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. Tobacco, espe
cially in the form of chewing to
bacco, causes severe irritation of
the stomach and the entire bowel.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Dr. ClendeninK has
seven p. mphlets which can be obtained by
reader*. Each pamphlet sells for 10 cents.
For uny one pamphlet desired, send 10
cents in coin, and a self-addressed envelope
stumped with a three-cent stamp, to Dr.
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The pamphlets are: "Three Weeks' Reduc*
inn Diet", "Indigestion and Constipation",
"Reducing and Gaining". "Infant. Feed*
ing", "Instructions for the Treatment of
Diabetee", "Feminine Hygiene" and "The
of the H%ir and Ski*".
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