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EDITORS FRENI ADAVICE INČAHURKA YORK,

1540

""They don't build them fodny like they used to,”

.BY. THE. WAY.

by Beachcomber

is every say

a day when for

I paint cofeet shouls horse and the calledded

10

her

the

the audience, "This plano absent-minded Wordsworth and plays like front gate. It should led him round to the front en- be used for fireword."

ita

This happened Sydney 311- Town Hall the other day. formal remarks of this sort establish a friendly feeling be tween audience and performer. Nobody who was in the Music Conservatory at Walsalt on June 20 last year will ever forget the cheers when Rustiguzzi's accom- panist said loudly, between two items. "I don't see the point of having a toghorn going on this clear summer day." And every- body knows Rielfer's rebuke to 10 the violins in the Kursaal at Ostend: " Brahms had wanted

to include a number of sawmills

Indicated the fact in the score.'

Arance. My fellow-back, Timothy Shy, once remarked that Words- worth and George Eliot were each other often mistaken for

particularly when they were between shafts, Tavish I could have introduced, lienty James them both. Wordsworth's sonnet to George Eliot with her nosebag on a well known George Ellot! Chaste snowdrop

of the wild

Why hident thou thy beauty

in a

sacic?

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1955..

JACOBY

ON BRIDGE

Bridge Crime Helps Rivals

By OSWALD JACOBY

ABRIDGE erla was com

when 15day's hand

was played. See If you can spot the erlie and the criminal,

West opened the queen of kearls and shifted to a low club at the second trick.

Declarer

put up, the ace of clubs, dow three rounds of trump and then run the rest of his trumps for good measure, saving the Rye diamonds in the dummy. South finally led a diamond and took the

rent of the tricks In dummy, making the contract with two overtricks.

Anybody who can't point to the criminal should get ready to

NORTH (D)

A 104

10 57 2 ◆ AKQJB ♣AB

EAST

22

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WEST

972 Q

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K75

SOUTH

♦ 10 7 3

AAKQ853

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⚫04

Q ID

North-South vul.

North 10

East South

Wert

1 V 1.

Pass

Nature's lone, perennial child! Why eat'st thou as the horaca

rat? Alack!

Pass

Pass Pass

AA

Pass

Opening lead-♥ Q

Triples angel!

in the orchestra, he would have fiery steed, impatient of the turn in his “Germaine, oil Mr

Cladwell's bat"

CRICKET has always been

CRIC

regarded as the inst strong-

hold of decency in an age of unbridled falla. No scandals are associated

or

with the fame. The players are not doped maimed before a match, Nor hos mixed cricket suilled the county grounds. But let us not be smug. Quietly and insidious- ly women are at work.

They

have appeared at Lord's in bathing dresses, and at the Oval in backless evening gowns. It said that a botsman al Old Trafford completed a run-but did not stop. He continued to run all the way to the pavilion, where he had caught sight of a party of dancing girls. The for Indy demand

umpires (umpirettes) Is but one mani- festation of a pagan tendency Awhich may yet reduce cricket do the level of the Halma Thurs-

laya at Penzance,

Whoal Kerm up there! CONTEMPLATING

George

Eliot's equine face in a pluture, I was reminded of the

Trin.

TARGET

H

LNE

C T

1

HOW MANY

four letter

words or

****

of mure an you from

the

letters in the SQUATE Do the left in taking each

the word. Letters to each of the imali squares may be used onen unly. Each word must contaio the large letter in the centre square, and there must be at feast one nine-letter word in the

wordi

fiat, No blurals: no forel TODAY'S ne proper names. TARGET: 30 words, good: 36 words, very good; 43 words, ¿zce. lent. Molution tomorrow.

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION: Apple epaulet erupt lappet iesp leaver leapt leper pale Daler paly palter paper paro part pain pauper peal Dear Beari neut peal neep peer pelt sella PERPETUAL pet scial netret plat plats plater pled "pleas leura prate prelate pule pulp paider pupa pupat pupate pure Duri purpin rape tuppen Tape

tepal redp repeal repeat

repp tape taper repute rupee

trap tipper.

YOUR BIRTHDAY...... By STELLA

THURSDAY, AUGUST 25

a marriage, you might not wed at

all,

acquire fame as well as fortune. success are within you, so make

You

is

DORN today, you have D highly adaptable nature, and are quick to adjust yourself to You have a natural instinct changing situations. You are

for business but need 40 be keen observer of human nature warned against being

a little when and have literary talent so that too adventuresome,

you make use of these gifts comes to expanding your finan- you will find that you

The elements of may cial interests.

at all times. have a retentive memory the best of them Tor detail and although you are Your temperargental nature highly critical of the actions of probably

worst your own enemy. Try to control' it. others, you are usually able to

Among those born. nd the good in everyone.

this date are: Bret Harte, and Waldo You have a deep interest nclure and the exact selenec; Frank, authors; Isidore Schneider, and night make a fine labora- posk Allan Pinkerton, detec

Crosby, orchestra tury technician. With the pro- live: Bob per training you would make a leader: George Fawceti, actor; fine physician. Although your Robert Slolz, conductor: Elsie likes and dislikes are strong. Valentine and Ruby Keeler you have schooled yourself not to show any emotion and only those closest to you know how

in

actresses.

011

To find what the stars have in stere for you tomorrow, select

keenly you feel about things. your birthday war and read the There will probably be one real corresponding paragraph. love in your life and if that your romance did not eniminate in daily guide.

birthday

FRIDAY, AUGUST 26

#

VIRGO (Aug, 24-Sept. 23)— You should make plans for long week-end, Change your pattern of living. If you edn.

Lot slur be your

gossip. You will know, in your own heart, what is best to do.

CANCER (June 22-July 23)-

for Plans that you make today

LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)— the future inay be of very great It is possible that you are in importance, so be extremely line for promotion, just now, wise.

Experience is always important. LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)-

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)

If you are planning a beavy

-Protect your personal proper schedule ty for there is a real possibility

of loss unless you are careful,

of work this winter, make blue prints for it now

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. and follow them.

22)-Learn to control emotions

especially if you suffer disap-

pointment by keeping busy,

(Dec. 23-Jan,

CAPRICORN 20)-Ail affairs on the home

front

highly favourable these days no take full advant- nge.

ate

AQUARIUS (Jan, 21-Feb. 19) -Unfortunately, you may have do put business before pleasure today so stlek to roulino,

PISCES (Feb, 20-Mar., 20) --- If you are asked to contribute your time and money to neigh- bourhood affalis, agree to do it graciously.

ARIES. (Mar, 21-Apr. 20)- In making important decisions, you must pass judgment with- out. Bide. If you are to be faire minded:

CHESS PROBLEM

By W. JORGENSEN Black, 5 pieces

White, 7 pieces,

TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 31) while to play: mate in two,

Viờ de likely that money-matters

WELL,be/0f the utmort impor= Solution to yesterday's,

Minor in šale, day's happenings. | problems"

CEMININEMDay" 22-June, 12)

kio attention--to rindom

bridge detective's badge. Do your detective work before you read on.

East was the criminal, for the hand should be defeated. East should overtalte the queen of hearts with the king, Just in case This West has led a singleton. happens to be the ease.

East continues with the ace of hearts, takes a third trick with the jack of hearts, and then leads a fourth

heart.

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WOMANSENSE

Could YOU do this at

Aluminium Goes Indoors

YOUNG

Yo

By ELEANOR ROSS

couples setting

Those delicate pastels as well

up housekeeping, who as vibrant hues are all well re- presented in this sort of furnl- have to work well within a ture, so that one can even keep budget, would do well to the ilving room rug in mind when consider the summer furni- making a selection of "outdoor ture collections now in the pieces." stores. Some of the newest When the fourth heart is led pieces seem to have through him, South cannot pre-designed vent the loss of a trump trick. If South ruffs low, West will overruff immediately, If South ruffs with an honour, West will discard and will later make a natural trump trick with the

nine.

The point is a very simple one, to be sure, but it was actually missed by a very experienced player when the hand was played. One way to avoid miss- ing such plays at the table is to become thoroughly familiar with the idos en paper and thus be rendy for it when it does come along.

V+CARD Senseķ♦

Q-The bidding has been: North East South West 1 Spade Pass IN.T. Pass 2 Clubs Pass

?

You, South, hold: 473 3962 $854 4AQ93

What do you do?

A-Pass. You have proper val- ues for your first response, but came is very unlikely when your partner cannot make a jump re- bid. Accept a comfortable part score.

TODAY'S QUESTION

The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You South, hold:

473 KD62 4854 MA QI3

What do you do?

Answer Tomorrow

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Thank the hen for this. (3)

d: Fund, and for

Morris (3)

9. Tip Hoy axe (anag.).' (W). 11, Lap it. Adı (ansu.). THE

12. Just the sort of coat to mak

good woollles. [0] 13. Fin for engineers (3)

14. This KATO Alege 16. It doubled to jɔin the Thames,

(45

17. in return.

a battering in vidi

18. Omen and tint are both mixed

up in this (8)

24. Laurel for the victor in the

window rece. (3)

21. Expletive sounds like a horse.

(3)

23. A hemp rond makes a signst

system. (9)

taw

1. Begin the delicacy and end with the promissory notes, (D)

2. The high kind ereme to be quite

A big noise 19)

Jack was this killer. (0)

4. Bometime preceden - Men se

work." (0)

1. A. Otter, R.N. (anap.), (8)

9, Pir bighe (4)

7. Song for one voice. (4).

It's two down (:(8)

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may

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(4)

15. Stars abosté,

specifically

All

Easy To Clean been

Nothing is azier to move about for than furniture of lightweight them rather than just for aluminium. And when it outdoor living. Although it is upholstered in plastic material, as

keep clean and bright. intended for summer porches generally is, nothing is easier and gardens, summer furni- you need do, is to wash down the ture today will be perfectly entire piece with a sudsy cloth. gleams like at home in the living room, and the furniture

ow.ngals.

กษ Fleecs that Inak just as well Instead of being a luxury, indoors as in the garden, patio or something to be used only for a on the porch, are finished in up- few months of the year and then holstery that simulates more for- stored away, the new mal fabrics. Some of the pieces aluminium pieces are actually a are extremely graceful, since ys aluminium tubing can be bent Investment. sound

Nowadays the manufacturers have a way and worked into any pattern. of sealing the colour finish on For households that include aluminium so that it won't fade children, aluminium furniture is from the sun. And of course, an excellent idea since it can take wet weather can't harm it, quite a beating and survive.

Not A Luxury

A

LEXANDRA

LOVA, the

London,

DANI-

Russian

Ballet dancer who has

danced for 42 years and

still dances-didn't like the

fifty?

hands under and over one another. try it. very rapidly' (Exhausting. You

question. Slim as an Oscar note. "To dance demands love, stretched out straight from the statuette, large-eyed as dedication, Like Picasso who shoulder, Switch the cat "Why should it be re- paints and paluts." markable that I dance at I was watching her rehearse a my age?" sho demanded. now ballet. A blue -figure, of a highly (She gave 29 as her age at licker-quick, full her London wedding 23 strung brilliance and surprise. One almost felt uneasy to see years ago-so that makes her dance like this at 51.

reference her age 51. But books say she is only 49),

Very naughty

Then she had collapsed into

Another exercise is swinging the arms before and behind and clapping the hands together. Arms held straight.

These three exercises (particu- larly the looped-up shufle round the room) will keep any figure

"I have danged all my life since I was nine," she said, her what could only be described as supple of 50-and after voles hitting 11 Russian bass a baritohe giggie at herself. "Oh,

it is very naughty. I am blonde, you know with lots of feathers And I am padded!" she told me,

Danilova bent down, legs quite straight, describing the put Ker hands on the

costume she

would wear that evening.

it

Feel fresh

Other Danllova tips are:

Lots of sweeping with a long- handled brush. Good for the stomach and waist. Always pick

floor....and shuffled could make very little difference up scraps from the carpet with

across the

room.

in Glibert "Pipa," featured ¡Orcel's

of Asiatic collection Inspiration, is a black velvet and jersey toque in the shape of a three-tiered pagoda.— Agence France-Presse.

BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

A Hole in the Wall

-It Turned Out to Be the Twitchinose Home-

By MAX TRELL

my

brown best clothes, my trousers, my yellow hat, my red ATE at night when everyone silk shirt and a carnation in my the house was fast buttonhole-oh yes, and a little asleep, Knarf and Hanid,

the present in a box-and went with the down to the cellar. I squeezed shadow-chlidren turned-about names, would have through the hole-in-the-wall, long talks with their old friend Christopher Cricket.

Cricket Christopher

always had stories to tell. What was more, he liked telling them.

"Now last night," he said. "I had an adventure. I call It, The Hole in the Wall."

He Sat On the Carpet "Oh, tell it to us!" Knarf and Hanld begged.

on the

"Certainly!" replied Christo- pher Cricket. Then he sat him self down comfortably edge of the carpet, crossed his legs, straightened the eroase In his trousers, and began:

"For a long time, my dears, 1 had been noticing that little hole in the cellar

wall, It wasn't much bigger than an egg and it was about the same shape. It was only when I got up quite close to it, that I saw that it wasn't just plain ordinary hole. On no!"

went down the little tunnel and finally, there I was, in front of the big wooden door. I rang the bell."

Christopher Cricket stopped talking.

"What happened a fler you rang the beli?" Knarf wanted to know.

"I waited," said Christopher, "You

just waited?" sald Knart,

"Yes, I just walted."

soid

the

bell again." "What happened then, Chris topher?" asked Hanld,

Nothing happened," sold Christopher.

"I guess nobody was home," sald Knart.

Christopher Cricket rang the bell and walled.

MIN

Christopher. "And then, after I heard spucakes. I heard meows, waited for a little while, I rang I whirled around. And what did

1 Bow Mr and Twitchinose racing with all speed toward the hole-in-the- wall followed by the cat."

Christopher Cricket uncrossed his legs and stood up.. "And that's the end of the adventure, The Unexpected

Mr and Mrs Twil- my dears. Christoplier Cricket nodded, chinese reached the hole-in-the- The cat couldn't exactly wall first. "Yes," he said, "that's a

what I thought. I was quito squeeze in at all. She was much sorry and disappointed. I really too big. They were delighted to had wanted to have a visit with see me. They opened the door Knart the Twitchinoses.

And then and

Invited me in. We had a wonderful visit!"

The Entrance "Why, what was it?" asked.

"It was an entrance," sald Christopher Cricket,

08

entrance.

told

Hanid said: "An chirence? An entrance to what, Christopher

"An entrance," said Christo pher and he started to smile "an entrance to That's what it warl"

Knart and Hanid both Christopher that what he just said didn't make much sense.

"I'll explain," sald Christo- pher. "That egg-shaped hole in the wall was really a way into

phd a dwelling-place for Mr Mrs Twitchinose. They're couple of mico. But you don't get into their dwelling-place by Just squeezing through that first

That hole-in-the-wall

only leads down a little tunnel Inside the wall. When you come to the real entrance

a regular door made of wood, with hinges brid a brass. knob and a lock? and a ball on one kide of it. S

Well," continued Christopher

something did happen!"

Krart und Hanid waited "I wish we could visit Mr and

Fifteen or 50. I realised,

lo Danilova.

But behind the effervescence?

One always hopes to effortless eternal youth.

find

But no, that old bogy of un- remitting self-discipline Its unlovable head.

rears

Danilova, besides all the dance exercises and rehearsing that aro normal in a dancer's life, also does those gruesome when-you- get-up-in-the-morning exercises we are all supposed to do.

legs straight.

"Use the grase machine many times." (She means the lawn

move mower-popular

with husbands.)

When you feel thed circle the shoulders round and round both forwards and backwards. "Make you feel fresh."

Beauty tips

General beauty tips she doos not abound in, as she believes "Can you do this?" she said. the main thing is to have a sim, She bent down, legs quite il figure. The 1st follows-or straight and put her hands flat seems to in her caso. on the floor. She shuffled across

the stage of the Festival Hall, stit looped up, and came back again.

"Good for the stomach," she alleged.

Clap hands

"Every so often I declare a week of beauty. Then I diet, put cream on my body and really suffer," she said, rolling enor- mous Eyci..

Somebody once did Mme, Denikova a great favour.

"They to me, 'Nover eat ice She showed me the arm and cream. It will ruin your figure." chest exercise she does every So I never touch. I don' know morning-04 mea, although she what it taste like. I am afraid udvises the beginner to start to because I might like it with 10, Hands and arms. But her!Grand Tip for feéling

young and happy is

CLEOPATRA'S BEAUTY IDEA

Battle Creek, Mich. THE administrative dietitian of the Battle Creek Sanitarium Diagnostic Clinic says modern women should borrow some beauty tips from the ancients.

Always do anything unpleas- ant you have to do FIRST, Then you get younger and happier as you go through the day."

Anne Sharpley

Household Hints

SE balting soda to remova stanch stuck to an ironi, Rub the iron with a damp cloth sprinkled with the soda, after Miss Lenna Cooper said the iron is disconnected and "real beauty" didn't come cool. The sods will not scratch from artificial cure-alls, but the highly-polished surfade, from proper diets.

Protect the tuft ón côndlewick bedspreads by placing them in in large sack or pillow

L them when washing washing machine,

"Cleopatra

stunner 4 WTS partly because she ate the sun- baked foods of the Nile Valley," she said, "That ancient lady knew nothing about calories, but her natural instincta

were sound. She had not been spoli- ed by modern civilisation."

Mits Cooper said the proper diet was better than any baty preparation on the market,

or

case

the

One of the favourite foods. for picnics suppers is cheese- stuffed frankfurlers. Fill the t meliaw frankfurters with melted cheese and dill pickle. Serve in toasted buns,

NEW

Bouffant

Petticoats

Just Arrived:-

eagerly to hear about this new Mrs Twlichinose," said Hanidre Beautiful Can-Cans

"But we're 100 big, gretfully.

be able and unexpected happening.

"Suddenly," tald Christopher, too. We'd never "I heard a noise behind me. squeeze in through the hole-in- heard pattering footsteps. I the-wall!"*

Rupert and Dinkie-2

Rupert helps his mother to pick up, the washing. What sort of mikokmat

Hit that jumped on you, I've to

* Sound all this out by myolda di wary fidavy but he was in (EX Bucause: Last Alght I decided to "-","Almada and Fraw nothing evlerke

put on

odd," exclaims Rupert," and t must have jumped in front of you to, knock those clothes down." wonder if anyone else has seen

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