Evening Star Newspaper, June 23, 1933, Page 37

Conquerin g Contract By P. HAL SIMS Mr. Sims is universally acclaimed the greatest living contract and auc- tion plaver. He is captain of the re- nowned “Four Horsemen” team and has won 24 _national championships since 1924. These articles are based on the Sims system, which_includes the one- over-one principle which the Sims group was the first to employ and develop. Responding to a Forcing Take-Out After Having Bid No Trumps Originally With a Concealed Long Suit. ESTERDAY 1 gave direction the advice first the ed primary values in your hand and trump support for your partner. I sug- gested that vou forget that you have a long suit unless by an unin- vited no-trump bid your partner re- veals & high card in your long suit. thus making it solid and permit- ting you to bid si right awsy, prob- ably in no trumps, assuming that there Were not two aces out against you This, of course, is ascertained imme- diately by the pro- cedure explained in the articles di: ‘cussing jump tak When the Concealed Suit Fulfills All Requirements. To_continue 2. If you have a concealed suit &s good as A K Q x x or A K X X X X bid it immediately. Do not worry if it 15 of lower rank than your partuer's take-out suit, so that you compelled to bid four in it. You can afford to bid in & high range now that you both have powerful suits in powerful hands Certainly you can make five-odd in your best declaration. It is more im- portant that you give your partner the information conveyed by this bid than that you should save a round of bidding by withholding it. You do not need this safety margin, but your partner does need this information. When you immediately bid the suit on your first Tebid, over a forcing take-out, your partner knows that it consists of more P. Hal Sims than four cards, though you have bid it | at a level above three. ‘Thus, if you held % * B F ' x and the bidding went one no-trump by you, three hearts by partner, now bid four clubs. He will know that you are showing five to A K Q or six to A K and will accordingly assume it as likely | that you have no more than K X in his | SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. Dan't you be afraid, little butterfiy— ¥ aren’t a goin’ t' squirt ya! {Copyright. 14 Nou Can Change BARK Colors To LIGHT Colors —Easy as A-B-C with Tintex Color Remover Supposing you have a dark (or any other dark- eolored article) and are pining for a lighter-colored one . . . Tintex Color Remover will safely and speedily take out all trace of color (including black) from any fabric... Then the article or fabric can be redyed or tinted with Timtex Tints and Dyes in any mew shade to suit yourself— either light or dark . . . e 15¢ Tintex COLOR REMOVER e e e | heart suit. He will also know that since two of your primary tricks are definitely in clubs, you may have no more than one and one-half in the other three— that is, three kings plus some pro- tective jacks or tens or ace and king- something and Q 10 x. Duty of Responding Hand at This Point. At this stage of the bidding the re- sponder should immediately clear up your ignorance of the heart support that he requires by rebidding his hearts or refraining from doing so. If his holding is AQJXX0r AQXXXX hould bid four hes telling you t there are almost cer ers in this suit. He ki one of the top three able to give yo bid art suit s not call If he can bid a distributior urgently for su a second suit, you can surely slam in that suit. If he show bid five clubs, that would mean J X X or X X X X in clubs, hearts not good enough to rebid. and a distribution offering very strong | inducement Probably he has a singleton in one of the unbid suits, he must have spades. club support Otherwise his cutside values are made up of queen-jack of diamonds king-queen of spades. Slam is now | assured. the ace of diamonds being the only card that will make ageinst you It should be bid in no trumps. | Exchange vour own heart mond holdings. and you shou! five hearts over four no trumps v ive clubs. The decision whether slam in hearts or in no trumps is now up to your partner. His decision should depend on his club holding and his_distribution. With x x or x in bs. he should slam in hearts even i has K Q of spades and Q J of dia- monds. With J X X or X X X X in clubs. he should slam in no trumps un- less he has a singleton diamond. In a tourament, most of us would slam in no trumps even with Sp. KQJ Di. Q His AQxxx CLxxxx (Copyright. 1453, queen Mr. Sims will answer all on con- tract that are addressed o this newspaper and inclose a self-addressed stamped velope. nauiries THE OLD GARDENER SAYS: A new way of providing plants for window gardens, where out- of-door gardens are not possible, has been discovered. The shell of a grapefruit is filled with damp soil. Then the cutside skin is varnished and it is set away to dry. Perhaps a week will be nec- | essary. The soil will keep the | | skin from shriveling as it dries out. Next the garden maker finds a small seedling tree— perhaps an ash or a maple— not over 6 or 8 inches high. ‘The roots are trimmed so that they will go into the grapefruit shell without being doubled over. Then soil should be packed around the roots and a little water given— just enough to make the soil damp. If this miniature garden is set away in a cool place for two days and kept out of the direct sunlight for a week, the little tree will soon begin to grow. the roots pushing out through the shell. These roots should be cut off as soon as they appear. In time the garden maker will have a tiny dwarf tree with gnarled branches like those of the Japanese trees sometimes seen in the stores. (Copyright, 1933.) For Of Room in Kt. a Low Cost, — e — — Those Who Need THE EVENING NANCY PAGE Here's Health. Good Looks and Good Taste. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Eleanor had asked Grace to come down for luncheon with her. She wanted to talk over her coming wedding. The girls were so thrilled they scarcely knew, what they were eating. But| finally they did leave the engrossing “topic long _enough to really put their minds on the menu card. | Grace saw a salad listed which in-| terested her. It was called spinach ring with coleslaw. “I'm going to try that dish. Mother said today that I needed some vege- tables and Miss Green is always telling us in that class of cooking for brides that we should eat spinach and cab- bage. Tl bet it won't be good. but here goes. 1 must be beautiful for your wedding. darling.” The salad proved a delightful sur- prise. The spinach had been cooked and thoroughly drained. Then a slight amount of vinegar or lemon juice had been added. Not enough to make the | vegetable taste acid. but just enough to | |remove the flat taste. And at serving | | time small bits of crisp bacon had been | zdded. They gave a delightful crunchy | taste and texture. The spinach had been pressed into | an individual ring mold, but not kept |there long. The unmoided vegetable | |was not a perfect ring. And in the| | center was some finely chopped, not | shredded. cabbage. It had been mixed | With sour cream, vinegar, sugar, salt | and pepper. A touch of red was added at one side where two crisp button | | radishes were placed. Toasted rolls | which had been split. toasted and but- | tered were served with this salad. | Brass Beds. Old brass beds which have become | unsightly may be made attractive by | | using a walnut finish. Give them two |coats of flat cream paint and when | ‘dr:»‘ cover with a good walnut stain, — 1 Wallpaper. | To test wallpaper before using it on a | | wall. get semples and submit_half of | | each sample to the direct sunlight for }- week. By comparing the two pieces of each sample, you can tell which paper will fade quickest. Lots a Refrigerator We Suggest SERVEL Crusader This is a refrigerator with adequate capacity at a lower cost and without sacrificing quality. A guaranteed electric refrigerator that you will like. Let us show you its superior quality. Five popular models. 4.6 Cu. Ft. Model $ 5.1 cu. 6.1 cu. ft. 7] cu. ft. 8.6 cu. ft. ft. Delivered and Installed .. $151.00 *. $17250 $219.00 Prices Include Installation Hermetically Sealed Servels as Low as 313§ MAYER & CO. Seventh Street Between D and E WA FRIDAY |DorothyDix| GROUP of men were discussing what was the most desirable quality a wife could possess. One said devotion. Another said goodness. Another domesticity. Another personal fascination. Finally & man said “All well and good. but none of these are the supreme virtue That is sportsmanship. Devotion? FPine. But I have seen & woman’s love do queer things to a man. I have seen a woman make her love & millstone around her husband’s neck. I have seen a woman nag & man to death because she loved him so much that she couldn't bear for him to have any other interest but herself. A woman's love is just as often a curse as it is a blessing. STAR. What Is Best Quality in a Wife? A in a wife. Heads List With “Goodness? That goes as & matter of course. are good, at least the kind we marry are Practically all women “Domesticity? Desirable, of course. but not a necessity the way we live now when the world is full of comfortable apartment hotels and there is & good Testaurant on every corner. G PERSONAL fascination? Of course, or else we wouldn't be married. Every man marries the woman he does because she has some peculiar individual attraction for him. And. anyway. after you have settled down to the steady business of matrimony you don't want to be vamped. You don't want & wife who is blowing hot and cold. You want one whose steady affection is like a fire on the hearthstone that will kesp you warm and comfortable. “I am not decrying any of the good qualities you have mentioned in wives, but the best of all is sportsmanship. That is what puts strength in a man’s arm and courage in his heart and stiffens his backbone and makes him able to go out and fight the world and win it and bring it home to her on a silver salver. And without sportsmanship all of a woman's other charms and virtues are as nothing and she is & weight on her husband's bak and a hobble to his feet. ¢¢] TELL you I belicve that no other women in the world do so much harm as the cry-baby women, the short sports who will take all a man will give them in his days of prosperity. but who turn yellow and quit when the sledding gets hard. “I know what I'm talking about, for I married the gamest little sport who ever bet her all on a poor selling plater of a man. We married on the proverbial shoestring and went to live in a two-by-four flat and for the first few years she did her own housework and made over her trousseau and wore hand-me-downs and walked blocks to buy cheap meat and find bargain groceries, but never once did she complain or remind me that her father hadn't given her a college education to be a cook or speak enviously of her old friends’ fine clothes and limousires. % N the contrary, she made me feel that she was having the time of her life and thanking heaven for the privilege of washing my shirts, and somehow getting it across to me that I was still the hero of her girlish dreams. no matter if my pay envelope did look as if an elephant had stepped on it. And when you see @ woman taking it on the chin like that, without ever a whine, it bucks you up to do the very best that is in you. “I don't know that T am timid. but I do know that my wife has got more nerve than any person I have ever met. She has always pushed me on. She has been like the wife of the old shipmaster in Kipling's poem, she has taken the chances I wouldn't and I have followed her blindly because T knew that if things went wrong there would never be a reproach from her. All T would get would be a thousand excuses that I would never have thought up for myself, with the prophecy of better luck next time. ¢()F COURSE, in this present depression T have been hit like everybody else. 1 have seen my business go to the dogs. I have seen stocks and bonds that I thought gilt-edged turn into nothing but waste paper. I have lost in breaking banks. And at last the work and worry and anxiety got me down into the vale of despair. where I could see nothing but gloom and was making myself sick brooding over the hopelessness of the situation. “But not so my good old sport of & wife. Old Man Trouble couldn’t phase her, no matter how many body blows he dealt her, and she pulled me out of the slough of despond when I was sunk to my eyes. ‘Look here. John.' she sald to me, “for the first time since we have been married T am actually ashamed of you. You are turning yellow, You are ready to give up the fight and lie down and take the count (OCopy: 1 Sportsmanship. Bedtime Stories BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. Betty Bear Comes Out. Mother love is often blind. And fails to make a baby mind ~ Mother Bear. OTHER BEAR isn't that kind of a mother. She is a good mother in every way. She keeps a watchful eye on her babies, to see that no harm comes to them, and she sees to it that they have the choicest bits of food. but she isn't blind to their faults and doesn’t spoil them as is so often the case with mothers. She makes them mind and she begins when they are still very small “The child who doesn't mind when Mttle will not mind when older and is in for a lot of trouble.” says Mother Bear. “The first and most important lesson th life in the necessity of mind- ing. No young bear is fitted to go out into the Great World who hasn't learned to mind." This year Mother Bear had but one baby. Her last babies had been twins, and a lively pair they were. What mis- chief one didn’t think of the other did. Many a spanking they had had, but when at last they started out in the Great World for themselves they knew the things that every young Bear should know, and it was largely be- cause they had been made to mind without asking questions. But while they were little they had worn Mother Bear's patience almost out. “Twins are wonderful. but they are more than twice as hard to bring up as one, for when one gets into trouble the other is almost sure to do like- wise, and what one doesn't think of the other is certain to,” Mother Bear used to grumble. But this year, with only one to look after, she looked forward to an easy time. Al through the late Winter months and early Spring Betty Bear. for that was the wee cub’s name, lived with her mother in a den under a great windfall. When she was born she was tiny and helpless, just like so many other babies. She was 40 days old be- fore she opened her eyes for the first time, and then it was in darkness, for no light got down there. her time eating and sleeping and growing, snuggled up against her big mother’s warm black coat. And Mother Bear, who slept much of the time, for this was the season of the long Winter sleep of the Bear folk. would waken now and then to fondie wee Betty, as mothers will, and make sure that she was all right. | _ Then at last came Spring. and Mother | Bear awoke and went out to see if she (could yet find anything to eat, for she had not eaten since the beginning |of Winter, when she had made that ‘snur den under the windfall and gone into it for the long sleep. By this time | Betty Bear was a fat, rolly-polly baby, |who had discovered what her legs | were for, and had begun first to climb over her mothe! d then to stand on So she spent | WOMEN'’S FEATURES r feet. and finally to walk about and | &plore the den. The first time Mother Bear went out she did not go far nor did she stay long. She left Betty Bear asleep. The second time out she was gone longer and Betty awoke. Of course. she missed Mother Bear at once and began to whimper and whine, for she didn't understand it, and was lonesome and afraid. Mother Bear heard her and returned at once, and it was then that | Betty had her first lesson. Mother told her to stop her whining, and when she didn't she received a sharp cuff | from & big paw. It surprised her more than it hurt. surprised her so that she | stopped her whimpering. The next day when Mother Bear went out Betty' was awake and wanted to go. too. but Mother Bear said no. and by the way she said it in her deep, AND THERE MOTHER BEAR FOUND HER. rumbly, grumbly voice Betty knew that she meant no. When mother re- turned Betty was whimpering again. and again she felt that big paw. Sh couldn't understand why she shouldn' ery if she wanted to, but she soon learned that it wasn't the thing to do, and when she had learned this Mother Bear felt easier in her mind | when she left the little cub. Always when she satrted out she warned Betty Bear not to so much as peek outside. and of course there was nothing Betty Bear so wanted to do. And because she hadn't really yet learned obedience. she not only peeped outside one day whem mother was gone longer than usual. but came out to stare in round- eyed wonder at the Green Forest, and there Mother Bear found her. Can you guess what happened? (Copyright, 1933.) 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