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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1954;

●JACOBY ON BRIDGE

Theory Puts One In Hot Position

By OSWALD JACOBY THIS hand was played in o game here,"

duplicate writes a Chicago correspondent, "and most of the declarers al- guessed the queen of spades and therefore went down. A couple of the misguessers they had

the

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Usually behind the jack. there anything in this theory?"

Practienily nothing.

What's

nure, the theory had nothing to do with this hand,

Suppose you finesse the jack of a suit in a game of rubber bridge. If the finesse wing, the jack and queen ore played on lifferent trieks. When the cards are shuffled and dealt for the next hand, the queen is just as likely to be before the Jack na behind it.

Now suppose that the esse of the jack loses to the queen. The two cards are together.

Ara the they are not separated shuffle, the gten will be dealt behind the jack In the hund.

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For the same reason, the king

of a suit is slightly more likely

to be behind the queen thun in

It of it.

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YOUR BIRTHDAY...... By STELLA

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7

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Your Intuitions are so keen as to tee almond paychle Pay heed to your "huanchen", even if yan, yourseli, can find no reason for This is one of the star's gifts- rare one-- which you mboiile cultivate.

You have a magnetic personality which makes you popular wherever you go Although you are naturally home-loving, you may have some d0feulty in selecting one marriage

friends upplies unly in rubber bridge,te from no many good where the cards are gathered Lake are that you do pick the right together in tricks and shuflked Amonk Clone who were born on Willin Wordsworth. for the next that

Ellery port: Wall

Channing. tournament center and clergyman: Mme Alda, upply at all in bridge,

siny where the cards

vocalist; W. A. Pinkerton, noted dei in duplicate boards and where the tricks are not gathered fo- gether,

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I doesn't thin

even in rubber bridge the principle means very little. There is no way of cal- culating the chance of Anding the queen on one side rather

THURSDAY, APRIL 8

ARIES

CMAC. 21.Apr.

To find what the stars have in elect Your alore for tomorrow, birthday star and read the curren

Let your birth- ponding paragraph. day star be your daily guide.

WHAT'S HIS LINE?

The lotters on the visiting card-

ROLLO F. BATE

-If rearranged, will spell the owner's occupation.

(Solution on Page 19)

WOMANSENSE

Model Creation by London Milliner Confessions of A

"Souffle," made of pleated white silk organdie, was one of the hats seen by the Princess Royal, when attending the show of model hats by Elfreide, the Bond Street milliner, at the Dorchester Hotel, London-Express Photo.

a new

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

A

thoroughly dry.

Dress Designer!

BESIDES

By Dorothy Barkley

London. fashions which clothe her. She taking the has putat cost three inches on to her hips in the last fifteen years. number 25 bus down I have always taken it for Bond Street, there are many granted that her bank balanço ways into Mayfair couture. has swollen likewise.

But fow of the would-be

TRE MODEL GIRL: We like designers, who dream of their a girl, to be about 5 feet 8 inches names in tights amongst the Top in her stockinged feet; we look Twelve, would think of

ap first of all for narrow waist and prodching 1 in the way that Hordy Amics did.

good bust. The most import- ant thing is to be able to move In his book, “Just So Far", elegantly, and secondly to have published recently (Collins, 158), a sense of clothes and how to he tells how, before going inta put them on, This latter is the the fashion busincas, he taught great gift of the famous American children the three R's Barbara Goalen, who actually at the English school in Anilbes; moves rather ungracefully. worked with a Paris firm of

carriers and customs agents;

helped to run a wall tile factory

in Germany; and was employed

IT'S THE LANGUAGE

PERFUME; Parls is Q city a weighing machine salesman famous for its scents, and Lon- in England.

don is. not. The French

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1. Now, al 44, he is a member language lends itself to happy of the Incorporated Society of titles. Amour, Amour, much. London Fashion Designers und, Vent Vert sound prettier than as dressmaker to the Queen,

"Love, Love" or "Green Wind" was responsible for many

I would not see point the Queen's dresses for her sponsoring a scent unless it in its were typically British smell and name: I have not yet His book, he explains, is not found the former, and for the an autobiography

himself, latter

The

only appropriate but the blography of business, names were of the category of Personal views of the man "Fair Play"" of "Stim Upper

Tour,

THERE ARE FREAKS

DRESS DESIGNERS:

For

twist to French bake in a hot oven for about fresh white shellac. Wax when behind this business: toast, blend two parts peanut 40 minutes. butter and one part honey, and table- spread a generous two

Strong tea diluted with spoons of the mixture between little water makes an excellent two slices of bread. Dip in the antiquo-like stain for pine wood water and a little baking soda usunt egg-milk mixture and fry When it dries, cover the furn- and let then stand a whlie, In a smell amount of fat, 07 ture with two thin coats of

BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

Why the Geranium Is Unhappy!

E

-It Would Like to Be Out in the Garden-

By MAX TRELL

VERYONE in the playroom! felt sorry for the geranium. There it stood in its little red 20clay pot In front of the window.

12 is likely that your community or In never moved. It never suid your church may call upon you for | anything. It looked very lonely eu-operation In A neighbourhood Jroject.

TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 20) — Don't be discouraged, if your pro

should be. Tames often solve some

than on the other. since too gress seems a little slower than i

CRMING [May 21-June 21)- Make dette plans for your future. Loday if you live too much for alone, your objective can get just.

CANCER (Jrane 22-July

much depends on how careful-problema. ly the cards are shuffled. I con- ducted some tests a few years ogu, however, and came to the conclusion that the oths right be $1 to 48 that the queen was behind

ind the Jack,

but not any This slight difference is not enough to steer you away from the best line of play. In today's hand you want to win the first spade trick with a high card to Spat

higher than that,

DUMB-BELLS

THIS 19 A PICTURE 25}-

OF MY GRANDFATHER

If you by a new solution to an old problem, you can solve it easily to- day Be careful in business airünge- menia.

LEO (July 21 - ABE 23 ) - Don't be tou quick to ask for help. If you cry Wott" too often, no one will believe you.

(AUC 2*-Hopt 23) Don't be too eager to accept substantiated facts. Gossip

VIRGO

guard against a possible single- rumour can be very, ver lon queen. And then you want to be in position to continue a Ünesse just in case one opponent has four or five spades headed

by the queen.

This is possible only if you win the first spad: trick with the king and then

Anesse through West. You can bring in

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and

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LIBRA (Sept.

t/ Learn not to be upset

pians get dislocated suddenly. Just learn ndap yourself to the new ones!

SCORPIO

21-Nov. (Oct. Impulsive action in making decisions un manetizing of vital senportance to nut a good idea. Deliberate flest

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 22)- Hold Sam to your best ideals and

ubjective, your maj<21°

Never be by delusiGNS

the suit even though West has CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20) four spades. If you win the You don't have to put up with first spade tricks with dummy's deadly munotony on the job. Your native ingenuity can plan interest-

uce and then finesse throughing Innovations.

East, you will be unable to plek

up the queen If East happens to have four or five cards in the suit.

VCARD Sense✨♦

Q-The bidding has been: North East Bouth

West

1 Heart Pass 2 Diamonds Pass

2 Hearts Pass

You, South, hold: Spades K- J-0-3, Hearts Q-8-5, Diamonds What do A-K-J-9-2, Club 4. you do?

A-Bld two spades. This re- verse bid is forcing for ono round. You intend to raise hearts at your next turn, thus completing your message that You have length and. strength

in three suits, and consequently extreme shortness in the fourth suit. This may be just the in- formation

your partner needs

to bid a slam.

TODAY'S QUESTION

The bidding is the same as in

the question just

answered.

proper

AQUARIUS (dan. 21-Feb. 19)— Don't put off getting the medical navice. If you are not feel- 10g up to par. I can save trouble later on.

PISCES

(Feb. 20-MAR. 20)-

If stk young. be sure that you get the right education and training for some specialised job,

CHESS PROBLEM

By K JUNKER

Black, 2 pieces.

White, & pieces,

You, South, hold: Spades A-Q-Whtie to play: mate in three.

Solution Diamonds A-K-J-9-2, Club 4. What do problemi

to

yesterday's

1. KixKIP, any; 2, R, or Ko mates,

6-3, Hearts Q-B-5,

you do?

Answer Tomorrow

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15. American aweetheart, (6)

10 Cup errors. (Anag.), (B)

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Burprise (7)

and unhappy. But, worst of all, its leaves began to droop.

It was Teddy the Stuffed Bear who first said that something ought to be done.

It doesn't like I here," said Toddy,

"But what can be the matter with it?" asked Hanld, the shadow-girl with the turned- about neinc.

The children water it every morning," sald Knarf, the shadow-boy.

"It's

got the nicest an" brightest place in the room, sald General

Tin Tin, the

Soldier.

Mr Punch said:

only someone could talk to that geranium, we'd

soon enough Ond out why It's alling."

But how can anyone talk to

geranium talk

geranium? Or, more correctly,

en A

how anyone else?

to

Now, in the evryone else,

same room with was the Canary.

He lived in a cage that hung in the window just above

the

The Canary began warbling to the geranium in its clay pot.

"Why?" asked

Teddy the Stuffed Bear. All the others In the room walled to hear the

Canary's next words,

Missed the Garden

"It told me," said the Canary, that it misses the garden where dt

grew all

kas: summer. It wants to go out there again,

the ground even though

13

to

little, red clay pot in which the covered with snow and the cold wluter's wind is blowing. I geranium was standing.

anid that it would freezo if it can speak. to the

were out in the garden now, geranium," the Canary said to

But it doesn't know what all the others in the Flayroom.

It still wants "And I

the freezing means. con understand

out." goranium when it talks to me."

Then Knarf and Hanid Teddy the Stuffed Bear How to Cheer It Up

General Tin and Mr Punch all Then Hanid Bald lo the

put their heads together to bee "Please Canary:

asked

Bome the if they could think of geranium why it is unhappy in way to let the geranium hayo this Playroom, and what it w

its garden without going into would like us to do to make it the freezing cold. feel more cheerful."

nor

and and

Finally Hanid thought of what do.

So the Canary nodded, and', hopped on its highest perch in- Hanld called up to the side the cage and began Canarys "Tell the geranium." warbling. Neither Teddy the she said, "to stretch Its leaves Stuffed Bear nor Hanid nor close to the window and look General Tin

Mr Punchi out. Then it will bo ablo to could understand what the

see the garden without being Canary was warbling. But the there," geranium did, for they could. And that's what the Canary

ee its little leaves ruffling as told the geranium, And though a breeze were blowing what the geranium did.

against them.

It stretched its

that's

leaves until

And suddenly the Canary stopped warbling and stuck its they were as close to the gloss head out between the bars of Its of the windows as they could cage, an

and mood silently for a get. It was almost like being moment or two, listening. In the gardón, and yet it was

Suddenly the Conary uttered still in the Playroom.

a sharp little chirp.

And that's how the geranium "The geranium just told me grew, all winter long, stretched why it's unhappy," the Canary against the window-pang, look- 1 A square and a square mile.sold to the others in the Playing out at the garden it loved

Wil. (4)

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threatened to tan th. (4)

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(0)

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17. Knote to beware of when you

Mati ? (0)

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domn't do this, (B),

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of a

20 dry, oil more than half

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FILLYJORT, AUSKRYED

To remove milk stains from glasses, All them with warm

·

To keep ics and other Insects oil paint before it dries, add of pil one or two tablespoons of elironella or oil of winter green to each galion of paint.

*

Use an ordinary paint brush to dust furniture if it has a curved design. The brush does a good cleaning job and saves

time.

*

Waxing the stats of venction blinds makes dusting easter.

Lip".

FASHION TODAY: The whole tendency can be summed up as being an attempt to romanticise to The They clothing-

opposite

not They romantic in this instance

being classic. but just hard- produce freak growths, boiled, for it is thus that the

are like horticulturists.

can

And often do,

WHAT IT TAKES: The three appear to me. most important requisites are invention, intelligence and taste. These cannot be taught.

I hate

FABRICS: I hate all fabrics which try to master me. patterns that can be used only one way up. I hate bold stripes and checks that have manipulated in one way

to

be only.

straight clothes of the Twenties

THE QUEEN: To me, Queen Elizabeth II typifies all that I in the English admire mast Women's attitude to dress. When she goes to Ascot races sho is prepared to take every care to appear beautifully and appro-

Ppt printcly dressed; but is really much more interested in the

and above all I hate bordered the sport of Kings and

fabrics.

am

The clean

eleganco achieved therefore quite effortless.

This book,

be made am designing a collection. The buy them clable

Light scratches on mahogany furniture otten.can less notlecable by painting with jodine or mereurochrome, de- pending on which is the better colour match.

dedicated to "the HIS IDEAL WOMAN: 1 often asked if I have any part- women who cannot afford my those who cular woman in mind when I clothes,

will be read by who know all about answer is no. It is an ideal those women for whom one works, and fashion already and by those the ideal woman, of course, who want to know more about

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