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IF
THE
DECIDE
THERE's no competition about this,
but you'll find it an annising; way
b judge your friends' characters if out set them some of these posera:
You have a chance (your only ane) to go for a world luxury ulse if you go as enmpanion to a ochetty and ill-tempered old lady. Yould you go?
A poor relation could sell his Al Immense profit to a rry-bullder. This is a chance in a Fethne for him. But it would wreck; bur favourile stretch of country, ou know of the channee. He dues ot. Would you tell him?
By Infleting a fatal disease on n great friend with whom you are ving you rould end all the suffer 8. in Europe. Would you?
You
nerd are engaged or money desperately to get mar- ed. A newspaper offers you
You are very fond of cakes and sweets. You find that by giving up entlog them you can live to be 100. Would you?
Your old friend, the local family doctor, is getting post it. but you know he feels he cannot afford to retire. A brilliant refugee doctor seeks a permit to practise. In the aeighbourhood where there has been in good deal of slekness, It is in your power to give or withhold the per- Dift.
What would you do?
A man saved your wife's life, and through that became your
best friend. Two years later you discover he is working 03
spy against your country. Would you denounce him?
You have been awarded the most coveted prize at your college. } By chance you see the
second.
You
PARTY
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1939.
PARTY FLAGS
Tear this page out and keep it handy for your Christmas party.
Let's
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may help
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See, Who
This?
Yes, most of you know off by heart the quotations below, but how many know who wrote them? Here's an idea which will append to the more literary-minded of your guests.
Select yourself some fairly well-known quotations of the type I books and below, read them out to the Bid that through an error in rai- ; guests and award a small prize
first, where bution you are
should have been
Would (cigarettes or chocolates) to the you admit looking at the books, one who gets the most right. which you should have left closed. or accept the prize, knowing that you are not really entitled to it?
m for your story of an incident
at might wreck the married life of me great friends if published, ould you take the offer?
2. If it be a siu to covet honour, then I am the most offending of all
THIOPI
3. Still are the thoughts of memory
1. Primroses, the -Spring may lore | dear. them;
LONELY WIFE-even on
SATURDAY AFTERNOONS
You'll be home for lunch, won't you, Bob?
Ok, sorry, but I forgot to tell
you I'm going out with some
of the boys this afternoon
MARY DECIDED TO TEACH
808 A
LESSON ---
Dear Bob,
9. know you
don't want me any more, so I'm going am' wanted.
home where g
See that Soffic
gets his food all
right. Haney
MARY GOT HOME
BEFORE BOB AND BURNED THE NOTE, THEN SHE WENT TO SEE HER DOCTOR-
home
right
SO- HORLICKS EVERY NIGHT
AND ***
A WONDERFUL CHANGE CAME OVER MARY'
He's always out, Scottie. Even when he's home he hardly talks. I know I've been run-down and dull-looking, but I don't deserve to be treated.
like this!
AT HER MOTHER'S HOME
You're a very foolish girl! You've let yourself get tired out and nervy! "You-look about.fifty.. How can you expect Bob to be interested.
Now you go back home and see a
doctor!
... and, Doctor, I even wake fired
From what you tell me, Mrs. Norton, your trouble is Night Starvation. You see,
even at night you go on using up
energy in heartbeats, breathing and
other automatic actions. In your case,
this has also led to an excess of acid waste products in the blood.
SIX WEEKS LATER
Darling, I'm proud of you. You're so bright and gay, so full of fire!
Do you feel worn out, depressed and nervy
Take
K2
?
All this causes you to wake tired, feel and look nin-down and 'nervy. Recent rests have proved that Horlicks is what
people need for that....
Do you even wake tired?
HORLICKS
THINKE
BOB LOVES ME AGAIN. THANK GOODNESS FOR MORLICKS
Guard. Against
NIGHT STARVATION wake Then you will sleep soundly refreshed-and have extra energy all day
4. For men must work, and women must weep
THIS
Party Game
---
HIS is an ideat game for a very big party. Dinide your guests into two or more teams with a bench Ox or a chair in front of each team. each of these place our new condle, a box of matches, and a doll.
Then blow whistle as a sign that the is awoke and crying. Im mediately the father for tender of i the team) aluld get ap and light the candie, walk as quickly as pos- sible all round the team, put the baby down again on the chatr, and blow out the candle. As soon as he gets back to this place the whole tram have to dash out one by one and do exactly what the father did.
The roinntag team is, of course, the one that gets done first.
Bridge Hints
Beginners and novices-and others -may find of some use. the following tips and suggested methods of deal- int with the dilmeulties that wil urise:-
1. Applied common sense will, as rule, go a long way to solve the problems that confront you. We all profess to have common sense, and those who apply it best are the most successful. Almost all systems and conventions of bidding and play are founded on common sense.
tion
2. Consider every difficult posi
tint arises from a negative" rather than a poslilve view-point. In other words, make your decision- where there is more than one ternative-by n process of elimina- tion of harmfulness, Say to your- self. "What harm shall I do if bid this
or play that?”
3. Remember you are one of two partners at Contract. Selfishness in Bridge-no matter how big a fool you inny deem your purtner to be produces results quite as serious as bad bidding or bad play..
4. Never, without unimpeachable reason, mislead your partner, If you do, you will at once undermine that confidence which must exist between partners to produce the suc- cess your bath seek.
5. If you have good reason for regarding your partner's ability to be pour-compared with yours-nurse him, compliment when he is success- ful, and commiserate with him when he
folly
If due to crags (even stupidity). He may suspect that he is a worse player even than you are. but sympathetic treatment will bring out the best in him.
6. Never let 100 (or 150) honours unduly colour your bidding. Many a hand is a "make" in "Three No- Trumps" when "Five Diamonds" or "Five Clubs" ("I had 150 Honours, Partner") cannot be got. Altema- tively, many contract of "Four Spades" or "Four Hearts can be made when "Three No-Trumps"- with 150 Aces cannot. (Applied commonsenset)
7. Wenit
over-calls by second haud,
when non-vulnerable, usually a mistaken form of amuse- ment; but when uulnerable they in- vite dire and terrible penalties if partner turns out to have a "bust." It fourth hand (your partner) has anything to say he will endeavour to say it, whether third hand butts in
or not.
are
1. Admittedly, when vulnerable opponents have an advanced score and you, are not vulnerable, it is often expedient to make a wenklal opening bid on the basis that the best defence is afinck. But, normal- I do not open the bidding with a bid of one in a suit unless you are prepared for any response your part- Her
make. (Principle of anti- cipation.)
D., Never, as declarer, be in a hurry to play to the first trick. As roon na Dummy is exposed, glvo a good deal of consideration to the problem of how to play the combined hands to the best advantaga. Form a plan of campaign, and proceed along definite lines. unless and until sume unexpected ndverse distribution or play comes along to cause you to vary your scheme.
out.
A BIT
SHAGGY DOGS.
HERE is a nituor craze in America for "Shappy "Dog" stories-stories which budhi mp, through thrills, excitements, and similar devicra, to n
strong ellier. Then suddenly the anti-climax-absurdly humorous. Here is the origtunt "Shaggy Dng" story. It would not be a bad idea to compose a "Shaggy Dog" story, have a copy for each quest, traving out the anti- elmar, Offer a prize for the best rating to the story.
HIRAM K. JEDBURGH, of New York City, picked up his
morning
paper, looked in the "Agony Column," and saw, this advertisement: Wanted: A shangu dop. Ad- vertiser is willing to pay £250 English money Apply. Lord Snooks, Park-lane, London, Eug- land.
Hiram knew a shepherd who'd a very shaggy sheep dog, so he went along to this shepherd-who could neither write nor read, and there- fore coukl not have understood the advertisement even supposing he had seen It-and bought the very shaggy dog for ten dollars,
He reckoned. "I pay my fare to England and return-that ought to show me a pretty good profit.”
So, with shaggy dog on a lend, be orrived at Southampton, asked, "Say. where's Londan?" A porter satel "The train will take you there, sir." Hram said, "Nuts to a train, I'm making a big protit on this; get me
a car.'
At high speed he drove to London. found Park-lane and Lord Snacks" house.
He strode up the marble steps, banged on the highly pulished and richly embossell door. A butter on- swered. Salet Hiram: "Is Lord Snooks in?" The butler said: "Yes, sir, it call him."
Lon! Snooks appeared at the door, clad in purple dressing-gown, wear- ing his coronet.
I've
Hiram sa: "Lord Shooks. come all the way from New York City. I say this little advertisement in the New York evening paper, You shy here you are willing to pay £250 English money for shaggy dog, Right here, sir, is the shagis dot."
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"Say, Whero's London?"
The Best Lungs Win
TERE is a game in which lungs count. Take a saucer, tum- bier, a handful of split peas, and a straw for each competitor.
The object is to see who cán re- move the greatest number of peas from the saucer to the tumbler in. say, three minutes-using only the straw and your powers of suction.
As a variation, you may l the soueer with rice and arm the com- petitors with two ordinary plns aplece. To if grains of rice with such weapons will try the temper and the steadiest of hunds,
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Lord Snooks adjusted Iris manuele, pecred at the shaggy dog, said: "Not and sout the shoggy enough”
door.
Features of the
Split Words
NSWER the two clues
underneath each row of squares, filling in one lotter in each square. If your two words are right, the complete row of letters will form a word answering the clue at the top.
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REMEMBERING inclodies is
one thing, but knowing the another. titles is altogether Here is an amusing way of testing your knowledge.
Play on the gramophone a few bars, each from some old records, inviting your-friends to write down the titles. To add to the fun hove more than nne excerpt from one of them. And, to avoid recriminations afterwards. be sure to keep a correct list of the answers.
To make il more difficult you can also ask your friends to write down the names of the composers of each tune, that is, of course, if you are playing classleat music.
FRIGIDAIRE
Latest Cold Wall Models
The New Quickubo Tray will find favour with everyone. It increases the capacity of the freezer for freezing desserts, salads and ice cuber; also for storage of bulky frozen articles and highly porishable foods.
Threo in ora. All three functions of tho Cold Control, the Automatic Roset Defroster and the Master Switch are now controllable from a single, dial which is known as tho Frigidaire Uni-Matic Control,
Here's an addad refinement that users will appreciate: a new Super Freezer Door which closes at a fingor's touch, but, most important of all, it opens all the way and stays open until you want it to close.
Storage space for the extra iço cubes needed for parties is an added use for the Meat Tendor. It holds all the cubes that can be frozen at one time, thus doubling the ice cubo capacity of the rofrigerator,
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