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Show CURED OF SOLITAIRE PLAY How One Wife Put Stop to Her Husband's Hus-band's Preoccupation With the Came. "My bunbnnil used to be a solitaire Tend," said a woman the other day. "He used to come home nights and play several games while I was preparing pre-paring dinner After eatlng-and he would hurry that he would rush to his card table and play until late at night. If this bad happened only once a week It would have 1mm n different und I would not have said . a word about It. As It was, he would play ev-ery ev-ery night we were not going out together. to-gether. "1 like card playing,- but when It romcs to making the game of solitaire an occupation, I draw the line. ''I worried and fretted about the proposition as I thought It was doing my husband harm, as well as keeping him from being sociable, until I thought I would have gray hair. I remonstrated, re-monstrated, argued, fought and shed tears, but nil to no avail Finally I hit upon a schemo. "As I was tui unusually poor card player my husband had criticized me several times for my Ignorance pood humoredly. of course, and I decided to learn to play solitaire also. I bought a pack -of playing cards and one e vening ven-ing at dinner I told the solitare fiend that I wanted him to teach rue the game. He was delighted to think I at last had come to his side and he said he would Instruct mo that very night "Accordingly, after we had tidied up the (lining room he helped me that time - we started In on the single handed game. My husband sweated and almost swore at times and he called me a 'bonehend' and several other names that mean the same thing Finally he gave It up In disgust dis-gust and he has not played cards since." |