Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1933, Page 34

‘ MAGAZINE PAGE. Conquering Contract By P. HAL SIM Mr. Sims is universally acclaimed the greatest living contract and auction player, He was captain of the renowned “Four Horsemen’ team and has won 24 mational championships since 1924., The Jump Raise in a Minor Suit. ONTINUING this subject from yesterday, I want to remind you of a response we have already discussed, the minimum raise in the suit. This is to give your partner a chance in case his hand is well abcve a minimum; in doubtful sit- uations use this single Taise, when you cannot rightly bid two trumps and do not feel justified in giving _the jump raise. If your part- ner does rebid over this weak response, then you have good reason to hope for me and should 1l him this by your next bid. Holding— Sp. Ax XX His x DL Qxxx CLEJIxx and hearing a dia- mond bid from your partner, do Dot be afraid of missing a_game if P. Hal Sims. it is in the cards. The heart situation rules out a two-no- trump response, and that would be mis- leading, anyway, as the hand is not of the no-trump type and contains barely two tricks. Three diamonds may ap- pear the most informative response, and many theorists would work out several “raises” in trump length and the single- ton and insist that you jump the bid. However, I would be content to bid two diamonds. If my partner must pass this it is very unlikely that he can take 11 tricks in’ that suit or nine in no-trumps. If he bids two hearts, now bid three no- trumps, the delayed jump showing that the gap has been bridged; if he bids spades or clubs, now you know that no- trumps is not your destiny and should raise his second suit to show four of them in support. Your partner will now select his trump suit and bid for game in the suit which offers the best play- ing chance. Spades, of course, is pref- erable—but if the choice is between the two minors, he knows you have four of | each and should select his shorter suit for trumps, enabling the longer suit’ to be employed to furnish a discard of losers from dummy. Cheosing the Trump Suit. Sir Derrick Wernher, who assists me §n preparing these articles, obtained a top score in a Howell game through making a brilliant raise in the partner's shorter suit, holding Strong support in the first suit. Incidentally, several pairs ot into trouble on this hand, bidding | for an 1mpossible game, presumably be- cause they did not spot the duplication in both minor suits. The Sims system, aided by an overcall by the enemy, steered this particular partnership to| the right declaratior, though it is true that the extra trick gained in the play SCREEN BY CAPT. ROSCOE FAWCETT. " 100-UINE EMOTIONAL I FFTEEN MINUTES FOR NO OTHER WOMAN.” KARL DANE'S REAL NAME 1S = RASMUS KARL A number of years ago, when Ral ticed law in New York Cily. One of induced Ralph to appear in the cast ‘Morgan has been an actor ever since. *Helen's t ide. She's your age — but you look years younger be- cause you're still so slim!" & 5t MEMORIZED A could have been saved by West had he opened hearts. The South hand bid a diamond on— T RS XS and West, holding five spades to the | king, queen and jack, and king. queen, six, two of hearts, overcalled with one spade; he was not vulnerable. Wern- her, North, passed with— W% x* 8 4% as the bidding had been kept open by | an opponent. South bid two clubs, West ventured two spades, and now North raised to three clubs, which held the contract. In the play, the spade was opened, declarer won it and cleared the trumps in three leads. Now the dia- mond suit enabled dummy to shed both hearts and South made five-odd, losing only a heart and a spade. With dia- monds as trumps, it is impossible to make more than 10 tricks. When South gambled for game in no-trumps, West, duly warned of the spade-stopper, | opened his fourth best heart, and trey ran five heart tricks immediately. (Copyright, 1933.) Mr. Sims will answer all inquiri - tract that are nddreased to (his newsPADEF with self-addressed, stamped envelope. Visits. EAR MRS. POST: This afternoon cards of friends Were left at my home by a messenger. I have not seen these people in years. Onk card read ‘Mr. and Mrs. Brown’ and | the other ‘Mr. Brown’ and the corners 'an both were turned down. Please tell | me what this means?” Answer: Frankly I can't imagine! Mr. Brown's extra card left for your husband, and the corners turned, should mean that Mrs. Brown called on you in person. Since this was not the case, perhaps the Browns have moved to a new address and think it more DOL}J!G to send cards by hand than by mail. “Dear Mrs. Post: I called on a new family some months ago and have never had any return call from them. I am told that this woman intends to give & large party soon and invite all those who have called on her, but whose calls she has never returned. Several 114 | of my friends and I have talked this over and we do not think this:is the correct thing for her to do. Should we accept an invitation of that kind?" Answer: It is always best to accept people according to their intentions | rather than according to their observ- ance of mechanical rules. There may be many reasons why she fafled in card-leaving courtesy—a rather empty ODDITIES PART l;m Morgan was a young man, he prac- clients was Warner Oland. Warner of the Ibsen play, “Love Comedy,” and 00 fat to — your figure reveal your GOOD TASTE TODAY BY EMILY POST. Famous Authority on Etiquette, | tion just as much |to add a diversified experience. THE EVENING SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. We got a feller trainin’ us now at school. He say: “Start the day right wif a cold bath"—I'se startin’ it a little right wif a warm one—— (Copyright. 1933.) form, according to today’s informality. It seems to me that you new neighbor means to be friendly or she would not be inviting every one to a party. It would be cruel, I think, to refuse her invitation. Remember that the first law of etiquette is kindness. “My Dear Mrs. Post: Very often I am invited to the houses of business ac- quaintances for dinner. And in most cases these invitations are from people much older than myself, and with whom | I haven't much in common. Does courtesy demand that I reman in their house for the evening or am I at liberty to leave shortly after dinner, and if I am, how soon afterward?” Answer: You should either not ac- cept these invitations or else you shoyld stay until at least one other guest is also ready to leave. If you are the only visitor, you would stay for at least half an hour after leaving the dinner table. (Copyright. 1933.) STAR, WASHINGTON, EAR MISS DIX: I am married, 40 years old, have two children. Have a responsible position and make to support my femily in comfort and I adore my two I am studious, a keen lover of home life and I y wite. continually on the go. Not home one e her home. The children are brought up by some. Desperately so. So are children. I am appreciate that my wife has an individuality of her own and her own personal tastes. Nor do I desire to put her in a cage. But I would like to have some wife and some home life. We have begun to quarrel over these matters. I have to brood -and worry. The atmosphere is charged with open hostility, but for the sake of my children I concede her actions and mode of living, but we are getting to the breaking point. What can we do? E 8. L Answer: Of course, you are in the right, but being right doesn’t avail much when you have to deal with a pleasure-mad woman who is intent love . only on the gratification of herself. The trouble about arguing such a case as yours with a woman and trying to show her how wrong she is in neglecting her duties to her family is that before either party knows it they have lost their teum and are in a hot fight, which is generally ended by the woman dissolving in tears and the man putting'on his hat and slamming the front door behind him. So my suggestion to you is that you write out a calm and dispassionate statement of the case to her in a letter and give it to her to be read in quiet. Mail it to her so she will get it when you are not at home. Tell her that ycu love her, and are lonely without her. Then tell her what a wrong she is doing her children by leaving them to grow up on the street and have their characters formed by the influences of the street, and re- mind her that if they grow up into being hoodlums she will have nobody to blame but herself. Then offer her a compromise. Two evenings & week out, say, and the balance at home. If she refuses to agree to this, the only thing you can do is to make the best of & bad bargain for the sake of the children. But remember, it is better for the children to have no home at all, or cne parent, than it is to have a home of strife and two parents who are always quarreling with each other. < DOROTHY DIX. * K k% DEAR MISS DIX: My problem is this: I have kept company with a man for seven years, and, although he calls once a week, he never proposes or even mentions marriage. I am very mych in love with him and would be very grateful if you would tell me how to make him pop !'ilgpquesum. Answer: You certainly must be one of the world’s greatest optimists if you can still remain hopeful about a man who has not reached the pro- posing point in seven years. Nobody can tell you how to make that kind of man pop the question, because he is not in love with you and has no intention whatever of marrying you. His coming to See you every week is no indication that his attentions have any intention. He probably likes your mother’s cooking, and he finds you an interesting and agreeable com- panion, and your house i3 a pleasant place in which to spend an evening. but that is all. Better waft such a man out into the air and center your interest on some man who is better husband material. DOROTHY DIX. D. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1933. “What i British & “nation of That is the kind of remark often re- peated who want to be 80 it is not difficult to find uses of it in the literature of the last +150 years. Its origin tributed to an oration delivered by s-muellmm ;i the‘ lst:;g”flauu in “ 2 9 Philadelphia on August 1, . But we e b goopon SO X T RN M A N ‘shopkeepers?” ”: “To & great empire x:.rl How It Started BY JEAN NEWTON. WOMEN'’S FEATURES. the sole purpose of raising up s people of customers may at first sight appear -prro!ec} fit only for a nation of shop- ‘The expression is often attributed to Napoleon, but can be verified only on the part of the Frenchman, Bertrand Barere, in June, 1794, as follows: “Let Pitt then boast of his victory to his nation of shopkeepers.” (Copyright, 1933.) Everything You Bake Will Be an Assured Success If You Use That’s not just chance—but for the best of o * ]DEAR MISS DIX: What is a fellow to do with his old girl whom he courted for 10 long years and who has waited all those long years to marry him when he finds out that he is wildly in love with another woman? but how? has lost his affection for her and I want to do the honorable thing, FORLORN BACHELOR. Answer: The only honorable thing to do is to tell your old sweetheart of your change in feelings and that you cannot Naturally it will be rather hard on her, possibly marry her. but it will not be 50 hard as it would be to be married to a man who had ceased to care for her and was in love with another woman. Your case unwisdom of long engagements, and is a tragic illustration of the I hope it will be & warning to other Y DIX. y inking of entering into such & dangerous arrangement. young people thi g of ent g S A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT F there is any one characteristic of | the Secretary of State that stands | out above all others, it is his earnest- ness, his studiousness. More than any- thing else Cordell Hull appears a stu- dent. And his favorite study is economics. Economics chal- lenges his atten- today as it did than 25 years 8go when he first de- voted unflagging zeal to attempting solution of eco- nomic problems. His name is syn- onymous with sta- tistics—at least, to his colleagues on Capitol Hill, who Hiskd his gentus o nf genius in making dry S palatable and entertaining. ot Democratic party chieftains for a long time have regarded themselves as fortunate in ha a man of Hull's mnmu;y to spread their economic doc-' He is credited with being one of the Nation’s soundest economists. He is author of the Federal income tax law | and the estate tex. The tall, serious-minded, scholarly Hull is modest and tolerant and almost unkelievab’y industrious. To these natural qualities it has been his lot He is a Democrat cf the old school. Reared in an atmosphere of democracy that in latter years has suffered cnly | by tne Harding landslide of 1920, which swept him from his seat in the House of Representatives, he has been con- spicuous in constructive services to his party sinoe the time, shortly after obtaining his law degree he went to the Tennessee State Legislature. As Secretary of State, Hull will find himself confronted with just the sort of probleris he seems to enjoy the most. He likes to talk about tariffs, economic vVvVvvvvvvvvew FACIAL BLEMISHES | From & Uiny plmple to acute acne wse : Roeiral | PLUMMER. readjustment—anything that touches that field. Give him these as issues to be met and he is at home. He may stand, as he has so often done in the past, in the door of the Democratic cloakroom of the Senate, cigar alight, to listen to | oratory on other matters, but discus- sicn of his pet subjects brings him up in the front rows, an intent, eager auditor. He is constantly brushing up on the subject of eccnomics. He seems to have no other hobby. He doesn’t golf, nor does he shoot or fish or indulzge in any of the usual forins of recreations. Joe Byrns of Ternessee, probably his closest friend | in Congress, says he gets his recreation in thinking, in deep thinking. Others supply the fact that he does his best thinking while shaving. 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