THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1960. 2
WOMANSENSE
JACOBY Well, should you
A
BRIDGE
NOTHER term used
fre
quently by bridge experts
is the "obligatory feesse,"
The obligatory finesse isn't really finesse at all since you make no effort to win the trick at all, but it is a finesse-type play since you do make a low card do the work of a higher one.
Playing at three no-trump
decorate your
own home...?
BY BARBARA GRIGGS
South sees that he needs four HERE are two schools of thought about interior decora-
diamond tricks to make his con- tract and since he misses the and eight ace-Jack-ten-nine things don't look too good.
There one combination of cards that will being home the bacon, for him and, use there is no point in giving up, South
NORTHI AK64
WEST AQJ1098
872
A 10
4100
South
18
K043 Q13
J75
EAST 475
QJES
JOB
*K 432
SOUTH (D) AA32
A 10
◆ K7052
AVI
Both vulnerable
West North Easį
1 N.T. Pass 3 N.T. Pass- Равя Toss
Opening lead-◆ Q
should play for this bit of good
fortune. If
either
opponent
TH
tors. One sees them as a bunch of affected aesthetes, anxious to extend the tyranny of fashion into a place it has no right to be the Englishman's castle, introducing one fad and mode after another from all-white rooms to the Burmese Look..
RO
Theae critics maintain that a home, anyway, is something
strikingly personal that every line, every brush-stroke, every stick of furniture should be decided by the in- hubitant.
TUE
The credit
(which
E other school naturally includes the de- corators themselves maintains that they are today's arbiters of taste:
ΥΠΑΤ if standards of taste exist at all in domestle design, Interior decorators can claim the lion's share of the credit;
Bedside tables Foo small; Foo high.
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Washbasins
the right height is important.
What they Also think-and (he's a California man) lo what none of them dare say-is his own fuel to the flames.
people with that most of the
Fascinating
add
of
CHILDREN'S CORNER
Punch's Elephant
-It Turned Out To Be Only A Caterpillar-
By MAX TRELE
"NCLE PUNCH, did you afternoon.
ever ride on An Ele-
phani?"
the
way I could be sure of reach- ing her house” by four in
"But Unele Punch," maid Knorf, "your Grandmother only Mr Punch, who ANOS halt lived on the other side of the asleep, for It was the regular
garden
taken It should have time for his afternoon nap, half- you only a few minutes, to get opened his eyes. Then he open- there." ed his eyes all together. He now saw who it was who was talk- ing to him.
It was Knarf, the Shadow Boy with the Turned-About Nane.
Didn't hear
It took some time
"You forgot," said Mr Punch, "that I was just a little larger than the head of a pin and Just
Punch was riding on the Caterpillar's back.
little smaller thin a match atick. It may have taken you Knarf, "And did that Caterpil- "I'm not quite sure I heard only a few minutes to get to my lar-Elephant taite you to your
noon.
"I design most of the furnl-what you said." Mr Punch told Grandmother's. But I took me Grandinother's fure I put into my houses Knart. Would you mind re- most of the morning and after- using the finest traditional peating?"
"What I said, Uncle Punch," woods like sandalwood
with mahogany, Inlaid
brass Knarf began again, "is this and ivory: and the simplest Did you ever ride on an Ele- shapes,"
phani?"
and
He insists on the practical value of the decorator,
By this time. Mr Punch was fully awake. He smiled pleas- KITCHENS. for instance.antly, but there was a puzzled "Too large a kitchen can be a look in his eyes. shore; the ideal kitchen is like Pullman car-nothing too re- nole from anything else,"
"It did, indeed," said Mr Funch. "I didn't have to walk "Then one morning — it was、d step," Saturday morning, too— my Fether told me that he had a wonderful present for me. Не seld that I would never have
Wasn't tired..
"You must have felt much
to walk to my Grandmother's better," said Knarf, "when you again,
reached your Grandmother's house. I'm sure you weren't tired at all,"
"He told me he was giving me something as big and strong as an Elephant. He told me you
would be able to ride on its back.
"That's what I thought sujd." he answered,
"Did you ever ride on an Ele- phant?" Knarf repeated..
He did
BATHROOMS, for instance. "The average washbasin is 27 inches high, I got so tired of breaking my back bending over to wash my face that 1 make all my own a minimum height of 32 inches-up to 36 inches.
"And the whole idea of dressing table is outdated: I put really en Elephant except that everything into one unit with the washbasin.
"Yes," said Mr Punch, "I did. "Of course," he quickly add- ed I have to tell you that
a the Elephant I rode on wasn't
it looked exactly like one."
"I don't know what you mean," said Knarf.
money to burn, today on their enormous flats or country houzed any. THAT there are so many com- have precious little tasio holds exactly and oneplex new materials to be dealt way, so it's all to the general Na
án good they summon in some- South eun guess with that you have to be diamond and
ane who has. which tho is he can make expert to cope;
As a result of so much arguing violently with one or two tights. One, a gentle overhead very small," said Mr Punch, the hand.
Rel
Since West has apparently chown up with length in spades South decides to play him for shortage in diamonds so South leads a diarataid toward dummy. Wegt ducks; South puts up the queen; and it holds,
Now South leads back a dla- mond from dummy and here Ancsse. comes the obligatory South plays low from his own hand. West has to play the din mand Ace willy-lily. There are still Inws against revoking and South makes his four dia- mond tricks and his contract.
CARD Seriden♦
Q-The bidding has been:
North
West
1.
Poss
1 14
You, South, hald:
East
South Pass 34 Pass ?
4Q87 VAK876 $349 1954
What do you do now?
A-Bld tour hearts. Your part- ner seems to be suggesting a slam and you are willing to go along with him.
TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner signs off at four spades. What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
THAT most people in
living haven't
faint about
the
the ing a certain mystery, a swift rush and swirl of modern air of doubt hangs over
time enough to whole profession. And recently. devote to their homes and are ploughing gully through stormy only too thankful to have some seas of controversy, came Wil one come up with an idea or liam Haines, one of the priclest interior designers in America two for them.
Have
a chat
to your
oven
NEW YORK.
THE housewife who puts a roast in the oven before THE
to
leaving home-and then finds she cannot get back in time because of the traffic-soon will be able "telephone her oven" even when nobody is home.
In fact, home-owners soon electric appliances, thanks will find it possible to make to a recent development of phone calls to any of their the Westinghouse Electric
Company.
LADY LUCK-
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3
22-
Chris J. Whitting, a vice- president of Westinghouse, reports that his company has produced a system of house. operating electric
hold appliances and other equipment in the home by dial telephone from any point in the U.S.
"As an example," he ex- take a jet flight from New York to Los Angeles.
AQUARIUS (11) (January relax your efforts to gain plained. "you are about to
21-February 19): A your objective. Huperior is impressed by your versatility, and will keep it in mind on the oc- casion of a reorganisation. PISCES (2) (February 20- March 20: Expenditures at home ought to be re- vised in order for you effect some much needed economius.
to
ARIES (1) (March 21-April 19): If you are single- minded Fin your ambition to reach a certain goal, no obstacle will be formidable enough to keep you from it. TAURUS (8) (April 20-May
20): You may be dis Hipating your energies on too many social activities. It would be better for you to have fewer but more re- warding companions. GEMINI (6) (May 21-June 21): Don't spend too much time with people mentally your inferior, but try to Bociety of cultivate the those from whom you have something to learn. CANCER (5) (June 22-July '21): A new project would be better postponed unt!! aftor the weekend, to give you more time to gather further Information.
LEO.'(18) (July 22-August 21) Elation over lucky break must not make you
VIRGO (4) (August
September 22): A relative
"You step into a telephone should be prevented from booth, make a call, and in committing an indiscretion a matter of seconds the which could have harmfu!
air-conditioner you turned effects 011 the
off last week will be turn- family.
ed on and your house will LIBRA (7) (September 29 be cool upon arrival in a
October
stimu- few hours." 221: A
entire
lating evening will help you to formulate ideas on u
subject very close to your heart
The code
Similarly, the holiday-bound
who
SCORPIO (9) (October 23- traveller
fete
is switched off.
The Westinghouse
dial co-
is suddenly November 21): An entirely haunted by the nagging new and original idea may that the electric iron was left not find favour at once, but standing on the Sroning board, he need be nagged no longer. One eventually
you will given an opportunity to quick phone call and the Iron put it to the 'teat.
(No- (10) SAGITTARIUS
vember 22-December 21);
When the owner leaves home, Lo shirk n Don't try responsibility
may he turns the equipment to auto- you have accepted unwillingly, matic. When he dials heme, he
Others depend on
your going through with it.
trol system operates through a relay box in this manner:
first calls his home number and then dials the code connecting him to the relay box. Next, he adds the code number that con-
CAPRICORN (1) (Decomber nects, him to the particular 22 January 201: Avold con-appliance he wants to control. troversy in your family
A final number chocaca the circle, oven If you have tu Hipproas a strong desire to point at which the setting is to speak up for yourself.
be made.
A Westinghours dial control YOUR LUCKY NUMBER: electric range, which is currently Count the letters in your on tour throughout the U.S.A.. fret name and add the hes alx code positions-four for 'total to the number show oven temperatures, a to In brackets after your sign operate the grilling unit, and a of the Zodiac. This is your sixth to turn off the range, lucky number for the worke
̈(London Express Service),
"Mast women make up their the faces standing in front of washbasin: so I give them two
fascinating two hours talk 1 found myself disagree
"It all happened when i was
faint
"How small?" asked Knari, points, feeling a
unease
Dght; the other a brutal, harsh others--and heartily
which downward light
tells
"Well," said Mr Punch. "I echoing most of what he said. them the truth: then they know was a little larger than the head an they've faced the worst light of a pin and little smaller He insists that he is Architectural Interior Designer they'll encounter all day." than a match stick,"
BEDROOMS, for instance, because the sort of Jubs he most prefers La do are those "Look at the average bedside where the architect calls him in table; no room for magazines or at the blueprint stage:
telephones, six inches too high, to "No matter how
you you twist your arm trying much
switch and spend an furnishing a house, get at the light
་་་།
It's only as good as its back knock ever the waterjug in the ground. A house should be com- process, pletely consistent right the way 1 fit all my beds with a through in design and con- cantilevered table, wide and low ception and beauty,
"Decorating," pronounced Mr Haines emphatically, is not job for housewives; it's a pro fession, not a hobby.
an
enormous
"A house needs to be thought right through amount of attention going into it at every stage.
My designs
with a Axed reading lamp and drawers in Irent, to swing round from the walls to the bedside and back again when you've finished with it.
Traditional?
"I'M
TM not a fetch and carry decorator I don't believe in digging things out of the past all the time,
THE good craftsman in this "THE
profession knows how to channel his taste into the way with particular people love.
Knorf understands
Knart nodded his head and said that he hod a very good idea of how big Uncle Punch
was.
"You understand, my Boy," Mr Punch went an, still smil. jing and still sounding very good-natured, "that the reason
my
was so small was because I was so young. I used to sleep In a peanut sholl and eat
table made of dinner on a a postage stamp and toothplèks- for legs."
"But when did you ride on thai Elephant?" Kurt remind- ed Mr Punch.
sald
to
"I'm coming to that," Mr. Punch. "You sec, my Grandmother expected me to visit her every Saturday after- "If you want to have a com-
noon. She lived on the other filled side of our garden. It used to pleicly traditional home
beautiful antiques, all take me hours and hours right--just consult The ple-walk there.
don't Improvise, don't 14% D "I'm not just a decorator create, just copy
One has to have great I'm a psychologist and father- easy. confessor to my clients and I courage to do something sails- never take on a job till I've got factory." to know them thoroughly well.
tures,
London Express Service),
"PIDTURE BY JOHN QOLE
Kendon Mapress Marojon
Started very early
"I usually started out every Saturday morning early just after sunrise. That was the only
"He took me out garden to see it."
Mr Punch nodded.
"I wasn't tired at all," he agreed, "but I never reached my Grandmother's house until Into the supper time. You see,” said Mr Punch, "I was pretty slow, but that Caterpillar-Elephant wasTM "And was it an Elephant?" even slower. And to make it asked Knart. Mr Punch.
"It was a Caterpillar,"
even slower, it used to slop and said crawl un every tree and every
A caterpillar?
Knarf ultered an exclamation of astonishment. "You mean a Caterpillur?" he asked.
as
bush in the garden and eat leaves. I was lucky to get to my Grandmother's house at all.
It flew away
"I was just about to com- plain to my Father when one day, toward the end of the sum-, mer. my
Caterpillar-Elephant flew away."
Away?"
exclaimed "How could it y
"Remember. remember, - member," said Mr Punch fast as he could get the words I was. When I went into out of his mouth, "how small
the "Flew garden and tw the towny Kaart, Caterpillar and saw his giant away?" legs and his great back end hia huge mouth. I thought that this "The Caterpillar - Elephant" was the most enormous Animal replied Mr Punch good-natured- ly and smiling broadly," just I had ever seen in my life.”
grow wings and flew away. It "And did you really ride on turned Into a Butterfly. I never its back, Uncle Punch?" asked could understand howl
Rupert and the Sky-boat-36
At last the efforts of the little pais Ire successful. The hills beyond the factory are higher than the sky boat, and soon Rupert i ateering it on to a gentle grise slope. "Oo, what a relief!" Cries Margot.] thought I'd never el foot on tand "again."
"Hi, stop, stop a minute 1" calle Rupert as she starts to get out. **If you leave the boat before I do there won't be enough weight and shall be carried so high that nothing except an airplane could bring me down 1. Sit still a minute and let's think what to do.** ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
See what's new in the
wardrobe of a young man
M1
ICHAEL HESELTINE looks as if he had been designed by nature to be the kind
of Wagnerian tenor one never sees on the stage-over 6ft, tall with a discreet mane of pale yellow hair, blue eyes and well-defined Gothic features.
Dot
But in spite of being Welsh he known to sing in public. Instead, at 27 he has a foothold on so many peak- leading paths that he seems to be head- ing for tycoonery at speed.
At Oxford he was president of the Union and the golden boy promise has been maintained
Michael Kresl- tine-blue. discreet warstad pin-stripe suit from Maurice Sedwall, stalpad shirt with stil! white callse
from SimpsonE,
tle from Aut Rood, black, plastic-sided- casual shows by Bally of Sæltumpland.
In the Welsh Guards after leaving university the started a number of businesses with Cilve Labovitch-building. interior decorating and two publlahing “ concerns.
TAKE-OVER
"ARLY" this, year Laboritch
and he took over the maga aine Mian About Town and this month they have switched it from quarterly to monthly publication.
At Gower in the fast election he was the Tory candidate who Jopped-20 per cent from the Labour vale.
He produces Crossbow for the Tory ginger group and opponen Sin_fV political programmes.
In conversation he has no Weish "Recent but pianty Of Intelligence and fluency · allied to the rather wary sense of humour of a man / new to, position who expecte lobe aniped, at
on the way up
MAINLY
2
other wardrobe additions. Of. duy la Bouth Wales, where he spends the weekends, he wears a tweed sult--alther, blue and white houndstooth or brown atenurquhart check,
BACHELOR
· H® FOR
MEN
by lain
Crawford
Conservative in clothes.' But not very far AWAY.
REVOLUTION
LTHOUGH he speaks of "A revolution in my attitude towards clothes •he Bill wears hard white collars, white
birte, dark' suite 'and' modest,
"E works long hours, does not go out much except on business, never drinks at lunch time but has wine with his evening meal which, as a non- cooking bachelor, in visually taken in a restaurant,
Por his hobbies, nahing kad breeding Birds → * My miner ambition to broed a yellow ƒ blackbird" ** — ke, roes (no Int towards informality as a crew. nock BWORST and slacks, "The EWORLOTS ATO ail Christmas presenta.........all bought in Bwazieba." ** He gets mia suite from Maurice Bedwell in Beshers Street and para about was for them.. Aparı from suits, he buys off the peg-- the stiff-collared shirts from Bimpsons, shoes from Clarks. Lotus or Russell and Bromley, .:* Unill recently 1 used to buy the same altoe over sad over again but now I have progressed to things like these. ** Ana te showed me a pair of elastic-sided Bally binok oksuris, which, he word with isla dark suit..
Oh
He bag two horizontally striped ties!” I'm geiting more interi ested in Sies-- Lfitnk AQUASCU tum has the best selection in London.
of my 10 suits all but two are. dark?” (ie MAJI "The revolution As come in weight and materials.“ VERSTAN *kie now had an eight-ounce silk and worsted auld and has given up turn-ups on trousers, Post-more casual, more colourial,
in the..last:jeär, his olothes.bby waistcoats only, weak ponisolonis magazine interest has them in winter "mang kishaw. collar mohair dinner. Inöt9):KTO
led him away from the Titra-
Clothes to pomer "Undoubtedly
brighter gand, lighter. I'm look«. The forward to them," said Mr.