Evening Star Newspaper, May 26, 1933, Page 38

MAGAZINE PAGE. Conquering Contract By P. H. Mr. Sims is universally acclaimed the greatest living contract and auction player. He was captain of the renowned *Four Horsemen” team and has won 24 mational championships These articles are based on the Sims system, which includes the ome-over- one principle which the Sims group of players was the first to employ and de- velop. Slam Tries After a No-Trump Open- make the slam try on a ing Bid. slightly weaker hand with the ONTINUING the subject of yes- terday's article, you will now sec clearly why it is safe to 5-5-3-0 distribution, when your void suit is the lowest ranking suit that you will have_occasion to neme in your bidding. For instance, I would respond | with three dia- monds_on K J { Hs AX DLK Q cl —— because if my part- ner were unable to make other than minimum re- sponses, the b ding would g One no trump, three diamonds. three no trumps, four hearts, four no trumps, five -clubs by me. Now my partner could ‘sign off in either five hearts or five sdiamonds and I would accept his decision and not bid the slam. An Informative Raise. If the bidding went as above up to| my bid of four hearts, but my partner then bid five hearts instead of four no trumps, I would read this bid as mean- ing sound heart support (K Q x or K J 10 or K 10 x x) and would bid six hearts. Assured of no red losers, the slam contract becomes obligatory. Only an adverse 4-1 or 5-0 holding in & red suit will endanger it. Partner un- x Xxx XXX P. Hal Sims, since #1924. | AL SIM! heart support supplies the slam-key for this hand. With a 5-4-4-0 Distribution. Take the same mdnrd:fl c-k: ;or 5-5-3-0 regarding primary for . Remember that when- d four-card minor suit rily, after a major, your partner knows it is the start or continuation of a slam try and that you have at least one other bid in reserve. With Sp.KQxxx Dia, —— Hts. A X X X CLRJIxx you could safely bid three spades over one no trump. When you show your void, it will be by bidding five diamonds over four no trumps or four spades, | and if that information does not enable | your partner to come to life and bi the slam for you, he has a safe sign- | off in five spades. Howev:r, if spades “were' the void suit, you would need { three primary tricks for the same rea- | son as with 5-5-3-0 hand pattern—you will be showing your void at five spades, so it will be impossible to stop short of slam if you bid your hand to its proper limit. ently, I would need as much as Sp. —— Dl AXxxx His KQxxx O EKQxx to bid three hearts over one no trump Change the club holding to K J x x and Iwould bid at-first only two hearts, but would make a later slam try in this fashion; The bidding having been one no trump, two hearts, two no _trumps, three clubs, three no trumps—I would now bid four spades. My partner could not read this as anything but a cue bid. If my black suits were each of four cards, would I not have bid spades before clubs? If my clubs were five in num- ber and my spades were four, I could have had no right to bid hearts at eIl on the first round, as I could only hald four of them and must then bid them only after bidding spades. One would have to hold 14 cards for this bidding procedure to cause any confusion. If my partner signed off by bidding four no trumps over four spades, I would sign off at five hearts, an easier declaration to handle. A diamond and a club (we are now considering the wegker hand with K J x x in clubs) might well be lost if opener’s bid was . KQx DLK10xx Hts. A x X . A Axx (Copyright, 1933.) will answer all inguiries on are addressed to this news- ever doubtedly holds at least the gueen in « spades. Definite information about the velope. Mr. Sims contract that res paper With a self-addressed stamped en- | BEDTIME STORIES 2 Tier Peter and Teeter. ETER RABBIT had to confess that Teeter the Spotted Sand- piper had astonishing babies. ‘This wasn't surprising to Teeter, because, like all good parents, he thought there were no other babies in all the Great World equal to his. Peter's astonishment was complete when one of the fuzzy mites took to the water and swam across a little pool rather than run around it. He was willirg to confess that had he been S Wy “CAN YOU SWIM?” HE DEMANDED OF TEETER. told about it instead of seeing it he ‘wouldn’t have believed it. “Can you swim?” he demanded of ter. “Of course I can swim,” replied Teeter. “Do you mean to tell me that you have been acquainted with me practically all your life and didn't know I could swim?" | Peter had to admit that this was | true. Almost since he could remember | NANCY PAGE Diamonds Come From Doylestown. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. “You will all be interested in the pattern I am showing you today. It ‘was sent by a girl 11 years old who says she enjoys making quilts. . She designed this herself and has two other quilts in the making. Dorothy Hoff of Doylestown, Ohio, gave this quilt no name. I thought that the Nancy Page Quilt Club might lnpmv;et diamonds’ or white material, The four small diamonds which he had known Teeter. He had seen him teetering and bobbing and bowing along the shore of the Smiling Pool and along the Big River. He had seen him on the Green Meadows hunting crick- ets and grasshoppers. He had never seen Teeter swim and had no more idea that he could than could any of the feathered folk of the land. Suddenly Teeter gave the alarm call and instantly the four babies disap- . Teeter himself took to his wings and flew out over the Smiling Pool. And then Peter saw the cause. Sharpshin the Hawk darted out after him and at the rate Sharpshin was going it was clear that he would over- take Teeter in a jiffy. “Oh!” gasped Peter. “Those babies haven’t any mother and now they will -have no father!” Horror-stricken, he watched the pur- suit. Teeter was flying low just above the water. Sharpshin was almost on him. There was & splash in the water. Peter tl ht had struck Teeter and knocked him down into the Smiling Pool. Sharpshin on with a scream of rage and Teeter wasn't to be seen. Sharpshin didn’t have him in his claws.” Peter was sure of that. But Teeter was nowhere to be scen on the surface of .the water. “He must have sunk when he was Struck,” thought Peter sadly. He thought of the babies and began to look for them, but looked in vain. It was with a feeling of sadness that he jeave up the search. Suddenly there .was the familiar call and instantly the bables reappeared. And there was Teeter himself bowing and bobbing in his funny way. Peter simply stared. He knew it couldn't be Teeter. must be another Sandpiper. “Well, what do you think of swimming now?” asked Teeter, Teeter it was and no other. “I didn’t see you swim,” stammered my for 2l . connect them and act almost as a lat- tice work are done in figured and plain. Two of the small diamonds are of plain material, which accents one of the colors in the other two blocks, which are made of figured. For instance, the plain small dia- Peter. “Didn’t Sharpshin strike you?” “No,” replied Teeter. dived just in time and swam under water. I was near those rushes and didn’t have to swim far to get in among them where it was safe to come up.” “Can you dive, too?” asked Peter foolishly. “Didn’t I just say I dived?” de- manded Teeter. “And you swam under water?” con- tinued Peter in a questioning tone. “Certainly,” replied Teeter. “But you haven't webbed feet,” pro- teltgd‘l}effin “Bul ave 8 lectly good pair of wings,” replied mr. "g use those “You mean you unt water?” asked Peter. “You might call it that, but I call it swimming,” replied Teeter. “I swim with my wings.” “Show-me!” commanded Peter as he hopped over to the bank of the Smiling Pool, where he could look down into the water. ‘Teeter obllnn% swam out and dived and, sure enough, Peter could see him beneath the surface by ly opening and closing his wings. Then Teeter came .out and told Peter to follow him to where the water was shallow. There Teeter walked in right | over his head, holding his head down !and walking along the bottom. | “And I thought I knew you,” said Peter when Teeter rejoined him. “Perhaps you do now,” replied (Copyright. 1933.) o Southern Gumbo. : Place two cupfuls of diced cooked i chicken with one sliced onion, one No. {2 can of drained okra, one No. 2 can | of tomatoes and one cupful of cooked jrice, in a kettle. Add three cupfuls of | hot water and two cupfuls of chicken ibrolh, Simmer gently for fifteen | minutes. Season with salt and pepper. d | the last of the order of Halecomorphi, 1t | FLY CRAZY !/ monds might be green, with a green| and white print for the other two diamonds. In the next set of four diamonds | the plain ones might be pink and the| figured pieces of a pink and white or | pink, white and green print. Another block might use plain, soft gray for the plain diamonds and a gray and blue print for the companion diamonds. Be sure that the prints are fast color and of small figure. If the pattern is ®o0 large the design does not show to ®good advantage. And if there are large Ppatches of white in the print the white makes an uneasy outline for the dia- mond, It blends in with the big diamond and the small block does not look clean cut. The club members sent for the life size pattern of this quilt. You may get yours by following the directions at the end of this article. In cutting allow one-quarter inch on all sides for seams. Take small stitches, fastening thread well at start and end of seam. The seam starts in one-quarter inch from sides and end| of patches. ern for the diamonds be obtained by sending self-addressed, atie paper ck patterns sending an additional patiern requested. (Copyright, 1033 d “THE QUALITY THAT KILLS” ENING .STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. Bowfin. Amia calva. re mostly gopd and clean, n'; He dossn't knock his fellowmen Or,Barbor any grudges then— A feller's at his finest when Out fishin" —Harry Lee Burgess. TBE bowfin is the only fish to have a full name. He is known by many as John A. Grindle; to others, grindle for short. It seems that the bowfin, though has gained for himself an uncavory reputation. In the Great Lakes he is known as the “dogfish” because even the dogs will not eat him. Dr. Kirt- “BOWFIN- 145 i)/ /// (7 land says the reason it is called the “lawyer” is because “it will bite at any- thing and is good for nothing when caught.” The bowfin is the angler's ideal fighter. When %t is hooked, the fisher- man knows he is bound to have an exciting experience. The bowfin dies hard and fights longer and more de- terminedly than any other fish of like size. There is no fish able to live so long out of water. Even the horned pout and the mud-minnow, famous for their ability to live without water, can- not keep up with him. When fully grown, the bowfin is about 3 feet long. The males are smaller, as is usually the case. The male has an ocellated black spot in his tail. Both are dark mottled green in color. The head is covered with a bony coat of mail. The grindle or bowfin is found in great numbers in the lakes and swamps of the Mississippi Valley; in the Great Lakes region, where he received his legal title, and in_ Virginia, where his full name was conferred upon him. In spite of the fact he is so gamey, his flesh is not fit to eat. It is so watery and pasty that it almost evapo- rates before your eyes. It's his fight that makes him famous. All bowfins are pugnacious. They fight for the joy of a scrap. A well de- veloped lung enables one to breathe air much longer than any other fish, if it is thrown back into the water. Little is known about its family life. 1t has no commercial value. Prof. Cope gave the order its name because it was shad-formed. (Copyright. 1933.) FRIDAY, £, |DorothyDix| & HEN my son gets old enough to think about marriage I'm golng to give him only one -piece of advice,” said a man to me the other day. “I'm going to say to him: ‘Boy, marry a waster and a spender, or a clothes-horse or a poor ‘cook or a bridge sharp if your fancy falls on one of them, but don't, as you value your happiness, marry a girl with the mother complex. The others may make you a poor'wife, but if you marry a mamma's baby you won't have any wife at all. She will aiways belong to mother. Never to you. “I know from experience. I fell in love with a girl who was pretty and sweet and intelligent and who of feminine virtues and attractions, was to get her. ‘A good the old proverb, which has ever been put over on simple, carried pretty nearly the whole line and everybody told me how lucky I daughter makes a good wife,’ they sald, quoting is about the most lying bit of propagarda that credulous, ignorant men. For let a girl once get addicted to ancestor-worship and you never can break her away from her faith. She will go on bowing the knee to mother as long as she lives and a mere husband wiil be only an incident in her cosmos. “NOW when Mary and I were married and she said that mother must come and live with us because mother was old and would be so lonely and depended on her so much, I made no objection, though I couldn’t see why mother was such a forlorn figure, as she was a remark- ably robust and healthy woman in and several other married children. mother would just be a guest in our house, her early 50s, with plenty of money In my simplicity I figured that and.if Mary felt it was her duty to cherish her, it was all right with me. “Little did I know that when a woman has a duty fixation toward her mother it absolves her from havin, and. Mo d mo&: first, ane band. Mother comes mother’s taste, n‘xloth“er's whtl:u '1"3.‘ are always spread all over the place, and, if they. come in conflict with husband’s, any duty whatsoever to her hus- er's comfort, mother’s pleasure, above all, mother’s feelings, which are daughter's chief consideration, 80 much the worse for him. €QO I've always run a bad seeond to mother. I've had to eat the food that agreed with mother’s digestion. I have had to refrain from smoking because mother didn’t like the smell of tobacco. I've had to have the people around me that mother liked instead of the ones I enjoyed. T've had to stay at home, or else go by myself because mother didn't like to travel and my wife wouldn't leave her alone. My wife has ruthlessly sacrificed my tastes and pleasures it has never even occurred to her that it make her husband happy than her and habits to her mother. Apparently is more a wife’s duty to try to mother. “Of course, every bridegroom enters marriage in the fond belief that his bride has put him on a pedestal and looks up to him and regards him as more or less of an oracle. I was soon to be undecelved on that score. We hadn’t been married a month before I found out that the fountain of wisdom of which my wife drank was not me but her mother. She had got the ‘mother-knows-best’ idea so firmly planted in her mind that tons of the dynamite of experience with moss-grown opinions and moronic views could not dislodge it. 6QO we have lived our whole married life to the tune of ‘mother thinks we should do this or that.’ Or, thi know what is. “My wife promptly installed her mother A what I think on the subj m:ngr l.rxllc}dlot. ‘And if that isn’t a deflater of vanity in a husband, I don’t ‘mother says we mustn’t do the other ject has as little weight as the gibber- as head of the house and 1 have never been anything in it but the bill-payer. All of her life my wife had given implicit obedience to her mother and, as far as has forced this same little-child role said, or else there were scenes and and having to be wheeled into ‘we have some right to live our own posible, she on me. We have had to do as mother tears and mother taking to her bed forgiving us for the crime of thinking that lives. Of course, I have always been the chief culprit, for Mary is so enslaved to hef mother that she would never even think of rebelling. “ the children came mother took entire charge of them. She named them hideous old family names against which my wife would not protest because it would wound mother's feelings. scorns the scientific modern methodd an bring o‘(‘:& her children that wa; and rocked and sung to and m: “And worst of all, there has been no have never had a chance to get really acquainted and speak to each other because mother in. I have never been first with my wife. I (Copyright. 1933.) My wife and I out our hearts of my house. of baby-rais| because she n't 50 nury blh!‘:s‘ have been bounced sick by improper feeding. privacy in our married life. has always been listening have never been the head DOROTHY DIX. AMAZE A MINUTE SCIENTIFACTS—BY ARNOLD. HYDROGEN / HELIUM DENSITY 1S TWICE HYDROGEN S, YETITS LIFTING POWER 1S ONLY. SLIGHTLY LESS (92.5%), As THIS DEPENDS ONLY ON THF DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE DENSITY OF THE GAS AND MUCH HEAVIER AIR. LARreEST RECORDED SNOWFLAKE FELL AT NASHVILLE , TENN., ON JAN.24, 1891, IT WAS EIVE E . INCHES ACROSS. MosguiTo DANGER- 12 DIEFERENT ¥ 22\ SPECIES OF MOSQUITOES | ARE KNOWN TO BE —| TRANSMITTERS OF —\ YELLOW FEVER. Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W:IO"-I- Imagination. Some persons imagine they can imagine anything. And that their imaginings must represent some infal- lible oracle. Surprised, amused, or, per- haps, consoled by their own day- dreams, they come to regard the work of the mind as limitless. Those who are best equipped to summarize and symbolize these imaginary wanderings turn out to be ts, more or less. Walt Whitman said his business was to “make poems.” Critics differ much among themselves about the quality' of his poetic efforts. But if you read his “Crossing ‘Brooklyn Ferry” carefully you may sense “the glories strung like beads on the smallest sights and hear- ings.” [Edgar Allan Poe wrote “out of space, out of time.” Perhaps his //158([ SPRAY mind responded to still smaller “sights and he.nrx“' At any rate, he ad- mitted that imaginations didn’t neces- sarily need to square themselves with the reality of reality. No matter what the poets say and the day-dreamers think, one thing is certain: Your imagination is first of all based upon sensory experience. It's impossible to imagine something you have not seen, heard, tasted and felt in some way. And this is true of all the imaginings derived from all the senses, | whatever they are. How does it come that you some- times say: - “I can’t imagine.” It's an admission that you have not sensed anything like it before. Imagination is by no means a gift. It is the natural result of exposure to reality, some time, somewhere. pyright. 1933.), THIS n"[ e My Neighbor Says: When taking a pie from the oven, do not put it on the flat surface of a table to cool, but on a high wire rack. The rack helps to keep the crust crisp. To_remove fruit stains from the hands moisten a crust of bread with vinegar and rub on the stains, or grease the hands with lard and then wash with soap and water. If & piece of fat about the size of a nutmeg is added to the water in which any kind of greens are being cooked, there will be no boiling over and no stirring will be required. To .remove perspiration stains from white clothes, dampen th: stains with Jemon juice and,sal berore'v:m}n‘ them inito soap and water. Chilled, diced oranges, mixed with pineapple and sprinkled with coconut, make a delicious dessert. All wooden buckets, when not in use, should have about 2 inches of water left in them. This pre- vents them from becoming too dry and the wood from shrink- ing so that they leak. A slice of ham can be broiled or baked. Any that is left over can be ground up and served with cream sauce on toast. Solutions of soda, pctash or ammonia will remove grease from unvarnished wood. Tintex Takes The 'Worry Out 0f ' Your Wardrobe Faded Apparel Becomes @ New Again With These Famous Tints And Dyes | When you have learned about Tintex, your Spring and QOW.10M 5L -+ New Yerk City Summer wardrobe ceases to be a problemN! - o longer will you wi about faded or out-of-date colm in your “undies”, dresses, sports- ul;ear. etc. Tintex will take care of that quickly and easily! Because Tintex does professi:z-l work in restoring faded colors—or giving | mew colors — to every w: le fabric. Yes — Tintex gives truly professional results. Yet it is as | simple to use as anything you d imagine! And there are 35 brilliant, long-lasting colors from which to choose. 15¢ Tintex Loyt sllng NO. 1221 It costs only 15¢ See this and dozens of others in the Simplicity Magazine on sale at your fa- vorite dress goods counter. 10¢ [ ] SIMPLICITY PATTERN CO. TINTS and DYES MAY 26, 1933. C;)He‘gg:" Humor “So he says to me, ‘I'm in love with the most wonderful, charming, exquisite, enchanting, alluring, bewitching girl m the whole world,! and I says, ‘I like you, too, Oliver. "—Purple Parrot. “Do you think petting is more dan- gerous than spooning was in your day, grandpa?” “Yes, because in my day the parlor sofa wasn’t in danger of running into a tree.”—Southern California Wampus. He—The biggest men get the pret- tiest girls. She—You conceited man.— Punch Bowl. Applicant—I played the belle in ““The Love of Kathleen Mauvoreen.” Sound Technician—Hey, Bill, book :znsh girl for off-stage noises.—Ski-U- ah. If Adam would come back to earth about the only thing he would recog- nize would be the jokes—Rice Owl. pencil because she wanted to write a love letter—Ski-U-Mah. She asked the druggist for a soft lead | sug: WOMEN’S FEATURES. Little Trips Into Nature. | Elms and Maples. i | MONG the great gifts which | nature has given us is the tree, | and in the Springtime the world is brightened for us when trees { take on new green coats. | | . Among the fine shade trees is the | graceful elm. You may have seen long Tows of elms on either side of a road, with upper branches stretched across the road and interwoven in such man- ner as to make what we might almost call a “tree tunnel.” To grow their best, elms need soil which contains a good deal of water. All trees need a supply of water, but there are some which can get along with much less than the elm. The maple is another excellent shade | tree, and in the maple family we find ‘memben which provide sap for maple sugar. Anna Botsford Comstock, in her val- uable “Handbook of Nature Study.” tells of March days during her child- hood when she and others went forth to “tap the sugar-bush.” Her account |of the treatment of the sap runs, part: 3o “After about three days of gather- ing and boiling sap came the ‘siruping | down.’ During all that afternoon we | watched the tawny, steaming mass in the kettle. When it threatened to boil over we threw in a thin slice of pork. | which seemed to have some mysterious | | calming influence. | “The odor grew more and more de- | licious and presently the sirup was suf- ficlently thick. The kettle was swung | off the logs and the sirup dipped | lhr{mgh a cloth strainer into a carrying | pail. | “The next day our interests were transferred to the house where we ‘sugared off.” There we boiled the sirup to sugar on the stove and stirred it until it grained, beforg we poured it into tins to make s of maple ar.” | Other trees Yroduee sweet sap, but | the sugar maple gives better sap for’ sugar-making than any other tree on this continent. In some lands is taken from palm trees and mede into a very high grade of sugar. lPo)r “Nature” section of your scrap- The leaflet called “Marvels of the Sky” contains a diagram sizes of the planets and their distance from the sun. It tells about Donatis comet and other wonders. If you want & copy, without charge, send a return envelope to me in care of thig newspaper. UNCLE RAY. (Copyright. 1933 Strawberry Mousse. Press the strawberries from ‘2 eighte ounce cans through a sieve. Bring te boiling with one-third cupful of sugar, and color a bright red. In this red sirup dissolve two teaspoonfuls of gela tin which has been softened in two tablespoonfuls of cold water. Cool, sdd one tablespoonful of lemon juice and freeze to a mush in the rei itor tray, stirring several times. one in | and one-third cupfuls of beaten. and continue freezing. Serve in mounds or balls garnished with bits of angelica. ,‘L//{it\ . Lawns A/UL/ (n/‘)'L‘[,L iy Grou L Better Wheat Flakes 2. plus Extra Bran 3. at a new low price and ... 10 full ounces - Sa¥ Kellogg’s PEP to your grocer for the finest value in wheat flakes. Crisp, nourishing wheat. With the famous Kellogg flavor. And more than that: : Kellogg’s PEP includes extra bran. Enough to be mildly laxative. Kellogg’s PEP is sold in full 10-ounce packages. Every bit as much food as bigger, higher-priced cartons. Your grocer has it. Always oven-fresh. Look for the red-and-green package. Made by Kellogg in Battle Creek.