Contract Bridge Sy Josephine Cluberlaon THE SMOTHEII. PLAY A "regular reader” writes: "I have heard oi squeeze plays. grand mugs and even Vienna coups, but a bridge mend mentioned some- zhing brand new to me - a smother play. Was he pulling my leg, or is there really a play by that name? it so, won't you give an illustrat- '.on." There certainly is such I play, zhough it comes up most in- irequently. Here is a situation that :an only be solved lav means oi a mother riiav West dealer. - North-South vulnerable. 4.9.7 vast QKIOBZ .y.x7::'.-4 ass ;i(QJio oxen N 964. 9653 W E vs- uiios 3 son ; (.1063 I A52 2 QQ.rio953 QA76 i gab mined spade bidding on East's pfrt West doubles the iire-heart con- - .. . ,. y w y IVUVDLVIDDIX Afg, 11,52 M Al Capy tract and opens the eight oi spades. There is no reason to dusk at the first trick, so South puts up dummy's ace. then leads a club to his ace in order to take the trump linesse. Thls latter succeeds, but or course west is not so ohllging as to cover South's heart queen, and when East shows out. it appears that West must eventually win a trump trick by iorce, since he still has tivee trumps against dummy's two. Barring the not-to-expected drop of the queen and Jack at diamonds. South can see that he must lose three tricks in the normal course or play - a spade, a diamond and I trump. Is there any way to sal- vage one or these losers? Possibly South tries the following: South leads the heart jack for. ,another finesse. He then casiies the iklllg of clubs and ruiis a club, and .iiext cashes the ace and king of diamonds and rufis dummy's last club. Now South simply exits with his last diamond. East wins and can cash a spade trick, but on his Lioilowing iorced lead or a spade, South ruiis and West isy "smothered." Ii he over-ruiis with the king, dummy's ace in turn wins the trick: whereas if West (down to trumpst under-ruiis South, dummy discards the diamond and takes the last trick with the trump iMite. MITE BECOMES T!-IBIFTY For waste there never is excuse. There's little that is not oi use. -Old Mother Nature. There was nothing stupid about Mite. The yoimg Mouse was looking for R place for himself out in the Great World. He was smart. He learned fast. He learned by using h:s eyes, h:s ears, and his nose as Mother Nature intended they should be used, and remenibering what he learned through these. When he was a baby. he was so very small that he was called Wee He wasnlt Wee any longer. That is. he W2iSll'l Wee as Mice go. He was a small person. but not a small Mouse. In iiict. he was almost grown up, and he was just a little over tour weeks old. In just that L108. SWIFT WATERS The Ogoki River in Northwest- Assume that scum R pmhpd miorn Ontario was named after an a contract oi iive hearts bi ricl'3r- ilndian word meaning ”SwLit Riv- or" A beautiful film of it Big ANNOUNCING THE SECOND AUDUBON SCREEN TOUB TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 AT PRINCE OF WALES COLLEGE AT 8 P.M. Sponsored by The Prince Edwind Island Women's Institute Bend" will be presented by Mr. Allan Cruick- shank, distinguished naturalist and lecturer. Admission 50c 'ild life entitled "Below The l . Ii”. It i -N i fiwr..'- J) U11-24'. .-W-(.t.”' He discovered that trill grasses oiten had a lot oi seeds at their top. little time. he had had to learn a great deal. He had had to learn what things were good to eat. where they could he found. ulint enemies lhe must watch out for and how to 'escape them. what places were sale for a Mouse, and the-oncs that were not. One of the things Mite found out very soon was that he must have it Ilot of food every day. The fact is ?he needed more than his own lweight in food every day. Yet Mite Iwasnlt fat, That is. he wasn't too iiat. He was just right. Although he ate so much. he didn't overeat. He needed all that iood to give him lcnergy. Energy. you know, is what jgives you the ability to do things: to work hard: to play hard; to get the things you want; to do the Biiciuicii: i k 1 tin: help for Backache ggireugxraiic 1?:ili1I.:.”Gelt-ins VP N'lh"v "WW. ciouuy urine, irritatiiai nuances. Lei: P11!!!- and loss or energy due to Kidney and Bladder . troubles. try Cvsteir. Quick. complete satis- i nation or money back. Don't lime! 530'-h" 1 day without using your nrunm 1" Crime ti-tings you want to do. Folks with- out cnergy never amouht to much. The young Mouse needed a. lot oi energy because ne had to keep so busy, had to run about so much. 'had to hunt for all that iood. And some oi it he had to cut because it was grass and other green things growing. , Now Mite had never been taught anything. He had started out fom home into the Great world beiore he was quite three weeks old. 0! course the little Mouse had not been taught thrift. These days it would seem that a lot oi people have not been taught thrift, and haven't iound out ior themselves the need oi it. They lack the good sense of Mite the Meadow Mouse. He iound out ior himself the wis- dom oi thriit. At the very first, the Wee Mouse had thought or nothing but keep- ing his stomachgiilled, and keeping saie. At first he had lived alto- gether on tender green things. Al he grew he kept iinding new things to eat. some seeds were good. very good indeed. He discovered that tan .1 ..E..:E:. Continued on page 12 'I'1'l'-'P.Y -:aE.NB-h"CA-P" STUBS 0-I How-aM".';. 'r-1'QE.'.' -AND you Gar suo-i uouur mouuluzl All woo sun: V Iio.ooo WILLLL tuouou? 351.7 --AN' MR8. 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