Show I f. f THE PICTURE PUZZLE I t Wo We can f scarcely credit the rumor that the game of or cards called ailed piquet or pl- pl Quette Is be revived Tc as ns a fashionable diversion dl Ten years year or 01 so of ot bridge have havo demonstrated how much of ot this sort of or thing tho the contemporary Intellect can an stand was talked 1 of or much mitch but only talked of oC Its Ita vocabulary y alone which can be bo acquired only onh after atter years oars of ot patient stud study put It out of or the running as ns a fashionable diversion Conversation Con In Esperanto would be easier As for pi- pi one may learn earn all triplets pIp pp values pies capote capots and sinks and still be M unable 10 to pIa play t the Uie l same game Intelligently Intelligently- Piquet Is la a game pame for or two and id only two t persons sons largely Rifted gifted with the tho card sense sen c can pIa play It well Similarly a a. rumor that bridge ma may 1 supplanted In fashionable circles s by a Q re revival revival re- re vival vl of or billiards Is not credible Tho rumor Is la founded on the tho report that King ICing Edward VII has lately taken to billiards The kIn king needs pedestrian exercise Tho The game gamo he plays plas on a table with pockets pocket with tour four our billiard balls Is ob obsolete leto in iii America ica though held to in conservative nU England Tho The three ball carom game with Ith balk lines JInes which is the tho anI only adult game of or billiards requires not only concentration con ron skill calculation coordination co ordina tion Uon and self control but hut a great Teat deal of energy The Tho picture puzzle seems to be tho only formidable rival of bridge in select social circles It Is a simple device founded fOl on a foolish notion but It sometimes sometimes some somo- times keeps a strong man away from his tile days das work It appeals os as a lL pastime with equal force to tho the Infant and octo octogenarian o- o to the man of or affairs needing re relaxation rc- rc and anel all his feminine friends rI ItI It I scorns ms to require no educational preparation preparation tion hut but experience shows that a a. person peon with some technical knowledge of oC composition composition compo compo- will waste less time Ume trying to fit It to together together to- to gether cether Impossible parts carts of or the picture than one whose whoso sense of color relations I Is Ir deficient Tho The easiest of the picture puzzles ales I s are arc colored Black and white pictures pictures pic plc- tures try the temper sorely and should bo be avoided A. except by tho the most Ingenious Ne n New York Times |