Evening star., 1922-03-19

sions they promise to learn you is too
tough and the time it takes you to |
learn them is too long. like for inst.
it certainly seems like a 10 wks.
course was a mighty long seige for a
$4,000 per wk. shoe seller to go
through with before the directors of
the Co. calls him in and forces the
presidency on him at $4,000 per an
mum.
cURELY the people that runs the
~ schools could think Of easier
ways than that for ye average wage
Garner to hop up amongst the pluto
Gratis and they would be doing man
kind a whole lot bigger favor if they
would pick out a couple well paid
professions which a man could mas
ter in one lesson or one wk. at the
latest.
suppose the school people will
claim they amt no such profession.
Well friends off hand and without
gtveing the matter serious thought.
what about the profession of auction
that it looks to me like it was just
a mack and everybody that can shuttle
cards can make this their life pro-
fession by just mastering few es-
sentials which l would guarantee to
teach them in one y hr. lesson II l
had the time and space.
AS it is l offer the suggestion to the
q
and will merely give a hint of a cou-
pie essentials which the pupil would
half to master before they could hang
out their single as a teacher and
go over big.
To begin with the man that is
learning to teach bridge would half
to master the names of all the big
bridge teachers in the L. S. of which
they's probably about a dozen. He
would half to learn their names SO as
when the pupils asked what he
thought of them and their methods he
could compliment the different ones
in an intelligent way.
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EOR inst. suppose You have hung
out your shingle and your first
class is made up of pupils named
Mr.. Bone and Mr.. Skull and Mr.;
Dumbell. Well you set them down
to a table and ask them if they have
ever read any works on bridge.
"Oh yes" says Mr.. Bone, Il have
read a book on modern bidding by
Prof. Skoozle th> great Baltimore
expert"
Listen" you say. 10 am not the
kind of a man that would say any
thing derogatory in regards to rival
expert, but the man that calls him
self Prof. Skoozle plays bridge with
dice and parchesi board. Further.
and more his mother was part ape
and not only that but when he was
4 yrs. old ne cut off his brother
chewing tobacco.
'The only trouble with, Skoozle is
that he, learned his bridge, dureing
the 43 yrs. he was locked up and the
deck the warden loaned him only had
20 cards.
well" says Mr.. Skull, "how about;
Prof. Weasel the Boston master?"
Listen" you say, Il suppose you
have read Wease's book on the busi-
ness double. Now I don't know moth.
ing against Weasel personly, but.I do,
happen to know that he got his first
deck Of cards by walking in on a
euchre foursome on Beacon street and
shooting down old ladies'. and a
watch dog and he learned the game
with euchre deck and when he opened
m his bridge class he had to ask his
first pupils if you deal face down. or
up.
He had a quarrel with one of, the
pupils and the last named pulled a
gun and blowed Weasel's brains out
but he kept right on teaching. He
was recently arrested in Boston. for
|assaulting a guy that had lost both
legs and arms in the revolution. =.
when he Is playing for money he
always deals himself IA cards and in
regards to his knowledge Of the game,
why I played partners with him one
night and he doubled my bid Of
clubs and set me 1900, his own part
ner." ,
II II Il X
WHEN the pupils has named all the
give them each a boost. why finely
YOU deal out test hand and ask the
boys how each Of them would bid it