THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1980.
WOMANSENSE
VERONICA
LADY
your
LUCK-
CHINA MAIL
horoscope
gel to the top, do not fall to respect the rights of others, VIRGO (4) (August 22-Sep-
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7 #G) January AQUARIUS
An *x- 21-February 19: cellent saggestion will be made to you today about bow to save more money. Put Info practice at once und stick to it. PISCES
(February 20- March 201: A chance of a sit safe Investment will Way and you come your
ught to take it.
March 21- April 19: Don't bring your business worries home with you. Relax at night and sturt worrying again in the morning. If
ARIES 110)
You must. TAURUS 112 (April 20.
May 20: Make the most of what you have, and realise that many are much woren off than you. GEMINI C)
(May 21-June
211: Write the letter which you have postponed for guch a long time; it may mean that much more security for you in the future.
tember 22): A legal matter which you have been worry- ing about promises to be settled antisfactorily. LIBRA 11) September 21-
October 22: In your puy- Fult of a very important job, don't leave anything to chance but go after it with determination. unswerving
(3) October SCORPIO
November 21): A person to whom you were once very nuch attracted may come into your life again. SAGITTARIUS
13.
(8) No- vember 22-December 21: The best way to help a friend who keeps asking for advice is to encourage him to think for himself instead of relying too much on you. CAPRICORN 1) December
20): 22-January
Some friends may be planning a surprise for you. Don't
plousure spoil their
taking it for granted.
CANCER 15) June 22-July 21: Carb your impatience
too YOUR nequire ta
money quickly
and easily. If you earn it the hard way, you will appreciate it so much more.
LEO
(7) July 22-August
In your struggle
to
by
LUCKY NUMBER: Count the letters in your first name and add the total
shown number to the
in brackets after your sign of your the Zodine. This is lucky number for the week.
PAPWORTH
What would you
buy a teenager?
JOLIDAY- clothes for girls are tricky. Had enough for
HOL
parents to be faced with a uniform wardrobe which is a "must" without having to supply something deorn!" for the holidays. Happily almost all teenagers · love clothes as precents. No consider:
On the left black and white, lace-printed party dress with velvet uach and its own stiffened underskirt,
and miftably "sloppy" with
Mohair sweater-V-necked
black and white patterned pants.
Rote red and pink patterned party dress in the Givenchy manner. Its belt skirt entirely interlined and stiffened.
On-while trench coat and permanently pleated, coffee- caloured Terylene skiri-the heliday "uniform."
ST JOHN ADRIAAN
JACOBY BRIDGE Me and electricity
CAM Fry of New York
SA
on
hus
been winning bridge touIKI-
ments for more than 25 years. About five years back he came up with the theory that any opments time his
bid 212)
trump slum and he was on leadi with un nee he would put that and at least ace on the table
nlop evertricks.
or
course,
Sam
WEST
A52 1073
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17:47
0032
did mean that he would do it with ho wanted to uny hand but bring out the point that the ace lead against a slam should not be disdained and that some hands actually cry out for this opening.
Here is a hand from the Mid- American-Canadian regionals at Omaha that illustrates this.
+CARD Sensen
Q-The bidding has been:
North East
South
**** 7.
West
14
Double
Разя
Z♥
Pass Pass
3 d
Puss
44
Pass
7
You, South, hold:
AAQ9705 ♥K3Z +2 4184
What do you do?
A--Bid five clubs, Your pre- vious club bid merely forced' game. Now you want to show the nee.
TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner bids six spades. What do you do now?
Answer Tomorrow
South
NORTH 207 € ❤KJ
AJJ AKJB4
EAST
24
K983 8042 762
4105
SOUTH (D)
6974
AQRS
♦ KQ 104
Q7
No one vulnerable
West
North Eait
Pas
1 N.T. Pais SN.T.
Pass Pau
Opening Icad-♣ a
we just don't mix
I am THE skids are under me. THE
being organised, mechanised, brought up to date-bewitched, be- wildered, and generally bothered about.
For years I have resisted automation In my kitchen.
Horatius, I have
A cross between Joan of Arc and defended my hearth, standing fast against all "planners."
But over my dead body-which is the way it dish- always happens-the family decided on
"Any woman would bu washing machine.
"Of course we are only delighted," they said.
"especially after parties" se-thinking of you"
...the whole lot washed and dry in a matter
has
defence
West has to lead against six ho-Trump and the bidding been that simple one-six quence that tells the nothing except that North feels of minutes"
he holds enough for a slam.
Wert also knows that
"never known
you so reactionary,"
North "All right." roid I, “but you and South almost surely hold know how it is with electricity
them and me."
33 or 34 points between
and that the most his partner cun show up with will be three points.
The Lee lead really succeeds. East drops the nine, West leads another sprde and the hand is set. If West leads any other suit South takes all 13 tricks.
HOUSEHOLD
HINTS
Well-cured, mature onlons are the top occasionally shortens
10 the time necessary for selling. [or the skin dry enough crack.e.
4
Never frenze broiler chickens in the frozen food compartment of a refrigerator. The pompart- ment reaches only about 13 or 20 degrees not cold enough to quick freeze the broilers.
Knitting needles make sturdy and colourful stakes for climb- ing plants. Just stick the paint- ed end into soll and tie on the plant..
Sew discarded
ahoulder pads
on wire hungers and bang jersey
or other sheer garments without stretching or drawing.
We just don't mix.
It won't go,
ONLY MY WELLINGTON BOOTS
SAVED ME-I DON'T KNOW HOW
That's what they told me new one you're installing it had later but don't ask me how. better be a stainless steel unit." There's electricity for you!
One unit leads to another, and Heating blankets turn cold under me
vacuum cleaners
So in comes the dish-washer, what with the uneven floor their own flex consume
It cannot go where it obviously botter tile it and make a jub hair-driers cough themselves to should go "It's all account et 1" and the work-bench of the wasto-but don't worry, which is now the wrong height we'll shift the sink. A Sunday "be cheaper to scrap it in the Newspaper woman with an old- long run"-Heaven knows where
# will end fashioned porectatn sink!" says my builder scornfully..
a standstil
my
As for those plugs! - Why
do
round-ends always have square connections? Why is it that a two-pin into a three-pin won't go?
Last time I tried to help things
along with a
driver I
WILN
screw-
What end?
back-
siip were Feeling on if ray wards across the cellar and
retreat as CRASH, only my Wellington boots showing I
"And if it's a out goes my sink.
saved me.
NOW TAKE SOME CORNFLOUR...
“A whole new concept in GLOAT. I gloat....and it's
heralded not very often I gloat. But French cookery," was when I do how 1 delight in . in a speech by Bob Carrier, "Authentle French sauces can Twice in the last two yours I be made in minutes instead of have written that I never bother hours."
to make a rou-stirring and blending butter and four-fer a basle white (Bochamel) sauce.
I've told that cornflour, cor
"
If a leaky tap gets on, your one person in a thousand could, handed around, and the great nerves before it can be fixed,opot the difference.
WHAT YOU NEED:~ 4 or 5 eggs.
2 level teaspoons cornflour.
1 tablespoon water or nalik.
1 tablespoon oil.
Alevel tablespoon butter.
to
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BOYS
AND
MAGAZ
General Tin Remembers
-Santa Claur Waited Till Nothing Was Stirring→
By MAX TRELL
IDI ever tell you." esked
"DID
Generul Tin, the Tin Soldier, "about what
Jon The Night Before
mas?"
happened Christ-
General Tin was talking to Knart and Hand, the Shadow Children with the Turned-About Names, and Teddy, the Stuffed Dear, and Hiawatha, the Smell- Sized Wooden Indian, and Mary-Jane, the Rog Dell, and all his other friends who lived In the Playroom.
Noyer Told Them
Hanid spoke for everyone and she replied that he had never told them what had happened jon The Night Before Christmas. "Very well," said General Tin. "ll be glad to tell you exactly what happened.
fall softly and turned the year than switch.
"It w The Night Before Christmas.
in the Everyone
The children house was asleep. had gone to bed especially curly so as to be sure to be up bright and early the next morning. For there is no happier day in the Christmas and the the Chri a person gets up, more me there is to be happy. Started Through House "Well, I was standing in this General Tin usual," by
aroom as fossing went on, "and as soon as I was sure that everyone was asleep, I started going softly through
In silence 1 raised the lid.
black littered contents--backed
of
Chunks
the the revolving
silver serving spoon unanchored in the depths.
ΟΠ
There's a new fan in my dish- 11e house." washer now--and the "re- juvenation" continues.
10-4
The General kept looking into the fireplace!
sern that not a creature stirring, not even a Mouse. Now why don't you just wait tit
Claus Sanla
comes? You're never seen him, you know. This is wonderful chance!'
Waited For Santa
"So, of course, I decided to swy up and wait for Santa Claus come, for I did want very much, vory much indeed, to see him.
"I was sure he would be com- ing down the chimney through the fireplace. So I went and stood by the bricks, on one side. Then I waited. But he didn't
come.
Then I moved to the bricks waited "Why did you go through, the Gh the other side, and house?" Knarf Interrupted to and waited and waited. ask.
"And then," said General Tin,
not a creature
get light and Christmas ing was downing and still there was no Santa Claus,
morn-
Already the old place looks "I went through the house," "1 began to get worded. Be like a cross between an operat-answered General Tin, make cause the sky was beginning to
was ing theatre and a publie wash-sure that and-brush-up roon-a blinding stirring, not even a Mouse."
"Oh, just like the poem!' ex- extravagance of white tiles and white paint. (Oh, for a pussy claimed Hanid. cat, a rocking-chair and a rag rug).
Almost Right
I mean it was
Thought Of Something
ut
"So I paced up and down in But the gadget-minded men of "Yes," agreed General Tin, front of the fireplace, and kept
household
delighted."st ne
the chimney, and ke the poem. It was peering There is even talk of a waste right.
clmost looking out of the window, and pacing up and down agahı unfl disposal unit that will grind upright. the bottles.
"When I went down to the all at once I thought of some-
found the celler. I
Mice it thing, something that was keep- sleeping soundly. The Cat was in Santa Claus from curled up in a ball beside the Kilchen stove. The Dog
Trouble is I haven't time to feed bottles to a disposal unit.
Dammit, I haven't time to use a dishwasher.
Success!
coming!" "What was it, General Tio?" "A creature was stirring!"
"Oh! Who" everyone in the Playroom shouted.
Hoard Something Stirring
"Mel
WES asleep
ball near in the
the door. The Canary was on his perch with his rod tucked un- the der his wing. And even Goldfish were lying on the scrid at the bottom of the aquaritan. ONCE made a set of Holly. "Of course
the clocks were But wood-style, deep-pile cut-moving their hands a bit.
Because it Meanwhile I wrestle with the tains for a pair of tall, Georgian that was important.
they didn't how would anyone dishwasher, which is connected. windows in one hour.
know what time it was? Also, moment Perhaps I fell asleep. I'm ndi zure. Anyway, it LIVE.
how would anyone knew when
seemed to me that I heard it was Christmas?
Scrape the plates before put- ting them in.. rinse the cups
- casseroles doubtful pots and pans impossible.
For one day I scraped, rinsed, packed, and fed the monster-
stood back watching it and buzzing and slashing-starting and stopping.
I could have done it in half the time.
They shook
On the second day I loaded up 35 Usual and turned the switch.
indescribable. Where was
How?
draw-string By machining
four single- tape to curtain width white candlewick bed- spreads.
Those
curtains were A tremendous success.
It Was Late
"Well, the moment I thought of that. I went back to my place at the door. guess I must have shut my eyes for a
someone
string around усту faintly and far off.
"But it wasn't any creature!" General Tla General Tin sald, “Oh, no! That "By this time."
Senta It was
himself, went on, it was quite late.
stirring stock luge was right in the middle at the about the children's night, the very exacl time when that hung in front
is supposed to ploce, stirring in front of the Santa Claus Laundered like They
#replace, stirring about In his needed dream,
traning, come. So I said to myself: draped
Unio broad
General Tin, you've been til cheerful way, just stirring and brais hooks,
and you've stirring about.'" and had sufficient through the house "body" without lluing.
10
cut down They have been and restyled to fit three different houses and I have them yet,
As the result of all this I am
a confirmed candlewick fan.
is why I salute the Which
A so devoted the opening of
entirely to this seemingly Indestructible fabric.
Available by the yard in walls widths ranging from 30 inches white to 34 inchlies the range of clashed colours
well worth any
CC33 eweuld-be hones-alter's
deration.
is
WHAT YOU DO: "Mix corn Sour and cold liquid in a bowl.
The din was Beat eggs into the mixture. Sheaves of recipes heralding Heat oil in omelette pan and What to do? roetry used, 13 the perfect this splendid new quick-cut ap-
pour eggs and cornaqur mixture book of 'words? to the kitchen were
Underneath? Inside? "quick-cut” substitute; that not proach
"After a few seconds cooking. Escoffier was quoted as saying
Windows shook, that a cornflour couce Fpag- reduce heat and loosen omelette
more around edges with palette knife trembled as my splendid "will And the dedicated
be clearer, sauce- nole
uncooked mixture enamelled time-saver
and hammered away makers rose in a body to tell me brilliant,
and better than that so that the of the old processes which need- has a chance to cook. how wrong I was.
"Continue shaking pan occa- drunken cement-mixer. Now I am vindicated.
ed three days to despumate"
surfaco alonally until
of
"Once in action do not touch Monogrimmed bedspreads, in Recully a couple of hundred (clear),
omelette is just creamy..
while the red light shines," they deep-plle cundlewick with cook-book writers, gourmets and
"When done, dot with butter, Ead warned me byt ali Hell heavily fringed borders ara par- called to *If you haven't an egg poacher gastronomes were
the advent
fold in three and serve in was seemingly letom under ticularly good looking, handy, put into the bolling gether to celebrate
:) circular pastry of "French Cooking Made Easy" water first a cutler (plain edge preferable), made easy with cornflour
queen of that, poneered by the and drop the egg into Spooning the boiling water over]French cuisine, Philomene.
tie a string to the tap handle near the tip, and let the string hang down into the sink, won't fix the leak, but it will silence the drip.
w
One thing I will admit. I've never thought of adding cornflour to an omelette! 1.
Philomene does
and here's
how.
dlately."
No, I have not tried it. Reactionary that's me, Bome
the lid.
The cost? 888. O for single I struggled into my life-saving beds, including the monograin. Wellington boots, related, ready"
(London Express Beroine).
of the fre
Rupert and the Snowball—10
·A· Rupert's urgent call. Algy hurtles through between the two turn to act what has caused his started pals, rust inising their new excitement. From very high up snowman. In their fright they both the slope behind the snowman a toppi over. "W-who could have large white ball is rushing down sent, that down ? ** quavers Rupert towards them. Faster and faster ir › shakily, as he gares
**There's no one in Wight up. comes, growing bigger and bigger
there." it picks up more andw, until a
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