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A FOTORS PRTIG SIRVIST, INK, PARAVA TORK

"What have you got there-a new pair of shoes?”

JACOBY

ON BRIDGE

Here's Neat Play For Your Delight

By OSWALD JACOBY

THERE'S wahing

very drn-

BY

THE WAY

By Beachcomber

SONG.

A Viscoun had dined

laundress,

And

the restaurant were dim.

with a

light#

atlast the contract 10] He had proffered champagne

today's hand

declirer at only

Nevertheless,

South was

twas spruches, this little band contains a very neat point

hat will delight play thuk

student of the game.

of

every

West opened the ten of clubs, and dunny won with the ace. This was แ tulstake

At the second trick, declarer led a low trump from the dum- This was another mistake. The chances are that most de- claroru

would make the same two mistakes Both plays look very straightforward and logical. Now let's see where they Lexi South.

with the partridge,

And shyly she smiled at him.

Then, in accents throbbing with

passion,

lic offered his hand and its

heart;

But she saw the wine-stains on

his shirt-front,

And came to herself with

start.

อ

Firmly, but sadly, she

said,

As

Viscount hung

that sta head:

*

*

need

Refrain (maestoso):

what you is a laundress, Your shirt iz a perfect dis-

vrace,

West won the second trick with the queen of spoiles, cou-Viscount dear, tinued with the are of spades, and then ir third trap. Now South was in trouble. Ir he drew the list trump, he could take only for diamond tricks, together with his two trumps and the ace of clubs The mo- mint South tried to establish & heart trick, Eust would run the clubs.

and í đơn't want to crouch for

the rest of my fe Splashing soapsuds

the place.

all over

So, thanks, Viscount dear, for

Nor would it do South any good to leave the last trump out. Eust would gain the lead it with the uce

and of hearts would

clubs. Ley to run the South would eventually have to

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use his last trump to slop clubs, and West would get third trump trick. The defend- would thus take three trumps, the ace of hearts, and two clubs to defeat the tract.

con-

Declarer can avoid defeat by refusing the very first trick. It clubs are continued, South can get to his hand with a diamond in order to ruff his last club in the dummy. This ruffing trick is one that South couldn't get

as he played the hand.

If East leads

of a club

trump Instead

at the second trick,

the defenders can

the honour,

For the bubbly and also

grub.

is time to awake

daydream,

the

from my

And to answer the call of the

lub,

*

*

*

The Viscount replied with some

chagrin,

"Plegar, Agnes, don't talis

through your hat!

At the Castle, we don't do the

washing:

wife boliers

No Viscount's

with that.

You'll recline at your case trz

your boudoir,

Or playfully sit on my knce, While the rolled shirts 676

suitably dealt with

By those of a lower degree." Then softly that laundress

replied,

As he begged her to be

his bride:

*

*

Refrain (maestoso); /*

There's one little thing Vou're

forgetting.

In the blindness of love,

Viscount dear,

I'd be welcome, no doubt, at

the Castle.

But your mater and sisters, I

fear,

Would cashi in on the family

laundress,

And bring her their clothes

for a scrub. Could a grateful

offend them

Visscounters

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1954.

CROSSWORD

Aurora

1. Was some pariz

COTALT

of London, (7,51 1. I do morning ( (ADME.). (0, 4)

LA SUED on ·

bloyale ? (6)

1. Plane change for

the flower, (h)

10. motions are Jo

aroused by thin. (0)

11. It's capital ip a

way for

Turk, 18)

18. This card

12

AT

ippuenes this

Highest bidder. (6)

14. Bounds an, if this breed must be the algbt of popu

larity (4)

16. Her work goes on above your head. (a.)

10. There are mtways rained megabrows

at these itens on Pags One, (54)

Dowb

1. Are theso running

repairs

for

1 АСТОВО У 1971

2 I stares

some

potimista in the Jaco, incessantly i (4)

4. More Lalk! (8)

hundre

ARCA. 181

5. He may be a bit

of a blow hard in

the orchestra. (4.0)

(ansg.). (12)

7. He doesn't

out

faith in Grobe.

(10)

17. Montile spirit. (6) 13. The person's

nigaardly when concerned with Sheras. Bi

14. He wurk hard t

South America.

Yesterday's solution.

YOUR BIRTHDAY ....... By STELLA

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4

BORN today. you are one of those hunan "systematisers" who seema quin to take care of a great deal of detail, co-ordinate 11, and then uPO accurately As regular in your persunat habitu an you are in business inatters, you might bo a rather #evore person if it were not for another face to your personality. You have a creative, inventive mind—and although others may think you are guing through the same notions, it very. very different! You Agure short cut or some out some new intirely novel method. Actually, those are the reason your "system" is such a mucces

You

mut learn to cope with yu

da of deprendor. You are either in the clouds or down in the depths. This

is duo as such to emotional isprei

1 is to n pysique that is not an rugged as you would like to bellevs it in. Take care

to

be

If you are wise, you will melest one of the arts or professions as your ework. There a kernel of creative VOLLER within you which will only and its proper "expremion it you are allowed to go your own way in your own time. Your inst productive years are likely Those betweçu 30 and 38. De sure that you minke good un of them.

Your faslly Dew are strong and You Are Very devoted to meinbera of you own family. When you grow older and have one at your own. the same pattern will be repeated.

Anong those vom up this date are. Will Rogers, humorist; Edmund Keene,

actor: Stephen J. Field. jurlet, Goo P. Shaver, lisvertor; Luckum Hobinson, N. Y. Governor Eden Phillpote, author; John Branch, więteman.

To And what the store havo store for you tomorrow, select your birthday Alor and read the corr

WOMANSENSE

Evening Woollens

By AUCE ALDEN

WOOL winds its way smartly: and expertly into the afternoon

Pard

How to Arrange Bookshelves Attractively

ICERO said that a room without books is a body without a soul.

Most thoughtful persons will surely agree with him and plan bookshelves for an apartment or

By ELEANOR ROSS

good

laid

We saw one Imaginative scheme green, the planks yellow, Ivy or worked out in a rented apart- philodendron could be trained to ment where shelves, it fastened Twine around the outaldo sip- to the walls, would have become ports. This ladder most likely the property of the landlord, A would be placed against a wall d quality step ladder was lac so that members of the family house with careful attention to quered in deep black. Planks, would not be falling over it when a vivid red, were painted accessibility and convenience, the

While some people seem to installed,

horizontal There are endless mout think that the living room la tire

bit arranging Sounds un arrangement.

bookshelves only place for books, there is no wobbly, but it can be done.

tively. A littlo imagination, reason why a bookshelf or two For a loss arty look, the ladder some paint and plain wooduzi should not grace other rooms in might be painted a woodsy shelves and you're in business! the house-the you have

one, An Interesting kitchen wo - know features a shelf of cook

open, ladder steps, and onto the domicile at

dining room, if and the bedrooma. | p

books. These volumes, both recent and old favourites, add a pleasant touch to a room which

usually looks purely functional. AND

Arranging books is relaxing, a good therapy, in fact. usually prefer to sei

libraries

This

Scholare up their Decording to subject

matter, while the more frivolous may classify volumes according to binding colour and size so ES to make

attractive design. This method is sneered at

at by bookworms, however, as a brainless system of arrangement. Try not to cram books too tightly together. There should be sufficient room to volumes easily, without scratch- ing bindings or tearing dust Jackets.

LENOVO

Book bindings are apt to gwell

of your health, for it is one of your ponding paragraph at your birth and evening one of the season He a stout person's feet in hot,

must precíave posetMASCATI BL

day or be your daily guide.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5 SCORPIO (UCL 24-Nov. 2) There should be agreement between you and your sponsors on some in- vention you are printing.

BAGITTARIUS (Nov. 24-Dec. 22)— Tila in a pod day for all important smatters. You can even use uncon ventiooni inethods if you wish.

CAPRICORN (Doc. 23-3a12. 20)— An expellent time for consummating important businesse

Make ptane ртове.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 21-Feb. 19)— An inspirational day Love and runmice are also hieldly favoured You ren

bustness and combine pleasure,

An

PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)- Romance is definitely in the air. Atska or periva propomal acceptance in very ikely, too.

ARIES (MAN) 21-Apr. 20) Abou soine signs are adverse, they are counterbalanced by others That bring you domestic joy.

TAULUS (Apr. 21-May 21- An unexpected surprise, perhaps in the realin of affairs of the heart. can bring you exceptional joy.

DEMINT (May 22-June 21) A good day for all your activities. Make the most of overy opportunity offered you at this time,

CANCER June 23-July 23) This in a banner dny for your efforts. Chart your roule càrefully, and then proceed.

LEO (July 24-Aug. 2}}- *Thin La A day when your drains cat come true. What uppɑns, how- evet, depends upon what you 056 drenigi

VIRGO CADE 24-Rept Original (dear should be used in you they will bring you business, for increased profits at once.

LIBRA (Sept 24-Oct. 23) Love is fine today. If wed, aftalts on the domestic front enn be en pecially pleasant for you.

DUMB-BELLS

WHY DO THEY PUT A SCREEN ON THE FIREPLACE

IT MUST BE TO KEEP

THE FLIES FROM COMING DOWN THE

CHIMNEY

ahead.

Wonted

for after-live

for

clothes, tweed

If they are too Important humid weather. evening wear

is the word. New tightly jammed together, the techniques that make for marvel-bindings may split.

Never let books lean against lous light, dropable woollens is of course

responsible for this in-one another in partially filled teresting trend. Paul Parmes shelves. Use book ends to keep

as we does

a beauty of an afternoon them upright, and nu the empty and evening costume in grey spaces with little plants or pretty

worsted jersey-textured

of bric-a-bruc, ન en- bellished with jewelled scalloping A figurine or colourful piece of on both the simple dress and the glass, china or pottery makes an easy jacket. The frock has tiny attractive note. For children's sleeves cut in one with the nook- bookshelves, one might fill spaces line and edged with ambroidery, with models of characters from The skirt is softly shaped over Mother Goose, Winnie-the-Pooh taffeta. An elegant and well- Or other classics. brod, yet easy costume.

Household Hints

Take

the creak out of D creaking floor by working moist soap into che cracks between the boards.

When cane seats on chairs be- gin to eag, sponge them with hot water to which salt has been added. This will take up the Black,

BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

A Caterpillar Train

-Willy Toad Was Acting as the Conductor--

By MAX TRELL

ONG before they reached the Pine Tree Grove, Knarf and Hanid, the shadow-children with the turned-about names, heard the voice saying: "Ail aboard All aboard!"

They recognised the volee at

once.

An Amphibian Friend "Why, it's Willy Toad," said Hanid.

"That's who it is, all right,"

By ignoring the call of the sold Knort.

tub?

get rid of A bong mo

dummy's trumps and thus

"That's it," said Willy.

"Why. It's not a train at all," said Knarf. "It's just caterpillara and a snail."

the

"My dear boy." said Willy. "I'm afraid you do not under- stand much about railroads. The caterpillars are the cars,

All mall is the locomotive... aboard! All aboard!"

"Pardon me, alr," said a little short potato bug dressed in pants and a white blouse, as be ran up to Willy. "Does this train go to the Rocky Moun tain?"

The potato bug asked Willy Tond where the train went.

trains railroad

here in the

Then they both ran the rest of the

way to the Pine Tree "That's right," said Willy. "It Grove, for they were curious to goes to the White Mountains, wood." know why Willy should be the Green Mountains, the the

eliminate the ruling trick. In this case, however, dummy still "HE is so ethereal," writes a shouting. All Aboard! since Adirondacks, the Catskills,

keeps the ace of clubs as a

critic of ballet, "that you

her expeet

dematerialise to stopper, and South has time to before your eyes" Oh, I say, set up a heart trick.

South could have made his look here, what frightful rot!

remark contract even after making his prefer George Mair's

Pavlova, "Schoolmen If he is foolish about

used to dobate how many

first mistake,

cnough to win the first trick

there were no trains in the Pine Blue Ridge Mountains and the Tree Grove.

Rocky Mountains." By this time they had reached

Train on Wings "Oh, yes," said Willy, "We've had them for a long time. Our trains here are a little different

the middle of the Pine Tree The little potato bug thanked from tho trains that carry

Willy and scrambled

Grove and there, suro en backs of the caterpiliara was their friend Willy He was dressed in

blue rall-

ace of clubs, he must angels can dance on the point road conductor's uniform and

with the ace

be sure to lead the king hearts at the second trick.

of

of

# pin. Pavlova,"

If the defenders now get rid

of the trumps, South will still make a heart trick; and if they fall to get rid of the trumps, South will be able to ruff club in dummy.

VACARD Senses

Q-With both sides vulner able, the bidding has been: South West North East

1 Heart Double. Redbi, 1Spado

You, South, hold: Spades A- 3-2, Hearts A-K-3-0-3-2, Die- monds 4-8-2, Club 7. What do you do?

APAN TUE unlikely that your partner will double spades,

but you're willing to give him

The

IRSWET in

CHESS PROBLEM

Br 8, BIKO:

Black, 7 pieces,

the ouanon to do so. If he And White, 11 pieces. ·

doesn't, you can rebla the White to play: mate in two, hearts later.

TODAY'S QUESTION

The

Solutio o'n to

bidding is the mimo as in problem:

the question just answered. You,

South, hold: Spade 7, Hearts A-

K«J»6«3«27? Diamonds K-10-2. Clube A^1. What do you do?" (dh});kh

18; threat":2,

artoot," went the mail,

he was carrying a lantern, which again. he swung up and down. Only

and Hanid

one

on the people from place to place. For instance, that train you just saw can climb over walls and go up aboard!" shouted Willy

Once wo had

strange with a caterpillar Unfortunately,

Knart and train. Yes,

Bir Knart

couldn't sco Hanld were too big to At on the day all the caterpillars changed any railroad station, or railroad back of any of the caterpillars into butterflies and flew right track, or railroad train or any the "train" moved off.

iny. At last, with a final foot-toot, off the tracks. The strangest All they could see was a

thing anyone ever heard of." thing.

"But Willy," said Hanid when And having said this, Willy crowd of small begs and little

Drain "I swung his lantern Insects, all carrying valises and they were all alone again. satchels and duffel bags and didn't know there were any walked of knapsacks as they waited for

the train.

"Ah," said Willy, when he spied Knari and Hanid. "You're

just in time. Have you

your tickets?" BA

Rupert at Greyrocks Cove

-13

got

An Odd Kind of Train "Willy dear," said Hanid. "Wo didn't even know thero was a train 'hare. In fact,

WO can't опа

see any train.. Is there

Certainly there's

Bald Willy.

one there,!!

"Where is it?" asked Knart "Como, along,”//mid-Willy,

Suddenly be stoppedi

pointed: There it

And

Can't

Knart and Hanld looked. All they could my was a doze yellow caterpillars standing On bebind the other

mall in front.

ли

and

Trailing plants are a

charming note atop either side of book- shelves, The green leaves and siems trailing down the skécs make u pleasant frame for shelves, and contents.

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