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BY. THE. WAY by Beachcomber

MIE men who commit crimes as a debt owing to the taxpayer,

have a number of rivals in the parience of this neat tricks in the field, amateurs who go to work

matter of post-war credits. Why

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20,- 1956, U

●JACOBY

ON BRIDGE

for the sheer fun of the thing, should not this so-called Gov-Proper Play Catches

The marksmen who sit by the roadside and fire at passing cars or buses, and the people who place bombs In churches, are examples of the new trend, But an amateur, in New York thought of a more practicat and more amusing idea. He went to a play and, when it was over, presented himself at the box office with a revolver, He com- plained that os he had not enjoyed The show he wanted everybody's money back. How do you (pop!)~

do? HINT on etijuelte says that If both your hands are full you cannot be expected to take off your bal to a lady, Very polite 173052 with full hands should wear a hat with a spring attached. When the left shoulder is twitched the spring is re leased, and up jumps the hat from the head without more ado, and then settles back in position. The lady, suppressing her mirth. inclines her head racetally to acknowledge the northodox salute.. A pretty idea THERE IN

in the

a suggestion that Budget an nexi increase of n shilling in the

pound on

be

King

ernment apply compulsory này- ing to the whole of every per- sonal income and then pay back each year Or 10 special amount calculated, by experts, to suflelent to keep us alive? The Government, by this method, would have enough in hund to raise the pay of MPs and con-IE bidding of today's hand struct a really effective bomb.

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By OSWALD JACOBY

was aggressive but reason- 'able. North was quite willing to be in a slam contract as long ns South could indicate that he had length and strength in both of the red suits.

Thus wage the world TALECTRIC Irons interfere willi television. television interferes with radio. Tho, ques- tion is does an electric razor.

West opened the king of fitted to a radio, cancel the spades, and declarer won at interference of electric irons once with dummy's ace, dla. with television,, or does the carding a low club from his whole thing become a jelly hand. He cashed the dummy's rolly-molly and tumble-cum- face of clubs, Declarer next trivy, a brouhaha, a tokubohu, n drew three rounds of trumps, veritable ragamodollo of sound ending 'in the South hand, and fury, signifying popular after which it was clearly time entertainment? And now, I read, to do something about the. you may receive upon your hearts, radio signals whigh are said to be coming from Jupiter. Let who will electric gadget in hand, interfere with the plancts! To your kennel. abominable reader. Tail-piece

DVICE to people with double chins not to "take them too income tax will be seriously" is refreshingly sens)- called compulsory saving. The ble. Call your record chin Cape compulsorily saved Wrath, and waggle it to make regarded the children laugh. course be

amount

would of

YOUR BIRTHDAY......... By STELLA

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20

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poetie, insulrational and hiddy idea bathe character, 1.Ite always be easy for you, for you are nchi im individunder that not every in understand, you at Best meeting, Time loyalties are very strong and You will make tremendous sacrifices 1. those you love

You have Juven reso Buty

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how to prevent the most urdinary eyguts in a humorous, even satirical light.

Your attinetion for the opposite rex is strong, but guard digainst being 10 particular-ng you might end up as not wedding at all.

Among those born on the date next Jeeph Jettersin, actor: Mury Gar- den, inger; WONLO Prescott. solding: Angelina Weld, reformer: Theodore Lyman april Henry F

Durant, philanthropias

To find what the stars have In store for yi temerrow, select your birthday star and read the correr. Dending paragraph. Let your birth- day star be your dally guide.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21

PISCPS (Reb 30-Mar. 21)~T! can be a banner day for profits, so

all oppor ricke full advantage of

tunitie: offered

ARIES (Mar. 2-Apr. 901-A ne Tirso to combine huizen and social intereste tu vour distinct advantage, TAURUS (Apr 21-May21)- garching for a new job, this could be ur me to nd St. Tiemanne is in the air, ton.

GEMINI (MAY 22-51

CANCER June 23-July 23)-Mate the most of a good day such as the one. The stars appear to be entire

ly in your favour,

LED Only N-Aug. 23-31 plan- ning me public entertainment-

In the absence of bidding by the opponents, South would ordinarily develop the hearts by cashing the ace and then lead- The ing towards the queen. success of the slam would then depend on finding the king of hearts In the West hand,

In this case, however, Soulli knew that West held at least 10 cards In the black suits, Since West. hall already followed sult to one round of

NORTH AA3004 Q75 +KQ93 4A

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therefore began

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perhaps you are on the committes – | hearta by leading a low card all should go well,

the

hand towards VIRGO (ASc. El-Sept. 23)-Maks

When West played the the best of your feltuit; and don't dummy. hide your light under a bushel | deuce of hearts wilhout 213-Al-Pulichie a neglect.

flicker, South quite properly LIBRA (Sept. 24.Oct. 20-It con-

that deelded

not West had desi templating e journey, then this in a

good day to start mun. The stars started with the king-deuce of favour Voll

hearts.

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ABOW IN

Saturday's solution.

TARGET

How many Words of

1 C four letters

N

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or intra call

you make from the letters in the HAUSEN on the left? in making rach word tho letters i earl of the small squares viny be used onge only, faen word mutat vontain - the tarre tetter, in the centre square, and there mMA DE ME fekti, nas pine-letter word in the Let. No plurale; no foreign WordA] 110 proper. : namER. TODAYE TÄRGKY? 10 words, pood: gü words, very good is words, Axcellent. Aotution tomorrow.

SATURDAY'S SOLUTION: Аспо dere afar anger area · Greed' alena Arrange-bage cane caruto-CAFE « CUTTE» day "Crno eran eranage crane zain FRANC Crow fare feat pdfner, yes? prace naute, near, race race, ragu vanan ring range, tunger "vare: Four,

BCDAVIO tel. 24-Nov. 29)—A thoroughly social day. Entertain" at home and enjoy yourself thoroughly. Everyone else does, too!

The

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)- You might profit from bviting bose out to lunch. Better yeh take him home for dinnerl

CAPRICORN (Dec. 21-Jan. 20)

Someone may How Je

Having thus located the king of hearts, South Anessed dum- my's five of hearts, ond East was obliged to win with the jack. East returned a spade, and South rufted in his own calm: Ko be hand,

He got to dummy by rung his last club with dum- my's last trump, and then led the queen of hearts through East.

guarded in a your action,

refuse to take offence.

_AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) Domestic matters should be highly favoured

today.

Handle family affairs lectfully,

CHESS PROBLEM

By PHILIP BARRON Black, 10 places.

White, 7 pieces, While to play: mate in two. Solution "to Saturday's

problem;

1, Kt-K5, any; 2, Q, R, B, or Kt mates.

It didn't matter whether or not East covered with the king. The defenders could win no further tricks, for the queen of hearts picked up the ten at the same time.

♥*CARD Senseno

Q-The bidding has been: South

STRAW AND

CORAL FOR

SUMMER

*

For the summer

Mun. Jean Itatou

sucresta sweeping coral-

coloured straw.

worn with

flower

shaped.

coral earrings.

-

Dior

WOMANSENSE

One medical word you should

Fage

METABOLISM

By W. W. BAUER, M.D.

ONE of the problems on equivalent good enough" to

countered in medical warrant substitution. Such writing for non-medical a word is-metabolism. readers is the choice of This word is used medl- words which will be fami- cally to describe the pro- liar to the person without cess of converting body medical education, but at food supplies into heat, It has the same time will express energy, or tissue. the medical meaning ac. been variously described as curately without awkward the sum total of chemical repeated translations, processes in the body; or as the use of oxygen by the Occasionally one meets a word which must be ex- body; or as the building and tearing down which goes on plained, because there is no continuously. It is a word that the non-medical render should learn to understand.

EILEEN ASCROFT reports from Paris

Launches The Arrow Line

QTILL waging war

Paris fow collars.

sure women are tired

on square and round necks,

Daytime colours are navy- unfeminine line.

all the

feminine curves, Dior launched his Arrow Lines in his latest collection.

Straight. slim skirts build up to interest in the large sleeves. These are cut in one with the body and are of varying length, rarely, reaching the wrists.

There

few aleeveless dresses in this collection,

The bust is stili Oattened and Ignored, and waists remain easy fiting.

are

.A COME-BACK Waist belts make a come-back but they are worn high above the natural waistline,

Jackets are shorter and have o loose, square line, more often dress. worn with a skirt than

Dlor calls this Jacket D "Caraco,"

," inspired by the short House-jackets women wore in the 18th century,

Silm topcoats have the sune high look, with double-breasted fastenings and important sireves.

lengths Skirt

rernaln un elranged, necklines simple with

of this

In

After food has boen digested, it reaches the circulation in two principal ways. Non-fatty foods are partially changed into sim- pler forms in the stomach and the small intestine, and are then absorbed into the portal circula- tion, main circulatory highway from the intestines to the Ever. are further dealt Here they with chemically.

There is a great, interest There are many Thai flat-chested lock - I am

buttons, particularly jewelled ones that are intricately carved. And I regret we shall be sco- ing many more of those small intestine into lymph chan

blue and white and bicas beige shades.

Black strikes a strong note for cocktails,

For evening, colours are in- spired by the wonderful lights of the opal stone.

"

With an eye on the approach- ing Ratuler-Kelly wedding there Is one curvaceous evening en semble called Monte Carlo.

or

I PREDICT.... Fashions for which I predict flattering

dresses.

success:

Fats are taken up from

tho

atrapless evening

nels, through which they reach the blood stream

in emulsified Tivo of the most popular form by emptying into, a great Navy-blue and white teamed

fashions will be the short jacket vein near the heart, From here Small, straight spring.

sults on, metabolism begins. blouses that end at the waist, and the short sleeve made out of the suit material. and daydresses. Mob-caps of the same fabrle as their companion dresses.

for

In

Models wore their hair smooth and mostly long, waved back: with no parting.

TWO REQUIREMENTS Metabolism has two basic 're- its processes quirements-oll

and all take place in solution,

cxygen Many other substances,, too, are necessary, especially hormones and enzymes (ferments). This ex- plains the tremendous exchange of water in the body-token' in food and beverages and alimin- ated through skin, kidneys and bowels and ike, constant

of oxygen piratory exchange for carbon-dioxide in the tissues and carbon-dioxide for oxygen

I think, too, the high-waisted Also the Serge takes over the former girdles will catch on. role of tweeds, and there

"Poodle haircuts are decidedly | involve are Caruco jacket and the opal and

old-fashioned," says Dior. many alpacas, mixture materials quartz jewellery. of wool and silk, and Acrilan.

For evening, lingerie fabrics are of Ane linen, muslin organdie, threaded with ribbon and lots of printed slika, satin,, lace and georgelte.

both Short evening dresses, slim and full-skirted, are pro- flower fusely embroidered with designs.

Styles that won't be copied; Hats with floppy brims so low over the eye that you would need a gukio-dog to get around.

For Frenchmen, Life Begins At 50

for the have werkod hard in their youth IFE begins at 50

Frenchman, it seems, just regard middle-age as a time of when the Englishman is losing fun and conquest and they want Interest in all but his tummy: to be at their best.

5

their and

Strained carrot juice and yog- "The middle-aged Frenchman

and sticks to his diet doesn't hourt are daily items on

foods menus, with yeast drink" this Intriguing plece of black molasses. Information was gven to me by brunette, hazel-eyed Colette Englishmen Lefort, who is connected with American the marketing of health foods in Europe.

it seems, just Englishnica, don't care. But Frenchmen who

BOYS'

more

these regard health foods as cranky. But 1 must admit I have seen attractive middle-aged men here in Paris, complete with hair and figure, than I have ever seen in London.

AND

Finding A Pot Of Gold

-It's Always At The Rainbow's Other End---

West North

East

1 Diamond Paka

1 Heart Pass

By MAX TRELL

You, South, hold:

"NARF. the shadow,

4653 942 9AK 196 4AQ24.

What do you do?

no-trump.

Avold,

A-Bid one treating a minimum opening bid with only four-card suite like at real two-suiter.

TODAY'S QUESTION

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

4953 42 ◆AK 106 MAQJE

What do you do?

Answer Tomorrow'

This Funny World

"He's eating solids now--boules, Tobb're:

went

Parasols accompany catton frocks in many Parts collections. More feminine and more versatile than a beach hat, this Jacques Ilelm sunshade in pink-and-white cotton stripes has

matching gloves and tiny cap.

GIRLS'

MAGAZINE

out laughing again. They laugh-

ed until they had to wipe their

eyes.

"I never expect anything so

to explain

sald Pixie Mc- Is there really a pot of gold at whole funny again in my the end of the rainbow?"

Chuckle, "liave you ever seen a rainbow?" he asked Knarf. "Oh, yes," ld Knarf "It has two ends, hasn't I?" caid Pixie McChuckle.

Knarf nodded,

"Certainly there is!" said down to the Old Oalt and pixie O'Grin. There's alwaya there, at the little door that led been a pot of gold at the end down to O'Cheer Hall, he found sitting in the sunshine the three of the rainbow.'i

"There sure is," said Pixie cheerful Pixles: Pixie O'Grin O'Lalf, "only"

Pixie

McChuckle and little

Pixie O'taf,

Knarf greeted each one of the Pixies by name.

"Hello, Knart, grinned Pixie O'Grib.

"Hello, Knarf," chuckled Pixle McChuckle.

"Hello, Kharf," loughed Pixie O'Laff.

On The Door Stop

Then Pixe McChuckle, who was the oldest, asked Knart to all down on the doorstep beside. them.

"There isn't much room," he sald to Knart, "But if I sit on O'Grin's lap and' O'Laft sits on my Jap, there will be plenty of room for all of us,"

But Knarf sold he didn't mind standing,

"I came over to ask you about

something," he sold.

"I bet it's something funny." to the other said Pixie O'Grin

two, whereupon they all bural out laughing.

"Thai's certainly the funniest. thing I ever expected to hear."

sald Pixie O'Laff,

"Hold up," said.. Pixie Mc Chuckle, "you haven't heard you. What is it, Kharf, this funny thing you want to tell

Not Really Funny".

**AF don't think it's really any- thing funny a kilé vald Konste "This is Byhat I want to know."

"Only what?" asked Knarf. "Only this," nald Pixie Mc- Chuckle. "The pot of gold is al- ways at the other end."

Knart said he didn't under stand this.

"I'll explain it to him," said Pixie O'Laff.

"No, let me explain it," said Pixie 'O'Grin.

"You two boys keep quiet, I'll do the explaining," said Pixie MoChuckle. "This is going to be pretty funny."

They All Laughed

At this, Pixie O'Grin,' Me- Chuckle and O'LAM 01 burst

"Well," continued Pixie Mc- Chuckle, "both ends look ex- netly alike, There's only one pot of gold and two ends of a rain- bow. How do you ever know whicir end of the rainbow the pot of gold is hanging at?"

"I don't know," said Knari. "How can you tell?"

"It's simple," said Pixie Mc- Chuckle. It's always the other end. What do you say, fellers?

The Pixies were sitting in the sun,

to hear

how long they lived anything half so funny as what Pixie McChuckle had just fold Knorf.

end

Merry Pixies

"At the other At this, the three merry ways at the other " Pixies went off into gales, of

roared. laughter once more, saying that matter they never hoped no

in the uni

lungs.

rese

Fundamental to the whole process of metabolism are the inter-related glands of internal secretion, especially the thyroid,

afton called the governor gland. Like

governor on an engine, this Eland controls, the speed of metabolle exchange through its hormone thyroxin, of which the essential

the

the

iodine.

A teat whleh

constituent

measures

the

by the rest- oxygen consumed ing body has been developed to. supply an index to the meta- bolic rate. It is called the basal

BMI rate determination or

It has been used -exten- sively in helping to diagnose thyroid diseases or other condi tions where the use of oxygen might be disturbed.

MEASURES. OXYGEN

It is performed by placing O mask over the face so that the patient can breathe only in and out of the measuring chamber; the amount of oxygen used in given length of time, is doter- mited, and by means of tabula- tions and calculations the basal rate can be established.

Patients have not infrequently become disturbed when they have found out that their basal rate is above or below normal. Actually, a variation from 15 percent above or below zero 15.. common in normal persona. Also, the BMR is only part of the story I wish more people could realise that the laboratory. Important and helpful as it may be, is only part of the story.

It does not malto the diagnosis for the doclor. It merely gives him information which he con- slders, in the light of the pa- tient's history and physical find- Ings. He makes his diagnosis on the basis of all these factors. I

of now With the advent methods, including radio-active isotopes, the value of the BMR has declined somewhat. It in of still a highly useful solarCO

particularly information,

thyroid diseases.

But to get back to where we La one started-METABOLISM al-medical word which you should they learn to understand. It means everything that happens in your body: growth, tissue, rebuilding, Knart didn't think it was waste removal, heat production, funny at all but there was and onergy release.* nothing he could do about it, It is what determines Except that finally Pixie O'Geinend of physical person you are,

the

·Rupert and the Gold Acorn-11 stopped laughing long enough to and it is closely bound up with

Rupert struggles further Info the, bright Tha" boy" must have hollow tree until at khay his Bogars thrown it Fing But why ? Whe close round speigthing harda,When •, can:] cank 7: Looking seTOOS S

•ha › drops, bacha hand game vis vi deep i hollow he sees 2. second astonishment in hias hand in a castle further off, '**1 bulave the jold - model:'of, HE HOND DETON boy “WAR“ taken that way," ha Blender chain. 4. Thác ham: 1 boda...... matters,^«?) wooder' where beʼzan

may, to Knort: "Thero is one

emotions. The over-working way to find the pot of gold-styrold or the mudderi, receiving the right end of the 'rainbow.

of momentous" rows can figye

"Oh, how? Tell me!" begged exactly the same effect.. Krof.

"Shall I tell him?" said Pixie O'Orin to his two brothers.

“Sure," they said, bursting with laughter. "Do theed and tell him."

HAWAIIAN HASH"

Leftover bam can be mada into a tasty dish when combined with pineapple. For Hawaiian This is what you do," said Hash, combine 24 clips ends of Pixie O'Grin to Knart. "It's cut-up, cooked ham and reashed very simple. You just run in sweet potatoes, Add a dash two directions at the same mustard and 1 cup of pitwap fima,

Juice Pour into a butter shallow caserole and zop Hoart wallded slowly awky a half-sibes do but even so he could hear, Um Sprinkle with " law hier of Plade Corin, Pixel dots with yamthe