THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, ̃ ̄ 1965,
WOMANSENSE
VERONICA PAPWORTH
ETERNALLY MINE-THOSE LOVELY RASPBERRIES!
THE
HE awful thing is that I can't help being glad to see the end of the raspberries. For years I swore I never had enough so sweet but so brief was their perfect picking time. And so hard did I swear, that the number of canes was doubled for me this summer, with slightly surfeiting results.
Marie Antoinette-wise, I delight, now and then, in being a super-efficient housewife.
Which is all very well in winter. But, with far too finds me perpetually much garden around, the summer challenged by SOME DAMN CROP.
Indeed, the challenges come
chance acquaintance so thick and fast that no sooner might care to accept a have I finished with the black- lettuce.
who Iew
currant puree than it is time
for the elderberry wine,
That is if they don't call on And me first!
There
no sooner, is the wine blowing
Either everyone has so much Lettuce they are on the point of inviting the rabbits in to help them out, or there is a famine, and the odd seedlings, picioed far too young, change hands in the local at a shilling apiece!
The week before last I pack- ed the deep-freeze with rasp-
berries and departd for Paris.
There wasn't any more room anyway, and the raspberries, decided were finished,
Total success
I returned to find a second, splendid crop,
"Jam!" said I to myself"if only there were someone to eat it."
My family will take cheese, tinned sardines, sausages, must
salami-even snails for dea. But not jam
its corks in all directions than wrong with our
I find myself calling on every rotation,
be something village crop
JACOBY on BRIDGE
side has
The first step in slam bieding is to see that your enough potential tricks to make
a stam. You can't make one if you don't have 12 winners even though you hold all the nes and kings.
So the prin- cipal value of Blackwood is to check for ace as a means of keeping out of impossible siams and.nol as a means of getting to good ones,
North and South have (nough potential tricks to make a grand jam, but the trouble is that they must lose two aces before they get around to their r'vn tricks.
South likes his hard when Le looks at it and after North responds with three diamonds to the opening heart bid, South
cally expects slam.
1 three-heart rebid is merely to mark Ume before the final count downt.
His
WEST
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NORTH
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Both vulnerable
West North East
South
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3. Pass
3 V
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4 N.T. Pass
5.
Pass 5
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Pass Pass
Opening leadė A.
As for North the heart rebid
is music to his uers, His three hearts to the king-queen look like solid gold. A smal slar
+CARD Sense ought to be there and if only.
Q-The bidding has been: South
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Went North
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North will show three aces there should be a grand slam. Esst
So North has a perfect Black- Pass wood situation and goes to four no-trump This forces North to bid five diamonds to show his one ace and South sees that there is no slam. He signs off at five hearts.
You, South, hold! SAQ ♥KQUI? KA1054
What do you do? A-Bid three no-trump. You hope your partner will be able to find another bid.
TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner jumps to five
South probably toys with the idea of going to the stam any-
but finally way,
respects his and Black- partner's decision.
diamonds. What do you do now? wood has saved another rub-
Answer Tomorrow
ixr.
Bottling was surely the answer-and the "oven method" so simple. It might have been had I nat gone to bed and forgotten my bottles.
Uneatable-but magnificant.
Ah, that Eskimo charmer -whatever was his name?
were talking about Eskimos. "They are not all
CHILDREN'S CORNER
Chirpie Tells About Colt
Knarf Wants a Ride on His Back
By MAX TRELL
1
Chirple Sparrow looked at Knarf and gave a short, bright CHIRPIE SPARROW came to bird-laugh.
the window sill for his
"What are you laughing at, breadcrumbs. Hearing him Chirple?" Knart said, peeking away at the crumbs,
"Good morning, Chip," said.
"Mornin,' mboy,11 Chirpie.
said
"I'm laughing at that
Colt.
Knari, the Shadow-Boy, opened Do you know why? Because he didn't even know what it the window.
he meant to have somebody ride
on his back. So I explained it.
"You'll like I said to the Colt. 'One of the Boys or one of today?" the Girls will climb up on your back. And you'll give them a ride.'
Where will go?" asked the Colt.
go across the fields.
"What's the new's
asked Knarf.
Collected newS
WE Wer he characters in that film The Savage newspaper. He went all over the you'll wake the rails up into
had An
Innocents," I told my husband. "I once Eskimo boy friend and you would be surprised just how sophisticated he was."
"When it comes to your old boy friends," said my husband, "nothing surprises me."
I added that he was not entirely Eskimo-only his mother. Or,
on second thoughts, she might have been a Laplander.
"At all events. he had a perfectly good English name.
1 bagan with an R-Richardson, or something."
R-t. Of course I had No, not Richardson. R-r-
not forgotten it.
Fancy waistcoats
I could see him so clearly in my mind-with his almond- chaped eyes, his little fast car, his passion for fancy waistcoats, and his absolutely ordinary name beginning with an R... or was it B?
Brown? Blenkinsop? Battersby?-Maddeningly
eluded me all' morning.
"How are things with you t” Chirple asked the Colt.
Chirple looked at Knarf. He cocked his head and squinted at
"Why did you say that, Knart?"
"I'd like to find that Colt," said Knart.
Chirpic Sparrow was like a
neighbourhood. He spoke to the hills." everybody. He found out what-
""Wonderful!' said the Colt, him. ever, was new. Then he flew
Trot and jump around and told all his friends.
"You'll trot and you'll gallop. "Not very much new today. Chirpie fasily answered, after You'll walk and you'll prance,
bread- And you'll jump!" he had finished all the
***I will asked the had neatly wiped
Coll. crumbs and his bill on the edge of the win- When will I jump? dow sill,
"When you come to a fence
"You "Oh, said the Cult mean rll jump right over the fence!!
3've been flying around since early this morning, but the only one I had a chance to have con- versation with was a Colt. met this Coll-"
What's a colt? "Just a minute, picase," inter- rupled Kharf. "What's a Colt?"
"You certainly will. And when the Boy or Girl riding on your back says 'Giddap!' you'll faster. And when they say
"Gosh," sald Knarf, when Chirpis had finished his story about the Coll
"Whoa-a!' you'll stop," the name
I played cat and mouse with t-abandoning any thoughts of that sporting, northern charmer for minutes on end. Then pounc-
A strange, brown, toffee-like smell erupt out from under the kitchen door ul dawn the fol-ing--with no success, lowing morning and rose disturb me - "My bottled fruil!"
I tore downstairs.
to
It is the only me I have
total ever had
success with those wretched sealed lids,
Nothing, I swear, will shil minu
I have labelled the jars with splendid white squares and fine, spidery writing-"Rasp berries"but no date.
Like Ries in amber they will slay for ever-sealed in their tall glass coffins, uneatable, but o magnificent showpiece for my store cupboard,
of
Could it have been Buchanan?
Never He had neither the fee nor the legs for a kilt!
I never forget a name--not quite forget it, that is.
But why in the world do so many, sliding out from the back'
my mind, linger for so long on the tip of my tongue?
Got Booth!
No, he came later and he was an Irishman.
Association of ideas has often saved me.
I'll never forget the telephone number of our first butcher because it was the registration number of my first car backwards and add an Q.
All very easy-but not the slightest help with that son of an Eskimo mother.
So eventually he drifted out of my mind until, late that night, I got it..
"Williamson," I shouted. Oh, blessed little almord-eyed Williamson in his fancy waistcoat.
"Funny," said my husband. "I never spell Wiliamson with
an R."
TAKE A LETTER,
MISS FASHION
"It's a young Horse," said Chirple. "A Puppy's a young Dog. a Kitten's a young Cat, a Calf's a young Cow. a Colt's a young Horse, Get it?
"Got il" said Knot. happened?"
"What
"Well," said Chirple, "I not- lood this Colt chewing erass in
a field so I flew down on a fence, i whistled to him to come over.
'Momin,' Colt," I said. 'How are things with you?"
Introduced themselves "Okay, said the coll. "My name's Bud.'
said. Mine's Chirple, I 'What are you doing in this Seld?'
Eating grass, fald Bud, the Coll. The farmer put me here. Eat lots of grass, Bud, he said. and by and by, when you get big enough and strong enough, I start training you tʊ lake a ride the youngsters out for on your back," "
Laughed again Chirple was silent for a sec- ond or two. Then he gave his Intle bird-laugh again,
"I bet I know why you'd like to find that Colt," said Chirple. "You'd like to take a ride on his back, eh?"
"You will, you will, Just wait till he grows up and you will" said Chirple, as he flew away from the window sill and his voice grow fainter and tal-
ter.
Rupert and the Gomnies-17
After Gregory has carefully examined Rupert's yellow gnome he agrees to run back towards his own garden, so the little bear grabs his scarf and off they fun. They've both been painted, the yellow. All over," puffs Gregory as they trot uphill, but.
izme
Who would
why, why, why ? want to do it ? And who could
"Hi, stop do it sa silently? minute" Rupert calls. "Who- ever did it must have passed this way. Come and lock! Here's a blob of this yellow paint splashed an this boulder." ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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