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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST.24, '1953.

Colonel UP and Mr. DOWN by Walter

WOMANSENSE

KEEP IN TRIM

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by Beachcomber

FOM Michigan coines

2 rc- liere must be some safeguard

port that a "plastic sports exploitation. cur, 33 inches high, is being manufactured,.". Il costs-£1,100. It seems to be the very thing for rich midgets.

Any policeman, Rinding a couple of these

parked in the wrong place, will be able to pick them up one under each arm, and carry them off, with Uie occupanta Inside, "Or are they intended for dogs to use? Or to take small bell-hops about the big hotels? Who cares? Sponsored debates in

the Commons If there are to be sponsored de-

bates In the House of Comment

• JACOBY ON BRIDGE

Impulsive Playing Is Very Dangerous

By OSWALD JACOBY

WHEN an opponent

W

Lakes

against an Excos of comtnarelal:

Could not the actual advertisement of various commodi- ties be confined to question-lime? "Mrs Fudge (Lib., Piffaham} saked the Home Secretary If he was now In a posillon to state whathar 10 knew of a better vernials than toppigleam." That would be silghtly more dignified than: "Continuing, Mr Belleigh said that, though n was fully aware of the gravity of the international situation, be could not refrain from taking this oppor tunity of calling the allention of the House to the excellence Of Snibibo (Opposition jeers, and ostes, of What about Biebbot'j“ Unfortunate mission

E coach service to

take the

children, to the nearest swizn- ming pool had been arranged. The television pets, electronic brains, radies and flim sereens had all been chosen. A dancing teacher, a quir master, a brains trust team and A canteen mistress, had been engaged, Canic papers had been ürürred. Then someone discovered that there was no school.

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(TOMORROW: A, balter on based on a play, about life in the tropics.)

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CROSSWORD

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14 ing agent. (8)

18. Lawful commend-ur, red

cannot boil n kettle without putting on a chef's rat, will shorty Tugolade de Bourniebotte Makre tion, don't be in too much of a d'fhotel, with the recommends a 1904 The hurry to win the trick. If the bile of Centemerie,

cork must be drawn with a special will anchor-corkscrew, and the hotte

if held at an angle while being decant

ed into a decanter which has been kept in an ever temperature for s

losing finesse in your direc-give his own recipe for Faillons de

even

inesse is repeatable, you get the trick later on you refuse it the first time. The important thing is to look ahead and minke your decision betore the play is actually executed. Today's hand shows one reason for this.

the three

West opened spades in response to his part- wer's light overeal. Dummy won with the king of spades. and declarer immediately Onessed the

queen

of hearts,

wump

West had anticipated this play as soon as he had seen dummy's holding, so he was able to play a low heart very cusually.

South should have eashed dummy's remaining top spade before proceeding, to be in position for a' spade ruff, but the apparent

the success of trump nesse had given Ho

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hours. The stopper must then be replaced, and the decanter carried, In an upright position, very slowly, to the table. A cradle-basket is not necessary for decanted wine.

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The spoilsport

It was his ninth wife who pre- vented his twelfth_marilape.

(Evening paper.)

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By IDA JEAN KAIN

The Case Of The Tenacious

Everybody loves to solve a mystery. Today's story is the baffling case of the tenacious, pounds... and it's not 'so elementary:

Since few mysteries are unravelled without reconstructing the crime, let's do some flash- backs, ns in a thriller, and ferret out what was happening at the time you started to pllo on the pounds. That's aspertinent clue.

Of course, in the movies the cross-examiner points his finger and shouts, "What were you doing on the night of June 177" We won't go Lack to the exact date, but I is Imperative to connect the year the pounds first threatened with what was happening at the time,

Perhaps that was the year your husband changed jobs and you moved clear across the country. Not knowing a soul and with nothing exciting to occupy your time, you were bored." and turned to food. Studies have shown that boredom is a common cause of overeating. In a few months, without realising It, you may have gained 13 pounds,

that after the

Or did you turn to eating out of sheer loneliness when your daughter went or to college? Often it's possible to trace a weight gain to a period of loneliness, upset, or anxiety. Food then seems to give temporary comfort and

lift to morale. Looking

back, you may see the problem was solved, the habit of overeating carried on. But the detective work really pays off when it alerts you to the fact that now you automalleally turn to eating whenever you feel at odds with yourself or something goes awry. An elevated pattern of eating can soon become fixed habit..then the increased daily intake of calories Axes the pounds too..

&

You may feel there's no mystery to your excess poundage: You were a mite overweight shortly after you first married but you decided jt didn't matter since you intended to start family anyway. But then you retained a dozen or 50 pounds after Junior arrived. Modern doctors now stress the advisability of getting weight down to normal before starting family. They also restridt weight gains durink pregnaney to. safe minimum--- often no more than 16 poun:ls.

Pounds

Insight is the first important step toward reducing. Docision is the second...

.. Make-up your mind to mat for normal weight and nothing can stop you. It isn't even difficult. The secret is to include liberal protein and como fat.

This dcccps. blood sugar lovela steady and so tande aft hunger pangs. The accent is on Tolcin for each of the three moals, plus protein plek-ups in late afternoon to prevent energy lag

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The cement is water- proof, dries white, and will not thrink. The same product may used to fil, in cracks tween tub and wall,

be

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but can't be expected to pro

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out tho promlac when it must battle with both cottons carry coltons

and airt in fabric or an a

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short sleeves.

.

CHOOSE A COMPLIMENTARY HAIR-DO

By HELEN FOLLETT Do you know that bobbed hair was fashionable in Egypt twenty- Once you see three hundred years ago?

the pattern of

BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

Ja'.

about, a girl when you meet her?" He answered, "Her, hair. If it is frowzy that's all I'want to know about her."

your overcating was believed that the fair ladies were rolled on wooden rollers. the mystery of that time were familiar with covered with clay and heat was So we are told by Tresses applied. solved

the permanent wave..

those who are supposed to know. but maybe they are just guessing.

When the uppity heir-do raged [... "few years ago 'many women still kept their locks shorn. There is much to be vald in favour of the bob, especially during the heat of summer. It is ก tremendous convenience; it is astonishingly becoming to young, middle-aged and elderly women; It saves a great deal of time in arrangement

Ever Catch the Wild Wynd?

-Grandfather Punch Tried Once, and Almost Did!-

By MAX TRELL :.

There

was only one wild animal that he, never caught,” "You know," "Hauld, the Mr Punch added. "He tried to

shodow - giri with

the catch it again and again," Il "war ̈** turned-about name, was raying one of the regrets of his life that

YOUR BIRTHDAY....... By STELLA her brother, Knarf, "Me he never succeeded.""

TUESDAY, AUGUST 4

quile

BORN today, your likes and dis- cumulate

You have a

Punch tells the most fascinating.

and hunting stories

yet-and ye

them

a fortune before

"And yet what?" asked Knart. are instantly formulated. middle age. Whether you hang on to You have a great capacity for love it or not will depend upon how well but an equal capacity for hate. Your you learn to curb your rather ex-

"And yet I keep thinking all clarer the impression that at emotional nature la strong and you travagant tasies.

the time he's telling basically intellectual least one over-trick could be will be happiest if you wed early in

ind and enjoy all kinds of beauty.

that he's never really hunted obtained. He therefore switched and have a family of your own.

Frustrated in this, it ́19, Ulikely that you want to be surrounded by

anything in his whole lía” to clubs and was allowed to you will form motional attachments beautiful thing and it 1v kely win the third trick with the for song upon whom you will lavish that a let of your money will go the loyalty arul devotion which would toward havlat beautiful clothes and queen of clubs.

Bilerle go to members of your jewels, it a woman; and collecting Declarer next led his remain-own faintly You make the perfect art and perhaps beautiful women- If you are a man! You do not enjoy Ing club, and West was allowed aunt or unclel

In youth, you may be a dreamer physical labour and will not be happy

This

in work which requires it. On the other hand, you enjoy active sporis

and will probably be good at thein:

"I saw him hunting for a pin that fell on the carpet yester day," Knut said.

"That isn't the same thing," said Hamid.

What Was its Namo?

Knarf und Hand were both eager to know the name of fals wild animal that Grandfather Punch had never been ablo 10 catch.

"It was the Wild Wynd," said Mr Punch.

hear her. He

"Was he a bunter, too?" Hand asked Mr. Punch.

Frequent Treatment.

Take Your

Sun In

Small Doses

By H. N. BUNDESEN, M.D.

NOW that hot weather is here we must be careful hot to overdo in exposing ourselves to the sun.

Among the severe complica- tions of over-exposure" to "sun" to Of course, if you have a per-sunburn, one of the commonest manent, there must be frequent injuries of the summer months. treatments. Nature keeps push- Usually, we can avok sunburn ing out the new, straight growth by using discretion in the length to the tune of five or six inches of time we expose ourselves the a year. Nothing can be done first time we go out for a tan, about that.

Heavy tanning oils may also help

severe

If the forward hairline is be-prevent severe burns. coming, the forehead not too Sunstroke is, another high, the hair should be brushed complication of over-exposure. In away from the face because a this condition, the heat regula- graceful lino on the forehead, ting mechanism of the body temples and around the ears is seems to be overwhelmed.

a special mark of beauty. If the brow is low and broad a centre parting is usually becoming.

treatment as the

012

"Oh, it that the same 05 the wild, wind?" Hanid inter- middle of, the garden. He could

May Be Warning Sign tell the Wild Wynd was blowing rupted, "Isn't it, Mr Punch?" to win the trick with the ten. fund build castles in the air. But

Sunstroke usually comes In it because he could see the But Mr Punch didn't seem to bag fil up. Suddenly he pounced

The back of the head and the suddenly. In some cases, how- West naturally returned an- as you grow older you will see the other low spade, forcing out the futility of that and pit your ideas

To find what the alars have in store

Not At All Surprised forcefully into action. I 13 then that

went right on, on the bag and pressed the top neck are seldom considered by over, there may be a warning side entry

to the threatening you will reach the high *urces for tomorrow, select your birthday

"The reason Grandfather Punch together. He was sure now that the average woman when plan- sign before the

stroke - should be in mar and read the corresponding club suit. Now declarer decided which the star ray

ning a coiffure. A multitude of headache, dizziness, a desire to Just then, Mr Punch, who was couldn't catch the Wild Wynd he had caught it at last." jarograph. Let your birthday stor More for you. You are a natural

sitting in his easy chair on the was because he couldn't even see to repeat his trump finesse, but money-maker and will probably ne be your daily guide,

bad points can be disguised when vomit, or even some disturbance "And West was able to win with the

other side of the room, beckon it. He could hear it blowing by

hadn't, he?” Knarf the hair is longer and cleverly in vision, such as spots before WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5 king of hearts and return his

so he knew it was around. But wanted to know.

arranged, but with short hair the the eyes, or a blind spot. (July LEU

24 - Aug. 21 ) — ARIES

20-ed them to come over, Catar 21-Apr.

back of the neck should receive trump.

eliminated emotional tensions are high, now If you are planning an Interview with

he couldn't as he would, "I heard you saying something try

Mr. Punch shook his head sad. that is the time to use that self-control. an important personage, put on your ruffing power, ED

bent Bb and fucker!

about my hunting," he remark- manage to grab hold of it.

ly. "When Grundfather Punch careful

toralocles. ****lose a spade trick. You be glad you did!

VIRGO (ADE. 24-Sept. 23)- TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21) cd. "I'm not at all surprised that

"He would see the leaves of reached the house he decided to trump. To experiment today can be very Not a day for procrastination. See

you don't quite believe the he expensive Stickle your normal that you got all the work finished

which has been laid out for you. stories. To tell you the truth, I the tree shaking. He know it was get the Wild Wynd out of the I routine - and work hard,"

them up in the tree. But when be bag. So he clapped the bag to *INA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)

22-June 21)- wouldn't have believed GEMINI (May it planning my making a large outlay myself if I had heard someone climbed up the tree it was gone, gether with both hands while maks

klą - maine toward any

lect now.

else telling them. It's just the He would notice it making the holding the top shut and-boom! objective w ACORPIO

If a suggestion is made which you

22)-way I felt when I first heard my smoke from the chimney bend out it went, Illee a shot. Poor ends upward, especially when the

when he got to the Grandfather Punch! He A good, social danỹ,"ROM,

me over. But and romance, too. If that liv, M6

it was gone. He would tried to catch the are seeking.

notice it making ripples on the again, · "Was he a hunter, too?" Hanid pond. But when he reached over asked.

the bank to seize it, he fell into the pond,

Bum

Since Soum two diamonds an was set one at an contract,"

South could have made the contract by playing the hand properly. The fact remains. however, that thousands of de- clarers all over the country make mistakes every time they play bridge. It is the duty of good defender to give an ering declarer enough rope to hang

himself.

You can

of money, make sure that it is really worth what you pay.

CANCER (June 22-July Nove

BAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21)- Don't let a minor annoyance upset your entire day. Shrug it off, smile, ind go aboudi

CAPRICORN (Dec; Jan, 20)- from out any minor grievances be tween you and a friend, before they betong a real quarrel.

10

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb.

Dost let anyone Interfere with your

❤❤CARD Sende plans. Set a faal before you, ac-

Q-The bidding Has been:

North East South

West

Pass

1 Spade Pass 2 Dmets.

2 Spades Pass

You, South,

hold: Spaden

none, Hearts K-7-4, Diamonde. A-K-Q-10-7-5-3 Clubs K-0-4.

do?

What do you

A-Bid five`diamonds.

This

bid ladiestes that you 'expert is win it tricks at diamonds oven If your partner has a minimum bid. Obviously you opening cannot be far from a slam, and your partner should go on to a UTAM if

sdditional he has strength in the form of aces.

TODAY'S QUESTION ......

The bidding. is the same as in

the

L question just answered.

You, South, hold: Spade Hearts 3-4, Diamonds A-Q_J-7 5, Clube K-Q-9-0-2 What do you do?

Audwer

g'omosrow

complish it, exactly.

PISCES

(Feb. 20-Mxr. 203m

Don't let moodswor the weather

datrack you from a job that needs doing. Do it efficiently.

know is based on long experience,

u might adopt it with benefit.

CHESS PROBLEM

By B. METAIRIE Black, 7 pieces. ·

DUMB-BELLS #1-18

YOU SHOULD

BE A LITTLE

OF COURSE

MORE TERSE: ITS THE|

I SUPPOSE

FIRST YOU KNOW COACH

WHAT

TERSE MBANS?

AT A

FUNERAL

White, 6 pieces,

White to play: mate in two,

Solution", to

'problem!

yesterday's.

1, Kt B7, au: 2, Q, B, or ki mates,

WHAT'S HIS LINE?

GENE AF SOUTH Re-arrange the letters to spell, bis occupation.

(Solation on Page:10)

Grandfather Punch tolling

his hunting stories."

chimy

0

never

Short, Plump Neck

Sometimes it is best to curl the

When the attack occurs, the person losos conciousness BUKI- denly. His face becomes flushed, the skin dry, and the temperature extemely high.

Pulse Irregular

Wild Wynd neck is short and plump, The the pulse is very rupid. However,

"But he was wonderful hunter. I hope some day I con "Indeed he was! He was the

bo us wonderful a hunter as my most remarkable buster I ever

old Grandfather Punch. Even met. He caught every wlid

though," he added with a wink, animal that anyone ever heard

he made up "I'd never be so foolish as to try of-and a good many that no his mind to set a trap for it. He to catch the Wild Wynd in a

Jeft a big open paper bag in the paper bagi"

one has

ever seen.

Set a Trap

"Then one day

Rupert and the Bad Dog-41

Hearing voices Pater comes to

good dog so quickly ""Never

ace what is happening and at mind, he'll enjoy that bone." length Jock is persuaded to leave Rupert smiles. And now, good

hi kennel and sniff the goodbye. My Mummy will be wonder- things in this bowl. He can't hing where I am 'And I'll see! make you out!" says Peter you home, says Podgy. So they

And he can't understand how he make for Mrs. Bear's cottage, very, his changed from a bed dog into a "pleased, with their work,

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