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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1958.
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Puss Past
By OSWALD JACOBY
WHEN the Sletropolitan Liam- plonships began in New York, Bobby Melherran was on hand to defend the open chale cbani- onship that has won last year -wth Helen Sobel as his partner. MeViertan Best beganie prindiacet in bridge "chder just nyor 15 years sig When
his partnera
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campionup from
Read that sparkled
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another stars. The utter "tirati kai" wa Jubung Crawlord,
Hobby doesn't have a much bune to play bridge these days, but he is still a threat to win any tournament he enter.. if you'd like to matcli the South with him, by playing ends of the hand shown today, and as well as if you can do
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Motherum did.
I'm sure tlust every bly glas with the currect play low chiba
it would en dummy very fooled to put un dummy's king. Aince West wouldn't dream of leathing the ten at clubs 1 he is hel they are of that suit.
by
Fast could have been a new laking the ace of ciut anyway, and returalna pade. When the hand was actually pinged, East dirla 1 even dream of this stuni, nor is it likely that anybody would do so in metual play. Declarer ruled the next chib. Melhertan's next munnedyje wat to try for a heart ruff in the dummy. For his purpose he enshed the are of hearts won then made the key play you're poleg to of the hand. It
inate a play, now is the time to think and think hard
McPherson came up with the right thir qurett ut answer by leading hearts. West had for wh this trick with the king, and was the helped If falled declater WAT tu. S the
to defeal the contract.
10 return trump.
sure dummy:
#trut
it West returned trump. be would lose his trump 115.
Note that duelarer fuses his cone tract if he leads a low heart on the secund und of that st
Fast
wins with the Jack of hearts and and now South returns trump
mus low (we heart ick, a titing. and a club.
CARD Sensex
Q-The biding has heen-
Kait
3 Hearts
South ?
West
North
Against
You, South, tuld. Spades Q-0-3.
A. Damonds A-Q- Clubs Heart A-1-4---4. What do you do?
A three co-trumis, any lead But sade, you have eight sure Icke, and there will probably be some play tor a Dial. Even if a parte is fed, the chaure are that the opponent cannot run You have a Us mult elust you. far better chance to make three no- trump than ave clubs.
TODAY'S QUESTION
sides vulnerable, the With Both Middag en been: Went
North
aitearts Double
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East Pat You. Youth hold: Spade J-9-7-2-2.
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What do you do?
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tulang o acesunt of payments,
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Mits Wretch wee COLONEL and
entertaining a tew friends tu short, thicksel Cucktails when man with a wide grin was observed to be in the ruin. "Better never than late is what you are thinking. ch?" he said to the Colonel, "Allow me to hntroduce my wil. Saul MEAwful theywell's
me. Real nanic Jick-of-ait- Digytune. trades. The guvernor told me to look Its out you. low tricks?" "1 ink." bald the Colonel, "you know more about tricks than I do." "Why," Bald Sam, "there the tel Hya, Zabula Olmerving a Mrs Flonies Wairender grimacing. Bam luuled, "Drink gone down the wrong way? Greedy, greedy! Take it slowly. Ma "Please, please!" said Mrs Wreich, "I Bank Mupert Stackpipe. "I must be
ine going. That's ticket," roared Sam. "All the mure bote for the rest of us. No offetice. Make mine a pint of milk and better."
You, too, can fail
"You seem very happy today, Dich Don't tell me thou refused you that TITE!".
"They did! What's more, they seld my hair looked like anlop, and degraded me to the sting Tepurt ment. No uonus for me this year!
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"Dick! 1 alunos knew you had it in pol to falt!"
(Both think: "Thanks to not using Snfliba!")
If you want to fai), let gour socks fall. Before of Thread- gold' Thonghip Garterette, faflure's dendilest enemy. Nộ business manager will took Twiec ut a vandidate for a job whose pucka are faut and trien.
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WOMANSENSE
TRICKS TO WORK WITH BUILT-INS
By ELEANOR ROSS
.com-
NEW home ownem invari-, side, and shelves on the living ably specify built-in furniture room side. Then it was and storage pieces to save pletely, closed with a centre space, minke the average, room door, bookshelves and recerves seem large, and to make as that held beautiful mirrored much of the houre as possible' shadow boxes with built-in not only useful but individual illumination, and easy to maintain. Borrow the built-in idea for any house to accomplish this end,
and
B
Bulli-in bookcases, cabinets, storage, space an do good job of making 04 - interesting wall not only eye- catching but graceful, and fre- quently offer a way out for some awkward feature of room,
Living Room Door
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For example, often there's the problem of that unused living room door.
one that leads to the hall the next wom er even outdoors. Of course it can be S tone-with the painted over rest of the room, but often that doesn't make it right.
With built-ins. It can become a coin bination vall .cabinet and shelves, inexpensively and with
SUCCERS.
Then there's that other old koure bugaboo, the living room and dining on separated by a wide orch. In one remodelling Job, it was closed with hush panelling on the dining room
Small, Narrow Room
Long walls can be broken up by built-in book and Entek- hack shelves, A'centred window or door at the end of a imall merrow mom, surrounded by a combination of built-in cabinets. shelves and a window seat, com be u beauty spot in a room. An ugly old Dreplace slipcovered in wood other material and can be inade to blend in nicely with the est of the room,
be
ur some
Very often in an old house or apartment there ke the problem of the one window in a narrow end wall.
this In one instance, was nicely solved with narrow on either side framing shelves and above the window and length of the wall. Chests were built in flush with the width of the shelves, and with beautiful
tween the top shelves und prints in the recessed space be-
plus chests,
some beautiful little decorative pleces spacing the boofs, the whole installation changed the room entirely, and for the better!
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Blinky's Underground Garden
-It's Very Strange; Everything's Upside Down!.....
By MAX TRELL
THE wind had grown charp.
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longer as worm as it had been: Winter was coming on.
It was on this kind of a day THE The leaves on the maples that Khart and Hanid, the shadow-children with the tumed- had turned AN American doctor has said that and sumachs
show yellow and purple and red. The about numes, were sting which advertisements
and buttercups and young men and women how to nuc-dundetions reed are making everybody neurotic. daisies had gone. The sun, He muggeria that people should
nearly all though it shone brightly, was no
fought show
to
fall. Au
Blinky Mole's parlour. Blinky's house was under the ground. You went in through his front door which was just behind the stump of the old apple tree. Then you went down a flight of stairs made of stones and clay. At the bottom was a turn down a slop-
YOUR BIRTHDAY... By STELLA Condor, and finaily you
BORN today.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14
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you against etung your
Inla you ambition carry which you may one tiny
Juc You win! so very much
Inaku eved in life that you may compromises which will not be to your credit. Just remember riches or fatne. gained at the ex- pense of spiritual or ethical values, can bring little happiness.
ing
reached another door. When you opened this door and went inside, you found yourself inside en-Blinky's parlour.
tu
Bright Fire
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Blinky Mole's parlour was a cheerful room with a fire- place,
Fetal talents shoul Buurd
title you. vaunting
paths. It is unlikely that you will ever lead a lit of dun nionotony. You regret.
A little path, neatly pebbled. do that have the temperament
It was a cheerful room even confurm to any recognised astern.
among the You will hew out your own place though it was under the ground. Wound in and out
the world and the chances are There was a bright fire crackling Hanid walked along, now gazing tree and grass roots. Knarf and And that it will not be similar to In the fireplace. There were that of anyone else.
down. There You must geard against the in- pictures on the walls. The floor Up, new gazing Huences of others, or you was covered from wall to wall were so birds or bees. But nome sometimes susceptible to press with a thick, very soft rechthem, and some earthworms-sat beetles scurried by just ahead of f-hoyawaken your interest. Just
you inade of moss in which, here-and- make sure that all projects
and nodded to they passed.
The heard a noise ahead and saw a chipmunk stick down his head und look at them. They als saw a rabbit and a mouse.
you
Dasleally, you are practical, e- confident, and courageous, but tend to crumble under mistertune. You may not display your ions, but your work may suiter. You must learn to "inke st" ร well as "dish it out."
Cino-
know how to command You other and if you we left to de- Heart: 23. Dignid - Clubs Vould follow. But if you let your- own ideas. Fuccess your self be influenced by criticism fron the outside and try to adopt the ideas of others, then you will not reach the heights to which your
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Warment of warts. 14) Pay buck in full. (B)
10. Every partner holds 19. (3)
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X-ray patients hope this wint live up to its game, 18)
19. What a fraud he is, (a
10. Where to get loans
(5
30. The state of Deine Kindled, 18)
22. Kittens? No, willow towers. (7)
23. Event seth in a leure. (0)
Down
1. Corn I cast to got the dupe..19)
2. Tims for making things level 7
(7)
9. Pammate. 181
5. Stern, of 'varsity boat. (3)
B. Word of appiater. (3)
1. There you get upper atr, (4)
9. Constantly and fault. (3)
14. Canonise na zin. (5)
15. Appreciate,
17. Mlantace the aloe. (4)
16. It' Acro and Down, 131
10. Time to get on each way, 141
21. Not as in "34. (1)
Botion of
of featerday's pussle ——AcroIE, 10, ATS: 11. 1. Djeb zuant; 12, "Me: 15. Tense!: "35. 146 chant: 19, Thr: 10, Martins 25, Ipart: 25. Use: 20, óù; 27. Paris: 2d. Dedar: 29. 874, Down: 1. Direction; 2. Idio
C. TEREN? 7. Oxor: B. Deer: 1
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Stoles, par: 124, 1995.
INTELLIGENCE®TEST= PERFUME.
By T. O. HABE
A PERFUME much.....
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CAPRICORN
arc
11 the roots
undertake are sound and not based there, a red or bright pink toad- te a false premise, Your natural stool was growing. The windows them aby to discriminate should en-
were star-shaped and when you uble you to make the right chaica
if you will think things out care-looked through them you saw fully enough before you act.
seivel
112
a wonderful sight.
J
There were star-
lights in among the routs, too. The lights glowed softly on and off.
To find what the stark bave
your tomarrow, ature for
Knart and Hanid were How Lirthday star and read the corres-
by one of the Jungting paragraph. Let your tarth-standing
shaped windows, looking out. day star be your daily guide.
like a "But it doesn't look regular garden at all, Blinky!" 21-Feb. 193Hunkd exclaimed.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 15.
(Dec. 23-Jan. 29)---
De practicat and the results of thinking problem through to the end will bring good results.
DUMB-BELLS
RHEUMATISM
_AQUARIUS (Jan.
Пe co-operative in making your "The trees look funny!" said
between two conflicting trends.
"They're all growing
future pitana. Be an intermediary smiled. "That's how
PISCES (Feb. 27-tur. 20)-
Don't neglect your social life com-
YOh! They're glow-worms!” Hanid said.
Is Blinky Fooling?
"I wonder," said Knarf after
pletely, Thow you meet can rint trees are supposed to grow in an they had walked awhile, "where ubouť happy results To future underground garden. Everything the brook Is. How can there be
char. 21-Apr. 20)s a little upside down."
plans.
ARIER
others De kind and generous to and you with and that your wards wth be commensurate with
CAUSES A MAN) KNOW. Your service.
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May OUR BUTCHER your lear strictly to
they are in operation. DEMINI (May
TO IMAGINE /
THAT HIS JOINTS ARE MUCH LARGER
THAN THEY ACTUALLY ARE!
NË, LEUCIA,STROWATES
HAS IT:
out Blinky invited them to go and take a walk in his strange, upside down, underground gar 21) den. "Take the path as far as Heep the brooke," said Blaky, holding
brook under the grounds?"
If you don't want U Wa- | the garden door open for them. then they heard the rustling and
brook.
I
21) quite a pretty 24-June Be sure that you ret, full payment don't think you've ever seen one And he smiled for any job which you undertake just like it." today. Inlet, upon R.
CANCER (June 27-July 23)-again..
If you are behind in your letter
writing, this a good
catch up on it.
Ao time
LED (July 21-AUK. 23)
You can be friendly and hospitable
Tangle of Roots
It was certainly a strange gar-
Xantid said she was puzzled about that as much as Knar! wts. "I hope Blinky wasn't Just tooling us," she said. And just rippling and gurgling of water. They run toward the sounds.
Was And there
the under- ground brook! It wasn't at the top of Blinky's garden. It wasn't it was. at the bottom, either, halfway up, running in a wide crack in a wall of solid rock In waterfall
to a newcomer today and perhaps den. There wasn't any sity above and pouring down
cement a new friendship.
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Neps. 20)
A new iden may stimulate
it. But down from the top came right in front of them and dis-
somewhere below.
your tangle of growing roots. Some li ried Kharf. "It's go":
Imagination. Develop it practically of the roots were thin and deli- cate, almost like threads. Those
well!" into a
and you can get résuite.
and 24-Oct. CIRA (Sept.
they returned to Blinky'a 23 were the rools of the grass und This in a day, "when, an innovation
And there were parlour and told him about the the shrub
and
wonderful brook, he simply nod- other rests that were thick
in your old routing can bring pica-
22)
sure and exciting rewards. SCORPID (Oct. 24-Nov. Seek a little charge in your daily strong. They came down from ded and sald: "Yes, you're right. well. It's the work and you will find that it the op, down over Blinky's It goes into a silmidates further work.
people in the Burden, and then continued water, that the SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 231– down into the ground again. house drink. But I see it first. It you feel dull and in poor spirits,
brook....my Those Gel
were the roots of the It's my something different.
trees.
ground, private brook."
CHESS PROBLEM change the scene.
By IA LARSEN
Black, 11 piecek
White, 10 pieces. White to play; mate in t100%
Solution to yesterday's) 1, B-KK12; threat 2, P (ch). I PBS, I-ICB; 2,
problem:
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Rupert and the Diamond Leaf-25
Rupert drifts "lower over, the trees until he is just able to cluich at the frond of s palm tree and **Whew! Thank stop himself.
Roodness for that!" he breathes
down the branch and then, as he gradually becomes heavier his drops. gently to the ground wheze aj last he finds that he can stand up
without being blown away. All at
"If I'd missed the island i miglionce he realises that he is being have flowed down into the sus.** watched intently by a range litube Handover; hand he hauls himself, “black boy.
ALL, RICHES (KESERVED
Don't
forget
your
under.
Rupert
Annual
London
LEFT: Sult:là white sharkskin -- the resort fabric for 1933. It lias the fashionable rounded, aboulder' line and straight skirt. with original touches intió nach, and embroidery on the sleeves, RIGHT: Silk, the colour of a blue emerald, is used for this full skirted evening dress. Notice the pearl embroidery on the new-style corsage, -Designed by ARTHUR BANKS,
designers
By Dorothy Barkley
are introduced in the long gloves and hut ribbon.
think ahead
I was shown at a recent hips,
Sapphire play of fashions. blue, patincal, havana and phantom p.nk were fitted princess line.
the
season's new
colours.
the
walsted und Atting over
Light coats, for formal out- the Occasions, followed
Many of And them were in coarse..
short sleeves
brown.
door
ribbed
and
London. LOOD news for women in the tropes and indeed for any who are thinking of warm weather fashions, Here, even though in the midst of winter, designers carbon grey has ousted black ottoman, with
colour for cuffed above the elbow. ure thinking of styles and navy as the
Those in navy suits full skirts. day
suits. Most of the
white for the summer.
were accompanied by Had short basques on the jac-
hats and long gloves. And keis Why not an all-white out- and straight-line skirts.
Materials for travel clothes print silk dresses were alown At Illustrated is a tailored
included
a with these coals, The prints (afty-afty had taken hipacas two-piece suit in shurkskin, mixtures of wool
on an unusual form. and silk).
and Spots were everywhere and the lightweight, washable jersey-cushmere mixtures
were square-shaped by way of materia! that has been ghtweight tweeds.. And talk- tipped as Number 1 fabric of travel clothes, the fact that more and more people are for resort wear. The suit travelling by air hos bod has the fashionable, round- direct effect on the designers. ed shoulder fine, slim skirt, and cross-over jacket line.
Travel Influencé" - Since alr travel is
change from the conven- tional round shape.
Most of the hats, except for the few of the wide-brimmed variety illustrated which of course would not be every- much one's choice, were small, cone- A matching sash is tied cleaner than other modes, shaped styles, pointed at the with a flounce on the hips, there has been a definite trend back like a medieval wimple. Several of them were in bright and its short, cuffed sleeves towards light colours for these
ved. an oft-neglected but un- clothes: Typical of this. new,
dramatic are finished with eyelet em- trend was
a three-piece out-
A new idea was introduced "sunshade" straw hat with ture,. The basis of the outfit
into ready-made suits for the on oatmeal two plece int wile brim, and as a relief was
whose women
measurements blouse-jacket and alim skirt. from the
Bp. It was topped with a "barrel do not fally with pearance, touches of black Jacket in havana brown, loose luck sizes. Since ready
broidery. It is capped by a it in the jersey-cashmere mix-colly
all-white
Play Up Your Beauty Assets
Search for hidden beauties. A new coiffure, a long flowing cus topped with a Jewelled crown may make you a glamour, girl.
By HELEN FOLLETT
because
accessory
on
suits frequently do not fit on the waist, they can now have an elasticised waist-band And this fits in very well with tho current trend towards bloused- backed jackets.
An Indian "Summer'
. For evening dressen the new "shot silks "wero the chotec-In- their colouring and rich en- brokery they were reminiscent of the Eastern sari. Many of em- them had the new-style
Blustrated broidered corsage, here, full skirts. worn over erinoline petticoat, anti Jong matching stole. These long stoles,
normally so difficult to manage, were fixed firmly by being slotted through a tab on the bodice.
Other colours for these silk evening dresses Included
In-
alan Summer. (a wonderful In- with
'dian pink), green shot gold, and blue shot with gold. And if you want your even-
In dress to be really fashion, make it with a bustle for this revival, of the. Ed- wärdian fashion was suggested this week. Dresses in pastel brocede had small busties miniature editions of their. Ed- werdlan, ancestor-bulli into the petlicout.
Goddard To Dance The Astaire Way
Boris Morros, producer. of the gay swing comedy, "Second Chorus," to be screened in one of the Hong- kong theatres in the near future, could not get Pau- lotte Goddard,out of his mind.
IT would seem as though half points will dominate
He wanted to star her opposite: the world of women were fret personality is built around the dancer Fred Astaire. But the ting about real or imaginary Sometimes there are hidden
hitch was that she could not good-looks griefs.
The fanciest possibilities, unke dance. Otherwise she was per- teen feet for the role. She was young, teen beautiful and a comedierine of
The
ones can cause as much sorrow that have not been suspected. as the real ones, especially Hair, for instance, among teen-agers who feel that ager with the pony tall arrange beaut
of her head their lives are bitter if they do ment at the Back not come up to, beauty, par,
may think she looks cute but, If her hair is waved and ringleted, she may look prettier,
Don't
extraordinary ability,
Morros Wha...surprised at the Perhaps she quick acceptance. knew how to dance. No-oño, Bald: Miss Goddard, but would tend to. TE right away.
That
sho
Scrutinise other gitis and you will find that many of them What can be done to com- have some obvious imperfection, plexions a wonderful. A change
very day sho started great or small. This should help of powder, a new lipstick, a taking dancing lessons using you to put less emphasis on different rouge may produce a her OWE method. By your own shortcomings. Oftlimes more ravishing pattern,
she would "coincidence"
appear It is the little irreguleitles of the content to take just, any of at the same, Ume that Astaire features, the slight Imperfee these items when out on a began to practise. Within three binge. Give thought to days, Astaire was teaching her. tions that make, a a young lady booty
from each one before deciding on a She proved to be a quick pupil.: Interesting. apart the run-of-the-mill Laades. Co selection. Tako, palne in their and
Astote
was delighted. It Tecta
can be toned down or application. It's not only what was he who taught her to do tho camouflaged and will be over you have to work with that is "Dig Tooked when good points are important, buty what, you c'do groated, and which they dance played up.
up. In time, the good with it.
appear
which he himself
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