Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05

ton. Do you play bridge?-wen. then
You nave the open sesame to a certain
society, and your invitations will he
Now hearken TO this story: A friend
OF inlne, who lives in an apartment hotel.
was teiephoned TO by a young couple
casual acquaintances-who live on the
moor below and literally imnlored ia
come down and make the missing PLAYER
Tor a game Of bridge. Though nv friend
was, tired, she was good-natured. and
dt lsst she YEARLY got into a fresh
gown ana went. She found four men
ana three women anXiouslv awaiting her
In Urice the two tables were a.,rSneyaj
ana as they started to take their seats
my friends hostess told her that She was
TO play with the host because forsootb
none OF the other men would play with
n strange partner
NV friend has a sense of humor. and
lhe situation appealed TO it. Here WAS
d friendly card game, for neither prizes
OF money stakes, but the chivalirous gem
IIelnen OF the party would not play with
partner whose game they were not
sure OF. Likewise her host was giving
himself the airs of a martyr and asking
nef searching questions about her game.
MY friend chuckled inwardly and gave
MN dense and stupid answers and had
the pleasure of seeing his agitation
ana northumberland largely. He
turned to his wife and said angrily and
with no attempt to lower his voice. II
toid you how it would be if we asked
MISS q. down" And though you may
not believe me, that man ordinarily has
charming manners.
Miss G.'s sense of humor was begin
hlhg TO give way to irritation of her
own. She looked at her first hand and
played, went into the game determined
to do or 'iie. She played it like a pro
feSslonal-she really plays a very good
game, but she says that the occasion
INSPIRED her-she made her trump dar-
lngly, she doubled and redoubled with
out culver of an eyelash, and in a
snort time her and her hosts score was
a thlng To marvel at. 1t was plainly
evident that she had done it all her
self, too. for her host, like most of
these bad maanered bridge fiends. was
not more than an average player, and
more than once Miss c. amiably but
FIRMLY pointed o'tt to him how weak his
play really was She says that she sim
ply could not 'ielp doing that She also
made few Illuminating criticisms of
the game play ed by the other players
at her table.
possible only to an extremely good play
er. A poor one would have been called
to account for every card she played
But. after all the insults one has to
endure from the man bridge player are
nothing to what the women say:
When | go to a bridge party-and I
do it as infrequently as possible, though
| enjoy the game--I know my unlucky
fate will seat me before one of these
militant old ladies with piercing gray
eye and memory for plays that is
nothing less than appalling. Or if | es-
cape this elderly Gorgon, there is sure
to be some plump young matron, in a
Directoire gown, which he fondly homes
makes her look slim, and with q fatal
facility of playing to the score waiting
for me You know the type-you must
meet her at matinees and bridge parties
and the corset makers, and if you
should ask her who Shakespeare was,
shed say she thinks she saw Julia Mar
lowe play in something he wrote-aw-
fully stupid and long drawn out thing,
too But if you make a misplay at bridge
she viii fay you alive with her tongue.
ana as she goes home with the first
prize, she will tell volubly about that
Trick you threw away in the third round
from the last and if she hadn't finessed
how that game would have been lost.
yes It is high time we got up a code
OF bridge manners with penalties at
tached for infringing it. For instance,
you say to your partner How did
you happen to make it diamonds on that
hand" you are barred from all bridge
tables Tor three months. To inquire vi
ciously, rs this your first attempt TO
play bridge?" bars the speaker from all
bridge tables for six months. And so
on and so on. Wouldn't / Just love to
see such a code in force.
-Ot.O-
Men Versus Women Cooks.
An English writer has lately made a
comparison between the wages paid to
men and women cooks The chef of the
King Of England. he asserts, receives
$1,000 $4,000 a year; the highest paid
English woman cook who does house
Keeping INTO the bargain, gets not more
than 300 $500 year. Une of the
reasons for this is obvious and 1t goes to
explain the difference between mems and
Womens wages generally. The man does
cooking for Il livelihood and is trained
accordingly: the woman does it as a
makeshift before marriage, or afterward,
in consequence Of some matrimonial mis-
adventure. The work for her. as a
means of breadWinning, is accidental in
DURATION shifting as to aim and her
training is cOrrespondingly casual. The
woman cook when she maTries ceases TO
work outside of her home: the man cook,
On lue contrary, Wueu he uafFleS must
double his efforts to cook well because
he has twice as much need of money as
before. \ reason cited by the English
writer to explain why the man cook
earns more than the woman is a novel
one-the man is more extrayagant; he
insists upon being allowed to spend mon
ey to obtain his results.
1t would seem as if in the natural
trend of the experience of men and
women. the latter ought to be the better
cooks. Women. however. get their ex-
perience in the home and here the cOndi-
tons which make for business success
are reversed. In business, whether it is
cooking or making steel rails, men regu-
late expense according to the end sought.
In the home. women have to accept such
results as their means will allow; they
can spend only so much as is given them
and they never learn how to be system
atically extravagant DO you suppose
that the red mullet comes out Of the sea
with my sause in its pocketE" said a
chef to the nobleman who complained of
having been charged eighteenpence for a
sauce for the red mullet. Men make
their sauces and count the cost after
ward Women have TO count the cost
first and then make their sauce. That is
WHY the devoted housewife is so often a
poor cook: she is taught that the art Of
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