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JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Double of Low Contracts Defined
By ORWALD JACOBY
THE
THE bread and butter of the
doubling business is double of a low contract." This sintement, a quotation from my brand-now book, "What's New In Bridge," introduces the high- ly important subject of Doubles of Low Contracts.
The hand shown today, also taken from the book, gives typical example. This is the sort of situation that occury in play several tunes per session.
East opened the bidding with ono space, and South made un overcall
two clubs, of happened to be an expert, he Banhled,
Wesl
It doesn't look like a killer's double, does 117 The average pinyer would probably bid - stead of doubling, and South would be off the hook. Weat might wind up playing the hand at game in hearts or no-trump or spades but might even slop ut a part score. more lucrative,
The double is
supprase that West doubles and everybody passe West opens the nine of spurte t. dummy covers with the tour, mul East wins with the jack. East
WEST
495
VAQ02
NORTH
1
KID 44 965
109343
AJ 2
J973
403
EAST (D} AAQ7 2
SOUTH
K 73
78
J 104
KQ8
105
♣AKQ802
North-South vul
South Went North
East
IA
24
Pass Рдая
Double Pom
Opening lead-♣ 9
returns the jack of hearts, South puts
king. up the tuken the ace and queen
and West
اب
hearts.
West then leads his remaining spade,
East wins another and finesse. East rashes the ten of hearts and leads the king of diamonds. The full of the cards I highly revealing. ] Fast cuches the quiven of diamonds
By now time defenders have South pleked the corpse clean.
is down to his trumps, al i
cold winter wit
East lems the aer
blowing.
RDITONU PREAS SERVICE, (NG -HURYA YOUR
Ray Helle
1074
"I didn't break a single thing. Came pretty close
couple of limes, though, didn't I?”
♫
BY
by
THE WAY • Beachcomber
THE oficial warning that the tene in London may soon be unable to move at it will
probably solve the housing problem. People who have sat in stationary cars for several chays and nights grow sick of the view, and get out and walk home.
There will be a tendency for *quafters 10 move in and live in the abandoned cars. Derelict
lorries and buses could soon bo converted into schools,
*1
nilow
the outer edge. up, it breaks.
When
Alone with Nature
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 41954, K
folded
DY lith and glebe the homely
periwinkle
Prodnost: Oh! Nol Bature stufti
tena
of the
more
cosy
tilth and -By
Klebe the homely periwinkle flashes
whlic of springtime,
echoes from coppice and shaw and if,
tiny les the sylvan music vehicles places, the
un- ep mid the too lightly packed to
feathery of fronds newcomers to
stars. the
pipit has made her out and go shopping, food could br
The
nest in a rusty saucepan, be dropped by parachute.
haven for a brave songstress. sick would be removed in hell-
A low hum announces that the copters, which would land easily
worker-bees on the massed traffe.
are burying their By 1907
soft snouts in fragrant borage you will be able to walk from
Anselm's and St.
wort, and providing music for the baroque dance of the iridescent mayfly end message.
་་། ་
London to Brighton on the roots
of cars. muste all the way.
Footnote to the above
with delicious radio
BY
of
off the bonnets Y chopping
and other useless parts
motionless Traffic, 4 space would be made for Hude gordens round each vehicle. Uninhabited buses could be used for lectures on "The Age of Progress,"
Dear Sir
CORRESPONDENT
10 -
writes
black i am in paarssion of dire,
inches in 10
diameter, waving spiral grooves railiating fram a central circular hole. alis a record?
Is
Not quite. I have an oblont elise, of spades,
143 Inches in diameter, 40 with no groOVES,
but with and South dares not ruff high. (If he does, he will surely lose small holes, and perforations st two trump trloks to West)
South therefore ruifa with the eight, and West overrulis with the nine. West leads the
heart. Ret
thirteenth
obligingly "uppercuts" by ruiling South and now West Is assured of his second trump trick.
with the ten of clubs, must overruff,
South is down four. It doesn't matier who's vulnerable; the penalty is worth more than the game that East-West might or might not bid.
CARD Sensed♦
Q-With both sides vulner- able, the bidding has been: North
East South West
?
1 Diamond 1 Spade
You, South, hold: Spades A- 0, Hearts 6-2, Diamonds K-9-5, Clubs A-K-Q-J-4-2. What you do?
do
A-Bid three clubs, There may be a slam in clubs if your partner han n good diamond suit and the ace of hearts. It would be cowardly to settle immediately for game dir no-
trump.
TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding is the same as in
the question just fünswered.
DUMB-BELLS
THEY MUST BE COOKING:
DINNER NOW, SEE THE SMOKE COMING OUT OF THE CHIMNEY!
-WOMANSENSE
You Can Make This
Beach Outfit
Yourself!
HE
Wundresses.
goes bathing he When SHE "goes-
bathing" she dresses up.
But must SHE OVCT- dress — and look like a washed-up gen Anemone peeping from a bivouac of bench towelling?
See how smart the fashion boys have made that lazy look- and how simple it is to make this outfit yourself including those sandals,
So don't let the Kun catch your wardrobe in the shade, We'll start with the tunie... you make from 14yds, of colour- ed towelling. yd. of black- and-white striped towelling and 1yds. of white cord.
That
12xy
lookin sandal
smock
and towelling
Cut a in-strip down the en-
the tire length of (this strip can be used for the collar if you prefer plain, or for bench bag or the sandal covering) Make a 4in. hem on either side and fuch up both ends for 7ins.
Stitch down the flap sides und the centre front, leav- ink D space of 2lns. Pockets are on the front, 50 *litet back flap straight across to main body,
On the pocket front, stitch a
strip
ut narrow
the striped towelling. Fold the towelling in half, and cut a slit for the neck 15ins long on the centre fukt
Pln and tack striped collar in position
the neckline, on
on wrong side of material.
Machine, and then bind with tape and take a hem round the pointed edge.
Sandals: Cover a pair of old beach shoes, or make your own soles with rata. Then cut a piece of towelling on the cross, and cover toe section
Keep In Trim
Parei
By Ida Jean Kain
Exercises for Bracing the Middle Muscles
Mthe middle of
TIDDLE age begins in
The second conditioner may the acem like no exercise at all, but It's all done by muscular con-
figure. When the muscular traction. girdle nature designed is
kept fairly well toned, the Position: Lie on' back, feet figure is passably good. clasped behind head,
resting on chair seat, banda
But let these supporting
muscles
go
to pot, and Movement Contract abdomino! and they're about as much and preso small of back to door, muscles by pulling up-and-in help to streamlining as
Holding knees together and worn out two-way-stretch. keeping stomach When
muscles
fat collects there, strongly contracted, bring both alas, the spread is on thick, knees
Dlet alone will not tighten the muscular girdle. Малу successful dioters write that the excess pounds are disappearing satisfactorily. but they need help in reducing the abdominal bulge. Just how long it will take to put brace back in theso important middle muscles, depends on how much fat has Infiltrated the muscle fibres, and of course on the regularity of exercises. But it's mornio boosting what a couple of weeks of daily calisthenics can
do.
aro some
Here
easy con- ditioners to restore live tone lo those muscles designed to brace the middle measurement.
on
Stretch left arm
on back Position: Lying floor, arms down at sides, right knee bent, foot on floor.
Movement: up overhead on floor as you p-u-1-1 all along the left side, with left heel pushing down three the Repeat
times, slowly. Bend opposite knee and pull along right side, keeping small Shirley Lowe of back pressed against floor.
Make loops with black ribbon Turn right way out and catch and thread the cord through.
Tie criss-cross the with stitches here and there, at
right up paint point, shoulders, and back.
calf and tie with a bow. gins. tapering io Slip on the tunic and tie it round 3ins, al ends, with length 331ns. the waist with o white cord.
Cut
triangle from stripedi towelling, the measuring
Cure For A "Tropical Complexion'
London.
17OMEN visitors to Lon-
from
By DOROTHY BARKLEY
and
than ever before.
with
overseas call in to see me when they are cucumber green don have added a new "must" in London, for they tell me that Venetian blinds to shade the
my treatments help to invigor windows, to the list of things they ale a skin that has been dried
plan to do in town: a visit
to the Beauty Clinic in Wigmore Street,
up by a hol climate."
contours
of
be
And there are also quite
"Women are waking up to the fact that such treatments
worth- are really while and not just a hoax," she
sold.
STRIKE AT THE ROOT "For years, they have been
cosmetica оп plastering
their
from
up
over chest.
thie position
Tones girdle, nips waist.
Then
alowly
separate the kinées, putting the action. on the side-front abdominal muscles. In separat- ing the knees, make the aide- front muscles take the action and do the work,
Position: Sitting on floor, feet wide apart, hands behind head, elbows out straight.
Movement; Pull up and in mugly with girdle muscles, and hold this grip os you twist gently at the waist, bend side- wards to touch right elbow to
right knee, then back to position, bend sidewards and touch left elbow to left knee. Later touch elbow to opposito
kneo.
The clientele are varied There are the women always ta
found in beauty salons. The treatment takes the form of an oil-and-friction massage. stage people and model girls.
faces. They've used ercums Now you may
wonder why It is meant to rejuvenate the
skin and, by strengthening the number of housewives,
០១៥ such like to cover up women choose to spend part of
Mrs blemishes, but not bothered to their holiday
Londoa muscles, Improve the in
Cochrane says that housewives, do any thing to cure the defects. beauty salon, when there
of the face and get rid Are
who used to be too taken up Now they are beginning to designed It is also perfectly good beauty salons pulliness.
to realise that the best thing to do for "local slimming and to with chores and children abroad.
is
this conquer "spare tyres" and thick have any time to devote to is to put right the faults them- thai The reason
themselves, now come in
for selves. particular clinic gives &
treatment once in a while. They kind of
assert massage treatment,
pays dividends in the MIXED CLIENTELE patented in Paris and
good it does their morale--09 recently designed to give a dried up Besides this special massage, well
their personal "tropical complexion" a youth- the Clinic provides the normal appearance. ful bloom again. And anyone treatments who
knows just what that means.
ankles.
new
visitors recent
of cosmetics,”
A Challenge
To Good Cooks...
A
GOOD cook is an inven- tive cook
one who can take a few scraps and
too.
something
"I and that once the skin has turn them into an inspired been made
This kind of chal- healthy all the dish. blemishes cleared up, there's lenge is one of the joys of only need for the merest touch cooking. It is economical common to beauty The clinic'a has lived in the tropics salons the world over, including have included a model girl who has been in the beauty business left over in the larderan anton
And she should know. Sho There is usually make-hp lessons and a pick-
and was seventeen, asked for the slimming massage, since she In charge of the clinic is me-up treatment for business because my hips are all of 34 worked with cosmetic firms in YOUR BIRTHDAY... By STELLA motherly, grey-haired Mrs Ray women
or two, a few potatoes, toma- going
straight from
and I must reduce London and Paris before setting toes and (at this time of the Cochrano who
is busier than office to an evening engagement, inches,
year) perhaps a plecs of cucum- and 1 visitor from up on her own six months ago. treatments Just now with
not them" Beauty
She is an advertisement for ber and one or two green sweet visitors" arriving
And eggs. concern of the Clime. Nairobi who wanted to regain anly
peppers. her own beliefs. She uses very provides
for that "English complexion". massage
My mother was the superb Mrs Cochrane remarked that little make-up, and she doc't "Nothing-in-the-house" rheumatisen and brostits.
a much greater neod it. Her skin is no fresh as Hero is one of her All this takes place in a cool- there is now
in interest in beauty treatments that of her grown-up daughter, dishes: as-cucumber salon decorated
BORN
ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr 20)-Da something about making others happy and you will find a lot of joy on your own behalf, too,
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 20)-Yoz could Jump from the frying pan into the drel Watch out that you don't act Impulsively today.
FRIDAY, JUNE 4
Today, you are highly in- fuitive but all too often fall to act on your "munches,” You post- pons action, reconsidering all facets of the inutter, until the ime, for action in pacand often
Rolde opportunity is lost. You are inclined to be influenced too much by the opinion of other fatal atitude for you, since it only you follow your own judgment, you will oven- tually discover you are always right! You have a strong emotional Reture and have a high degree at attraction for members of the opposite sex. You will probably have several opportunities to wed. Just follow your heart and you will be mire to pick the right one.
You have talent in the arts, co- pecially music and iterature. You
for the dramatic might da In radio or television.
and
have fun on the stage or screen,
Among those who were born on this date are: Walter L Deane. painter: King George Hi nf England; Frances Bar and Rosalind Russeti, 'stage stars) Harry Greb, pugilist, and
Fontaine Fox, cartoonist.
the stars Have in
To find what etorofor tomorrow, aclet your birthday star and read Die cofres- panding puanraph. Let you birth- day etär be your daily guide.
SATURDAY, JUNE S
Your South, hold Spades. Appy iew, close boociates
0, Eraris 6-7 Dlum enda, K-9-5, Club A-Q-10-9-4. What do you or
Answer Tomorrow
CHESS PROBLEM
By W. JAODÉS -Black, & pièves.
White, plecar, White to play mate in three. problem
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)-Plan a tige with members pt your during the evening hours,
CANCER (June 22-July 23)-If you need advice on a job at hand. now is the time to secure expert advice 01. Be wise)
LEO (July 24-Aug. 29)—You may have a pleasant surprise. Something
CROSSWORD
19
Across
1. The coat is in the middle of the
mones, (8, 9)
*. A goner gota fruity, 10L. 10. Hamlet wanted
become one. O
Ophelia
11. Raw goes back in bellico
fashion to the ring. (7)
1 You ride the book in
circus, (4)
to
14. The old covered wagon domit
Into the joumey, (4))"
10. Caged in Piccadily for the
Coronation | (4)
18. A step, quickly. (8)
19. This up, the Keet was once. (3)
20. It bound to be this, or beecia.
you did a long Ume ago inay bring | 21. After, Ina "short "street, two exciting-rewards' "today,
|3 vmop „, taug,:26-Bapt. 23)—I st Pall praible, tot away and out of town for two days. It will relax mounting tensions.
LIBRA (8øpt, 24-Oct. 23)--Dovote. this day to pleasant recreation, Yoy have earned it through your hard work the part week..
SCORPIO (Oct. 14-Nov. 19--11 you are driving out of towns, get an early. start, for the roads are: apt to bi crowded this week-and., man
*SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23•D*0, 21)- You will probably deriye, special pleasure from · a' trip into country.
CAPRICORN (Dec, 23-Jan. 193--21 11:26 piesaistie: thin wawang-end, you should join is compestive, sporja and have fun,
Solution to yesterday's the country for ou
ducks go quiet" 1| 169 ||
23. A Spanish-American worker, (4) 24. Streets of regret abroad?" (65" 25. Quivering tree, (5) 20. There's quit beźwpan, it and
Africa, 14)
Down Bwike' miliker wouts it. ID, 41
3. Snooker player rangery, a difficult shot thur, (2, 4)*
4. Dost flite is a troublemaker,
top is circus on
6. Cain ;diner (sang.7%
A synonym for 19 Acrom. (4) B. They all seem to lika handbaga
made from
serpept. 13, 4)
13. Very much, the same nu' ríos,
17. In
the
ever "summer
In the London.
It. "I have clients in South Africa, Burma, East Africa and West Africa," she said, "They
Dre
BOYS' AND GIRLS'
The Pixies' Early Breakfast
MAGAZINE
the top of the milk bottle was
off.
"Get him the hose up there!" said Pixie O'Bcowl in a loud voice. "Look right along, boyst fadder steady, Pixie McSpry ren. Wo haven't got a moment to up the ladder like a spider. He lose."
-It Came from the Bottle the Milkman Had Left- By MAX TRELL
INARE
and Hanid,
shadow-children with
tho took a quick look at the top of The hose was a long length of: the the milk bottle, There's a hollow dandelion stem.
turned-about names, heard a cover on it, all right?" on the stairs outside "Get him pattering
A
Pixio McSpry stuck one end screw driver, of it in the top of the open
Pixie milk bottle. ordered
Below, at the bottom of the ladder. Pixio the "Will do," said Pixle O'Boy. Mekong held the end of
the kitchen door, They both somebody!" looked out of the window to O'Scowl.
see who was making it. It was
and
COVCE
still very early in the morning Then he look 4. screw driver hose over the tray of emply for a moment, peering out of his pocket, tossed it o ginsees until each glass was deftly illed with the milk that poured the gray light, they to Pixie McSpry who through could see nothing.
caught it..
from the end of the dandelion "How Finally
theru, hoao like, water pouring out of Hanid said: "I think
you doing up McSpry?" Pixia O'Scowl shout-
taucok. it's the Pixies.
Then Knarf and Hand both ed up a moment later. tiptoed downstairs, and looked "I've almost got the
Pixie out, through a crack in the door, pried loose," shouted down. They saw a strange sight.
The next moment there was a icud cheer from all the pixies Around the milk bottle as Pixie Mospry, from the top which the millonan had left on of the ladder, announced that the doorstep were five or six Pixles. Kharf and Hanld re cognised Pixie Meinooze, Pixie O'Bean, Pixie O'Boy, Plido McSpry, Pixie McLong and Pixie O'Scowl.
Party of Pixies:
Two of the Pixies were carry ing a long stepladder, made of broom straws and dairy' stoms,"
Another one of the Pixies |} wna Pixle O'Boy-carried a tray with six. empty glames.
Pixie O'Scowl seemed to be in charge, “Pul that stepladder. up against the milk bottle, boys.
up here! :
The ladder was now stood up against the mille,
O'Beow
the stop
there's a coy
Each glass was no large than McSpry a thimble,
sald Pixlo "It's delicious," McSnooze, Pixie O'Bean, Pixis O'Boy, Pixie McLong “It's absolutely sald Pixie O'scowl.
Rupert and Billy Goat-
What Rubert had smell in a piece
Grope dang
The - Pixles' were "pulling -a
·Indder -up: the^mlik bottle."
delicious," added in a sort of grumbling Then he voice: "Only It doesn't taste like
milk. It tastes like cream."
cook.
simple
MOTHER'S DISHARMA
you
To serve 3 or 4 people, start with from 1-8 alleed or chopped onions (according to how much onion you like), and a good
chopped very finely clove of garlle. Gently try
olive all
Or
these in dripping to colour Just a
Add and fry, but do not brown, sliced green peppers, minus seeds. Follow with 2-3 chopped, skinned and desceded tomatoes or little tomato puree. Season
to taste and mix very well.
Cover and cook for 裁 few minutes.
Beat together a little 4-5 eggs them. Pour them and season over the mixture, give it a stir (only one) and walt just long enough for the eggs barely to set. It would be a pity to turn this mixture on to a-platter so take the frying-pon to table-or: you can buy, fame-proof glass and not feel embarrassed » to serve from it.
out
olf 'and a small nut of butter in
CUCUMBER OMELETTE Peel and thinly, ailee half fair-sized cucumber or a whole one, if you like: Sprinkle with salt and leave between two plates for an hour or so, Press
the salted water, Melt a dessertpoon of
olivá Creme de la Crème That's what it is cried your omelette or thick trying. Pixle McSpry from the top of pan. Spread the cucumber bottom and cook gently the ladder It's pure cream until transparent, Best as many
over the Save me a glass of 111
I'm
Just enough coming right down!"
do combine them adding mit After Pixie McSpry put the and freshly ground pepper, to cover back on the top of the taste Pour over the cucumber male bottle, he came cimbing and cover for a minuten pe
down and had his glass of mille. Then Pixlo MeLong and cover,prinkle with olive
not disturb the mixture t Pixte O'Boy took the
and. under a
thangal
down,
for les
Pixie Mesinoty must not be,
Pixie O'Bean put the
back on the tray
and
Flaim weit paltering down the shape ngalit and dumppeared in
*Knärf and Hauld
Little' belaris
byer on to sa
shot
mber on tot
with
tucumber,
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