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JACOBY on BRIDGE

E raise from ene

to

Tuve no trump invites game but allows the open- ing bidder to pass with a no-trump in the lower half of his no-trump range.

The high card strength for such a raise is that number of points which added to your partner' maximum will produce a total of 26 or 27. Thus, you need 9 or 10 high card points to ruise a 15-17 point no-trump opener to two. With 8 points you pass: with 11 you should jump right to gume,

The requirements for the raise of a 16-18 point no-

WEST

QJ04

WQ934

• K53

DV

Bouth

IN.T.

NORTH

4785

AJ 10 + Q872 J93

EAST 4K 100

002

21

• 109 4108732

SOUTH (D)

A32

K73

AJBI KQ4

Beth vulnerable

→

West North

East

Pass Pass Габа

Opening lead~~ 1

A

trumpare one point less Thus, today's North should Ï6-18 point no. ruise trump to two whereupon South was using the 16-17 North point limits HO passed.

It was well that he did. 61 West opened the four spudes and the defence took three spades, a club and n diamond.

Of course, if the diamonds are

a tri he changed around North-South cards will produce th:ou no-trump. The combined total for North-South Is 25 points and such totals frequently pro- duce nine tricks,

+CARD Sensen

Q-The bidding has been:

North Bast South West

14

3

24 Poss

You, South, hold:

PRES

7

432 WAQ785 K3 47054

What do you do?

A-Bid four hearts, The heari raise has improved your hand and your king of diamonda is surely placed right,

TODAY'S QUESTION Instead of bidding three hearts your partner has hid two no- trump. What should you do in this instance?

Answer Tomorrow

I

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 9, 1960.

WOMANSENSE

AT HOME

giving you a glimpse into the homes

of people with a flair for Interior by Barbara Anne Taylor

your

decoration. Today: Mrs. Gina Mackinnon

A pink carpet sets a problem

-In a 300-year-old Scottish room

Mrs Mackinnon is a woman of with its contes Aurrels HAVE never been an

admirer of the Scot- interests, not the least of onamental battlements, and its inscrutable which is the keeping of the atmosphere of tish baronial school of secret of Bonnie Prince Charlie's solidity.

liqueur,

Most of the furniture has been Drambuie, personal interior decoration.

which she mixes in krua legen- in the family for years, dary fashion behind the locked

Mrs Mackinnon's contention taste doors of the turret room, at the that the enormously high rooms

danand

period fumiture, is crack of dawn.

debatable, but I certainly can't be denied that nowhere could these curved oak chests and wbles look as magnificent.

But if it is carried out with authority and the result can not only be comfortable but striking and pleasant.

positively Hunting ground

Coriainly the trome of Mrs Gina Mackinnon le striking, with all the charm of the genuinely old, and none of the phoniness of the recently old.

Mra. Gino Mackinnon; Her mementoes of trips abroid,

BAT

pale gen ceiling and a rose pink carpet.

this

living room.

home is full of Loft: The spacious

Mrs Mackinnon is tremendous- Afternoons flord her wated

ly interested in food, and al- behind an enormous silver ten- "I searched everywhere for though she doesn't have time jo pot dispensing tea and home- do much poking herself, she made scones, and looking the months to get 1 carpet colour," said Mrs Mackinnon, plans all the menus, and keeps embodiment of rural ilfe, ex-

yoll "and now I've got, everything a gourmet's eye on the proceed- cept

happen to know else has to be altered to match ings.

that for three months of the Her kitchen has the best of New York's "21 Club."

year she is regular figuro at;

both worlds the scrubbed white-washed look of a typical 500 acres country kitchen with its rows of

12."

Pastel shades

MRS MACKINNON las in gleaning copper pots, plus every

carated the entire house in possible piece of modern equip- THE William Craigs stands in pastel alades which serve as a ment.

foil

500 acres of land, most of which is pasture for Mrs Moc-

LADY

| LUCK:

CHINA MAIL

horoscope

MONDAY, MAY 9

AQUARIUS '(January 21- February 19): You will bo able to adapt yourself very quickly to 41 abrupt change in your surround- Ingu.

PISCES (February 20-March 20): An old connection will be revived today and you should derive considor- able material boneft from it.

ARIES (March 21-April 10); If you feel the urgo to confido a eccret to some- one, bu suro that the recipient does not indulge in gossip,

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The greatest satisfaction from a job well done must come from within yourself: others may not be too ready to acknowlediga your accomplishment.

B

GEMINI (May 21-June 21):

Try to avaid too close relationship with a person born under the sign of Pisces, as you will find you have ton many conflicting Idens.

A

CANCER (Juna 22-July 21): person in whom you have put a great deal of faith may prove unrellable, and you should in fature refrain from entrusting confidential information to him.

Every LEO (July 22-August 21);

to the darkness of the and furniture. The halls and corri- She takes an equal interest kinnon's famous Jersey herd

rough plaster simply in the table decoration and has The rest houses the poultry

BCL, dors are

of table linen farm and milk-bolling quarters, painted white, Mrs Mackinnon's dozens own bedroom la Wedgwood blue and crystal, in all the sweet pea She devotes a great deal of and white. Nowhere is there any range of colours, with ashtrays her time to the farmTE. heavy pattern to detract from the und book matches to match. day she goes on a tour of in- natural grandeur of the place,

spection greeting all the cows Her home full of memen- by name, with a special word Throughout the house there ton of her trips abroad, from of encouragement, for her prize

Prince are plants, long trailing ferns Welsh dressers, outsize Chinese buil

Rush and her statues, and ivy and king-sized bowls of vases, Moorish

and champion cow Winesap. flowers, whose, perfume mingles oven some English pottery,

Prince

Rush's bac But if her taste in ornaments rumbled ominously in the back- with that of the yellow aromatic pine woodwork and doors. "We is cosmopolitan, her chilee of

ground

"Whenever I arrive way through paintings is relentlessly had to

Boot-

home from nurood," said Mr. layers of gloss paint to find that sh

with darkly turbulent Mackinnon, "that noise really pine," said Mrs. Mackinnon dis- highland scenes, and gentle makes me feel I'm home." gustedly.

twilights on ye banks and braes.

-London Express Servicš,

ER 300-year-old house, "The

william Craigs" is built on A wide curving staircase with the hunting ground of William a wrought iron balustrade sweeps room, the Lion at Linlithgow. Archi- into the spacious living tecturally it is typically Scottish which is painted white with a

Rupert and the Snowstorm--18

Rupert cannot make head or tail of what is happening. He tries to run home and the fur-lined boots won't let him. Then he tries to Kap and they won't do that either. "This is terrible." he thinks. What do the boots want me to do? Hello, there are some foot.

marks just ahead." Without being able to help himself he joine them and keeps on them." do believe these are my own footmarks!" he puffs. "I'm going round and round The same track. Oh, why can't! Turn of and go somewhere else? 1 shall be worn out soon!

ALL RIONTS RESERVED

CHILDREN'S CORNER

Knarf's Torn Clothes

➡It Took Thres Spiders To Path Thau Up Aggines

By MAX TRELL OW SOMETIMES, though not very often I'm happy to say, Shadows get their clothes toru.

NOW

It happened to Knarf, the Shadow Boy with the Turned- About Name. He had gone out walking with the Children. The Children were wearing their best clothes, and so was Knorl.

Warned them

"Please be careful where you walk," the Children's Mother haul said before they left the house. "You are not to roll down hills. You are not to sit on the pavement. Above all, you are NOT to Filmb any fences! Do you untierstonde fences!"

So out of the house run the Children,

It was

a beautiful day. The

to. Sometimes you are obliged. to run ahead, or on one side or the other. Sometimes you find yourself getting stretched out as long as a railroad train, and other times you find yourself no bigger than an egg!

No shino

By the time the Children reached the park, Knart had no shine left on his shoes.

"Oh, well," he said, "Til polish them when we get home egala, Nobody will notice that I haven't got a shine on my shoes,"

There were two ways to get into the park.

One way was to stay on the sidewalk and go in through the trance. The other was to climb

over the fence.

Climbed to top

a bluc "No no! Remember what

320

The Spiders were patching up Hanel's clothes,

hack our

voice

CLIP, CLIP, CLIP "Tweeded" nun runs town

BRIGITTE

Those Bardot tresses are all falling to

the floor...

THE thing you won't be doing this summer is I PREDICT that the keeping your hair on. sound of the sixties will be the relentless snip of scissors and the regular swish of the broom as the last locks of would-be Bardots are swept from the linoleum of a thousand salon floors.

Setting the pace: the girls in the public eye. Once upon a time you could tell a model not only by her eye-black but by the length of her hair.

Nowadays the most photo- graphed faces are topped by little smooth caps of hair, by bobs sleek and shiny as . schoolgirl's. But, as part of n model girl's success lies la her versatility, even the simplest day-time hairstyle will have super glamour variant for after durk,

Here, three leading models are styled by three leading hair- dressers to show you the head ahead.

High and Curving

Enid

Munnick (photo- graphed by John French) has blonde hair cut by Carita in Paris, 1880 look, high "No! Listen to me!" shouted on the top, curving like a shell Knorf, tugging with all is might on to the check. at the Boy's shoe. "Remember Jenuifer Hocking (photo-

dimbed up to the top and look-her honey ed down the hill.

what your Mother sald. Don't roll down to hlft!"

graphed by Norman Eales) has And once more the Children her smooth, dark hair cut to a

Bla

French of length by listened to Kharf, the Shadow,

London French, the man who And they listened to him for with his first bouffant style gave aky. The Birds sang. The Dogs your Mother said!" Knart re- the third time when they started barked. The Cats purred. Bables minded the Children when he to sit down on the pavement. Did air to hair, is now leading exponent of the smooth, short saw them stopping and looking they climb the fence after all? shingle..

nun scale down from

In their carriages gurgled with

Joy

"Not go fast! You're rubbing the shine off my shoest" shouted Knart to the Boy he belonged to. "Den't run so fast?"

Paid no attention But the Boy paid no attention to Keart..

That's how it usually is with Children and their Bhadows. The Children pay no attention to them at all.

It don't easy being a Shadow, Bometimes you have to follow pehtud the person you belong

longingly at the fence that went

all around the park.

"Don't climb over the fencel"

Climbed a troo

her

Lice Denk (photographed No, they didn't climb the by Terence Donovan) hus.

worse thing hair rinsed pale beige and det (which, in simple, cheek-hugging waves

1 think (but I'm not quite fence. They did a mure) that the Children may They climbed a tree have heard Knart. any rale come to think of it, liko by Alda at Simon. they entered the park In the fence had stands upi). regular way through the en- trance.

Then they came to a halt.

Po Knart! He lore his cont Snak about all this seeming -- his pants and his stockings. simplicity-It needs expert cut-

It took throɔ Spiders all. night (tur, it needs to bo kopt

ENJO NUNNICK

JENNIFER 'Hocking

LIEBE DENIE

to aid Italian girls

BOYS Town the self- tory-schoolhouse and later add-

of ed a modern chapel. governing home

In the autumn of 1957 the wayward and homeless first group of girls 16 of them children, has become a were welcome from institu- symbol of courage and tons all over Italy. help for the youngsters of Italy.

5 years

You will have to use great deal of self-control during a discussion which otherwise might easily and in hostilities,

VIRGO (August 22-Septem- ber 22) If you regard the future with misgivings, analyse

present position and try to find a more satisfactory way of conducting your life.

LIBRA

your

(September 23- October 223: You may re- ceive conflicting reportà About the activities of Д friend living abroad and should investigate before passing judgement.

SCORPIO (October 21

November 21): An unusual opportunity will stimulate your desire to acquire knowledge which will help you greatly in your pro- gress at work.

These girls-and the others: But few poople knew the who will follow them-stay at SAGITTARIUS also is a Girls Town, developed the Institution for five years.

Town.

runs

by the same Catholle priest who started and still

They are trained to support Boy themselves, to

become govern. The bustling Irish Priest, counsellors and for other jobs.

Leges, social workers, children's John Patrick Carroll

Mother Mary works enlisted the aid of hour day to help her "children"

to

MST

Abbing

ать 18-

(November 22-December 21): It will be

necessary to display more than your usual tact when confronted with marital difficulty,

other Mary Dominis. Rame worst part of her work,CAPRICORN (December 22- cloti.

ал American nun

help him when he decided to

found Girls Town after spend- ing 13 years bullding the boys' institution.

The well-tailored woman with grey hair nicknamed "the nun in tweeds"-began the project with him in 1955.

she said, is going around to ali the luncheons, teas and weep- tions in Rome to raise funds to keep things going.

She has received special per- to mission from the Vailean wear secular clothes.

Most of

hier outfita Arc tweedy and They chose for the site a Eny homemade. But she wears no harniel enlex Borgala Ottavia, Upstick or Jewellery, even on her near Rome. They built a dormi- fund-raising expeditions,

January 20); Don't be toc disappointed if a friend refuses to fall in with your wishes about a forthcoming journey,

YOUR BIRTHDAY: If your birthday is this week, you will find a symbol of good fortune in a gift of Д scari,

BE LIKE CLEOPATRA-TAKE

A BATH IN

MILK

By

TALL, attractive Mrs Elizabeth Trehane, whose husband is chairman of the Milk Marketing Board in England has her own idea on helping to use up the record milk supply expected there this summer: She thinks women should take beauty baths in it.

Irish-born Mrs Trehane who "Of cours, If you can man- 38 and has three sons, has age it even only once, the full been taking milk baths sines Cleopatra act is wonderful, cho was 17. She said recently

"I have done it myself-right

the drier

At her husband's 400-year-old faamhouse at Wimborne, Dorset: up to the chin, in milit. It is "Women should be encouraged really entirely luxurious. 110 use milk for their skins.

"There is no reason why men Farmers' wives know how goud should not do it too, The older it is for them. And milk baths

your skin Heave you with a glorious feel you get

becomes. ing afterwards."

**Using milk is the same prin- ciple as putting oil in the ball, and much cheaper than a treat-

the earth ment costing

10 minutes

bath once

Mas Trehan recommends

milk

F

beauty salon.

at a

ir

a fortnight- after

hot 1st ordinary

lub.

"It need not be any more cx- "Pour in ns much lukewarm pensive than having an ordinary. milk

as you can afford," she bath with lots of your favourite toki me, "Soak in it for at bath, calls.

viilled tho bairdresserat 10 minutes. Then take a woman

"The Idea la quite popular today. I know number of It was a lovely hill. There to patch them up stain. As for scrupulously clean, it often nooda orte a fortnight and spent over shower.

"I usually us two gallons at other women who take milk was grast on !! from top to Knart's Boy he tore his cont, a light perm underneath to give 200,000,000 doing so. This year, to keep the mother-than-silic bottom. It was the kind of hill kin penis and his stockings, toe,

Ja time, though that to not baths, and is OGER MIHA look, she'll need A weekly rough uncause I am very tall: Australia, where the that looked soft and springy, It was his Mother who had to

appointment.

But The Children stopped again. work half the night : paiching

even a sponge down a make your skin so dry.” -(London Keyes Bervice), milk is good for you,

(London Express Survios). They looked at the hill. They them upi

body,

Last year, despite the raggle- toggle sipay look, the averago

# does

JOHN LAURIE

A HELEN BURKE RECIPE

BALAD NICOISE

The French are past mastura In the starring of it-bits of left-over vegetables and tere l one of the most pleasant dialies to serve as en höre d'oeuvre.

For four servings, cut a break- fastcup of cooked French brusia into diamonds and dice a krížate Knaller amount of cooked potatoes. Add.siz nine stoned large black olivas, a tablespoon OT 30 of capers and can of anchovy fillets, each eut fato two or three pieces.

TOES

all those in (3) garfler Bavoured satace raade this way! Crush A clove

of garlie tha tablespoon of mila vinegar. Leave for a low minutes then remove and discard 15. Work in three to our tablespoons, ef oliv Dil And season with it and freshly milled pepper,

Garnish his salad with quar» seren stinned tomatoes and strips of swart green pappkra,

I have enjoyed salad 'Wielan where, in addition to anchovy fiista, strips of enner beat Were included. This made the salad enough for a light main diabe