I —————————— THE BLESSED BARRIER Vv By FANNIE HURST (@® by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) (WNU Service) OMEWHERE in the heart, the mind and the spirit of young Sterling was a barrier as high, practically, as his life was long. Had you even suggested anything of this to any member of the Buh- low family, they would have met the implication with loyal and heated de- nial. How could Sterling secretly feel himself an outsider in the Buhlow family, when not one of the Buhlow children, although they had quite sim- ply been told when they each became eight, had an atom of consciousness that Sterling not blood brother? As a matter of fact, bending far backward perhaps to achieve this end, Ann Proscow Buhlow took pains to see to it that Sterling re- celved even more than their own chil- dren of parcntal solicitude. The fact that adopted by Ann marriage was as remote of her present husband as if it had Sterling belonged. As the member of a remarkably rt of children, he was the ackn leadér of the ¢l “Sterling | er,” Ann Ww alleged eldest, t loquial young mother, “He sets to the rest of have to live up “Sterling is ly eldest, such occasions, anthrope, an misbehaviorist, mong the unworldlings of my moth- er's generation as clever.” “Oh, Shirley, be yourself,” two Shirley, tort om the “You know J head to be as cl “What Shirley going to i ther, pillow flung b3 that had been sister, “Father, it Is it a point t in jest. Otherwise never grant Typleal, ling so-called was {00 and had been previous in the minds and children never happened. : 1 Steriing during a Lis genlor group wiedged yas Ann's réal- sing out on eynie, a yd he passes off \ Terry, would re- How, years below dodgin would stood gisters, Buhlow their figshand, as a job it was to analyze the of the human brain, Proscow to be to ferret out the attack streak of cynical in Sterling. “Darling, there anything “1 want my father to with ten thousand antee against the horirble ever wanting to be anything “Sterling, won't you be serious just You're twenty now. The has when gimply have to decide what you want to do with your fife. You're talented! sainting. Writing, I've a you can be a great person in any one of them.” “Perhaps.” “Proscow, you talk to him." Curious, with any one of their own children, this problem would have been treated in quite another manner. In fact, the problem of Terry had al- ready been handled with decision and the school for his medieal training solocted. With Sterling. just because of his equivocal position In the tousehold. the dilemma of stimulat- ing him to action was a subtle and troublesome one, “You know after all, Sterling, your father, in spite of his wealth, could never be wealthy enough to encour. age a dilettante in the family” A flush ran beneath the pallor of the best-looking member of the Buh- tows. Ann had struck in. Proscow, and rightly, wonld not permit one of his gons to live off of his largess much less Sterling, the out. able way to the inertia all your brains, isn't to be? subsidize you want “ once? time come you too Musie suspicion alder, How Yo convey to these dear, warm discreet people that gnawing, sicken- ing sense of his outsideness, The very coloring of the eyes and halr af his five foster brothers and sis ters wns something Sterling could never look upon without the cold sense of being allen sweeping through the lonely Inner moors of his desola- tion, The Buhlows were blond, every one of them, blue-eyed, straw-haired, Dark, aloof, alone, he stood in thelr dear, kind world—the alien whose {solation no one dared mention, The allen, who by very virtue of the | anomaly of his position, was treated with considerations that hurt more than helped. All of his childhood, Sterling had yearned for the heartler reprimands handed out so unselfcon- sciously to the Buhlow children, No childish dispute had ever been get- tled against him, The allen deferred to! The same way now with his re tarded decision, With not one other of his children would Proscow have been so indulgent. Terry was a con- crete example. Even Shirley, the only girl in the group, had never met the quality of indulgence that had been meted out to Sterling. It made the bitterness and the hurt- ing and the secret gnawing pain of being special, and a little outside the dear, inner group of people who were dearer than dear to him, almost too vast to be borne. It was not alone the sense of being the outsider, it the knowledge that their unspoken sense of it kept them all sp cruelly considerate, so deferential “to his special position, Not even his foster father was to sense this out as the of the curious problem confronting him In this foster son of his Too bad. Most gifted member of the family. Brains. Talent. Will get iis bearings in time, of course. But a curious licked kind of psychology to the lad. Doesn't care a great deal abou anything. Fine intelligence, High strung, but not unduly nervous, Sensitive, of course. But somewhere in the machinery of the boy's fine mind, a monkey wrench. For a have was secret while Shirley had seemed to the were so easiest access to confidence They admiration, each entire chil cloge: 80 had their repartee, gibe and banter, they were nonetheless closer than any other two of the children. jut then hood Merciless In at this stage, when ever Sterling had noncommittal dilettante, had fallen was eating Sterling. However, in the end it was Shirley who was to find her way into the tor. mented labyrinth of Sterling's dl lemma, more the Shirley Something become even back defeated. The recital of his years of secret anguish and from him the } been hurt and jealousies came one night in a heels of a discussion having together on refusal to compete they had the sublect of his for an prize. Sentence revea “I'm too jealous, Si the with being v i the peopl to care abot licked before 1 start the world, thing, Sterl late years of mine U years that they has are not mear it you lease don't sit there pretend. i't know what I mean. w terrible it were of us” would iuddenly, seeing her there in a ra- » to bless the them! and seeing, ca was not Coal Mined in Great Britain Since Year 1239 The first charter giving liberty to the town of Newcastle-upon-the-Tyne to dig coal was granted by Henry III in 1230, and denominated coal” on account of its being shipped to places at a distance. In the year 1281, this trade had so extended that laws were passed for its regulation. In Scotland coal was worked at about the same time and a charter was granted in 1201, in favor of the abbot and convent of Dumfermline, in the county of Fife, giving the right of digging coal to the lands of Pitten- erieff, adjoining the convent. Coal began to be used for smelting about the beginning of the Seven teenth century. The working of coal gradually in- creased until the beginning of the Eighteenth century, when the steam engine was brought forward in the year 1705, and was applied to col Heries in the vieinity of Newcastle about the year 1715. This engine pro- duced a new era in the mining con- cerns at Creat Britain and collieries were opened In every quarter and the coal trade increased to an astonish ing extent, Biblical “Slips” Our recent note on a clergyman’'s discovery that a Bible verse ran: “Gird up thy lions” instead of “loins” brought from correspondents letters concerning other errors that have slipped into this and kindred religious works. Thug in one Bible an error in punctuation made a certain passage ran: “The wicked flee, when no man pursueth the righteous, is ns bold as a Hon.” And the omission of a letter in a passage in the Book of Common Prayer made it run: “We shall all be hanged in the twinkling of an eye."~Doston Transcript. was “sen GIA ARI | Modern Contract Bridge dh ah he eee y b b . p By Lelia Hattercley No. Distributional Values HEN your hand indicates that a suit take-out is the best policy, but the sum of your honor-tricks is below the yardstick measurement for game, you should declare only a suf- ficient number of tricks to cover your partner's bid. In taking out with a no trump, use the yardstick measure. ment, bidding one or two no trumps according to the indications of your partnership holding in honor-tricks, In short, whenever you are taking out and it is still uncertain whether your partnership hands will prove congenial at your new bid, you must tread gingerly unless the sum of your honor-tricks spells "GAME." Often however, when your partner has made an original sult bid of one, there may enter into your a factor which justifies you in totally disregarding the yardstick measure- ment of honor-tricks, so important in most responses, This factor is the distribution of your hand. If your hand is so favorably distributed as to show great length {n your partners sult, length in a second suit and com- plete for response of 4 third, as ample: 8-Q100876 10086 absence ex. 53, when your a spade, could of honor-tricks and you i into a game 3 bx would your partner's promise no length in clubs off of setting vj your partner repeated ruffing op- portunities, and most important of all for your deficit of honor-tricks, your short and missing suits would enable you to trump your opponent's defensive strength in honor-tricks. It is certain that no more than one honor-rick in hearts tru losers y some ing ing in compensating off all in diamonds. So that evan ugh your partnership total of hon- ri only to the 2% partner's original id practical certainty the opponent's nt to a strong honor when 1 3 fcks sums up which your f breaking de reckoned e to your partne aying Tricks As a rule the last thing that a con- player learns Is the wtant thing he should DOW, the play most im Ti iL tricks , how to count og his hand & Bat and no trump there is no belter count of be set up. bids than the wardstick tricks The COUN DE direct and method of honortricks, so helpful in valuing no trumps, will not answer raises and rebids at declared which must be played under totally different conditions. As a mat. ter of fact, the difference in play of no trump and suit hands creates two almost totally different games. #0 that a separate system of valuation tnust necessarily be used for each The count of playing tricks at a suit bid is an easy matter for a play- er of long experience and judgment Fortunately for the average player, in the approach-forcing system what is an unconscious mental process with the expert has been translated into a concrete form known as the dis tributional count. The distributional count may be mastered in half an hour's study, and once clearly com- prehended, enables any team of play- ers to value their hands at suit bids with the precision of experts (©. 1932, by Lalla Hattersley.) 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