JACOBY on BRIDGE
ONCE his opponents had been
pushed out of one no-trump into two spades South should have been content to pass and open his singleton diamond bu! the adverse part score caused South to make just che more hid and he was punished to the tune of 700 points.
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He could have saved a from the wreck if he or his part- ner hund run to three hearts or if he had played the hand differ- ently, but here is what hippon- ed:
West's ace of spades won the first trick, dummy's king apades the second und West's
WEST (D)
A2
+JE753 4700
NORTH
K105 108 2
AD84
4 KJB
SOUTIE A973
EAST
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AQJRGA ♥A3
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1960.
WOMANSENSE
New Lines make sense
Ast Day
Designer
JACQUES GRIFFE
Is 40-ish, learned
his famous blas
cutting-with
Madeleine Vionnet, doyanne of the early couturiers. He took over the salon at Motynaux In 1948
KJ974
*AB42
K10
103
No o vulnerable. Fast-West 60 in acure.
Weat North Fast South
Pass
ROLAND KARL AT
JEAN PATOU
Karl to the
24-year-old designer of Patou,
a name connected
with the most
expensive perfume
In the world-
"Joy"-price
£13 16. an oz.
158
14 Past
IN.T.
Double Pass
Pas
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j'a
13 Double Paks
J'ass Opening Testi~-♬ A
West
quern of hearts the third. returned a diamond which de- efaler won in dummy with the ace. Now mother heart was lext from dummy and East won with the ace. East cashed his queen of spades and led the king of diamonds.
South ruffed low and a club finesse lost to East's queen. East led his last diamond, South tufted with the ace of trumps and led a club to duminy's nine. His hope was to be able to pick up all the trùmps and get out for down onc but East showed up with that ten of clubs, Now East samply led another spade and the only other trlek South could get was dum- my's king of trumps.
CARD Sender,
Q-The bidding has been;
South
Went
14
Poss
3+
Pats 1'ass INT.
2 N.T. 3
North Fant Pass Pass Раза
?
You, South, hold:
MA QI065 VI SKJET 4A QA
What do you do?
A-Pass. Your partner obyli ously har slmost all his strength in the wrong mulls for you.
TODAY'S QUESTION Instead of bidding three no- trump your partner jumped to Ave diamonds over your three apades. What do you do now?
Anwer Tomorrow
☆ COLOUR ✩
COLO
MOLOURING in a room hy more to it than ngeta the
eye.
Some colours may jaduce fatigue, e a bright turquoise against bright red, while other colour combinations may słown working efficiency cause adverse moods. selections
cut
or
Colour
too
for homes are often based on fashion or pr sonal whim, with no considera..
tion for practical factors,
-(Londen Express Service).
ONE FOR
THE ROAD
PIERRE CARDIN
35 years old. Was
trained at Dlor.
Opened his own
salon four
years ago.
HERE is a simple recipe
for ginger beer
that children will enjoy
the making.
They will need a fairly large bowl. 1 ΟΣ root ginger, lá uz, cream of tartar, 1 lb. sugar (whl£e} and the ring suit BA TH(B and Juice of 1 lemon.
these
Ingredicnila
Put into the bowl and cover with callon of boiling water. Stir this mixture vigorously until the augar is dissolved. Allow it
to cool.
Add 1 teaspoonful of baker's or brewer's yeast' and the lemon Juice and cover the bowl with a thick cloth. Leave the bowl In a warin room for twenty- four bours.
#
Skim the top of the Rould with a lish sifce and remove the sourn. Syphon off the liquid, using length of clean rubber tubing, without disturbing the sediment at the bottom of the bowl Bottle and cork as quickly as possible, The beer is ready for drinking after two or three days.
AT A GLANCE: THE MEANING AND merit of thE FASHION DESIGNERS IN PARIS.
Approxi
minimum Clients price of include
Speciality ol House
£180
Princess of
Liechtenstein Duchess of Argyll
Kim Novak
£200
Tho
Vicom!
de Ribes
Crown Princess
Michiko
£220
of Japan
Supple taliored suite Intricate draping on gocital and avanlag dresses
The use of face
Neat, easy suits
Young, simple, wearable drassen
Tallored silk
Fabulous colour sonso
Big bold coats In unusua fabrica
A "sportive" look
Influence on British ready-to-wear clothes
Not great.
But he has one of the largest, smartwet, International private cilentsios.
Clothan kaldom soplad... they are too simple. looking for the
"gimmick trade,"
depending on out and quality for effact.
Cosalderable—
particularly on the coat and sult trada.
Many features of his clothes-the storm collar, the leather trim, the bloused bodice, are quickly copied.
THE ONE MAN WHO RAISED
A
MY HEART.....
Paris.
BEETLE-BROWED boy saved the Paris fashion fireworks from splut- tering like damp squibs in the deluge.
prettiest in Paris.
Twenty-four-year-old Roland predict his shorter, softer line his model girls are by far the Karl, at Jean Patou. was the will be copied by every woman orty couturier to give us even a lucky enough to have a little Elimmer of a new line. And the dressmalter round the corner. only man Hight-hearted enough is thort skirts barely cover Live me that June-in- the kneecap. their brevity January feeling in the rain stressed by a contrasting band lum above the hem. These are
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soaked city.
At 10 cm, I was in Jacques (Criffo's white-and-gold, cherub- hung anton. My verdlet: Jac- ques a dull boy.
For he ..anged his last season's line only by shortening his skirts a mere inch. Otker- wise it was the mixture as be- fore long sult Jacket, biz cool, unstressed host, neatly empha- sised waist,
Shiny black
by
JILL BUTTERFIELD
teamed with little soft shoulder buckets which end plumb in the waist.
Cardin's late night collection was like watching a Technicolor
stereophonic production after a flickering cinema.
But, above all, Cardin is courturier and, in the tradition of the really great designers, he never discards a ne until he has played
up its
every pos- sibilty.
This longer jacket,
SCHBO
he kceps his bu: elves it a rew-decade look by widening i towards the hem.
Bloused dress
gives a
Marks from me
ORIGINALITY
2 OUT OF 10
WEARABILITY
8 OUT OF 10
ORIGINALITY
B OUT OF 10
WEARABILITY
8 OUT OF 1B
ORIGINALITY
9 OUT OF 10
WEARABILITY
8 OUT OF 10
CHART DESIGNED
BY
MICHAEL RAND
(London Express Service).
THE NEW-LOOK TREND
And for marriage
your prospects grow brighter
By GEORGE LOCKHEAD
NEW Britain 'makes its
For older and womch,
A bow to the rule is the prospects of marriage
-Britain of confident brighter each year, people who marry younger. The live longer, and, compared mates that if the preser
Registrar-General esti- rate
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with the early post-war continues, only six per cent of years produce more babies. women in the 45-49 age group
This heartening prospect for 1960 and the years ahead is {brought out by the Registrar- General, Mr Edward Firth, in This latest review of the nation's | vital statistics.
And the emphasis-despite o "prowing-olde:"
on youth.
population-ts
mow and four per cent
would remain unmarried.
A tip for the git: If you want husband, go North. For, outaide London, TRO prospects of marriage Aro best In Scolland and The North of England - parti- cularly Yorkshire.
DEATH rates were down ou BIRTHS in 1957. (the sample previous years, with a new ite year) were the highest since expectancy of 68 for men and 1040. The total: 723,881.
73 for womTED.
The rato of increase 33
Talking Point: Both birth and matched only la Austria, Ger- death rates were almost exactly mony, Spain, and Switzerland the same in 1957 as they were in the Western World.
*in 1923,
And infant deaths were the inwest on record,
MARRIAGES:
big increase in
So was the average size of family-between two and three children,
There was a teamtage wed- Does this mean that a Britain, dings 9.6 per cent of men who now saying goodbye to the married were under com- Fraught "Fifties, may find itself pared with 8.7 in 1958 and 3.4 ping back 10 the Cay iry 1038.
Twentice?
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For women it wor 33.6 per cent under 21, against 32.0 in 1950 and 10.4 in 1938.
·TEENAGERS
The statistics do not aneWCT the question, but they do show that Britain today could draw a moral from the "Twenties.
For the generation of 1923. bad only half of the illegitimacy rate (today it is over 12 per 1,000 urmarried women) and a
But there was also a rise in much lower suicide rate (in pocnage divorce--most oflectca 1957, 148 men and oz wamgn were wives under 20-despite a in every million took their own small drop in the total divorce lives-mainly by gas polson- Agures.
ing).
In the "Twenties many more 593_married_in_church.
✪LECK
LADY LUCK
your
CHINA MAIL
horoscope
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5
AQUARIUS (January 21- February 19): Do not anti- cipate difficulty at the forth- coming test of your know- or skill. With con- fidence your battle is half.
bodice but sets it, new as the He keeps his bloused dress
pcar, above a gored skirt, or kite-pleats it above a silm one. evening dress, but
He keeps his ankle-length
ledge day at the silent train behind or hand-
kerchief points in front. For Cardia is p cotourist. His new bell-skirted coat line, dress To these he adds a completely His crisp, copyable accessories touch is sure and exciting. He fulness
from springing might, though. Like his shiny dares to this raspberry
the pink hips: a crop of silk cults with with indigo, cerise with bright wide flouncy peplums binek. back-buckling belts.
which Two
Palou's violet. milky abricot with black p.m. Jea
again make the bios the most crimson-curtained
salon.
My patent leather.
roticeable part of the body. verdict: a clients' collection, but
His line won't influence your le one fat.
I wish I had the cash.
And Cardin is a showman his high-crowned hals ane the For the Patou clothes are most dramatic, his black patent pretty — really pretty and I shoes are the most pointed, and
STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
All About Flowers
-Knarf Wishes There Were One With His Name-
"Hellu, Policeman!"
By MAX TRELL KNARF, the Shadow Boy whit Khart
Aihe Turned-About
ran down the street, hand
he had
Namie, In one
In
dairy. the other hand he had a butter- cua.
Feally be reached the corner and there stood Pollteman,
erle
"Hello, Knarf," replied Police
man.
Which do you want? "I've got # daisy and a buf- tercup," said Knarf. "Which one do you want me to give you?"
"Now that's a hard thing to
Rupert and the Snowball-33
Rupert quickly cells the dispirited little fox that he has found Ferdy. "Look, the gipay man har gode up to be with him." he says. "And see, here's that crow that led me to lin. It's olly lucky that fed the bird and than it became so friendly of miglit
BOO
Hello
never have spotted your brother
Very up, there." arrives with a coil of strong rope that he wants to heave into the tree. At the sight of it the crow becomes curiously excitech, squawke ing and lapping its wings right in Pollo's face.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
decide," Policeman sald. "It's very hard."
Police
"Why?" asked Knart. "Because," answered man, "I ke daisies—"
"Then I'll give you the dalsy," said Knarf,
"but I also like buttercups," Policeman said. "I like one as much as the other. I like then. both. I like the two of them,"
Gave him both
"Why is it called that, Police- man?" asked Knart.
"It doesn't want you to for- get it, Kuart," said Policeman.
"Flowers have funny names," said Knart. "Look at buttercup. Is it a cap for butter?"
"It could be," said Policeman. It could be a cup for butter for one of the 1tlo people."
"And napdragon," sald Kaart. "And sunflower,"
"And black-eyed added Policeman. "And And he gave the Policeman and Llly, and Violet. They're flowers, but they're girls' names, 100."
"Here," mid Knarf both of them."
"llave
the daisy and the buttercup.
"Thank vail very much, Knart," said the Policeman.
"You're welcome very much, Policeman," anid Khart.
Knarf's wish
Susan,"
Rose,
My verdict: You will be see- ing it all in the gh Sheet shope very soon.
-London Express Service).
"I've got a daisy and ■ buiter. cup," Knart told Policeman,
"Would it have a whiellé?” asked Policeman.
"Yes" sald Knart..
"I guess," nold Policeman, "I wish there was a
flower "ge'd
better be satisfied with "I like daisies, I like butter- named after Knart," said Knoxf. the dalaica and the buttercups, "It's a nice idea," said Police- cups. I like roses flowers and sunflowers and Flower grow?"
man. Where would the Knaef- I guess we'd better not try to RTOW Knart-Flowers and snapdragons and lilles," Police- sald. "But the flower I
man
and corn-
like best of all is the, forget
[me-hot.
Novor saw it
"I never saw a forget-me-not, Policeman," sald Knart.
"It's a Uttlo
flower,"
It would grow on my pillow, I'd sleep next to it every night,"
said Khart.
"Once said the Policeman,
"i pleked a Gower and put it in
Policeman-Flowers."
"We can't have everything," said Foliceman.
No Knarf-Flower
the buttonhole of my coal. It Knarf walked up the street went along with me all day to his house. He kept thinking long. When I got home I put it that maybe he wouldn't bother sald in a glass of water. It slood trying tá moke ʼn Knorf-Flower Policeman. "It's sort of blue, straight up and looked at me." grow on his pillow, Ikes to grow in a
"Policoman-Flower
- Inolend, he would try to place, I know a place along the "There should be a Poilce- make Mommy-And-Pappy unaks of a brook wheto It' l- man-Flower, 100," sold Knarf. Flower grow in the middle of ways grows."
VIL would be blue with Httle the dining-room table. "Forget-me-not," said Knart. silver badges. And it would Yes, that would be much bet "Yes," nodded Policeman, grow right here on this corner," ter
sunny
Won.
PISCES (February 20-March 20) Thanks to your good judgment and wide ex- perience, you will have no difficulty in adjusting a case of mismanagement which you have found within your. own organisation.
troubles is worth more than any material help you could give him right now.
LIBRA
DECLINE
Today, apart from an in- CreLEC
in Roman Catholic Church marriages, there has been a falling off of marriages In the Church of England and
Church of Wales.
In the "Twenties the populn- tion Akures were reasonably well balareal.
Today, the population of England and Wales, though in- creasing (about 180,000 a year) hes to rely on an annual Bow af about 20,000 young people from Scotland and Ireland--"in scorch of employment oppor- tumities"--to offset the losses from emigration abroad.
The steady increase in the
(September 28-Octo-number of old people is likely ber 22): Try to avoid any drop is expected.
to continue until 1977, when à money transaction with
But there is a youthful noto frienda. Even n good re of hope too. lationship of long standing could be marred by the introduction of a cial clement.
SCORPIO
commer-
(October 23-No- vember 21): Flowers gent to a friend recuperating
The Registrar - General estimates that the British population will be replacing itself-birth for death with the generation born in 1943-
So it is with these boys and
from a long illness will be girls, the future fathers and others, with whom the future
greatly appreciated, as such
tokens of friendship seem strength of Britain lics.
to have fallen off of late.
ARIES (March 21-April 10):
As you yourself are
for- tunate in having excellent health, you should not con- demn people with weaker physiquen who Dre more SAGITTARIUS (November Susceptible to occasional Ifinest.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you want to keep your mate's love and Interest, you cannot afford to neglect your appearance at home, even when you are not ex- pecting visitors,
GEMINI (May 21-June 21): Instead of afterwards re- gretting your unreasonable attitude towards a friend, it will be much better for all concerned if you show understanding for his plight in the first place. CANCER (June 22-July 21); Don't make the mistake of underestimating the in- telligence of others, even if their idens are not in con- formity with yours.
LEO
(July 22-August 21); Over-indulgence in fatton- ing food can only do you harm. Make a study of and tr to calorie values regulate your diet along Aclentine lines.
22-December 21): When planning a social evening
AND AGAIN
Other points in the report:- DIVORCE. Dlycreed women
of rather large dimensions. are more likely to remarry inan be careful to choose guests widows of the same age, and of compatible natures. widows more likely than spin- Nothing can spoil an oc-sters, But divorces are more casion like an illusortedkely to divorce again.
ACCIDENTS. Road. deaths were down in 1857, but 410 cyclinta died--mainly
company.
.
CAPRICORN (December 22. motor
January 20); A seeminglyfrem fractured skulls,
DISEASES. Cancer deathé daring venture of yours
(50,000 men, 43,001 women) a surprisingly were highest on record. may have gratifying success.
YOUR BIRTHDAY: If this Is your birthday, your big chance should come this
· Loukæmin deaths were · 33 per cent higher for men, 35 per
ecri for women than in 1950.
Strokes and diseases of the for $1 per cent of all deaths circulatory
system accounted year. With thie la mind, but tuberculosis deaths dropped try to cultivate the goodwill 11 per cent to 4.784.
of Influential people.
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-{London Express Keruter).
HOUSEHOLD
HINTS
To sow on tace, prows or tack through both thicknesses, |a' very narrow turning do the VIRGO (August 22-Septem- rizki side of the garment, place
↓ nall white - panoll ber 22) Sympathetic un- tho laon so that it just cavers for marking totches while new derstanding of a friend's |the turning and machine'fog, Chalk comes off too canity.
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