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Ohm topUytirM. AUCTION -< CONTRACT ^ Wynne Ferguson Author Of "PRACTICAL AUCTION BR1DOB* Copyright, 193t, by Hoyle, Jr. K-". . *„* *$.••<*.• ARTICLE No. 17 «r«.' ' •.£ ' m, 'C' /' The other night a friend of mine me: "What's the best way to learn how to play a good game of Auction or Contract?" and I replied: "Learn to profit by your mistakes." That's the secret of improvement and the only one treat is of any value. No natter how much a teacher may tell you or how many books you read, you will never improve your game unless -you learn by your mistakes. Don't make the same mistake twice and you will soon become a fine player. The ones who make the same mistakes over and over again are the hopeless players. Don't, be ^fraid to ask questions. If you do something wrong, ask •omc good player what you should have done. Write to the editor and, if, your question is one of general interest,. »t will be published in these articles.! The foS'cwirig hands represent prob-', lems of bidding that have confused readers of these articles and are now given as a test of your knowledge of^ bidding. If your analyses agree with; those given below, you are a pretty, good bidder. If they do not, compare your analyses with the writer's and try to find out your mistakes. Solutions to Last Week's Problems Hand No. I Y A B Z <7; i¥": Hearts--'A"-<----V Clubs -- 9, 7, 6, 5, 3, 2 Diamonds--r A, 8, 7, 2 Spades -- A, 2 • ) . - No score, rubber game. What should Z, as dealer, bid with the foregoing hand? Solution: At Auction, with this hand Z should bid one club, fhe hjfnd contains three aces and, therefore, proper values for a sound no trump; But the distribution is bad for that bid. The six-card club suit, even without top honors, offers the best attacking bid of the hand and so must be the best bid. The only other possible bid with this hand is one diamond and that is doubtful because of the shortness of the suit and its weakness in top honors. At Contract, the hand should be passed, despite the three aces. Partner will try for game with a fair hand and the weakness in the club suit, if bid, nllay cause disaster. The penalties, when one is vulnerable, are too heavy to justify bidding this type, of hand. Hand No. 2 Hearts -- J, 10, 8, 3, 2 Clubs --J, 7,3 - ' Diamonds--• 9, 5 • Spades -- K, 6, 5 Y : No scort, first game. Z dealt, , bid Me no trump and A passed. What should Y now bid with the foregoing hand either at Auction or at Contract? Solution: Y should pass either at Auction or at Contract. This hand is a fine example of the type of hand containing a five-card major suit that does not justify a take-out. Hand No. 3 ' Hearts -- 8, 2 7 Clubs --J, 9, 8, 2 Diamonds -- 10, "2 ' • * rr- A, 7, 6,5,2 : Y : A B : Z should Y now bid with the foregoing hand either at Auction or at Contract? Solution: At Auction, Y should bid two spades. It is just oyer the requirements, as Hand No. 2 is slightly under them, to justify a take-out of partner's no trump. The fact that the hand contains two doubletons is really the deciding factor. At Contract the hand should be passed. The hand does not justify any further bidding hy partner, and he should not be encouraged game by a two-spade bid., • , • , ' Hand No. 4 Hearts -- A, K, Q, 4 * ' • ,• ' Clubs -- J, 10, 9, 4, f ^Diamonds--7 . >. ^ ^Twlce i-i/V TT O I W Tales ItMi of Interest Taken : Ito Files of the Plalniaakr of Tears Aft DEAN OF i W v °t m Two Sides to Every fU:Questio^ t- v .. ,,,.3.. A By FANNIE HURST -- V-------83 » ^ i Y A B Z • / ' - S J .."4 Hearts--10;^, 5, ?•" • •r Hearts i v; v, d, a .• • •;-.Clubs-A, K,&'t D i a m o n d s -- 9 , ' 6 , 3 ' -- • Spades-- Q, 6 '•> ... No score, rubber game. Clubs are trumps and Z is playing the hand. A opens the king of diamonds and all follow suit. He then leads the trey of spades. How should Z play the h^jnd so that he can make game no matter how the remaining cards are distributed? . . > % Solution: This hand is a problem in "stripping," that is,, taking out all suits except two and then throwing . opponents in the lead. When this has , been done, one opponent is forced to lead the remaining plain suit-to his disadvantage or one of the two missing plain suits and thus allow one hand to trump and the other to discard. At trick No. 2^ Z should win the trick in Y's hand with the pee of spades and lead a low club, winning in his own hand with the queen. Z should then lead the six of diamonds and trump in Y's hand with the ten of clubs. Y should then lead a low club and win in Z's hand with the king. The lead of Z's last diamond should be trumped in Y's harid with the nine of clubs. The lead of the ace king of hearts to determine the distribution oL-that suit should now be made, followed by a low club,' which Z will win with the ace. The card? now held by Z and Y are as follows: . • i " ; Hearts -- Qj 4 - . Clubs --J Diamonds -- none Spades -- 4 : Y ' ' • A . B : . • FIFTY YEARS AGO Mrs. Schumacker, in Schnorrs ^lock, near the depot has the finest assortment < of Valentines, Fancy Goods to be found in the country, to which she invites the attention of the buying public^ Call ind examine her stock arid learn prices. On Saturday last an ice train that passed this place broke and ran off the track at Algonquin, one car smashing into the end of the depot, scattering things in every direction :ai»d frightening the employees almost tp death. / H. H. Nichols has leased the store lately occupied By L. Stoddard, next door to the Post Office, is painting, papering and otherwise putting jt in prder and will this week open up With ;a fine stock of Confectionary, Cigars, Tobacco, Fruits, Oysters, etc. We be speak for him a liberal patronage. The dance at the Richmond House was an immense success, about DO numbers being sold. Mr. and Mrs. Culver are making for the Richmond House an enviable reputation (A by KflClar* KmpiM Sradteat*.) (WNU s«rvfc«> M FORTY YEARS AGO We learn that Will Bunnell killfd a large timber wolf on Pistaqua Lake a-few days since. This kind of game is getting rare in this section. Our regular January thaw made its appearance last week and the consequence is people have been obliged to lay up their cutters and return to wheels. . " The Brewery have all their ice houses all full of first class ice, and this week will probably see all the other private ice houses in this village filled. There has been no better ice harvested here in years. , - ' F. L. Buck, Fish Warden, in company witty T. J. Smith, fish warden from Antioch, has been making a toufy of the Lakes and report that there has been no fishing done through the ice, for which they are very glad. No score, rubber garae. Z dealt, bid 'Me no trump and A passed. What Hearts--10,9 , " Clubs -- 7 - Diamonds -- none- Spades -- Q Z should now lead the queen o1 spades. This trick must be won by A or B, depending on the location of the king. Suppose A wins the trick. If he leads a heart, Z can let the heart run up to his nine spot, if A has shown up with four hearts. If neither A nor B has four hearts,, they must drop. If A leads a diamond or a spade, Z can trump in one hand and discard a heart in the other. Suppose B wins the trick with the king of spades. He- also must lead a heart and, if he originally held four hearts, Z must win two heart tricks. If 'B leads a diamond or^spade, he give* Z a discard of a heart Tn one handanc a trump in the other. Therefore, Y 2 must make game in clubs for it ha been shown that A B can only win on diamond and one spade trick, irre spective of the distribution of tb remaining cards. : TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Butter jumped to 32 cents on the Elgin board of trade Monday. Forty tubs were offered for sale. The ice harvest is on in full force. George Meyers and a force of men are filling the .local houses about town, while Bordens have a large gang of men at work filling their large houses. The West McHenry Flour and Feed mill has been refitted with up-to-date machinery and will be ready for business on Monday, Feb. 4. Mr. Spencer will be pleased to see all his old and many new customers. At the recent horse sale held 6t Algonquin thirty-three (horses were disposed of, the average price received for same being $170. Through the efforts of the Nunda and Crystal Lake Improvement association the citizens of the twin villages have been promised a new and modern depot, a park with well-kept lawns and flower beds, better train service and a theatre train. It is the intention of the association to make a desirable residence place for Chicago, people out .of the two villages: Our Washington Letter -Bj- National Editorial Amteiation Washington, February 3 - Only the diplomats and the restive professional I roPes- The Senate, knowing his wide warriors chafing at the bit of peace fxp^rience as a member of the House are taking the Oriental sword-rattling as a serious American problem. In- TWENTY YEARS AGO ^ . Joseph Rothermel, son of Mr. and at an early date. The Senate veterans Mrs Ge Rothermel and an em_ treat the belligerent newcomers just , of the Hunter Boat compaiiy, as seniors and sophomores at college, met with a infu] accident at give the freshmen plenty of time to, the fact when he t his lfift hand romp noisely. It is expected that ht in the worklnK parU oI a Senator Long s impulses will event- j joiner The end of the first fi )n ually bring a tightening of the reins, his left hand wag cut off while the In sharp contrast with Long was the deference the Senate paid to another freshman, the junior Senator from Maine- Senator White has attended to his duties but followed the custom of keeping quiet until he learned the but will return to his Senatorial duties terest, on the contrary, has been intensified on the Reconstruction Finance Corporation now definitely in action on domestic matters of far more grave import to the citizens than war alarms in remote countries. It is true that certain groups, would welcome hostilities with American participation. The sober-minded gentry knowing that the present depression is partly traceable to the war's aftermath are not heeding the noises of clashing sabres. It will require mighty events to send abroad in the states "the spirit-stirring drum and ear-piercing fife of war". If the holiday from bitter partisanship in legislation is prolonged a few •weeks it will be: difficult for the campaigners in the forthcoming election to explain the "issues". When the Republicans and . Democrats get to- - father in a .Presidential year on such vital political matters as taxes, it gives the party hired help a real cause for concern, for it means their "ammunition" or claims of party superiority will be at low ebb. In recent years the line of cleavage between the two parties has been difficult to discern for old-time war whoops are no longer effective with the voters. To attempt* to define the party distinctions on current first-rate issues is to , tell the difference .between Tweedledum and Tweedle-dee. Agreement has been reached that whatever tax program is adopted it will not cover , transactions of 1931 but for this and succeeding years. Picturesque characters burst on the official horizon so frequently that the' ^ theatricals of Senator Huey Long of Louisiana during his^ first three days stirred nothing but amusement. Long has returned to his home state to save his political machine from wreckage, ' / second finger also suffered consider ably. The largest mid-winter crowd, that hasr assembled in McHenry in years was present at the horse races that took place on the Fox river speedway last Sunday afternoon. It is estimated in charge of merchant marine matters, I n°"ly .f°tJr,red lovers of the invited an expression of opinion 18pi" "ft1™ Long gave .his views freely and with- f JS!!? .? p°T / out solicitation. factory at Richmond. , . . . " . ' ' . • , ! l h e B o y l e I c e c o m p a n y , w h i c h h a s The legislators, anxious to help out houses at Lake Geneva, expect to distress m their districts, are taking harvest 40,000 tons of the frozen heir appeals for financial aid direct water. One hundred and forty men are to the members of the Reconstruction now employed by them. Workmen re- Fmance Corporation. Much to their . Ceive $1.75 per day of ten hours, surprise the Congress has found that , will Pomerening of this place suewhen they approved the bi-partisan ceeded in carrying^away a few prizes bona rd oAff directors for the new insti1 at the poultry showfield at Woodstock tution their act had robbed the project of political favoritism. As a consequence, the Congressional petitioners have found that they must await their turn and have their applications go through the same routine as private citizens the first of the month. Mr. Pomerening's entries were of:the Barred Rock .variety. • TEN YEARS AGO We understand that John and Mike For years, it has been the.Purcell, who for a number of years custom for legislators to pay personal have occupied the little brick cottage calls at the Veterans Bureau in order > on the Herbes property on Elgin road, to expedite the settlement of claims ! have purchased the Schumacker cotand push the establishment of jtage in the rear of the Illinois Bell hospitals in their states. With hun-1 telephone exchange building and will dreds of business--concerns pressing hard for ^uick relief the Congressional gjroup must admit that reconstruction aid is doubtful patr&nage. If the plan of decentralization is adopted it will lift a great burden of work from iJthe Senatoirs and Representatives. On the other hand, it will deprive them of a rare opportunity for service to their communities and an open invitation to show their "influ ence". The political navigators attempting to chart the course of their ships of chance are justifiably down-hearted. It seems that the people are so engaged in their own problems that interest in factional warfare incident to early primary contests is not much of a drawing card. Even the forced discussion of eligibility of suggested candidates is more or less perfunctory. Therefore, it is disconcerting to those seeking to hitch their wagon to a. fast-moving star in the political firmament. ----- ^ ^ ; ~ ; move into same some time in the near future. Several fine catches of blue gills were mad<» through the ice on Pistakee last week. Winter blue giU fishing is very unusual, but now that these specie of the finny tribe are not unwilling to be caught during the winter season local anklers will find their way to Pistakee yvore frequent in the future. Raymond V. Powers I who during the past-year has conducted the Hanly homestead farm just outside of the south village limits, lias purchased from Wm. Pries the house and lot on Green street known as the old Jack Bishop place. George Phalin, son of Mr. and Mrs* J. M. Phalin, who reside south of town, has rented the Brewery/Service Station garage building and opened up for business therein last week. OST people In sumnffng up the subject of the Studdiford sisters were Inclined to agree that ef the two, Marlon had the better mind. Luella had simply used hers to better advantage. As a matter of fact, compared with the erudition of her twin, Marlon was sorely lacking. Life had turned out that way for her. In the beginning, the two sisters, hand in hand, neck to neck, so to speak, had begun what was to be their four years' courrffe at the state university for which they had both qualSfled with honors. Of the two, It Is probably true that during the flrat year, Marlon's college standing was a peg ahead of her sister's. Not that it was scarcely worth recording: Marion would have been the last to encourage that. For all practical purposes, the two sisters > ranked about on a level. Super Intelligent gltfe, carrying on the fine intellectual traditions of their father, whose- geographical textbooks were In use throughout tl^e country. It was at the beginning* of her sophomore year that Marion, suddenly, and like a bolt out of the blue, threw over her academic career without so much as an ounce of apparent compunction, and returned one-evening to the modest Jlat she shared with her sister, married to a young automobile salesman she had met at a charity function. ' For the first, the incongruity of this marriage seemed, apparent to every one but the young pair most concerned, l'ale, thoughtful, studious, and even precious Marion Studdiford, . married to the ruddy young man- Tom Ford, whose shoes were so glossy, whose hair was so glossy, whose linen shone with even a separate splendor and whose use of English in a man with whom she was not in love, would have caused the erstwhfile Marlon Studdiford's ears to shudder. It was a matter, however, of a full three years, before the veils of illusion began to tear themselves from the eyes of Mftrion, and she began to awake gradually, terrifyingly, to the strange truth that In marriage, this rigorous, boyish, refreshing young man of her ideals, had become no more than the too corpulent, slightly vulgar, blatant young salesman whose horizon was boubded by rubber tires. It was not the kind of realization that came over night. Slowly, like a reluctant tide, it crept upon her, washing misery Into her soul, drenching her waking, and ^ even her sleeping hours, in a jumble of regrets. Regrets for what might have been. Regrets for a freedom that was gone. Regrets for the birthright which she had forfeited so blindly, and into which Luella had meanwhile come in full prime. Not that she would have exchanged with Luella. After all, to be dean of women in a large college, portentlous as It might seem, was scarcely the destiny that even Luella, at thirty, must have planned for herself. Marlon wanted more than that And yet--had it been in her power to chooie, over and over again she would have selected for herself the destiny that was Luella's, rather than her own as the stagnating wife" of her ruddy vulgarian. At least to Luella's life there was a dignity of achievement and congeniality of environment. From her own kind, almost overnight, as it were, Marlon, after her marriage became outcast. The friends who had known her, university colleagues, the members of her social groups simply did not speak Tom's idiom. Fool! Fopll Nature had trapped Marlon. At twenty-three^ the entire course of her life had shifted away from the fine true course of her sister's. At thirty, Luella, all on her own, mind you, and with a mind no better than Marion's, had achieved position. Not, as she told herself again and again, that she would yearn for the I rather frigid dignity that went with Luella's position as dean of women, but just the same, life could be no more barren for Luella, unmarried, than'It was for Marlon, married to Tom. On the contrary, for the freedom that was Luella's It seemed to Marion that she would be willing to sacrifice actual years of her life. And the horrible part of it Was Tom's Innocence of all this dismay. He was like a small boy, content with his lot; content with -his wife; content with his playtoys of cheap automobile and expensive radio. Life was good; Marion was good; automobile tires were lucrative. AH was well In his world He was killed outright while demonstrating, to a customer, the perform ance of a set of his own tires. To Marion, who had repeatedly, throughout the years of her life with him, contemplated the hour when she must destroy his hoi^e of cards, by revealing her state of mind, his death came as release, and yet, at the same time filled her with a sense of rectitude that took* away stings of Conscience. 4bNi i*i iM Ton lad dta Mtajring Irtr to b« *i nncomplfz and happy in their r marrUf* as he had bee A. s Marlon was grateful for that It made evey thing subsequent cotae easier. What actually happened, as her friends pht ft, was the return of the flph to its water. Two months after Tom's death, Marlon matriculated in the university from which she had married as a sophomore and took her first degree two years later, cum laude. They were, to her . the happiest years of her life. It was as It her mind, dehydrated by the long period of inactivity and intellectual sunlessness, had suddenly found capacity of expansion again. Sometimes it actually seemed to her that under the congeniality of the old environment that she could actually feel her mentality reviving, lifting itself, warming itself In stimulating contacts. It was considered remarkable that at the conclusion of her college course she had gone beyond that point, and was halfway qualified for "a second degree. The rettirn of the native, said Luella, smiling upon her with a large indulgence. The Indulgence of' Luella meant more to Marion than she would admit, even to herseifl It was not that she craved a position similar to that of Luella's, but--well--it had to be faced at last, more than anything She could think of, Marlon wanted to prove to herself, and to the world, that her mind, if not better, was at least as good as her erudite sister's. The eye of Marion was fixed resolutely upon a difficult goal, similar to sister's. Marion wanted to be invited to hold the position of dean of women in one of the country's large universities. The opportunity came sooner than she dreamed. Within a month after her second degree had been conferred upon her, Marion was called to accept the position of dean of womeh in the place vacated by Miss Luella Studdiford, who had eloped suddenly with a chauffeur in a neighboring town. Phalin's Garage Phone 324 Storage, Repairing, Oil, Greasing Pearl Street, McHenry • »t"l' • f • » • '1' * * fr *• »!•»•> * * * >!• >1' fr • * »K<»»* »»> » » • • • • • High Praise £oming to Mothers of Invention Whitney, Howe, Morse, McCormick, Bell, Edison--run down the list. There Is not a woman inventor from the cotton gin to the talking movie, if we are to believe the school histories. That such a one-sided version could be th(v whole story we have always doubted, but now Hi display of women's Inventions In New York supports our contention. Not only do feminine inventions go back to 1843, when Nancy Johnson devised the first ice cream freezer, and before, but, according to gdvernment records, no less than 15,000 patents have been issued to women. At the recent exhibition, Beulah Louise Henry, known as "Lady fidison" and credited with 42 inventions, showed her latest, a typewriting ribbon which makes five copies without use of carbon paper. Her other benefits to mankind Include a collapsible umbrella and an electric fan shield. That not all inventions of women are of the detachable collar kind was pointed out by the exhibition chairman, who at^ tributed the Coston pyrotechnic slg:j nal light to a member of her sei. Adopted by the United States coast guard more than a half-century ago, Its. variously colored flares are now used by mariners all over the world. It Is a pleasure to correct the record. A belated hats-off to these mothers of invention.--St Louis Post-Dispatch,; First American A*tro4u>mer David Rittenhouse was an expert clockmaker in Philadelphia and became a maker of astronomical Instruments and because of his work nnd observations, he was famed In the N< w world and the Old. In 1770 he built a brick octagonal observatory which was the first and for a long time the only observatory in this country. Rittenhouse Is probably most famous for his construction of several planetariums or orreries, which were so made that they could determine the time, duration and path of eclipses, extending over a period of 5,000 years before and after 1767. Even the great Zeiss planetarium does not attempt to do this. ftefadri feraat Sstriae •i first Kentacky derby took place tn lfay, 1875. Aruttdes won the purse •C $8,100 before a gallery of 10,000 people. Mwwter Tni "griffin"*was a mysterious monster, half lion and half eagle, believed by the Greeks to keep watch over •eld Of Scjrthta. -- • • » - r.; Past-Groiriaf Tfi* The balsa reaches a diameter of 15 Inches In five years and has a ver* t**t height growth.- - ^ ,, Clearing Awaythe Rnt« Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.--A dd i son. PUutrr Pedantry crams our heads learned inmber, and takes out oar brains to make room for it.--Oolerld^ei Progress Intellectually, as well as politically the direction of all true progress is ward greater freedom, and along an endless succession of Ideas.--Bovee. \ Less Air ia Height* •lie higher anyone climb*; In a plane, the darker the blue of the sky appears, because there Is leas air above to scatter the light v ' ' 1 n tWodness and Beentf What is beautiful is good, and who Mr good will soon also be beautlfuL "Sappho. DR. C. KELLER . . Qpttitaetrist and Optician'; 4 k During the winter months I will examine at my summer home in Lasch Subdivision, on Riverside Drive, one block North of city limits of McHenry, on West side of river, on Sundays and Mondays only. Phone McHenry 211-R * ^ ' 7, ;vrT; . vV'Msv McHenry Floral Company Main Street, McHenry • Where quality is best and prices are lowest * .yunenmWork a Specialty Tlowers for Weddings and all occasions ARE YOU HUNGRY FOR Waffles are no trick to make'when you bake ^ them electrically. Automatic signals on the new irons tell you when to pour in batter. No smoke--no muss. Bake them right at the tjable serve them hot and crisp. They're deliedous. Mammals That Lay Eggs The echidna, pronounced e-kid-na, accented on the second syllable, Is found In Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea, Is sometimes called a porcupine anteater. It resembles the hedgehog, through it is somewhat larger. The hair of the skin is mingled with spines on the upper part of the body. Its egg Is about three-fourths of an inch in diameter, with a leathery shell, and Is placed, as soon as laid, In the. mammary pouch of the mother. The echidna and the duck-billed platypus of Australia are the only warm-blooded animals that lay eggs and also suckle their young. Explaining Gulf Stream The Gulf stream owes its origin to the northeast trade winds, which blow constantly toward the American shore from the direction of the Canary and Cape Verde islands. The wind sets in motion a broad, shallow film of wa- .ter upon the surface of the ocean and this, when it encounters the sloping northeast coast of South America, trends northward, passes by the Lesser Antilles into the Caribbean sea. ReliiK constantly driven on from the cast and gaining in depth as It's area becomes restricted, it is driven through the Yucatan channel to the gutf of Mexico. . Mind Your Charaatef-;;'-.:i;;^ •/ It you take care of your character your reputation will take care of itself.-- Moody. 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