Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-08
7hisB the First
Of a Series BY the
Leading american
Hum0rists. Watch
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Magazme for the
Special articles
BY Stephen Lea
cock, p. G. Wode-
house, Donald
ogden Sfewarf,
Ellis Parker But
Ter; Richard Con-
nell and Others.
<I~ O YOU play bridge?" asks Min
ME MellSh.
: Little" returns with ma
tive modeSty, lis hidden from


Little" returns, with
tive modesty, lis hidden from
me and that little not for long.
Bridge and practically every other kind OF caro-
game sit in my lap and call me papa
That's news to me-" shifts the missus. Are
you you're not confusing bridge with par
rel-house pinochle or speak-easy stud? never
knew"
There's a great deal about me-" I cuts in
stifay. that you don't know and probably
never will know I'll not make my life an open
page even to my wife, Would 1t surprise you
to hear that as a mere child won the auction
open at Androscoggin, Me- two up and three
to go?"
(which three?" inquiries Joe Davis. who's
been dallying with the milk of the wild moose.
LEM and Whitehead" says l. and fellow
named Oscar who married a girl from SYRIA
cuse"
Mice town. Syracuse" observes Joe, but not
to be compared, in my opinion, with an early
autumn"
That's a matter of TASTE" admits, frankly,
"and even public accountants fall down when
1t comes to accounting for tastes. Why, I've
run into lads who'd rather have glass of
new-mown milk any day than two on the
aisle at Glass Cyclone"
mol" gasps Davis.
For crying outside" yelps Ira MelliSh.
whats all this merry mucilage got to do with
bridge?"
SGNJOT hot lot" confess manfully. but
you'll find bridges that kind of a game.
More things dragged into a rubber of auc-
ton that have nix whatever to do with it than
go into a pot-pie. An analysis recently made
by the United States Coast and Geodetic Sur
Vey of a game played in Shamokin, Pa. showed
that only 100000 per cent of the time at the
tables was actually given over to bridge"
What" asks Joe, were the clucks doing
the rest Of the MISUNDERSTANDING the hem
house putting a tin roof on the parsonage?"
1.-The rest of the afternoon" explains,
archly was devoted to a discussion of frumps
"a trump being any gal out of hearing at the
moment Would you folks care to have me
show you how the game goes?"
Personally" says Mellish I'D rather take
correspondence course in getting sinus trouble.
but"
"An right" shrugs but if you find that
you're just wall-flower at the next party
you attend don't blame it your halitoss
You've just got to know bridge these ammo
domns. If you don't. you've social stand
ing. Nowadays, it isn't question of whether
she should ask him in or whether she thinks
filet mignon is fish-the question is, does she
play for half cent point and is she good
for it?"
do you really understand the gamer" in
qures the frau
Like any tot does the tariff" assures her
phlegmatically Fetch a deck of cards and
spades and watch the old maestro demon
strate"
Cards are finally procured under protest.
table staked out with reservations and the
Mellishes, the missus and Davis arrange them
selves about it with no enthusiasm whatever
NOW" says l. when the four have made laps
for themselves. you'll observe that I have
nothing concealed about my person-no, that