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/' •y-.C;- ' Copyright, 1931, by Hoyle. Jr !3»P33S»WW»fSpP« mn • :'.vmw -- " "' tmrmn nanroaAiJia, thotsoat, kaxcx x% ws V -'awwv'a'-;*^':i .£*"•"* «a~ ' -•if*' \ Sim toptaf £rUfa AUCTION^ CONTRACT Fv- ,e Ferguson Author of 'PRACTICAL AUCTION BRIDOB* £ ARTICLE No. 19 la the preceding article, a number of interesting hands were given for tnatf" sis. If you have not already decided on the proper play or Did, do so no* before you read the solution in each instance. A comparison of your opinion with the writer's solution will prove most interesting and should help to improve your game. Solutions to Last Week's Problems Hand No. 1 Hearts -- Q, 9, 8, 6, 5, J Clubs --8,4 • ' .^Diamonds -- A, 7 • :C0;'Spades A, 8, » a • . y . t A 9 i • • . Z ••: • one dub, A one heart and Y doubled. B now bid one spade and Z and A What should Y now bid and No soore. &it g&tpe- Z dealt and bid I or a suit^ Hand No/2: : Solution'. Y should bid one no trump at either Auction or Contract. This bid should indicate at least one stopper in spades and a fair outside hand. His revicus double of one heart has shown is partner great strength in that suit, ao it is now up to Z to decide whether it is better ift tty iaeffi mc ia fr^toaap£ Hearts T-Q, 10,9 Clubs -- A, Q, 10,8, A, J. Diamonds --Q, 10, ?;.v. ; Spades -- 9 Hearts--18, $ .; Clubs--7,2 . , 4 Diamonds --ICt i Spades0, 8, 4, 3'h^v^. ; :A Y Z: *: ' No score, rubber game. Z dealt and bid one no trump, A bid two clubs, Y passed, B bid two no trump and all passed. Z opened the five of 6pades, A played the nine, Y the queen and B won the trick with the ace. B now led the king of clubs, followed with jack, winning the trick in A's hand with the queen. All followed, so that the clubs are set up. B then led the acc of clubs. What should Y discard and why? Solution: Y should discard the nine of diamonds to show his partner at once that the only tricks in his hand are in the diamond suit. There are three discards coming and, unless Z is informed at once that Y can protect diamonds, he may be forced to discard to his disadvantage. Don't hesitate to inform your partner at once of strength in your hand when you see that he will be obliged to discard several times. If he has to guess, he probably will guess wrong; so make it easy for him. A high discard indicates strength.in the suit' discarded. Hand No.# Hearts -- 10, 9, 7, 6, 4 Clubs -- A, K, 10 Diamonds -- A, Q, 10, 9 -Spades --3 : Y : :A-~ ~ :• Z .. : ' Y A B Z Hand No.4 Hearts -- t " •N ' Clubs --(J J Diamonds;-- T, 10, 9,4, S Spades -- A, Q,10, 9, 5,3 No score and A B a game in. Z dealt and passed. A and Y passed and B bid one spade. Z bid two hearts, A two spades, Y three hearts and B three spades. Z now bid four hearts, A four spades and Y five hearts. B and Z passed, A doubled and Y passed. What should B now bid and why? Solution: B should bid five spades at either Auction or Contract. His hand is too unbalanced to play to defeat five hearts, particularly after a double raise by A. This double raise by A should indicate at least four spades, so that A B cannot hope to win more than one spade trick against1 a five-heart bid.therefore Y Z will either make the bid or only be defeated by one trick. B should hid, five spades without any question. Hearts Hand NoJL A -v Clubs 8, 4,2 Diamonds -- A, S. Spades -- J, 9, 8, 7, (J, 4, S 3U. Y | : A B i : Z i Ho score, first game. Z dealt Mid bid one spade and A passed. What should Y now bid with the foregoing hand and why? Solution: At Auction, Y should bid two hearts and, if Z rebids spades, Y should bid two no trump. A suit bid is always preferable to a no trump bid, particularly with a singleton of partner's suit. At Contract, Y should bid three no trump. The hand is so strong that Z may not have a rebid and yet game is fairly certain in no trump ana it is up to Y to try for game No score, rubber game. Z dealt and bid one spade. A passed, Y bid one no trump and B and Z passed. What should A bid with the foregoing hand and why? AUCTION BIDDING: ~ A should bid two spades, not with the hope of making the bid, but with the hope that it will save game and rubber. A will probably lose one or two tricks, with a two-6pade bid, but even if it is doubled, it will be a cheap way to save the certain loss of game and rubber if he allows Y Z .to play the hand at no trump. *• CONTRACT BIDDING} A should pass. His opponents have not contracted for game, and he hat no chance for game in spades. ' ** ji ' Iff itl' i ' 'iga' liens of interest . TaKen FTMI the Files of the Plaindealer , Yew* A£»: TEN YEARS AGO Ford touring cars were delivered Monday by the local agent, John R. Knox, to Howard Wattles and Jesse Wormley. A sedan was also delivered to Clyde Kent one day last week. John E. Freund and Louis Oertel have formed a partnership and began on Wednesday of this week the manufacture of cigars in this village under the name of the El Dependo Cigar Co. Supt. Oswell G. Treadway of the McHenry schools is this Week attending a convention of the National Educational association in session in Chicago. Over 7,000 sheep, shipped in from Mont-ana, are now being fattened for the Chicago market at the Hidgefield sheep feeding yards. \ / TWENTY YEARS AGO Butter was declared firm at 30 cents on the Elgin board of trade Monday. The season for cfeaning house is near. We have a nice line of white wash brashes. Masquelets Drug Store. During last Thursday night the McHenry flour and feed mill on the West Side was entered and the cash drawer relieved of between 8 and 9 dollars in changte And still no arrests. The firm of Mr Weber and Son, contractors and builders, has dissolved, mber retiring from s son, John P. Weber, will shoulder the responsibilities and carry on the business alone. the senior m« activity, while TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO There were no offerings on the Elgin board of trade Monday and the price of butter was declared firm at 32 cents. Chas. Heimer returned to his duties as railway mail clerk last Saturday morning after an illness of five weeks. Martin Stoffel, who has been working in Chicago during the winter months, has returned to McHenry and can again be found in the C. G. Frett meat market. Mrs. S. W. Brown died at the home of her son in Ringwood, HI., Mar.2, 1907 of old age, after an illness of only nine days, at the age o£ 84 years, a n d n i n e m o n t h s . " > rC, . Our ashington Letter v" . -By-- ' . • Natfona! Editorial Association Washington, March 9 - It is expected that an era of agitated speech and electioneering will replace the brief period of cooperation on legislative action. The lid will b© raised on partisan clamor when the essential tax bills are out of the way. It is reliably reported that no major legislation will pass after the revenue measure and the remaining departmental appropriation bills are out of the way. Obviously, political controversy will crop up in consideration of the tax-raising measure. The House of Representatives is scheduled to dispose of^the revenue proposition within a few days without much change in the committee's recommen dations. A Republican Senate may have another interpretation of tax producing methods differing from the Democratic House. Anxiety as to their political future is evidenced by many legislators. It was openly charged in the Senate recently that the Congressional Record was cluttered up with articles and other data for the sole purpose of sending it through the mails without cost. These "leave to print" sections become official when printed in the journal of Congressional proceedings. They are reprinted as "official documents" and sent out for propaganda. < An appeal was made to stop these abuses in the interest of economy. The saving mood of Congress never affect* themselves. There has been no reduction of employees', salaries in the legislative branch of the Federal Government. Congress has, however, authorized economies elsewhere. * Reports reaching the House Appropriations Committee show that Wnugsling by airplanes is increasing. Fraudulent transactions at ports of entry have increased 100 per cent. The only effective method of halting air smugglers is base<^ on advance tips from neighboring countries. It seems feat importers and travellers are more willing to defraud customs officials in times of depression. Contrary to current movies, the Narcotic Service reported this week that opium smoking is a vice confined to Orientals and few white folks fall victims. Actually estimates show less thin 100,000 drug addicts in this country. The average age is 38 years which in- - vdicates that the youth of the country is "not narcotic minded". Hie average taxpayer seldom Malices the cost of collecting Federal #aapM> A reduction ^ revenue baa the FORTY YEARS AGO We are now enjoying fine, springlike weather in this section. Sixty-i'seven coujples attended the dance at Heimer's Hall, on Monday evening. That they had a good time goes without sagpng. R. Waite has moved back from Elgin and will occupy the house with his father and mother. Lew Holmes, who has been in Kenosha the past two months, returned<*to effect of boosting the cost because it,his home' in this villa&e' on Monday, is almost impossible to reduce the sal-! Isaac Wentworth, who has been aries or numbers of employees hand- confined to the house for the past six ling these matters in lean years. For weeks> with La Grippe, is so far reinstance, it cost $1.40 to collect every «WWPed as to be able to be out again. $100 in taxes in 1931 as compared L - with $1.13 in 1930. A smaller force' 1, - FIFTY YEARS AGO collected in other years taxes- ^eo- Besley, the West side averaging close to $1.80 per $100. The drug&wt, has made arrangements to lowest cost waa due to the very sharp *n his store about May 1st, one increase in revenue and to the fact of Tufts Artic Soda Fountains. These that the personnel of the bureau had are said to tys the finest Fountains in not at that time been increased to any mar^e^* extent. In 1931 the Treasury garnered' 011 the board of Monday the nearly two and one-half billions as pnce of butter declined from 48 and compared to 345 millions in 1913 !50 cents that was Paid a week a£°' All doubt as to the ability of]*0 43 ^ 45 cente- was what political leaders to soft-pedal the pro-1most everybody expected, as 50 cents hibition issue at the national conven-1was a11 ?ut of reason" PeoPle even tions has been dissipated. The signa- Pe°Ple< couldn't pay it. The tures of 145 House Members calling na*UT*1 consequence was a tumble for a discharge of the committee con- ^lch stl" , ^tter way up sidering 'Vet" and "dry" bills forced Cheese what httle was sold, brought the subject to the front. Not even the cents. best optimists among the modificationists really expect favorable action by the Congress. They have merely' First Stat* P««t The establishment of a state post In succeeded in riveting political atten- i "ranee goes back to 1464, though its tion on the matter which might other-! «arly history is very obscure. Imwise have been side-tracked by power- j Pavements were made from time to ful elements 'in the major parties. | time In this organization. Napoleon Echoes of the Newberry, Vare ^ replaced a committee that had and Smith ouster proceedings are heard' in the Senate committee's proposal to declare Senator Bankhead's seat vacant. The three excluded from Senate membership because of doubtful or illegal election methods are Republicans. They were removed on a bi. partisan vote. The Senate committee's action on Bankhead was strongly partisan. There is some doubt that the advocates of ouster can muster sufficient votes to have the committee recommendations endorsed. The subject will bring Tom Heflin, the loser in the Alabama election, into the limelight. /"* been appointed to manage the postal service by a single director general, *nd his organization has remained In general outline unchanged. Of recent years the post office has usually been attached to another ministry, supfcl as treasury, public works, commerce, etc: Gold Standard ®he idea of gold as a standard mmr wp Imperceptibly In Europe The early Venetian bankers drew bills secured by gold and the bankers of Antwerp ater did likewise. These practices may be regarded as the forerunners of an established gold standard In- •ohring a gold reserve against paper. Papal Edicts Papal bulls take their titles from the first word or phrase of the text, Which invariably is written In classic Latin. Thus the bull which bears the title "Antiquorum habet fidem," is named for the opening phrase which, translated, reads, "He has the faith of the Ancients." The title of the bull, "Exsurge," means "Arise." There is no way of determining from Its title what the subject matter of a papal bull may be. The Strings in Plan* total number of strings tea modern upright piano of 7% octaves is about 225. it in estimated that the pull of the strings f* to strain of 20 tons. !»f - American ColloquialUm The word "boughten" |8 an American colloquial adjective meanin* "bought at a- store." nR h-.iRhten flour. - How to B« Charming Charm Isn't hard to acquire. Yon Just learn to make the „r7W fellow /eel important and thorn" vou are.-- San rrandsco Chronicle , Salic Law The Salic law is one of the provisions of a code of laws of the Saltan Franks first drafted in about the Fifth century. . The code relates chiefly to compensation or punishment for crimes; it contains a provision regarding the succession of the Salic lands. The provision declares that males shaU "inherit lands In preference to f» maieR." The la,w Is best. known by Its special application as excluding women from the throne of France.-- .^Literary Dl »st. What Makes a Man Old? Worry and care pile on the years In i hajry.-^oHW's \\Vpkly. y Hurricane Brought Post? Entomologists believe that the fruit fly came to Florida in a hurricane from either Bermuda or the Bahamas. Two Dumbelir Put of Dubuque 88 By FANNIE HURST (A br McCluie Newspaper Uyndlcst*.) (WNU Service) WHEN the Kammerer children were asked their father's occupation, they replied "Kammerer the Grocer," with no sense of humble admission. In their city, "Kammerer the Grocer" Was the finest, most de luxe Institution of Its kind In town. Indeed, there were those who moved away to metropolises like New York and Chicago, who found it necessary to write back to Kammerer for certain delicacies such as exotic spices, fruits, that were obtainable nowhere else. "Kammerer the Grocer" was not Just the corner tradesman catering to the green-and-tinned needs of a small neighborhood area. Kammerer's baking, delicatessen, vegetable, fruit, tinned and staples departments were so complicated and highly organized as any big business. The stamp of Kammerer was the Insignia of a housewife's ability to supply her family with the best, Aesop Kammerer, while he did not actually serve the trade, could be found on the premises of the business from early morning until late at night There were roomy If not particularly luxurious offices on the rear of the second floor, and he could either be found there, or In close and careful scrutiny of the needs of his various departments. 'At no time of the day, except the noon hour, was a customer, asking for the head of the concern, likely to be told that he was out, or unavailable. Kammerer, who had built up this business almost single-handed, never relaxed his hold when success came. Nine and ten hours a day, six days a week, he gave It heart and body and soul, importunings of his wife and children to the contrary notwithstanding. "Aesop, Just think, our children have been to Europe six times now In all. Don't yon think it fcigh time we were entitled to just one holiday!" "Ton're right, mother. That's what I'm planning. Next summer we'll Join the young ones and see the world." "Father, you've been saying that for six years, now." "I mean it this time, mother. High time we were beginning to get something out of it. Next year this time the business can spare me." The children, high-spirited twins of eighteen, were also of a mind. "Honestly dad, It's up to you and mother to come over with us next summer. You two darlings make us look snide, being so home grown." "Never you mind, children, your father and I are going to France and Italy with you next June. It's coming to us." . And, finally, although as mother said, she didn't actually believe it until they were on the boat, the Kammerer family, four strong, did set sail for the European trip, which the older pair had been contemplating, planning, dreaming, for at least two-thirds of their married lives. The youngsters, pampered In every form of travel and education, and to whom the voyage was an old story, set out upon this one in the high spirit of the adventure of experience leading Innocence by the hand. Within twenty-four hours after landing Aesop Kammerer and his wife were being swung through Europe according to the dictates of their two high-handed effervescent youngsters, who were determined on showing them "how it was done." The results need not have been surprising. but they smote the parental Kammerers with something akin to humiliated dismay. The older pair who, according to all precepts and precedents, should have been having the time of their lives, found themselves overwhelmed with the most profound sense of Inferiority it had ever been their ill fortune to even conceive. Accustomed in their home city each to position of authority and social and business recognition, here they were, being led around by the noses, to speak, by two youngsters who were versed in aspects of life of which they had never even heard. It was one thing to hear Amy and Robert recite the expedition of their summer travels,, yea* after year, when they returned from the long and luxurious vacations afforded them by their stay-at-home parents. It was another matter to come face io face with these wonders of European civilization ; wonders to which their children were innured, and stand there, as Mother Kammerer finally admitted to her husband, like two dumbells out of Dubuque. Their mutual admissions, kept hoarded from one another during the first six weeks of the trip, burst forth one night In their hotel room that overlooked the Arno in Florence. Jj*A<|sop, you may not know it, but wfrre a pair of what the children would call 'dumbells out of Dubuque.'" He had been sitting beside the Window, resting his tired and aching feet upon a pillow when this outburst came, and he turned upon his wife the tired defeated eyes she had been noticing in him for weeks. "It's terrible, njiother. If I have to face another art gallery or another cathedral and pretend to those youngsters that I know what It's all about, you'll about have to ship home my ashes in an urn." "And the degrading part of it Is, Aesop, Aaiy and Bs»«t low and derstand those pictures ttU tha betaty of the architecture. There's just no use my pretending, Aesop, I dont know a Del Sarto from a Raphael, and the worst of it is, I don't care. I'm tired, papa. My neck aches from galleries as much as your feet do." "The heauty is there alright, mother. It's just that we haven't had tl# time to prepare ourselves to admire it, the way the children have. The whole world's not crazy, traveling these countries over for the wonders, of their art and .bejiuty. It's Just that we Kammerers the Grocers haven't had time to become anything else.'" "There's something in that, father," said his wife, easing the back of her neck with a ministering of witch-hazel. "I long, Just as much as you do. to be able to make the children feel we're »p to it, but ] may as well confess. Aesop, I don't know what It's all about. Take that lecture today in the gallery on Siennese art of the Fif teenth century, it wasn't easy to foi low what he wag saying, father, the way It was for the children because they've had enough preparation for travel, to know what it was M about." ' Exactly, mother ! While we've been : at home, being grocers, our children have been preparing themselves to en- Joy the things we will be outcasts' from all our lives. If we don't hurry up and begin to lay the ground work for us to enjoy if, too.? - \ -l-."." "Now, what do you mean by that. Aesop?" asked his wife. What he meant by that was to com«° as a great shock In the lives of Robert and Amy when they heard it, and the way they heard It was this: One evening in the bar of the Ex* eel si or hotel In Rome, over cocktails,' Robert said to his sister: "This trip is an awful frost. Amy. Good Lord, if I had known the governor and the governor's lady were going to be a pair of sawdust babies on our hands! Did you see the poor old mater flop down for a cat nap today In the house of Livia, right in front of the murals?" "Yes, and it would have to be In front of 'Io Guarded by Argus.' J, wouldn't say it to the dears foi* worlds, but can you Imagine how they would welcome taking an earlier boat home? We could hop down to Antlbes then for. a cojjple of months otit the Riviera." " . > "I'll be the last to suggest tt to them." . "Leave it to me, darling. I know' the mother like a book. She will Jump at the release!" It was at this point that Aesop walked In on his progeny who were tossing off the remains of their cocktails. . i, "Say, Rob, say Amy, what say? Here in this envelope I've two transportations back home." "Oh, -father--not quitting us, areyon?" "No. You're quitting us. Ma and' I have made up our minds to stay" over In Europe this year, and catch . on to this thing called the culture game. I'm going to need yon tw«> children back home. Rob, you're go-?| tng to take charge of the fruit and ; vegetable departments, A to Z and,f| Amy, I've wired back to our Miss Punt to take you on in her depart-*; menf and get you limbered up In the fascinating Btudy of Imported spices." "Why, father--" ^ "Nope. You mother $nd I aren't go ing to need you around for the nextlittle while. We're going to get our-? selves ready, the way we did you, tpi. know what It's all about," And so it was, that the house of Aesop Kammerer, Fancy Grocers, found Itself presented with a newmanager of the fruit and vegetable department as well as an assistant to*; Miss Punt, In the fascinating department of rare and exotic spices. 1#^ f. * ifj r • •i Home'healing rates new NEARLY ONE-THIRD LOWER little it phtiria GAS %£UECTRIC COMPANY COLLINS, District Manager » * £ 1 v* M ~ \ A .0* 1 - * 0 ' §•: 1 " -f<* 'M, /* * i 4'r * .Vi-'Vi .-.i' USE THE CLASSIFIED COLUMNS FOE QUICK RESULTS Small Food Difference in the Cereal Grelm The cerea! grains are the backbone; of the nutrition of most of the racesg of the earth. They are, as a rule, the cheapest sources of food fuel; so that corn, wheat, rice, barley and oat kernels are to be found constituting a;i third or often much more of'the calory Intake of the millions of persons in>; volved. Some of these cereal products are used In almost the same form asS nature. They may be ground or pulverized and cooked, but not otherwise^ greatly altered. On the other hand, a few of the* cereal seeds are manipulated or milled? so that a part of the natural kernel Is discarded. This is notably true of! rice and wheat; In lesser degree alsc* of corn. Aside from these alterations! however, there is a running debate asf to the relative nutritive values an<i^ physiologic properties of -the various cereals. From the chemist's standpoint there; is little occasion to attribute^ any es4 peeial superiority to one of the cerealgrains over its usual competitors. All? are abundant In starch, have a modicum of protein that does not qultef match most animal proteins In biologic value, include essentially the same contents of a few inorganic ingredl ents, and have a complement of vi* tamins that Is not conspicuous or diversified. Despite this, one may oh* serve the dispute of relative virtue^ entering from time to time into the; propaganda for trade preference.--; Journal of Nutrition. Wealth Oitea Hindrance x People often live as though WeaTftl were the greatest good, sacrificing t<r~ * it health, happiness, even conscicnce itself. Don't feel bad if you haven't •everything yoij want. Be glad that you are comfortable and have to strive,' for the things of Hfe.-~*irit. ' , ;; S; HASSIS F.O.B. PONTIAC BODY PRICES F.O. B. BODY DEPOT. Looking Forward 5 Civilisation as we know it, will last 40,000 years lon-er, says a college professor. From then on the human race is expect od to show improveras^ r-JPeg Mc- o Register. Titl* of Leadership "Mahatma" mav be literally transited "great sori." but the word Is liberally tran8li>^ <} to sMU leader, •aster, ot. tew^Ni- • --•• « . 1 'f"|. 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