Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1933, Page 26

AGAZINE PAGE. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, Conquering Contract By P. HAL SIM: Jump Take-outs of One No Trump. OU will remember that our re- quirements for the forcing take- out in a lower ranking suit, when partner has opened with a suit bid of one, insist on a fit in the opener's suit: as one of the con- | ditions for forcing. Failing this. the | responding hand must be enormously powerful, able to take complete control | of the bidding and to count on opener’s suit as merely pro- viding stoppers, not trick-winners for the purpose of dis- carding losers. ‘When the open- ing bid was one no trump, the danger of & misfit is vir- tually nonexistent, as we know that opener has at least Q x or x X X in each suit. and is very likelr to have not less than A x x or K J x. With feeble support for any one suit. he must be very strong in the others, thus 3 providing sound material for & high contract inmo trunmps when partnered by & hand justifying a jump take-out. P. Hal Sims. Consequently, we do not have to set | our requirements for slam tries quite so high when responding to an opening no-trump bid, shading of which is, moreover, taboo for dealer or second hand. We may assume that a real misfit need not be feared. If the suit does not fit so well, there must be a | splendid fit in no trumps; if the suit does fit, everythirg should be safe for s high contract either in_the suit or in no trumps: even if we have to stop at a contract for five because there appear to be two aces against us, we should not fail to make our eventual declaration. Definite Requirement for the Jump Take-Out. must be headed by two of the top three honors and the hand must contain two and a half primary tricks plus about & half trick in secondary form. such as Q J x or counting king-jack as one trick instead of a half trick. 4. A six-card suit must be headed by ace-jack or king-queen, and the hand must contain two and a half primary tricks. 5. A suit of seven cards may be headed by only ace-ten or king-jack. The hand must contain two primary tricks. 6. When a six or seven card suit is not headed by two of the top three honors, give only strictly primary rating to the honor ccmbination by which it is headed and look for about & half trick more in the hand as a whole beyond the standards given, aceepting secondary values for this purpose. In top the greater the outside strength | needed to make the hand suitable for a slam try. The fact that the opening bidder lacks these outside values which are then in your hand makes it probable that he holds good high-card support for your far from solid long suit. giving at worst a finesse to lose no trick in it. 7. When your high cards are all in two suits. if they only just make up the primary requirements for that type of hand, refrain from the jump take- cut. You should have a queen or & jack-ten in a third suit. This is a safe- | guard against a possible duplication when your partner gets to counting the Icsers for slam purposes. This slight | outside value will give him a protective | play on that suit, creating a ten-ace or finesse position for the opening lead or providing the stage for a finesse or 'tnd play later. | ton. you can dispense with this pre- caution. If with any of these hands you have abcut & half trick beyond the minimum requirements, *disregard _the necessity for having something in & third suit, as by inference the opening | bidder should be that much stronger in the two suits in which vou contribute general, the lass solid the suit at the| rebid on the next round. This will give you a safe margin in the sul ent bidding, as ycu will have underbid the hand a trifie and can then safely slam 1f, nevertheless, your partner does not reply with sign-offs. 9. Make no distinction between major and minor suits for slam-try purposes. With a cholce of suits, consider only safety in rubber play. In a tournament under match-point scoring trick value ‘would naturally become very important. Mr. Sims will er all inquiries on contract that are addressed to this news- DPaper with self-addressed, stamped envelope. (Copyright, 1933.) Uncle Ray’s Corner Little Trips Into Nature. Pond Aquariums. N some schools boys and girls have made “pond aquariums,” and have found a great deal of interest in watching to see what happens. The same sort of thing may be done | at home. A common fruit jar may be used for the purpose, if you have nothing larger. | From a pond bottom teke muddy.sand and a few small water plants which | you may find growing there. Fill the jars with water from the pond | _'The sand at the bottom of the jar chould be about 1': inches deep. | Using a net with fine mesh, you may With ‘a seven-card suit and a single- 1. The suits in which the jump bid | nothing. and vour bid will have some- is made must consist of not less than five cards. 2. The hand must contain an ace. 3. If the suit is of only five cards, it | thing in reserve. 8. When at all doubtful whether to ] fump or not, make the minimum take- |out cn the first round and a jump AMAZE A MINUTE SCIENTIFACTS—BY ARNOLD WORLD'S COLDEST SPOT- COLDEST PLACE INTHE WHOLE WORLD 1S ON TOP OF MOUNT NILSEN IN THE ANTARCTIC CONTINENT. PoisON GAS FIRES- DeaTHs BELIEVED DUE YO SUFFOCATION IN FIRES Al NOW FOUND TO HAVE OFTEN BEEN CAUSED BY POISON GASES DBVELOPED BY THE FIRE. RE SKY DISTANCES- THOUGH IT TRAVELS 84 MILES PER SECOND, THE STAR ARCTURUS IS SO FAR AWAY IT WOULD TAKE 800 YEARS FOR IT TO APPEAR TO MOVE AS MUCH AS THE MOON'S DIAMETER (Goprright, 138 %7 Tho Bet Byatione fax3 YOUR BOY AND YOUR GIRL BY ARTHUR Her Heart's Desire. DREAM.,” writes a young girl. “of handsome young heroes who “| the foot ball games. Sometimes I dream about a lovely little | home with babies playing at my feet, | and then again I dream of being a suc- cessful business woman, walking through life, brushing all male admirers to the side, and stalking onward to success. “While the teacher was drooling a lecture on the mistakes pupils had mad- in the last theme we had handed to her, I was having a lovely time dream- ing of how, when crossing a street, I was run over by a grand car of foreign make and the chauffeur jumped out, picked me up, put me on the back seat and carried me to the home of the rich woman who owned the car. Nurses were sent for, flowers were brought in, and wonderful, daintily prepared food was set before me. Then a clean-limbed handsome and Adonis-faced young man, one glance told me I had met my fate. “Rubbis] you say. “Tommyrot!” says another. “Give the girl a dishpan ful of unwashed plates,” says a third. Yes, by all means laugh at her and scorn her dreams! But if you knew her you would know that she comcs from a rather impoverished home and has no_opportunities for social enjoy- ment. You would know that she mekes up these dreams and creates & world of happiness bedause she is so unhappy. How I wish' that teachers and parent and Girl Scout leaders and mothess clubs knew more of the adolescent girl; how her day-dreaming takes the place of a refuge, particularly in acute tlmeaj of disappointment; how -these .da dreams may nourish her adolesce! ideals and confirm her determination | to find a better way of living; how ‘n some instances day-dreaming may lead to complete withdrawal of interest and | attention to school things and from: | send me flowers and take me to | DEAN, SC. D. ‘Then let them find out how many pupils are in the school and thus the cost per pupil. Figure out the cost of a recita- tion. Supposing the pupil repeats the course twice, what does it cost the city? ‘Whose money is it? If by rowdyism and boisterousness a recitation is 50 per cent wasted, what amount of money is | wasted? And whose money? “Now boys, just between ourselves, are you sponges and parasites and hangers-on to the economic system, or some responsibility?” Then the next thing I would do would be to give these boys some responsible thing to do. I would even have the nerve to make them my inner cabiaet and advise me on how to run' the school. You may laugh, but once I tried some- thing like this and it worked. (Copyright, 1933. To Tighten Fruit Jars. - Onto a 6-inch pot holder made with one or two layers of woolen material, sew a 6-inch piece of sand paper, sand- ed side out. When tightening fruit jar tops, this holds the tops secure in hand, and a perfect seal can be made without burning the hand. | { are you preparing yourselves to assvme | | A JAR OF “LITTLE WONDERS.” capture & few small creatures which | swim about the pond. Place them in | the jar and take it home. | It you wish to have more than one | jar for your tests, better use a bucket {to take the pond water, plants and 50 on to the place where you will fill the jars. Half a dozen of the “water animals” are enough for each jar. So far as possible, the pond aqua- rium should be kept in fresh air. You may be able to place it in a barn or garage. but remember that it should have the light of day—some sunlight, but not too much. Hours of direct sunlight may make the water so warm that the creatures in it will die. Of course you must not place a solid cover over the jar. It is important for fresh air to touch the water surface. A piece of window screen or mosquito net- ting may be placed over the top to pre- vent the escape of the insects. | What will you raise in your pond | aquarium? It is hard to tell, and that | very fact makes it more interesting. | For all I can say, you may raise a crop of mosquitoes! | If you happen to obtain nymphs of dragon-flies (young ones which swim |and have not developed wings) the chances are that you will have no mos- | quitoes coming out of your aquarium. | The nymphs eat “wrigglers.” which la- | ter would turn into mosquitoes. | _“Water boatmen” and other swim- | ming insects may add to the interest of your pond aquarium. Tadpoles, like- | wise, are fun to watch. From time to time, it is well to add | more pond water, to take the place | of that which evapcrates. (For “Nature” section of your scrap- book.) A diagram of the sun and planets appears in the leafict, “Marvels of the Sky” which is sent without charge to readers who mail a stamped, self-ad- dressed envelope to Uncle Ray in care of this newspaper. UNCLE RAY. (Copsright. 19: Clandette Colbert WEARS THIS NEW DRESS s THE Simplicity Pattern | NO. 1225 | | | | | NO BOILING NECESSARY MODE OF T QNN 5 HE MOMENT mwmecltiawun with o white wf:.d,\m, Mn.,ubwuu,eut rck and dewlfe nocket ag M G EEEEEEEE——— e | | Pointed Paragraphs | Solomon was so busy prescribing ad- vice that he probably had little time | to take much of it. | Things that seem too good to be true ! usually are. | In order to mount the ladder of fame an actor must receive round after round of applause. It is foolish to attempt the cultiva-| tion of friendship by giving your friends | | an_occasional dig. Breakfast is another name for the oatmeal. Actors are fragmentary individuals. W NDERFULLY soft, smooth skin—this charm is every woman’s birthright! For na- ture has given to skin of every type—to your skin, too—precious elements that keep it young, softly smooth. Then why does skin grow dull and drab— old before its time? You've probably often wondered. And now scientists explain . . . ‘They are always appearing in parts and the parts are in pieces. Swallowing sage tea is one way to drink in wisdom. Only a woman who thinks before she speaks can economize on talk. - The paperhanger finds business good when it drives him to the wall. The tanner pays more attention to the bark than to the bite. 1t's difficult for men to check their expenses unless they have a bank bal- | ance. His satanic majesty never wearies of jollying people who boast of being self- made. People would have fewer troubles if :gey spent less time in talking about em. | suggestions _ th C., TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1933. OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRL Shifting the Blame. HEN a child shifts the blame for what it does to some one who has had nothing to do with it, we can suspect that he is staying in one stage of childhood too long and begin to help him out of the rut. Boys and girls of 10 or thereabout should be past that stage and ready to shpulder responsibility for what they do. Often they are the victims of an oversolicitous parental attitude. Benjie comes home with a note from the teacher. He has climbed a fence and broken some bushes and injured a couple of fruit trees. The property | owner {is justly indignant and the teacher says “What is to be done about thi “What's this, Benjie? You climbed the fence? You fell into the bushes? You climbed the tree? Who told you to do t? Who began i{t? Who wen! with you? You wouldn't do such a thing by yourself.” Benjie. only too glad to find a friend at court, shakes his head in solemn agreement. of course he wouldn’t have done such a ;h.\l;g if Simon hadn’t told him to o it. “He said. ‘You climb over and get some cherries. If you don't I'l fight you,’ so I had to climb over. It wasn't my fault.” Armed with this alibi, mother goes to school and the war is on. Some- times father is called into the fray. The teacher firmly holds to the fact that Benjle, and only Benjle. climbed that fence. So does the neighbor. Ben- jie hides in the safe shelter of home and family. ‘That is about the worst thirg that can ht}ape If the child got into mischief, and all healthy children do, tell him so. Don't wait to ask him a lot of questions, don't give him strong he can evade the blame by putting it off on somebody else. The bad enough. It must be made good as far as possible. The damage to the character of the offending child will be far more serlous unless he is taught = to face the fact, acknowledge his er- ror and do what he can to right it. ‘The important thing here is not the damage to the property: that can be fixed up to some extent. but the attitude of the child. His mental growth depends upon the exercise of the qualities of mind. If he ex- ercises fear and hiding and shifting instead of courage and openness and | sible how the circumstance that most damage to the property is | forthrightness he will remain an in- fant precisely as he would have re- | mained infantil~ had he sat in his | high c¢™~'r ard refused to uce “is less. cious elementsis an unquestionableaid inkeep- ing the skin young looking . . . softly smooth. Small wonder that Lux Toilet Soap is used by the screen stars, and has been for years. 686 of the 694 important Hollywood ac- tresses are enthusiastic in their praise. And women everywhere have been proving for themselves that this fine soap actually keeps WOMEN’S FEATURES. EVERYDAY, PSYCHOLOGY BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. | nection. * Our grandparents used ta sit up half the night gossiping abous what they took to be the truth cone cerning this awful subject. The plain truth is that nothing of the sort happens. The outstanding psychological fact about such matters is that the crimirial is always on the 0. The old law of pleasure and pain will take care of the movements of the accused and guilty. Human beings gravitate toward those scenes that arouse pleasamn memories, and only leasant memories. Have you not The word dpxterity is used not only | passed to the other side of the street {gf manual and physical agility.| when you noticed the approach of also descrles a mental celerity, | some one you did not want to meet? that quality of mind that easily and No fewer than 50 cases have been re< efficiently underctands and takes cob- | made the crossing at the same moment, trol of a situation. And yet literally | Five of these mutual dislikers are ri the word'meam right handedness. |ported to have run together and re- We have it frum the Latin “dexter.” ported to me of mutual dislikers who which means situiated on or pertaining | gdjusted their differences, so that they to the right. It is easily comprehen- might nct carry the responsibility of a future prospect of pain. Life at any moment is a_potential adjustment to something. That ad justment is a flight from the situations 01d Superstition. It has fong been supposed that a| murderer WAll return to the scene of | his crime. Or if he is prevented from returning, l! will eventually tell some- one about f in some roundabout con- | How It Started BY JEAN NEWTON. The Word “Dexterity.” people are unskilhl and clumsy in the use of the left hand originally made “right-handed” clcte kin to skill. With the left-handed person, however, the Which arouse painful memories, & word “dexterity” Mn_the sense of its i Sl Tiove abolntely 1o stending:| me oo i HiSE atowepleasant (Copyright. 1933.) (Copyright. 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