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LURE OF CARDS. -

MODERN BRIDGE AND ITS

EVOLUTION: "

THROUGH THE AGES.

I

THE CHINA MAIL,

fr

calling," still the rule in America, TRIAD SOCIETIES.

CHANGING RULES.

FREE FIGHT IN A TIMBER

YARD.

1

was given B trial in Britain but is now no longer recognized as the correct thing. It is Indeed unfortunate that the English-speak- ing nations should have two codes

COURT PROCEEDINGS. of rules, for although numerous ef-

What might have been a serious The lure of the card-table has fort at mutual standardization have survived oight hundred years. Out- been made, the code of the American fracas at the Kwong Tung Timber doors, lance and sword have suc- Whist Club still differs in minor Yard, Mongkok, on Saturday wds cumbed to bat and racquet, cock-essentials from that of the Port-averted by the timely arrival of a

Chinese constable, who found fighting to greyhound racing, aland Club.

number of workmen engaged in a day's hawking to a day. In the car; but our indoor recreations remain Recent changes, more reactionary free fight.

According to Sub-Inspector Dick," much the same as in the days of than revolutionary, in the colle var forbears.

decreed by the Portland Club make who prosecuted three of the com- it necessary for even the best-batanta before Mr. W. Schofield, at A CHINESE INVENTION? The origin of chess is lost in informed players to have a copy the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday,

of the laws.

These will be found the trouble was owing to matters antiquity; that of cards is not on the two new books on the game relating to Triad docletion. obscure. Attempts have been made which have recently appeared. Mr. For disorderly conduct by fight- to prove that playing-cards were A. E. Manning-Fostor In his Ing In the street, his Worship in- known to the ancient Egyptians and

"Auction Bridge Made Cleared each defendant $16, and further have been used in India from time (Eveleigh Nash, 38. Gd..) and Mr. directed them to sign bonds in the immemorial, but the generally ac-R F.. Foster in his "Bridge for sum of $100 each to be of good be cepted view is that they were des Beginners" (The Bodley Head, haviour for 12 months. vised in the twelfth century by a reigning Emperor of China for the 5.), have each added to the laurels amusement of his concubines. Two writers on the game.

which they already possessed as Both books centuries later they were introduced

manner which into Europe by the Crusaders (mostly inveterate gamblers), who initiates the tyre progressively and had learnt the art of card-playing easily into the mysteries of

from the Saracens.

The craze soon spread, and some of the games then played can be recognised is the forerunners of our modern games; poker was play ed as early as the fourteenth cen- tury, piquet was known to Rabelais;

written in a nre

game,

the

INTERCEPTED LETTERS,

(From Mr. David Lloyd George io Dr. Paul Voronof.)

[By I. C.).

"RED" OUTBREAK.

1,500 PERSONS SPEEDILY ROUNDED-UP.

BIG POLICE COUP.

Paris, Sunday. With reference to the 250 ur- rests made by the police in the course of rioting which followed Ja Communist demonstration be fore the Town Hall in the work- most of the games were of Italian My dear Dr. Voronoff, I have the ing-class suburb of vry, the or French origin, England claiming honour of credit only for cribbage and loo,Proposing a scheme you can either sale round-up of

police subsequently made a whole- Communist both of which came Into vogue

lenders and demonstrators, ar- during the sixteenth century. Some-But first let me say that I cannot resting a total of 1,500. A large what curiously, faro, the pet of abhor enough

(number, however, were subse- American gambling halls, was the The way that Dean Inge, that quently released. fashionable craze in France during gloomy old thing, the reign of the Grand Monarque.

SILENCE: AT THE TABLE.

call on or off:

Insulting abuse has not scrupled to

ning

At

the

Possibly the first game known in you and your schemes (which England was whist, which origin- he calls a disgrace) ally was known, as triomphe or To lengthen and strengthen triumph, from which the word life of the race. "trump" is derived. Shakespeare I contend, my dear Voronoff, knew the game:

... She, Eros, has

Packed cards with Cæsar, and false-

played my glory

Unto an enemy's triumph

At what date the game received

the name of whist is uncertain, but?

Man has had war enough;

Since Cain killed his brother,

battle delighting, *

in

He has spent all his Icisure

in

killing and fighting.

And just because you Discover the clue

certainly before 1674, for in the For reversing the process, what a "Compleat Gamester" published in to-do!

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Ninety-six of those arrested were foreigners, who will be de- ported or sent back to their coun- tries according to their particular circumstances.

Those arrested included Valiant Courturier, the editor of the Communist newspaper "Humanite," who was subse- quently released..

Watch From "Planes.

The first arrests were made at dawn when detectives visited the leaders of Communist organisa- tions.

When the demonstrations ar- rived at Ivry they found the dis-

that year Cotton tells us: "It is Well; I write to inquire if it en-trict in a state of siege. Every called Whist from the Silence that ters your plan

side street contained a police

ployed to signal to the police all

must bo observed in the Playe," That a Party muren (and de-lorry, while aeroplanes were em- and naively adds: “He that by cays) e a man. Craft overlooks his adversary's Take the Liberal case; I look back appearance of suspicious assem- game hathe a greate advantage."

on the time

ous prime;

blies, which were, thus prevented

groups-Reuter.

The foregoing quotation shows Of our vigorous, ardent and glori- from joining up with other that even in those days card-playing was not regarded as a mere light As Wordsworth has sung, it was Amusement. The modern concep grand to be young tion of it as serious battle of How bright was the eye! How. wits becomes already apparent in nimble the tongue! the "Court Gamester," a volume With the sun on the hills and the pablished in 1720 for the odification dew on the lawn,

of the daughters of the future We rejoiced as we lifted the ban- George 11. Writing of the game of ombre, the author says: “To play

it well requires a great deal of ap

ners of dawn!

The electorate smiled By our ardour, beguiled plication, and let a man be ever so And nothing considered too daring expert, he will be apt to fall into and wild! mistakes if he think of anything | We tackled the Land and the Lords else or is disturbed by the conver sation of them that look on."

and the LawS, '

And all that we did had the

People's. applause

Whist, which theretofore had not been regarded as one of the fashion-They

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The yacht, which is 80 feet in length, with a beam of 14 feet 6 inches, is of particular interest in view of the fact that all the fittings blushed at our kisses and have been specially brought out from England, to suit the owner's

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Whist, which was introduced from Unheeded, outmoded, discarded out- supplies current for the 2 h.p.

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FROM BRIDGE TO AUCTION.

The actual origin of Bridge is doubtful. Owing to the immense popularity which it achieved under the name of "Khedive" in Turkey, To

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The below deck accomntodation Than. the riches unsunned of the consists of a double guest enbin (Although gold prevents age from to a private bathroom and lavatory. forward, from which there is access being utterly shunned).

A corridor leads aft to the owner's Now the beauty of Wales state cabin, which is some Miserably falls

wide by 12 feet tip on our side the electoral in length, and beautifully furnish- conjure in vain all those clude a writing desk, bookcases, ed throughout. The fittings in-

many have concluded that it originated in that country, but it We

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is more probable that the Turks hind glories ecstatic learned it from Russian prisoners And the dawn on the mountains wardrobes, and wash basin, etc. A spacious private bathroom is also during the war of 1877, and when seems merely rheumatic! first

arranged adjacent to this cabin. introduced into Britain Ah, Monsieur Voronoff, could you it was known as "Biritch" or "Rus- retrieve a

sian Whist." Its Russian origin Year of our youth 'twere as good is highly probable, for the modern as Geneval

Auction Bridge, though halled as Outlawry of war would be less, I an Anglo-American improvement of engage,

of age!

the mother game, is almost ident! A boon to mankind than outlawry cal with Vint, a variation which had been played in Russia for many years prior to the arrival. of the game.

If you could command By the juice of a gland This sorry declension to come to a

stand,

For the Liberal flock

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The oldest and worst

candid) I'm curst, :

By 1008 English and American Bridge players had become discon-

And put back the clock Jof the Party with which (to be tented with the game as it wan; -It | was deemed unreasonable that the O, wouldn't it give the old Tories Then broaden the scheme to In- power of nominating the tramp A shock!

clude the electorate.

auit should be restricted to the On the mountains of Wales we with an office of Youth, a large dealer and his partner; so gradually should skip like a goat,

staff and inspectorate, there evolved the idea of putting It would help us to capture the And a Minister, too, to push the up the right of nomination to auction. By 1910 this liminary auction

pre

.Was firmly

feminine vote,

And what a cry If we could supply

thing through When we come into power (I don't)

doubt you would do)?

established and the old game faded The ladies with something old age The ery of a general rejuvenation, Into obscurity.

to defy !!

Many further variations of the Ninepence for fourpence would game have been attempted, but not be in it with little success. The call of with a year for a day or an hour "nullos"-corresponding to "mis-for a minute! ore" in other games admirable in May. I urgently ask that you join

a committee theory, was found too complicated To make the world young (and if

in practice whilst contract" auction, in which tricks made in excess of the contract did not count,

possible, pretty),

To rejuvenate first:

was found too dull. Majority (Continued at foot of next Column.)

I am sure would appeal to the

sense of the nation.

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Of placing your figure for services

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When we get into office, we'll make

em disgorge,

I know how to do it Yours, David

Lloyd George.

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