Evening Star Newspaper, June 16, 1933, Page 38

MAGAZINE PAGE. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. Conquering Contract By P. HAL SIM * Mr. Sims is universally acclaimed the | Consequently the responder should ‘greatest living comtract and auction | know whether a partial score contract He is captain of the renowned | will be safer in his suit or in the de- , "Four Horsemen” team, and has won |clarer's. If his own suit is in any way national championships since 1924. | comparable t6 the suit he now knows 'hese articles are based om the Sims | declarer to hold, he will undoubtedly stem, which ' includes the ome-over- |be strong enough to wish the hand to principle which -the Sims group n«:i/ be Ifl;{!dI in %I‘rezor‘:g“trfll(nm -ndd:‘: st and | accordingly. : s e e T sult is & major but opener’s is & minor, i én” devolves on hm;uxespondu;g mhnndb h;o S350 Prooe soina] | take & less sul ry part in the bid- Rebidding ‘Procedure of Original | ke @ less Subsidiary part in the hid & No-Trump Bidder. | suit in the hope that the opening bid- der may be able to contract for game Continuing without interruption yes- 'in no trumps or in the suit. of the situation concealed long suit | Let Us Analyze 2 Few Examples. Opening bidder’s hand is makes a suit take- S—K x D—AJ9 out which leaves H_K 10 x CTAKxxx | the hand's destiny | and he rightly bids a no trump rather still in doubt, I | than a club, since the lead up to this wish to stress the hand is a positive necessity in no reason for my | trumps. making a rigid rule Responder’s hard is w=—they are rare in 8-—QJxxx D—K xx my system—that H—xxx cxx { when once you | and the bidding goes—one no trump, have opened the | two spades. Opener's hand is so very bidding with a no- “minimum” that he should now bid trump, you may three clubs, not two no trumps, and not bid a four-card {thus pass to his partner the decision suit until the bid- whether game or partial acore shall be ding has gone be- the destiny of the bidding. Partner d three no must of course bid three spades. which mnfu "This'is to opener will pass. Had opener'’s hand guard against the p Hal Sims been Decessity for both D—A J 10 ers to deny each other's suits and | ¥k B 10 Ak Xax ereby waste precious bidding oppor- 'he would, over two spades, bid two no gunities which should be serving a more | trumps, hoping his partner could next jponstructive purpose. » | bid three hearts or three no trumps. ‘The principle of “installment bidding” | Over the despondent three spade rebid, E:esnflly applies to the responding he would himself bid three no trumps, day's discussion en opener has a and responder No, no, John! (I just says that every little while 'cause he’s bound to be doin’ somethin’ he shouldn't, an’ I keeps a death Jflp on his rompers an takes & nap, at the same time—) (Copyright, 1033.) NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. d's take-out. By this I mean that | there being now no need to tell any one needs a second round of bidding to | about the club suit. whow whether he is very weak (he will | with n rebid his suit) or strong enough | —Kxx raise the two no-rump rebid to| H—K x three, or perhaps bid a second sult.|the opener shoud. on this same bidding. Fhis we must concede, and we can af- | bid four spades, over three spades. Were Bord it. We cannot afford for there | the club holding A K Q X X, I would %o be doubt also about the length of | at this point bid three no trumps | She t?entnz bidder’s concealed suit. Re- | rather than four spades, because now Jponder must feel safe in passing or I will expect to lose no club trick in Faising that suit bid with adequate |no trumps. With the weaker club suit, ‘“rump support for a suit known to con- | T would expect to lose at least on trick mist of more than four cards. in it at no "ums: whereas in s e Vl I may hope to d my partner wi der Has Very Definite Knowledge About a Suit Bid by Opener Sub- |OPlV two of them. Thus he will ruff * " out the suit and obtain discards of one I+ sequently to an Original No-Trump. | or- more jogers from his own hand, *, When the opener bids a suit under (The game in spades is then likely to game level, after having opened | depend on the location of the ace of th one no-trump, the responder not | hearts and a normal spade division in knows that it consists of mere the opponents’ hands. an four cards, he also knows that it‘ (Copyright, 1933.) h. n’?og: s hi?l.‘;ed b{ Vipiilen [TRERE i1l e Lo oqeir use if the long sul weak, open- r. 8ims will answer al uiries e should, as we have seen recent m‘,}:_:m‘h,‘,fc re addressad to this news: |or creeps from one that his mother envelope. prrticles, bid the sult and not no-trumps. lt;l;ennng ulg.l ':;ane. ‘h’l'e)}; rymu: BEDTIME STORIES By 1;,:;:,: Sme 0%, makes a1 U b rron B MAYFLIES. Ephemeridae. HE dance of the mayflies is known to many as the death dance of the gay little children of the air, whose span of life as a flyer is but a few days, at the most. This is their last appearance in a very interesting life story and is at the time they are about three years old. You may watch the fascinating life 8 | unfold, for you can get with little trouble, the infant mayflies, known as nymphs, while they are water babies. In an aquarium you may see them change their clothes, race after diatoms, the small edible particles they love, and observe how cleverly they evade their enemies. The first chapter will begin When the Httle mayfly drops from the egg, fastened to the stem of a water plant, motion. They act as sieves for the THE EVENING STAR, WASHI fringed gills which are kept in constant | 4, NGTON, What Is Woman’s the Value Pride in “# | DorothyDix H OW much is & husband worth? A woman who is suing another Wifehood Priceless woman for stealing her husband from her values her purloined spouse at s million dollars, and asks damages in that amount. ‘To most wives this will seem an excessive valuation to put upon & mere husband, and they will wonder why a woman who ::;und such a treasure did not take better care of it—why she did not him under lock and key, or keep him on the leash and take every precaution against his getting lost, strayed or stolen. For it is fairly obvious that when wives lose their husbands or their pearls it is through carelessness and because they were asleep at the switch, so to speak. BU‘T be that as it may, it leaves the worth of a husband still unsettled. Of course, there are some men who are go-getters, whose cash value to their wives can easily be assessed in dollars and cents. They are worth so many town and country houses, so many trips to Europe, so many limousines, 80 much Paris finery. And there are other men who are lovers as well as husbands, and who are so tender, so kind, so understand- ing and sympathetic that their price is above rubles. In reality a husband is like a piece of bric-a-brac. his wife just what she thinks he is worth. If she considers him something rare and precious, he is worth his weight in gold to her. If she think him cheap and common and has lost her taste for him, he is a fPotal loss. But for most women even a mediocre husband is valuable for the follow- ing reasons: FIR-ST. - Because & husband esves a woman from the fate she dreads worse than death, and thaf is being an old maid. Goodness only knows why any woman in these days of female emancipation should think it a disgrace not to be married, but the great majority of the sex hold to this obsolete theory. A learned woman once said to me that she had worked a lot harder to write Mrs. before her name than she had to put Ph. D. after it. And that point of view is more or less general. A shabby married woman will high-hat a spinster in an imported ensemble and most women feel that they have fi as women if they have not achieved a wedding ring. SzcoNDA A husband is valuable as a meal ticket. He may be considerably in the way the remainder of the time, but he is handy to have around the house the first of the month when the bills come in. A woman has to work a long time and be umuunllflonlccmful in business before ghe can set up for herself even the modest home and car that her husband gives her as & matter of course. He is worth to THIRD. A husband is valuable as s flavoring for life. Sometimes he ‘makes it sweet for her. Very often he makes it hot, but in any event he keeps her days from being flat and tasteless. She has somebody to work for. Somebody to get up good dinners for. Somebody whose goings and comings set the clock for her. Somebody to try to please. Some- thing to think about besides herself. Even a husband who is a standing grievance has his value. He may break his wife’s heart, but she never of boredom as the old maid so often does. ‘OURTH. A husband is valuable as a steady date. The social world seems to be made up of twosomes, and after & woman is too old to have a boy friend always hanging around, anxious to step out with her, she is simply sunk if she hasn't & husband. No matter how attractive the old maid or the widow may be, she is left out of a lot of the pleasant little gatherings just because she hasn't any man to bring along with her, for hostesses won't be bothered hunting her up an escort. IFTH. Husbands arg valuable as sparring partners. Most women enjoy a little fight now and then, and it is & comfort to have somebody that you don't have to be polite to or handle tactfully, and who will give you as good as you send in a stand-up fight. And that there is a lot of ds r in it merely adds to the thrill of the encounter. Slflsrfl Husbands are valuable because they afford the one perfect alibi that can never be checked up. They are a standing excuse for every- thing a wife does and leaves undone. The married woman doesn't brusquely decline when you ask her to do something she doesn't want to do. She says “I must ask my husband” or “My husband simply won't let me do thus and 0, or give to this and that.” Thus do the meekest and most henpecked of men become stern domestic tryants, in whose shadows their wives hide and escape criticism. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright. 1933.) | dash of pepper. | of the tripe in this batter, then place furnished with an air cushion which|of mayfiies, blown inland by & stiff enables her to go into the water ana anchor her eggs to a stone, if she so esires. It is not unusual for the breeze. Mayflies are provided with large front | D. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 1 JOLLY POLLY A Little Chat on Engli BY JQS. J. FRISCH DON'T THEY? |'SUPPOSE CHEWING GOM <3y NEARLY EVERYONE LIKES CONEECTIONS, TS WHY HAS GAINED SO R. N—In accordance with the rules of grammar, the sentence should read, “Nearly every one likes confections, doesn’t he?” “Every one” is singular, hence the verb and pronoun should be singular. The sentence as corrected, however, sounds awkward. If it must be in the form of a question, why not say “Nearly all people like confections, don't they?” or “Don’t you think that nearly every one likes confections?” Boston Tripe. Soak 1 pound honeycomb tripe over night in cold water, or when ready to cook it, pour bolling water over it, cool and dry with a towel. Beat together 1 egg, 2 tablespoons milk, spoon flour, ¥; teaspoon salt and a Lay the smooth side in a frying pan in hot pork fat or butter. Cook slowly until a delicate brown. Dip the remainder of the bat- ter onto the honeycomb side, turn tripe and cook in same way. Put on a plat- ter, smooth side down, and serve at once. The 0l1d Gardener Says: ‘Water lilies can be planted now, even the more tender tropical kinds. The fact must be kept in mind, though, that these lilies throw up many wide leaves and that two or three plants are suf- ficlent for a pool of average size. All water lilies are best planted in boxes or other containers, which can be moved about at will. Baskets such as those used in the grocery stores make good containers for water lilies. These plants are heavy feeders and plenty of fertilizer should be mixed into the soil around the roots. Well-rotted cow manure is best of all, but well-rotted sheep manure and commercial fertiliz- ers make a good substitute. When lilies are used in a natural pool with a mud bottom, boxes need not be 1 table- | OMEN'S FE Mountains of Stone. | IHETxuwe look at some moun- ta we might suppose them to be composed of soil, but the soil is just an outer covering. Under it, in every case, is a mass of rock ‘The crust of the earth may be com- | pared with the skin of an orange; and that crust is made up almost entirely of rock layers. At the surface, to be sure, we usually find water or soil; but | below is stone. In a few places on | earth the soil has a depth as great as 200 feet, but in most parts rock is much ! | closer to the surface, often just a foot or two. Sometimes the rock is in plain | view. When an orange is left long enough | | to dry out it will shrink in size, and you | | may find “hills and valleys” on its sur- | face. In much the same way the earth | has shrunk and its rocky crust has piled up into mountains at many places. Climb a mountain, and what do we find? The higher we climb the thin- | ner the air. Two miles above sea level | we are likely to feel the need of over- | | coats. On an August day I climbed to | a height of 14,000 feet in the Rocky | Mountains and came to a snowfleld. It seemed strange to have snow around me in the middle of Summer. You may be sure that I made snowballs. It is not wise for & person from the lowlands to exert himself very much as soon as he reaches high mountain | levels. To do so is likely to overstrain | the heart. Before I climbed that peak | | I had been camping for more than two | weeks at a level of about 9,000 feet. | Strain on the heart comes because | the air is very thin on high mountains. | It is harder to take in oxygen than at | low levels. Nature cares for people | MOUNT iVERET‘ ‘THE EARTH'S ST PEAK. who live in the mountains; she sup- | plies their blood with a larger number | of red corpuscles and these make it | honor. | peak—Mount Everest— [ ATURES UNCLE RAY’S CORNER where the hill is. A prairie farmer might call & 500-foot hill & “moun- tain,” but a native of Colorado would think that the hill did not deserve the In general, the name moun- tain is given only to land rising more than 1,000 feet. Highest of all moun- tains are the Himalayas; t! have one 8l miles above sea level. (For science section of your scrap book.) The leaflet called “Marvels of the Sky” contains a diagram showing sises of the planets and their distance from the sun. It tells about Donati’s comet and other wonders. If you want a ccry. without charge, sent a return envelope to me in care of this newspaper. UN RAY. (Copyright, 1933.) . Recipe for Picnic Turnovers. Roll baking powder biscuit dough thin and cut in rounds. Spread first with creamed butter and then spread half of each biscuit with well-season chopped meat (cold roast or ham). Fold, press- “Yes —1I made 3 different style dresses with this one pattern.” @ simpPLICITY TRIPLE-STYLE PATTERN 15¢ The easiest wusemdmm 1 e . Ask it.&emw&m- me(uylesimhenevséim- ici ine — 10¢ at v the mud. These mayfly babies have six sturdy legs that support a somewhat 2 i .| he didn't. He glided in a little farther I Blackumake Makesia Mistake for that hole was gun.e deep. He was flat body and at the end of which floats three feathery streamers. Along the eager to seize and swallow the first young bird. sides of the body is a row of delicate And then something happened. It happened so xudde'nlr that at first he 't know what ‘happened. Some- thing struck him just back of the head, something that and made him withdraw his head in a hurry with pain and anger. At once the entrance to that hole was filled mother to fly over the water and drop her eggs into it. They stick fast to anything they touch. It is not an un- millions Jogn ey have long siender Alment, ve lender ents, tev':or three in o:u‘mbar, ‘which float gracefully from the tip of their abdo- men as they drift through the air. used except for tropical varieties, and there will be little need of applying fertilizer. (Copyright, 1933.) tptl)rmblewdnwmm oxygen from the a How high must a hill be before it can be called a mountain? That de- | pends to some extent on the place! minute particles of food to seep through. At this stage they must be on the alert and keep well out of the way of their enemies, the perch, crappy, trout, bass ! The smartest soon or late will make | 4 very serious mistake. | —OId Mother Nature. SIMPLICITY PATTERN CO., inc. w. Sty New Yerk Cy VERYBODY makes mistakes. Yes, sir; everybody makes mis- takes, And sometimes some of the smartest people make the ust remember t the next time . B help you to feel better about it. ake had kept away from Orchard this !Tmc until the ting season was well under way. temptation became greater than could resist. He wanted eggs or | a very great birds. He didn't much care ich s0 long a8 he got enough of him back of the head. Mr. Blacksnake knew then that he had made a mistake, mistake. Had he known the water, and float on the v === and Picnics this Summer... didn't exactly lose tite, but he did lose all the back and the emerging one creeps to the stem of a water plant and clings there until the old garment opens enough for the adult fly to step forth. ‘This insect has one other unusual habit and that is to shed an adult skin. This is done just before they go into the air to dance. Millions of swirling mayflies rise 1n great clouds above the water they so lately quit. Here the brides and grooms wed and the mother is seen fly- ing back to the stream, pond or river, to fasten her eggs to a plant. She is it. H no 3 {of t tree in & jiffy and | through the grass. . He would try some- where else for a breakfast. | “It is lucky,” thought he, “that none i‘ndmle i’:‘?"ky’u)::“nd folk saw ‘:e. | it is lucky that Mrs, Spooky isn't the kind to make a great noise and so draw the attention of others. My, but that bill of hers can hurt. I won- | der if T can find Welcome Robin’s nest. | It ought '}; u;.leut Inveb:rnl !n"u‘ I would rather have young birds, buf !'fll do very well. I made a mi:g back there by not first finding out who | was living there. Yes, sir; I certaily | made a mistake.” (Copyright, 1983.) SANICO Sandwich BREAD Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. CHING THE TREE, HE RAISHT) $15 HEAD FOR A LOOK ALL ABOUT. When You Are Afraid. ge old stone wall and taking care 10| gome one has sald that “fear is the The same delicious, smooth-textured Sanico Bread that you enjoy on the table at home . . . except that this eep under cover as much as possible. | , SOmC ON® has sald that “fesr Is L0 ade his way through the grass of the pe i Sl e 1d Orchard straight to a certain tree. | ™' g, " oo aspect of this fear business He knew that tree well. He knew that | “ootain: No one has ever been en- ! n it was a hole made long 8g0 by | o1y free from fear of something, at | ellow-ring the Flicker. He knew all! (oo time during every hour of his or | About 1t because once he had had a | jome time during cvery hour of his of | ood dinner of young Flickers which | ¢on6 fear of something even invades S siI0 it U AN o One's sleeping hours, making some Yellow-wing may not be nesting nights hideous. For instance: A man | there this year. but if he isn't some| Nights hideous. For instance: A man ne else may be. Angway there Will| oy’ grangs of hair, dreamed that he nothing lost by having & 100k |pecame bald-headed all in & moment. ought Mr. Blacksnake. It 1s @ §00d | 5yi in “this dream he rationalized ing I can climb, What & 100 MY | (hynted up excuses) that he was bet- N ter looking bald-headed than he was Reaching the tree, he raised his head | with & full head of k look all about. So far he had not | What will people do when they are| n discoyered by any of the feathered | 4rq147 The observable bebaviorisms of oK e o %0, Sood. A minute LW | fear are legion. Sometimes they stand . | motionless. Sometimes they tremble. e. If there were eggs or young in . | Sometimes they run away from the t nest he would have & good break- | Jject. Sometimes they : . a5 | fear-exciting it and wouldn't care whether he was | vered or not. If that hole was | faidt. m&’m;"fim]l‘k!h:vm fight. pty he would try to keep out of | u"“" u'ty 'Et] m: o ng. ght until he had located another nest. | limes they feel like laughing. i "Welcome Robin was nesing in the Old ,, Almost any psychologist will tell you ‘Orchard and his nest should be easy that the emotions are more fundamen- 80 rob if he could once locate it. | tal than reason. And they will tell Mr. Blacksnake having reached that| YOU that fear is an expression of dis- Bole didn't hesitate a second. The OTganized bebavior. o quickest way of finding out if there| 1f fear Ja the tap-root of mind, Were eggs or young birds in there was Fémains for fear to be the one emotion to go right in. 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