1954-10-25 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 25,

1954.

■ COITOHO PALLI STANICE, Lemputra TOM

• JACOBY

ON BRIDGE

Think About Hand Before You Play

By OSWALD JACOBY

[OW would you play tho hand

HOW

shown today at a contract

of four spades? It's all right to look at all of the cards before making up your mind.

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The normal line of play is to win the opening heart load with

with the ace, continuing trump finesse, 1272

East naturally wins with the king of spades and makes a safe return-auch trump. A heart, or A

"Ed likes to play the big-shot once in a while. Last week he lit his cigar with

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and there 1008 many a peevish

glance,

And many a nitrmur of dis-

dain. Prodding his meat,

cried,

the Master

I never tasted such a thing Nance Major Fenton's horse was

fried,

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night

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had chef

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the boudroom

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purely,

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take un intelligent interest of saying

world affairs, and that the fest Chath iL thing to do is to be able 10 turing recognise the various bodies raised referred to under initials, such as NATO I wonder how many of my readers can give a briet ԱՆԱԼ, within consultin newspapers of; GMO, ARDO, SEAL, BSK, TUR, VEM

beaten

the number of carpets

734 1 1,436 per week When i appened in the board- there wit awed silence

Inst end of laughter

The Hunt Scandal

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broke, Derited un a final buil, And all the loyal County folk

duce more usgrmbled ut the

ifall.

The food,

Atance,

by force of arean-

Was scanty, budiy cooked, and

plata,

None of them exist--yet, The herbaceous boarder

SHE complained that though she ate nothing but vegetables and herbe, she still grew fatter and falter. (Evening paper,)

As the port song to his fudy: Vaster than Empires, and more

alow,

My vegetable love shall grow.

YOUR BIRTHDAY

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 25

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Declarer must

try now establish the diamonİN In the hope of discarding Iwo of dummy's losing clubs on his own long diamonds. Unfortunate ly for South, however, West wins the enemy's sure diamond club trick and promptly leads through the duminy. Now the defenders must take two club tricks, to add to their diamond and their trump, thus defeating the contruct.

The correct line of piny in to refuse the

firat tricki very When East puts up the ten of hearts at the first trick, he allowed to hold it.

return East probably will heart for safety (no return côn do bim any good). South can

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discard a diamond from dumuny on the bee of hearts and then

the inun try

flnessc. This

lose to the king of spades, of course, but declarer can win the safe trump return, cash the top dlainonds, and ruff a diamond in dummy in order to establish that suit.

Now South can get to his hand

By STELLA with a lump in ander to lend

you have the type tion to rebuild strength and physical

of told which is insatiable in

its quest for information. You want

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requently, it is up to you to specialise n an early nee Hevone wi expert in adige one field, and gem will fire that the run to fame is wide open You have the gift of the written for you Your nervous energy far

word and would probably excel in philosophy, your physical strength.

history and science S KUDAS

writing with hunour and Leam the lesson út periodle plaju- well

insight of your travels. Affectionate. you mug wed KONCORD who also fins a feeling for excitement and "Lypsy font,'

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hedges didn't go quickly. (4) 14. Old Curiosity Bhop Suchard.

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sometimes, (4)

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weird sister, (4)

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boy ? (0)

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24. The river of Spain. (2)

25. Are in the past. (4)

20. The gentinian of tlie river. (7)

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Among those who were bom on this dato AFT: Macaulay, the historian; Pablo Picasso. artist: Richard E. Byrd, explorer: Chester Dewey, Frankiin Bache and Wm. A. Norton, scientists; and Richard Howell, early governor of New York.

To find what the stars have In store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corres- pending paragraph, Let your birth- day star be your daily guide.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26

22)-

SCORPIO (Oet, 24-Nov. Conalder alt decisions well before committing yourself. Be conserVA – tive, rather than experimental.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)— Stay close to shores High winds ond emotional storm clouds, are right overhead. Be as careful as you can.

When forewarned of possible uprėta, You can prgpare yourself to prevent firin. Look before you leap.

his two long damonds and dis- card clubs from the dummy, At the end, South gives up ono club trick but casily makes his

contract.

The idea is to give the enemy a heart trick instead of a dia- mond, an exchange which costs South nothing. The advantage Is that this one trick is given to East who cannot damage declarer by switching.io clubs.

CARD Sense✨♦

Q-The bidding has been: South West North East 1 Diamond. Pass 2 Spades Pass

You, South, hold: Spadea J-9- 0-2, Heart 4, Diamonds A-Q-J- 8-0. Clubs A-3-2. What do you do?

You

Chair. It The Saucer perches on four steel "pitus" and is made in a stey poodle fur fabric.

Petticoats Designed

To Show

▶ETTICOATS

New York.

continue

larity even with the now |k-length skirts, The | short petticoats, designed to show. include bright plaids

solid

with and

colours pleats, flounces, ruffles and laer or net frills.

The kiltie skirt has re- vived another fad -- snug- type pants as colourful as petticoats, but not designed to show. Fitted knit pants have contrast trima, plaid ribbon banding. roselies and fringes in bright and dark colours,

Use cure in washing the new underpinnings. Nylons, orlons and dacrons uf Irteot woven versions should wished by barch

soapsuds,

and

WI

Don't wring, twist

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dirty

or rub the synthetics, for this

ercapes. After muy couple of rinses, let them siry

on hangers. Finger-presy while ruitles, pleats and trims the garments are wet. Taffetas can be pressed on the wrong side

while with cool trou they're still damp.

Use a washing machine if you wish on the cotton or synthetic knit pont. Squeeze out excess moksture and hang on a rack to dry. Shape

trims any cy with fingers while the garments are wet.United Press,

BOYS'

WOMANSENSE

THE

TH

LATEST STYLES IN

FURNITURE

London.

that dny

our

furniture designers sud- donly took their cues from

the fashion world

started something.

they

What they started could be acen in one of the go- In ahead London stores. colour, they have followed the trend for black and white schemes and produced black and white wallpaper. In material,

have they borrowed haute couture's fur fabric, tweed and mattress ticking. and upholstered chairs and sofns with them. Elizabeth and I went along to inspect these latest and Elizabeth haя three of them here.

By DOROTHY BARKLEY

The "Bus Seat" sofa. It is upholstered in a black-and-

white fabric.

d

arrivals, a better “line”—and are covered

who Any one

doubted that colourn sketched in a black woollen fabric stitch- these bright

wouldn't ed with a white scribble pattern, survive a wash had only to look (Illustrated),

at the corner of the exhibition

one of the If these don't appeal to you, where

brightest perhaps you'd like set of inaterials was submerged in

0 modern dining chairs, framed in goldfish pond. black steel and upholstered mattress ticking.

Admittedly, if you took one of of

tho there and put it down in

the average

The very latest shape for a chair is a saucer balanced on four metal pins by way of legs. It is upholstered in a fur fabric that looks like a poodle's coat, It may not look the last word

ted).

it

in

Mrs Sampe is also famous for Several her table decorations.

these were on show and British housewives wondered if Sofas, too, bove a new look

would dare to surprise they and keep up with the chairs. centre of

dining their family with them. would look pretty They have suddenly lost their room, But in a room with arins-presumably to give them horrible.

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The Matirem Ticking Chair. Framed in black steel. it is upholstered In-mattress ticking.

AND

Snow in the Bookcase

-It Came from a Book Open to a Snow Poem-

By MAX TRELL

black and

Table Decorations

**

Recipes For Streamlined Meals

PERFECT for the warm

weather are streamlined meals, quickica which still provide

the requisite nourishment, and look and taste good, too.

Hero's

tasted skillet meal featuring ground beef, in which the meat la cooked with rice and celery in `n Bauce of tomatoes Brx bouillon.

Tu serve 4, brown 3⁄4 c. uncook- ed rice slowly in 2 tbsp. hot lard in a heavy skillet. Stir fre- quently,

Add c. cach whion and celery, both chopped, and 1 lb. ground beef; brown lightly. Add 2/2 c. (No. 2 tin) tomatoes, 2 tap. salt, sp. pepper, tsp. each Bugar and Worcestershire sauce, 1. bouillon or meat stock and any favourite stasoning.

Cover and simmer until rice is tender, about 45 m.

Texas

Hot Dogs will delight the family, especially the men- folk of any age.

CRISSCROSS PATTIES

it

white general

effective scheme, it does look

Mra Sampe put pink serviettes Mattress ticking must be used lavishly. And it must be com- with a dove grey tablocloth and

enamelted metal plates, with bined with a black-and-white chose

anc relieved with some black, some white, to gofranks in a little

wallpaper spicy

blue serviettes

with

D

colours ilke pink and with them. She put kingfisher eltron yellow.

This new furniture is always snapped up by the avant garde the moment it reaches the shops. The difficulty just now is that સ many new designs are ap- jearing that the avant garde are inding it hard to keep up.

Modern Cult

Spilt long buns and spread butter; const Pan fry hot fat until

beans).

bottle lightly browned (or if you can green tablecloth, and combined vast over open coals). Place in hot chill con bowls, buns, top with them with metal soup

with or without care (elther black outside, blue inside.

The Indoor plants reminded exhibition visitors that this is the time to stock up bulbs and plants for the winter.

Bt this many

Or, you can split franks be- then fill with the fore frying. heated chili con carnie.

use

For quick meals, make good of ments-in-a-1in · Buch us luncheon meat, corned beef hash, meat stews and spaghetti with meat and sauce, to name but a few of the wide variety now

Some indoor gardeners, though, haven't learned how to keep Al women may not like

their plants as fresh as a dalsy, modern furniture mufficiently to 1 once went to n fashion show make it a friend for life, but at where they hudh planta creeping lenst the modern cult has made along the backs of the chairs available.

them appreciate colour in the and up the walls, As the show home.

And the 1950'e will go went on, some of the plants A new way with comed beef the down ON Decade that began to wilt. By the end, they hash is to make Crisscroes. Hash covered Colour,

were trailing down our hocks. Palties.

Dis

I throw out the wishy-washy wallpapers and and brought in eltron yellow kingfisher blue.

of

It must be to help people

For 3 to 4 servings, chill 2 (1 faced with thin problem that b.) tlos corned beef hash, then London store has rescued from remove both ends from tin.

attic One of the women behind the its

an opulent Victorian Push out hash and cut exel plece inove is Mrs Astrid Sampe, a baby carriage, complete with

into 3 slices. Swedish designer who has just penny-farthing wheels. They opened an exhibition of her new have given it a fresh coat

Place palties on a shallow panx fabric designs in London. white paint und contemporary¦ and broil until lightly browned. Many were printed an cotton cunopy, and filed it with trail-Spread each patty with chili velvet because this takes bright ing plants. When the room gets sauce or ketchup and top with 2 of cheese, placed colours better than most. One too warm, you load the plants - strips had window squares coloured into the pram and trundle them crisscross. Broil until cheese is

slightly melted. Gamith red, yellow and white.

out.

GIRLS' MAGAZINE

who didn't need a cont). They romped around in the snow, and the Mad Hatter picked up the Dormouse and atitek him bead down into a pile of snow, much to Alley's annoyance and much show it to Knarf and Hanid more to the Dormouse's annoy-

ance, before it melted, "My goodness,"

said Hanid. [[TEDDY the Stuffed Bear said "How can it be snowing behind

to Knart and Hanid, the the bookcase?"

the shadow cluldren with turned-about names, "I've just come from behind the bookcase. Do you know what it's doing in there?"

A--Bld three spades, have only 12 points in high cards, but it is all in useful places and your distribution and spado support are excellent, "Doing in there?" Knarf re- What's more, if your partnerpeated, in a surprised voice, goes slar-hunting your two "What's it doing in thero?" aces will surely be useful,

TODAY'S QUESTION

The bidding is the same as

In the question Just answered,

you do?

A Snowstorm

"Welt," said Teddy, "the polar bears and the seals like the snow.

From the first shelf came several polar bears, seals, wal- Tusos, penguins and reindeer. They all came out of the Natural History Book.

They're sitting around in it." "Nothing like a good, cold, "Behind the bookcase?” cried snow day," said a polar bear to

one of the seals.

Hanid.

This wha more astonishing

then ever.

A fow

seconds later, Knari and Hoold were squeezing behind to seo for them- the bookcase

"It's, snowing," said Teddy, solves exactly what was

I

Fun for Book Friends

"Nothing like a good snowy day," said a polar bear to a seal.

"There! You rve!" said Teddy

olive slices.

with

Tinned ment stew served on large split biscuits or. corned bread is a sure fire hit, too.

!

COFFEE FRAPPE

Coffee Frappe is a delicious dessert.

For

four 1-oz. servings or wight 4-oz. punch glasses, blend thoroughly 1% c. cold, double- strength coffee, 2 e. finely cracked Ice, ic. vanilla Ice cream, 2 tbsp. sugar and a dash each of cloves and nutmeg.

If you use an electric blender. run for about 30 sec, until items are thoroughly blended.

Or combine all ingredients in ajor with a tightly sealed cover and shake vigorously until the ice is almost dissolved.

Should be served as soon aș prepared.

Alice Denhoff

Household Hints

Heidi came out of her book, Hans Brinker came out of his Peter Pan ord Captain Hook of their book. The only can who did not like the snow the Stuffed Bear to Knort and Use com meal to clean plush was the Man In The Moon who Hanld as they went sleigh riding toy animals, unless they're was trying to find his way to froin one end of the bookshelf heavily soiled, Rub them" with with a tow Norwich and got all mixed up to the other. "Nobody in the meal dampened because of the snow. "Dear me," world would believe that it could drops of cleaning fuld. Then he kept saying. "My cold pease snow just beconize the Mother brush the fabric thoroughly.

calder than Goose Book came open at that will be porrkige

ald snow poem;"> ever!"

You, South, hold: Spades K-3- Teddy added quickly, when he on. They could hardly be book and Wendy,, her brothers, CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan, 20) 6-2, Hearta B-4, Diamonds Anotlout the strange looks on the their eyes. No sooner were they Q-J-8-8. Clubs K-Q. What do faces of Knarf and Hanid: "Oh, behind the svce in the middle

I know you don't believe me, found themselves

The wind blew, Just wait here a moment and of a blizzard. I'll prove it to you."

The air was full of snow.

"But Saying this, Toddy squeezed

where is it all coming behind the bookcase, He re- from?". Hanid asked. turned the next moment with a snowball.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb, 19)---- New ventures are apt not to develop un fast as you may wish them to. Don't be impatient." Fint wait.

· PISCES. (Feb.

20-Mar.

The solution to any problem will be your bully to hold your temper and stay cool under street,

ARISE {Mar. 21-Apr. 20)- Worry does no good.. Juse take one thing at a time and you will find everything works out fairly well.

TAURUS

21-May (Apr.

21)- Definitely not of your dayet Be alert to possible upsets and you may be ablo to avert them.

GEMINI

22-Juna 21)- (May 'An excellent idea to stick closely to Roxt Lempt the faber by routine, being too exporimenial.

#

CANCER

(June ZE-July Everything" ie`nt "ulates and seVISS" JRE Bow, but you est avoid being Involved. If you stay calm and collected.

LRO ∙July

2++Aug.

Icoop - what might prove to be ani uneziler temper under control, and yOUI tvoriť" may something you'll. roïvWE;

14-Sept.

Answer Tomorrow

CHESS PROBLEM

By A. P. EKRKES Black, 12 pieces.

White, plecus,

Bout put off on abene rien "dventum While to play mate in two,

»BEC" You will find that - nostami

Chroćand "wali. (enough....

But he barely had time to

DUMB-BELLS

NO

"I'SUPPOSE MRS, FOURFLUSH ) ITS.

ANATHEMA

YOU!

FRI

Literary Blizzard

They soon found out: All the from... a wind and snow cone half-open book on the top shelf of the bookconso. It wat "the Mother Goose Book, and it was opened on the page where this poem stood:

The North Wind doth blow, Antwo- shall have 'mow -' And what will the Robin do

then, poor thing

Knart climbed up and quickly shut the book, The wind opped blowing and the row Wopped falling immediately, But there was enough snowy on the Body wil the rest of the day

Rupert at Greyrocks Cove~f

And his parents: what to

bury Uncle Brúnd

Use a pastry brush to reme food particles from strainari.

You provent waste of four It? you use a ingdo salt ahaker for dusting it into: medis,, 'flah on poultry.

You

COLT prevent BOGEREN .bottom: crust/in) fruit pics by

sprinkling it with a bit sugar and flour, · Jüne adding the fruit,

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