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By PAUL H. SEYMOUR \
Author of “Highlights on Auction Bridge” i
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by Hoyle, Jr.)
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Article One.
Introductory
LTHOUGH the game of Auction
Bridge and its predecessors,
ridge and Whist, have been played for
many years, a wonderful increase in its
popularity Is just at the present time
sweeping over the country. Thou-
sands of people who a few years ago
refused to learn the game because it
was too much like work are today
giving up the simpler games of Euchre
and Five Hundred and seeking instruc-
tion in Auction.
Its are fascinated by It
principally because there is something
solid and substantial about it and be-
sause It does require sound and care-
ful thought. A recreation Is some-
thing which diverts a person's mind
and activity from its customary chan-
nels, and it has been found that this
does not mean inactivity, and that It
need not be a frivolous, worthless!
activity.
Even those whose dally work Is
largely mental find that they gain
rest and refreshment in a totally dif-
ferent kind of mental exercise such
as they find in Auction. While some
card games are agreeable for a soclal
hour and serve satisfactorily as time
killers, anyone who spends leisure
hours in playing and studying Auction
has the added feeling that he
been doing something well worth
while, He has exercised and thus
strengthened his observation, memory
and reasoning faculties. As most peo-
ple need to use faculties in
their daily work, they find that their
study of Auction fits thém better for
their duties in office, factory or draw-
ng room.
There is also a steadily increasing
demand among the players for a bet-
ter understanding of the game. Many
who have played it in a haphazard
way simply as a time killer are com-
ing to appreciate its worth and are
devoting some time to its real study.
No matter how well a person plays,
there always is room for improvement
because the possibilities of the game
are such that they can never be fully
mastered, Among the many thou-
sands of players In the world, only
shout 2 per cent play well enough to
be called experts, and for the other
PS per cent and for those who have
never played at all, these articles have
been prepared. There will be 36 arti
cles In the series, and while the first
two deal with fundamentals of the
game with which all players are fa-
miliar and while the aim has been to
use such simple language that all may
understand them, still the treatment
of the subject will be so systematic
and thorough that following them
should greatly
every player
Their will depend not upon
how many rules are given or how
meny isolated cases are explained, but
upon and simplicity of
the statements and the comprehensive
ness with which the cover
the in
the bidding and playing of the game.
In order to become proficient in any
grime, two things are Jearn-
ing the rules so thoroughly that they
may instantly put info practice,
and then learning when to break these
rules. In teaching Auction one should
not use the words “always” or “never”
because there is no rule which should
not be broken at times. Any person
who always plays according to rule
will be a “wooden” player and never
can hope to rise to the level of the
expert,
devotees
has
these
value
the clearness
system will
countless possibilities arising
needed
be
To break rules wisely,
must know them
however, one
thoroughly, and to
do this will require study and real
work upon the part of the student.
If anything is worth doing at all it
is worth doing well. Therefore it Is
arged that all who wish to profit by
these articles should make up their
minds to do their share of the work.
In order to learn rules of a game
thoroughly, studying them is not suffi
clent. One must actually play at the
game time and, therefore, it is recom-
mended that students studying these
articles do so In groups of four.
In this way the illustrations can be
placed on the table and actually
played. This not only will make them
ensier to understand, but will help
materially in remembering them,
After studying each article it would
be well to play a regular game and
discuss the points which come up to
fllustrate the teaching.
As the series progress, more and
more points will be covered, and the
ouly way to master such teaching is
to review the previous articles fre-
quently, Each article may possibly
make it easier to understand a pre-
ceding one, so that every time an ar-
ticle is reviewed some statement in
it is sure to shine with a new light
and give the student a meaning which
he had formerly missed.
Therefore, those who wish to get the
most out of these articles would do
well to save them and reread fre.
quently from the beginning.
Precautionary
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to go broke paying him.
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LIFE OF HERRING GULLS
6s IRST,” sald Harry Herring Gull
to Billie Brownie, who had come
to call on him and wio was sitting by
the edge of a great river, “lI was a
little olive-gray egg. 1 was spotted
with black.
“I mean, of course, as doubtless you
understand, that the which later
became me, was spotted with black
That is not the way, perhaps, | should
talk,” but it's Harry Herring Gull's
way.
“And If I'm
knowledge and
2 oy ¥
Uh
not smart book
ir schooling and In
talking and In all such ways, I'm
smart as a gull, and gulls are smart,
“Oh, yes,” Harry Herring Gull con-
in
fry
“indeed | Do” Billie Brownie An.
swered, “But Do Tell Me More”
tinued, “for years
have been gulls.
“Some of my ancestors were
when the Indians owned the country
“Oh, yes, we have always been
about, making our ways fit in with
the ways of others, which is Riways
wise,
“I am here now for the winter,
was born in an ugly little home.
“But that didn't make any differ.
ence, We fly about rather than stay
much in our homes,
“For those who care
homes It is weil to make
beautiful, but not for us
“We are quite satisfied with a shab-
and years there
here
their
homes
for
the
by nest of weeds and kind of
nest-buliding trash,
“Our homes are In
ground. I had one
brother who came out
at the same time I did.
“We were covered with down and
we could swim and run and were
considered pretty smart little herring
gulls,
“Of course all herring
way are alike. They're all smart, but
the mothers say the same thing over
and over us each new group of downy
gulls begins to swim and ron:
“‘Aran't they smart little gulls
“I am here for the winter, as | sald
You will notice that my head and
neck are grayish brown in color. In
the summer I wear a white suit with
a gray clonk and 1 have touches of
black and white for style,
“My summer costume is gayer and
brighter than my winter costume,
which I think Is right.
“It is nice to see creatures put on
their light clothes in the summer.
Don't you think so, Billie Brownle?”
“Indeed 1 do,” Bllille Brownlie an-
swored, jut tell me more about
yourself.”
“AS
beak
mark.
“And my
are a pretty pink color,
“When 1 was a little fellow 1 had
a pink beak, too, with a biack spot.
“But of
have show
ring gull,
any
hollows In the
and one
thelr eges,
sister
of
gulls in that
do
soe, 1
red
you « nn
have a yellow
with a spot for a beguty
eves are yellow, feet
My
course the
that 1 am a
colors 1 now
grown-up her.
“For we do not get these colors at
first. The
iy from the
“When
north,
of my family
they are the
about summer
of any sort.
dress different.
ones,
older ones
i
Younger
comes |
a few
stay around
ones who
homes or
summer
if
go further
course members
but
care
homes
here
do not
little
“They're not the home lovers among |
the herring For to |
bulld our nests and have homes
even though we don't care to make
them beautiful, We don’t care
make them beautiful because we like
to fiy away from them a great
and have adventures,
“But we like to have them just jhe
game. Yes we
and have summer homes
‘ack, cack. cack,
truth.”
And Harry Herring
now for Billie Brownie
him and had bidden
good afternoon’
gulls, we love
our
to
deal
like to build our nests
that 1s the
Gull flew off
had thanked
him 8 most polite
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How It Started
By JEAN NEWTON
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“CAT O’ NINE TAILS”
IE whole idea of corporal punish-
Tc is faust going into the discard,
Yet we still hear children threatened,
on occasions, with the “cat o' nine
tails,” for centuries the accepted
medium of punishment wherever
whipping was the order of the day.
As late as the first half of the Nine-
teenth century, we are told, in our
own navy, delinquent sailors were
lashed to a gun and whipped with the
cat o nine tails. In the parlance of
the sea, this form of chastisement was
jocularly known as “Marrying the
gunner's daughter,” It was only ‘in
1850, when congress abolished cor-
poral punishment, that this practice
cease’,
For the origin of the form of the
“cat o nine tails” itself, we must go
back further to the days of the In-
quisition, that prolific progenitor of
methods of torture and abuse. In
those days it was the conventional
weapon of the jailer and the execu.
tioner, its strands numbering nine,
because the number nine was credited
with having supernatural powers in
bringing about confessions and re
pentence of offenders!
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Did Without Music
The choir at the Swedish mission at
Muskegon, Mich., did not sing during
u revival campaign. Because the mem-
bers were dressed in fashion, with
short skirts, rouge and bobbed hair,
they were forbidden by the evangelist
to take part In his services. Indian-
apolis News,
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CTHE WHY of
SUPERSTITIONS
By H. IRVING KING
DIVINING BY BOOKS
RATHER
who
with
is to
common practice
“seek for a sign”
the Bible at random find
answer in the upon
which their thumb resis as they part
the leaves. In pagan times this divi
nation accomplished by placing
the finger at randoms on a passage of
Homer, Virgil or some other great au-
thor. Virgil was an especial favorite
in this connection and the practice of
consulting him continued down to
modern times, though the Bible is the
book generally used.
During the Middle ages the historic
Yirgil became =o enveloped In a mist
of tradition and superstition that he
was alluded to by the uneducated as
“Virgil the Wizard”; and In the un-
popular estimation the chief value of
the Aeneid was as an oracle, As late
as the time of Charles 1 the Bible had
not entirely supplanted the Aeneld for
purposes of divination, as is evidenced
by the well-known story of how that
monarch learned his fates by the
“Sortes Virgilianae,” as it was called.
This practice of divination by books
is said to have “originated in the re-
spect and veneration of certain books
arising from their wisdom and repu-
tation”; and it is easy to comprehend
the psychology which induced the peo-
ple of the Middle ages to consult “Vir-
gil the Wizard” and leads men of a
superstitious trend of mind today to
turn the Bible into an oracle. But the
incipiency of the idea dates back to
the first introduction of letters when,
to the common mind, there was some
thing supernatural in the power of a
few marks made in a certain way to
convey from one person to another not
merely ideas but whole speeches, word
for word; a feeling which Is displayed
today by remote tribes of savages
when they see, for the first time, the
use of the printed or written word in
communications.
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open
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Court Backs Satan
Protection to Satan is now legally
given In Poland. A priest was tried
in a Bromberg court for preaching an
irreligious sermon, in which he “dented
the existence of the devil." He was
sent to prison for 80 days. It is be.
lieved to be the first occasion for many
centuries on which the devil has been
recognized by a European law court
and protected ngainst scoffers,
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been trained since childhood in out.
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star worthy of the name. Both his
father and mother were well known
on the legitimate stage when he was
a youngster. Now, just twenty.one
years of age, Bob will play his first
starring role in “The Mojave Kid.”
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NOT BREAD ALONE
OHN RUSKIN, in the fifth
of his “Modern Painters,”
chapter on Peace, writes: “No amount
of pay made a good soldier, &
good artist or a good workman Ex-
amine writers and artists; for
ten pounds you shall have a ‘Paradise
Lost. and for a plate of figs, 3 Durer
drawing. For love of country, or their
duty, men will fight steadily ; but for
massacre and plunder, feebly
Three motives may contro! one's ac-
tions life, Pleasure, power and
“let us drink and be
for tomorrow we the
of first The of
of who have this
motive Is
The peril of the
sel f-preservation
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service, ent,
erry, die” Is
spirit
many
their
the testimony
those made
life's hat there Is
Ry
first, is
sae
ond
that
CORs
motive,
failure
in inspired by a
motive which subjects higher spiritual
The deepest
enduring
fnevit ends In
life
it
cannot be
material needs
and
realized
in
ends to
satisfactions
are
ourselves
tnost
only
qe
CERRes an
sacrificial and aitruistic
we give
rs,
Altruism, he
A person oa
He must
give away
fail
give of his poverty
before he
eo of serv
swever, alone will
nnot
first possess can
The moti
that
that will be
¢ pre
supposes We DOSKEesESs something
of help to others. Service
requires possession
Bread acquired fi
“Being merry today
ww the purpose of
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for tomorrow we
an
epicurean philosophy of
life. which, It has been demonstrated
brings tragedy and
Bread scquired for the mere
of solitary possession, which is
also ends In failure, John Hol
land in his little volume, “Katherina,™
writes: "Of all dead, dull
bore, sure none
the soul with discontent
of power unused™ Rerv.
means that we acquire that
may give—succeed that we may help
others to sucreed-—make such an in.
vestment of character that the world
shail be enriched by the contribution
which we shall have made.
(ES. 1927,
many times, only
fallure
sake
power,
ever can haunt
like the con.
we
Western Newspaper Union)
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“Too Bad
Restaurant Owner— Doesn't it seem
too bad that this little lamb had
die for us.
Customer-—Yeah ; Nighty tough!
sil Pression
to
HE YOUNG LADY
ACROSS THE WAY
I'he young lady across the way says
eugenic marriages are undoubtedly the
wisest, though some young people get
married without a cent and get along
all right.
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vv Buildin
Repairs Program Needs
Most Careful Attention
Close jnspection will disclose what.
ever Is necessary to put a building io
good shape. In the first place, there
gare the plaster walls and ceilings to
repair before doing any decorating
Unsightly eracks should be carefully
cut deeper with a8 putty knife so as to
provide grooves for receiving the plas
ter of paris filler, which then
be applied.
Inside
need
paint
should
woodwork will
be
varnish,
of
over with
Course
10
or
may be
whatever
gone enamel,
or wax, as the case
1
For touching up old varnish,
the color of the
may now
of any des
the original
orig
ginal
wood, one purchase colored
varnish ired tone to match
named
lent for going over old painted wood
work. It can be applied directly to
the old material, but a better finis!
is obtained by spplying an undercos!
of flat paint of the desired color. Buch
treatment an
efficient and economical aid In the up
keeping of the building.
Hardwood should
permitted to wear out
or wax with which they
color is excel
of woodwork will prove
floors
hie
vurnist
neyer
The
were origina;
ly covered should be kept
with
and
wax
in condition
purpose
ish
he
bie
after
floor oil this
need it varn
finish should
Should the
made for
fis soon as floors
or
other floor
used liberally
in bad eondit
to
removed,
old for
the
floors
oft. however, it is 3
better have the old finish
£ the
Of the
entirely
fining one
this
« GIpreunds
and then
good
purpose,
as
red
ish surface
#8 new
Loss From Moving
Those of sou who
your rent,
complnin about
ahout having to move every
two or three land
lord
it “out
fact:
never
years becn the
fix up the
from under yon”
The
NOEs
ise
“won't place”
rent the home
Owner pays
up Whet her
youn
vour home free of debit or are acquir
ing it under coniract
cha
definitely
payments
rges you must pas
fixed
per month are
through the period of
your possession No one ean compel
You to pay
pelled
wer
It
oftentimes fail to
this
mare, nnr
fn rou he oom
to move elsewhere to seed
rents
BOeIniR Bs who rent
meidern
It Ix ome
ivy eovmmit
tion importan
of the reasons why the fan
ted program of
hesins to n
fo 8 home ownership
ake headway from the mo
ment I! commits itself to such 8 pro
! through
gram, Then the losses
oon
are
regard ns a
I statement
i1 also rean
better than »
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dane had
fist
fen
their of
These tow
ing me
for milk
their
situnt
ne a Hitle while
were worl ft hind
Tie
industrionsls
They
surveyed
condenseries
hus
fon
organized ines men
and went
apital Although
pitain their specific
something else as
their
after some outside ©
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Neshoba Democrat.
god
sther «-
gr jekers
Frequently one hears some fellow
kicking on the firm he works for and
wonders why he did not quit and get
a job more to his liking, If he has »
better Sob than he conld get else
where then he has no cause to kick
More frequently one hears a man
kicking on the tosen he lives in It
that town furnishes him a better lv
ing than any other town he should
feel friendly to it and say
castle Times,
80, «= Now
Mushroom Growth
A word of caution for cities engag
ing in the scramble for Industries Is
sounded by the organization service
of the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States. It draws the line be
tween enlargement hy substantial
growth and enlargement by inflation
and reiterates the warning that there
is no virtue in mere bigness,
Color for Roof
Don’t forget that the roof must he
protected with paint or stain, as well
as the siding. In salecting a color for
the roof of your house, consider the
surroundings. A red roof looks well
against high, dark trees. A huff root
sults the house surrounded by little
follage.
Restore Home Life
Many writers have deplored what
they call the passing of the American
home, and the old-fashioned home life.
Certainly any welldevise? movement
to check It and restore it full meas
ure the old home Influence is of bene
fit to the community,
Well Worth It
It costs money to build up your
local pride—and it's worth It,
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FARMER WOMAN
IN OKLAHOMA
Praises Lydia E. Piokhan's V.
a Say Gai
Because It Cave
Health and Strength
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In a sunny pasture in Oklahoma, a
Berd of sleek cows was grazing, They
. made a pretty pic.
ture, But the thin
woman in the blue
checked apron
sighed as she looked
at them. She was
tired of cows, tired
of ker tedious work
in the dairy. She
was tired of cook-
ing for a houseful
of boarder be.
sides caring for her
own family The
burdens of life secmed too Navy for
She bad lost con-
fidence in herself,
One day she began taking Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and
eral Bealth began to improve,
he took it faithfully, Now she can do
any trouble, sleeps
This woman,
0X
writes:
Mrs. Cora Short, R.
Oklahoma City, Ok
“Everybody now says: ‘Mrs,
yourself?
R.
Php
o87,
I have taken seven
of the Vegetable Compound”
Other women who have to work hard
going may find the
road to better health as Mrs. Short did,
through the faithful use of Lydia E
Compound,
Ask your neighbor,
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