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This Funny World

Haruppani

McNaught Byndicats, Inc.

3-27

'Why all the funs? I thought that was what you were supposed to ili

•

WAY

BY THE

by Beachcomber

LIVERY now and then The Εν

Pust Offer, with a twinge of conscience. tries iu brighten

thing up

Now that the big banks are represumed in advertisements as a cross between a holiday camp und the office of a kindly l family solicitor, post offer are

CROSSWORD

#2

A crusa

1. Eney sung almost like swelte

qn the nonshore. (B, 4)

2

The castle wall sounds almost

ilke a Royal Academy sonida). GTA

Hardy men of old. (8)

12 Hens around a seabird, 14)

American station, cô

13

Let henge make

14. 4)

AJAKOPAJZ).

Ski language to sauther sobse

zu Ööstfell is eminens bere. (0)

21. Soar to reshape a gir), (4) 2 Calm and collected often

low, (4)

They often supply chair chalis. (T

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он

24. This answer is defluitely nega

$ive. (3)

29 the queen had four Mary goes the old Boots sonR. (8)

Down

1 LOTO LOAN arbo

2. This kind of ure la often nut

seeking new ideas. Why not have Greetings Biolting Paper, with a gay floral design round

"Welcome"

in letters of gold in the centre of each sheet? At West Hartle-

or

a man stilled through the grille, produced Christma and said to the assis- cracker, lant: "Pray pull this with me. You may get a whistle U

hល, '' paper

The postmaster was called, and the men was told that the initiative in postal menities should come from the staff, but from the public.

A profitable night out

RETURNING

In the smal

hours from a night at the green baize. Foulenough passed through a square which

rank with festive laughter. A conga pavement, stretched along the

and

It swayed towards a large house from which glasses and bottles were being merrt

merrily thrown into the

streek, Foul- enough had no difficulty in at- taching himself to the dance, Entering

vast room with

crowd of hilarious people, he was soon at home.

constan! spray of champagne, like spume blown over a seaside promenade had left facea glistening and

ven dripping. Foulenough ate, frank, danced, Birted and finally torrowed a taxi-fare from different young men who wers

no condition to argue th matter He arrived home with his night's winnings intact, 63s. left over from the tax-money. eight pork-pies, three bottles i champagne, half 0 pound smoked salmon, and o pedigree poodle rescued from the cloak-

pralaod. (W)

100m,

lot of

Marvels of science

schleyed without D

trouble f (4)

a. Rulers--or stipe. (V)

4. Naval Discult of the old day

(4, 4)

6. Tula ACTom is spartana, (31

0. Hold the musiɑ (9)

u. River goɑ. (3)

+ Pat back tho

tho tareTLI

43)

department of

21. The variety is beautiful, though

atrin old-fashioned. câ. 4)

18. The poem would stand without

licitation, (61)

38. Last but not with this quaila-

Cation often. (B)

27. Lie down to thin. (5)

18 The drawing

Prench, (*

rocin

011

SOLUTION TO CHECK

of

The Fascombe burl-twister, a compendions development of the Baltheim-Grossen co-refractor.

Each starmage is corled under a Jefferman bulge-plate-joist_of galvanised putodunium Com pression is avoided by

by lining the

|travet-ends

with binzol.

YESTERDAY'Sudge valve controls the skim-

PUZZLE

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1956.

JACOBY ON BRIDGE

Slam Bids Not Always Smart

By OSWALD JACOBY

NOUTH makes six spades

in

oxlay's hand. He takes the firat trick with dummy's ace of clubs, draws three rounds of trumps. and rune the hearts.

This enables him to discard two clubs, Now he ruffs e club and leads a diamond towards dum- my's king. West has the ace of diamonds, and 12 tricks are there for the taking,

Should South flod fault with the bickling because this alam

WEST

1004 ❤82

•AQB 431090

NORTH (D)

4QJ97

VAQJTO

KG At

EAST

83 943

SOUTH

22

J 1078

*K832

AK52

❤K 10 6

932

4974

Both sides vul.

❤

North Exst South

PAS ia

West

Pass

Pass

Pass

Pass

Pass Opening lead-- J

Pass

was missed? Not at all, This was a normal game contract. but it would have been an in- ferior slam contruct.

P

at

You are willing to be in slam contract if you have even chance to make it. You profer a better chance. Hence you are ready to look for

an If you miss a slom error which you had better than evon chance; but you shed

for

no

tears over the missed alums for which you had less than on even chance.

What is your chance for slam in the hand shown today? You and nood a 3-2 trump break you must and the ace of dip- monds in the West hard.

The combination given you about one the in three to make chance slom.

It isn't necessary (although It is helpful) to work out the ac- curate odds. A finesse is an event You would have that chance, even chance if you needed only to find the ace of diamonds in Since you also the West hand. need some additional break (the 3-2 trump division), you must have less than on even chance. Hence the slam is not good gamble.

♥CARD Sertsons

Q-The bidding has been: Bouth

North West

Eart i Heart 2 Clubs 2 Diamonds Pass

You, South, hold:

AK 75 WAQJ943 +852 JA

What do you do?

A--Bid two hearia. You will be interested in lam if North zela ambitions, but you cannot afford to make the first move with your noar minimum of 14 points. TODAY'S QÜESTION

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

ARTS QJ943 +Q32 A

What do you do?

Answer TomOITOW

TARGET

P

UP

A

ROY

C

E

C

Tods, and the straight line doum the entre is an iron slot rammer or stay-pipe.

YOUR BIRTHDAY

By STELLA

TUESDAY, MAY 22

Follow these

How many

words of four letters

or moore cu you make from

the

letters in the

making each word the lotters in each of the amall squares diay be used once only. bach word must contalo the large letter in the centre square, and there must be at jess one nine-letter word in the list No plurals; no foreign words; TODAY'S no proper names. TARGET: 10 words. good; t words, very good 27 Words excellent. Solution tomOTTUW.

WOMANSENSE

"Veronique", a two-piece checked belgo suit in Ught weight woollen material. By Carven.-Agence France-Presse.

Be True To Your Type

A

By JEANNE D'ARCY

CTRESSES live in fear very much the fashion

these

out for is being too withdrawn,

of type-casting, but, in days. What you have to watch the beauty world, being a seemingly disinterested in what type often has its advan- goes on around you. tages!

If you're wise, you'll analyse your own particular brand of beauty, Play up its assets, avoid ite pitfalls.

Are you, for example, a dark beauty? What could be more attractive? You're vivid, strik ing, dramatic!

The feminine girl has a soft, delicate air about her.

Even this can be overdone. Feminine women shouldn't be too cute-- especially when they're over 21. Skip a surplus of trilis, fuss and furbelows

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CREOLE COOKERY HAS ROMANTIC HISTORY

A

By IDA BAILEY ALLEN

LOUISIANA is rich in

L4 heritage and culinary artistry. Each of the re- gional foods we have seen. here has a romantic his- tory," remarked the Chef.

"Par example, the shrimp re- presents the llvelihood of generations of fishermen who have Balled from Louisiana Gult ports, The sugar grows in

Big abundance. succulent mushrooms

cane

and also

the shallots are products of the rich local oil and rice is a prominent crop grown in the Southwestern part of the state,

"I understand it represents & good portion of all the rice grown in the U.S., and It hab', an important role in Creole cookery.

"L

especially enjoy the seclion of Louisiana known as the Cajun country, near New Thirts, where descendants of sellers from the Evangeline country of Nova Scotia still speak their their

C and carry

on

Traditions. These people of French background were originally called Acadians,

time but

and the Southern dialect have softened it to 'Cofun","*

AS A FINAL TOUCH, 4 Benld pepper seasoning is added to Shrimp Iberts, served over rico, with tossed greens and mushroom mind.

"And I shall never forget our visit to Avery Island, Chef," I added, "where tabasco is made. This is really a liquid pepper reasoning, needed in Louisiana cooking, especially for seafood. And it's unique, because there is nothing else like it. Who would ever dream that it takes orange, c. mashed banana three whole years for this sauce and tbsp. lemon juice.

ripen and develop full navour!"

to

DINNER

Tossed Greens and Mushroom Salad

Flaky Rice Buttered Green Beans

Shrimp Iberia

Fruit Gelatin Fresh-Fruit Calte Squares

Coffee

Twi Milk All Measurements Are Level

Recipes Proportioned to Servo to

Shrimp Iberia: In a chafing- dish (or skillet), melt 3 tbsp. butter Add 1 minced section

peeled garlic; simmer 5 min Add

17 C. chili sauce and 3 tbsp. lime juice.

The career type and the out- door girl have something in common. It's a down-to-earth

Blir in 1 lb. cooked, cleaned But there are things of which quality, a casual manner, What

to avoid is being shrimp. Stir occasionally until to beware, Drea so you won't both have

mannish in their attitude. look bold and flamboyant. To ne to be star of the golf links. heavy cream.

It's heated through. Then stir in 1 Heheat to be distinctive, your looks should or the career course, but don't serving temperature and add

They're be played down.

too lose your femininity while being sp. Tabasco, alive to need playing up.

outstandingly efficient,

Served spooned If you're a cool beauty, you It's a good idea to find your rice,

Fresh-Fralt have a withdrawn jook, a lady- type and stick to it. You'll feel

Cake like air and, nine chances out and look more at home in your Stir c. butter unui soft and Don't forget that creamy. Add 1 c. granulated of ten, you're a blonde; they natural role. seem to run to this type. Thanks the best charm of all is being sugar, 2 well-beaten eggs, the to Grace Kelly, the cool type is just Y-O-U!

grated rind 1⁄4 lemon and

BOYS'

AND

Punch's Barber Shop

Sift together 1% e, #1rendy- sifted enriched flour, 1 tsp. baking powder and 1⁄4 tsp. salt. Add

to the first mixture with c. each orange and pineapple

mixed together. juice

Transfer to an oiled 7" x 11" cake pan. Bake 40 min, in a moderate oven, 350*-376 F. Cool,

with confec-

To serve, dust tioner's sugar or cover with thin

orange icing and sprinkle with faked coconut. Cut in squares, TRICK OF THE CHEF Add

fresh mushrooms to a tosæd green salad.

Cut the stem ends even; with the mushroom caps. Wash and dry. Cut in cross-wise slices; refrigerate at least 1 hr. In not- sweet French dressing to almost cover.

Use the dressing when tossing the salad.

The Peasant Fabric With

A Snob Appeal

...

New York. "bleeds"-whatever term... 300- HE American woman, prefer for a material in no way Twho for years has de- colourfast.

Somo manufacturers even #o over flaky manded colours that won't so far as to guarantee the bleed

"run,"

deliberately ing. Squares;

buys those that will.

She and her family taken to the Oriental Madras, which fades, runs

now

GIRLS' MAGAZINE

-QI All The Customers, Only One Needed a Halreut-

By MAX TRELL

with it as he opened and shut it again and again and again. 1

"Now I'm all ready," he said TNARF, the shadow with the to Knarf.

name, was surprised to find his friend Mr

K turned-about

"But you

haven't

"Come,

"Thank you," said Mouse. "I don't need a haircut either.”

friends," come, my sald Mr Punch, enlpping his scissors faster than ever, "I tell

down and you what. Sit

rim both your whisker"

I'll

And that's what Knart saw. He saw

the My Punch trim mouse's whisker and the cat's any cus whiskers. As soon as this was

Punch putting up a rod and tomers, Mr Punch" said Knart. done, the mouse ran off and the white striped pole on the other

said "They'll come,"

Mr cat raced after him. side of the door in the play-

"Everybody needs a room, None of the people who Punch.

"Very nice folks," Mr Purich haircut." lived the house

in

over went

remarked to Knart, "But one of through the door. It was hid-

these

will At that moment, a cat and a

doyo Mouse

get den behind the curtain. Only Mr Punch aral Knarf and Teddy mouse went racing past, the cat caught. When that happens I'l

after racing

of only have the cat's whiskers to

trim."

the Stuffed Bear and others knew about it.

few Д

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YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION: acrid aphis apiah apod. arch arid

BORN on this first day of the in ly alternating cycles.

coining sign, Gemini, you pre trends and take advantage of the deple card carp cash chair chaos essentially the artistic__ Ideafletic, Kood turn in fortune's 'wheel and you chap char copra crash dais dash scientist or Inventor. You always will progress faster. In starting any hair hard harp harp hour hoard have a better mouse-trap! But you' new enterprise, you will find that grach ored paid pair parch parish

sometimes A litt now in January and June appear to be your

poach pharos pharfe plea picador developing, your, ideas. Ruled by most propitious months.

rachin You are puchard prea prosale psora Mercury, the god of knowledge, you popular wherever you go and there radio vadiah ruid rapid rush rand have a highly Inquisitive mind and Is plenty of love and affection in RHAPSODIC roach road sold sapta Üke to gain as inuch knowledge store for you throughout your entire kaper sard road' scaphoid scar scarp about, as many. different things av tre.

shad shard sharp soap KoⱭT posible. If you are to reach your

setup soda spaht par epica sporadic.

True peak of Buscemi, you most Among those

dalo born on this

learn how to specialise early in life, are: Richard Wagner and John

Your literary and artistic talent is Stewart, composers: Arthur Tappan, outstanding. The emphasis is prob. phlissathropist Sir Itobert Baden-

ably on music and poetry, but you Powell, soldier: Worthington Whitter- Are at home in any or all of the lúge, painter; Sir Laurence Olivier, allied arts. You have been given eclog and Alexander Pope, post. the touch of genlus, and your ability

to originate should sel you

Apart,

Ta. And what the stars have tri from those who are more pedestrian store for you tomorrow, select your In Uieir pursuit of the arts.

birthday slar and read the corres-

It would appear that your good and ponding paragraph. Let your birth-

ill fortune contes to you in regular- day star be, your dally guide.

4

WEDNESDAY, MAY 23

21)

ORMENT (May 22-Jabe Your personal relations with others can prove of great importance. Stay calm and be optimiste,

22-3uty

13)

CANCER (Je Hew to the tried and true bath just now and avoid experimenta. They might not worki

SAGITTARIÙS (Nov, 21-Dec,' X2)~om Your, plans may not work out as you anticipated, so progress slowly io be sure).

CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-J80. 293in Disturbed elements are prevalent o be cautious in all things. Stay calm and do nothing impulsively.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-7ès. 19)

13)- PISCES

30-Mar

LKO (July) 24 - Aty. 13) - Blick to the siřlet path of duty, at Reep one tool solidly on the ground you are to escape dimculties which

today. Again

"Don't let impulses arise from dallance, guide your "ketlone.

VIRGO

(AUF. 24-Bapt. Don't be sidetracked but keep your Avoid getting involved: In other mind on the essentials, Asmiling people's attaire and you will get on face can also be a real noot,

better with your ownt B)- ARIES

2.

LIBRA Take all mensible prepautions against Use well-control in one up to the possibių rima. Consider, egory angle, probleme when the, pay offers and GREET YOU, Will come out, all-rightmana S önregale before weting an

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CHESS PROBLEM

By B. ZLATIO Black, 8 pieces

2

FT

White, 11 pieces,

While to play mate in two. Solutions to yesterday's problem:

K-K7: threat; atas ( đầm ch)7 1

An Outdoor Field

There was lots of room on door: a the other side of the sort of an outdoor field with roof over The sun always shone and it never relaed.

п

course.

the

motic,

"Here! Come back you two!" Mr Punch shouted after them. "Stop whatever you're doing and get your haircuts."

They Came Back

"I hope it never happens," sald Knarf

Strange Customers

Matras in its original form is have a sturdy cotton material, hand- fabric woven by natives of Madras, a

or tropical

city in southeastern Indu

Mr Punch was puting up a 'red and white siriped pole.

$150

It is brilliantly coloured with anywhere from two to 10 shades combined. The natives vegetable dyes which run, caus- ing a change in the Dattern each time a garment is launder- ed Traditionally, Madras comes in plaid' or stripe design,

Although around a long time, Madras only began to catch on in U.S. markets nationally evuple of years ago, according to the Government of India Trade Centre in New York, Now, its use for both men's and women's sportswear is booming and the centre estimates that

year

to

this

from 800,000 1,080,000 yards will be im- ported

MADRAS JACKETS

Colour and design of Madras also are being copied by Ameri- can and British textile facturers-one firm

calis

manu- the copy a "true-to-Madras.” The copies are made up not only in cotton but silics and synthetics, and unlike the original usually are colourfast.

Homerbund and ties, But this

Some of the bolder of the Now what about you my men's wear manufacturers Then more customers came to boy Mr Punch said after all Madras for diner jackets, cum- Mr Punch's barber shop. They the customers were gone. were strange customers--sirange expected it for a borber shen, that E-and Mr would happen, but sure enough most of them red and, the cat and the mouse turned haircuts.

around and came back to Me Punch's barber shop.

At any rate, there was Punch putting up a

while striped" pole.

"It's a barber pole!”

Knarf

Knar never

exclaimed. "Why are you put- "I don't need much of a hoir ting up a barber pole, Mr cut," said the cat. "Give it to Punch? You're not a barber!"

Mr Punch merely smiled. He pointed to a sign_hanging `on't mushroom a few feet away. On the other side of the mushroom was a big 'barber chair that tilted forward and backward and went up and down.

The sign read:

Haircuts

Punch's Barber Shop "There, that tells the whole story, my boy," said Mr. Punch. "Help me put this, 'on, will you please?"

His White Coat:

/ Knorf helped Mr Punch put ori & white coat. •Whon (thie | was done, Mr Punches put comb behind, his earn.He, then (pickedjs us | the ⠀ solmsorg. 5, and "wiseted" making" snipping! rinlaw

Mouse."

talleut.

hafreut,"

summer, you'll see most of it in men's wallding shorts, slacks, Jackets and bathing trunk and shirt oots,

WID

was looking at Kharf. didn't care for Oh, I'll have, a

cald Knart. Squirrel, for instance, had 4 Mr Punch smiled. That's

Claire McCardell, who Duck had a feathereut. good." He said. “A barber Ilkes Porcupine had a quilleut Fish to give at least one haircut a one of the first jop designers to had a sealecut. Bear had a fur day. Sit down, please? And the use the Madras, billed her first cut. Sheep had a woolcut, scissors went snip-snip-mip.

Tumbers "mado to fado.” She belleves the fabric became pÓ- pular because; women Ware Ured of so many fancy, finishes on cottons. "They went back to nature," said Miss McCardell,

Rupert and the Winter Woolly-9

"While Rupen is examining his fresh as if it were summet time), find there is a call from Willie That wind must have blown it ... the Mouse, who has also recurned home,, but whem from ?*** Willie leto "the" scene of the hurricane. stops short and stares intently? " [4], look at this 1 i Rupert cries*K's, wonderful as he murmurs. vos Did you ever wa kuch a whacke (“fus look on the back. There's

thing big leaf falta sa soft súd a queer thing sitting on it i

VÁLEKSOMTA) RÄISEVED

Another New Rupert Adventure-

RUPERT and the HAPPY WISH

"Madras has anob appeal," said William Doniger, vice- president of McGregor-Doniger, a men's wear firm. "It's been seen for years, you imow, Palm Beach and other watering placum,”

Whatever the reason,” ita naż tional popularity hog(namazed Boro og Sta | originators. -ADD. "Winter, dj spolcornan," for

frate contre, said thah in Inčka, Madirua Hin a “pesanti fabrics untally made Inte

garment worn-

LW YOR. Indiane look at

we're wery"\uba-whid

$1.00 American do with Th

the