Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1937, Page 45

Winning THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1937. Contract BY THE FOUR ACES. avid Bu: e, win D. Mater, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schenken, world’s leading e m'&:‘mvyfi;our, inventors of the system 'that has beaten every other system in existence.) Squeezing Out a Slam. EADERS will be interested in the hand printed below which was submitted to us by Philip F. Farley, & follower of this column. Mr. Farley, playing with William J. Topken, made a srall slam by means of a pseudo squeeze. While perfect defense would have defeated the contract, it takes real defensive skill to combat the deadly squeeze, South, dealer. North-south vulnerable. Mr. Topken. Mr. Farley. The bidding: West North Pass 3% Pass 5 Pass Pass Pass Pass While the bidding was quite good the hands were somewhat of a misfit, | and the slam contract appeared rather East Pass Bedtime Story hopeless. A trump was opened and Mr. Farley promptly ran off all six trumps. West, being afraid that dummy’s heart suit could be estab- lished, discarded only one heart, then a small trump, and finally made the foolish discard of the eight of dia- monds. Mr. Farley, deciding the dia- mond finesse was wrong, then led his singleton queen of hearts and when west failed to cover, the queen held the trick. Declarer then played the ace of clubs and followed with the ace of diamonds. At this point west could have saved the situation by throwing his king. ‘This play would have established Mr. Farley’s queen, but he would then have had to lose his remaining small diamond and a club trick. Actually, west played his low dia- mond, whereupon Mr. Farley threw that hapless player in with the king and the last two tricks were won by dummy’s ace-jack of hearts, as west was forced to lead his king-small. (Copyright, 1937.) The Four Aces will be pleased to an- swer letters from readers if a stamped (i-cent). self-addressed envelope is in- closed with each communication. If you desire the pocket outline of the Pour Aces' system of contract bridge send with your request. & stamped (3-cent), self-ad- | dressed. large size envelobe to' the Four Aces, Inc, 130 West Forty-second street New ' York City. and vou will receive an outline without any ‘charge. The next article In this series will appear Sunday. | The Great Mouth BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. T ISN'T nice to be suspicious. On the other hand, it isn't wise to be too trustful. This is especially true with strangers, or those of whom you know little. It isn't nec- essary to be always suspicious; neither is it necessary to be too trustful. Trustfulness gets more people into trouble than suspicion ever keeps out | of trouble. The little people of the Green Meadows and the Green For- est know this. The older ones do, anyway. They know that being too trustful of strangers is the chief rea- son that so very many just starting out in the Great World do not get very far and are no longer heard of. Four wee folk, the children of | Teeter the Spotted Sandpiper, had stood staring at Grandfather Frog, | who had just climbed out on the | end of an old board among the | rushes in the shallow water at the side of the Smiling Pool. One of | them had hopped up on the shore | end of that board. None ever had | seen Grandfather Frog before. They were not afraild of him. He was a Frog, and because they had learned that there was no reason to fear other and smaller Frogs, they saw no reason to fear him. So when their father, Teeter, called a warning they didn’'t know what to make of it. ‘They obeyed and ran to him, for | they were obedient little folk, but | why he had called them they hadn't | the least idea until he told them. “That is Grandfather Frog the | Bullfrog. You mustn’t get too near Grandfather Frog,” said Teeter. “Why? What is the matter with Grandfather Frog?” one of them asked. “He has too big a mouth,” replied Teeter. “All the Frogs have big mouths. Of eourse, his is bigger because he is bigger than the others, but I don't see what that has to do with us,” said one of the youngsters. “You would if you should happen to find yourself inside it,” replied Teeter dryly. The four stared at Teeter as if they thought they must have mis- understood him. “Do you mean he would try to swallow one of us?” ventured one. “If he got the chance he would swallow one of you as quickly as he would snap up a fi replied Teeter. “Keep away from him. Even I take | care not to go very near Grandfather | Frog. That mouth of his is too big.” Somehow, in view of the fact that the other Frogs were not dangerous, | it was difficult to believe that there could be any real danger in Grand- father Frog. After this first sight of him they saw him almost every day. | ‘That old board was a favorite place | with him. He loved to sit on the end of it. Often when the little Sand- | pipers were running along the shore | they saw him out on the end of that board. Sometimes they stopped to stare at him. He looked harmless enough. Usually he looked to be half Brain Twizzlers BY PROF. J. D. FLINT. \VHILE visiting an asylum one day b a4 man entered & room in which such notables as Napoleon, Catherine the Great, Caesar. Cleopatra and William the Conqueror were seated. Each of the inmates representing these characters took & turn making & speech. After several talks, Caesar stepped up and started an oration ebout himself. He began: ‘Caesar entered on his head, his helmet on his feet, his sandals in his hand, his sword on his forehead, & frown and sat down.” The visitor, thinking the whole procedure interesting, took the speeches down in shorthand, but when he came to transcribing them later he had difficulty punctuating Caesar’s words to make sense. Can you do it? (Copyright, 1937.) (Answer on Page C-6.) OR SPRAY Dethol DEATH TO ALL BUGS | sitting on the outer end. He wasn't. | The small bird decided that he would | | there, | done. For a minute or two he stood, | asleep as he sat there, motionless. No, sir, Grandfather Frog didn't look in the least dangerous. If Father said that that mouth was big, it must be big, but they never saw it open, so they had no idea how big it was. Closed, it somehow didn't look par- ticularly dangerous. One morning, as one of the little Sandpipers passed the shore end of | that old board, he glanced out, as usual, to see if Grandfather Frog was run out and see what it was like out | No sooner thought of than | bobbing and teetering in that funny way of his. Something, he didn't know what, caused him to turn his head. He stared into two big, goggly eyes that, somehow, seemed to have a hungry look. in them. There was Grandfather Frog, just preparing to climb out on that board. Then the small bird found himself staring into a big mouth, a bigger mouth than he had dreamed any one could possess. Grandfather Frog was making a lunge | at him. There wasn't time to run back. There was just one thing to | do, and he did it—plunged headfirst | into the water off the end of that ! and keep going Nature’s Children Chinchilla (Chinchilla laniger). BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. ERE {s another vanishing American. His coat of soft gray fur has been in such de- mand, that the rightful own- ers have almost been wiped out be- | cavse of the greed of their human brothers. So it looks as if the charm= ing little animal will soon be a memory, unless something very drastic is done to save it. In 1782, a naturalist of Chile by the g 12 name of Molina described the bright- eyed chinchilla. It was very common then in the Andes of Northern Chile and Argentina as well as Southern Peru and Bélivia. Until 30 years ago, | many of them could be found living | teen thousand feet above sea level, Here the climate was cold and dry, | and the warmly clad chinchillas lived among the rocks and boulders in holes and crevices where their many foes could not reach them. There were weasels, foxes, wildcats | and birds of prey, ever on the look- out for them. Against the cold the chinchillas were amptly protected, but | they had no means of fighting their battles. However, they were built along lines that enabled them to go over the ground swiftly, for their long hind feet and legs could easily leap from rock to rock and their plumed tails was an efficient balancer. It was a rudder, too, when the little chinchilla sailed through the air. They depended on grasses to be, found close to their home for food as well as the bark, branches and leaves | of the shrubs. For liquid refreshment, | they had the heavy morning dew. The nursery is under huge boulders, the entrance to it being small and | rather difficult to find. Two sets of children are born each year, one to three in each set. The babies are pro- vided with a warm thick gray fur coat that keeps out the icy blasts. | All went well with the chinchillas | until the fur became popular. Then the little creatures knew no place they could flee from man. If his gun did | not get them, his traps did Thei slaughter of the harmless chinchilla | Wwas so intense that a last the Chilean —_— e board and swam for dear life. Grand- father’s big mouth closed on empti- ness, but it was a narrow, a very nar- ToW, escape. * (Copyright, 1937.) because of it! Kt's smart to stay active —smart to stay welll Let this sunny new cereal help. You'll go for its toasted taste —you’ll keep going better because of its high energy value. Rich in care bohydrates and minerals of whole wheat = plus Vitamin D. Treat yourself tomorrow to a modern breakfast ! Two tasty Muffets contain as much Vitamin D as & teaspoonfulofcodliveroill “MODERN AS TOMORROW'S _ SUNRISE!"” BRAND government passed a law protecting the almost wiped-out animal. ‘Today few may be seen where once hundreds played over the rough ground. A few men have tried to raise the chinchilla for its fur, but it has not been a successful venture. High and dry places are not easy to obtain, and the little animal, used to freedom, is unhappy and quarrelsome in captivity, Many think they are wearing chin= chilla, when they are wearing moun- tain rat, an animal that lives in the same locality and has fur that is a pretty light gray. The beautiful little chinchilla, whose coat was s0 desired by those who could afford to pay high prices for it, is another example of ruthless killing for a fad. (Copyright, 1937:) Sonnysayings Wave hard, Baby! Sara Lou das- sent look, but her will feel us wav- ing! | 427q /V SAV rorisn 10/ COPYBICHT 1337 WEckE pagD com YOU'LL GO FOR IT! MUFFETS WHOLE WHEAT BISCUITS See What Vitamin D>’ and Active Oxygen Can Do for Your Skin... 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