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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1909)
Tim OMATIA SUNDAY BEE: APIHL 4, 1009. a 1Z An Extraordinary Event at Tailored and Semi-Tailored Models of Various Mate rials Long, Close-Fitting Sleeves, Shaped Collar and Narrow Shoulders the Future in Waists Styles. 8 Waists for Spring ft MA-RID) S-ST01HESP T II EE offerings for spring In ths waist line Include a large number of novelties that are at present considered too high class for general popularity. The popular styles in wnlsts consist of the strictly tailored model In mannish shirt-like style, the semi-tailored, which Is at once very dainty and practical, and a few fancy numbers, which are made of lingerie material, net and silk. With the two-piece tailored suit nothing looks as natty aa the tailored shirtwaist and the question of taste Is left to the consumer, for there seems to be an end less variety to choose from. tiff Collars, Soft Finished Sleeves. The general tendency for severe outline effects has done much to popularise the plain tailored waist, but these little blouses hare been so modified that they no longer resemble the stiffly starched shirtwaists of some seasons ago. The tailored waists are made of soft materials and the dainty touches given to thorn by way of trim ming and other matters of detail make the new tailored model a practical as well aa comfortable garment The plain ahlrt Ilke waists, with stiff cuffs and collars, are still to be seen, but there Is a general tendency for softly finished cuffs and a number of the newer module show the stiff collar, but the sleeves are finished like the lingerie and fancy models. Simple ttjlrm Prevail. Simplicity In cut Is one of the principal features of the new waists. Shoulders are narrow, aloevce are long and closely fitted to follow the outlines of the arm and every suggestion of blouse Is precluded by the smoothly fitting and well drawn down models. Collars are still high, but not so decidedly pointed and not bened too much. The round and square Dutch necks are to be seen among the advanced summer models. The trimming arrangement offers much Variety. A number of models show the Simple straight up and down treatment; Other models are trimmed to form the boloro . effect, and others again show the banding In empire effect. I Novelties la Waist Fastenings. Many of the new tailored models are made to fasten at the side In Russian blouse effect, while straight front fasten ings, without the slightest suggestion of a pleat are one of the smartest Ideas in waist fastenings. A number of the new .lingerie models show this departure from the regulation back-buttoned models. Many models that are not fastened In front and aides show blind buttons and other fast enings and are Invisibly closed In the back. Buttons are still employed largely for ornamental purposes, particularly the heavy crooliet variety. , Colore Llna-erle Reason's Novelty. Among the numerous novelties of the season are the lingeries which are dyed in colors to match or harmonize with the tailored suit. These are shown In all the new spring shades and are otherwise ex actly like the white lingerie models. The marquisette waist Is another novelty of the season, which Is, at present, only to be seen among the high-class expensive models. These are daintily embroidered and lace trimmed. Crepe has ceased to be a novelty and seems to have taken Its place among the better waist materials. Crepes am seen in all white as well as In color. Wll Materials Offer Wide Raa-e. The, tailored waist Is made of various grades of linen, plain and daintily hand embroidered, madras cf various weaves, dlmdtles, . (jrcpes, pongees, various othor silks and net, while the lingerie waist is made of batiste, handkerchief linen, mull, lawn, swIss, plain and embroidered and all over embroideries. Net tucking, net em broidered In floss and soutacho, Irish, Renaissance, Cluny and Venlss laces and softly finished messallnes are used for the dressy models. Marquisette of high class selling and a new cotton printed lml tat kin silk In foulard effect for popular use are the novelty materials of the season. Heavy Usees of Trlmnilns; Ideas. One of the most striking Ideas In new trimming Is the wide employment of heavy laees. The new cluny, real and In Imita tion, is used very extensively. Hardly a waist but that shows Some touches of this new trimming. Irish and Venice laces are also used to a wide extent In conjunction with the plain clunles. The net top laces are used very effectively In combination with the heavy trimmings. Vols are still to be seen among the popular numbers, but linen laces are, at present, much to the fore. Crochet battons, drop ornaments and pendants of all kinds are popular trim mings. Hand embroidery is one of the most favored trimmings for the high priced models, and there is a tendency for the heavy embroidering In braided effect. Much Is done with soutache braiding. Color1 Quite Pronounced. There Is quite a tendency for color which manifestes Itself not enly In the solid col ored lingerie and other waists to match the suit, but many of the white and ecru waists show touches of color in the trim ming. Colored embroideries, embroidering and laces are the means to give these color touches to the waists. It is no longer essential that the waist should match the suit, exactly. Colors are shown for blending and harmonizing ef fects. For Instance, a waist of pale mauve may be worn with a suit of deep wistaria. A pearl gray waist Is chosen for a smoke gray suit. Contrasting colors In waists not too glaring are also well thought of. Among the new colors In waists are the new Empire blue, several rose shades, myrtle and plive greens, banana, chamois, wistaria and the soft pastel shades. Black is much In evidence among the fancy lace and net models as well as the plain tail ored effects. . SEW TACTICS IN BRIDGE Discussion of Echo Plays for Third Hand at No Tramps. USE OF DOWN AND OUT ECHO Conventions' that Help to Remove , Old Difficulties, and Thoughts on the Chssa the Bolt IsjbjU. The present season has seen several new developments In bridge tactics which are not yet In the text books. Some of thorn are still In the experimental stage, but with every bridge player perhaps, but each of thetn with some coterie of players who like to take up new things. Among the many difficulties of the game which are recognized by the experts prob ably none has given more trouble than the matter of understanding between the partners who are opposed to the dealer, especially In no trumpere. Almost every text book gives a different set of rules for the play of the third hand at no trumps, although they agree upon the U.. an.1 ...v.. ha .ktawl hanil who. iv.ua wiu unjii .lis wii.a na.iu m n iiu 11 opposed to a trump declaration. The authorities all admit the necessity of third hand's unblocking, but they advise the player to go about it In different ways. Bridge teachers all tell the third . hand to show what he holds in his partner's suit, but they differ In the manner of doing it. Now they are trying to combine unblock ing and echoing at no trumps with a con vention which Is Intended as an Invitation to shift to another suit and to lead through dummy. It is obvious that any such system as this will be Impossible until the authorities agree upon the foundation upon which this new convention. shall be built. You cannot tack one Idea of an Invitation to lead through dummy upon three different Idjas of echoing and unblocking. In order to make the system of any value It will be necessary first to agree upon the ele mentary principles of the echo at no trump, so that the variations from this standard form may convey the invitation intended. Three Methods Followed. There are three principal methods of third hand playing at no trump which are now followed, each being applied to cases In which third hand makes no attempt to win the trick; that la, when either the leader or the dummy plays such a card that third hand does not need to go over It. The first method adopted by the great mass of players Is to play your smallest card always, regardless of number. The second method, used by those who have had a 'few lessons, but not from a good teacher. Is to play the next to the smallest only when you have four cards of the suit led. The third method, used by the ex perts. Is to play the second beat, always, regardless of number or value. In the first method the card first played Is followed by the next higher In following suit; but If the suit ts afterward led from the original third hand he may return the higher of two remaining or the lowest of three, or he may lead any card that will beat dummy, regardless of the number he holds himself. In the second method the lowest but one Is followed by the lowest of all In follow ing suit, but the returns are the same as in the first rase. When the two cards that would be left In the third hand after computing the echo are such that they might blo.'k a five card suit In the leader's hand, the lowest card must be retained and the echo must be suppressed. In such oases It Is not only useless to begin It, but confusing. Meet AveU Confesloa. Ia the third method the lowest card Is always held until the last so that there shall be no confusion or ambiguity either In the echo Itself or In the return leads. If such are made. Holding two cards only of the suit led, the second best, to be played on the first round,, will be the lower of the two held and it must be followed by a higher card under all circumstances In fol lowing suit. In return leads or In dis carding. Suppose that third hand hold the J 8 1 He plays the 8 to the first round and the J to the second whether in 'following suit, returning the lead or discarding: If he holds four cards, such as J 10 8 2, he plays the 10 to the first round, the 8 to the next in following suit or In discarding, but he would play the Jack In returning the suit In every case the lowest card, the deuce, would be held until the last. This system of unblocking and echoing makes a clear distinction between the yari ous numbers of cards held by the third lard In each case. With three In suit the second card played is higher than the first one, showing only one lower than either remaining. With four of the suit the seo- ond card played is lower than the first. showing one higher as wewll as one lower remaining. This method has the great ad' vantage of holding up a card which the leader can easily miss on account of its small size and also of exposing the dealer's false cards. It Is upon this last form of the echo that It Is now proposed to build the convention which shall indicate to the leader that third hand thinks It would be desirable to come through dummy Instead of making third hand lead up to dummy. ' Idea of the New Echo. Every bridge player must acknowledge that there are countless hands In which the third hand would like very much to get a lead through dummy, and that there are probably just as many In which ha would prefer to lead up to dummy's weak suit instead. The idea of this new echo Is to distinguish between these cases in such a manner that the partner shall understand which Is the better plan to follow. Many a good card In third hand Is killed by an untoward lead through dummy. This convention Is chiefly useful when third hand holds so many cards of his partner's suit that he can manipulate IT In different waya If he has four, for Instance, he can show that ha Is keeplrg a card which would win one round of the leader's suit If it got the chance. This la as much aa to say that he wants the lead in order to play up to dummy's weak suit. Therefore the leader may argue third hand thinks such a course is better than having dummy's strong suit led through. As a practical illustration suppose the leader against a no trumper holds such a suit aa five tu the A K Q, and third hand holds J 10 S t. Let us first suppose that third hand has nothing that would lead him to wish for a lead thrcugh any of dummy's suits. The original lead is the king, on which thiid hand plays his second best, the ten. On the second round, when the queen is led. third hand plays the deuce. Now third hand cannot possibly have held only the ten and deuce, or his play would huve been the deuce and then the ten. Neither can he have held the Jack, ten, deuce, or his play would have been the ten and then the Jack. The leadtr, therefore, is under no misapprehension as to the true holding of third hand, be cause third hand must hold a card higher than the ten, and alHO a card between the tea and the deuce. Kraals the Situation. If Ihu orifc-'nal Ua ler woul Ilk a lead up to dummy's weakness he can read ths situation as inviting him to put third hand In the lead. If he does not want It. either because there la nothing to be gained by It or because lie does not care to risk it, he goes right along with the ace of his own suit and makes third hand give up his Jack and get out of the way. Special Sale of Women's (CJ 7T TArirhTT VJv J IVl- 1 V.m4S E SUIT OF THE MOST ELEGANT CHARACTER There are just 325 of these spring tailored suits all of them newest 1909 samples. 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IjOlfiiffllMffil U T IZLC I TVi II 11 V I II 'J I Van "bos' gy SOU iff Am lit Pi "ids-OS" If i I m si 111 Millil I'v-sss-'lfti II m If f m ill mm a I m . The invitation was there, but was de clined, that is all. Now, let is take ths same situation and suppose that third hand held something like a tenace over dummy in another suit. Of course he would very much like his . partner to come through thac suit, especially if tt is a guarded king in dummy, which third hand could kill, or a trick which is essential to savin); or winning; the game. Unless there is some conventional way of showing that desire the partner is extremely unlikely to hit upon the lead, and certainly not until ha. has run off all his own suit. In such a position, third hand holding the same cards as before, J 10 I 2, plays the ten on his partner's king, hut gives up the jack on the next lead of the queen. thus making it practically impossible for his partner to put him in. Of course, the leader goes right on with his queen, only to discover that third hand must have held four of ths suit, but departed from the regular system of echoing with that number As a rule the leader would miss the two small cards at -once and would certainly place the deuce on the third round. If It looks to the leader as if two l-ads through dummy might be useful be tan stop his own suit while his partner still has a small card of It, and can lead through dummy, letting third hand put him In again for another lead through djmmy jffr the first suit opened Is fin ished. Am lulue. of Play. The writer saw a hand of this kind the other day in which dummy bad made it no trumps with four spades to the A K Q. four diamonds to the A K, four clubs to the K S and one small heart. The open ing Uad was ths king of hearts and third hand held four to the J 9 and four clubs to the A Q. Third hand echoed with the 9 and J. The leader went on and the dealer re nounced. The leader shifted to clubs, third hand made his queen and returned the heart. After the leader had mads the sixth heart trick he led another club, one of which suit dummy had discarded on the second heart lead, and third hand made three more club tricks. The getting two leads through was what won the game. One point whtch has been pretty well settled recently is that it does not pay for ths third hand to echo In a trump declaration for any other purpose than to Invite a ruff. The echo to show the com mand for the third round has been proved a fallacy, although many players have adoplsd it. Careful analysis shows that It is false in principle and at times very confusing. Ths fundamental idea of ths two players who are opposed to a trump declaration Is to get in their crop of tricks before it rains. With that end In view the leader shows what winning cards he holds ia the suit he opens and ills partner shows him how the suit Is distributed. This Is accomplished by means of what is called ths down and out echo. Bome authorities Inslkt that this echo should not" lie u d unless a !uig Is led originally, showing; the ability to win the second round of ths suit, upon which ths echo will be completed. But this limita tion la quits unnecessary, especially with players who sometimes lead away from aa aoa when playing against a declared trump. One can never tell who will win the second round of a suit, so much depend ing on the way the lead comes and the dealer's Idea of how to play ths hand. The echo is always useful to the leader, If only In placing the suit. Dona and Oat Echo. This down and out echo consists in playing the higher of only two cards, neither of them as high as the Jack, when no attempt is made to win the trick third hand. If one of the two cards Is as high as the Jack ths echo is unnecessary, be cause when the Jack falls the third hand must have the queen or more. If third hand plays the Jack to the first trick. It must mean queen or no more. The great advantage of this echo is that It enables ths leader to place the dregs of ths suit, especially when dummy is the strong trump hand and the dealer Is look ing for opportunities to make his losing trumps separstely. As a rule players re gard ths echo as an invitation to a ruff, and nothing more. It simply says, "Psrtaer, If you lead a third round I can trump It." But this Is a limitation. The,' great use of ths convention Is as a suit plac. When the down and out echo is used to show command of the third round It becomes useless for the purpose of lo cating the remainder of the suit because of the uncertainty. For this reason the best players do not approve of those who teach Uis down and out echo to show com mand. Suppose that dummy declares hearts and the original leader opens a suit of flvs clubs to ths ace-king. Dummy lays down thres small clubs and third hand echoes with the six and deuce. What does this echo mean? If third hand uses It to show command for ths third round the leader should shift the suit at once In order to prevent the weak trump hand from getting In a ruff. If the echo means no more the leader should continue ths suit so as to let his partner get in ruff before his trumps are drawn. Any misunderstanding in such a situation may cost tricks. Ckssgs la Bolt Signal. Another convention is the change of the suit signal, but it has not gained in favor this season, has rather lost, chiefly be cause It is necessary to have a previous understanding with the partner and a tedi ous explanation to the adversaries before it can be used without laying the users open to a suspicion of unfair play. There Is something In it that smacks too much Of the private signal business to suit honest card players. Nevertheless it is probably Just as well that bridge players should know that there such a thing in order that they may protect themselves If they meet with It at the card table. Ths convention consists of making an echo by- playing a higher card before a :rTr? In the suit which Is first led by the dealer, not in the suit led by the iartner. This echo is a command to the original leader to abandon the suit he first oieued and to try something else. This command applies, of course, to un eatabllshed sut1t only and shou'd he g'ven only whon the tiilrd liunii, whj makes the echo, has a suit which is either already established, or good for three or four tricks or which can be established more surely and quickly than ths original lead er's. Of course, there will be mors or less guessing on the original leader's part when hs gets In as to which of ths twe un.Jayed suits to shift to, but he Is supposed to stop and figure it out by comparing dummy's cards with his own. It the two hands ars weak In both the unplayed suits, prefer ence should be given to the suit in which the smaller number of cards are shown. The same echo. In the dealer's suit, may be used by the original leader aa s request to his partner not to return the suit first opened. Tills situation often arises when the leader finds that the suit he opened so hopefully Is against htm. The Inventor of this convention states that befure using It the players should stop the gams long enough to teach ths system to their opponents, because, how ever Imaptlent to begin they may be. or however little they may care to hear about It, It la essential that the convention should convey the same meaning to those who have been pining It for months. Of all the new Ideas that have lately appeared In bridge, this chsnge the suit signal seems to be the best desirable, aa It Is undoubt edly ths least useful. Why ths Old Tow rhssgrd Her Taas. "Why are all those people flocking down to Hiram liardupple'a barnT" asked ths old farmer on the hay wagon. "Hi's got a curiosity down thar," chuck, led the village constable. "That so? Whut kind of a curiosity Is It'" "Why. lii's old red ind-whlte Jersey eow. The oih-r olKl.t t :e old critter had the colic and 111 went down with his lau. tern to give her a dose of cow medicine Hlamed If he didn't make a mistake and give her a pint of K'tsollne." "Do tell! Didn't kill her. did itf "No; but. 1 y heck. It had a funny ef fect. Now, Instead of going 'Moo moo" like any other sensible cow, she goes iiuok, won; iijlo ons or then I blamed automobile," Chlcaa JNews.