JACOBY on BRIDGE
SOUTH might have redoubled
Instead of bidding two bo- trump. but the chances are he would have wound up at the same no-trump game contract.
The hand should make, but the least bit of careless play will
ruin it.
you!
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1960,
WOMANSENSE
IN FIVE SECONDS YOU CAN LEARN THE RULES THAT WILL MAKE YOUR DAYS ON THE BEACH A JOY
Here's an easy way to
OUR whole being revolves around a place in the sun. Your hairy tweeds have been shoved to the back of the cupboard and the cool cottons brought to the front.. You are ready, in fact, for your annual sortie to hold forth on a dry, baking
South wins the opening heartbeach.
lead with the appropriate honour That is, you're almost ready. There is just one and should promptly lead a low small detail, commonly known as your body.
club to dummy's ace and play
the four of spades. This gives!
East two plays. He can rise with the ace and clear the heart suit whareupon South will make four spades. to hearts, two clubs and a diamond for a total of nine.
Or he can duck, whereupon South will take his jack and try
NORTH (D) AKQL
63
+AQ1095
MABI
EAST
16
♣ A 1093 VK92 +K? 4QJ26
WEST 48
J108754
+432
1072
SOUTH AJ7652
VAQ
J86
K&3
No one vulnerable
North East South West
1+
Double 2 N.T. Pass PIES Pass
3N.T. Pass
Opening lead-❤ J
the diamond finesse. Again East can clear the hearts, but this time South will have one Spade, two hearts four diamonds and two clubs for that same total of nine.
Ho..'s it looking these days? To find out right now:-
(1) Leap out of your clothes.
(2) Stand in front of a full- length mirror,
(3) Look at the reflection and reflect.
When you reach your long- anucipated beach, are you going to enjoy it? Or will it be spoiled because you are self-conscious about those extra pounds of fat that no swimening costume of 1980 will conceal?
If a few bulges are all that loom between you and your self-confidence, you are mad if you don't get rid of the fat before your summer collapses on
you.
One reason
Ayring.com
get in shape
for
by SUSAN BARNES
that you can slick to easily, The first thing you must do is whether you are at home or in a recognise the fact that it is un restaurant or dining with a most odds-on chance that you are fat distinguished hostess,
for one reason only: you eat too much of the wrong kind of food. "
The second thing to realise is that if you have the slightest bit of will-power, and provided you are in normal heart, you can lase a stond in the next t100 months with the greatest of ease.
How can South be careless? Two ways! He can lead a spade
hand from his
at trick two, no
But how to do it?
One thing is sure. There is need at all to study idioti-
What to do
All you must do is:- Stop eating potatoes bread.
and
Stop eating, sweets and pud- dings.
Cummer
away on peanuls to your heart's delight. You can enjoy spirits and wines and their accompany- ing pleasures.
In short, you can eat and drink with the relish of a hedonist if you will only chuck out starches,
and sweets.
SWEETE
SUGAR
ing yourself daily and, of course, at the same time each day. See ig that tell-tale arrow 'moving leftwards morning after morn- ing is more inspiring to self- control than any other device..
Essential
yourself in a tentlike beachrobe and pretend you are observing rather than the local customs concealing your fat,
But you'll have a better time, you know, if you can come out of your tent and look good and feel good..
Extremes
I out of the perverseness of habit you find to begin with that
And remember that you don't | you are hungry between meals, keep some oranges and apples have to be very much slimmer always at hand. By the time to look good. "You don't have you are tired of eating oranges to go to the cadaverous extremes look models who You can have your bacon and and apples you will have lost of fashion egga your hamburger buried your craving for food between blissful in clothes but who lose under fried onions, your scampi meals.
their charms when stripped cooked in butler, your fresh fruit
The essental thing, however, is down to the flesh. salad topped with Devonshire
With bodies, as with most new eating habits now.
If you cream. What's wrong, with that? to take the decision. Start your
For those foods that taste bel- don't begin today, you won't things, it is the happy medium which is desired. When a man begins tomorrow ether. ter when sweetened, buy sac- charine from the chemist. You And then there'll be nothing sees a girl on the beach he likes whether she is coming or going. the Atlantic side of coffee, powdered form for your those on
in liquid form Spain, where prudery in public How do you get the will- grapefruit, and
for making anything from is observed.
bathers Scantily clad power, to stop?
mayonaise to an Old Fashioned
hustled off the beach by cocktail.
cabillleri, There you can encase
Stop cating sugar and food cooked with sugar.
whereupon East can take his ace cally detailed calory sheets that you will start to lose weight. It can gel it in pill form for your for it but to take to beaches like to be able to tell at a glance |
and still have the suit stopped make it impossible to eat a meal
or he can try the diamond finesse without a food scales or tape-
at trick two, whereupon he will measure at hand.
never get to make that one spade trick.
+CARD Sensen,
Q-The bidding has been:
West North East
Double Pass
South
Pass
7
Pass Pass 24
34
You, South, hold: M14E VEJI2 4A10865 42
What do you do?
A-Bld five diamonds. Your partner surely has a singleton spade and four good diamonds.
TODAY'S QUESTION You hold the same hand and your partner bids two spades after you respond two hearts to his double. What do you do now?
Answer TamHOITOW
Forget it!
How on earth can anyone be expected to follow a specimen menu which says: "In addition to three-quarters of a cup of broth and two crisp lettuce leaves flavoured with vinegar, you
may cal loz. of veal cooked without butter, that is, a portion measuring 3in, x
tu, x in.”
Really!
Forget all the clap-trap that makes slimming so complicated that you abandon the whole pro- ject in despair.
Underlake a diet that you can
memorise in five
Stop eating these things and is as simple as that,
• FIRST OF ALL DEVELOP A SENSE OF ECONOMY, REAL ECONOMY.
NOT to eat potatoes
rice. NOT to cat puddings. NOT to cat ples. NOT to eat bread. NOT to eat cake, NOT to eat sugar. And NOT to feel sorry yourself.
Munch away!
and
It works
The marvellous thing about slimming by cutting out car- bohydrates is that it works. For the first ten days nothing much seems to be happening. But after for that you will lose 3lb. a week until all your excess fat has gone.
occasional
If you have the nudge of regret when you see an apple tart go by, think of the
you can eat all that you desire the scales.
If you cut out carbohydrates, compensation when you mount
of proteins and fats. You can devour meal, fish, cheese in You seconds and abundance,
The
he or the she?
fragile sex,
THE human male often looks anything but fragile
big, bold, muscular, blue-jawed, truculent, tough and strong, he resents the very suggestion that he is fragile. He is though.
Death rates have been falling at a reasonably satisfactory rate since the beginning of the 20th century. But since 1001, the 50 per cent decrease in male death rates has been beaten decisively by the records for women, which show a drop of 65 per cent in death rates over the same period.
Dr James O. Bond, who quotes for being romantic and im- these statisties in an article en- practical. titled "The Fragile Male," con- Women take better siders that big muscles, the themselves when they are ill. proud badge of the he-man, are Few women have the typical
care of
no longer an advantage in attitude of the big brave male modern civilised living, and who boasts that he never visited might even be a disadvantage, a doctor in his life, and it he He will get himself plenty of never does it will be soon arguments on that, especially in enough, etc?__ this day of interest in the fitness But
of youth. The advantage is with
the weaker sex! Why?
there are exceptions on both sides,
Whatever may be the propom- tion of neurotic,between the
Women not exposed sexes, it is quite certain that
women of this type are more Women are lear exposed to likely to be under treatment, war, competition (athetic and than ane men. And most of them business) and occupational haz- live a long time; the obvious ands, says Doctor Bord. This fragility of women seems to be might be a little difficult to of tougher abre than the hidden prove in these days when women fragility of men.
do everything in athletics and business that men do, including many heavy and hazardous de- tivities. Nor are wars fought exclusively by men today. This factor would seem, at least debatable.
-Better-care-
Orientation
"Once properly oriented," esyu Doctor Bond, perhaps men can address themselves to a leisurely search for the cause of their Enfavourable morally rulings
I should like to Baite "a" Women are more adaptable in Uttle more humble, relaxed and siness," "They give expression; to obfective attitude of men their emotions more readily, toward themselves, for it is here thas helping to reduce tensions, perhaps more than anywhere They are often mono else that the key to the solu- realistic in their outlook they tion of this problem is to be men, despite their reputatiche found,”
can
Make the thing psychological- i munch ly easy for yourself by weigh-i
be
it the
By W. W. BAUER, M.D.
Robb
And a girl, after all, prefers to feel certain that a man is a' are
man and not a beachball on the stilts.
-London Express Service),
New York
Dateline: New York
WOMEN SUFFER MOST FROM LONELINESS
A
MERICAN women suffer more intensely than men from the twin problems of loneliness and poverty in old age. This is the conclusion reached by a Senate sub-committee which has been studying the problems of America's growing population of aged citizens.
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LADY LUCK
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE
· FRIDAY, JUNE 3
AQUARIUS (January 21- February-19): If you are planning a surprise for a member of your family, don't tell anybody else about it, even in con fidence.
PISCES (February 20-March 20): A person of whom you could grow very fond seems to be cooling off in his feelings towards you. 'Don't run after him. ARIES (March 21-April 19):
If you
have not yet liquidated your previous obligations, be careful not to enter into any new com- mitments.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): An appointment for to night may be cancelled, but you will be able to find a satisfactory alternative. GEMINI (May 21-June 21); If you are witnessing a budding romance, don't spoil it by unnecessary in- terference.
be
CANCER (June 22-July 21): A matter which has been hanging fire for a long time will have to shelved altogether, LEO (July 22-August 21): A determined effort to finish an unpleasant task will at last be successful.
(August 22- VIRGO
September 22): An
илех-
pected pause in your daily schedule-will-give you the opportunity you have been looking for to catch up with your correspondence. LIBRA
(September 23. October 22): You will ro ceive an invitation which you are unfortunately un- able to accept. Don't feel too badly about it. It promised more than it would actually have given. SCORPIO (October 23- friend November 21); A
your may not react to opinion as you had hoped. Concede him the right to have his own views on the subject.
(November SAGITTARIUS
22-December 21): Petty arguments with an 3880- cinte should not make you lose sight of the fact that you work very well together.
CAPRICORN (December 22- January 20): Avoid making a hasty decision in a very personal nutter, Consider every detail carefully and act only when you are satisfied that you 823 doing the right thing. YOUR BIRTHDAY: .this is your birthday, thanks to an older person's great in- terest in you, the year will mark the beginning of `a very satisfactory future.
A Very Strange
City
-Hanid Tells Knarf And Teddy About Venice --
By MAX TRELL
66 JENICE must be a beautiful place!" said Hanid, the Shadow Girl with the Turned- About Name, talking out loud. to herself.
She was all alone in the room. M any rate, she thought she was all alone.
Three heads
But the next second she knew. she wasn't because three heads popped out from behind the bookcase. One belonged to her brother. Knari. The second head belonged to Teddy, the Stuffed Bear. And the third belonged to Hiawatha, the Small Sized Wooden Indieu.
All three heads were attached to their proper bodies, of course, It was just that Knarf and Toddy and Hiawatha were ex- ploring behind the bookcase. thing," said Knarf to his sister.
"We heard you saying some
The sub-committee, headed there will be 139 for every 100;tiful by senator Pat McNamara, and by the year 2000 the ratio reported that
part
of will have reached 145 to 100. the problem stems from the Declaring that "aged wonen simple fact that women outlive are the most seriously men.
poverished sector of the sed
Beautiful place
4-28
Hl was sitting in the boat with a man pushing it›
"That's just what it says in the Geography Book!
T
"Hiawatha!" she called out again, all at once remembering that he was still somewhere in the bookcase.
"Oh, that silly wooden-beaded Wooden Indiac!" she laughed. "He probably went and fell asleep back there."
"I said Venice must be a beau- place," repeated Hanic. "How do you know?" asked
Have to swim? Teddy, "Have you ever been "But if all the streets are there?"
rivers, or canals," Teddy was Hanid shook her head.
saying to Hanid, "how do the "No," she said, "but just come people who live in Venice walk
This, and the fact that most population," the report says that women marry men older than 1,250,000 widows receive social out from behind the bookcase from one place to the other? themselves, widowhood years,
they?"
results in average security benefits of only £10 and look at this picture in the I mean they have to swim, don't of about eight month, though they require Geography Book"
Knart and Teddy came out "Well," said Hanid, "the
Impoverished
The report also revealed that while more than half of Ameri- can women over 85 are widow- ed, toss than a quarter of men in the same age group are widowers.
There are now 120 women in the aged group (65 and older) for every 100 men. By 1980
between £300 and £400 a year
"for a modest but adequate from behind the bookcase, but Geography Book says that there level of living."
Hiawatha disappeared behind it are sidewalks and bridges so
Called Hiawatha
that the people who live. In One result of this problem, again.
Venice can walk from one place the sub-committee reported, has
to the other. But there aren't been a surprising Increase in the proportion of older women la
any roadways. There aren't any the American labour force in twice but he didn't answer. So If you have to go a long way, Hanid called him once or automobiles, ar trucks, or buses. recent years.
she finally shrugged and turned way, you can go in a gondola."
At the moment, about half the her attention to Knart and : women in the 45-64 age groups Teddy who were leaning so far feel obliged to work. By 1970, over the picture of Venice in this group will include women | the book that she was afraid what up to 64 years of age.
they would fall in.
-(London Express Service),
Rupert and the Snowstorm-40
Sering Mes. Bezr's puzzled face, used to cravel is flying saucer, Tigerity points, ?? Sorcerer sitting morir in naowatch. · Next; cima inside snowstorm, Him' gooe J" perhaps be" tink of something she laughs*Thia (36) beyond: glas."
Rupert grina more funny jokes to play
THE END "A ̈New "Adventure Begins
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takes them"in", "for" tan.
Now she says, tal" kom, moes him. If therła /sapóden moW, JA storm will it
"Venice is a city," Hanid ex plained to her brother and Teddy after she had pushed them back
Remarkable thing
Hanid was about to explain a gondola was when a most remarkable thing happen- ed. She had to rub her eyes to make sure she wasn't dreaming. For there, coming out from
a little. "I's in Ilaly..L's a very behind the bookcase, Was B old city. And it's one of the beautiful boat long and sim strangest cities in the whole and graceful with the front and world"
the back standing high out of the water.
"What's all that water doing in the streets?" asked Knarf, suddenly interrupting and point ing to the pictame,
A man with a long oar was pushing and steering the boot. And, sitting the middle, look- ing snug and comfortable, was Hiawatha the Small-Sized Woo- den Indian
They're canals, "That," said Hanid, "Is what makes Venice such a strange boat! etty. It's water all right bul
It isn't water in the streets. .
All around the room want the
A gondols!
But Hiawatha didn't answer.
There aren't any streets in "That's a gondola!" shouted Venice - not regular streets. All Hauld, "Hiawatha! Where did that water running criss cross you find that gondola?"!
ke a Spider's web in really a lot of canals.”
It was only later that Harid "Canals?" asked Teddy, discovered that Hiawatha had "What are canals?”
somehow found, the gondola be-. "Canaliere like rivern, re- hind the; bookcase. But, how, he plied Hanid.
got to go around the room,, This made Knert ask in an no one ever found outl aston'shed voice;.
"Anyway," said Hamid, "Wen-
"Are there rivers running in ice is a beautiful place, and very Venice instead of streets??? strange, and I do wish I could
Hanid nodded,"
go there some day fla