ed, they and rovids lenty oi §fffl§gtlllrls makgs the {goats ior- {their reserve more qu ckiy than £24,“. laughter. So ii you have not flied a ggfd plnY bCflJYB, d0 l0
es you‘ choose to. Play too difiicult for the learn. Moreover.
call for too serious ..'1‘he essential ele-
of than’: shguld beTha _ . e ;‘,‘§,°§,“,b,.“'l§§“§§§orl§sa late? all con- icrm to this necessary qualiiica.
ti°§glm dealing with the ordin- m. round games, however, I want to describe the latest developrrmn-t 0. curd party‘ organizers. This h patience tournament. It docs not lnterlcre with the main card pflfil’. and is run on the ugunl tournament nut-r, As many bee“ M m? “gelled are played, but only two pgqple play at the same time.
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" id one small table i0? this“ tglrriament, at which the pairs oi opponents take their laces l... required. When the last pa has been determined and the line-l i8 about to he played. the excitement Wm he 5o great that the majority of tl-ih guests; will probably want t0
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“fir? gem; I recommend ior this tournament is Goli Patience. It is plgyed over}. "course" oi nine holes, "bogy’ ior which is 40. Each hole is one hand. and the players tire it in turns to play a hand- The score returned by each play ior each hole is noted and adds vo at the end oi the round. ‘rhlls giving you the total number oi itrokes‘ played
Weiwiil now ‘take up the role of onlooker as the firs) air o! lfly-
tho honour of play ning,as he cut the ower card.
he new deals ilve rows oi seven cards each face upwards on to the table, This leaves him with 1'1 cards in hand-the stock. He turns up the top card oi the stock. On to that card he can play any card oi the next denomination. whether higher or lower, of any suit or col- our; the cards so played must be the bottom ones oi the seven col. umnr at the moment that they are played.
What does A actually do? His stock turn-up was a six. He played a seven. six. five iour, iive, s seven, and an eight. A ve good start indeed. B was not at a1 sorry first none oi the other cards would
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Anowturnsupths next stock lard. It is a Jack, Nothing fits. Siymlcd with s vengeance! A tries again irom stock. It is a King on which nothing can be played-that is a rule oi the gume. When a sequence reaches a King it sto .
The next card from stock eua les A to remove iour more cards from the table. He continues in this "BY. takinfl as many cards from the table as possible until he has exhausted the stock, I-Is now counts the number oi cards left on the
es B ioiske up the cards with plclglt-y oi optl ism
m . And his optimlan was ustiiied. ior with the last card oi t e sure]: s
biiero he had exhausted the stock he would have scorednninus three.
at: number he will deduct irorn -
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While {his lnnameut h loin! W. th card-play!!! Illtllv! could hotfmggrbetter than try I
' downwards, tihe top
ix the card-s put down
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Wbist. This guns is s. great leveller. E905? ' o
d no more chance than ‘ novices. The trumpschunge Wm! 9R3! trilill. so that thc"'e1u- citement is given fresh impetus "every iew seconds.
Quack, Doctor! ' between the “players, small ' cards helm; remov to make this pos. This is placed iace
card be up to indicate trumps
be needed urned
alone, endeavouring to win as many tricks as he can. The or- dinary rules concealing suitriol. lflwlns. trumping, discarding, and leading apgg.
Before winner o! the iirst trick leads ior'the second, the next card oi tho other pack is turned
ior the trumps. This is done
u g 5&9!‘ 9V9?!’ trick. When the hand
has been Plflycd. the number oi tricks won by each individual is put on the score sheet. Six hands
b‘ usually constitute
Iibllow this up wiglfienimsl Sna . Compared with Bridge it is childzs play, but iew games lead to such hilarious lavahter. an adults are
children at heart and this same gives them the op rtunity ior ail to be ioolish toge er.
“if”??? 5.1%“ ..".°...¢".°.?.‘.’ J32 equa no s each round. No player ml! 10°‘ It his cards. Beiore play basil“. animal must. be assigned to each participant. Creatures that make well-known, distinctive noises should be chosen, such as duck, donkey, cockerel. etc-When snap opportunities occur that ls. When two cards oi equal value are ex. posed at the same time, each play- er, to claim the cards. must make the noise o! the animal he repre-
sents. .
Holding his cards iace down- wards. e pla er on the leit oi dealer begins e game by placing his first card on the table. lace up. wards. The others do the same in
tum.
The object oi the e is to win all the cards, and t e game eon- tinues until a player achieves this. When a player has played or lost all his cards he ialls out oi the
game.
When two cards oi equal value are E the iirst person to make cry of his own articular animal wins both packs. . as is likely in the excitement, a claim- ant g-uacks when he should have "hee- awed." he loses all his cards. These are placed in the centre oi the table. These constitute the pound. The top card is exposed and can make snap with any o! by the layers. To claim a snap oi this nd, a Player must make the animal noise an add the words "in the pound." Ii s player calls out thinking he has seen a snap whoa he has not, his cards also go in the pound.
Certain friends oi mine like to play thisgame with the names of smous people or advertisement catchwords taking the place oi the animal cries. You may ears to try this. But I do not think the name oi the greatest comedian f so lunrw as does a stockbroger bloating like a sheghpl.‘
,As a iinale to part oi the card party-the iinal oi the golf tournament will not have been played yet-you could not do bet. r than indulge in a little Matri-
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CIdARHT
The pack must be‘ dealt‘ equally _
it»!!! iirst trick. Everyone plays 15$. himseli
the aces w eisibths inclusive oi all suits are taken ior use. If than this number are to take ‘it is better to ‘sgilit them up
two "schools." ou must have a sot ol iour cords ior everyone play-
‘Iho cards are than shuffled and dealt, iour to each player. No one may look at his or her cards until all are dealt. The obiect oi the game is to get all your iour cards alike, four sixes, iour twos, etc.
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At a given si 1, each player utl on the tab e, slightly to his cit, one card that he does not want. Immediately he has done this he is free to pick up the one lnrt down by the player on his right. Ii he is lucky. it will iit with‘ ones he holds. Li not, he can it. on next time. This passing process is continued until someone obtains a set oi iour. The cards are then thrown down and that hand is over.
The iirst time a player. obi-sins a iour he must cry “Courting" (Courted" for a woman). the next time he does so he must ,ery "En- gagcd.” the next "Banns up." and last oi all "Married." 'I‘he order oi these calls is invariable, If a player makes a wrong call the others shout Plilted," and he loses the sdvantaile oi that hand.
The player reaching the married sta"e iirst is the winner. The play- ere‘ exact states should be recorded on a score sheet. This is necessary. as oitcn a. player will call "Jilted" when the decl-arsr has actually made the right call. The challenger is than doomed to perpetual spin- sterhood or bacheiorhood. He still niays but can never marry or throw down his cards to stop the game. Even if he has a. set oi iour he must still pass on the cards in the usual way. This may seem at first
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happy state causes the other p111?’- ers to null his leg unmercliully, He certainly repents at leisure ior his hastiness.
Now ior the iinal oi the golf tournament. But. well you will be too excited to listen to me any longer. so 1’ will leave you to ii (may the best man win) and pro. coed to the nineteenth!
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Old Fdshioned Yules in Britain
“The snowy and frosty Yuletide so oiten depicted on the Christmas cards is isst becoming somewhat oi a myth, and recent years have shown a succession oi~ green Christ- mases, with a great deal more wet and iog than in former centuries, says Sydney Moorhouse s akmg u! England, in the Birm nghnm Weekly Post, and he continues:
The earliest severe Christmas of which we have any record occurred in A. D. 401. when the Black Sea. was frozen over,
In 1216 the Christmas wine froze and burst its casks, and had to be sold by weight, and the Christmas oi 1468 was so severe that the sol. dlers in Flanders had to break their wine with hatchets.
Another year with s. frosty Christmas was 1330, iood giving out in xnsny parts o! Britain and the Boo-dish peasants being reduced to ieeclng con
The Chris mas o! i683, nowefir, stands out as the one with the most severe frost oi which we have authentic records. Great Britain nearly ceased to be an island, the ice between Dover and Calais com- ing within one league of Joining. while travellers between Denmark, Norway and Holland crossed the seas on ice. Wintry weather re- vailed throughout the whole of :. ese islands, and it is recorded that al- most all the birds in the regions oi London rished on account oi the severe rest.
The River Thames was covered with ice some ll inches thick and Christmas coaches plied on the frozen suriacc. Evelyn. the diarist, tell; us how iires, were lighted on the river, oar-roasting carried out and many booths were erected.
One enterprising printer, G. Groom erected his press 0n the ice and struck oii cards. verses and inscriptions at a charge of six.
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pence a lino. lulltightc on the Thames
his patrons was Kin! II. who camoofrid January
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' Manama,’ said Jules
airurvms with as ta t- wins spruce. with flay: hi‘...
"Yes '9: " mule a ed "It was nice til’. m. Borfir keep the troe Bccd ior you this long. Perlwps Mary Ann. she will now believe." m d
e d sadness dame to Creillon. Poor Mariel It was that a Csiua couple should be childless, yet God had so will. ed it-and their habit of calling each other Momma and Papa, be. gun years ago in hope, had long since been dro ed. Jules‘ eyes sienmed as he re- membered how the child had come to. them early in December. just before they were ready to lmve ior the usual three monthsl oi muskrat trapping. Mary Ann was iive, chubby, yel- low haired, daughter oi his cousin from i/he hill country north. She was-an alien to this lower coast land oi march and water. But there had been no closer kin. no
one else to take her aitel- the hizllway crash in which both par- imts hid been killed.
Grelilon came back to the has.
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"Now. Papa, all is ready," Marie was saying. “It is but to whlt Quietly lmili she wnkens."
In her bed- §n1l881cd in the blan. kills against the chill of the Fob- "IBTY dawn. MR1‘? Ann could dim- ly hear the voices in the next room.
In the other room the oak lh the fireplace crackled merrily.
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Warmth and cheer iilled the place.
But the two sitting there, wait i118 quietly but anxiously. scarcely realized this~or that the bells an" holly“ the rcd and green papsn 311:] m? ‘mnlmfllng tree made bhe ICON a (afferent world, a child's fairy.
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Would thi k th littl ieel better. Jlrlgawgudesed? It been a mistake. taking her down to the marshes with them. Yet 0m‘? H1311‘. they could hardly leave until the season was done. It was the furs that brought their living, made them, not wealthy, but well. Off- rible to take care oi a child. '
They had tried to ex lain to her that trapper folk pos poned the holiday until they returned to the "We communities clustered here and there on solid land north o! the rat country,
“And Santa Claus won't even cogs?" Mary Arm had asked, wide. By . More than anything. Jules w. membered and regretted that mo. ment in their little marsh hut. He had looked helplessly at Marit-
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tears. All?! she ha; nevgnunlfll? stood. Greillon was sure that was this that had become barrier between Mary Ann and ihem- Somehow they could not break through it. , "She does not have the faith lh "fir, Miimmfl." he had said to Marie. Perhaps later she will." Marie had said hopefully.
Marv Ann stirred and rubbed has eves. It must be lzettinmup time, Fllnhy that Mrs. Greillon hadn't called her. She always did, Mar-v Ann wrissied out oi bed, padded to the door. opened it.
"Ob" "fled Mary Ann, catching flglzflhlefiih- Then. in sheer ectasy,
It couldn't be true, yet there it W557 A Iliflllv. truly Christmas tree. all bright and beautiful. A his red stocking hanging by the ggeplace. And toys piled. un under- bptagreetxfulndgfiinches, and the most The room was all cozy. Mary Anna eyes spfifkltd. dantg clap; had come sitar all as Mr. and Mrs. Greillon had said, a; 511g hash-g, believed. Them they were smiling ofigir.
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ulmmll. Papa." she cried. . "Santa Claus
Momma and Papa Greillon look- ed at each other smiling gently, eves gleaming.
“Yes. my sweet. “is
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Oi the customs that grew up around the Christmas iestival 1h Merrie England, the serving oi the hour's head w s one oi the most Slirfins- It en ures to this day at Queens college, Oxlord, where the fill-bound tusked head-a. lemon in lie srinning Jaws-is born in on a S11v8!‘ 4N1. escorted by trumpeters end candle bearers. It is served up with a wonderous flourish oi music and mustard at the high table where sit the dons.
In the olden days there was an appropriate chant, hall carol and half ritual, that the gentlemen used to bellow at the moment the dish touched the board:
Then set down the swineyard,
‘Ilheioe to the vineyard,
Let Bacchus crown his iall,
Let this hour's head and mustard ' Stand ior pig, goose and custard,
And so ye are welcome all.
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Santa Claus doesn't visit children in Italy. It isn't because they are all naughty but because there is no Santa C nus-in Italy,
No one runs down to a well-deco- rated tree on Christmas morning to look ior presents. Brightly col. ored flowers decorate the room in- stead of Christmas trees, and res- ents are not exchanged until anu-
ary c. _
On that niglht, an old, old lady, La Beiana, walks lrom house to house and leaves a present beside each little child she visits.
Exactly 1,940 years ago. accord- 1118 to the Ii-silian legend, La Be. iana was Very busy sweeping her kitchen when several men dressed like kings stopped in front oi her CONNIE. They asked her where Bethlehem was, but she had never heard oi it.
The men told her about a baby which had been born in Bethle- hem. and mentioned a star which had been guidins them. The old lady wished she could sccompsn them when they left her in search oi the iniant Jesus.
But La Beiana. stayed home. rt was getting too dark out. and be- sides, the baby could wait until to- morrow. Later that night she no- ticed the sky quivering with light. The clouds seemed to take the iorm oi angels. All thought oi sleep leit her. Risi she care- iully whipped two gifts ior the Holy Baby. then ran out into the night in the direction the kings had gone.
Fast as she hurried, she had not reached Bethlehem when'the star disappeared and dawn iilled the sky. She frantically asked the way to Bethlehem, but no one could
And so La Befan-a. hM constantly traveled since that. dig. searching ior the Christ Chi . On the Epiphany. l2 days siter Christmas. she goes from house to house, look- ing into the laces oi babies. With each she leaves o gilt. hoping that at lut she will g e her presents to the rilht ch11
GODIIQTYI...
God rest ye merry. gentlemen. Let ncthln you dismay. _
Ibr Jesus C t, our Sav or. was born~u this dey '
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name: 8.22%.’... and ior . l l Sor Jesus Christ
. BI . i We; born Q Christmas day.
who is found observing, by abstin- ence from labor, ieastlng, or any other way, any such day Christ. mas shall pay for such oii e five shillings." The law remained in ei- iect until 1681. The repeal, how- ever. was bitter to old Pufltanisms, which kept up an even protest down to the early part oi the present century.
PLACE BAN ON CHRISTMQS
Puritenism brought over with it in the Mayflower the anti-Christ- mas ieelings.
In 1659 the general court of Massachusetts. following the ex- ample oi the English parliament, enacted a law providing: "anybody
BELLS ARE RINGING
Tune: "Rachie" Hark! the sound of ringing, floating on the air; Heaven’: belli- are ringing], rmgmg rtveet and 6164".‘ Hear the hori pf angel: rmg the glad refram—" "Glory in Uta highest! peace on earth to mun!
Slug for Chm-Imus Morn; Jesur Christi: born: _ Joybellr ringing, angels sirlglng, Christ is born!
La! a star rhino..- brigllily in ~ yon eastern sky [lot/ring o’¢r the stable nlhera the 0:0: ha.‘
l-Vi“ nun find the Saviour in a manger born- Giw their choicest treasurer on this Christmas Illum-
Ws, a: thou before us; Jesus.’ praises sing, _ Bringing hunzblc offringr hfour Lord and Kilo; He Who came from ‘Glory, left Hi: ham Oh. what sanders-curios! Qii, who: urondron bu?“
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