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This Funny World
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on Saturday night
BY
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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1955.
JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
South Deserves His Bad Luck!
By OSWALD JACOBY QOUTH was very unlucky
in
today's hand, but he earned ali of his hard luck. By this I mean that it was unlucky to find all of the cards in the wrong position and to have the like fiends. opponents defend
but South could trave avoided all o this hard luck by passing instead of bidding two hearts,
When South did make his doubtful competitive bid in hearts, West brought
the
dum-
the GXC down smartly. South couldn't think of В better contract, nolurally enough, so West began the festivities by leading eight of clubs.
Declarer covered with
ant my's nine,
Erst won the firat trick with the ken. Enst correctly judged trot South was very short in spades and there- fuce must have length in dia
nonds to fill out his hand. East Trump, therefore returned
from hoping to stop declarer rung diamond in the chummy,
South played the Jack hearts, West covered with the qucen, und dummy won with the ace, Decliner next led a dia- mond from dummy. finersing the ten to West's Jack. West
the continued
defence by re-
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this to believe that nonsense would go on for long. the decided to save her money. Her parents were for from well- Mul the publicity men hudt
She was
caught other ideas.
for sneaking into tea-shop the mugastrate I think," sa+ch
her lunch on the day when she the man, at sway when latly ነኝ” ነ to be photographed with
DEAit, sensible Amelia!
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when I get
three- if it was £+
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and the man- ther
f her ager of
hotel wus blamed to allowing her to have milk and biscuits
to sent p
her sure The publicity men drazk the champagne they ordered for her, but grumblingly. and sche offended a film-critic by offer- ing him a cigarette out of packet of ten, iretend of passing him a box of cigars. Word went
that she wouldn't round
"You Dec.
Eldon Street, vrtier of who wasn't looking put his leg 1- into tay emply right-10 se, and when he crossed the cond I found myself tied to him, ait were. He said, 'Go away. and ! #nid. Well.
go away yourself. Then he looked down
and d. Here! Get your leg operate. Poor Amelia begun to out of my trouser I said. It's think that she had been hired my Trouser, and is your leg in
to play this absurd part, instead at not mine.' He glanced down.
Her mink
aml said, "So it is Then we both laughed so much that we fall いく outside a
must have
shop
of to act in alm.
fo
hine of hearta turning the LO-
South's ten. On this trick East brilliantly discarded tre ace of diamonds to avoid being stuck
the lead with the next round of diamonds.
enat soothed them for a while, but they had more trouble withi The re-
stories
Amelia
When South promptly led baker's the Press interviews.
diamond, West was able to win been a porters got so little out of her
nod lead a third trump. Now that they had to invent stories
dummy couldn't ruff any diuf about
All her past life.
the
monds, and the hand went from different, were
and bad to worse. South managed on evening to get only four rang
trump tricks paper and said there won't ♫ and the
clubs, ace of
421428 word of truth in any of them. suffering a loser of 500 points.
"If it' any
10 consolation you," North observed when the hand was over, **They might have made
clubs against
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18. This is Among the bright lights.
19. You may
take steps if
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CHESS PROBLEM
By E. ERGO Black, 6 pieces.
How many
words of irttern Le can
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make
frum the letters in the quare on the left? In making each word, the Letters in
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Rohrtion tomorrow ward, rucellent
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South
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West
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WOMANSENSE
Chicken And Spaghetti With A Different
French Sportswear
Andre Ledoux, famous Frenoli sportswear designer, presents "Chaca)" (left), a two-piece outfit consisting of tron grey woollen pants and white pullover, and "Deelot", a red and while jersey dress.-Agence France-Presst.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Chilled cookie dough cuts those air spaces which make the nore cnally with a wire cheese pad puffy and absorbent. cutter than a knife,
Thicken the syrup in which tinned fruits are packed, and serve us sauce on desserts.
To waterproof matches, cáp them in lacquer and stick them. head up. in a brush to dry.
The meringue topping for a pie won't pull, if the pie is cut with a well-greased knife.
A mattress pad needs no fron-
The
tho1 ing.
experts saf ironing actually breaks down
When culling boards and un-
wood
counter Lops Anished become stained, clean them with scouring powder and a stdsy solution containing 4 smail amount of chlorine bleach,
To vary macaroni and cheese casserole. adid a generous umount of chopped chives to the cheese sauce.
ON
By IDA BAILEY ALLEN
Touch
NE would not expect to ing pan to the depth of 1". medium-sized onion, 3 stalks Slow-aute until golden brown colery and 2 sections peeled find career women all over.
garlic. among farm homemakers.
Next, pour 1 e, boiling water Add the liquid from the pres- But our hostess, Hildegarde into a pressure saucepan. Put in sure cooler, and 1 (No, 2) tin. Glass of Holbrook Farm, the rack, then the chicken; tomato or a cut up fresh toma- Maine, is one of the most close, bring to 15 lbe, pressure toes. Cook 35 min, or until the sparkling and busiest career and process 1 hr., (45 minutes vegetables are soft.
If the chicken Is young and homemakera I've ever met. tender). Cool according to Add salt and pepper to taste
manufacturer's directions; re and a few grains cayenne. Put the Scon after
form жая
mave chicken and keep warm, through a puree slevo or buzz bought, the foods she conned
1 min, in a blender, won irst prize at the State Fair.
Then make sauce Italian and Before long she was teaching cook spaghetti “al dente.” Servo Acki 1 (4 oz.) un sliced mush- modern conning and food con- on a deep platter, with the rooms and liquid and reheat.
Large groups of chicken 13 the centre. the women, 4-H Club girls and Girl spaghetti, topped with the saues TRICK OF THE CHEF
servation to
Scouts.
Next came food freezing.
Hallon, around the edge.
Top each lemon sherbet serv- Pass grated Parmesan cheese. Ing with tbsp. syrup from Itallan Sauce:
cherries for Chop ne Maraschino
peeled change. seeded green pepper,
Before most other women had begun to think about it, Hilde- garde had two huge food freezETA packed with home processed, farm-produced foods. These in Keep In cluded: vegetables, fruits, beef, veal, fish and poultry, as well as entrees, cakes, ples and fabulous cookies.
The University of Maine and the Grange invited her to lecture. She made countless friends.
Hildegarde says it was good luck, but I believe it was sheer
Trim....
44
By Ida Jean Kain
Aim For A Flexible
And Slim Torso
ability and hard work that TN this year's uncluttered
brought hor
the invitation
counsellors ing for the
on
to
food freezing secret
look with the
What's
needed
is
fre
more
Economics Department of visitorso, there won't be any about your figure, largest Freezer Food Plan And dumpy postures In the State of Maine. And most definitely out of style. thrilling of all to her is the fact that the foremost job of her do- partment is helping homemakers flexibility through the midrift. to plan and keen within their Precision calisthenics that new bulky food budgets.
10 the line will nip in a
the waist, but to slim
entire midriff, the action pull must be Here's off centre, so to speak, the suppling technique make and the pull long and smooth
lateral direct it through the muscles bounding the silhouette at the sides.
DINNER
Tossed Salad Bowl Cheese Sicks Chicken Italian with Spaghetti Lemon Sherbet with Half-Frozen Raspberries
Milk Coffee Tra
All Measurements Are Level Recipes Courtesy Hildegarde Glass
Serve 4 to
Chicken Italian: Clean, wash, dry and disjoint 1 4 to 5 lb.) chicken or hen.
In a stout paper bag, measure 35 c. anriched flour, 11⁄2 tap, each salt and paprika and monoso - and tap. alum glutamate Γυ remove stubborn stains pepper. from the sink, rub the spots with
Melt enough chicken fat from cream of a paste made
cover the bottom of a heavy try- tartar and peroxide.
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Mr. Merlin's Skates
-He Took Them out of a Pair of Match Boxes
TRELL By MAX
support for partner's suit, contraiKNARF of clubs, and alam ambiitoni.
TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding is the same as in the question just answereti. You. South, hold,
MAKE ❤42 OAKQJD 7 5 AN
What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
sounded away.
very
faint and
tor
He's Too Small
"But Mr Merlin," oxid Knarí,
and
the Hanid. shadow-children with the turned-about names, were sit- ting on the back steps of the house, strapping on their roller "how can you go sloating when skates, when who should come you're so small? You'll fall into along bul Mr Merlin, the the cracks of the Magnificent Magician.
on
sidewalk!
bigger. please! He was Muke
Please ourself dressed in very lively clothes: a yellow
Mr Merlin, coat
polka with blac
It was too late.
How the Magnificent Magician, dots, red pants with green ar-
than larger
ordinary ing stripes and a bright orange borot
grogshopper. began skimming the looked
and circling up and down at several times. Finally she said: sidewalk. He seemed to go in "You must be going to a party and out of the cracks, or leap
over them.
Hanid
YOUR BIRTHDAY... By STELLA or something!"
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8
You are quite feerien when it comes to projecting an origirtal idea of your own mid you will fight for it against all kinds of odds. Your are eminently feir-minded and will Hiten to all sides of a question before waking up your mind.
!
Skating Clothes
112
Merlin
"Not at all," said Mr Merlin. "I'm Just dressed in my skabing clothes.
Here Knart and Honid both exclaimed in astonishment.
BORN today, you possess exceptional usental purwest, but they need full and careful development if they are to bring the rewards which you articipate. Intuitive and literary, you will probably be able to write well and mould develop this gift. You have o selenide atitude toward In marriage, select someone who pace with your menita! things and will accept nothing nt far can keep value, but wishi
the_some." fo investigate all gymnastics or you cabinet hope to furels of a matter.
find permanent happiness.
Although
this date Among those born on you have a talent for making money you are hot cut out riot E, Bulwer-Lytion and Allee to enter business. You are the type Stockham, authors: Katherine Hep- burn and Marie Provost, actressÇE' to make a fortune, however out of Frame artistic or literary venture. You Edmund Halley, astronomer; Lucille have the genius for discovering a Verne, actress-playwright.. "gold mine" in the most unexpected places
"But why does that surprise sald you, my cheerful dears?" Mr Merlin. "You're going skat ing. I don't see why I can't do
The Shadows were strapping
on their roller skates.
to
Kmart and Hanid chased after him, trying to catch him. And as mine. I bet you could skate just as they reached out to up the side of that telephone scize him at that Instant there pole if you really wanted to." was a puff of smoke and disappeared altogether.
he
"I bet we couldn',".
he
said
"Just try it," said Mr Merhn. A moment or two later was standing at their side So they tried. And what do again, smiling pleasantly, as be you think?
akutes placed two tiny roller
They really did skate up the back in two small match txixes side of the telephone pole and put two small match boxes down the other side! back in his cont pocket.,
Magic Skates
* *
and
excited I can't tell you how "But you iraven't got any
Knart and Hand were to know skates with you," said Kharf.
that they had a pair of magic "Tut!" said Mr Merlin. "A
"I wish we had magic skates skates, But there is one thing I magician ice me hos every
" said Karf, like yours,
must tell you. When they tried "So do I," said Hardd. "But the next day to skate thing."
up the Saying this, he reached into our akates are just plain every side of the telephone pole, do his pocket and took out a pair
you know what happened? doy ind.".
"Not at all," said Mr Merlin. They just bumped their heads Your skates are just as magic and fell right down againt
Το And what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your of match boxes. Then he opened Although you have what is called birthday star and read the corres-the match boxes. In each match an artistic temperament. It in no way pending paragraph. Let your birth-box wDS roller skate about as Impair your sense for the practicalt day war be your daily guide.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9
BCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) Tactful consideration of member of your own canlly can bring happiness and contentment at home.
SAGGITARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)- A sudden meeting today may codify all your plan for your future yet go Slowly on Immediate elianges,"
'CAPRICORN (Dec. 21-Jan. 20)— Ignore remarks pointed in your direction that seem meant to hurt, For once you are quite wrong, and oversensitive.
,1
AQUARIUS (Jan., 21-Feb. 19)--- A good day for all you may under- lake so take full advantage på It. Glet. a lot done while the man "khinvent
PISCES
RO-MAT. (Feb. Datter not to repeat that juicy bit of TOMIP ar "Bospel." · More than likely It in in untruth.
ÁRIES * (Max. X-APT. Unlage Spa Arm, will-qualified tha [2, Ki-QI, any;^2, Q, R,, Kt, -br 10y do not talon on aats: podaci views
ponsibility whilets
White, 8 pieces. White to play: mate in two,
Solution yesterday
problem:
Pmates.
to
·
TAURUS (Apr.
21)- 21 May Not everyone le on the level. Do on the wate kle and look out for a bit of treachery, even from a closed friend,
**-June.,, 21)-
big sa a lima bean with wheels
about twice as big on the head of
pln
to Karf and Hanid started laugh..
Tiny Skatos
"A grasshopper couldn't skate on those. alates, Mr Merlin, mid Hamid.
too
"GEMINI - (May Criticism of other is not a factful thing for you the day You might
"Oh, you think they're just happen to be in the wrong. yourself.
small for me, do you?" said Mr Merlin
CANCER""(June 28-July 13). Appearance could fool you, so take
As he sold this, Mr. Merliy good long look at situsilon-and wet the acatis, down, on
the cirolimelances surrounding It, sidewalk at the bottom of
tho
the
· LEO ...・・ (July 24-ANE. #3)-steps. And then an extraordin-
A surprise, mesure from someone
you love or a gift, in the mafi could
•uring you excepilonal pleuro..
VIRGO) (Aug. Zichopto. 23)...... Tacw, facts, running- swAY-KOM them aných up wha' you, event
ary thing sukienly happened.
All of a sudden, Mr Merlin pulled himself together. Ho chu- camo" enmller: and smaller and mallor. Finally, right there under the eyes of Kount...had. | Hand, he became an murhalf/na
they hours! hirt, saying. Ela vande
Rupert's Deep Sea Adventure-20
Rupert's descent la no senady and
•quier, and the falsaq, há exis1mes are interesting, that he soon forgets to feel frightened,// To his **rlet "the" „diving unit (quite, warts and my
shapes appstry 2. Thase 'musi be the remains of the wreck' that;
The 'mumba wanted,
ches/thu.
Anatomically, these side muscice extend from armpits to hipbones and mesh with the curve around the muscles that
Well- side-front of the figure, toned lateral muscles make for flexibility and the smooth mid- riff demanded by today's styles,--
Turn on a lilting tune, if you like, for this rhythm silmming session
Position: Standing, feet apart, chest lifted, head up.
For flexibility.
the bend and extend the pull all left side. Back to along the
another position..... then Thythmical bend....and another. Now bend to the left, pulling on the right hand. This stretch- bend even feels streamlining. Movement: Swing both arms together to the side and
up
To slim and smooth the hip- getung ft through the raid line, try this rhythmic swinging section. Swing back to the other routine.... side with
Podlon: Lying on right slide, a ft. Repeat this twice, then swing the arms side- legs straight down, left leg on wards and up and circle them top of right, palm of hand around and down and up again braced on floor for support.
Swing top Isg
in an unbroken motion. It's fun Movement! and freeing. Once you got the away up in front, then swing pattern, you can take two quick vigorously rearward, hold for a steps to the side as you swing few seconds, then swing again the arms. Just like dancing... about a dozen counts.
Change
Now go into this side-bending sides and swing with the other routine....
leg.
Position: Standing feet apart, This trio of exercises will rout slimn arms arched
fat from the midrif overhead, right the hand grasping left wrist.
the waist and tone the hip Movement: Bend smoothly to- muscles and help you to wear ward the right, head up, and the exciting new styles with a pull the left hand to Increase flair.
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