The Cairo bulletin., 1907-09-11
Do You Play Skat2

DO you play skat?-~thc favorit'
\ game CT the German Emperor--prn
nounced skota Well, girls, If you don I
! pray learn. they tell me. Who,
Why, travellers from the Pacific Goa 4
and tourists from the fashionable
Eastern resorts; and as for those WIN
have just landed, with European tags
On their luggage, why, they are en-
thusiastic on the game, and bridge II
simply languishing.
They say skat requires originality,
clcverncss and ingenuity, and I'm very
much afraid those requisites bar me.
But | also think I'll have some Gem
pany in my misery for when one
hears talk of ''Vorhand" and Mite.
hand" and "Hinterhand, why It
seems to me 1t would take a Heidel
berg professor to solve the mysteries
The aforesaid are skat expressions
Tor phrases, but | haven't the remotest
idea what they mean. and I've just
been wondering whether 1t Will be
worth my time to 20 deeper into the
/ intrieaeics Of the game, guess TT
wait and see If the Buckingham Club
cetcrie take 1t up. II they do-all
bets are OFF, learn.-Serena Lamb in
ST. Louis Republic
| Dr, and Mrs. l.. r. Robinson, tfl
Ullin. We're IN the city yesterday shop.
ring.
/ Miss Ethel INLAND of Beardstown,
ILL.,, is the guest Of Miss Lima Wood
wrrd.
Mrs. r. s Reed and children have
returned from visit with relatives at |
CarlinyiIle
George B. Utter and family have re
moved from 300t Sycamore street toI
40 Union street.
Harry Dilts of Memphis. formerly
OF Cairo, is in the city ON business
and to visit friends.
Mrs. G. W. Galligan, Of St. Louis
is the guest Of Mrs Anna GalIigan.
ca Twentieth street.
Miss Rose Howley left yesterday
for St. Louis, where she will attend
the Visitation Convent.
Lonnie Bondurant went to Column
bin Mo, yesterday where he will at
terd d military academy
Mrs. Edward r Maiey and little
nephew, left yesterday for a visit with
at Cincinnati, Ohio.
0sa Marshall Of st. Louis. Is thel
guest Of his aunt, Mrs. John Sam.
mons, Of Twontysecond street.
Percy Jones and Miss More, cfl
Hickman, Ky: are the guests Of Mrs
Iohn Ford Of 1911 Washington ave
lre.
w, II. Greble and Albert DcMont
curt, Of Memphis. are here on bust Y
Tess for the Three States Lumbcrl
company
John NJ Antrim, clerk at the Plant
ers Hotel. left yesterday on the Str.
Dick Fowler to spend a few days al
Metropolis.
Miss Dorothy Buchanan. who has
'een the guest of Miss Augustine Flt2
.erald, returned to her home In Chi
ago yesterday. V
w. s. Roberts, of Memphis, who has
cen here on business for the Rob
rts' Cottonseed Oil company, will re-
Urn home today.
Mrs. j. II. Davis and Mrs. George o.
viii leave Sunday for Chi al
ago. where they will visit relatives re
" several weeks III
Walter La Hue of the firm of La e
Iue Bros, is down from Tamms. h
here they are putting steam heat p'
q plant in the opera house. d'
III
Miss Maude Hastings is substituting II
: teacher in the public schools for Do
ISIS Zuiima Smith, who is attending IN
n mother, who is III in Chicago. ne
Mrs. John Thistlewood and daugh- -
r. Anna Mae, have returned from a
onth's visit with friends at Bowling :"
reen aud other points in Kentucky. -
Frank Schoembs. travelling repre- :"
ntative of the Woodward Hardware %
'mpany continues very i'll at his :"
me at Seventh and Walnut streets. "a
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Schultz. of ~
street, are the parents -
On.