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THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY, JANUARY 2, 1955 Bridge By TERENCE REESE Alison Settle's Viewpoint 3lB 'T'HE hand that I quoted two weeks ago from Albarran's book was not meant to be difficult, when posed as a double dummy problem, but some readers have asked for the solution. 1.73 OAKQ 0 84 1 Trading-Standards Association, to tell of the brave way in which, in the interests of the good retailers. he has campaigned for truthful labelling. And also asked Mrs. F.

H. Shepherd lo tell of the hopes ot I Ihe British Standards Institution, standing for 7 6 5 3 JF, as James Laver asserts, a woman is the mould into which the spirit of an age is poured, this is the time in the atmosphere of a new fall'n year to pay tribute to those who, in the past twelve months, have done what we would wish at least to have attempted. Let us wish good fortune to the Citizens' 4 A 10 6 EXCLUSIVE OFFER OF BATM SHEETS Irish made, heavy weight and ready washed, in blue, green, rose, gold, pink, peach, lime, lemon, black, Ji lac or red. (Slightly imperfect). 48" 80 Price perfect 559 Sale Price 339 Household linens Fourth Floor 0 10 9 8 6 tJ84 7 0 07 4b A 10 984: 4 3 A 10 producers.

But who will represent the consumer alone For those two great bodies the consumer must be in KQ952 3 PURE WOOL BLOUSE with delicate hand worked drawn thread delicn. In natural, lemon. Winter Hoards By SIR W. BEACH THOMAS' TO eyes gazing idly from the cottage window the little lawn looked like the practice ground of some inexpert, and indeed un-mOTTlI. golfer It was generously sprinkled with un replaced divots.

The difference was that, the bits of grass and earth were lumps, not slices. The explanation was vouchsafed almost before the visitor could put his question. A grey squirrel trotted forward and began digging busily. When he had penetrated an inch or so he thrust his nose inlo the hole and pulled out a per-tecily good nut. After breaking it and canng ihe kernel, with the usual deftness ol he race, he disappeared inlo the obscurity ol ihc bushes.

Now some fifteen months earlier in he same garden squirrels had been watched. to the amusement ol passers-bs. burying single nuts in the earlh under a spreading rcc. and when each was put into ils little hole Ihc squirrel covered it with a trifle ol earth neatly smoothed by th4 agency of the nose. It was debated whether the place of burial would be remembered.

The most expert guessed no. The parallel case on the lawn seems to prove that sometimes, at any rate, the spot is either marked or memorised. V'EAR after year, for very many years, have watched a large 75 0 K96532 South is in Three No-Trumps, and West leads the Ace followed by the Queen of Clubs. To defeat the contract East must discard his two Aces on the first two leads, so preventing South from developing cither suit without letting West into the lead. This is a constructed hand, no doubt.

Here is one Irom actual play TWEED SUITS for early Spring wear made up in a variety of gay tweeds to use up odd lengths of the Season's materials. Hip sizes 38' to 40'. Special Sale Price 13 SurLs First Floor CASUAL COATS of warm woo! frieze tn either brown or green, aiso available in knubbly tweeds of red. blue, sherry or green mixtures. Usual price 20 gns.

Sale Price 13 Gns. Coots Ground Ftoor SPECIAL FUR OFFER Ranch Mink jacket. Usual price 1059 gns. Sale Price 529 Gns. furs Ground Floor turquoise or dusty pink.

Sizes 36 to 40. Usual price 696 Sale Price 596 Siie 42. Usual price 79,6 Sale Price 696 cVeusaj first floor CASHMERE AND LAMBS WOOL Sweaters and coats in a variety of coloujj arl( styles. (Seconds). Special Sale Price 496 Knttwtar first floor NYLON LOCKNIT SLIPS trimmed nylon lace, in peach or white only.

Bust sizes 34 to 40. Usual price 396 Sale Price 276 LuiftrJa Second floor similar opportunity on which arose 0K84 742 Simpson (Piccadilly) Ltd, offer this Q753 A- K109642 A5 0 964 wonderful opportunity to buy fine merchandise for men and women at greatly reduced prices. Come early. 0 A 10 6 3 cidental, so the committee also heard Mr. George Darling, M.P., argue the need to set up a Ministry of Consumers' Welfare bul.

dear, yet another Ministry is that the Shop Window COMPLIMENTS to the Incor-porated Society ol London Fashion Designers, the prestige dress creators who show our fabrics to the world. On January 28, Lady Pamela Berry, their President, holds a party at the Mansion House for overseas buyers attending the Incorporated Society's showings, at which they will be presented to the Duchess of Gloucester. The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress will be joint hosts. All honour to the London Council of Social Service, whose latest good deed is to organise discussions on what constitutes mental infirmity in old people. At a recent conference Dr.

Garmany, of the Department of Psychological Medicine, Westminster Hospital, explained loneliness as a main factor leading to mental illness, through anxiety, depression, wrong feeding. When old people formed a natural part of a religious congregation such loneliness seldom occurred. A lack of pastoral work by the churches could bring about an isolation not known in earlier days. i 102 Advice Bureaux, who have helped over a million bewildered citizens a year to find their way through the maze of regulations, explaining to them whai are their rights and alternative courses, so that ihey may make their own decisions, acting for the best in confusing circumstances. It may be problems of housing or of health, matrimonial affairs, budgeting, social insurance they advise on any of the problems and pressures of living.

Honoured Women i Admiration must go, too, to the Business and Professional Women's Clubs. Recently I went to Barrow-in-Furness to speak at I the club's birthday dinner and found it typical of their wide representation that the President. I Miss Gertrude Tunstall. is head of the Risedale Maternity Hospital. Also present were physiotherapists, civil servants, teachers, a tobacconist, chemist, a trust i accountant, matron of a spastic school, a chartered life underwriter, a grocer, doctors, a radio-1 grapher, draper, milliner, corsei-iere, hairdressers.

(Yet 25 per cent. of those attending were housewives.) Wish good luck to the Home Economics Committee of the National Council of Women be-, cause they are concerning themselves with consumer protection. In De.cmber they invited Mr. Roger Dinlock, of the Retail HALF-PRICE BARGAINS FRENCH BRASSIERES In cotton net with a plunging neckline, in peach only. Sizes 32 to 40 Usual price 37- Half Price 18r Corsets Second floor Commencing tomorrow, January 3rd Daily 9a.m 6 p.m 9 109 763 OK985 AS Defending against Four Hearts, West led 0 partner won with the Ace and returned the Jack.

West ruffed declarer's King with (9 5 and exited with a Spade. All he could make after this was the Ace of trumps. West missed a great play ruff 0 with the Ace of Hearts, and partner's Queen becomes an entry for his good Diamond. Thursday 9 a.m 7 p.m Saturday 9 a.m I p.m i number ot rooks apparently burying something. On the common in question you may at any time count a hundred i or so of oak seedlings growing at some 1 distance from any tree.

It is generally surmised that they spring from acorns dropped by he rooks. I am inclined to think that planted should be substituted for "dropped." About this season the birds are busy searching for lood. Worms probably are the chief attraction: but every other duly replaced divot is pulled up by these powerful and inquisitive to the abhorrence of the groundsman, and it may well be that these litter louls arc looking for the ground they Ihemselves have disturbed in acorn time It may safely be said that a large. THIS SEASON'S HATS many in velvet, meluslne and felt to be cleared in four groups at: Half Price and Less 20- 30- 40- 50- tnejrptswrv Hots Ground Floor PURE SILK SURAH printed with white designs on grounds of navy, almond, gunmetal. kingfisher, blue-grey, gold or pink.

36' wide. Usual price 45- Half Price 226 yard fabrics Ground floor FRENCH SCARVES 500 only in wild silk in assorted designs and colours. Usual price 42- Half Price 21- Scams Ground Floor TURNER'S FAMOUSSHOES discontinued lines in many styles and colours, broken site ranges only. A and fittings. Usual price 140- Half Price 70- Snoes Ground Foor Chess Fromenti's sketch above shows ihc 1955 look.

Problem No 1.893. IK Brian Harlcv EVk wm DEBENHAM FREE BODY WIGMORE STREET LONDON W.l Simpson Piccadilly) Ltd, London W.l Regent 2002 Tl ip m. IvX. '689 nr a wzA percentage o.f hoards, even large, hoards, arc forgotten by many sorts of! hoarders squirrels, brown and grey, I rals, mice and dogs. How often have, I tound an old thrush's or blackbird's nest full of provender, most cases ivy berries, apparently quite un-nibbled Unravaged stores of nuts I were not infrequently discovered by In Your Garden By V.

Sackville-West Put their feet in I rr WSJ9P High Grade boys in days when brown squirrels were many. I think the biggest store I ever discovered was about a peck of acorns not on the ground but in the hollow of a decaving oak. That was in grey squirrel days. A favourite and very intelligent spaniel of mine was a persistent sexton, and once (but once only, and that after a long absence) he hurried off the moment he came back to the garden and dug up I a very mouldy piece of bread. His i particular fancy in food or perhaps medicine was what the village calls cleavers." or the berries of the goose-grass packet of seed and sow it in drills or circles or patches, as you desire, and leave it to take care ol itself.

you believe it. Every seedling demands some care from its grower, and in the case of the hardy annuals I would give three cardinal rules. One. break the soil into a light, crumbly tilth, adding some sand if necessary. Two.

sow very sparsely. Three, thin out ruthlessly; annuals need space if they arc to develop. Further precautions may be left to common sense, such as putting down slug-bait and seeing that the little plants don't suffer from drought, an unlikely danger in April or May. I wniic plays ana mates in tnrce movet fThe tinal. under the special rules for FASHION FABRICS Greatly Reduced becuon A ordinary lor B.l Brian Harlev have been warned that there may be a shortage of certain flower seeds after the unnaturally wet and sunless summer of 1954, and that it is therefore even more advisable than usual to order in good time.

This warning applies especially to the annuals, both half-hardy and I wish that the half-hardies were less of a nuisance to raise, for they include some of the showiest of their race the ncmcsias, the petunias, the zinnias, ihc portulacas, the dimorphotecas, venidiums and the other South Africans, and the lobelias which can be so effective if properly used, as, alas, they so seldom are. The brief and gaudy blaze produced by the half-hardies enlivens the summer garden, yet if you have not the facilities to start them in heat, which means a warm greenhouse, and then the leisure to prick them off into seed-boxes, and then lo stand them out in a frame to harden them off. and then to bother about looking after ihem while they stand waiting to be planted out well, then you will have to give the half-hardics a miss. The hardy annuals need no such coddling. They can be sown straight into the open ground in March or April where you intend them to flower, exacting no more than a rigorous, vigorous thinning out of the seedlings as they come up.

This sounds very simple, as though you could buy a Coloured leaves are very useful at this lime of year, both to give a little interest in the garden and to pick for indoors. The shield-shaped leaves of London Services To-day All Satati' Margarcl-slrect. 7.0, 8.0 and .0, H.C.; II 0. Rev. E.

L. Mucall: 6.0, Rev N. All Souls'. Langham-piacc. S.O and 12.20.

1 1 .0 and 6.30. Rev. J. R. W.

Stott. Central Hal! 11.0 and 6.30, Rev. W. E. Sandler.

Cll Temple (at Marvlebone Presbyterian Church). 11.0. Rev. Leslie a. Weatherhead; 6.30, Rev.

Herbert T. Lewis. Kinfcsway Hall. 11.0 and 6.30. Rev.

Donald O. Soper. Ninth Cbmrch of Christ, Scientist, Westminster. 1 1 30 and 7.0. St.

Margaret's, Westminster. 8.15 and 12 15. H.C.: 110. Canon Charles Smvth; 6.0. Rev.

A. J. Wilcox. St. Martip-in-tke-Fields.

30, 9 45 and 12.30. H.C.: 11.30, Rev M. Charles-Edwards; 6 30. Rev. D.

Savill St. Paal's Cathedral. SONNET Some readers have been uncertain about the terms of our sonnet competition announced last week. We wish to make it clear that the actual words we printed namely. Age, Black, Cage, Smack; Life, Cringe, Knife.

Impinge; Bee, Caught, Sea. Fought, Cask, Task must appear at the end of each line of the submitted pitein. Closing date for all the special Christmas competitions is Mondav, January 10. Guesswork isn't good enough when one wrong guess i tpimedtum. some ot which remain green while others turn bronze or bronze-and-grecn, look pretty with the white Christmas roses stuck amongst I them; moreover the epimcdiums are uyful in the garden, too, as a low i ground-covering which does well in partial shade.

I have found also that the most common of all bar-berries, i Mahonia aquifotium, pays a rich divi-; dend just now. Fill a shallow bowl with its reddish, spiny leaves, and stick any oddments amongst them some i stray polyanthus, a sprig of viburnum I or witch-hazel, and, a little later on, i some golden aconites. 10.30, Rev. Kenneth Martin; 3 15, Canon in Residence. 6.30.

Canon E. Raven. St. Peter's, Eaton-square. II 0.

Rev. A. Simmonds. 6 30. Rev.

Anderson. South- I wark Cathedral 8.0 and 9.0, H.C.. 11.0. I Rev. B.

Dewey. 6.30. The Provost Wesley's Chapel. I 1.0 and 6.30, Rev. Ronald I V.

Spivey Westminster Abbey. 10 30. Ven SATIN DOG AN A 48' wide A magnificent offer of Sekers world famous yam dyed Satin Duchesse In a wide range of scintillating jewel and other evening shades. In a 48" width. Usually 45 yard.

276 "yard ALL SILK PRI NTED SURAHw.de A wonderful choice of exquisite designs and shades in this popular all silk fabric. Very slightly imperfect and offered at Less than Half Price. Usually 32 9 yard. Jgy. FRENCH ANGORA 70 virgin Wool and 30 Angora, this fabric has been extremely popular with the French couturiers.

In new subtle shades. 54" wide. Usually 39 '6 yard. 25 rard COTJON SATINS Broken ranges of super quality continental cotton satins in beautiful designs and colourings. Usually 12,11 yard.

Also a range of sculptured cottons at the same price to clear, i'6 wide. 7 PRINTED MARCELLA PIQUE A woven cotton pique in colourful printed designs on white 5 rounds. Ideal for tailored dresses and suits. Usually II yard. 36" wide.

5. We regret PATTERNS cannot be sent. Many Fashions are offered at HALF-PRICE and LESS at the means two wronged feet young feet whose growth is sent awry by badly fitting shoes. In CI arks Shoes, firmness and freedom are where the young foot needs them. Ankles find support, toes feel free as air; fit doesn't stop at fit-for-length darks fit for girth as well.

And young feet flourish. Adam Fox; 3.0. Rev. Dudley Symon; 6.30. Rev.

M. S. Slancliflc. Westminster Cathedral. 12 0.

Rt. Rev. Mur. V. Elwcs; 7.0, Rev.

E. M. Hadfield. West London Synagogue. 6.30.

Rev. Alan Miller Sockly of Friends. Westminster (at Church House. S.W.tl. 1 1.0.

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Felix School Southwoldf second matron of two for House of mrls aged 12 to 18. Experience not essential ALEXANDER TECHNlOUEi corrects bP'l posture A overtension: individual tuition (no cxerccsEric de Peycr. 7. Wellington Resident maids hut no catering. Salary from I p.a.

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Kenmngton. Ash ford. Kent. ana tnc Lorvaoo School ol bcoaomics. leading 10 (he aard of ibe Council's Certificate in Chiki Care Application for the courses, which man in October, 1955.

are invited from men and women aged 21 to 43. and nhould reach The I Secretary, Central Traming Council in Child Care. Home Office (25A. Horaeferry House. I Thornev Street.

S.W by Vat March. 1955 applicants abould be graduates with suitable 1 experience, or have a aoaal science, teaching or health visiting qualification Those who applv eartv are more likely to bt recommended for vacancie in the University of their choice Grant arc available where need shown. Further details are obtainable from the Secretary GARDENING 5 CHILDREN'S SHOES FOR SALE WANTED FOREIGN LANGUAGES: New term private JL class tuition daily 9 a.m. -9 m. London Schools Tor Languages 2021.

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Water Butts in several sizes. Coal Storage Butts. Strawberry Barrels. Wine Casks. Window Boxes.

Hurdles. Kennels List frcc. Ca pt Battersby rOX Hcrstmonccux. Sussex PLY BELL PLASTIC CLOCHES for earliest maturity. Garden Plastics 6N.

Worcester WOOLLANDS OF KNIGHTSBRIDGE, S.W.I. SLOane 4545 Noarost Shop 1 S. Dcpt U.6 Sirf-ei, Sonersei and a si. icr in illustrates leaflet MOSS BROS, will pay vcrv satisfactory prices for aojd quahtv saddlery. Bndlev Saddles fnot side-saddles), etc in good condition.

20. King-u Coveni Garden. 2. i Tacqmcur Storeful of bargains Sle begins Tomorrow a. to MODEL COATS at HALF PRICE The selection includes fur trimmed and velvet models etc.

Usually 30-40 Gns. Now 15 to ZO TWEED SUITS Herringbone and Donegal type tweeds, in lovely shades. Sizes: 42, 44 hips. Usually 14 Gns. Nov.

9i IO Gns. Exompfas of few ouNfonding reductions: Fabrics Cottons 911 reduced to 4-and 5- avard Printed Karons 1911 reduced to 6'- and 76 a uard Pure Silks 2 reduced to 15 f- a iard Woollens 396 reduced to 5- a uard Worsteds 50- reduced to 11 1 ft a uard Dresses 21 gns reduced to gns 25 gns reduced to 15 gns SENSATIONAL PKICE REDUCTIONS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS Many half price Fashion Bargains await you at Margaret Marks Sale. Included are DayandEveningGowns, Coats. o-pieces Furs. Sportswear, Millinery, and Skirts.

early personal visit will be well KNITWEAR ODDMENTS 1 I Starts tomorrow 1 I January 3 I I i for two weeks only COME EARLY! I 1 1 iiiiii 1 1 Jumpers and cardigans by famous makers. Usually 396-59 6. Now 20'- 1 22 gns reduced to 12 gns 31 gns reduced to 19 Suit nd Cof 25 gns reduced to 2 fpns 35 gns reduced to 21 OUTSTANDING HALF PRICE OFFER Deeply collared and cuffed, this snug overcoat is made in reversible cloth of Wool and Mohair. Hip sizes 36, 38. 40, 42.

Colours Charcoal Lt. rey, ChocoiateBeaver, Beaver, Lt. Grey Usually 14 Gns. Now Gns. worth while.

30 gns reduced to IS (BS 40 gns reduced to 25 gOS i 1 lsl i Porsonl sHoppop onftf At rhe Tocqmajr Rctoil shop 16 CROSVENOR STREET W.l WOOL DRESSES FROM LEADING MANUFACTURERS Assorted st'vlcs md sizes. LONDON S-WH yiC bObO hi rr KM0HTBR1L)UL S'W 1 BUCKINGHAM PALACE ROAD HARVEY NICHOLS CO LTD OF ICJIGHTSRRIDGF SWl ISLOST 144'.