THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1960.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
JACOBY BRIDGE Why we gave up
THE
on
three no-trump overcall the tricks since East was caught
in a progressive squeeze.
of an adverse opening bid is designed for just such a hand as South holds. It shows a solid minor suit; little defence against the majors and eight plus tricks
WEST (D)
10 73 9665 +1073 $7BS
NORTH
98654 ❤KJ 104 +85
42
EAST
SOUTH AAJ
A3
12
*KQ2
Q72 +84
AQJ93
• AKQJ92
4K 108
Both vulnerable
West North East South
Pais
Puss
Pass Pass Pass
Opening lead... 7
Of course, East made things easy for South. His first discard on a diamond was the deuce of spades and his next two
were
the three and nine of clubs. Then, when it came to the last discard he went into a long trance and finally produced the queen of spades.
Meanwhile, South had hung on to all dummy's hearts. Now he cashed the ace and jack of spades and once more the vise had closed on East. A club dis- card would establish South's ten spot while a heart discard would make all of North's hearts good.
the easy life,
by Mrs Menuhin
ONE
"It looks as
if Jeremy will
NE of the most interesting families in London God forbid, but because Eton is the only public school which" are the Yehudi Menuhins. Finally settled in produces individualists. one of the beautiful and historic houses in The Grove in Highgate after a busy lifetime of stay with us at home because V÷CARD Sensek♦ following the violin round the world; the two already his path seems to be set.
Menuhin boys, Gerrard, 11, and Jeremy, eight, are lived fine examples of heredity flourishing in spite of music to know that it doesn't environment.
3 N.T.
Σ
Q--The bidding has been: Weit North
Bouth Double
East
2
in the hand. Note that South has nine tricks against the expected club opening.
o!
West opened the seven clubs. East took his aee and con- tinued with the queen. South was in with the king and had no trouble running of the rest of
Pass You, South, hold: 401065 42 +1095 85632
What do you do?
A-Bid two clube. You don't like to bid but a pans will almost surely prove most expensiva.
TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner continues with a
Their mother, no
mere
"I didn't want my sons
background wife to & to grow up in a jellified genius, explained how after world where the pill is some schooling in four always coated. different countries (in-
jump to three hearts. What do cluding the Kurt Hahn Seamy side
you do now?
Answer on Monday
Rupert and the Snowstorm-35
A snatch of conversation is what Rupert has beard, and he moves back to the sitting-room, where his Mummy has just taken a small phial from the little Chinese
girl.
"I don't understand." mys Mra. Bear, inking into a chair. **Expitia this again. please."
**Well," says Tigerlily. "Rupert told Sorester that he carried medicine for his Daddy who wWAY sick. Now Sorcerer says he has medicine better than any in shop. This is some. You me give it, please, and big cured quick, velly quirk, ya?
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
It's music with him and I've long enough with
fit into an educational mould.
"However, we shall see; child-
ren change all the time and the last thing we want to do is to bring up the children to my force them in any set plan or uncharacteristic direction."
I drove the chattering Memi- hins to Regent's Park for a boating expedition on the lake; school in Germany) Britain was considered best for two "CAN remember weeping en
I left them happy and my way to school in the boys with mixture of thirties when I saw the out- voluble discussing French, Russian, Jewish of-work miners cramming the Prime and British blood.
ference.
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streels.
"My sons won't see that but
"We had almost decided to Londen is still one of the fer
house in Call elties where the seamy side isn't
seille in our
the flashingly
fornia," ld vivarious Diana Menuhin, for- trer ballet dancer Diana Gould.
"Then
we realised that the lite was too luxurious, the vegetation too lush, the economy too prosperous.
The whole life was too com- fortable. Then I saw a notice posted outside a college which read SCIENCE IS FUN.
"That did it. We moved to England where people si know that science is wonderful, science opens up a new world. but it's not fun.
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"As we travel through Kentish and Camden Town I take jolly good care that they lock and Trolly see what the other side
fife is like.
"In the holidays I take the as much boys around with me as I can. Gerrard was about the only child attend the private view at the Royal Academy recently. Why, I wonder?
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CHILDREN'S CORNER
By MAX TRELL
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1 chame," Mr Punch TS
was saying to "Knart and Hanid, "that Children nowadays don't blow soap bubbles." "I tale them to theatres and Mr Punch was sitting,
old-fashionel toa, and
in his concerts
encourage usual, them to come into the drawing-rocking chair by the sunny win- room when we are entertaining dow. interesting people and by interesting I don't mean fashion- able.
Views discussed
Punch remembers
And scelay the sunshine out in the street, and the Children playing, and the Birds flying, und bis of paper sailing by in the breeze, all those things re- mudd Mr Funch of the days when he used to blow bubbles.
DON'T encourage them to join in the conversation, Time is too precious. But later we discuss the views aired and Gerrard has some quite good Ideas on the Scuth African "It's a shame," he repeated,
shaking his head, question.
"I hope I don't make them sound like disgusting prigs, be- cause really you couldn't and two more normal boys,
"At the moment Gerrard is at a prep school at Broadstairs and Jeremy goes to a local day school,
"Later the eldest one will go to Eton, not because it's smart,
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sair
"But, Uncle. Punch," Knari, "Children do sull blow soap bubbles! A little Girl was sitting on the steps down at the corner in front of her house, and she was blowing soap bub cles all yesterday afternoon!"
Hanid nodded her head. "I saw her, too," she said to Mr Punch,
Blowing Bubbles
-Mr. Punch Tells The Shadows A Soapy Story
But Mr Punch kept shaking his head.
"They aren't the kind of soap bubbles that we used to blow," he finally said.
"Aren't all soap bubbies the same, Uncle Punch?" she asked. "I mean, there are large bubbles and small bubbles and some bubbles last longer than others, But they're all the same kind of soap bubbles, aren't they?"
"Not at all," said Mr Punch.
What other kind? Hamid and Knart both begged Unele Punch to tell them what other kind of soap bubbles there were.
"Well," said Mr Punch, "when I was a Boy you could go to a little shop that was run by a little old Lady.
Her nemc
in hur shop-soap bubble pipes and speci soap bubble soup."
Hanid laughed.
"What was to special about all those pipes and all that soap bubble soap, Uncle Punch?" she asked.
His reply
"I'm just about to tell you," answered Mr Punch, “You'd go up to Mrs Maggy and whisper
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"It's a shame," Mr. Punch said to Knart and Harid.
"'
"When you got home, and' mixed the sake of Mrs Maggy's chip in water, and blew through in her ear that you wanted to har pipe-what bubbles came buy a very specia), very-very out and went floating in the special, plue and soap bubble gumiine! scap to make very-very special "Bubbles shaped like Catst soap bubbles. She'd nod and Bubbles shaped lee. Dogal Bub- give you a pipe and a cake of ples shaped like Fishest Away. soap.
they went, chasing one another, Cats and Dogs and Fishes, all the way down the sleet, she'd say to you when you paid These were soap bubbles! her the money and went out.". "No," he added sadly, shalding
head "Cats and Dogs and Fishes- his
again, "Children What did that mean?" Krtarf nowadays don't blow Boat bubbles...not like the kind I used to blow!"
was Mrs Maggy and her whole. store was filled with Gour bubble pipes and special soup asked. bubble soap. That's all she best Mr Punch smiled.
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