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CRIBBAGE

Question-Playing three hand. the
count reaches twenty-six when the last
round falls, three, five, five. A saws
"go," and plays four on the ton
Of his five, so that run shows face up.
q bets there is no rune. B. H.
Answer--C is right. 1t is not what
shows face up, but the order in which
the cards fall that makes the runs.
In this case they have been played
three, five, five, four.
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queen, in preference to opening a
new suit. This is sound play, as the
declarer can ruff dummy any time
and 4 might as we'll do it for him.
b carefully avoids the mistake of
leading the jack of trumps to the
ace-queen, which is the key to the
game. When dummy ruffs the sec
ond heart, he leads a spade, which
8 WINS, Now small trump, and the
hnesse of the queen holds. This
shows one Of the side tricks on which
4 rebid the hearts.
Another spade and another small
trump kills the king and marks Y
with the ten. Now the two estab-
lished spades give B two heart dis
cards, as Y is unable to trump, al
though B was ready to over-trump,
and has carefully kept a trump in
dummy to ruff any further heart
leads, if either Y or Z gets in with
the ace of clubs.
With four honors in clubs in sight.
b can now afford to sacrifice dunn
mys trump to catch Y's, and then
the ace of clubs is the only trick
LETT for Y and z, as B still holds the
seven of trumps over the hearts.
Had B led the jack of trumps to the
ace-queen, z would have covered,
and Y's ten saves the game.
This double can also be used by
the fourth hand, of course, but it is
not as safe, as second hand cannot
be very strong.
Here is the solution of Problem
No. 80, given last week, in which
hearts were trumps, z to lead and
Y-Z to win all the tricks.
z starts with the smaller trump,
which Y wins. Y leads the diamond
ten, and whether B covers or not, 2
wins, SO as to get the lead and draw
the trumps, Y discarding a small
spade. When Y leads the winning
diamond, A must unguard one or
other of the black suits. This will
allow Y to make the spade king and
two clubs, or the club queen and
two spades.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-06
By r. F. Foster
Author Of Foster on Auction, Auction
Ma1ls Easy, Fosters Complete
HoyLe, eto.

Mode Easy, Fosters Complete
Hoyle, eto.
~ NE Of the modern conventions
which has come more largely
into use than any other is the
double. While this declaration is
undoubtedly greatly overdone, and
is actually abused by many other
wise good players, it seems to have
come to stay, and it Is the duty Of
every person who aspires to q tech
nical knowledge Of auction to be ia
miliar with 1t in all its ramifcations
The original idea of the double
was to prevent guessing. 1t was first
suggested by Major Patton, presi-
dent Of the Knickerbocker Whist
Club, as q simple way out Of the diff
ficulty so often presented to the Sec
ond hand when he has perfectly
sound no-trumper, but the dealer
bids no-trump ahead Of him.
Before the introduction Of the
double there were only two things
for the second hand to do: bid two
no-trumps or pass. Now he has
third: he can double. This Is practi-
cally a command to his partner, the
fourth hand, to name his longest
suit, no matter how weak it is, the
hope being, Of course, that it will
be one Of the major suits, as original
no-trumps are seldom long in them.
The double Is now used equally by
the fourth hand.
The next step was TO save the
second hand from guessing when he
had a no-trumper, but the dealer
had called suit ahead Of him, that
suit being the one weak spot In the
no-trumper held by the second hand.
Doubling the suit bid became a con-
ventional command to the fourth
hand to go two trumps If he could
stop the dealers suit twice: other
wise to name his own longest suit.
While this all sounds deliciously
simple In theory, it is open to great
abuse in practice. Players like to
see the wheels go round, and they
double suit bids when they have
nothing approaching no-trumper
in other suits. If the double could
be held down to hands that justify
it, and that were able to stand any
sort of take-out by fourth hand,
even as weak as four cards to nine,
it would be an excellent thing.
There are several ways of count
ing hand for the strength neces-
sary to double a suit bid. The SIM
plest Is probably to require two
honors, one as good as the king, in
each Of the three suits and not more
than two small in the Dealers suit.
One small is better, as it presents
the opportunity to ruff. 1t being re-
membered that this hand will be the
dummy, leaving the declarer's trumps
intact.
Here is a goode example Of what
might be called the straight double,
q legitimate call on what would have
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may rouse a feeling abroad which
king would gladly yield his crown
to quell and peer would resign his
coronet to allay.
"It is a custom to affect a defer
ence for the motives Of those who
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POKER

Question: stands pat and bets the
limit When calls him and shows
two pairs, A throws his cards into
the discard and says two pairs win.
Can B demand to see AS hand I'll n.
Answer-A's hand must be shown to
the table, as well as to B.
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cesslon of a political question for a
time and nation will bear it pa
tlently Strike home to the COM
forts of every mans freside-tam-
per with every mans liberty and
freedom-and one month, one week
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of fanaticism reflect we'll upon the
probable issue of their endeavors.
Ihey may, by perseverance, succeed
with Parliament. Let them ponder
on the problem of succeeding with
the people. You may deny the con-
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People Grow Suilen

People have grown sullen and OBJ
stinate and are becoming disgusted
with the faith which condemns them
to such q day as this once in every
seven. And as you cannot make
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DI C. T U r f. S
a. drG2Um by Pkiz

a drGaO9a by Pbiz
to illustrate t h e
article 2Orjttem by
Charles Dickens In
den1nciation of q
proposed English
Blue LaaO bill. The
one at the top is
"SGnct5fed en-
forcement Of the
G hrls tid7a Sab
BOTH; at the left
IS the Dickens idea
Of a0hot q Sunday
s h ONI Il be like,
aUhile that at the
right IS called "The
Sunday Dinner. I"
The English Ia2U
2c0uld haze closed
all stores and bake-
shops
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7l7 n u t ION Bri d &c rl7

been a no-trumper but for the deal
er's having named a suit, which his
partner will surely lead to him, saw
ing the game if A goes two no.
trumps.
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psychology and child psychology and
mob psychology; here are the ele.
ments of an idle psychology. The
point is not endangered by the fact
that one Dadaiste poem is a page
from the Paris telephone directory.
The other phase of Dada is his
complete affirmation of the crea-
tive. In this way he has distilled
individualism to its quintessence,
and the brew is decidedly intox-
eating. The JOY of creation is here
unlimited; it is carried to the ex
tent of anarchy. Here at last art is
beyond the critics, even to the ex.
tent, perhaps, that the intoxicated
creator of an evening, when he
awakes the next morning with the
dark brown taste of criticism on his
tongue, finds that he cannot ap-
proach his own recent production
The approach is impossible, be-
cause a finished work must be ap-
preached critically rather than crea-
lively, and critically it is uninteli-
gible.
This is simply the logical fulfill
ment Of the art tendencies in France
since the end of the last century
For individualism, in it's final aRaly-
SIS, means expressing ones self to the
exclusion of all other selves; and
beyond that there is only Dada
which is the expression Of ones self
even to the exclusion of ones self. IN
1919, then, the world discovered the
end of all possible thought. After
Dada and Einstein, we have nothing
left but food and the theaters.
AS an instance of a Dadaiste
touched with emotion, here is 3
translation of Philippe Soupaults
tribute to Arthur Cravan, a fellow
thinker, Anglo French poet ana
prizefghter. Cravan, it might be
added, once went to visit Andre
Glide, the most bookish genius u
contemporary France, and distressed
that serious minded gentleman BY
suggesting that they discuss the
manly art. Arthur Cravan is nos
dead.
ARTHUR CRAvAN
The merchants of the four seasons
have emigrated to Mexico
Old boxer you are dead over yondei'
You do not even know why
You cried more strongly than we u
the palaces of America
And in the cafes of Paris
You never looked at yourself in tH
mirror
You spent your holidays in the h0s'
pital
What are you going to do in heaven
old boy
/ have nothing further to hide froA
you
The Seine still flows beneath nY
window
Your friends are very rich
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Bridge Problem No. 40

Hearts are trumps and z leads.
and q want six tricks. How do
they get them? Solution next week.
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The Famous Author Waxed Sarcas
tic Over the Proposition to Pro
hibit All Sunday Sports

the; noisy murmur of many voi,..
and the loud shouts Of mirth and J.
light which would awaken the eohs
far and wide till the fields r.s
with it.
"The day would pass away IN .
series of enjoyments which wons
awaken no painful reflections wbo,
night arrived, for they would be- 10,
culated to bring with them on1
health and contentment. The vonns
would lose that dread of religioS
which the sour austerity of its mr.
fessors too often inculcates in youth.
full bosoms; and the old would find
less. difficulty in persuading them !.
repeat its observances.
'That is what Sunday might \.
made, and what it might be mada
without impiety or proclamation.
"The wise and benefcent Creato,
who places men upon earth, reouire,
that they shall perform the dutie,
of that station of life to which tbey
are called, and He can never intend
that the more man strives to die
charge those duties the more he
shall be debarred from happines,
and enjoyment.
"Let those who have six days in
the week for all the worlds pleas.
ures appropriate the seventh to
fasting and gloom, either for their
own sins or those of other people
il they like to bewail them; but let
those who employ their six days
in a worthier manner devote their
seventh to a different purpose.
Hint to Ministers
Let divines set the example Of
true morality, preach it to their
focks in the morning and dismiss
them to enjoy true rest in the after
noon; and let them select for
their text and let Sunday legisIa.
tors take for their motto the words
which fell from the lips Of that
Leader whose precepts they mis-
construe and whose lessons they
pervert:
"'The Sabbath was made for
man, and not man to serve the
Sabbath"
Which, all things being consid-
cred, meets the issue about as
squarely as any protest that has
graced the recent agitation.
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~ ERHAPS it is little late to
4 qualify an entry for the blue

qualify an entry for the blue
law debate. The reverend
gentlemen who expound the cause.
DR.. Harry L. Bowlby and DR.. Will
bur F. Crafts, may insist that the
books are closed. But if any man
deserves special consideration in the
matter of hardness. Charles Dickens
should be that man.
1t can hardly be said that Dickens
was late. He was merely overlooked
in the general haze of the over
wrought situation. Yet Dickens did
his part as conscientiously and as
eloquently as could be expected of
any man who had other things to
fill his life than guarding the public
veal.
Dickens Summed II Up
When Dickens was mere twenty
four he first came in contact with
one of those perennial movements to
salvage Sunday. He wasted less
than a day in thinking the matter
over and then inscribed fairly
comprehensive resume Of his views
in Sunday Under Three Heads: AS
1t Is; AS the Sabbath Bills Would
Make It; AS 1t Might Be Made"
On May 1s, 1886, the British
House of Commons considered bill,
introduced by a spectacular fanatic
known as the Hon. Baronet Sir An
drew Agnew, enforcing the strictest
Sunday observance. After the sec
ond reading the bill was thrown out
by a majority of thirty-two.
The proposed enactments Of the
bill prohibited all work on the Lords
day, under heavy penalties, increas-
ing with every repetition Of the of
fense. There were penalties for
keeping shops open, for drunken
ness, for keeping open houses of en-
tertainment, for being present at
any public meeting or assembly, for
renting carriages or for hiring them,
for travelling on steamboat or tax
ing passengers, for vessels COM
mencing their voyages on Sunday,
for owners of cattle who permitted
them to be driven on Sunday, pen
alties on constables who refused to
act and penalties for resisting them
when they did.
In addition to these trifies, the
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Article Written in 1886 Reads as
Though 1t Might Have Been
Inspired by Present Agitation

constables were invested with pow
ers which dickens described as "ar-
bitrary, vexatious and most extern
sive."
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hurtful and injurious to the char
acter and morals of the people"
He described a visit to a country
town, where the clergyman preached
to his flock in the morning and pro-
vided them with q field for sport in
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the afternoon, with bats, balls and
all necessary equipment.
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By Kenneth Burke

b ECENTLY when a certain
\ memorial statue was un-
yelled in Paris a trembling
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4 dealt and bid a heart. With two
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in q rich dull gold velvet was
strikingly handsome figure. Her
brother, Comdr. John Holmes Ma
gruder, contributed an amusing por-
trait as one Of the dashing pirates
who infested the seas In Colonial
days.
other groups in the grand march
were led by Mrs. Matthews and Miss
Maud Gouveneur. Mrs. James Car
roll Frazer had the French Colo
NAL group in charge.
Mrs. Charles Hewitt, of Pittsfield,
Mass, a native of Washington. who
has been visiting Mrs. Charles w.
Kutz and other friends, wore a
Paris gown OF 177s, made with large
hoop. The pctticoat was OF lace
under which were sewn little
punches OF flowers The bodice and
sweeping skirt were OF pale yellow
brocaded satin. Mrs. Wright wore
q white wig and her ornaments
were pearls. She carried fan and
gloves that one of her ancestors
had bought for President Bu-
chanan's first reception.
Senator and Mrs Joseph I. France.
who were interested spectators,
were accompanied by her sister,
Mrs Lathbury, wearing gown
which had belonged to her grand
mother. Miss Mabel Boardman
wore a gown of the period of 1872,
with her hair arranged In curls and
powdered. Others among the guests
were Col. and Mrs. r. Q. Donaldson.
Col and Mrs. John Temple Graves.
Col and Mrs. c. L. d. Bridge. OF the
British embassy: Miss Carolyn
Nash, Miss Anna Hamlin, her black
hair powdered; Major and Mrs.
Richard II. Kimball Capt. Harold
Gailop. Tommy Darden, and DR..
Adam Kemble.
Mrs. Harding has made appoint
ments to receive a number OF guest
this afternoon.
The Vice President and Mrs. Cool
idge will be the honor guests at
Continued on Page Fifteen.)
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teenth century trout" was perfect.
A Colonial ball given in WASH
ington has a Significance that stirs
the Imagination. Here lived and
planned. worked and builded for
the future the persons who belong
to history, and here today are
many of their descendants, who
preserve not only the traditions OF
bygone men and women. but their
priced possessions. So II was pos
sible last evening to behold many
an old-time hero and heroine ac-
curately reproduced in tho person
of some one who was the heir to
the lineaments as well as the
property of a Colonial dame or .
Continental army officer. Bellies
and beaux of 1776 mingled with
the stately men and women OF
later days. There were French
demoiselles and Dutch burghera
mingled with celebrated Virgin
ians Knickerbocker families ell
bowed those of Quaker descent.
for New York and Philadelphia
were well represented. But there
was not a single Quaker costume.
for only the splendor of rich bro
cades and embroidered velvets had
q place in last nights memorable
ball And never was there q inner
display OF rare laces and family
Jewels.
MRS. JAMES RECEIVES.
Mrs. Julian James, chairman OF
tho bali committee, greeted the
guests and afterward led the grand
march, walking with Arthur ID. Ad-
olson. Mr.. Addison was brave in q
costume OF re-Revolutionary days,
and Mrs. James, representing her
fifth great grandmother, Mrs. Hugh
Mason, wore a beautiful costume OF
white satin and brocade, with the
full draped panniers of the period,
a bertha of rare lace and diamond
buttons fastening the tight-fitting
bodice. She wore her own snowy
hair piled high and dressed with
flowers and presented a gracious
and distinguished picture.
The Vice President and Mrs Cool
idge were present at the ball. COM
ing on with Mrs James Carroll
Frazer from the dinner at the
French embassy.
Mrs. Frazer, who occupied Col.
Robert NJ. Thompson's box, enter
tained General and Nine. Collardet.
Mrs. Teodore v. Boynton, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Joyce Broderick, Gen.
George o. Squier and the Rev.
Stephen Van Rensselaer,.
Mrs. James occupied Box No. I.
and had with her Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
Gouvernsur Morris and Herbert
Carpenter, Of New York. who are
her guestN and also members of the
Colonial Danes of America Chapter
No. 3, who were in their hostess
group in the pageant.
Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins had with
her the minister Of the Serbs, Croats
and SIovenes and Nine. Grouitch.
Mrs. Frederick Campbell; Mrs. Eli
phalet Andrews and Mrs. George
Percy.
Mrs. Marshall Field had her dinner
party with her. and Miss Martha
Goldman had with her a party which
included Major and Mrs. Louis Liv-
ingston Seaman. Of New York. who
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with Capt. Roy Smith. and she
wore the dress Of her fourth great
grandmother. Katharine Van Cort-
landt, wife of Olaf Van Cortlandt.
on the occasion OF the patrons
ball In Albany. N. Y. given In
1851. Miss Maud Gouverneur wore
a dress of an ancestress belonging
to the Louis Seize period. sky blue
silk. embroidered in straw. She
danced with Maurice Darling.
Mrs. Charles Campbelrs partner
was william Bowie Clark. Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Sim Lee danced
together. The former represented
his great-great-grandf Thorn
as Sim Lee, who was delegate
from Maryland to the Continental
Congress. first United States SEN
ator. and later second governor of
this same State. Mrs. Lee imper-
sonated her own ancestress, Abb
gall Harvey. wife of Capt. Thomas
Harvey, who was second in COM
mand to Gen. Ethan Allen at the
siege of Ticonderogs.
Miss Virginia Hunt. who Is a di-
rect descendant OF Margaret Beck
man. wife OF Robert r. Livingston.
who was Judge OF the supreme court
OF new IOTk III 100, anu also u
delegate to the stamp act, Congress.
danced with David Edward Finlsy,
Miss Mary Sanger, who danced with
Lynch Luquer. is a lineal descendant
of John Haynes, who was a colonial
governor Of Massachusetts. and a
few years later became the first
governor OF Connecticut. which Of
flee he held twenty-five years. Gov
ernor Haynes wife. Mabel Harlack-
ender. was an Englishwoman, and
In impersonating her Miss Sanger
wore one OF the loveliest of picture
GOWNS pale rose satin, with a
wide hoop about the hips and the
skirt garlanded with flowers. Miss
Alys Downing, dancing with Pay
master L. J. Alexander, led one OF
the minuet groups and she. too, wore
a fascinating pink costume, with
the traditional powder and patches.
Col. William r. Horton represent
ed his grest-great-grandf Will
liam Horton, who served in the
Third Massachusetts Regiment In
the Revolution.
Mrs. Thomas Hardy Taliaferro.
whose partner was Larence Lee,
represented her ancesress. MISTRESS
Dorothy Neale Brooke. wife of
Roger Brooke. lord high sheriff OF
the County OF st. Marys. Province
OF Maryland, and daughter of Capt.
James Neale, a member of the coun-
Gil and commissioner Of the treas
ry for the same province.
Mrs. Walter Tuckerman. who ar
ranged the pageant, was In pink
brocadc with powdered wig and
walked with her husband. who sp-
peared as his distinguished ances-
tor. Gen. oliver wolcott, signer OF
the Declaration OF Independence.
DUTCH GROUP.
The. Dutch Colonial group. ar
ranged by Nine. Hubrecht. wife OF
the secretary OF the Netherlands
legation, was a picturesque feature
of the pageant, the costumes and
the unpowdered hair OF those TAX
ing part presenting picauant
contrast to the silks and brocades,
the powder and patches OF the other
groups. Nine. Huprecht was charm
, ing in her quaint blue velvet gown,
her black hair arranged in tiny
curls; and Miss Natalie Magruder
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"n DIE turned backward to Co
I lonial days last evening and
revealed in the Big ballroom
he willard a brilliant company
eautiful women and gallant men
II the magniicance of velvets
brocades. spreading hoops and
ing Jewels. Again appeared
lovely grande DANES and mod
,n naidens, the naughty cavaliers
y4W be-queued statesmen. familiar
ia hter generations through the
me3um Of Gilbert Stuart and other
fanrbus painters OF the past. Many
OF The women who marched in the
paEeant and danced the minuet might
have stepped out of the tarnished
gold frames that enshrine the men,
Orr4of the vanished beauties who
belong. to the early history of
America, only they were much more
charming than any pictured proto-
sypes.
The ballroom was effectively
decorated in flags and greens and
ths shaded lights shed the softened
GLOW of candles. When the or
chestra struck up the march which
wAs the signal for the pageant
rvery box was filled with the most
Sorgeously costumed men and wo-
men Everywhere were white wigs,
tbAflwomen's with elaborate puffs
and Wonderful curls that fell upon
their necks, the mems patterned
after the style that belongs to
Washington's time. Never has there
been more impressive spectacle
than the pageant. As the long line
moved down the room. each group
containing many a famous person
suddenly come to life, the illusion
that the ball was really an eigh-