Show OBSERVATIONS ON WHIST Tlio Test Which Every IVliIst 1lajer Should Ue Subjected To Tho test of every whist player is his ability to accommodate himself to his partnersplay I hare known a good whist player familiar with the points of the game and with the ability and experience to use them to advantage advan-tage with a good partner invariably use the signal when ho was playing with a partner whom ho was perfectly well awaro didnt know what the signal was There is in America much more so than in England a vast body of travelers who amuse themselves during the hours pasod on tho train with playing whist Among these players thero will occasionally be found a star of the first magnitude and there will also be found a great many cranks Now the good player will accommodate himself every time to his partners play and it would be tho most foolish thing in tho world for him to do otherwise Sometimes however the difference between the playing of partners part-ners is so great that the best player becomes exasperated and gives vent to it if not in a polite in a forcible manner Here is a story told by a gentleman I was inveigled into a game on the train not long ago said he my opponents were an old timer and a good natured gentleman I who perhaps did not play as well as his partner part-ner The elderly man made all sorts of disagreeable dis-agreeable criticisms becoming finally disgusted dis-gusted with tho good natured mans play When a station was reached a lull occurred in the game Soon a boy rushed in with a telegram and called loudly for Mr Bliss He walked down the aisle until he came to the whist party we wero all strangers to each other when the irascible old gentleman said to the boy and pointing to his partner Here ho isBJ1ss Tho other gentleman looked up in astonishment saying My name is not Bliss Well then replied tho old man it ought to be for ignorance is bliss TOM LAKSINQ |