ADITORY FREIN HAYKE, INC.
"I could have married any man I pleased, but I never
pleased any."
•BY THE WAY
by
•
Beachcomber
WHICH would you rather be
the question is more than acudemica all man in two ha's or two short men in one hat?
EL
Prodnoser He could carry one of his two hats.
Myself Ah, 11's easy to make it almple problem-until 1 seem Arises. You forget that, all three being very stupid men, they would not reain things out with your cold brain. Untem they wore fools the problem would not arise at all.
Prodhose! I am content to leave it at that. They gem to me to be uiter fools.
THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1952.
JACOBY
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By OSWALD JACOBY
WHEN
today's hand. was played in a team match, both South players reached 11 One contract of four hearts, declarer found ¤ subtle simple way to make his tract,
but Con-
West opened the In both rooms
East won with the Kine of spades. ace and returned spode, hoptrig Weit could ruf. Duminy won with the king of spades, and declater drew
possibility trumps with the ace and lack. Ife
If you think that one man in two hate would look ridiculour. what about two men huddled together in Which would create more one hat? fuss (a) in the street. (b) at a
(b) al Festaurant cloakroom, private house? If the all man could say he had not noticed the Another awkward aeconit hat, why could not the two abuit men any they had mislaid a hat? DUT-and here the thing be comes variau-1 the tail már and the two short men arrived together, right not the three of them agree to say that one of the tall man's two hata belonged to one of the short men By pooting, as it were. their collective Imbecility, might they not scrape through without being laughed at?
I really doubt 11.
Interlude
doubt
·
S
would be even more ridiculous As a matter of fact, the situation
to
If the men In the two hats were one of them short and the other tall. The tall one, la enjoy his share of the solitary ha!, would have
of the erouch down to the level short man, thereby attracting atten- tion to the pair of them. For men sinine enough to go on 19ke this there are Innumerable complications, with which I shall deal in a special series of articles,
Pradnove: Surely one of the short
from his
men could say he never wore a hat. Tail-piece
and could stand away companion, leaving the hat to him. Myself: That would not occur to him in the strem of the moment.
Prodnow Stress of what moment? What are you talking about?
Myself: You don't suppose any- body could be calm in such cle cumstances? And what about the
tall man?
This intense sincerity laft littl room in him for sense of humour. (From an article,}
next led the douce' of diamonds from duny, East played, low, and South won with the king of diamonds,
Up to the point the play in bot Toons was identical, Init here the two declarers parted company. Decide for yourself low you would inve continued-assuming that you could not see the hands of the defender,
South led his In the nest room retraining diamond and put up dummy's jack. East took the ace of diamonds and desperately returned the king of clube and South found he had to lose two club tricks no matter how he squirmed.
room
the second In
declager thought more carefully about the Lamands and clubs. I would do him no good to set up just one of would That dummy's diamonds, and
enable him to discard only one which would club from his hand. still leave lum with two losing clubs
THE implication that if you are
sincere in your opinions actions you cannot have a sense of humour wina this week's magnum of Tasmanian Sparkling Cognac.
It would do him no harm to set up no diamonds at all in dummy. remain The club situation would unchanged by bad luck in diamonds.
It would make a difference, how- ever, if he could somehow set up both
YOUR BIRTHDAY..... By STELLA dummy's damond picture cards.
TUESDAY, JULY 1
PORN today, you have a scienti- very good advice, but sometimes
Ac mind,
Artiren, and have
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good pre
at because 11 is not entirely conven→ mechanical timol, those who ask for it may bent. You would do well in a not follow it. They'd better riot atk laboratory
have per a second time, for you have little 1101 severance, patience, and originali pailenes with those who do
follow your suggestions
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you
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ty of idea. Yet, on the other hond, you have an imitative streak in your make-up which you to be susceptible to external influences. This is a contradiction which sometimes confuses you a
nuch as It does others.
-Magnetic and attractive to members of the opposite sex, you are somewhat aloof excent towards those of your You stave lave immediate family. and attention-but you hesitate to give it spontaneously, yourself. There Use this Imitative ablity, on the will probably be one love in your xiago, screen, or radio and you can life. Recognise it when you sen it. be an outstanding, success. Use 11 An early ΠΑΣΤΡΑ should bring to any on the fence-being, all happiness.
things to all people and you will To And what the stars have in
far. You have not get very
ptore for temarrow, select your talent for being a good, sym- birthday star and read the corres- pathetic-listener,- but--you-love-to-ponding paragraph. Let your birth- give advice, too. Actually 11 la day star be your daily guide.
CANCER
WEDNESDAY, JULY 2
(Jane 22-July 23) Use your personal charm, and your talent for managing people to good advantage right now
LEO
(July
A short jourEY
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21 June Take things easy. Relax and walt for the tide to turn I things seem to be a little confused.
22-June GEMINI
(MAY for study or, in-
21)-- tellectual pursuits should be especially. You can eliminate tensions by in- rewarding at this time,
dulging in some philosophical reading. 23)—— Mind over matteri
VIGO
(Aug.) - 24-Sept. You may combine. business and pleasure, advantageously this evening. Promote your Interesis.
LIBRA (Hept. 24-Oct. 21)- Now is a good time to request a favour From
Tour personality should get you exactly What you want,
BONYLONS.
SCORPIO
21-Nov. 22) (Oct. Hobbies and creative ideas should bring you con&derable pleasure, today: Have fun!
BAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-040, 22)— Don't worry about things which you cannot possibly change. Just worry about Urings you can remedy.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jon, 70)- Financial assistance as well as advice may be what an elderly Arlend or relative needs. Give generous.y.
AQUARIUS (Jan, 21-Feb. 19)- If your Brofession is writing, then this should be one of those lipired days. Get a lot accomplished.
PISCES (Peb, 20-Mar,20)
Be sure that you know what your exact duties will be before you accept a new job
ARIES
21-Apr.
20) (Mar.
avocations can prove zumulating and rewarding just now.
The creative aria and intellectual
INTELLIGENCE TEST
CHESS PROBLEM
By M. HAVEL Black, 2 pieces.
In short, he needed two further diamond tricks and it could cost him nothing to try for them.
Since there was only one chance, South led his remaining diamond and played low from the dummy, East had to play the ace, exactly as the declarer had hoped. and now game was in the bog.
East returned the king of clubs, but South on with the acc, entered dunummy wxt, a fumo, and discarded two clubs on the queen and inck of diamonds. He could then cheerfuly give up one club trick.
VACARD Sense
1 Spedo
Q-The bidding has been:
North West South
Pass 2 Clubs
2 Diamonds Fom 2 N.T.
WOMANSENSE
The debs curtsy
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YOU might think that most girls who had You
through dancing class would be able to drop curtay without further instruction. But it seems that this is not so. It has not been so for many a year.
Page
By EVELYN IRONS
They must make a tile bob, and say "Your Majesty thele first answer, and "Ma'am" after- that. Elemen- iary? Maybe, but It seems that' some of them have to be told.
The other day. Miss Vacani was bidden to a reception at New Zealand House. There she save a mass curtsy and deport ment lesson to 20 overseas des butantes, Her comment: "They were quick-they learned the curlsy in five minutes. And they were graceful.”.....
an.
Quite a large proportion of She was, sho. says, presented the thousand or so debutantes at Court as a girl. When?.
old. who are coming/out this year "Ah, my darling. I couldn't Miss Vacant is not wo have taken curlsy lessons bo- tell you that."
fashioned a to make :her fore making their appearance But she has taught two pupils walk around balancing at Buckingham Palace.
books generations of debutantes how
on their heads, although that maybe that 'So if no debutante stumbled to behave at Court, and a third she admits nver her obeisance to the Queen is just coming along. Age does was the way she acquired
She
looks erect carriage herself. But she bellever in `: old- at the two presentation parties not wither her. recently, part of the credit for the same now," said the fifty is a great
a little year-old mother of one of her fashioned deportment the performance goes woman with golden hair, petal- ex-pupils, as she did when I speaks of poise with missionary pink complexion and bright was a debutante myself," blue eyes. The name is Mory
celebrated She taught that
"Good carriage," she urges, guerite Vacani.
debutante
and energy. of the thirties, Miss "gives health This pocket dynamo put Margaret Whigham (now the Graceful polse-that's the Arst many. of the debutantes ·Duchess of__Argyll), how, to thing, a debutante should through their paces beforehand. make her Court curtsy.
HER PUPILS
fervour.
SHORT DRESS
She
She for," that other laught
much- publicised girl, Jeanne
Stour- lon (now Mrs Sherman Stenor, ALTHOUGH her manner 14 whose
husband is heir to NOWADAYS, of course, the de- unreserved ("Darting" ahe Baron Camoys). And most butante goes to the Palace in greels the stranger. "Sweet- other notable debutantes before a short afternoon dress and a
cart"), she has many secrets, and since. and one of them is her age.
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hat, not in the full prewar panoply of long evening gown, train, and a bunch of ostrich feathers on her head. of this year's HOW many
thousand or so debutantes Does this make it easier to has she taught to curtsy for the curtsy gracefully? "Not at all,
"Hun- says Miss Vacant. Sald and of current presentations? dreds, my sweetheart," she her pupils, "It must have been said with a large sweep of her coller in the old days fo
skipped away. .03.
train thers,
aff. There was and hand, and a bird to attend to two sing Now our legs can be
certain amount of protectión.
30
ly bewildered ellents awaiting her in the next room. In years she has Instructed thou- most graceful giris at, the #GREASED | sands.
models to all the other debutantes? Astutely diplomatie
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GIRLS' MAGAZINE
A Mouse the Cat Didn't Eat
"IT'S
-He Was Such a Strange One, and She Was Lonely!—-
By MAX TRELL
a strange story I have to tell you," the cat was saying. "I thought I had met every kind of mouse. In the country I met country mice. In the city, East where we live now, I met city nilce. But yesterday last PARS Pass night-I met a different kind of neither country пог mouse,
gathering together on the back fence and singing a few songs. So out I went.
Quifo Disappointed "But my friends weren't there, there at all. I they weren't guess it wasn't one of the nights for the Cat's Glee Club to meet.
quite disappointed. didn't feel much like goleg.
I didn't low where
Wis
You, South, hold: Spader A-Q-7-3-art and Hanid, the shadow- home, B. And at that moment
1, litaris 0.4 Diamonds A-3-94, Clubs 0,2. What do you do?
have
fald your A-Pass. You whole story and have nothing to add. A of two no-trump is North's Invitational, but not forcing. If there the ward a game in the hand, chancen are that North would have bid three no-trump rather than anly two.
TODAY'S QUESTION
in
The bidding is the same as the question just answered. You South, hold: Brades A-K-7-3-2, Heart Clubs 8-5. A-3-0-4-2, 0, Diamondy
What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
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Solution to
problem:
yesterday's
1, R-K15, any; 3, Q, R, ·D or Ki mates.
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children with the turned-about else to go. names; to whom talking (for shadows can talk to
cats can talk cata, and shadows) looked puzzled. What kind of mouse 'could the cat incan?
the cat was he came ed Hanid.
4-22
‚"Fly'name's Captain Halyard,” 'the mouse' said to the cat.
Who have proved to be the
Courts,
The curtsy is taught in one Miss Vacant pauses at that. lesson. It lakes 15 minutes "My weetheart. It is impos- and costs a "guinea, and in it sible to say even the most awkward of But back In the "thirties girls get the full instruction. there was, that lovely · girl In the day Mayfair drawing McKenna now), Hers was a Cecilla Keppel (Lady Cecilla room, two chairs are arranged; to represent the thrones, in the Curtsy to remember. great ballroom of the Palace:ahia Culto and her
to har full 5 ft. Normanby,
Miss
the.
How
And
Lady
Arst
Wog
Drawn up
last month he Vaconi takes the part of
Lord Chamberlain, the graceful girl, too. Oh, and Lady Dufferin was another. bearded Earl of Clarendon, and Her daughter, Lady. Perdita reads
the debutante's
Blackwood,
learned her curtsy from Miss Macand for presenta- The girl steps forward, makes tions, and was one of the best full sweeping curtsy to the of the current bunch.
from a cari.
a fu
name
first chair (the Queen), walks
three paces to the next chair (Prince Philip), and
curtsies
again.
SO GRACEFUL HOW do this year's debutantes
compare generally Then the recedes crabwise, so those of the fabulous Whigham - with
days? Very well indeed, in
оп
as not to turn her back royalty. Miss Vacant tells her
what is wrong. She must bend Miss Vacant's view. "We are
back to the her head, not fix her eyes on
graceful. gitis
the Queen. She must hold her again," she says: "They really, body straight, not crouch, Said care about poise and deport- an ex-debutanto (last
year's ment, vintage). It works. Chad no qualma when it came the day,"
FIRST-A BOB
I
to
point Just one regrettable about young girls of this, vin- tage: slacks. They are feminine." They should have
for
"Who?"
"Captains Halyard." to
"Who's he?" sald Knart.
The sea-going mouse," re- and I'm taking in the sights of
no place in the debutante's plan plied the cat, "He came jaunt this
town before we shove off
gracious Hving, Miss ing along wearing a blue sailor's again. Oh, it's fine life on MISS VACANI then takes the Vacani abominates them. suit with a white cup-cake of a the blue ocean, and I feel sorry hat tilted
part of the Queen, stop-"Except perhaps," she conced ever on the side of for you that you've never been plog to speak to the girls, "for" yachaling, darling." The
cat brushed back her his head. He seemed to be to sea. Or have you?' he said. whiskers with one paw, and went on,
Cat Went On
This was a salt-water mouse
a sea-going mouse.
sailor mo
the
bow-legged, or maybe it was
*
"I told him I had never been just the way be walked, jogging
"That's in from side to side,, Ahoy, cat on board a ship.
pity,' he said. "A ship's better he said,
tion a house any day in the mouse. He didn't live in "Now when I see a mouse," week. Lookee here, mate, elty. He lived on a ship. the cat went on, I don't usually house is always anchored to one ម្ដង, WAB very interesting waste any time. I just jump on spot. character. And I can tell you it. I didn't waste any time this place to place. One week you're But a ship calls from before 1
go any further that I time, either, I just jumped. In America, and the next week didn't eat him. Ho's still alive. But he just jumped nimbly you But he's far away by now.
한류 Austrails. You're all over
"It was quite late last night," aside. Avast there, you tubber you're in Europe, or in Africa,
he said,
id. What are you trying the world. Now why don't you the eat continued, "when I de- to do, shipwreck
me?"
come back with me and Join our crew? We're a
1s
clded to go out. I had been to tell you the truth," the
Jolly crowd. Inside all day on account of the cat said to Knarr and Harld, "I There's plenty to eat for all of rain, I had rolled a ball of was rather amused by this
and lots of fresh pit" and yarn from one room to another, mouse in a sailor's suit. I asked sunshine. Well, what do you I had chased my tail and washed him to sit down and have a cay? Will you join us?"
nap in talk. I'm fate and taken
to- pretty lonely corner of the apartment night, I said to him. But now it was night and I
my
felt wide wake. The rain had
slopped
and
the moon
Was
Lit His Pipe
The cat looked at Knarf and Hanid. "I'm sorry to say that I fold Captain Halyard no. Maybe I should have gone with him at
shining. I was sure I would "So he sat down on an old tin that. It would have been better meet my friends on the back can and took out a pipe and ik than chasing a ball of yarn, or fence. We all belong to the it.. "My name's Captain Hal even singing with the Glee Cat's Glee Club. It would be yard, he said. 'I'm a aca-faring Club," fun meeting my friends and moure. My ship came in today too late now."
Rupert's River Rescue-15
At the right of the flooded valley Billy Goat looks horrified, and he fallows Rupert to, where the; gate, is renting against the tree?^*^It's true!" "he breathes. That's one of the garden gates from where my Granny is. It was off its hinges and waiting to be
ALL RIGHT?
fixed.
** He points up the river, This is awful, Ivy Cottage is beyond the third bead in the stream and the whole villay in bader: - water. Come on, let's hurry.
Bot Rupert pauses) and thinks......" Wait ■* minata, Billy," he says. 1. belleva: I've got a better idea." RESERVED
She sighed. "But It's
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