DAILY CROSSWORD ACROSS X. Break suddenly 3. Arabian garments 9. College in X. Y. 12. Italian goddess 13. Young organism 14 Singing voice 35. Antlered animal \6. To sell 18. Female fowl 19. Asian country 23. Vegetable used in soup" !7. Platform -28. Cloth 30. Cover 31. Mountain pass 32. Astern 33. Summoned forth $5. Fodder vat 36. Pause 37. Measure of capacity 3S. Large snake JO. Anything fired at 14. Gang 18. Across ' 49. Bury 51. Allot 52. A relation 53. Concoct 54. Wagers k DOWN i. A lean-to > ••?. Alaskan city 3. French priest 4 Young salmon 5. Partly open 6. A mass 7. Poker stake 5 Carbon dust l0 Railway tabbr.) 11 17 Large 29. volume 31. Indefinite article 34. Exclamation One who idles 35. Artless Capers 37. Exists 3S. Siberian river 39. Venomous 40. snake 41. A firearm 42. Performer 4.'!. Craze 44. Close to Earth goddess Knight Templar (abbr.) Silicon (sym.) Music note Beryllium I sym.) Auricular Grave Affirm A network Thrived A fish Yesterday'# Answer 45. Trick 46. Throw off 47. Skin tumors 50. Negative reply BARCLAY ON BRIDGE By Shepard Barclay "The Authority on Authorities" li \\ h A CHANCfc Ot 1*AC'E FINE BIDDERS vary tactics according to the kind of partners sitting opposiu them. A bid which you might noi think of making opposite an expert can he the very best when you have an inexperi enced. unsound or thoughtless one playing with you In such situa tions it is frequently best, when you hold a good hand, to bid on the basis of probabilities, depend ing on them rather than upon your partner's action, to get you into the best contract. * K 10 S V J 9 5 3 ♦ 7 5 4 A J 9 4 C S 6 4 6 5 f A K ♦ 962 *S 5 3 2 ♦ Q J94 3 V 10 4 2 A K Q 10 6 ♦ AT 2 »Q" ♦ A K Q J 10 3 ♦ A 7 (Dealer: East. Neither side vul nerable.) North Pass 2 NT East South West Pass . 1 ♦ l«i U 2 + Pass Pass 3 NT That bidding occurred at two tables of a duplicate game, where expert players were in the North, but it was risky with average ones At another table South on his second turr. feared it being dropped, so bid C-Diamonds and North shifted it to 3-No Trumps. Where one player had an inexperi enced partner in the North he bid 3-No Trumps on his second turn, on probabilities. He could count up eight sure tricks as soon as he got in. and required as a sure heart stopper nothing better than three hearts to the J or tour to I the 10—a very likely holding for North, since East did not support West's bid. It might be interpo lated that West's bid was hghly criticizable. At two tables, the hand wound up in diamonds, at a less than game contract. In one case five were made because West started with two heart tricks, so that South was able to discard his only club loser on the heart J and 9. In the other, after West's heart K lead, he answered the discour aging signal of the 2 by shifting to his spade 6 to the 8, 9 and A. Declarer dropped trumps and led his heart Q. If West won this, South could then reach dummy with the spade K and play the other two hearts, trashing his club 7. But West ducked. Now South had to lose his club trick, so made only four diamonds. Can you figure out West's neat logic for letting the heart Q win ? ♦ * * Tomorrow's Problem ♦ 9 7 f> 8 7 4 2 *AQ8 ♦ Q 62 (—tt— *A5 V J 10 9 5 Jy' . f KQ 3 £ til #852 ♦ A 7 c A J 10 9 6 tjiK 4 3 i—1 5 2 4 K J 10 8 4 3 V A 6 ♦ Q J 6 4 A" (Dealer: East. North-South vul nerable.) What two factors combine to make an opening bid on South's hand advisable, though it is below usually prescribed minimums in high cards? * * The Movies and Your Eyes By LOGAN CLENDENING. M. I). , # HOW MUCH harm is clone to the eyes by reading mi trains, air i planes, automobiles or by any kind f. of flickering light? How much I harm is done by reading in dim light, or by long sessions at the « movies? ■-J, No permanent harm, all but the I' most fussy oculists will agree. |j True, it requires more energy I?' and strain than reading in a ' i steady light. If you walk over a I rough road, up hill and down, over , js stones and in and out of holes, you f'" are more tired than covering the same distance on the level. But you do not do any permanent dam age to your legs. No Permanent Damage So flickering lights cause more and more rapid muscular adjust ments and the procedure tires your eyes. But it doesn't "ruin" them, as parents are apt to say in Dr. Clendening will answer questions of general interest only, and then only through his column. warnings. It does no permanent damage. Headaches result, and general bodily fatigue, and heavy, burning feelings of the eyes. For those who have visual de fects such attempts may have more . serious consequences. Near-sight t d persons, particularly under 30, •..hen the eyeball is soft, may put s.ich a muscular strain on the eye ball as to result in increased and permanent damage. This applies also to people with a lack of prop er musciflar balance. This does not mean those with a definite squint, but simply so much muscle weak ness that the eyes can be thrown < tf balance by excessive muscular work and strain. The minimum amount of illumi nation that is supposed to be nec essary and sufficient for reading is placed at 10 foot-eandie-. Any electrip light and any reasonable amount of daylight will furnish this. The movies present a special condition. With modern technique the amount of flicker in a movie is almost nil. The light also is steady and sufficient. The introduction of talkies has also made an improve ment. The characters most of the time in modern talkies don't move around as much as they used to in the movies. This does not apply, of course, to the moments when they are falling over cliffs, etc. But in most situations they must stand still while delivering their speeches in order to get the idea over. Then in the old days your eyes had to endure changes from a brightly illuminated scene to a dark chart with the legend on it. This has been eliminated by the talkies. The consequence is that experts say the movies are the least straining of all methods of using the eyes. I know people who can go to the movies for hours, but invariably have a headache if they read fifty pages of print. (Tomorrow — How Eyes Develop From Birth.) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS J. C.—"Is chewing tobacco in jurious to one who has colitis and inflamed colon?" Answer—Yes, it is injurious. It is probably the cause of the colitis and the inflamed colon. Digestive disturbances can frequently be traced to the use of tobacco. It is one of the few injurious things that tobacco does. 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