Evening Star Newspaper, March 2, 1933, Page 36

WOMEN'’S FEATURES Conquering Contract By P. HAL SIM§——m Mz, Sims is universally acclaimed thesgreatest living contract and auc- tiort player. He captain of the renowned “Four Horsemen” team ang has won 24 national champion- ships since 1924. The Leeway Principle HE time has come to introduce to you a bidding principle, which, as far as my knowledge goes, is not found in any other system and is, in fact, con- demned by many experts on the Eounds that it is deliberately lacking precision and that it inflicts & need- less guess on the partner. They admit that it has somehow not proved to be an fnsurmountable obstacle to tain. that it is too difficult for the average player to Jearn or employ safely. I will leave it to m'::'hxeldefi; to Jud; e validity of ?he e ‘“criti- eisms.” When the part- per of the opening biddgr immediately jumps the bid to within one lam;.u thndt 1;: P. Hal Sims. orc} bid whicl Ehe ! opener may not unless his own opening bid was a psychic. Thig discretion 1s allowed to the opener, so as to protect psychic or hearspsychic third-hand opening bids. In} connection with the two-no- trump response, you have already had thi: jump take-out in another suit is al- way$ a force, and is not under dis- cuscion here. I am mnow concerned withs the jump raise in partner’s suit. 'This “fs a force under just the same conditions as the two-no-trump re- sponse. What Jump Raise Means. If you open with one heart and I respond with three hearts, I am giving you the following message: “Unless your bid was a psychic we are appar- ently sure to make four hearts on this hend. A slam is not out of the ques- tion if you have additional values and our hangs fit each other in their hold- ings outside hearts. I have four hearts for you; if you can make some positive informative bid, please do so. Other- wise bid four hearts which is a sign- off bid in this situation.” Send Out Scouts. This leeway method gives an added chance to feel out slam possibilities without endangering a game contract, In the inevitably difficult situation when the responding hand has no suit in which to take-out, but nevertheless ealizes that he has potential slam &a!erii\l and that a game in the open- 's suit is practically sure. By bidding Zne short of game, he gains a whole principle explained to you. A| tract major suit—but that should only be when this contract is quite safe, and there is a play for six, but the bidding has failed to show the slam as a good bidding chance. A hand that my wife played last week illustrates this latter contingency. Mrs. Sims, South, bid one spade on e QT ARSI and her partner spades, holding Di. A 109 x s Kloxx ts. X CLAJxx South, having only three primary tricks and no second suit, signed off with four spades. North, however, with his singleton and two aces, still had slam' hopes if the opener had three and one-half tricks regardless of sec- ondary suits, and makes this clear by bidding five spades, which my wife rigntly passed. Had her queen of dia- monds been the king, that would have been her justification for bidding six holding. Had South held 8. AQJxx . His, K Q x 8 %5 response should be three no trumps and North would then bid five spades, which South must pass. Only if Bdst holds both king and jack of diamonds and West has the ace of this contract be set. (Copyright, 1933.) Mr. Sims will answer all’ inquiries on contract that are addressed to this news- | paper with self-addressed. stamped envelope. How It Started BY JEAN NEWTON. hearts, can The “Wardrobe.” ‘The origin of this word brings to light the old English word “ward,” which survives in our language today only with “off,” as “ward off that dap- ger.” From the Anglo-Saxon “Wear- dian” this was an ancient synonym for guard. “Warder” for a guard is one of its descendants. Also the “ward” in ‘wardrobe. ““Wardrobe” comes to us through the old English from the old French “warderobe,” which was originally ‘garder be”—of German origin, and good German today, for a room oOF compartment where clothes were kept or guarded. (Copyright, 1933.) Health Bubbles in Germany. BERLIN (#).—Germany has 216 health-giving springs says a survey by | German travel bureaus. The spas were used by a million health seekers in 11932, the income being estimated at $40,000,600. | rightly bid three spades, which would be made with that | | | | <2 - one piece, Tommy. Ya can't leave all ! :he responserillity on just one pant but- on— LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. l Reddy Merfy was throwing s ball against the empty wall to himself and I was standing there watching, saying, How many times do you thing you can catch it without missing, do you think? Who wants to know? Reddy sald. Being sourcastic, and I said, Well G you don’t haff to get mad. you think you're my boss? Reddy said, and I said, No, G, I didn’t say I was, did 1? Then dont tawk so much, Reddy said, and I said, Whose tawking” And I wawked away looking more independent than what I felt, and Per- sey Weever was just coming down the street, saying, What's a matter, what's Reddy acting so sore at you for: ‘Who wants to know? I sald, and Persey said, Well G, hay, you dont haft to get sore at me, do you? Yes I do if I feel like it, do you mean to say you got the nerve to try to tell me what I to do and what I dont haff to do? I said. G wizs do you want a fite? Because if you want | a fite just go ahead and hit me? I said. Well gosh, G, who says anybody wants a fite? Persey said, and I said, Well you're acting mitey like it, if you're looking for trubble go ahead and hit me, go on, hit me. Why should I? Persey said, and I said, because I tell you to, you nock kneed dubble jointed onion, and Per- sey said, Well you just go ahead and hit me. Wich T did, hitting him a good stiff you did what I told you to all rite, it’s | a good thing for you. And he quick started to wawk away Fer wrastlin’. you ought to all in | ries, wizzickers I ony asked you a question, Dont tell me what I haff to do, do| | puntch in the chest, Persey saying, Well | STAR, WASHINGTO NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT. Arisaema triphyllum. ACK is a sti preacher, stand- ing erect on only leg, with a canopy of green overhead and florets at his feet. He is the modest relation of the calla lily. In cool, moist woods he preaches from his pulpit in April to the many flowers and insect friends. His most important congregation is composed of the wee gnats, flies and insects which have slept under the toad stools and leaf blankets all about him. ‘The preachers are not all father Jacks; the mothers are preachers, too. You can tell them apart in the early Spring by their canopies. Those of dark stripes or maroon colored belong to the ladies, the green and whitish striped ones belong to the gentlemen. In the Summer you know the mothers by their fine cluster of bright red ber- In each pulpit you will find a glossy column about the size of a pencil. It is the spadix, which is called the preacher, or Jack. The awning or canopy is called the spathe. The true flowers are very small affairs ahd are found in each pulpit, the staminate ones in the father pulpits and the pistillate ones in the mothers! Rarely will you find both flowers under one shelter. Sometimes the preacher’s head will t an insect guest become so large cannot get past it. Tragedy follows. Look into a pulpit and you will see the dead lying about. Jack is extremely glossy and slippery. The insect guests who arrive are eager to reach the flow- | ing bowl of nectar. They alight upon | JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT- the preacher and shoot down the column as if it were a greased pole. It is the most fascinating thing you can imaging to watch the insects make the rapid descent. They try so hard to right themselves, but finally give up and land in a rug made of golden pollen. After feasting they try to re- turn by the route they entered. This is impossible, and only those who perse- vere find that a gap between the folds of WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent Office. St. Elmo’s Fire. AS the mast caught fire? That question must have been asked by many a person who has seen St. Elmo's Fire playing around the top of a ship mast, or along the yardarms. After darkness has cloged over the sea, this asight comes sometimes with a crackling or hissing sound; but-the mast does not burn St. Elmo’'s Fire is a strange thing. It appears to have been named in honor of a patron saint of sailors; and saflors have said that it brings good fortune, Of ‘course there 46 no proper reason to say that it causes either good or evil fortune—it is just one of the ways in which Nature plays with the folk of earth. Church steeples and tops of trees also are visited by St. Elmo’s Fire dur- thunderstorms. It may come as often during the daytime as at night, g::"kn can be seen more easily after Greek sailors of anclent times were fond of saying that the fire was a visit of twin heroes named Castor and Pol- luxj It was declared that these heroes were brothers of Helen of Troy, and that they had won fame as sportsmen while they lived on earth. ~ When the Tracy mansion burned at 1634 I street February 3, 18902 —_—— j—— enterprising another pulpit and joyride. Of course, the plan of nature never goes astray and the insects go from the father plant | to the mother plant, transferring the pollen for them. i ‘The clever preachers use the wood- 1and guests to further their plan. The bright red berries in Summer attract the hosts of bird travelers. They eat the little red coat of the baby seed and drop the naked little seed baby in the woods far from home. This is! how the preacher has established his, family from Nove Scotia westward to Minnesota and southward to the warm ‘The Indians used to boil the berries and make them into a sort of cake.|Pire is electric, and it may be a form They bolled the bulb, called & corm,]of lightning. and it was known as the Indian turnip.| Another strange visitor is known as Country boys sought the haunt of the| “ball lightning.” It is a flfl!‘lx;lfcml&l, preacher and used the corm for initia- | more or less round in shape, which ap- tion purposes. A few bites of the raw |pears now and then during thunder- turnip are as mild as & mouthful of tobasco sauce. (Copyright. 1933 Townships Spend $12,000,000. ‘Township governments in Ohilo spent more than $12,000,000 in 1931. / i i iy il There is little doubt that St. Elmo’s | MAGAZINE storms. It may flot t| h the air or skim over the ground. Sometimes it gives forth a hissing or humming sound. It may explode in half a second, or it may remain in sight for many seconds and disappear with no sound Dr. L. B. Tuckerman, a scientist has reported a sirange case of ball light- ning in Ohio. During a thunderstorm, he happened to be near an orchard where pigs were running around. He saw a “ball of fire” pass over the ground, and it either bumped inst | a pig or the pig bumped against it.| There was a loud report and the pig | fell over, as if dead. Dr. Tuckerman ran to look 2i the animal but it jumped | | up and ran away. Maybe it was more | frightened than hurt! | I have seen bell lightning only | | once. Sitting on the porch of my home, | | I observed a kind of flame which hover- | ed over the lawn just an instant be- | fore it exploded with a great bang. No | one was hurt, and when I later looked | at the lawn, I was not ble to find al (For “Sclence” section of your scrapbook.) Five Magic Tricks are included in the Surprise Leaflet offered with- out charge to readers who write Uncle Ray and ask for it. Be sure to inclose a stamped return envelope. UNCLE RAY. (Copyright, 1933.) MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Grapefruit. Oatmeal with Cream. Fish Hash. Chili Sauce. Hot Corn Cake. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Egg Croquettes. Boiled Spinach. Baking Powder Biscuits. Preserved Peaches, Sugar_Cookies. Tea. DINNER. Cream of Onion Soup. Fried Halibut. Don’t risk self-infection g COLDS! use KLEENEX disposable tissues and destroy! BIG BOX 25¢ Iliustrations and text copr. 1933, Kleenex Co.. 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