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JACOBY ON BRIDGE

Good Playing May Lead to Trouble

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By OSWALD JACOBY S a general rule, the better As

you play bridge, the more points you will score. Oner in a while,

however, today's hand shows, your brilliant play will land you in the soup.

When today's hand was play- ed

recent team-of-four In rnatel, the contract was fouT At both hearts at both labies.

West opened tables, likewise, the seven of spades,

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of

The Best East won the first trick with the ten of spudes, continued with the માણ

podes, and then led the ace of spades. This gave the declarer a chance to go wrong. If South ruffed with a low trump, West would overruf! arXi Cush nce of clubs inmediately to sel

the contract,

The declaree in the Arst rootp sew this danger and

therefore

BY THE WAY

By Beachcomber

PATERS who fen: trat the E

foul food they get in restaurants may be poisoning them, have been given hope by

statistician.

been has ascertained that you ate three meals a day in restaurants, "It would be 1,335 years before you were statistically poisoned."

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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1954.

YOUR BIRTHDAY...... By STELLA

loving

FRIDAY, AUGUST 6

BORN today you are affectionate, tendency to put off until tomo

which andi devoted to meetbers something

should be done of your Own family as well as today. But there are so many to unumally understanding and kindly morrowst And today ends so soon! foward everyone you most. You are Don't procrastinato, fond of children and they are fond of you. Teaching is a profesion in excel. You have

which you you enjoy books and family to care for. You are de-;

a fine mind. will want a large library of your own. In fact you may need to force yourself into more social, con® tact with them for you are a S Hitte inclined to become a bookworm, As a child you were probably more apt to curl up with a good book han to be out playing games with the other chlichen.

You are fard of your home, and will be happiest If you wed fairly: early in life and have your own monstrative In showing your affec tion, and should wed, poneone wha is similarly inclined

Among those who were born on O'Connell, this date are: Daniel Irish patrioti The Marquis of Lorne, Canadian Ratesman Lord Tennyson, poet; Paul Claudel, French states man: Ruth Buckow, novelist,

The stars have given you literary To And what the alars have in and poetry gift that should be store for you tomorrow, select your developed. You are hand boy and at Bir Fudge of the aris and might make panding paragraph, Let your

flue professional critic. You hav day star be your dally guide.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 7

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19) Zi-Feb. AQUARIUS Maiters ara beginning to brighten again, Fair skice are shead for the suming week-end, ilguratively speak. ing, anyway.

21)-The LEO (July 24-Aug. aspects for an enjoyable week-end ara in prospect for you. Get away from home for a change, if you can

VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 2)-Don't

**Fiscía" (Feb, 20-Mar. 20)-If you meglect important business decisions,

this Die la not a regular are on vacation Just becaLIPO

week, you workm day!

should be, having what is called o A good time to advance,

"wonderful time." A new romance? ARIES (Mar. 11-Apr. 20)-Spend

LIBRA (Bent. 14-0ot. #)-/The stars appear to be in your favour now. Finish some of the things you bave been planning to do lately.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)-You can plan to do what you want now. Draw up a blueprint and then follow 1 carefully for excellent rolls

BAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec, 2)-

if you are now Idea, Develop

detalls you shrewd busine should really make 。 good prod! from it.

23-Jan 20)- CAPRICORN (Bec. Perhaps a hurt irip into the country will be just what you need. Helps build health and ine: gy

a fr hours in quiel recreation. Too much stronuous activity is not to god for you,

TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21-A aspects are decidedly in your favour Accompilih something you have had in mind to do for a long time.

pow.

GEMINI (May 22-June 1) Sun bright gain on your horizon. Now you can make pians with confidence and know they will work out.

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Mrs by supported Gregson, Conon Huff, and Dame live Sume, Many girls have parties start in the evening. By crolling as litter-hostesses they would enjoy a healthy open-air itfe, and prepare themselves for

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The nautical look 15 much in evidence and season is no exception. Here it is in the current handling, youthful, pert Adorning the

THE

HOLIDAY MAKE-UP

HERE is one bit of holi- sparingly, will be very useful on plus You'll have a perfect matt

day

that holday. To got a fresh natural finish. planning

If, because you are on holiday, usually gets overlooked until look with a cake you have to

follow the instructions exactly, you prefer a sheen finish, pat the very last minute, and Put it on with

sponge that i

your men with a damp, clean that is the holiday make-up. wet, not just damp. Uso quick, sponge,

Women with dạy skins can, u30 Yet any woman who wants light strokes, to place a really

mme cako technique, but to look her best should give thin film on your face and neck, the

Then, while it is still moist, blot you must dab on a little colour this as much care as choos- it with a tissue. ing a holiday wardrobe.

In the home one has a lot of space for odds and ends, but on be holiday make-up should practical, portable and compact. The best idea is to have a separate "beauty bag," though not necessarily one of those expensive fitted cases. I myself or n a large handbag prefer ininute suitcase.

ה!

Keeping the general depart- mind-cleansing, miento nourishing

toning-you and will take: Cleansing cream (for cleansing milk dry skina)

(for oily skins); skin food, for nourishing (and it is also use ful after one has been exposed to the sun and wind); and a freshener or stringent tonie, | according to your skin.

Puff on a light coating of face powder, and brush off any sur-

Ides foundation before yois start. Lady Boyle

A discordant duet on-

Man As Expert Cook

New York.

love.

Woman's cooking for

Jova her family is done with

Man's is done and solicitudo. with conocit. The finished pro- for the man'a a duct does moru

than

for the guest's di

THIS is the time of the year when the man of the house decides he's good cook and goes outdoors co to prove it.

gestion.

FLOUR EVERYWHERE Whether he's an expert back- yard chef or an amateur show-

To the woman, n meal is ing off is a debated issue be-

two part of the day's work-not a tween the sexes. Today,

Men like production mumber. cooking experts-one male, one M Melchior cook with A female-lined up on opposing

flourish that dirtles theatrical aides. Listen to their arguments, every pot and pan, deposits a and draw

Ano film of flour over every- distance, clusions,

thing within, sifting and then letives the mess for someone else to clean up!"

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Add to this a pair of eyebrow very pluckers, and a tube of cream this nail varnish remover. Choose a

"The masculine qook is the tube that won't leak or split.

and not If you are going in search of occasional cook the and smart. rum, don't forget a protec-expert," said Marguerite Piazza, white

cotton Live sun cream for your face, concert artist and one-time star blouse is

sailor It's astonishing how often one at the Metropolitan, navy-siriped colleur and a four-in-hand tie remembers this when it is too

Labe of navy silk. Three buttons

And one must: a box of face covered in navy silk close the front. Worn with the blouse powder a shado or two darker, are pants of navy blue cotton so that you can keep up with gabardine

plasticised your sun-inn. with waistband,

pockets in sido Check over your lipsticks to seams and laced legs. A nice see that they tone with your į chi scalaring costume with which clothes and skin. Here are a tow

to sail through 3 summer simple basic colour rules, vacation.

When you wear black or white chic coloura for this sulmaner

rouge should

Household Hints

Library paste rubbed on thin) material will make it easier to handle in sewing bultonholes.

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Custard will bake evenly, and not become watery, if you place the baking dish in a panj of water.

BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

gulers for poachers. Do You Like Chocolate?

Bop

thinks

poach caps, and his

friend the iron-

monger has given Bop

it

him u bali made of string. prefers his trumpet stuffed with charcoal. He plays it when BOOWN. Tomorrow Bop is going to give the Admiral s bottle with u lemon in H. Won't it be fun?

Tck, tck

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WEALTHY

A the second table. East won the trick with the ten of spades

who, woman and waw that a spade continue-

while dieting in a nightclub, tion would do no good.

was rubbed of eleven precious brilliantly returned the seven of stones which she carried in her clubs at the second trick, hop-reticule for publicity purposes, ing that his partner would take rang up a newspaper to report the ace of clubs and lead his the event to a man she knew. remaining spode. A spade con- "I've lost eleven stones,” she dinuation would then assure said in a tearful voloe, "Really?" West of a trump trick. to de replied the man, "keep it up. You'll soon be as slim as Babs"

mentioning a rival.

feat the contract.

It was a brilliant idea, and "East is to be congratulated on discovering the only defence that had a chanoc to defeat the contract. Unfortunately for Eest however, his partner could not read the play.

When East led the seven of clubs at the second trick, West naturally took the ace of clubs. West decided that his partner must have turned a singleton club, and he therefore led an- other club at the third trick.

declarer This defence gave.

off his the chance to throw losing spade, and South wound up making 11 tricks. East had found the only line of play that could possibly defeat the con- tract, but the result was orily to give declarer, an extra trick.

♥&CARD Senses.

Q-The bidding has been: Esxt

Bouth West North

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You, South, hold: Spades K- J-8-4. Hoaris K-7-5-2, Din- mond 4, Clubs A-3-6-3. What do you do?

APELE or bld two hearts. You have only 12 pointa high cards and game is almost out of the question, slnéo “Your pariser, could not make a jump response. The Domservative'] course ato pass, but you canT“. not be oriolrod severely for A raid to two beartit

TODAY'S QUESTION

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CHESS PROBLEM

By V. L. PACHMAN Black, pleças,

-You May, but Cows and Robins Don't!-

By MAX TRELL TNARF, the shadow-boy with

walking down the road singing at the top of his volce:

"The thing that I like best

neither of them cared much for worms. Just then they heard a squealy, squeeky kind of little

the turned-about nume, wear autoke came from

to eat

Is something sweet,

Like a

chocolate bar!"

behind two or three dandelions and buttercups. It said: "Your song is wrong, robin. Your song Is

cow. And so is wrong, too, your song wrong, Knart. All your songs are wrong."

A Mouse Song

Just as Knar! was singing "Who are you?" said Knarf, this song in the loudest possible the cow, and the robin. way, he heard a deep voice at the side of tho road saying:

That song is wrong, Knarfl"

"Wrong?" said Kharf, as he looked around to see who was talking to him. He saw that It was a cow.

A Cow's Correction "Yes, the sung

wrong." suid the cow. This is how it should go:

"The thing that I like best

to cat

Is something sweet,

Like grass."

"I'm me," said the squealy, squeeky voice.

Knarf and the cow and the robin

looked very hard before they discovered that the volce belonged to a mouse. This is how the song should go," sald the mouse.

"The thing that I like best

to eat

Is some Like

sweet,

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"That song is all wrong,” the cow said to Knarf.

"The thing that I like best

to eat

Is something awest, Like a leaf."

and the

And finally Knar! cow and the robin and the mouse and the caterpillar all 'heard a voice so very, very tiny that they could barely hear it

The Tiniest Voice of All "I'm afraid all of you are sing- ing the song wrong!" the voice said.

Who are you?" everyone

Then Knarf and the cow and the robin and the mouse heard Knart was just about to say "Why, that doesn't sound at all an even smaller and fainter right," when he heard a warbl- volce. It seemed to come from

a loud, the branch of the tree. ing voice saying in

"Your songs are all wrong," asked. Is Bong warbling way: "Your

said the small and faint voice. wrong, cow,"

"Who are you?" asked every- body, looking up into the tree.

The small and faint velce just

"Is it?" said the cow, looking

the around at

fence, Knorf looked around at the fence, too. They both saw a robin

"Yes the song is wrong," re- peated the robin. "It should go like this:

"The thing that I like best

to cat

is something sweet, Like a worm.".

And the voice answered: "I'm growing right at your feet." They all looked down and many that it was a blade of grass.

"This is how, the song should

"gald the blade of groes.

gave a mall and faint chuckle, 'he thing that I like bost

Then Knarf and the cow and the robin and the mouse, by staring very hard at the tree, finally discovered that the small

and

faint voice was coming from, a very small, and faintly coloured caterpillar.

Kharf and the cow were "This is how the song should astonished to hear this, since really go," said the caterpillar

Rupert and the Spring Chicken-18

When they hit Balto the story "the wlota" Hap serves, and perch, near to Rupert and there is a jong "silatice 'while they try to look 'an wing, as their fachari”. At lengths (they speaksint Cart's - be) danış

the question," says, the fridg

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clock? **anyay the other. Abd "they vay Villanily‹ back - ad “tháit

Is

to eat

invest, something Like sunshine." And as Knart walked back home, he marvelled to himself how many different kinds. sweet things there werb. to eat in this wonderful world of outs

Another

New Adventure Just Arrived

RUPERT and the

raheri Oh dearthloks Rep LOST RAILWAY

cube,, says the other? 1. Out of Chicken Titels

of

lipstick and

clear red.

be

For all shades of blue, a red with definite blue tones. Grotn

clean "Someone else should up," said Melchlor. "The chef is an artist. It is above him to SECRET INGREDIENT

wash dishes. Those with no "He won't prepare D meal brains must use their hands,"

The portly singer, who unless he has an audience, and when he does, the food budget his mother's housekeeper doesn't matter," added the sin him his first cooking

southern tried is best known for his whose chicken is almost as famous as

game disties,

"If I had depended on her volo.

Lauritz Melchior, a long-time wife to cook for me," he said,

of the American "there would have been member Society of Amateur Cheta, horole tenor named Melchior at answered that "a man is a bet. the Metropolitan," ter cook because he is gener- His advice to outdoor cooks, ous,"

male:

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which

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Miss

Piazza

and brown clothes really only opened," said the Danish-born look well on girls who can take tepor.. n Hpstick with an orange touch.

And for soft pastel outfits, a answered: rose pink lipstick.

If your skin tends to be olly, a cake make-up, used VITY

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imaginative improviso, Don't listen to your wife,"

Miss Piazza'e ndvics to out- doar cooles, male and female:

"Just remember that dispens- ing food to friends is essentially. "Rehily

a gesture of hospitality, not good cooking, the kind that nourishes as well as personal accomplishment, fills, requires a secret ingredient for Mr Melchior!"

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