Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1933, Page 21

MAGAZ INE PAGE. Conquering Contract By P. HAL SIM: Mr. Sims is universally acclaimed She greatest living contract and auction player. He was captain o) the renowned Horsemen” team and has won championships since 1924. The Jump Raise in a Minor Suit. Y/ OU will have learned from the pre- ceding articles that if my partner bid a spade and I held Sp—K x x X Di—AJ10x Hts—Q x Cl—A x x —~QExE s—K x | I would respond with three spades rather than two no trumps, because | there are sltm possibilities if the rebid | should fit my hand, and game is sure | either in spades or no trumps. The | same would apply to hearts. | ‘When an opening bid has been made, | with the same holdings changed around, I would bid two no trumps. Over one diamond by my partner, with Sp.—A x x Di—K x x x His—Q x CI=AJ 10 x T or Di—A 10 X X ClL—A x x o Sp—A 10 x x DL—Qxxx His—K X Cl—Axx I would bid two no trumps, as game in no trumps would appear more likely than in the suit. Should there be a slam, I will equal- ly well be ap- prised of that pos- sibility by my partner’s subse- quent bidding—the slam will not be there unless he can bid as encour- | agingly over two no trumps as he could over three diamonds: we need an outside suit for discards or else a8 serried array of aces and kings— and I also can bid strongly after the #lam try is under way. The peint is, do not hurry past the three no trump yone, without making all possible over- tures, when the next stop must be under a sign on which is written: “If you lose 3 tricks out of 13, you are sunk.” . Do Not Fight Your Cards. In a recent team of four match at the Deal Club we obtained an advan- tage as a team of 210 points on a hand which one would imagine would gen- P. Hal Sims. Pointed Paragraphs Methuselah probably lived to a ripe old age just to spite some girl who married him for his money. Most women can make a dollar go so far that friend husband never sees it again. . Many a man has been convicted of forgery because he took Solomon’s ad- vice and chose a good name for him- self. Dead men tell no tales, but lots of tales are told about them. A great many gold bricks are used in construction of air castles. Envy contributes much to the wear and tear of the thinking apparatus. Social etiquette doesn’t interest the man who is wearing a porous plaster in an_overheated room. Don't tell the tramp you meet that charity should begin at home or he may ask for your address. The average man is usually so glad | to get home from a social that he is | glad that he went. Had Diogenes visited this country while on his famous hunt, some get- | rich-quick promoter would have swiped his lantern. JOLLY POLLY A Leeson in English BY JOS. J. FRISCH. A (OCAL GARDENER SAID HE SEEN A WHITE ROBIN LAST WEE PROSPERITY MUST BE ON THE WAY, WHEN EVEN A ROBIN CAN(\ 1 7, GET OUT OF ‘He saw a white robin” is the erally result In & tie in clubs. At my table we defended the hand. West opened third hand with one club on @A S A bt and his partner bid two clubs on Ritlaos 825054 Now another nonbiddable suit is named—two diamonds by West, two hearts by East, two no trumps by Wevclt. evenly divided between us against such confident oidding. They went down 150 points. Our partners used the one-over-one very deftly. West bid a diamond, the higher ranking of two miserable suits, neither of them biddable except in an emergency like this. East, one heart. One no trump very shrewdly by West, a minimum response because though he is not short of primary tricks, the weakness of his opening suit is very treacherous. Two clubs by East. Three clubs by West, giving a chance and by inference urging East to bid three no trumps if he has anything in diamonds. Pass by East, who has already bid his hand to the maximum. Result, plus 60 for our teammates. Had West opened with one no trump, East would bid two clubs “and West would pass, having cheated a little on his opening bid, holding & worthless doubleton. Our opponents made the generally fatal error of playing with fire twice on the same hand—bidding two unbiddable suits in quick succession. (Copyright. 1933.) Mr. Sims will answer all inquiries on con- tract that are addressed to this newspaper with self-addressed. stamped envelope. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. The feller say “Lift yer knees when ya run, an’ work yer elbows—." My elbows isn't all that's workin’ by no means! e (Copyright, 1933.) Cabbage and Tomatoes. One and one-half cupfuls well sea- soned tomato sauce, three cupfuls | chopped cooked cabbage, one-fourth cupful grated cheese, one-half cupful bread crumbs, salt, pepper. Put alter- nate layers of tomato and cabbage in a greased baking dish. Sprinkle each layer with cheese and crumbs, salt and pepper. Bake in a slow oven, 300 de- grees Fahrenheit, until slightly browned. MODES OF THE MOME LIPTON'S “lea_ form, not “he seen a white NT N OFFERS even IAEATER VALUE! WITH Should Widowed Parent Stay Single? . . \DorothyDix Have Children the Right to Keep a Widowed Parent From Marrying?—Not When a Suitable Mate Is Selected. Marriage Blessing E HAVE all shed buckets of tears over the blighted romances of children whose selfish and possessive refused to let them marry the por!octl{ ood boys girls with whom they "wheremm lcl:: ::ealuz the fat! ;r: mdh :;::hen could not‘. endure o eir sons and da caring more for any- body than they did for them, and leaving !.he‘x‘:,. 4 But it is not always father or mother who is the self-centered, domes- tic tyrant who ruthlessly sacrifices the happiness of others to his or her own jealous desire to monopolise & beloved one. Very often it is the chil- dren themselves who refuse to let a widowed parent remarry because they do not wish any change e in their homes, or for dad and mamma to have any interest but themselves, or for any one else to be put in the Pplace of their dead father or moth . INJEITHER the parents who keep thelr children from marrying nor the children who prevent their parents from marrying realize how cruel they are in preventing another from having the happiness they have known or that they possess or are looking forward to enjoying, . Strangely enough, in these days of the emancipated younger genera- tion, it is oftener the parents than the children who are the victims of these selfish monopolists in love. For the modern youngsters assert their right to live their own lives, but the parents have sacrificed themselves 80 long to the happiness of their children that they no longer have the cour- ;u v.fn strike a glo' for their own right to life, liberty and the pursuit of appiness. Tmz is hardly a day in which I do not get a letter from some widow or widower telling a pathetic tale of how his or her children are bar- ring him or her from happiness by refusing to let him or her marry. Generally these widows and widowers are still in -the prime of life with the prospect of many years of life before them. They have refrained from marrying after they lost their mates be- cause they would not risk the danger of putting a step-parent who might be cruel over their children. They have tried to be both mother and father to theis children, and have made every conceivable sacrifice for them and devoted themselves to them. But now their children are grown and gone about the business of life for themseives. The nest is empty. Their task accomplished. They are very lonely and they have found a woman or a man, suitable in every way, with whom they might re-establish their lives and find companionship. Tnxm children will not hear of it. The children are horrified at the idea of mother or father getting married again. They say it will not be the same to come back to the old home with a new woman or man in it. They want to know why father or mother needs any one'to love when he or she has his or her children, and, if father or mother is lonely, why can't he or she come and live with them? These selfish children never stop to think that mother and father have an individuality of their own, and that they want to be happy in their own way and choose their own companions and have their own houses, and that they are not satisfied just with being John's and Mary's father or mother and hangers-on in John's and Mary's homes and con- tent with a little of John's and Mary's society when they happen to think to give it to them. OR does the idea ever percolate through the conceit of children that they are no more satisfying companions to their parents than their parents to them. They would be bored to death if they had no society except fatner and mother. They want some one who talks their own lan- guage, who does the things they do, who has the same background of ex- perience that they have, and that is why they marry for companionship. By the same token it is why mother and father want the companion- ship of some one of their own generation, some one who wants to do the things they want to do, some one with the same memories. And it is whyv mother and father are lonely and bored living on the outskirts of their children’s lives, with no one to whom they can talk about when automobiles were first invented and people used to say how silly it was for anybody to believe we could ever fly through the air. 0? COURSE, it seems ridiculous to any child to think of father or mother falling in love at 45 or 50 or 60 odd, but it happens, and these middle-age romances, with their Indian Summer of warm affection and tenderness and understanding, often bring to a man and woman a greater happiness than the flery passion of their youth did. It is a heartless thing for the young, who have so much, to be willing to deprive their parents of anything that makes pleasant the last lap of the journey. Above all, the young do not understand what having their own home means to the old. No man or woman who has been at the head of his or her household can ever fit gracefully into another household. Hence, for the sake of the happiness of the parents and for their own geod, children should not oppose their parents’ marriage if father or mother has selected a suitable mate DOROTHY DIX (Copyright. 1933 M [ARCH 10, 1933. NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. HAWKSBILL TURTLE. Chelonia imbricata. HIS is the only sea turtle in the orld to have loose, overlapping lds of the upper case, known as the carapace. The structure the same as that of the turtle. The hawksbill is so named be- cause of the hook-beak which closely resembles that of the hawk. The elon- gated head, flippers and limbs are also covered with shiclds, the front flippers have two claws each and the lower case or n is yellow. The brown upper shell and the shields have & narrow margin of yellow. ‘While this is the smallest of the ses turtles, the largest on ught are only 2% feet long. They have habits much like the green turtle, spending all their time in the sea, until urged by maternal instinct to seek the sandy beaches and deposit their eggs. The mother will travel some distance to find just the right sand above the tide mark in which to dig the sandy nursery. With her flipper she hollows a deep pocket in the moist sand and according to her age will the number of eggs be placed. A couple of hundred eggs means the turtle is young. After they have been laid, the sand is shoveled over them, the top of the mound carelessly brushed by the fore flipper, and the mother is {ree again to enter the sea. That is all the responsibility she assumes, a dug- out above the tide. In six or eight weeks the little turtles | squirm out of the very close quarters. | With their tiny flippers to aid them they start at once for the water. Not| that they can take care of themselves in | the surf, but they are trying to get into shallow inlets away from their enemles. After a time, if luck is with them, they reach safety and remain here until old enough to fight their bat- | tles. The little “sea birds” use their | front flippers much as a bird does its | HAWKSBILLTURTLE- wings, and when tired, the baby turtle | lgl?is his flippers against his upper shell. The hawksbill lives upon fresh fish, | crustaceans and mollusks in the trop- | ical and semi-tropical seas of the globe. | Once in a while one of them will be ! enticed into colder waters and for a time seem to be enjoying the bracing | effect of a cold bath. ~As cold weather comes on. gumbness is experienced, and soon the little wanderer is so paralyzed with the cold that he becomes easy prey for the fishermen. ‘These are the only sea turtles that provide valuable “tortoise shell” of commerce. The clear, horny shields covering the upper shell used. (Copyright, 1 Cannot Stand the Gush. | Stenographers of Paris have decided | | that in future they will refuse to “take” | the love letters of their employers, as it is an insult to their dignity. | | Guests also like afternon teas because, | even if you are a devotee to a tradition- | | WOMEN'’S FEATURES. Formula in Serving Afternoon Tea BY EDITH M. BARBER. PTERNOON TEA—that charm- ing English custom—is one which most of us wish could be transported bodily to the United States. There actually are & few offices in New York where tea is served at 4 o'clock, and I am told by one of the executives that the result 1in increased efficiency for the last hour of the day has been noticeably good. Of course, over the teacups in such & place there can be more of the de- lightful loitering which we associate with afternoon tea as we use it usually tertaining. to-tea parties” are a boon to the housekeeper Who | has no maid and who must make her own prepara- tions and do her own serving. | Edith M. Barber. in these busy days it is often possible to draguln for a little while at tea time when it would not be possible to g0 to & luncheon or a bridge. Because tea-time food is so simple it | must be perfect of its kind. First of | all there is the tea itself. Most per- sons prefer a black blended tea, and | al green tea for family use, you should forget your own preference and serve the | kind liked by the majority. To make the tea, you must be sure to use fresh boiling water, drawn at the last mo- ment from the cold-water faucet, after it has been allowed to run long enough to be sparkling. Teapot and hot-water pot must be rinsed with hot water. The tea itself may be tied in cheesecloth or put into a teaball of good siz> and | put into the hot pot. The boiling water should then be poured over it, and after 5 minutes the tea should be r!‘I moved. Experts say that less than § minutes’ steeping fails to bring out the flavor. If it is too strong for the per- son who likes a variety of hot lemonade which he c: tea you can dilute it with hot e little pots with tight covers and wicker handles which come especially for tea service should keep water really hot. Cream and HATS lemon should both be served with tea * cmetimes s ylass platter es a glass or plate divided into sections 12 used vlv.hpm service. In this are arranged sliced lemon, sliced orange, candied cherries and small mint candies, from which the guests may help themselves, To serve with tea, there should be the daintiest of sandwiches, cut in fancy shapes of the bread and butter or very thin buttered toast. I am es- flecmly fona of the type of toast which made by spreading butter on the loaf, cutting i thin and then baXing it in the oven untii it is brown around the edge. The butter may be flavored with anchovy paste or deviled ham, or the bread may be spread with marmalade before it is put in the oven. There are very attractive wafers of various shapes which can be bought ready to spread with a flavored butter, with caviar or with a mixture of crab or lobster meat, minced celery and mayonnaise. Sometimes small biscuits or muffins, split and buttered, are served instead of or with sandwiches. Tiny cakes or cookics are also usually served with tea. They should be 50 small that each is but a mouthful. v (Copyright, 1933.) Pleasures for Prisoners. Net ball and dancing have been al- lowed in the women's prison at Hollo- way for a year past and now tennis is to be arranged for. My Neighbor Says: Hot toasted cheese or minced- meat sandwiches blend with hot coffee and are suitable for serv- ing in the evening during cold weather. If you wish to save time, d scallops with a cloth, roll in meal, and let them set in the icebox for a few hours before cooking. Either cornstarch or granulated tapioca may be used to thicken gravy. It makes it more trans- parent than when flour is used. Before blacking a stove, try scraping your finger nails over a bar of soap, rubbing as much as possible about the cuticle. After stove is blackened wash hands in lukewarm water. using & hand lotion after drying. (Copyright. 1933.) Of Fashion new spring colors *1.00 Just the hat to top your Spring suit or coat. All the new very newest styles—pancakes, pie plates, fezes, turbans and brims—made of the latest straws. ity for $1.00. SIGMUNDS Unusual qual- “the picture of PERFECT Health” writes Mrs. Robert E. Lee 265 Concord Ave. N.W. Tobin.” Saw is used to express definite time in the past, as “I saw in Butte.” he saw ‘Kongo' last week.” Seen (always used with have, had, has, is or was) is used to express time reach- ing to the present, as “I have often seen him in Butte.” NEW [OW FRILES Prices DOWN-—Quality HIGHER Than Ever Auth’s has given dealer and consumer every advantage of lower cost. But don’t think that quality has bgen sacrificed because prices are down. Actually Auth’s Meats are finer, more delicious than ever, and we’ve been a Washington Owned Industry for more A P Huins Braunschweiger Auth’s Royal Pork is won- SLICED or UNSLICED Bobby and “Millie” Lee go in for Sanico Bread in a large way. They like it with and even without but. ter. After all, isn’t that a real test for any Bread? Bread that tastes so good—all by itself—must have an unusually fine flavor. San. ico Bread has a flavor such as only the very best ingredients can pro- duce . . . for it’s made of the same high quality materials that you would use if you baked your own bread at home. You'll like it. For a pleasant change from the regular menu try Auth’s deliclous Braun- schweiger. Everybody In the family will love this tempt- ing, nourishing dish. Ask for These AUTH PRODUCTS in Your Neighborhood Store Auth’s Jellied Tongue Loaf ith’s Spiced least one roll handy in the ice box. Always look for the Auth name. 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