JACOBY on, BRIDGE
TS
THIS week's columns will be devoted to developing your Mahni as bridge detectives Every day there will be either a major criminal Cr at least
an offender againgl the code
of good bridge and it will be
Your job to Bad both him and bia crime.
West opened
spaces against
heart contact.
the h
South's four
The defence
took three spoel, tricits and a
chub and Stuth was down one little trick,
Whe WILS The criminal? I couldn't be West, He had taken
a chinnice quite
when he hid
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No one vulnerable
South West North East
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了解
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three clubs, but he was merely
gambling and Fis gamble pud
off
How about North? He had
a after per hand with which
to give two raises but there
is nothing criminal about that kind of bidding.
the
That leaves South and crime he committed was of trapping his partner.
South
The bidding had let
Once he drop at two hearts,
was made that decision North enfitted to bid three without having to worry the possibility
would suddenly
hearts
that
open
South his
mouth and bid game.
MECARD Sense
Q-The bidding has been: West
North East South
11 de Double Paas
You, South, bold:
7
1470 VARE5 K332 4805
What do you do?
A-Bld two hearts. With In points you have the balance et power and should make a strong bid. Incidentally, this jump bid ide strong, but not forcing.
TODAY'S QUESTION
Your partner bids two spades over your two heart call. What do you do now?
Answer Tomorrow
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
"IOTUNE DV BARRY DERAUD TWO FOR TENNIS... She is wearing a Terylene and cotton dress with a loose bodice and pleated skirt with a Greek scroll design in gold. He has a chunky knit Orlon cardigan trimmed in navy and Terylene and viscose rayon shorts. Both have stretch nyian socks and Dunlop tennis shoes. Clothes designed by Teddy Tinling.
-(Londum Express Service),
Rupert and Gwyneth-23
For one time there is a worried silence. "This seem just silly.' mutters Rupert looking at the empty sky. That thing dow right out of sight. Surely it could never hear a little voice like mine." Suddenly he stares. "Look, look. he cries.
Podgy's bringing it back No, he The broomstick is alone. The That cookie has worked I thing is obeying me 1" But when the broomstick comes near them Gwyneth geta kared at her own succres and, with a frightened ery, she runs away. ALL KIDITY RESERVED
"Something's coming!
CHILDREN'S CORNER
Apartment In A Tree
-Knarf Wants One But They're All Taken-
By MAX TRELL
"NARF. the Sharlow Bey will
K
the Turned-About Name,
came lalo the room and sut
tree. It was un iep of the hill in the middle of the park."
Hanid nodded. "I know the we you mean,"
"So I walked all around the
down beside his sister Hand, tree." sald Knarf. "I looked up. She was reading a book, She i picked out exactly the branch Jooked up.
"I couldn't do it." Knart said.
I wanted to live on. Then I embed up to i It was hard
"Couldn't do it" repented work but I did it. 1 sat down Hanid in a puzzled vojce, "What couln't you do, dear?"
"I couldn't." pnswered Knauf. hind an apartment in a tree" This tire Ilanid looked at her brother slowly and earctully.
"I don't think 1 heurd what you just cald. Would you say Brain, pleas?" she asked.
Knarf said
again: couldn't Bad an apartment in a
{"
{1
"But, Knarf, dear," SI Hanid, "why do you want apartment in a tree? Are you
on my branch and looked at the view."
"Was it good?" asked Hanid.
Beautiful view
MPPE
The Squirrels told Kuart to go away.
"sried," said Konef, "And you couldn't find one?"
in
the
SHIRLEY LORD
JUST BACK. FROM AMERICA
HOW do you entertain people? By pouring enough gin down willing throats to ensure a built-in sparkle to the party? By hiring a butler with steady hands who won't drop cauliflower down the gentlemen's suits?
In America I learned plenty about making people happy in your homes, and strangely enough, in the places where the most common commodity is money, entertaining still follows a pattern, as it does everywhere.
Rich people may send a plane for their out-of-town guests. T instead of the family jalopy, serve out-of-season delicacies instead of home-made canapes, but still play bridge and canasta endlessly after dinner.
T Idlewild an elegant-wrang sirini and it was ons outomatie
Dacquirin appeared to be the found, as once a girl was selected Kuurontee the of a good time. jet prop type plane the coloured mammy of
a Gulfstream was house world bring in stuffed Once decided, the organisation waiting for me.
Only 60 other business men in the Slater have this expensive form of private transport, whereas on this side of the ocean the score is only two so far.
Hughie Green of all people is trying to sell more.
So far he has been successful with Onas. sis's brother-in-law Niarchos, and Agnell, head of Wint they just happen to have the necessary money.
Matron doesn't have the same clinical con- notation in America. It means a well-con- nected wife and usual). ty mother.
Buy do these matrons have fun.
011
Cadillac-calling goes
all the time and these cars are only the second string in the nu- to stables.
hard
boiled eggs and snappy little "dip elevenses" cheese was similar to our own system dip with celery, crab sauce dip with mums lunches, receptions and cocktail parties and the with crab legs, and so on.
culminating event a ball at Sedgefield Manor House, & real Gone With The Wind - type mansion.
Belles toil
WHEN arrived in Carolina Wit
happened to be flat in the middle of deb time and as the pink and white Dogwood
DEB
TIME
DOWN SOUTH
The wives drop in on their neighbours in bath robes, Bermuda shorts or blossom went in, so, it appeared. even ball gowns. There's no such the Southern Belle came out thing a worrying about being that fo, 18 Southern Belles came nobody out, to be accurate, for only that nprepared. Du fuss. seems to care how they took or number are chosen each year by whether they've fixed their faces the town's exclusive deb club.
Emotions ran pretty high or not.
A
WD
COOKING COLUMN by Helen Burke
Liver Pate a Terrine
TERRINE or souffle dish or two or three smallor dishes of this pato can make
а wonderful
course several days after it has been prepared. quantities are enough for eight to 10 sorvings.
If you aren't a deb the chances of dates are remote in this part the of the country. For with largest women's college in the world in North Carolina, 3,000 females are added to the credit side for a start.
This scarcity of escorts makes kir friend entertaining easier here for the American male than probably anywhere else in the country.
far
Women enteriału women more over there, of course, and parties of eight or 10 talkative females In the Country Club is a common sight.
Lavishly
LADY LUCK
your
CHINA MAIL
AQUARIUS
horoscope
THURSDAY, MAY 25
(12) (January LEO (9) (July 22-Augant' 21-February 19): Your 21): You may buve Lu
woll-meant nilvice muy nometimes be raistaken for
a desire to meddle in other people's affairs. PISCES (6) (February, 20- March 201: If you are planning a holiday with a party of friends, On no account consider sharing expenses,
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ARIES (11) (March 21-Aprli 19): Don't be above the occasional white le to dia- Courage a neighbour's tim frequent visits. TAURUS (7) (April 20-May 20): You may 890 huve chance to increase your in- come by taking on an eng spare time job,
GEMINI (1) (May 21-June Don't begrudge your 21):
partner an outside interest. but try to find an equally absorbing one of your own. CANCER (June 22-July 201: If you resent your family's attitude to your friends, you have no alternative but to keep them apart.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Remove excess fat from home- stirring made soup by gently the surface of the soup with an lee cube wrapped in a cloth. The fat will congeal on the cold surface
can be and ted out.
clean
A pinch of bicarbonate of soda wized into milk or cream will prevent it from going sour. Treat a cream Aling for a cake In this way.
A
burnt saucepan
mly be ITTLE decor touches I noticed cleaned by sing the pan with were the white salt and water and leaving for at partics
a lay to smak, then boil it painted birdenges in the cool en- irance halls, full of fresh flowers slowly. with a little stuffed bird pecking through them;
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rafa covering i To remove palat stains fro one wall of a lofty playroom, wootiens, apply equal quanti- and photographs of the family ties of turpentine and ammonia, covering another one.
then wash in the usunt way.
What is your picture of the After ex- average American? periencing some of the must lavish hospitality I am still, sur prisingly enough impressed most
of all with their lack of us- tentation,
-(London Express Service).
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Bread can be kept fresh if n la wrapped in a clean cloth and
stored in a saucepan. The lid should be slightly open in allow
ventilation and prevent growth of mould.
ancrifice yotte thirst for
freedom and adventure in the interests of eventual security.
VIRGO (ID) CAURUST
A September 22):
eals league's absence will give you your chance to prove your fitness for a better job.
LIBRA (3) (September 23. October 22); Don't revive IL Rettled argument by going on trying to prove your point.
SCORPIO (4) (October 23-
(Novem-
to
November 201: A tank you drended tackling on your :own will be easily com- pleted with another's help.
SAGITTARIUS (5)
ber 22-December 21): A person on whose help you depend has the right expect regular reports of You progresu, CAPRICORN (8) (December 22-Junuary 201: Someone whom you have long been trying to impress will finally take notice of you.
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"Terylene makes top dress news-
first
The
with
of
"I was beautiful," said Knarf. I saw the row- I saw the lake.
You will require 16. chicken, the sauce into them, together boals. I saw the zoo. I saw The
Dig's or calf's liver or a mixture with 2 whole eggs and a goud Animals But them scmeone asked Hanid.
of any or all of them and lb. measure of dry white wine. "Every single tree came along and said, 'You can't stay here. Go away!"
Ilave ready the terrine whole park was taken by stee-shoulder of pork. It pig's liver
with very body," said Koart. "Some trees is me, it should be cut in strips asked were taken by Squirrels. Same and soaked for an hour or so in fouffle dish, lined
rindless slices
of green streaky hacon, were taken by Birds. Some were cold water to which has been thin "It taken by Caterpillars. One tree added a tablespoon of vinegar, (unsmcked)
with their ends hanging over then washed and dried. Was was even taken by a Cat."
the dish. Put the pate mixture Into the dish. Bronk a small bay leaf into four to five pieces; and scatter them over the top
"Who sald that
an Ilanid, flowing.
"A Rolin," said Karl.
a Bird? Are you Squirrel? pecited at me. I said I Are you a Caterpillar?"
sitting on s bronch. it
"No," said Knar,
It's fun
Then why do you want to live in a tree?" Hanid asked.
"It would be fun," said Knarf, "It's fun climbing up a tree. It's inds of fun sitting on
Baid
that that was the branch where
il built i nest every year. chagerl me down the tree."
"Oh, dear," said Hanid, "But there were lots of other trees."
Knarf nodded.
Hanid exclaimed;
Mean thing
"A Cal in n tree!"
il
Mell First, make the sauce.
butter and simmer told trz
generous ounce of plain flour in
"I found her sitting on branch," said Knart. "She me she really lived in a house
"The next tree I went to was outside the park but liked to to a warm cream. roul, then sur in a
branch a maple tree. It and locking down. So It must broad. I plcked out be fun living all the time in a right in the middle, free."
After she heard Knarf say this, jinnid
'Remove, was big and sit in the tree and meet Birds"
genercos
Bring the trailing slees of stock. bacon up and over a branch
the pate. The mean old thing," sald -pint of top milk or Hanid,
"hope you chased her Add a good pinch of grate Cover the dish and stand it in down."
a pan of water. Place it in the nutmeg and a tiny one of mixed Knurf shook his head.
spice.
Return to the heat and oven, pre-heated to 300 to 325
to cook the "None of the Birds ever came simmer
flour. degrees Fahr, or gas mark 2 to 2%, and bake for one to one- and-a-half hours.
Chased, away
tell silent for a "Eut the second I got there,
stay,"
while. Then she smiled and said three OT four Squirrels stuck in that Cat's tree. She wanted Again leave to cool a little, then she understood what he meant. their heads out of holes in the me to stay. But I didn't want ndd 2oz. butter.
"Yes," she nald, "It really trunk and told me to beat it." to. Who wants to live in a tree
Take not ond remove the must be fun Hving up in a tree. "Beat It" repeated Hamid, with a Cat?"
pieces of boy lent. At once, pour But what happened?"
"I'm glad you didn't "Those Squirrels told you to go
into the pate as much strong "Well," said Knart, "I went away? Why?"
sald Hauld.
"And no,"
liver, aspic as it will take. (Make thin 10 Meanwhile, pass sald Kaarf, * couldn't find an apartment in park. four to Ove anchovy lets with aspie powder or crystals os small directed on the label,) On top, any tree, and I wish I could.in oil, a shallot and a Because I really do think It's onlon three times through the place a weighted bentch or plate
mincing-machine. tum Iving up in a tree Ilke
Season them to fit the dish. Leave until cold, Bird-like a Squirrel-ike with a level teaspoon of salt then store in the refrigerator
of freshly until required. Caterpillar, Maybe," he added, and 4-teaspoon "even like a Cat,"
milled pepper. "Thoroughly boat
to the park. There are a lot of "They said the whole tree be- longed to them. They told me trees there."
to ind another tree to live in,"
Hanid oald that the park was full of all kinds of trees,
"What kind did you decide to
said Knari.
Hanid said:
"I don't know
repiled
why puldn't and a tree where
you na
live in?" she asked her brother.
"A big tall one."
Knart, "I guza It was an eim body was lying, Knarf,"
-(London Expron Service),
'CRIMPLENE'
jersey
THESE JENSKY DRESSES wash ensity
spin or drip dry need no ironing
keep exact shape
keep elegant
ALL THIS, BUILT IN
FOR LIFE!
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