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"Jimmy, run out and see if your father's all right.
he hasn't moved in the last ten minutes,”
BY
by
THE WAY Beachcomber
HAVE been highly diverted I
by a "plea that we should became a car-conscious nation," and allow car races on the As one who is publle roads. already fully conscious of ears, I would go further, and have cross-country car races,
It would be a wonderful tent for the ears, it would altract tourists, and would make even quiet and remote farm and villager car- comcions. To avoid unnecessary accidents, the police would see that nil farm gates in the area of the race were left open. This would be going one better than the organiser of the big Continental races, and would make the racing-car a reality in the life of every man, worAJm and child.
Titian's "Broadstairs"
VIEW of Brondstairs signed Aidan" was returned to Sam Codforth by Foutenough with a gurt note: "Stop pinying the fool." Bam rang up and asked what was WROTE "Oh, nolling." with the picture. raid Foulenough, "excopt that Titian didn't do English seaside resorts. And the signature 'Amy Grigeon' was left
mistake. In the In by opposite corner of the picture. Serape out Tillah and Amy Grigion, bist and make it by one of the names on the list I sent you," Back Broadstairs, this tinie by
same
asked the
Plunk, "Who's Plunk?" Captain. "I lost the list of paintern nainer," said Bam. "I had an aunt called Eme Plunk. I just came into died my head. Can't you may he young, and only printed this one picture?" Foulenough sighed, rang off.
Business conversation
and
the
fort Office follows our example at Vienna, where children can dia! a number and hear a fairy-tale over the telephone,
foresee some fun: "Hello? Coupton and Hyres? I want to speak to Mr Iynos, That you, yes?" "Princess Goldilocks weeps when the old wizard maya”. "Who Is
that?" "ynes here." "I will turn you into a pumpkin unless you on- wwer my riddle." "What the devili Listen, tynes. It's about that con- signment of scrap... "Luckdir the wily it Gobblegobble is able to whisper the answer"
lynes here. Is that Ditchley! What an earth are you talking about?" The Twinkum Twankum answer Twaddleum, said Goldilocks"
Ditchley "Get off the line." "It's
"And here." "Hynes here." now you can't turn ine into a horrid pumpkin,"
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1952.
JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
Play for All Tricks In Total Point Game
By OSWALD JACOBY FACII year many of the colleges
in
in the States take part n national intercollegiate bridga tournament. As a first step in this contest, the college boys and girls who take part play prepared hands that test their skill.
In the hand shown today, played by all of the contestania, déclarer had to show his skill by playing for on extra trick, Extra Tricks are not terribly important in a total point game, but it pays to try for them when no risk, la Involved,
South is expected to run the second round of clube and draw one round of trumps. There is no difficulty in making the contract since declarer cannot lose more than onu spade, one The only diamond, and one club, problem i how to
play for 门 Eleventh trick,
*
Iow South should lead
pada from his hand and finesse dumuny's ten. Ean wins with the king of spades and retums a diamond, but South should go up with the nee nf diamonds since it is very unlikely that East has ted from the king.
South contirores by leading to the aer, enters tile hard, by rumag A club, and ruffe a low spade in dummy. Since the queen of roades Fail on this trick, South's Jack beconies established. Ile can there fore discard dummy's diamond on the sack of spades, thus asuring 11 tricks.
This year's 100 colleges in 43 States took part in the Intercollegiate contest. The championship was won
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
BORN today, you have one
of
thong brilliant,
well-balanced minds interested in a muitude of subjects. You have a great deal of nervous energy and there are times when it geenia as if your body har a tough time keeping up with your inlod. You must learn to take good care of your physical health or might let you down at come truelal moment.
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Jo yourself become distracted side lines, though. You might interested in literature or a lite pro- tession and Ikely that you will become outstanding during the latter part of your life and reach a fame which may outlive you. Don't be discouraged it seems to be a long time coming!
You have an ardent love
nature
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and need a happy marriage if you are to be able to concentrate doing your best work. For you YOU are discontented emotionally,
are unable to do your work well. You enjoy the company of both sexe
ont readily become the centre of n convivkl group.
You are a fine judge of tunnan nature and can estimate the true motivation behind an act. This can become a dinet odvantage coping with the public 1 your career call for your contact with varying types of people. You have the gift of being able to speak To find what the stars have in alora fOT toinorrow, pelect your eloquently and can sway nudiences
birthday star and read the corres- to your point of view. So long your ideals are held high, you may pending paragraph. Let your birth-
day star be your dally gukic. anticipato a brilliant future. Don't
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
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Jaus Morning hours are work. Then, when afternoon and evening come you may relax with a - clear-cusmoderze 9. ———
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at the emre feet newcomer
home.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 227. If worried, you will and that some hard, concentrated work un the knolly
It.
at home quietly with your family. Make the evening a tremorable one.
ARIES
20)- (Mar. 21-Apr.
A new, creative idea should be put Into. production today. Use tact and diplomacy, however, in introducing
it.
*
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)
beaulles of nature will prov most appealing to you Loday. Try and get away for a long week-end if you can.
GEMINI problem might early solve
BAGITTARIUR (Nov, 23-Dez. 22)- Haste can make wane today. No o things slowly and cautiously.
Give advice only if asked for it.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 301- A fine day to Bx mechanical gad- gels if they are out order. Might prevent an occident.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb, 19)- Look into cultural activates being started in your own community. Perhaps you can be of real ass
fance.
РІНСЕЯ (Feb. 20-Mar, 20)- It you can, plan to spend the day
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BARBS
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arrested th FA woman "was Amorien for breaking a shop! window. No Woman likes to see adreer that'a - just like "hers,
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(MAY
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cultural or historical shrine. Lead
a group of young people, perhaps.
LEO (July 24-Aug. 233- Don't look backward but keep your eyes on an objective in the futures You can make good progress. If you do.
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Quick Soups and a Cuban speciality
By ALICE DENHOFF
DESPITE the wonderful arroy of fine commercial soups, there are always cooks who like to So serve something different.. we offer some original ideas, such as the Sopa Verde, a soup of greenstuffs that is'n Cuban specialty.
ilien
Grind together 2 locks, 2 green onions, one head of 'Jettuce and 2 parsley sprigs. Fry in tbsp lard until soft, pour over ono
quart bolling water. Season
to taste, let simmer 30 minutes, then stir in 2 beaten egg yolks. Remove
Serve from heat. with thin squares of bread freshly fried in inrd.
Potatoes and Scallions Now for two beautiful soups) of the evening, one a nice, tasty, nourishing blend of potatoes and scallions, the other a smooth, creamy cream of shrimp concoc- tion, both soups serving four.
Chop 34 bunch scallions and saute for 5 minutes in 2 tbsp. butter in deep kettle. Peel and dice. 2 medium potatoes and slice 1⁄2 c. (half a 4-oz. lin) mushrooms. Turn into kettle with scallions. Add
2
c. hot water, tsp. salt, k Lap. pepper. Cover, and sim- mer for 20 minutes. Mash potatoes lightly, and add 2 e milk. Simmer 5
longer.
the
e.
minutes
Shrimp Soup Fur
shrimp soup, tinely one place chopped celery and 2 sprigs of celery tops in saucepan. Add one parsley spric 4 tsp. 2 bay marjoram or sweet leaves, tsp. salt and one c. hot water. Simmer for 15 minutes. Strain; rub celery Measure through a sieve. strained liquid and celery pulp and add enough hot water to 11 a cup. Place in
Add a 5oz. lin saucepan. shrimp or one e. fresh, cooked
shrimp: simmer for $ minutes.
Blend Mixtures
Melt 3 tbsp. butier in an- other Baucepan over low heat, add c. flour; stir untit smooth. Stir in dash of salt, 1⁄2 tsp. pepper, and gradually .until add 3 c. milk. Cook smooth and thickened, stirring constantly. Add shrimp mix- ture, and cook for one minute longer.
WOMANSENSE-
GRILLING FISH
MY GRILLED FISH ALWAYS BIOKI TO THỂ
GRID AND
BREAKS, MUM
MUCH BATTER NOT TO USE THE GRID FOR
FISH...
LAY
THE
FISH
IN A
WELL ORBASED BAKING-
PAN OR GRILL- PAN
MIND YOU WIPE IT
AS DRY AS POSSIBLE, AND IF ITS SPLIT LIKE MERRING OR MACKEREL, KEEP THE FLESH SIDE UPWARDS AND GRILL
THIS SIDE TWICE AS LONG AS THE
OTHER
WHEN THAT SPE'S DONG
TURN IT OVER BY PUTTING
AN EMPTY !
PAN ON TOP
AND
QUICKLY INVERTING
THEN FINISH GRILUNG
THE THINGS THEY DO
FASHION
SPOT
EBIN
BURGH,
at Festival time
and right'
In the fore front of
fashion in the grand tier of the Waker Hall...) spotted this Wonzan wearing the newest of the new big searken, li la made of a wool in shepherd's fartan (black, white, green.
Princess Necklace.
DABY-style-setter is Princess piece of
One excellent way of flavour-Banner first
ing even the simplest
soup is Jewellery has started a fashion with a bunch of, sweet herbs. for coral necklaces for little; Take 6 sprigs of parsley, 'stalk girls.
one
A-Bid two no-trump. This shows balanced distribution, stoppers in of celery,
one sprig of thymo, strength that is unbid suits, and
9 whole black Princess Anne wears hers for bay leaf, somewhere between an opening hid of one no-trump and a bid of two
peppercorns and 2 cloves. Place parties, usually with a dress of no-trump. Narth is expected to go
over salin. Her in cheesecloth and tle well to white chiffon sound had a on to game if he
keep from falling out. Excellent mother wore the same necklace response to your opening bid; but he Is allowed to pass it his drst response
for stews, too.
as a child, was badly shaded,
TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding is the same as in the qucation just answered. You. South, hold: Spades J-2, Hearts K-Q-9-8-4, Diamonds A-K-J. Clubs A-K-J. What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
CHESS PROBLEM
By A. GRUNENWALD
·Black, ô pieces,
White, & pieces. . White. to play: mate in two.
Solution to verterday's problem:
1, K--K7, any; 2, R, B, Kt. or
P males.
INTELLIGENCE TEST
"GK"
By T. O, HARE MUOH emphasis in told, at Bluce-Tockin's finishing school, on the acquation of OK. OT Cloners! Isnowledge. This last year a quailengo ento WAS DIN- sented by the governors, for which teams from each) OF THE Leute houses ocarpated, Rach LOWES LOOK DArt in one contest REALDST Owift of the othom. And in each content eleveni questions were naked, the for which tirat auswored a question correctly pooring one polne, Some of the six con Laste word glossy than other: eum of them produced, a different BCOTO.“
The four fössés are called: Johnson, Dryden, hope, and Addion Johnzhou mocurud (ibu SED: they won, two of their Contents and clocked up 24 point. Drden sho won two contests, krik only, Beograd 13 poitibe FOD one contort
totalled points.
How did Pepa, Inre-againat
(Solution on Poga'10):
BOYS
2
YOUNG AMERICA
THE young Americans up here go crazy about tartan." The girl on the left even has it on her turn-up denims, The girl on the right goes in for colour in a big way-fed, yellow,, and green skirt, green bolero, red pullover, Incidentally, Americans are the only shoppers have found trying to "match" tartana,
Page: 5.
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UPSIDE DOWN AGAIN ON TO A HOT DISH
TO SERVE AND
YOUR FISH WILL STAY
· QUITE, WHOLE
Sey
TOURIST SPOT
CHOP • WINDOW *" bait"
tourists
The glove to to black suede and pais tarian, The ombrella bandles are modelled on thepherds croqks, but one carries salver and Cairngorm-thistle, The umbrella copare 7° En tartan sīk.
Robl
(IN TARTAN) by 7
BUTTONS ::
AND BOW
*THIS (liked: sis-button tartan walatcoat, worn with a long tie of black moire silk.
PACK SPOT
LL this and tartan too! Lillan AWilson and Joyce tobinson from Newcastle rounded up their fort night's tour of Scotland with a while to the Festival. Packs and nil,
London Express Service
AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Clocks Are An Awful Bother you looked at it again, it had
-That Is, If You Don't Know How to Tell Time!--
By MAX TRELL
**Twelve
Teddy,
A
LL morning fong Hanki had
tried to teach Teddy the.
o'clock" shouted
Hanid shook her head. "Eleven o'clock! Nine o'clock! Stuffed Bear how to tell the Half-past o'clock! I don't know Limno. "Now just look, dear," what "o'clock!"
she said, pointing at the clock
on the wall. The small hand (that's the Hour Hand) 19 what number?"
looking at the number
was turn your back, and when
moved to another place. .
No Bothor with 'Clocks - Teddy sighed. Why couldn't Then 11 always stay one time? nobody would have to bother with clocks.
Tockdy walked out into the garden and sat down under a "It's ten o'clock," Hanid sald shady tree, still worrying about
on at last, sounding very disap- not being able to tell time. All-
pointed. "Well, Teddy, we'll at once two birds alighted on
"Ten," replied Teddy, after have to try again tomorrow, the branch above his head. One for You'll learn to tell time by-and- was a sparrow and the other was
But I do by. Everyone does, wish you could learn now."
quite
a while.
Hanid aniled. "That's right! And the big hand (that's the Minute Hand) is on-?"
"Twelve,” said Teddy.
"So,"
a robin
Teddy agreed with Hanld that
"I say, Sparrow," sald the | 2-2 | be wished he could learn to teli robin,. what time is it?"
the "Summertime," replied the time now and not have to.
wait until he grew up. But it sparrow. did seem terribly hard.
Waterproof Make-up For Swimming
nor
Swimming offers an element of play that is zestful, It' has a. beneficial effect upon the lungs, the muscles, even the complexion: It has a malising effect
unde. the upon veloped chest and roundet thoulders. It is also highly re commended to the lady who is built after
the design of a
cream puff and who would be as slender as a lily! It trims
her figure by strengthening the muscles, and fat cells will not stay .where muscles ATO strong.
Swimming gives freedom of action to the hip joints, this making movements mare grace- ful. It gives the lungs an air- bath, speeding...up blood streams,
sluggish bringing a pleasing colour to ihe checks and sparkle to the soul win- dows.
For Battor Posture When the arms are extended to force the body throught the water, there is a pull on mus. cles that extend from
the waist...
shoulder blades to
Often poor posture
weak ligaments;:
tan
the
getting
due to Timothe
swim will strengthen them.
Don't fall to take your › isun oll with you. No sense getting parboiled., Sunburn, jean cause a lot of trouble, often necessitates medical attention.- Before and Aftor Swimming Use the oil on every part of your body that is exposed to strong sunlight. Apply it be- fore you enter the water. When coming out, dry the skin and put
on more
You
edh get waterproof make-up. There Gro sticks,
of
the eviderico which can only be moved with 'Come on, Teddy," coaxed and soap and water: Compact rouge
will wash away, of course, If you'd maintain the "rosy cheeks, use a liquid, rouge. a pledget of cottch in water. wring it as dry as you can, put on a few drops of the crimson liquid and apply to your sacred complexion.
"You can tell if you try.”.
Hour, Hand on Ten
Teddy chuckled to himseir:
"Daytime?" the robin was say But the robin went on: "Oh, ing. "Of course, it's daytime The face of the clock was imow it's summertime, Sparrow. But come, Sparrow old toy, you Again Hanld smiled.. she said cheerfully, "If the Hour covered with numbers, and the But it's some other time, too."
can do better than that, can't Hand is on ten, and the Minute two hands the big one and the Hand is on twelve, what time little one-never seemed to stay "Daytime," chirped the spar. you? What hour is it?
"Morning hour," said the spa is 117
In one spot for more than a row, "E" said Teddy. And then minute. The big hand in parti- "Ha-ha," laughed Toddy. But row.
Right to the. Minuta cular never seemed able to stay he covered his mouth with his he stopped.
"You are "Come on, Teddy," coaxed still. You'd look at it as hard hand, so that the robin and the
a funny fellow," Hanid. "I'm sure you can tell it as you could and it hardly sparrow wouldn't hear him and said the robin. "I want to know! the tipe-the exact time-right you try."
moved. But aft you had to do fly away.
to the minute
.
Rupert and the Butterflies-l
come across” he says.. One morning is school Rupers, never and his pale are surprised to see Look caretaily at it, for you may never see another." "Ooo. Marie lesse the blackboard what a whopper cries Ferdy The and walk over so the window in. Fox, - *** Leif catch `ft land, stačí the middle of lesson. Next a collection?! Certainly not.*** minute he calls them all, round rays the Master sternly You" him. There's butreddy onitehould not kill a thing just because side the windes such a shavu "it du rare and beauties (?
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Her First Noval
Dip
The exact time, right to the CLEVELAND O. Buth minute,
n," answered the Long, who is 11 but an author, Robin," "is one minute before is doing her best to combat the distractions offered by ¦ a larga "Now that's
It! family, plus the great challenge moro Ice Thank you! I knew I was be of spanning the universe, and 100 ginning to feel hungry!! And years in an effort to finish her away few the robin, and away science fiction novel.
on novel by March, new the
both of them 1953. SOHITOW,
their lunch.
has Ave brothera off to
Ruth, who Teddy walked back to the and sisters,, has a dally, wrlling house feeling much better than schodule of two pages about 50. did before. Yes, there were the planet "Vulco", in the 21st other times
times than the times told century, the clock winter 100%
"Asi sho: Visualises), the planet, springtime, lunchtime, dinner it will by that time be a oliler time, daytime, nighttime, play-ina universal organisation, time, worktime, sometime, every-something like Like
the United time. The clock told the hours Nationg
In the course of her tale, her oll right but it
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the rainy times, arid above all, maturity and Valeo endures a the wonderful times he 'always) war to give substanca to her had, no matter what time the book, "Bright Future."Unitest
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