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YOUR BIRTHDAY

BORN today

TUESDAY, DECEMBER

you have an ex- trenely inagnetic Personality and a positive niillude toward thing. You keep your own counsel in important matters and are ope of thisso who chri

be depended

upon to keep a secrol. This applies đỏ both meri and women, Jusk and fair in all your dealings with others, you will also gain their respect.

You have the gift of being able to speak well in public and could become good minister. detrasco attorney or politician. You have the charin ibat makes it possible for

JACOBY

ON BRIDGE

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THE CHINA "MAIL" ~TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1956

This Funny World

BY STELLA

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you so' present dull facts fastion which makes them interest- ing to a general audience. Your ama bitions are high and you alm to achieve your objectives, Yet you are so konmawurning on the mufice, that few realise the depth and strength of your perseverance,

acquaintances,

An intellectual by nature, you are not interested too much k thom who have permitted their minds to grow sluggish. Although you malor hundreds of camsal your cirola of close intimates will he a small and select group. You are affectionate, and demonstrative with thom you love and your home life should be a happy and con tented one.

Among those born on this date

are Edward Macr ell, composer Egman Abbott, ex A churchmon Theodore Пibot.

psychologurt Parkes, Codman, ebureninami Alfred D. Street, author: George Prentice, editor: Mary Nolari

Lơnn Bärl, notremes.

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Expert Plays Routine iure for you tomorrow, select your

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JACOBY

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but the average

player might well stucty seweral of the plays. All the routine technique that experts take for

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birthday star and read the CUTTE- sponding paragraph. Let your Krusday star be your dady guide.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 19

NAGITTARIUM (Nov. 23-Der. 23)- True in wa selive day for you in the bies world, You say anticipatn a promotion in your job moon, foo

23-Jan. 20)- CAPRICORN ber, Gandwill co come from your home and triglibrorhood

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may bad led a singleton or the top of a doubletem. He thought that the doobleton veas more likely, when it didn't seem prob-

South able that

kait EL BIX- end holding in clubs

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COOK USES SCIENCE

➡and if he's a bachelor, he'll use his friends as well

By MARIUS POPE

NE of the best things not being married is that one's diet need never

get 'into monotonous rut. It la a poor sort of bachelor indeed who, at short notice, cannot call on the varied talenta of half-dozen or more would-be cooks to try their hands at his supper.

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But every now and then even the laziest bachelor will want to put his own hand to the cooker-because his guest evening will be

I cut up a chicken, browned the pieces in a frying pan. - pincod the chicken with onion and mushrooms in the, pot, and put the pot into the oven

Then, before I left for work in the racing, I set the auto- matic timer to coolt for three

at 350 deg.. and a half hours

nishing at about 8 p.m.

Ve me no more worries about my main dish.

CRITICAL STAGE

That

I turned my attention to the

I that rice. This you must soe,"

samoone he said. "It's my speciality dish, and onlookers. Two other guests had

does not yet know well enough to give the chores to.

INVITATION

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What sort of cooking does bachelor turn out on such occa- the sions?

That is a question that intrigues Helen Burke, leading

cookery. So invited her along to watch typleal

In preparation, aking her to comment freely on my recipes and methods.

being employed for false 01 present purposes Cocklecarrot replied: A peculiar case. "I wear a wig for, In a sense,

aquarium false

that purposes; Geoffrey impress the public damages majesty of the Law."

Mir Tinklebury Snapdriver (fur the persecution): M'lud, y'ladship would surely not sug gest that the plaintiff wore his wig to impress the public with the majesty of the aquarium.

for Jlbe! and defamation character is being heard.

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It appears that the plaintif was in the habit of wearing large wig over his own hair, in order to give the impression that he was baid. This wig he referred to as a false wig, and he said it was quite unnecessary na be bad a fine, thick head of hair. Asked why he wore it, If

TAURUN (Apr. 21-MAJ There's romance in the air if you It was unnecessary, he sold it Body for 11 Conline bustner

was the only way To make pro- ple think he was bald, Asked why he wished to be thought baid, he said that promotion in the aquarium world was slow, to be thought and he wished alter than he was.

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A fine day with all anpecta in your favour Take <ar of personal affairs witli aimed and efficiency

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East took The ace of clubs and led a third club for West to muff will the queen. West now led a low heart, putting South to the guess.

Souh had to guess whether West dead from the ace tat from the queen of hearis, South natiy decided that West would hearts were headed by he pueen the theory Bot South would eventually have to tuckie the suit for himself. The only hope was that West held the ace of hearts and declarer therefore made his contract by putting up the king of hearts from the dummy.

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The first thing that surprised Helen

my kitchen, thought I was going to watch a one-ring demonstration," she sold, rather taken aback by my chromium-plated cooker and the pots already sizzling on the hob. TJERE are more extracts from

the latest reviews:—-

"On the contrary," said, Proves that unadorned factual "no hard-working bachelor to be without all realism need not be dull. Even | afford 120 initials

latest seicutifie Intriguing.

gadgets (Gregory Peck.)

Are

days."

threw

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oven.

A sincere attempt to tell the

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"Look," I said, pulling out niet's names, (Mr Menglem,)

cavertd saucepan (12 should Deals a death-blow to the old

have been a casserole, but that, idea that we have lost interest in my flat, by always used as a

and even in the drinking bowl for Susha, in the names

cammen.cat) "here is the chicken, al- initials

(Houtingdon Times.)

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Cockizentrot; What on As a falso wig? You might well talk of a dummy glass cyer Mr Honeyweather Goostboole, for the defence, pointed out that the wig was an ordinary une and that his client meant to imply that i was the act of ordinary names could be. (Fred wearing Il Umt was false. It Smith.)

I never realised before how

list of painfully dull a

very

most done."

The

it takes half an hour to make."

I started by pouring about a pound of rice, dry, into a little fab in a saucepan, I filled the electric kettle and switched It 1 stirred the rice vigorously over a hot flame prevent burning.

Then

"Can't The telephone rang. answer now," I said. "Once you let start this thing, you can'

go,"

Soon the telephone stopped ringing. By that time the kettle had started boiling, and the rice was just on the point of brown ing. This was the crucial mo-

ment.

"Walch carefully," 1 told Helen. I added the boiling water to the rice, just covering it. "That's the secret,” I said. "You Just cover the rice. Then the water is rapidly absorbed, and you just cover it again. You do this eight or nine or more times, watching like a hawk or else the rice will burn. By that time It ought to be almost ready."

AN AUDIENCE

"What about Helen.

salt?" nglood

"I nearly forgot," I repiled. I explained to her that I had and threw some in. rather cunningly

started pre- puring dinner the night before.

BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

No Place For A Hill

-The Bunglers Make Their Biggest Mistake--

By MAX TRELL

"Lel's dig a deep hole,' this bright Bungler said, and put

"NOW, one of the strangest the hill in it. Then it won't be

Fald

in our way any more. Tin Just All up the hole.'

visited," 1 ever places

the General Tin

to Knart and Hanid. the shadow children with the turned-about

Soller,

Bungleland."

names,

was

It will

very

"This seemed like bright idea to the rest of the Bunglers. So they Bil pickaxes and shovels and started

KOL

"Is that where the Bunglers digging a deep hole just to one live?" asked Hanid.

General Tin winked first one eye and then the other. "Exact- Jy so, he said.

Knarf and Hanid begged' General Tin to tell them about the Bunglers who lived in Bungleland.

Bungling Things "Now as you can guess," said General Tin as he took his musket down from his shoulder and leaned on it, "the Bunglers got their name because they were always bungling things. That means they were always doing things wrong.”

"What things did they wrong?" asked Knart.

side of the hill.

It was their

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hope that when the hole deep enough, all they would have to do was give the bill a disappear push and it would into the hole,

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General Tin leaned on his musket as he told the story.

"Those poor Bunglers, they never did anything right.

Into The Hole

"Finally," said General Tin, "the holo WDS deep enough. The Then they all got behind

"Once they decided that Sun- the hill and gave it a push, Sure day was the best day in

to enough, the hill slid into the week because no one had hole that they had dug for it, work and everyone could rest. It Alled the hole up. It dis So they made every day in the appeared.

week Sunday and nobody work- ed and no one had anything to

"*'Now,' said the Bunglers to one another, all we have to do la put the dirt back where it came from-right back in the do hole.

General Tin answered: “Oh, things like putting the left shoe on the right fool, or walking out through door without opening It. Or drinking tea with a fork

under-

"But they couldn't put it back in the hole because the hole was all filled up already.

cot."

Knart and Hanld thought the Bunglers must be very strange people,

sald "But just the same," Handa'd like to visit them. to Docs take long to get Bungleland, General Tin?"

"It's nearer than you think,” and General Tin.

But

anky

**Why, just look at that pile of dirt they cried. 'It's just as big as the hill wo've just got rid of,'

"And

said sure enough,"

ho wouldn't my General Tin, "that's just how it more. He just winked one eye

DILL "One of the biggest bungles was. They had got rid of one and then the other, tha Bunglers

made," hill only to find they had made musket over his shoulder ever General Tin said. "was when themselves another.

stood very elill

Knarf said he now stood what bungling meant.

they decided to remove a hill

that was standing right in the middle of their village."

"How did that hill get thero?" asked Hanid.

Nobody Know

"Nobody seemed to know." said General. Tin, "but there it

was, The Bunglers decided

#

was no place for a hill to bo,

so they made up their minds to got rid of fl

"How could they di that, General Tin?" Kneeź wanted to know.

**The Bunglers didn't know

hill. You have to be able to pu

Bothe

his

and

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zsend another, reli

The next stage was to heat up some white wine.

By this time the kitchen was filled with

arrived.

The wine, I explained to my audience, was for the rice. It was added instead of water for the last couple of times. This gave it a distinctive flavour.

I turned down the heal enable the rices to absorb wine slowly, and turned attention to the first course.

to

the

my

This was consomme (out of o n), to which was added A Ikile stock minde from the giblets of the chicken, plus à beral helping of sherry. This lasted so good that Helen had to restrain my sampling of it.

By now the rice was cooked. I lasted it and added a ligger of whisky.

Give

VERDICT

Marius Pope cooks by car. He does not mind breaking the rules (if he knows them). How right ho in He has a natural talent for coolding. dare.

He dares what no

no chef, how- over adventurous, would

Fancy adding to Risotto or Pilaff

really generous

quantity of dry white wine- and then plenty of whisky!

It accompanied a real by-

the ear casserole of chicken, in which there was vermouth!

Into the tinned consomme, extended with giblet stock to

serve five of us, went sherry!

Helen raised her eyebrows. But the other onlookery seam- ed impressed--and that, after oll, was the main purpose OF this 'touch of bravura.

The rice went into a greased diah in the oven, covered over with two or three, teaspoonfuls of tus and sprinkled with cinnamon.

actual

That concluded the cooking, except for adding

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fairly liberal helping of mouth to help the chicken along.

Was

By this time the chef exhausted. But the food, apart from being excellent, seemed to possess extraordinary recupera- tive powers. After I had coton two or three helpings of con- somme, chicken, rice and peps (frozen) I was ready 10 mart

cooking again.

HELEN TAKES OVER

I

**What about a sweet?" asked Helen.

have some Grande Marnier brought to me from France, We haven't used that yet."

The dinner seemed to have Infected. Helen too. She caught

** my enthusiasm at once.

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"A souffle," she cried, leading the kitchen. the way back "Just the thing."

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And with three eggs, a Hitle milk, sugar and butter, and fair helplog of Grunde Marnier, she produced what is undoubt- edly the best souffle I have ever caten,

by Helen Burke

Incidentally, there were three women including my- self. In the kitchen putting this and that into the "chora"" hands and washing up na we went along. In fact, Marius conducted himself as do many other men in the kitchen. He did.

however, make his rice dish without any assistance,

except for finding the rico And the fal, never leaving it stripsy for

moment, A furiously and, all the time. looking like a magician which, somehow, I think he 18.

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