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THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1955.

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"Just be glad you don't have to watch it!"

1473

.BY. THE WAY.

by Beachcomber

THE Becusation, that Naricover is being held to ransom

at the moment, free from scandals seems to have touched both masters and scholars the raw

on

From latest reports I gather that insurance agents are not satised that the burning down of Mr. Chalcott's house was an accident;

rich new boy

that a

JACOBY ON BRIDGE

Not Easy To Pick Right Contract

By OSWALD JACOBY

"in a

ล

coalshed, and that his parents have already stumped up twice; dis- that a matron has been pensing red wine in lieu of medicine; that

Smart- Dr Allick's

is new secretary

the Cirque trapeze-artist from

Paris: that Medrano in master was shot in the leg when he tried to stop card-playing on the Chapel steps: and that the Sixth Form has struck for higher marks.

Election fever IN 3 gloomy statement issued

yesterday

in

Nobody

Mrs Multitude says: "Nobody is interested. politics or politicians. is interested in anyone who politics or Polierested in

pretends to

be

Charlie

Suct reports that many people thought the word election re- ferred to the choice of a Bath- Queen. One man said, "Why

ing

Tisn't easy to pick the best can't they elect themselves in-

stead of worrying woman

YOUR BIRTHDAY

FRIDAY, JUNE 24

BY STELLA

WOMANSENSE

BORN today, you bare may need to learn to thinks of Beach Smock With Side-Slits

others, a little more. Team work counts.

charming, magnetic per- souality which will get you many pinces. You make a host

Since Your affections pre of friends and they will stick deep, you may find that you are to you giving help no matter influenced by those whom you how tough the going may be love when advice from an outsider for you at times. In fact, you might be ignored.

Strange that are very fortunate, for you are you have so many friends who never alone in any misfortune.

misfortune, want to help and you are so You are the type to "bound loath to accept it! This may be back after an upset and even- merely a matter of tuise, pride, tually, it you persevere, you will Remember that if you accept achieve the fame and success of help when you need it, you can which you have dreamed.

give help when others. need it.

Art:

Your talents are diversified Among those born on this and you can put them to work date

Stuyvesant Fish, for you in a variety of Bolds. Anarcher: Henry Ward Beecher, You have a will of your own noted clergyman; John Hughes, and whers crossed can become educator; Lord Kitchener of stubborn and will stick to your Khartoum Jack Dempsey, guns no matter what happens. pugilist; Martha Steeper, Alm You care very Ittle whether star Lewis Browne, author.

others agree with you or not To And what the stars have in and intend to go your own way,

store for you tomorrow, select regardless. This may be the your birthday star and read the Let cause of most of your difficulty corresponding paragraph. -wherever you have any-for your birthday star be your daily in a highly co-operative age, you guide.

SATURDAY, JUNE 25

CANCER (June 22-July 23)— days, so take things easy and convinced don't attempt too much, Rest is You are not easily against your will. Lister, if you best. wish, but then act as you see fit,

LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)----

If at all possible, ease tensions by taking a trip into the country if you work in the city,

VIRGO (Aur. 24-Sept. 23) It would be wise to forget the trials of the work-a-day world. Change the scene, if you can

LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)- This is not one'

of your best

TARGET

B

T

A

Y

said, "My vote gces to anyone who stops people teasing parrots, and I don't care a candidate or

contract for North and South in today's hand. Five diamonds would run into quite a bit of trouble if East opened a spade The defenders or a trump, would lead trumps ús soon as [not." possible, and declarer would never get to the dummy.

Three no-trump ដ ។ look foolish, with a void in the North hand, but it's a fairly reasonable contract. Normal defence should give decker little trouble.

whether he's

Cocklecarrot's soliloquy

THIS," "quoted Cocklecarrot, the Alsatian, as he eyed this is the forest primeval as Longfellow observed in another

Pharmbutta correction.

∙evi- dently

10,000 makes

halts grow where rone grew before. Come, doggie, let me hack my way through the jungle, that I may pot what I take to be your clarer, Wes; opened the deuce, head. It every beard spread in

this

fashion, the barbers' scissors

West judged from the bidding that South

in had strength hearts and spades, and he de- cided not to lend either of these suits. Hoping

de- to mislead

of clibs.

South Anessed dummy's ter would be lost in the under- of clubs, content to lose the

1 growth,

and the ubiquitous trick, and to get the expected sparrow build his nest in secu- heart return up to dummy's

Ely. Birnam Wood seems to have removed to Dunsinane. See how poor Toddler blinks, as be peers from his hairy arbour. If one ounce of Pharmbutta can do this to a dog.

TOW much would an elephant have to eat

WEST

KJB3

❤Q752

+36

4A72

NORTH (D)

AA4

None

AKQ933

21

➡K 10983

--EAST

4852

J1093

⚫ 10 8 4

SOUTH

Q1097 AK854

+72

#5 Neither side vul.

North East South

Pass 1

West Pat

24

Pass 2 N.T.

Pasa

Pass 3 N.T.

Pass

Pass PASK

vaid.

Opening lead-♣ 2

East didn't, however,

oblige him with a heart

turn, East knew that his part-" ner had made a desperation lead, and this made ppening

it seem probable that West had speaking of in

nothing worth Fast therefore.|

hearts or

decided

to try to keep South from ever gaining the lead. La pursuance of this East returned a low diamond. Dummy had to win,

and dee clarer Tan his six diamond tricks for lack of anything bel- ter to do. The defenders diz- carded hearts without much trouble.

South. next took the ace of spades and led another spade towards his hand. West with the jack of spades casually returned another .club,

and

Iow

"Declarer now had to guess whether to play the king of the nine, and he happened to guess wrong When dummy finessed the mine, East won with the queen of clubs and returned a club. The defenders has took three clube and two spades, de- feating the same contract.

♥CARD Sensek♦

Q-The bidding has been: North East South

į.

West

1 Heart Fass 2 Spades Pass 3-Hearts Pass

You, South, hold: MAKQJ974 951 4A3 264

What do you do? Mate ABid four spades. Both Jump bida combined/show an absolute- IF solid snit, but indiente -mino that slam is unlikely unless North hee somewhat more than a bare opening blá, M

METODAY'S QUESTION]}

The bidding, is the same.ns in the question just awered. You,. South, helduta

AAKQ74 VATES OQI 404

What do you do?

Answer TomOTTOW

CAR

15

Huy

words of four jercers of more CAD YOU EXA tram

the UNITS on the left T 11' making each word the

in each of the small squares may be used ence only. Bich word más con- min the larra letter in the centra square, and thers must be at least one pie-letter word is the list, Na plurals i no foreign words; na proper names, TODAY'S TARGET: words, good; 22 words, Ter! Food:

artcent 24 words, Solation.romoTTOW

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION: Anter back backer baka baker hank banker burk beak beaker beck bracken brake break BREAKNEOK cake canker crake " crank creak creek keck keen kerbs kera knock knacker kno knee naker neck rock take rank. reberi Tech regk..

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov. 22)- While you are out shopping to- day, make sure that you are getting exactly what you want.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)-You may find that some good reading will increase your knowledge on a subject and in- crease your ambition.

CAPRICORN (Dec 23-Jan, 20) that

13 there Remember" always a tomorrow-and yours may be a very cheerft:1 and happy one.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) -With luck, you may be able to spend a pleasant week-end with

a triends at distance.

Enjoy yourself.

PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar, 20)-

а few You may be among selected people to make an im portant contribution to a munity effort.

com-

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20)--- It is likely that there are some of those cdd jobs at home that need doing. Make an early start.

TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)- Take it easy today and get some fun out of life with a group of friends whom' you" enjoy.

"Caraibes", by Jacques Heim, is a beach ensemble con- sisting of "Brigantine", the designer's version of tunic, and paddle-pushers. In two-laned beize and brown, this Brian- tine has side aliis showing Chinese influence, Artaco France-Freast,

HOUSEHOLD HINT.

up

of

this fabric, several inches wide, around the bottom of the skirt, The band should be cut straight for gathered skirts, on the blas for flared skirts...

if a favourite dress has be GEMINI (May 22-Jane 21)—come too short to satisfy This can be a fine day for almost to-date fashion, ade collar of some contrasting any kind of activity which you and belt may choose to select...

and sew a band

BOYS' AND

Everything Backwards

material,

*

GIRLS' MAGAZINE

But the people who lived in.

Somethingelsetown

were the

its

do

-In Somethingelsetown People Were Strange-

Some of them were half- "It is," said General Bravo, dressed. Some of them By MAX TRELL

Some of "But that's not the strangest half-washed.

started

strangest of all!

were

them

before disappearing behind own beard? What, Toddler, you growl, or did I but hear far horn in the capillary dis- lance Dieu, que le son du cor est triste au fond de la barbe.

Pretty Toddler, didurns eat too much Pharmbutta?"

Oh, I say, look here!

A chiropodist who refuses to cut a Red Indian's toe-nails is of the * mockery making colour-bar.

(Birmingham bus-driver.)

CROSSWORD

Acros

כי

1. URITY (Ve it in an anagram.

1. Tom Brown and the Piper's

Son were both this. (6)

10. Overcame the obstacles. (9)°

11. Prui: protector. (4)

12. Pisytang of the unthinking,

BUDO-

13. The uninformed. jack

thing near the centre. (9) 15. Figures from a lad at a party.

C)

14. is a comedian successful_17_ne

tickles thla 7. (3)

18. Your me, for the most part,

follows these. (3)

20. The man's & sweetheart. (4) 21. A dance you can cotton on to

quickly? ()

22. "Laughter variety may help the

dendisi, (3)

23. South-East Well Gown in the

mud. (5)

Dow.

1. Drug in tin is obviously not

meant to be there, (9)

2. Girl from a winner in a beauty,

contest, (8)

3. These are made up of Tarece.-

(a)

4. Anything on this is ready for.

5. Nalderens day, comes before the disconearted deer, fast

4. The melody lingers on after the song is this the lyrio, says.

7. Sproating chim to an Ameri-

Can 1)

8. I'm up more for the ance. (8) 10. These keep you from getting the needle. în the wrong pines, ED, R

example. (5) 1. This is the

last kind of

Have, (5)

to

17. Bola with

pious the fitt

eragh.

bishop'a

walking one way then

The Strangest

KNARF and Hanid, the thing about Somethingelisetown were half-asleep. Some of them

shadow-children with the You'll see." turned-about names, locked out- of the window of the jet plane in which they were flying with old friend General their good Bravo, the tin soldier."

A Village Below "Lock!" Knari exclaimed sud. denly. "I see a village down there, right below us, General Bravo!"

"So do I see it," said Hamid to General Bravo.

General Bravo looked down. He nw the village too. "Oh

By this time the jet plane had come zooming down and landed " in the airfield at the edge of

started wallding another... Kart Somethingelsetown. It wasn't

Here and and Harid and General Bravo very good airfeld.

went through the village and there were broken-off pieces of talked to sume of the Some- what telephone poles, and stumps of thingelsers (which was trees, as though whoever was the people of Somethingelse. building the airfield had decided town called themselves). to go off and do something else before it was finished.

Unfinished Business

General

Bravo landed

"Why

don't you ever finish you start to do?" Knarf asited one of the Something-

.

what

the

"Why don't you ever finish what you stars to do?" Knarf asked.

elsers. He was a boy about like Somethingelsetown." Knarf's age. He had ene

and one stocking on. Fie smiled," said the General. as he answered: "Oh, we never

yes, I know that village," he plane safely. Knart and Hanid finish anything we start out to said. "It's one of the most stepped outside and looked at de.because we always think of to do in the curious places in the world. I the village. Sure enough it was something else don't think you'll care for it, a

strange fe place. middle of doing the Arst thing!" though. I guess we'd better not Wherever they looked they saw land."

things which seemed nover to have been finished.

"Why not?" Knart asked. "What's wrong with it?" asked

Hanid

very

Once

Korf and Hanld and General Bravo visited a school. They. saw the children start studying They saw houses without routs, and cofs without houses. their lessons, they all at

They saw doors without knobs, rush off and start playing ban, then in the middle of the ball- and knobs without doors.

game rush off again to play tag They saw streets without a push an express wagon. They walks, and sidewalks with- NEVER finished anything. They out streets. They saw chimneys ALWAYS thought of something without smoke, and smoke with- clse! out chimneys. They stw holes "That's a strange name," Hanid that were never filled, and piles

hat were never taken away back in said.

"Well, come to think of it General Bravo suddenly said, "I guest you might like to see it just the spine. I take the plane down. The name of the village Is Somethingelsetown."

CHESS PROBLEM

By S. LEMBACH

Black, 3 pieces.

When Krarf and Hanid were

the Jetplane and

CL

again Knart and Ughts that were never lit their way home

"I'm Genedal Bravo: and other lights that were never sold to

glad there aren't more places put out,

Rupert and the

Cold-cure-27

Bridegrooms Are Next To Fathers In Nervousness

...AND THEN THE BRIDEGROOM FAINTED

HED

New York.".

Mrs Harris, an attractive

a tear for the brunette, was herself a victim of forgetfulness when she was a bride. Her wedding was scheduled for the Waldorf- Astoria hotel, and when she toots the bills for all the was ready to dress, the bridal satin-and-lace productions of

father of the bride. Not only is he the man who

the June wedding season. But own was nowhere to be found. he is also the person who

"Whoever was in charge of suffers the worst case of jit it, had forgotten to bring it ters.

over from the apartment," she said. “We sent a 'maid home to

"

So report Mr and Mrs Har- get the gown, and the cab broire

court Harris, who run a New York photographie

shaho down on the way. By the time my dress arrived, I was ready specialising in candid coverage to go to the altar in slip, and

tridal vell."

of weddings. After 10,000 wed- dings, they've ended up worry ing more about the father of the bride than any other mem- ber of the family.

"I've never yet seen a father who in't green as ho goes down the aisle," said Mrs Harris "He always looks as t this is the last mile.

MANY - CHANGES

Mrs Harris Joined her 'his- band in business during World. War II.

"Somebody had to run the

he shop while

the was in service," she said. "I came in to "Maybe he's just thinking of help... and here I am." the bills later."

She and ber husband they've noticed may changes

since the studio was opened 20 years ago.

CALM BRIDES

Mrs Harris suld brides seem the calmest of all on the big day maybe because their bl problem, catching a man, been solved.

has

bridegrooms

She would rate next to fathers in nervousness

One bridegroom in, particular

she never will forget.

"Mothers of the brides are. prettier now," she said. "Some of them you'd, mistake for the bride.".

and younger-looking

Couples are marrying at * younger age.

“But what worries me,” Mrs Harris, "is the

said

attitude They op- "I noticed he was prelty some of them have. shaky beforehand,”

said, prooch marriage with the idea,

she

"And he swayed a little as he Well, if this one doesn't work walked to the altar. But the out, we can always get ceremony went off smoothly. divorce."

The bridegroom made all

Matter of fact, the Harris

proper responses, slipped the studio has had several raturma ring on the bride's anger, "kiss- customers. ed her-and fainted."

octa-

Said Mrs Harris:

Mrs Harris said such

"Not too long ago, a divorcee sione fortunately, are rare, that called me, said she was getting mast weddings do go off married again, and asked how at worst with much of trade-in we would smoothly, or

as

a allow on the pictures of her such "minor" mishaps

first wedding."-United Press. last bridal gown.

Quick Summer Dishes

By ALICE DENHOFF

FOR humid days, serve a

To spice up jellied consonime,

fresh garden salad add a dash of garlic salt and a with a tasty dressing that's bay leaf,

easy to make.

יני

Just add tsp. of celery seed and 1⁄4 tsp. garlic salt to your favourite French dressing recipe.

Dooft overlook the possibilities of summer squash. Here I B main dish which serves 4 to 8:

Wash 2 white scalloped-edged

squash thoroughly. Place these in a saucepan and add a small smount of boiling salted water; - For a quicle main dish for

cover tightly and simmer 16 Juncheon or supper, try min. Cut "fid" from top of each Peric and beans. Use the and scoop out centres, out of a tin variety and Mix centres with 1 c. finely place in

the bean pol, spiking shopped, cooked ham of bologna the tinned beans with prepare, sausage, c. bread crumbs, tsp. ed mustard, mustard seed, chili

more curry powder, 4 c. powder, bay leat and a dash of minced, stuffed olives. Full bol- cayenne-all to taste, of course, lowed-out squash with mixture, Top with brown sugar, or Sprinkle tops with extra crumbs. blend in honey or molases before. Det with butter, or place à alice. baking it.

If there's a lithic bacon or salt. f bacon on each. pork bandy, make use of it; not, settle for sliced franks. Any "So way, you'll come up with a dish

that the menfolk will enjoy.

Place in baking dish, add water left from Arst cooking.

Bouffant

Bake in moderate 'oven 5 min., or until squash is tender,

Petticoats

Almost too pretty to be hidden but adding a very definite "swish" to all your Summer cottons. Many new flouncy. styles in white, dainty pastels and black Sizes small, medium

or large.

Nylon Horsehair

Nylon Horsehair Net

$45.00

$55.00

Marquisette Dotted Swiss $70.00

GET YOURS TO-DAY

Levierday's Fairmon

White, 4 pieces, White to play mate la three,

Solution to yesterday's problems

1, R-K4; any: 2, Q, R (dir ch), or B (dis ch) mates.

Saying goodbye to the hetle dwad Rupert runs homewards feeling very pleased with himself **It's all timed out yally well, he thinks, ** except that I didn's sperid so much time with Bill as Mrs. Badger thought I work. Still, 1 did make han forget himself for a

while. What fun I shall have at home when I tell them about je * Bor when he dasher into his Berf cottage Bits. Bear shivers,

but that door quickly," she says. It's try cokl, and neither daddy nor I are feefing œ all well today, ALL RIGHTS RESERYKO"

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