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Colonel UP and Mr.. DOWN. by: Walter

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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1953,

WOMANSENSE

Originality At Parties

SUGGESTION for a think it great fun, is, in

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that Parly Spirit will go LI

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ON BRIDGE

moment, found a rechnen of Contract Made With

Good Play

reina opoiaría "herin, or Hortumn's workfungus. Strabisinus

hot a quemba from the deck. mustrit, enoked over a fire at manzal twigs and steeped in munch, bre

krest dainty in there potia, and ne enten with a megs of pucen shionts called singamarati,

More trouble on 'Change MORE

Exchange.

trouble oli the ginek

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shout, and a lobber got a MIK net in the face from a battered kipper. The or because slippery. and business was abandoned for the troming.

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By OSWALD JACOBY

TOW would you play today's

HOW

hand if you were South, the declarer, at a contract of four hearts? West opens the five of diamonds, and you must plan the play,

If you go with the ace of diamond, you will surely lose a diamond and two spades. If you then get a bad trump break (and you will, because West has a natural trump trlek) you will be set.

your friends do your house- stretched.

hold work for you. It is

A further advantage of this successful amazing how

kind of party is that it costs parties of this sort, have you nothing. Usually origin- hoen und how much alig at partics is expensive, brighter the morning after. There was, for instance, the night-club owner who was 10 is for the hostess.

afraid of xatecrashers at his. claborals Christmas party ut Here's how t works: you simply divide your guests into the last minute he chartered an dance teams and give them various airliner, complete with household chores to do in com- un

m- band and plentifully stocked hus with Christmas fure, and gave with each other. Thus Wi peittion

lean his party ensising around In one group is told to spring clean mid-air. Then there was

the the drawing-recen while the other tidies the store room or turns out actress who couldn't be bother that cupboard which you've been to think out different gifts meaning to do for the last six for each of her guests-Go do months. For individual events sided to give all the men Rolls

the give everyone

and Royce cars and A dustpan Brush and after a prize to the minis, guest who can collect the most dust.

And instead of playing hunt the thimble, why not make your guests look for something you've really lost? Of course, in a sunny climate at Christ- mos, the range of such "games" can be vasily extended by the amount of work to be done in the garden.

PARTY SPIRIT

In England a famous woman art connoisseur often holds this kind of party-t famutis musicians, artists and writers have been known to run her this manner for successive week-ends, and

house for her in

DUMB-BELLS

DEAR ME! HOW CAN

LEVER FIND JUNIOR

?

NO HUNTING ALLOWED

BY

6067

If you begin by playing a low diamond from the dummy, East will take the king of diamonds ank will return à spade since It is quite clear that immediate action may be necessary to pre- vent you from getting a spade discard on one of dumany's dia-G monds,

In short, you lose your con- tract whether you take the Anesse or refuse it. When the hund South made

was tually played,

contract by taking the finesse in a peculiar and deceptive way. He played

dummy at the first trick.

YOUR BIRTHDAY... By STELLA the queen of diamonds from

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you to do some of the serious de- Lallwork, then you will have to learn ze vertain amount of self-discipline, if you are 16 arreed.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 21 BORN today, you are one of those

who plana eyriyming stratio

cannot Avale. Yus minute_detall.. necesar to the

dream of prment time, b greatness to be in the future. Thus will work out all right if you have kelpers who are interested in Kreinst you reach your objective as

upo You are ESL if it evolvess

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vanished, 13)

Actor

12. Parliamentary preachers.

perhaps. (0)

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24, Job for a newapsper boks. (4))

15. Frequently ground, they say, 141 1. You'll own? Then chalk it up

on this, to}

Sham dun 1 17 (anog.). 18)". A crooked mate moy make

eleven, (4)

Kado for a fair lady's hand 7 (6) Abrolutely necessary. (D)

Bin shorts, three longs, at sea.

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Down

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AWING. (9)

2. Film scrigis case in these, 181

8. "And diamonded with

quslut device" (Reass). (B)

"Green spot in the sand. (8)

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thousand from 4 Down,, (4) only for a faw, Food-but it's

0. An order that

If the finesse had succeeded, South would have drawn have been trumps and would content to give up two sporte tricks" and "n trump trick necessary. Shice_the_hand was

You have a magnetic personality being played at rubber bridge, and slove you really like, propte South really didn't care about you will finit that early in life you

women

FANCY DRESS THEME But originality can be cheap too. Why not, for instance, embellish on the fancy

dress theme and invite all your guests 10 come 019 Eskimos, South Pacife

nomadic aborigines, Arabs? A little research will fell you what the normal food of these races is-and little more (plus

some imaguch

SPRING DUET

FOR the gut who likes to combine fashion trends with beautiful materials and wearability, Rix has sketched two garmasts that provide three outfits. Either garment combines or plays separate moles In next season's wardrobe,

The coat, in light-weight berathso, has the slim, moulded princess line and no colfer. "It is fined with patterned tie silk and can be wora alans as a cootdress or over its companion tim silk dress.

Both drew and coot om in spring's top colaur, coffee-beige,

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Guides For Amateur Decorators

Chicago.

DECORATOR advisea Women selecting wall 'colours to be guided by whether the room will be used mostly in day time or at night.

"Certain colours appear to change in the two lights," sald Margaret Hutchison, colour stylist for a paint company.

Daylight nckis a blue effect to wall colcurs, while ordinary light bulb rays sometime bring out the yellow tories,

She listed these guides for the amateur decorator:

Shades between bluo and green---such as turquoise and aqua-secm bluer by day and much treener under artificial light.

Colours in the pink, red, and terra cotta family seem stronger and

mpro omngo when Bluminated by artificial light,

Mouve, lilac and violet will be much wenker and drab-looking under the electric lighting and will enable you to get it.

tend to become brownish, of it will be extremely palat- able; much of it won't be, but

--Cocons, cocna-browns, fawns, will enjoy your guests

It simply

Protect all paintings from the also beneft from a wax coatlug, and rose-belges of a reddish or

and for its originally. In the same damaging effects of 5001

Epinkish cast please most propio can be invited as way guests

with a thin application Clothespina which have been when the electric lights are on, medinoval courtiers (food sto

on the painted boiled in salt bring will be but they take on a motive cast gested-lampreys and capons) surface. The wax will keep toughened against splitting and when used on large areas ex- or as Elizabethan roisterers the painting bright and easy to will not freeze to wet clothes on posed to munlight United (bonra' heads pnd sučk).

dust. The picture frame will the line...

Press

Perhaps the most original party of this sort was given many years ago by a well- known racing man.

When his guests

they found handsome thoroughbred race- horses standing in the recep tion room-one for

for ench

Euest.

arrived,

A saddle, bearing the name of

a guest, and a small table was

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on cach horse. The guests had mount the horses and cat their Christmas dinner astric served by walters dressed grooms.

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NEW GIFT-WRAPPING

IDEAS GALORE

NOMEHOW we always feel By ELEANOR ROSS" love you"

sort of sorry for the

wrapping counters waiting

on

or "what a wonderful person you are."

It's fun 10 work out new wrapping ideas, new Are these parties too absurd? People lined up at the store

Bitlle Perhaps, but with the return

touchés, Improvements of brighter days gaiety and to have their purchases gift into each piece of paper, former jobs. And what about

all becoming wrapped. For it seems to us each bit of ribbon, a bit of assembling are

the pretty originality fashionable again. It is well that one of the joys of love. Then, too, a gift that gel and tagal-Isn't that fuh, papers, the ribbons, ornaments, worth thinking out something Christmas is that of doing one wraps conveys, with it-or-From our wrapping lore now.

up gifts oneself, working that extra touch that says we offer a few Keds that may Landon Express Service)

be now, to you, and so

worth trying.

One of our sucbosses is to use a tall, squarish box, wrap. it in colourful paper and then outline bricks with cellophano tape so that it resembles chimney. Red or blue tissue paper with silver cellophane tape is pretty, as is silver paper or foll with red, blue or green "bricks." This is one of the | caslest,

BOYS' AND

GIRLS' MAGAZINE

Blinky Mole's Cozy Kitchen

-His Vegetable Garden Grew in the Celling!-

seen a kitchen_celling_quile_like. By-MAX-TRELL-

terus mu polion of heatterisking a possible overtrick; heKNARF and Hand, the

make sure DI

what direction, you will just wanted to Alp. 1a Lead depende, at course, spun low his game contract. high you keep your Ideas,

have à naturally

300

You

that

Kenerous. and As it happencil, Enst won the kindly Takupe.

Are event cinational

Arst trick with the king of dia- when it comes 10

Ile reasoned members of your own family but monds. consider It something of a weak South could not have the jack tieas to wear your heart on your of diamonds, since he had play

eimraced the queen of diamonds from

Fleeve,

For all these pleasant

It.

green leaves

and stems and flowers, while I have the bottom party."

Had the Best Part

"Bu: Blinky, dear, you've got mit the best part!" Hankd said,

"It depends on how you look at it," said Blinky. "I suppose A Vegetable Garden

you might say that the roots of the

are the potato-plant From one side of the celling potatoes-and the roots of the

with the shindow-children- turned about nuses, were sitting in Binky Mole's big country kitchen.

It was about to the other, in neat little rows, carrot plant are the carrot-and was making hung bunches of currots, bunches the rools of the beet plant are dusk, and Bilnky

trotting from of potatoes, bunchca of beets the beets, and so on." his awn dinner, the table to the stove with his pots and pans, as he spoke to his two visitors.

toristies, there is a vein of iron in dummy at the first trick. Ap- your mokesip which makes youparently it couldn't do any harm It was a sort of kitchen that want to see, ilir en done exactly na

return a diamond, and it you don't see very often nowa- You to worry if events do not move right night do a lot of good. Hence days. along and this causes you to be East returned the nine of dia- Imbruse undi

you want them to be done.

depressed. This, in monds.

turn, makes you irritable and thus

won the

your influence over people, is sonic- This was exactly what South

imes sirained to the breaking point, had hoped for. He Constructive optiinlam will cure second trick with the jack of thie.

To find what the stars have in diamonds, drew three rounds of store for tomorrow. select your trumps, ending in dummy, and birthday star and read the cor- cushed the age of diamonds in responding paragraphi Let Your birthday star be your daily gulde. order to discard a losing spade. Now the defenders could get only one spade, one trump, and one diamond,

not enough, defeat the contract.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22

SAGITTARIUS (Nov, 23-Dec. 22 You will And old friends are best there, days. Those who are tested and drug bring the most_happiness,

There was a

also radishes onions.

"It's like a regular vegetable

Blinky Knarf garden, claimed in excitement.

and turnips and

CX-

Blinky tossed the carrots Into a pot of boiling water.

"

yet one of the most effective of wrapping,

-Jolly-Drum--

Then there's the idea of hous- ing the gift in cylindricul box and wrapping it to resem→ ble a drunt.' White tissue, paper with wide bands of red and blue transparent tape stort it off and thets comes a series ot diagonal tape strips through its middle until I looks like a Jelly drum Just bursting with holiday, happiness..

such 09

"That's right," sald Kaart. "The farmer only has the tops. They aren't good for anything."

"Yes,"

agreed Blinky, but the former has lots of other

^ supply of little bells plants which are much better on

garnered through the year pays Blinky, smiled. "It is a re- the top than they are on the

off when wrapping holiday gular vegetablo

gifts. Even the simplest wrap- garden" he bottom. For instance," he said, Big Coal Stove

replied, as he pulled

Iping becomes something special a bunch pointing to a row of roots grow- along the far end of the

Blinky now cald: "Hero,- lot when the bow is finished with There was a big coal stove of carrots down from the ceiling ing

and started to clean-them. ceiling.. "con you guess what me show you something! Would several lengths of ribbon, each with shiny, black stove pipe "There aren't many kitchens as these are?"

tipped with a tiny, bell. you care for a cucumber?" coming up from the top of the

Knart and Honid couldn't

Knarf and Hania sald they Many fine gifts come in dainty stove and curving into the wall. convenient as this one. I'd like

to know of anyone else who can guess.

would. Blinky took a poker baskets, big old-f

-fashioned

cosmetics, Just reach up und

and poked a hole right in the herbs, good things to munch get all his

Former Has Leaves iron sink, with a hand pump for vegetables right down from the

middle of the celling. He held and such. Really quite easy to the water. There were gingham calling.","

The "They're' cabbage roota," said 'a basket under the hole. at the windows, and curtains

wrap, too, although to Бате Blinky. "The former has the next second," a beautiful, fresh, flower pots on the sllis. Only Blinky, having cleaned tho

people this type of wrapping is and I have the leaves, flowers in the carroia, tossed them into a pot But the leaves

roots. green cucumber dropped Into hazard. Just cover the flower pots. What grew in the of bolling water,

of the cabbage the basket.

basket with a double thickness are the best part. And," Blinky "It was musli➡ flower pots were

the top of tissue paper, lying right

thent wind to another of my roof" "How." Hanid asked, "do all continued, pointing

said Blinky." strips of red, green, blue and these vegetables grow in your But who has the corn? Not It" some egg plant, and-ah, I just it to

row of rools, "these are corn, could also get you some squash, silver. cellophone tape around For Blinky Mold's house was ceiling?

a point, so that it re- Q-The bidding has been:

Blinky underground, and no light 'came: „

pointed the several thought of something for sembles a buge top. South West North Esat in through the windows, so the "Well," said Blinky, "it's a more rows of roots, "Cucumber dessert!" Blinky

went to the 1 Spado Pass usual kind of flowers wouldn't funny thing The ceiling of this roots," he said; "beans,

the ceiling peas, other side of

and. 1 Heart Pass

kitchen grow.

Just happens to be peppars, tomatoes-the farmer gave a very hard poke. under the farmer's garden. All has all of them, too.

overdo things with I think it's

Don't A great, green-striped water- You, South, hold: Spades

But the most curious thing 2-8-3, Hearts A-Q-J-7-5, Dla about Blinky's kitchen was the ing down are really

these vegetables you see grow, a fair share.”

melon plopped into the basket. big box, the sort of whopper the roots. Knart and Honid wondered "Yes," said monds K-Q-9, Clubs 3-2. What: ceiling.

Binky, "t's a that contains blankets or towel do you do?

Neither Knartner The fact of the matter is that what the farmer would think if wonderful kitchen!"

scle. Just cover in tissue paper,

hien:

to

there were no

the

CAPRICORN (Deo. 25-J320CARD Seride rooms, red, purple and grey.

[If you are making others happy,

YOU

In turn, enjoy yourself.

it and see how it works,

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 10)- Might be a good idea to stop for a moment, even this busy week, and *make long-rango plans for next

20-2107.

year.

PINCES (Feb,

(May

20)

21)

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tho

If felends you have not seen for

you a Christmas long time send i

werk invitation, accept it joyfully. ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 29)- Hasty actions could bring about a

A-Ma two spades. This serious error, so do everything with

shows a near minimum opening especial care and precisión,

TAURUB (Apr. 21-3fay 21)-bla with, fair support for your: Although it is dimeult, make partier's suit. In this case you verlou attempt to keep your mind have only 14 points in high on your work, Importünf that you

cards and 1 point for do!

GEMINI

doubleton, but you count I 22 Jana You may have plans to visit family point, extra for the queen of This is the day to make pre- your partner'g'anit. parations.

CANCRI

22-July. 233--- Being práclient and helping those -who need it now can brighten your The bidding is the same ny estire day.

dust naturally in the question just answered) Transpreads -

LEO! (July 24-AUG-29) You, South, hold: Spades K-8 Christmas Joya are just around the 3-2,7 Hearts A-Q-J-7-5, Din corner. átake sure that you have monds A-Q, Cluba 3-2. What all your, pinna carefully mads by do you do?

7. It was possible once to alt

betorn 16 (4)

9 and this for the English

there was the drink, (4)

11. Stop lighs for choques: (011

17. Its name convore up, but it

ming let you down. {6}]

18. But you don't have to be to ret

the birdESY

20. Wolgbty matter, (4)

21. Address the males for no augurs). a.hrow phyde to the dogi t Films of it" (Macbeth),, (0) 77.212 it again in agreement 143 Stolamation to show disappro VAL (3)

SOLUTION TO CRECK SATURDAY'S PUZZLE

or close friends out of town door,

(June

Joy

VIRGO (Aug. 24.8+pt. 29)

If your family has been separated, the charices are that It will be gathered together. this year for Christmas,"

1.IBRA (sept, 24-Oct. 23)ni Make very sure, this time, that you |tive #neglected, no one on, your essential Christmas fiat, thin in the last minute!

sconrio (Oct. 24-Nor, Changes, are in the, ain but fig to Pheatpins" Ülem: "untii • next year,

„That means perhaps grily, until next

week,

́ ́ ́ TODAY'S' QUESTION

Answer "Tomorrow ·

WHAT'S HIS LINE?

T, LUNT-DAWES Re-arrange the letters to spelt: hla socupation-->A

(Solution on Page-10)-

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Bang

·Affair

Hanld noc japyong else had ever I'm sharing this garden with the he heard Blinky talking like Kharf and Hania syreed with outline or trace ar folly Santa

CHESS PROBLEM

By L KNOTEK

Black, 13 pieces.

White, 6. plecei White to play: mate in three.

Solution

Saturdair's

Forabi chi, D, or Kt mates.

He has all the rice, that. farmer.

Rupert's Coral Island

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Just Arrived

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At lam the old Boʻsun finds his been share, why bless" "en," they": voice, ** Little bear,, you've doner i must, all be true) ·He laughs in a great they for me this day 12 piwo, and foaling, very happy, the -lirile friends go on their way, the **For years my storiesį Guides ago, their sandboss, and he cries..... of coral lalanda have been getting Rupert back to his mummy. giroger "\nod«, stranger | until › T

THE END), hardly know whether to believe

"New" Advanture-Bagbla

"But Ɛnów" you waNEARERS ARE

MORE

on the - from, or :: pasto on. “Q nica cut-out of the old gent. Then outline, the job with red to finish it off. For a really bang-up affair, take sono cot- ton and paste it on for a realis- tle beard, and uso red ribbon cut-outs for eyes, noso and mouth, carefully, pasted on.

Have you ever tried to dồ c Fight by one of those long boxes, the kind that houses. umbrellas? Well, we have, and we'll have no more of it Not our cup of teal So we take-

ADVENTURES the umbrella and covers 11,

RUPERT

$5

handle and all, with heavy white paper and then spiral red cellophane tapo 'tip

ho

*Length package, › for all the ke a giant

We have found these simple ideas more effective and more pleasing to the recipiente "than the usual run-of-the»mills-big how and tingël” mumbers,” and theyourtalhiy are oksfetto fisc