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New-York tribune., 1920-08-29

He expected to possess ii absolutely.
That unsoiled heart would be his joy
and his delight.
He made his proposal, but she was
slow in answering it. She was seri-
GUS, almost severe. She seemed to
treasure the sense of some wrong he
had done her. And since he pressed
her she explained:>
"You say you love me. / would
ask nothing better than to love you,
also. That would seem to me alto
gether natural and charming. But
there is something between us. 1t
is that kiss you gave me four years
ago. rudely, premeditatedly, without
even knowing whether / would con-
sent later to return it to you. That
day / realized very clearly your
spirit Of domination, your mans in
stinct to be the master. / was an
noyed, even to the point of detesting
you for moment. You are surprised
at that? You don't believe such a
thing possible? But nothing is
truer. | was fifteen years old.
wasn't any longer little giyl,"
He was greatly txcrs.aj. BE
looked at her with increasing sen-
derness. }de realized little the
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29
AUCTION BRIDGE

Questionable dealer starts with one
ro-trump, second hand passing. Third
hand holds two aces and shoppers in
both the. other suits, on which he bids
two no-trumps. His object is to shut
out an ask for lead by the fourth
hand. Is this good policy Pc. P. S.
Answer-lt is common practice to
increase the contract in this manner
to head off a bid by the fourth hand.
but there are many occasions in which
it would be very profitable plan to
pass and let theS fourth hand bid.
In this case, if the dealer has a real
ro-t1umper, any fourth hand bid might
be heavily penalized. If he has moth
ing but an ace and two hopes, the in
crease in the contract may be just be-
yond his powers.
Question-We have quite a DISPUTE
as to this continuation. The dealer
bidding club, his partner no-trump,
second hand two hearts, the dealers
partner shifts to three diamonds. B
leo the eight of hearts. Dummy had
ter and small, A had the ace, queen,
jack and others, ace-queen of spades,
three little trumps and rubbish in
clubs. With the idea of getting out
the trumps, so as to make the hearts,
led the trump and lost the game.
Dummy had all the clubs, and king,
queen Of trumps. What was the cor
rect lead?
Answer-The task of getting out the
trumps is clearly beyond AS powers,
and Y seems to be short in clubs. The
only hope seems to be two spade leads,
ace first. The size of the missing
hearts on the first trick might be a
clue to the number remaining in BIS
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29
The Magic of a High Hat

like the donkey and the water meas
ures, was a symbol of the water car.
riers; on Sundays they put it on at
sunrise and then began their round
of gallant visits to the barmaids in
the public drinking places.
To-day coachmen have to have il
and for every single corpse they es-
cort to its last resting place they
charge 20 cents extra for wearing
the high hat.
A woman whose husband was out
of work complained bitterly because
the poor fellow didn't possess this
snowy article of apparel, and was
constantly saying to him:
The Hats Power
Listen, Philip; why don't YOU
borrow stovepipe hat?"
Don't be silly. What should do
with stovepipe T1at--while wearing,
these old rags?"
what would you do, you ask?
Why, put it on and go and call on
the new Governor and ask for q
job"
"You said mouthfui; well, I'll
try anything once"
And one day, having borrowed the
high hat, numskull Philip, whose
brains were about the size of mos
quito's, walked into the anteroom
Of the new Governor Office and said
arrogantly to the secretary: "An-
nounce me!'
Which the secretary did, thus
"Mr. Governor, there's a man here
to see you and he's wearing tall
silk hat!"
"a tall silk hat! Have him come
right in; have him come right in!"
Some hours later his honor the
Governor had named our Philip
director of one of the important Of
fees under his control.
"A Perfect Gentleman"
The stovepipe hat gives several
kinds of luster. A man in a stove
pipe hat grows; he is circumspect,
capable, brave, illustrious, perfect
gentleman, rich.
Never would living soul on see
ing some mortal wearing the lus-
trous tall silk hat imagine for an
instant that he was merely a poor
"bum."
Far from it. AND if necessary to
describe such a person no one would
think of saying that he is fat, short,
of such and such an age, oh, no! but
'he wears tall silk hatw
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29

lumbia University, receiving there
the degree of master Of arts.

lumbia University, receiving there
the degree Of master Of arts.
Going over to New York Univer-
sity to continue her research work
in the splendidly equipped labora-
tories there, she found herself to
be one Of the only two women who
ever had participated in such ef-
forts there, and it was at about this
time that a representative of one
of the largest rubber manufacture
ing concerns in the United States
visited her and offered her a posi-
tion with his firm that would have
purchased her, from it's lucrative
salary, many sable coats and other
things Of which she had been de-
priving herself that she might con-
tinue in her work. This she re-
fused fatty. Routine work was not
work that would give her the op-
portunity to do good for humanity
No, she would continue to work by
herself until she had arrived at the
solution which, it may now be said,
she only recently has accomplished
Studied Bits of Rubber
Her research work took her into
many parts of the city, where, un-
noticed and unknown. she gathered
from day to day different types Of
rubber materials. Taking these
pieces back to her laboratory at the
.university-and often to the lab
oratory of her father in her home
at 316 West Eighty-fourth Street
she placed them before her high
powered camera, photographed
them, then studied the little zigzag
and spotted outlines as a painter
studies his canvas profile. Gray
three-cornered spots in a plate in
dicated to her that there was a
certain substance in this bit of rub
Der that was not contained in an
other. So she straightway took it
to the laboratory to dissect and
analyze it. The object she had in
mind was to determine just what
actually was used in the manufac
ture of the product, even down to
such fine point that even the deli
cate microscopic paraphernalia often
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29
CANDLEMAS DAY-BY JEAN BERTHEROY

mystery Of the eternal feminine. He
was on the road toward other reve-
lations. He murmured:
won't you pardon me, Ger
maine? Just for this you wouldn't
renounce the happiness which would
be ours? l was foolish. | admit IT,
I didn't think I had wounded you
You will consent, won't you? Won't
you put your hand in mine-now!
She smiled. The enigma Of Leo
nardo's LA Joconde" was On nsr
lips.
Next year, perhaps" she SAID
Then she took his arm and re-
turned to the salon. Nine. Prepilios
was seated at the piano. She was
playing an andante of Beethoven"
which filled the room with a grave
and potent harmony. Beside Ger
maine, in the peace Of the faans
mansion, he felt almost happy. Dss
in the depths of his heart there VIZ
a gnawing unrest.
"Next year." she had said, anu
she had added, perhaps" He nss
a year in which to make conquss'
of that heart which he had though
he would possess so easily-witi 'a'
first smile. The obstacle which -
had just encountered sharpeneo NJ
impatience. He thought with . s"'
of melancholy that if there, are : :.
Thousand superstitious means y
overcoming iSortss.ne there is nehs
which dsres to guarantee Love- 8
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29
Auction Bridge

Of clubs, Y leading king and then
queen. A led the diamond and
finessed the ten, and then lost the
queen Of trumps to the ace. Y re-
turned heart and the queen held, B
passing. z then led the trump
through A, who put on the king and
led three rounds of diamonds, dis
carding the losing heart. Y made
both his trumps, but that was>ell,
so that A scored 27 points on the
spade contract.
The play at diamonds at one table
went this way: z led the king of
hearts, won by the ace. B led a
small club, to get dummy ready to
ruff that suit. Y won with the
queen, and led the ten of hearts and
another, winning and starting the
spades. Y's ace killed the queen and
the king of clubs won trick. Now
nothing can prevent B from getting
the double finesse in trumps, as
dummy can get in twice, once with
the ruff on clubs, and once with the
best spade.
If z, who has the first bid, calls
the clubs on his two values in that
suit and two outside, it does not mat
ter whether A calls the spades or B
the diamonds, Y will go no-trump.
He knows z cannot have anything
in clubs but the ace, and must have
tricks in the red suits, one or both.
He cannot have the ace of diamonds,
or he would call that suit first, as of
higher rank.
If A does not call the spades, B
leads the diamonds, and game for Y
is easy. Ii B leads a spade, Y wins
and leads small heart, dummy max
ing the queen. Five club tricks fol-
low, upon which A will probably dis
card two diamonds and a spade; Y
heart and spade; B a heart and
diamond.
When dummy leads the spade, A
is in, and gives his partner dia-
mond finesse, but cannot give him
another finesse, so that all B can
make is his two red aces, giving Y
the game, with a score Of 1856, in
stead of losing 10.
The solution of problem No. 16,
given last week, in which Y and z
wanted all eight tricks, hearts
trumps, is as follows: z leads the
spade, A covers with the queen and
Y wins with the ace. The deuce of
spades is returned, which z trumps
with the jack of hearts, regardless
of BIS trumping or passing. When
L leads the small trump, Y wins
whatever A plays, and takes out the
other trumps. =
When Y leads the spade jack B
will have made two discards, and
has either established all the clubs
in rs hand, or two clubs and the
jack of diamonds.
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ness. And he forgot to ask himself
whether she was in love with him.
They got up from the table. The
doctors wife made an announce
ment:
s"Now that we have had our Can
dlemas feast, it is the turn of the
poor. / have had some cakes made
for them. Germaine will distribute
them."
MAYBE 1 can help you," Emile
suggested.
He followed his cousin into the
doctors office.
When the distribution was made
they remained there, instead of GO
ieg into the salon. They felt that
they had something to say to each
other. Emile was in state of ex-
altation. He wanted to have his
fate decided that evening. He felt
no timidity. There was no shadow
on that self confidence which had al
ways brought him success-which
had enabled him to return the pam
cake to the stove aftes tossing .
higher than any of the others could
toss II. He was going to do. thc
same thing with Germaine's heart.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29

This hand was played at seven
tables, in duplicate game, z deal
ing, and every one seems to have
passed up the original bid, A calling
spade. Some players, holding BIS
cards, left A in on the spade, while
others took him out with two dia-
monds, to deny the average support
in spades. 1t is not good spade
bid, but A can make the odd by good
play.
When it got around to z he would
have to call three clubs over two
diamonds, which he cannot afford to
do. B can make two diamonds and
score Sc in honors; yet this is q
game hand for Y at no-trump if q
will only bid his hand at the start.
Without the encouragement and in
formation Of the original bid, Y sits
tight to save q game which looks i'm
possible to win.
AZ spades, A ruffs the third round
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29
year, on February 2
II tCandlemas Day., DR.. Pre-
. pillon's family ate pancakes.

The house they lived ir. svsss
an old one, facing the central sa.s.re
of an old provincial town. Two
superannuated servants waited on
the table in the vast dining room,
which was filled with antique furni-
ture, polished as scrupulously as if
it had just come fresh and lustrotis
from the hands of the cabinetmaker.
From father to son the Prepillons
had practiced medicine in this an
cestral home. From father to son
they had eaten pancakes at Candle
mas, from the same plates, decorated
with many colored flowers. That
evening the joyous faces around the
table maintained the tradition of the
past. The doctor had three children
two sons, already grown, and a
daughter of nineteen, Germaine,
with chestnut hair and topaz ewes.
In the group also was cousin.
Emile, who had come on, expressly
for the anniversary, from Paris,
where he was finishing his law
studies. All the young people lis
tened deferentially to the conversa-
tion of their elders.
The servants had just brought in
the pancakes, round and shining,
like big balls of gold. The doctor
smiled and said:
These cakes are the emblem of
wealth. The common people have a
deeply rooted belief that if any one
eats these beautiful golden nuggets
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29
School for Card PLAYERS

hand; but that he could ruff is very
improbable.
Question-The final bid is in dia-
r1onds, but the declarcr was under the
Impression that it was spade, which
had been bid up to four. The de-
clarer had taken in two tricks by u.s.
ing spades as trumps before his op-
porents noticed the error. When he
rrffed the third with the king of
spades, they called halt. Who keeps
the previous tricks?-I. C. A.
Answer-There is nothing about this
in the laws, players being supposed
to know what are trumps. Dummy
is allowed to call attention to trick
taken by the wrong side, but is not
obliged to do so. AS a rule, players
who make this mistake are quite will
lng to return the tricks taken in error.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29
German Officers
Search for Jobs
TNDER the dire compulsion
of the necessity of earning
- their daily bread officers of
the former German army

the former German army
are reported to have resigned their
commissions and taken up any civil
ian job available. The more the
Prussians are forced out of the
army and into peaceful and honest
pursuits, writes the editor of The
Washington Post, the better it will
be for the German people and the
world outside. These are the men
who upheld the Kaiser and his polit-
ical and military policies. Their
source Of income ceased when the old
regime was overthrown. The Ger
man masses apparently have had
their fill of the insolence of Prussian
military officers and the special priv
ileges which were accorded them un-
der the Hohenzollern dynasty.
Now it is reported that something
like $4,000 former officers, some of
them ranking as high as brigadier
generals, are working as junior
clerks or as menials throughout Ger
many for less money than ordinary
laborers. The compensation of these
former military leaders is 800 marks
a month, or about $40 at the present
rate of exchange, according to re-
ports reaching the Department of
Commerce. If it is true that these
former representatives of the auto
cratic military power of Germany
find it necessary to earn their own
living through honest toll, it prob
ably is also true, then, that the
masses of the German people, hav-
ing learned to their great cost WHAT
Prussianism has brought to them,
have determined to prevent it ever
again raising it's head.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29

have written few stories and en-.
or two dramatic works. They ,.l,
me / do splendid verse"
Miss Diners exercise does not ~.
clude golf or tennis, and she toesn.
waste her time in beauty parlors .
1t isn't necessary to do the latter
she adds, pointing to her n;nk
cheeks.
Golf is too expensive" she sa,.
"and tennis-I sTz.a1ned one Of NV
ankles frightfully last summer. and
I'm through with that. walk lots
That gives me my color. l love III.
outdoors. / swim, too. Say, I'd III.
to take a dip this very afternoon >
Of course, such a popular younc
woman belongs to a sorority, it w.s
suggested.
q mo, sir! l don't believe n
sororities. / do believe in wom,,
suffrage, though"
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29

1DNlGnI is quiet nOul
A over the campus of New
AvA York University. The
spreading buildings are
inky dark, save that one at the ex-
treme southeastern corner, a sort of
semi-subterranean structure known
as the Havemeyer Chemical Labora-
tory Building, in which, had you
peered into it many a night within
the last two years, you would have
observed broWn-eyed, brown
hairy, rosy-faced girl. She would
have been sitting in tiny Office,
gazing into a microscope, examin-
Ing plate that was dripping with
chemicals, marking down now and
then numbers and words on a pad
on the desk before her. In another
moment you would have seen her
rise, run swiftly below and enter a
pitchy dark room, there to place an
other slide in position, presently
rushing back up the steps and into
the Office to make more observations
and more notations.
Miss Irene Caroline Diner, twen-
ty-three years old, is the girl you
would have seen. Her name is
written prominently to-day on the
pages of achievement in chemical
research, the direct result of her de-
termination to persevere and of her
willingness to spend most of her
matinee and evening show hours
alone with her brass and lens
"toys."
What Her Discovery Means
1t was announced recently she
had discovered a method by which
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29
E<AR more than ? mere neces-
sary article Of personal use,
the stovepipe hat is actually


tional progress, says Ismael Portal
Peruvian historian and novelist
writing of the use of the high hat in
Peru.
Unhappy the family which does
not have among its members one
person at least capable of bearing
on his head the considerable weight
of the stovepipe hat.
We Peruvians have christened it
with the suspicious name of Grease
pot; suspicious, and even more than
that, anti-hygienic, if we go back to
it's origin.
"Why the duel?"
"On account Of the Grease-pot!"
From mouth to mouth this saying
went around Lima half a century
ago in connection with a satirical
couplet circulated about certain
parsonage, and since then the
"Grease-pot" has occupied the CEN
ter of the stage in every hat store,
for every Beau Brummel has to
wear high silk hat.
Its Many Names
Every country has a different
name for it: in, Ecuador it is the
Cow s-udder; the Italians call it
Cilinder; it is the Ship's-galley in
Argentina and the Mushroom in
Mexico. But nowhere does it play
so big role as in Peru.
Who is there in Peru without a
stovepipe hat?
1t is our golden dream, our one
desire, almost before the down ap-
pears on our upper lip:
"a high hat, papa, a high hat,
please"
Nevertheless, heaven pity the citi-
zen who uses it daily, unless he car
rles his income tax receipt with him
or rich mans license. For people
will say: "That fellows marching
around with high hat on his head
to prove he's in the government ser
vice and needed; as probably the
country is in danger and war about
tc be declared"
You understand, of course, that
I'm referring only to the black stove
pipe, not the gray, which only the
very rich, very elegant, very young
men wear, and here and there a tot
tering old man who believes in the
Immortality of matter.
Long, long ago the stovepipe hat,
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29
New York University Student S Idea
ofFun Is Working Long Hours
IN a Laboratory

outside the good old United States
to do big things, either. l" (and
she giggled bit) twas born in the
goat town of Harlem,' old Manhat-
tanville, and Pm proud of it.
"The day when a girl may take
up scientific work as pastime until
she gets married is past forever.
The world is too busy and too Sc
rious. She must take it up as a
lifework."
Not All Work
And when she speaks you feel she
knows what she is talking about, and
when you ask her if her life is just
one long routine, with no pleasure
at all, she will smile quickly and
reply:
"No stree! / never have missed
seeing my favorite operas. And
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29
MISS IRENE CAROLINE DINER Neav York U7aiversta,
49, garl Who has made name for herself IN science

would not record a mark. She
would stretch it, cut it, twist it and
hammer it, hoping to find a method
by which she could find through her
lens the actual contents OF the
raw material. Otter she found
after weeks diligent observation
Of new atom discovered in the
outline Of a photograph of a bit of
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29
Miss irene Caroline Diner Is Only %,
but She / las Made a Name
for Herself

the pathway is lighted down which
chemists may travel to determine
through microscopic investigation
the effect of wear and of substances
used in the manufacture Of rubber
upon the very structure Of rubber
itself. This means that ultimately
the line of investigation which she
has discovered will lead to actual
determination not only of the life
which may be expected of rubber
articles, but of new methods for
constructing rubber that will last
much longer than that being manu-
factured at present. Fortunes rest
upon the final accomplishment of the
effort.
Miss Diners father, Professor
Jacob Diner, is the professor of
clinical diagnosis and therapeutics
in Fordham University, and when
Miss Diner was graduated, in 1918,
from Hunter High School her faith
er said to her:
'Now, Irene, you just stop right
where you are. No more science
FOR this family"
Refused Big Job
But the daughter was dabbling in
physics in the high school labora-
tory, and Gust felt she knew some
thing about laboratory affairs and
should know a great deal more,"
as she puts it. And she entered
the science course at Hunter Col
lege, being graduated from that in
stitution in 1917 with the degree of
bachelor Of arts. One year later
she had concluded her work at Co.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29
Whistler "Broke''
But Had Money
~ HAT genius is frequently
wayward, improvident and
uncertain in money matters

thousand anecdotes at
test. 1t remained for James McNeill
Whistler to give new turn to the
privileged eccentricity of genius in
commercial dealings.
The great artist was once dunned
by creditor whose patience was
exhausted and who gave the painter
notice that he would resort to legal
measures unless payment were made
by return mail. The account had
been running a long time, the cred
itor said, and he was out of pa
tience.
The amount was s1S. The artist
sought aid and advice of an acquaint-
ance who lived in esneighborhood
He explained that he had a small
balance in the bank, the amount Of
which he could not remember, but
he was certain it was not enough to
cover the amount of the bill.
He gave his friend a note and
asked him to stop at the bank on
his way to business and find out how
much the deposit lacked of 218 and
then to mako nm the amount hv uav
of temporary loan, so that Whis-
tier could draw check for the
amount due.
The friend agreed, visited the
bank and caused the clerk to look
up Whistler's account. After min
ute's search they submitted men,
orandum which showed that James
A. McNeill Whistler had to his
credit a balance of more than
$4,000.