THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1960.
WOMANSENSE
JACOBY BRIDGE
THE
He dimculty of bidding The first man to come up with grand slams without me one was the into Ely Culbert method of asking for aces led son. bridge players to turn to artf- fetal ace showing conventions.
+CARD Serideno
Q-The bidding has becaus South Wort Nagil ZN.T
PAST 34
5
7
Past
Pass
Pass
GN.T.
The Culbertson four-five fo trump convention was that a bid of four no-trump showed either three neea or two aces and a king of a previously bid suit. Partner would respond five no-trump if he held two Easi nces or if he held one ace and Pass the kings of all previously bld Pass suits. With one ace or a void, Pres
he would bid five of that suiti Paus
Otherwise, he would sign of in the previously agreed sult.
You, South, Bolds MAJI WAQUS +AKS JADE
What do you do? A-Fass, Remember, that at ono stage of the bidding your partner was willing to play the hand below u plazo.
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TODAY'S QUESTION What opening bid would you make, holding the following? AK2 VAKJ7 ◆K9654 432 Answer TomOITOW
Today's hand Illustrates the convention at its best, North's fivo no-trump response to his partner's four
no-trump shows one ace and the king of spades, That is all South needs for a grand slam bid.
Playing Blackwood, or almost any other modern stam conven- tion, it is doubtful inderd if
NORTH- AKJ74
WEST 402
109 +3966 43973
KART
103
•K764 +108
10854.
SOUTH (D) AAQBOR
B
AKQ32 A3
No one vulnerable Boulh West North Eus
Phee 34 / Par
BN.T., PRES «NT Pass
Pais Pass Pass Opening Icad-VI
North and South would reach this grand slam.
110-trump.
North's Blackwood response one ace then it would show South asked for kings with five
North would show One King South would have no
sure that the one! way to be king was the king of trumps and the hand would play at six.
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MARRIAGE AND UNBOUNDED AMBITION
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THE roving eye and the careless heart;
yes, they can be reason enough for divorce-
I DON'T BELIEVE THAT· TOGETHER THEY MEAN
when they grow to mess we are making of mar- heartbreak and betrayal. rlages.
For 72-year-old Judgo Cuth- Physical brutality or mental bert Rowcastle held that it was torment; yes, cruelty is a reason her husband's "overwhelming" ambition which brought Mis too.
Rosemary Daphne Farmes to the divorce Courts one dank Decem ber day.
But was there ever a reason like that given the other day as one cause of a marriage break ing up-ambliton?
seems to it
nio extraordinary of the very epitome of the
Now what is it, this quality every the most called ambition-which
let-the woman tries to instil into her universal baby, foster in her schoolboy, encourage in her grown-up son?
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The magnet
DISASTER
by
JILL BUTTERFIELD
when the electricity bill arrived
and your mother-in-law,
As Mrs Anthony Wedgwood Benn said, you were sad for the children, "They really miss him when he is away.”
And, like Lady Mortizon, you schooled yourself to cope.
"I had hoped to see more of my husband when he left the Its the craving to get on- Commons," she said, "but a wife faster, further the determina- must accept the fact that a man tion to succeed, the virtue that will continue to tako more carries with it, of necessity, the and more on." odour of ruthlessness and the fret smell of success,
Those acquaintances he con- It's the magnet that can draw siders important to his job, a woman to a man as surely as Remember those evenings when the colour of his eyes or the size ho telephoned at six saying, the of his simile. And it's the most boss was coming to dinner and unusual reason for wanting to you pretended to be
farian because there were only leave him I've heard.
rose
For what are the complaints of two chops in the house? the woman married to a man
efforts who by his own from the bottom rung to be director of a leading airplane Arm?
They are simply the moans of any woman married to any man with any spark of drive, ability, or Initiative.
Mrs Farnes complained that: She was lonely when her husband was away.
She "did
not care for bis commercial acquaintances."
She found that overwork was making him irritabic. Recognise them? We all do.
vego-
The bonhomie And those others-the office party with the beer, the back- slapping and the bonhomio. That wasn't exactly the way you'd chosen to spend the even- Ing either, was it?
That Irritability at the end of the day. That one strikes home too.
Those, evenings when we long to
now kitchen talic about
school curtains or Johnny's report and wo get: "Can't you keep that child quiet?"
But, few wives will go to the Divorce Court over, that one.
As Mrs Joseph Collier, wito 'of the chairman of the £24,000,000 United Drapery Stores, sald: **If my husband is tired or worried about things I just try to make sure the evening runs the way he likes it and keep worries from him.""
The fabric
of being married to an ambitious These then aro the penalties
man-according to the law and Mrs Fornce
To me they Bem no more than rough threads in the fabric of any everyday marriage. The only difference is the one which seems to have eluded bath the law and Mrs Farnes
It is simply that it's easler to cope with being alone when you But, like Lady Festing, wife have the price of a theatre of the Chief of the Imperial ticket in your handbag. General Staff, you kept your It's easier to cope with busi- moans to yourscit.
BUSS oquaintances when you can give them champagne instead of cider cup.
She
told me: "I grumbic, privately of course, liko mad about having to get dressed up for official parties,
And it's a darn sight easier to cope with any man on earth--
"I don't really liko official lord or layabout when the I fruita of his ambition have
That loneliness when he is entertaining at all. But away. The nights when alone couldn't bear to be married to given you a nice little suito to you coped with burst pipes and, a nine-to-five man, so I do my retire to. sudden attacks of flu. The days best to enjoy it all."
~(LondonTM Express Service).
CHILDREN'S CORNER
Giddap Remembers
-She Tells Knarf About Jack, The Scarecro
By MAX TRELL
"Oh," said Knarf, "another Horpe."
IT WAS quite early in the
"No," sald Giddiap, "Jack -morning when Knart weat wan't another Horsky,
Jack 'downstairs to stand in front of looked like a Man except that the house to wait for the friend he was stuffed with straw and whom he expected,
he, sat all day—and all-night,
Sure enough, a few minutes too-on a pole in the middle inter, Gidday, the Mk-wagon of a corn fold. Ho was Horse, como clump-clump- Scarecrow." clumping around the corner, pulling the milk-wugu and the Milkman and all
Never saw one
the mik
bottles behind him.
"I've never scen
crow," said Khari,
Knart joined Giddap
0 Scare
"There aren't too many of
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"What happens to Jack?” Kaart naked Kidday.
tho Farmer
shakces
Jack Scarecrow's kind aroundi sny that And, as usual, as soon as the nowadays" Giddap, the MK- Jack out of his coal Milkman got off to deliver milk wagon Horse, said "But Jack "Anyway, all thavs loft is the to all the other houses in the was a jolly fellow when I know empty coat." street, Knarf went over to soq kim
What happens to Jack?" | how Gidklap' was doing and to. and out what adventures 'zho
"He'd keep his straw eyes on Knart cried in aların, me all day long. And every had had since they had last met, now and then, he'd invite me in the wind as I said before,"
"Oh, he just goes floating off |
which was yesterday morning,
over to the fence have a talk said Giddha, "straw by straw, "Nothing really happened
with him. It got a bit lonely in all blowing away." Giddap said, pawing the ground that com field. And Jack ap- with her foot as the spoke.
"But I did a lot of remember preciated talking to folks,”
Looked around
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HOUSEHOLD, HINTS
Milkman retums Giddap looked around. This time the Miliaran was coming "You know," she went on,
bock, "It's not hard to remember if the Milkman was returning. Giddap looked around to sco
"And tant was what I was Rust marks on playing cards things when you're pulling
can since I saw you
be removed by putting Then she said in a low volco to remembering milk-wagon through a lot of art, and there was a chucide Lost," said Giddap. "Remember damp salt o empty streyta carly in the
allowing them to dry in the sun. morning. And I have lots of time to remember things, too, while I'm waiting for the MDC man to deliver the mille
Remembered a friend
in ter volce as she spoke:
ing about Jack Scarecrow who is now hanging on a hooks in
the cards and
"Do you know what Jacic the bam, just an old empty A handlo to hold bot Scarecrow often asked me to coat, sleeping the winter monthu vacuum-boftio. cup CAD bo do? He naked mas-to-he really away, waiting for spring and made from a strip of paper asked me to come into the Crown and com to come again." folded over several times, corn field and, eat some com?” And a few minutes later, Gide
*Hò did?" Knart exclaimed, dap was clump-clump-clumping If your cako burns, remové startled.
down the street again, while scorched area with a grater and Knarf stood on the sidewalk and cover with a glamorous king. It waved goodbye to her until | your cako falls, servo las n tomorrow.
pudding, heated, with a LICC.
She was surprised
"And yesterday, I remem bered about a váry old and a Ivery good friend of mino—and I got to wondering just where he was and what he was doing, * was surprised, too," sald now that the summer was over Giddap, "I told Jack it was his and winter isn't very far away." job to keep everybody from cat | Knart wanted to know what ing the Former's corn. But | felend Giddap was remember. Jack said;
ing.
"No, I'm a Scare-Crów. not. "Before I tell you his namo a'Scare-Horse, and who he is” enla Gidday,
"He'd keep Crows from 'cat»
"I pught to tell you that long ing corn but he wouldn't keep ago I lived on a faren.”
me from eating a bit now and I didn't know that," said thers, Good old Jack, I gues Knart."I thought you camo he's not in the corn feld any from the city.”
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Born on farm
**I was born on a form,” said Giddag. "And my Mother and Father War borin on
too. And when I was Young and growing uĎ. 1, used to apend
· more though."
"Why, where is he?" Knant
asked
"Gene with tho "wind, I 'Kurey" said Cidđap.
Nothing to watch
"You see," he went on, "ÜKETU
'all my days in a beautiful grocs isn't any Lo for Jackˇto... sil field. The loveliest nisl most on his pole in the middle of the delicious clover in the whole finka at this timekufa" the youF, world grow. In that neid. And : Thoo just folk" aby comma 10 this friend that I was remem-watch. So the Farmer/comas boring about, ived in the next ⋅ mlong sna atzokay ifié straw, dul fold"
of the coat, I suppose you might
Rupert and the Purple Star--25
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