JACOBY on BRIDGE
NCE In a whi'e 1 run into a
ONCE
hanit that looks like puro whimsy, Such hands prove nothing except that anything can and does happen In bridge gaine,
Was
one
North
of those! players who never opened no- trump with a worthless double- lon and never opened four car major suits, As for South, he Just happened to respond one heart with his three-card suit.
After North Jumped to three four hearts South went on to and West opened to queen of
WEST
9373
❤ 10 5 4
JB3
JB2
North
NONTH (D)
АЛКА5
❤AQ03
♦ A82
94
1 EAST
SOUTH
4184
JOR
4102
+
♥K72
1095 +KQ705
• KO74
A 103
No one vulnerable
East South Weit
J'ass
1+
3*
Pass
Pass
Pass
Opening lead-Q
Phas Pass
spades. South won in dummy and played a low heart. East ducked and South won with the Jack. His next play was a low spade to the nee and a spade re- turn was won by West's Jack. West le his last spæle th East ruffed low.
South overrufted and terk a heart to the ace. dropping Eust's king. From then South had no trouble
ትተነ
making the rest of the tricks. Ensi itad succeeded in moking no tricks at all with three trumpe to the
king in back of the are
South had made a small slam
at his silly four-heart contract.
♥CARD Senseķ♦
West
The bidding has been:
North East
Double Pass
You, South, hold:
South
2
432 9876 $765 45 432
What do you do?
A-One answer would be to quit the game, but since you probably can't do R gracefully, you must bid two clubs and hope for the best.
TODAY'S QUESTION
You bid two clubs. West bids two spades and your partner doubles. What do you do now? Answer Tomorrow
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1960.
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WOMANSENSE
Perhaps
the
luckiest girls
In
London
today...
I
SHIRLEY LORD ONE WOMAN
HAVE worked in an office where the door was so near my left-hand side that I should have been paid danger money. As it was I frequently let out plaintive cries whenever anybody rushed in without knock- ing. My bruises were very colourful. I have also worked where there was lots of space and a carpet pretend- ing to be Persian on the floor
What about you? Do you get splenilour or squalor for your daily stint? Or do you merely slot a shiny filing cabinet by the into anonymity and your own particular pigeonhole every morning with
silent door painted lavatory-green wall, a glinting steel desk with swivel-chair (no, cushion) and shut behind you?
In other words ore you a in Hyde Park Gardens, because
dweller nine-ish cubicle
to the family horne where she Ave-ish in one of the new lived with Pupa until 1937, gigantic office blocks crowding glorious Georgian Crewe House in Curzon-street (Boodllt every. our skyline?
If you are, probably you night) had to go.
It is full of Thomas wouldn't exchange this bliss for Now
(Industrial Holding) working hours spent in an old Tiling old house.
about Just loaded
employees, who history-but I would every time. from to 5.30.
the luckiest working
Dres Texxiny
Daphne Britten, for girls in Landon are those who example who works in the work in a gracious, but not gre- accounting office and goes home garious atmosphere--the atinos to the folks in Greenford by phere of yesterday,
bus and train every night, know
SNAPPED UP
MORE and
scurry with
A SECRETARY comes through the secret door ready for morning dictation in the Chairman's office once Viscount Astor's bedroom.
what she's getting during the clating the good things in life ciny?
anyway, tayle. But
She told me she was convey- chairmen are happy. more ex-stately ing the general feeling of all the London homes are heitig giris in her office when she
snapped up by prestige-packing said: "Soon we'll have the het NO INSOMNIA
ehalemen.......... like Temple Ploce, of both worlds, because although
for instance, the magnificent the original house is to be kept.
house built for the first Vis- a. nice now office block is going HERE
count Astor beside the Thames. up behind.
Today is the headquarters "We like the old part but-
of a sileky bandage and plaster well-it would be better to work I
king. Astor's grand bedroom in a streamlined office." with the secret door is his office.
Up the panelled oak staircase HOW RIGHT!
trot the secretaries at 0.30, pass-
The
the
BIG IDEAS
me
are
wo partners who told
they are out to be female Clores,
spelt CLAWS,
Pamela Manson and Dlane Hart who run five companies between them dealing with clothes, furs, leather, backing plays and a flourishing Affair called. sleepless Script Finders, T Wonder),
Mr Clore has
nights (and
his secretary doesn't. She sleeps.
Oo the
thu
Both shrugged off Insomnia. 1 learn, immediately her head "The only time I've ever had it she was when I was humusiek in touches the pillow, but
millors to juggle. America." sald Diane "and the Ing usually without a glance at HOW perfect, how right muut hasn't any
nting would have been What about females who have? only way to avold . I suppose, carved the Seven expertly
Three to see Lady Astor i formerly
track of insonnine to get tired out like we do it? Bgures Muskelgers)
tiewel model Bronwen Pugh) standing; tyems I spoke each
to Ann Ford, the day," said Pamela.
"If you don't need to earn at the top of the elegant stair- who is the female whirlwhid post.
24 milion Bear your bread and butter," Diane At four there's another rush case in her husband's previous behind the
St. James Square Brand Company and during the told me, downwards over the delicately home in coloured Pavoŋazette marble instead of "roughing" it in dny is a restless, Ureless crea- don't seem so worrying. We've Hoor to get the ten for the Chelsea.
bosses.
(from
Un
BEAUTIFUL Burda tags? Latly for day PUT do the girls adore their
and all that sart of thing?
TO ANOTHER
business problems NEW MAN AROUND. IN ture who travels incessantly to cured our husbands not sleep FASHION
Now the Arts Council have her factories dotted like currants tot because they're so terrifled we'll start talking business in
Recently at the Susan Small their offices there and it is the all over the British Isles.
THE "I don't get insomnia
I saw over bed they sleep at once in self He fashion industry does not
wha" they fascination of the job, nut the
believe in overnight suc- collection cess stories. There seems to be have made with the scintillat- house that hesist! house that keeps the staff happy, business worries." the exclaimed, defence."
has worked "Only personal ones.
No tossing and turning for an unwritten law that anyone ing fabrics 1 saw some weeks there since the council took over "Maybe if I'm talking till 2 the ruling queen of the beauty who wants to join the ranks of age in his workroom The chairman's secretary did in 1947 and she thinks it's in- a.m, then my mind' is over-active world either....Helena Rubin- the Lop boys and Firls One, an exelling treatment of like it but would also like a lift. convenient.
and 14 wake up once or twice stein.
(amazingly there are fewer of plain honest-to-goodness raffia. The spiral stairense was. Asked about poor lighting and during the night, but in any case "Madame," as Helena Rubla- then) there's 3 long hard knitted in silver and gold to obviously getting her down. small rooms, she said: "I'm not then I usually lake about half a stein is respectfully called by apprenticeship first... there's give a chain metal effect, ́and
One of the secretaries. Mrs actually in my office at the dozen yeast tablets with a glass her subjects in the salon, told no gimmick way there.
another in Orion, screen printed Margaret Davis, typing in the moment. I've had to be evacu- of warm milk and this soothes. me before she left London this And so, without any exciting in subtle but exotle greens and
weck, "Never, never insomnia, leap into print and prosperity, browns. bably the butler's pantry, trouble-ths. building's really practise relaxing too, by it takes me a little longer to the name of Beno Telchman has Soon, for the first time here, enjoyed most of us going up very old indeed, you know.” pressing down hard on the bed sleep than usual because of slowly got around as a talent io we will be able to be coay in stairs "to breathe In the alaxis- Put in u few tits, more with my feet, calves, hips right extra problems, I take hot milk watch In the fabric-designing wool and angora cloth, but phere."
windows, take away the heavy up my borly mid then when I'm and honey, then I massage my field.
pretty too, because he has Daphine, Duchess of Rox- panelling, and I get the idea stiff as a boord I just let go forehead with my hands draw- There has not been A new sereСП printed them In A burglie has E beautiful dut they're on their way to appre- I'm relaxed,"
ing them upwards neruss my namin in London for some time, kaleidoscope of colours that we temples and this relieves all but I think Teichman has now expect and get in silk in sum- tensb SU sleep naturally arrived in the Ascher and Sekers mer time, Iollows."
class.
(London Express Service).
gloom "below stairs, once pro- ated DS we're having Boor m
Maureen Owen asks:
What do mothers feel about
LADY LUCK
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24
AQUARIUS (9) (Jaury 21- at least as much considera-
February 191: Somewhat strained relations with friend ought to be cleared up over the weekend. PISCES (4) (February
20.
March 201: Don't get over enthusiastle about J1 dubicus scheme, which might well turn out to be a costly experience.. ARIES (10) March 21-April
19): Make up your mind-
all to break once and for
habit which yourself of a you realise could under- mine your health.
all
the speed demon?
CHILDREN'S CORNER
How Things Change
-Christopher Almost Didn't Recognize-His Friends-
By MAX TRELL "WELL" sald
many parents have to deal with motor crazy cycle. All you can do is encerts Cricket, as he sat himself down tails and no legs, they became "Deenagers and, if so, what, if any, rules are
they able to lay down on the subject?”
That is this week's problem, and i comes mother who writes:
from a your
tinu
AL
show you friends.
(2) October 23- SCORPIO
November 211: Extra work
will h tonight
quite preftable, and should not make too heavy demands on your energy. SAGITTARIUS
4
wears a crash helmet.
never
teenage committees and boards, says:
"My own feeling is that teen.. agers now are about two years farther ahead in maturity than "My eldest son proposes to
they were when we were young. - "Luckily my children spend all his savings on a motor so I look on a boy of 18 as being went through the motor bike bike on his 18th birthday. He 20-and give him that much stage, but they were all taught and his friends talk of nothing extra trust.
10 drive properly and share the but e.es, top maximum speeds,
family Humber Hawk estate ear. and scrambles.
Children
A queer thing
on,
9.9
Squire Squirrel came down
the Oak Tree,
"Frogs." replied Christopher. little Tadpoles, with Christopher "From age a sesise of responsibility, remind him that his own life is between Knorf and Hanid, the bly Frogs with legs and no presumably precious to him, pro-Shadow
with the talls, duce statistics on what selish-Turned-About Names,
#jra "And my friends, the Cater- ness and bad manners get you wonderful thing how some of pillars," Christopher went on the roads, and see that he your friends change in their changed even more than the
looks if you don't happen to Tadpoles," see them for a month or ro."
Kcarf and Hanid both asked Christopher Cricket what, he meant by that remark,
+
When Krarf and Hanid nok- cd Christopher to tell m Met in park
cxvelly how the Caterpillars Christopher had met his two were changed, Christopher said "I belleve that, as parents, They take turns with it, book-
Job Ilen in
He had Inculcating ing in advance if they want it friends in the park
"I couldn't help hearing what "I don't think they do it just our (3) (Novem
standards of behaviour for a special date or outing. been living in the pork ever that from being creatures that ber 22-December 211; You lo frighten me, although in one sense, of those
since the weather had turned crawled up trees uri ale leaves you were saying." dis. and choice, money calm, friendly
and were rather ugly, they had "You mean about how folks must stop worrying over fi
"I am a fnnalle about fairness warm in the spring. And now. become beautiful cussions that experts are always so on-up to the age of 18,
Butterflies change in looks. Is that it?" are quite advising, we agreed that moter
within the family and think one of eourse, situation you
it was well into
who paid no attention to trees asked Christopher. ought to be very careful about autumn. powerless to change.
bikes are lethal weapons in the hands of the young.
making concessions to the eldest "What I mean," said Chris at all but lived on sweetress CAPRICORN (7) (December
and then not keeping them up opher, "is my frier, the Tad- which then sucked out of now-
with cra
long curling "His
"It's pretty queer." Christo- per raid after he had finished ir Knarf and Hold about hin. friends, the Tadpsies and Caterpillars, and how they had changed their coks.
22-January 201: Don't com-
values and
Saving up
counter suggestion is mit yourself to un under that we make up the extra
"If they haven't got
these things then, we've failed and It's taking which is distasteful money for him to buy a car. to you, and from which it will be difficult to withdren growing up, their
"As we have two more chit too late.
futher
"You can't stop a boy of that draw later,
setting the does not funcy
age from saving up his own LUCKY NUMBER: precedent of buying them each money
motor- buying a Count the letters in your car on their 18th birthday." first name and add the
Dame Barbara Brooke, wife of
TAURUS (5) (April 20-May 201; Don't let a stronger person exert too great Influence on you, either in
nt YOUR your domestic affairs or your work, GEMINI (12) (May 21-June
21): You must stop re- primanding yourself for an action which, given the same provocation, you would probably repeat. CANCER (8), (June 22-July 21): A friend will be of Assistance
checking some puzzling details in connection with your finances.
LEO (0) (July 22-August 21): If you feel that you bave found the right part. ner, don't let over Ren- Hitiveness on your part spoll the relationship.
(1) VIGO
(August September 22); By using your imagination you will be able to turn a tricky Altuntion to your ultimate kandvantage. ·
22.
LIBRA (11) (September 30. 'October 22) Try to realise that you owe your family
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total to the number shown the Minister of Housing and Hasty Ham-Potato Casserole: in brackets after your sign Local Government, mother of Blend 2 (10% oz) cans
of the Zodiac. This is your four children—from 17 to past lucky number for today.
21. and
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densed cream of chicken soup chairman of endless with 1 c. milk and minced
peeled small onlon. Peet and alice
cooked
Rupert and the Sky-boat-54
As the pals are about to 'move pa, Marget paùmes “It was beyond bees that we came through that fog," he says. “1f, it's_stil] there we may not see the sun and we'll lose our way. Rupert looks Anxious, then þá Etighten. ** ET- won't be there, he says, "Don'
you remember? it was the waste part of the cloud that the factory didn't need, sent out by under ground pipes. But now there's no factory there'll be no log )" they run along and soon they wea their village in the distance in front of them.
"ALL"RIGHTA KUIARYRD
50
0 good-sized potatoes.
Bice enough
oddments of cooked ham to make 2 c., or Use 1 (12 oz.) chilled can minced ham. Arrange alternate layers at polatoen, ham and 'sauce In buttered 2 qt. low baking dish. Dot the top with 3 thap, butter or morgurine. Bake 30 min. In a hot oven, 400° F,
Baked Apples Blaffed With ': Mincement: Usa 6 good-sized lart red baking appica, Hollow out the corce, forming cups,
Dice any apple pulp and ddd to 1 c. canned or proparéd mincemeat. Fill the apples with 1214
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Place in a baking dish. Pour in spple Juice or cider to the depth of 1", Stir in 3 tbsp, sugar,
Blow-bake 48 to 30 min.
used to
sec
tongues.
with the younger ones.
potes, VICU I "One has to be very careful swimming around in the pond, about that sort of thing-or ben't
more. Tadpoles arty. a millionaire, and, in any case I They're completely changed. I provide each
think it's going a bit far to hardly recognised them.”
What have they become?"
own ear."
child
with its
anked Harle
HASTY HAM-POTATO Casserole combines convenience, home-propared foods, using him leftovers and potato in sanoe made of soup,
their
Knarf recalls a change
Squire Squirrel nodded.
"You see that Oak Tree that I'm living in? You know what it loula ke when I first saw 11?" he asked.
I know! I looked like a
little Cuk Tree," said Knart,
But Squire Squirrel said no, when he first saw the Oak Tree, it didn't look anything like an Oak Tree at all, and not even liko stile Oak Tree.
"It looked like an acorn," ho
Kaart and Hanld agree that said. Christopher was right. Then
Knari and Habid and Chisto- Hardd cald that she knew a pher Cricket all expressed sur- Kitten that had changed into a prise that a tiny acorn which Сп
and Puppy that had Squire Squirrel could hold in changed into a Dog. But they his paws could be able to weren't nearly as strongo as an change into a mighty Oak Trea Egy the once knew which had which cquire Squirrel could livo charged into an Omelot.
This reminded. Knart of seme-
in.
Another thing
thing. He seld that every winter the pond in the middle It was only later while Knorf of the park stopped being a and Hand were walking home The park, that Honid something that
hought
of
por ard: became comptotely from charktec
"Chonged?" asked Christo. changed in the most wonderful
pher Cricket, "How could a way of all, pond become "anyliing: else?"
It was a alice of bread and
It did become..comething butter that I ate just before cise, ald Knart. "It became we went to the park."
in skating rink":
MA rise of bread, ang but-
Knert had just finished say- fer?" asked Kmart, looking at Ing thin when Squire Squirrel, ils rister in surprise, who had an apartment one- did $1-phenge Info?"
room apartient-halfway up.
"What
"I changed into me," said
The trunk of an Oak Tree, como Hand down and Joined Knarf and And stie laughed. "And Khart
Hanid and Christopher,
i..!
did, too,