Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1933, Page 37

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MAGAZ INE PAGE. Conquering Contract By P. HAL SIM Mr. Sims is universally acclaimed the greatest living oentract and auction player. He was captain of the renowned “Four Horsemen” team and has won 24 national championships since 1924. Responses to a No-Trump With Two Five-Card Suits. ITH the more normal two- suiter distribution of 5-5-2-1, the responding partner's| procedure is almost auto- matic unless the hand is powerful in top cards. Do not pass the no trump unless your hand does not include a queen or two jacks. Bid the higher ranking long suit first; then, over two mo trumps, bid the other suit. If the partner bids three no trumps, pass this unless you have slam aspira- tions or unless both your five-card holdings are in major suits. In that event bid four in the lower rank- ing one, asking partner to show preference by pass- ing the hearts or taking you to four spades. The weaker the hand, the greater the safety in the major suit bid with this dis- | tributive pattern. One major suit may be more or less of a misfit for his hand, but it is ex-| tremely unlikely that both can be that.| If they are, he has a powerful minor | suit no trumper, and will make plenty | of tricks in no trumps. If he still goes | to four no trumps, pass. To take out | again, you must have top cards, as you would be belatedly encouraging a slam. | If only one of your biddable suits is a major, and your partner bids three no trumps after you have bid both suits, showing 5-5 in them, pass. He could have bid four in the major had| tnat declaration seemed preferable to| him. When to Raise to Two No Trumps. ‘With both five-card suits minors, neither containing two of the top three honors, and a king included in your three other cards, if the hand is strong enough to preclude any question of signing off at a partial score in one of your suits, bid two no trumps on the first round. Concealment of your suit holdings may produce a highly favor- able opening lead. The weakest hand of this kind would be about Sp. Kx DIl QJIxxx Hts. x ClL K10xxx Surely three no trumps will be easier to make than five in a minor. The lat- ter is unlikely unless the former is quite easy. If the opcning bidder is weak in the majors, he will at least win first or second round of either of them, and then the fit in the minors must be so complete that he can run the next 10 tricks with at worst a finesse in one of them. Sometimes a hand like this may be set—but the chances in no trumps will nearly always be far better than in a minor suit. With suits as good as Sp. xx Di. KQXXX Hts. x ClKJxxx I would bid the suits, as a slam in one P. Hal Sims. The 0ld Gardener Says: Amateurs often complain of the lack of color in their gardens after the irises have gone by. This difficulty can be overcome by growing other plants among the irises. The Summer hya- cinth and gladiolus bulbs may be planted early in the Spring, but it is just as easy to use holly- hocks, phlox, bleeding heart and hardy asters as companion plants. If the irises do not stand too close together there will be plenty of room for the other perennials, and by making a choice of those which flower in different seasons there will be an unbroken suc- cession of bloom until the end of | | the Summer. The hardy asters | | are particularly useful for close planting, and an iris-aster garden is well suited to garden makers who are away from home in \ | Have you ever thought that your com- plexion needs just as purea soapasa baby’s? Indeed, as your skin grows older it begins to lose some of the youthful oils that keep it soft . . . So it needs the pure safe soap which will not dry it—it needs IVORY. of them would be a welccme eventual- ity should the opening bidder proceed optimistically after learning about your two long minor suits. If he has three aces, and also the queen of clubs (or A x x x in that suit), in a three and one-half to four-trick hand, slam should be bid. You must not force im- mediately with this holding, but if the bidding goes—one no trump, two dia- monds, two no trumps, three clubs, three no trumps—you should bid five clubs, asking him to slam if he has three aces and a king plus about a queen or two jacks. He must realize that it is a matter of aces, and his final bid, with different typical no trumpers, would be as follows: with Sp. KQJ DI Axx His KJ10x Cl AQx he should pass five clubs. If you had an ace in addition to the high cards in your two suits necessary to solidify them, you had the material for a forc- ing takeout on the first round. Having Sp. AJx Do. A x x His. K10xx Cl'AQx or K10x) (or Axxx) he should bid six no trumps, so as to get the lead up to his own hand in view of his tenace holdings in the majors. With spades A x x and hearts K Q x, he should bid six diamonds for you in a rubber game. In a tourna- ment I think most of us would go for six no trumps in either case. With spades A K x and hearts Q J 10 x, the minor suit support being the same, six diamonds would be a good gamble, better than an even chance. He knows you have only three cards in the major suits. If the spade is the doubleton, you are all right. If your doubleton is in hearts, you would be out of luck unless the opening bidder happened to lead a spade. If his hearts are headed by the king, he will certainly not lead that suit; if they are a worthless hold- ing, he is very likely to have a natural spade opening. Only if the leader has ace-king of hearts is your case imme- diately hopeless. With spades Q J 10 x and hearts A x x he might lead a spade, fearing a void of hearts in your hand on the bidding. (Copyright. 1933.) Mr. Sims will answer all inquiries on con- tract that are addressed to this newspaper with sel{-addresed, stamped envelope. (Copyright, 1038 “Tennis is about the only game I THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, ~ JOLLY POLLY A Little Chat on English. BY JOE. J. FRISCH. A RECEIVER IS A PERSON WHO GETS PAID FOR MINDING OTHER G. B—It has been argued that if shoes for men and boys are for sale, the shoes are not yet owned or pos- sessed by the men and boys and there- fore the apostrophes should be omitted. But this is wrong. If we ask “Whose shoes?” the answer is, “Men's and boys’ shoes.” It can readily be seen then that the apostrophes are necessary. Pointed Paragraphs beauty than a handsome man has for brains. Don't judge a man by his clothes; the most expensive collar sometimes adorns a worthless dog. ‘When a man calls marriage a failure it may be due to the fact that the girl refused him. It's much easier for appearances to keep & man down than it is for a man |to keep up appearances. Sometimes a man lies when he smiles and says nothing. ding. When a woman knows she is homely she isn’t ashamed to boast of her abil- ity as a cook. |¥ An unsuccessful marriage proposal | resembles an expected sneeze that failed "to develop. know of where the players play peace- ful and spertsmanlike,” says Dorah, “yet it is the only game where they kcep them separated by a net.” (Copyrigh 1933 Your hands, too, need Ivory . . . Fortu- nately Ivory is so low-priced, you can use it even for dishes. So your hands needn’t get dry and rough. Ivory’s gentle foam will be just as kind to them as to a baby’s tender skin . . . Ivory is kind to everything. IVORY SOAP 9 44/100 9/0 PURE + *IT FLOATS® A smart man has no more use for|= | Auctioneers are polite and obliging; | they always attend to every one’s bid- | Why Not Appreciate BY EDITH M. BARBER. e F honor be paid to the first pig that uprooted a truffie, what of the first man who boiled an onion? And what of the still mightier genius who first used it as seasoning for his daily fare? Every gourmet should rise up and call him blessed.” So writes Mrs. Pennell in her “Guide for the Greedy.” She goes on: “As with meat, so with vegetables; few are not the better for the friendly com- panionship of the onion or one of its many offshoots. Peas, beans, toma- toes, eggplant are not indifferent to its blandish- ments.” And yet there are some persons who do not ap- preciate the con- tribution of the onion to the table. Not only do they scorn it in its own form as a vege- table, but they demand, as they look suspiciously at a prepared dish, “Does this have onions in it?” I do feel sorry for the house- keeper who must plan onionless meals, Edith M. Barber, ——— BUGS ought to be branded with this ancient warning —Unclean! Unclean! They are notorious for spread- ing plagues through colo- nies and nations of people. Never let a bug show his head in your home. Keep a can of Dethol handy. Spray your house with Dethol at regular intervals. Dethol goes right to the crevices wherebugs are hid- ing. It kills—kills quickly and efficiently. Dethol kills flies, roaches, bedbugs, fleas, termites, silver fish, moths, and many other dangerous and annoying pests. Dethol is as fine an insect spray as you can buy. SPRAY WITH Dethol Now at the lowest prices in 17 gears TH MAY 11, Of course, you know the famous beef- JRSDAY, 1933. by putting a slice of minute steak on toast and slicing over this Bermuda the Onion? Spain or Texas. Ordinary onions—yellow, white or red—can be cooked in dozens of dif- ferent ways. Small, even-sized onions may be boiled, drainec and “glazed” in butter and su; They may be served with brown butter crumbs or with just I find, however, that many of them cater to such—shall we call it un- depraved or depraved?—taste, slip a little onion juice into sauces and other dishes and often find that their treason | brown butter. remains undiscovered. It is a fact that| One of the best ways—and one of some persons cannot eat comfortably | the easiest—of baking sma!l onions is the onion itself, but have no digestive | to put them, with a liberal amcunt of difficulties with the juice itself, and | butter, but no water, in a covered taste is sometimes guided by this fact.| baking dish, and to bake them slowly Perhaps the onion may be used too| until tender and slightly brown on the lavishly in cooking in a household | top. Stuffed onions are delicious. They where the lady of the house confided | are made from large boiled onions. The to me that she thought onion improved | centers are removed, minced and mixed almost everything except ice cream! We | With soft crumbs, well seasoned, pos- who are on good terms with the onion ! sibly with a bit of ham or chicken as family will confess that we like it in | Well as other seasoning. They are then its place—which is large. to use it once in a while with fresh:by meat stock, which can be quickly peas and beans, I more often prefer | made with a bouillon cube, and baked them with their own natural flavor, until brown. although with canned vegetables I am| A reader asks for a recipe for almost certaln to use it. French fried onions, which are so deli- At the moment, with young onions, ciously sweet if they are not over- in the market, their devotees are dc-‘frled. They are especlally well done manding them for service with radishes®at a few restaurants of the chop-house and celery in their raw state. I wonder | type. Most places I prefer to stick to if you know how good these are cooked, | plain, fried onions, often known as tops and all, and served with a cream | “smothered” from the fact that they sauce? Young onions sliced in salad | are so often used to'‘“smother” steak or used whole as a garnish are also, or liver. delicious. 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Order from your grocer now! <88 Copyrght, 1903, by Standard Brasds Iae, | s steak sandwiches which are prepared |is onion, or any large, sweet onion from While I like put in a baking pan and surrounded | WOMEN’S FEATURES. « C—5 well blended with the fat and then milk added. They are prepared just as my favorite recipe”for frizzled beef. | Persons who can not carefully eat| fried onions can often eat them done! {in this way. | iCopyright. 1 5 | Sweet Potato Pie. | The Governor granted him a pardos Heat one and one-half cupfuls of and he wes enlarged ! boiled and riced sweet potatoes, two| | cupfuls of milk, one-fourth cupful of _ GOvernment finances are a mere abe ;l:zll’. half a lmspco?lul]o( ginger and Straction. If a teaspsonful of salt in a double G | boiler. Pour some of the hot mixturs| A Man can't be in two places at |into two beaten egs, mix all together, | ORCE unless he flies | then add two tablespoonfuls of butter.| What were ths famous | Pour the hot filling into a deep-baked Gardens” in ancient | plain pastry shell end bake in & mod- place vhere all erate oven for about thirty minutes, or | place. | until the filling sets. | | —_—— Buttered Broccoli. Soak 3!2 pounds of broccoli in water for 15 minutes. Cut away any of the tougher stems and cook until tender, |or for about 12 minutes uncovered, in |and before he could be extinguished the a small quantity of saltéd water. Serve |limb was fractured at once with melted butter. A few drops | |of lemon juice may be squeezed over | | each serving. BONERS Selected from School Papers. “Hanging Babylon? The the hangings took BC | Sofas vere invented by the Ottere | mans. 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