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JACOBY ON BRIDGE

End Play Can Be Played Very Early

By OSWALD JACONY

THE end play usually takes place, as the name suggests,

| EDITORE PALES SERVICE, ENC,R my

at the end of a hand, Some- ilmes, however, an "end" play may be staged very carly." In loday's hand, for example, good friend, Abe Wechsler, pro- duced an end play at the fourth trick.

West

opened the king of clutte and then pondered over his best conunuation. After some thought. De correctly anified to the mix of hearts. Weelster won with the k$112 113 114 own hand and crafiity led the test of spades.

West uncautously played low, and the ten of spades field the frek. Wechsler next "Jedva bow heart pod finessed duminy's seven. East bal to win the trick and was now end played If East reftris à eun, Bouth would discard a diamond wille diminy Red. If East returned either red fruit, dummy would get, # free fincase.

If West had come Up with tie ape of spades at the third trick, the

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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1952.

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"Anybody want the ketchup while it's down at'this end

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of the bottle?"

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CAT LOST IN ARCTIC "Wrong. Trouser-Leg,"

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-WOMANSENSE

JAMES LAVER and RIX go to ‘a

STUDENTS' BALL

and find an answor

to the quastica

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CAN BRAINS HELP OUT WITH BEAUTY? T7OMEN of the kind

described

"nd- vanced" and intellectual, do, ́not enjoy a very high repu- popular with the local people ftation when it comes to awieward, situation; and other paper dress. They are supposed, Moreover, everyone in rightly or wrongly, to think more of the furnishing of the mind than of the cloth- ing of the body.

RICE THROWN AT BREWER the story. WHILE opening the Capers

wick Civil Week the mayor, Alderman Spindle, put his left leg into his right trouser and

over-balanced.

He was caught by Mrs Elvesdon, Gasworka-close, whose two doughters work in a Heading dogs club "I'm lád war there to help," said plucky. forthright Mrs Elvesdon. "i"

the WOR

wrong trouser-leg, vouchsafe the mayor. Interlude

good-natured acceptance of an

will be Bumiliated at having the piner will scan this column for the next ten years in the hope of seeing topelt or his friends refer red to, In passing

THERE will be calderable coler- wauling over the retusal to allow the United Nations 18

Educa tional, Setentide and Cultural Organisation to build a glass-faced kyscraper in the Bals do Boulogne, to set of the Arc de Triomphe. I o usund for any opposition to this sort of thing to be success. ful that other organisations which have up-to-date palaces in may be momentarily checked. We Inny even kent ho indre of the B.B.C. chetne to demolish Portland Place and Regent's Part, and to turn the whole area into a Broadcasting Palace capable of housing a million 'employees.

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would have ven declarer trouble, is best return 34 a heart, and South mest rele The finesse In fact, South must not inesse in either red suit.

Instead, he must go up with the nee of hearts and run all of his trumps. Declarer

two reduce to diamonds and one heart to rach hund. East must do kwise, and he 14 then thrown in with the quero of hearts for a normal end play at the eleventh trick.

CARD Senden.

"Q=With neither "alle" Vuttetalii N the bid, has been: North

South

1 N.T.

East

West

2 Irarts

Spedie 0-5-3, You, South hold: parts D-G-4, Diamonds J-5-5-2, Clu K-9-3. What do you do?

Aa, You were going to pas one no-trump. so you Beedn't tear that you are being talked out of a game, You have a gand clones to brat two farts, but you cannot afford to double,

TODAY'S QUESTION

The bidding is the same as in the questions answered-War South, hold: Spades 0-5-3. Hearts J-8-5-2, Diamond K-f-3. Clubs 9.0-4. What do you do?

Answer Tomorrow

DUMB-BELLS

JUNIOR NEEDS AN

ENCYCLOPEDIA FOR SCHOOL

Produose: I don't understand why you print this sort of thing. If it is not true, in utterly pointless. Even if it is true, what is it supe tired in hu

iyett 11 news. Mrs Elverden will be flattered to see her tane in print, the mayor will come were

YOUR BIRTHDAY.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 8

Teresa nik human beings and

view

So it was with sane misgiving that Rix and 1; in pursuit of our search for the elegant, presented ourselves at a London University We the other evening. Ball wondered loomily about the women we were to see. Some of them might be surviving pioneers horrible thought-of Rationa! Dress, of the divided skiz-even

of the Blooiner costume.

Well, none of these apprehen- been stons turned out to have justifled,

A MISTAKE?

We arrived at the Ball in Malet Street, Bloomsbury, to find it

By STELLA Brian full of whirling couples

forceful and energetle campaigner.

BORN today, you have a keen interested in polite, Ye would was write in von are yourself, close in your own heart. You have will want to help everyone with ecially if the usues were those

You are mulek to get at the heart of the matter and seem to know what to do instantly, Yau do it, too, and don't wall forever to make your mlad. Wille others are so about a problem, you have the job, In addlin, you have the sbility to know when you need to take the lead and when it is better to tack and wait for Someone else te point the way. This is a talent be but which few have and it can In excellent we

Fund of iterature and history, you also have the gut of beme able to with wit and express your ideas Amour before lage gipsut people and would muite a fine lecturer or It is besibir tal public speaker, later on in life you may beconte ka-

good remory for taels as well as Once you have seen a person. faces. you never forget him. This is at. excellent net in public life.

Since your emotions are hear the mirface, you are aut to display your likes it dislikes violently, first Impressions an ipt to be very deßule and you are not likely t

You are the change them, either type, trm, to fall head over heels in slight. Heed love-perhaps at Hrst your heart, for !! will not betray sou. Your home life should be happy and contented one.

To find what the store have in tontorrow, select your store for birthday star and read the corres ponding paragraph. Let your birth floy sure your dolly guide.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9

LIBRA (Sept.

21-Oct.

nearly all young, some of them very young.

a

LIKE Victorian palmet": a dresa in café au lait taffets, with velvet bows,

Now it is extremely dificult to Judo a dress that is worn by very young giri. Is it elegant-

swags, like a Victorian pelmet, fresh face and a slim figure? is chocolate-coloured velvet or is it merely the accessory et skirt caught up in a series of

Perhaps it is even a mistake

be too bows. The skirt of course, to go girl to younK

the erect, was very full. elegant. For elegance implies a certain calculation, a making; the best of what one has, or what one still retains.

for

A

ORIENTAL STUDENT wears a perfectly plain emerald groen tatin dress. The simplicity is refloved by faca shawl, a single ear ornament; and five graduated tear-shaped pearls on a gold chala necklot.

more

She had adopted the full skirt of effects. Good marks to the They of modern fashion instead of the Landon University girls. stralaht lines of China, but had compared very favourably with sophisticated and had it made of emerald green some satin; completely plain, And she "Tashlonable" resorts. had relieved its simplicity with What of the older people mi exquisite lace shawl, a simple Dignited, as might have been neck-circlet with pendant stenes expected, and often chic. We are and

Iron Curtain

Dims Women's Fashions

Vienna.

Arbiters of fashiori behind

the Iron Curtain

on

may frown imitations al Western they models but neither have copled the groy, drab dressmak- Ing of Soviet Russlo,

Judging from photographs the and occaslonut articles in

dresshakers Communist press,

in Czechoslovakia and Hungary, once noted for their originality.

are placing emphasis on strict Com- sumpilelty in line with

the munist politics, while at same time doing their best to approach Western smartness,

A picture of several Czech models shows otio in a becom- ing subdued grey, woollen cos- -tune with a small hat of tho

in same material, another simple school-girlish dress and third in a towing putumn coat with fleep pockets and large collars.

Another photo shows a very conservative young debutanie's · dress, made of light white material with tight-fitting collar. Decollete appears to be |non-existent..

The models were reported to have been admired greatly at a recent fashion show in Leipzig, where the Czechu stole the first prize from East. German, Polish and Hungarian fashion inakers,

However, the average Czech, Foilsh or Rumanian

has woman to watch her family budget carefully and can do little more than admire the new styles.

Another difficulty is the and prices: "Perlon" stockings other imitations of nylons cost as thuch as, 1,000, crowno ($20)

213 elaborate ornament fortunate in living in an age in Prague. Only shoes are still

lako

NOSTALGIA Indeed most of the skirts were is nearly always

un- full. The tubular line of which fortunate when a young girl, we have heard so much does not covering the whole of one car when it is no longer considered good and plentiful,

to be a reflection on'a woman's COSMOPOLITAN dresses beyond her years and in seem to have materialisz.

Intelligence that she should

As a result, for most women manner. Victorian nostalgia seems, to

behind the Iron Curtain the Why women's clothes. There is a too sophisticated

Perhaps one of the advantages some interest in her dress, recognised jeune fille hang over

"autumn" or "spring" style, and the young girl should Perhaps it is just a way of say of a University ball is its cosmo. ileed, should she not? All term works within its limits. I am not ing, In the language of Fashion: politan flavour. A giri of Spanish clever women know that on ex- fashions has little meaning. For

harmony maile saying that she should put up "I do wish I had someone to extraction, or at least of Spanish ternal harmony can be the sign work, she will

had merely chosen a full and symptom with badly cal, shapeless and wash up.

type,

help the theatre

or party she Oriental dress which in its mustard yellow skirt with the within. And if brains can't lumpy monstrosities. But badly.

Bounces of the a woman to make the most of dip into her shrinking-reserve- shapeless cut.

those lumpy pure form escapes from fashion traditional

clothes or IK an accurate altogether, is often so beautiful fandango dancer. The English herself, what are brains for?of pre-wor

the block dearly bought on 23-monstrosities

war-United description. I am afraid, of one in itself that it seems a pity to roses (or some of them) and the or two of the dresses,

modity it by any concession to Still,

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23.Dec, 22)-- Pabu 11-conuol will help if tensions Le Helpful to there who are inex Find a way perienced; make valitable, suggestions; are inclined to mount.

be-operative. to sulete them.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20)~ A Day day for you. Dispatch & atineul job with "efficiency. You This is a day when an error in your

RCORPIO (Oel 24-Nov- 22)

work could entse repercturions later should be in good spirits.

21-Fri 19). Be careful! AQUARIUS (Jan. Matters having to do with publicity, advertising and publishing are all favoured how

PISCES

(Fet. 20-Mar. You can be helpful to mmmber ike youngga KENNSLUBIONE With their school problems just her.

ARIER (Mar.

20)-

21-Apr. 20)- You might discuss your future plans with a few vinte friends and get kome Raad uggestions.

TAURUS (Apr. 21-May

21-

Optimium will pay good dividends today. It will set a gond example for thers, 10.

21)- is no day to recoll

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there were plenty of dresses to look at, There was one of cafe au lait, taffeta with a ruched bodice and on

over-

the mode of the West, Yet there Scandinavian blondes had kept was one beautiful Chinese girl equally well within their gamut student who had succeeded in doing so.

BOYS AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

Some Signs Don't Need Words

-For Instance, You Know What a Striped Pole Means--

By MAX TRELL

Hieremony and peace should reKNABF, the shadow-bog Will

CANCER (June 22-July WHY

the turned-about nume, was CAN'T Bere that if you take remaiests

and a favours, your een antenate saying to his sister Hanid: "Signs HE

Yong them tater Cit

are fury things, aren't they?" 23) - 24-Aug. (Fuly

Hand looked at her brother. LEO WALK

A day in which toved unes may make TO demands but you can meet them "Signs are funny things? What

do you mean, Knari?" SCHOOL easily if you really try

AS I

DID?

24-Sepb. VIRGO (AUC Alerts will pay off today.

23}- You

"What do they mean?" asked Knart,

They mean there's a police station there."

"Once,"

Wasn't A Jowellery Store

Bald Knart, "I saw a store with watches and rings and musical instruments. and cam- eras and other things in the win- But it wasn't n ́jewellery dow.

"Well," said Knart, "when you buy get a suggestion which is well walk down the street, there's a

very funny sign that stands in stere, und it wasn't a camera store either, and in front of the font of a certain store, It's a

worth (pilotwinst.

high pole with red and white door, high ever head, were three

CHESS PROBLEM supes on it. The pole usually golden balls,

By V. RASMUSSEN

Black, 8 pieces.

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"Oh," said Hanid, "that was a turns round and round and the stripes seem to iura, too. There's pawn shop."

"A post office always has a flag Knarf said he didn't know nothing on the pole except just

I front," Hankd told Knarf. the stripes, but it's a sign all what a pawn shop was.

I know "I know another sign," said "I'm not quite sure right. And almost everyone knows what it means."

either," said land, "but I think Knarf, suddenly remembering,

where you bring "that means STOP and GO." A Barber Shop

something that you own,-like-a Hanid knew that, too. It was -Hand smiled. "It means there's ring or a watch or a camero or a traffic light. a burber shop near the sign."

"I guess those are about, all anything else, and you borrow Knart nodded.

money. When you pay the money the signs without words that I "Aren't there other signs like back, you get the watch or the can think of," said Hanid,

"No-there's opo more, my burber

Hald? I mean ring or the camera back.

words

And,

continued Haald, dear," signs that

a voice from the other written on them but that always "there's one very famous sign side of the room sald. It was Mr tell you that д certain kind of which

see going Punch, altting in his easy chair you, often store is near by7"

straight across a road, especially by the window and smoking a "Well," sald Hanid, after think a road in the country. It looks pipe. "When I was younger, ing for a moment or two, "there like a big gate," really are several other kinds of signs without words."

Knart wanted to know what "I know," cried Knarf, "It's a were that had these wooden In- railroad role. It comes downdians in front of them? They were were. 1, B-Q3; threat 2, RxQ (ch).

con always tell," said when a train is passing and it tobacco stores stores where you QXR; 2, B-K2 (ch); Hanld, "where there's a post of keeps people from crossing the could buy tobacco for a pipe like this. But, alas, all the wood- B-Q7; 2, R-Q5; 1.. fice on a street. A post office al tracks and getting hit."

ways has a flag hanging out in "But it's really a sign too," en Indians seem to have dis-i HKt; 2, Rxe full ch).

And do you know what soid Hanid. "It means RAIL appeared. I'm sorry about that,! two green lights in front of a ROAD CROSSING WATCH like Indians, even wooden.

ones!" building mean?"

White, 9 pieces. White to play: mate to twa.

Solution to Saturday's problem:

INTELLIGENCE TEST

Prime Ministers

Queen

By T. O. HAR!

ME Bome Prime

Ministers the tod

"Oh dear," nota Alice. can only think of Burke."

Burko 1

Burke and Hare." Bhs can't do Politics" sald

the White H

you a little.

Bhild Here are the names of four hold office, within.

LAGE 00 THALLMOUR, HOURS

SINOLECAD

CAYU BRAND At least, those would be the names if we hadn't sorambled their lettere BEACH FLANG has Letters added the lind Queen. "And the time

throom

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nine

Who is the four Prime

(Solution, an Fäge 10).

they you

front.

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Railroad Gata

"Rupert and the Windwhistle-36

Although the three pals know what is going to happen they cana the not help feeling cated a

Once glant wind" approaches. more they are caught and whirled

off the flat top of the tower,

and Rupert finds himself turning over and over, high above-show- coveted mountains, out of the cold light and into darkness, AI length another kind of tight appests far ahead. That muer

Almost at once King, Fron's be home." gasps Rupert, by now

wonder palace left at behind

alno breathless. AÏL" RIQUTE "GERSAVED

there

used to

be wooden Indians In front of certain stores. Do you know what kind of stores they

Don't forget

your

Rupert

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