Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1937, Page 39

B—19 IFE’'S LIKE THAT THE MOUNTAIN BOYS— —By PAUL WEBB WAHL = BU%6 MAH HOWDY. AH JEST GOT A AH RECKONED SHECKS ~ IT'S Too BAD Y BUSTLE - EF T AINT HANKERIN' TO SEE HOW HE'S IN BED ASLEEP. YOU CAN'T STAY A LEETLE. SARAH THATCHER AN’ [l YOU WAS A-6ITTIN' ALONG. HOW LONG You | LONGER — — AH KNOW HE'D HER YOUNG-UN. IS TOOMER STILL AS A-GOIN'TO STAY LIKE To SEE You HANDSOME. A$ EVER? Here I is, Baby. You don't ketch me out in the sun in no sun suit! I has raised blisters before THE CHEERFUL CHERUB ———————— Children's eyes are, full of fairy tales (Which .they are much too youngd to tell us yet, Strange little tales we'll never, never hear, Because when they got older theylll’ | forget. ” — (A STERDAY ANNIE WATCHED MIND YUH, | DON'T_SAY ' IVE [ BUT, SHUCKS, WHAT AM 17 ODERN MAIDENS Ly A TRAMP AS HE' 'SPIED THE THERE'S SPOOKS IN THERE- M - CLANKS AND | A FRAIDY CAT? = WHAT OPEN BASEMENT DOOR AND | COURSE, THERE'S MNO SUCH SORT O FAINT WOULD “DADDY " WARBUCKS ENTERED THE "VACANT® HOUSE- [l THING AS SPOOKS - STILL, "---- BR-R-R---COURSE || || THINK O ME2-- C'MON, - - | CANT FORGET THAT TRAMPS(|IF ANYONE LIVED THERE --- SANDY ---YOU ‘SAY (T'S ALL FACE- HE'D SURE SEEN BUT IT SURE LOOKS EMPTY- RIGHT--- 0. K.+ HERE | GO--- | TELL YUH, SANDY SOMETHING! B-B-BUT DON'T YoUu THAT TRAMP NEVER COULD s B HANG BACK! HAVE COME OUT O THERE L 23 - THAT FAST WITHOUT \ PLENTY HELP- GOOD MORNING. AM I SPEAKING TO THE LADY OF THE HOUSE?"” | RY THE FOUR ACES. (David Burnstine. Merwin D. Maler, Oswald Jacoby. Howard Schenken world's leading team of four. Inventors of the svsiem that has beaten every other system in existence.) Winning Play. 'THE play of today's hand is really | | simple to any one who sees all 52 \ cards. However, we are going to ask 2 i G 4 EARQ(Lb our readers to put themselves in the < 77 RaY » position of declarer and try to follow Semviiek 2 74 § 8-186-37 the reasoning which led him to the e cenning rhian WIN ALGER South dealer. Neither side vulnerable. CAN'T TELL YOu-1'M A THAT WRECK WAS LADY = TERRIBLE / Ag . s . - K/ _YOU'RE DARN € 17T A PLAN Righte Rowrd : B8y, ¥ v . TOOTIN' WE WikL, The bidding: Juue/ South. West. North. East 2 ¢ 2V 2 6 Dbl 3 e Pass 4 ¢ Pass EBSTER—The Timid Soul. bo Em B e I'd LIKE TO BORROW A LITTLE SUGAR.” The bidding was interesting. South's | hand was, of course, a proper {wo bid. and we believe West's non-vulnerable | overcall was justified by its* distri- | butional str h. North's two-spade | bid was correct, while East's double was a desperate attempt to scare his onents from what he felt was a certain slam. However, its only effect was to help the declarer’s play of the | = = COME ONE DAY WE GOT T* dilmmyfand to' shiow hiskpariner:thell | ALY THAT WASE P STEAD O CH I TIHIE HAINTT NO ARGYIN' POLITICS AND BUSTED wrong lead. SCALEV! ¥ KMOW | AND GIVE THE: MORSE CODE LP MAD!! WE NEVER SPOKE West opened the jack of spades T WOOLDNT HERE DISHES FER SiX MONTHS DURIN' wiacH Declarer won with the king in||MIND A BT OF dummy, discarded & low club from his | | TH' SOCIAL LIFE 7 5 KEEP COMPANY WITH own hand and now reasoned as fol- | | TONIGHT -~ A 5 -~ lows: “East must have a lot of | | HOTEL DANCE spades for his double and West & lot | | OR SOME- of hearts for his overcall. Therefore | | there is a good chance for a singleton |in one or both those suits. Accord- | ingly, if T lead a spade at this imme- diate stage without attempting to draw | trumps, I am likely to find the second {round ruffed. Maybe I had better play this hand simply. If trumps break 2-2. I will, of course. have no | trouble, since now I can discard g = 5 | second club on the ace of spades and | ? : e D YUT & heart. If trumps break 3-1, I : qun discard the 10 of hearts on the NEBBS—What —BY SOL HESS {ace of spades, and still have a club - < = 3 = = | finesse for my contact.” ir Lasr e |P ? uhAs ifm Accordingly, declarer laid down the L e e e e e e e ace-king of trumps and, when both 2 b ~ AS RUNNING _ L Tt 1 M i NPl ==l | the opponents followed, spread his : y PRIDE OF THE :NfllLY-menr m]N\fq‘\A% MOU FOR GREAT ANKLE ARD YOULL MY TWO LEGS | hand. Incidentally, if West had had ; IE NOU DONT, 1 GOT A | o BUT NOW. / — \JO’UR'EY\/ \HAVE TO WAIT OGETHER gkp . | the inspiration to lead his ace of 5 DOUBLE-BARRELED 1 CANT STAND . =NID ‘) ANOTHER WEEK o\:c. HAN N hearts and continue the suit his part- v " f | SHOT-GUN _HALF OF IT'S EGA FOR YOUR WHIPPING / SUNG AMD” ner would have ruffed the second trick [ § FOLL AN TULL HIOE T N k = 8 R_QL,( Him ! and the hand would have been set at i &, 5 the start, (Copyright, 1937.) QURING ‘A THUNDER STORM. ONFORTUNATELY e = RESRES HUE HAS PARKED HIS CAR UNDER ONE.// 5 Jolly Pol[y ASMCUFES % - FOR THE HAND BY JOS. J. FRISCH. oF EMMA A Little Chat on English GRUNTLEY. ALIST ‘ et Ontinnd e lent. R. H—"T suspected that Alvin was married,” is the correct form, not “I | Letter-out for piace, suspicioned that Alvin was married. SALTED Ve T 1SUSPICIONED A YEAR AGO THAT, ; . R e e e T e MELVIN WAS MARRIED. HE g . 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Sue is nties were fountains hidden away in | sister-in-law and stepmother to Bill parks 80 that if one sat down on a|and mother-in-law, sister-in-law and hady park seat he would unknnw-isxsler to Bess. Bess is Sam's sister- ngly release some hidden spring, start- | in-law and daughter-in-law and Sue'’s y a 4 Vs Approved by ng 8 fountain spraying the sitter with | sister, sister-in-law and daughter-in- { 5 ? ¥ B AR IR GondHousebubrng Bureas ter. law, v e . 4