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The Washington times., 1931-10-05

AS originally defined, and as
it should be employed, a "quick
trick" or "sure trick" as it is
often termed, Is q trick that
can be won before either the
declarer or dummy can trump
the suit to which the trick be-
longs. Ordinarily either declarer
or dummy can trump the third
lead Of q suit, so that the term
quick trick" or probable trick"
really refers only to ability to
win either the first or second
trick of a suit.
For practical purposes there
are only five quick trick values
to be memorized:
AK, 2 tricks; 40, ~ tricks;
A, 1 trick; K-Q, i trick; X, with
one or more small cards as
guards, n trick.
Value of Ace
We must work upon probabil-
tiles. While it is possible that
your lead Of an ace may be
trumped it is so improbable that
the ace always is valued as one
quick trick. For similar reasons
the AK Of a suit probably will
win two tricks before leads of
their suit can be trumped. The
K-Q must lose the first trick to
the missing ace, but the second
trick ordinarily will be won, so
the K-Q are considered equal in
value to an ace.
If your 40 finds the missing
K at your left you can win only
a single trick, but it is equally
probable that the K lies at your
right, so that you will win two
tricks.
This makes the average value
Of the 40 11a quick tricks. A
guarded king, expressed as XXX,
must average to win half the
time against an adversely held
The Washington times., 1931-10-05

can a husband look at this lovely face,
these lovely faces, bathed in happy hours
like flower in the sunshine, and not
wish to flee from unmysterious me!
am very happy, and my heart feels like
burstingw But this young woman had a
more subtle thought, that played about
among truths and untruths, and pounced {
upon the truths; believed what her heart
knewI remembered that she LOVED to
watch young Roman NOvarro make knightly
love on the screen, and all that that had
to do with her own feelings was TO re-
mind her that she thought her own husband
the handsomest and best of princes of
men. COMIC if you had seen JohnD
So this young woman eonsoled herself.
She said, Cali the world loves and needs
beauty, just beauty to look at. I, myself,
and my husband, too. And when he goes
to see il upon the stage he takes me, too"
She remembered that once when she
longed for the flaming hair that she had
seen being dried outside a window, and
The Washington times., 1931-10-05
Diet and Health
By DR.. Logan Clendening

policy. Besides including bal
ance and measurements, your
system for reducing must in
clude time. The trouble with
the woman who was going to
reduce on lamb chops and pine
apples is that she can only do
it q week or so. Then she be-
gins to desire other things. If
people really need to reduce
they must continue the system
a long time.
2. Balance - Reduction diets
do not differ in any essential
way from other healthy diets,
except in amounts. All the ele-
ments necessary for a healthy,
normal diet must therefore be
included in the reduction diet
you must have protein, fuel,
water, minerals, YitaminS and
bulk, You need as much Of
everything as a person on q
normal diet does, except fuel.
And as fuel is made up Of
food by starches, sugars (to-
gether called carbohydrates
and fats. those elements are
lessened in the reducing diet.
8. Measurements The won-
an who said the reducing diets
she reads about had enough
to eat for anybody, forgot how
much there was Of each food.
The most important thing in re-
ducing diets is the amount.
You cannot get q list of foods
and eat them and call that a
reducing diet. You must weigh
and measure them also. -
The Washington times., 1931-10-05

even to powder my back or put
the studs in your own shirt!"
Well-why not? When you
invite a man to dine with you,
you furnish the dinner, don't
you?
Then, if you are going to in
vite him to marry you, you
should expect to furnish the
home, and pay the electric bills
and the income tax. It's only
GOOD FORM!
Or perhaps you'd prefer to
go to him with a reference"
and, a purely business PROPOSE
ton, and say
ct am giving you a real op-
portunity, Mr.. Gayboy-one that
you will never regret-Matri-
monial insurance. What you
need, in your wild, lonely life
is a HOME-and a housekeeper.
Somebody to take care of you
and guard your digestion. Let
me be your cook.valet-and.femme
de chambre. I will take the Job
in exchange for my board,
clothes and pin-money. No
Thursdays or Sundays off!
How WOULD you "Plead
your cause?" Because when you
make an "offer." you really must
have something to OFFER!. And
a kiss has not yet been recog.
nized as a medium Of exchange.
This present-day fashion Of
getting a man where he can't
say mo" and suddenly spring
ing the "Let's-get-married!" line
on him-and then letting him
pay for the taxi and the license
is positively cheeky. Be chival-
rous-and mercifull Or else,
be wise-and let o man do his
own courtingl .I-.I-
The Washington times., 1931-10-05
Shopping =

Matching up accessories is al
ways lots of fun. These days,
colors and materials harmonic,
or strike the proper note of con-
trast so easily that bags and
other necessary things can be
found to 60 with every diff
ferent costume. For evening
wear, one set of such acces-
sories is often used with more
than one ensemble. And shop
ping for them is so interesting
because the job sounds SO much
harder-and isn't.
Matching Ensembles
The sketch above shows q bag
of metallic cloth with ancient
colorings so beautifully repro
.duced that some tone will Ger
tainly match any Of the sea-
sons evening shades. Look
closely at the bag itself, and
you'll realize that the intricate
design Of this Bianchini bro
cade beggars all description.
One Of the incest virtues this
little bag has is that long usage
will not tarnish the metal in
the least. And you'll want to
use it a long time-any little
pouch so practical. Its long1sh
shape IS just enough unusual to
be a little different, not enough
to 60 out Of fashion soon. Right
at the center Of the covered
frame is q small lift lock Of
baguette stones, and narrow
top strap that's made to
slip two fingers comfortably
through.
There are piles of chiffon in
every shade in the Bianchini
bag-each one q large evening
handkerchief, 23 inches square.
OF course, it's one Of these
we're showing with the bag.
We realized how perfectly one
could match an evening gown
or the color Of contrasting slip
perS. And, for 81, it seemed a
The Washington times., 1931-10-05

came to the little stand beside
me and put her hand on a
worn Bible.
"As sure as I am this is the
word of God" she declared
solemnly.
'I believe you," I said softly.
''Then there are older women,
too-one especially-that one
so jealous of him-the little
widow who asked you two
what you are planning"
Fanny Dutton?"
Eyes, Mrs. Dutton. There
were Jokes about her before her
old husband died. She was
coming many a day to see him
up there while her good old
husband was down in the
office. It has got so now that
she stays up there more than
half the week-ends."
wanted to disbelieve this,
but 1 couldn't. It fitted in
with so much I had seen and
heard between Forrest and
Fanny that I knew it was true.
She moved up the little
stand and pushed the Bible
and vase of artificial daisies to
one side. Then she brought
the tea and a dish of crackers.
Sitting down opposite me she
poured the tea.
"You were dreadful mad at
me at first, weren't you,
dearie?"
"-I didn't understand" I
stammered.
IT heard all he said. He
promised you diamonds and
things, didn't hep"
Bohemian jewelry. He has
been over in Europe"
A Surprise In Store
"Dearie, I lied little-I
wasn't ever like you. was an
honest farmers girl and I mar
ried a farmer boy. lit was
my little girl who was like you
who always wanted to play
around. I lied because I
thought if you saw how old
and ugly I am it would scare
you to think you might some
time get that way"
your daughter?" I said.
"Yes. She came to New
York-she-"
The old lady wiped her eyes
and got control of herself.
Wait. I'll show YOU her
picture-she was beautiful-so
beautiful"
With an effort the old
woman got to her knees beside
the cot and drew out a tat
tered suitcase. She opened it
and reached in as if she knew,
without looking, where to find
what she wanted. She arose
unsteadily and brought me a
photograph.
''It's Dolly!" I cried. dolly
Hawkins!"
The DOOR old woman turned
pale. She seemed to be unable
to speak.
WAS Dolly Hawkins your
daughter?" I cried.
Copyright. 1881, by King Features.
Syndicate, Incl
docs DOlIy's mother solve
the secret Of her daughters
mysterious disappearancel Read
tOmOrr0w's exciting install
ment.l ia h. i
The Washington times., 1931-10-05

MANY popular reduction
diets are notoriously Inadequate.
Some Of them are decidedly in
furious, opening the door to
neuroSis Of one kind or an
other, tuberculosis, other infec.
tionS, anemia and general i'll
health.
This is o paragraph from q
chairman's address ct the meet
ing Of the American Medical AS
sociation in Philadelphia last
June. There were O number OF
papers on diet presented to
the meeting. When they con-
tain matter of interest to my
readers they will be reviewed in
this column.
A Fine Text
The paragraph quoted is a
good text for q preachment. I
have listened to several groups
Of women talking about reduc-
ing lately. A remark frequent
ly repeated was:
why, I read q reducing diet
in SO-and-sO's book, and there
are enough things there for
anybody to eat"
Another: "AlI I have to do
to reduce Is to eat nothing but
lamb chops and pineappIes."
Stripped of all complications,
a reduction diet must have
three fundamentals:
/. System.
2: Balance.
8. Measurements.
/ !. SyStem-A system means-4
The Washington times., 1931-10-05

There was a young woman who was very
busy in a little home. But she took time
off to brush her hair back from her fore
head and behind her ears, to tuck her
broom under her arm, and study with
eager eyes the lovely, calm, beautiful
blonde faces of girls that looked at her
from magazines and papers. She saw
them often, as we all do. They were idly,
stilly, gracefully, glorifiedly beautiful.
They had luminous, lazy eyes, and beauti-
ful jewel or two.
The young woman said low to herself,
81 could be almost as beautiful If wasn't
in too big a hurry. My figure is alright
and John says my eyes are beautiful"
(Remember that John has been mentioned.
Upon him the story turns.)
If the young woman 10 one whose thought
goes just so far and sits down there,
that is to say, if she is not so wise a
young woman as some others, she would
say, "How can one win happiness with
this wide difference between us?-how
The Washington times., 1931-10-05
BY LEWIS ALLEN BROWNE.
Contract u: act, !!: Bridge
'.The Official System" >..
BY E. V. SHEPARD

ace, hence its quick trick value
Of q trick.
Take a pack of cards and deal
four hands, as you would in a
regular game; you will find that
the average number of quick
tricks held by the four players
will be 7l2; the average share Of
each player is therefore only
lB. This is why a minimum of
2 quick tricks is required to open
contracting; the 2 quick tricks
being a hair above average
quick trick strength. Every
sound rule has at it's back a
sound reason. Knowing the
reason for a rule helps remem-
ber the rule.
The first requirement for
making an opening bid is posses.
sion Of from 2 to 21a quick
tricks. The lower limit may be
employed when you hold two
suits like -K-Q-J-x-X, so bother
suits may be shown ultimately.
The lower limit also applies
when several queens and jacks
are held as filters. The upper
limit Of az quick tricks applies
when no second suit is bidable.
and when cards drop suddenly
from aces and kings, or from
kings and queens, down to small
cards, lacking jacks and tens.
Every rule requires some COM
prehension Of its real purpose.
Tomorrow: Declarer's PrOba-
BILE Tricks.
The Washington times., 1931-10-05
What Do You
Know?
Answers to TodGy'S Test
Questions on Editorial Page

1. The white race. q. Gold or
silver in bars or insotS. 8.
Orange. 4. When he presented
Christ crowned with thornS to
the Jews. 5. Faux pas. 8.
''This, above all, to thine own
self be true, and it must follow
as the night the day, thou canst
not then be false to any man."
7, A small box. 8. It aboundS
in gold. 8. God moves in a
mysterious way His wonders to
perform" 10. It is bituminous
coal without the volatile mat
ter. IL. James Barrie. IL. Mic
colo Machiavelli. Is. Emily
BrQnte. IA. Charles Darwin. IS.
George Barr McCutcheon.
Copyright. 1881, King Featured =,
Syndicate 1n1s M
The Washington times., 1931-10-05
JUST PLAYING AROUND
Story Of a GirIWho Didn't
Want to Settle Down
What Has Huppened So Far

Because Katherine Mason believes in playing around and
having time finds herself deeply involved In troubles
She fts Peter Thompson because he She expects to
rich Thad Parsons he marres Airline Sargent who
named scandal within six months Katherine is get
ting fond Of Malvern rich forty who had been
sweet her old friend Dolly Hawkins who disappeared long
Thad going to divorce Airline Katherine tells Thad she
Will him. Thads wife offers her fifty thousand TO
helm In
The Washington times., 1931-10-05

n6F OUIcmm Uath
The room she took me to
was as neat as q pin. Half a
dozen religious pictures, mostly
from magazines and colored
sections of Sunday papers, were
on the wall. There was q cot,
a little gas stove, table and
closet for dishes. She started
to brew some tea, after dust
ing off an already speckless
chair for me.
Perhaps she thought she
hadn't convinced me. for she
The Washington times., 1931-10-05
For EUeninq
Accessories

Multi Colored Brocade Bag
with q Handkerchief of
Monotone Chiffon
better buy than ever, when we
learned the edges were hand
rolled in France!
Pearls With RhinestOnes
Pearls, you know, stay in
fashion season after season for
The Washington times., 1931-10-05
TheMarry-Go-
Round
BY Helen Rowland

When Woman Goes A-WOoing
Everything is being lifted off
mans fragile shoulders. these
dayS-even the burden of
courting and proposing.
Men are growing so shy and
elusive-and girls so brave and
strong AND reSourceful! OF
course, a girl COULD wait until
q man asked her outright to
marry him. but she would prob
ably have to go to the altar in
q wheelchair, and murTnur the
responses between her second
set of false teeth.
Still, theer is the delicate
question-HOW shall a girl pro-
pose?
'Will you let me cherish you
and provide you with that lux
urious background, which your
charming and exotic personality
demands?
"Will you give me the right
to protect you from wild women,
unscrupulous flappers and de-
signing manhunters, and to
provide you with imported
cigarettes and fancy hose, q
racing car, and pocket-money?
"Say yes, Big Boy, and I
promise you shall never have
to lift your languid hand-not
~ s'sS pR0e0sE?
Fl;
The Washington times., 1931-09-04
SUGGESTS FUND
To AID 1000
COLLEGES
Stevens Institute Head Wants
$500, ,000,0 900 Spent in New
Buildings and For Upkeep

JOHNSONBURG, N. j., Sept
"A building program on a
$500, 900, 900 scale and an upkeep
program on a $100, 100000 scale
for the colleges of the nation
were proposed here by Harvey N.
Davis as material factor to re-
lieve the economic depression.
Mr.. Davis, who is president Of
Stevens Institute of Technology,
spoke at the economic conference
under the joint auspices of the
Engineering Alumni Association
OF Columbia University and the
Alumni Association of Stevens
Institute, at Stevens engineering
camp here. He declared:
"There are more than 1000
colleges in the country. to say
nothing of preparatory schools,
and / feel certain that the re-
SpOnSibIe head of each and
every one of them could name
Offhand and without a mo-
ment's thought several new
buildings that he badly needs
to carry on his present work
effectively. These buildings
would cost anywhere from
100000 to S1,OOO,OOO apiece.
Indeed Lehigh University has
just dedicated an admirably
appropriate new engineering
laboratory, the gift of a single
alumnuS, built at total cost
OF something like $1,25O,OOO,
even though its unit cost per
cubic foot of volume was well
below the usual figures.
If we assume an average
pressing need per college of
only one 100000 building, in
Guiding its equipment, the pO-
tential capital investment alb
SOrbing power of this suggestion
Is more than 2OO,OOO,OOO, a
sum considerably larger than
the emergency public works ap-
preparation recently vOted~ by
Congress. And there are ways
in which two or three times
this sum could be advantage
OuSly spent if it were available.
There is no question but
that this means of combating
hard times could be made large
enough to materially influence
the coming business revival if
potential benefactOrs, public
and private, choose to do so
The Washington times., 1931-09-04
Lady Huston Offers
$4,000 for Air Race

LONDON, Sept. 4 Q.N.SD
Lady Huston, wealthy widow of
British peer who provided $780,
900 to guarantee Britain's partici-
patton in the Schneider Cup
races, offered a $4,000 prize today
for an international air race sim
liar to the Schneider competition.
The offer was made after
France and italy signified their
intention of withdrawing from
this years race unless a postpone
ment is granted.
The Washington times., 1931-09-04
VAULT CONTRACT LET

Contract to erect special time
clock vault at the Naval Observa-
troy has been awarded to Kuldell
Bros, of this city, the Navy De
partment Bureau of Yards and
Docks announced yesterday.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1931-08-21
HORSESHOE MATCH
With RICHEY SUNDAY

There will be a horseshoe match
between two teams Of Wolf Point
players and two teams of Richey
players at the bridge Sunday af-
ternoon. Richey challenged Wolf
Point to the match and the locals
accepted.
The Richey teams r Fred Ort-
man, Bill Bloc, Pete Bloc and Les
ter Hill. The Wolf Point teams in
clude r. r. Spencer, julius Rehms,
Harry Lovejoy and Shorty From
dahl.
r. R. Spencer, who has been
Riv-U-Let fruit in Dawson
county says he has played with
the players from Richey, and that
they will put up a strong fight to
win. The locals are doing a lot Of
practicing, so the match ought to
be something worth seeing.
The Richey team will probably
be accompanied by some rooters.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1931-08-21
BIG POULTRY SHOW AT
NORTH MONTANA FAIR

The North Montana Fair being
a member of the American POul-
try association, will conduct its.
poultry show at Great Falls on
August 24-2S under the latest re-
vised official show rules of the
association, and all awards will be
made strictly in accordance with
the American standard of perfec-
ton, it is announced by j. R. Scott
superintendent of the poultry de-
partment.
All entries in this division must
be made in the name of the ac-
tuaI owner. Any exhibitor show
ing borrowed birds will forfeit all
premiums won. Awards will be
made of cock, hen. cockrel, pullet,
old trio and young trio,in each
variety entered. A cock and hen
are birds over one year old; a
cockrel and pullet are birds
Matched during the season 1881;
an old trio is a cock and two hens
of the same variety; a young trio
is a cockrel and two pullets Of
one variety. There will be no
charge for feed or care of the
birds while at the fair. All ex-
hibits will be cared for by the
superintendent and his assistants
and will be absolutely under the
care of the superintendent.
Any bird or animal showing
symptoms of disease shall be re-
moved from the building at once,
and cared for by the proper auth
critics. A representative from tie
State Livestock Sanitary board
viii examine all birds on arrival.
The new, modern poultry exhibit
ton building, equipped Nth steel
cages, supported by steel posts,
makes this building the most sani-
tary exhibition hall in the north
west.
All birds must be provided with
les bands, and band numbers are
to be stated on the entry sheet.
Otherwise the superintendent can
not identify the birds and they
cannot be judged.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1931-08-21
RED CROSS MEET
LAST EVENING

Miss Emma Mortenson, a repre-
sentative of Red Cross headquart-
ers. was in Wolf Point Thursday.
In the afternoon she met with a
committee of women and in the
evening there was a meeting at
the courthouse attended by COM
mitteemen from the various dis
tricts of the county. An account
of this meeting will be given next
week.
The county is getting pretty
well organized for relief work. The
districts and committees are as
follows:
District No. 1 Wolf Point, Mrs.
Tom Kelly chairman, j. B. Ran
dali, John Listerud.
District No. 2 Poplar, Mrs. Wig
go Danielson, Jack Hanson and
Olaf Hagen.
District No. 8, Culbertson, Mrs.
Ola Fl. Smith, K. Brujord and
Floyd Moothart.
District No. 4, Bainville. w. J.
Forsyth. chairman. Mrs. George
Lesson, H. o. Bergman.
District No. 5, McCabe, Willie
Larson, Rev. NJ. Rhoda and
District No. 8, H. c. Skarie,
chairman, Ralph Lamar ana John
o. Dahl.
District No. Z, Mineral Bench. l..
w. Buchanan, chairman, l. r..
Nordwick, Stanley Nees.
District No. s, Bredette, Anton
Anderson, chairman, Newton Erie
berg. Nels Peterson.
District No. 8, Northwestern cor
ner of the county, committee to
be announced later.
The county executive committee
is composed of o. c. Johnson, A..
t. Listug, F. E. Rathert, A. NJ.
Foor and Ed Camrud.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1931-08-21
Rain And HAIL STORM
HITS DIVIDE COUNTRY

The cloud that gave Wolf Point
a stingy sprinkle late Wednesday
afternoon, moved northeast plain
ly gathering size and force and
broke in a furious storm of ice and
water over the Divide community
u to 20 miles northeast of here.
It hit in the path desolated by the
terrible storm of July Is where
there was little in the way of veg
citation to be damaged. There
appears not to have been much
wind with the storm.
That evening motorists coming
from Poplar reported that a flood
of water from the hills and coulees
to the north was running over
the grade of highway No. 2. Thurs
day afternoon Fred Martin was up
in the country about 16 miles
northeast and said he waded in
hailstones and water in a coulee
up to his pockets. He brought a
supply of the hailstones to town
with him and brought some to
the Herald office that were still as
large a s marbles and still very re-
freshing to eat. Fred said the
force of the cloudburst must have
been phenomenal. At one place
a pile of boulders that had been at
the side of the road had been
partly moved into the road. Re
ports are meagre and the extent
of the storm is not known.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1931-08-21
More California
Free Publicity

A. w. Huxsol, well known local
druggist, took a nice long trip to
California without even being
aware of it. It was just a news
paper trip brought about through
error. A nicely worded piece of
publicity such as colleges and uni
~versities are fond Of, rubber
stamped, Local Story came to
The Herald from the university
of Southern California conveying
information that Alfred r. HuXsol
had been at the university sum
mer school which would close on
such a date, and so on and so on
into a nice advertisement of the
T.. S. c. Knowing that Russell
Huxsol was attending that sum
mer school the reporter (who
never knew Russell had any other
name) just naturally concluded
that Alfred r. was intended to be
Alfred w. and that A. w. had gone
to take a look at the school his
son was attending. A reporter can
never, safely take anything for
granted in writing news. Every
detail must be checked from all
sides or the facts will break
against him.
It seems the U. S. c. uses every
student, from outside L. A, as a
peg on which to hang some publ
city. Russell arrived home this
week and was shocked when some
body told him his dad had been
ont to visit him and. so far as
Russels knowledge went, did not
see him.
During the regular university
year Russell attended Leland Stan
ford at Palo Alto, a university Of
which he thinks very highly.