Evening Star Newspaper, January 27, 1933, Page 29

MAGAZINE PAGE. THE E\'E'NING STAR. WASHINGIOXN, D FBIDAY. JANUARY 27, 1935. Contract By P. HAL SIMS nversally acclaimed ng contract and auc- tion player. He was captain of the renowned “Four Horsemen” team, and has won 24 national champion- ships since 1924. These articles are s system, which in- r-one principle that the Sims group of players uas the first to employ and develop. The Opening Bid. dealt with the open- ding with one of a ition. to discuss the open- d position. Primary Trick _Requirements Are Reduced. Contrary to other systems that come to my atten- tion. instead of requiring addition- al values to open third hand, the Sims system al- lows for lighter primary trick re- quirements in order to open the bidding in this po- sition. Bearing in mind the very powerful holdings needed to open the bidding first or second hand with & defensive type of hand, this Jet-up is readily understood. There is always the possibility that your partner has passed a maximum border line type of hand. For instance, he may have held the following: tamonds—x This is & pass in the first or second position, but for third hand is a sound opening bid of 1 club. Or, Dealer may have passed & maxi- mum defensive type of hand, such as Spades—x x x Diamonds—A K XX Hearts—A X x Clubs—x X X First or second hand this is & pass. Third hand it becomes a 1 diamond bid. Or, with the aggressive type of hand, the following hand is & pass in the or second positions, but becomes a third hand: Epades—K Q9 XXX Hearts—x x There are three good reasons for & gifferent policy in this position, which are as_follows: (1) Your partner may have made a “maximum pass.” (2) There is little chance in your er jumping you to an unmakable contract through giving you credit for excess values. (3) You are assured of a favorable opening lead if your opponents play th%vk?:nghe defensive type of hand, the rimary tricks are still needed, } no secondary values are necessary. With the border line hand two and & primary tricks are needed. ith the aggressive hand, two tricks are_all that are necessary. ‘The fact that one opponent has al- ready passed reduces the fear of a big hand being on your right. It is, therefore, necessary to deduce from your own holdings the likelihood of fourth hand having the prepdonder- ance of outstanding primary tricks. Try to Look Ahead. Two main results may develop if you bid. Consider their probabilities: (1) Will the opening of a weak hand locate your high cards so that the op- ponents will bid a game that they would not bid otherwise? (2) Will the opponents place high cerds in your hand, which are actually held by your partner, if they play the hand? These are two very necessary consid- { erations. In further explanation: (1) Many contracts are made through the knowledge that to have made a bid | the hand must contain certain cards, as the following example: 1 Diamonds—A XXX Here is a ‘hand that contains three | primary tricks and should be bid 1 no trump. With apy one high card re- moved from this hand, nothing can be considered but to pass. There is plenty of defense against an adverse bid, but by my bid, tg:&p%o?gnu could place every honor tl old. (2) On the other hand, should I hold as follows: Spades—AQJ X Hearts—K Q10 x Clubs—x x x ! I would bid 1 spade. Any missing honors in diamonds or clubs would b2 | placed in my hand and the finesse against these honors would, therefore, be taken the wrong way. o Mr. Sims will answer all inquiries on con- t that are addressed to this newspaper & self-addressed, stamped envelope. ¢Copyright, 1938.) Conquering } i Plamonds—A xxx ubs—x. * Diamonds—x x Three-Piece Ensemble. is deslmzed indssln;s 3:62 go 36 requires 5 yards of Y imch febric for the jacket and skirt. and three-eighths yards of 36-inch o 18 required for the blouse. {llustrateq instructions for cutiing and sewing are included with each . They give complete di- icns for making these dresses. et a pattern of this model send 15 cents in coins or stamps. Please write your name and address very plainly, also style number and size of each pattern ordered, and mail to The | Evening Star Pattern Department, ‘Washington, D. C. Several days are re- | quired to fill orders and patterns will be mailed as quickly as possible. THE EVENING STAR, PATTERN DEPARTMENT. Inclosed is 15 cents for Pattern No. 984. Name (please print)....... City and State. Bage: Wun;’ Time And Loses Hapriness The Critic On the Hearth DorothyDix| Shall a Husband and Wife Correct Each Othei’s Faults>—Not Unless They Are Ready to Ruin Their Marriage. A pocsess the finesce of a diplomat. Possibly a red-headed couple, part of whose bridal atiire was a chip on the shoulder, may get fun out of trying to make each cther over nearer to their heart's desire. Poszioly Talieyrand was able to tell Mrs. Talleyrand that she had no asie in dress 4 that her new hat made her look like heck, without ng to buy her a new outfit to solace her wounded feelings, buc pacifists en and women are wise to lay off the partners and ir enemies, who don’t have to live with them, tell CORRESPONDENT wants to know if husbands and wives should attemp. to coirect each other's faults. Well, not unless they are of the screpping brecd who enjoy & fight for its own sake, or else stranger n of their faults, this is an unfortunate situation, but it is a situation. It is and pitles that husbands and wives cannct point out their shortcomings to each other and thus give each other a chance to cor- rect their little weaknesses and improve their manners and their con- versation and their general techniqwe. Also, it would give each the op- portunity to avoid doing the things that get upon the nerves of mates. It is tragic that Mrs. A. can’t tell Mr, A. that the way he gargles his soup makes her want to scream and causes him to be a laugl stock to all who know him, or that he is a misfit as a wit and shouk never attempt to tell & funny story, or that he should cut out his per- sonal reminiscences because nobody but a 's mother and his wife wants to hear all about when he was a little boy with pale-green freckles on his hands.. IT is equally tragic that Mr. A. can’t tell Mrs, A. that she is eating too much and getting fat, and that her clothes always look as if some woman who had bought them was trying to even up an old grudge, and that she puts on her make-up as if she were painting & bamn, or that people flee at her approach to avoid having to listen to all the gory de- tails of her operation, or the smart thing that Junior sald. But it can't be done and keep out of the divorce court. f In practically every married couple one or the other comes of & better family, is more intelligent, better educated, and has had superior social advantages to the other, and could do much toward and polishing up the partner of his or her bosom if only she or he woul stand for a course of home instruction, HUMAN nature being what it is, the only thing that no husband or wife will endure is even the intimation that the one to whom he or she is married does not consider him or her flawless. A man will let another man point out his faults to him, He will meekly submit to hav- ing his boss turn the searchlight on his every foible, but let his wife dare to suggest there is a single blemish in his whole set-up and it is as good for & family ruction as a nickel is for a ginger cake. Same way with wives. Women do not resent having their mothers and their sisters and their cousins and their aunts and their best friends point out their shortcomings to them. On the-contrary, they listen with an open mind and try to profit by the admonitions they receive. But let a husband attempt to correct a wife’s faults and there are tears and crim- inations and recriminations. T is the critic on the hearth who breaks up more homes than all vamps and all the.sheiks. It is the nagging wife who is always harping on her husband'’s defects, who sends him roaming in search of some woman ‘who will apply the salve to the sore places where her tongue has rasped the skin off his vanity. It is the husband who is always knocking his wife in everything she does, from the way she combs her hair to the way she makes bread, who drives her into the arms of some glib-tongued flatterer who tells her how beautiful and marvelous she is. 1t is easy to understand why husbands and wives cannot endure fault- finding from each other, and why they resent criticism from each other more than they do from anybody else in the world. It is the negation of everything they married for. It is the smashing into smithereens of their fondest hopes and faith. WHY, the thing that first attracts a man and woman to each other . is mutual admiration. They see themselves glorified in each other's eyes. - The man falls in love with the girl because regards him as & romantic fairy prince and an oracle. The girl falls in love with the man because he makes her feel that he looks upon her as a concatenation of all the charms and virtues of her sex. And they marry to secure this worshipful audience to themselves. Picture, then, the dismay of the man when he discovers after mar- riage that, instead of regarding him as a wonder man, his wife thinks of him as a poor, weak creature, whose judgment is bad, whose grammar is faulty, whose table manners need revamping and whose conversation Tequires expurgation. FANCY the death blow it is to a wife when she realizes that she is no longer an angel to her husband, but a fussy-little hen or & twittering sparrow, and when he spends his time picking flaws in her instead of magnifying her virtues. Flesh and blood can't stand it. For it is somehow necgssary for a man to have his wife look up to him and regard him as a hero, no matter what a callous world thinks about him, and it is necessary for a woman to believe that her husband thinks her the great and only. And, when this belief is shattered, all the happiness has gone out of marriage and it is nothing but an endurance test. And that's why wise husbands and wives never tell each other of their faults. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1933.) MENTU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Baked Apples Wheat Cereal with Cream Scrambled Eggs, Bacon Crumb Bran Muffins Coffee My Neighbor Says: Crumbled dried bacon is deli- clous when added to egg omelet. Leftover bacon can be used this way. Never starch bed Mnen. After taking off the line, dampen and fold and let set overnight before ironing. Potatoes will not turn black if you peel them and let them stand in cold water, to which have been added two good sized spoonfuls of sugar, for an hour or more. Then rinse off in ccld water and put on to cook in fresh boiling water. Salt water about 10 minutes before they are done. 900000000 MOTH HOLES BURNS — RIPS INVISIBLY LUNCHEON. Tripe Fried in Batter Boiled Spinach Toasted Mufins Cranberry Ple, Cheese ‘Tea DINNER. 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To the tree| lover, the broken limb, or the hacked| trunk, means a possible chance for the | entry of these tiny organic dust-like | particles. | ‘The spores push into the wound radially and from these spores grows | the mycelium, the fungus threads | which push into the heart of the wood and get their nourishment as tiey grow. When the threads are thcrough- ly established in the victim, they seek’ an opening through enother wouna or | the old one. They push out to the sur- | face and build the fruiting organ ich | is the bracket we see. Funei ar 5"~ erless vegetable organisms, there —— Daedalea. DEAD stump decorated with | large bracket fungi is very ar- | tistic looking, but when you ore no ’Complete 10-Piece Otfit for seeds are set, but the brackets are so active in manufacturing spores, the re- sult is the same. Trees have been known to live for 80 years while their life was ebblns away. This may scem like a ripe ol age, but the trees on which bracket fungi flourish often live for several cen- turies. Removing the brackets is of no use whatever. They are the effect and not the cause. If a tree has been at- tacked where a limb hes brokzn off, & major operation by a tree surgeon may I vy Vil save the tree. The mycelium is entire- ly removed, the wound dressed and carefully covered. If the tree is dead, the brackets as well as the tree should be kurned. After the wood has been used for a long time to develop brackets, it 1§ too light to have substance for firewood purposes. If left undisturbed the wood eventually returns to the soil from which it came. The age of the bracket may be told Friendly Islands. A HELPFUL TREE. | HE natives of the Fricndly Islands | ise et votzteds, yams and i other vegeiabl:s; but the mess | important product of the soil is the coconut tree. This tree is a biessing to people wherever it grows on the islands of the South Seas, but I think that the Tonga folk would win the prize in _for_the greatest by the annual growth of cells. The first year the layer is single and com- -posed of horeycomb cells. The second year the new layer is beneath the first bracket and beyond it. Each year the growth extends the bracket from be- neath. - There_are many specles” of bracket fungi. Three of them are very famil- | dar to the nature lover. The exquisite [gray bracket, with its creamy under | surface, is a favorite with amateur etchers, who use a sharp point and make interesting sketches on this nat- | urally prepared plate. The coral-red or mahogany ones with polished upper surface and stem and the sulphur yel- low ones you see in great groups to- All bracket fungi' live to be (Copyright. T. very old. the Living 0om | WOMEN'S FE ATURES. B—13 number of uses to wtich it is put. Timbers tor their homes are taken from the frunk, and the leaves supply material for thatched roofs. Sometines an entire hut is made from the trees; |2nd such a hut is known as a “fale {niu” or *“cozonuf house.” Roots from coconut trees are employ- ed in the making of fish traps and lob- ster pots. Leaves are woven into fans, | mats, baskets and sunshades. Milk of green coconuts is a pleasant drink, and-a Tongan may use it in place of water for weeks at a stretch. Meat of the coconut is used for food, | and the skells take the place of cups. Pibers for the making of rope are | obtained from the husks around the shells and the husks also serve as fuel. It has been said that American meat Iplcker: “use everything in a pig e | cept the squeal,” ‘and it seems to me | that the Tongans do just as well with the coconut tree. They are not able to use the “swish” of the leaves when the wind blows, but there is little else about | to serve human needs. 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