1957-02-27 — Page 4

•JACOBY ON BRIDGE

Economy Play Saves Guesses

By OSWALD JACOBY

THE point of today's hand; Don't rive yourselt a gucas when you aren't obliged to do

RO.

You need three club tricks

to make your contract of three 1:0-trump. How should

play the clubs?

you

If East in a weak, insecure, player, one good method is to win the first spude irick in the dumuny and return a low club immediately. You plan to make East give himself away.

This depends on" outgucesing East. If he is a good player,

NORTH

4552

❤863

K84

A 1083.

WEST

EAST

4QJ1003

♥J72

Q107

4J0

SOUTH (D)

South

1 N.T.

AA84

❤AKO

♦ A83

470 ❤91004 3902 +362

#2074 North-South vul.

West North East Pass 3 N.T. Pass Pass Pasa

Opening lead-4 Q

capable of playing u low club quickly and calmly, you may ziot guess correctly,

12-20

This Funny World

عدام الأماني

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY

McNaught Syndicate, Ine.~✪ Argory Magazine "I'm beginning to lose my respect for him. He should have finished me off long ago"

YOUR BIRTHDAY ....... ↳y STELLA

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27

the

you

powerful in this fashion, you will develop DORN today, you have

imagination. Even if you make your talents and bring thein to ad

early fruition, no professional use of it in literary or dramale arts, you will find that your personal life is apt to be full of dreams and aspirations You build castles In the air" with almost every brest and, as a child, the fanciful is a real to you no the truel Parents of children born on itus date should recognise that fact and fancy are very near together and a child should never be accused of "iya" but rather, very actully, tho difference between shown the imaginative world and the world of fast

Those of yn who develop your The best way to save your-

talents and express them in the Held self guesswork is

to win the noetry, drains or iterature should be highly muccessful. You have line first spade in your own hand and exciting theories but do not al and lead the

develop them in practical clubs ways seven of

usage. You are an individualist wilen towards dummy with the it comes to working and find the dull

monotony of routine stifling.

ft

You make friends wherever go and have a heart full of sympathy You always will for all mankini, take up for the underdog. Attrac tive to members of the opposite sex, you will have many admirer, Wed at a fairly early nge for the best happiness, since you are most con- tent when in the midst of your own family group.

data born on this Among those were: James T. Farrell, author: Ellen Terry and Joan Bennett, actresses: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, post; McKenna, Author: Jacob Stephien eliampion; and John G. Gilbert, early. Bigelow, selenlist: Gene farazen, zoir 19th Century actor.

To find what the star have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday war and read the corre pondta paragraphs, Let your birth-

intention of letting it ride for a monorike out for yourself at an finesse. If the fincase loses to early age and become your own boss, day star be your daily guide.

the king, you can easily win

the

other clubs; the Ancsso

loses to the jack, you must plan

ARIES

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28

20-Mar,

20)-

20)-

to take another "finesse, This PISCES (Feb.

A Journey may be benefleial to your plan will work if West has une long-term ambluons. Make excellent or both of the missing honours progress at this Ume. in cluba What's more, the mental effort you spare your self by this method of play can be stored up for a hand that requires some, special work

brain-

♥÷CARD Serise♣t|

Q-The bidding has been; North

East South Wal

1 Diamond Pass 1 Heart Pass

2NT.

You, South, hold:

4) WAKI4 403963 485

What do you do?

A-Bid five diamonds. This, re- markabla, jump Invliga North to bid a slam if he has controls in the unblà suite.

TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding la the 'Barne as in the question just answered. You, South, hold: MOVARJ742 69 10 8 0 3 455

What do you do?

I

Answer Tomorrow

21-Apr. (Mar. Friends may be helpful in giving you a lift en routo in nueces. There's romance and pjesmire in store, too.

21) TAURUS (Apr. 21-May End the shortest month of the yest on a positive, optimistic note, Enjoy perzonal achievement.

GEMINI Chiay

21)- *-June The last day of the month brings a more optimistic view of the future. Personal affairs are looking upt

CANCER (June 22-July 23) Go the long way around to avoid getting into even a minor argument Today, for it could turn into lous quarrel.

LEO (July

23) 24-Aug. Combine business and pleasure with profit today, if you wish, Prospects are brightening all around.

VIRGO (Aug. 24-Bept. 23J Act decisively on important matters heying to do with your future t the arts or the professions.

LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)- Arone day, yet one in which not neglect important Jou must business matters for anere pleasure.

Scanrio (Oct. 24-Nov. ZZ)- If the past few days have been d appointing to requits, then make up for lost me today. Forge abend.

BY. THE ● WAY

by Beachcomber

would

CROSSWORD

Across

Pay him or order.

(85)

6. Laksle tenpor of a 00s or

dog? (3)

Hnuke from a Opening farms? (3)

11. Its king maploged anos. {6}"

12, Penthouses. (3, 6).

15. Bweetness_docs. (4)

14. Be this? Be on your toes. (8)

17. No sight 1 (mangu). (0)

19. Advjos to the whine, (4)

10: Go in, (3)

§1, Nylon, often.

(8)

za, More quickly..... Jard at a

time (4, 5)

. The glover ohikdiren 1 (4)

24. Taken by a sub-coCHINE.

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Lot for one (1),

Day for a date. (

3. Colour for prospects.

(4)

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left in a wa† 16, 33

(3)

- and

6. He bas tarniły zesponsibMTSON.

7. You never make is when you

city,

(6)

20 Acrom

10. contribution

"thing apart.

15, It is safesed

Bathro palogists, (4)

10. You

puzale

Pets P

out daily.

18. Bus makes

them. (5)

19.

This is just the outer

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Terday's solution

CHESS

by LEONARD BARDEN

195

WOMANSENSE

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HOUSEHOLD HINTS

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)--

Dried fruits and beans should pan brolled meals; take baked You can afford to be more adventure- some in projecting a bustness idea

An arting from actual play: be soaked for several hours be- potatoes out of the oven; or to today. Mako progress.

fore cooking in order to save it lightweight Items from high CAPRICORN (Den. Jan, 20)- Black to move and win.

shelves. A tine day for all your efforts, so

fuel. get a lot done, Forge ahead toward some definite gool now.

18)

Aquarius (Jan, 21-Ver. This month can end on a smile! Fine profit from past efforts indicato favourable results from work well done.

Solution problem:

to' yesterday's

K-BI-note changed

Kitchen tongs have many uses. mates following pawn" pro- "They make it easier to drain motions to Q and KL.

bacon and then flip it; turn all

BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

Geranium Gets A Wish

ALL

-But It Wasn't What She Wanted After AH-

By MAX TRELL

you outside on your little table again on the porch until the sun goes Would you like that,

"Yes, yes!"

geranium the cried, though none of the chil- 115 It waved dren heard 1. leaves to all its friends in the Judy. playroom-Punch and General Tin, the Tin Soldier and Mary Jane, the Rag Doll

long, summer

The 2 geranium plant had stood on its litle three-legged table out of doors at the far end of the porch. In the mornings, the sun shone down on it and slayed until noon. The geranium held up its leaves to the sun like upturned green hands, and felt the pleasant warmth.

In the afternoon, it was shady

the and cool and

geranium watched the apples ripen on the the garden and apple tree in

to the song of the listened

CANNOT agree with the count as commercial television curious theory put forward for schools. Some advocate the by an "expert" that snoring is elimination of all references to robins.

the Gas Council in the poem. caused by boredom.

this would Others maintain that Nobody can be bored if he is make the poem obscure and asleep, and even if he is dream utterly pointless, and

hardly ing, dreams are

ever involve a certain amount boring, Snoring while awake, rewriting. One spokesman asks as an expression of excruciating how it would be possible to get boredom, is another matter, and round the difficulty of the first there was a man who

line of the poem: "Gas Council himself very unpopular by Oh, the very name...." doing it at parties. He was a lively man, and the sight of

mundo

snoring, with his eyes wide Araminta flies in and out

Weather Changed

Then it was carried outside on the porch, where it had stood all summer, and was put on its Kitle table in the corner. There The children brought Geranium

back into the house. the children left it and went away.

and

It shook and shivered.

Almost from the first Instant Poor Geranium! It shook and the little geranium

and noticed a swayed on its little table. differance.

its leaves curled up at the edges The sun, which was so warm as it tried to keep itself warm, during the summer

the "Perhaps... perhaps I'd like In the last few days, the seemed to warm through weather had suddenly changed, playroom window, wasn't want it better inside again, I guess It And when it I'm afraid to stay out here. The gerantura was taken inside at all any more.

the isn't as nice as it used to be," the house. Its little table in the looked at the apple tree, corner of the porch was emply, gemanhun saw that all the apples it finally admitted.

were gone, The few that were "The nights are too cold for lying on the ground were soft the geranium to stay outside and brown. Mother explained to the children. "Geranium plants like open and a satirical smile on

GAWKE, RAMINTA face, was whiplash to

warm weather, The cold chilln Awon £12,500 by answering them and they lose their leaves, dullards, prigs, and louts. One

he who attacked by the question, "Who wes Louts I'm sure it's very happy by the hiccoughs, and the combination XIV?" in a fraction of a second sunny window Inside the house,"

sounds wrecked a discussion over the time allowed, yesterday

The children all nodded as D. H. Lawrence or Proust or signed contracts to appear in somebody, AL the Limeride three nims, two ballets, and a they looked at the geranium Snoring Gala in 1934 the Shakespeare play, "It will be standing by the sunny window. Galway champion Miles frightful fun," she said, "os I O'Malley, broke a window and have never done anything like

But the geranium didn't know this," blew the hat off a fariner.

whether it was happy or not.

A constructive suggestion

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of still more unperforated stamps

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way, but that

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of night, Could not the postsmati squares may be red page

offices issue, reparato shoots of perforation "holes so that the customer could attach them to 'his

stamps after separating tach stamp from its neighbour? A

philatelist points out the holes would be valueless to collectóra," without the stampil. . : A tricky bariness

debating whether

Honda, kuch word must contain

Often, when it gazed through the window and saw disi Little table standing on the porch with nothing on

on top of it, it sighed deeply and said: "I wishr

outside again, Perhaps I might

I

lose a few of my leaves. But shouldn't mind any more than tho

free mind for they lose their leaves without complaining and 80 can L. Then I could soo my friend the min agnirs and iron. Just have. him shino on me. through the window. And * I could count tho apples on the -free, and laten to the robins sing

"Ehren targonzitters to the pointre NQURAN," And three · MUNE · SOX MÉ Ikat one mine-letter word in the ADIBRUGA

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And how happy it was when the children came to take it in side! How very happy it felt being in the 'wann, house, next away to the sunny window, from the cold wind.

Robins Didn't Come

"But the robins will come to visit me"

the geranium said. to fer cheerful. wrying wait for them

Alas, the robins didn't come, They had already flown away to the south for the winter,

Then the gun went behire a And It belt out its leaves. cloud and a cold wind blew up. like thankful hands.

1

"I'm a house plant," it said. My place is in a house when winter comes. In the spring, I'll go outside again."

Rupert and the Windy Day 29

When

And

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Line roasters and oven broiler. pans with aluminium foll to catch drippings and save time in cleaning these utensils.

Pare

WHAT IS A CREATIVE JOB?

By ANNE HAYWOOD

HE word creative, it you to go at whatever you do

Rooms

to mo,

with that creative"approach. gets kicked around more than any word in our language,

"I'm too creative to learn how to type," people will tell me with a perfectly straight face.

Can Be Either

Typing, for example, can be a terrible bore or a lot of dum depending entirely on how you

Onco

you've approach learned to type, It does not mean that you will be sentenced to a dull, uncreative job such as lyping bills. Typing will just be lgger and more interesting jols a stepladder that leads to a playwrights and philoso you approach it creatively! phers type their own works, but that doesn't matter. To them, the proof that they

I point out that some of the most creative novelists,

are creative is the fact that Care for indoor

they are above learning to type.

And again, when you asle people what kind of job they want, they will frequently reply, "Oh, something creative," When you try to pin down what they| moan by creative, you'll find it's generally a vague cind of thing The job must not be typing or

like to refer

flowering plants

Urbana, Ill. LOWERING plants, an agreeable addition to

mantial work, but what they any home, don't "just take

to as Svorking care with ideas." Whose ideas, or

of themselves," : &

what they interal to do to the University of Illinois' flori- ideas, is a point on which they culture specialist advises, are invariably vaguel

Tedious Skills

"The plants must be given proper care as soon as they enter a home," G. M. Fosler zaid. Among Foster's suggestions for The feeling that we must not cultivation of the indoor green get our hands dirty, that we thumb: must not learn tedious skills, is considered to be the feeling of the truly creative. Actually the exact opposite is true.

Water the plants. promptly after receiving them and make sure their soll stays moist con- tinually;

Lcomedo da Vinci mixed his апа own paints out of mud

Water from the bolton (im- worised and worked until he mersion method) but make sure had exactly the right colours, there is an ample place for As far as we know, this did not excess water to run off; stand in the way of his being creative!

Flowering plante do best when placed in a south, east or West

Motherhood is # pretty window, but they should remain creative business, but there's an out of the sun's direct mys; awful lot of tedium and dirty avoris connected with it,

Don't place the plants

near radiators, air conditioners or in Next time you and yourself drafle. The temperature pur- wishing you had something rounding them should remain. more creative to do, face the not more than 75 degrees during fact that you're probably just the day and some 15 to 20 de” rationalling your laziness, Anys trees lower at night; thing that can be done in this world our be done creatively Remove withered blooms and "or", diseased leaves by a creative person with a damaged creative approach, Is up to promptly.

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