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lists. He bushes to-day as he tells
of his embarrassment as he tritl to
peddle his paintings as if they we're
picture postal cards: But he was
successful, and incidentally he be.
came acquainted with an American
artist who gave him sound advice
and a financial boost.
Hnerkovsky returned from India,
filled with a passion to put on can.
vas something Of the feelings he had
just at sunrise when the early light
was stealing through the woods; at
right, when the light came from the
countless stars and mis- sole COM
panlons were the beasts of the for
est proving around for their
quarry; in the midst of a thunder
storm, with the vivid flashes of light.
ming Illuminating the Stygian dark
Eess.
Hnerkovsky reads Jack London's
stories as boy revels in the ad-
ventures of "Dashing Diamond
Dlck'-he paints as Jack London
wrote.
When the war came Hnerkovsky
was living with his young bride in
a village near Prague. He had no
desire to fight; no Czech was anxious
to help Austria. When he learned
he was about to be called he starved
himself so that he would be unable
to pass the physical examination.
Ten times he was called and ten
times he was rejected. And then the
war ended. To-day Hnerkovsky
shows plainly the effects of the
frightful ordeal through which be
passed.
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New Painter Is Hailed as Genius

Rome and study in an art school
there. With hardly any funds and
no friends in the ancient citv ne
started out, driven by the passion
TO learn how to express his soul
thoughts on canvas.
Hnerkovsky remained in Rome
less than six months.
Il didn't like the methods of the
school," he told me. "They wasted
SO much time. The students spent
months learning what they should
nave learned in few days. l studied
languages, sciences, astronomy. 7
worked every minute. I could not
waste my time"
Then he went to India. Bv this
time he had spent all his money.
lie went to steamship and offered
TO pant some pictures to hang in
the saloon of the ship. His offer was
accepted and when Hnerkovskv re-
turned with his pictures the man
agement of the line was so delighted
with his work that they gave him a
first class passage to India.
There he lived for three wears
part of the time near Madras and
later at Colombo, working with
natives, eating their food, sleeping
IN hut, dreaming in the shade of
the palm trees, and getting as close
to nature as it was humanity possible
for him to do. His life in the Far
East has left deep impression on
his work.
70 obtain money to buy his paints
and brushes he was compelled to 90
TO a resort at Colombo patronized
by wealthy Anglo-American tonr-
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Translated by William l.. Mcpherson
Copyright, 1920, New York Tribune Inc)

ing the soil, of pumping cut the
marshes with their deep and greedy
roots. Nchrished by pestilential
matter, they fabricate out of it the
most wholesome and vigorous odor
in the world.
The Father certainly seemed to be
suffering from the heat. But the
sweat which covered his brow wasn't
due altogether to the African sum-
mer. He had charge Of the wine
vaults. He thought he had discov-
cred just now that one of the huge
tuns, which ought to have been full
to the top with red wine, sounded
hollow.
could any one be stealing my
wine? Perhaps I am mistaken" he
said to himself. Chow could such a
thing be possible?"
His uneasy suspicious shifted
from the band of Christianized
Arabs settled about the convent to
the Bedouins who browsed among
the city's ruins, and then to the lit
tie handful Of Europeans employed
in the cathedral.
II am going to investigate. lam
going to catch somebody"
Being in doubt, be said nothing "a
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the Fathers took the sick monk
gently by the hand.
Follow me-" he sard, with mys-
ferrous smile.
When he had descended once
more to the cave of his vigils and
terrors, the former guardian, guided
by the others lighted lamp, sr
preached the tun. 1t lay open Ikea
cavern.
Look" said the youngest Father,
handing over the lamp.
Bending down, stretching bis
neck, with fear in his eyes, the
monk saw-and understood.
Through the foundation wall .
long root, blowing its way with .
patience and force found only N
the vegetable kingdom, had pierced
the earth, the stone and the wood,
and had succeeded in reaching the
heart of the big tun. 1t was his
root which had slowly drained the
VINE, while in the sunlight and the
fresh breeze outside the beautiful
eucalyptus which all admired, the
criminal eucalyptus, the drunken
eucalyptus, grew almost while you
looked at it, and, with its wealth q
foliage secretly fed by the genial
liquor, overtopped, like some incom'
prehensible giant, all the other tres
h the garden.
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Miss Gertrude Emerson Expects to
Find Dances as We'll as Saw
age Chiefs in the Wilds

this party going armed into thu
waste places?
With cameras only, it seems. T.
is an expedition Of peace, even
against the wild things. Nat;vs
guards will know the trick Of nm
tecting the party, says Miss Elmer.
son. She hasn't thought much abop.
the perils of the thing. She did con
slider buying a gun for the tiger,
But nothing pleased her. The one,
that would really damage tige,
were an affront to the aesthetic sens.
and the beautiful ones were useless
One gunshop salesman assured ber
earnestly that certain pearl-han.
died affair would not even "tickle
tigers ear" So she did not buv
Bullets in Tissue Paper
But woman whom she met at a
tea party confessed to an oyersrn
ply Of revolvers given her bv
friends. Would she accept one? sba
would, and did, and l saw it, silver
chased, diminutive, with five sweet
little bullets to match, all wrapped
in tissue paper.
So Miss Emerson left the next
day for San Francisco, where she
Joined the waiting Donald c.
Thompsons, and they all sailed
away, armed heavily with cameras
and typewriters, bent on a peaceful
and lasting conquest of the Far
East, by way of pictures and stories
For the sake of those who are still
planning to be cast away on des-
ert isle must add that the impor.
tant question of books was not neg
lected. Miss Emerson, student Of
the Orient, collector of Japanese
prints and literature of India, on her
way to study folklore and politics
and the daily life of the remote
East, had tucked away in her hand
bag one fat, green-clad volume
wherewith to solace her leisure mo-
ments. 1t was "The Education Of
Henry Adams!
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tree which surpassed all the others
and which every one admired for the
extraordinary determination which
1t seemed to show to grow and flour-
ish.
The delicious odor, the warm wind
and his long reveries Gained the
monks nerves. The fever fell and
the Authorizations ceased. Never
theless, he asked every day about the
cellar and the tun. But the su-
perior had given orders.
You were probably mistaken -
the Arab servants told him. "The
tun has always sounded hollow
Nothing unusual has happened. Put
your mind at ease, master"
But one evening, while the con-
valescent was doing happily in his
chair to the far-off droning of the
waves Of the Mediterranean and the
nearer murmur of the big eucalyptus
a tumult of EXPLANATIONS aroused
him.
Five or six Arabs and as MANY
White Fathers were running toward
him.
"The tun is empty" cried the one
group.
I'VE have found the robber,"
cried the other.
While all gesticulated and talked
ct the same tims, the youngest af
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hopping for Years Trip Into an Asiatc WILDERNESS

ages. Out Of one paper fell dozen
brass curtain rings. From another
many tiny lunches of dyed feathers.
Strings Of painted wooden beads
clattcred to the floor. accompanied
by packages of brightly colored PEN
ellis. Much jewelry, glittering hand
somely, but suspiciously light of
weight, tangled after the beads.
where shall / put thern?" asked
Miss Emerson. "There doesn't seem
to be an inch of space lett
wanted to know the use of these
very frivolous looking affairs.
"For the Dyaks," answered Miss
Emerson. "You know, the gentle
head hunters of Borneo. 1t would
never do to visit them without car
rying gifts. I expect these"--she
ratified a string of many colored
glass beads-s'to make an excellent
impression on his majesty the chief
of the Dyaks. And for the prole-
tartan Dyaks I have succession of
gifts nicely graduated to suit their
ranks.
II hope to make no social errors
during my stay among those hasty
tempered folk"
"But what are you taking for
yourself"
Miss Emerson waved her hand
toward the trunks and bags. ooh,
it's all there" she said, cheerfully.
And it was all there, indeed.
Thirty Pairs of Shoes
We investigated. Thirty pairs of
shoes, more or less, filled the boot
trunk. They ranged in style from
stout walking shoes and white satin
slippers with silver buckles to inde-
srructible boots for mountain climb.
ing, rubber top boots with enormous
ly thick soles for jungle wading, rid
ing boots, sandals for tropic house
wear, laced boots for hunting and
aviation and spiral puttees. Why
boots and puttees, too?
1t turned out that the puttees are
part of deep plot against the
leeches of Java. They are, it seems,
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School for Card PLAYERS

the two-spade bid alone and it would
have Won the game.-Mrs. B.
Answer-When the original bid is
two in major suit it is seldom advis-
able to disturb it, especially so when
the third hand has three of the suit.
IN this case, third hand is very stronp
as support for spades, being able to
ruff clubs at once, win tricks in hearts
and still! have trumps enough to lead
them. At hearts, there is nothing in
the hand but the four honors and q
lot of rags in two suits.
Questionable dealer having passed
without bid, the second hand bids a
spade. Third hand doubles, holding
only one spade, ace and two small in
each of the red suits, with six clubs
to the king. Fourth hand redoubles.
The best the dealer has is five small
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round and round until they reach
the top, and then, Of course, there
is nothing to do but go back and
walk round again. Remember this
when you travel in Java!
Frocks and habits! OF quantity
and variety. Miss Emerson was
most pleased with her flying outfits,
for she is an aviation enthusiast.
She will fly, in company with Mr..
and Mrs. Thompson, over the Phil
ippine Islands, taking pictures from
above. But there is a delightful
confusion of old and new ways Of
travel in their plans, and it all calls
for different garb. Camel caravan
in Mongolia, houseboats in China
and Siam, elephants in India, each
demand special dress, designed both
for comfort and appearance. The
midwinters of North China must be
prepared, for with furs and flannel
robes. The hot season in India calls
for cork helmets and canvas shoes
and endless linen frocks.
Formal Dress, Too
In the midst Of all this sturdy and
practical wearing apparel there
were lovely sheer dresses-a mauve
and yellow dancing frock, and a pale
pinky one, and a vari-colored chif-
fon one, for an American girl in
Japan and China will dance with
her own people when she comes in
for those short respites from the
wilds. There were several stately
affairs of peacock blue and sequins,
and black lacy one, I think-be-
cause formal dinners and receptions
have way of happening in the
most unheard-of and out-of- the-way
places, wherever two or three Amer
lean and British people are gathered
together. It is no uncommon thing
for dress suits and decollete gowns
to appear in remote bungalows and
stations of the jungle, with dinner
and talk going forward in the right
order, deliberate keeping up of the
beloved habits of home by men and
women who may never again set
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From The Tribune's European Bureau
PRAGUE, August /.

From The Tribunes European Bureau
PRAGUE, August /.
u N THE workmen's quarter, liv-
n ing in three small rooms, is an
- artist who, an eminent British
critic believes, will create fu-
rore when his work is put on exhibit
ton in western Europe and America.
c. W. Nevinson, the English painter.
claims the credit of discovering him
while on visit to Prague.
Whether the British critic and
Nevinson are correct in their esti-
mate the story Of the life of ia
roslav Hnerkovsky is as fascinating
as any one could find in fiction. Born
IN a little country village near
Prague thirty-fve years ago, this
Czech determined to become an en-.
gineer. He studied in the local
school, and later obtained employ
ment in the Austrian civil service
as an engineer. AS salaries go in
Bohemia he was we'll paid and salts
fed.
Soon after he reached his major
ity he was suddenly seized with a
desire to become painter. The love
Of art, characteristic of all Slavs.
compelled him to quit his post in
the government service. Painting
became a passion; nothing else
counted. For time he worked here,
painting in the woods and fields.
His early works, which l have seen,
are crude, and would do little credit
to the merest tyro. At twenty-five
years of age he decided to go to
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AUCTION BRIDGE

Question-We are told that under
the new laws the declarer cannot take
any tricks for revoke, but only the
100 points, the same as his adver-
saries, and that doubling doubles the
penalty. Is this correct &C. G. l..
Answer--As the new laws are not
yet published and will not be in force
until September 1, no one but members
OF the committee know what the re-
woke penalty is to be-
Question - The dealer bids two
spades. Second hand passes and third
hand holds six hearts to four honors,
only three spades to the ten, four
small diamonds and no clubs. She
bids three hearts and goes down one.
The dealer says she should have left
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THE ROBBER- BY NINE. LUCIE DEIARIE-MARDRI7s

tus blooms within the low walls in
which the Fathers have incrusted
all sorts of antique fragments
pieces of statues and vases, of sculp-
tured marble and ornamented stone
all eloquent vestiges of that tragic
civilization of which nothing now
remains.
On the horizon, at the end of the
immense fields of barley which cover
the site of ancient Carthage. is the
sea. In the month of March masses
of wild peoples run in red waves
from the ruins of the city down the
hill slopes to the blue waters. It is
as If Carthage again poured it's life
blood into the sea.
Under the indigo blue afternoon
sky Father who had come up from
the cellars was forced to shield his
eyes from the violence Of the SUMS
rays. He walked through the gar
den where the eucalyptuses, re-
freshed by the eternal wind from
the Mediterranean, smell so sweet
and SO fresh.
The eucalyptuses have the func-
ton in Tunis Of everywhere drain
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Auction B fridge

suit, with three values in it and a
king outside. B has only four
spades, but with four honors, and
counts that as three, with an outside
ace, so he bids a spade as better
than diamonds.
Now we come to a point in the
bidding that is frequently over
looked by those who use the modern
system of counting up a hand. The
moment a player names a suit
showing length in it, any aces and
kings in that suit held by his OPP
ponent lose their promoting power
and drop to their normal or de-
fensive value.
rs ace of spades is no longer
worth two tricks, but only one, be-
cause it is impossible to promote
anything in that suit except for the
opponents. But AS king Of clubs
and Y's king Of diamonds should
each be good for a trick, as the ace
of both those suits should be on
the right of the king.
2 drops his clubs and assists the
hearts, bidding two. He has nor
NAL support in the heart suit, three
small, and has the expected average,
three tricks outside Tin clubs), to-
gether with the ace Of spades. On
this extra trick he bases his assist.
A goes to two spades for the
same reasons. He has average in
both trumps and outside tricks and
an extra club trick, so he bids two
spades, assisting the major suit in
stead of pushing his own minor suit.
1t should be clear that Y cannot
go any further without misleading
his partner, as his first bid, one
heart, was up to the full strength
of his hand, four tricks. B is not
called on to advance the bid if Y
passes and could not do so legiti-
mately in any case, as his ace of
hearts is worth only one now and
his spades only three. He has bid
all his hand is worth at the start.
For the same reasons z cannot as
sist again.
B can make two spades, which
shows the two hands were correct
ly valued. Y could have made two
hearts If left to play it at hearts,
but no more. Both sides have bid
their hands to the limit. At spades
B must lose two clubs and one of
each of the three other suits. At
hearts Y must lose two spades and
one trick in each of the other suits.
1t does not follow that because
the hands are not ~worth. more one
should never bid more. The point
is that one should know that it is
Overlooking. A player may risk
being set SO or 100 to save honors,
or to prevent the other side from
scoring, or to postpone the winning
Of the rubber. but the player whe
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ME convent of the White
l. Fathers Of Carthage stands
on one of those historic hills
NJ A fr;ce ~, x,,b;oh +xr-> r~.o,4


of Africa on which two great
races once fought for world empire.
Near it is a pale and lonely cathe-
dral, the gigantic and glorious tomb
of Cardinal Lavigerie.
In the shadow of that cathedral
sepulchre the Fathers, silhouetted
like Arabs, their bodies robed in
white and their heads turbaned in
red, live between the past and the
present. Above is their museum. be-
low are their cellars.
To the past belong the glass win
dows, lined with statuettes, the rows
of urns, the golden jewel boxes, the
Punic sarcophaguses in which skele-
tons of high priests and priestesses
repose.
To the present belong the cellars,
with their tuns, their casks and
their bottles. There in obscurity,
silence and GOODNESS repose the red
and white wines which constitute
the wealth Of the convent.
A garden Of cactus and eucalyp-
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The Woman Explorer Must Be Pre-
! pared for Formal Affairs
Even in the Jungle

convinced one that it was, indeed,
far from simple. Trunks were
standing about. There was closed
forever look about their shiny locks.
Bags leaned against one another for
support, bullying with knobby pack.
ages. There was an orderly COM
pleteness in the array that reminded
me that Miss Emerson is an ex-
perienced traveller, already carrying
a round-the-world diploma.
Have you ever planned ward
robe and housekeeping necessaries
in case you should some time be
gloriously cast away on a desert
isle? Or did you ever sit up nights
figuring on furnishings for a gypsy
van-a sophisticated and comfort
able gypsy vah-for a summer Of
vagabonding? Miss Emerson's col
lection suggested a careful blending
of preparation for these two events,
with few details added. for luck.
A Year i'm the Wilderness
For she will guide her little band
of explorers through wild countries,
where customs are strange, the lam
guages strange, the clothing impos-
sible, the medical supplies uncertain,
the food curious; where money will
not buy a jar Of French cold cream
or pair Of good American stock
ings, and for twelve months they
will not <each sources Of supply
more than once or twice. They will
strike out from central cities of
Japan and China straight into the
heart of the Orient, making their
pictures and taking their notes,
bringing the East to the West. And
they are we'll prepared.
Miss Emerson sat unwrapping a
profusion Of small, irregular pack
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By r. F. oster
Author of "Foster on Auction" "Auc-
ton Made Easy" "Foster's Com
picte H0nIe" etc


ton Made Easy" "Foster's Com
piete Hoyle," etc.
~ NE is not always fortunate
8 E enough to hold a five-card
suit headed by four trick
values, such as ace-king,
ace-queen-jack or jack,
but one may hold great va
riety Of hands in which there
are two or three values in one
suit and one or two in another.
These are still perfectly sound origi-
nal bids, provided at least two of
the tricks are in the suit named and
that the suit has length, if it is a
major suit.
There are three standard combina-
tons of high cards that are just a
trick below the bidding value needed
for a declaration on the unsupported
suit. They are each worth three,
and they should be carefully men,
orized, as they are very common.
They are:
% 10 ALTO KQ1O
" The ten is the distinguishing fea-
ture. In order to bring the hand up
to the strength required for an
original free bid there must be at
least as good as an ace or a king
in some other suit, and if the suit
is hearts or spades there must be
at least fiveecards of it, as explained
in the last article. Numerical
strength is always essential in trump
contracts. Here is a deal in which
all three Of these combinations an
pear:
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is set five or Six hundred, when he
thinks two hundred is the limit of
possibility, knows nothing whatever
about the value of hand.
The solution Of last weeks prob
lem, No. Ia, in which Y and z
want six tricks, is for z to lead the
spade, which Y wins and returns,
Z trumping the second round. rs
next play is the interior jack of
diamonds, which A wins with the
king.
If A returns the diamond Y will
hold the trick with the eight and
lead the trump, giving z a discard
OF the losing club. If A leads a
club instead of the diamond, z wins
the trick and leads the five of dia-
monds, putting Y in, and again Y
leads the trump, but in this case
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foot on British or French or Ameri-
can soil.
Those occasions must be prepared
for in detail. And one might be
presented at the court of head
hunting chief very suddenly. Fancy
the embarrassment if the beads and
feathers and rings did not hold out
Suppose one met the high digni-
taries of Siam or Java. There is a
pleasant costume in sort of salmon
pink that should make an impress
sion on the color-loving natives of
those countries!
Hats! Hats to match everything,
really. Sports hats, with embroid-
cry. Wide-brimmed hats for hot
weather, and lacy things for garden
parties, and close-ftting tailored
affairs for train and boat travel,
and glazed silk ones for rainy times,
a stitched stuff hat, and a white
linen hat, and straw hats and satin
hats. No end of them. 1t takes
hats, you see, for a years travel,
and you should see the hats they try
to sell you in, say, Toxic or Peking
or almost any place in India. Miss
Emerson learned a lot about the hat
problem that time in Toxic when a
Japanese man milliner sold her the
incest hat he had, copied from one
worn by British missionary who
had just landed in Japan after four
years seclusion in the far provinces
of China.
From the Notions
Of gloves and wells, four times the
average amount. Several kinds of
umbrellas and parasols. Eleven
packages of hairpins. Cold cream
Much powder, all kinds. Witch ha-
eel, arnica, listerine, eyewater,
toothpaste, hand lotions, all those
clearly American standbys, done
into a complete first aid kit. For the
American is above all things
Spoiled" as they say, to his own
brand Of such things.
But what about weapons? Surely
such "a trip has its dangers. Isn't
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IL does not matter who deals or
what becomes the trump in the final
declaration, but the values remain
as in the bid only if the bidder gets
the contract. One must never for
get that all bidding values are based
e. the assumption that the bidder
is going to play the hand, with that
suit for trumps.
Suppose z deals. He calls the
clubs, having three values in that
suit and two in spades. A bids the
diamonds, holding three values in
that suit and one in clubs. Y thinks
hearts better than clubs for the
chance of game and calls his own