Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1933, Page 25

MAGAZ INE PAGE. Conquering Contract By P. HAL SIMS - Mr. Sims is wuniversally 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. Invitation Opening Bids. HERE are only two opening bids which we use as invitation bids, urging the partner to keep the bidding open with even less than if he were responding to an opening bid of one, but not forbidding him to pass a useless hand. These two | bids are two no trumps and three no trumps. The former invites the partner | to bid even on| what must appear to him an almost hopeless hand, Im“ game purposes, The latter invites him to bid even on al- most equally weak holdings, for slam purposes. Two No Trump Opening Bid. My conception of the best employ- ment for this bid is that it may be of a gambling nature when the partner is very weak, so far as scratching out a game is concerned; but that when partner is comparatively strong, under which conditions there is no doubt | ‘whatever about making a game and | generally over-tricks as well, any re- sulting slam developments should be | on a definite basis, with no more| *gamble” involved than in slams ar-| wived at by the other bidding processes Wwhich have already becn explained to P. Hal Sims. Theory of Gambling Bids. | . So far, pehaps, I have stressed pre- | kcision and safety in constructive bidding with too little consideration of the chance-taking aspect of the game. This may be because I believe that the best opportunities for audacity in bidding| for doubtful games are in connection with no-trump contracts. The player ‘who is hardly ever set a trick in a game | icontract voluntarily assumed is an under-bidder who is losing many points through lack of courage or of vision. ‘There is still less excuse if he or she a good player of cards, able to profit y mistakes in the defensive leads and plays of the opponents, or to discern | SCREEN JOVCE CconsDERS A RAGRITS FOOT, WHICH SHE HAS CARRIED FOR 7 YEARS, HER MOST / IMPORTANT POSSESSION o DOROTHY ARZNER, 7 ¢ ONLY WOMAN DIRECTOR , CUES PLAYERS WITH LIGHTS. [’ AN ACTOR € WHEN HiS NAME APPEARS IN AN ILLUMINATED SIGN WHICH SHE CONTROLS. MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS Reducing Hips and Abdomen. six years, and now I am com- ing to you for help with my own problem. I am 38 years old, 5 feet 3 inches tall. My hips, abdomen and upper arms are too fat How can I reduce these parts without much trouble? I cannot take strenu- EAR MISS LEADS—I have been l a reader of your column for ous exercises, but fecl that I must do | g something to check this excess weight from accumulating too much. BUSY HOUSEWIFE. Answer—It is natural for a woman of your age to take on a little thickness about the hips, waist, abdomen and upper arms, especially if you have not | taken regular exercise or watched your diet carefully. There is no need for you to take strenuous exercise or dras- | tic reducing menus, however. Merely | cut down on the amount of fattening | foods that you usually cat and take a | moderate amount of special exercise | every day. Try the following exercises every night and morning: Lie fully ex- tended on the back on fioor or bed. fingers interlaced back of head. Now raise the right knee toward chest, at the same time raising chest slightly and twisting_right- so left elbow touches raised knee. Lower and reverse the movement, touching the opposite elbow | with the opposite zaised knee. (2) Ly- | ing on the back, legs extended, arms at | side, raise left knee, then grasp below the knee with both hands; while ex- haling, pull down on the hands; re- Jease hands and extend leg while in- MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Stewed Rhubarb. Dry Cereal with Cream. Creamed Codfish on Toast. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Corn Fritters. Glaced Sweet Potatoes. Creamed Caulifiower. Date Muffins. 8. DINNER. ‘Tomato Juice Cocktail. Fried Scallops, Tartar Sauce. French Fried Potatoes. Lettuce, French Dressing. Cracker Plum Pudding. Lemon_Sauce. Coflee. TARTAR SAUCE. Yolks of two eggs, one-fourth teaspoonful salt, pinch of pep- per, one tablespoonful tarragon vinegar, one level teaspoonful mustard, one teaspoonful chopped parsley, one tablespoonful chop- ped gherkins or capers. Mix Yolks of eggs, salt, pepper, tarra- gon vinegar and mustard. Stir until smooth, and then add a gill of salad ofl, drop by drop. Stir in the chopped parsley, gher- kins or capers with a silver fork. If the sauce is not sharp en~'zh to taste, add more vin.,ar or lemon juice. . « 13, ODDITIES BY CAPT. ROSCOE FAWCETT. the gifts they may be handing out through bad discarding. How the Ranking Expert Shows His Class. In the 1932 Congress of the American Whist League, John H. Law, bridge editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, played South in the auction pair cham- pionship. The following hand he naturally played with hearts as trumps. Ak-34 ¥10-9-8-5-3-2 *K-2 »K4 & 4-310-53 vl *(-1473 ‘The queen of clubs was led, and the declarer could see that the hand was | & spread for six-odd if West held the | ace of spades, otherwise only five-odd would be made if the spade play were | tried unsuccessfully. Johnny Law was not content to accept average on the hand. He made a try for six-odd, even if the ace of spades were held by East. A pseudo-squeeze was the weapon he selected—and it worked. Winning the first lead in dummy, he led out five rounds of trumps. East discarded safely three times—then unwisely let go one of his diamonds. Thereupon declarer led two rounds of diamonds, ruffed the third round with Dummy’s last trump, got back to his own hand with the ace of clubs, and led the last diamond. His own holdings were then the two of spades and the six of clubs. West had | to discard from the jack of clubs and the queen and eight of spades. Com- pletely fooled by the declarer’s failure to ruff any losing clubs when he could so easily and safely have done so, he concluded the declarer had only spades left—and threw away the club jack. East naturally had no club left in his hand, so South’s six of clubs won the twelfth trick. (Copyright. 1933.) Mr. Sims will answer all inquiries on contract that are addressed to this newspaper with self-addressed, stamped envelope. LUCIEN LITTLEFELD WAS ENACTED THE ROLE OF HEN-PECKED HUSBAND IN MORE THAN 75 FILMS. NTERS A SCENE LEEDS. | haling. Repeat several times. Then do the exercise with the right leg. Relax and repeat with both knees. (3) Lying on back, feet extended, grasp | head of bed to keep trunk in back- | reclining position. Extend left leg far across to right side while exhaling. Re- | turn to position while inhaling and re- | peat 10 times; then extend right leg to | left, and alternate left and right sev- eral times. (4) Lie on the back, with fair sized book on the abdomen. Draw in the abdomen and lower the book as much as possible while ex- haling. Inhale and raise the book as far as possible by forcing the abdcmen out. Also, without breathing, force the | book up and down. (5) Swing the THE NANCY PAGE See the Gloss on Joan’s Hair. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Joan was growing pretty fast. Aunt Nancy saw to it that she had plenty of milk, vegetables, fresh fruits. But even so, she had a sort of dragged-out look. ‘The doctor advised plenty of sleep. “I think you will find that those pouches under her eyes and her pasty look will vanish when she gets more sleep and rest. Keep her diet as you have outlined it.” When Aunt Nancy took her down to have her hair bob- bed the woman in charge of the shop said, “I think I will try an egg sham- poo for her today. I believe it will bring a little more gloss to her hair.” Joan watched the performance with wide open eyes. First the hair dresser took four eggs and broke them into a bowl and beat them well. Then she took Joan over to the wash bowl and rinsed her hair thoroughly. Next she rubbed half of the egg mixture into the scalp and hair and massaged it vigorously. The hair was well rinsed. ‘The remainder of the egg mixture went on and worked until the head was all covered with lather. This was then well rinsed and the hair was dried l\:‘itl; brushing, and not with artificial eat. After this shampoo Joan's hair shone like spun silk. The hair dresser said kind seemed to be beneficial. It added oils to the scalp. Of course part of the rubbing. as she called it, and hurried to school to tell teacher all about it the next day. OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRL Baby's Game. ABY dropped his doggie on the floor and crowed. Mother picked it up and handed it to him. He laughed and threw it down again. Again mother picked it up and gave it to him. He threw it down and his mother picked it up for half a dozen times or more and then mother was tired. It isn't great fun to stoop for a toy and hand it to a baby after the first three or four times. “Now, no more. Don’t throw it down any more. No, no, I said. Now this is the last time. Ii you throw it down it stays down.” looked doubtful, The baby then {smiled and threw the doggie on the | floor again. “You're a naughty child. You ought to be slapped for that. No, I won't pick it up again. It can stay on the floor.” Now the baby lifted his voice and wept. Through his tears showed a shrewd and watchful eye. Maybe she would pick it up if he cried loud enough. She didn't. He increased the volume until the rafters rang. “Now see hear, Jacob Alexander, if you don’t stop that noise youre going to be spanked. You heard me. Now you stop it.” Jacob Alexander didn't believe in | threats, so he stiffened out in his chair {and screamed his protest. Mother | spanked him and put him in bed. After |all that was the logical conclusion of the matter. A baby likes to throw things on the floor and have them come back to him. It is a great surprise to him to have something that he thought had gone forever come to life again. You see once a thing disappears trom his sight he thinks it is gone. Mother brings it back. Delightful. Most amusing. He will make it disappear, she will make {it come back. He has no idea of mak- | ing his mother tired. He does not know about tiredness. He is not tired. He has only begun to play. When a child begins this game tie his ball to the crib or the chair. Teach him to haul it back when he tosses it down. He will like that even better than having some one on hand to pick it up for him. The activity will do him a lot of good. We don't allow the littie children to get enough hearty exercise to stimulate their growth. Little cnil- dren need to work themselves out arms in large circles, first to the right and then to the left, while standing in an upright position, abdomen in, chest elevated, feet slightly apart and chin up. You do not give me your present weight, so I cannot judge just how much overweight you are. If you will send a celf-addressed, stamped envelope and ask for my leaflets, “Indoor Women, ‘Beauty Exercises” and “Weight Chart,” they will help you. There are several other useful and effec- tive exercises that you may take regu- larly. Be sure that ycu eat a sufficient amount of fresh fruits, vegetables and salads, and cut down a little on fatten- ing foods. My leaflet, “Safe and Sane thoroughly once a day. They will grow faster and sleep hetter, and be more intelligent if they play hard. Don't, unless you are a very young parent indeed, play the child’s e with _him. Start him, encourage him, but don‘t, if you value your energy and your comfort, try to share the actual activity. No grown person can keep up with a little child. He can go on for hours on end without fatigue if he is !E:égylelx;rg“ hlmseéf whi'l.e ‘Isfl! mother x01' grandparent gaspin or breath after the first few mlnuta.‘ (Copyright, 1933.) Reducing Methods,” will enable you to plan your menus suitable for your own individual needs. Ask for it when you write me again. LOIS LEEDS. Stationary Running. Dear Miss Leeds—Please tell me how to do the exercise that you have given recently dlled “stationary running.” The other exercises have been so helpful, and I do want to keep them up and practice them correctly. MISS D.E. R. Answer—*“Stationary running,” or run- ning in one place, is performed as follows: Stand erect, abdomen in, chest elevated and shoulders back, head high. Do the same movements as though you were actually running a distance. Raise up on the right foot, descending onto it while you raise the left foot; at the same time swing the right arm back- ward as you hcp or run with the left foot, alternating the arm swings with the right and left foot. Raise the knee high and swing the opposite arm backward as far as possible, keeping the feet over the same spot while doing stationary running. LOIS LEEDS. <Copyright, 1933.) CUTICURA Made of the purest i fiegnflifling medici ndx IC properties, ‘wd‘ that an occasional shampoo of that| benefit came from the massaging and | Joan enjoyed her “omelet shampoo,” | | EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Is a Woman Happier When She Sacrifices Her Own Career to Her Husband? -Effect of Depression. EAR MISS DIX: In an article in a magazine about three months ago Greta Garbo writes: “Personally, I should hate to have my husband lose his identity to such an extent as to be known as Mr. Grgta Garbo. Rather than that, I should want to retire from the screen altogether and forget that I had ever been Greta Garbo.” What do you think of the sentiments expressed in this paragraph? A MOVIE FAN. Answer—I think Miss Garbo_expressed the feeling of the great ma- Jority of even famous women. I think that almost all women would rather be married to a successful man than to be successful themselves. Of course, there are exceptions to this rule. There are self-centered women, hungry for applause, greedy for the spotlight, who want all the laurel leaves for themselves and who would not be willing even to share them with a husband, still less to shine in his reflected glory, but the great majority of women would rather that their husbands were famous than to be famous themselves. THIS is because not only does every woman desire to look up to her husband, but she wants every one else to do so, too, and so it puts her as well as him in an awkward position when she is the one who holds the center of the stage. Nor does this reversing of the ordinary roles of the sexes make for marital happiness. Perhaps it is because we are so bound by the tradi- tions of the past that it is such a bitter thing for a husband to play second fiddle to his wife and sink his identity in hers, but the fact remains that few men love their wives well enough to forgive their suc- ceeding better than they do, and that the deadliest insult you can offer a man is to call him Mr. Mary Smith, no matter how eminent Mary may be. A MAN may enjoy the soctal prestige his wife's achlevements give him. He may live luxuriously on the money she earns. But in his heart he resents her being the one who is in the public eye and gets the public acclaim, and he is fighting mad when any one intimates that he is just the husband of his wife. I have known many women who sacrificed themselves to their hus- bands’ careers, and who spent their lives building up their husbands’ renown, and who were content just to be a foil to their husbands' great- ness, but I have known only two famous women whose husbands gave up their own careers in order to promote the success of their wives. WHAT the highly gifted woman is to do under the circumstances is not clear. She may marry a successful business or professional man who is eminent in his own line, but whose calling is not spectacular, while hers is. His achievements and comings and goings are not of in- terest to the general public, while hers are. So she gets the headlines and the front page, while he remains obscure. Nor does she seem to fare better if she marries a man who is also much publicized, because there springs up a rivalry between them as to which one gets the most ballyhoo. Ann Harding recently divorced her husband for professional reasons. Doubtless we shall have to wait for the millennium before this problem is solved. DOROTHY DIX. x x x ¥ EAR MISS DIX: I am 27 years of age and my flance is 30. We' love each other desperately, but he has been out of work for two yeass and the future looks so unpromising. He is & fine engineer, but there is just no work in his line. We cannot go places together because of the money problem unless I foot the bill, and he doesn’t like that. He is get- ting shabby and seedy ard losing heart, and what are we to do? H. H. Answer—Hundreds of letters like this come to my desk and I could weep my eyes out over every one of them. For it is so cruel a thing that love’s young dream should be blighted by the lack of money. One of the =ad phases of the depression has been that it has kept so many young couples from marrying—that it has brought to naught the fond hopes of 50 many lovers who had been striving and saving and looking forward to an early wedding day. and who have had all of their happy plans smashed into nothingness by the man losing his job and failing to find another. In the wreck of this panic have gone down the hope chests of a million girls, and blocks and blocks of the little white cottages with green blinds and flowers and vines that engaged couples build in their imaginations. I WISH that I could say something that would be of comfort to these heartsick young people who are starving for the happiness they crave as they could be starving for bread, but there is small comfort in words for those who yearn for the reality. I can only urge them to hold on to courage, not to give way to despair, not to lose hope. For as long as we can keep our morale we are unbeaten, but when that is gone we are sunk. I can only urge them not to quit planning their lives together; not to give up building and rebuilding their house of dreams. Cling to that as to a lifebuoy and it will keep you afloat when the storm threatens to engulf you. The sun will shine again. This depression will be over as other panics have been over, and somehow, some way, we shall work back to sanity and peace and plenty again. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright. 1933.) WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. B. Patent Office. When Abe Atell and Kid Sullivan, local featherweights, fought a 15-round draw in Baltimore? How It Started BY JEAN NEWTON. “The Long and Short of It.” “That’s the long and the short of it!” There we have a popular way of indi- cating the epitome of a story, of having covered everything there is to say in the matter under consideration. The expression has the succinctness of modern slang. It is concise and un- adorned, qualities not always practiced by the Elizabethans or their immediate followers. But that is the period X whence the phrase takes its origin. It appeared first in a work first printed in | 1579—the second part of “The Four Elements.” (Copyright. 1933.) My Neighbor Says: Soak salt fish the night before it 1s used in cold water to which has been added a few spoonfuls of vinegar. Place it in enough cold water to cover it and grad- ually bring to the boil. Simmer for a quarter of an dour. Old hairbrushes, which have become soft, can be made hard and firm by dipping them in a strong solution of alum. Mustard and horseradish mixed make an excellent relish for cold meats. Mix the mustard and add to it an equal quantity of grated horseradish, which has been beiled 10 minutes. Thin the mixture with a little of the water in which the horseradish was boiled. Scorch marks, unless very bad, when, of course, there is no cure for them, may be removed from linen in the following way: Cut an onion in halves and rub the scorched part with it, then soak in cold water. You will find that the marks will soon disap- pear. . (Copyright, 1933) WOMEN'’S FEATURES A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. A BIG gray-haired colored man “on the hill,” who sits just outside the door leading to the House Ways and Means Committee room, has been get- Hou: i WS en Conmrrs ting things ship- shape for his new boss. It’s nothing new for Harry Parker. He’s seen nine of them come and go since he first made his appearance more than 40 years ago shining shoes fi in the Republican cloak room. Harry is handed down from one chairman | of the committee to the other, just like the gavel. President Me- Kinley, when he was chairman of ways and means, first hired Harry as a messenger. Since then Nelson Dingley, Seneron Payne, Oscar W. Underwood, Claude Kitchin, Joseph Fordney, Wil- liam Green, Willis Hawley and James Collier, the present and retiring chair- man, have kept him at his post outside the door. Harry has probably been present at the writing of more tariff bills than | any other living person. .The Dingley bill, the celebrated Payne-Aldrich bill, the Underwood bill, the Fordney-Mc- Cumber and lately the Hawley-Smoot measure were all framed while he sat on guard outside the committee room | or served inside as confidential mes- senger. ‘ ‘Tariff bills ere written in secrecy be- | hind bolted doors. Harry's job was to see that no one got past those doors. | The value of his services is not over- | looked by the chairman either. : the Fordney-McCumber tariff bill had | completed its journey through Congress | and was ready for the President's sig- | g?ture, Chairman Fordney sent for | im. “Harry,” he said, “tomorrow the ‘ tariff bill goes to the White House. Put on your best suit in the morning when | “How do you get your wash out so early?” you come to work. You're going to see the President sign it.” - He ranks that as the biggest mom in’his life. o Chairman Kitchin thought so much of him that when he rertired he pre- sented Harry with a huge engraved sil- ver platter. Payne gave him the entire furnishings of his Washington apart- ment when he went out as chairman. Oscar Underwood also remembered him, as did McKinley, after he becampe President. One of the things he guards mostc closely in the Ways and Means Com- mittee room is a Bible that McKinley and Willilam Jennings Bryan were fond of discussing and debating over their leisure moments from committee work. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY ¥ CORY. e I fink the feller has forgot to tell us to take our leg down—when he gets round to sayin’ “down slowly— one—two—three—" mine is just goin’ to ge thump—, (Copyright. 1933.) “A wonderful discovery! For my family wash I use my regular soap and washing method and add 2 tablespoons or so of LUX. You never saw such rich quick-working suds.” NOTE: Use only Lux— 10 other soap—for silks, woolens, rayons. Delicate fabrics should never be exposed to harsh alkali or cake-soap rubbing. SHE LOVES ME A FAST ACTION COLLEGE STORY by EDWARD HOPE Paul Lawton and Bfizz']ones were a couple of well- meaning Seniors with the best of intentions, but their *helping hand” put the name of conservative old Kingsley University on the front page of newspapers from coast to coast. Don’t miss it! THE SATURDAY EVENING POST AN AMERIGAN LN-S T 11U T I1O0ON ON SALE