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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1951.

WOMANSENSE=

“Triumph” Ahead

Titled

** Triumph '*

this woman's

raincoat has

been designed

by Paris de-

signer Pierre

Balmain for

a British

rainwear

Arm. The

model is 2

three-quarter

length

box

coat with

patch pockets

to enhance

the

chunky

appearance,

(Reuterphoto).

ARROWROOT BISCUITS

THESE SOUND RATHER PLAIN AND NICE-

CAN JUST MANAGS TUS SOC

SIEVE TOGETHER

POZ ARROWROOT AND

4OZ PLAIN FLOUR

WITH

A PINCH OF

SALT

RUB IN

3oz OF

MARG

On Sum

Beauty Depends

Of Little Things

UNLESS a

So many "little things” should make up your weekly beauty A warm bath, for example, in a tub fragrant programme,

woman has her beauty tasks planned, has a CET- tain time for them, she is likely to miss out on some small at- tentions that are necessary for

battling old man Time. Good appearance has so much to do with social and business success

Accent on black

FIRST spring hats are ap-

paring in Paris, teamed with winter outfits in the mid-season collections. They are tiny, flower-trimmed and mode of silk Yellow looks

like a WARRANT for spring

1952

Fath limits his Jacques mid-season collection chiefly Christmas party frocks. Black is the most important shade for evening. He uses it for sheuth" gowns, cut strapless, covered with fitted. tailored bolers, with high neess and long sleeves.

Black rocklad dresses of Corduroy velvel have enor- mus swirling skirts and lots of pettimals. Novelty, worn with half-length sleeves, is

a suede gauntlet-glove with Marched pique ruff,

F

that

of paramount

it to the to t portance etnost possible fumat.

i-

Career girls who tear out of

with bath colts,

By HELEN FOLLETT

before they tuck themselves be- tween the sheets at might. Then they can start the day in fine form, feel that they have done their duty

Warm Bath

A warm bath will relieve fa- tigue, impart a sense of relaxs-

On the day off there must be a survey of one's wardrobe. Frocks to be sent to the cleaner. A button off maybe. Perhaps a few stitches to be taken in the hems of slipsi

Always something. But good appearance depends upon little things. No girl can

afford to overlook them.

kon. Add a sprinkling of bath THE TOPPER

"will

salts to give water sweet smell- ing softness. A Ave-minute

of the complexion massage keep the skin smooth. The com- plexion takes a lot of punish ment from atmospheric dust and climatic changes, deserves a of petting. Hair will not thrive without brushing. A brief scaip friction streams buzzing.

world

LOOKING for all the like a wool topper, here is a handsome, coat of wool, perfect when it comes to warding of cold winds, and a 1pt

nice finish to or separates two- any dress

(below) The some

delicate will keep the blood champagne beige colour is set off by collar and cuffs of black velvet. There are folds down

All the year round. hands either side of the front and the should have a gentle creaming pockets are stitched in black

day.

an for extra smartness and colour Rubbing emollient in the Anger nails will contrast

once 1

help keep bungnails away. Lift- ing the surrounding cuticle with the orange wood stick is an in- surance against rage and shags

Washing Nylons

JACOBY ON BRIDGE

These Two Practise What They Preach

By OSWALD JACOBY DERNARD SHAW once said:

Those who can, do; those who can't, teach." He'd have been stumped at the sight of Peter Leventritt and Dick Kahn winning the Masters' Pair the recent Championship in national bridge tournament be- cause Pete und Dick both teach

bridge in the Card School. That's a pair of young men who can practise what they teach.

Leventelit will probably use the hand shown today as a lesson hand in one of his advanced classes. He has a right to use it because i

the national b:ppened to him in tournament.

West opened the long of hearts, and Leventritt refused the trick. His reasons for refusing the trick are the most interesting part of the play.

There are

eleven top tricks in

cannot break favourably, since one opponent is sure to have at least four spades. The chief hope for the twelfth trick lles, therefore, in a 3-3 break of the missing six dia- monds However, the odds are al- most 2 to I against such a favour- able break.

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"He's sort of a short, fat Gregory Peck, only blond.”

•

BY

would

THE WAY.

by Beachcomber

the North-South hands. The mades Democritus were alive, as 'Scoops by the thousand'

the old Latin tag goes, he WHEN I was editing the Roch-

dale Observer, laughing at the pro-

in the old building in Parsons-stroët, which is ple who try to analyse laughter. Fow The commumaḥ fish-queur A book published recently ereche, we had' p' coltron devoted America saya: "Laughter is born to ** imaginary news.. Sooner at of hatred and aggressiveness." This

Later, every torn we invented came dismal balderdash Is worse than

for true, and we got a reputation the old theory, repeated by fortry Initiative and drive which puzzled thousand catloads of setolists, that eur contemporades. There was an laughter is bor of a feeling of anxious moment in the editorial superiorly.

room when we printed an account of a shower of maraschino which You laugh when a man hits down

had fallen on St. Helens. But hardly en his hat because you fred superfor 1 him.

had the indignant letters poured in But if there is any health ka you, you tough just as loudly

with denials when the bantaring when you sit down on yasall own

news agonolos went in a report of a kot. Another theory, mumbled over

shower of some mysterious liquid by people who never stop to think, which had fallen on St. Helens. It is that it is the unexpected that

was only rain, but our uncanny makes you laugh. But the expected

speed in raporting the incident Just da kely In RKC

persuaded most people' that it must 10-11

have been maraschino. laugh, os anyone knows who has waited for the comedian

good declarer doesn't like to be on the short end of 2 to 1 odds. so Leventriti looked around for another chance to make his con-

The bel chance treet.

lay in a Even squecze.

the diamonds

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laughter?

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Tt takes only a moment to wash one's nylons, which should be WOIT only once and then washed. A look at one's shoes may make one realise that is time to have new tops pu

There's nothing on the heels.

unattractive 35 an quite

well-groomed "down really

SO

18: buse in a hurry every otherwise noring have to io their pul- who's chritude building после work heels."

THEN ADD

*OZ CASTOR

SUGAR

AND THEN

A BEATEN

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AND 30R4 DROPS OF LEMON £68ENCE

KNEAD AND

ROLL OUT BINCH THICK

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MINUTES

BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

Willy Toad and

His One Poem

-It Made Such a Hit, He's Got to Write More!-

By MAX TRELL

44TOMS! Why do they come

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to me for their poems"

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Willy nodded. "It wasn't very good one, bul Horace said it was fine.

Knarf and Honid asked Willy to tell them the poem he wrote Horace the frog. It was Willy Toad who was for hus cousin saying these words. Knart and willy smiled and recited it: Hanid, walking through the Pine Tree Grove not far off, heard Willy's words. They Curc hurrying over to find out why Willy was being bothered by porins.

They found him sitting on mossy pebble with a big penci! in his hand and a large pad of paper on a mushroom-desk in

I guess they must have liked it as much as Horace and the other frogs did. Because they all And when started rechting it. They reached the end, they just began it again. And finally." said Willy, "finally when morn- Ing came and the meeting got ready to break up, all his friends asked Horace where he got the poem from, and he said he got it from me."

Willy paused to sigh deeply.

Hundreds of Frogs

"And this morning, as soon as

19-19

I opened my eyes, there all Willy kept muttering, "Poems

"A poem!" cried Hanid.

front of him. Willy was licking "That's the poem I wrote for and the end of the pencil and look. Cousin Horace," said Willy. "He they want? Just one thing!" ing up at the sky. Instead of went to his meeting and recited writing anything, he kept mut it. He recited it all night long. "Poems, poems....why When he came to the end he just tering, do they ask me to write them? began it again. Am I a poem writer? No!"

North-South vul.

Pass Poss

Opening lead--✔ K

failed to break favourably, the cou

the Banie tract could be made f opponent had four spades and fouT diamonds,

and all or four apadrs The heart honoure, or four diamonds and all the heart honoura,

to fall

There is a moral in this. Twenty Years of Uproar

She took the aria too fast.

(Music critic.

RUSTIGUZZI once book an action against a critic who wrote that We must have I Bolemn the "Crashed into the opening har appmach to laughter. I prefer before the accompanist was ready." the theory that laughter is caused Rustiguzzi lared that this gave by the engs in the blood stream. vulgar poople the chance to make "it la noi," says Muttonhead, "an jokes

about opening-time. One emotion, bat, like everything else. paper did actually comment on the a discase; an erethiam prevalent in criticism as though singer and e- the chloe nade stage of world companist were on a set of pub- development. The ergs are released crawl, and the headlines Dive Beats In a cunoale nas, a when a goat Acomparist: Rustiguzzi First Into in given dried pepper. Cachinnation The Bar" gave considerable offence then ensues,"

in muntes difcles.

YOUR BIRTHDAY.......

BORN

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29

combine 14-

have

By STELLA

today. you

However, you have a wide range dividualism and originálity of of Interests and as you grow older idea with the ability to put your it is kely that you will settle on plans into practical aperation. You some serious career and leave sporta enjoy freedom of thought and action, as your avocation. You have a yet you are capable of co-operating friendly and genial disposition and efficiently with those who chare your should ave a wide circle of

deals. You are highly first

tempera- acquaintanens, In fact, you pre so mental-yet you seem to know just affible that you may find difficult how far you can go and stop short to centre your affections on any one of that point.

person. Guard against being fokle in romance. Yet, another contradle- tion: once you have selected your te partner. you are completely By and true and

your apparent

In must squeezes it is necessary to have winning cards for all ex- of the tricke when you cept one start to apply pressure. That's Leventritt refused the why trick. It luft twelve tricks to be played, and he could win eleven of them--which was exactly the position he wants

West continuod with the queen of hearts, and dentarer won with the ace. He next ran his tour clubs. discarding a diamond trem dummy, He then tried the dhunonds, and discovered that West was squeezed.

When the third top diamond was Ied. West could save only four cards. All four cards had to be apades, since otherwise dunamy's fourth spade would become estab- shed. West discarded his jack of hearts in the hope that his partner had the ten, but it was no go. Levenit promptly cashed the ten of hearts and took the rest of the tricks with high spades.

♥CARD Sende@♦

Q---The bidding has been: North

East South

West

1 Diamond Pass 1 Spude Pass

2 Diampada Pass

You, South, hold: Spades A-J-8-7- 2. Hearts K-10-6-4-2, Diagrward 4. Clubs 8-4, What do you do?

A-Bid two hearts. You are not trying, for garue but simply for a playable contract. There is a good chance that your partner has three cards in one of the major quits. If ce, you will probably be better of at that suit than at diamonds. How- ever, this is a dangerotis bid to make with the "Leaping Lena" type of partner, whose next bid may woTL be a jump to game in almost any direction. With such a partner you must pass at twą diamonds,

TODAY'S QUESTION

In other words, you are a bundle of contradictions and your nature is a complicated one. Yer. the stars have Byen you that touch Benrus that should make your success fickleness" practically an outstanding one. You have a exist.

reases to

real interest in nature and enjoy the To Brid what the stars have in great outdoors. Hunting. fishing store for tomorrow, select your birth- competitive sports and athletes are day star and read the corresponding avocations in which you should paragraph. Let your birthday

star: excel, especially in youth.

be your daily, guide. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30 SAGITTARIUS (Nov, 23-Dec, 233 tun and pleasure, especially if you A good "stay-at-home" night Your have been working hard. pleasure in your fandly can Prove exceptionally rewarding,

CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20). If you owe someone a letter, write it Fostponing the answer may only make it more dificult

AQUARIUS (JAD.

19) Important work comes first today, Finish the job--and then you can playsCES

and enjoy yourself.

(Feb. 26-Mar. 20) For you, the emphasis is on relaxa.

CROSSWORD

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The bidding is the one as in the question just answered. You, South, hold: Spades A-J-8-7-2 Hearts 8-4 Diamonds 4, Clubs K-10- G-4-2. What do you do? ?

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Answer tomorrow.

• BARBS

"This is a poem of wind and

rain,

Wind and rain,

Wind and rain,

When you

come to

Just begin it again.

the end around me I saw hundreds and hundreds of frogs and cats and crickets and owls and katydids sparrows. And what

"

why do they ask me to write poems for them?"

did

"Oh, if you only could," said Willy.

Was

clover,

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them. But I can't," cried Willy, **I can't"

Daisies and clover,

"Can you

NOW

"Oh!" said Hapid. "And everybody else for miles Knart and Hanid

de. and miles around also heard it. manded an explanation · from Willy.

Knart and Hanid felt sorry for Willy, "We'll help you f we can," said Knarf..

DEFT details bestow some- So Knarf and Hanid thought "Yes, a poem," said Willy, and thought and thought, and thing new to this season's crap "They all said that the poem I finally By and by all and written for Cousin Horace poem. It wasn't much good, boast colourful taffeta

they thought of this of toppers, many of which also linings.

for the other frogs at the meeting

wanderful. 1 sald either. But Willy was sure it Sandy beige wool is used And they couldn't possibly

this charming

(above) began reciting it, too.

coat,

An optimist is any farmer who write another would do. It went:

with

of beige for plants good old sweet corn right tone deeper recited it all night long, just lite one. But they all said that if I Horace did. For when they got could write one for Horace I This is a poem of daisies and the cuffs and the taffeta lining along the roadside,

the Slot seaming from under collar lends

a dressmaker touch. This is a

choice good

for travel, resort or town wear and for day' or after 'dark' clothes.

By HAL COCHRAN

to keep up TT'S a lot harder

with running expenses when you're a fast stepper,

About all rome people realise that on their investments is they shouldn't have invested.

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up

Any Poems?

At this moment Willy noticed to the end they just began it could write another one for Knart and Hanid. "Hullo," he again."

think of Bny

sold.

poems?"

"What poems?" Knart -asked.

Why do you have to write them?" asked Hanid,

lowns

"Well sighed Willy as he put his pencil I made a great mistake yesterday, I met my cousin Horace. He's a frog. He said would I please do him-D dayour. Fanld, sure, what Horace? Ho anld; I'm

favour

to a meeting of froge tong

Ahe page of the swamp. IT Who goes to

ENOTY the meeting

han, to have a poem. But I can't write on, and I wish you would write one for me. I mld, Doen Jadeve to be a very good poem, foture, dio, euid - Horace, just TEHNɑalik poor, So, I said, all mahinal write a poem for you."

Rupert and the Ice-flower-38

As itupert teaches the upper alopes the wild, hare, appears and leaps along beside him.; "Hulio. you, again! *trict. the queer creature. Did the jee-flowers bring you luck?

Bont know, up Rupert breathlessly. Ene apa?". Knarg. In-ajstwordinary things seem to be hape

pening, but as well (Hië you'd better map 11 calls the bar. "You're nearly at the top."-- 1s digs in its paws and faicido to the edge, but poor Rupert cannot even make the pledge, swerva. Netr instant, he has shot right, wrat thứ creat she int sphen,

Daisies and clover,

When you get to the end just

begin it all over.

FOR

Christmas

of

123 pages Rupert Advan,

· tares. Printed in gay colours.

$4.50

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Household. Hints

Poor handwriting covers an awful lot of mistakes spelling.

When answering an appeal POCKET CARTOON

for old clothes, be sure to give only clean, freshly laundered or Clothes dry-cleaned garmente.

sent 'OVETSORĄ need not ba troned, but should be as free of soll and gorms as washing or dry

mako cleaning will them.

If you have used too much plastle starch when washing your cotton dresses, making : them too ali to wear, Boak: them in rubbing alethal for a few minutes and then launder.

New brushes uunily invé zá few loose bristles. To remove thend, roll the brush handle rapidly between the palms of the hands and this loose, bristles will drop ouch

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1 curse it it turns out rough, (6) To get music nothing must separate it from the phone. (3):

4. Conducted, no doubt, when made

up of starch and ore. (9)

8. Bound to do it obviously); (4) 10. Harms thine who may sink into

15. (5)

12. The House that Blake made? (8) 13. Fish. (8)

14. Born, 131

15. Beehive," (0)

(3)

17. Food favoured by actoIN ? 19. He's to all ebronio adversity. 13) 20. Taken from an organdle frock,

(5)

22. Pearl is her daughter, surely, tôi 23. Correspondence assistant. (3) 24. Many make it their hobby,” (4). 35. Tans for a change. (4)

Down

Founded by emigrants. (6)

2. Needs more shape to get it. (9) 3. Mators in the water. (0)

6. Ho's "arin law and order," (6)

8. Where we' uos month by mouth

po.by, (B)

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7. What a monkey he is). (43)

9. "Proud A7 Dmg (77)

11. Ho mukea kite van fest, ....(7)

| 16, Pull across the Norrina pond. 14)

10 Bpaca. (4) 19. Browout. (3)

21. spirited trap.. (8)

Solution of restorday's pickle,

4. Pinch; b. 8. 9. Bdometerk

Listen: 1), Moth: 12, Lance: 15," Ostf

18. NI; 11% Parcal; 19.

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ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20) This is a day to show friendliness. Be congenial with your associates at the office to Increase popularity.

TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21) Join others at a club meeting or Some community affair that can be mutually rewarding.

Knowledge |

Check Your

1. Why does the Suez Canal have no locks?

2. Who wide "Gentlemen Prefer Blondies”7:

Giver ́a® more popular Anime & for the plant Mouth,

Where is the Great Bar

the ancient

GUN,What,

mama for Chinati

d. What type of gün bazooka?

GEMINI (May 22-June 21) Favours you have done others in times past may bring their own re ward foday. Someone shows you a kindness.

CANCER (June 22-July 23) Don't be too much of a lone wolf. It is better for you to get out and meet people once in a while.

LEO (July- 24-AUK 23)- Work must be completed before you i can devote time to pleasure.

early start assures fun this evening. VIRGO {ADE. 24 Sept. 23)

Al

A good ending to this with insures ane start for the new bhe to- morrow. Things are looking up . ́* LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23) Finish up add jobs today and end the month with the balance sheet and budget in good shape,

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov,

22)-

Postpone making an important de- cision until you have had ample time to consider all angles of it.

INTELLIGENCE TEST

CLAYPOLE

By T. O'HARE

The dive parish councillors of Claypole are a carpenter a grocer, a barter. tinker and a wheelright. The surname of each correspode to the gamesake of one of the other but in no case do the surnames of two councillors correspond to shich others Vocations. Each councilor is married to the only sistES OF one of the others; thus, Me. Grocer's brothers-in-AW Mit linker and the tinker. wolle

the...' wheelwrighte bruttiers in low are Carpenter and the carpenter. Mr Grpest is chairman of the council and the batter is be

What is the name of the roper?

(Solution on Page 10)

CHESS PROBLEM

By EM HASSBERG

Black, 12 pieces,

White, 7 places, While to plazi mate in two,

Solution to yesterday's

1. QXP (el); LOKAK

a KI--RJ (die-ch))