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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1958.

JACOBY

ON BRIDGE

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WOMANSENSE

WHEN THE MEN GET TALKING ABOUT WHAT WOMEN WEAR

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THE WAY

Beachcomber

was considered in Guvern» ment eireles that thr Ministry of Bubble-blowing was taking An unpardonable risk when, last your, it sent CT. Suet, Esq. to the Bikum negotiate in a very delicate techalcal matter, which is still

sceret.

of how Suęta) Hogesky, which hiệ many chennies cal stupidity,

bis alitet ebildist subplrity rate- ceeded, where a more sulette and worldly-wi official Joight.

have fulled.

The Triumph of

Welt

Charlie Suet (1)

1

í a room on the second tour of The Hotel Crespul in the honwa of Zapatiska, Charar Suet sat with an open brief-case beside him, tud a litter of recret documents surnat out in front of hitt He had Jiz

de that the walls were tasek with concealed suzeraj teher, or that the Toons on either, lide at him were accused by Moostika Verashiko and Rupense iepretively. He hand

vrey

been aware of a

beautiful wosnan in the lift, and had it a garette for her at her request. That he lind never believed what he sad in spy stories. Bil dark of magination was suply

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whewhere. heutiquarters and

'Culture' beckons

*በ A passionate adimmer of

temporary thought, it DECUTA to me that the next step should 3rd the broatienating of gramophone records of the dialogue of the television version of the film ver- sloo of a piny performed on fer.

What Is The Time A Ely? Cassicer un Pape Two.), "charming new game."

(Mei Murdoch.)

YOUR BIRTHDAY....

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY-19 1

BORN today, you have a very ar-

tive mind and one which

always umkin up something new

UT exciting untime. Just to be

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By OSWALD JACOBY WHEN today's hand was play- Wext in a recent rubber bridge game, declarer looked like bridge expert right up tintil. ko played the first card from dum- my. After that he looked ke a aran who had just tossed away an unbeatable game."

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West opened the king

The clubs, and declarer made mistake of probably don't have to tell you. You've un- doubtedly seen the right play and the wrong play (only two are possible). If you haven't

about it, thought

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Declarer made the mistake of playing dummy's ace of club at once. He then drew two rounds of of trumps, eashed the ace diamonds, and finessed the dia- monds around to West's queen, West could see only one way to defeat the contract, and he tried for it without hesitation. if * * * law club pretend brying to cash his queen.

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different You rarely, if even fole will ever guess that you law a conventional plan, for you, retmonising. You know how to put

on a good show with perules!

You have a deep love of home le and, will be happiest if you wed at early age. Don't pui off telling the one you love, too long, for you might be terr kate. Yil are one who might easily fall in love a and Bret sight. If you don't wed "the

one you might never wed at all aud that would be a serious mistake for you could become embittered and cynical.

always have something much her ler in h.tn. Very often it CON work out better But there Rie thrust when your Entwem out- pums Vair Com set 12916/ yoni mustard zoomest fights of tapes You which just aren't Workable! have a talent for mechanics

night beregne au mventor. Bir you would need a partner to help coin- ter you have steal your ideas, Hile buliis talent.

St you have a natural gitt for being conservative and saving. You are never caught without suficient funds on which to live. But you

may never five highs!

When the

Totul what the stars have in store for tomorrow, select your birthday iar and tend the corTES- ponding paragraph. Let your birth- day star he your daily guide.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20

PISCES

(Feb. 20-Mar. 20)-- Don't take offence at words cold, in a semper or in honde. Be ready to forgive a head-strong implum.

AKIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 201

De a Rue evening tum The con Joining

of a shap

friends who have similar hobbies Have fun!

(Apr. 21-May TAURUN

213- If you are havina hodget troubles, seek advice

AKAITSEO= who knows more than you the aben R.

22-June (May

21) GEMINI Aspects are not too favourable for a journey, Postpone, if you puR.

thly can, until a tile inter on.

CANCER (June 22-July 23)-- Go easy on the budget. Dei't strat

You wil The mains

much. probably want to spend, Ister,

DUMB-BELLS

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MY NAME

15 WARE!

OH YES! WE HAVE FURNITURE STORED IN YOUR

HOUSE!

THE LEKER SYNDICATE

INTELLIGENCENTESTE

POMPONIAN

ARITHMETIC

By T. O. HARE

Pemponta ie

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of

those new States which doesn't want us arouny dp to resemble all the others but "ilkes to think it's different.

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·To this end, Pomponiun Legislature has abolished the digit 3. No other digit has replaced it, but the remaining, digiti follow the same sequence as in our well-established dennry reale.

Here is a Pomponlan aubtraction sum:

What number (in Pom- ponlan notation; hag” been subtracted from 407

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Augós p(Solution on Page 10).

13) - 24- (July 3,0 Don't accept any opportunities to day ut face value. Be sure that you investigate all aspects of it careful. 24-8rpl. 23)-- (Aug. VIRGA Vt someone wis may be a shut-

needin and who

your Chectful ENQUITATEMÐent Just now.

1.TBBA (Sept. 24-1cl. invite natives and friends to your Home for a get-together, Celelitate on anniversary, perlupa,

ACORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)- Find escape froth the doldrums in At least, a good movie, pestumps, change your mood to one of op

timbun.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov, 23-fee. 2)~~ The can be an evening of pleasures at home. Enjoy yourself WILD

friend.

CAPCORN (Dec. 23-Jan.

20)-

If you are having probleias which are dificult to solve, take them un with the fanatly,

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb,

19)-

Beler take a stund Sonk at where you are going before you start off again. Balance arts and libit Sers.

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the doctor

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20. An eif child. (3)

22. Command, 13)

Bolution of waterder's putain,—Atzar

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25, Nose at 25, Etlar, Down

Indignant: 2. Langhi Borbet Jeing: 6. Candy:

Prathy Biel; 29, Noses 21. fortzentaj

playing his lack of clubs. Paist was able to win this second round of clubs with the niue, and his spude return defeated the contract,

South should have seen with- out any difficulty that the con- tract depended on keeping East The correct out of the lead.

was to let West hold the play

trick with his king of first clubs. After that, the contract cannot be defeated.

If West continues with

and other club, dummy wins, declurer draws

The trumps. diamond

to- finesse is taken wards West for. reasons of

West ch

the takes Safety second defensive trick with the queen of diamonds.

Oh, those sloppy snow-hoots

oh, those head-scarves ! JOHN BAKER WHITE, who ⚫until last month was M.P. for Canterbury, takes a man's view of the 1953 Look among the women.

THOSE MAYFAIR PEASANTS!

and

NEW creation has and probably most eleient in

worn potato sack, but resolved But this does not itself into an age-worn scart Appeared in London their work.

from dressing and with the faint stup them

remnants of a to mystify, but not walking We East European pattern on it.

Coronation peasants, attract,

tielr being in

Hanging in folds about her visitors the sight of the personal appearance a disgrace

was a dark brown coat of ex- Piccadilly and Bond, Street to the race that (fogether with

Scotland) produces the most pensive cut and material, but Peasants. It is only fair beautiful girls in the world. with a heavy coating of dust on the collar and shoulders, and to those dignified thorough- fares to make it clear that

back. the creases of months down the the Peasants do not live in or near them.

Their homes are in the select private hotels, fallets, and rooming houses that lle between South Kensington Gloucester Road statlons,

and hul along the north side of the Park. They work in the offices of West and South-West Lon- 'don, and In the more genteel Government departments.

worst in the lunch-hour, when They are to be seen at their they descend on Piccadilly and Bond Street as their prototypes descend on the markets of Kiev and Warsaw.

Debutante

heard of a flat front.

I wondered if she had ever

clutched

n

the

.

WHAT'S WRONG HERE?

The sort of thing you see in the sort of places where girl should know better.... There's nothing wrong with the soit chillun warf-except that it should NOT be worn with stench coat.

Below the coat, it polr of well-shaped legs in obviously expensive nylons were pushed a horse plough over heavy wet into a huge pair of snow-boots clay. with badly worn-down heels.

As I passed, I recognised her In her hand she tattered shopping busket, which is a headline debutante of two seasons ago. I know that she looked like a survivor

has a responsible, well-paid lob, Tunisian campaign.

Her parents very com

off When she sets Head hanging forward, fortably

to it, she can look Most of them are well something that looked, at first shouldors rounded, she walked her mind educated, charming to meet, glance, like a piece of a well- as if she spent her fe guiding very pretty. She is but one of the thousands of slovenly, untidy, Mayfair Pessantry.""

Ny way to the barber's a few days ago 1 come up behind an average specimen.

Tied round her head was

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BOYS AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

Curious Ways To Drink Milk

They lap it up with their tongues, as though their tongues were n spoon. And take a sparrow," Mr Punchi went on,

Knarf interrupted to say that he didn't think sparrows carol much for milk.

are

Contrast them too, with the Lordon factory girls of East and Hammersmith: many of them deing dirty work, but al- ways tidy on the streets.

Looking at our new peas utry, 1 wonder often if they sleep in their snow-boots. They look as

they did and cut their hair in the dark with a pair of blunt Bull scissors.

Probably Whore fault is it? not their parents, for I have a that they muspicion that urban abomination, the smarten themselves up when be worn they leave their private hotels happily in snow or fog,

and lodgings to go home, But, is it really necessary to look like something from a Ber- In refugee camp continuously from October to March?

Snow-boots ... perhaps even shrewd

duffle coat,

may

3

Every now and again the drabness that they make in Lon- don He is lit up like a shaft of

Maybe it is that their men friends are not so particular as we were in our time.

Filteen years ago a girl I had asked out to dinner arrived at the restaurant in trousers. I refused to take her in until the went home and changed.

sun through a thunder cloud, She went off in a white fury, by the passing of a poised, well- but much to my surprise came dressed

receptionist or back looking cherming.

model.

shop

Or it may be a woman in her forties, who los probably all the financial anxieties of the

but

must have been very hungry.

No excuse

She

average middle-class family, THERE is a lot of talk about who looks well on very 1 tidying up London for the little money. and, above all, Coronation. Let us tidy up the who walks well

-Not Everyone Sips It Out of a Glass, You Know—

By MAX TRELL

("WELL," said Mr Punch as W Knarf and Honid, the

with shadow-children

tho turned-about names, came into Now, however, he cannot get the

the room, "I was just thinking lead to his partner, und

about something very curious."

Sparrow Flow' Down therefore cannot win two spade

and Hanid Knarf

at once *pades, tricks. If West leads

"They usually don't find any,” wanted to know what it was replied Mr Punch. "But some- South must win a trick with the

that Mr Punch had been think- times they do. That cat 1 WAS king; and if West leads any-

ing about. thing but spades, declaree can

few watching left a drops of "About milk," replied Mr milk in the bottom of her saucer.

Piccadilly Peasantry,so that easily discard one of his losing spades

Punch. on dummy's extra dia-

The

Saucer

visitors from abroad can see was on the steps out- "Why, there's nothing curious side the kitchen door. As soon mond.

the young women of our.zace at about milk, Mr Punch!" sald as the cat walked away (for no

their best not at their worst, drinks bird will come "Everybody

near a cat), a MACARD Sense Hanid.

the Piccadilly Lack of money lu no excuse. sparrow flew down. He stood on

and the Bond Girls who cam half, what they "That's it. The thing that's so the edge of the saucer and peer-an't funny to the sparrow. And," Peasantry curious about milk is the way ed at the milk that was left, suld Bir Punch," I saw someone Street Bulgars with the smart du turn themselves out well, costa a young womŁATA First he cocked his head to one drinking milk in an even funnier hospital nurses, who hold them and it way than that. In fact, it was the selves side, then he cocked his head to

well; with the im- exactly nothing to hold herself

1 the other, looking at the milk funniest way of all, I saw some maculate policewomen who are well.

ore drinking milk while he was London's pride; and the smart, wih one eye at a tine."

It's up to the young men, to "He didn't know what it was lying down in a carriage. He was cheerful girls of the W.R.A.C. do something about it

in Whitehall and around said Hanid.

"A bottle, Mr Punch!" suuld

Victorlo. Knarf.

"While he was lying down in n carriage!" said Hanid.

Q-The bidding has been: South West North East I Heart Pass

Pass 1 Spade

You, South, hokt: Spades Q-3- 2, He

Hearts A-Q-J-5, Diamonds K-J-7, Clubs A-Q-3. What do

do?

you

A-Dld two no-trump. You have a count of 19 points, all in high cards, with balanced dis- tribution and sloppers in the unbid suils. This strength is shown by your opening bid in sult, followed by a jump retild In no-rung,

TODAY'S QUESTION

The bidding is the same as in the question just answereti. You, South, hold; Spades K-J- 3-2, Hearts A-Q-J-0-3. Din- monds A-6, Clubs 3-2. What do you'do?

Answer Tomorrow

CHESS PROBLEM

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By L. AFRO. Black, 0, pieces

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White, 8 pieces

White to play; inate in two... Solution to - yesterday's. problem:

1, K-KIG. 1...t (KS)—B4; 2. PAKI, 1

KtxQP 2

QXQP KIXBF: Z, QXBP 1.) Kt(K5) others; 2, PXQBP

milk."

different folks drink it,"

Didn't Understand Knarf stid he didn't under- stand what Mr Punch meant by that. Hanid nodded and said she didn't understand either. Mr Punch smiled and said he would

be glad to explain.

"Perhaps not,"

agreed Mr Punch. "But anyway he Anally

decided that he would tasto it. "I was watching you both this So he stuck his bill in it. It was noon while you were having like someone sticking a straw In your lunch," Mr Punch began. a glass of ice cream soda."

You had milk in a glass. You "And sucked the milk up into itted the glass to your mouth his mouth!" said Kraef, who and drank the milk down."

liked the idea of

a. sparrow hav- bill. "Of course,"

said. Knarf. ing a strow for a

always "That's the way

nodded. "That's Mr Punch. we drink milk."

But when he got the milk right. "Sure it Is," said Mr Punch. into his mouth, he didn't swal- "That's the way all children low it right down." drink milk. But then I watched "Didn't he, Mr Punch? What the cat. Her milk wasn't in a did ho do with it?" glasa at all."

"It was in

0

Immaculate the

The sparrow cocked his head to one side, looking al

milk.

drinking it out of a bottle,"

"It was a regular milk but- lle," said Mr Punch. "It was much smaller, And it had a rub- ber thlug at the end of

-But-but..

," said Hunid. " don't think it is good manners to drink milk out of a bottle."-

"Oh, yes it is, my dear," chuckled Me Punch. "You see, the one I'm talking about was n baby, lying in a carriage, hiving his milk-bottle!"

Hand and Mr Knart and "Just this. He bent his head saucer," sald back so that his bill stood Punch all laughed heartily at the straight up in the air. Then he different and funry-and curi- different let the milk trickle down inside ous ways in which of him."

folks drank their milic

Hanid.

"Chts always drink milk out of a saucer," said Kharf.

"I don't care about the saucer, part," said Mr Punch. "The curl ous thing about cats is that they don't really drink the milk at all.

Knart and Hanid laughed. "That's certainly a funny way to drink milk!”.

"I suppose It is to us. But I

Rupert and the Hazel Nut-7

The aquimel looks so worried Talking of nuts he saya,” that Rupert asks him what is the found our under an apple tree" in matter: "Welle" says the little

Gur orchard, did you drop creature, I've been robbed there?" "No." I fuven't been Winter is neatly here and heat your orchard,

cries the collected a wonderful store of nuts, squirrel. Rupert decides to tell but somectic has stolen nearly all Bu that the mystery is getting

them 1: Rupert starea deeper.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVEDN

of

"But in one way they're all alike," said Mr Punch. They ali like milk no matter how they have it"

The

Rupert Annual

is

still

available

CONTRAST

80

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WHAT'S WRONG HERE?

She has a pretty damask black afternoon frock-uid "then she spoils by wearing leather brogues With crepe soles and sophisticated beige gloves,

Why, why docs wear. sailored jacket: (pant" àl'a/rWO?) plera) over, dress? If she must wear something over at frock, »• knitted jackat would 'bi÷bst