Evening Star Newspaper, June 13, 1926, Page 81

“Odd” Bridge Playing and Various THE SUNDAY STAR, W It Is Only Very Superstitious Persons Who Pay Any Attention to 13th of Month BY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM. ORD NELSON, vented the said with “Don't give up the And when he s Is of wisdom, 1 guess he how hard it is, give up a thing remedy, we shin, them realized seasick his last And the truth of tha me not long ago when I sent out in vitations to a party, naming the day merely as next Ir nd then 1 come “to find out to be the 13th inst. of the month. Tt was George, ths my hushand my attention to the date asked him would he underwrite the financing of the party. On Friday, eh? he luvva tripe, Jennie, he says know that is the thirteenth? Well, I hadn’t and I will admit that the news give me a little jolt, but I am not one to let a mere silly date £et the better of me. So I says well, what of it? And he says oh nothing, only 1 am_kinda supersitious the 13th. T know th is nothing to it really but at the same time there must be something to there wouldn't be so much talk. 1 know T wouldn't start s or any business deal on And 1 says why Ge ashamed to ridiculous notion, it was For the do you . ain’t you childish, what a come on now, for it and fork over the necessary And Geo. savs well, n funeral. And 1 says don't epe. it’s not a fun he ¢ ng t's a party groan, not hav "n able to talk me out of the ing end of it. Al right, he how much is the damage gon v he? And 1 I got it all ured out as close as ble. 1 ced thirteen doliars cents And Geo. give another Thir teen S! he says, that 1 date nin't superstitions enof And T says of cou nner be slish, the thing is started, 1 asked eleven lad and they wcepted vitation and if you 1'm gonner off, you're ¢ got his wallet, did dozen it, only ay it 4 baker's dozen Well. he says, vou'll 1 you wait and see be unlucky. T bet will admit so when 1 says, well. any lady after she sends out howl, am not hiave have all lunch call it out with he sorry for = bound to anything vou it's over. And is always sorry the invitations 10 a party, that is only normal. Hot Bozo! when she actually gets up against the hother of the party sh s wonders what and the di s ever made her start it. So you win on that count. But not on any other. I wouldn't he such a fool as to be Heve in t 13 stuff, and nothing would ever convince me there w anything to it! And ieo. me the money and he says, well, bet you a new hat you'll admit I right, and I says aw go tie up noodle. e . after these few friendly re | Kind J wias so typical of | which our happy home life, I in our dining room and counting up the equipment to could I accommodate the mob, & where spoons was concern and . 1 was all set, but as for s, T was kinda out of luck, on account we didn't have really space enough for 12 people In that room even it we had chalrs to set them on. And even if I was to use the mongrel chairs we had, why nothing could pass around the fable, not even the melted butter, there wouldn't be room. No sir, T was outa luck, giving a luncheon of 12 in that room. There was nothing for it but to borrow the loan of a friend’'s house to give the party in. So I called up Mrs. Goof- nah and asked would it be conven- jent for me to borrow hers. Why sure, dear, she savs, I'd love to have you give vour luncheon here, just make the house vour own went T says thanks a lot, but say, dear. 1| will haf to write all the people the place has been changed and 1 forzet Your, number, although T know house as well! And Jennie Jules, it's 1 avenue, of course! 4 or somethin Then kinda laugh and s why 13th I glve s s of cours the | the one who in- | times, to refuse to once you have starte d| come over called | when 1} over | it's vour | | date. think | his | | ive | I me. I am | Jennie, keep th | mind. | about the thirteenth so hard, t on out | commenced | | | | | | the red hot cereal, but | stay home ana look after Junior: | ner | Tuck “BUT WAS T T LUCKY IT DIDN'T GO ON THE OOR™ foolish of me to forget, and hung up. | Well, the morning of the thirteenth I woke up bright and early and I or a minute thinking what a lovely 1y it_was until I remembered the | Then T thought, oh well, Jennie you know there is nothin cky about the date, don't 1 So I got up and stepped ri t smack on a tack But as I pulled it out 1 hadder laugh, on account wasn't 1 lucky it wasn't a rattlesnake, it might of been, and furthermore, 1 had plenty of iodin So when I was dressed I went on down and got breakfast—just any old thing, on account none of the family | natwally wasn't _expected to eat much on the day I was having com pany. well anyways 1 got some hot cereal ready and I was bringing it into the dining room, when what would 1 stumble over only some per fectly strange black cat that had | sneaked in. Of cour: T dropped asn't T lucky n't go on the floor, it went riht in George's lap! And that certainly taught me a lesson, it taught me a lesson in fancy language, anyways. | 1 suppose maybe a superstitious | person would of thought the date had thing to do with that, but not merely says to myself. now t thought ont of your And 1 thinking | it d vou know it's foolish. zot concentrating on not st for a moment where I was washing dishes, and let the hot water run on my hand, instead of onto a teacup 1 was rinsing. Well, when I had my hand aged up good, the girl that was g for the party over to | come to work, and | she hadn't hardly got in the house | hen I had a fight with her, but it | wasn't because of it being the thir. h, no such ridiculous superst- tiousness. It was because we spilled the salt, as least she threw the salt at me and T didn’t catch it in_time. But T couldn't say a word to her, hadder go dr while T giv * % k¥ UT someways or another, T couldn’t dress in a hurry, nothing seemed to %o just right. I put my feet in the wrong shoes, my dress on wrong side foremost, and dropped the scissors, which anv person who believed in bad might of worried over, but not me. 1 don’t pay no attention to such things. 1 paid so little attention, in fact, and concentrated so hard on ttention that I pretty near killed myself bumping my head on & open bureau drawer when I pick the scissors up. And as T seen stars I says to my- If, determinedly. now Jennie, just | fectly | don't |a friend | menced to | dian’t notice how lucky vou are, you never knew so much about stars before, why All the moving picture magazines and astronomy books in the world com- bined couldn’t teach you much about stars as you have learned in five minutes! And just about then the telephone rans Well, of all things if it wasn't Mabel ish, the one that 1 to that Joe Bush of the Ha 3 she says, oh say dear, ank, do tell me if you sut T dunno what to do, 1 iying with me, 1 onl [ and I don't know how lo tay. T am paying her thirty-five a week, but ye w how th vou can't depend on them, now and she heard where vou wi this lunch-party and she says if 1| take her it il give | notice. T ean't bear to I . would you mind a whole lot if I bring I along? T don't know what to do the: are so hard to get. Well naturally I wasn't gonner let down, not just when she had caught the only remaining hired girl In the world, o I says why of course, dear, if it's the new maid, bring her, certainly. If it was your old mother | or your twin sister, or some parson of | no ‘importance like that, 1 would say no. but T understand, this is a excep- | tional case. And then when I had cord iving ) Iy hung | up I realized where this would make | 13 at table tainly be and that it would cer open question about that | maid remaining after such a circum- | stance. 1 certainly thought well ain't T lucky, though, that it ain't my lady- | help! ‘As for the 13 part being hostess, 1 would of course haf to give up my chicken pattie and | fancy ice cream, because it was too | late to order any e but that was | lucky, on account I am dieting and | them things don't make a person any | more slender. | Well, by this time T and ready to start and ain. Junior ad come in the house, nd just 1 arted dow the hall, Hot Bozo! if the little darlin start for me with my 1 brella, and he opened it in the hot At first I was gonner vell at him to quit, but too late. On account when Jr. opened the umbrella he knocked | ovar my pet vase on the consble table | and broke it all up. Well, for a min- | ute T was the same, but not for long. T am not a bit silly about such things, | I at once realized where it might of | happened just as easy on the 12th or | 14th and I was so decided to ig all superstitions that I just merely | says thank you, dear, took the um-| brella and commenced to walk out, but the door wasn't wide enough, so | I walked from the inside out and so ! was dressed W com- | [ | | ment T of it, why, | o did the umbrella. Then I got a taxi marked “Call Invain 13000, and went on over to Mrs. Goofnah's on 13th Avenue. And the party certainly was a com- plete success. chil'y, and so we lit it near a long mi ror cracked. But even that I was perfectly able to laugh off. It was Mrs. Goofnah’s mirror anyways. * we all sat down *h and helped Mabel Bush to rtain her new maid. clighted to meet such a rarity, and vas a cute little thing with her hair long and her dresses short. was stll too young for the reverse. In fact she was 1 young, day was her birthday, and Mabel say ha hoped we didn't mind, but she had taken the liberty to bring a birth day ¢ d at the last course Ma bel brought it on and there was on it. How and the world ught she was gonner keep after that 1 dunno. Not, of that such a thing would of io any impression on me, 1 am abova all such nonsense. But Mabel is_the superstitious kind Well, I had noticed the fish tasted inda funny. and by the time we left the t the rest of the ladies was 1 conscious of it, too. But a little ch of ptomaine was a mere noth- red to the other ent furnished them. on the housa caught on fire fi oil stove in th lor and we hadde get busy, but all we was able 15 trouble for . on nt there was time the t to the house Hot Rozo! Poor Mrs. Goofnah how she did holler, and no wonder. But I comforted her all I could. The there, dear! T savs, it ain't your faul it ain't anybody’s fault. you 'n blame today being the 3th. And she says it's not the 13th, m erying over, yes- 3th and that was the ance expired and T 4 like to do the same on account ofl stove and or and the mir- to left | we haven't renewed it Well, that night when 1 had 1l about the perfect day, he well, do you win the hat, do you admit there is something in that 13 stuff? And 1 s ces, of cours: for the sake of a new hat T will admit anythi But for the sake of wha zoes under the hat I wish somebody could tell me whether it's believin: thirteen does the damago that caus the dams r disbelieving in thir teen that causes it, or why does a chicken cross the streat? Please tell me, but if vou think vou know the answer you're crazy! (Copyr If Public Orators Were to Speak Out They Could Interest Some of the Folks BY STEPHEN L 1—TRUTHEUL SPEF THE REAL THOUC DISTI ISHED ACOCK. “H. GIVING S OF A T AT RSARY BANQUET OF A R. CHAIRMAN and Gentle men: If there is one thing 1 abominate more than an other, it is turning out on a hot night like this to eat a huge dinner of 12 courses and know that T have to make a spee of it. Gentlemen, I just feel stuffed. By the time we had finished that fish 1 could have gone h atistied That's as much as I usual by the time T ¥ the food T was simply water-iogged. More than t The knowliedge that 7 had to make a speech congratulating this society of vours on its fiftieth an niversary haunted and racked me all through the meal. I am not, in plain truth, the ready and brillfant speaker you take me for. That is a pure myth. If vou could see the desperate home geene that goes on in my family when 1 3 am working up a speech, vour minds | Would be at rest on that point. I'll go further and be very with you. How this for 50 vears I don't your dinners are like this, Heaven help 2 T've only the vaguest idea of .what this society is, anyway, and what it does. I trled to get a constitution this afternoon, but failed. T am sure from some of the citizens that T recognize around this table there must be good business reasons of some sort for belonging to this goclety. There’s money in it, mark my words, for some of you or you wouldn't be here. Of course, 1 quite understand that the president and the officials seated here beside me come merely for the self-importance of it. That, gentle- men, is about their size. I realized that’ from their talk during the ban- quet. 1 don't want to speak bitterly hut the truth is they are small men, and it flatters them to sit here with 1wo or three blue ribbons pinned on their coats. But, as for me, I'm done with it. It will be 50 vears, please Heaven, before this event comes around again. T hope—I earnestly hope—that I shall be safely under the ground. 2.—THE SPEECH THAT OUGHT TO BE MADE BY A STATE GOVER- NOR AFTER VISITING THE FALL EXPOSITION O AN AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. Well. gentlemen, this annual Fall €aix of phe Skedink. County, -Agricul- know. If h on top | And | d finished the rest of | frank | sciety has lived | anl | “THERE_WAS JUST ONE_FEATU EXPOSITION THAT MET MY RE _OF YOUR AGRICI WARM APPROVAL.” TURAL tural Association has come round again. 1 don't mind telling you straight out that of all the disagree- able jobs that fall to me, as governor of this State, my visit to your Fall fair is the toughes I want to tell you gentlemen, right here and now, that I don't know any- thing about agriculture and I don't in tend to. My parents were able to bring me up in the city in a rational way. 1 didn’'t have to do chores in order to go to the high school, as some of those present have boasted that they did. My only wonder is that they ever got there at all. They show no traces of it. This afternoon, gentlemen, you took me all round your live stock ex hibit. T walked past, and through, nearly a quarter of a mile of hog: what was it that they were called— Tamworths—Berkshires? I don't re- member. But all 1 can say, gentle- men, is—Phew! Just that. That word sums up my whole idea of your agricultural sho; No, let me correct myself. There was just one feature of your agricul- tural exposition that met my warm approval. You were good erough to tuke me through the section ol your' exposition called your Midway Plea- saunce, You apologized, if I remem- ber rightly, for taking me into the large tent of the Syrian Dancing Girls. Oh, believe me, gentlemen, you needn't havel Syria Is a countr which commands my profoundest ad- miration. Some day T mean to spend a vaca- tion there. And, believe me, gentle- men, when I do go—and I say this with all the emphasis of which T am capable—I should not wish to be ac- companied by such a set of flatheads as the officials of your agricultural society. And now, gentlemen, as T have just received a fake telegram, by arrange- ment, calling me back to the capital of the State, I must leave this ban- quet at once. One word in conclusion: 1t 1 had known as fully as I do now how it feels to drink half a bucket of sweet cider, I should certainly never have come. 3.—TRUTHFUL SPEECH OF A DIS- TRICT POLITICIAN TO A WOM- EN'S RIGHTS SOCIETY. Ladies: My own earnest, heartfelt conviction is that you pre a pack oi cats. T use the word “cats’ advisedly, and I mean every letter of it. T want to go on record before this gathering as having been strongly and unalter. ably opposed to woman suffrage until you got it. After that I favored it. My r ons for opposing the suf- frage were of a kind that you couldn't understand. But all men—except the few that I see at this meeting—under- stand them by instinct. As you have now all obtained the right to vote, T thought it best to ac- cept vour invitation and come here. Also—I am free to confess—I wanted to see what yvou looked like. On this last head I am disappointed. Personzlly T like women a good deal fatter than most of you are, and bet- looking. As I look around this hering I see one or two of you that are not so bad, but on the whole ot many. But my own strong personal predi- lection is and remains in favor of a woman who can cook, mend clothes, talk when T want her to and give me the kind of admiration to which I am accustomed. Let me, however, say in conclusion that 1 am altogether in sympathy with any movement of yours (though I forget for the minute just what new form of fooli vou are aiming at) to this extent—namely—that since you can now vote, T want your votes and 1 want all of them. (Copyright. 1926.) “ ST Electric. Light” Bed. A ‘electric light” bed has been constructed and used by a Wash- ington physician, who claims that it has given him better general health and has apparently eliminated colds. An ordinary bed is used, and above it is suspended an inverted box about 7 feet long, 2 feet wide and 2 feet deep. This box is slung' on window sash weights, by which it can be lowered toward the mattress. Inside the box are 8 to 10 electric lights. When retiring at night the doctor stretches out on the mattress, nude, and allows the lights to bath his body. A thermo- stat, set by the sleeper before retiring, turns off the lights when the heat warms the bed above the set tempera- ture, and turns them on when it gets too cold. A rheostat allows the sleeper to turn the current to varying intena» ities. The arrangement is said to rest on the theory that in the earlier evolu- tionary period of man, no clothing was used, and sunlight constantly warmed the skin and set the blood in motion. ASHINGTON, D. The house was a little | We was all | She | that | 13 | to save | Ly the | mustn't | told | C, BY ED WYNN. EAR Mr. Wynn: Do you think it is safe for a man to shave his face with a dull razor blade? Yours truly, BOB BURR. Answer—Sure I do. As long as the handle of the razor doesn't break, the beard is bound to come off. What is your opin- Don't you think Sincerely, MAY D It all depends on how the selves. | Dear Mr. Wynn: lion of married life? it is the happiest life? Answer two people enjoy th Yesterday a tramp came to my back door and asked for something to eat. I gave him a meal on his promise to cut my lawn. He ate the meal, but he ran away and never kept his promise to cut the lawn. What do you think of that? Yours truly . I. FEAL ORFUL. Answer -Tt just goes to show that | you must never take the word of a | total stranger. Dear Mr. Wynn: Dear Mr. Wynn number of very young hovs selling | newspapers on the streets. One lad 1 | saw could not have heen more than 10 vears of age, and he was carrying about 50 mewspapers. Wouldn't vou think they would make the poor little fellow tired”? Sincerely, HUGH MANNY TAIRTAN Answer—Not necessarily. He prob ably doesn’t read them. | T notice a great | Dear Mr. Wynn friend of mine, | who has just returned from a motor trip of 3,000 miles, told me he en | joved touring on the roads built by { Ame I asked him what he | meant ds built by America ol | and he said: “Why, Roosevelt Boule- | vard and Lincoln Highway." Then he | told me the worst roads he had to | travel over were built by a French man. T did not want to appear igno- rant, so did not ask him who he meant. Will_vou please tell me the name of the Frenchman who buflt the bad roads he refers t0? Yours truly. | MAG | Answer—He is referring | tour. to Dear Mr. Wynn: I saw a sign on f a cheap car, and it was th the two words “True Why do vou think he called ar “True Love Truly 3 | the back ! painted rours, B. KAUSE. Answer—That is very simple. He | calls his car JUNE 13, 1926—PART §. ther Experiences With Luck Was It the Frenchman Named “Detour’ Who Built the Bad Roads of America? ) Dic PABCKAY 6-/3 “True Love” B. Kause true love never runs smooth. Dear Mr. Wynn: T hear a great deal about ‘“mermaids.” I don't believe there are such things, do you? 1f so, maybe you are smart enough to tell me where they sleep? Sincerely, . BEAST. Answer—My dear child, ‘mermaids.” when they are little babies, sleep in “the cradle of the deep,” and when they grow up “in the bed of ocean.” Dear Mr. Wynn: 1 bought a horse from a man who told me the horse could beat anything in his class. The first race 1 put him in he lost. Can you account for that? Yours truly, I. M. MORVICH. out of his class. Dear Mr. Wynn: T have just writ- ten a song. The lyrics aré very sad. They are about a young man telling how he made love to a voung girl and her promise to marry him. Then, on the day before the wedding. she tells him she will not marry him bec she found out he didn't have money. Will you please give me a suitable title for my song? Yours truly ART, ISTICT. Answer—The best title for your song (according to the ahove descrip- Answer— e the | “SHE FOUND OUT HE DIDN'T HAVE ANY MONEY.” tion) would be “She Looked Me Up in Bradstreet's—Now I'm Dun.” Dear Mr. Wynn: Iam a woman 40 vears of age and weigh 207 pounds. T asked an artist what he would take to paint my picture, and he said a bucket of mud and a broom. know about that, Yours truly, G. EYEMAD. Answer—Next week HE PER t. 192 What do you - “T FOOL. ARDNER. O THE editor: 1 don't want to have to get into no argument with no auction bridge author- ity as they have already got all they can tend to quarreling | amongst themselfs, but it seems to me | {like they ain’t none of them but what |is way behind the times in regards to ‘(hv\ possibilities of the game or even atched the sur of me as 3 s the al points | con | BY RING ettlement of Great Nec | where T live is a kind of a hot bed for the theatrical profession and while | the population cor some female | actors, the most of them is males and | | the result is that many an evening the | house wifes of the town is bereft of | their husbands who are acting in N.Y. “THE _CHILD ACTOR NOW PLAYING THE ROLE OF TRAF- __FIC_POLICEMAN IN ‘BOILS.” or the provinces and to make life bear- able they get in touch with one an- other over the telephone and organ- ize bridge tourneys which lasts 4 and 5 hours per setting. Now when you play 24 to 30 hrs. of bridge per wk. you acquire a mastery of the game which | the profesisonal teachers ain’t got time to acquire because they are too busy abusing each other and it is no wonder that Great Neck has devel oped at least one bridge expert of the feminine gender whose tactics make ‘Work, Whitehead, Shepard and R. F. ("Peaches”) Foster look like kids just learning the rudiments of Squat Tag. The lady who 1 have reference is none other than Mrs. Jennie Ults, wife of Walter Ults, the child actor now playing the role of the traffic policeman in “Boils.”” Mr. Ults’ week- Iy salary is said to run into double figures, but just the same the $.75 to $1.00 that Mrs. Ults cleans up every weel at the card table gives the Ults kiddies advantages not enjoyed by the children of the Ed Wynns or the Bobby Norths or families like that where the man earns all the money and the madam does absolutely nothing. Last Thursday night T experienced the keen enjoyment of setting behind play and will state that I learned more about bridge in that one evening than in years of competition with such self styled experts (?) as Frank Crownin- shield, Bud Fisher or Stu (“Peaches”) Johnston. Jennie's partner on this occasion was the wife of Harpers Ferry, the child actor now inperson- ating an umbrella in “Rain.” Her op- ponents were the wifes of Hosea Cough, who became famous overnight and part of the next day as the Bar- ber in “Barber Frietchie.” and Neil Downs' the child actor who plays the | title role in_Shapespeare's ‘“Henry Ford.” Mrs. Downs, Mrs. Cough and Mrs. Ferry are all high class card sharpers, but hardly on the level with Jennie Ults. Jennie (Mrs. Ults) and observing her | HEQRTS “SHE BID 'HEARTS. 0 TRUMPS AND F\VE e < MRS. DOWN WENT TO FIVE diamonds with the four top honors, the ace of clubs, the ace, king, queen of spades and no hearts. There were only 12 cards in the hand, but she is the kind that likes to play against odds. A little to my surprise her opening bid was one heartand she re- plied to my whispered query as to the reasons for this by whispering back that such a bid was more than likely Walter Reed Gardens (Continued from Third Page.) | fragrant as spice; an@ a1 the hundreds ghall see into that donation to_the ppiness of the boys at Walter Reed that is known as the Rosalind Wood greenhouse. Moreover, the rock-gar- den with its jewel of a birth-path, its vines and plants, can be revisited in search of one's soul that has lingered in adoration there. 1f one has never seen the perennial known as the dropwort bugloss in full bloom, then a visit to the old-fash- ioned garden would seem imperative. That plant grows like a bush to a height of four feet and is a deluge of blue flowers—intensely blue as the sky can deepen at times. One wants to cut tall spikes of its heavenly blue to place among white and pink and saffron roses. No, the gardener had never so em- ployed its enchanting loveliness, but that was something he had yet to master—the right combination of colors in cut flowers. Yes, he would try the dropwort the mext time with his cut roses. Then it was revealed to one why he liked that gardener; it was his humility in the presence of his_masterpiece—his garden. The old-fashioned garden is laid out fn the shape of an open fan, a lovely pattern, colorful and lacy enough to please the fairest lady. The larkspur, so blue, so sturdy; the Canterbury bells, as English as their name: the columbine, so made for bees’ delight; the peonies, heavy headed and gor- geous as roses; iris, with sword-like leaves of jade and crowns like orchids; Tt was Jennie's first deal and the hand she picked up contained seven sweet willlams with broad heads; pan- sies llke bits of gay velvet; snap- diagons on long spikes; clove pinks, a l l of other plants; all these made a. ra- diant bewilderment for the eye for beauty. That old-fashioned garden would delight the heart of a Shake- speare. Just past that grouping of many perennials is a bed of natural ferns, sturdy and fronded and attractive, growing as nature planted them among the rocks. * *x TTHIN the Rosalind Wood green- house is an excellent collection of tropical growths, with no mean show- ing of orchids. One wing of the struc- ture is crowded with the rose bushes from Lyon. Their blooms are char- acterized by a rare delicacy of color, but their petals are noticeably few. They are delicate and dainty in form. ‘The other wing of the structure is the carnation house, where thousands of young silver-gray plants are awaiting bedding for their Fall and Winter growth As the gardener took the writer across the lawns to the. recreation hut of the nurses he proffered the infor- mation that each morning a generous cutting among the roses and iris and peonies is made for distribution to the wards. Since about a thousand beds are now occupied, the same ward does not receive a donation each day, but as often as the plants will permit. The object of the visit to the hut was to illustrate how the flower cut- tings are employed for use on the grounds. The hut is spaclous, yet great bouquets of roses and peonies [ | three hearts Lall. | doubled and the play b | above “But How That Woman Can Play Bridge!” Remarked All the Neighbors in Great Neck to drive one of her opponents into a diamond declaration. Sure enoush, Mrs. Downs took the bait like a duck after an aspirin tablet and made a bid of three diamonds. Mrs. Ferry nearly ruined the whole scheme by going but_luckily Mrs. Cough because own hand had them I around fourth time, Downs re an. he didn't have hat her partner This bid w times, but doubled. i three Jennie the Mrs, M Fer opened with her high heart. the . and Jennle overtook it with a trump in order to have con- trol of the situati Jennie took all the rest of the t and scored 1126 the line. She told me after that she got the idea for that play from a play she had seen her husband make in a poker game. He had been having terrible luck all eve. ning, but on this particular deal he picked up three kin nd a pair of six; The pot was opened and raised twice before it was his turn and he threw away his hand to make the others believe his luck had not changed. s was never shown than on the next mes Jennie alwa does the dealing she n do it much qu Her hand consisted of ace, king and twelve of spades. four small diamonds, the trey of clubs and as usual, no hearts. She passed and Mrs. Downs bid five hearts, wanting to be taken out even in a minor. Mrs. Ferry passed and Mrs. Cough went five no trump ven if she only made three of her five, it meant gam so without an instant’s hesitation Jennie laid down her hand showing that she had only eight cards and it was a misdeal. Another deal Jennie's adroitne to better advantag deal. In these I recollect came late in the evening. Jennie had a hand containing no hearts (she never did Pold a heart through the whole eve. ning's play). eleven clubs with the five honors, and the ace of spades and ace of diamonds. She bid a no trump and Mrs. Downs went to five hearts. Mrs. Ferry passed as she had not picked up her hand and did not want to bid blind. Mrs. Cough also passed and Jennie went to seven no trumps in the hope that Mrs. Downs would. under the strain, lead something other than a heart. Mrs. Downs kept herself under control and led the king of hearts, but luckily Mrs. Ferry had the ace. Jennie played it, from Dummy, taking the first trick. Now she faced a problem because the dummy hand was entirely without clubs. How to get the lead into her own hand was the question. Jennie studied the sit- uation for a brief moment, then led the four of diamonds from dummy. took it in her own hand with the ace and the rest was clear sailing. Riding home, Mrs. Cough remarked, “Sweet potatoes, how that tremendous woman can play that game,” and I thought to myself no wonder Walter Ults can act with no worries about his home life and Jennie adding sub- stantially to his income every wk. though how much more she ‘would add if they were not only playing for twelfth of a cent a point. — were everywhere for the pleasure of & group of nurses who were to he entertained there that afternoon. Of a certainty, no florist could have fur- ‘thing loveller than those vases held. That big reception room seemed a bower of fragrant blooms. It is small wonder that those who see the gardens and hear the story of their gradual development through the donations of those in a position to contribute wish sincerely that they had supplies of growing things that could be added to the gardens. All such gifts are eagerly received and gratefully accepted. It is an oppor- tunity to give joy to those from the ranks who are ill or disabled. At the present time from 40 to 50, per cent of the patients in hospital at Walter Keud are veterans of the World Wik A -