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• JACOBY ON BRIDGE

Bid Not Problem In This Hand

By OSWALD JACOBY

❝DLEASE solve a problem for

"PLEASE

us," requests a Scattle cor- respondent, "I'm sure you won't

ke the bidding of the accom- panying hand, but the bidding is not really our problem.

"West opening the king of spades, and I won with the nee of spades. I really didn't know how to proceed, but I hit upon the idea of leading a

a low dia- mond mai fincasing dummy's facit while dummy still had a trump.

"East won with the queen of diamonds and returned the three of

clubs. This gave me my big clubs.

To finesse or not to

"I looked carefully at East, but he happened to be a very ex- perienced player and would look just as colm whether or not ke had the

queen of cluba, i then

looked at West, und discovered

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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1958.

Famous last words: "Now don't worry about the dishes, mother, we'll do them right up. You just go out and have a good time,”

nothing! from un examination YOUR BIRTHDAY....... By STELLA

of his face.

"The only thing I had to guide me was the mathematical fact that the queen is not likely to drop when the opponents hold as many as five trumps between

WEST

NORTH (D)

0

4

❤QJ-15962

◆ KJ953

AKQ9843

K43

100

427

North

4 (1)

10.

SOUTH

AAS

♦ A74

EAST

AJ 1072 875

QB2

4053

AKSO842

East-West vul.

Kat South West Poss 64

Pass Pass

Opening lead-4K

*Pas

them. For this reason I finessed the jack of clubs.

"The Bresse did not turn out well, as you can see. West won with the queen of clubs and took a spade trick to set me two tricks. If had taken the top clubs, I would have made my slam.

"Did

FRIDAY, JULY 3

everyone.

Porn today, you have Band friendly impulses which

make you beloved by Yet there is certain reserva in your make-up which makes it dim- cult for those. you just meet to really get to know you. But once the ice has been broken there can be no mare devoted friend or charming companion. If fact, you are a little too retiring for your own best good and It might be well for

you !༦ develop the pre- garious life of your Bature little more.

it to any- generous are not apt to show

one.

Fortunately, you have a natural resilience which makes you bound back with another now Idea to re- place one which May have been corded. Then you can become as poultive and excited about that)

you were about the first onaf You have A deep love of nature and a very real understanding of humanity. You enjoy travelling so

that you will meet all kinds people in all different Your vivid imagination

ם

You have as alert mind and one which gets to the heart of a prob. let almost instantly, There is no heining, and lawing over a ques ton. I either "yes" or "no" at ence. And once your mind is made up, there is lo likeliland of your changing it except for a very Kood reason! Your idéen are origi nal and sometimes you are mis. understood because of thein. You are hurt by adverse criticism yet

of

countries.

can be or in

utilised in ari, Bierstvi prub-

just happy livingt You

ably find your greatest content- nicht among members of your own reason you Inmily and for this would be wise to wed at an early nge and have a large family of your own.

To find what the stars have in More for tomorrow. neject your birthday star on read the corres- ponding parograph. Let your birth day star be your daily guide.

SATURDAY, JULY 4

CANCER (June

zz-July Even if this in the Fourth of July and celebrations are, in order, don't neglect necessary taska,

23) -

LEO (July 24-Aug, This can be a real day" of relaxn- don from usual duties. Bee that different and you plun something exciting.

VIRGO (Aug. 24-Bopt. 233 ---- if you are driving, be careful In traffic. You may need to watch out

23)-

for the other fellow, too, the hand correctly? play

24-Oct. LIBRA (Sept. East Inughed ut the way I played

Be on your guard against the the hand, but wouldn't say why

unexpected. Don't get caught un prepared for an emergency. he was laughing."

As my correspondent suggests,

I find the bidding more weird Nevertheless, than wonderful. South should have made his stam contract,

When East returned a club there was no need to look at his face. Fast simply couldn't have the queen of clubs in lus the hand. If East had held queen of clubs, he would have led a spade to make dummy ruff and thus prevent a trump finesse from picking up

up his queen. Since East did not take this simple raensure to protect the queen of clubs it should have

SCORPIO (OL 24-Nov. Make the most of jolty week- end at the country or shore with people whose company you en- Juy.

SAGITTARIUS. (Nov, 21-Dec. 2)- This can be a wonderful time to Increase your energy. Store up a lot of good, tresh air

CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 10) -- Take good advantage of this holl- day week-end. Get away from toll- tine and du something different.

DUMB-BELLS

been clear that East did not| WHAT IS THIS.

ONE!

actually hold the queen of clubs. BROILED CAPON POLLAR

Once South came Lo the SAUTE CHASSEUR FIFTY:

conclusion that the queen of

clubs vas in the West hand, he would have then seen that the only chance to make the slam consisted in laying down the top clubs in the hope of tiropping the queen. This manoeuvre would have succeeded, and South would have made his slam con- tract,

♥ CARD Sensel

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both

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MENU

vul-

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aldca nerable, the bidding has been: West

North

East South

? Spades You, South, hold: K-J-1.

K-Q-3-2, Hearts Diamonds K-1, Clubs Q-J-3-2.

1 Spade 2 Diamonds Pass

What do you do?

Aid two no-trump.

You

.have 15 points in high cards and

in

a probable double stopper the enemy's sult. Game at no- trump should be easy it partner has a Round vulnerable overenil.

your

CHESS PROBLEM

By F. W. NANNING

Black, 9 places

White, 13 pieces, 'White to play: mate in three.

Solution to

problem:

vesterdays

1, K-K7, any; 2, Q, K (dis ch},

or P (Q, or B) mates.

WHAT'S HER LINE?

NINA PARDOM Rearrange the letters to spell

Occupation

(Solatkm on Pega 10)

CROSSWORD

125

7

120

22

24

16

ACTOSS

1. Stick me in a cala.

(0)

6. Pat answer is often. (3)

9. Rugby call. (4)

11: Black, Dead or trun, (9)

12, Infantry verb. (9)

13. When in Rome, spend it as the

Flomans do... (6)

14. Tor in B.E, look pue. (8)

15 9-1-0--1-7, (9)

18. Block.

19. Dior att encountered

21. Bowlers 1150 16. (4)

23. Most of the Demon is demonta

(4)

VA. Cat weight. (5)

(4)

26. Chinese one needs all,

Walter, my father, 401

28. 1 reverse it moistene hash, (4)

DUWD

Don't catch it, (6)

Weted. if not wondertus. (B)

Funny, ba-ba, (9)

Worry a jade. (3)

5. Tight, but not 'Inabriated, (4)

Nacross mother.. (8)

D. at walsthat. (6)

10.

Minimum. (5)

11. Much in is tardy, it seema. (4)

14. flot weather adder ? (6)

10. Diddy danom, (5)

10. At the

of a hat. `(4)

20. Gentlemen are often reminded of IL (4). 21. One pip. (3) 24. Piro at a brawery. (01

Bolution of UĢIS DĞAY'E DEIRAČI

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AQUARIUB (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) *** If you need to write an important letter, dealing with your future, be definite and positive.

15

PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. Get outdoor, if the weather good. Forget all about every day work and routine, Relax tensions,

ARIES (blar. 21-Apr.

20) --

If you have one work to do at Home, get 1 nished today so that you can really-relax tomorrow.

21-May 21) TAURUS (Apr.

for

WOMANSENSE

THE DRESS THAT STOLE THE

London press service.

SHOW

★'in, cho, relentless ro

of The Beaton, the entra of an attractive woman wearing the right dress can make evari" a jaded party-goer pause and look. ta goto the rounds to take note of those rare moments. Here he sketches ona - at the Mayor of Westminsterji receation in the Dorchester.

THE DRESS ....in of -white organza. ·A· pink cascade of broken blossoms hangs beneath an enormous rosette of

drapery caught at the waist. THE WEARER... Mr. B. D. Crompton, of Ontario, Canado. Behind har is Miss Tosmonio (Elizabeth ́ ́Gibson) gray slipper satin.

in

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KEEP IN TRIM

PINCH TEST SPOTS WAIST TROUBLE

By IDA JEAN. KAIN .. THEN the waist wan-

Wders

all is not lost. You can cope with it more · Fi or less easily. But first got a line on whether it's excERS

fat or merely flabby muscle you're dealing with.

This pinch test tella... Place hands on either side of your naural waistline, with thumbs and forefingers. encircling the walst arca. See how much fat you can pick up at either side. If it is more than a half inch or three-quarters at most...cx- cess

fat padding the waist. Another test is to take a deep pinch of fat covering the lower Hbs at the sides. If the span between the thumb and fore- inch, fingers is more than one the layer of subcutaneous fat is on too thick... solid evidence of overweight.

Nature's Pattern Is The Best

By HELEN FOLLETT

It won't do to keep on with BECAUSE women belleve they can get away with any beauty the weeding until the lines are frenzy, some of then went the but a count shadow of their limit remodelling eyebrows. You natural selves. The effect is

that's not expression have seen than eyebrows that vapid fly upward, Satan style, at the becoming.

No doubt you have noticed_the far terminal and look sinister, eyebrows arched so high that change that has taken place they're perpetually surprised. among stage paid screen stars. Lovely faces took satter, sweeter, Neither style is a beauty asset.

less masklike. This is due in part We won't say that Nature's to the fact that their eyebrows patterns are always perfect. follow natural lines. They're not! Many Umes however

they conform to

the features

and should not be tampered with It's horrid to have eyebrows meet

Don't Blacken Brows Eyebrows call for cosmetic

and hold hands, as it were, but attention when they are light It is just as bad to rank out so coloured. If you use a crayon, many little fuzzers that the brows avoid black. Dark brown is a are miles apart. Know when to better choice because when eye- brows are light, the complexion put the tweezer down.

fak and delicate. Usually Black offers too great: a Contrast to the strin

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

If you have space in your kit chen for a window box, you Get an early start you are can plant chives and parley in

boxes of chives, Transparent plastic it. Buy a clump 21-divide it into three or four with a centre partition are good A fine time for a trip. Go by car. pieces, and plant them a couple for storing small linens. These trait or plene-but get somewhere of inches apart. Parsley is very boxes wipe clean with a sudsy

alow to come from seed, to try cloth, so that the contents

be seen at all times. some rooted plants.

planning to get out of town today and tomorrow"

GEMINI

(May 22 June

away from home If you can.

FRIEDE VEGETABLE MARROWS

WHATEVER ARE YOU DOING. WITH THAT MARROW, JOAN?

tM GOING TO FRY IT FIRST

TAKE

PBEL IT AND · CUT IT INTO SLICES 2 INCH

OUT

THE

THICK

GEEDY CENTRES

ANO

GUT

BACH

RING

INTO

GORG

PIECES

BOYS' AND

Little Miss Fairy Was Lost

PUT THESE ON A PLATE, SPRINKLE

THEN

WITH SALT,

ROLL THEM

PEPPER AND LEMON JUICE AND LEAVE FOR

AN HOUR

LIGHTLY

IN FLOUR

AND

FRY

BLOWLY

IN A LITTLE FAT TILL GOLDEN BROWN ON EACH SIDE

+

сал

A tear in your rubber rain- coat may be mended by press- ing adhesive tape over, the cut on the under side.

SERVE THEM SPRINKLED WITH GRATED CHESSE- OR PARSLEY OR

MINT, IF NO

CHEESE!

AND OF COURSE YOU COULD DIP THEM IN BATTER INSTEAD OF FLOUR, IF YOU WANT SOMETHING“ MORE

FILLING

GIRLS' MAGAZINE

--But Mr. Punch Helped Her Find Her Acorn-Home→→

silver wings. Tho day 1 By MAX TRELL

her she was lost."

677NCLE Punch," said Hanid, the shadow-girl with the turned-about name, "did ever meet a fairy?"

you

met

"Lost?" Hanid said in sur- prise. "How was she lost?"

acorn, she answered. "Where is it?' I sald, and what does it look like? Sho replied:. It's lying under a bluebell and it looks like every other acorn.'

Wasn't Much Help

"That wasn't very much help," said Mr Punch to Hanid. "But I "She had lost her way. There was determined to get her back she was, sitting under a daisy, home again." Mr Punch, who was dozing with her wings drooping and comfortably at that moment in her head in her arms,

with his rocking chair

Gobbing.

"How did you manage to do the It was enough to make the It, Uncle Punch?" Hanid asked, thought of fairies forthest from dowers weep, just to see her quite sure that he had managed his mind, looked up with aand, sure enough, I did notice a to get her back to start. "Eh, what was that you said?"

her acorn

tear-drop on a buttercup stand again. ing close by, though it may have "It was really quito simple, been only a drop of dew. At Who knows most about acorna "I said, Uncle, Punch, did you any rate, I said: 'Pardon me, and bluebells? The squirrels and ever meet a fairy?"

can I help you, Miss Fairy?"

Size of A Peanut?

bees, of course," he answered I asked the "Was that her name? Miss before Hanid had a chance to

say anything. "So 'Fairy?" Hanid asked.

squirrels and 1. asked the bees "Oh, a fairy. Let me see now

fairy, fairy? Why yes," ho "Maybe it wasn't, but that's If any of them had noticed a suddenly said, a happy smile what I called her. And she lifted hollow scorn lying under a blue brightening his face, "I certainly her head and said: 'I'm afraid holl It didn't take very long did meet a fairy. She was about I've lost my way! Where do to find it after that"

had you live?" I asked. 'In a hollow the alze of a peanut and

Rupert and the Bad Dog-14

Mrs. Dear is by the door wheh Rupert bursts: in ***My, but you're drenched f" she exclaims. "Where have you been? Take your things off quickly and let me dry them, and you must have a

both busy, and then Rupen ella! her about Rosalie and the bad. dog, lock. "I shouldn't like to be Podgy and have an awkward little cousin coming to stay with mat he says, 'but I hope aleʻa;sale" home. The rain's worm than 424 41977) AZERATED

bos bath. For souls time they are '-ever 1'!

"But-but-

Another new "Adventure"

RUPERT and the BOY PIRATE

$1.

"Pardon me, can I help you, Miss Fairy?” asked Mr Panch

the

"But what, my dear? "How could you talk to squirrels and the becs? They don't speak English."

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Do quick little strokes with crayon that has a sharp end. If you extend eyebrows at the far end, see that the line is straight, that the eyebrows match ins dorm.

A MENU TO

PLEASE THE KIDS

By ALICE DENHOFF

It doesn't take much to make kid happy or, to feed 'em food that they enjoy, and that is good for them.

One young mother we know, a very Inventive girl, has work-

ham ed up what she calls burger banquet for her kids and their gang. Regular Invitations go out, made in the shape of a hamburger, with rough-cut edges, the writing in red pen- cll, for the chili sauce, presume!..

Favourite Menu

We

The burgers are served picnic style on paper plates, and a favourite menu includes the bur- gers on toasted buns, creamed potatoes, buttered green beans, a cluster of eclery and carrot curls, mlik, and for dessert, good old ice cream and cake Sometimes the dessert gets tho hamburger treatment, too, for Mother bakes a yellow sponge and cake in a spring mould fill the centre with chocolate ico

cream.

Her hamburger recipe something special, too.

is

For 6 servings, she mixes 34 | c. fine dry bread crumbs, 1⁄2 c milk, 14 tbsp, finely chopped onion, 2 top. salt and a top. pepper. To this is added 11⁄2 lb. ground beef and 1⁄2 lb. fresh ground pork.

The mixture is shaped Very flat pattics quickly and

into

tried

а

and thoroughly in Ittle butter, being turned when browned. If these are

mado

to 0 minutes should completely large and flat before cooking, 5

cook them.

Com Chowder

Another dish that this young- homemaker feeds her hungry brood in an economical, health- ful and satisfying Corn Chow- der with Bacon.

"Indeed they don't" he said, smiling. "You've got to hum and chirp: Nevertheless, he went on quickly "I found the fairy's acorn and got her back to if safe and sound. She was so delighted that she said: 'Mr Punch, you have only to make a wish and TO TVO 4, cu 2 potatoes in I'll grant It And that moment cubes and cook in:2 c. boling I happened to be looking at a salted water until tender. Do cherry, tree, I wish those not drain, Adri 2 e, each cream- cherries were ripe, I said. style corn and top milk,

Slime and chopes waist...

Now, one final: test... how does your waistband feel and fit 20 minutes after dinner? When it is too fight for comfort, and you are forced to let it out a notch, you've eaten too much dinner. Tonight, get up from the table just short of that full feeling, for that is the way to down cut appetite

to

tasta and aroma of food, you are not tempted to continuo eating to belt bulging proportions. Twenty minutes later the physiological effect of the meal begins to take hold and you feel comfortably satisfied and happy that you did not overcat.

Once away from the Eight size.

If

1s within your weight normal range, and you süll these streamlined cannot pass pinch tests, then flabby muscula ture is to blame for the wander-

Exercise,

by ing waistline. restoring tone to the muscles around which wrap crisscross the sides of the silhouette, slims waist. The shopes the and following exercises reach the

muscles. right sets of

Position: Stand on knees, then sit back on heels... have arms out at sides shoulder level. Pull up and in snugly with the brace of abdominal muscles and hold throughout the exercise,

the

Action: Slowly bend toward the right side...aim at touching right angers to floor, but at the

up with same, time stretch left futgers. The upstretch of the left hand la even more im portant than the down stretch. Come back to position,

bend 16 left and stretch again... Repeat six times, Inter more, Always maintain a firm up, and in pull with the girdle muscles; otherwise all slimming bets are off.

the

I

To increase the stretch-bend action stand on knees and repeat the same exercise, again bending toward one side, touch- ing fingers to floor, and stretch- the by reaching up with Ingers of the opposite hand. In this axordse do not let the hips jut out

out rearward...keep pulling up armly with the abdominal musclea

These two tone-ups, taken regularly, can slim a half inch off the waist in a week.

Important Casual Dress

GRACE THORNCLIFFE

PURE: silk and nylon in a "So to my amazement," ex Cut 4 strips bacon in small

weave falls the claimed Mr Punch, "they all pieces arid fry until crisp with chantung

Add to material story of a dress that, I shook a chopped onion, instantly became ripo, down a few and the robins atochowder, amon, to taste, and while casual, has quite an im- the rest. Later I wished I had serve with toasted crackers for portant air about it. This makes wished for a new pipe or a new a good lunchton or supper dish. it good for mary occasions. The

wide open neckline is tucked to- house or a crock of gold. But it ::-

And to make the family, ac-mulate rib knit and bas threa was too late,” wr

cept meatloaf, add a party buttons on, one side, with three Did you ever meet the fairy touch, Boek dried apricots for buttonholes opposite, to balance. half an hour, drain, and place Broad, pin-tucked cuff bands, again

in bottoms of buttered manin and tucks shaping the mid-seq tins, Pill dins with meat loartion are added accents. The skirt. mixture, baka, cad turn out slim below all-leather-lined. with stricati oni top,

"bels that huga " the

Mr Punch shook his head.

"I

never did. She moved. Fairies "ard always moving?