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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1956.

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This Funny World

YOUR BIRTHDAY

GYM

CAVE HESCH

"Forget it! I've got him under contract"

Nugget Walmart, Tam'

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meet

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should charge an entry fee, and small sun for the use of the blotting-paper

JACOBY ON BRIDGE

Overruff Can Lose A Trick

By OSWALD JACOBY

WHEN a ucfender is given the chaner to overruff, it isn't Always wise for him to do so If he has pulence, he may get Two tricks later instead of just The An unusual illustration of this principle is joven in low cay's hand

in

There might also be a fare de who are kept and an additional 10 waiting,

on service charge

porcent

ار.

every stamp bought, as well as the ordinary surcharges for the "directories, telephone Batte {street directories, and telegram

forms.

Also, a fee to be paid

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on application for a form to be thlet

applying for

for a clogg - perme

uply Beence Users of the telephone should pay. in the post office say. sixpence extra per call to cover the wear and tear of the Instrument, and the upkeep of the door

A nose for music

|A

Tthe oddest concert 1 ever

attended a pinnal with

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very long 1204 stocki 2 bus bead, played the instrumen1 and pressed the will his teet,

Critics his pose pedals with pointed out that this was more stunt than a genuine demon- stration of virtuosity One crilic said that a man with an ordin- ary short muse could have done at all, as the length of the nose does not affect the ability to press down a pedal with il. For she was the belle of Waltham- stow, Walthamstow, stow, oh, she was the belle of Walthamstow, all up a summer's

West

11 King ..t spades, and East gantled for a continuation by playing the West ubediently cons Finued with the ace of spades, [day and Enst completed his signal by dropping his six of spades.

The "high-low"

spades asked West to keep up the good work, so he continued with the jack of spades, Declarer ruffed jack of dummy with the hearts, and East discarded in- stead of overruffing.

1:

Waltham-

Prodnose; Have not those as few words been taken out

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their contex!! They do 7. t seem to belong to what went before

it

Myself:

11 E thank you. were not for your vigilance this Feolumna would get into a dread- tful iness. The correction shall Now East was bound to make be madie in the Collected two trump tricks. South even-Edition of my works,

tually finessed the queen of Backwards and forwards

hearts, and East took the king.

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East returned his low trump to dummy's ace, after which he ten of hearts was good for the setting trick.

Had East averruffed when tho third spade was led, South would have made his contract. East would have made his king of hearts then lastend of Inter, but he would not have won a trick with the ton, South would win any return and would draw the rest of the trumps with dummy's nee and queen.

1

If you are given the chance to overruff. one simple test will usually tell you whether or not 10 do 10. If your trump le olherwise worthless, lake your tricle, If your trump will be good for a frick later on, it will often be wise to let the frick go.

+CARD Sensens

Q-With both sides vulnerable, the bidding has been: Morth

East

3 Heart 2 Clube

You, South, hold:

South W'est

4162 962 45Q711 4A54

What do you do? :

ABil two dismsida är past. Monk experts prefer a pass in Chia borderline situation' since you haven't any Men what your next more will be if you bid.

TODAY'S QUESTION

'The bidding la`the same na in the question just answered. You, Bouth, hold:

What do you do?

CYCLIST'S NEPHEW DRAMA

"NO." SAYS UODMIN RESIDENT

of her

FERRETS FOOD STOLEN WHEN Mrs H. R. Large,

why into

a watercress whole- saler's warehouse. little did she think furn to Pape seven), Ok, I say, look here!

O11 The second preen. h; swallowed his ball for a wager.

(Sporting note.) "The proof of the putting." said he, "is in the eating."

TARGET

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letters in the RQUATE un the left ? In making each word the Fatters in each of the

amall squares may be used ones only. Each word must edniela the arre letter in the centre square, and there must be at least one gign-letter | word in the Ust. No plurale ; po foreign words; proper names TODAY'S TARGET: 32 words, good : 41 words, very good : if words, cicellent. Solution tomorrow,

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION: Aphis aptal aspic phain chín china chip inch riciah nipa pai panto-phase physic PHYSICIAN piec pinch ping placina altr shiny ship info soshi apica apley apin spinach ipiny,

CHESS PROBLEM

By G. MIRRI.

Bläck, 9 plecon

| White, 10 pieces.

While to play: mate in two..

Solution

problemt:

WEDNESDAY, MAY 2

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Original and Inventive, you usually will find a new way to do something and find a novel solution to an old, femlilar problem. You are full of self-conftitence and are willing to try Baything once-Just to see it you can make it work. Unually you can

almost and you are perhaps mirprised when it sucOveĆI AS ATE these who thought you coulder't De Kibly win.

You are a good conversationali and are excellent company when you want to be. You have a fine meenoty and are what i called "quick study. This would be a fine qualif- ration for weekmg a career on the stage. In addition, you know how lu appeal to people and get thom interested in what you are dobar or waynes Good af argument you urally argue in generalities, seldom lermoral advice" sul, some- thlon you my ray apur mother on to added courage and ultimate mic-

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THURSDAY, MAY 3

TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)--Slow and easy in the best policy for today Don't runs unter things witbant giving thera Mecond thought

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WOMANSENSE

"ROBC de Sable", an embroidered sleeveless dress

In beige silk. By Carven. -—-- Agence Franon-Iresse.

Household Hints

Wash white nylon garments alone and in fresh water, be- cause they have an affinity for colour.

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PILE FABRICS SWITCH|_||_|_THEIR TRADITIONAL ROLES... AND DESIGNERS HAVE PROVED THAT

CORDUROY CAN BE GLAMOROUS

New York, opened to show the pants. The skit was made with eatin Austria's Gertrude inzets and bows. And corduroy "ELVET, velveteen and from

Hoechsmann came slim pants scored for weddings in a Jacquest corduroy may seem to and a long, bloused-back jacket, Helm dress, made for and wort you to be limited to the two teamed with a leather mlddy by a French bride, It also was extremes of fashion with definite Tyrolean airs. high-necked,

with

fitted festivo clothes for the velvet, Brides can wear pile fabrics, bodice, and full skirt with satin Traditional white velvet incete running the length of the types and play clothes for too.

beautifully handed

Instead of a vell, by train

the corduroy. How wrong you Genevieve Fath in

bouffant model wore a simple circlet of are was deftly demonstrated gown, high-necked with a key- white fox fur.

the neckline. slit below recently in a display of hote European couture fashions in pllo fabrics.

There were switches galore. Velveteen, seen most often here in dressy costumes and coats, goes to the beach in the clover hands of Italy's Emilio Pucci.

four

Не

uses it for n harlequin effect beach

poncho, different coloured diamond shapes joined together to fall im pointe at front and sides.

goes over a bloomer sult in printed corduroy,

This

bathing

was

MARILYN MERCER

Recipes To Please Teenagers

Cream together 1⁄2 c. shorten- ing and 1/4 c. sugar. Thorough- ly beat in 2 eggs. Blend In 2 chocolate, squares unsweetened melted.

Sift together 1% c. sifted cake be flour, 34 tsp. soda, tsp. salt. Into first mixture fter- nately with 1

car c. cola bonated beverage, well-chilled.

Bake in

greased and floured square pan or 2 (8 in.) layer pans.

40 Bake at 350* F. 40 to min. for the square cake, 30 10 36 min. for the layers. Frost.

need any

of

·OOD school grades come For something really special, to the young whip up a Chocolate Cola Cake most easily

frosted with Chocolate Mirror who are properly fed. alers Teenage boys and girls, full of Icing. activity, actually require the Sort, wide-wale corduroy extra calories in those refresh- tokta on unexpected loveliness ments they enjoy so much after In many designers' hands.school. Balmain, for example, showed a if you're in the throes of breathtaking block short evening planning a teenage get-together dress,

appliqued heavily with after school, here's how to black Ince. And bark-textured voted the most popular Mom by Stir

the gang. corduroy did full justice to a beautiful,

cherry redi Dior costume, a dress, caroto jacket

For 0 servings of Cola 9-in and hip-length coat.

Bavarian, you'll cola soft drink. NATIONAL COSTUMES

Put 1 c. of it in top The showing included pile-double baller, sprinkle with 2 fabric styles froin 28 houses in envelopes plain gelatin and let six countries Clothes ranged] stand 5 min. If you have to press work | from daytime wear to evening Place over bolling water. Add with the busting stitch in it to play clothes

To prepare For daytime, c. sugur and tsp. Stir un-

4 Icing, bland use silk thread as it won't mark ensembles were the rule; with til sugar and gelatin are com- 4bsp. cornstarch with 3 tbsp. the fabric 0179 cotton

thread most dresses having their own pletely dissolved and liquid is taken from

e. cola drink, docs.

stoles or jackets. The Empire clear.

Set aside. line was evident throughout the Remove from

Put 1 c. sugar, 1⁄2 tsp. salt, 3 heat, add re show; from Simonetta came a maining cola and cool until squares

unsweetened (4 oz) maytrue Directoire gown in wide-thick and syrupy.

chocolate and remaining cola in wale corduroy, with drapery Rinse a qt, mould with cold deep saucepan. Stik over heat falling from below the bustline.

Fill 4 to 1/3 full with until sugar is dissolved, then the cola gelatin and place in boll gently for 6 min,, stirring Echoes of traditional national refrigemtor to set. It proferred, constantly. costumes were apparent in the

Sur use individual moulds. work of many designers, Ire- Whip c. heavy cream until land's Sybil Connolly showed a stiff, then beat in 2 tbsp, sugar for of cherry-red hostess gown, cowl and tsp. vanilia, the

necked and

Fold about 2/3 of the whip- floor-length,

with the ped cream wide-wale corduroy,

into the remaining lone. Ught sleeves terminating cola gelatin (reserve the rest of | 100

in puffs of pleated Irish linen. the cream for the topping). Spain's Rodriguez showed strik- lng. very Spanish bullfighter Wax flowers can be freshened pants, by dipping them in alcohol and broidered in then swabbing them with aharem-skirted soft, small point brush,

Heavily soiled curtains be soaked for ae hour in luke- enough warm water to which soap or synthetic has been add- ed to make a rich, active suds.

When you dampen clothes for ironing, fold them instead

And rolling them. You'll

makes fewer former method wrinkles that need ironing out later.

BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

Knarf And The Goat.

-The Shadow Boy Promises His Friend A Treat-

By MAX TRELL

KNARF, the shadow-boy, was A walking down the road feel-

Knarf stared down at the goat curiously.

"Newspaper is best," the goat went on. "Paper bags, wrapping

ing very happy with everything paper, writing paper and tissue and particularly with himself paper are almost as good. But when he saw an animal just on if you want something

really

the other olde of 14 wooden fine, you should try eating fonce. The animal was nibbling telephone book."

at the grass. It had whiskers and horns.

Krarf recognised the animal as a goat,

Now Knarf liked to talk to everyone and as he had nothing In particular to do at the mo- ment anyhow, he decided have a talk with the goat.

Over The Fence

to

"Hello, old boy!" Knart said cheerfully. leaning over the fence and looking down at the goat.

The goat looked up. "Howdy!" and the goat.

"How's your appetite today?" asked Knarf.

"Oh no," said Knart.

a

"Perhaps you'd like a shirt," said the goat "Shirts are deli- elous, all except the buttons. Buttons are too hard to chew."

"Oh no," Knærf kept saying.

"By the way." the goat finally said, what do you cat?”

2-17

"How's your appetite?” Knart asked the goat.

"Well," sold Knarf, "I eat Knanf.

bread and butter, lamb chops, cookies, milk, vegetables."

The goat kept looking Khart harder and harder,

at

"I suppose those things are all right for a boy, I'd eat them myself, 1 guess, if I didn't have anything else to eat."

"They taste fine," said Kharf, "especially the bread and but

"Fine and dandy," replied the ter gont.

Bold

I bring you some," Knard.

"When?" said the goat.

of these days," sald "One

friend," sold the "Thanks, goat. "I'll go right on nibbling this old, dried grass till you come Bround with that bread and butter."

"I'll surely bring it," sald Knari.

"Put it in a paper bag," said the goat. "That's the way I'd like it better. Bread and butter and may be good but bread butter and 'paper ... ahi"

"My trouble," said the goat, And the goat rolled his eyes He shook a bit of grass cut of us that I never can get bread and shook his whiskers and his whiskers, then lowered his and butter. You don't happen to looked for a moment as if he head and went back to nibbling, know anybody who'd bring me were going to stand up on his

hind legs and do a twirl. old some, do you?"

"What

makes you cat dried grase?" asked Knorf,

"I

like

old dried grass," replied the goat. "What's wrong with it

"Oh, nothing, nothing at all, old boy," sald Krarf, "except that it looks so yellow and dry. You might just as well be eat- Ing paper."

The goat gave Knar! a hard looks.

Eating Paper

"And what's wrong with eat- ing paper, driend?”,

demanded

the goot. "Have you ever eaten any paper?"

"Why no

ho, old chap, I've never eaten peper. Nobody cats paper," said Knarf. to yesterday's

“Nobody?" peated the goat

.

13 Ki–KI, any; 3, Q, R, or K6 | indignantly.

| mater,

paper,

Rupert and the Black Circle-34

Bingo laughs to see the apron Willie Mouse, who hàs come along that Rupert has brought but he bouncing his mysteriosa - ball. helps him pet it on. When the***Well, will, what are you doing And what happened when sorubbing is finished the painting- now begins, Roper working on the you went back for Bingo ?** fence while Bingo returns to the demanda Willie. Then Rupert stopa,

The little bear gets so injekto tell him why ha la thơ: buay asted that he hardly. notices, painting, s

"ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

in red velveteen em- jet. Over it, a

overdress

that

water.

Fill remainder of mould with cola cream mixture. Chill until arm, Makes 1 qt.

For a larger crowd, double the recipe and use a 2-qt, mold.

stirring

OF until

cornstarch mixture and continue to cook.

about

min. thickened.

Remove from heat. vanilla and smooth and spreading.

Add tsp. tintil for

bent. again

thick enough, I

TO servo a crowd or for a buffet, double the cake recipe and bako a two-layer 9-in. square cake.

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