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EDITORE FRENS ORAVICE, ING-HUEVA YORK
"I really wish you wouldn't interfere like this,
mother."
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by Beachcomber
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[AKERS of fancy goods
reported to be investigating the anomalies of the purchases They have discovered that the tax on at ex-trner In Leicester is 25 Lerzen), but Wales 75 percent,
tnx.
On bowls of Binti NowNTS mor the tum In 20 pr erní
If the flowers are not fixed in Is there is no tax.
CHESS
PROBLEM
By A. AKERBLOM
Black, 15 pieces
White, & piccer.
W
IA
But
In
the
White to play; male in three.
Solution 10 Saturday's problem:
1. K-Ri, any: 2, Q, or P mates,
taxed OT
Can up what
oMetal Leil me, without Looking
the tnx on wooden foghorn containers (un- vamided is in Galashiels, and whether hose-nazzies less than four inches in diameter untaxed in Sidmouth
મ મેં ક્ષા Thursday In February? Li Leomin- mer you may buy tax free a tele- kope on Thursday afternoon, if you wear before a P. that it is to he seed to open a bottle of non alcobelle drink fur personal con- -nptlun, anti not to prop up a Broken bicycle or wedge venn faulty window in a fish-warehousa withila eight statute miles of lize town.
Tee-hee
Viewere complained that the tuughter of the studio audience had a jate ring.
(Morning paper.)
when THAT often happens
They have been threatened by the Lauch Controller: also when one
ut them an disgraced the team by laughing in the wrong place, or nut heartily enough. It laken a good deal of training and rehearsal to get
nute that
Into spontaneous
the laughter. But who cares? 11 in ml Inerry and friendly and frightfully derent that one really, you see what one actually means. In passing
Bu
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PARK, hear South Karting. which has been given 11 the National Trust, is the seventeenth rentury house where I . Wells's mother was A housekeeper at where he lived as a boy. I have Just turned up a letter he wrote to It may "... My mother whe a housekeeper at Haïting, and my brother, from whom I scmped off Mir Polly, fiverni Lims. At different Umea I've walked every bit of the way between Portemouth and Lon don, by two or three roads."
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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 3, 1954.
JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
There's Trouble In High Level Bids
NORTH
@10843 WAQJ02
◆K 105
21
EAST (D) AJ ❤K10053
A872
7
WEST MAQ ❤8
3034 08432
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SOUTH
K07002
74
+3
KQ 106
East
South West
North
14
24
44
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5 A
Double Pass
Para
Pass
Opening tead—❤ 8
East-West vul.
By OSWALD JACOBY
VEN experts
have trouble with hands in which both It aldes bld to a high level, becomes dimeult to tell which alde the hand really "belongs" to,
becomes and It
equally dimcult to tell when your sido gets out of its depth.
the
To put it specifically, question is: Should you double, pass, or bid some more?
can
When you try to answer this question you muut consider many different factors: what you think the opponents make, what you think your side can make, the suitability of your hand for offence and for defence.
If you are the last person make speak,
must you
to
a
decision; but If the bidding will surely give your partner ロー other chance to speak, you
must avoid definite action with
an indefinite sort of hand.
In
одо to four
The point is illustrated today's hond. South had a per- fectly sound overcall spade. North's jump spudes was a bit on the sporting side, but quite reasonable, South would be able to make four many hands that spades with
were just minimum overcalia of one spade; and if the enemy de- cided to bid five of either red sult, North was ready for them.
East's bid of five diamonds wat ustab. He couldn't tell
be made and decided to believe the opponents, It was clear that ve diamonds couldn't be badly hurt.
**
WOMANSENSE
Your Feet Need Frequent Glamour Treatment
A DRY STONE works wonders in removing hair from legs. Rub it over the leg with a circular motion.
Use once or twice a week.
By Helen Follett
Page
Sisters Send Chrysanthemum Seeds Globally To
Spread Goodwill...
New York, the project has given them *Whon, wo Art started, we SHOWER of chrysanthemum nothing except satisfaction. sent seeds to hospitals, institu
Their mother, Mrs Barn J. tions and park departments," Mrs
desiring to share chrysanthemum 260 beauty.
HOW IT STARTED
bear
"Now we send
19
seeds is being strown in gardens from Israel to Manila Woodard, devoted much of her Fondlyco raid, from the skyscraper heights of life to persunding officials of them to any group that wants New York's Chrysler buliding. various cities to establish parks. them for a worthwhile cause.
After her
they death
decided "We have a planting at Two sisters who bellove that
beautify New
ew Windsor castle and at a London flowers can be the language of that they would
York
A home for the aged. There paries in her memory. International love, as well as university of Chicago botanist one in Coracoa, and garden romantic affection, are sending had perfected a now, hardy clubs all over Chile are planting the acoda to
governments, strain of chrysanthemum on the our needs." schools, garden clubs and any Lukor's Lake Forest, Ill., estate, SEEDS SOWED WIDELY other civic minded group and
enough plants to
The average 2,000,000 brightly-hued blossoms the sisters contains enough seeds packet sent by were transplanted to New York for
a half-acre planting of and placed in five pork areas for "mums," One planting can lead public enjoyment, A project that started
as in a Rhode memorial to their mother
Every year, the park deport- Island city, has
garden club a chrysanthemum become & global flower growing ment gives Mrs Laker and Mrs has established
the seeds are Fordyce the seeds from the dead bank." Three or four women. programme-end from an especially hardy strain "un" blossoms. They package plant the seeds and get the them and send them to flower plants started and then distribute of "mum" developed on the
them around the city. Illinois shore of Lake Michigan lovers the world over.
"Mums" are autumn-blooming ONE STIPULATION and packaged in an office in the Chrysler Tower
The chrysanthemum donors flowers
must be
planted the end of April Thu stipulation: Mrs Albert D. Lasker, widow have only one
No before of the pioneer advertising man seeds are sent to individuals for year's shipments of seeds have chairman of the planting in private gardens. The gone to a woman convict who U. S. Shipping Board, and her seeds must be used for com- wants prison garden, the Dister, Mrs
Allmon Fordyce, munity projects or be planted Syracuse, N. Y., airport, an up- have
distributing boen
the where anyone can pause to look stato New "mum" seeds for 10 years. And at the blooms.
and one-time
117 Q
NEW WAYS WITH EVERYDAY FOOD
ME
TEALTIME miscellany To prepare stuffing, combine well, a finely rolled today, leading off with and mix
shredded wheat biscuits, tbsp. a recipe for delicious sweet each minced onion and chopped potato balls.
celery leaves, tap. pepper, 2 tbsp. melted butter and c, hat water.
NOME of the new dress flush up any little shreds, slippers consist of little snip them away caporally. more than a thin, flexible Don't press the flesh down leather sole and a few straps at the nail bases; you may of gleaming gold kid. injure the matrix, have a Shape into 4 to 0 balls, putting Hosiery is delicate and deformed nail for your
sheer.
Both shoe and stocking styles show off your feet. This means a frequent pedi. cure is an important part of the beauty programme.
Butterscotch Rice Pudding is finish off a good cholce to meat that is a little on the light
Combine 2 c. mashed sweet potatoes with 1 beaten egg. 2 tbsp. surar and 1⁄2 tsp. salt
butter in tho 1 tsp. of peanut centre of each
Roll balls in cracker meal,
serve 8, wash 1/3 c. rice Fry in deep hot and cook until nearly tender in If you have corns, friction coating well.
delicately double boiler with 2 c. scolded browned. Drain on absorbent milk and 4 tsp. salt. Meanwhile, them with a toilet pumice fat (375 F.) until
In a shallow pan, cook stone. Don't attempt any paper and serve.
trouble.
:
YOUR BIRTHDAY...... By STELLA whether or not four spados could have curved ones of strong thin coat. Let it dry, then put
BORN
MONDAY, MAY 3
today, you have excellent and itopeful Judgment; happy about life and usually manage La louk on the bright side of things, no matter what happens. Your love for all humanity clearly outweighs all your other chinfucteristics. maks acreen for others, yet you have a good head for bushiens hridi
You
usually come out on the right side What is good ter of the ledger. others turn vot, in the long run, to be good for you, too.
You have excellent taste and could make
with members of the opposite sex. you have a tendency to be flirtatious. This is true, especially of you members of the four sex. You will have many admirers that you may have dimculty in selecting any one vf them as a marriage partner.
Among those who were born on this date are: Jacob Rils, social res former and author: Mary Astor and Julia Arthur, actresses, and Lot M.
When East took a stab at five
diamonds there was no need for
South to do anything at all. If South had hold more defensive strength, he could double. South had held all of his strength In spades and none elsewhere, bid Ave
he
Morrill, an early governor of Maine. I spades. win operly
To find what the stars have la a career of being an art atore for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the cofres- critic if you wished.
paragraph. Let your for friendship is great and you will ponding have a large circle of them. Popular brilday star be your dally guide.
Your capacity
TUESDAY, MAY 4
En
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 20)-Pay be answer to your problems at attention to private personal mal- home these days.
1ers this evening. Catch up on in- portant letter writinik.
GEMINI (Day 21-June 21)-Don't
pet impulsively on leformation which
is not authenttealed hy someone
whose opinions you trust,
CANCER (June 22-July 23)-Keep your uitinate goal in mind. Work hard and each day you whi more nearly approven 1.
LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)—Truc. give attention 10 Important detall work. don't get too bogged down
Yet.
with non-estetillals, either,
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)-Protect your own interests today. If you don't, who will? It's up to you to be stern about it.
LIBRA (Sept. 21-Oct. 23)-Waste no time on things which are not pertinent to your major objective. Bee that you make real progress,
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21)-Learn to conserve your energies. Keep a proper balance of work and play in your life.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 22)— Work hard during the daytime tours that you may reserve the oven- ing for relaxing pleasLITER,
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan, 20)—If p.constructive plan to you have ofer, then only should you be critical of another's idea,
AQUARIUS (3hn. 21-Feb. 19)-By being natural and genuinely co- operative, you may turis a camial se- qitainiance Into a lifelong friend.
PISCES (Feb. 20-85ar. 20)-Tackle the most dimeult Jobs first, today. and you will find that all eine seems vary by comparison.
ARIES (MAc 21-Apr; 20)-Holding to a osrefully-planned budget inny
DUMB-BELLS
THERES SOMETHING
WRONG
WITH "THE
POUND.
PERHAPS
LDIDNT POUND "IT. ENOUGH
CROSSWORD
A
A
Across
Hop inside the ship 1 (5)
5. Cruiser with a willow in her
hand. (4)
With his actual hand the right course was to sit back and let North make the decision. North would have been happy to double, of course, and the contract of five diamonds would have been defeated.
When South tried to bid for his partner as well as for him- seli, he was justly and West doubled,
punished. the con- tract of five spades was set three tricks for a penalty of 500 points,
West
There wasn't much to the play. opened his singleton heart, and dummy won with the ace. Declarer tackled
the
trumps at once, and West took his two trump tricks. West then led the queen of diamonds. There was no way for South to prevent of a diamond, a club, the loss and a heart in addition to the two trump tricks.
♥CARD Senseḥ♦
Q-Thỏ bidding has been:
9. Road where the commanding | North
oficer lives? (4)
11. Helped. (5)
12. Cord me, men (knag.). (9)
19. The girl from a laya island. (3)
10. We sent an abling), (0)
10 Dalmatian dog is definitely this.
(0)
20. 15 this what the policeman
makes bm noto in ↑ 15, 23. Merrily did we drop..
sald the Ancient Marinor
..balow
20. Orammatically tight. (0) 27 Animal out of a whelks (3) zé. arare an ansetan. (6) 30. Que's White, one's fed, co 30. The chosen tow,, (6),
Down
(B)
1. A ben eerna ber living with the
aid of these, '(9)
2. One te noon often abotis the
· garden. 18)
9. Itoa as him award. (8).
← Ditto. (4)
5. This kind of wit doesn't, sel
many laugh. (5)
5. Beware of them.
warned, (4)
side.
To
rico
amateur surgery on corns.or
Ment Loaf gain, yes, but 2 tbsp. butter and 1 e
sugar until mixture becomes ingrowing nails. If they glamourited with a stuffing.
very dark brown but not burnt. Combine and mix well, 11⁄2 lb. Add this to rice and milk, and Trim your toenails before bother you to the point of
ground,
Anish cooking un
untu your bath, not afterwards. discomfort, seek profession-veal and 8 oz, pork, both
2. tap. salt, 2
2 tbsp. minced onion, tender and caramel melted. Pour Clippers are better than al services.
Visp. pepper, tap, cage, tsp.
e, cold water in bowl, sprinkle acissors. If you use scissors
prepared mustard, 2 tbsp. finely tbsp. plain gelatin on top of Apply your nail polish in a
chopped green pepper, grated water; add 1. c. hot
milk, dissolved. Add When doing garlle bud, 2 finely rolled shred- stirring until on another one..
ded wheat biscuits, 1⁄2 c. gelatin to rice mixture and turn After a bath, the cuticle ris, place cotton pads between surrounding the toennila will your toes so that the pollsh will ketchup, c. milk and 1 besten Into mould that has been rinsed
in cold water; chill. not run down between them.
Line bottom and sides of be soft, in condition for When you beautify your feet,
When firm, unmould and serve treatment. Apply a cuticle give your legs a glamour treat-greased loaf pan with mixture: plain, or with whipped arcam o
Shoer hose show Fill centre with stuffing. Cover fruit sauce. Serves 6. cream, use the orangewood meat, too. Make sure you re- with remaining meat mixture,
· Alice Denhoff
steels.
them up.
egg.
stick to lift the flesh away move hair so legs will look pressing. firmly. Bake at 350° F.
for 1 hour. Serves 8. from the nail base. If you smooth and attractive.
BOYS' AND GIRLS'
Here's How Grass Was Invented
-At Least, According to Ting-a-Ling's Story-
MAGAZINE
snip-
tiny green snippets pets of cloth and snippets of thrend, all green. And at the end of the year, there were so snippets many of these green By MAX TRELL and the horses and the goats that there was hardly room in and the buffalo and the camels the tiny shop for the tailor to NARF ond Hanid, the and the llamas all thought that work.
some- "I've got to invent shadow-chlidren with the something like grass ought to
didn't thing, the little tallar said, 'to. turned-about names, were sit be invented, but they
And get rid of all these green enip- know what to do about it. ing under a cherry tree in Ting the parks and the lawns and pets. I can't throw them away a-Ling's sunny garden.
Ting n-Ling lived at the bottom
KN
At any rate, there they were
some
to many outere a
อ
and
York Cathalle re- and various groups roughout the world.
not only got letters from people requesting seeds," Mra Fordyce said, "but the amazing thing is thow many people aro willing to take the trouble to write "afterwards and thank 118 and tell us how beautiful the flowers' were,”---United Press,
A Chic Chick
EASTER CHICKS have in-- spired this new spring' out in two shades of blonde.. 13' lu' a safter, fore, feminino verslott of the old Elon crop.
The very short hair is set in reverse curls and brushed up to fall over the forehead. „AL the back the short bale brushed up away from the
nape of the neck.
Glamour can be added by finting the front curls with a special rinse--gah for a golden
head, sold for a red-head, or
silver for a brunetteland for evening you can; dress it up with a cap of real flowers.
(London Express Service)
Feminine Habits That Annoy Men
Wfeminine habits that
THAT are the irritating
really get men annoyed?
Here are their most general complaints:
Keeping husbands waiting in the car while she has that "Last "Look". in the mirror. Seeing both sides of every question--hors and her mother's. Insisting that: |"a man must eat" when she knows he's getting figure conscious t
of the delda and the meadows all or burn them because that without would be: wasteful. I must do the Blue China Plate but only looked mighty bare
going to something with my needle. Knart and Hanld, who could grass, but who was make
themselves small, were invent grass?"
A Sewing Job - able to get inside the Blue
"How did it happen?" 'Han'1 China Plate and find Ting-a-
"So," said Ting-a-Ling; "this: asked. Ling's house and garden.
little tailor got some very thin "In this way," said Ting-a- clear thread from the spiders 2-18 today, sitting under the Cherry Lang. "There was a little tailor and threaded his needle with ring - = - Ling...... passed
who worked in a little shop at it. It was a very special Tree in Ting-a-Ling's garden, talking about all sorts of things, the end of such a small street needle, thinner and finer and cherries to Kauri and Hauld,
HER "WORRIES” - that you would have thought sharper than any needle in the no one could find him. But he whole world. And one by one, fields, in the meadows, on the
Discussing husbands with Invention of Grass
was such a good tailor and he fast as
and millions
He laid it everywhere. And it other women. Using the for
was not only pretty to look at husband as a whipping boy miles around came to him. green mippets the curious thing was that he something that looked like a it was delicious to lie on. And in company. – Regarding the
carpot.
and But it was the most the sewed everything in green, for
cows
horses and children's discipline as her that is the colour that everyone enormous carpet that anyono (camels, and, zebras, all nibbled sole prerogative and resent-
had ever seenÜGÜN Keand grazed on It... Ifked in those days."
ing any attempts to correch Just green? Bald Knart.
"This enormous green carpet: "Why?" they, all exclaimed their manners, desktops Ting-a-Ling nodded. "And at was so enormous that the little "This Isn't a green carpet!”-it's Spending hours worrying and I thought, it just grow," said the end of avéry day, this little tallor didn't know, where to Iny · gróetí · grass!"'; And that” said about clothes- Before; any {fime="
tailer swept up his little shop It So what did he do? He. Ting-a-Ling, is how green long days aheada) Liking US and finally had a great pile of Inid his green carpet in the grass got itself invented!”
East South West
1 Heart Pass 2 Clubs Pass 2 Spades Pozs
?
You, 'South, hold: Spades Q- J-8-2, Hearts Q-2, Diamonds 5-3, Clubs A-K-Q-6-3, What do you do?.
A-Bid foar spades. This
four- Jump Talsa shows good card support · for. spades substantial ' extra strength be- yond the 10 points shown
"Now I wonder," Ting-a-Line worked so fast that everyone the millionsng, he saved all hills, In the parks, on the lawns.
sald, "whether I ever told you the story of how grass invented."
Kparf and Hanid repiled in astonishment that they never know that anyone had ever in- vented grass at all.. "I always
Hanld.
in "It does," said. Tin-a-Ling,
Your first respumalates your docs now. But the story o
of two Wat foust that's what it
clubs. If dila
'partner into trying' for 'askm; you will be well plessed bu You cannot make a slam try of
Owear >WER' | YOUR OWIL
7. The old timer used to get into
this kind of hole, tef
* The biche export may use phila
word befare enough. EN
10. 1ower for entstane." (0)
himself
that grass was once Invented And this is how it came about.”
Ting-a-Ling made comfortable. He passed the TODAY'S QUESTION - [:bowl of cherries around to
Knart and Hanki, helped him well to game, and finally began.
The bidding" is the same as in the question just answered.
la elin home set out to annoy You South hold: Spades 943-
[17 "Now, nieope the brimson'
*** now the whita"" Tennyson, 182,
At Rachdin, Bogstaan: comes: Erbay
upasiting
8-2, Hearts 9-3, Diamonds A-8, Clubs K-Q-J-0-8. What do you
WHAT'S HIS
TRE?
Long,
Ago
te wen long, long ago when the world that we see now win
| young. There were) plants, and butter */ and blossom Randa latorus und Cohertzyrta
together
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Into
Rupert and the Lost Cuckoo-10
new story
Rupert
Space Ship
attached men around, but ex- hibiting a strange reluctance to entertain lonely, female."
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