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BANDIT KAJUS JZWZELSH

BANDEY CRISAT

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1953.

JACOBY YOUR BIRTHDAY...... By STELLA

ON BRIDGE

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22

you get tired!

'Finessomania'-Can Bon today, you have a tielle

Ruin You

By OSWALD JACOBY

NE of the worst diseases that ONE

W even

'mind and one which is interested In multitude of things. You must

be worned against superdelality, To you, it seems more important that You know a lilie about a lot, than a lol about, any une subject! You Care determined and Industrious

Be sure that you always get your full quota of steed, for you do not function well with out plenty.

You are not one to take others into your confidence. You make pil your alone and work them out baföre, letting anyone know what

closest friends

is cooking! As a result, you often and relativer.

You women bro attractive to members of the opposite sex and will probably have everal offers of mariage. Be sure that you acleet the right one. for bring great unhappiness. One of

must be "cute" your temperament the first imel

an error could

when it comes to any kind of brain player is thestomania. Every intellect. Hut you can be down- body has

Light lazy, if someono wants a job teen the symptoms. fur physical labour done! The player is unable to resist a Actually,

that finense

cans would you will need means

than fat you were to indulge jeopardising

in some losing) his con-phyrdest for

activity even if it is fract. In today's hand we rec a thing more than mosty, for a walk very and c

case of this allment. outdoors, once in a while. You are West opened the ten of hearts, energy to the leaking peint, before Inclined to uilla your nervour snld

carefully won theįtaking a break, Discipline yourself storo declarer frick in dummy with the queen to work at on ever and stondy pace birthday star and read the cor- of hearts in order to nesse the and thre wiep perfectly still when brinday star be your daily quide.

The rather than race like mad for a while responding paragraph. }. jurk of sputes. This play may have been careful, but it far from successful and even farther

from sensible.

was

West won with the queen of spades and brilliantly returned a club.

plans. South won with the ace

of clubs and returned the ten of space, but West was not to be drceived. West promptly put up the ace of spades and led an- other club, forcing out duinny's king.

To And what the stara havo" in

for tomorrow, geloet; your

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23.

LEO (July 30-Aug- 231 Got the Christmas stocking all ready for hanging and stuffing? You'd better make a last-minute check-up.

CAPRICORN

20)- (13c. 22-JAR Coniplale essential' dufles early in the day, for when afternoon and evening comes, you will have other AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feh, 10) Even with festivities so near at hand, you probably need to pay at on to witness today and ta inorrow.

This can be an evening of pleasant PISCES (Feb. 20-3)ar. 20)

Ventertainment, either, at your home South still had the king of joe with close friends, i. Have real spates in his

PUIS hand and Was

ABIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20). never able to get back to dummy ay be more thimura to do than Leash the nine of Spudes. He there is time to do theif, unless tu sveerded in making only you plan everything out very

hearts,

CABE. 21-May 21)- of their you have been wise, your Christ. mas shupʊing, wrapping and mailing Its all, dune" and you can watch

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TAURUS

others!

GEMINT (May

22-June

9 back and take a deep breath of relaxation if everyting for Christ- mas finished. Enjoy yourself.

CANCER (June 27-July 2)- If you have been planning Christ. inns party at your house, be sure that every last detail is ready..

CHESS. PROBLEM

By J. GOLDSCHMIDT

Black, 7. pieces.

VIKRO (ARE. 24-5#pt, 233- You Can nvold that rush to get away for the holidays-or to wel- come those to your home, if you plan adroitly".

and you

Be sure to take care of those int

LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)-

minute details carefully won't have to rush

sround too much..

SCORPIO (Ock. 24-Nov, 22)- There may have been one thing you have forgotten. that will make Christinas a perfect day, Do it now! *SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 21-Dec. 22)- You will have to be a strict din ciplinarion to think of anything but the holidays, but you can try {"

BY

CROSSWORD

Across

schoolboy 160

through tha. 10

Ela World

I may 10. Cute lian. (1)

One fruse from child's camo, (8)

Legal noston. (4)

In that pit for me? (4)

15. The R.A.P, would accept this

sort of Information, (3)

10. A Red can change steve, (A) 12. Say it's true to a “T." (5) 19. Prine in school shop ? (4) 21. Is he god in a muddled 'Hidu 7

14)

23. Speaking of senses, there's one 23. Travel Dormito

on the tip of my tongue. (6)

20. 125 diasance to Tipperary 7 (4) 23. "For

farrwoil-Coasliin ?

[4]

(Blinkespeare).

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1. Mil... get gin canag.). (U) 2. Kat men between anal). (9) 1. Bee how they do it on this stage.

(3)

4.

hunning" troops may, maku them so. (R)

5. Was it a liries what did thu to

thin gipsy's par 7. (7)

0. England could bavo been, ex-

changed for one once. (6)

D. Minus nothing twier

fil of foreboiling. 7)

Haunas

9. Behaviour before au orchestra,

12. A story may have one after the

end, (0)

14. The Angier (Cumpleats would

do this at the end.. (3)

13 Girl on the end of a hose. (4) 30. Ses cnik, (3)

SOLUTION

TO CHECK -YESTERDAY'S

PUZZLE:

WHAT'S HIS LINE?

TOM RAITES Rearrange the letters to spell his occupation.

(Solution on Page 10)

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A day advertisements should "Greetings, reptiles." So they sulked

jrogramme.

WOMANSENSE

Party guide to parents

[SUALLY it's the children who get the least say in SUALLY

how to run a children's Christmas party. Well, here for parents are the ideas of a 10-year-old. Silence, please, for Victoria as she gives her views on the points that make or mar a party for little girls of her agë.

DRESS "I like a white dress

(Victoria's best." cholco: Whito muslin, with a frilled, square neck, full- skirt, and a wide scarlet velvet Bagh).

FOOD "A lot of big cakes are a waste of time. They never get eaten. People like a lot of sandwiches (eggs are the most popular, then honey), and one big cake- fruit cuke or chocolate, or walnut. Chocolate biscuits always get eaten specially if they are fingers.

"For things to drink, orange juice or lemonade, not milk or tea, because we have them overy day."

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BOYS "There's

no point in having boys they become worry. If you have one or two with a whole lot of girls from school, they just stand around and talk to each other.

"What about dancing? It's silly for people of my age. The boys refuse to dance, and no- body knows how to anyway, und nobody has any fun at nil

GROWN-UPS They shouldn't be allowed much at partice. And they must not bo allowed to play the games be- cause they guess 100

quickly, and that spoils the fun.”

ENTERTAINERS "Grown- ups who de conjuring tricks are no good for people my age be cause there is always someone who knows how they do it. If you can have them.

filma are

the best."""

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you

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• Victoria at a party, in her favourite dress of white nowalin with red velvet sualı.

that shows you how to pick out tunes; pogo sticks and stilts,

SMALL PRESENTS A col

a square lapsible magic wand; of fake chocolate that squirts water; a joke fried ees, and conjuring trick (getting a penny

box).

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Wines To Support Your Christmas Menu

différent fashion when those

London. It is, however, important to young couples, treat rod and white wines in tertain "in style" in their on no account ever be shaken, new homes for the first time as this stirs up, the andiment, should be decanted with great this Christmas may be wor- ant for the same reasons they dering just what wines they care at least an hour before the should choose to support the meal. Don't decant the sediment menu, and how these should' itself. stored, decanted and

M now preparing to on- durore nerve the wings proud

be served.

·

WANNET.

Connoliecure will say that rád wines should be- sørved at rooft Assuming that it is not in- tcmperature, but many people

prefer them slightly tended to entertain more than Never heat the wins by placing

•half-a-dozen・ guests, a good the botile in hot water, however start can be mudo with a bottle as this ruins the bouquet, of sherry, either Spanish or. South African.

bottle of sherry will furnish between twelve 10 fifteen drinks, according to the size of the glasses and in- cidentally a good host will take caro net to fl hig Busia glasses more than quarters full.

three

By contrast, white wines should be slightly feet-esally achieved by placing in a re- frigerator for an hour or so (br at least into a cold larder). But ice must not, of course, be placed in the wine itself.

Port is the traditional driul with which to conclude any Christmas celebration, and bottle of excellent fawny port is have a umple for six people couple of drinks aplece. Port If the glasses are brimmed, should be stored like other red the

and (as im- wines

decanted wine's bouquet portant a characteristle ass hours before serving.

taste) is largely lost.

more

*

0

aeveral

While sherry looks l'attractive in decanter, it tastes" equally good if poured straight from the boltles But

Another most-Importantipolha when

drawing the cork-and Is to have faultless accessories. this applies to all wines

Good wine- deserves

good make sure that no fragmente setting, and nothing more the break of to fall into the wine. look of a line wine more than Draw a cork smoothly, after to be served from

finger- smeared neck and mouth have been re-chall, lustre-lacking classes, Bolly

ເປ moved,

should sparkle Uke crystal, arxi Red

white and

wines the best way or imparting this especially if they are old-any desired gleam is to wash them detergent. a household. reed decanting as they gradually with form a deposit within the bottle. These will remove every trace of film from gloss burface and When serving turkey, either give glassware decorative red or white wines are in order, opulent rheon.

Make sure And as sweets for the tree but a red wine should profer- naturally, that after being and the table she plumps for ably be of a light variety, such washed with the detergent, the Father Christmas cardboard as ctaret, rather than a heavy glassra and decanters are rinsed boots, covered with red cloth, type, like burgundy, which is in that have hollow insides to (i) ideal for a mast joint. with sweets; packets of 16 cho- colato cigarettes, all wrapped

through a plece of glass in a fall dirt or dust about the bottle's me decanter or poured into

FOR decorating the table Victoria likes block and white colton wool penguins with itat fect and red heaks: bunches of cherries and pears, coloured scarlet and yellow, and covered with glittering tinsel.

then

In fact saying CUNSORY glance at present- forward"

Crixit, who tried Wśr language,

GAMES "Those games with that culture evidently

puro water-

niki convince anyone

sign, for used a wrong

thoroughly dried with a cloon, and salesmanship

the ground and paper and pencils where can be do they sat down og licately combined in a television refused to move. Strabismus absent have to remember things on a

mindedly scratched his hat.

tray get boring. The best party

White wines--such as Graves soft towel. Tasty wines, taste- The Sloane Square

I was at started with a game up to look like the seal thing: -work out at about the same fully served, will go a long way to enhancing the guests' enjoy- Take Waghall's Unbrentable Fitne

ond candy walking sticks at price; in either experiment called 'Spider's

caso a bottle Chrps. You see a picture of Cleopatra

a spider's red and white striped, coming down the Nile in her borge.

sugar, will hold five glasses of the mont of an eveninga hospitality, DI with threads

tape with a big red satin bow. bod you read Shakespeare'n descrip. MOTORISTS and pedestrians will whole room was like

(London Express Service) type used for these wince, watch with interest a new ex-web, tion of her, and then the passage In Plutarch whielt Shaltespeare frans pariment in Sloane Square, & row of twisted all over the place. Ench formed. Thea comot the ting in the blue and orange beacons revolving persons Had a little bit of wood, tail of the Serpent of Old Nile like lighthouse lampa, wil warn the tied to one of the strands "You can safely drop a Warshell motorist that he is approaching the

Lape. You had to wind it up, Eke-Cup from the dome at St, red, beacons which mark the approach allowing your bit of tapo ali to an unofficially opnamited crossing. Paul's."

At Un trosking green lights will go round the room, under chairs, The expedition does not on ard on white pedestrians are and behind cupboards, and when

start walling for the yellow lights whicit

will signal the approac of a car you got to the end it was tied CLIGHTLY north-enal of Chimulpo from 19 other

the to a little present. the af amber → Bes

outside FoodPita the myterious land

"We had a lovely *Wemp and Jungle, where no white crossint chage to white before the Bit company has ever trod. Through pedestrian has started to eres, the hunt once, with clues in rhyme the house. perikus country Strabismus car must wait fur the neon beacon hidden all over and Grisch must hack their way, 10 between the red and the green lights Murder, charades, and dressing- reach the territory of the taken to ebangs to brown.

up are good too. We put on all eatin: Mattoon tribes, where Zazuila

mummy's make-up unco and had a super time."

this

As I have hinted, the spade finesse was just so much 100- sense. Suuth should have won the first trick in his own hand with the king or ace (thys mak- ing sure that he could get to dummy later by means of the

White, 10 pieces, queen of hearts). South's next Step to lend the king of spades. Write to plup: mate la t100, deliberately HAVING UP

any

İn D. writer: Aly wife used to SolutionN to. yesterday's shouldered little, men who lives on taugh when i wagnied my care chance of fiuessing in that suit.

tree bark asked in swamp-water before we were married, South-doesnt-core_who_tukes problem;

and-can-imitate-the-cry-of-n-CLalio losgher temper sehen 1 do Boothe, To establish friendly rela- tie. office,

Is to a found; They have already Dr Rhubarb's corner

fred Cusco porters, small, brood

Now

by

treasure

Approved

BIG PRESENTS

Victoria: A palating-by- numbers game (you-ni-in squaro 10 with green, and so Dr Rhubarb says: Do it occasion on until it makes a painting); a zither, equipped with a chorl thought he was saying "Let us go sick of it by doing it too ufion.,

the ace of spades, sin

since he 1. Q-B4; threat 2, Kt-B4 (dbits or the lonk of a giant free it, after breakfast, before going to stit has two stampers in each of ch), 1... R-QRG: 2, K-Kiong Strabamus had learned a word the side ruits. If the defenders (ch): 1.. KI-Q5; 2, KI-Q3 or two of their dialect, but when he ally, as a bed Don't let her get switch to clubs, South will take (disch). the nee of clubs and Jead the

jock of spades.

Assuming, that the defenders promptly win again and forco out dummy's king of clubs, South can unblock the offending ten of spades and still get back ta.dumany through the queen of hearts in order to cash the, nina

BOYS'

AND GIRLS MAGAZINE

of spades, South is thus quite Mr. Merlin and the Big Balloon

sure to make snatter

how.

nine tricks по

defenders the

wriggle or squirm.

-It Carried the Shadows High Into the Sky- By MAX TRELL CARD SentJEGO «TF only? Kaart the shadow- For the urned-about

Q-Tho bidding, has been: South West North

East

making a balloon bigger than It's supposed to be."

sald.

"I guess it's big enough," he tled the end Then he

with the carefully and tightly string. Meanwhile, the balloon It kept tugging. to get away. seemed to want to rise up in the air.

"You can try," said Hanld. Then Mr Merlin asked Knarf "Why don't you blow it up?" and Hanid to bring him Mother's wicker clothesbasket that was nome, was saying to his sister asked Knarf. Hanid, "this little red Balloon So Mr Merlin, the Magician, standing under the clothesline. was only a real balloon,' what stal shaking his head and mut

wicker Mr Merlin tied the wonderful fun we could have tering that he didn't think he basket to the balloon.

"Step with it."

souiti do it, took the balcon and in," he said to Knarf and Hanid. You, South, hold (Spades K-8-

"But Koori," said Hanid, "it went out into the gorden with 3-2

Hearts A-Q-3-7-5, Dia- is a real buticont" amonds A-Q, Clubs 3-2. What

IL Knart and Hanld went with "We're ready to go!" him. doryou do?

1 Heart Pass, 1 Spade Pass

5

This

A--Bid three spades. Leble shows strong support (four carde

or more) for your partner's

suit with a total count of 17 19,points. In this case you have

Kmart shook his head

I

isn't big enough to take us up in the air," he declared.

"Oh," said Hanid, ""you mean real big balloon."

10 points in lugh cards, 2 points Yes," replied Knart; for the doubletons; and 1 pomi was a real big balloon, extra for the king of your could go. floating up in the partner's:sult.

TODAY'S QUESTIÓN -

The bidding is the same as in

the question just answered. “You,

Out it."

Mr Merlin Came Along

It was at this moment

They sailed straight up into Then Mr Merlin drew a deep the air. They floated among the breath, put the hailoon to his clouds. They saw the whole mouth and storied to, blow. country lying below them like a huge map with green patches The Balloon Got Bigger where the forests ware, and

threadlike silvery tiny,

lines Well, it was the most extra where the rivers ran down to ordinary thing. The balloon, the ocean.

· balloon, grew, and grow,

As Mr Merlin blew, the

it

we

air

which had started out being They didn't come down until matter of blowing" somewhat smaller than a head, it was time for dinner.

magle to ft," he told› Knarf, and Hanid later. "It was

just" a

Then But Knarf and Hanld know

of cabbage, now began getting Mr Merlim det the air out again better. No one could blow a bigger and bigger.

In a moment, it was as big and the balloon became as small little balloon into a big balloon

that as a pillow.

South, hold: Spades K-J-3-Mr Merlin, the Magician, came

flearts A-K-J-7-5, Dlamonds A- along.

Q. Clubs 3+2. What do you do?

་

Answer. Tomarrow-

DUMB-BELLS

DO YOU LE Yes!

KNOW "THE MEANING IN ONE

OR THE

COLLUSION,

I WAS ONCE IN AN

AUTO: MOBILE

"Good morning. Knbrt! Good morning. Hand he sald "That's quite a nice lo

balloon you've got there

It a chame it's not a real

In another moment, It was as big as a bundle of wash.

In another- moment, it WAS s big as a cow!

*M

Knart and - Hanid starled back in alarm, shoutings balloon Then you could go bun wich out! It's going

to burst floating up in the air on 1,?"

Mr Merlin stopped, blowing That's Just what we were. saying, Mr Merlin," Knart told just long enough to say, "Prou

ably."

then

took cnother Hilm:

breath and blow again."

Big As A Room...... This time, the balloon, bgcamo as big as a room.

"And now, that you're "hore;”. raid Hanld, "and you're such a wonderful, magician, maybe, you could make it big for: U"

: HaCard Di

.Then it became, as big as n, house..

Mr Morlin shook his head it started to become as doubtfully, can do a lot of big as the wholu, garden.

tricks, he, sdid, "I can chance

cats "into" dogar and, pigs, infol

bullaritḥs, 1 cani mukaj water, Hanid.

Hand, up, and make rooks/ 9947¬MÅ "Merlin' stopped, and hold;

as it had always beca,

unless he was a real "magician Thore really wasn't any like Mr Merlin.

Rupert's New Year Adventure—1

le in warly in Jandary. For several days on end Ropare ber bien very, very good and thug attain. ··begin sing

tell me.” But the

Ir. "ands with

FULL VAR ABIMINE g. But fadonit his fingers tighily over that cut the diay that

....I can do anything about of the balloon,

Gifiss

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