Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1933, Page 24

MAGAZ - Conquering Contract BY P. HAL SIMS Mr. Sims is universally acclaimed the greatest living contract and auction player. He was captain of the ne- nowned “Four Horsemen” team and has w;:zr: 24 national championships since 1924, §lam Tries in Responding to Two | No-Trump Opening Bids With a Long, Fairly Strong Suit. HEN you have a strong suit of six or more cards, that is no essential reason to insist on playing the hand in that sult if the opening bidder | continues to show preference for no | trumps. If you have 100 honors, do | not surrender the declaration cxcept under the circum- stances described in yesterday's arti- cle. Lacking these, do not insist on the suit any more than if it contained only five cards. It will serve its purpose equally well in no trumps, perhaps even better. It finds automatically mnormal support in the opening bid- der's hand, and will provide an ab- solutely deadly weapon for a squeeze in no trump play. More- : over, it is likely that the opening bidder has one or more tenace holdings in the other suits which will gain a clear trick from the opening lead. By insisting on being the eventual declarer you may forfeit this advantage. However, when you have a singleton, there is a distinct inducement for suit play, sufficient to Justify a rebid of the suit. | DiLAQXXXX | CLKQxx P. Hal Sims. Sp. x HtAx | should end up in a six-diamond con-| tract, tut | Sp. J x DLAQxxxX | HUAxx ClAX | would appear to me to call for an ulti- | mate six no trump contract by my artner. If the bidding went—two no | imps, four diamonds, four no trumps, ] with the former hand, I would bid six | diamonds because I figure the spade singleton as a reserve value. With the’ INE PAGE. second hand, my next bid over four no trumps would be five no trumps. With seven cards in a suit, the distribu- ticnal aspect of the hand is generally such that a singlston or void suit de- cides the final contract in favor of the suit. However, with a 7-2-2-2 distri- bution opposite a two no trump open- ing bid, T would not insist on playing the hand in my suit, unless I had 100 honors, if my partner reverted to no trumps and provided my hand con- tained a clear primary trick outside the sui This is perhaps a tournament | player's point of view, but I find it equally sound for rubber play, though the suit declaration would appear al- most obligatory to most authorities. However, the deciding factor is in the escential soundness of my two no trump opening bids; th:re may be a gamble for game when the partner is weak, but when he is strong and can open the | gate which leads to the slam zone, the element of risk can b> accurately ap- praised and Sims players in these cir- cumstances are mainly concerned with registering six tricks at 35 points each instead of 30 or 20. Armed with six or seven card suit with which to| squeeze, they do not fear a couple of guarded queens in the enemy's Mnes. With a Long Weak Suit. Holding a long weak six-card suit not headed by the king, without two prob- able re-entries to bring it in when cleared, you must rebid it at least twice should your partner revert to no trumps. Especially so if you have only one outside trick in the form of an ace alone or A x which opponents, see- | ing the dummy, may be able to knock out before your suit is cleared. With a king x X X X X suit, one entry card outside the suit is enough if it is ’0!' a singleton ace or king. Sp. A x Dixxx HLQXXxXXX CLJx must be bid in hearts even up to five over no trump rebids by the openin; bidder. He will not mistake this re-- bidding by you for strength or slam hopes, because all your responses will be minimum, showing weakness by ob- | stinate refusal to let him play the hand | in no trumps, You should bid this hand in the same way cven if it lacked the ace of spades. It will be the opener's | fault if you are taken beyond four hearts and set. (Copyright, 1933.) 4 | Mr. Sims will answer all inquiries on con- | tract that are addressed to this newspaper | with' self-addressed, stamped envelope. PAPA KNOWS BY J. KENNETH BOLLES. “Pop, what is squeamish?” “Fear of mice.” (Copyright, 1933.) Good Taste Today BY EMILY POST, Famous Authority on Etiquette, ‘ EAR MRS. POST: Why shonla the clothes or a 2 woman in society? It seems to me an unreasonable extrava- Clothes of Business Woman. business weman lack the prettiness of wnose worn by gance to be cbliged to buy a separate wardrobe for business instead of wea ing out my good dresses which are no Icnger best.’ Answer.—I not reply very in- telligently to your question, because I have no idea what you —mean “good” dresses. they can be truth- | fully called ' day clothes they should be appropriate, but if they are semi- evening they are not. if they are in any way - disturbing 80 that you have to keep _fussing at Emily Post. your belt, or your dresses | Or | TON, MODE OF THE MOMENT D. C. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 22, 1933. S OUR CHILDREN || BY ANGELO PATRL Summer Camp. ACH year somebody asks, “Is Summer camp a good thing for children?” and always I have to say that same thing in response. “A Summer camp is a fine place for ;hchnd rovided wmm possible camp for your child. Al campg are not good for all children. Some are good for some children, some are good for no children ab all, being insanitary, selfish, a sort of second-rate boarding place for children whose people wanted to be free of them with a clear conscience. I am sorry that such camps exist, but now and then one discovers one and so is on guard when the time comes around for selecting the camp for the season. I would make it a rule not to send a child to a camp that I had not visited more than a couple of times. It i3 not enough that you know the di- rector to be a fine human being who likes children. What else is he? Does he know about sanitation? Does he safeguard the water supply and how? Who are the counselors and how does he get them? What is the diet? How is the food selected and stored? How is it cooked? I have seen beautiful vegetables ruined by an incompetent cook. How about the milk supply? 1Is rest time truly rest time? In short, is this place the sort of home in which vou want your child brought up? It is only when you can answer “yes” to this question that you are justified in send- ing your child to that camp. Camps for th> most part are fine places for children. They offer a new environment for tired children. Strange as it seems to us, the children grow tired of us, of home and school and the routines they set. They welcome | escape from the old familiar faces, the old familiar voices and the well-known restraints and cautions. “Of course, I know I'm not to do these things, but I get awfully fed up hearing about them over and over,” said a home-weery child. “If mother NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN | COX ATHEY. ASPEN ERE is a tree that dances with | doesn't mention them dad does and if strong, but is in great demand for pulp- | he should happen orget me for a| 'oodgto be‘l‘}scdgzs book ar?: m°§g';'§;§e | minute there is always Gram or Auntie | paper, boerds, lard pails, jelly buckets | OF Miss Bruce. It would be nice to get and fish kits. away for a time where nobody krew The most beautiful coloring is to be that whipped cream disagreed with me, found in the aspen tree. The pale bark | that I was inclired to bite my nails. is @ cool, greenish shade in the carly | that unless I worked overtime I would Spring. The fuzzy catkins are a dainty | NeVer pass in math, and that if I pink with silvery gray silk tints, The | <kipped my dancing lesson I'd certain dainty leaves unroll and are soft and | 370W up rcund-shouldered and slouchy. white in their Spring flannels. They 1d Uke to have scmething new to do - rg to school, thking my pass through several interesting color | Lnstead of golrg to ! stages of rose and olive until they are Music and dancing, going to church on WOMEN’S FEATURES." 80 S S A 2,000 PEOPLE . .. rubbing shoulders for six days ... hemmed in by the waters of the ocean ... lockéd together by the steel bulwarks of a floating palace ... no place to go.. . . nothing to do ...except to love each other... hate each other . . . use each other. the siightest breath of air. Its |fnally the dark green with their sil-| Sunday and to grandmothers on Fri. leaf blades twinkles in the sun, | Very lining oing to the movies once a month. T'd and when many of these are | There are traditions a-plenty about ! EO0E 10 LM% WOVES BVPE B TOT, fogether there is 'a sound of | these trees. They are restiess and | ' - £ oot running ‘water produced by the trem- |trembling ail the time, so have brought | those things. Belleve me, I'm fed up neck, or your your wrists, if anything dangling drips into-things or catehes on knobs or keys. they will not be very comfortable for you, and they may very well be’annoy- UXUR By Thornton W. Burgess. upon themselves many legends. The ©0 it all” | BEDTIME STORIE Une’ Billy Is Out of Sorts. ‘? Bome people. if the truth be known, | Are really happiest alone | OLD MOTHER NATURE. | NC' BILLY POSSUM is happiest alone. There is no company in all the Green Forest he likes s0 well as his own. “If Ah is| alone nobody gwine step on my toes,” says Unc’ Billy. “Ah done | been led into mo’ trouble then ever ‘Ah walked into by mahself, and Ah reckons it is the same way with most folks. All Ah wants is to be let alone.” So you see Unc' Bil isn't what you ‘would call really social. | How he had spent the Winter was a mystery to his neighbors. He had been fat, so fat he could hardly walk at the beginning of Winter. Occasion- ally his foot prints had been seen in | the snow through the Winter, but no ane seemed to know where his Winter | home had been nor how he had man- aged to keep alive through the severe | ‘weather But he kept alive, for here | he was back in his old haunts. He was no longer fat. No, sir, Unc’| Billy was no longer fat. He was thin. He was so thin that he would declare “When Ah scratches mah ribs on one | liige Ah tickles mah ribs on the other side.” | Being thin was expected at this time | of year. Most of Unc' Billy’s neigh- bors were thin. Johnny Chuck had used | the very last of the fat he had keptf stored under his skin all Winter, and now was so thin that his coat simply | hung on him. At least that is the way it felt to Johnny. Johnny was doing a lot of running about these days, try- | ing to get enough to fill that coat out | egain and having hard work doing it, | for as yet the grass and clover had not | started to grow | Unc' Billy wasn't finding it easy to get enough. On the other hand, he| wasn't finding it as difficult as Johnny was, for Unc’ Billy isn't at all particular | as to what he eats. He doesn't care for the grass that is so important to Johnny, but almost anything else will do; meat, fish, insects, eggs, fruit and Vvegetables, ncr is he at all fussy as | - L | TUNC' BILLY WAS GRUMBLING TO HIMSELF AS HE POKED ABOUT AFTER DARK. to the freshness of these things. So it really is easler for him than for | Johnny Chuck at this season of the | ear. Unc’ Billy was feeling out of sorts. Yes, sir, that is the way he was feeling. ‘Ard when a person is feeling that way | nothing ever is just right. Unc’ Billy | ‘was grum| g to himself as he poked | about after dark. He isn't fond of day- | light, you know. He prefers to sleep through the day. He doesn’t often | start out until after the Black Shadows have come out from ihe Purple Hill, and when they begin to retreat he knows it is time for hirh to seek his bed. There was no apparent reason why Unc’ Billy should be out of sorts this night, but he was. Nothing was Fight. Everyday Psychology BY Dl.‘ JESSE W. SPROWLS. ! A Real Pessimist. | One of my readers has sent me a #econd. request for my opinion of the psychological make-up of a real pessi- mist. Specifically he wants.to know the “attributes of a pessimistic mind.” I am at once tempted to turn to the intimitable Mark Twain, who wrote somewhat as follows concerning the ssimist: “Only an idiot can live to 40 and not become a pessimist.” In this connection I also recall that psychological examiners have often re- marked that feeble-minded persons are likely to be good natured and opti- | mistic. Putting these two observations .to- ether, one might conclude that intel- igence is one of the mental traits of - . But I'm not sure. Check this conclusion by referring to your own experience. I suggest a,second trait of the pessi- mistic mind which seems to me to be somewhat nearer the truth. Real pessi- mists are stubborn. They cling to their outlook on the world with the same | tenacity that a king holds to his throne. {and bare tails |reed, and after supper pop was smok- | | to say. pop said, and I seid.’ But G, ‘“’Pears like OI' Mother Nature done | fo'get the P when she gave us bare ears, bare toes he grumbled. “They are all right in warm weather, but they never were intended fo' cold weather. | Wish Ah was way down in the Sunny smx}:h. Yes, suh, that is what Ah done | wish. where Ah am. Wich Mistress Spring would hurry up and get here. 'Pears like she den’ like cold weather any | better than Ah do, an’ so she done take her time about comin’ where we-alls are | waitin’ fo’ her. Never knew her to be so long befo’ Wonder if Ah could catch a minnow at the Laughin’ Brook. Probably Brcr Coon dcne been there befo’ me. Ah! Thot was a young Wood Mouse and Ah missed him. A Wood 3 8ood salary, but I have no intention | Mouse would taste right good just now. | Of putting ! What fo" does Brer No'th | Wind hang around when ev'ybody | knows Winter is over?" a few feet up in a young tree. Reddy Fox passed directly under him. After a_ while Unc’ Billy climbed down, and all the time he complained because | he had had to climb at all. Instea of being tharnkful that he cculd with so little effort get out of danger, he complained. Nothing was right. Unc’ Billy was out of sorts. There was no | doubt about-that. ) (Copyright, 1933.) | LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Today I finished Paul Peppy Among the Bush Rangers so I went on with The Life of James B. Kunkle on ac- count of not having anything elts to ing and thinking in his private chair and I said, Did every rich man use| to be a poor boy once, like James B. | Kunkle, pop? | A boy with a rich father may be a| success in life, but the chances are | against him, so you may consider your- | :1f among the lucky ones, pop said Meening on account of him not be- | ing rich, and I said, Well your father wasn't rich, either, was he, pop? | Well no, quite the reverse, unfor-| tunately, or fortunately for me, I mean pop, then why aren’t you rich if you had a poor father and it's sippose to be so lucky? ‘Well ah, that’s a fair question, and perhaps the anser is if I was rich then you wouldn’t have the advantage of having a poor father, and I want you to have every advantage that life can offer, pop said, and I said, Well James B. Kunkle says that bizzness should always come before plezzure, and he says that's always been his motto and he says that’s why he’s the president of the Kunkle Canning Company ° with factories in 9 countries, and every fam- | jly in the world opens at least one Kunkle can a day according to statis- tics. I can picture them doing it, a grace- ful site, pop said. So I want you al- ways to remember that, bizzness before plezzure, he said, and I said, Did you always remember it, pop? I surely did, and still do, pop said, and I said, Well then gosh, why aren’t you the president of the Potts Canning Company and put the Kunkle Canning Company out of bizzness. I bet you're smarter than James B. Kunkle judging y_his picture, I said. Thank you very much, but bizzness is a peculiar thing and must be at- tended to as it comes, by gradual stages, pop said. In other werds your bizzness at the present juncture of your life is to do your homework, he said. ‘Wich I started to feeling against it. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. A pessimist is one who puts a high price on his own opinions. (Copyright, 10333 e H:ooun' all Baby is mortify ‘cause Margot den't co nuffin’ but sit an’ cdmire John, l ober the place— (Copyright, 1933.) ssum femily has feelin’s | t0 S8 ness, with your friend. |well cut and made of good material | Oncé his keen nose told him that|Seem a better investment for a moderate | some one was coming, and he climbed | lothes budget than double the number | " made of sleazy material, which will not stand reasonable wear. tion dress of ncutral color can be mad into half a dozen dresses by putting on ' |or taking off a scarf or shoulder cape or other variety of collars and cuffs. | | ing to otbers. unless you can remove these interferences. It is not necessary sacrifice prettiness, unless “pretti- clothes that are impractical, and there- fore unsuitable. = Important accessories of beautiful business clothes are shoes designed to High- | Wi Vi heeled fancy sandals are not only in- D oos) anumher Mt appropriate and extravagant, but ruin- give proper support to the foot. ous to any foot that must be walked upon or stood on many hours of the ‘My Dear Mrs. Post: -1 have a friend who says she thinks I am all wrong in buying only two dresses in a whole sea- son. which is what I do. she suggests buying cheaper ones in greater variety. 1 make all ‘of it on my back.” Answer: I agree with you and not Clothes which are A good founda- Of course, the fewer clothes you have, | and therefore the more often they must be worn, the more conservative they should be. (Copyright. 1933.) WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. ~ Resistered U. 8. Patent Office. TRYING Yo ] GEl'kri(‘l/ ‘When Supt. of Police Brown was a Tookie copper out Georgetown way? IS CONSTIPATION AS, SERIOUS AS || YES.WHEN INTESTINES GET CLOGGED, POISONS SPREAD ALL THROUGH YOUR SYSTEM...CAUSE % ESTION, HEADACHES... LOWERED VITALITY. INDIG " in your opinion, applies only to | Instead of buying good ones, | bling leaves. Still there is no mystery | about these dancing leaves. They hang on a long flexible stem. It is flattened at yight angles with the blade of the | leaf, and, dangling thus, the little breeze | that comes cautiously among them sets them to quaking. It is one of the most widely distrib- | uted trees in North America, and is | found in Newfoundland to Hudson Bay | and Alaska; south to New Jersey, Penn- | sylvania, Kentucky and Nebraska, as | well as the Rocky Mountains and coast | ranges. It has many uses, as it makes a most valuable nurse tree, covers burned-over lands, its seeds are scat- | tered broadcast by the winds, and it is a lovely tree for shade and ornamental purposes. In April, the flowers appear, and, like those of the poplar family, 2re of two kinds borne on separate trees: that is, mother and father trees. The father | trees have catkins two inches lozg, and the mother trees have flowers in siender clusters as long as four inches. The fruit ripens in the late Spring or early Summer before the leaves havi finished their growth, and contains ti: rounded seeds. The wood is light brow and surrounded with sapwood that is almost white. It is light, not very | “You mean it makes a differ- ence how they trouble right into those IT'S WONDERFUL TO FEEL SO WELL AGAIN—ABLE TO GET HOUSEWORK DONE ~AND HAVE MY AFTERNOONS FREE 3 El GAKES OF YEAST EATEN €VERY i3 DAY WILL STIMULATE NATURAL IS D Such children as these, and there are many of them, benefit by a Summer | at a good camp. The new routine| | stimulates them into fresh activity of | | body and mind. They forget about the | habits they have formed in an effort | to comfort themselves. They take on | new vitality and cstablish new habits. | They return after the season, cager for; | home and school, at peace with all their | world. | They return in better mood and | being, provided—and this is of primary | importance—the camp is the right camp | for them. That is a matter for father and mother to consider with the utmost care. cne that seems to cling the tightest is that Judas Iscariot hung himself on an aspen. and all the descendants of this tree shudder every time they think of it. The trembling aspens have several common names, and among them are | the trembling or quaking aspen, most used. They are also called the ploneer or promoter trees, as they grow quickly. and are used extensively where new subdivisions are being developed. Though they rarely grow over 40 feet high, and have a diameter of two feet, they are considered most important as forest trees. There is no need to plant these trees, as the winds do it for us, and they seem to.be placed just where they belong. (Copyright. 1931 (Copyright, 1033.) | | Apple Meringue Pie. ! One quart apple sauce, three egg whites, cne-half cupful powdered cugar, | one-half teaspoonful vanilla. Line a pan with pastry and spread with apple | sauce. Bake in a hot oven (500 degrees | Fahrenheit) abcut 15 minutes. Add| powdered sugar and vanilla to stiffly beaten egg whites. Spread over the pie | and bake in a slow cven (325 degrees Fahrenheit) about 15 minutcs.* ! “Of course—cake-soap rubbing ’ weakens elasticity, then silk tends to break—runs start. LUX saves elasticity—the silk gives instead QH, HOW DO YOU FINISH SO SOON? | CAN'T EVEN GET STARTED BEFORE THOSE DREADFUL YOU'RE JUST NOT WELL, MARY. WHY DON'T YOU ASK YOUR DOCTOR ABOUT YEAST— LIKE | TOLD YOU ? h YOURSELF! ) N ON'T be discouraged! Those headaches sre probably ible you can ELIMINATION OF THE POISONS S VA THAT CAUSI OUR TROUBLE BOTH SHOULD BE GRATEFUL FOR SUCH. A SIMPLE REMEDY AS FLEISCHMANN'S YEAST. YOU KNOW HOW T CLEARED UP MY SKIN/, | LINER By GINA KAUS The STORY ... that is so powerful, so human, so engrossing, it takes its place with Grand Hotel as 2 melodrama of the highest rank. A teeming with action, supplying story opportunity for chuckles and fur- tive eye-wipings, a perfect serial. unday March 26 IN THE St S 0e o T \