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4 Wynne Ferguson
of 'PRACTICAL AUCTION BRIDGE"
ARfiCLL No. 30
in the following hand, the Professor
of .Greek at one . of our well-known
universities bid one no trump at Auc-
tion, all passed and A opened the
three of clubs. Tho Professor's hand
a,nd the dummy's hand are as follows:
Hearts -10, 6, 5
Clubs -9, 4. 2
]Diamonds -Q, 10, 4, 2
Spades -Q, 10, 9
Y .
: A B :
. Z .
Hearts -A, Q, 4
Clubs -A, Q, 7
Diamonds -A, K, 3
Spades -J, 8, 7, 2
The Professor should have sized up
the hand as follows: "A can have only
four clubs, for he has led the three
and the deuce is in dummy. There-
fore, A B should only make two club
tricks and two spade tricks. If the
diamonds are evenly divided, I can go
game without "finessing the queen of
hearts. If they don't break, then I
will have to finesse the queen of
Hearts -J, 9, 6
Clubs -Q, 10, 8, 6, 5
Diamonds -Q, J, 9, 5
Spades -7
hearts." Unfortunately. he failed to
figure out the band as outlined, and as
soon as he got dummy in the lead, led
the heart, finesse(' the queen and A
won the trick with the king of hearts.
It was now impossible for the Pro-
lessor to go game as he had to lose
two club tricks, two spade tricks and
one heart trick. He should have set
up his spades and then have played
for the drop in diamonds. They were
evenly divided so that in this way he
could have made game.
If the Professor had been playing
Contract, he should have made an
original bid of two no trump and part-
ner should have bid three no trump.
The writer has occasionally men-
tioned the Law of Symmetry in these
articles. This law is, in effect, a
theory that there is.a symmetrical re-
lation existing between the distribu-
tion of the four suits in any one of
the bands and the distribution of any
one of the four suits amoeg the four
hands. This symmetrical relation is
well exemplified by the distribution of
the following hand, which•came up re-
cently in actual play:
Hearts -Q
Clubs -K, J, 7, 4
Diamonds -A, 8, 7,
Spades -5, 4, 3
6, 2
: A
v
Z
B :
Hearts -A, 8, 4, 2
Clubs -A, 9, 3
Diamonds -4
Spades -A, K, Q, 10, 6
Auction Bidding
No score, rubber game. Z dealt and
bid one spade. All passed and A
opened the six of clubs. Z won the
trick with the nine of clubs and pro-
ceeded to look the hand over. What
would you figure as to probable dis-
tribution and correct play of the
hand? Z should note that his own
hand and Y's were divided 5-4-3-1. He
also noted that A opened the six of
clubs and that B played the deuce. If
B had held two clubs, he would have
started an echo to show his partner
that he could trump the third round
of clubs, so his play of the deuce indi-
cated a singleton. Z, therefore, fig-
ured that the clubs were divided
,1-4-3-1. He held lye spades and his
dummy three, go that, if A also held
a singleton, it must be in spades.
Therefore, the spades must be divided
5-4-3-1. His heart and diamond hold-
ing and that of the dummy also indi-
cated
ndicated a possibility that these suits.
were divided 5.4-3-1. Z, therefore,
who was a very fine player, decided to
Hearts -9, 8
Clubs -4
• Diamonds -1.0, 0. 8, 7
Spades --noun
Hearts -K, 10, 7, 5, 3
Clubs -2
Diamonds --K, 10, 8
Spades -J, 9, 8, 2
play accordingly. At the second trick
he led the ace of hearts and then a
low heart, trumping in dummy. He
then led a low club, which B trumped.
On this trick, Z played his ace of
clubs, so that he could finesse the
king jack later. No matter what B
now plays, Z must make a small slam.
Figure it out. The hand is remark-
able
emarkable in that, after the first lead, the
distribution of all four suits can be
so accurately determined. It is also a
remarkable illustration of the Law of
Symmetry. All of the four sults and
all of the four hands have the same
distribution, 5.4-3-1. It is the first
time that the writer has ever noted
such a unique hand.
Contract Bidding
Z should bid two spades and Y three
spades. A and B always pass. Z
should now bid five spades and, if Y
is a sporty bidder, he will bid six
spades. It is a toss-up; but, as al-
ready pointed out, Z can make six
spades against any defense.
Problem
Hearts -4 --
Clubs-8, 7, 6
Diamonds -none
Shades -A,, J, 7
: A
v
z
B :
Hearts -K, 6, 5
Clubs -none
Diamonds -K, Q, 6
Spades -10
If spades are trumps and Z is in the lead, how can Y Z wiu all of the
tricks against any defense?
Solution in the next article.
FIearts-Q, J, 10
Clubs -Q, J
Diamonds -3
• `spades --S
Newspaper Ads
Increased Sales
U. S. Publishers' Association
Announces Results of
Bureau's Survey
New York. -Many companies have
maintained and even increased their
earnings by constant newspaper ad-
vertising, the American Newspaper
Publishers Association said in an-
nouncing the results of a survey by its
bureau of adertising.
One automobile concern which in-
creased its newspaper budget 33 per
cent., the bureau announced, showed
a. 40 per cent. increase in earnings
during 1931. A manufacturer of elec-
tric refrigerators spent $200,000 last
year in newspaper space, and dollar
sales for the year were 460 per cent.
of sales in 1930.
Of four leading tobacco manufac-
turers who increased newspaper space
in 1981, three showed an increase in
earnings, and one a slight decline
from the high net of a year preced-
ing. Aggregate expenditures of these
four companies in newspaper advertis-
ing were increased from $20,000,000
in 1930 to $26,000,000 in 1931, and ag-
gregate earnings increased from $105,-
200,000 to $10,300,000.
On the other hand, the bureau said
that four tobacco companies which de-
creased their aggregate investment in
newspaper Space in 1931 showed a 45
per cent. decline in combined net
earnings.
English in Ireland
The Anglo-Irish idiom is naturally
wormed and logically constructed;
every deviation from the standard
English tongue has its reasons and
its explanation. "Are you selling the
horse today?" The speaker of tor-
'feet English has to move the emphasis
Ilona one word to another of the last
four according to the information he
welts. p'our successive positions of
khe .chief stress give four different
Stratford Gleanings
In all England there is not a clean-
er, more decorous, or more restful
town than Stratford-upon-Avon, and
even to look upon it is to receive _ a
suggestion of peace and comfort, The
red brick dwellings shine among the
trees, the flower -spangled meadows
stretch away, in every direction, and
the green hills, sprinkled with copse
and villa, glimmer through mist, all
around the lovely Valu ' the Red
Horse:- /eleome in the north, with
its conspicuous monuments; Mean in
the south, rugged and bold, Red Hill
in the west, and far away eastward,
beyond a wide, smiling area of farms
and villages, the crests of Edgehill, at
Radley and Ri,ing 'Sun, where once
the armies of King Charles the 1,ir$t
confronted their Roundhead foe. TIO
face of England can wear many .ex
pressions, but, when propitious, it is a
face which to see Is to love and no-
where is it more propitious than in
stately Warwickshire, and around the
home of Shakespeare.
After repeated visits to Shake-
speare's town, the traveller begins to
observe more closely than perhaps at
first he did, its everyday life' and its
environment. I have ra. -d through
fragrant fields to Clifford Church, and
strolled through green lanes to roman-
tic Preston, and climbed Borden Hill,
and stood by the May -pole on Welford
Common and iurneyed ' nn the bot-
tle -haunted crest of Edgehill, and rest-
ed at venera' . Cometon-Wyn: tes
and 'Climbed the hills of Welcombe to
Deer into the - (ening alleys of the
Avon and bear the cuckoo -I to echoed
and re-accoe.: from rhododendron
groves and from the r;r ', .mysterious
elms that emaower the countryside for
meanings to the question. The Anglo-
Irish idiom, which in this matter fol-
lows the locution of the Gaelic, has no
need of accentuating. Its user would
say (a) "Is it you who are selling
the horse?" or (b) "Is it seling the
horse you are?" or (c) "Is it the horse
you are selling?" or (d) "Is it today
you are selling the horse?" "In other
words," says a well-informed writer,
"where the English purist depends
upon stress to bring out his meaning,
the Irish idiom employs construction
for the same purpose, and much more
effectively.."
In reply to the query: "Does it rain
here?" the native says, "It bees rain.
ing," or "It does be •'aining." He is
nicking an attempt to reach an exact-
titude that is possible in Gaelic; in
that language there is a distinct form
of the very "to be" to indicate the
habitual, the frequentative tense. The
Irishman who has the tradition of
Gaelic, even though he may never have
heard it spoken, feels the want of the
frequentative tense in English, end he
attempts to supply it. And so "bees"
and "does be" are used as a distinct
tense in the Anglo-S:.xon idioin: Pa-
draic Column, in "The Road Round
Ireland."
Nature
(From Poetry World)
Nature has no mathematics
Such as banks and merchants use.
She cannot make her unshod feet
Walk a straight line in slides.
She seldom is quite accurate
Nor often punctual.
She keeps on hand no pecks and
pints
To measure large and small,
miles and miles around. This is the
everyday life of Stratford,,_ fertile
farms, garnished meadows, avenues of
white and ' i r haws" ern, masses of.
milky snowball, hoeysuckle, and syrin-
ge loading the soft air with fragrance,
chestnuts dropping blooms of Pink
and white, .and laburnums swinging
their golden censers in the breeze.
The building that forms the south-
east corner of high Street an(Bridge
Street in Stratford was once occupied
by Thomas Quincy , . . who mar-
ried the poet's daughter, Juditb, and
an inscription appears upon it, stating
that Judith lived in it for thirty-six
years. Richard Savage, that com
petont, patient, diligeut student of the
church registers and other document-
ary treasures of Warwickshire, fur-
nished proof of this fact, from investi-
gation of the town records, that being
only one of the` many services that he
has rendered to the old home of
Shakespeare. Standing in the cellar
of ;this house I saw that its walls are
four feet thick. Also I --saw many
pieees'of old oak which I was inform-
ed bad been taken from the bell -tower
of ;the Shakespeare Church in 1887,
when a new frame was installed to
sustain a chime of heavy bells, and
which would, eventually, bo converted
into various carvings, to tempt the
taste of enthusiasts of Saal-espeare.
In the poet's time the bell -tower was
surmounted, not as now by a graceful
stone spire, but by a spire of timber,
covered with lead. That 'W. • removed,
and was replaced by the stone spire,
in 1746. The elk frame to support the
bells, however, had been in the tower
morel than' three hundred years. -
From "Gray Days and Gpld," by Wil-
liam Winter.
Wh t New York
h Wearing
BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON
Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur-
nished With Every Pattern
Nor recipes for turning
Plum blossoms into plums,
Tlie spring Is never quite on time,
And yet it always comes.
----Marjorie Barstow Greenbie.
44
Never criticize anything at a charity
bazaar. You can never tell who made
Here's a charming druss in flatter-
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It's so versa e. 1 It will meet for-
mal afternoons as graciously as Sun-
day night affairs, dinner engagements
and those informal dances at the club.
There is a definite slimming quality
about this model with its cross -closure
bodice and new necklace capelet that
is brought dowt to the waistline.
Naturally the flowered chiffons, dot-
ted chiffons, crepe silks and voiles are
lovely for to fashion it.
Style No. 2854 may be had in sizes
14, 16, 18, 20 years, 36 and 38 inches
bust.
Size 16 requires 4% yards of 39 -
inch .n'terial with 21/s yards of rib-
bon for sash.
HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS.
Write your name and address plain-
ly, giving number and size of such
angerous Days
"At the first signs of peevishness or ill-
ness in the hot, trying months of Sum-
mer, I give baby Baby's Own Tablets,
and in ,a short time be is well and smil-
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Owl La.s
Edna Wallace hopper may have all
that youthful complexion she claims
to have, but she should have that
voice of hers filed or scraped.
Badly Smitten.
I was charmed by the look in her eye,
BY her nightingale voice I was
smitten,
And her beautiful figure, oh, my!
By her glorious hair I was bitten.
She's really the eharmingest girl, sir,
any would man
In her arms find
bliss, sir.
But what struck me most about her
Was her hand when I started to kiss
her.
Host -"When I was a young man, I
always said I'd never be satisfied un-
til I'd smothered my wife in ilia.
mends."
Guest -"Most laudable. But why in
diamonds?"
A failure who understands why he
lost, and blames the right person, who
is himself, bas some elements of
greatness.
Sherlock -"Ab, Watson! 1 see you
have put on your summer underwear."
Watson -"Marvelous, Holmes! How
did you deduce that?"
Sherlock -"Well, you have forgotten
to put on your trousers."
patterns as you want. Enclose 20e in
stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap
it carefully) for each number, and
address your order to Wilson Pattern
Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto.
Butter Buried Centuries
Unearthed in Scotland
Aberdeen, Scotland. -A remarkable
find of bog -butter centuries old from
Skye was described by Professor
James Ritchie, F.S.A.Scot., of the
University of Aberdeen, at a meeting
of the Society of Antiquaries of Scot-
land. The wooden keg containing
the butter was discovered, during the
cutting of peats by Mr. Hugh Mackay,
at a, depth of six feet. The lfbg was
hollowed from a tree -trunk.
The butter, during its immersion
for centuries, had changed into a
hard, solid mass, with a somewhat
rancid smell and greasy to the touch,
like a piece of french chalk. It taste
ed, Professor Ritchie assured the
audience, like slightly sweetened tal-
low candles.
The keg and its contents, which
weighed about 100 pounds, recalled
the days when the farming peoples
of the Highlands left their villages
.in spring to migrate to the upland
sheilings. Here they and their do-
mestic stock remained during the
summer, and during that time accu-
mulated stores of butter and cheese
which were to last throughout the
winter,
The custom of burying the butter
in peatbogs was widespread, for it
has been found in several parts of
the Western Highlauda and many in
Ireland.
It had been suggested that the
burying was simply a device for the
preservation of the butter in, the ab-
sence of salt, but it is probable that
prolonged burial, for at any rate a
few years, "ripened" the butter and
improved its flavor.
"What is Brown's score'?"
"He can't find the holes. Ile says
they must be phyehological depres-
sions."
To a Small Child
(For e#.)
Teach Die, little playmate,
Teach me to be wise; „
A universe of wisdom
Is bradied in your eyes
And ':heir trustful look can
Ample faith by which to live.
Take It Or Leave It
It's a consolation to know that
those who live by taxes shall perish
by taxes. It would serve some of these
hoarders right, too, if they forgot
where they hid it. Only exceptional
men can run enterprises on idealistic
lines and make them pay. The aver-
age person's imagination is what en-
ables physicians to make a comfort-
able living Believe it, please, there
are fellows so tight that they regret
it when the pores function. Buying
her too big a stone has put more than
one boy on the rocks. Maybe so many
society girls go on the stage because
it has become a matter of good form.
Loafer -"Will you marry me?"
Working Girl -"I'm afraid not."
Loafer-"Aw, come on, be a sup-
port"
The Wife -"Don't you think we
ought to get mother a little present to
take back with her when she goes?
Can you suggest anything?"
The Brute -"What about a nice big
jar of vanishing cream?"
It may be, as a woman's college in-
quiry shows, that men get mad twice
as often as women, but don't the wo-
man break even by getting twice as
mad?
'I'eacli me, little playmate,
Teach me to bo gay,
p'or I've felt your laughter
Lightly sweep away
Doubts and cares of heart and mind,
Mists before a golden wind!
-Adelaide Love, in the Chicago
Tribune.
Rail Men Taught to Shoot
Hamburg, Germany --•-Because of a
series of robberies at stations, the
Hamburg Elevated Railway has arm-
ed its employees and allowed therm
time off for target practice.
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Prince is Entitled
To All Treasure Trove'
London -The discovery of gol
bracelets 3,000 years old under
hedgebank in a Cornish village had
drawn attention to a little -know
privilege enjoyed by the Prince o
Wales. As the Duke of Cornwall h,
is the only one of the King's sub's
jects in England to have the right'+
of treasure trove.
The British Museum has now ac.,
quired this Cornish treasure trove
from the heir to the throne. It con,
sists of six bracelets and two torque
-twisted gold probably worn ad;
bracelets. On the bullion value of
the hoard, which was discovered blp
a laborer, a considerable sum will 14.
paid to the finder.
Quiet --About the hardest thing in
the world for a woman to keep.
Jerry -Toni, are you ever troubled
with sleeplessness?"
Tom -"I am. Some nights I don't
sleep three hours."
Jerry -"I pity you, then. I've got it $
awfully bad. I've been afflicted now
for about three years. The doctor
calls it 'neuria insomnia paxalaxitis'."
Tom (grunting) -"I've had it about
six months; be': we call it a baby."
Horseradish is now being brigtened
up with the aid of beet juice. It is
now a horseradish of another color.
The business man who retired to
escape salesmen has returned to his
office to ave 'd house-to-house canvas-
sers.
Teacher -"Your trohble is you don't
address the ball properly."
Would -Be Golfer -"Well, I was po-
lite as long as could be,"
A Traveling Cannery
A traveling cannery to aid in con-
serving surplus foodstuffs is an origin-
al idea being promoted in Josephine
County (Ore.) Boiler, pressure cook-
er, tin cans, sealer and other needed
equipment are being assembled on a
four-wheel trailer which will shortly
establish. a schedule for visits to vari-
ous communities. It is expected that
a majority of the 445 families enrolled
in the year-round garden project will
take advantage of this profitable can-
nery to preserve their garden pro-
duce.
From the point of view of the hat -
seller. two heads are better than one.
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