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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1956.
JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
Pessimism Wins On Suit Breaks
By OSWALD JACOBY
TODAY'S hand
illustrates
A
point that we have often discussed in this column. When you can afford it, be pessimistic about the way your suits оте going to break,
When today's hand was play- ed, West opened the king of diamonds and continued with a diamond to East's ace. East returned the jack of hearts, and declarer won with the ace.
An optimistle declarer would now lay down the three top trumps, after which the hand South would go up in smoke. would have to try to run clubs, but East would ruff
NORTH
26
702
943
AAKQ108
WEST
493 ❤Q07
◆K QB 73
904
EAST
AJ 10 04
J 105
♦ A 1052
07
SOUTH (D) AAKQ8
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24
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Pass
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Pasa 34
Pass
Pasa Pass Opening lead--♦ K
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the
thard club and go back to dis- South would ruff with his Inst
would trump and
only eight sirered in molting trieks
South makes his contract by assuring that the trumps wil eak 4-2 rather than 3-3. In Us! this case, a Trump trick
be just. The important thing is that South must lose this trump trick while he still has control of the diamonds.
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Upon winning the revealing WUN Foujenough hearts, South should immediate- comment when the Macarool ofly lead his low trump. Dummy's control still remaining trumps Macaroon suld, at the end of a
and South can the diamonds, shooting
slury, "So dull emptied both barrels Prely regain the lead to draw the rest of the trumps Then he can run god drinking." said Fuulenou t
the clubs safely, fulfing s contract.
He then Hed a piece of turry Dalliance in the
twine
ruund its middle
with
2020
council-chamber
ace-
I
WOMEN councilor ut, as I
prefer to call her, an glamourcouncillorette, has said the in her official capacity she prides herself on being treated
What! itke a man.
Does no susceptible mate colleague ever slip a note to her, while
"Meet me council is sitting: outside the gasworks when
This rot is over," Does she never long to waggle her eyelashes Instead
of talking balderdash about the estimates for a new sewage system? What would she do if the
himself Innyor called her a dainly rogue
prodded it
something which looked like a jamg-wick "What is all this for asked
"It is Cocklecarrol
a test for shell-resistance," said Polt. "I is done on eight consecutive days." "Meanwhile the egg grows older," said Cocklecarrot. "Only relatively," suid Polt Inspector Fruit then intervened to explain that if the twine were not tarry, i would slip This operation, he said, preceded the shelving, in which a deter- minuut WILS used to re-cost a
the plaster moulding of egg which was then photographed for the records, before the egg itself was sent on to preserva- porcelain, and planted a smack-
tufters, who spruyed it with a preserva- live chemical. Thus no
no member
ing kiss on the hand that holds of the public could get un cg the Report un Local Excava which had not been thoroughly tluns? treated, overhauled, and pre- Cock/carrot pared.
blinked,
bit his anger, and called Mrs Favour, of the Royston Sorting Deput
In passing
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Q-The bidding has been: South
West
Exat North 1 Diamond Pass 1N.T. Pass
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You, South, hold: $3 WA SAKQ 10 4 3 2 4 K J 91
What do you do?
A-Bid three clubs. Since North could not respond in a major suit the odds are high that he has length in clubs. Game or slam in clubs may be your best bet, curiously enough.
TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You, South, hold:
AS VK394 ◆AKQ10 432 MA
What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
YOUR BIRTHDAY....... By STELLA
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reniack
PSYCHIATRIST has said
MONDAY, MARCH 26 thut when the wrong utiswer is given to a question
ni-BORN today, you have a keen pense be absent- enuse may mindedness, the thoughts of the
these two questionce being
unother on
How Ah, how true! natter
The best instance of this in my case-book 19 of the barrister who said to Q.C.: "How's the case getting on?" "Only three bottles left, replied the Q.C.
Equally
perceptivel
that
TARGET
How many ER! four letter.
TTC
JNE
unly.
words ui
or more COLLA YOU ORKA from letters in thr
In
the left making each word the
esch of the Ny be used once word must contain
the large leiter to the Centre
ture. And there must be least one alge-letter word in the lit. No pluralst no foreign words: no proper Games TODA VE TARGET: Ki words, good : 18 words, very good
words. excellent Solution fomorrow.
SATURDAY'S SOLUTION | Cieurs sms
of obærvation and abic memory Both characteristler enn be made to pay High dividends, it you make full use of them. You have the gift of the written word and will probably be able to write clearly and with in terest
complicated on
Since you have an orderly mind, Imands to reason that you are heat and orderly in your personel habits. You women, especially, are tidy around the house and are al
always ways perfeelly groomed.
You making a good appearance.
kataiy are deeply emotional but Realistk in your attachments. You are not the type to fall in love at first sight.
BA
WOMANSENSE
Spring Styles
Go Backwards And Forwards
By DOROTHY BARKLEY
ACKWARDS and for- warda goes the ne for spring styles in London this year.
Backwards for suits, with their low-slung belts on the jacket, for- wards for hats with their flat, straight-on-the-head line.
Lightweight fabrics and pale colours tell the sult story this year. Cotton, silk, shantung, and worsted-light to wear and
climates suitable for warm
come in such pale colours as beige, blue and sugared almond shades,
Many of them are made fato
a useful threepiece outfit by having shirts or camisole over- blouses in printed silk to match the jacket lining. The more variety, have almple, tailored necklines softened by shantung cravats or white pique edging.
For those who like to steer away from the traditional, there the sult with the new buleru This suit has a slim skirt and is mintched to
short Some of the slandaway jacket, jackets, still with the same line, are carried down into a dipping hip band to give a bloused back effect
the style of This Is Jacket That IN Frequently partnered by a sheath dress to make a variation on the classle suit form.
This straight-on-the-head sailor hat in satin is trimmed with organiza rosea.
white
with pink
and checked gingham. Black and white striped mattress licking makes matchbox suits with boxy jacketa und slim skirts, But these are difficult to carry olf-you must have the gift of inaking denim look like satin- so wear them with on air.
EASTER BONNETS.
buck- also balance the ward movement of suits-go forward. They s11 straight, though some
of them are tip lined tilted slightly over the eyes. Erik, who showed his collection of Easter bonnets last week. chouses bouters and sailer hats and swathes them with a cloud Roses are this theme, of tutle and he trims his hats with a real some artißcial. variety, some
straw boater A pink
Wis trimined with full blown wild trimined
green one with rose. velvet pillbox buds, a green with a green velvet rose, and a small red sailor hat with bluck rose.
roses,
For those who like to ring
on the the changes
more ordinary ma erials there ure plenty of nol 50 ordinary fabrica this spring. Denum and mattress ticking have been borrowed from beachwear and recruited for smart styles.
Tough navy blue denim makes circular skirts for wear with this season's crop of shirt blouses and is given a feminine alr by Leing stiffened and
BOYS'
The
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chosen
Sunde has been treated with a new process to make it water- and spol-resistant, repellant, colour-fast, This means that a pair of pastel suede shoes will no longer be considered the last word in extravagance,
NEW RAINCOATS
wet weuther presents
problems, pandicularly
Parents May Unwittingly
Make A Child Selfish
-
By GARRY C. MYERS, Ph.D. YOU .,, nnd., I were
Y schish
our
SACRIFICES
born We often buy the lot or older Any unselfish child more things or give him more money than be should ways or traits we might have. This builds up more new have, we have learned. wants and demands in hia, have We do this under the guise of Our selfish traits helped in
self- being kind and unselfish toward him, when Wo ourselves have preservation, but their never been more sulfish. gradual change toward un- selfishness have enabled us to live more happily and usefully with others.
From the time the baby can
We reach for things, parents constantly struggle to make him less selfish, We try to curb his urge to size and Аорго- priate others things, teach him to wait and share and try, constantly, to help him respect the possessions, rights and feelings of others,
WHIMS
But often we defeat our own purposes.
We readily go without dessert in order to let the child have second. We stay home rights in order to let the adolescent son or daughter have the family сах
or walk
to work or the market so this
youth might drive the car to school.
How many mothers wear an outmoded cost so that daughters, can have new ones? If it is a choice between a hairdo for the mother or the daughter, the daughter usually gets it.
The_average_mother does her own housework with_little_or no help from the children. She thinks it is easier to do it than From his early years, we are to train them to help her. The incllund to let him have or do mother mistakenly Imagines she what we know is not good for is proving herself very unselfish him.
Ministering to his needs,
toward her children. we also cater to hla whilus and
my parents are puzzled be- Many unnteesmry wishes and couse cause a child toward whom they them to grow,
We often let have been so unselfish, is so bim have his way to make it selfish himself. BUT
They should easier for ourselves. Thus we know that the child who 19 may reward him for crying, winning self-gratification from doing or saying ugly things his parents' unselfishness la being trained to grow more and even fur tantrums, in order to protect our own selfish scives. more selfish.
KEEP IN TRIM .BY IDA JEAN KAIN
Bending Exercise To Whittle The Waist
is meal
But
and choose fruit for
weight
THE young figure
normal weight with dessert. even pleasing curves and a neat, sweet waist. And that's a healthy form....
spring look comes la
have fashion too, and it you ♫ pastet linen
in warm weather, then the new sult,
The five ways to while the then make a pair of shoes in raincoats should be of interest.
waist are based on weight und The New fabrics join the shower- the same colour to match.
measurement teste, tones are pink, blue, proofed group this year. Among nutrition, popular
them are linen, needlecord and posture and stretch bends. Handbags yellow and cream,
and cotton nylon
Weight comes first, so step the mixed with and gloves con team up
With weight on the scales, them.
For manufacturers now fabric chosen by members of work on the principle that mountaineering expeditions for above normal, the waist is quite Here likely to be out of bounds, for lightness in wear. a luxury item in its women like
that's the line of least resistance their wardrobe which a year or again you can choose from n
to avoirdupols. The nutrition range of cheerful colours in- two ago they would have re- ran
line, pink, blue and rule is to eat a good breakfast, garded
unjustifiable cluding an
lime. Choice of style depends and an adequate lunch for then expense,
whether you On
food prefer the
is needed for energy. quietness of the simple, tailored Stop overeating at dinner, for classic or the newness of the exccas food caten late in the straight line with its blazer | day gocy straight to waist. half belt at the Reducing tips: Cut fate sharply, one starch with a have only
**
And manufacturers are seeing to it that the practical, every day shoes live up to their name. Suede shoes now have an even chance of keeping their looks,
buttons and back.
AND GIRLS'
The Forgotten Hats
KN
-And How They Got Back To Their Owners---
By MAX TRELL
INARF, the shadow boy, came up to his sister Hanid and said: "There's a man coming down the street with a whole pile of hats on his head."
"Why?" asked Honid, looking And sounding quite astonished, "Why is he wearing so many hats?"
walking esbjects
making them appear to be much less complicated than they really are, Peefry and prose are both within the realm of your execution.
In addition, mude and all the arts appeal to you as your life work and you may, in youth, find it difficul to select the field in which you whil to concentrate. You will never be a
tremendous
until you Succe learn to concentrate up one objec tive at a time. Resel it, then go on to another. If you attempt to do too many things all at one and the same time, you will end up by diffusing your energies so widely that you actually get nowhere very fast!
TUESDAY,
ARIES (Mar. 22-Aor. 20).- If you are co-operative with others, you will find thei mutual benefite ábound as a result,
21). TAURUS (Apr. 11-May You may be tempted to be extra. vagant, but you will be wiser it you remain consérvative in all things,
GEMINI MAY 22-Juno #1)- Be prepared to illas your past ex- pertence in a moment of crisis and you can circumvent-trouble.
CANCER (Juna 23-July 13) You will and that routine is best for Partnership affairs, especially you. romance, are uneven,
LEO (July Who in making your choice be tween two possible diernatives will Infidence your future,
VIRGO (ANE. · 34-Bapt. Think, a new proposilor over-cac fully before making up your mind. Weigh all potentials Kirwf,"
came
"Good morning," he said, tip- ping the top hat on the pile.
So Many Hats
"Good morning," said Hanid. "Why are you wearing so many hots"
down on the curb to rest him- "Well," said the man, sitting self, "all these hats belong to different friends of mine who were at my house last night for a party. They forgot to take their hats when they went home. back to I'm bringing them them."
MAGAZINE
"Take this great big ten gallon
hat at the bottom of the pilo," A Cowboy Hat
"It's A cowboy hat," said Knart,
The man nodded and smiled. "Yes, one of my good friends who was over last night is a cowboy. And take a look at this small white hat,"
"It's U sailor's hat," said Hanid.
"Right," said the man. "What about this one?" He held up a blue one with a peak in front.
"That one was a railroad con- ductor," mit Knarf.
The next hat belonged to a policeman.
*Why are you wearing so many hats?" asked Hanid.
the
normal
doem't guarantee a beautifully proportioned waist if the waist- banding muscles have lost their tape measure gives gimp. The
picture....Standing in
circle natural posture,
tape around waist and pin together in front. Now "glim' the waist with posture, by pulling the waist up from the hips and
2-75
Pulls Of F
the ribcage up from the woist, keeping shoulders relaxed and 1 the tape is an inch looser, then that much of the fat is due to
easy.
Now to
slumping.
exercise.
Anyone
can stretch for slimmer waist, and almost anyone can do side- bending. The following exercise involves both move. ments.
Position; Sitting on floor,:
beck straight,
overhead, legs spread
apart, knees straight
arched
wide
Movement: Pull snugly up- and-in with the middle muscles, hold the
The hat after that belonged to like a ball with a gloss window Back to centre, stretch slim
a Bremon.
Poll.
hat was coloured like a sond shaped
Knarf was just starting to say that he didn't know why any body should be wearing a pile of hats on his head when the
The man took off the pile of man with the hats on his head, hats and rested them on the
The next pavement. turned the corner and
Knart and Hanid
red and down the street and took a good look at them. stopped in front of Knort and
"You know something?" sald
Neither Knart You can tell Knart, smiling. dale Hankd.
what kind of people were, ot could tell who wore that hat. "It's a fez," said the man. “It your party last night just from
of hats they were belongs to a very good friend of the kind
mine who comes from Turkey." wearing."
The next hat was stranger It was The man nodded. "You're than all the others. absolutely right,"
sald. made of metal. It was shaped
com-
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historian: poner: William Lecky, Willam T. Smedley, painter;_Conde Falward Nost
and publisher, Bellamy, author.
To find
what the kars, have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corres ponding paragraph, Let your birth day star be your daily guide. MARCH 27
LIDNA (Bert
24-Oct. 1). You can be on the winning side, if you have comiderod everything care- fully and acted accordingly.
24-Nov. ВСОПРІО
13)- (Del. Stick to all honourable kiesls in broadening
Don't your objectives, compromise.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov, 23-Dec. *)→ While there is much in your favour, one false step can up your better judgment in making A decision.
CAPRICORN (Dee. B-Jan. 20)— Take care of your health and don't better against your be purmiaded judgment in making a devision,
AQUARIUS. (38. Mro, 1}}--- Duriness actairs sew Boe, but when watch Duti in personal affairs, Romance is not too well-favoured,
29-MAT. PIEČNA ZGFth; Caution in both sozial and, bustziers
Use your misics is needed" now," bresti udament in everything.
CHESS PROBLEM
·By V. K. B. ŠUMMER
Black, 12 pieces.
"
White, 12 pieces, While to play mate in two,
Solution to Saturday's problem:
1; Ki-K3, any; 2, Q, R, B, or Kr. mates.
ho
nor Hanid
Rupert and the Black Circle-3
Rupert works his way through * comer of the wood and on the other side without seeing or hear 'ing anything strange. All at de
a call from his left make him južne. His pal, Bil,- Badgers 44 beckoning to Įsion/*** Wisata -happening 7", aska - Rupurt · su, be
joins him at the fence. Such queer people have been passing along the track down there," ̧stya Bill Look, there's another lot.““ And, mis enough, a wagon and Caravan” and ease men with their li hories are slowly entering a more distnast part of the foreste AËL HISPATE ATSISTED POPCOND
in front.
Diver's Helmet But Knart and Hanid knew the hat at once, calling out that
the hat he
up-stretch and bend pulling army over to the left,
all along
the
right side.!!
through the middle again, and bend to the right, pulling slim along left side. Keep back straight, make waistline muscles give. Five counts on each side, will be enough us a starter.
a quarter-twist
that
it was a diver's helmet.
"Very good indeed," said the Here's man. One of my oldest friends brings in three movemente is a deep-sea diver. This is stretching, twisting and bending. is excellent for puts on his head | This gxercise when he goes under the water. these with a normally strong.
Kaart and Hand looked at back.) the next hat and saw that it was so wide-brimmed looked like an umbrolla,
"It's a sombrero," said the man. "My friend who wore it comes from Mexico. Can you toll who this friend is?”
Position: Standing, feet well that it apart, arms stretched overhead.
He hold up a golden crown w jewels sparkling in it.,
Movement: Twist at the waist, but only a quarter of the way: around. Hold the twist and bend to the sideback, pulling smoothly. Then, still holding the quarter-twist, bend forward at the angle. Relax, Repeat about six on the other ''side,
1 belongs to a king!" saldtimes, in all, directing the bend
Honid.
The last hat in the pile was made of straw and there were two holes in it.
through the bulge.
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Household Hints
"ll give you each a penny," said the man, "It you can guese
• Dress up baked apples with a the owner of this hat,"
But Knarf and Hanid couldn't, frosty cranberry sauce. To make. The man stood up and put the add 1 cup of whole cranberry 1 gind of softened pile of hats back on his head ice to
vanilla ice cream, Stir Just again.
enough to blend, and serve Im¬ to a horse homediately P*"It belongs
matd
́horsa hát,” USER GR Then he tipped all the hate' Paint light switches ofcord of once, said good-bys and with luminous paint [walked offi.down the street,
"Ibeating in the “darka
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