1958-08-06 — Page 5

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•JACOBY ON BRIDGE

Frustration At Drop Of Lead

By OSWALD JACOBY

TODAY'S hand was played in the Oregon State Pars and wan sent me by Albert Sundberit of Portland. He calls it a study in frustration.

If a heart is opened agaikat four spades South can make all 18 tricks. He amply trumps in. cummy;

overlakes dummy's queen of spades and draws thump, Then, since Wes; holds king and one club, n club inesse given him seveni club tricky.

WOMAN'S WORLD

SHE WINS A FIVE-YEAR BATTLE AGAINST ANTS

Esher, Aug. 5. They had eaten five feet of u The sun lounge was re- M. the is from buildMes vegas later affe

TRS Sylvia Higgs has bram.

Biggs back

her 14-1oomed house here opened the front door-and in after five-year battle marched an ant semy. which has cost her £800

If a trump is opened, Southund a great deal of sleep. con 'draw trumper and inuke 12 tricks.

If a diamond is opened and a club returned, or if a club a opened, the best South ean do là to get out for down unt,

The record of the hand shows

that top sure wens in a player who bid and made exuelty four

spadest 1 Laogine that he get a

WEST

053

AK 103

◆ K 1076

4K2

NORTH (D]

MQ3 (

None

• QJ54

MAQJD703

D

KART

0625

1983

1004

AK 1074

300542

J45

SOUTH

East and West vidnerable

North East

Boul West

1

Puss

I

Faca

24

Pass

Разс

3

PARG

3▼ Pass

3

. Pass

Pass 4

Pass Pabs

At

Opening lead-♥ K

heart, opening and drive, trumps, but compromilset by scarding some of "dumuny's clubs befor trying the club Biesse.

The peace of the stockbrokers and wealthy city ren in rural disturbed by Faizer was erst ant five years ago,

While Mr Grouse William Higgs was in the city every day

is

wife fought the invasion, the swarm in the crushing ground floor moms of their picturesque home,

"When hatly I found them In my bed," he srid today, "I said this is the end."

She called in experts from the British Government

pest Infestation laboratory, run by the Department of Scientific

Mrs

blood was up. Hiton She joined the builder's men, who had 14-1b hammers, and using

four-pounder herself they ripped up concrete floors and tore down pine panelling.

The ants were everywhere. the boller house was stripped. the kitchen, the dining rooms,

The Higgu family camped in the attle rooms at the top of the house, The ants had the Test.

in the cold weather they had the whole house, for the heztless Higgs moved to a London flat. They left six ruined bedrooms, three reception rooms and three bathrooms,

all with a bombed outlook.

Trenches Ave feet deep ruined

and Industrial Research They the lush garden. Identified no ordinary ant, but the rare fasseur brunncus from

which middle Europe,

loves to cal tough oak trees.

Usin

At night Mrs Higgs hid in a torch In hand, racing

and trench, posted honey

ver as bait they tracked down the ant roles.

the lair of the colony which spread everywhere. was marching to and fro about

Finally, the ants

quarters, they

Polson wps

gave in.

dwindled away The Higgs arc

Chira

the house at will. I was in a Cut off from their original head- dead beam under the floor of the sun lounge, but floors had to day by day. come up and walls come down home again. before the ania could be killed. Special,

Mail

It ir possible that someone YOUR BIRTHDAY BY STELLA

open a club but my guss is that

all other spate déclarers shiply

played safe to go down a couple

of tricks rather than risk going down a lot should the clubs not be exactly the way they were,

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6

PORN Today, you have a poetie, given you literary talent, and it relay Bothered, and solve nature, be that in this expresident you wil Your emotions the near the mitface mrwal your truent

You are

of

I do not approve of this tech- and everything going on artikel you not a go-getting money-maker, Tou nique. South should realise that influences your thought eul action em be content with few interiál pveral of the Norths would have

There are those who think you have things You can see beauty in even little or no tind of your own but the wasplest living. Mature has a played three or four clubs and Are swayed, by the lost sermon you strong appeal to you, made the contract

have been with.. so that any

Wrd to the right person, you can To some exivat This le true, but it is not the entire have that peaceful harmony which have to be a bad minus would

story.

14 venducive to the production score, Therefore, they should

"You have or laner life, which you your best work. You are con have gone ali out to make their permit few to shere. Tista pari af tive in showing your affections

Your personality is definite, firin stad ward there you love, too. Wed come. contract and nos worried abask

tronist since your flowe often one who la respolve to your warn- how many they might go down.

differ frau thôre of the mufees- heartedness, ALO SHI dislike, causing frfelon Among Friends you wil

+CARD Sensen♦

Pass

Q-The bidding has been: North East South West I

PAS

Pass AN.T.

30

Puss 4.

Fass

→ You, South, hold: MADSE VAZ 4K3763 432

What do you do?

A-Bid six diamonds. There is no need to ask for xoes because partner surely Irolde at least one and you have no luterest in SCTED

TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding has been: North East South

14

Pass

Z N.T.

Pass

1. 7

Weat Pass

You, South, hold:

GABE VAZ #QJ7654 JAZ Answer TomOTTOPY

CROSSWORD

ET

12

TE D 114

15 16

110

18

Acro

1. Card game, (7)

10. Horze dealers

11. Muelctaus.

ones. (8)

(5)

14. With deep meaning. (0)

10. Wartime clothing, (5-4)

12. Suureted territory. (7)

20. Keep clear. (8)

21. Paindromic interfection.

22. Flying cricketer 7. No. 14.

Down

1. Look-out's hang-out, (0-4),

2. Puta into court. (8)

1. GowgaWS. (0)

Pao. 151

Throw. (4) Handy. (31 Dauger, (5)

P. it helps

with the sim 11

around

Joint.

13. Cancel. tar

10. Hote.

1O

7. Puh. (0)

18. Bound mir

rot,

Festerday'a solution

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1958.

WOMANSENSE

HAIRDO HIGHLIGHT Bobo, Flockie, Bunny

By ALICE ALDEN

AS the colffure Jooms

large in fashion interest,

we find the leading mil-

liners designing for ft

special hals and head-

dresses, Hattie Carnegie designs a "hilite" in the

form of EL whimsical

evening cap to top the

carefully tousled hairdo,

This summer evening de- light is a black velvet

cap, bow-shaped and heightened with a spire of blue blossoms.

Mothers,

Be Warned!

By VERONICA - PAPWORTH-

WHAT'S In a name? Would THEY SAY.

the Flockle Harcourt

MOTO

"I've been longing to meet you again ever since you wrote so gentlingly of frozen peas," sald cookbook writer GRETEL

Smithy and Bunny Esterhazy be

serious-minded but for those unfortunate pot names?

Would Bobo Sigrist ever have made such unhappy headlines (If she had been named Gertrude BEER to me.

or Clarissa?

"Listen-bere's how you must

As for 41-year-old "Baby" do then). rignaturi—that playboy who "Linc 4 pan with feiture has ousted Rafael Trujillo leaves...put the frozen block from the headlines I read that of peas in with a good knob.of his English governess pinned bulter and Gome snit....but this label

on him and "Baby" no water. he has stayed. "He doesn't answor to anything else,"

Mothers of little "Faty," "Cutie," "Poppet" and "Stinker" -you have been warned

QUOTE from u reader in Cardiff:-

דיי

"Cover with a lettuce leaf, put the lid on tight, and cook very slowly for three-quarters of un hour

"But what about vitamins?" sold I.

"Darling, we are discussing flavour," said Gretel,

"Helmet-shaped heads for the ain married with three children and 1 have no time to hair stylist RICHE. "Sliort hair,

autumn and winter," count my calories or watch my three outline. It 1 make time my

four inchea, wall children would mutter and I am

tapered and almost devoid of wave or curl. certainly not prepared, lo do

havo

that."

I also am "married with three chlidren." It doesn'

to

"Colours? My latest Scandinavian associations,

"There's Nordic Blond or Lake Danlah Blue...."

I said I'd sticks to

my Rich Mouse.

"Danish Blue" has strictly. What it does take to a little cheese-counter amociations for strength of mind.

any tano at all to count calories.

my

me.

BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

Looking For The Pixies

Do

-Knarf And Hanid Join In The Hunt

"MeSnooze!" he exclaimed die "Come out of next moment. there, McSnouzel”

Sprinkled Dowdrops

A few moments later, Knart Pixie McSnooze out of the shady and Honid succeeded in getting

bush, They sat him down on the bench, sprinkled some cold dewdrops in his face and got him hak-awake.

By MAX TRELL

OWN at the Old Oak in O'Cheer Hall where the Pixies lived, Knarf, and Hanid, the Shadows with the Turned- About Names, saw rolice

A pinned to the trunk of the tree. "Out for Lunch" the notice said.

"Now that's funny," Hand Among those born on this date | remarked. "They don't usually ment. The flingy that serice kives are: Alfred Lord Tennyson, poets

go out for lunch. They always consent works hepo. Others Inay Ruth Suckow, author; Paul Claudet,

eat right here in O'Cheer Hall," greene. but French author, poet and slate Mridan think that you are deep inde seu cul held fast to and Williain Daily Ticknow, Bostoni

lidir your own position.

Half-Hidden Door

remain

To And what the stars have in You have @_yanjitbette, Redly store for you tomorrow, select your soul and want harmony in your life. Wiethday star and read the corres Many an cutward cunced in a pond paragraph. Let your birth-hidden behind the roots of the In keep the page. The slams have day star be your daily guide.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 7

...

There was a little deer, half- old tree, Knarf opened it and called down: "Is anybody there?"

But no one answered. LEO (July 24-ARK :53 AQUARIUR (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)... You need a level hend to Janelle Lack of sleep can cause irritabifily "They really иге out for your miladi todays Where are cros early this inarning. Conditions Im-lunch," Hanid suld. currents of gion thal met be prove the day advantecs.

"Maybe they're on a plente," regimelled.

PIACER (Feb 20-Mar

Knarf suggested. 21) Make excellent progress in the arts

VIRGO CAUR 24-Sert.

203-

Be a pes of calm in the polist of You should be able to advance your Not being able chant. A smile can dispel dimeulty Take the initiative and bet

LIBRA (Sezek, 24-Oct 231-

sta considerably now.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr.

guess where z-the Pixies might be having lunch--or having a plenie, as If you are tactful and alert to the

the case might be-Knart and Hanld set themselves down on

A day for niringt routine. Dum's at duplications of undercurrents, tempt too much just now, fiet nienly con avert any difficulty.

of rest rebulk! your erergies,

SCORPIO (024, 24-Nov.

22)-

you

TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 2)

An active day, but you can cope Avoid any health hazard bý getting with everything if you are alert and plenty of rest. If you have been

GEMINE (May 22-Jung

"What do you want?" Pixie McSnooze kept saying, "You're bothering me! Let me Anish sleeping

“I'm not going to let you finish sleeping"

fold Hand

him, giving him a shake to keep him from shutting his eyes again, "until you tell us where your friends are having lunch."

At the word "lunch,” Pixie McSnooze's eyes stapped open.

"Lunch! What's this lunch?"

about

Kuart showed Pixie McSrcode the sign tacked to the door.

Pixio Was Worried

"Oh dear! Oh dear!" he said, the little bench at the foot of sounding greatly worried. the true and hoped someone "They'll eat it all up before I might come along who could get there."

1ste good judgment in making de working too hard lately, nest today: give them some information.

cisions

SAGITTARIUS (Nov, 25-Déc. 2- Make a minor compromise If it wil Relax tensions and yuo wil be sur- sinooth the course of events

Just prised at how much you can accom- now, Pour 0:1 on troubled waters. jim. Man a pleasant even.

CANCER (June 22-Juty 23). Be careful of what

to ansible. Ainuje foods and avoid en upset,

dttractions Best for you to stocat today.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan, 20)—" The aspects are generally favourable. but a tendency toward mel be overcome.

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

They hadn't been waiting very long when they heard a rustle In the bushes close by, Knart ran over to investigate,

1-10

McBnoose peered into the hollow tree but found no one.

Wilh

that, Pixie McSnooze sprang off the bench and raced through the tall grass that grew on the side of the hill,

Knart and Hapid followed him,

Up the

Pixie McSnooze, then down the mossy rocks and over the narrow brook and through the patch of ferns and snapdragons.

bill

went

Finally he reached a hollow irec. He peered Inside.

"Are

Kaart.

they there?"

asked

"No," replied Pixie McSnooze, and he darted off again.

With Knarf and Hanld follow- ing him, Pixie McSuooze ran through a fleld of buttercups and daisies. Then he slid down a rabbit holu hut no one Was there, either.·

For the next kalf-hour, Pixie McSnooze, Knart and Hanfd looked under the gooseberry bush, in the inside of a ruin barrel, under the garden wall

Rupert and Floppity-16

On hearing what has happened

•

CHESS NEWS

Solution No. 544” - White wins by 1 0-93 ch, R—Kt7 (F—KI7; 2 K-KI3); 2 Q—K4, K—K?8; 3 Q-KI mate, or also by 1 K-33,

London Bapred Service

"Ma, how's your sense of humour today?"

Rupert is now much too excitact

all Rupert's gloominess, has dia to explain and, thearing the appeared and he laugh in delight, paper carrier into her hand, he

You needn't worry, Mummy, dashes into his own room. There,,

"It's Floppity! It just as he expected, the bet" "Eh, what's that? front. "Well, you are a clever What do you mean? What's thing-1 Rupert chuckles as the Floppity gaps Bits. Beat, big dog prances up to meet him.!

he cries.

A

ALL NIGHTS REAXAVED

and behind the barn where the sparrows lived. But the rest of the Pixies were not there,

might

you haven't looked, McSnooze." tunning with all bis

Where? naked Pixie across the fold to a patch of the McSnooze,

sky where a black cloud, was forming and where, sooner or "At the end of the rainbow," later, there would be a rainbow. replied Hanid, It was Hanid who finally said;

Hankdi

lunch!" "I hope it's a good "There's only one place where maw of Pixte McSnooze, he was Knart called afler him,

One Place Loft

The lost Kaart nad

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