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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, · 1958. :

This Funny World

• JACOBY

ON BRIDGE

WOMANSENSE-

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A

MURDER

AT MIDNIGHT

IN

3. ACTS

"So we don't know who committed the murder- but we beat the crowd out, didn't we?"

BY

THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

LAMELLIEKANCHIOLO- full satisfaction of the mincer's

GIST takes me to task for wrt.

saying that oysters migrate. They. Muffin-fever

m.cc:

have to. They lay more thaECAUSE an American actress million cgga in a, season, and

asked for muffins to eat, a would be smothered, stifled, and killed by such a mass of eggs register of muffin-men is to be kudden compiled to unless they moved away in time. enormous demand for muffino. Young oysters awim gracefully, Commercial firms will not be but not very powerfully, and the slow to realise that the way to metalliferous oysters of the lower sell goods is to get an actress to 23k for them. When Dawn Tagus can float on their backs. It is the copper in their blood Kedgaree "dies in" next week that gives them that Treenish she will probably ask at once for fint. "Pilsen, in 1898, discovered a packet of Lodden and Lapcole's that the gills of a pearl-oyster Anti-Bluebottle Power or one of resemble those of + 右吧ㄩˋ Criffen and Muttergrass's col- dandelion, but what that proves lapsible telescopes.

iu none of my business,

The truth about mince

that

E old aulage "ince stand in

corpore sano" shows mince fa not merely a food, but a paychological asset, a health- eiving way of life.

I am often Blood, "But what am 1 to mince?" That question

evidence of an awareness sadly lacking in many who simply mince, without thlaking, what ever conses, to land. The choic of material la a maller of per- sonal taste, and to force oneself to mince something one does not like is a waste of time. But it should never be forgotten that the act of mincing is, in itself,. a healthy activity, employing, us it does, all the resources of mind and body is a rhythmic ritusi Only those who mince icnow the

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YOUR BIRTHDAY

THURSDAY, APRIL 17

Ex-

BORN today, you have an

tremely active mind which must have something to keep it busy li are the type

the time I have fore then who probably one active career, since you need chennels into which you can turn If they are not used your energies. constructively. you may become neetiest, discontented and operaty a mleft in life, But once you found your area of concentration together with a parallel hobby, it goca along splèndidly.

Selenco and the arts perhaps are your major interests, but since you have the gift of making money. It se quite possible that you will turn to Industry, merchandising or ins enterprise me your early career. You would then be able to become patron of some art and antisty your desire for the beautiful.

You have the ability to write well and a feel for the drammalle In Life. Fond of the occult and the ruysterious, you might wish to drive

Long Hearts Cancel Loser

BY OSWALD JACODY

BEAST'S Ove-club bid was a calculated rink. Ho know

he would be set badly at that contract but hoped against hope that Instead of doubling him the opponents would go on to avo splades and that maybe five spades could be beaten.

Ita Rubin of New York who sat South doubled. Ira did not want to try for five spades and was satisfied with the sure profit a1 Alve clubs, It would have been 700 points by the way.

North wanted the rubber and bid the five spades anyway and Earl's bid hod worked out all Tight,

A club opening, diamond shift and club return would have left Ira no ploy for big contract but

NORTH

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WEST 40542 705

EAST

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North and South vulnerable

AAJ 10974

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South Wexl North

East

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Pass 44 DA Double Pasa Pass Pam

Pass

Opening lead-- &

the king of East close to win

with the clubs and continue acc. This gave Ira a chance to make his five spades and he fake advantage procceded to

of it.

A

Ira decided that East's bidding and play indicated that ho was vold" of spades. Hence, there was a sure spade lose and Ira had to find como way to get rid of his queen of diamonds. The fourth heart offered a place. heart was led from dummy and the ten nnessed. A spade was led and dummy's eight finessed. The king of spades was carbed and Ira returned to his hand with the king of hearts,

He laid down spodes and lo

of the ace

heart to

dummy's ace. The queen

By STELLA dropped and Ira was able to get rid of his diamond on the last heart.

which

into these areas rather extensively Atore period in your life.

You have a fine volce might be trained for convert work be merely used to advantage on them

retice

vildren EM, You are fond

CARD Senses♦

Q-The bidding has been: North 10

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of

East.

South- West Pass I

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? You, South, hold:

if you du nut wed early and have a large family at your own. you would do well in

Your Juvelle guidance

emolora are rong, yet you may neglect romanen during the early part of your 1. concentrallag on succe in our carrer. Don't wait too long!

Among those born on this date were: Kay Blennard Baker, edline and author: J. P. Morgan, fuiseter

Thomian and ar stron:

Wilder and Willis Gimore Simms, puthury; John Page, patrios of the Revol tien; "Cap" Adrian Anson, baseball Hungerford "great" and Clarence Mackay, Ludustriallet

To find what the stars have in atore for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corres panding paragrapit: Let your birth- day star be your daily guide.

FRIDAY, APRIL 18

21-Apr. CREAT

201-- ARIES

great New hoon bringe a day of activity, but be practical rather than visionary for best result

TAURUS ·LADI. 21-May 21)- The outlook is better than average. Make speciile plans for a trip. Be You sure you have the reservaisons need.

(MAY

22-Jone

Z1)- GEMINI A day for good resibe. Ele ready which comes your way and develop alocre potential.

CANCER (June 23-July-21)- The new javons brings at riive to the fore. You should gain advantage and increase

·29)--

your pronta,

LEO

21-Aug (July Complete all essential work this morning so that you can plan a „TAŽA MANISË. social gathering this ever

ning

Vindo - (Avr.

24-Sept,

2)

A deinlie; upturn in swur ACTATE. Kumbark upon some new venture which can bring you future security.

POŠTOMBA

14-Det. · #1) Personal and job' affairs mould take Mintzer dow or new significance. La deflate tum in your favour,

SCOPPIO (Oct, Nov. 22)— and enter. If you are energetic prilog you may anticipate further Kains, Dusiewenn wenins to be booT?« -ing for you by an Ad A

SAGITTARIUS (N&T, 21-Dec. 22)-- Am krive day to which you may Studentully combine barakiena

and

CAPRIQORN (Dbo, 13-Jan. "293-

Tale

Condize "a" pirmulating · diy.

Plans, made long ago, may now be put into producion. Forge ahead. Aquarius (Jan. 21-ab. 10) Everything looks bright and pro- mishig. Develop plans which augur Well for your future recurity.

↑ PISCEN (Feb. 20-Biar. 20) Conserve your energies for some important objective Scattering your Interests is wasteful

CHESS NEWS

By LEONARD BARDEN The most sensational game of

the Middlesex V Exser ipatch was that in which the Middlesex No. 2, A. Y Green, tell into an opening trap and lost in only 18 moves Here's how i happened White; Penrose Black: Greet

Kh3. KQUS: 3 B-R15,

Q13; 4 B-10-0

B-K2 0 R61,

B-K13. 0-0; I P-Q4, Kt

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What do you bid?

A-Three spades. You are surely going to a slam bot there is no try.

TODAY'S QUESTION North continues with a bld of four spades. What do you do

now?

Answer Tomorrow

CROSSWORD

IS

ACTORS.

1. Part of machine.

Quta (6)

11. Oook, 18). 13. Eg on. (6) 18. Unmannerly person. (4) 14. Light giver. (3), 10. Blup

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10. Annoyed. (5)* 27. Foolish, (0}}

28. Monster loch, (4)

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it's cuming soon. (D) MURTORI TILEZTEBANT. 24)

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Boduro (5)

6. Noisy soldiers, (V) 0. 2017. (9).

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London Expren derpynt,

LUXURY COMES DOWN TO EARTH

By Barbara Brigg

NCE upon a time only the sinfully rich ear- peted their homes in pale pastel colours. Only the rich could hang their win- down with

porcelain-bluc

curtains, cover their chairs with off-white linen, or acutter their sofas with pretty little pink cushions.

be to Everybody else had

the dari practical and pick colours that did not show the dirt.

Once a richi woman could stock up on white and pale pink soft sweaters, and afford the cleaner's bills. And the rest of us saved up and bought ---one super cashmere-in black.

THE PICK

Once the rich women walked around in cream and beige and pastel colours, and looked like dreams of summer

compared

with the rest of us in praclient navy and tan and wintry gree that did not show the creases or the spots,

Now you can take your pick of all the pale luxuries without worrying about the bills and

the bank balance.

You can buy a curtaining fabric that looks like a rough Klubbed silk, made in all the oysters and the pallid lines, the sherbet oranges, and plaks and pale blues. You can wash it yourself because it's made of rayon and Terylene.

£

bright as you can stand clear

PICTURE BY JOHN FRENCH

THE NEW

TURBAN

-symbol of so much

NEWER

EWER than the rolled-brim breton and the halo hat-the turban, whirled round the head and whipped up

Д into topknot. In And it symbolises the amazing story fabrics the story that spans the vast new range of wonder fabrics. The turban is. newer than the everlasting rose-prints-the poppies, huge purple and ochre-coloured A field of white. And newer than satins or jerseys for the bat fabric-collon. You

the can buy

40. for about £4

ones,

blowing

across

turban

the shops ic And if you want to make yourself a shirt to The same cotton is on sale match, you can.

in the fabric departments at 258. 6d. a yard.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

When freezing foods,

1

pour

wrap other cleaning fuld, and

water into tho socket." Fruit Let it stand until the wax

meat as tightly as possible in warm moisture-proof material. with syrup, Anusages, and softens, then wipe it out with

tightly a paper towel, should be hamburgers closed in glass, tin, plastic or

heavily

Ja

containers. paraffined Pack

loosely vegetables moisture-proof bags or cartons,

•

Coffee and tea stains will dis- appear when, boiling water is poured over fabric. Erg and sponged meat stains should be

water before

laundering.

To prevent bread from getting of with cold too brown while baking, put a plece of brown wrapping paper on top for the last 15 minutes of baking Ume.

Buy one or two extru bars of your favourite soup and keep drawers amongst lingerie. They will. Im- your part n lovely ftugrance to your ingerie.

"One more thing you need them in your red or bright orange. Some of desperately every the plain nylon fabrics that look England

cont

18

•

For best flavour, many cheeses should be room temperature when served.

•

low on A small cork tacked

will backs of picture frames prevent dark lines on walls. summer In

ht wood

Thorough cooking is A must liko slubbed silk are excellent.

for those days when the

for fresh pork. A meat sun is shining, but, it manages. floors You can cover your

is most Candlesticks should not

rellabic, "Have a

be thermometer very full skirt and to be very cold, too. with pure nylon

works: carpeting,

one low cut and

ex-immerted or soaked in water or but this method also "But unless you're very white If you want, ibat resists two tops;

sleeveless for evening, so that it

or sharp make small incialons next to the 10 remove stains, is spongeable, and wears looks like a dance dress; an pert indeed, it would be wiser scraped with a knifo

wax. bone. If the meat has changed to buy that. Have off-white, instrument

the base from pink to greyish-white, the very ploin with short which will still look sumunery Instead, sponge off

with carbon tetrachloride or pork is done. even on the darkest day."

other

os well as the hardest parquet.

There are sweaters in Orton sleeves.

that and Acrilan and Banlon

wash out and dry out overnight. THE BIG SWITCH

Practically every fabrle you

cin think of comes with a built-in hustility to creases, or has man-made ibres mixed into il to achieve the sume object.

Bachelors wash their own shirts with gay abandon, because they know they will

IN FABRIC

THERE is a ble switch-over.

do- going. lo the fabric partments. Interior decorators are racing to buy the pretty silks and shantungs made to bo made into dresses. Dress de-

the signers are taking away

for furnishing fabrics nacks and chemises.

Interior

their

decorator David

Hicks makes constant raids on

BOYS AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

King Nep Comes Home

-Of All His Domain, He Likes His Brook Bert--

By MAX TRELL

And now," said King Nop, after he had made his two guests comfortable, "I suppose know about my

the dress materials, use NOT that they expected to ousts for

find him. But Kaart and trip?" plain dress silks and shantung Hanid, the Shadows, with the for scatter cushions-sometimes Turned-about Names, went even a flower print.

the

Ruled The Seas

Little King Nep

Да по

But a clothespin, ago-hundreds nod

down to the edge of the brook "Their advantage is that anyway just on the slim chance they're made in all the colours that he might have come back. I love for houses that you

The pie was all quite cold, toller than simply cannot find in a furnish- ing fabric the crooms, the they notice any

and only here and there did long, long

of years ago-King fresh buds on hundreds

Was known as King oysters, the off-whites, ali

the trees. So they continued Nep neutral colours, For bathrooms down the hill until, down

the Seven' Neptone, Ruler of

Nowadays, very I buy yards of plain white;

few lowelling and have I dyed to the boltam, behind the tall Seas.

reeds and the willow, they people remembered him. And heard the gurgling sound of the less people remembered him,

the smaller he grow. Dress designer Kiki Byrne, the water, loves those boldly striped course Swedish cottons "in orungen and reds, or browns and yellows, beach- and is using them for clothes.

match The walls,"

noticed the rising up

"He's back!" she shouted.

"Welcome! Welcome!" King -Nep sald to the Shadows.

Ocean, I was invited to a ban- quel given by the Whales," "Now about my triy," King Curl Of Smoka

Nep sald, "It was wonderful "That's only five Seas," said al the way. I visited all my Knarf. Suddenly Hanid

domain,"

For a moment or two, King thin eurl of smoke

"All your domain is under Nop hesitated. Finally he said, She snapped up an upholstery above the willow. And never need to iron them.

water, isn't it?" asked Knart, "The other two Seas are rather the dresses that look as impres- fabric in sober stripes of olive sive as the costly allks and and black and grey, and used

"It is indeed," said King Nep, straight skirts with wools go through the weekly for

the matched

"I'm King of the Water. plain wash the way the ellks and Jackets in

fabric. wools never did.

Another and was a while cotton organdle brilliantly pat-

STRETCHING THEM A LONG WAY

FOR is

whose summer wardrobe will be at their own work this year, London

advice to give.

Then the and Khart broke reached King into a rua and

Nep's little cave almost all out of "breath.

Taken All Over

small.

terned in orange, sugar-pink King Nep came to the door "In the Atlantic Ocean, I the brook flowing past the wil- and yellow, which she has made and let them in. inio skirts.

"Best thing about furnishing fabrics," she adds, "is that 60. width. You never find a dress cotton over 38in, wide.”

"The first one is the Fond in the middle of the park where I took a rowboat ride with two solors. The second of the Seas is and King Nep pointed to Was taken all over by the low tree"that's R," he said. Welcome!" "Welcome!

Herrings and the Sardines. In be

"What did you do there?" this the Pacific Ocenti, I went froni "I just got back

asked Handd. Gold.

the morning. It's wonderful to bave one end to the other on

back of a Flying Fish. In the you call on me so soon,"

Indian Ocean, I went wriggling We'vo

an Ecl. in the Ocean, I went to au circus with the

on

underwater

Wonderful Party

"T

wen!

to a wonderful

misscd "you," Hunld around Only one word for caullan: said, throwing her arms around Arctic couturier Michael ha sensible some dress cottons and alks the little King's neck.

Knart shook hands with him. Senis. And In the Antarette Party," said King Nep. "It. may be perfectly lovely for qur- tains, but are so much narrower they will need twice the number of seams.

"Making your own clothes is such a labour," he points out "that I think everything should have as wide a uso as possible- no one-occasion dresses. For a small and simple wardrobe for i smart town glil, I would' sug- gext three things.

"First, a simple day dress, în n dark coloured cotton, to wear with white accessories. Choose black or plain dark green or blue but no prints, it only complicates the accessory quez-

[tion.

...

And some of those superb curtaining materials that cannot crease when they are hanging at a window can crease when you begin to wear them--and 20.

1

THOSE ROSES

"Finally, a dress in a printed silk. Pick a nober, fairly close "This, I think, should be a print that your friends will not chumise dress—no full skirts Ure of.. Thosa enormous roses

look heavenly-the first time.

in fairly soft cotten (not a stiff and starchy one) so that it falls against · fie ngure in trus chemise fashion. Don't line it have a separate straight slip in fine popila.

“Second, Idamail. for separates" inņa" plain" colour, as,

"Make it into looveless low-necked dress to wear in the evening with a straight or full

shori akirt, and a plain, aleeved - jacket you con WeAr over it when you don't want to be so 'dressed up.

Rupert and the Silent Land-9

The whole party helps the injured dwarf up to his room: Then the Profor says goodbye to the Scouts and thanks them for what they have done. Now,

Rupert, we must hear more about

rooth. The dwarf looks more com

***) had just fortable lasti finished what you told me to do when I felt our of the tree," be says. The lan, fog was £xes," Rupert listens in surprise. ** Flag Po

this business, he says sa he leads, Winst flag Pat he thinks............"" {axw the way back to the wrvant'è no flag in that tree !!!

ALL NIGUES METERYER

17

was given by some of the best friends I have in his world.

It was a party' given by the Crawfish, the Tadpoles, the

Shalls and the Sunfish. We ate watercress

waterlily and

pudding"

"Which of the Seven Seas did you like best?" "Knart wanted to know,

Once more, Utile King. Nep pointed with his thumb to the brook.

:

**No doubt about it," he said. compare "There's no sea to with You can have your Atlantic, Ocean,: Pacião Ocean, Indian Ocean, Arctie Ocean, and Antarctis Остал

You

|can even-have the Pond la the

· park. Pl take this Brook right here.":

And he smiled and this and - kobed coral-shaped pipe) very happy,