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paris notes versailles oldest tree eiffel tower shows profit paris it is said that there is only one tree iu the forest of versailles which was there in the time of louis xiv according to a writer in the nvspaper lecho de paris this is due to the activities of napoleon when ho was first consul of france he then needed great quantities of wood to make rafts and convoys for his pro posed invasion of england all the forests in france were expected to contribute to this vast store and even versailles was not excepted the surviving tree is a giant oak iakes money the eiffel tower is not only a unique featrro of paris but it is also a moneymaking proposition it was reealed at a recent meeting of the stockholders that tho gross receipts amounted to nearly 7000000 francs 210000 for the year 1931 and that the net profits were almost 3000000 francs m citroen who uses the tower for advertising his motorcars by electrical designs pays 300000 francs a year for this privilege other sources of income are admission foes tho restaurant anil the sale of souve nirs art gallery in theatre the comedie francaiso like the opera possesses a valuable and largo collection of theatrical objets dart but unlike the opera it has no space to display is collection adequately portraits and busts of bygone actors by famous artists such as houdor and io moyne are set out in the corridors and can be viewed only by people at tending a performance it was the custom at one time for a wellknown artist or sculptor to make a reproduc tion of some famous actor in the troupe of the comedie francaise and in exchange to have a life admission to that theatre there is also a large collection of manuscripts and these are stored in a narrow corridor to gether with display bills magazines and photographs bagp per and boards scottish bagpipes icelandic flutes and wesh trumpets will lend color to tho international gorsedd of breton bards to be staged in pontivy brit tany july 29 to 31 inclusive bards who write in the breton language from scotland wales iceland eng land and canada will assemble for their annual poetry contest and prizes will be awarded to tho breton singers who best chant the glories of druidic traditions twenty choirs will com- pcto in a breton eisteddfod and ex position of breton art will be given while in the streots on with the dance will be the slogan as ancient breton instruments play folk music during tho gorsedd breton will be tho chief language spoken in pontivy especially since many foreign dele gates are unacquainted with french but do speak a patois which is related to breton mistletoe which figures in druidic symbolism will be sold by breton girls to visitors uniforms at saintcyr the cadets of saintcyr frances military academy are to be allowed to resume their old uniform next autumn it consists of bright red trousers with a blue stripe and a black coat led by their commandant general frere they have been pro testing against the sky blue uniform over since it was instituted in 1914 then it was only after strong pro tests that they were allowed to retain their traditional cockade of red and white plumes which will of course continue to be worn writer wins amity award tho strassburger prize for 1932 has been awarded to m philippe soupault for his articles on francoamorican friendship which appeared during 1931 in the paris papers leuropo nouvele vu and bravo at tho time of the award m soupault was in the united states making a lecture tour and writing for tho potlt parislen no formal presentation could bo made but the news was cabled to him this prize tho gift of mr italph beaver strassburger is awarded each year for tho best article or series of articles tending to promote cordial franco- american relations wow to play bridge auction contract 6y wynne ferguson auihof of practical auction bhjdcb auilcle no 30 iu the follow hig hand the professor of greek at one of our wellknown universities bid one no trump at auc tion all passed and a opened tho threo of clubs the professors hand and the dummys hand are as follows hearts 10 c 5 clubs 9 4 2 diamonds q 10 4 2 spade- q 10 9 hearts a q t clubs a q 7 diamonds a k 3 spades j s 7 2 tho professor should have sized up tho hand as follows a can have- only four clubs for ho has led the three and hie deuce is in dummy there fore a b should only mako two club tricks and two spade tricks if the diamonds are evenly divided i can go game without finessing the queen of hearts if they dont break then i will have to finesse the queen of hearts unfortunately he failed to figure out the band as outlined and as soon as he got dummy in the lead led the heart finessed the queen and a won the trick with the king of hearts it was now impossible for the pro fessor to go game as he had to lose two club tricks two spade tricks and ono heart trick ho should have set up his spades and then have played for the drop in diamonds they were evenly divided so that in this way he could have made game if tho professor had been playing contract he should have made an original bid of two no trump and part ner should have bid three no trump tho writer has occasionally men tioned the law of symmetry in these articles this law is in effect a theory that there is a symmetrical re lation existing between the distribu tion of tho four suits in any one of tho hands and the distribution of any one of the four suits amoig the four hands this symmetrical relation is well exemplified by the distribution of stratford gleanings the following hand which ccntly iu actual play came up ve hearts q clubs k j 7 4 diamonds a 8 7 c spades 5 1 3 2 c hearts j 9 0 clubs q 10 s c 5 diamonds q j 9 5 spades 7 y a b z hearts k 10 7 clubs 2 diamonds k 10 spades j 9 8 2 hearts a s 4 2 clubs a 9 3 diamonds 4 spades a k q 10 auction bidding no score rubber game z dealt and bii one spade ah passed and a opened the six of clubs z won the trick with the nine of clubs and pro ceeded to look the hand over what would you figure as to probable dis tribution and correct play of the hand z should note that his own hand and ys were divided 5131 he also noted that a opened the six of clubs and that b played the deuce if b had held two clubs he would have started an echo to show his partner that he could trump the third round of clubs so his play of the deuce indi cated a singleton a therefore fig ured that the clubs were divided 5431 he held five spades and his dummy three so that if a also held a singleton it must bo in spades therefore the spades must be divided 5431 his heart and diamond hold ing and that of the dummy also indi cated a possibility that these suits were divided 5431 z therefore who was a very fine player decided to play accordingly at the second trick he led the ace of hearts and then a low heart trumping in dummy he then led a low club which b trumped on this trick z played his ace of clubs so that he could finesse the king jack later no matter what b now plays z must make a small slam figure it out the hand is remark able in that after the first lead the distribution of all four suits can be so accurately determined it is also a remarkable illustration of the law of symmetry all of the four suits and all of tho four hands have the same distribution 5431 it is the first time that the writer has ever noted such a unique hand contract bidding z should bid two spades and y three spades a and b always pass z should now bid five spades and if y is a sporty bidder ho will bid six spades it is a tossup but as al ready pointed out z can make six spades against any defense problem hearts 4 clubs 8 7 6 diamonds none spades a j 7 hearts 9 8 clubs i diamonds 10 spades none 9 s heaits q j clubs q j diamonds 3 spndes s 10 hearts k 0 clubs none diamonds k spades 10 if spades aro trumps and z is in the lead tricks against any defense solution iu the next article q g how can y z vin all of the pregiacial plants found in minnesota well minneapolis pre glacial plant specimens that grew 50000 years ago in minnesota are being examined by university of minnesota botanists the plants woods and mosses were found at the bottom of a former well near bronson minn it is tho most axtcnslvo bed of prcglaclal plants ever discovered in tho state accord ing to dr c o rosendahl head of the botany department specimens found are in perfect con dition preserved under tho ground morraine or earthly residue of tho ico sheet which crept down on the re gion now tho middlo western states near tho end of tho pleistocene era partial identification of tho mosses woods and plants has been mado by dr f k butters professor of botany dr hosendahl and robert humphrey assistant in the department who has charge of tho specimens bits of wood clogging a pump brought to light the remains newspaper ads increased sales u s publishers association announces results of bureau s survey now york many companies have maintained and even increased their earnings by constant newspaper ad vertising the american newspaper publishers association said in an nouncing the results of a survey by its bureau of adertising one automobile concern which in creased its newspaper budget 33 per cent tho bureau announced showed a 40 per cent increase in earnings during 1931 a manufacturer of elec tric refrigerators spent 200000 last year in newspaper space and dollar talcs for tho year were 400 per cent of sales in 1930 of four leading tobacco manufac turers who increased newspapor spaco in 1931 three showed an increase in earnings and ono a slight decline from the high net of a year preced ing aggregate expenditures of these four companies in newspaper advertis ing were increased from 20000000 in 1930 to 26000000 in 1931 and ag gregate earnings increased from 105- 200000 to 10300000 on tho other hand the bureau said that four tobacco companies which de creased their aggregato investment in newspaper spaco in 1931 showed a 45 per cent decline in combined net earnings wife you didnt many a cook english in ireland the angloirish idiom is naturally ormed and logically constructed every deviation from the standard english tongue has its reasons and its explanation arc you selling the horse today the speaker of cor rect english has to move the emphasis from ono word to another of tho last four according to the information lie ho bitterly no i found that out a four successive positions of long time ago the ch stress give four different meanings to the question the anglo- irish idiom which in this matter fol lows the locution of the gaelic has io need of accentuating its user would say a is it you who are selling ue horse or b is it seling the horse you are or c is it the hove you are selling or d is it today you are selling the horse in other words says a wellinformed writer where the english purist depends upon stress to bring out his meaning the irish idiom employs construction for the same purpose and much more effectively in reply to the query does it rain here the native says it bees rain ing or it does be raining he is iris king an attempt to reach an exact itude that is possible in gaelic in that language there is a distinct form of the very to be to indicate the hibitual the frequentative tense the irishman who has the tradition of gaelic even though he may never have heard it spoken feels the want of the frequentative tense in english ind he attempts to supply it and so bees ard does be are used as a distinct tense in the anglos xon idiom pa- draic column in the road round ireland nature from poetry world nature has no mathematics such as banks and merchants use she cannot mako her unshod feet walk a straight line in shoes she seldom is quite accurate nor often punctual sho keeps on hand no pecks and pints to measure large and small nor recipes for turning plum blossoms into plums the spring is never quite on time and yet it always comes marjorlo barstow greenblc in all england there is not a clean er more decorous or more restful j town than stratforduponavon and even to look upon it is to receive a suggestion of peace and comfort the red brick dwellings shine among the trees the flowerspangled meadows stretch away in every direction and the green hills sprinkled with copse aud villa glimmer through mist all around the iovoly valo tho red horse ibome in tho north with its conspicuous monuments meon in tho south rugged and bold red hill in the west and far away eastward beyond a wide smiling area of farms and villages the crests of edgehill at radley and ri ing sun where once tho armies of king charles the first confronted their roundhead too the face of england can wear many ex pressions but when propitious it is a face which to see is to love and no where is it more propitious than in stately warwickshire and around the home of shakespeare after repeated visits to shake speares town tho traveller begins to observe more closely than perhaps at first he did its everyday life and its environment i have ra i d through fragrant fields to clifford church and strolled through green lanes to roman tic preston and climbed borden hill and stood by tho maypole on welford common ami ui noyed n the bot tlehaunted crest of edgehill and rest ed at venera com unwyn tes and climbed tin hills of welcombe u loer into the ceiling alleys of the avon and bear the cuckooi to echoed and reattoc from rhododendron groves axl from tho i nysterious elms that en lower the countryside for owl laffs miles and miles around this is tho t ma tv everyday life of stratfordfertilo ha outh c t c t to have but she should have that farms garnished meadows avenues of white and oir hawticrn masses of milky snowball boeysuckle and syrln- ga loading tho soft air with fragrance chestnuts dropping blooms of pink and white and laburnums swinging their golden censers in the breeze the building that forms the south east corner of high street and bridge street in stratford was onco occupied by thomas quincy who mar ried tho poets daughter judith and an inscription appears upon it stating that judith lived in it for thirtysix years richard savage that com petent patient diligent student of the church registers and other document ary treasures of warwickshire fur nished proof of this fact from investi gation of th town records that being only one of the many services that he has rendered to the old home of shakespeare standing in tho cellar of this house i saw that its walls are four feet thick also 1 saw many pieces of old oak which i was inform ed had been taken from the belltower of the shakespeare church in 1ss7 when a new frame was installed to sustain a chime of heavy bells and which would eventually be converted iuto various carvings to tempt the taste of enthusiasts of siaespeare in the poets time tho belltower was surmounted not as now by a graceful stono spire hut by a spire of timber covered with lead that removed and was replaced by the stone spire in 1740 the ck frame to support tho bells however had been in the tower more 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