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THE SUNDAY OCALL, ; P mended, but it should not be wasted on Trick 1-The majority of good players of a forlorn hope. ‘We are constantly being both schoals accept the principle which reminded of the folly of changing or gictates a trump lead from a hand which switching sufts_still notwithstanding the T thnoe Gands GE. eaaly ' pielis error is a very common one. The situa- o {5 g A2 o tlons have perhaps not been made sufi- Sult and four trumps. It is difficult to clenily claar: understand why North fails to open from . There is one case in particular where SPades unless he is deterred by the con- many good players fall, sideration of the possibilities of finesse In On the second round of their partner’s the suit, but they wou.l be equally great suit it 1§ learned that one of the adver- upon the return. saries will ruff it if continued. With-no Trick 4-West's trump call looks a trifle trump strength such persons prefer to rash in the v:‘u of his utter absence of open another weak suit. In but two . ) the fact that cases will this prevent the opponent from 1 ong or he would ruffing later in the hand have led them after showing his club First, when partner is strong in trumps suit. It was a fortun: and gaing the lead in proper time to ex- h haust théin. But is this not a rare case? Remember that your partner by not opening trumps is probably not very stronglin them. Besides he must not al- low one of.the opponents to win his first or second round of trumps, as this might alter his plan. Second, when the opponent who is vold of the suit under discussion has had his trumps exhausted by his partner i should be done, it is assuming bad play, unless the trump. leader could not loc the cards from his holding. As a rule the strong hand will force the weak be- fore attempting anything else. In the majority of cases like this, changing suits not only kills an honor or loses a re-entry, but it falls to accomplish its purpose. The card will be ruffed just the same. But the one who never changes sults, whom no power can stop in the midst of the most desperate calamities, is fit mate for the one with the hopping around habit One other great fault or weakness Is in 13 g4 Q a Jo refusing to admit that one has made North and South, §; Fast and West, 5. an error. All kinds of possibilities are Trick 1- t th a low trump, offered in which the frregular play would a lead whi in & gam of have made good. And after the game the four tricks for bad pl. excused by a most laborfous Trick 4—North's fallure to draw the last presenting of inferences, which were no trump robs his side of four tricks, for doubt drawn after the error occurred had he done so and gone on with the rather than before. diamond, w would have been the How often this would have been the proper contin Nortli and South only and perhaps most creditable excuse: must have scored twelve tricks. West's “Partner; I played too rapidly. I lost, not false card may have deceived him, but on account of poor inference, but by lack ghould not hs done s of it.”" A generous partner would admire v your frankness in this case, but would remaining trump. His marked ~ with ith the queen of The trump lead e to the score of the 1 play is simply d have led his s absol would have added o Ne a gift to ¢ t ap easily see through your thin excuse in good s tall the other. They say that a hurried man- make the b trick which is in sight. ner in play is contaglous. Do not allow pAACRp -~ e the lightning player to cause you to play the lighining pisyor to casse you o play 2OD THE AMATEUR Remember that perhaps he is more accus- tomed to rapid influence than vou. The PHOTOGRAPHER one who intends to learn the game ’ o of whist at the card table may succeed, Where it is but omly after a long period of time. He mount, coffee can hardly expect to learn the chief points lcng been a fa In as orderly a manner as a text book fee stained m would present them. The science ox the obtry sl\» the game is not the work of one mind; years have been taken to formulate all its laws. Persons at the whist table have not as a t a white infusion has Where a cof- bright or little ink to pol rule sat down to give a lesson. Very often cal—such as is thelr advice is positively harmful, it be- face of the print ing based on some deal just played. In of ¢t n the tinti that way many wrong ideas are gained |ikely to Igad to a which may take months to eradicate. A -narrow -fint b The following hand fs Interesting, show- plotograph is often their exertions il ; Going Iuto It Wlx.olufle. ing where at each table the North and fective. . Moreover i io home 4 “The reas 80 yu made money South players failed by five tricks df iniing, and in any r which may ba ; s I at -once dived getting all the tricks there are In the gesired. Cut a mask the size of the out- sshion. In turning P hand: < edge of tint and place it on the E s as able to e 2 mount.” Then mix a water color of any € ) pay very well, because 1 was E-A L0 s B Lol ghtl wrative minal expense for B the Inner edge « s wonderful what mers c—q. 7.3 —a K Eir } of lace and embroldery P D-J, 8. 3 4F e 1 e T k’ should be account in stock- dabbing v of the reasons It - Paris fad In stocks. It is perfectly sini- s . that two or ple to cut and make, but may also be \ Y necessary before getting required e Y wn in the most elaborate. The pattern is cut sim- Y depth of tint. This wi e getting % rta -of T > ply with a straight bana to go around - ¢ . the tint absolutely even, without streaks et 1 haunt them. "And the neck and two stralght pleces, to by or patehes. . There is e difficulty in and to make some- ace and silk.mean &.Ju-. pleated in at the top and.fan.out at the the work; the mask insures that the line e juite in’ mo- (' oo i :;vl;f-n’\‘! which are attached to the stock s ¢ of the outer edge shall be straight and 3 syl e e th o nd -hard 1 fron ” no care is necessary with t E - Was work neuming part of {t. that - “The lower inner end of each pleated ::;:r :é’;’,,‘ig Tlrpwfl>”\-r::ab§ :»,‘;hp;?: a ns had quite 9513 1 » found that time is worth flap is decorated either with a medallion tograph. The fa t using several N Bt myself with @uch more to me than material. 1love or embroidery, or a pretty bit of ‘ap- A overlapping tints aro the print, us: rles, ties, hats, 10 40 the :.4(: 1 work myself n;mfi um{' plique. - Both pleces forming the fan are ly by mounting several papers one over s s b Bats, ihat my business is so large nd 1 bordered in some éffective 'way, elther - 00, complicated q ge and all sorts of g devote myself entirely to effective with a hem and a line of drawn work of . % l.r'\'e.%?:;z‘:; :\-):)rk»rm:.f.-‘w;e:{:v?:gp?:dt basting apd pinning with a strip of black or color. Whers ¢ it nattef > 3 ot Tove -0 - ldom leads to quite s >to al . R o y?’\:mr 1 keep ‘:1» n‘vw,y;—.\: num;hr of paper- the two pleces come together in front to L e e e et ‘;’,}:C':l“‘,:,; v s e e gy 46 rns, of all shapes and. styles, al- form. the fan three fancy buttons are ptograph. Someho rred to me to out and -resdy £or use. - They ‘afe IM‘":,,, ol BB 7 played; and noticed also how the women ” "’“de“‘:h’" & phiotogtaph. . Somelw. v . ers for a stock &ood, firm paper #6 ‘an 1o keep. the © ~See- this phetty. llttie stock, Tt sells SWerm &t the counters where . they -are Ay other Wiin, the water should leeh st9) my dressmaker gidy stuffs of which stocks are usually . for $195, and it means more to me than £0ld. you will not be surprised at me for X he phitographer manages 16 gat it ip- = me to her and asked mude in. place. 1 baste or pin the bias the most. wonderfully elaborate one, be- 5°eing . such . immense helghits ahedd. to * :‘,‘:.‘,' R s e ok "\"”,;‘,'\“;r"; Y o s s e ! . B or e g his. A bright ligh i lace motifs, or whatever I use as g re nd -sell ve hid 10 e TeceD: el utetive SCRAMA OE the stock. on £ e 1 Falise Jpts on U8 MY “But atter-all success is luck; and ltick S on the water and reflected therefrom in ké ‘what orders she ine paper, then start the cross stitching, q; thél H‘ i follows enthusiasm. I know full well that the dlrecflflhn ‘Of the camera gives a big c ther how how It §oes and then. give- ik e Money Maker. 1 should never have done so well with ’ white patech In the print without the ) a Week before T ,,:k; to.my assistants to finish. € It 1s made of a small plece of mousss- this stock farm I'm running had T not :’“ "‘:1‘1';“':“r°‘?":h°“‘;"::fv‘e’::'°:"::z‘l Poroy, o e slightest detail. It P rders:that my lelsure hours +'is the arranging, planning and de- line de sole and covered with little straps . Started ‘with a very fury of enthusiasm :‘”d M"“:."m:’de;mmu‘m Sk e 7 s A when o om»yr p were ; ew -and-far- between.: You i chi-cc )8 of black satin dotted with- French knots . about it.” AUGUSTA PRESCOTT. orld. i 7 cne needs to break A e X ng ‘which-counts {or most; alter thé acter is plainly revealed. One of the most pies, which will d strptised s roughly b or ‘pinred. the of white. - To relleve ‘its simplicity and s Forgig i . 10:: oSN “SWEBSL OF -plaried.. thy ; S common faults of the devotees of whis hat aplest person’ can complete it. - I in- ~®ive it a more arabesque ‘air:I have ‘ap- veral 6f nict upon only One guaifty 1A my assist- Dliqued a few motifs of lace cut out .in n asy _@SSOIN !s stubbornly refusing to accept the in- ge of ants and that is quick, dalnty and con- ~small bits from a few yards 1 got very 2 evitable. How many players start with v ¢ b tain object In view, and will refuse - ts in - gefentious. work. chieap at-one of my dear speclal sales. I . W a cert : ; e here s positively no end to the slab- ~would not dare whisper the absurd price 1n ist. to give it up even when they see It Is Im- - Eiehs of spades trump. mere directions than w clcds .of earth or a thrown into the strea Another way owt -‘ 1p - some mak ho " dealt:- with .the -, and consequently the -expense, olit. I should compute the price paid for possible to carry it through. TABLE NO. 1 compress the. area of thy classes - and “ks. They can beé simple.and ef- the material aitogether at about 35 cents. By Mrs. E. P. Schell The short suit player will carefully stick . x . . ground we T - vossible in gactive. or they can be extremely costly - “You see, 1 _buy.:.my white and. black 24 s s to his tanaces and leads supporting cards ;" yq Ka Ad Very often a posit T g the rs for'me.. wiih ever so much: delicate embroidery ‘mousseline and white and black satin at to the opponent's strong suits, while his' 2. bh *Ah 2h from the grourd w o frie mar ¢ needle ‘work. wholesale rates; and I get inside prices at E all br|ng to the whist table oun partner may be holding the very 3. 3¢ *Ke 8c a scene which is tr e specialty art shabs.-as .I.-could. - most of the stores, so 1.Keep my expenses innate weaknesses; some Of nhonor he is anxious to eatch. The long- & i 3n s the ordinary height and managed to get my stocks a.showing A Craze for Collecting. pretty low. 3 them strictly our own; others gujter, on the other hand, continues to A 22 \ 12;‘ Rushing brooks or- wat in several place “Some ‘wealthy women have a craze for. “By the by, if fashion still favors my are of such a general charac- gttempt the establishment of a worthless 7. ad ,; > times rather difficult - to get Y 1 realized that T must go in collecting stocks that are in' themselves -business, and I know she will, I hope to ter that we undertake to men- ‘gujt. Honors are sacrificed, re-entries are 8. 4h 3(. plan is to use a good large sto ver f I wighed re: to make gems of needle art, but I find the stocks keep a regular workroom of girls and to. tion a few in this article. Whist should 1ost, when perhaps the first round re- 9. *%s mh 84 posegfor not more than half a it s, and my scheme proved. guite of medium prices pay best because they turn out stocks at the rate they do sau- not only give pleasure, but should as well vealed the hopelessness of the undertak- 10. *Js bs L | so, and to develop carefully, so as not aw 1 could. do -well by: are.quicker to make and there is such a sages in Jersey. help to fit us for the sterner things of yng. L\' s :- 44 to .give -the watér part of the pieturs e hrough special agents large demand for them. “If you have ever happened to motice life. Such faults are alone due to our nat- - = o dense on the negative—Mortreal Herald and t res. 1 100K all orders - “The -‘judge’. is the name of tlie latest -the Infinite variety of stocks now dis- Qur conduct or actions at the whist ta- ural stubbornness. Pluck is to be com- Nort.h and South s E.ut and Wesl 5. and Star.