Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1933, Page 24

i R o £ Mr. Sims is universally acclaimed the greatest living contract and auc- , tion player. He was captain of the renoioned “Four Horsemen” tegm, and has won 24 national champion- ships since 1924. These articles are based on the Sims system, which includes the one-over-one principle which the Sims group of players was the first to employ and develop. S the eventual play, we must value high cards in terms of tricks. ‘When opening the bidding, one sel- dom knows for sure whether ome will be the declarer or play the hand in defense. At this stage it is there- . fore vital to count as trick winners, only such cards or combinations of cards as can be de- pended upon to capture tricks in either case. These we term “primary tricks” Other values are termed “secondary values” “protective in- termediates Primary tricks are high cards which should be able to capture the first or second lead of a suit. w TABLE OF PRIMARY TRICKS. Card Valuation. INCE bidding is essentially an attempt to find out how many tricks you may hope to take in Conquering Contract, By P. HAL SIMS————————— | Two tricks. Ace king of the same suit. | One and a half tricks. of the same suit. One trick. (1) An ace or (2) king queen of the same suit. Half trick. A king accompanied by one or more smaller cards. Not more than two primary tricks | can be counted in any one suit be- cause if the opponents play the hand the third round will probably be trumped. | Valuing the Queen Jack Small | Combination, You are probably accustomed to ecounting this holding as a half trick | under all conditions. With this I dis- | agree and at certain periods of the bid- | ding I give this holding rebid or sec- ondary value only. T feel that it is unsatisfactory to giv the same value to this combination a: Ace queen UNCLE RAY’S CORNER Hawaiian Islands. CUSTOMS OF THE PEOPLE. OST Hawailan rice fields are small. but here and there you may find one of large area— with a watch-tower and a watchman. ‘What does the watchman watch for? | For rice birds! When the kernels form | on the plants, these birds swarm to | the scene to enioy a free lunch. Then it is the duty of the watchman to pull[ one or more cords. The cords stretch | to different parts of the fleld, and | when they are pulled they cause paper | ta flutter or tin cans to rattle. That | 1s the “scarecrow” system used by these folk. The rice birds take wing when they | see the waving paper or hear the rat- | tling cans; but they are all too likely | te settle down on another part of the | fleld, making it necessary for the watchman to pull another cord. Most of the rice is grown by Chi- nese settlers. In plowing their flelds, they use water buffaloes. These “sleepy- | eyed” animals were brought over from | £sia. They are st'ong and easy to| handle. | Among other Hawaiian products are | Star I Patterns I Never Too Many Jumpers! | Jumper dresses score & tremendous success this season. They are inexpen- sive, practical and very smart. We have | Hlustrated one of the trimmest versions | offered for school wear. Your daughter will be delighted with | ton. England, of John Ruskin from 1871 | “de liver"—well, I'll dest put down "I’ | until his death, was sold at private sale don't like de liver.” the trim panel effect and the gaily | checked blouse with its saucy tie. Moth- | ers will like its youthful simplicity, and the ease with which it can be made. ‘This frock adapts itself very nicely to sheer wool, velveteen or rough crepe. Obtain variety by making up several blouses in different colors, checks or plaids. It is No. 4006. The pattern is designed in sizes 6 to 14. Size 10 requires 17s yards of 36- Inch fabric for dress, and 7s yard of 36-inch fabric for blouse. Simplified illustrated instructions for cutting and sewing are included with s king in either first or second hand use: (1) In itself -it is useless for slams. Should the ace of the suit be located in partner’s hand there is still no as- surance that a trick will not be lost in the suit. (2) This so-called half trick may prove extremely disappointing in de- fense. Against a high suit contract, the third round of our queen jack suit | is likely to be trumped. It is very risky to double a game no trump bid through a reliance on this holding as a stopper. The declarer will | often be able to clgar and keep lead- ing his long suit and so squeeze your protective cards out of you. foréing a fatal discard to keep another suit guarded, When Valued as a Half Trick. (a) If your partner has already passed, little danger exists ‘that he will carry the bidding too high, thinking he has located a king. (b) If you are making an over-call. (c) If you are giving a response bid. | Certain reservations apply to this. Reasons for Giving Queens and Jacks No Primary Trick Value. Jacks and jack-tens are accorded no primary trick values, even in combina- tion with higher cards, that is, A J or K J. I do not underrate the im- portance of these cards in the play of | the hand, even in defense, but I con- sider it unsafe to include them auto- | matically in the original bid. They | do not supply the quick control which the original bid must provide if your | partner is to feal safe in bidding a slam or doubling the opponents through reliance on the soundness of your bid. | I look on them as strictly secondary values. Be assured, however, that their belpfulness is not overlooked. The nature of my partner's.response will enable me to judge the usefulness of | fthese low honors, and to incorporate them in my subsequent bidding, with- out risk of disappointment. For the same reason a queen with two small cards cagries no primary valuation. T cannot expect it to re- | inforce a high card in my partner's hand and thus produce a trick., until he shows me that he holds some face l‘n;ds‘ it is therefore only a secondary value. (Copyright. 1933.) 5 Mr. Sims will answer all inquiries_on contract that are addressed to The Evening Star and inclose & self-ad- dressed stamped envelope. coffee. bananas. pineapples, sugar cane, breadfruit and figs. | I am sorry to say that, at the present | time, only a small number of the people on the Hawaiian Islands are of the‘ original race Recent figures show the | total population to be 357.000, of whom | only 20,000 are “pure Hawailans.” The rest are Japanese, Filipinos, Chinese, ! mixed breeds and whites. There are relics of the days when every one on the islands was of pure stock, and perhaps most interesting of these is the “City of Refuge.” ' Eight centuries ago King Keawe caused a great tomb to be built for himeelf on land which jutted out into a bay. A wall of rock, about 12 feet high, was built around the tomb. In the course of time, the space inside the wall (an area about 700 feet long and 400 feet wide) came to be a place of refuge. Inside the walled space native priests took up their dwellings. They formed images of their gods, and displayed them to those who came to the spot. If a person was in danger of being punished for breaking & law or oppos- | ing a chieftain, he was likely to flee to- ward this place. If he reached the gateway in safety, those who pursued him did not dare to follow him farther. Huts were built to take care of the men and women who reached the City of Refuge. After they had remained a few days, and had been “purified” by praying to idols, they could leave with- out fear of being injured by those who had driven them inside The remains of the City of Refuge are now to be seen in a public park. (For “Travel” section of your scrap- book. ~ This story may be used as a school topic in geography.) UNCLE RAY. | Brantwood House, the home in Conis- | recently. BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. There’s not s living human being, fighting the ordinary. battles .of life, who doesn’t have to.devise some sort of personality mask. Of course, if you don’t have to fight, that's another | matter. In that case, all you have to | do is, to be yourselfl. What I call & personality mask 1is, - therefore, & sort of working capital with which we carry on our ordinary business of getting on with other people. This mask business calls for different sorts of equipment for each trade or profession. The minister has ane sort of equipment, the lawyer another, the doctor another, the school teacher still another. And so on up and down the line. Here you may draw a useful con- clusion. Your private personality is one thing; your vocational personality another. In fact, you have a person- ality for every important aspect of your everyday life. There's something more to be said. Go a step, many steps, farther. Try to | understand that you have some sort of | mask for every personality with which you come in contact. When you finally come to know an individual, you find you have a mask ready to wear in his presence. When you find a person that puzzles you, put it down that you are at a loss to know the sorts of materials you nced for the making of your mask. In a broad sense, you have traits that | grapple with the various traits of | others. If you haven't a mask ready | for the moment, you will create one. | Your personality is a creation. That | creation is a wardrobe of psychological | masks. | (Copyright. 1933.) MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. ked Apples. Hominy with Cream. Scrambled Eggs. Bacon. Date Bran Muffins. Coffee. LUNCHEON. | Egg Croquettes. | Spinach. | Baking Powder Biscuits. | Pineapple Cream. Tea. DINNER. Clear Soup. Ragout of Beef. Bolled Potatoes. Buttered Cauliflower. Hearts of Lettuce. _ Russian Dressing. Baked India Pudding. Coffee. INDIAN PUDDING. Use one and one-quarter quarts milk, scant one cup cornmeal, one-half cup sugar and two eggs mixed well together, then stir in milk with little sait, also little ginger if liked. (Copyright. 1833.) SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY ¥ CORY. Miss Wade has some big words wrote out on the blackboard: she wants us to put 'em in sentiments. Here's one, (Copyrieht. 1933.) D. C, TUESDAY, SCREEN ODDITIES BY CAPT. ROSCOE FAWCETT. WROTE NEAQLY 100 AND DIRECTED MORE THAN THAT NUMBER OF THE 370 FEATURE FILMS IN WHICH HE HAS STARQED WHEN TROPICAL SCENES ARE FILMED ON A COLD NIGHT o N HOLLYWOOD, PLAYERS HOLD ICE IN THEIR MOUTHS 50 THEIR BREATH WILL NOT CONDENSE AND BE PHOTOGRAPHED. g 185 by The B Brndee 1) Since the day when John Drew, uncle of John, Lionel and Ethel Barrymore, was in his prime as a legitimate stage actor, it has been the custom of the famous theatrical family to send a red apple to a member opening in a new play or making his initial appearance on stage or screen. This unusual method of wishing luck was observed when Lione!, John and Ethel Barrymore started work on “Rasputin,” a film dealing with the mad monk and the Russian roval family. | They solemnly exchanged red apples when they first appeared upon the set. Frederic March was one of the youngest officers gerving in the United States Army during the war. ‘When* Janet Gaynor recently celebrated her birthday anniversary, studio executives gave her a party. A feature of the.affair was a huge birthday cake with a figure of Janet, dressed in an exact copy of the costume she wears in “Tess of the Starm Country.” A “Main street cowboy” is a person who poses in public in Western outfit cowboy when he is not one. as MODES== =——OF THE MOMENT } Tund. It o made e{,m Bt il i N P e A liaaauévazfiaquZQWf irresistibly smooth Your skin can have this compelling charm! HO could resist the charm of dainty Leila Hyams’ clear smooth skin! Flawless . . . in the camera close-up, in the blazing sun- light, even in a snapshot! A snapshot is such a cruel test— every woman knows that. Yet here you see this young star in an informal moment out-of-doors, lovelier than Bedtime Stories BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. A Tense Moment. There are no moments 3o intense As those you pass through in suspense. lacky the Crow. HIS is especially true when it | may be & matter of life and | death. The passiag moments | are no longer then than any | other moments, but they seem s0. In his tme Blacky has known many such moments. So has Reddy Fox. S0 have most of the little people of the Green Meadows and the Green | Forest. Blacky was sitting in the top of a ta)l tree, where he could overlook a certain dooryard. There the snow had been shoveled away and g flock of hens | was busily hunting for the last scraps | of breakfast. Two were on the door- step, having had their fill. Back of the barn Reddy Fox was moving swiftly, | keeping close to the bullding. He | reached the end and cautiously peeked around it, showing no more than his | nose and one eye and ear. The way | was clear. No one was in sight. His | keen nose brought him no disturbing scent of man or dog. . | He turned the corner and moved softly, swiftly along’ the end of the barn, keeping close to it and crouching | low. Not yet could he see the hens, | but he. could hear them talking as they ran about in the dooryard. Once he | stopped to listen, his sharp ears cocked | forward. He opened his mouth in a | grin. It was long since he had heard | 30 pleasant a sound. Then he moved | forward swiftly to the next corner. As | he approached this he fairly crept, | flattening himself on the snow. | Slowly, very, very slowly he poked | his nose past the corner until he could | see around it. His eves glistened as he | saw those unsuspecting hens. Then he studied the house and took notice of just where the door was. He looked for » dog, or signs of one. He tested the air for hint of an enemy. All was peace- ful and quiet save for the contented clucking of the hens. “Ill wait until one comes a little nearer,” thought he. Blacky, leaning forward that he might see better, was tense With ex- L,"[ “I'LL WAIT UNTIL ONE COMES A LITTLE N;ARER." THOUGHT HE. | citement. “Why doesn't Reddy rush out and grab one of those hens " he mut-, tered. “What is he waiting for? Now 12 his chance!” Then an, imp of mischief put a thought into his head. What fun it would be to do as he had so often done before, give warning by cawing at the top of his lungs. Often he had %l]ed & hunt for Reddy in that why. en he put that thought out of his head. This was different. Reddy was starving. These were hard times, es. WOME pecially hard for Reddy. This time for playing tricks. So Blacky held his tongue. “What silly things hens are,” thought | Blacky. “They never seem to watch for‘ danger. There they are walking about or sitting around as if there was nc| such thing as danger in all the Great | ‘World. I suppose that is because they always have been taken care_of and never had to watch out. Every night | they are safely shut up in a warm| house. and every day they have their | food brought to them. I wonder what it would seem like to know exactly, where the next meal is coming from. | and not even have to work for it. That | Teminds m@that I haven't had my own breakfast yet.” I wish Reddy would | hurry up and get his. Ha! I believe | he is getting set to make a rush!” Reddy was getting set. One of those hens had strayed a little nearer. He | set his feet for a quick rush. And just at that very instant the door of the house opened and the farmer who lived | there and owned those hens stepped | out. Reddy dodged back behind the corner of the barn and crouched flat to the snow. Should he run or should he stay? Very, very cautiously he| ISCOVER why the Oriental races choose tea...How it quickens the emotional pulse . .. vitalizes the nerves. irs the senses. 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