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MAR MEG BRIDGE James m jmmmmjt for will theft- way into your bag SEC THE Wednesda I imPrngtl A crack addicts warning in verse By Meg DEAR MEG I was Interested to read that you are a recovering alco holic Itaowthatnomatterhowiong a person hasbeen drug free he Is al ways recovering Im a recovering crack addict and I could identify with your letter You probably dont have room to print It but Im enclosing a poem wrote about my addiction It starts with when I first experimented with coke to the day It nearly Wiled me With co caine life turns Into an array of con fusing tormented thoughts and each day Is an escape from reality Into fan laiy Thank you for listening Meg LAURA FLA DEAR LAURA If I didnt have space Id make it I pray that every person who is doing cocaine will read your words and heed them Here is your poem and thanks for letting me use It So Yon Waul to Die Hey there Bored with the old want something new II be your friend Let me walk with you I make you feel good I make you feci great Ill be your best friend I II take you places you ve never been And once we start out Youll want me again I ve taken much stronger than you To the grave So go steal for me And be my slave As your new master And only friend For me your values Youll learn to bend To hurt and to kill Is my only game Just try me once Cocaine Write to Meg care of this newspa per Meg can only answer letters that contain a self addressed stamped en- vetope Questions of general interest wilt be discussed in future columns NORTH K 10 SOUTH East Soma Pan INT Pan i Pan Bemlce Bade Birthday Interesting changes are In the offing for you In the year ahead They could come about rather unexpectedly For In stance you may begin with one type of venture only to use It as base to launch something different CANCER June You might leave a score of unfinished In MM your wake today After you drive In a ItaanumrtsetactlothatwUldeprlvevou few nail inter- of success may not be quite ready lor your avant- garde Ideas today Hold your farout schemes In abeyance until they catch up with the times ARIES March April Hunches might take precedence over your logi cal assumptions today Although you may operate more By feelings than thought It a best to reverse the procedure TAURUS If you Intro duce sudden changes Into special plans today It could cause consternation among your companions and crimp ev eryone good time Mar Guard against an impulse today to awttcrt ob jectives just when a goal la achievable ACROSS TVs talking horse was Philippine na- Her grandchild is overdisciplined By Meg Whltcomb DEAR MEG I have just returned from a visit with my daughter husband and their child My daughter and her husband are old er parents with advanced degrees in psychology I dont think my daughter realizes that Amy is only a baby Every time she does the least little thing she gets bawled out and sent to her room This happens go often that its almost a game I feel Amy should be spoken to In stead of punished so much In act some of the things she does are so in significant they could be overlooked I kept still because Im only the grandmother but I still teach the low grades and I often babysit Id like to say something about this In my next letter to my daughter but I don know what I do know itll be a long time before I make another cross country trip just to see Amy off to her room HELENA ML DEAR HELENA Raising well- adjusted children is as much a matter of instinct as It Is of advanced Intel lect Rewarding youngsters for good behavior rather than punishing them harshly forbad Is the best way to help them grow Into secure self disciplin ing individuals The constant punishment being doled out to Amy is likely to turn her Into a docile but secretly rebellious little girl who never really accepts parental standards of good behavior as her own Since is a learned rath er than innate skill Amys parents would benefit from working with childrearing erperts and you can tell them 1 suggested this But dont stop visiting You can be an Important and happy Influence on Amy DEAR MEG My lance was best man at my brothers wedding There were a lot of parties before the wed ding and of course Jack and I were invited to them But there were two parties Jack t take me to His ex was that they were bachelor parties and women werent Included But a friend told me later that there were women at both parties wom en nobody knew I miked Jack If my brother had shipped in some professionals the sort of thing hed do but Jack said no He said some girls Just dropped in when they saw there was a party off the hotel lobby Does this sound fishy to you I asked my brother but he wouldn admit to anything SUS PICIOUS SIS MO DEAR SIS It doesn sound fishy to me but I not your brother You must be aware of the bachelor dinner tradition usually held a night or two before the nig day where no women from the wedding party are allowed you are now Danger lies to the west By James Jacoby No ladies and gentlemen the bid ding diagram docs not contain a mis print The four heart bid by North was a transfer bid and South was only ad hering to the convention when be bid four spades If you employ such a bid you can call It a transfer bid at the four level or you can call it a Tex as transfer but it is a good Idea to dis cuss It with your partner before the game Conventions like this one re quire partnership agreement Declarer ruffed the opening lead drew trumps ending In dummy and took a heart finesse After winning the heart queen West realized that three club tricks were needed to set the con tract He therefore led the club queen playing East for the AJ of clubs Down one The contract can be assured after the opening lead if declarer makes the right avoidance plays First let him throw a heart from dummy at one East will win his diamond ace and presumably return a heart Declarer wins the ace draws the defenders trumps and then plays the king and of hearts When West comes up with the queen declarer can ruff and re turn to bis hand with a spade to shed a club from dummy on the fourth heart Even if West plays a low heart on the South can play a club from dum my Should East then win the heart queen be will not be able to attack the club king in dummy and declarer will make 10 tricks by getting rid anoth er low club in dummy on his fourth heart In search of entries By James When South won the first trick with his heart queen be suspected that he needed to grab nine tricks right away So he played dummys queen spades and took a diamond finesse When West showed out declarer need ed an extra entry to dummy to pick up the diamond suit without a loser He played another spade and put In the 1 When that held he was home free He played a diamond to his nine and a spade back to dummys ace A third lead from dummy enabled de clarer to make five diamond tricks and his contract As the hand was played West could have thwarted Souths plans by put ting up the jack of spades on the sec ond lead of that suit The ace wins the trick but the extra entry to dummy disappears Of course any declarer wishing to be enshrined in the bridge columnists hall of fame will simply play the spade king at trick two and overtake with dummys ace Now when a diamond to the jack discloses the bad split de clarer is able to finesse the spade 10 In dummy to gain an extra entry and West is helpless to prevent it That might not even be the right play since it gives up an when the dia monds split normally splits are fairly rare but It makes for an Inter esting bridge story few nails you may suddenly lose Inter est Trying to patch up a broken ro mance The Matchmaker set can help you understand what It might take to re store the relationship maker this newspaper O Box Cleveland OH LEO July 23Aug beat not to gamble at all today but It you can re- slat the urge restrict your small to familiar areas VIRGO Aug 23Sept Usually you stick to your guns once you make up your mind but today others may be able to turn your decisions off and like a 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