The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-25

ner get In with her suit,
80 Mr. J. promptly led his kin, a.,
the trick, then his ace and took tho 49,,
Ms. Grump was smiling all ovo. -
sen-really. with Il stretch OF ,b. ,,,a1',
nation. 1t might have been called ,,v~s,
~ for to win at bridge wss inst hi
eioerry pie la mode for her. Ev,sau.
~ that Mrs. Justwed must have 49,.
mistaken In what she said abo,, g.
husbands playing. she said 10 bs-,a,.
Here he was redoubiiny the ..moLa.,
promptly, leading first his king than ~.
ace-then. OF course, lie would load tas
MS highest heart. for a player who ~.
enough about the game to lead grqt :.
KING, then the ace, surely knew thu
heart convention
All or a sudden Mary. the terrible -.
iamity dawned upon Mr.. J.-he con'd
hot lead heart because he didn't have
any! That king and ace of clubs failed
TO draw out the queen and here he was
up against II. As for the heart? WHY
he hadn't thought of that when he re.
doubled
OF course the inevitable happepcd-
Mr.. J. led his nine of clubs in the vain
and foolish hope that his partner might
have the queen. The dealer took fha
trick with the queen and ran her din.
monds and spades right down for five
oud with Mrs. Grump, in half-como.
tose condition, discarding heart after
neart. She was so completely fabber.
gasted that she didn't recover sufficiently
to tell Mr.. j. exactly what she Thought
OF his play until the completion of the
next hand. Then-ye gods and little
fishes-she told him, And right then
and there Mr.. J. got mad-yessir. 80
downright mad that he didn't care what
he did.
And also, right then and there n
strange thing-but not so strange aftse
all, as bridge-players acknowledgement.
From that time on until the end Of the
evening Mr.. j. had the very Devils
own luck with the cards. What he didn't
hold his partner did-and he played the
game like he was playing poker, fling.
Ing rules to the winds and taking a
chance on any old thing IL he'd only
known how to play he would have made
five and six odd instead of two and
three every time he dealt-but little Mr.
j. cared about that
He got by with the odd and that was
all that mattered. And honors? Whew!
Five In one hand four times and four
aces thrice. He just couldn't lose, no
matter how completely he murdered a
hand for he held the cards. Besides,
he was the dummy every fourth deal,
and he always managed to lay down
everything in the suit his partner had
made that she didn't hold herself
In brief-Mr. Homer Justwed won the
first prize,
And, 10 and behold, Mrs Grump, the
next highest, had to content herself
with the second nrfznt
Really, my dear" remarked that ami
able lady to Mrs. j., ''your husband
doesn't have to know how to play-hls
cards play themselves"
Which, as any unprejudiced person will
admit, was nasty, "catty' remark
but one that is heard, in one form or
another, at every bridge party, for, alas,
every assemblage of devotees Of the
great game has its Mrs. Grump!
But little Mr.. Homer Justwed cared
about that-for hadn't he, a rank out
slider, romped home with the coin against
a field of real thoroughbreds!
Yea, verify, he had! T.
And poor Mrs. Justwed was so far
behind that she didn't even add up her
score!
CARVEI, CALVERT HALL.