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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15,

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JACOBY ON BRIDGE

Ruffing Tricks Set Declarer

By OSWALD JACOBY

WHEN you have four trumpa as a defender, you usually try to make decturer ruft some side sult, The Idea is to use up declarer's trumps in the hope that you will wind up with more trumps than he has. The prin- ciple is illustrated

today's ita hand,

West

The Jack opened

of hearts, and South won with the South led the queen of Quec71. spades, and East wom with the king. Fast now had to make key play

con"

East could be preity sure that he needed a cluti trick to have| any chance to defcut the tract. The best shot was to play South for a singleton small club with pretty solid holdings in the other suita

Eas: therefore deckcert 14) For make declarer ruft clubs. this purpose he began by lending the kag of chubs rather than a low club

When this card held, East Jed

a low club, foreing South 1 ruff. Declarer next led the Jack

WEST

J 10 9 4

642

A10052

NORTH

4042.

15

873 KUA

4QJ84

EAST

AK 93 652

873

4K 73

SOUTH (D)

AQ J 10 87

AKQ

• AQUID

Neither side vul

South

West North

Esat

Радя

INT Pass

3 +

Pass

Pass

3 A Paza

Past Pass

Opening lead-♥ J

Eus's

of spades. forcing at ace. East would now lend a thirdd club, foreng South to rulf again

At this point South had only one Trump whole East had twa trumps. Fast was therefore sure

Invarp to make hother defeatug the contract.

trick.

East would tut have defeated the contract if he had begun the clubs by leading a low enre in that sull. West would win will the are and would return a club. Dummy would play The jack, and Paul's king would micke South

Dummy's queen of clubs would then control the sit, and the fenders would

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be unable 10 make South ruff a second Game

♥*CARD Senten♦|

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

I Heart 2 Diamonds

You, South, hold:

South West

AKTI ♥J75 #AQ AQ J832

What do you do?

A-Bid two no-trump. This shows balanced distribution, stoppers in the opponent's sali, and about 12 to 14 points.

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

AK72 WJ75 SAQ ♣KQJ3 2

What do you do?

Answer Tomorrow

YOUR BIRTHDAY

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15

STELLA

Rony today, you have a forerful deal of travailing in this country and personally mid magnetic charm abroad. You have a talent for get- which make it easy for you to get ing at the facts and you would da along with all kinds of people under well in factual reporting or in any varying circumstaners. While youI

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only dividuais. when I is to your advantage. If Y = your environmeal, at home or at work,

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You know

Bsave executive Ability and

delegate work. how to

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CHESS PROBLEM

By E. PALKOSKA

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Solutio

problem:

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SOLUTION.

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WOMANSENSE

KEEP IN TRIM... BY IDA JEAN KAIN

Why That Tired Feeling?

New Winter Hats

A from overweights

Above: This

hat winter called "Nana"

Jane is of coloured velvet, fringed with silver cog plures.

Below: "Cafe Anglais”, an evening hat of green velvet decorated with volled roses.

Both hate A.CO from the winter collection of Roso

Valois.........Agönce France-Presse.

Experiments have shown that about the middle of the after- CHRONIC complaint

18 on a breakfast of black coffee noon. Then our tired over- that when they feel tired only, the blood sugar falls below weight taken a sunck just a lunch litle something to tide her over the fasting, level, boforo they turn to food for added time. This can result not only until the evening meal" By in dinner time, she has: that "beat" strength.....only to find in that tiredt feeling, but

heddoches, baokaches and feeling and, to get o`lift; over- that this practica adda

caty. dreariness pounds. They want to know how to beat that tired. Naturally then, along about feeling and lose the excess 11:00 In the morning, our over-

weight feels "wesk end nil After the meal, she's ready to weight.

gone" and, urgently in need of relax in the nearest easy chair.

caten Energy goes down when the sustenance."

at This leads to the The extra calories, blood

Jowers. So SURFİLT

the habit forming mid - morning dinner but not used for energy enuses blood pickup, doughnuts and

will go question is what

coffee following dinner, sugar to drop? There is

which brings another tem- make body fat, And where will creasing evidence that the kind purary rise in energy.

this fat bo stored? Largely on of food eaten and the distribu-

the stomach and waistline be- tion of the day's calories have to do with blood, considerable

be 3 sugar levels and energy supply.

of resultani For example, when most the day's food is eaten

one big meal at the end of the day's activity, these fuel calories are stored as body fat rather than To energy transformed into make matters worse, they tend to be stored largely on the stomach

bul we'll get

that later.

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...

to

That pickup lukes the edge off cause circulation is so slowed up the uppétite, so lunch is opt to that the excess nutrients don't

with sketchy affair

a get beyond the nearest spot. It's drop in blood sugar something to think about.

JOY MATTHEWS REPORTS FROM PARIS

Back To Nefertiti And World War I...

TN

The truth is that the

which (11s the time pattern schedule of modern living fails to meet energy requirements satisfactorily. Analysed. It is easy to ace why,

food

main

Paris

a world of storms and hurricanes Pierre Bal-

created

hardly

The 51, breeze among his scattered

time-saving breakfast of

telly and coffee

into an cumply

Homcon

throws Sg and wimi-swept audience to- stomach. The

For

had and day. carbohydrates (sugurs starches)

Into

the blood arranged that Balmain and stream quickly, giving a sudden Jean Desses-two of the

Ket

spurt of energy and a temporary biggest Paris designers—

docs

glow. But that breakfast not sustain energy for the morn-showed their collections on blood the same day at the same ing's work, because the sugar falls and energy fails with hour.

it.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

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with furniture

first

BLACK WRus

GAP

ORAWN

MY HORE

These are worn with Nefertit?” or big fur off-the-face hats. But there were no shocks, Evening dresses were distinctly surprises; no new ideas or First World War, with harem flashes of genius in store for These were in salin, chiffen, and skirts and cross-over bodices. the limited number who georgette.

Suits had short jackets

If your home has a good many experimenting windows, try using dacron cur- urrangements on per tuins. Such curtains cản be That is easier than lifting heavy | attended his collection, washed In soan or detergent furniture arbund: suds, then rinsed and put over a clothesline or shower rod to try, which will take only a very short time. They need little or no fruning.

150

Before tackling n ultic-to-with cross-over waists and basement cleaning campaign, sit straight skirts. Coats were down and list all the cleaning trimmed with enormous supplies and equipment you'}]

need to do the job. It's annoy-leopard and fox collars.

out of cleaning

particularly powder or soup in the middle of one was in a dark, greylah tweed

104!

it you have an electric ironer. you should use only about half the amount of starch that you u job.

with

LASS hand iron. starch is needed because the automatic kroner exerts a Look! dent more pressure than does the hand iron.

When furnishing a small room,

it is important to pre-plan the use of the available space.

BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

Picky Hears Good News

-But it Took A Lot of Talking To Get Him Excited-

By MAX

TRELL

NARF, the shadow boy with

turned-about Picky Poo the

nome.

there will be a frog there, Picky Pon, and water lites, and per- haps goldish, too.

"And then, as you keep going down the Brown

stone and wooden of steps, you go by u pine grove

Athe found Poodle sitting at the bottom

the kitchen steps enjoying the until wally, at the end of the

late spring sunshine.

at

"Hello, Picky," said Knori. Picky Poo Just looked Knar and wagged his tail and didn't say anything.

Then Knarf sat down on the steps next to Pleky Poo, put bla arms around Pleky's furry neck Land said: "Now listen carefully, my boy. I'm going to tell you a

GREAT deal of nonsense is was premeditated, and what we great secret,"

mallee

A talked about the processing have to decide is whether it was, of chemical coke, usually by as the plaintiff claims, people who do not know the first aforethought, or simply habitual foolishness. That the defendunt thing about it.

be

го

out

Great Secret

grove, you find yourself at the bottom of the hill at the edge of a little road. You cross this little road and what do you sup- pose you see?"

Picky Poo didn't say anything.

A Shady Nook

"Well, Picky," sald Knari. "you see a pond with

willow trees around it and a shady nookt

Try

"I'm going to tell you a secret,”

Knart told Picky Poo..

he

you,

full of violets and another grove to make Picky Poo get so really of pine trees on one end and a pleased about anything that Picky Poo wagged his tail a wooden bridge over the other barked. But he liked the country to all right with the hill and the is not a skilled contortionist has bit harder than he had wagged end where the brook runs

house and the stone and wooden before. But still he ld it. It is on activity that can been amply proved by the ro

He just waited for

mo?" steps and the pond, "Picicy. do you hear Knarf

the to tell him

great Knart said, lifting Ficky's head "That's what you meant when safely be left to those who are cem demonstration, after which nothing. competent to undertake the he was unable to undo himself,

up and secret.

gazing into his eyes. you said Woof, didn' carried is and host to work Informed criticism

"Now the secret is this, Picky, "It's a beautiful pond. It's the Pleky?" be ignominiously by ushers. welcome, and may

my boy," said Knart. He looked most beautiful pond you've over Just ignorant chatier by

around and lowered his voice, seen. And It's where we're go

the for he did not want the birds ing to pond to share the secret

Picky then went "Woof!" quite

Knarf laughed as he patted Picky gently on the head. his tall It took a great deal of talk-

those who have never handled Mimaie Stopcorner chemieni coke, and are simply

basing their case on a prejudice

Picky Poo really did mean ,and yes. For he jumped up wagged his tail and barked, so much that all the neighbours |

at looked out of the windows that.

him.

and the mayor and the bees and the fish in the children every day with

what they have been told IMSIĘ SLOPCORNER has he was about to tell Picky Poo, distinctly.

Mrs Just announced that

or qulflød, observers, m

by.

M

"We are going to the country Picky Too worged

"Shush!" they said. "Woot!" said Picky, "Whoopee!" said Knar!, "We're

get us as a tion, nowhere. For Whibble, had guessed correctly (next week," said Knarf. This reason if for no other-the the weight of a cake at the forthright condemiation of this Nudgoworth Fetc. The mayor again but still didn't say any ing. Knarf thought to himself, going to the country next week!" idio taik bylą leiding processor stepped forward to kiss her thing, which rather dimppointed

mind our own business.

is to be applauded. Let us all

Cocklecarrot intervener

Minsic stepped back, Knarf. He thought

- she said coldly.

the least foreigners kiss people's Picky Poo might do was to bark.

20

K.""I'll tell him more about the here's an country and then he'll be so shouted the mayor, English kiss." And he planted happy, that he'll have to bark," Cocklecarrot: We seem to be a sounding kiss on Miss Auto thought Knarf to himself. Tosing sight of the main issue. mation's check. The

crowd Theso Irrelevances about men applauded this act of gallantry, their elbows in their Mimsie rotired in confusion to with mouths and their heads in the tea tent, flower-pols are, wasting the time

J

*

The search for knowledge

(A actioolmaster.) hag Bug-

**Hills And Valloys Then Knart went on aloud: "You've never seen such a big place as the country, Picky Poo. it goes on and on, with fields and trees and hills and valleys.

We're going to live on the top of one of the hilla in a big white house to

Snapdriver: Mud I am try. An alert, intellipant boy will ing to establish the frontier o question every statement made borderline between voluntary to him.. and involuntary comfortionism,

"From the front of the house my boy,” Kharf said “ without Color: Noor

path with stone and Retting the defendant KNEW an exceptionally ofort, Walling for Picky to say any wwwcthis body out of Ks intelligent boy who every wooden steps, leading down to normal chage involuntarily Ha me, his mother said "It's nine the bottom of the blil: First, you im to having mepts in his o'clock,replied, "What is go down past clown. Then you frockstarala the object of facil! After a few years this habit got come to a regular perded on one Cat Char? Mechtusesset of his on her nerves and she kept, the alde and a rock garden, with ija

pool on the biler Akde

Rupert and the Fire Bird-36

safe he fasia on his strange beware, steadily "soaring, higher; with!

per le surprised to find how catch up with the vaut lock, who parch," and has soon realises that i- the fire blid in, the middle Ani the bird; that Mrrenrrying thing jaya, length even they are left behind. *extraordinarily fine? They rapidly, add in the far distance" Rupert oviral the heat treat; bird and faces that he lay being Grow csal 'no' Rupert trics to call a cheery, great real callegrininis souls! roches gribe to Ponas Ping in Then, they tumbled map of cloud!

to run

One

altractive

with a black astrakhan collar.

feel free all over.

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