Show HUMORS OF whirr remarks that have aavo been blade around the table A good story is told of a lawyer in in chicago who considered himself a great authority on whist ho be wrote a book on tho the subject and sent it to a fanous fanions milwaukee player for his big opinion of it in about a week the book was returned to him with the following letter my air DEAR DEAB sin your favor of tho dinst 9 ly by your book was duly received acco I 1 havo have rood read it very carefully it t cems beema to bo a very good game but I 1 dont think it 19 oa as good a ramo game as whist sincerely yours roura it is no unusual tiling thing to hear a player at whist remark after beidl berated by his partner for very bad playing well I 1 ply play whist for pleasure he HB does not stop to think that he gives his big partner anything but pleasure such players cause their partners many un mauvais quart dh euro it mig might t be a great pleasure plea suie for a novice novica to play a duet ou on the piano with ewski one can readily imagine how low much 11 pleasure would find in tile tho performance it a mau man wants to play whist lie ho should study the books and familiarize himself with them hem before inflicting his play on a partner who knows anything of the game or else devoto detoto his big great mind to do dominos millos it is related of ono one of these gentry that after a hand at whist his par partner tiler asked him why in thunder you yon trump rump that queen of clubs he naively replied why I 1 only had bad one little trump sometimes us as in this case the humor unknown to the ho perpetrator carries off the bad feeling eD engendered gendered by his horrid mistakes and ignorance it is so easy if one would devote a little time tima and ordinary intelligence to the study of tho the game to learn to play a fairly good pame cf whist four players started a paroo game of whist not long since a noted wit being ono one of them he was dealing and made a misdeal he be dropped his cards slid aud burst into laughter that reminds me paid he of my dear dearold old friend judge peckham father of the ibo present judge ho he was a great whist player of the he old school and had bad scant patience with a poor player I 1 was passing tho one day aud and met ono one of tho the poorest players in the club coming out have you been playing stI asked yes eaid he be who was your partner judge peckham he be replied did ho be pitch into you pretty stron strong F no indeed ile ho only mado one remark I 1 was dealing and mado made a misdeal the judge said why you yon fool you ten dont even know how bow to deal I 1 1 this is the only remail he be made during the entire game washington stir star |