JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Vulnerable Foes Get Into Act
BY OSWALD JACOBY
ONE of the great advantaged of
having part score to your credit is that your opponenta frequently decide to get Into the bidding without any carda to back them up.
1
East had 14 points and a per- foot two no-trump response without a part scure. Since be alrondy had 60 toward game be contented. Adamselt with a mere une no-izibrip.
WOMAN'S WORLD,
THOUGHTS ON MARRIAGE
By THE REV. FRANK MARTIN
WHOOSH, We
water down This continual demand for invites W the drain, goes all the happiness in marriage sympathy for Elizabeth Taylor. two thoughts:
Six months ago, when Mike Todd lost his life, she was the most commisernied wife in the world,
are not going to give South was up the rubber. 11 never occurred
to him that his hand was much that he could take just about as
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Both vulnerable.
East and West 60 on score.
South North Eaxi Pars INIT. 24 Pass
Double Past Paxo Pass Каль
Opening Teal -† 10
many tricks defending priest no-trump a playing clubs; in- bead he burged in with a two- club bld.
West posed. He had boller than a minimum opening but he was confident that East would take action it be possibly engld. After all Fast knew about that
East acted all-right
part score. He doubled.
the
Recently, in an American law sult, o valued hit "support, services, guidance, comfort and zocioty at £1,700,000. Now sho is anbroiled in an estrangement between singer Eddie Fisher and his wile Debble Reynolds, With Eddie, Elizabeth Taylor has been making a conspicuous round of the New York night clubs,
She timised her part in the words: veparation with the
You cay bak up a happy inturrlage. Eddie's and Debble's never has been happy."
HIS
That statement is about mechanical and heartless as a second feature sound track. By all accounts the Fishers have been as well matched as most.
And what can she mean by the astonishingt ∙argument that it nurlage is happy it
Safe from the occasional safe? impulse to look elsewhere? Safe an interference from outsiders?
Tule the girl in a scotide town wa husband and two children whe was regarded by her most Intimate friends as a devoted wife and mother, She worke
clerical a part-time
job. in Suddenly, without warning. She ton of with a mate colleague.
Her husband-had-the-se in follow her, her two
The first is that most mar- ages Ippler Inter on ching at the beginning. They have to survive carly period: of uncertainty, disillusion and misunderstanding
The second is that the rocks on which matrimony founder
ro chiefly the straight ques- tons of right and wrong.
Should a doctor with a largo number of patients neglect his work if his wife complains of loneliness?
Should a wife, for the sake pt. peace and quiet, give in to her husbau un ny issue that for her is a matter of conscience or religious faith?
.
You can compromise oti most thinus, bul in my view you erasionally have to make your partner downright miserable in the hope of reaching abeller understanding.
Understandunt, consolation und wirdom are much harder by, and nobody can to cutre
These things belier teach you thur the one with whom you säure your life. And if your partner doesn't sometime de- nate your self-satisfaction, then the partner is no good.
There's one final paint. It is that even unhappy marriages don't ually break up unless somebody butts in.
the
It He caught up with
CL hordly help
their differ- days later and found Fishers to settle Wes opened
ten of
young widow, trump is pretty good"tactics-her-airendy regretting Uwe-loss encer, when to oper.
of her home and children. She with three previous murrlages a trump when your
went back without a word.
children, golvents parinter has doubled a low co-
That say the story ab un round the night spots with the tract. From the point on the
happy wife, but of a woman's husband
it guts Into ali easy and
brief weakness exploited,
the gossip columns.
defence was
South
up with
Inp
wound
three
tricks and nothing else.
He was down 1,400 and Fast and West still had their part
score.
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East South West
1
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North
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Pass
INT.
昨
You, South, hold:
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What do you do?
A-You can pass and take a sure profit or bid three spades and see if your partner will go to three no-trump. It is a toss-tip. TODAY'S QUESTION
You hold the same band and your partner has rebid two no- trump after your one heart. What do you do now?
Answer Tomorrow
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YOUR BIRTHDAY ....By STELLA
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
BORN today, could be rald that it w
spirit and
You
eving in a surprise to you have listelenitud "derring • enaky thuật you Juive, latent inainoms do." You have a naturally driven- Ally wid excellent PARCULIVS turesome
110 courage, powers.
ate oble to manuge to follow brought we effort. You have u kuck for hand- experi- projets without дну pparent metatul dend with deskilte The storm here even you exception- Laut people and seem to know how al talents and you can become out- standing in almost any area of west- exportion which you may select, Decide early in life what you want, and then go out after t
You have a agnelle personality almetinn and have considerablo
Paetorius,
to acleet Just the right person f the job soni wont done. Then leaven you free faxa detalt work
Usink up gives you extra time
tu new projecta tur awFICADO ENO execute.
those bom on this date Among Joe meinbern of the opposite sex. It
Franels Daniel We that you will have more author and educatur: T. S. Ellot, is kely then one antic episode before entie and port; King Christian X George Gershwin, you scitle down. You enjoy travel- at Denmark;
Invier Bachelier, Hg and will see a goodly portion of comporer; and
author. The earth during your youth. once you fave decided to put down root, you really settle down. Your loyalties are rong and once you
selected the one with whom have you want to spend the rest of your life, til death do us part."
LIBRA
But
To And what the sizra have in store for you tomorrow, select your bethday Mar ned read the coires- ponding paragraph. Let your birth- day turk your daily guide.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
(Sept 24-Oct. 23)-
ARIES (Mar.
21-Apr.
24)-
Don't expect to set the world on Farmers can anticipate a the day. line today. The ice host, for you, Get a good price for your crops. the more expeed. Tuke it aloudy. either on this fluirkel or
SCORPIO___ (Oct. 21-Nov. 223 New, you have considered it well next looked in the collateral, you can make that requested loan.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov, z-net. 22)— You can be co-operative with those who may need your financial help in a bustares ventum, Inves:
"CAPRICORN (Dec. Zindan, 201-- Postpone starting a new enter- prise until the alga are more auspicious. Consider till segles wilze- ly, first.
AQUARIUS (JR 21-Feb. 19)-- If you are of retirencest ore, then this could be your big day of separation free. Your company, En- joy freedomni
20-MAT.
ISCES (Fo.
20)--- Pay a vit to noteone who may
WAURUS
Apr. 21-May
21- Au muspicious day for taking that trip that may have had to be pont, poned. Travelling, conditions should be okay.
GEMINI
(May 22-June 211 Don't Jot younelt get fittery over conditions. Keep calm and all Ahould go well with you at home or in the office,
CANCER (June 22-July 23)- The domestic scene is calm. Your marriage partner could bring you exceptional happiness and joy.
11:0 (July
21-Aug. 235- Hold your temper and Goa'z speake out of tum. You could spoil any good prospects by being hasty,
VIRGO (ABE. 21-Sept. 23} Be sure to make a good appenance
be an invalid, either at kome or fu if you have un important Interview
an institution. Bring good cheer.
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by LEONARD BARDEN
(NL. 143)
Here la a problem by E. Hol- laday (Echéo et Mat. 1940). While mates in two moves,
Solution No. 5482: 1.
Rachi; ZxQ, R-08 male.
* Londen Axproes "asrates
today. Much depends upon 11.
By Galbraith
**Honry makes me so mađi He says a suntin's a suntan, whether you get it hanging out clothes or lying on the beach!"
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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1956.
WOMANSENSE
Page
WOMEN: Why they are happier than ever before
TN Britain, women have for
been emancipated 40 years. What have they got to show for it? Have thu they begun to play equal role in national life which the suffragettes pro- phested?
All the evidence shown that. they have not. Only a Uny pro- portion have gone into polities
FEWER BABIES: NEVER HAS ONE SIMPLE FACT TAKEN SO MUCH TOIL OUT OF SO MANY LIVES
By PAUL JOHNSON
and it shows no sign of risk. fessor Titmuss shown, the real Women have got a loc-hold slavery of women arises from the professions, above all
childbirth. And it in here that medicine, but they rarely the changes have been graduate to their higher peaks. startling.
ano
Old
Д
and power has been a com- pauled by corresponding trengthening of the traditionel Institution of marriage.
This would have shocked the suffragettes, John Stuart Mu regarded what he called "the foul means of marringo" as the principal instrument of mascu- We can put it another way. no tyranny.
Virginia Woolf The award of the vote bag
In the first 30 years of this In 1000, by the lime a woman
denouncod ita "nullity, its brought $10 sprent changes, century, the average size of the had dished childbearing, die immorality, its hypocrisy, Ita Analyses of voting pattern working-class family
left and servility." dropped it only 12 years many countries show that from over six to under two-and- she was already old. Today, women we for more conserva-
u-half. In those days, nearly most mothers have fulfilled They all prophesied that when tive that menot only il half had SOVETI children or their maternal role by the age women won their freedom fewor poilies, but over a vast range
tot 40 and still have 30 years and fewer of them ut schl questions: where
MAITY, to live. form is urgent,
Nor This all, Life *x- pectancy has increased for all of us, but for more for women than for men. · At the age of 90, for instance, women can expect know to live four years longer than thu heyday their husbands..
more; now the percentage reless than two per cent.
Hos emancipation Ken 18 failure then? No: it has simply
Moinenloun proved Irrelevant, changes have taken place in the position of women during the yeats but they have Inst 40 been due incters,
to quite. different pregnancy
I draw this conclusion from a on woreb remarkable essay buried in a new book, tediously entitled Essays on the Welfare Stale by Professor Timurs▪
The suffragettes believed wo- men would win freedom by But, as Pro- getting the vote.
Essays on the Welfare State, By Richard M. Tits, Allen & Unwin. 20s.
TAKE
DELIGHTFUL family
A father, mother, and
three carefully spuced children had been attendlag church. But then they stopped coming.
The vicar called und the Kather explained: "Look, old boy, I stood it as long as I could, I like coming but not with the bids.
The middle one stood on the pew und stared back at the congregation. The youngest took to uttering shrill cries not malicious but just out of a kind of je de vivre. I was vous wreck."
that He thought
had he caught one or two of the con- gregation looking annoyed. Buther thun face any complaints he and his wife had decided to stop away until the children were considerably older.
Tied
the
the 1890s, Hence, in average wife spent 15 years in or nursing and was in consequence lied to the home. Today, this has been re- duced to four years.
Added to the drop in preg-
1: tie longer life nancles
In 1900, expectancy in women. n young woman aged 20 could- live 46 years of expect to which one-third would be spent bearing or nursing children.
Today, she can expect to live 55 years of which only 7 per cent will be spent tied to the cradle.
This
In fact, exact-
ly the oppo-
hos site
hop. pened.
Di
We now that
in
the
Vic-
would
"Today's wives can expect to live ̈another 55 years, of which only 7 par
cent will be spent tied to the cradla
There are fewer spinatory In
means, in practice, an torian age, the marriage rate Immenso transfer of economic was declining. Since then, it power. Merry (Le, wealthy) has begun to increase-and in Britain only 13 per cent widows are now vasily more very striking fashion since the than at any me tince 1881, common than in Fraux Lehat's mid-1930s. Between 1911 and when the population was only
1954, the proportion of women 60 per cent its present size, inarried has risen by a third.
time.
In-America,where the trend pronounced than is even more
OC authority calculates here, that women now possess 83 per cent of the wealth. And Britain is rapidly moving in the same direction
Paradoxically, this vast in- crease in real feminine freedom
Two years ago, the Royal Commission on Marriage and Divorce-which had refused to study the sociological statistics assembled by Professor Timuss concluded that "matrimony is not so secure as it was 50 years ago". The Commission could not lave been more wrong.
THE CHILDREN TOO
By-
the Rev. ROBERT COLEMAN
the age
On the one hand you got First. It is no good being too people so enamoured of youth, sensitive to possible objectors, so ilckled to find anyone below They are un losing ground and And unless your off- of 70 in church, that know li they are prepared to put up spring is being really impossible
berale then all is well. with any inconvenience, objectors, and quote freely from St. Mark's Gospel, Chapter 10,
children "Suffer the little come..........”)
Secure
Despite divorce, marriages last Thanks to the habit of longer. marrying earlier and the drop in the death rate, there are fewer "broken" marriages-broken by death und desertion as well do divorce—than ut any time in this contury,
The conclusion we can draw from this mass of statistics is that women are immensely, more happy, frue, secure, healthy and powerful than they were 40
morale. A small book, not years ago and that this lips necessarily religious, or a pencil | nothing at all to do with their and paper is a Godsend.
getting the vote,
Some people may object that
if such ulds are used, it would
be as well to let the children stop at home and pity.
NO HINDRANCE
ng
Problem
But the new freedom is bring-
its problems, In Britai today, there is an ever-growing However, children can easily army of "post-maternal mothers"* absorb what is going on around married women over 40, who them and sweets, books, and have already brought up their pencils are ba real hindrance | children, who are still youngish, to their listening if they wish active even profty -- and who
have less and less to do, to
Second, the behaviour of the children can dictate the length to of lime they should be allowed to remain in the service. Let the most fidgety rather than ultimately they are on the side the best behaved child be the of the parents.
LOSING GROUND
Others say that if parents re- move a noisy and show-of of eldera child from a group erouched round a TV, where is the sin in stopping a youn- ster from disturbing a church service?
But, meanwhile, what are This is no easy problem. All congregations are divided on young parents to
Children are
no fools
and
guide as lo the appropriate Recently I glanced down from
What is to become of them? They alrendy number millions. Soon they will be the largest single section of the population. Potentially, they are the biggest source of untapped manpower
rather womanpower in the country. Yet industry has not even begun to plan how they can be usefully and systematical- ly employed,
noment in which to slip out.
a small girl the pulpit to see
She had Church in the front pew. Third, be human.
come all by herself and was should not be a penance and a
ttle common sense can lengthen now in the process of settling a familly remains in a falt-haired doll in the corner the time church,
for the sermon. She raised ong inger. My guess was that
In fact, solving this new prob- was whispering: "Re-lem seems likely to tako enothe member, if you are not good, 40 years.
~~(London Express Service),
For example, the tactful offer do if they of a bullseye during the sing she the issue of young children in wish to bring their children to ing of the Venite can do auch
a young child's you will have to go out."
church.
church!
BOYS' AND
Cook's Creamy Surprise
K
-How A Delicious Dessert Was Invented-
the
Tin, the Tin Soidler,
"You mean," said Knarf, "be fore ice cream was invented?" General Tin nodded. 'Every one thinks that lee cream was
to
restore
GIRLS'
General Tin took his maskot off his shoulder and rested it on the ground.
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MAGAZINE
make a ple. He had some cream and some milk and some eggs nri some super and some flavouring. So he mixed them all together and tasted I
There was owe a cook.... "What was his name?" Khart asked.
"Then Cook thought it would "I can't remember," said taste much better if it were General Tin, "But he was cold. There wasn't much time One day, the left, so he had to get it cold
"What did he do?" Knort
By MAX TRELL
KNARF, the Shad w Boy with
Turned-About Name; always with us, That isn't true. very good cook. went up to his friend General There was a time, perhaps a people he worked for were cater- quickly."
As usual, General Tin was standing by the hundred years ago or so, when taking important guests,
"Now, in the kitchen, Cook asked. there wasn't any ice cream." door of the Playroom. He stood
bad cooked the whole dinner. with his musket over', his
Then he wondered what he shoulder. General Tin's job was
ceuld make for dessert." to guard the Playroom day and night, by keeping. llons, tigers,
und elephants
other
ferce animals from coming into the rooni.
Didn't Stop Him
Of course, wild animals (like Hous, tigers, elephants) never But uld come into the room, that didn't prevent General Tin from doing guard duty just the
some.
"General Tin," said Knarf, "I bet I know what you'd like right now!"
"What would I like right now?" asked General Tin.
"You'd like a cream,"
dish of ice
"That's a funny thing," said General Tin. "I was just täilak- ing of ice cream. Did you know there was a time when 130 ‘oto iopew anything about.
erpem?"
ico
Tin Explains
"Who Invented It?" asked.
Карт
"He didn't want to make a cake. And he didn't want to
Rupert and the Early Bird-14
Seeing the expression on Rupert's Law Margaret gets up. "I know that voice very welk she giggica.No wonder you couldn't find the person who was speaklog. There prian') a person } Oh, how I wish I'd seen you looking so puzzled. What a lovely
"Oh, don't be jaks 1" vating 1 cries Rupeet. mean, that you can explainit all?" " Of course I can," says *** The voice, commer Margaret. from... look, there he is up in the sky 1" And she, points to dark bled that is flying hound. ALL RION73 RESERVED
Creamy Mixture
"Ho put the creamy mixture in a pot and put the pot in a larger pot of lee. And to make (It even colder, he sprinided salt on the ice. Then he shook and abook the pot of creamy mixture In the ice so that it got cold all over.
Cook put the mixture in a bowk and took it to the table,
with delight: It's, wonderful! - What is it?
"And," said Geneml Tia,
"And Cook," saia General Tin, "when he lifted the cover off the who had no name for what he pot, he found that the creamy, had made but remembered that mixture had become all frozen it was creamy and that he had
"Just then it was time to made it cold wit lee, and It's serve the dessert. The cook had ice cream! And that's what it no, time to get anything else, so has been called to a day." hi put the frozen mixture in a. bowl and brought it to the din for telling him how ice cream Knarf thanked · General Tin
her table.
liad been invented,
What Is It?
"He was a wonderful cook said Kharf, "I wish I knew hlá name."
"No one had seen the like of I before. Cook watched nety- ously as the guests tasted it. Ho was far from sure that they would like it.
Suddenly, everyone cried out enjoying ice creamt!
"I'll try to remember it,” said General Tin. "But in the mean- while, don't tos it keep you from
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