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JACOBY MIDGE

ON

Briton Is Light On Opening Bid

By OSWALD JACOBY

9 in the case of yesterday's hand, South is a trifle light for the opening bid of two no trump. This bld usually shows 22-24 points with balanced dis- tribution and all four suita securely stopped. Today's hand is taken, however, from English set of par hands. In England, the opening bid of two no-trump in made a little fight- er than in America,

When the hand was played In the contest, West was re- quired to open the jack diamonds. Declarer naturally ployed low from the dummy, and East naturally played the king. South must drop the queen of diamonds in order to make sure of its contrnell

South can later lead low diamond! De fosse dummy's binet. Ha Takes a clutz Mieszka and enters dummy agala with the ace of diamonds to repeat the club Ince By This means,

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Pan

PARS

Opening lead

South con wh att four club tricks to add to the two da- monds, the two spades and the pee of hearts in order to make Jus game contract,

entries

the

South needs two slummy in order to repeat club Anesse. If South falle drop the queen of diamonds al the first trick, he cannot sure of gelung to dummy twice with diamonds.

be

What happens if South keeps the queen of diamonds and later leads a low diamond lowards dummy i West is alert to the situation, be will play the ten of diamonds and thus force dummy to win with the ace, Now South still has the queen of chuanonds while dummy hus the whe

Bouth has the same number of diamond tricks, 10 sure, but the can gel to the dummy only once and therefore take only one rtub

dine.

can

it isn't very hard for West to make that play, Fince he can be practically sure that East has player a singleton king of dia- monds when he wins the first trick and then shifts to a differ- cni suit. With the dlumand situation exposed, West can see that it costs him nothing to put up the ten.

Vă CARD Sensen

Q-The biding has been; West

North East South

1 Diamond Double Redbi. *

You, South, hold: Spades Q- .-9-2, Hearts K-8-5-3, Dia- monds 8-5. Clubs 9-0-2. What do you do?

A-Pass. There is no reason for you to guess whether spaces or hearts will make a better trump suit. It is up to North to rescue himself, and be probably bid one of the major sults. You will then raise, thus showing your slight strength.

TODAY'S QUESTION

The bidding is the same as in the question Just answered. You, South, hold: Spades Q-J. 9-8-9-2, Hearts Q-5, Diamond 5. Clubs A-9-6-2, What do you do?

Answer Tomorrow

:

CHESS PROBLEM

By V. B. PUGACEY. Black; 5 placet,

White, 9 pieces, White to play mate in two..

Solution to yesterday's problem:

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or

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be

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Rusty cake tins should leather.

soap, then with hot water and sode. water.

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or

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Finally rinse in bolling

Give your sink a daily

clean

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BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

Punch's Favourite Pet

--It was a Hungry Goat by the Name of Billy

"M"

By MAX TRELL 4R Punch," said Knarf, the shadow-boy with the turned-about name, "of all tho pets that you had which one dld you like the best?"

Mr Punch, who was shaving himself in front of a mirror-he was brushing lather on his face when Knart spoke 10 bim- hurned around and said: you say pets or pests?"

A Favourite Pet

"Pets!" said Knarf.

£1 eat elther, just in case you were going to ask that next.”

"I was," said Knarf,

"Did

1

A Novel Pet

"But if Billy wasn't a cat or dog, what was he?" Knart went on.

"A goat!" said Mr Punch. "Did you say goat or cost?" asked Knart.

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"Goat," said Mr Punch, "and

gont is never a coat, except sometimes when the cost is made of the fur of a goat," Koarf wasn't interested goats being coats as much as he

in

"Like dogs and cats?" snið Me was in what kind of a pet Billy

Punch,

Knarf nodded.

"They could be pests, too," said Mr Punch, "especially when

the noat made that Mr Punch

should have preferred him to all his other pets.

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Billy, the goat, ate up all of Mr, Punch's papers.

And he even ate

Mr Funch, but it didn't "Maybe that's what it meant

make any sense! I used to let claimed Me Punch, as he went when I did my lessons. But he "liked Billy the best," ex- Billy stund next to my desk they bark or they scratch. So you'd like to know which one

on thaying, "because Billy gave ate all my papers and he ate all of all the pets that I've had, I me the least trouble about his my books and he chowed up all

would cating habits. He liked the best? Well, let me see everything that was put before up the blotter, the fountain pen

cat my pencils. now. You don't mind him and a great many things and the clock.",

that weren't. 1 used to jet Billy "Wow!" sold Kuart. cat with me at the table. Ho "Oh no," said Knart. "Go would eat all the food in. the

One Exception right ahead and shave."”!

plate. Then he would cat the plate. He would also eat the "Judy is waiting for me tablecloth.” downstairs for breakfast" sold Mr Punch. "Of all the pets that

on chaving while I think, do you?"

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"The only thing he didn't eat,” said Mr Punch, "was me. And that's why I liked him best of

"Why did he do that?" asked all."

I have had, the one I liked the Knorf." very best was a pet named

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SOLATION

TO CHECK YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE

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ask

Knarf "I often wondered at that my-

was about to self," said Mr Punch, "But where Billy the goat was now. finished Punch hadi "Billy" said Knarf. "Was it though I asked him lots of But Mr

and who a dog?"

times, he would never Tell me, shaving

taking a Alt he would say was; 'Naa-aa- shower, The water was making "No," said Mr Punch, as he a

so much noise that Mr Punch drow the razor across his cheek. "That sounds Uke no," said would not have leard anyway, "Billy wasn't a dog. He wasn't Knort.

Knart didn't even ask.

Rupert and Niagara-8

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Another

New Adventure

RUPERT

and the

LOST RAILWAY

Taking The Shirt

(And The

Scarves, Waistcoats, Pyjamas And Pullovers)

Off A Man's Back

By VENETIA "MURRAY

HERE is a new Menace favourite silk shirt in front

THERE

to Men. It is the cur- of a girl he is anxious to rent craze among women please....

for wearing the clothes that.

monaces:

were made for their hus Self-confessed bands, boy friends, and in London at the

ment: brothers.

Hartford

A woman will buy them (Marjorio Steele, the actress):

Mrs Huntingdon from a man's store if she "I take my husband's shirts for

in forced to but not until 'pafuting."

she has done her utmost

to beg or borrow them

first.

The daughter“

Barbara Lyan: "I've got more She will take the shirt of my brother's clothes than he off his back, collar his has himself. Father locks up socks, phich his scarves his entire wardrobe to keep me "nut." "Elizabeth Taylor, Michael with hardly a quaim, say- wilding's wife; I use his big ing: "You don't mind, do turtle-neck sweaters. you?

I'm sure you've got very good about it and doen't hundreds more."

mind."

The danger

Ho in

Even one of the smartest women in the world-Parisian Madume Busy Volterra-hus fallen for the fad, Sito bought. the chances are blu, black coat from 'a' man's

store in London recently. girl ваув

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And that when to a girl; "Where did you get that lovely jersey?" the answer with a pleased amile, will be: “Johnny"" cor "Henry" or "Mark".

The Menace began when girls took a fancy to men's full of waistcoats a long time ago. boiling water down afterwards The danger grew when they to dissolve any grease that may | cast, a covetous eye on have clogged in the pipes. fishermen's jerseys, leather belts, scarves, socks, shirts, pyjamaa, pullovers and dressing gowns.

To

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prevent oll-cloth from cracking and wearing through

. And now comes news of three more men's style fashions that

women are falling for,

The latest

From Paris, Robb reports

A NEW WAY to wear a man's

shirt-luck the long back into your skirt or trousers; and tie the two parts of the front forward round your waist in, a big bow.

A CRAZE for cut links popularised by Fath and Dior

this summer; and

From America: The vagua

ut the corners of the kitchen

It has got to the point among college girls is for tiles table, fix a piece of adhesive tape to the underside of the oil when it is just pure folly boy shorts, cloth. where it, rests

for a man to table-corners

to appear in his navy blue

on the

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