THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING,' JULY 14, 1012.
MISTAKES IN BIDDING AT AUCTION
Some Suggestions Wortk Wtilc-By R.F. roster
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Lingerie ' hats, Ilk lingerie frocks,
Have undergone a complete meta
morphosis since they were orlgina
v td, and the term has been expanded
I till it Includes all models In which a
--fabric of any kind figures Too much
an hardly be said In praise of them.
Without being a whit less dainty and
-youthful than heretofore they are In
'vested "With a certain dignity and ap
pearance of substantiality that hM
i much more of charm In It than the
flimsy, perishable effects once consi
dered so desirable a characteristic.
".' They are conservative yet distinctive
' these midsummer examples of headgear
- for neither what is consphloua nor
1 anything that hints ever so slightly f
the commonplace Is really modish this
year, however, accurately It otherwise
conforms te fashion's dictates.
' So interesting: hap the fad for intro
ducing various fabrics with the dlffer
' ent itraws become that the all-straw
-"- hajt might almost he regarded as the
'exception that goes to prove, a rule.
: -Taffeta, Batin, velvet, chiffon, marqui
sette, tulle, chintz, cretonne, tolle de
louy, ratine, toweling, duck, pique, and
"many snother material are all deemed
suitable to he drawn upon, not only
for the outing or street hat, but for
the one for dress wear.
rThe five models whlrh I have had
Sketched incorporate the most recent
. Ideas sdapted from I'arin. ami from"
WHY IS IT THAT TACKLE DOESNT MAKE THE FISHERMAN
OF FIFTH AVE, MEW YORK.
V CREATOR OF
AMERICAN FASHIONS
Midsummer Hats of Lingerie Persuasion, Representing the Latest Style.
them It will readily be Inferred that taffeta that ties In a simple bow with
moderation applies to alse aa well as uneven end.
to shape and trimming method. The In the central figure I have had
monstrous hat Is not in the reckon- pictured for you one of the, pretty lace
LtfR, though many of them, like the one hata that have taken the Xlace of the
in the upper right hand corner of the bti"te models. It consists of a similar
Illustration, are made to assume large WJfram coyred with an all-over
-.,.... .i. . ., . shadow lace, the under side tr mmed
Proportions through the medium of th, wltn b,ack Btrgw tne ,aoe fa,llng oyM
reinforced brim, which is sn Important the edge. In a rather wide frill and the
feature. - . . crown swathed with old blue ribbon and
Kach of these model is a more or with a cluster of rose and satin, datstea
less distinct variation of th munhroom at one aide.
style. The majority of shape are In- Model No. 4 represents another class
dined to a drooping effect, the only of hat that, strktlv speaking. Li to h
alternative being the one that 1 tilted regarded as the seasons special offer
to a diagonal line. Also most of the lng. In shape It is a little more flaring
hats show a facing of one sort or than many of the mushroom variations,
another. it 1 covered smoothly with shadow
The first one shown in the sketches, lace, and has an underfacing of whit"
a white hemp. Is given a rim of black chiffon. About the crown Is a straight
velvet, two Inches wide. The crown Is little band of lavender satin ribbon
encircled with a wide band of cerise .tied primly In a bow at one side, ami
velvet ribbon tied In a bow at one side, around the brim edging the upper sld
short ends hanging over the brim, white Is a series of small roses,
at the base, so that It almost covers the- The fifth hat Is a distinctly new
crown. Is a wreath of blue cornflowers, shape, having a folding crowh which
wjh its foliage and a cluster of cher- elopes deliberately Into the brim. It
rles Is a cream colored Milan with a shir
The hemp hat beside It has the brim red banding of gold colored taffeta sllp
and sides of the, crown covered with ped over the edge of the brim and a
shirred French crepe, a double frill of string of tnfieta rones arranged on a
which falls out beyond the brim as'al- band of pink velvet tied loosely around
ready described. Two large pink roses the crown, to end low at the back with
are caught with apparent carelessness an effective how.
to the brim near the edge and around Just as popular as these alry-luoklng
the crown Is a hand of plaited black lace-llke hats are those that have a fiil
. t ,' -' ., ,'.'t , V.
facing of velvet, the hat Itself being
entirely of la.-e or of a combination of
lace or mull, and straw," when very
frequently the trimming consists of a
huge feather pompon or a long curling
ostrich plume. Ostrich feathers, other
wise nre largely reserved for the straw
shapes, with which they have a often
ing effect. .
Stiff straws, while they are fashion
able enough are not so smart a the
finer Italian weaves which are ao soft
and pliable that they usually are wired
and therby may he bent Into any shape
Th-se rlne straws, also, come In such
a complete line of colors that It Is an
easy matter to match them up to the
gown. If no', there are always thu
dyer'a service to be called upon.
Where the brim is wide and only
slightly drooping grasses and grains
laid about It mske an effective trim
ming with only a band of velvet about
the crown, or. perhaps, they are laid
softly about the brim close to the
crown to srve as a bed for the grass
es. Reversing the English.
The Tired Huslnej-s Man ((sorrow
fully) Say, Willie, my wife died this
morning. I won't he down this after
noon. Be sure that the mall gets to the
postnf flee.
Willie (wistfully) Ycsslr. Say, bog,
If ycr Kits er c lianst 'phone some of der
neore in
. Stoppers That Do Not Stop.
ONE very commo error In the bidding
at auction is In assisting the part
ner on' the Strength stoppers
which are not stoppered except ' under
certain favorable condition. Thii mis
take la most common when the partner
bids no- trumpa and ia overcalled with a
ault Wnether or not the third hand can
step this suit then become a question of
position, which is something the average
player seems to forget
Maay persons of enthusiastic tern
perament seem to Imagine that any
thing in the way.of sa bonorwlllstoj;
a ault. forgetting that honor may be
led through as well a up to. In
atead of weighing the chances for and
against the two bljs, their partner'
and the adversary'a, they reach in with
an assisting bid that la not justified
by thelrfards;
As art example of how deceptive a
supposed stopper may be, take this
hand. In which the stopper was four to
the king 10:
9 K108 3
4 9 8 2
0109 s a
8
Y
9 9 8 4
J 107 3
OK J 7
MSB
0 A Q J 7 8 3
A B
4 8
0 8 4
J 107 4
A KQ 8 4
0 A Q 8 3
KQ 8 3
Z dealt and bid no trump, A and Y
both passed and B called two hearts.
Being unable to stop the hearts. Z
passed, but Y promptly went two no
trumps for him on the strength of hts
four hearts to the king 10. With a no
trumper on one side of him and his suit
stopped on the other, B could not risk
three hearts, so he passed.
Now If the heart declaration were on
Y'8 right, he would be justified in
thinking he had the suit stopped against
any combination of the cards, but with
the strength on his left and his king
going to be led through at once, and at
every chance thereafter, it is not s
certainty by any means, although some
enthusiastic players would have you
believe so.
On the play Z failed by four tricks
Just because Y could not stop that heart
suit at the critical time, and every
one of B s hearts won tricks. After B
won the first round with the Jack over
Y's 10. he led a spade and A got in
with the ace and led another heart. B
then tried the diamonds, knowing A
could not win another spade trick. Z
put on the ace and tried to drop the
clubs.
No matter what Z did after that, he
could not keep A out of the lead, snd
-so- as to avoid hie making 10 aee In dia
monds Z led a club, upon which A made
his king of diamonds while he was in
the lead, and then went through Y once
more with a heart.
When B bid two hearts and Z passed
It, Y should have stopped to ask himself
what chance B had to go game In hearts
against Y's cards tn that suit and Z'b
no trumper. Although Z bid no trumps,
that dnes not mean that he can take
eight tricks If Y has a trick In hearts,
but It does mean that B can never go
game in hearts If he Is left to play It. B
could have Just made Ms contract if he
played the hand well, but that Is all.
Tricks That Are Not Tricks.
MANY even fairly good players have
a habit of counting up cards as
trick winners which are not worth
anything at alt unless the adversaries
choose to make them so. When one bids
on trick at auction they should be sure
tricks, and not tricks that will win only
umier certain favorable conditions.
When this prior is combined with
the very common one of assisting the
partner when there are not more than
the average trick in the assisting hand
It is likely to prove expensive, because
not only Is the player bidding on an
Insufficient number of tricks, but the
trlcka he bids upon do not exist except
In his imagination. Take this case:
9 8 8
K J 6
0 IU8 3 2
Q J 8 3
Y
A B
Z
? Q J 10 7
IOB
O K Q J 7
A K 8
9 9 6
A Q
84
0 6 6
107 8 2
O A K 4 3 3
4 7 3 2
0 A 6 4
84
Z dealt and declared a heart. When
A said one no trump, V went to his
partner's assistance with two hearts,
having, as he explained after the hand,
two or three tricks to help out with. A,
not knowing where the clubs were,
doubled the two hearts instead of going
on with, his no-trumper, snd there was
nothing for Z but to play It, getting set
for 408 points on the contract. --
Z won the first diamond trick 1 and
tried to drop -the trumpa together in
three-rounds. B echoed in his club dis
card and cn getlng a club through Y
he won the- 'first round' and put 'A back
In the lead with a diamond, that being
th suit A Tisd Opened with "the king,
showing the queen at least. : The fourth
round of clubs forced Z, A refusing to
over-trump, but winning every other
trick, so thst T never mads a trick in
-anything. Th1rls what -mlghtl!arr
been expected from a played who bids
on tricks thst are not tricks, and assists
on two o thetri when convention de
mands three.
One continually sees players reckon
tng on four to the aueen lack aa a sura
trick, especially in a no-trumper. But
they forget that such cards cannot win
a trick until the ace and king are both
out of the way. To set them out of
the way the suit must be led twice
and the partner must be able to get in
twice to make those leads, for the ad-
versarles are not going to establish
tricks for you. Even then, the partner
must have a third card of the suit to he is forced to make six or eeven dls
lead, or the tricks with the queen and cards. The only way out of the double
Jack will never materialize.
That the partner will be able to ex-
pend so .much energy on making those and even If, it Is can hardly lose more
two trlcka and have those three small . than, 200 points.
cards to lead Is very improbable when A passed again, and Y, looking over
the other hand holds five or six to the his hand carelessly, saw nothing but a
queen Jack. When counting up ther lot of rubbish, with a lonely looking
cards that are good for tricks, a player king and queen among the small ones,
should always remember that they so he passed. Left with his club con
should be cards that win win lnde- tract Z got only six tricks, losing 100
pendently of the kindness of the ad- points, which is Just what the doubled
versaries, and will not be lost if the no-trumper would have cost him.
partner -Jias but two of the suit to Y's passing shows Inattention to the
lead. It is quite true that a queen will situation, or at least a want of care
be good for a trick If the advrsarles in Inference. The situation presented
will play the ace and king and get out
of the way, but not otherwise.
T.eavinor Partner tn Hi Vat.
VERY curious mistake, but one
that is frequently made in the bid-
. . ,;,. . . 4V,t
ding at auction, is assuming that
your partner has put his foot m it, and named h IonKest red Bulti no matter
that he must get out of It the best way how weak It was, so as to guide his
that he can think of is to declare three partner to a beter selection for the
amount to anything, and you would not trump.
overcall a spade even. Had Y done this, he would have made
This assumption of being unable to four by cards on the hand, giving them
do anything to save the partner Is often a score of 24 toward game. Instead of
based on entirely false premises, and leaving his partner to struggle with a
is due more to carelessness or want of make that could never win the game
attention to the Inferences from the and In which Y could not give any as
blds than to bad Judgment. The facts ststanee It is true that Y's cards are
of the case are overlooked, so that the very weak to call three diamonds on,
judgment never comes Into play. but In the light of his partner's orlg
A hand In which this mistake was inal bid and his shift such a call I corn
made will probably make the situations pulsory.
AttheEndKaiiibow7
Husbands and Wives.
By Walt Mason,
picked' up an old newspaper the
other day," remarked the wild
man of the woods, "and read it
"i
from
end to- end. It contained much
that was helpful, Including an account
of a new hair destroyer Invented by
an eminent chemist In tho east, which
destroyer Is now on sale at the drug
storts at the remarkably reasonable
price of $1 a bottle. As soon as I can
save up tl I'll buy a bottle, for my
whiskers have become a great Incon
venience. Yesterday I got my feet
tangled in them and suffered a nasty
fall.
"That paper also contained an edi
torial on the divorce- evil, viewing with
alarm in th most strenuous way. The
editor said that there must be some
thing wrong with our civilization, since
the divorce courts are so busy. I have
pondered over this matter a great deal
here In the sylvan solitudes, and I have
come to t lie conclusion thst nature and
not civilUatlon Is to blame. Men and
women are a success In their own sepa
rate fields, but there Is no disguising
(he fact that they are not suitable com
panions for each other. If a man wants
true sympathy he must expect tt from
man; If a womsn would be understood
she must look to other women for the
understanding.
"You might travl from Greenland's
ley mountains to Inda's coral strand
wi'hout finding finer women than my
wife. She wm tn every way an orna
ment to her sex. yet in the course of
time I found her such un affliction
that I was obliged to flee from the
busy haunts and take up my abode
among the murmuring oaks and the
hemlocks. The fatal lack of sympathy,
which may seem trivial to superficial
thinkers, became unendurable. There
wasn't one subject In which we were
mutually Interested, and, as a con
sequence, we were always boring each
other.
"I'd come home from a ball gains
fairly batty with enthusiasm over the
way Bllljammer, the right fielder,
leaped 14 kilometers In the air and
stopped a high fly. At such a time a
in which such mistakes arise, clearer
than anything else:
V K 8 6
4 8
O Q 8 8 4 3
9 8 S 3
Y
0 10 9 7 8
97843
0 KIO
4 J lO
9QJ3
A J - -
0 9 8
AKQ042
KQ108 3
0 A J 7 3
7
Z dealt and bid no trump, which both
A and Y passed. B doubled, which ia
tn conventional call for a spade lead,
H hss presumably six sure spade tricks
aH the ace of clubs In hand if he can
only get a spade lead from his partner,
wnicn win set the contract.
Z knows what is coming, but he does
not know Just how many trlcka in
spades B can make, nor how many he
himself will lose In the Other suits if
that he can thing of Is to declare three
clubs, which will hardly be doubled,
Is, this: Z has s no-trumper or a strong
club make. B has a solid spade suit.
therefore Zs no-trumper Is long in
clubs with winning cards m both the
red suits.
As Y has nothing in clubs and knows
hi partner has at least, three or four
. . . . . n ,. .
man simply must have an attentive
listener or he is in danger of exploding.
1 ma? remark, tn parenthesis, that there
Isn't half as much enjoyment In watch
ing a ball game as there Is In discussing
It when tho captains and the kings
have departed. Well, I'd repair to my
humble abode frothing ut the mouth
with anxiety to discuns the feature of
tin- game, and my wife would sit there
with cold feet and yawn and look
wearied until she broke my heart. She
hadn't even a rudimentary knowledge
of the same, and the questions she
used to ask caused me to roll on the
floor In convulsions.
"On the other hand, I was a great
annoyance to he- whenever he came
home from a shopping expedition. She'd
be Just simmering with enthusiasm and
happiness over the bargains she had
gathered in. She had bought about a
hundred reama of bailee, which usually
sold for a dollar a yard, at 99 cent.
"My Idea of entertainment was to
ee a good mlnstr.-l show. 1 always
took a great delight In hearing gifted
colored uentlemen sinking 'Swing Low
Kweet Chariot,' and 1 found the chaste
JeBt of Mr. Bones highly amusing.
Then a minstrel show usually intro
duces a few good acrobats or a con
tortionist, and a man h- enabled to see
what the human form l capable of.
The educational value of such a show
cannot be overestimated. 1 used to
Invite my wife to accompany me, but
she wouldn't go. She said such per
formances were vulgar. Then nhe would
trot off alone to some dismal hall,
lighted by coal oil lamp, urn! listen
for three hours to some dreary old back
number gtving readings from Ibsen or
Browning.
"How can a home be happy under
such conditloim'.' How can either hus
band or wife bu contented and sereneT
Tht crisis came when my wife bought
an - educated parrot" which uttered
tedious moral platitudes by the hour. I
can stand a parrot that can do a good
workmanlike Job of cussing, but who
wants a bird that fills the house with
quotations from Ir. Watta? I re
alized then th:it our paths must divide,
so I wrung the parrot s neck and fle4
to the forest primeval."
By Ripley