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THE TOC H. SPIRIT
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1
low-grade Dr. Jacks
MODERN CARDS The Very Idea!
BY ROBERT BENCHLEY
or
game
face
bolt.
MORE BULL
By Eddie "Sandow" Kolly.
bulls were cowards at heart. I
We have always suspected that
there's one thing wo can't stand it's a timid bull.
We had to get rid of our Inst bull because he squibbed his first
to us with his tail between his
Thanks to two instructive ad- so trained. Such a liberal educa-1 only to an Inquisitor known as the that the King and Queen in any fight. Used to come whimpering.
Population
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A LATE NIGHT.
2 Queen who never got along legs. We tried for yours to belt very well together and wanted to that out of him. up by the thumbs and glared at separate. If the King saw the until he was dead of mortification. Queen approaching (in my hand. I rather incline to this last at any rate), he ducked up an theory of the origin of the playing alley and said to tho Jack: card. But that may be because "Listen, son, you go that way and I'o this, and I'll meet you
chess were Don't let the Old Lady get in
trouble." This touch with you. She'll only make
I am bitter.
playing cards and
There is also ti theory that when the game is over at Tony's.
We are prepared at all times to all times to try everything once. So we dropped into one of these Dancing Academies last night.
Modern Education
Not many of you little rascals For example, take one of tho who employ playing cards for your old type of cards, the one involy- Radical reforms of education, own diversion or for the diversion Ing the services of what seems to
'Only our intimate association with the close co-operation of the of your funds, know how playing bo an old stork and three water with the Dairy Farm enables us. les. I can't quite figuro out to speak with authority on the medical profession, formed the curds were frat used. theme of a recent iccture before
And I venture to say that not what the game would be which subject to have, after careful con- the Royal College of Physicians are, off on a voyage of explorato draw one of these. Perhaps of the Editorial Board, decided to many of you care. So horo we could possibly make it desirable aultation with the other members of London by Dr. L. P. Jacka. tion into the History of the Playing three of suclf cards as this and bring before you to-day. The appearance of a lay lecturer Card, or Where Did All That two of another kind showing an Our association with the Dairy before such an audience is not a Money Go Last Week?
ant-cater and some neturtiums Farm dates from the rat morning common occurrence, and Dr.
The
oldest existing playing would be as good as a full-house we arrived home with the milkman. Jacks made full use of his op cards, aside from those which I but I doubt it.
Our subject to-day, therefore, portunities. The current issue keep in the back of my desk for In the old days cards were ap- will be "Ball", of The Lancst contains a full a patience game called Canfield,parently designed to fill in those Most people must have wonder- report of the lecture, from which are in the Staatliches Museum in Intervals in gamo during which ed at one time or another how far It appears that whatever statis. Berlin, and are Chinese. Don't the player was bored with looking their reserves of innate heroism tica may prove about the imnak me how Chinese playing cards at his partner (I can understand would function if they found got into Berlin. Do I know every- that all right) and just wanted themselves being charged by a provements in the health and
thing? nutrition of the population of
to while away the time by looking bull. Suffice it to stay, that they are at pictures. England in the past fifty thousand years old, which gives
To take a savage bull by the years, Dr. Jacks is profoundly them perhaps twelve
It would have been much better horns is not done in the best of dissatisfied with the standard of years on my Canfield pack. My over the pages of clippings.
Arteon just to have got the old album | cireles. The common practice is to run away, which gives the bull culture of the body. The body Canfield pack, however, has more I used to play a card
such a bad attack of auperiority may be more hygienically cared thumb-marks,
called "Author," which was some complex as goes to his head im- for than over before, but it re- These thousand-year-old Chinese thing like this, but, owing to one
mediately. mains uneducated. According to cards would be practically no of the Longfellow enrds helng
This has led us to the con- information from a teacher of an good for anyone to-day who want missing from the pack, I was never clusion that hitherto our way with elementary school in a crowdeded to sit down for a good game in a position to collect much bulle, mad or otherwise, has been part of London, said Dr. Jacks, of rummy. What corresponds to money out of it, Longfellow hav-all wrong. "not more than 10 per cent. of our Ace (I am told there is such Ing been one of my favourites
This is a bad thing. The best the children know how to brea- card in our pack) is a handful and the one I always set out to way to preserve yourself when the, to walk, to stand, to sit, Queen are not like our kinga and
of scorpions, and the King and collect.
charged by a bull is to return the or to speak." This condition is queens, but more
It was only at the end of two and shouting at the top of your compliment and, waving your arms Hike dragons and a half years that I discovered voice, rush towards it as fast as spoken of na "physical ill-with beards, and hand-dresses. that there weren't enough Long- iteracy," a striking phrase used
A gentleman who had been play fellows to go around. I have since you can, when, according to our to denote the general devitalised ing bridge with a whisky and soda found out the samo thing about theory, the buli will turn tail and state of the majority of the at his elbow for two hours would aces. human bodies. "It is impos- never get started bidding if he Even when they got to putting The only drawback about this sible," asserted Dr. Jucks, "to found one of those kings or queens pictures that one can understand information is that there are not combine a high-grade culture of in his hand. It would undermine on playing-cards-kings, queens, enough bulls in Ilongkong to go the mind with
bis confidence in himself.
jacka, etc. it was a long time be- round. culture of the body."
Speaking for ourself, we are now Authorities differ on the point fore they made them look like gave two striking illustrations Some say that it was the Egyp-a look at the Queen you will see and somehow, Into may have in of the invention of playing carda. anything at all. If you will take ance of the bull which, somewhere impatiently awaiting the appear- of how forms of rhythmical tians, some the Araba, while others that she looks so much like store for us. physical education introduced maintain that it was part of an Jack that there is no fun in it. into schools had cuabled the old Phoenician torture system by Furthermore, she has a very un- children to learn their lessons which a victim was handed thirteen pleasant expression on her and master the technique of cards and made to lay them down, and I'll bet that she sings soprano sciences and languages in half one by one, in the proper sequence, without Bojng asked, the time taken by others not the proper sequence being known It has always scerned to me
Partner. dresses by the Rev. F. E. tion of the body as Dr. Jacks
ordinary pack were based on real ("Bobs") Ford, Hongkong has urges should be an integral part in the sequence prescribed by the
If the cards were not Inid down characters in history, a King and now been made fully acquainted of the great programme of pre-Inquisitor the victim was strung with the Toc H. movement and ventive medicine. all that its stands for. Its sponsora were animated by ી very admirable ideal the pre- servation, for the common good, Under the title, "Problems of of that wonderful spirit of com-Population," there were publish- radeship which the Great Wared recently the proceedings of produced. But the comradeship the
International Population originally the same game. now envisioned is not one fos- Union at a general assembly of might very well be. although I tered by the common purpose of representative seientists from don't see where card-players would warfare; it is the linking of most of the European countries, get the chance to sleep that chess- the Jack goes another, and I am So the King goes one way and
The last-named is free to all kindred spirits for much America and Japan. The fact players do. A good chess-player stuck with the Queen
holders of tickets from $10 up- worthier aim, namely, service that populations in Europe and can tear off anything from forty eight-four-two, with a six of some wards. It features a female band, to humanity in the everyday | América are increasing at
to sixty-five winks a move, if he other sult, and others to match. qualities of playing both in tune which combines the unusual affairs of life. Surely there can slower rate is, by now, generally is clever at it, and hides his eyes This, according to my theory, be no higher aim than
with his hand, but a card-player is the real history of the charac and nyjamas, and this. recognised. Professor Bowley At first glance, it might ap-has calculated that, given a con- and do something.
has at least got to sit up straight ters in our playing-cards. They
partner. pear that there is a danger of tinuance of present trends, the
(hvere the most unhappy royal family Now we're on the subject of the movement overlapping on to population of England
It may not be the thing to do, in any of the old-time chronicles, girls (we rely on you not to pursue the activities of other organisa. have reached its peak by about I have often wished, as a matter would be a good idea to put themed in the "Lest we Forget" manner will but he has got to do something and somebody thought that it the subject), let us any that the tions, but it is one of the dis- 1941; by about 1951 it will be of fact, that tinctive characteristics of Toc back at the level of 1931, after handled in the same way as chess, me personally, I don't know about but we rely on you not to pursue
on playing-cards just to torture BEREANAMH. that it does not compete with which we should witness a more for if I were given time and the early cards, with the duck- the subject.
other bodies. It can, however, or less rapid decline. The first good excuse for covering my face shooters and ant-eater-stalkers on and does co-operate with and, result of this will be that the I could do an awful lot better at them. ganisations already in existence, high, will steadily increase, with four of clubs, I could cup my hand would all be in the conspiracy. supplement the work of or-proportion of old people, already bridge than I do.
If, when my partner led with n I were playing the game, they In particular, it holds itself in disturbing economic and social over my brow and ponder, let us too. I don't mean to be morose have been given to boasting, but readiness to furnish man-power consequences. To what extent say for two minutes and a half. which may be needed in almost birth control is bringing about I might figure out what the devil about the thing, but I know on this occasion we believe that any walk of life; in this way the decline is an interesting but it was she meant by her lead.
where I'm not wanted-and one the general public would like to its members are able to find vexed question. It is even dis- Whether or not chessmen and of the many places is in a card participate in our elation. channels through which they puted that it is playing any playing-cards were once all a part me. can discharge their obligation remarkable part. An investiga- of the same great big game, the For this I have a very simple of service. Here in the East tien carried out by Dr. Raymond fact remains that a lot of the old solution: 1 stick to patience, there would appear to be ample Pearl, of Baltimore, showed, playing-cards look as if they be where a man has at least a fight-
ing chance to cheat, scope for Toe H. work. Young after examining 2,000 cases that longed to some other game. men coming out from Home all the rate of fertility in women too often find themselves faced using contraceptives was higher, with difficulties, problems and not lower, than that found in temptations, many of which women who made no attempt at would not exist for them if they birth control. Certain other in- could immediately get into
quiries have produced similar touch with fellow-spirits who would make them feel at home results. It is agreed that the and pilot them through their increase was largely due to the nineteenth century population carly days abroad. That is one advance of medicine and hygiene, respect in which the movement which reducod se notably the can have a distinct value. Then rate of infant mortality. It is there is the good fellowship curious, in this connexion, to which is the best method of find the result that after a time- breaking down social barriers, 1ng of about twenty years a de- and the opportunities which are finite correlation is found be opened up for a freer mixing tween a falling infant mortality between residents and the men and a rising maternal death- of the Navy and the merchant rate. Thus in New Zealand the marine. But of even deeper value and significance than these infant mortality is the lowest things is the spirit for which and the maternal death-rate the highest in the world. Chile has Toc H. stands. It is not rules the highest infant and the lowest which the movement propagates, maternal morality. Australia, so much as a code of honour, coming second in one list, is next and members who join it are
to the bottom in the other. expected from the first to play a part, according to their uptitude, Scotland and the Scandinavian in the life and work and spirit countries follow. England and Wales occupy an intermediate of the team. room for the display of this position. Another theory which after prolonged research is said
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OUR SWEEP WINNINCS. With becoming modesty we wish to make public our recent success at cricket. It is not often that we
We, in fact, wun the first prize in the office sweep on the Second Test Match.
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