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Zurich Herald, 1931-12-17, Page 7ii ry Mani "to dolay Oridge A CTI +o CONTRACT 46, Wynne Ferguson f "PRACTICAL AUCTION P.IUDG8" smagssegaameasazauessreaslaa ARTICLE; No. 1 It is really remarkable that the experts still disagree over the bidding of certain hands, but such is the fact. The following hands have been submitted to leading experts and they failed to agree on any of them, it goes to show that there Is still very much to learn about Auction and Contract, even by the experts, before they can be certain that their present-day theories are correct. This very variety of opinion, however, helps the game -and makes it the most interesting ever played. As long as the personal element enters into Auction as strongly as it now does, there is hound to be this variety of opinion. Here's hoping that it always continues. Hand No. 1 Y A B : Z• IIearts—J, 9, 7, 6, 2 Clubs—A, 7, 4 Diamonds—IC, 10, 8, 7 Spades—A Rubber game, no score. What should Z, as dealer, bid '--ith the fore- going hand? AUCTION BIDDING: The only question in this hand is: Shall the dealer bid one no trump or one heart? The no trump bid seems the better as it gives partner more ac- curate information. With this bid, partner will not be deceived but, if Z should bid one heart, there is a very strong chance that the bid will deceive Partner and probably result in a big Foss. The only argument in favor of the heart bid is that it is a safer bid than no trump because, if Z's ace of clubs and spades are taken out of his hand, he may not be able to score one no trump. This is true but seems to be more than offset by the probable loss resulting from 'deceit of partner. CONTRACT BIDDING: In Contract, where game must be contracted for, It is always better to bid the suit, rather than no trump, in doubtful hands. One heart is., there- fore, the proper bid. Hand No. 2 Y A B X Hearts—K, Q, 10, 9, 7 Clubs—none , Diamonds -7, 2 Spades—Q. J, 10, 8, 4, 3 No score, rubber game. What should Z, as dealer, bid with the foregoing hand? AUCTION BIDDING: There are three possibilities in this hand. Z may bid one spade, one heart or pass. The writer is of the opinion that one spade is the best call. The hand is too strong to pass and the spade bid is preferable to the heart bid as the former suit is much the stronger and the one that should be the trump. CONTRACT BIDDING: At Contract there are two choices, either a three spade bid or a pass. The latter seems preferable. IF ANY MAN How $2000 Brought Happiness By Gerald Mygatt The rector was aware that he was repeating the service mechanically. Only occasionally, he reflected with a certain cynicism, only once in a blue moon, did he really, feel like putting his heart and soul into the intonation of those lovely and solemn old -words which so irrevocably linked a woman and a man till death. At intervals, of course, there was an obvious lovematch—ah, how well he could tell!—and then his heart flooded with warmth, and the beauty ,.,,,,c_c..�.-. -- • -aa.. „.ems., .. ita signitte nesa. seemed to transform "themselves •into a light within him, and that light, he knew, shone forth. But most of them were like to -day's. A church crowded with , fashionables and semi-fashionables. The rays of sunlight slanting through the stained- glass windows and making faces look purple and red and yellow and blue and green. The fragrance of too many flowers, and the more highly -keyed fragrance of too much feminity in for- mal array. Nearer, directly before him, a bride and groom, she a vague laciness of satiny white, and he stiff and solemn in his rigidly -worn .black. Beyond the bride and groom the usual cordon of pastel -tinted bridesmaids and black -clad ushers,. one or two of these latter inevitably winking in at tempts to catch the eye of someone who also looked on marriage as a joke. ,Well, marriage wasn't a joke. The rector knew that. He listened to the sound of his' own voice, and found himself faintly surprised, as he always was, -that the words could come forth in all their solemnity and careful Intonation, without any particular con - saltine guidance. It was habit, natural- ly. ' He had married many, many. scores of couples. lie didn't know this groom. That is, he had met him only hurriedly. He was young and quiet; more or less penniless, but with a name. A nice chap, rather, bewildered by all this. pomp. Even now, standin,; there stiffly, beads of moisture were oozing out up- on his forehead. Nervous, of course. Well, they usually were. Particularly when they were marrying money. The rector, reciting the words of the service, wondered where the Mattans had found this young man, for find him they certainly had. . • There in the front pew sat Jennie Mattan, known in certain circles as "The Lioness." She was plump, but she was also, as the rector had learn- ed from experience, an exceedingly firm person. The. boy was not marry- ing merely the girl beside him. He•. was marrying a mother-in-law who could easily have been the original of ill the mother-in-law jokes. Well, thought the rector, after all, it was nobody's business but the Hat - tans'. It they wanted a title in the 1 family they soon would have it. Very likely the marriage would turn out to ,ilio a howling success. On^ never could' o tell, these day's. Now the rector paused. He always paused at this point in the ceremony. It was merely an instinctive pause, c fruit of that instinct for the 'dramatic Which possibly had drawn him into o the clergy. ,,Then he heard his voice, intoning faultlessly: "Into this holy estate these two persons present come now to be joined. ;It: any 'man can 'show just cause why they may -not lawfully be joined together, let him now speak, c • else hereafter forever hold his peace." A faint stir moved the church, as it always did. Then there fell silence. One of the ushers, winking broadly, coughed in a burlesque attempt at rude significance. Someone back :n the pews giggled. It was then that a man rose to his feet about halfway back in the church. He stood there momentarily, holding up his hands nervously. He was a middle-aged man, neatly dressed. "Just a minute," he said. The rector's jaw dropped open. Heads turned abriptly, with much rustling of silk and a sudden hissing of whispered and startled queries. The man stood there stifiiy,. His fingers twitched. He gulped. "I believe I can show just cause," People were standing up now. Wo- men's hats blocked any view of the intruder except for tho^e nearest him. The ushers started bodily down the aisle, their jaws set grimly. The rector, completely astounded, raised his hand. Never before in his experience or in the experience of any of his confrieres had a thing like this happened. Why, it was unbelievable! It was horrible. He strode down the aisle. People gave way before his robes. "This won't do," said the erctor, de- fiantly. Two of the ushers had closed around the man. The rector turned, swept his arm widely over the congregation. He looked about him, his head lifted sternly. The people, shame -faced, sat down. "This man must be heard," the rec- tor announced. Now he turned to the man. "If you have anything to say, say it." The man glowered. "I've said all I have to say, he replied with a certain dignity. Jennie Mattan, the Lioness, was fac- ing him with her hands on her hips. Her jaw projected forward and her eyes were narrowed. "You'll tell your reason here and now," she said. The man smiled knowingly. He shook his head. "I'11 tell my reason when and as I choose." Someone whispered: "He's a black- mailer." "Throw him out," grunted a man, and the word was taken up: "Throw him out." The ushers looked -at the rector. The rector looked at the man, looked at the assemblage, and then in- clined his head. t "That's that,"'said the I;ioness, with vehemence. "Now everybody sit down. The rector paced back up the aisle, The wedding will go on," said the Lioness, definitely. They found the bride in the -rector's study. "Cone backin here," com- manded her mother from the doer The bride shrugged. "No use," she said. "Ralph, has gone.", "Gone? You mean Ralph's gone?" "He took his hat and coat and he went," ,said the bride.. And, then, :a it'tle hysterically, she began to laugh. At nine o'clock• that evening the groom sat in a.room in an inconspicu- us hotel and called !'Come iii' 'to omeone who knocked upon his door. The door opened. In walked the man who had stood up in the centra of the hurch. The groom reached for his wallet and .counted out from it five ne-hundred-pound notes. "Here's the money," said the groom, The .visitor pocketed the bills. "I might. ILS well tell you," he said, buttoning his coat, "that I was tempts ed to tell the truth there in the church HARDER ESQ SLL'S Keep this good Canadian shell, -making product con- stantly before your laying hens, and keep your good Canadian dollars ; athome where they are worth 100 cents. ' AN, ALL -CANADIAN PRODUCT. hat the Radio .ns in the Arctic Wireless Receivers and Trans. mitter's Make Medical: Advice Available ,'.. Ottawa, ---Within the shadow of the North Pole medical s tl can mow be re- ceived over the two chains of Gov- ernnient radiostations and the priv.ate commercial stations which have been established near the "arctic Circ'l ' during the past few years. Shell -Maker ytadio has become such a boon to"'the northland that there is hardly a pomrunity, fur trader, police post or 98% Calcium CaXrbonate ther settlement.:'hicb has not a re. - ser in good working order. All are a.'aled to receive the latest news: y Influenza epidemics have broken out during recent years among the Eski- ixsos and Indians at various points in the Arctic." With , radio an estab- lished necessity in the northland, it has been possible for the Canadian Government to warn and give instruc- tions to other communities in the Arctic through broadcasting stations and the powerful transmitters at Ote tawa maintained for direct communi- cation with the Arctic. SHELL -MAKER is better than Oyster % %Shell, It's purer, more soluble,, goes farther and costs less. It's a better gizzard agitator. Growing chicks need it for making bone. Get it from your dealer, or write to us direct. VANCE BROS Tillsonburg, Ont. DISTRIBUTORS raworrearorrmaras —that I was an actor, paid to speak my Iines, and that you'd found me only three or four hours before the cere- mony. Frankly, I didn't like it. "I don't blame you," said the groom. Now the visitor smiled toothily. "She put it over on you at that," he announced. He patted a newspaper that protruded from his coat pocket. "It's in here," he said, with drama, "Miss Mattan eloped immediately af ter the ceremony with a man named Snafford; their family chauffeur. How does that hit you?" "I'm glad she had the nerve," cord- mented the groom, nodding approba- tion. "You see, she never had the nerve to oppose her mother. Much too much mother. Miss Mattan never told me, of course, but Snafford did. Great chap, Snafford. I liked hint. He was waiting there outside the church. "Well, I'm—" said the actor. Advice Radioed. Accidents happen frequently in the north, and while all police officers, as well as most traders, trappers and missionaries, have some elementary first aid knowledge, it is now possible to treat dangerous accidents with the expert guidance of skilled doctors by means of the radio. One of the first such cases to be treated was through the radio at Cape Hope's Advance, on the south shore of Hudson Straits. A trapper had been wounded by one of his traps. He lived in a lonely cabin 50 miles from the radio station. It was his nearest point of contact. Wounded though he, was, he harnessed his dogs and set out in the. biting cold and wind of sub -zero weather for the radio station where he might obtain aid. He feared that blood poisoning might set in. When he reached the radio station after hours of painracked travel he was in a bad fix.: He was too far The groom smiled again. "The only' gone for the unaided treatment of way to beat a woman like that is whendiately called Ottawa,nd they imine she gives you ah opening. I had not s. money, you know—not a cent:' Here a constant watch is kept for just such emergency calls. Within a few minutes a doctor had been sunt- moned 'and made adquainted with the. case. While thethermometer stood. at 30 below zero at that isolated sta- tion on the Hudson Straits, an opera- tion wateperformed by a doctor who was nearly two thousand miles dis- tant! Both Waves •Used;•-- -• "You certainly had $2,000," the actor said, ironically. "Yes, I had just that." After the man had gone the groom began to smile again, asreminis cently. From his waistcotpocket he drew a card, and he read'on it with evident satisfaction:— "To Ralph, on his wedding day; from his Mother -in -Law." Scrawled across the lower, right-hand corner, was an admonition, a single short sen- tence in the form of a conismnd:• "Use this $2000 for something ;that will make yoa and my daughter happy."— Tit-Bits. e .r Japanese Polltenesa That the Japanese people are ex- tremely polite is a well known fact, but according to a New Yorker who returned recently from a visit to that country, the extent -of the politeness is difficult for the average subway traveler of New York to conceive. Giving an instance, he cited the probable conversation that would en- sue should one visit a dentist in any Japanese city. Entering the dentist's office, one makes known his require- ments. "Oh, but why do you come to me? I am a very poor dentist, probably the worst in the city," he will protest. "On the contrary," replies the pa- tient, "I have heard much of your skill. Won't you please practice it upon me?" • s Short and long wave phone and telegraph redid transmitters are 1 eased at several points in Ottawa feu contact with ;the north. There is one station oi;erated by the Depart- nlent of Marine which keeps in touch with the entire Arctic. Another operated'- by the Department of Na- tic?nal pefence, has its stations strung throughout the Western Ar'eti,c. It is a. usual thing to hear at these Ottawa .stations the voice of code signals of: men seated thousands of miles distant In the cold Arctic. The signals come rolling in with reports' and requests for medical advice.' In the not so distant Northland, but still isolated sections of northern Ontario, there also are radio stations operated by the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests. Even these have their requests for medical aid. One of the strangest was that for a big Indian brave who had gone in- sane through the attacks of black flies. He was brought to one of the fur posts in the northern part of Ontario, and there the agent advised medical attention. The nearest doctor being hundreds of miles distant, the small short wave radio transmitter went into action with the result that a plane came to take the Indian to civilization the next day, -o, AMBITION "Every mail is said to have his eculia,r ambition. Whether it bp true or not, I can say for one, that I have no' gather so great as that of being truly qq esteemed by my fellowmen, by ren - "Your wife seems to have a mind .d dering myself worthy of their esteem." of. her own." t These words were used by the great "Yes, and although she changespre.ident 'of America, Abraham Lin- hoy in the . backwoods of Kentucky it often, it never seems to leave her ):oobi, a man who started life as a poor possession." f;f and unetedie' was` 21 IabOred under .0, a e1'y pox iblq disadvantage. Yet he Anklal Anticline 'lived to become President • of the A professor was pending Christ. `united Steges, and a man whose tame, mas in, an• betel. ..At 'dun ear" he founts, has increased with the passing of the himself seated next to a maiden lady `'ears. of uncertain age. t lldiscoveredr& Even us. ,she the y p fesser,was a collector of old coins +•' "I should love to save a coin datede . the year of my birth," she remarked "Do you think you eould get one, felt me?" I "I can't promise," replied the other innocently. "You see, 'these old ebins i are only to be foutitl in rare collee-'! trona" . b. Andyet, meeting her the next day', the professor was unable to under- stand why he was not recognized. "It .is overlooked that untruthfu:k4 ness is, the worst promoter of ewe ftdence at home or abroad." ---.lira Weimar Schact.' Best for You end =thy tow ti Hen 3"army Ml: WAS youxis she used:. i„ BABY'S OWN SOAP Then as Naw -the leading Canadian Seep for Toilet and Nurseit'1r. -. "Bestfor You and .Baby lee" See, h AOi individual eartola anf ALBERT sQAFS LTD. . MONTREAL., ISSUE No. 51----'31 Biggest Market in World Planned 'xn Buenos Ayres Buenos Ayres3, J,. huge market place, covering ,five square blocks, is expected to be.. erected soon in the western section .of Buenos Ayres by a group of Argentine and British capt- taliste, The project, to be known as the "Greet Western Market," will In- volve an outlay .of 20,000,000 pesos ($5,000,000) for the building alone, and it ,le eald that the finished market will be the largest of its kind in the world. A block of land measuring, about 172,000 square feet has been pur- chased for 3,700,000 pesos ($925,000). The projected market will have direct access to all • railroad Ilnes entering Buenos Ayres; and also will have di- rect communication with the port of Buenos Ayres through the Western Railway's tunnel. The Great. Western Market board of directors-is''composed of Sir Hilary A. Lang, Dr. Rodolto Bullrich, Dr. Artuo Condomio Aa:7rta, John Wil- son, Osvaldo Dasso, Luis N. Lugano and Nicholas A. Casullo. Spain Still Without City Of Million, Census Shows Madrid,—Spain has just completed another census, which reveals that it has no city with 1,000,000 residents Great pains were "taken to count every one in Barcelona, the largest city of Spain, in the hope that the census would show 1,000,000 residents. But the tabulations developed that Barcelona had failed by'22,869. Even though the Catalan capital is not in the million class, it has had a remarkable growth. The census of 1920 gave its population as 710.335, and calculations made by the muni- cipal government in 1928 gave it 840,- 931 inhabitants. As in most Continental European cities, there is a big surplus of women over men. The difference is 87,138 which _means there are approximately 9 per cent. more women than men. Many years ago Barcelona and Ma- drid were rivals in the question of population, but recently Barcelona has iorged., ahead. In 1920 ,Madrid, ;was, still ahead, with 750,896, but in 1928 it already was behind Barcelona, Ma- drid then having 809,400 inhabitants, Huron Indians Still Ply Arts The life and customs of the North American Indian still survive at Indian Lorette, a quaint little village about three miles from the Chateau Fron- .tenac, in Quebec. In that picturesque spot, on the shore of the St. Lawrence, the descendants oe the original,power- ful Huron tribe stili ply their various trades, They make snowshoes and bows and arrows, weave baskets and fashion purses and other feminine ac- couterments from beaded buckskin, just as their forefathers did. Visitors to Quebec always make it a point to visit this Indian settlement Another trouble with. the country is that it has too many ex -spenders and too few expendees. K.LEE pUARANTE ED TO• CLE Eczema, Eli. 1380 Yenge Street. 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