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SATUnHAY. T1A1K II 4. 1UOG.
The Double .Life.
My neighbor leads a double life
A fashion much in vogue
A dramatic rascal he is, sure,
And a literary rogue.
For when my neighbor is at home
His choice of books or play
Is not at all the same as when
My neighbor goes away.
When he is home he buys the books
Of literary style
That analyze the human soul
And w oe and gloom up-pile.
He goes in for dissection keen,
With problems of the time,
The novels on heredity,
And on the Modern Crime.
But when my neighbor goes away
The books he reads oh, my!
Adventures, yellow tales and jokes
As low as breakfast pie.
To latest books, he says, "Go 'way !
Or I'll do something rash ;
At home I have to read that rot
Now give me good old trash."
My neighbor, when he is at home,
And feels the drama draw,
Will only go to Isben plays
Or rave o'er Bernard Shaw.
He'll see none but a problem play,
A work that makes one think
And turns in scorn from mere mirth shows,
Philosophy to drink.
But when my neighbor goes abroad
No Isben does he see.
He fights in throngs that rush to buy
Good seats for "Fiddle-Dee."
He takes revenge for Shaw et al.
In song and dance and buzz ;
And most of us, I think somehow,
Do as my neighbor does.
Baltimore American.
fortune.
Jes' aroun' de corner
Dar's good luck, so dey say.
Sometimes it never gits here,
But it's alius on de way.
No matter what's yoh trouble
Dar's a chance to work an' learn ;
It's jes' aroun' de corner, .
If you knows which way to turn.
But youmusn't sit complainln'
Cause yoh luck is overdue.
Sometimes 'twill run to catch you,
But it isn't likely to.
You's got to keep a-movin';
Tain' no use to stand in doubt.
It's jes' aroun' de corner,
But you's got to seek it out.
Washington Star,
THE TYRANNY OF BRIDGE
HE casual observer needs
only to look about the
hotel corridors here, at
evening, to get -a fair
idea of the hold bridge
whist has upon its legion
of devotees. To be sure one sees nere
"social bridge'' and not "gambling
bridge:" nevertheless, the following
comments will be read with interest by
all lovers of the game Editor.
It seems to be agreed on all sides, says
the Springjitld Republican, that the com
paratively new game of bridge has al
ready achieved a supremacy and a vogue
far beyond that of any other game of
cards, and though the mania has not yet
reached in this country save in certain
fashionable circles such a pitch as in
England, whence distressing reports have
been emanating for some years past, it
would be most rash to set any limits to
the possible intensity and range of the
contagion. If the American reputation
tor carrying good amusements to a bane
ful extreme is carried out in this case, the
country will in a few more seasons be
turned into one great Monte Carlo. For
it is to be noted that the gambling habit
which has, as a rule, been discounte
nanced in American society, and was not
a characteristic feature of the whist epi
demic, is so strongly associated with
bridge that it seems to be forcing its way
into circles where playing cards for
money has always hitherto been frowned
upon. Probably no great harm has been
done as yet. No reports have been made
of reckless play such as have been made
public in England, where people who had
no desire to gamble and could not afford
to lose have been socially obliged to play
for high stakes, sometimes with disas
trous results. In England there has not
been the general disapproval of playing
cards for money that has characterized
those parts of the United States where
the Puritan influence is strong. A small
wager on a rubber of whist has been the
conventional and respectable thing, and
that sedate game caused little trouble.
But bridge is a different matter and lends
itself readily to the feverish gambling
spirit which acute observers have noted
as characteristic of the English temper
during the era of imperialism and specu
lation. It cannot plausibly be maintained
that Americans are more sober and dis
creet in such matters, and if the practice
of gambling once secures a hold upon the
very section of society that has always
resisted it, it hard to say what the end
will be.
The special and insidious danger of
bridge lies in its tendency, under the
sanction of social custom, to force gam
bling upon those who would otherwise
never be tempted to play for money.
Roulette and poker are understood for
for what they are, and no one is under
compulsion to play at them or go where
they are played. But in one of the most
authoritative of the new books we read :
"Proficiency at the game has become a
positive social qualification. We have
more than once heard it said, 'I should
like to ask so-and-so, but he doesn't play
bridge.' "
Talleyrand once said to a young man
who did not play cards, "What a dis
mal old age you are preparing for your
self !'' But it is a dismal present, accord
ing to these authorities, that those who
reject bridge bring upon themselves:
"Some few malcontents there be who
still remain obdurate, but they may safely
be allowed to gnash their teeth in the
outer darkness which they have chosen."
Now if it is true that bridge is becoming
a social passport, without which there is
no admission nor for that matter any
thing to be admitted to it is the more
important that playing for money should
not become the conventional practice.
There are plenty of ways to gamble;
they might well be left to the gamblers.
But gambling aside, there are some
grounds for disquietude in the monopoly
which bridge seems to exercise. From
cities so separate as Boston and Pittsburg
comes the complaint that people have
ceased to attend concerts because they
are too engrossed in bridge. It is, as a
matter of fact, a bad season for conceits
everywhere, and perhaps the same reason
holds. Possibly those who like bridge
and dislike music are better employed at
the card table, but that is not quite the
point. In the abstract it is readily ad
mitted that any country or any age which
has so run wild over an amusement that
the arts are neglected has deteriorated.
A social group can as easily as an indi
vidual give too much of its time and en
ergy to cards, and the current of intel
lectual life must run correspondingly
low.
It is precisely because. bridge is one of
the best of all indoor games that its reign
is oppressive. A primitive and foolish
recreation like "hearts"' or ping-pong
matters little ; the world goes mad for a
day and recovers. But bridge is a serious
afl'air; one might almost learn a foreign
literature in the time it takes to master
it. . It is hard to be exiled from society
for not playing the game, if that is indeed
what we are coming to; it is almost as
hard to be slain with pin-pricks for play
ing it badly. So there is no resource for
an ambitious or a thin-skinned person but
to practice it with an energy and assid
uity which few busy people can afford.
Thus as bridge strengthens its hold and
the standard of play becomes higher,
there i3 less and less room in the general
social scheme for the people who lack
either the time or the disposition to ac
quire skill. Tyranny in amusements is
as objectionable as in politics, but it is not
so easy to organize a revolt. The out
casts will have to get on as best they can
till the crest of the wave has passed, con
soling themselves with the reflection that
Americans take new sports so hard that
there is apt presently to be a reaction.
Hard Hitting1 the feature.
Saturday's base ball game drew a big
crowd, and there was sport from first to
last, The Carolina team defeating the
Village, 14 to 12. Of hard hitting .there
was plenty, and of enthusiasm no end.
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