JACOBY on
EORGE WILLIAM NABOR
writes: "My partner and I staggered inte reven diamondla ark East promptly doubled. When it got back to my partner he decided that East was doub- Ling with a sure and trick caria. cut to seven
also bul I Eant doubled that
K
nd no trouble making it. All had to do was to rull the open- ing spade lead, draw trumps' and set up the diamond sult by ruff- Lax one of them.
"How should we have reach-
own ed seven hearts on our
steam?"
The answer tu
Mr Nabur's this
V+CARD Sense
Q-Tho bidding has been:
question is that
West
14
4
Narth
14
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1960.
WOMANSENSE
BRIDGE SPARKLE
NORTH
None ❤J95
• AKQ743 *A972
EAST 4104
603
J 10 42
Q85
SOUTH (D)
➡K 73
ФАКО12
+95
WEST
QJ109652
104
+8
4013
♣ KJ 10
Both vulnerable
is une of
South
West North
Esst
1♥
Pass 3+
Pass
DV
Jars 4*
Thes
5
Pass
5
Pass
Pans
Eart South
SN.T. Pass A .1V
J'oss
Pass
T'aks
Pass 14
7
extremely
LA
You, South hold:
AKJA WAD876 +32 MAGE
What do you do?
A-Double. You don't know where all the bidding is coming from but you surely will art five clubs and a profit is a profit.
TODAY'S QUESTION
Again your partner has over- alled an opening club bkl with nae ronde, This me you hold: AQTVKATG +332 K 1984
What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
Pass Opening lead—★ Q
those hands that is hard to bid to the lay down grand slam. The bidding shown here is one way to get there.
arti The bidding is scientif logical but to quote Ely Culbert Don: "It is very easy to reach the right contract when you are shown all the cards."
Incidentally, East has may sympathy. Few players indeed would have held bark a deuble of the seven-diamond contract.
BOYS AND GIRLS
MAGAZINE *******
Indian Wasn't Well
-A Single Word From Mr. Punch Cured Him-
By MAX TRELL
NOW WHEN I
was a boy,"
"Nald Mr Punch to
Knurt Shadow
stood
and Haniel, the Children with the Turned-About Names. "I het
Very friend. His name was Chief Just-On-is-Nose."
"Oh, W36 he ยก Indian?" Hanid exclaimed,
"He certainly was," said Mr Punch.
What Kind?
"Was he on Apache Indian?" asked Knart. "Was he a Naya- ho?"
kept
Mr Punch shook his head. Kharf and Hanid both mem- tloned the names of other in- dian Tribes. Mr Punch: right on shaking his head.
"No," said Mr Punch Anally,
friend Dust-O-His-Nos "my wasn't an Apache or a Navaho Indian or any of those Indians
mentioned. Ho was you Wooden Indian."
Only Hiawatha Knart and Hanid both said that the only Wooden Indian the they knew was Hiawatha,
Small-Sized Wooden Indian, who lived in a small wigwam la the corner of the Playroom be- tween the lamp and the book-
case
"My friend Chief Dust-On- His-Nose," Mr Punch went on, "lived in front of a Cigar Store."
Wooden He was a Cigar Store Indian.
that "He stood in front of Cigar Store day and night, sum- mer and winter. He never down."
sat
"Didn't he get tired?” Knarf asked.
Very Unusual
"He did nol!" said Mr Punch. "Itc didn't get any of those things that folks like you and and me get-I mean, hungry sleepy or hot or cold,
"But one day," continued Mr
FCC
J-3]
"What Is bathering You?” Mr.
Punch anked the Chler.
romething's wrong, you'd better tell me. I know you're not tired frum standing day and night In front of this Cigar Store."
"What did the Wooden Indian Chief say?" Itunid asked.
"He didn't my anything," said Mr Punch. "But he looked unhappier than ever.
Punch's Decision "So finally 1 decided to look for myself and find out what
was wrong."
"I hope you found it," said Knarf.
"I did," said Mr Punch "What was it?" asked Knart. Mr Punch smiled.
Speck Of Dust
1
"It was a speck of dust on the end of his nose. And it was itching him. He couldn't seem to get it off."
"Did you get it off for him?" Hanid wanted to know.
Mr Punch shook his head. "I didn't even try. The Chlef wouldn't have liked it. But 1 had a better idea.
One Word
just leaned over ond Punch." went around to
word into My friend
Chief Dust-On-I whispered a single Nose and I saw at once that, the Chief's wooden ear."
Knart and Hanid both de- Ho was wrong. something looked unhappy. He was trown- monded: ing. His eyes were half-shut.
What's The Trouble? "Now look here, Chief Dust- On-His-Nose,' I said, what is bothering you this morning?"
"To my surprise, the Chlef
didn't answer me,
Come now, Chief, I said, 'I'm an old friend of yours.
If
"What word?"
"The word," nid Mr Punch still smiling. "was soceze.”
"And that's what he did. He gave a great big wooden sneeze and the speck of dust flew and right off his wooden nose went Buttering down the street to get, I suppose, on the end of somebody else's nose."
Rupert and the Snowball-17
Rupert struggles up the slope the time Algy ha breathlessly that is sometimes very keep and joined him the little beac
sometimes has deep now into which he sinks. He follows the track that was made by poor Freddy Fox until the snowman is far out of sight, and there he Anda what be já expecting. By be Ferdy's 'sledige marka.”
looking at a broader mark at the
top of the track. ** This Thuat
be the spot where Freddy fell off
and started oiling." says Rupert. See, those other marka rauat
"ALL RIGHTS BISLAVED
-
on a shoe-string
One dress, two views. This cocktail dress by London Town is made from Zika Ascher's new wool and mohair fabric, piped with lilac satin.
THERE
By HAZEL MEYRICK
was once a girl though she could probably afford she prefers to have who bought a cheap a fur coat. cocktail dress and then several different fur les. spent twice as much on handbag to go with it.
11
There is one item that you just ern't economise on, according to Mrs Fry, and that is a dress for
Crazy? No. She had simply dancing. discovered the secret of good
I can
alwaye And a chesp theasing, whatever your incotue, cocktail dress, usually in black For however much they spend or coffee-brown jersey, with a on their wardrobes, the world's matching jacket. But you just best-dressed women know that can't save money on party
It is not the clothes themselves, dress I suppose the designer cati- but the accessories that give tha not afford to put enough material Husion of being well-dressed.
into a really cheap garment)"
Faction moves fast, And an expensive dress dates Just as quickly as a cheap one. But jewellery, shoes, gloves and handbags are the eng-Insting dazzlers in your wardrobe, par. ticularly at party time.
Agreeing that there is nothing worse than skimpy, cheap taffeta under artificial light, I believe the best party dress enyone can own is the one she makes herself. You can put all your money into a good fabric, and dresses for Hardest-hit of all party-goers dancing cre easy to make-tor the pattern, the at this season are the executive the simples wives, the women who go to no more effective they look.
But for those who prefer to buy, or are looking for new ideas are my party to copy, here dazzlers, pleked from the cur tent dress collection
emileys
business
of round parties and have to look dif- ferent on each occasion.
I quizzed ont of them, 35 ,year-old Cella Fry, a former
model, whose husband is sales manager of an engineering firm, to find out how she coped,
"A really good handbag, and od gloves-they are my main Extravagance." he told me. I always buy a real leather hand- bag. The fastenings and handles of plastic bags give them away, A pair of long suede gloves will make, the plainest dress look formal, and expensive."
Only burglars care
whether the jewellery you wear is real or fake, and Celia Fry's jewel- case is crammed full of inex pensive places, some of
which
she buys from market stalls.
"I love dress rings, the size of knuckle-dusters, but I find that some plass stones look more be- lievable than others," she told me, "Pale rose pink, amber or stones are fine, Lopaz-coloured
blue bit bright red, or
look rather Christmas-crackerish."
Mrs Fry believes that you can fet away with the cheapest, gaudiest jewellery under arti- ficial light, and confesses to 2 weakness for hugh fake diamond brooches. But she has some more expensive items tume jewellery.
of cos-
"I collect strings of beads," The told me. "Long ropes, are nuch better than made-up much necklets, you can do 50 more with them. I have several And cheap pearls, string of have added recently topes of cut crystal and some of the new aniber and
mixtures. pearl Sometimes I
by wear them.
occasions themselves, on other
I put on the lot."
There is nothing more bogu than take fur, and Celia believes 1 is better to own a tiny cravat of reel marmot than a whole coat of "simulated mlnk." Al-
TASTY TIPS
Pickle anchovy snacks may be used as a garnish or hors-'oeuvres. Spread thin cross- wise clices er large dill pickles with cream cheese raftened to taste with sour cream and anchovy paste. Chill before serving.
•
Salted puffed rice is tasty at macktime. Place 4 cups of puffed rice in a shallow baking pan and toast in a moderate (350-degree) oven about 10 minutes. Melt 4 tablespoons of butter in a large skillet. Add 1 teaspoon of salt and the toasted puffed rice. Heat, stirring constant- ly, over high heat about 1 minute. Serve hot.
•
Give a holiday air to breakfast cereal by serving puffed rice or puffed wheat with eggnog topping. Combine 1 beaten egg, 2 teaspoons of sugar, 1 cup of milk and 4 teaspoon of vanilla. Beat well and pour over 2 servings of cereal.
Macaroons made with candied fruit and rolled oats are a sweet treat,
· WINTER TRACK SUITS in pillar-box rod, Desco-ined kuliied cotton (also in navy), have a.xip-fronted, lumber-jacket top, trousers with elasticated ribbing at sykles and waist, four to fourteen, “
m(London Kapram Kervice).
Beat 3 egg whites until frothy. Add 1⁄2 tea spoon of vinegar, 1⁄4 teaspoon of salt and 1⁄2 lea- spoon of vanillu. Add 1 cup of granulated sugar, a tablespoon at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat until mixture is stiff and glossy, Gently fold in 1⁄2 cup each of mixed candied old- fruit and uncooked rolled oats (quick or fashioned). Brop from a teaspoon onto greased baking sheels. Bake in preheated 300-degree oven 20 to 25 minutes. Remove from baking sheets when cooled. Makes 4 dozen biscuits.
COTTON for conta. A cotton gabardine paisley rainocak, 'simply out, 'has a quilted sip-in laing. Not shown bère la Mtu wen rxiu hood and belt.
För cocktail parties-there's a straight, almost -sack-like dress of black jersey, with a bathing-suit neckline tha! swoops down almost 10 the waist at the back. It is topped by a blazer jacket in gold and silver brocade.
For Informal parties-that fabric wizard, Ziko Ascher, has thought up a new material mad: from a mixilure of wool and mo- Lair. it is sold in several prints, und one or two designers ate making them up into attractive party clothes that can be worn during the day-time es well.
LADY LUCK
your
CHINA MAIL
AQUARIUS
February 19):
horoscope
FRIDAY, JANUARY 15
(January 21- If you are
in charge of n number of people, make sure to give everyone an equal chance to get on. In this way you will keep their aspirations fresh aid alive.
PISCES (February 20-March 20): Your great nemet in company in your beguiling smile. Don't forget to wear it no matter how you may be feeling.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Having the alternative of staying put or making a move, don't be swayed by emotional impulse. Let your decision be based on hard fact.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
Facing the responsibility of an important decision. you ought to wait until an inspiration comes to guide you along the right line. GEMINI (May 21-June 21): If you are not quite sure that you are following the best
to the person
you love, Nothing should ever be taken for granted.
VIRGO
¡August 22-Septem- ber 2Z): Meeting others who lack your assurance, try and help them when they appear awkward company.
in
LIERA (September 23-Octo-
ber 22): Try and refrain from your desire to regulate other people's lives, They ail have their individual tnates and desires and should be allowed to follow them
SCORPIO (October 23-No- vember 21): An association with a person born early in May should be very succEKA- ful.
SAGITTARIUS
(November 22-December 21): Don't
that riches think
would
you. solve everything for Never forget that there are a great many things besides money which can bring happiness. CAPRICORN (December 22- January 20): Your adapta- environment bility to any and ability to talk to people of Bfe arc in all wallts among your greatest asseÉR.
If this Firthday your
you may form a very satisfying partnership early this year and through it will find a opportunities great many for Improving your financial position.
course in your pro- gress, analyse the situation and if necessary consult a more experienced person. For formal evenings the long straight dress is in, at the one CANCER (June 22-July 21): Since you attach great im- 1 award top marks td for its
practicability, made portance to public opinion, sheer from draped pure silk jersey.
you are quite right 10 You can roll it up and put it
refrain from doing certain in your handbag, then put it on.
uneonventional
is things to uncrushed, when you arrive at
which
narrow minded your destination. It has figure-
people might take objection. flattering drapery and, partner- ed by the right accessories (LEO (July 22-August 21): white gloves und a 'diamonu' bracelet for gala occasions) It is indescribably elegant.
You
to ought your affection more
express often
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