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Contract Bridge
"The Official System"
BY E. V. SHEPARD
Card To Lead At No Trumps

Ordinarily you hold @ suit
Of four or more cards that has
not been bid adversely. The
proper card to lead depends
upon your suit length, honorS
held, and your honors held in
side suits. With a suit prob.
ably established eight cards
headed by AK; six headed by
A-K-Q; or four solid cards
A-KQ-O you try to drop cards
by straight leads. Merely as a
courtesy to partner to let him
know how many discards he
probably must make. Many
players lay down the ace
when expecting to win six or
more tricks. or the king when
expecting to win fewer than
six solid tricks. Of course, such
solid suits seldom are held
against no-trumpers, but they
sometimes occur.
xOur Next move
In case a sure entry is held
in a side suit you may lay
down toppers from suits where
you expect to lose a trick.
With two entries you may bang
down honors even when you
expect to lose two tricks. with
A-Q-J-6-3.2 plus q side ace, lay
down your ace, followed by the
queen, hoping that when you
obtain entry with your spare
ace your jack will drop the
last, opposing card of your
long suit, enabling you to run
off three tricks with your
small cards.
Lack Of re-entry obligates
leading low from a long suit,
SO that your partner may be
able to return your lead before
his cards Of your suit are ex-
hausted. Lead one of three hon.
ors, provided two Of them
touch. The A-Q-10 are the only
three honors Of which two do
not touch. II the lowest honors
touch (A.Q,J, A-J.1O, K-J-lO,
lead the higher Of the touching
honorS, expecting to lose the
trick, but hoping that partner
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There's something glamorouS
about fur evening wraps-and
especially about white ones.
Fashions delight is white fur at
night, you know. And every.
body's wanting the elegance Of
it. Why the reason we've spent
so much time in fur departments
lately is that we couldn't con-
quer our green-eyed envy of the
white fur wraps our friends are
wearing out to parties. We won
dered how they could afford
the luxury Of fur. Now we
know.
You may not quite be able to
believe us when we say that the
darling little jackets-short as
you please, and in any style you
like-are so reasonably priced
that for one completely hectic
moment we thought of owning
two! Two apiece, we mean
for, of course, we each had one
sent home. Show us the wo'
man who could resist!
All Above the Waist
We think for instance, that
the tiny little jacket on the left
its scarcely more than q sus'
picion Of a wraps one OF the
most adorable things this sea-
sons brought to light. They
told us in the store that waist
length jackets run the others
quite a race for popularity.
Part Of the secrets in the
price, of course. But then,
bolero types are very flattering
especially, cut straight around
the bottom and scanned to
fit In at the waist. as this
one is. And the narrow waist.
line effect is accentuated in
this case by the wide-cut
Johnny collar - giving that
shoulder-breadth that fashion
can't forget this fall. There's
even width in the loose bell
sleeves. And there's surprise in
the price. You can dress your.
self in this white long-haired
bunny jacket, and grace the
snootiest occasion. for less than
$40! And even if you'd prefer
to be wrapped in white lapin,
you won't need to pay as much
as $50, for the same style
exactly. Both furs In white, Of
course.
For whites the thing for win
ter evenings, whether your
The Washington times., 1931-10-30
By Logan Clendening, M. D.

Among the most valuable of
the new methods, of functional
testing of the organs Of the
body is the recording of heart
action.
The heart is composed of a
special kind of muscle and di-
vided into four chambers. All
Of these working chronously
produce the pulse beat.
The old-tilne physician, by
' feeling this pulse beat, could
learn a good deal about the
action Of the heart as a whole.
He could tell whether the beat
was strong or weak, whether
the heart was rapid and labor
ing under excitement or undue
stimulus, whether it was beat
ing regularly and rhythmically
or not. But for any purposes
Of close analysis of the action
Of the four different chambers
or of the different parts Of
the heart muscle he was at sea.
PEN Tracings Made
To enlarge his knowledge the
first instruments introduced
about 20 years ago attempted
to make q tracing with a pen
on q moving sheet of paper of
the pulse at the wrist, stimuli
taneously with the apex beat Of
the heart and the pulSation Of
the veins In the neck.
The latter were designed to
show the contraction Of the up.
per chambers Of the heart-the
auricles-while the apex and
wrist tracing showed the action
Of the lower chambers-the
ventricles.
Not Easily Handled
When these tracings were
completed they were somewhat
enlarged views of the pulsations
at the various points. They
could be analyzed minutely and
studied, much as a detective or
writing expert examines a sig
nature under the microscope to
determine whether it is q for
gerry or not.
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gown is white or black, or
some deep, brilliant shade. So
We have the white fashion, too,
in jackets long enough to fit
Snugly over the hips. The Sec
ond Illustration shows a jacket
with a fitted peplum-that fea.
ture so flattering to slender
hips. A big shawl collar, too,
the kind that becomes every
face. But the most important
point to notice is how beauti-
fully this longer jacket is fitted
at the waistline, and held with
one big button.
You can even see from the
sketch how carefully the skins
are sewn together to help create
the peplum line, for it's made
Of closely sheared lapin. You
suppose that makes it costly?
Why, you can buy this wrap
for about $35-maybe the least
bit more. And in bunny
well, l1ow-in bunny, the price
Is under $50!
Sending Thanks
If you'd like your wrap a
little longer over the nips, and
at the same time not quite so
closely fitted, the third iIlustra-
ton looks made to order. This
wrap Is really not fitted at all.
But the girl In the sketch is
holding 1t In with one hand
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may lead your suit back,
through the declarer, to your
advantage. If the two higher
honors touch (A.K-J, A.K.1O,
K-Q-10), lead the king, II you
have re.entry, without re-entry
you must lead the j or 10 from
A-K-J or A-K-10.
Further Instructions
With only four cards in suit
1t doesn't not pay to lead an
honor (unless you hold A-K-QX)
from three. Lead your fourth
best card, hoping that partner
may force the declarer to play
high.
Where an honor lead is not
called for by the cards held,
make a fourth-best lead to
enable your partne4 to apply
the rule Of eleven" Against
no-trump make you need not
hesitate as you do against
trump makes over leading suits
headed by either ace or king
without the other high honor:
nor need you fear opening suits
headed by tenaces. You can not
have your high honorS trumped
when playing no-trumps, but
against trump makes it is un.
safe to touch certain suits;
they need some other player
to lead them.
Short suit leads and other
freak suggestions have been
tried many times in the past.
Sometimes such leads prove sue.
cessful. Remember that you have
two opponents and only one
partner; the odds are 2 to !
against finding partner with
missing strength.
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forbidden pleasures, he begins
to be tempted by forbidden
foods and drinks: as soon as
he stops worrying about his
heart and emotions, he begins
worrying about his rheymatisIn,
his top-hair and his waiStline.
Looks as though it will take
more than q Eugene hat and
a hustle to make an ante-bel-
lum lady out Of q postwar
Amazon.
Reno is full of those who
have flunked in the School Of
Experience and are applying
for another card of admission.
copyright. 1881. King Features
Syndicate, Incl
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Your Health and Diet

They furnished a great deal
of valuable information, but
they were clumsy and not cas-
lily handled. The machines
themselves were so tempera-
mental and spilled so much ink
that most of us who possessed
them found that the only way
to operate them was to get into
a bathtub full of ink with the
patient and the instrument and
take the tracing; you did not get
ink over so many different
places that way. But some pa
tientS objected to this, so the
methods fell into disuse.
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Advice to the
LoveIorn
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX
An Authority on Problems Of
Love and Marriage

AAVN~ SSAANA A'AsSS SSSDS
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
You have helped so many
people with their problems, that
am coming to ask you to help
me solve my problem.
I am a chemist, aged %, and
have been successful in my
work, and have had an article
published. I expect to make
good and be financially able to
support a wife very nicely.
The trouble is. Miss Fairfax.
that when I am with girls, I
am so exceedingly shy that
they Just can't stand me, and
although am well introduced
and they know I am what is
called eligible. they don't care
for me at all, and snub me.
This makes me very retiring
and afraid to even speak to a
girl. But on the other hand, I
want to marry and have a
home of my own. I have al
ready saved $1,5OO..
what would you advise me to
do to overcome this terrible shy.
ness which makes me stamner
and stutter whenever in the
presence Of women?
CHEMIST.
To wear away shynesS, which
is not as unattractive as you
seem to think, there are a cou.
pie of remedies. One is time and
the other is to live down your
bashfulness, accept every invi'
tation that you possibly can,
and 60 out till people no longer
terrify you. I knew a delight
full man who used to say when
he met an attractive girl, I'm
terribly bashful, you'll have to
do the talking" It worked so
we'll that young men, who were
not at all bashful, began to
steal his stuff and try the same
thing.
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CHAPTER II

Ferdinand swings around sud-
denly. Seelig retreats and Ko-
sole makes after him. Nov,
what about it?" he snarls.
"Schroder! Schroeder! Schroeder!
Do you remember him, now,
you dog, damn you? Take that
one from Schroeder" His left
goes home. Greetings from
the common grave;;" He hits
again. The innkeeper dodges,
jumps behind the counter and
grabs a hammer. 1t catches
Kosole across the face and
glances off his shoulder. But
Kosole does not even vince,
he Is so enraged. He graSps
hold of Seelig and bashes his
head down on the counter.
there is q clatter of glass. He
turns on the beer taps. There,
drink, you rum keg! Suffo-
cate, drown in your sinking
pigs wash"
The beer pours down Seelig's
neck, it streams through his
shirt into his breeches, max
ing them swell out on his legs
like balloons. Seeling bellows
with rage. It is no easy thing
to get such beer in these days.
At last he manages to free
himself, and seizes a glass
with which he drives upwards
against Kosole's chin.
Foul" cries Willy, from
where he stands in the door.
way, watching. "He should
have butted him in the stom-
ach, and then pulled his legs
from under him!"
None of us interferes. This
Is Kosole'S show. Even if he
were to get a bidding, it would
not be our business to help him.
We stand by merely to see that
no one tries to help Seelig.
But Tjaden has already ex-
planned the matter in half
dozen words and nobody is now
disposed to take his part.
Ferdinand's face is bleeding
fast: he now gets properly mad
and quickly makes short work
Of Seelig. With a hook to the
jaw he brings him down, he
stands over him and bashes his
head on the floor a few times
till he feels he has had enough.
Then we go. Lima, looking
Is pale as a cheese, is standing
over her gas ping master.
You'd better cart him away to
the hospital" Willy shouts
back. Looks to me like a mat
ter for two or three weeks. Not
Q very bad case, though"
Happy as a Child
Kosole is smiling, as happy
Is a child. Schroeder, so he
feels, is avenged. THAT was
fine" says he. wiping the blood
from his face. well, now I
must be trotting back to my
miSsus, or the neighbors will
be thinking things, eh?"
At the m arketplace we
separate. Jupp and Valentin
go off to the barracks and
their boots clatter over the
moonlit pavement.
81 wouldn't mind going along
with them," says Albert sud.
denly.
IT know" agrees Willy,
thinking Of his fowl. no doubt.
They're a bit pedantic, the
people here. don't you find?"
I nod. "And We'll have to be
starting school again soon, I
suppose"
We stand still and grin.
Tjaden cannot contain himself
for joy at the mere thought Of
it. Still laughing, he trots off
after Valensin and Jupp.
Willy scratches his head.
Think they'll be very pleased
to see us? We're not quite so
docile as we used to be, you
know"
I'VE were more to their lik-
Ing as heroes" says Karl, "and
q long way off for preference"
TIM rather looking forward
to the fun," explains Willy.
What with cur present temper
hardened in the bath Of steel
and all. as they used to say"
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How Does a
Woman Champion
Manage?

w o m e n cham
pionS cannot have
"off days" Day
after day Of prac.
tice and play. and
matches that per.
nit no postpone.
mentS. Then how
do they manage
during these try.
ing times when
other women are
sunk with pain?
They meet these
periodic energen.
cies with Midol,
and they don't
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What Do You
Know?
Questions on Editorial Page
AAnanAMa 81 TnSAar1a Rraa4

Questions on Editorial Page
AnSwerS to TodGy's Test
Answers to today's test.
/. Russia. 2. When it is
huge. 3. Ounce. 4. In proper
tion. S. Nose. 6. Gomorrah.
7. Endorsement Of a passport.
8. Northeastern part. 9. Thir-
teen. 10. A pitcher to hold water.
II. The hero is Heathcliff. IL.
Tale Of O New England village.
13. A mystery. IA. an autobio-
graphic narrative. is. An un-
finished romance.
Copyright, 1881. King Features
Syndicate. Incl
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Do You Know

There are 772 places Of amuse'
ment in London. England, includ-
ing 325 licensed for motion pic
ture entertainment. 451 for music
and dancing, ass for music only,
and nine for dancing only.
The Washington times., 1931-10-30
Position Of Knife

Position Of Knife
DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
Will you kindly inform me
as to whether o table knife
resting on the plate should
have the sharp side turned
in or out? READER.
The sharp edge of the knife
should be turned in, toward
the plate. This, too, should be
the position of the knives as
they are placed on the table
when the table Is being set.
The Washington times., 1931-10-30

ever experience a twinge Of
periodic pain.
Harmless as it is. a Midol tab.
let blocks all possibility of peri.
odic pain for hours at a stretch.
It isn't a narcotic. But it acts
in seven minutes. Just ask the
druggist for Midol.
The Washington times., 1931-10-30
When Manners
Are Correct
BY Mrs. Cornelius Beekmau

A Gentleman and Two Girls
DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
When a gentleman walks
with two girls should he be on
the outside or between the
two? g.
He should walk on the side
Of the pavement nearest the
curb. =.
(lf you are still q patient in
the hospital, @, best wishes for
your Incovery.)
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They Are ALI White and
Reach the Waist or the Hips.
to show you how easily a
straight-line model can acquire
a fitted look. The large shawl
collar and loose bell sleeves ex.
press Fashions incest thoughts
for evening wrap details. And
you'll be sending thanks to us
for putting you on the right
track, If you decide On what's
probably the most convenient
length, after all, and buy your
white fur evening wrap in this
style. In bunny, this model
costs $35, or, perhaps, a little
less. And in lapin, more than
$40-but not much more.
For names of stores where
you can buy these wraps, write
or cali The Washington Times
Fashion Department between 3
and II Q. m. or 4 and 5 y. m.
The Washington times., 1931-10-30
The Marry-Go.
Round
By FAY KING
BY Helen Rowland

GlimpSes at "the Other Half"
To q man. a decade is just 10
yearS--but to q woman, it is the
gulf between youth and henna.
The average girl has no more
regard for a wlfe's proprietary
rights in her husband than the
average laundry has for but
tons-or the personal owner.
ship Of handkerchiefs.
For most women, after 40,
happiness consists largely in be.
ing satisfied with the "subSti.
tutes" - coffee kisses, "dress-
The Washington times., 1931-10-30

carious thrills Of q screen-lover's
caresSeS.
When o man runs away from
temptation in his twenties, it is
pretty safe to predict that,
somewhere in his late forties
he'll be hanging back waiting
for temptation to catch up with
him.
Being in love Is just being
ION the same wire" But there
never yet lived a man, who
didn't think he could care
lessly "cut the wire"-and then
come back and turn on the
current, whenever the notion
seized him.
Half the world doesn't know
how the other half lives-until
it gets a glimpse of the bottles
in their ash cans.
A man can never be abso-,
lutely contented, in this world.
AS soon as he ceases to be
tempted by forbidden women or
The Washington times., 1931-10-30
Story Of the Aftermath
or the World War
The Story Thus Far

enlisted schOOlbOy tells the postwar story
group comrades who march home when peace
Il made The world strange and puzzlng to them Every
thing themselves most Of all Only their CON-
paniOns their memories real Ernst looks up
cards Is started at the barracks
them that Seelg former sergeant major
whom they dked bartender in local cafe They SET
Sight Of Seeg brings back the
death, which they attributed to Seeig be
approve which the dead man
special friend Of SchroderS has sworn
to ayenge his comrade.
tst NoW Continue
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11
Sam Jones One of Three Left
In american League Who Haze
Pitched in Ouer 500 Contests

feats in 24T games; Milton CASTOR,
with 245 games, winning ~ and losing
1903; Sam Gray, winning SO and los
ing rs IN 244 contests, and Charles
RufflnE with ais games, 81 victories
and l01 defeats.
There are two clubs in the Amer
lean League that Inv Hadley can beat
more often than they can beat him.
Detroit and Chicago give him trouble,
but he is at his best when pitching
against New York and Philadelphia,
the two clubs who are our most danger
GUS rivals. Consequently, he win see q
lot Of of service against the AS and
Yankees In 1884," so says Manager Wal
ter Johnson.
Hadley won four out Of i've from
New York In 1880, while breaking even
with the Athletics. One Of the games
he lost to the AS was q Memorial day
contest, which was broken up by Pinch
hitter Al Simmons with a home run
with two on.
No major league pitcher has pitched
q I1o-hit game since August 81, 1925,
when Ted Lyons Of the Chicago White
Sox blanked the Boston Red Sox with
out q hit.
Leon Goslin fouled of II pitched
balls in succession one day In st. Louis
last September.
A major league player who does not
stand at least 5 feet 10 inches is q
rare bird these days but three Of the
American League rockies register as
such. Robert e. Lee Con, inflelder,
purchased by the White Sox, and Mar
win Olson, an infielder, signed by Bos-
ton, are only feet inchs, while Eu-
gene Rye, the home-run hitter from
Waco, stands but feet 5 inches.
Charles Kennow Marrow, right-hand
pitcher, purchased by Detroit from
Beaumont, was o five-letter man at
Davidson College, making the varsity
in base ball, Bot ball, basket bali.
track and wrestling. He weighs 100
pounds and stands feet 4 inches.
What fighter he might have made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11
By GAYLE TALBOT.
Associated Press stan Editor.

CAN ANTONIO. Tex, January 10.
The army Of professional golf
ers that spends its Winters
treading green carpets through
the South from California TO Florida,
collecting rich purses along the way,
doubtless would be surprised to learn
that it owed its present afiiuence in
large measure to q boxer--a Negro
boxer who died without having known
q spade mashie from Q hoe.
It IL o fact, nevertheless. Had not
Battling Sikh, the singular Senegalese,
knocked out Georges Carpenter IN
Paris q decade ago and then paid an
iIl-fated visit to the United States, the
knickered clan might still be Compel
ing for trivial $500 and 81 900 purses
instead Of the fancy prizes fashionable
today.
Got big Money" Idea.
Back about 1920, it was, the news
came over the wires that the eccentric,
silk-hatted Sikh had accepted an offer
Of $4,000 for q series of exhibitions In
this country. The item created no fu-
rore either In pug1listic or golfing cir
cles, but 1t made keen impression on
Jack O'Brien, then sports editor of the
San Antonio Evening News. It set
O'Brien to thinking. and the history of
"big-money" tournaments dates from
the moment Jack began cogitating.
''1t struck me-" he recalled recently,
that If an ignorant Ethiopian could
draw down that much money, then 1t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11
Big Money Open Golf EUents
FOIIO,U Offer to Negro Boxer

was high time 10 make q worthwhile
purse for men who had spent their lives
perfecting themselves IN the game Of
golf.
"At that time the total purse for the
National Open was approximately ESQ,
and there were no Winter prize tour
naments. It took me nearly q year 10
sell the idea Of q 5000 purse to the
merchants Of San Antonio. but finally
the thought took hold. The result Is
that Winter tournaments now are flx-
ture in various parts Of the country
First Texas Open in 1922.
O'Brien organized and conducted the
first Texas Open in 1922. The then
enormous prize Of $500 went to Bob
Mcdonald, long-driving Chicago pro,
who nosed out Cyril Walker of Lake.
wood, N. j., by q single stroke in the
72-hole medal play. Except for two
years, when business took him away,
O'Brien has conducted the meet every
year since. He Is up to his neck in
preparations for the Tenth Annual
Texas Open, scheduled January 20 to
February !, for $4,000 In prizes.
Practically ell Of the money tourna-
ments inaugurated in recent years. In
Guiding the $4,000 Los Angeles Open,
were patterned after the local event,
O'Brien recalled. He supplied Sherman
Paddock and "Scotty'' Chisholm with
plans for the first Los Angeles meet
from which sprang q string Of tourra-
ments on the West Coast.
Unfortunately, the innocent dnspira-
ton for all this golfng gold did not live
to see the day. They found him on
Brooklyn. curb one morning, filled with
bullets.