1941-09-20 — Page 9

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

The

September 20, 1941,

WEEK-END WIT SNAPSHOT GUILD

ODE TO A PARTY

She was the best dressed woman

there,

An slick as moulded jelly;

By Tiffany her jewels rare,

Her gown by Schlaperelli,

Her notor was

Royce;

famed Rolls-

Her flowers vero by wire;

Her handsome escort, tall and

choice,

Was, as you've guessed, by hire.

Her culture,was by deft Plerre-

ller rivals felt like zero-- By practice, she'd & hữughty stage;

Her perfume wag by Ciro.

Her shoes by London-rowther

lop!

They t her ng

poured on.

Her beauty was by beauty shop-

Her breath by Ialy and Gordoni

FROM THE COURTS

Husband; Experience has taught me and my wife that if there is such a thing as reincarnation

chall both take care to keep as far away from each other as possible.

We

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POCKET CARTOON

and there, right in the middle of the room, was horrid great mouset

#cared!"

Was i

CONTRACT How to Play

BRIDGE

How

By JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON,

Conceding a Trick Early

The virtue of giving up a trick at nothing remote about the break de- the beginning of play, rather than the clarer found in the club sull-Indeed, end, may not be apparent, yet may mathematically stated, there were 12 actually exist. Note to-day's deal.

South dealer,

Both sides vulnerable,

The bidding!

1

A83

VQ975 OAKS 48032

4762

AKB4 4

N WE

♡ J 1002 OJ84

Q 10 0 2

J:004

♡

A AKQJIO O

0763

The bidding:

AKQB

chances in 100 that the suit would not break 3-2. The point is, however, that declarer had a losing diamond which, obviously, he would have to concede at the end. Then, why not concede it immediately? The esult of such concession could not be accurately predicted, but it could do no harm and might be extremely valuable. Actually, It

would have salvaged the.contract. Let us follow this line of play.

·Husband: If it's justice my wife wants nhà should have lived in the days when husbands 'carried clubs.

Wife: I have never hated my hus- band; I just dislike his being about the house,

Husband: I am quite prepared to meet my creditors if I con take my wife with ine.

wife? I don't mind my husband practising golf stroker in the garden, but I do object to his using an, egg eup instead of sand,

BONERS

As she is going to be married next month, she is very busy getting bor torso ready,

The enraptured tourist slood on the beink of the Grand Canal, in Venice drinking it all in.

*

The witness was warned not to purge himself.

Milton's poetry is full of Biblical illusions.

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Last year many lives were caused by accidents.

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Floods may be prevented by pul- Ung big dames by the side of a river.

Queen Victoria sat on a thorn for sixty years.

In polifles, he believed. firmly in pen convents openly arrived at..

*

Robert Louis Stevenson got mar ried and went on his honeymoon. It was then that he wrote *"Travels with a Donkey,"

OTHERS

Army Medico: "Does the captain take his medicine twice a day rell- glously?"

Nurse: "No, he swears every time.” "I'm glad to see you men are fond ot animals, but why are you all giv- ing sugar to the same horse?" Asked

Declarer throws a diamond on the heart king! West shifts to a diamond and dummy wins. Declarer draws the C.O. the outstanding trumps, then starts

This one kicked the Sergeant,

to cash the clubs. On the second |Sir,” replied one of them.

South

Weat North

Enat

round West shows out. Declarer persists in cashing the club queen and all his trumns but one, until Vila

2 A

Pasz 3NT Pass Роль 60 - Pona Удма Pass

Pass

#

Mother: "That's # bad word,

stage is automatically reached; de-Phyllis. Don't say bad words." clarer has one trump, one diamond,

Phyllis (aged eight); "Then how

and one low club. West must keep do I know it's a bad word if I don't

"Yes, Mrs 'Iggins, but 'e must 'ave

West opened the heart, king and the heart ace, and, therefore, can say it?" declarer, without a moment's thought, keep only the Q-10

of diamonds. pounced on it with the spade nine Dummy has the heart queen and the and drew trumps. He then biltholy A-5 of diamonds, East, must hold "And does your 'usband like the laid down the ace and king of clubs, the club jack and his other cards are army, Mrs Arris?" only to be brutally awakened from the J-10 of diamonds. Declarer now got an awful cold. He says 'e's got his dream by West's failure to follow rathes the last trump,"

West cannot seven days' embrocation leave." to the second round. East, of course, let go the heart ace, hence must re- held grimly to his club protection, his duce to one diamond. Dummy there- hand matching declarer's with three upon lels go the heart queen. Enst "My girl has remarkable talents." diamonds and two clubs, while West cannot relinquish the club jack, also kept three diamonds and the ace hence also must reduce to one dia- either." and one heart.

mond, Dummy's five of diamonds

I grant that it was "natural" for becomes good.

the declarer to ruff the opening lead, It is a perfect double squecze, and

•

"Well, my girl isn't so beautiful

Parting Shot

„but in bridge_the_natural_impulsé_all_because declarer gives_up his Some of our closest friends live in.

often must be resisted. There was losing trick at the right time!

Scolland,

NEWS

FRAMING

Groater appeal was obtained in this plotura by using a hayṛaka whool as a frame for the subject. Watch for similar properties to transform your enapshots Into good pictorial studies.

FIND a natural frame for your phr.]

ture aubjects, and, as a rule you'll get more appealing and in foresting snapshots. This is experint ly trua when shooting a landscape but can be very effectively used when snapping pictures of propte

A "frame" may be a doorway, an arcks, or a branch of a tres framing one sido and top of a scenic view This adds depth or third dimension to a picture, alda in "bolding it to gother," and often permalis blocking out undesirable objects. It can also bo used to concentrato attention ob a subject which, without a framo, might appear."lost" or 150 small.

Consider the picture above. By om ploying the wheel of a bayrako as "frame," what might have been Just another récurů snapsho, of this young lady bas boon transformed into a novel, offective picture. The wheel is naturally*large and accen- tuated because it is bearor to the camera than the subject Wherever your oye strikes the photograph. It is Immediately carried to bor face, either by the spokes of the wheel or by the stavi tiro. in addition to landing a dramatle touch, the whool niso provides a modlum tor bolding the picture togelber.

Note that both the wheel and the girl are in sharp fucos. This was accomplished by using a small loas Dealing to get as much depth of Held as possible. A meifur yellow iliter, commonly called a "K-2," was siipped over the lona, to render the sky in a medium tone of gray. thereby soparsling Uis light tones of the clothing from tho back.... ground.

Before you release tlio shutter for your next pictures, soo if I isn't possible to border the subfort with some type of frame. By walking around a treo near your subject. you can almost alwaya Bud ‘a branch that tornus an arch over the centre of Interest. Or you may And an arch of a bridge, ornamental Iron grille-work, or many other things that can be used for this purpose."

Fraining your subjects is a knack enally acquired, and by so doing, you can ofteu change everyday ma terial into a picture that contains many of the appealing olements for an artistic, pictorial photograph. Try it and seo if it doesn't ylald more interest-compelling snapshots,

John van Guilder

Telegraph Quiz

1. What shape is a Vandyke 8. Alalia means (a) a lover of

beard?

2. A gynarchy is a (a) govern-

ment run by women (b) history of stamp collecting 9. (c) Soviet committee (di gym. display.

3. If you were given jaconet, 10.

would you lal be at the den- tist_(b)_make_a_frock_(c).

take it on a river?

4 Tyre, ancient city of Phoeni- cla, was besieged by (a); Alexander the Great (b)) Nebuchadnezzar (c) Hanni- bal (d) Caesar. -

5. Is the scene of "Romeo and Juliet" laid in Rome, Verona, Milan or Florence ?

6. Why is Toc H so called?

7. Who succeeded General Sir Archibald Wavell as Com- mander-in-Chief in the Mid- dle East?

cats (b) loss of speech (c) cold in the head (d) Hono- lulu garland.

What is the difference-be- tween an orison and a' beni- son.

To what does the "distaff side" refer?

(Answer on Page 12.)

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