WOMEN AND BRIDGE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3380, 8 January 1920, Page 3

WOMEN AND BRIDGE.

.~..—-——g—___ “Yes, of course, she-’s a very ¢-huming Woman, b'ut——have you ever played bridge with her?” “No, why?” , ‘ “Well, I don’t want to say au__v..ning ‘catty," but I shoulclnft if I were you. That is the sort of remark you have probably heard somewhere, some ':;?1:~c (writes Mr ‘A- E. Manning Easter in the London Daily Mail)_ You know the reason why. A woman’s chara-zter comes out over cards, especially over auption «bridge. No man ought to marry a woman card player until he has tested her by playing cards with her or watching her at play~—that is to say, if she is really keen on the game. If she is" a mere dilettzinte, occasionel player, who li‘<c-.5 to talk all through -.1 r~tlb7.lHl',. and who s‘.u},s to powder her nose 21.1.1 lr.=o.'-: in her mirror at intervals, he will ;_;rol)al~.l:,I get 1.0 illumination fl‘--in her brid{.—-;e; but ll)-.7. regular player who tak-.°.s the game ' seriously, with Whom it is something of a I‘_»J.SSlOl’ll_ gives herself away constantly, often quite unconsekusly, to any observer of character. And it is a curious fact that won:-.ell who are serenity itself in ordin-ary social intercourse, who seem to have the sweetest and most lovable natures’, sometimes show up very badly at the card ‘table. Probably it is because they are more sensitive. more highly strung than men. Auction bridge, played seriously, is an absorbing and nerve-racking game. Then there is the question of money. Women, however extravagant they are in other ways, hate» losing money at A cards. This applies just as much to 5 wealthy women as to those to whom the question of pounds, shillings and ‘ pence really matters very much. It takes a woman much longer than it takes a. man to learn to lose money . gracefully. She‘ is always thinking‘ what she could have «done with it if she had not lost it. She remembe-rs-i something she saw in a. shop that; morning_ For most women look upon; money from _quite a different Stand point. "from men. Men regard money as money, as wealth gained or lost. The ordinary woman thinks of it solely representing something“ she can‘ buy. F But quite apart from money, it does requii-ea woman of almost anegelic tcmm,-rameiit‘ to watch unruffled her partner murdering a good hand, or to be constantly heavily penalised ‘oe- . cause her partner will over-—call. if a woman has a reputation at her bright club of being “a thoroughly good sort” you may ‘be sure that. she is a woman of exceptionally sweet and charming character. “No testimonial from any other source would be so ‘ "thorou.ghly'reliable. 7