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THE POPULARITY OF CARDS.

FIRST-CLASS BRIDGE.

TREASURES OF HISTORIC CHAPEL.

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For over 500 years cards have exercised their fascination in Europe as the prin. cipal of indoor games, with the ons MEMORIAL TO PRINCE 'CONSORT. exception of chess. But chess is for the

Few of the world's ecclesiastical build. faw; cards are for the many. The cardings, remarks a London paper, surpass player may be less intellectual than the the magnificence of the Albert Memorial chessplayer, but he is much more a man Chapel, where the Committal Service of the world. Cards bring people to for Queen Alexandra was held. Queen gether and make a leading social interest. Victorin spared no effort when she Talleyrand remarked to a young man resolved to restore and beautify, this who did not play cards: Jeune historic building as a memorial of the homme, și vous ne jouez pas aux cartes Princo Consort, vous aurez une triste vieillesse."

The individual card' games are likewise very lasting. Auction bridge, which dominates the card world today, is young, but it belongs to the whist family of games, which has been played for over 200 years. Among round games poker alone has any standing, though chemin-de-fer leads a clandestine exis- tence in gaming-houses Of games for two, six-pack bezique is the most fashion- able; four-pack bezique is also played.. and is probably the more scientific of the two, though heavier and monotonous. Piquet, which was referred to by Rabelais in 1533 as one of the games played by Gargantan, is still popular while écarté bas gone out of fashion.

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It was first erected by Henry VII. as a Royal Mausoleum for himself, but he afterwards devised other plans for his burial. Wolsey persuaded Henry VIII to grant him the building so that he might erect therein a magnificent tomb for his own body-herce it was known as Wolsey's Tomb House. But Wolsey fell from his high estate before he had completed his design, although he had spent much to make his tomb rival in splendour the tombs of Kings

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GREAT ARTISTS' WORK. The sarcophagus of black marble which Wolsey had hoped would remains, became, centuries afterwards, the adornment of Nelson's resting-place in St. Paul's Cathedral. The subsequent vicissitudes of Wolsey's Chapel included its public use, in the time of James II. for the ceremonials of the Roman Church, and in 1800 George III. excavated the ground beneath it and made it what i was originally intended to be- Royal Tomb House.

The popularity of cards is largely due to the fact that they provide by far the

And now, in the hands of some of the best expression of the gambling instinct innate in man. Of the various forms greatest artists of the day, the super structure has become a splendid memo- of gambling, cards are the most pleasantrial to the good and useful life of a and the most sociable. They are also the noble Prince, Sir Gilbert Scott was least expensive, because the "cagnotte is usually negligible. In stocks and the architect entrusted by Queen Victoria shares there is the broker's commission with this last restoration. The beautiful to pay. In horse-racing the market enamel mosaics are the work of Signo: Salviati, of Venice. Baron Triqueti and odds are below the true odds. In roulette Miss Sasan Durant Tan early pupil of a definite percentage is taken by the his) were responsible for the marble back. But in cards the money circulatcatarsin work and sculpture which AMERIKA LINIE among the card-players and does not pass into outside hands. There are na brokers or bookmakers or banks to be supported out of it.

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The stakes played for in London now are but a shadow of what they used to be. The days have long gone by when men walked out of White's or Crock ford's to end a night of revelry with an ounce of lead. Still the points here and there are sometimes relatively high, and it is unusual to find first-class bridge at low points..

But what constitutes first-class-bridge? Some players excel in dno department, and some in another. Some are steady and scientiho, asd win by making fewer mistakes than other people. Some are temperamental, often making brilliant coups, but careless and inattentive, One kind of player counts every suit down to the two; another kind does not trouble. to count, but relies on circuitous in- ferences to know what card, to keep or to lead. In general, the fine player is not he who sees and remembers every thing, but he who can quickly distinguish the essential from the inessential, and attention on the concentrate entire former, forgetting the latter. Occasional- ly his quick disagnoeis is wrong, and he then makes a mistake which surprises, the onlooker, whose attention has ranged freely over the inessential as well as the essential detaila Economy of mental energy is a very important feature of bridge, and comes only with long

experience.

Probably the greatest change which has come over bridge in recent times is the tendency to overcall on losing hands, to save the game or rubber. This flag- flying" is a very difficult game to play, but absolutely essential in first-class bridge. Before resorting to it, there must be a strong probability that the adversaries will go game in their call, and also that the overcalling will not cost more than the game is worth. Allowing for the value of tricks and honours, a loss of 200 by overcalling is about equivalent to "losing either the first or the second game of a rubber. The third game is in a different category, and it is generally worth paying. 300 points to save it. The bidding in the third game is therefore different, almost from the start, from the bidding in the first two game.

Since the good bridge-player acts out purposely to overcall on certain hands a certain times, it is incumbent on the adversaries not to let him off without a double. If he pays to save the game, he' must not be let off at half-rates, but must be made to pay in full. Hence the double is an essential feature of the modern forward game. If a player goes down three tricks andaubled, his nd versaries have missed 150 points, and the effect is the same as, if they had thrown away three tricks by bad play, Bu doubling is always a gamble; a good gambling temperament is an immense asset, at bridges and the good, gambler is often a match for a better player than himself. The bidding becomes most ex citing when the score is game-all and each side requires only one trick to wind the rubber. Neither side will Jety,the, other go out, and sometimes deal aftry deal has to be played, till one side hastin such predominant at. Angth as to force .. win. On such occasions, one side mar SEVETL timer in Fuccession go dowr 200 or 300, and the bad gambler becames. restive under the process, preferring fo cut his losses than to play what in the end is the winning game. "For brides is a game of character, as well as of skill. The heat winners are tho who laugh at their losses, and always play the right game,-Times.

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WONDERFUL MURAL MOSAICS.

The roof of the chapel is completely covered with Signor Salviati's monies. In the Nave the shields and devices borne by the angels represent the heraldry of the Prince Consort, and in the Choir the angels exhibit devices symbolising the Passion of Our Lord.

The Weet Window over the entrance is decorated with the same kind of work, in lieu of being filled with glass, and the figures in momie between the mullions represent illustrious personages connect

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THE FIRST CINEMATOGRAPH. COMMEMORATED IN PÄRIS.

The first projection of a sinematograph film is about to be commemorated by The a tablet ared to No. 14, Boulevard des with St. George's Chapel. stained-glass windows on eriber BIOL Capucines, the site of the first cinema contain re-size figures of the Prince hall in the world. It was here that the Consort'a ancestors; the Tust window pa presente incidents in the Passion; and Brothers Lumitre first projected as a the other windows illustrate the Garden public spectacle in a café picture which of Joseph of Arimathes, and Garden of of Eden, Garden of Gethsemane, Garden succeeded each other so rapidly as to give the illusion of actual movement The the Blessed.

report upon the project submitted to The walls have beautiful mosaic-en- the municipal council points out that richment in various coloured marbles, no France's claim to have possessed the first fewer than 28 different kinds being cinematograph in no way detracts from employed. Baron Triqueti, of Paris, the honours rendered to the inventor of was the artist, and it is interesting to the cinematograph or Edison, the in- know that some of these gems of art veator of the kinetograph. The first of werd in the French capital during its these inventions enabled rapid movements siege by the Germans The subjects of to be photographed, and the second show- "from the Old Testament, and are typical and so visible only to one spectator at the panels on the side walls are takened moving pictures, but enclosed in a bor of the qualities and pursuits of the a time. It was the invention of the Prince Consort, while those at the cast brothers Lumière which Brat made it end depict scenes in Our Lord's Passion possible to project moving pictures on The borders of the pictures are of great to a screen where they could be seen by richness, and on each of the pilasters hundreds át a time, and so on December which divide them is a representation of 28th, 1996, laid the foundations of an a Biblical character in which some one industry of which no one at that time or other of the Christian virtues that could have foreseen the vast importance marked the life of Prince Albert is embodied.

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THE ANGELS OF LIFE, AND DEATH. The altar and reredos are marble and other stones. The subject of the reredos is The Resurrection, represented by panels. The communion table consists of bas-reliefs of Sicilian marble in three a single splendid slub of Levanto marble, and both at its front and back are rich carvings. In a niche on one side of the doorway is a white marble figure of "The Angel of Life, and in a similar niche on the other side a representation: of The Angel of Death," while over the door is a marble bas-relief of the "Descent from the Cross,"

Near the entrance to the chapel is the Duke of Albany's tomb, It is of white. marble, and the sculptor-as for many another work in the castle was Boehto. The Duke is represented in a recumbent attitude, wearing the uniform of the Seaforth Highlanders, of which regiment he was colonel. Nearer the Chancel is the cenotaph of the Prince Consort, the work of Baron Triqueti. It is of black) and gold Tascua marble.

The magnificent sarcophagus of the Duke of Clarence is in the centre of the chapel, and was erected in 1898. The site of the tomb is the exact, place where Cardinal Wolsey was permitted by his j Royal master to place the sarcophagus in which he himself intended ultimately to

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SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN HONGKONG,

FOR JANUARY, 1926.

(STANDARD TIME OF THE 120TH MERIDIAN, EAST OF GREENWICH).

Date.

Sunrise.

January 8th........7.04 a.m.

7th.....7.05 9th.... .7.03 9th.... .7.05

Sunset. 5.54 p.m.

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17th.

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