Judge — March 17, 1923 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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A Page of Indoor THIS WEEK’S GAME Radio Solitaire 1p you ever have a ringside at a radio concert? Well, you never have half your life and every there in the world, including the Scandinavian, It is remarkable what can be brought out of the air by simply twisting a little thingamabub! One touch of the rheostat, or whatever they call it, makes the whole world din! If Ollie Goldsmith had lived to-day he would have said: “‘And still the wonder grew that one small horn could carry all that hullabaloo!” And it’s alw. ‘just one more little twist.” The radio fan, like the drinker, must have just “one more” before he'll be satisfied. In fact, there ought to be a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Radios. They keep at the poor things until their suffering is some- thing terrible. Just as a forty horse power soprano gets into her _ stride, the radio fan gives her a little twist and she finds herself accompanied by a Bedtime Story and a Banjo Quartet. Mr. Fan then gets desperate and twists and turns until he has added a Talk on Eco- nomics and a Jazz Band. He dashes from one little thingumabub to another and the more he dashes the more sounds come out of the horn. Perspiration be- gins to roll down his face and his eyeballs protrude. At this stage of the game the poor wife gets the ax and hands it to him, saying: “For heaven's sakes if you have any feeling at all end the suffering of that poor thing!” A» this reads us directly to Radio Solitaire, the object of which is to tune in with one station and tune the others out. Try and do it! The four aces represent Melinda I teas ub to try a few passes with the bones. Pd by Norman Anthony the four stations, B. V. D., ete., and are placed in a row. The player then takes the rest of the cards, one at a time, and s in perpendicular rows in front of the aces, according to their suits. None of these cards, however, can be duplicated. That is, if two three spots, or two jacks, or two of any kind, appear on the table, they must both be thrown out. If, when you have gone through the pack, you have a line of six cards in front of one of the aces, you have tuned in with that station and incidentally won the game. The six cards include the ace but must be of the same suit, and remember you must go through the pack. This solitaire sounds awfully simple but try it for a while and you'll begin to feel like the man with the radio! uades the Ladies’ Tuesday Afternoon Card Sports for Indoor Sports (HES Es (1H Judge’s PUNG@- CHOW Column Also known as MAH JONG By L.L.Harr, the well-known authority on the Chinese game (Continued from last week) Let us now take. a concrete example of a hand to illustrate the principles, which have been set forth i the foregoing paragraphs. Let us suppose that our original draw from the wall consisted of the following tiles, fourteen in number as we are East Wind: East. Wind 2 Character 3 Bamboo 3 Circle South Wind 3 5 "4 Red Dragon 7 6 8 vs 8 Character is the initial strong suit, and the first step here would be to discard. One of t ircles would be the logical discard, leaving two suits equalls fl several separate Honor pie Suppose the next draw to be a One of Bamboo. A decision must now be ma between the two suits, and to arrive at this decision the other players’ hands niust be studied from their discar eo has disca led two Cir going for the ‘The play who is the most important as far as our hand is «x cerned, has discarded two tiles of the Bamboo This indicated that he is holding Characters or Cir exchange for the next Bamboos dra the pairs of an opponent suit in t beginning of the game you force to take recourse in sequen ‘Thus the hand goes on repla: draw a Character with eithe boo or an Honor piece until all ters are cleared from t of course are discarded w are drawn. Our hand ai has the following appearance: SR-R-1-1-3-4-5-6-8-8-9, We must now decide whether we are going to complete a hand of all Bamboo or mix Honor tiles with our Bamboo set. To do this we must take into account the progress of other player whom we know to be holding the samé If he has alreai fone or more sets of our suit suppose that he has us blocke e us the attempt to fill Bamboo hand, and try to co our East Wind and Red Dragon st which together will give us the thr doubles which an all of one suit han! would give. We also take into account! number of our suits which ha by a Bam: have been discarded to leav hope for completing our all band. (Continued next week) IT knew how to play Pung Chow Ta quickly leap a Hoes would dine upon Chow Mein Wen T ardved ia Chines icbooks.com