 61 gna.
On a leash New on a leash is the evening bag, Paris raved about it and now it's in the shops here.
Zandon Capris Service
PICTURES BY NORMAN TALES
ABOVE: Grand, moaner
· party dress as low as most women 'dara 'Now at ' Salfridges for about 81⁄2 guincos.
-LEFT: Set for romance,. white silk jersey, the dress lined throughout, At Dickins and Jones, 14 guineas,
Sketched here is one that come to duchesse satin, your colour for the asking. From Fenwicks, Price one gutriea.
STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Teddy Gets His Wish
-He Learns To-Sing Like A Bind—
By MAX TRELL EDDY, the Stuffed Bear, tod- died across the room-hờ
Teddy's eyes lit up. "Yes" he replied. Joe, the Canary, made a little in his throat. clucking cound
Is that why you came here?"
And the finishing touch which makes the No-Colour Look come alive? A very pale splash of colour. Palest pink candles and inpkins.
The result is as you sco it was much too fat to walk Ice pictured hero romantic, ardinary people-until finally he sparkling and pretty, a setting came to the canary cage. There he asked Teddy. which calls for all the picasant | ho_slopped.
"Yes," answered Teddy. "I
formality of popping chrun The Canary was standing on wanted to hear you sing a cong, and low decol-his perch. Inside the cage, The But I was afraid to ask you. I
Canary's first name was Joe,
payme
corks
chopped,
letages. skinned and deseeded lurgish tomatoes, until the valon is cooked. Add three chopped cooked Toulouse sausages (obtain- able
Continental from butchers) or use four cook- full-sized English ones, ed and the aubergine flesh.
well to taste Season pilx all together.
A
and
auberrioc Place the "shells" in a shallow ginna oven-dish or ONL
heat- proof plaiter. File the mix, ture into them, sprinkle
pacesn with grated siryish and brown a flitle under a
grill..
Instead of sausages, the In the same pan, gently
equivalent in minced cooked chopped onion, tryi
lamb, beef or ham can be of finely chopped clove
LBCL. In this care, add n to Soc. zarlia, 2
chopped
pinch of mixed herbs to the (or mushroom- mixture. INTERROGATIS stems, will do) and three
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS
sing a song for a bear like me." "I sing songs for everybody," replied Joe, the Canary".
and warbles
"I wish I could sing like a bird," said Teddy
"Well," said Joe, the Canary "that shouldn't be so hard."
Then Joe, the Canary, warbled 1 song for Teddy, the Stuffed "You really think," sald Bear. There weren't any words to the song, but it was all filled with trilla whistles and peeps.
"No reason why you can't at 4'It's beautiful exclaimed all," declared Joe, the Canery. Teddy, the Stuffed Bear.
"I never had any trouble singing like a birú**
Teddy, "that I could learn 10 sing like a bird-I mean, a kind and like you?"
Shouldn't Be Hard
"But you are # bird!" ex- "Thank you very much," said claimed Teddy.
"Good morning, Joe," sald was strald you wouldn't want to Joe, the Conary.
Teddy to the Camry.
"Good morning, Teddy."
plied Joe, the Canary. cun I du for you?”.
Toddy is Silent
TE-
"What
Teddy did not answer at örst. Joe, the Canary, stuck his bill out between the bars of his cage. He looked at Teddy very closely.
Always wipe up milic, veget- able and truli juléės nríd vinegar from the top of a range im- mediately. Those foods contain melde that dull and stain enamel | Teddy. De motod surfaces.
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Shall I give you something?” he asked. “Would you like some seeds?"
"NO, thank you," replied
"No?" asked Joe. His rounded disappointed.
Before storing your barbecue, "Fake some water, then. Ive grill for the winter, remove | got a dish of clean, fresh water." accumulated grease by scouring
the grill with a stiff-bristled
Clucking Sounds
Ne, thank you,” said Teddy then?"
brush and sal soda concentrated, applied dry. Rinse well. When dry, apply a thin coating of | again. petróleum jelly to prevent How about a song rusting.
asked Joe, the Cannży.
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When the log cabin is reached, t'iu not anybody's énemy ! ** laughs the boy insists on having Rupert Rupert. Of course to 1" come beside him with the puppy.
drd the bay. **if it hadn't been for airdose forgotten the little bear and him. I wouldn't be bere now. that tracker dog," says the Chic. He's my jolly good friend [** After what has happened. I "Well, well, the Chief grins. 'suppquɛ I mustn't think of you an "You must be one of us now. an enemy any more."* "dis,no, v. This is a surprise for everybody,"
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"Oh, I almost forgot that,” sald Joe, the Canpry.
"Now let's see. You want to sing like bird? There's only one thing you need. You need a bill!"
When he heard this, Teddy did nothing for a moment. Then slowly he turned and started to walk away.
"Just a raímatél you going?"! Joe, called after him.
Teddy, stopped.
ore
Where the Canary,
"I can't ever get a bil" he said. "I'm a bear, not a bird."
'I'll Show You
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Joff listened as Teddy whistled the first note of a bird song.
"Fine," said Toddy, "I'm all. ready! What do I do first?"
“Push out your lips," said Jos, the Canary
Teddy did so. He pushed them out as far as he could.
"There! Now blow! Blowj Teddy blow out through his pg. And what do you think?
He made a sound like the first note in the song of o, bird..
He whistled. "Now don't give up too soon," said Joe, the Canary, in a voice "There, you BOO?!"
caid Jos, that sounded more and more the Canary, "It's not hart - to cheerful. "I'll show you How to sing like ki bled. All you need la wow a bit in exsetly ve sco- a bill." onds and 14 show you how to Then Joe, the Canary, and sing like a bird, too. I want you. Toddy, the Dear with . Bill, lo do cality: na. I say!"
both, whlelled u song together!
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