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Contract Bridee

more sound than any other in
use.
To be informatory, a double
must meet each of the follow
ing requirements:
/. It must be made at the
first opportunity to double.
2. Doubler's partner must
have neither bid nor doubled
any declaration.
3. The bid doubled must not
exceed: 1-No Trump, 3-Spades
or 3-Hearts, 4-Diamonds or
4-Clubs.
All other doubles mean "busi-
ness" and are intended to col
lect a penalty.
Common Sense
Common sense says that an
informatory double of bid made
at your left which cannot go
game, had better be made only
when cards seem to promise
game or assure the collection
of a penalty for further ad-
verse bidding. It is different
when a bid originates at your
right; you have no idea what
third hand may do; if your
hand offers strong enough sup
port for any response made by
partner, you should double, to
oblige his response, unless third
hand cancels that obligation by
making an intervening bid.
Partners response to your in
formatory double means only
that he is showing his best
make, unless your partner re-
plies over an intervening bid
or responds unnecessarily high
when there is no intervening
bid; in either of which cases
your partners response shows
game expectations. Slams very
rarely can be made against an
opening bidder; his declaration
ordinarily shows too great top
honor strength to permit slam
attempts.
Be very wary about obliging
your partner to bid against an
opening demand bid, also in a
situation where both opponents
are bidding, as three strong
hands argue a trickless holding
for your partner.
niknh Ancient RuIN
Instead of adhering to some
ancient rule based solely upon
quick trick requirements for
making informatory doubles,
you should expect your partner
to win only three tricks on his
response-you must supply all
added tricks required to fulfill
any contract into which you
force partner. Excepting as an
emergency expedient do not
support a normal response by
your partner unless your hand
contains greater values than
were needed to make your dou-
BILE. In case your partners re-
sponSe is unnecessarily high
you may support him without
added values, provided his re-
sponse fits your hand. To-
morrow we will further discuss
this important feature Of q
winning game.
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The Beauty Box

ment will take care Of them
selves. They can't be awkward.
\
Those dcllies who think they
have to have highly-colored
finger nails are matching nail
vanish to lipstick. And, nat
urally, the lipstick should be
friendly with the factory
bushes that ornament the fe-
male face divine or otherwise.
What, with perfumes for GER
tain moods, and makeup fer
certain frocks, and coiffures to
match hats a woman's appear
ance has become as complicated
as a jig-saW puzzle.
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Handbags Come to Match Shoes Coats These Days

that you could buy one
for lust about So! And to all
appearances, as good-looking as
if it cost many times that
much. There's a top-handle
model at the right above that
looks as if it had just landed
from Paris. It's a grand shop
ping type, that vagabond pouch
with it's full size flap-so roomy
and yet so neat-looking. The
handle is of simulated shell and
matches the color of the bag
Except for a touch of white
at each enO, whether the bag
is black, brown, Spanish tile,
bright or dark green or blue. A
felt bag matches most OF the
hats in any woman's wardrobe
and the stitching is a marx
of excellent tailoring.
Coat Material
Now that we've had bags to
match shoes, and hats, did you
ever think of one to match your
coat! Certainly. you haven't
had that thought for long, be-
cause the idea is very new. But
now they're taking the material
that most of the new coats
are made of and turning out
pebbly-surfaced, rough woolen
bags! One of the best models
is sketched in the lower right
hand corner-a good regulation
envelope shape with a strap
across the flap that has a
metal ornament in the center.
There are lots of other nice
designs with metal trim-and
some without. They're all
beautifully fitted inside with
moire or satin Innings. And
no one costs more than So
that's the most amazing part.
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It's funny how coats and
suits and things so far outlast
the handbags we buy to wear
with them! But it's just as
well we need new bags for our
winter costumes, since such
stunning ones have been ap-
pearing lately in. the stores
that we couldn't resist them
anyway-designs that hadn't
been created when we bought
our first fall bag.
Old-Yet New
And new materials in these
new designs! Of course, you
may look at the top sketch on
the left and say that calfskin
isn't new, especially shoe-calf-
that 9th. unblemished
leather you see illustrated. But
it is new this season, for early
in the fall, the stores were
featuring calfskin with all
sorts of graining-treated to
look like anything but calf.
The Right Touch
The smooth calfskin that bag
departments are featuring this
week is so soft and pliable it
can actually be pleated, as our
first sketch shows. This is a
stunning bag. Oy the way. The
lift lock fastening, holding
down a rounded flap, is really
an ornament, for it's made Of
marcasite. The flap, you must
know, Is leather lined, which
you very rarely see in a mod
erately priced bag. And under
meath it. is a slide fastening to
project your valuables.
There's an attached coin
purse inside, and a mirror with
a beveled edge that's fastened
to a silk drop. Everything's
been thought of-yet the price
is less than $500.
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Something more than muscu-
lar flexibility is necessary to
produce grace of body move
ment. There must be co-ordina-
ton between body and mind.
The self-conscious girl is sell
dom graceful. She doesn't
know what to do with her feet,
so she kicks up the rugs. She
feels that her hands are as big
as her head in the way. Her
beauty stunt is to try to forget
herself, to keep her chest up.
hips back and tummy flat.
Then feet and hands and move
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These people do not have to mystify
themselves into a state of gloom, cyniciSm,
don't -give-a-care, despair or nonehalanee,
trying to figure out where and what is
the Center of the Universe! What it looks
like; what it means; what spiritual joy
there is to be gotten out Of it. They
already know. Since a very small, puggy,
round-eyed person made an appearance in
their midst, became one of "the gang"
created a mild havoc in their settled ways,
and a delirious havoc in the mild quiet
current of their heart-beats.
Since little ole Jimmy" came to stay,
at their house, and sweep the "glooms"
(thank you MIR. Powers) away! Mommy
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Metal trim, of course, has
been a rage in handbags all
this season. And nothing makes
a smarter bag than a metal bar.
Just leave it to Chanel to de-
sign the most attractive one
we've seen, illustrated at the
lower left. It's an underarm,
pocketbook type of bag that's
flat and almost square. Yet
the side and bottom gussetS
leave it lots of room to expand
when those dozen or more nee
essaries are tucked away inside.
The one outstanding feature
and properly-is the metal bar
across the bottom. The bar
that's silver when the bag is
black, and gold when it's brown.
AS sketched, the bag itself is
suede in front, with a bar of
matching patent just above the
metal and a patent leather
back. strap and all. But it also
comes in calf, both pack ana
front, with the contrast in a
band of suede above the metal
bar. Or alligator, black or
brown, with a suede insertion.
And the price is less than $500.
Your Mark
Still, that's not the best news.
You can really mark this bag
as your very own by having
your monogram hand-etched on
the metal bar, as many initials
as you want. You'll see "E. c."
etched upon the metal in the
bag we've illustrated. And the
cost is Just about so cents a
letter.
Much-talked-abOut.
You've heard of the new
stitched felt bags, of course?
But probably you hadn't heard
The Washington times., 1931-11-19
WHENACHILD TAKES COLD
don't let system Clog!

n CHILD'S cold can often be
checked in few hours by giving
his bowels the proper care. DR..
time, in his AZ years practice.
DR.. Caldwells fame was acquired
as a specialist in the ills of women
and children. His record of having
attended over $500 births without
loss of mother or baby is believed
unique in American medical history.
The laxative used in his practice
"a compound of pure herbs, pepsin
and other mild ingredients-is ideal
for the bowels Of any child. You
have this famous doctors word
that it is safe even for a tiny infant.
Every child likes it's syrupy taste.
It acts quickly. but cannot gripe.
:. DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin will
remove all the sickening mucus
Haats when a child has caught cold.
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When Manners
Are Correct
By Mrs. Cornelius Beekman

Oy NAASO OOA NNAANo DNNNAAA~'
Dear Mrs. Beeckman:
I was at a friends home the
other evening, and there were
other guests there too. My
friend served san dwich h S,
pickles, small cakes and coffee.
I have always been accustomed
to eating sandwiches and
pickles with my fingers, but the
other two women guests ate
theirs with a knife and fork.
they cut both the sandwich and
the pickles with the knife.
Please tell me which was
right, to use the fingers, or the
knife and fork?
CONSTANT READER.
I am delighted to have your
report that the guests ate their
sandwiches with the knife and
fork, for this is decidedly the
correct thing. Correct, because
it is obviously the careful way,
the neat way, the way that
keeps the fingers fresh and
clean. Whenever it is possible
to eat a sandwich with the
knife and fork, we should do so.
The fact too that your host
ess provided the knife and fork
with the sandwich indicates
that she knows what's what
and that she expected her
guests to use these silver pieces
with the sandwich.
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altar to show his devotion. HE never
thought much of babies. All red, they
were. But this one. This one is different
from any child living! And Gramm and
Gramp. They are devoted, imbecilic, hila-
riuos, dear old slaves. They have lost
their sense of what is proper in the Stti-
tude of an adult toward child, COM
pletely. "They never let NE do that"
cries the Daddy of the Center of Uni.
vers!
No puzzle to this happy family-that ter
rible question of what is the end and the
beginning and the center of all things.
They have il right at home!
NELL BRRNKLEY.
The Washington times., 1931-11-19
Advice to
LoveIorn
Persons
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX
An Authority on Problems Of
Love and Marriage
nv REA1

AOVO anu NA0EEtakC
Gambled Away Savings
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I have been going with a girl
for six years-am terribly in
love with her and doubt wheth-
er she loves me. Recently she
started to gamble and she lost
all of our lfe's savings-gam-
bled them away on another fel-
low. After the money was
spent, she came back to me
and professed her love for me.
When she came back to me, I
threatened to do something des-
perate. She laughingly told me
that she would supply me with
a gun I don't know whether
to take her seriously or not.
TONY w.
You certainly cannot be seri-
Gus, Tony, no matter how fasci-
mated you may be with girl
who has acted as you describe.
Granted that love is a divine
madness as poets say. We're all
apt to have our lucid intervals
even in the worst cases. And
girl who would gamble away
your life's savings on another
is impossible. Take a brace,
come out of your trance!- The
world is full Of decent girls who
would treat you better than that.
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has struck a permanent pose of adora-
tion, that will never cease. Daddy has
struck a permanent pose of alteration that
will never cease. Daddy hsa struck an
other-of pride-high, nose-in-the-air, un-
believable pride. "Haw" he says to the
rest of the world. Auntie Kay-beautiful,
gay, forgets to be selfish for his sake,
and bores the other girls to death about
him. Godfather Jim has a face like the
sun. 1t is melted away in smiles. His
heart is melted, too. He never liked the
name of "Jim" but now he does. Really!
1t is nice name. Uncle Nat, immaeu-
late old bachelor, crawls on the floor in his
dress.suit and brings Pooh.bears to the
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FL of Qieto
- Front"
A Story Of the Aftermath
Or the World War


gloomily, after a time.
"Bookbinder," / reply.
"Really2" He begins to re-
vive. And Albert's, what's
hiS?"
He's dead. But he used to
be a locksmith."
Color and Force
"Locksmith!" he repeats JOY
fully. "Locksmith, eh? Why,
that's grand. I'm a filter my
self. We will have been near
colleagues, then, as you might
say, no?"
That's So" I say.
1T would have been a pity
otherwise" he assures me ener-
getically, and now, just as
Tjaden strolls by to make an
othef wry face, without word
and without shifting on his
seat, he plants one Superbly
aimed kick. He is his old self
again.
The door into the main hall
has started banging. The first
of the boys are coming. We
60 in. The empty room, with
the paper garlands and tables
still unset, gives a disagree
able impression. A few groups
are standing about in corners.
discover Julius Weddekamp in
his faded old military tuniC
and hastily push aside a few
chairs and go to greet him.
How goes it,. Julius?" I say.
Haven't forgotten you owe me
a mahogany cross, I hope, have
you? You wanted to make
me one out of a piano lid, re-
member? Bear it in mind,
old turnip-"
"I might have done with it
myself, Ernst" he says gloom.
lily. You know my wife died?"
I'm sorry to hear that" I
say. What was the trouble?"
ooh" He shrugs his should
ers. Knocked herself out with
the everlasting standing about
in queues outside the shops
all the winter. Then a baby
came and that finished her."
Baby Is Dead
And the baby?" I ask.
"n;ad too" He lunches his
dropping shoulders as if he
we're freezing. Eyes, and
scheffler's dead, too, Ernst.
You knew that, I suppoSe?"
I shake my head. How did
that happen?" Weddekamp
lights his pipe. HE got a
crack on the head, you know;
1917, wasn't it? Anyway, it
healed up all right at the time.
Then about six weeks ago he
suddenly developed such awful
pains that he kept running his
head against the wall. It took
four of us to get him off to
the hospital. inflammation or
something. He pegged out the
next day" He takes a second
match. Eyes, and now they
don't want to give the wife a
pension!"
And Gerhard Pohl?" I in
quire.
HE can't come-Fassbender
and Fritach neither. Out of
work. Not even enough money
for the grub. They would like
to have come, too, the old
boys
The room has about half
filled in the meantime. We
meet many others of our old
pals, but it is strange-the old
spirit is missing. And we have
been looking forward to this
reunion for weeks, hoping it
would clear up for us all sorts
of worries and uncertainties
and misunderstanding. Per
haps it is because of the
civilian clothes sprinkled about
everywhere among the military
togs, or maybe that profession
and family and social standing,
like so many wedges, have split
us asunder; but certain it is the
old feeling of comradeship has
gone.
(TO Be Continued)
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Bv ERICH MARIA REMARQUE
Your Aeo|th
and Proper
Diet
by DIR. Logan CIendening-

"Dy LIZ Logan CIeH0enlngL
Since we have discussed in the
last two articles the Importance
of good posture to health, it
may be we'll to define what good
posture is.
The 10 commandments of
good posture, as given by DR..
Philip Levin, are as follows:
l. Stand tall.
2. Sit tall.
3. Walk tall and chesty, with
weight transmitted to balls of
feet.
4. Draw in abdomen, pulling
it backward and upward.
S. Keep shoulders high and
square.
6. Pull chin straight toward
collar button.
Z. Flatten hollow of back by
rolling pelvis forward and down.
ward.
8. Separate shoulders from
hips as far as possible.
9. Lie tall and flat.
10. Think tall.
Three Bodily Types
1t will be seen that, according
to this, good posture is de-
manded while standing, sitting
or lying down.
There are three types of bod
lily build rerognized-thin, stocky
and intermediate. The term
"stocky" applies largely to chill.
dren. Later on in life a less
complimentary word is likely to
be used. Each of these bodily
types has its own standards by
which one must judge posture.
And in each type posture is
rated under four headings-eX-
cellent, good, poor and bad. Un-
der any one of these headings
your child may be classified.
The Thin Type
The standards for each rat.
ing for the thin type are as fol-
lows:
Excellent: Head up, chin in.
Head balanced above shoulders,
hips and ankles. An imaginary
plumb line dropped from the
side of the head should pass
through the ear and through
the middle of the shoulder, hip,
knee and ankle bone.
2. Chest up. Breast bone the
part of the body farthest for
ward.
3. Lower abdomen in and
flat.
4. Back curves within normal
limits.
Good: /. Head slightly for
ward.
2. Chest slightly lowered.
8. Lower abdomen in, but not
flat.
4. Back curves slightly in
creased.
Poor: /. Head forward.
2. Chest flat.
3. Abdomen relaxed. (Part of
body farthest forward0
4. Back curves exaggerated.
Bad: i. Head markedly for
ward.
2. Chest sunken.
3. Abdomen completely re-
laxed and protuberant.
4. Back curves extremely ex-
aggerated,
The Washington times., 1931-11-19
By E. V. Shepard

An informatory double is a
species of demand declaration,
obliging the doubler's partner to
bid, unless he can defeat the
doubled contract for greater
gain than can result from any
responsive bid. Some players
consider a double of a. open
ing bid informatory Cor mega
tive, as called by some): other
players only double for penalties.
Experience leads me to believe
that the following requirements
for informatory doubles are
The Washington times., 1931-11-19

1t relieves the headaches, bilious
ness, belching, bloating, ETC., due
to constipation. 1t keeps the bowels
open in children's diseases.
Keep DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin
handy to use when any member of
your family needs a safe, certain
laxative. 1t is good for all agesl
All drugstores have it.
The Washington times., 1931-11-19
Odd Facts

A fuel oil composed of 30
per cent gasoline and 10 per
cent pure alcohol has been pro-
duced by chemical experts in
the Argentine.
The chin whiskers of a goat
are used to make the finer
variety of writing brushes used
for bookkeeping and letter writ
ing in China.
The Washington times., 1931-11-19
CHAPTER "a

I The first reglmental reunion
since we returned from the
war is to take place in the
main hall at Konersmann's. All
the boys have been invited. 1t
should be a great show.
Karl, Albert, Jupp and I ar
rive an hour too soon. We
were so impatient to see all
the old faces again.
In the meantime we sit in
the lounge outside the main
room and wait for the arrival
of Willy and the others. We
are just tossing for a round
of Steinhager gin, when the
door opens and Ferdinand Ko-
sole comes in. We are so
taken aback at his appearance
that the coin drops from our
hands. He's in civvieS!
Like most of us, he has till
now been wearing his old uni
form, but today in honor OF the
occasion he has turned out in
civvies and now there he stands
in a blue overcoat with velvet
collar, a green hat on his head
and butterfly collar and tie.
It makes an utterly different
man of him.
We have hardly recovered
from our astonishment when
Tjaden appears. He, to, is in
civvies, also for the first time
q striped waistcoat, bright vel
low shoes and a walking stick
with a silvered crook. With
chin we'll up, he comes strut
ting down the room. AS he en-
counters Kosole, he draws back.
Kosole balks likewise. Neither
has ever seen the other except
in uniform. They look each
other up and down for a Sec
ond, then burst into roars OF
laughter. Each thinks the other
in civilian togs to funny for
anything.
or CIO'es
"Why, Ferdinand, I always
thought you were one Of the
toffs!" grins Tjaden.
"How do you mean?" says Ko-
sole, ceaSing to laugh.
"Why, here!" Tjaden points
to Kosole's overcoat. Looks to
me as if you'd bought it off a
rag-and-bone merchant"
"Ass!" growls Ferdinand fierce
ly, turning away; but see that
he slowly turns red, I can
hardly believe my eyes-he is
actually upset! And when he
thinks himself unobserved he
surreptitiously examines the
ridiculed coat. In uniform he
would never have thought of
such a thing; but now he is
actually rubbing out a couple of
stains with the shiny cuff of
his sleeve! Then he looks long
time across at Karl Broger,
who has on a Swagger new
suit. He does not know have
been watching him. After a
while he asks me: Whats
Karl's father, do you know"
District judge" I answer.
"So-District judge, eh?" he
repeats meditatively. "And Lud-
wig, what's his?"
Income tax inspector"
He is silent a while. Then he
says: well. I suppose you
won't be having anything more
to do with me soon"
"You're potty, Ferdinand" I
reply.
He shrugs his shoulders
doubtfully. I cannot get over
my surprise. It is not merely
that he looks different in these
damned civilian togs, but he has
actually changed in himself,
too. He wouldn't have cared a
brass tack about it before. but
now he is even taking the thing
off and is hanging it up in the
darkest corner of the place.
"Too hot in here" he says
sourly, when he sees me watch
ing him. I nod.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11

The ladies race over the ice at
Lillian Corke is seen winning the 44o
Atlantic skating tournament to retail
year.
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t The former nj i S S
Suzanne Polar d,
daughter of Gov. John
Pollard of Virginia,
who became the bride
of Herbert Lee Boat
wright, jr., Washington
attorney, on January 3,
at the executive man.
sion in Richmond.
Y @ A. P. Photo.
The Washington times., 1931-05-04
Chevy Chase Club Plans
Garden Pilgrimage

Many of the loveliest gardens
of the older section Of Chevy
Chase, Md, will be opened to
the public on Tuesday, May
26, when the Chevy Chase
Garden Club of Maryland will
hold it's annual garden pilgrim
age. The date has been
placed rather late in May so
that the wonderful rose dis
plays of this neighborhood as
we'll as the early summer an
nuals and perennialS will be at
their most luxuriant and fresh
set period.
About 20 gardens will be
included in the pilgrimage,
while the journeyers will be
served tea at two homes, those
of Mrs. Boyd Carpenter on
Melrose Street and DR.. and
Mrs. Frank Hood Shultz on
Brookville Road. The pilgrim
age will be conducted for the
benefit of the Montgomery
County Social Service League.
Some Charming Gardens
Among the rarely beautiful
gardens to be included in the
tour are those Of Airlie, the
Rudolph Kaufman home; the
extensive rose gardens of Mr..
and Mrs. Whitman Cross, COM
prising several acres of colorful
lovelinesS, and the rarely
charming wild flower rock gar
den developed by Mrs. Hugh
Southgate at her home. the
"Old Lodge" near Chevy Chase
Circle.
At the cost of almost endless
care Mrs. Southgate has sue
ceeded in nurturing the most
delicate and rare wild flow
ers. Her rock garden shows
such delicate and unusual
blooms as the wild hepatica,
wild dwarf iris and primroses,
The Washington times., 1931-05-04
Directed hV ANUS PARHISH--'

they're sturdy clothes. And
they're neat clothes. And
they're simple clothes. If they're
all these things, they're fash
ionable. and the things fash
ionable feminine golfers are
wearing.
Watch Glenna Collett. You
won't see her wearing dresses
that bind in the shoulders. Nor
blowing scarfs nor rattling
bracelets, nor ruffled skirts.
Watch any serious golfers.
You'll see them wearing the
good, old knitted things that
have lots Of give. Lots of
take" too. Because they'll
take all sorts of pulling and
straining without damage.
Lots of Sweater Suits
You'll see them wearing lots
of sweater suits. Sweaters and
skirts. often with a matching
cardigan for extra warmth. The
new knitted woolens in the open
work, meShy effects. Loose
enough for comfort. Ginning
enough tor smartness.