JACOBY BRIDGE
with
Today's bidding problem con- cerns South, so look at the South hand only. Your partner three opens the bidding with spades which you play as preempt, East overcolls three wo-trump: East is vulner able and you are not. Do you bid four hearts or do you puss? In either case Wost bids six clubs.
From a result standpoint it turns out that you should bid four hearts and pass Rx clubs, A hoort end will bout six clubs and any other cad will let West get rid of his losing heart und snake the hand.
Conversely, if you don't bid four heart you should bid six over the six club bid and take the acrilice. You will be three or four down depending on how the play goor and that is a lot
WEST
Hone
NORTH (D) AKQ107,042
+K108
2
◆ Q07543
+KQJ854
EAST
27
3
MAJ93
♥Q92
♦AJO
A73
BOUTI
480
AK 10070S
1000
East and West vulnerable
North East South
· INT. 4*
Pass Pass Pass
Opening lead-YJ
West
啡
cheaper than lelling West make
his slam.
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1960.
WOMANSENSE
Fabulous
Perennial
LuzurY
The
Versatile
wool
From East to West
long
the
Worth
ПASHIONS and fabrics equally well; you can choose an F
travel the ancient Oriental or an up-to- certainly From the standpoint of good
now date modern print; it is crease bridge, I can't criticise either a world-and what is pass of four heart bid to three the rage
of Germany be. resistant, hangs well and drapes
perfectly. no-trump. You don't expect to make four hearts, but you don't gan in the city of Mossoul, anticipate any great loss. On Mesopotamia, long, the other hand you just might ago. Called wool mousseline be able to beat three no-trump in Germany today, assuming Eust had bid it with- Labric still takes its name town the ancient cut, a heart stopper. In other from words,You
pays yer money where it was Brst made. It and you takes yer cholen."
still often features Oriental prints.
♥*CARD Sensek♦
In Britain, where the material is gaining in popu- larity, it is generally called Pate 34 Pass printed wool.de laine.
Q-The bidding has been:
Weat South
North Pasa 14
1
2 N.T.
*
Pass
You, South, hold: AA: VEGI KJ78 JAQ8(
What do you do? Ald three no-frump. If your partner is merely warning You aint nu-trump you see
This winter, both in Germany and Britain, you will and this light but warm fabric bringing guy colour to dresses, coat lin- Ings, Jacket linings with match- ing blouses and, especially, In-
Bill willing to try for game there. formal evening wear. There's a
If your partner in starling foward || Kay novelty about wearing a
a slam you want to make sura | flower print in winter-some- that he realizes your hand has thing we haven't done before. much of its strength in the red And in summer the material is still light enough for all but the most tropical nights.
TODAY'S QUESTIÓN. Your partner continues with a bid of four spades. What do you do now?
Answer Tomorrow
to
It you want a list of reasons persuade jou that this material is a good buy. lake a look at its impressive virtues! Il takes bright and
dark colours
LADY LUCK-
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
of
22-
AQUARIUS (January 21- by the gift of a piece
February 19); Keep ш pottery from you,
(August appointment today, even VIRGO
its though you feel that September 22): If you ap original purpose is unlike- proach a routine job from a different angle it could ly to be achieved.
become much more tereating. 1.IBRA
PISCES (February 20-March 20) Bafore deciding on the form your punishment of a wrongdoer ought to take, consider its possible effect on the culprit.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In-discussing your partner with a third person, never forget the loyalty you owe
him.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): An opportunity to give an indigent person some real plendure is worth a sacri- Hod on your part. GEMINI (May 21-June 21); Some friends will show you their appreciation in a tangible form for having
recommended a most de lightful holiday to them, CANCER (June 22-July 21): A permanent association with a person born under, labrá would not work out to the satisfaction
either of you.
of
.:
LEO (July 22 August 21): annivar- A friend's ninth sary, should be celebrated
These fine printed wools are ke hurses of good breed and. have to be while they don't treated quite so delicately. ver- If you want a slim fitted style, tain points are worth watching. a light lining is a good idea, but ideally the fabric makes up into full skirts, Jovely swinging
suited
for shirt eminently
out hanging up in the wardrobe, should try having one of these fine wool prints."
The types of print vary from country country, but in Ger- many blurred cameo prints with many tents of the same hue are popular. Colours and tones of violet, with, undertones of blues to reds, are particularly fashion- able and these tones flatter the fragile look of grey hair just as much as they do the blonde or brunette good looks of youth.
With these fine wools Your 'maintenance problems are al- most nll. They don't show wear and tear. They sled very easily
they the few wrinkles Anyone who wants to invest incur, and an occasional visit to bring them from now until next July with back as good as new.
waisters.
in u dress that will be wearable the cleaners will
ever
WAISTLINES WERE LOW AND
BOSOMS ALMOST NON-EXISTENT
TODELS from this wholesale collection, designed in-
Mops from dong lines of the Paris, couture
collection, are bought by shops all over the world.
Featured in the collection were "Corolla" skirts, shaped like an inverted buttercup, which puffed out from long, lightly fitted and often sleeveless torsos in day, and short evening dresses.
In sults, the same skirts flowered beneath long, narrow unfitted jackets.
ONG evening dresses were often straight and tubular, with
only a seam to indiente, the wearer's waistline. Severni full-length
enpelike, with dropped shoulders and deep armholes. Others were described by the designer as "the superior duffel cont," while seven-eighths conta were silt up the sides to the wulst, with low-slung half-belts underlining the back fullness.
coats
were
MANY suit jackets had toning knitted collars and were worn AT1 with high, egg-shaped knitted hals. One red sult, with a knitted collar, was worn with a matching pullover with a wide turtle neck.
The evening trousers, or long devided skirts, shown by Dior in Paris were topped by a loose, pyramid-shaped turile in "cocktail gown" of gold-fccked. brown Jersey which gave no in- dication of the model's shope,
a
"All she needs is a yashmak," someone In the audience mutter- ed as the heavily shrouded figure glided by.
Black was the number one colour in the collection with a gamut of greys second and beige) as third favourite,
Shocking pink, violet, emerald, royal and red were also used and fabrics with a raised sur- face gave a rich look lo cocktail dresses.
Fine black lace
a louch of the primitive to this Ond sophisticated collection, necklace had wooden beads as
Christian Dior and
his
hig as
narrow
and
London
autumn
collection
bantoms eggs, inter- suede pumps with toes turned spersed with crystal and Jel, un about a, quorier of an inch
Daytime hats were high, at the tip.
brimless, white The current collection was after-five hals were almost the last to be designed by Mare invariably pillbox shapes worn Bohan, who is returning to Paris to re-open his own salon. towards the back of the head.
Futuro collections will be Footnote: The shoes, also by
Included Louls-heeled designed by Guy Dozvicr Dior,
CHILDREN'S CORNER
Squire Squirrel's Tree
-It Grew Because He Forgot All About It-
Lower-
By MAX TRELL
As for Knart, he was sure that "NOW do you see that oak Squire hnd made up the whole maatillas tree over there?" Squire Squir story. For when he looked at the wrapped the shoulders of full-rel was saying to Khart, the oak tree, there it stood, akiried evening dresses.
Shadow-Boy with the Turned- ing glant,
Jarked his thumb About Name. and his sister Hanid. "I planted thet one Squire, who was standing at Lale-day dresses and
the foot of the tree where he even myself."
it was a maple tree dressy'sults were accented by "You did!" exclaimed Hanid. ved stiff, cross-shaped bows in wide She was surprised to hear Squire jerked his thumb toward the moire or satin ribbon.
Squirrel say that he had planted ook and went on: Olive wood jewellery brought any trees.
Moire
Rupert and the Gomnies-40
look
They've all gone" he cries. "Have you sold them all ? Where are they now?" "Sold them? haven't sold any more." says the man. **You're the only people who took any. And now shouldn't think i shall ever sell any more "
The shopman sits down as if he is depressed and tired. Your pinster Egures went wrong too?" he mutters.
Whatever is going on?" While he sits and sighs Rupert happens to glance acros at the case where the other **Qo, plaster gnomes had been.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Day at the Public Bath is
THIS is the final of three dispatches on women's beauty practices in the Soviet Union.
Moscow indicates
TRIP to a public bath By ALINE MOSBY A in that in
this field the Rus one pan of hot water with on- pan for scrubbing and the "know. other sians have how." Having once visited splashing.
expose
a revelation
rooms in your bolets," a Russian woman inquired between slaps with the wet, green leaves.
If you want exercise, in an- ether bathhouse down the street is a small pool the size of a Roman bathtub adorned with a silver-coloured Soviet statue of a little boy.
steam section of the public bath, they sipped champagne from the
while bor, Today
while- uniformed girls clip your toenails black or red you can sample
and caviar sandwiches, beer sweet Russlan soft drinks.
Foreigners usually feel trolat ed in Moscow, But the public bath is one place where you can feel slater under the skin Russian women, at with the least.
"And it all happened because one day, quite a number of years ago, I forgot to eat my dinner."
Knarf and Hand were both To his surprise, Squire Squirrel
saying what a strange thing it
was that a tree should be plant-
ed because a squirrel forgot to
found an oak tree.
"He means," sald Blacklu
ent his dinner, when several Beetle, "that he can dig a hole other friends of Squire chopped in the ground and bury any- their work and gathered around thing he likes in it. It's the to bear what Squire was going some as a refrigerator,' to say about this.
Squire Squirrel nodded.
"Come on, Squire Old Boy, let's hear it!" cried Wilty Toad. who had been out all morning with his popgun hunting for les.
Planted things himself
"I can tell you this," said Blackie Beetle, as he crawled out from under a rock, where he had been building Eimself another ruem to his house, planted quite a few things my selt by forgetting my dinner but I've never planted a tree,"
"Just let me tell you about it, stid Squire Squirrel to Knarf and Hanid, "I remember exzelly what happened.
He buried it
93
#So on this cold, rainy, November day." he went on, "I put that beautiful acorn which I was saving for my dinner into iny refrigerator, that Is to my, I burled in a hole in thi ground:
"Well, trained and rained and rained and rained....drip, drip, drip, all day long. I was upstairs in my workshop doing this
and that and the other thing, polishing furniture and Sawing wood and making doors and windows light where the wind was blowing in.
"It was in November. It hnd
"Finally, when I looked at my been raining all day. Early that watch, I saw that I had for- morning. I had found an earn, gotten all about dinner and it There I said to myself as I was high time I was in bed. 80 Doked at it. That'll just do for I took n nibble of mint leaves
and dandelion my dinner?
-butter and "So what did I do with that hopped right into bed. And by the next day, I had forgotten
Ane acorn?"
"What did you do?" shouted all about the acorn I had buried Knart and Hanld and Blackle the day before and I never and Willy end three or four thought of it again until two or crickets and grasshoppers who three years later." had joined the group while Saulre was talking.-
Put in refrigerator "I tell you what I did," said Squire. "I put that teorn in my
"What made you think of it again?" Knort asked.
"Well," said Squire, "there it stood, Ane, healthy-looking sapling, growing right in the spot I had picked out for my refrigerator. The beautiful "Now, Squite Squirrel," said acorn was gone, of course, and Hanid, pulting her hands on her Instead of that, I had an oak hips and looking straight at the tree.
Monid smiled. don'i. incan squirrel. "you
"And now," she said to Squire stand there and tell us that
Squirrel, "just because you Squirrels have refrigerators!"
"Certainly do." suid Squire, forgot that acorn, you've got Lree and thousands He waved his hand over the another whole deld. "The whole world and thousands of more acorn
After the bath, the women an American nudist camp, i For 30 cents. a professional
refrigerator. every queued up for pedicures; mani- concluded there is more scrubber went over mo,
or body mas- inch three times, with strips of cures, colitures territory to
when
rough bark, Many women were Bages. groups bathe in Moscow in washing their waist longth the altogether.
hair. in an adjoining steam Furthermore, the ladies' room, lady attendants, also nude, community bath I scrubbed poured water on hot bricks while
hardy women
beat themselves in is resplendent with gold with hickory branches. chandeliers, statues, orange. "Why do you foreigners come You have private bath- fringed lump shades and here? brocaded walls. The nudist, camps I know can't boast that.
Public baths are popular in Moscow. It's a change from the in-bathroom queue in crowded
con-
epartments. Men relax cr their labours in the seven-year plan and women check in for a
complete beauty overhaul.
(September 23 October 22): If you have overheard part of a
The Central Bathhouse 'around to the corner from the Bolshoi Bal- versation, don't jump
acut Theatre used to be a rendez- conclusions about the tivities of the person men-vous for nobility in the old days.
Merchants
their "lody tloned.
friends" to private bathrooms.
even husbands
tobk
and
SCORPIO (October 23-But now
November 21); By exer-wives showing marriage cerui- Acates are not admitted to the
be
Magnificent
elsing economy on a single baths together. item of your regular expenditures, you will surprised at how much can be saved over a period.
1 elimbed a magnificent stair- SAGITTARIUS (November case, paid 60 cents (alx rubles) 22-December 21) A recon-admission and entered through ciliation after a period of the door marked "ladies" to face Russian aight. stunning strained relatione will
females of all sizes, young ones, establish a much happier allm ones and wide ones, wore atmosphere in your family. undressing on long setiees, Pink CAPRICORN (December 22 cotton bloomers are popular in January 20): A carofal Moscow these days, I noticed,
An allendant brought a beach- plan you have made may alze towel, init that's to hide un- clash with that of a close der later. There's only one way, friend, and you will have to get to the bathroom, and that's to be satisfied with a com-to walk the length of the dress- Ing room wearing only a bas of
LUCKY COLOUR: stay and a shower cap.
If today is your birthday.
The bathroom was the size, of gymnadin and looked like a
look out for AMETHYST case from Dante's Inferno, Feat on marble benches, feet in
It ought to bring you | Through a haze of steam, women
luck.
In the old days when Pushkin and Chekhov sat in the men's
(End Sorios)
Is my refrigerator,"
to
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