1960-06-11 — Page 10

The bare school

by HEL

can't think why people clutter iheli

rooms up furnitura.'

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1960

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

JOHN SIDDELEY,

SPECIAL CONSULTANT TO THIS PAGE. TAKES A CONSTRUCTIVE LINE ON

AN OFTEN SORE DOMESTIC SUBJECT....

YOUR

HOME

My plan for mothers-in-law

JACOBY BRIDGE

WEST doubled the four heart

WEST

try to get to dummy with a

West would suff right

in vnd lead another club where- upon South would have no way to draw West's last trump but South was giving the hand an inspired play.

bid ilke a man who expect state. ed to be rich forever. In spite, of that East thought a long while about taking it cut but did pass, In view of all this one look at the dummy was sufficient to tell South that West held all four trumps and East all Ave spades. Desperate measures were necessary and after rufing the second diamond South casually

WEST

▲ None VQJ88 +KQJ3 2

♣ 10 9 6 3

NORTH 4054 VA 1053

.4865

372

13

EAST (D)

J10987 ❤ None + A974 *AQ85

SOUTH

AKB32 K9742 +10

K4

North and South vulnerable

Instead of trying to work out a way to run dummy's last dub South played for a squeeze. He simply cashed the king and ace

IF SHE

COMES TO STAY

SHE NEED NOT

BE IN THE WAY

of trumps and led a shade from HOW many times have we husbands had a sick

dunumý,

West ruffled and chose to lear

feeling in our stomachs when our wives announce in that top-of-the-morhing voice: trump gobbled it up and East "Mother is coming to stay"?

a fourth diamond. Dummy's kast

A

was dead. He had discarded everything he could safely. club discard would leave his

queen unprotected while a spade discard would make all Southe

spades good.

+CARD Sense

Q-The bidding has been: West North Fast South

❤

14

Double PASS 24

Pass

3

East

South West North

PASS

Pass 4 Pass

7

1 A

2

3+ 3

4.

4❤

Pass

Double Pass

Fasa Opening lead—♦ K

played the four of trumps, West forgot to split his honours and South stuck in dummy's len. His next play was a low club, Eart ruse with the ace and led an <Üher diamond which South rufted.

South still had a chance to lose the hand. All he had to do was to cash his king of clubs and

You, South, hold:

42 RJ92 4A 1086 MKJ75

What do you do?

A-Bid sit besta. Your part-

net is trying to get to a slam and you have first or second round control of every suit.

TODAY'S QUESTION

You open the bidding with one

On the other hand, have we ever paused to think what our wives feel when we hint to them that our mother might come to stay? How much worse when either the husband er wife starts suggesting that it might be cheaper or more con- venient if either mother came to live.

The most important consideration is that when they come to live with us they must be made to feel at home.

By that I don't mean in our home but in their own. I think the best way la to make them independent of us, even though they may be living under the same roof.

Many elderly people live in bed-sitting rooms which are created with great care and thought, só

club and partner responds one why not do the same thing at home?

spade. You're holding:

4Q65 32 #A98 4AKI54

What do you bid? ·

Answer on Monday

That way independence is achieved.

A

Here it is... a room of her

own that is not a prison

READER asked me what I would

advise her to do, with the spare

because her

mother was coming

room, to live with her and her husband.

It was a rather ordinary room, and the felt

Not only independence for ourselves, but also that if she left fi as it was her mother would for the person who is living with us.

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feel she was only a guest, and start complaining that she wasn't really wanted.

THIS ravioli

To solve a problem such as this I would first ask what my mother, or my wife's mother, would like.

HER CHAIRS

I would find out if she would prefer to bring some of her own things to furnish the room. Maybe she has her favourite chair tas,

Even though I may peraltro

personally dislike wall-

Į paper, I would give her every floent in the Book if she liked it, but at the senïe tine I would try to guide her to keep it all the same-shed with piam enticing

I would accept her taste and her ideas, and mould makes then channel them into something a litle more easy the tricky modern than she might have chosen.

job of getting

each little

stuffed pastry

HER OWN TV

'I would make sure that the bed ran along nicely sealed the wall so that it could be converted Inis s and of uniform sofs during the day, because then she could ask

her friends into her roam. size. Complete . I would ove my money, and buy her a with tiny roll-television set, because I would remember that ing-pin, — Lon. when I look at my favourite programme, sie might want a different one, The set could be don Express placed so that it could be turned round for Service.

viewing in bed.

I would install a mill cooker in the room so that those èternal, cups of tea during the night could be brewed in peace.

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