Dear Miss Woodward Advice on Relationship Dilemmas
A reader asks how to help a cousin and friend unite, another seeks reconciliation post breakup, and a third negotiates a bossy partner. The guidance urges letting events unfold, dating others to shift focus, and avoiding controlling or challenging behavior to preserve or improve relationships.
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Miss Woodward
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Lesson in safety play from a near grand slam
In a bridge hand narrated by Mr Muzzy and Mr Masters, a misstep by Muzzy cost a grand slam. The expert advice stresses safety play to exhaust enemy trumps before using high hearts, ensuring no return from opponents and preserving twelve tricks.
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Miss Brash
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Household Scrapbook Q and A Practical Laundry Tips
A column offering kitchen and home guidance with tests for ham freshness using a knife method. It explains mustard stain removal by boiling linen in washing soda solution and rubbing stains after boiling. It also describes removing scorched spots from clothing by boiling in milk and turpentine with soap, then sun drying.
Storing Soap and Window Sills Tips
Advice on how to store soap and preserve window sills and footwear care. Notes include removing wrappers from laundry soap, leaving wrappers on scented toilet soap, varnishing window sills to prevent dust buildup, and drying wet shoes slowly with paper to avoid cracking. Mention of prehistoric cave paintings preservation.
Wishing Well ERE Puzzle Message
A brief description explains a daily numerical puzzle. It guides players to count letters in their first name, adjust by minus four if six or more letters or plus three if fewer, and use that key number to read a message from a rectangle by checking letters left to right.
A Problem A Day Apple puzzle solution
Jack has 15 apples and Jim has 5. After adding five to each, Jack would have 20 and Jim 10, preserving the ratio of two to one.
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Jack
Jim
Double Take by Bob Barnes
A fragmentary column by Bob Barnes discusses a personal dilemma about leaving early to avoid a dinner miss while acknowledging money worries and time pressures. The text hints at a casual, humorous tone with a focus on daily life and social expectations.
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Miss Woodward
Try and Stop Me humorous Bolton Wodehouse rehearsal mishap
Bennett Cerf recounts a Bolton and Wodehouse rehearsal at the Century Theatre with a revolving stage that spun a tenor calling himself the Neapolitan Nightingale into the wings while singing Pagliacci. The gag ends with the part cut and the performer receiving nothing but laughs.
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