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Show BRIDGE FIEND TEST. Considering the spread of the bridge-playing industry, it is strange that none of our legislators has had laws passed for its regulation. Now comes a suggestion that players be compelled to pass an examination before be-fore being licensed to indulge in the game. The suggestion come3, not from a United States senator, but from an editor, whose zeal for the public welfare wel-fare has been aroused by a report from Kansas City, where a wife shot her husband. The victim was also the lady's bridge partner, it appears, and when he bid one sp:de and another player plunged on a different suit, the wife raised to four spades. The husband was set, blaming his wife for reckless bidding, and as a result of the argument she shot him. Now, the aforesaid editor asserts, all persons who aspire to play bridge should be caused to pass a rigid test, not with reference to their skill, but ; to determine their mentail poise. If the applicant is unable to be set or have an ace trumped without showing show-ing undue emotion a license should be denied. The trouble is that such a law, if enforced, would practically eliminate all who take the game seriously. |