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Kpxmmel as he was.
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■ lT' <i- e ' l ' a3to tn Liross—Tha Er ent
H ," h J influenca ta Bneliah Society
H I • aap.eteneaa of H.a Do-wnfail
H paldC 3 to u Hospital—His
I Wi: and impudence.
■ r r;m the Chtcija Tribune.
■ , V! , e3 a new character is added to tbe
■ . , r gallery of the stage it doubles one’s
B. -.t: it uave an historical as woll as
c interest. Behind the Richel.e i or
■ .■ erzi of tbe boards stands the Richelieu
B-'ih-. ih of history; and the picture often
Bx V J - m the spectator a desire to gaze 0:1
Be*' r-gtna!. Although the Chicagoans
Bi ve a ’ye witnessed the Beau Brummel
Bf' h cha-d Mansfield, which has occa-
B'j .oi s ' much t tilt in Netv York, they
aot be averse to a brief account of the
Be -ers.-nage, thus reversing the usual
B-C 3- which is to go to the library from
t heft ter.
B F iene.s piques curiosity as keenly as
* at-es>, which depends for inuc i of
merest <'ii ’its rarity. There have been
military heroes in tho world; bu
' Alexander, have found the eartn
l- i a. f r their ambition: and every age
■ ts dandies, tut only ore bad.a
ii in n* 1. He was the greatest of ins
K Hd ne can have no successor Aul
did he do for the world, it will bo
V. ; f at the highest peak of s :cial fame
K■■ j t-e preserved tor him? He invented
■; ‘ourcbet neckcloth, the original of al
of modern masculine neckwear.
Kj.,. great inventions have been given to
rll -n .ee then—the steamboat, the
B ; . : the electric, light, but the world
r t been as grateful to the inventor f. r
as society was to Beau Brummel fur
Bt;ui e ;i..g into fashion the starched cravat.
fl
B George Bryan B ummel was bern in
in 1778. His lather was a man of
flicial position (he was the secretary
bird N >rlb), Who bad feathered his rest
manner which was once common to
Br : iciansin England and *s now not un-
Bb-"' 11 > a J ' mß ica - But “ !as! tae beau’s
Mgv.dfather hed earned his living honestly
Hiackept a c ufeettonery shop), and there-
Bforelmd no claim to being a gentleman.
■ w,rge learneii early in life to severely for
ifl get tbe worthy candymaker. His grand-
Bnt'tl er also had the indelible stain of use-
BfubmnpoD her name, and her memory
B w> iikew ise consigned to oblivion.
H When quite a child George was sent to
Bhts. and even then were noticed some of
H':. qualities for which he afterward became
H famous. He never worked. He followed
■m. rule throughout his life. From cbild-
Bh •.<! to sgo he sedulously refrained from
Butratal or physical exertion. He avoid'd
Bewrythb g els s that was disagreeable. He
nev. r known to receive a flogging,
flogging was thea regarded a
measure and largely contributing
H British greatness. George was a mis
- sand sure vd boy, who male life as
as p- ssibie to himself wituout
H : g Whether he increased tho uaeomfort-
.t others. B th at Eton a*.d Ox
• e always cultivated his social sup°-
H rs, for hi- .-i from the beginning lie had
H .tiling t i expect from those who were
aim.
■ F riu-te favored his sycophancy, He
o.tly lb years o'.d and about to leave
Hd; : i aiiei: sme or his aristocratic friend'
to present him to the Prince of
tues, afterward George IV. It was the
oi ; i ttiue s that preceded tho awaken
: the nineteenth century to th busi-
of i te. The last of the Georges was an
H' itnme o' the vices of bis family and the
liti* sof his time. Ttiis sensualist—tiie
Hi:-’ g>* ii an rf Europe, ns he was called —
Hi • udl something congenial in the person-
Hd.'v of the polished nil sclf-ncssessed
H; a h. who was already a glass of fashion
Bi a mold of form. The prince's first
'.id of fashion to Brummel was an ao
iutmentto 1 ■•ornetey in his own regimens,
Tenth Husars.
The Beau in this wav stepped at once
Hf- m the uni) ersity into tho highest circle
s citty. The firot dukes of the kingdom
Hj c ~re his intimat*. s, and lie occupied a pjsi-
H ri something like that of a younger
to tho Brinca of Wales, iio paid
atienti >u to his military duties, but,
nevertheless promoted to a captaincy.
H_hs only way of distinguishing his men, it
said, was by the onurru vus red nose of
soldier who stood in the front rank. His
dike coun'eua ce having been traus-
suddenly to auother compauy, Capt.
was led to jilav*e himself one day
H a most aw kward predicament. Owing to
H'c position so high in court favor ho couid
H° anything with impunity. When his
inert was ordered to Alanchester he
t to the prince and cunplair.ed: *T
go there; it is a menutacturing city.
you wouldn’t be there, 1 must
positively sell out.” “Do as you like,” was
amiable reply: and Brummel gave up
.ptain’s epaulets.
II I; ‘' to,jk , quarters in Chesterfield street,
he lived quietly and began his reign
the dictator of fashion. Quietness in
was a proof of his exquisite
H a ' , . e - He was thoroughly the gentleman
■t'ill ess, and his principles in this respect
er ® so St ‘ un . d ~lat it is no wonder that the
■™ al . cs occe P’ed him as their
cni leader. “No perfume.!,” h * said, “but
■' u ‘ eu , a “ d ,P !e 2.y °( it. and let it be
entry washed. These were his daily
■ >sl ,' ll ? ,es; l ' r :be morning, Hessians and
■ “italoo 1S or top hoots and buckles, wiih a
H" q ™ at ad light or butF-colored waist-
H Itrf. Who 0 ht L tlD K as snugly as a glove.
■ the evening, blue coat and white waist-
’ Paa’-alcons, which t utioned to
H' '[ r f■> fc ti iped silk stockings and an
■n,f „ .. is ftas the costume of the
..‘i'"w ge J :tlen,a ' 1 od tlie period.
■r um '’’ >rd ]’i ' a " l the L'tau one day, “turn
V' 0 duKO turned and stood the
Bi lie BeJfo;d ’” continued the critic,
: 1 . 1 ? t:l0U!l - v hel(l the lapel atadis
i.. ?, WKu huger and thumb, “do you call
‘ a oaL * 1 opinion meant ruin
unfortunate tailor—just as the
1 ' iia.ronaee meant riches.
IH. ;•/. - '.a! tow us the s icretof Brummel’s
EB- 1 itc-siiig. He was never orna-
. ‘..‘l " knew that any lung which at
fHniwe,. u ' ivie attention was necessarily
IH ' 'as .■ rfiracie, lzed, as tne poet puts
|H; '■* 11 tain exquisite propriety.” He
■; i ’.n ,us about Cleanliness. While he
'‘St ernes, his exa. pie must have
lEr"i i„ aC 'i d to 6ome extent the cnnauct of
H.,' , *’ ox a,i( l Sheridan, who took a
■ T j icing slovenly in their attire.
~ l ‘ fn 'kwear of tue period, at may be
:: “ rtraits.wr.s neitner elegant n r
■ V H: , iuo oid-ta-hioned collar hid
: ' t ‘ ad ’ “ml with the intertnina
..V 3 ,'’5 clotll must l.ave tieen an instru-
r it. - rlure ‘ Rrummel reduced these
Ktt' , m twelve inches in breadth to
11,1 f mtr. and by starching them 0b
..., 0,1 o ii” c , t of neatness which ever
Th ., J " ol 'i‘i has preserved.
1 " t wa s another problem that B-au
Ba. in- s ived - Many times he failed,but
as successful. He fortunately bad no
, „ . madi.eu him with suggoslions that
Hav, v ' u , ,:a b'e it better than he. “ What
Ho. ka '„ 4 J, t h er ”f’ asked an acquaintance
' n ° valet coming down tho stairs
H; .u ,J ar ?\ ful , of crumpled linen. “These,”
Hv r ' lalnt . ‘are our failures.”
Bie ,n. Chesterfield street Brummel gave
sai i fas htou to Carlton House. A
toau artistocratic customer who
Brir.ce W i Ce “ t 0 the h cloth: “The
Bhe Lath l ' ars ’' u F er fihe and Mr. Brummel
B®s ihe n- S aUn ** f think Mr. Brummel
V . ne preference.”
B trririfi he u [ °r' od Considered himse’f
B'G s arm (V When he could uke M r - Brnm-
B ducliMs “°m onecoflfeo house to another.
:n ,Vt and I!,struct her dauehter that
■id the r .^P 0 w 1 aut ,tO P m s '>cietv was to
B ' realtor f ot Mr - Brummet
tor wouid consider all obligations
cancelled if the Beau deigned to bow to him
in the street.
It.
Ee :eat:i B-u-timM’s po saananner was e.a
as nranoe which was meltable. He was a
master of irony which he masked in
Cjurtesy. He was a master of it not in the
sense that he was brilliant, but that he
never hesitated to use his wit to cut an in
terior or to abash an equal. He could even
employ it in being impudent to a superior,
bat his success in this respect blinded hts
judmeut, and he at last rode his own au
dacity to ruin.
. Among the many anecd tea told of him
this ts characteristic: Ha wished ti go one
right from one great house to another and
acquaintance who was gbing in the same
direction offered hint a seat in tue carriage.
Het me ses,” said the Beau, “it wouldn’t
look w ell for you to go up behind in your
own , carriage, would it! And, again, I
couid hardly aiFord to be seen iu your com-
P a _jy* I’m afraid wo cau’t manage it.”
Brummel, with all his accomplishments,
was a<ter ail only the shell of a gout,am in.
He had soul of a vaier.
Ones a great dinner was prepared for
him and ho was permitted to invite all the
guests. 1 1 telling afterward of the atfair he
described how elaborate everything was;
and added, referring to his host: “Butß
■-'id the assurance to sit down and dine with
us. 'lhis was tbe only drawback.”
It was Mach.avelU who said that “the
world belongs so cold hearts.” Perhaps this
is why the Britishers have so large a share
of it. Their system of caste is such that
every perso ; woo cringes to someone oise
finds satisfaction in kicking another who is
still lower in the social scale. The delicacy
of the Latin races makes them hypocritical;
but the Briton is frank in his b utality. in
a cold-hearted nation Beau Brutnmei had
the coldest heart.
He even ha lno generous vicos. Like a
true materialist he knew tbe value of
moderation. Wine might hava incarna
dined hts nose; aid as ho use! powder in
caiiug for his complexion he did not drink
to excess. Women are an unwelcome dis
traction to an ecstatic egotist; one must go
out of oneself to love them even a little;
and, of course, Brummel was incapable of
doing that. Ii was his custom to propose to
every woman to whom he wished to pay a
compliment; but he would have bee i sur
prised if any one had takan seriously to this
delicate attention.
The crisis of bis career was his quarrel
with his patron, the Prince of Yales.
Stories differ as to how the disagreement
cams about; but the pr bability Is that Airs.
Fitzherbert, morganatic wife of the prince
(many authorities denv her this tide), was
the cause of the Beau’s downfall. He
satirized her, and let his t,,ngue wag freely
about the prince also. That Mrs. Fitzher
bert took advantage of her position of in
flueuce there can be little doubt. At any
ra a the Beau suddenly found himself in dis
favor.
The story that the estrangement of the
cronies was caused by the impertinence of
Brummel in saying to the prince, “Yales,
ring the bell,” is evidently a fabrication.
The Beau himself repudiated tho anecdota,
and he was not iu the habit of disclaiming
his own smart sayings. “I might have
used such au expression,” he said, “if I
were alone with the prince: but I knew him
too well to take such a liberty when others
were present.”
He evidently thought that his position
was too impregnable to be assailed, even by
the prince. He is credited with the remark
that “he had made the princo, and could
uumako him.” When the quarrel finally
came, Tom Moore vias warra ned in put
ting lines like these iu the mouth of the
prince:
Neither have I resentment, nor Wish there
should come ill
To mortal, except, now X think oa’t, Beau
Brummel,
Who threatened last y.ar, in a superfine pa;-
sion,
To cut me aad bring the old king into fashion.
The quarrel, however, did not instantly
ruin tho B.au. He was sti.l in tue dictator
o£ lasbion. Tne groat families did not kno w
how to preserve tho favor both of the prince
and tho Beau, and nights were set apart
when it was customary to invite one or the
other. The famous meeting between the
rival rulers was brought about ia this way:
Brummel, Lord Alvaniey, He.iry Pierre-
Sontaud Sir Harry Mild way got up at
[anover Square rooms what was called a
dandies’ bait. The prince sought an invita
tion. The four dandies welcomed him at
the door. The prince shook hands with
three of them, Alvaniey last, and looked at
Brummel without seeing him. As the
p ince passed 01, Brummel said coolly and
distinctly: “By the way, Alvenly, who is
your fat friend?”
It there was one thing above another the
prince feared it was obesity; and no doubt
he envied the Beau, who, though he was not
handsome, had au Apollolike figure.
“Had Brummel taken the cut 1 gave him
good-naturedly I would have renewed my
acquaintance with him,” said the Drince to
one of his followers. Rec inciliatiou now,
however, was cut of tbe question.
It has been said that the Beau had no
vices. He had one, however, waich. when
it possesses a man’s soul, is fierce enough to
consume all the others. He wis an invet
erate gambler. He had inherited a fortune
of £20,000 and his picking! at court had
been rich. Besides, ha had ueeu lucky at the
tables. After his quarrel with the prince
he began losing; and it is an axiom that a
man will remain longer to lose than he will
to win. At his last sitting the
beau lost £IO,OOO, every penny he had
at his banker’s. That night he ap
peared in society as usual, made a des
perate effort to borrow money and failed,
and unable to face his obligations on the
morrow, started for Dover and sailed, tak
ing his carriage an 1 h orses, for Calais. He
was safe before his creditors could hear of
his flight. It is 1 linteu that he committed
some dishonorable act before he left, for he
would not have runaway from tradespeo
ple; but if any charge was ever made it
was never pressed against him.
Having tho superstitions of a gambler,
Brummel attributed his ill-luck at cards to
the loss of a lucuy sixpence. Good luck
had come to him when he had picked up
the piece of silver, which had a hole in it.
He gave it in mistake to a backman. and
from that moment, he declared, luck had
deserted him.
hi.
It was iu the year of 1816 that Brummel
settled in Calais. He was never to see
England again. He had reached the moun
tain top of success and now was about to
make tne descent. Talcing quarters at an
iuu, he had them appointed luxuriously in
his favorite ortnulu furniture; and, al
though he was practically penniless, began
to live on the fat of tne laud. He,was like a
ki gin exile. Great ones from London
visited him, and he was graciously pi ased
to receive their homage—a Is j, no doubt,
their money. “Why, Brummel,” said a
London friend one day. “there’s a rumor
on the other side of the channel that you’re
dead.”
“Stock jobbing, my boy,” said the Beau,
calmly, “only stock jobbing.”
While he was a cold-blooded man and not
burdeuod with a deep seuse of honor, Brum
mel respected tho proprieties of the society
in which he had lived. There was no time
in the latter pa t of his career wheu he
could not havo commanded a large sum by
selling his rec Elections of court life, for ho
possessed all tha gossip of a desolate epoch.
But he would no more think of raising
money in this dishonorable way than of
working for it. Besides, he had promised
the Duchess of York, who had been very
kind to him during all bis career, that he
would botray no family secrets, and be kept
his word. For the duchess, too, he
deigned to stoop to the only appearance of
work that marked his career. lie patched
for her an ornamental fire screen.
Though daily sinking deeper into debt he
dressed as elegantly as ever. In his blue
coat with velvet collar, buff waistcoat,
black trousers, and with a brown silk um
brella cased in a tight-fitting silk envelope,
he was still a leader, foremost in Calais as
as he had been is London. Hts bat he wore
balanced on one side of his head, and so
nioely adjusted that it was not to be lifted,
even to ladies.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, OC TOBER 28, 1890—TWELVE PAGES.
Luxuries were so necessary to Brummel
that ha c mid not pay for the necessaries f
life. He was reduced Pi such straits that ha
had a weekly struggle with his washer
woman to get posejssioi of bis linen. He
preserved his old impu ieace through all his
trials. It seems that he slandered an old
French ofiice. whose nose had been shot off
in battle. The officer w staving at Calais,
and tti* Beau, who didiked him, said that
he was not a military man, but a retired
hatter. The irascible old man called for an
explanation. “I am sor. y,” said the Beau,
’ that any one should nave supposed that 1
could have been guilty of sucti a breac 1 of
good manners. la fact, I don’t remember
ever having dealt with a hatter wi htut a
nose.”
At this timo B-umme ’s pet, a fat and
wheezy terrier named Vick, died, and the
Beau remarked he had lost the only friend
he bau in ths world.
In 1821 the Prince of Wales, who had be
come Georgo IV., passed thr ugh Calais. In
the crowd tuat made way fir tne royal car
riage stood the Beau, hat in hand. He met
the eves of bis royal friend and patron.
“Good G >d, Brummol!”exclaimed the king;
but he said it, perhaps, more in surprise
than in pity. The Beau sent his majesty
s line caoice nulf and marasebin >, delic i
ciei that the prince wi once fond of.
“Give him this —I sutp sa it is what be
wants!” exclaimed the king. And *IOO
was throw n to the Beau, as if it had been a
bone to a dog.
The prince and the dandy never met
agaiu.
IV.
Iu 1833 friends of Brummel at court ob
tained for him the post of consul at Caen.
He had spent fourteen years in Calais. The
salary was small, and the Beau sauk deeper
and deeper into the mire of debt. Toilet
articles he imported from Par s, until no
one wouid give him credit, aid than ho
begged those things from the tradesmen in
the town. He was brought to such straits
as to be arre.ted in bed and carried to the
common jail. Yet through it all ha pre
served his notions of eiega ce, as may be
gathered from this note aided to a letter
which ha wrote to a friend:
“You will perceive the extremities to
winch I am reduced. lam about to seal to
you a wafer. Do not eveu whisper this in
decorum, for I may again frequent the
world.”
Clothes to the last were tbe object of his
passion. How pitiful a sentence like this
sounds in one of his letters to Lord Alvan
lev:
My old friecd K. A. promised, at least it was
so represented to me, to send some new habili
ments for my body, nosv denuded like auev
birn infant—aud what a beau I once was!
Living on friends from the time he was
38. lie could, nevertheless, toward the end of
his life have the ingratitude to q uote these
lines by F.tzpatrick:
What'er they promised or professed
In disaopoiutment ends;
In short, there's nothing 1 detest
So much as all my friends.
Beforo he reached the poverty that was
degre dation at Caen his manner retained
the curious mixture of impudence and cour
tesy which once puzzled and dazzled his
obtuse countrvms . “Mr. Brummel,” said a
lady leaning from her window at Caen,
“will you take tea with us this evening?”
“Madam,” replied Brummel, crusuinglv,
“you take medicine, you take a walk, you
take a liberty, but you drink tea.”
Brummel made a great mis ake when he
wroti to Lord Palmerston complaining that
there was no necessity for a consulate at
Caen. Ho bop dto be apnoin’ed to Havre.
Tne result wis that the sinecure at Caen
was abolishod, and the Beau now found
himself an old man and absolutely im
poverished.
When told that King William had con-
tributed t > one of his many relief funds be
indulged in some roinir.iscsn 'es of his ma
jesty. whom ho had known as Duke of
Clarence: “Tne man did very well to wear
a cocked hat aud walk about the quarter
diet crying 'Luff!’ but so rough and un
civil was hath it I was obliged t > enn him.”
It was in toe these dark days that the
poor dandy received such anonymous re
minders as tha foliowiug of his former
splendor.
Keen blows the wind and piercing is the cold;
Hy pins are weak and I am growing old
■Around my sooulders this warm c oak I spread,
With an umbrella to protect my head.
Whicn once had wit enough to charm t he world,
Bui now possrsesnaught but wig well curled.
Alas! Aiasl while wind and raia do heat
That great Beau Brummel should thus walk the
street.
There was only one more step to take
down tiie stairs of human misery, and he
took it. He became insane.
Filthy beyond all description, and in rags,
this sybarite, who once shown in the noblest
houses of England, now crawled about tho
streets of a foreign town with no friend to
reach a hand to him. Does the play of
which he is the hero show him thus? No;
the stage world is more generous than that
of reality. The actor surround* him with
his old friends, and restores him to luxury
and honor.
Alas for the real Beau Brummel of his
tory, alt his friends had preceded him to
the grave.
The old man, during his last days, had
been furnished a bed in the Hospital du
B n Sauveur. Here he had his dreams of
former greatness, and imagined that he
was receiving his fashionable friends of past
years. A Sisler of Charity was at his bed
side when he expired. “He looked at me
imploringly.” she said afterward. “I said
an act of contrition and told him to repeat
it after me. He did so distinctly, then
turned away and died.”
These are the facts. Let moralist or
artist do as he will with them, they are im
pressive.
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himself. The last card of tfcs pack will of
course fall oa the first heap aid is turned
up for the trump card and put fae up on
tue tip of t lat heap, which is then moved
to one side of the table out of the way, as
it will not bi required until the next deal.
The trump card having bee i turned the
players take up their cards and the non
dealer begins the play by “leading a se
quence,” that is. by playing two or more
card! of the same suit in the order of the
value of the cards, reckoning them from
ace, king, queen, knave and tell downward.
In “leading the sequence” the player is to
put the cards down o.ie by oue and side by
side face upward and near t he middle of the
table. When he has put down all the cards
he has to play he says “I break.” Too other
player, if he has oue or more cards of tho
sequence—that is, one or more next In value
to the last cai and played by the first player—
puts those down in the same way, laying
them on the table side by side with those
already plave i but a little nearer to himself
than the other raids are. When be has
plryed all the cards of the sequence which
he holds he re eat! the phrase “I break”
and the first player, if he can, g es on to
continue or complete tho sequence, and if
he cannot says “1 pass.” As soon as either
player has said “I pass” the other player
(who has played the last card of the se
quence) takes up all the cards that have
been played, places them in a heap on his
own side oi tlie table and either thea or at
tho end of the hand scores ten for each card
in tho sequence.
The wi’auer of tho sequence, it will thus
be seen, is the player ot the last curd, aud
the score depends upon the number of cards
forming the sequonce. The winner having
picked up ih* cards, leads anew sequonce,
wmea is pi tyed in the earns way.
If either i layer at aiy time leads a
sequence with two cards only, and tha
other player fi'ids that he cannot continue
it, he must say “no sequence,” and, placing
the card ; played oil one side, must himself
lead anew sequence, neither player being
entitled to score anything fur the two
cards.
A player who cinnot continue a sequonce
may, however, trump it by playing a card
or cards of the tramp suit of equal value
if he has them, but he gains nothing by
doing so unle.3 he happen* to win the se
quence. Thus supposing that hoarts are
trumps and that A leads a sequence in
spades with the seven, six and five. If B
bolds the three and two of spades, but has
the four, he may, if lie lias the four of
hearts (trumps), play this and complete
the sequence with his three and two of
spades, thus winning a sequeuce of six cards
a.d scoring sixty. If, however. 8., holding
the four aud three of hearts and no spades,
were to play those and, if A. held tbe two
of spades. B. would lose the sequonce and
two trump cards. A recollection of the
cards that have been played and & little ex
perience in the ga ne will soon teach the
novice the caso3 in wh ch tho power of
trumping can bo most judiciously and pro
fitably exercised.
Wheaiu any way it becomes a player’s
turn to lead a sequence and he finds that be
can not do so, not having two or more cords
of a suit in sequence, he must say “no lead,”
and the other player if he can must lead, if
he cannot he also must sav “no lead,” and
each player thea places all the cards re
maining iu his hand face upward on the
table and scores their value, reckoning the
ace, king, queen, knave and lon as ten each
and the other cards, nine, eight and so on,
down to two, according to the number of
their pips. The whole of the cards ore then
shuffled aud dealt and the game continued
as before to its conclusion.
Either 800 up or 600 up may be chosen as
the winning score, but whicuever is chosen
the game is not to be stopped when that
number has been scored by either player,
but the hand teen being played continued
and played out. Tlie scorer of the highest
number at the end of the hand being the
winuer, by so many points as his
score exceeds that of his opponent.
If a rubber of tnree games
is played all the throe gams must be
played to tbe finish, although the first two
may be won by one player, for the o:her
player may in the third game gain more
points than his opponeut has scored in the
two games, and may thus become the
winner of the rubber. Of course, if two
players elect to decide a rubber by the num
ber of games instead of the points sc.red
they can do so.
From tne preceding description of tbe
game it will be seen that though simple ia
form and to some extent depending upon
the fall of the cards there is amplescopefor
the exercis? of ingenuity and tact in lead
ing. The following rule- and explanatory
notes will make this clearer:
Rule 1. Two cards at least must be played
to lead a sequence.
Rule 2. A sequence may be lead up or
down.
(For instance, if a player holds the k r ave,
ten and nine of a suit he may ”.ead up” by
playing the nine, ten and knave; or “lead
down” by playing he knave, ten and nine.)
Rule 3. The second player must follow
suit if possible; if not may trump in se
quence or pass.
(Thus, If queen, knave and ten of spade*
have been led, the second player must play
the nine, eight and so on of spades if be has
them, or if not he may play tho correspond
ing trump cards. If he has not got either
or does not wish to trump he says, “I pas-,”
as already explained, and plays no cards.
If the sequenco has been “lead up” be must
play the next highest, or if “lead down” tbe
next lowest card or cards.)
Rule 4. In “leading a sequence” the
player need not play more than two cards
of a sequence of three or more cards, but he
must play to “a break,” or he cannot score
for the cards played.
(Thus a player with king,.queen and
knave may lead queen, king or queen,
knave, bat if be had tbe ace as well he could
not lead king, ace nor queen, king, ace. as
these leads would “complete” tbe sequence
and there would be no break.)
Rule 5. Exoept in leading a player must
play all the cards of tbe s-quenoe which he
hold*. If he dees not hit opponent may
either oioira tbe card or cards not played or
may add ten to bis own score for each card
not played, a id the player in fault shall lose
any score he may have made tl rough with
holding the card or card-.
Rule 6. If a player inadvertently plays a
wrong card or allows bis opponent t> eo
any of ins cards, the latter may say “I call
your.” naming the card or cards seen, and
the h Her must then lay the card or cards
nam'd fees down on the table, a id can not
p.ay it oaul anew sequence has been led.
Rule 7. Tbe trump card i. not reckoned
in any sequence except for scoring, but if it
completes a sequence that sequence is not
scored.
(Thus if a prayer leads krave, ten and
nine of trimn , the eight being the tun ed
up card the other player mav continued tho
sequence with the seven, and if he com: letes
the sequence ni.n tha' card hesiores fifty
for the live cards (including the eight in
the sequence.) If i either player has the
seven, neither player seor-s anything.)
Rule.8 —If a plavcr leads two cards and
his opponent “passes” the leader scores
nothit g.
Ru e U—The player who passes or who
wins a sequence by playing the last card
lesds the next sequence.
The prcc siiiig rules end explanations of
the game give all that begiuners need to
acquire as to the manner of playing, but a
little prac ice will show that a player’s
success will largely depend upon the skill
he acquires in leading. It is iin: ossible to
show here how much may be gained in this
way, but we may give oue ins aucr. Sup
pose a player to bold the ace, king, queen,
knave, ten, ssveu, three aud two of a suit
If he were to lead queen, knave aud ten, ms
opiiouo'it might win with the eight aud
score fifty, or the sequence might run down
to the five and be taken by his opponent, who
would soore eighty. The lean r could not
afterward scare otf the two three lead, as
his opponeut not having the four there
would tie “no sequence,” and alt that he
would get from the suit would bo ton for
his ace. If, however, be started tho suit by
leading ten, kuave, queen, and if his oppo
nent held the king be would, by adding th*>
ace, take tho sequence of five carls and
score fifty, and if not. would still soore
thirty for the threi cards played, If hts
opponent afterward led nine, eight, ho
might make a sequence of three with his
seven, or possibly one of eight with his three,
two.
The element of uncertainly in the game
is, of course, produced by the fact that
seveufeen cards, tne values of which are
unknown are withdrawn from it, but care*
ful play will do much to discount any dis
advantage a player may blunder through
the fall of the cards, and the happy blend
ing of chance and skill in the control of the
game thus obtained can scarcely fail to
enhance the pleasure it will be found
capable of affording. Dwin Ray.
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