1941-09-06 — Page 13

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

September 6, 1941.

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

COSTUME PIÙTURĖS

Costumes-real or makeshift-make delightful snapshols, either numor ous or serious, Try an evening at costume anaps-you'll have some penuine camera fun.

HOW

TOW many costumo pictures intume pictures and so do grows your snapshot album-pretares |upe. Chances are, If you with rum

of the children at dressed up for MURO APIRzand in the aitie tronka, party, or other members of thɔ] you will find plenty of maletini for fonitly in the mortuunce of a bygone an evening of ran Couth, dreamer, arn another ennetry:

cotiara. anti hala that you wore olulit- Born sluta pro eany to arrange for ten years ago - these are, splen

Bource of it for the purpose. It's surprising

-day to take-and a

tarb солега fun They'r cany haw "daled" the styles beronio in became the costumes don't have Jonly a few years -you'll And them to ba diabarate or durable. For truly comic.

inapabot purposes, you can use alt For foreign COMUNER, various saris of enbartolo nisterials and matrelal, can be prossel tato ter methods - pins instead of stiebing.vico-such as an old shawl, stray lare sapes instead of rent ineo, and] pieces of cloth from the worke e forth Bonie of the most elever, insket, Prepo paper, and plenty of costuming can be put together ip apina Jual to illustrato -erepo low noir.

per, folites and gathered, ginkos a These makeshift costumes aro na hork ruft for a Spamsh don ar successful beenazo the contorn, tann Eizabertian dandy. Your die dnsity fonted 'hem in the back don't tonary, encyclopedia, and other ehow mad abenture materials caninuks with fluirala minny costumes appear just op natural as the rent that are fun to reproduce.

thing I se purt of the cal

fa too obviously "Faked." you sim ply adjums the fight so it is in talt shadow This subdues the obtrusive delila

Children enjog the taking of cos

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Try an evening of costume snap shots. father a few materials-on 1st menibers of the family as m dis

and you'll add onio worth. willo pictures to your entlection,

Jobo van Guttier

WEEK-END WITHANKS

THE GOOD HOST

man a reputation as a cirking good host.

TENOR IN TANTRUMS.

KINDERGARTEN STUFF

ve-making," "Yes," replied the girl, "but you progressed for In the

It's what he unecrks that gives a The charity concert was not going Young Blade: "But darling, you'vo very well, and one particularly got to admit that I know the ABC of annemic tenor found difficulty In drawing the Rudience's attention while he was singing. When he came on the second time, he noticed that a haven't party in the front row talked through alphabet," drew ene of them aside during the the song. Being very annoyed, he

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WILL TAKE PART

She: "Helen's getting married next, week. We're going to give her a Aliower."

He "Count me in. I'll bring the naup."

EARLY NOTICE

Debutante: "Were you ever men- tiene in the rousip columns?”

Another: "Yes, about two months before I was born."

THEY KNOW

Doctor: "Ask the accident vic-. im-what his name Is, so that we can notify his family."

Nurse ( few minutes later): "He

says his family knows his name, sir.”

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ICEBERG

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Teacher "Why are two-thirds of

an Iceberg below the-water?”

Pupil-"Please, sir, to support the third part' which is above the water."

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LAUGH. CROW, LAUGH

The farmer had been remplining that he could And no clothes to put on the scarecrow.

"Well," said his wife hopefully. "there's that flashy suit Jchn. wote

4 college last year."

"Don't be ridiculous," snorted the farmer, "I want to scure the crows, not make them laugh."

HIS WORRY.

"My father-in-law is hot on my trail. He saw me dancing with a blonde.'

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"Is he out for your bleod?” "No-my blonde,"

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FIRST TIME ROUND "Darling," he sighed, taking her hand in his, "do you remember when we met in the revolving door at the bank?"

"That wasn't the first time we

met."

"Oh. Bo. But it was when we first started going round together, wasn't 11?"

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THE SQUAW

He "I think my wife must have come Red Indian blood in her."

Friend: "What makes you think 107"

He: "Well, every time she walks, 'n her sleep, she takes the blankets; with her."

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"So you don't like my voice, eh?" "No," the other replied frankly. "I have you knew my volcu is a gift" the singer sald angrily.

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The old mald woke her eller up in the middle of the night. "I think I can hear a macuse under the bed," she whispered.

"Aren't you afrala it's i a man?" "No, I'm afraid it's a mouse."

SYNONYM "And what is a synonym, Willlo?" arked the cacher.

"A synonym," said Willle, "in word you use when you can't spell the ether unc."

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CONTRACT How to Play

BRIDGE

How to Win

By JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON-

Beautifully Simple, and Vice Versa

COME of the most beautiful plays West had held the diamond king he SOM

at the bridge table are at essen- would first have discarded a dia- tially simple that they defy classif- mond and later refused to cover the catlon and, indeed, would go un- juck? The answer could noticed by all but the most expert negative. If West had the diamond spectators. Such a play was made king he could not afford to duck, by South in the following deali

Match-point duplicate.

South dealer.

Both aldes vulnerable.

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because he could not know who had the diamond ten. If declarer had led the jack from Jack-small, favore to cover would give declarer three instead of two diamond tricks.

Having decided that West did not have the diamond king, declarei saw a dednite chance for an extra trick. Instead of finessing he went right up with dummy's nec, then led the deuce. East, after deep thought. went up with the

but the king and returned spade, but declarer's purpose hot been accomplished. West, on lead with the srade queen, wona noto out of diamonda!" A spade return would permit declarer to discard A club In one hand and ruff in the other. West sensed that fast and chose the better return of a club; In fact, he at tempted to mask his club holding by laving down the aueen. But de- Went opened the spade king. Do- glarer had long before decided that clarer won and drew the adverse if the diamond coup came off he trumps. On the second round West would play for divided club honourn, threw a low diamond. It was that Hence, he put un dummy's nee and Innocent appearing. "unimportant" inessed successfully to this own discard that provided South with K-10.

The bidding:

South West North East 19: Pass

Pass: Pass Pase Pasa

the opportunity for his coup. He. Obviously, if declarer had taken drew two more rounds of trumps, the diamond finesse (a was done both West and East discarding at every other table) Went would spades, then laid down the fark of have been left with a diamond as a diamonds. When West: followed ante, oxit card, and this would have with the five-spot, declarer went preserved a club Dick for the de into a protracted buddle. He knew fence. All in all, déclarer merely West to be one of the outstanding made an extra trick in a game con- players die the world, FERE ita contract, but this was enough to give osivable, he asked himself, that if him top-score on the board.

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