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JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
Trump Coup Is Name For It
By OSWALD JACOBY
DOB SERJEANT of Mendon,
BOB
N.Y writes, "I did not know exactly what my partner's four club bid meant but figured that he had a good hand and decided to check for aees right away. When my partner show- Ed one nee only i Agured that he had to have a club suit that) my jack would solidify and 1 decided to bid six no-trump.
"Much to my surprise I heard the words 'six hearts' como out of my mouth, When East doubled I should have run out to six no-trump which would have been lay-clowns but I decided to redouble and try for a top score,
"West opened the ten spades. East won with the nee and shifted to the ten of dia- monde. 1 let it ride around to dummy' queen and played the ning of hearts. When West showed
This Funny World· ·
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1957,
of
"Movie? I thought you said you were taking him to the cleanera?"
By STELLA
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2
out the hand looked YOUR BIRTHDAY.
hopeless but I had nothing lo lose by playing it out and finally stumbled into a winning play.
"I led another heart and
finessed again. Back in my own BORN today, you live acute sensi
WEST
NORTH
3
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• J012
83
EAST:
MAS
11
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SOUTH (D) AKQJ ❤AQJ107
• AKS J4
East and West vulnerable
Bouth West
2
Poss
North East
4 N.T. Inss 5+
B
Pass Pass
Redbl. Puse Pass
Opening lend-♣ 10
18
POSH Double Poss
hand I returned to dummy with a club and finessed the hearts for a third time. My next play Was second, club to dummy and I proceeded to lead out the rest of dummy's club sult. East chose to discut rather than to kuff and I simply discarded in back of him.
"Eventually, North was out of clubs but by then there were only two cards left in cach hond. I led one of North's dlumonds and East had to
trump, whereupon I overruffed
and mode my contract.
!
hile and a bright sense of HunDur which will bring to hire all kinds of situations through both the written and spoken word. You will do well, as a lecturer be author-or with. You can ripten die het skle, but you can also ver the SATĪDZIN enginand in giving serious malferm the light touch, seu impress on the kinds of chers
Truth of whird yats
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teach. Highly adaptable, you are abi to must all kinds of people and condition with equanimity.
1 Bkely that you will have hafa srl Examenda and feminant- anes but your chels 4 tunales will be mali and selected. To thegu fik veal will give a inel and de votien which is exemplo vil. Wid while young, for By trying to
You will bring ray (a far, you can da ponster- prent, humpinees and manip able moraliving without making it a torrt lage. painful pill to swaths. You know nil the techniques of margarienating.
Your ideals and andiralfors high and you WIH had 10 you be Bets demulte any or all klaula of opposition. In fact, eritilan at ta enake vest z trong-wilted in your determination to recred. You have a enim, schede oppranch to life etilth Inceds confulence phil frid neentointince1. наурудуще tatesmanship and spiritual matters nie all things in which you
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Among the burn of dis Cate via: Renzy, Georgs and Jegeman Witpole Jraks, economists Eugene Field in Paul Pour, retor Anne Whitey, Pulptar: Clara Klas ball Yousic. ctress: N D Bitte, ned etergyman; and Brien Juhimu, statesman.
Til what the stars have In store for you to or row. select your Jurday 1r and read the curre ponding paragraph. Let your birth day for be your daily gulde,
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 VIRGO LANE. 21-Sept. 23) Back to buniores gow, die earnest. THU HOP là slich va stroke mate marked press toward very definite goal.
LE
LIBRA (Sep. 24-Oct. 22) Organise your business pattern før auling. You will find that with a pin you get ahead iseter.
and
exceptionally successful. Might Joy Yourself socially, as well. TURUS (Apr. 21-May 21) Set your sights on the stars then go at tur exactly what you went. Success can be yours, day, HEMINT (May 22-June 233 Al the trades are favoured. If you happen to be in retall erchandis ng. you should find profits tesning. it may be back to school for the children, so make sure that every Employer.employee relaitonsalps are CANCER June 22-July 25)- Ping 4 in reatine for the heart well-favoured. Show co-operation in MAGITTARIUS (Noy, 23-Dec, 23)- work and all goes well with
sedurro ciet.
al three.
21-Nov 22)
Ceranie your work on fle job carefully and see that you get the best pible profite from effor 17 CAPRIEDIN (Bec. 21-Jan. 20)
expenderi
This is one of your best days this month. Make sure that your per- sonal achievements aro fully re- CORTSTREE
AQUARIUS -(Jan, 21-Feb. 19) A good freginning, for The new month, as set to it that you netivnis all vou plons expeditiously.
ТІВСЕЯ (Feb. 20-Mar. 29)- Push, new plans and see that they Are being fully Instrumented today.
"Is there any name for this This tone time for netion.
play?"
The play was trump coup and a very nice one, although, as you point out, six no-trump would have been a belter con- tract.
*CARD SEMI
ARIES {Mor. 21-Apr.
A business trip could turn out to be
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What do you do?
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TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner continues with a bid of six diamonds. What do you ido7
Answer Tomorrow
BY
5
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How many
word of four letters
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tron
The
letters in the
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word must contin
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let. No plurals;
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ruled
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apartment is long and
Di, (9)
B. Pie tour, ahurray 1. 141.
10. Most of mother a fly-by-night.
141
17. Only the water. (4)
1. Tidy up the feathers (5)
14. With a while often part of the
ald days. 41
1 so one for a noted thorougn-
into. (4)
1# Thank you. up to two pounds |
147
19. lak, targely 12 o'clock on the
Olgue, tui“
20. It may give you a sparkling
linte, as a party, 15).
22. 19% not clear why inta 19 to DE
avoided on the market. (4)
22 Mr. Key in absent 7 (5) 24. Anglers asriner. (Đ)
25. Timothy the dimdent. (3)
Down
Simun the heavy-weight ? 101 Old Joe, 143
Dante, for the most part, gow there
time for
LIL Fond
Plevensen (0)
Happen. tw)
b. the lavaders of the (
. Putney pusher. (3)
3. When the hunting people arrive
there are mixed zit, 18)
1. Take M
(4)
warning
1. Usear M
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despond 7161 17. Four in nie.
21.
but it could be expensive
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Naturday's Najvilon
CHESS
BY LEONARD BARDEN
(No. 6257)
A problem by B. I. da: C, Andrade (Observer. 1947). White mates in two. positive,
if you are 16-hunung, the chas
July 21-Ap 233 ate that wou will find exactly what NOU want now. Take
limistle altitude.
London Repress Bereter
WOMANSENSE
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| MARRY—AND LIVE LONGER
By W. W. BAUER, M.D.
than BCX
a
among the
SHALL resist the obvious lives. than The unmarried, crack about "it only all ages among the married of
Lower death rates prevall acoma longer." This is a either serious sintistical study bachelor boys and girls. The
also hovo of the comparative longevi- married ty of the married and the favourable mortality experience
than do the widowed unmarried. The figures are voreal of either sex. Making these differentials extat? What
based on the 1950 census in statistieni America and are the latest available until the 1960 census becomes available, perhaps five years hence.
I wasn's fccling with the title above, Married persons average longer Ilves, MUCH longer
more
mortality is only one-fourth ing about 'averages, so put that tailty of widows and greater thar among wives. Mor- brick down, pleasel
divorcees is half again' as high.
As to diecare, Mr Shurlieff Bays: "Perhaps the most striking That's the over-ull pleture tenture.....is that for every cause Do the figures provide any basis shown (of) mortality by" marital for or di-
explanations as to why status, there is no diacaso that kills impartially, that kills the Is there about the morried state married and the: unmarried adjustments for age that so markedly favours longer ailke. A few examples deaths differences, The mortality of
implication at from tuberculosis, syphilis, in- bachelors exceeds that of hus fe, and by
least, better health? Dewey duonza, pneumonia, hardening bands by 87 per cent: widowed Shurtleff, writing in the Journal of the liver, accidents, suicides, und divorced men have an ex-
American Geriatrics and homicide are higher among cess morality, age for me,
of of the
Society, thinks the Agures do the unmarried. Why? Are they 60 per cent over husbands,
give some explanations,
higher because of the unmarried state, are the individuals un- The differences are not 50
among women, Spinster The Arsl factor in what Mr married
Shurtleff admits is speculation operating to increase the in
cidence of these causes? of with what kind has to do people get married. And here
All of this in no way, affeels we get onto dangerous ground, the conspicuous exceptions-the and I husten to point ou long-lived, healthy, unmarried theso considerations persons or the unhealthy and Aut In short-lived married, But it does person may give cause for serious specula- differ widely from the generation, for the differences are too group descriptions
great and too consistent to be gested.
accidental,
great
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BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
A Hunt In The Park
Teddy and Hiawatha Stalk Wild Horses By MAX TRELL
HAD a wonderful adven- fure last night, Hiawatha, the Wooden Indian Boy, saying to Knarf and Hanid, the
was
tell them all about it, as quickly as possible.
should tell the first half
It was agreed that Hiawatha and Teddy should tell the second. In there would be few
Shadow Children with the this way
turned-about names. They were Interruptions. all sitting on the back steps of the house.
Knar sakt. "What kind of nu adventure was it, Hi?“
"Hunting adventure." swered Hi,
21-
Hiawatha now began telling the first half of the story,
"It was dark and the moon was just beginning to rise. I woke up 'Teddy and told him we would go hunting
wild horses. So I took a rope, Teddy No Place To Hunt
took a rope and we both went "I don't know where
for you around looking
any wild could go hunting around here.
horses. We didn't see any. Then "There cre
finally we came to the park and There isn't there, all of a sudden, I saw any room for hunting--not like them-
III," said Hanid,
houses oll around,
i used to be,. I mean, when
"You did!" exclaimed Knart
there were big woods and fields and Hanid. and big herds of buffalo=""
"I didn't hunt buffalo," sald
Hiawatha. ""] hunted wild- horses."
Some Were White
Teddy, jumped on the horse's back.
They didn't run away.
'They just started running round_and circle. They round in a big bobbed up and down as they ran and then we heard the sound of music, We jumped on their backs."
F "I counted them,” continued "Just a minute," interrupted
At this moment, Teddy, the Hiawatha.
"There were twenty Knart.
black. Some were grey. They
·were all standing in a big circle. They looked up when they saw us. We decided to capture them with our ropes. So we crept for ward very slowly."
Those weren't wild
In The Park "Yes," crled Hanid, "you were in the park, weren't you? That's where the Merry-Go-Round Is."
Stuffed Bear, came waddling of them. They were beautiful, horses. Those were Merry-Go- over. He sat himself down.com- Some were white. Some were Round Horseal". fortably right next to Knort and Heold. 60PHERE must be tifies," said two know each other?" asked "What's all this talk about?" man to me the other the introducer, "As well as we he asked. "I was just having day, when you find it very know ourselves," replied the breakfast. That's why I'm late dimeult to know what to write genuine Foulenough. Later the
"You've got crumbs all over about,"
genuine Foulenough said to your chin, dear," said Hanid.
She brushed them away with I said. "No. There can never Farregul, What's the idea of be any difficulty of that sort, veing my name?" Well, you're her handkerchief, because, in a
column not using it at present,” said Hi was telling us that he wild horsea Last like this, you can always write Sam, "and needed it to get a bhunting about the dimeulty of finding me into Hopthorne's set,
They night." By don't know
"Incieed Eomething to write about.
"Oh yes," said Teddy, "I was you." sald Foulenough with him."
This made the story of 'the adventure sound interesting. Knart und Ifonid urged Hiawathu and,Teddy to
casual
the time you have dene that, they do," you have written a paragraph." "Ask them
Rolph Ravensblood." Interlude
Oil
Irodnoac: That seems to me extraordinarily dishonest, a sort
remember
if they
THERE is trouble in Qualch, THE
of confidence trick played on A sudden spurt of oil from the public.
Д boring on the frontier Myself: I am sorry you feel between Damych and
Sowat like that about it. What can was carried by the wind into The do?
the territory of the Poor of Tummi, whose slep-brother to the uncle of the Bu of Buz, and was granted a concession by the Nambl of Pamul, the nephew of the Pish of Tush. question to be decided is with
Frodnose: Well, I have many auggestions, but it would take up to much of your space to to Inco all that.
The
"Myself: 'I expect it would. Meanwhile, between us, we've disposed of another paragraph. which of these potentates we
Aly devils, are we noi?
A confusing situation
TN a cafe In the Boulevard
I
ought to friendly, and with which of them we ought heve a rower,
Marinoni at Beaulieu Foul- Enterprise and/or
enough, drinking under the
to
initiative
name of Lord Gannett, was A COUPLE who were married. glartied when his companion A in a hellcoater thought they introduced him
to-Captain Fed beaten all records. But Foulenough. He recognisert Sam shortly after, a
couple Tarragut, a noted gambler. And married on roller-skates. „Sam Farragut recognland hilo, there nobody -enterprising
"How goes it, damnett?" "Not Cucur to get married- two badly, Foulmough.". "You roller-skates in a helicoptert
00
even more
Hiawatha now stopped. Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, took up the second half of the story:
"I never thought of that," said Teddy, Hiawatha had never thought of it either.
"But it was a wonderful ad- said venture, just the same," Hiawatha. "It's hand to find wild horses any more. Merry- horses frightened. Go-Round
are pretty good. We left them in the park, They're still running 'round and 'round. fiey're quile tame. All the chlidren today are riding on their backs,”
"We were almost close to them," Teddy said.. "Thien sud- denly they became They started running."
"Oh dear," said Hänid. "What a shamel Did they run away?"
Teddy shook his head. "Thas was the wonderful part of it.
Rupert and the Fiddle-10#
The little creaturi looks up with coming fronj'over' there." F wish a trewn, “-1 say, I've been fearing somebody would stop" queer noise, ays Rupest My Delighted to be given the right pala think I'm-plaving a game direction, Rupert runs.on. For a with them, but I'm not.'! Have moment the sound reasts. Then you heard it 2 **** Heard it }", sa he passes a wood it enddenly squeaks
wling Tatarta ; again, and le a ke savagely, "I should think I have. and close that it makes him It keeps on, and it's horrible. It's jump,
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Healthy persons AFC more ikely to marry than the up- healthy, both because they are more likely to be motivated to Beck a partner and are more *The likely to be sought. figures show that the mortality levels
in early
are for lower among the married than
the amang
untmarried: fact, the differences in favour of the married ure greatest be- tween the ages of 25 and 44
34 In men, and 25 'and women-when family respon stbildes are at their height.
In
In
The stabilising influence of family life, and the stronger motivations of the married to guard their health for the sake of partner and offspring are re- flected in the figures which show a persistent difference in invour of the married throughout the age spar. Patterns of eating. sleeping, playing, working may be better organised and more moderate.
or
The married are less likely to work in hazardous occupations to indulge in unhealthful habits of living. Again let me remind my single, widowed or divorced friends that I am talk-
because
of factors
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