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1.
TUESDAY, MAY 18TH, 1916
AVIATION AND OLD AGE.
NEW BRIDGE SCORING RULES.
ADOPTED IN NEW YORK.
NEW HONOURS..
Honour values were based on suit values under the old auction bridge code. The new rules prescribe the following, uniform for all, suits
Three houours
Three in one hand, fourth ia partner's
Two in each hand
Two in one hand, three in partuer's Four "in one hand
Four in one hand, fifth in partner's Five in one hand.
" NO TRUMP HONGERS" (INCHANOED).
Three aces Four nee
Four in one hand
New York, May 8th. Auction bridge has taken note of the demand for new styles at the Easter
30 points
40 points
40 points
50 points
80 points
-'90 points
100 points
30 points 40 points
100 points.
tention to it or declares. The correction mast ha in the same trumpe, however.
If the player on the left of the in- sufficient bidder declares before attention
A PLEASANT PROSPECT.
··Old age is being robbed of its terrors. COLONY IN ICE-LOCKED OCEAN,No one now believes that a man is "too achievement of the old at 40" writes the Daily Telegraph. The supreme
On golf-courses, as well as on tennis Amundsen-Ellsworth Trans-Poler Bight
lawns, grand fathers take their recrea in a dirigible across the Arctic ice action with the second, and even the third will be to throw some light for the first time upon the interior of that unexplored generation and not infrequently prove the better men. W. G. Grace in his day and mysterious expanse.
showed that a cricketer need not retire Many ships have gone into in some of from the Aeld because his hair is turning Men have wan-grey or has mors or less completely dered about its hisge, baffled by the thin-sappeared. There is no agenkib to the motorist. But it was generally as ing ice from making any extended trip sumed that aviation was the sphere of inside. We know the shores of the Polar youth, and that the pilot's career neces Sea, but the great white space of 1,000,000 arily came to an end when he had celebrated his 20th, or at most his 28th, square miles which is its centre has never birthday. When the conquest of the sir been seen by any man who has returned was an achievement of yesterday and the aeroplane was still in the early stages of to tell the tale.
no doubt on development, there was element of truth in these rezervations." We hope to fly over the centre of it. But it is new stated that there is no We may be retarded by the sight of land, limit to the age at which a man may fly. "So long as he is certified as fit or we may not, but it will be a thrilling he can go on flying as long as he likes." experience to look upon a region that has That declaration, made by a responsible officer of the Royal Air Force, opens up defied every effort to apy out its secret
Our passage will be too swift for exinteresting and, indeed, exhilarating possibilities. Aviation is still somewhat tended scientific observations. We are of a novelty. Few of us have acquired land hunters, seeking the, rarest bit of the air habit. But the time will come land in the world, an ensis in the ice when tens of thousands of men will have learnt how to handle an aeroplane, and land, which, if found, should he worth the art of the pilot will have been greatly. much more than any similar strip in the simplified by the remarkable progress in design and construction which is now being made, as well as by the invention. of safety devices. The pilots of to-day
Bids of more than seven are void, and are showing no inclination gracefully to
as penalty either opponent may demand a new deal, require the declaration to be played by the offending tide at seven, retire in favour of neophytes fresh from school or university. Does the fature' hold the prospect that old gentlemen, Fire wealthy New York business men, undoubled or doubled, or direct that the with horn-rimmed spectacles to correct comprising the card committee of The auction revert to the last legitimate Sid any defects of vision due to advancing Whist Club, drafted the revised code. and be continued by his side from that A new provision on leads out of turn ears, will pursue their way through the Approval of the American Whist League point. skies with the same assurance that
has been given. octogenarians to-day manipulate motor.
The revisions are the first since 1990 reads:
Should Deolarrr lead out of turn cara The prospect is an alluring one. Edicts of the New York club are obser- Browning's words, "Grow old along red in several foreign countries, includ. either from his own hand or Dummy,
sary call attention to the error before" with me, the best is yet to be," willing Canada, as well as in the United such lead shall stand, unless an adver acquire a wider significance when Darby
Adoption of the new scheme of honour he or his partner plays When atten- and Joan can take a tour by air with as much assurance as to-day they celebrate values is the most radical of the rules tion is called to the error in time-De- their golden wedding by starting on changes. Sooring is simplified and the clarer must lead from the proper hand; motering trip. Darby competently bold- importance of bids in the minor suits is and, if that hand have a card of the anhanced by the change. Honour values suit led from the wrong hand, he must
lead that suit." ing the steering wheel.
ia No Trump bids are not altered.
The Whist Club of New York, accord- In the draw, as between cards of equal rank, the suits rank: Spades ing to its officials, was the first place in Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs America where the imported game of (highest), (lowest.) High wins," reads the brief bridge was played. This was about 30 years ago. The club prepared rules for new rule on the draw; "
world.
For in the future it will be man's base. in the midst of the most isolated of all regions. The Arctic ice flow is a shifting drifting precarious footing It is never where is was a short time before. I mores constantly, and it engulfs those who venture into it, and hitherto it has been impregnable. We hope to conquer.
AT THE RIM OF MYSTERY.
One must always remember that the North Pole is not in the centre of the Polar Sea The Pole is to one side, and much easier to reach than the centre of this great waste of ice. Even so, it took Peary 95 years to move over the shifting floes to within striking distance of the Pole. He was thwarted again and again. in his attempts, and yet he went to on" side much nearer a possible base than the centre of the unknown area.
REGION OF PERFECT QUIET. Peary thought he saw land. M’Millan
This unexplored Arctic is a place when seems to bave proved that what Peary no man has ever returned region of saw was a mirage, but Peary had good snow and ice and perfect quiet, where all reason to believe that land was there.
ordinary buman values lose their proper A large island, a very large island, in-tions. I have been asked many times deed, could exist there with temperatures what is the distinctive characteristic of which would make human life possible Polar territory, whether north or south.
reach it
which It is the quiet, the absolute peace- wildout man ever being able over the ice. It is almost impossible for surrounds one-the sense of complete wants to do. the person who has never been in the freedom to do what one
The in- Aretic to realize how difficult it 5 t There is nobody to interfere,
dividual is absolute I like it. len travel over the Polar ice."
sometimes go mad when isolated in the Arctic or the Amaretic. But I like it
MAY BE HABITABLE LAND. The Arctic of the iceflces is cruel Lif cannot be maintained without provisions in the interior.. The winter spent in the Maud on the coast of Siberia in 1822-3 proved that The further north one goes the more difficult it is to find any animal life. In our last aeroplane flight of more than 1,000 miles, we saw one seal And three birds. A man who could sub- sist on such rare game would be mighty thin by the time he got through.
There is no sense of loneliness, and only pesce, and quiet, and freedom. Of course there is nothing to do with one's freedom, but you have it and it is satisfying. No man can lift his voice and say you should not do that. か
THE UNKNOWN PLACES OF THE WORLD.
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A new set of rules, sponsored by The to the error is called, the insuficient bid Whist Club of New York City, mukes stande and is treated as if sufficient.
OVER-BID IS VOID. so that Hono values revised,
If another player calls attention to three important alterations. They are:
honours are scared uniformly for all the insufficient bid before it has been suits instead of varying in accordance cirrected and before the next player with trick values. Bidding in minor has dedared. the erring bidder must High instead of low wins the deal make his bid sufficient and his partner. is barred from further bidding. The and decides partnerships in the draw. erring, bidder has his choice of suits New penalties imposed for the for No Trump to correct the insufficiency, roke.
however.
suits stimulated.
Other changes regulate the correction of insufficient bids and leads out of tarn
States.
SPADES HIGHEST;
An insufficient bid-that is, one which its own membership at first. Gradually, isn't higher than the last previous bid-tits rules won recognition throughout the may be corrected by the bidder without country. It has held the rule making penalty before another player calls at prerogative ever since..
SLEEPY SICKNESS "DEMONIACS."..
CHILD WHO FILLED FAMILY'S
BOOTS WITH JAM.
Startling details of the after-effects of sleepy sickness (encephalitis lethargics) upon children were given by Dr. C. P. Symonds, in a lecture at the College of Nursing, Henrietta-street, London.
It had been discovered in many cases, became said Dr. Symonds, that honest, sweet tempered, transformed, after suffering from the Their morals deteriorated to 'such a disease, into perfect little demoniacs.
tractable children
whistling, swearing, and attacking his brothers and sisters.
TERING OUT A FAMILS.
Another child showed great ingenuity in devising fresh pranks His growing effort was to tire out all the other mem hers of the household so that they fell asleep from sheer exhaustion, and then to collect their boots, take them to the". pantry, and fill them with jam,
Police court and reformatory treat- rent did not produce a cure, but reason- able moral treatment occasionally had most encouraging resulta A lad who fortunate have for mother, some had had an attack of sleepy sickness was fteen stone of solid, purposeful, placid
womanhood: She neither spared the rod nor-spoiled the child,
There is a vast difference between the But although it is so surely impossible North and South Poles. I had the good to live on the Arctic Boes from the life fortune to reach the South Pole first one finds there, and although travel may achieving my purpose largely by carefni be so difficult over the ice as to make planning and luck; fuck is always a factor communication with the mainland impasin uch expeditions But there is a differ sible, it is not out of the realm of pos-ence in the method. The South Pole e extent that they took to stealing, lying the boy today, at the age of fifteen, was-
and holding a regular job sibility that life may actually exist in the on a great continent with peaks as high swearing, and every form of spiteful and a useful worker hearing a good character
mischievous activity. The trouble was interior if there is any land to support it as the depths of the North Polar sea
The Poles have kept their silence long accentuated in numerous instances be- Suppose, for instance, there is an island,
Thanks to her firmnem and good sense,"
That was an unusual instance, and he
aleepy sickness must, in a number of
a large island, in the interior. It will and well, but if they have any further cause the unfortunate children became regretted that the deterioration in char-
they will not retain one restless late in shoal water. In the summer months the that man has made himself independent
A typical case was that of a boy who cases, be regarded as permanent The ice will retreat" a little "way along the of his earthly path. There will soon be the day?
at the hour when other young people were most their parents and the State could. island shores, and when this occurs seals no more unknown places and nothing for
I am glad that I did not live much later retiring to rest would enter upon a night do was to prevent them from becoming and birds will always be found. That explorers to do.
of activity, which included singing, a nuisance to the community. would be spot where life-could be main- tained indefinitely, but there would have The moon would be the only possibility. to be land.
THE LOST WHALERS,
I have often wondered what would have happened if one of the hundreds of what ing ships that have been caught in the ice in Bering Straits since whalers first dared the icebergs had been carried into the interior of the foe, and had caught on such an island,
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The ice drift from Bering Straits is to the North towards the point where we expect to find land if it exists. These whalers shipped about 50 men each, and they always took native hunters and women with them. If they had drifted to the north and struck land at Insty ther would have been able to build houses with the timbers of the ship; they would have a a large store of provisions to keep thent until they got in stores of food from the seala and other sea animals and from the birds.
They would have found a comparatively mild climate, in the summer months. The sun would have been warm for a good part of the year. They could have lived, multiplied, and thrived, but they would have been cut off for ever from civiliza tion by the drifting ice.
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one assumes that land may exist there is
it does in the Antarctic. We do not ex pect to find such a colony. It would be far too much to hope to find human beings there. It would be the most dramatic and amazing discovery in all human his- tory:
To see living human beings on any land in the midst of the Arctic ics would make the traveller in a dirigible pinch himself hard and blink many times to make sure he was awake. It just ennidn't be al yet it is not Imposable. Nothing is. (Qontinued on next" Ublunts).
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