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Show I fuM For Your Family on his left. When each player has passed, three cards and received three new cards, play begins. Person Per-son to left of the dealer leads; other players must follow suit if possible, and the highest card of the suit led takes the trick. Winner of each trick leads to the next trick. One point is given for each heart taken in and thirteen points for the queen of spades. Ten points are deducted from the winner of the jack of diamonds. dia-monds. The game is over when one player has 100, and the person with the lowest number of points wins. Released by Western Newspaper Union. By MISS ABBIE CONDIT National Recreation Association. The first long winter of war had one beneficial effect on America it brought the family unit closer together. to-gether. Based on common hardships, hard-ships, it drew strength from leaning lean-ing heavily on our loved ones for comfort and friendship. We worked together and played together. And we came off rather wU. One of the important things we learned was to find fun and relaxation relaxa-tion within the bounds of our own homes. Those of us who worked hard and long in war factories or on farms producing the essentials of war soon found that a few hours of relaxation every week gave us new strength and verve. Many of us soon realized that with the automobile a thing of the past and expensive entertainment impossible impos-sible on war bond budgets we could really have a good time at home. So we began to set aside space for miniature work-shops where with a few inexpensive tools and waste materials ma-terials oldsters and youngsters could make inexpensive games and articles ar-ticles for the home. Bird-houses, garden markers, and weather vanes were turned out in preparation for spring. Game corners sprang up in homes all over America havens for the whole family. With a few book shelves and a card table stocked with children's favorite games and hobbies, prettied up with odd scraps of printed chintz, the game corner became an essential part of our homes. Those of us who had a basement base-ment converted a part of it into a play room. We turned to old-fashioned pleasures such as taffy pulls and popping corn, and we found it all good. And now that spring is here, we are all looking forward to recreation recrea-tion out of doors. On porches, for example, we can mark out shuffle-board shuffle-board courts, set up table tennis, and bring out baseballs and bats, tennis rackets and skates. Included, Includ-ed, too, are scrapbooks for the children's chil-dren's nature collections, and playing play-ing cards for the hours when the children or the whole family can gather for a game. One fine card game for these occasions oc-casions is Hearts. It is easy to play and really lots of fun. Here's how to play it: The object is to avoid taking tricks that contain hearts or the queen of spades. Also try to capture cap-ture the jack of diamonds. Any number of people can play. All the cards are dealt out, and any extras are placed in a kitty in the center of the table. Before play begins, each person passes his three least desirable cards to the person |