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By OSWALD JACOBY

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VE been playing bridge eve: y hanus were big enough to hold a deck of cards." good friend Maury writes m

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that time I bu!always heard that the enmeet card to lead from A doubleton was the high end of the two. I was brought that

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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1952.

BY THE • WAY

by Beachcomber

•

A SCIENTIST has discovered path the this barbarus om.

that an enormous amount of energy could be saved if every- body would decapitate eggs with a knife, ins one genile sawing motion, instead of tapping them with a spoon and then removing the Vita of shell by hand Hers for ence. Is 60 experiment that earADI be tried on mice, but it should be possible to isolate n ierge number of egg-cateri for a few days, and compute the energy expended to 1/20 Ewo methodn 6 decapitation 1 Professor Lancelot Gampe bas already said that the energy ex- pended In decaplinting $3.79 ers by the slower method" wastes 1,434 in-hours per day, and cquiva-

tent energy consumed, 10 mg 631 8th weights from the Roar to o height of 10 inches But I do not se to care much

In passing

THOSE who are urging the bureau-

erate to mpare their jargon by

of fact that

clo

the

fuel," food

dialect often corresponds with malllies of the situation. It is no good Rubstituting "tood" for "nutrition Intake ar "body because food

real means "Nutrition intake" and "body fuel" exactly describe the new attitude to chemical food. People are no longer expected to get pleasure out of eating, but merely in take in ennugh fuel keep the machine going Again, "domestic unit" exotis describes the official attitude to the Jarmily

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 17

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BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

Mr. Punch Loved To Go Flying

-It Was Easy for Him-He Borrowed Some Wings?—

By MAX TRELL

4MR PUNCH," send Hand,

M the shadow-gut with ale

"did you

thhel-about name,

ver ty in an aeroplane""*

Mr Punch, who was sitting in

41 Hrue 23 Burd 24, Contratto the window-seat, looking out at Down 1. Eche 2. Can M, Coll: 4 Fran Tur TEAH. Crescendo: thu garden and the trees and the 12. Master 14 ?JIVALE Dirl

16. Reas 19.sky, turned around slowly. "Did

I--what?" he asked.

• BARBS

By BAL COCHRAN

South, hold: Spades 1-5. WHY is it that the money you

Diamonds A-9-5. Cluba J-7-5-4 What do you do?

Answer Tomorrow

CHESS PROBLEM

BY ARTHUR A. PAUL

Black, 5 pieces,

White, 9 pieces, White to play: mate in two,

Solution to yesterday's problem:

1, Q-R3; threat 2, R—Q3 (ch).

1. Kt-K16; 2, Q-87; 1

-B1; 2, R-B4 (ch); PB0; 2, Kt-K6 (ch); 1 Kt-Kt5, B1; 2, Qxki (ch). .

DUMB-BELLS

GRACIOUS! } GAY, THATÉ

THE CLOCK

AG JUST STRUCK

HIRTEEN

LATER THAN 1 EVER KNEW

IT TO BE I'M GOING TO BED!

have to pay back always seems like twice as much as you borrowed?

SHOO!

"Did you ever ty in an acro- plane repeated Hanld.

with her wings on, do you?”

Itanid stammered; Why-I- 1-1 didn't know."

Now mind you." Mr Punch continued. cion' say that every bee unhooks her wings before going to bed. Perhaps most bees don't even go to bed. Perhaps (and something tells

3

"So off I buzzed over the fields, sald Mr Punch,

ne this is right) most bees stoep starling up. But my friend went to bed, and she always took her wings off before she went. She "Oh," he said, "I thought you also," Mr Punch said, "took them aut. Did I ever fly? I didn't hear l-unhooked then and hung the part about the aeroplane. No them neatly up-whenever 1 aver flew in an arroplane.' took a nap. I've collected enough

Without An Aeroplane

honey for today," she would gener y say. I think I'll take a was silent for a mo- There

bit of something

ground is below you like a great nap. It was during her puzzling about what Mr

Punch ap periods that she would let beautiful carpet spreading out in

the borrow her wings."

all directions. Above you is the Suid. "You mean," she asked suddenly, "that you flew with- "And how" began Hanid sky, like a huge blue bowl turn- fly when Mr Punch interrupted her. ed upside down. And you cu. an aeroplane?"

"And how did get the

in-between, with the wings right on?" he said. "Is that what you ground below and the sky were goin to ask?"

above"

Hanid

ment.

was

"Why yes, my dear. Of course! Lots of times."

This was more puzzling than ever.

"Please," said Hanid, "if you Sunday brings more accidents flew without an aeroplane, what than any other day in the week did you fly with?" The day of rest-in a hospital!

"Wings" replied Mr Punch. He smiled as though he was

Check Your rather surprised

Knowledge

Hanid nodded.

"I just hooked them on. It was the easiest thing in the world." "But, Mr Punch," cried Hanid, "what kind of hooks?"

Wing-hooks

"How wonderful how won- derful!" said Hanid. her face lighting up just with the thought of the fun of flying.

"Ah yes,

my dear, there's nothing like flying. Are you bothered by fences and walls that Hanid "Wing-hooks," replied Mr should now exclaim: "Wings, Punch. Everybody knows that! watch out for automobiles and and, roads? No! Do you have to Mr Punch! Real wings! You flew Well," he said quickly, "I used trucks? No! Do you have to with real wings?"

to hook the wings on that my friend the bee let me borrow cross

wonder how you are going to from her, and off I buzzed, as swamp? Not a bit of H! You just river or a pond or a merry as a buzzerfly."

"Buzzerijy?" said Hanid. "Is treetops, over

fly krid fly and fly-over

the roofs, is that like a butterfly?"

telephone poles and "Nothing like it at all," said trains. And when you get tired Mr Punch. But he wouldn't ex- of flying, what do you do?"

further. plain any

"So off I buzzed over the garden and over "You stop," said Hanid. the fields. I don't have to tell "More than that, my dear-- you that it was the most delight- more than that. You stop on a ful fun I ever had, or ever ex- rose blossom, You stop on a clo- pect to have,

"I always did my flying with 1. How many players are real wings," he said. "One of my best friends was a bee. Now and

there in a game of chess?

2. What is the cultivated then when she wasn't using the hazel nut called?

wings herself, this bee would let Flanders me borrow them."

3. The people are known as?

4.

of

What is meant by a con- genital disease?

5. What is a tinker?

B What is the common name for the skin disease herpes 203- ter?

(Answers on Page 10)

INTELLIGENCE TEST THREE DICE

By T. O. HARE MY Idends Perret and

Weast were discussing the throwing of dioe."Sup- pose I have three dice." said Ferrat Huppose Past swo incos of each dice are biti: two red: the remaining two white. Whilst la more likely: that; if I throw all three dice at random, the tuona which. ME UPPETIDOut are, all of one polous ur that there will' bu one bluse face uppermost, ODE red one, and one white una

Today, wald Wensel "You Can Hen three colours 'three times three times three ways-that's nine was nito- gusker. Tona ons get a single colour in 'onty three

time as italy na the latter."

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the over railroad

"But" gasped Hanid. Mr Punch went right on. suppose you wonder how she got them off. It was very simple. She just unhooked them. She used to anhook them every night before she went to bed and hang them

ver. You stop on the edge of a on a wing-hanger to dry. You "There is nothing in the whole dish of ice-cream. That's what's don't imagine she went to bed world like the fun of flying. The so wonderful about flying!” -

Rupert and the Lion Rock-35

The shock of finding to treasure aighs the little beat. Anyway, in the box makes Rupert forget the there's no season why those men old piece of paper, which he absente bouldn't have this one." "Quickly, mindedly folds and stuffs in his and stamp the earth down flat and. they take back and n-bury, it pocket.*** There may be another hearing, distant vaken, they hatry box there," auggets Rollo, Wall, in hiding Spon, the thram mais wa've no tinide to do much now Eappear and head fox, the thou::

DROP IN ALTERNATE TABLE- SPOONFULS INTO A GREASED CAKE-TIN AND BAKE IN A MODERATE OVEN 40 MINUTES

For

Sweater

Evening

ORRY Kelly cleverly places a sweater and skirt motiff in the category of evening-wear using a contrast of satin and vetvel.

This design which he routed for Marsha Hunt shows

ice blue slipper salin skirt in Aared fullness with fitted top of black velvet simulating the vaga- bond sweater, with its high colla: and stripes of matching Satin.

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Dressing A Princess

RINCESS

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BABY'S TEAR DUCT

DISORDER

By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D.

PERSISTENT tearing of one or duct.

both eyes in babica from

Fracture of the nose or

2 to facial bones during Asticuffs or. 12 weeks old usually indicates other accidents

may cause a blocking of the tear duct. Though mechanical closure of the duct, present at birth, the blocking

does not ordinarily show up until the child is at least two weeks old.

Mothers worry over this con- dition and are likely to misinter- pret it, often using eye ointments in the child's eye because they believe the excessive tearing is caused by infection,

Mistaken Belief

Usually, after á prolonged blocking of the duct, a secondary infection

All does develop. coses of suspected narrowing of the tear duct should be seen by the physician,

Use of Astringent

In infancy, most cases may be cured by simple milking of the contents of the duct down through the nose with fingertip Very often it is mistakenly be- pressure. Sometimes the use of lieved that it may be due to the an astringent, known silver nitrate that is instilled in collyrium, may be of help. the baby's eyes at birth in order

If these methods are not effec-

to prevent eye infection. How- tive, an eye specialist should be ever, if a careful examination is consulted so that he may use made, it is seen that, even with certain metal dilators to Increase the severe tearing, there 18 re- the size of the tear duct. latively little inflammation, redness, or swelling of the eyes. tion is present after closure of Many times, chronic infec-

employed

A narrowing or closure of the the duct, antibiotic drugs should tear duct may also occur later in be

before other life due to chronic infection of methods are used to promote the nose, accompanied by infec- full flow of the tears through tion and inflammation of the the tear duct,

ALEXANDRA is NEW GUISE FOR VEGETABLES

at 15, taller than her cou- sins, Princess Elizabeth Margaret

ano

She was seen with her inother, the Duchess of Keat, in Mr Portran Harnek's showroom.

The Duchess buys some of the Princess' day clotnes a the Oxford -Street branch of a London store.

Her lady-in-waiting first goes to the store and asks for some dresses to be sent on approval, Sometimes the Duchess and her daughter go to the store together, and select the dresses in the department alongside other shoppers.

The Princess takes SIZE 12 and usually chooses, for day-

wear

dresses

simple skirt-waisted

Princess Alexandra's party dreases are MOSTLY FULL LENGTH,

simple styles. Organza ís her favourite material.

-(London Express Servter)

IT'S vegetable day today, leading off with a recipe for a simply delicious green pea dish, one which bears no iz- lation at all to the hard-soda- greened peas with insufficient bulter and seasoning that we meet all too often,

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There really are some de- Icious spinach concoctions, and here's one to prove itt To serve 6-8, saute 2 dosja mince.J

onjun in 3 ubsp. butter; add

cookert spinach, Anely chopped, hot, and well drained, and 1⁄2 c.

drained liquid,

from

The Let simmer for 5 spinach. min. Mix tbsp. flour with e. milk; add to spinach and het simuer until thickened. Garnish with 2 hard-cooked eggs.

Cook encumbers for in change! Fot the recipe, pare

remove

cucumber, cut in lengthwise hedves,

seeds, let stand in cold, salted water for 30 min. Drain and stuff with a seasoned bread dress-

ing to which a little chopped cooked ham or any left-over cucked meat is added. Bake at 350 F. for about 20 min.

To seule cucumbers, cut lengthwise in W-inch allces, dip in beaten egg, then in stasoned four, and saute in very shallow cooking oil or fal for about 15 min.

For stowed or scalloped cucumbers, cover sliced

OR

diced, poeled cucumbers with cream or a thin white sauce, season with paprika and salt and bake at 350 F. closely covered, for 30 min. Then cover and allow to cook

10 or 15 mid, more.

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