LAST DAY'S OF "BRIDGE."

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 78, 28 September 1907, Page 4

LAST DAY'S OF "BRIDGE."

Tho days of "bridge" are numbered, and In a little v.hilo the game which only a short time- ago was nothing less than a crpze will bo relegated to thelimbo of pubt pleasures, and will tako its nlace with whist and bezique and cribbago. Paris seems to have dealt tbs death-blow, and bridge parties are no longer considered chic Instead of the little tables being always ready for guests, any one wishing for a game haa to say so, and card-players are* .poked ay/ay in corners, where they will not disturb the conversation or music. It never seemed quite right that iho Pans salons, which were wont to echo to tho sound of brilliant conversation and fino music, should hear nothing but such remarks as "No trumps." But the Parisians have scon the error of their j ways, and have put bridge in its proper place.

At a meeting of Canterbury dairymen on Tuesday, somo dissatisfaction waa expressed with regard to notices sent out by tho Inspector of Dairies, requiring the dairymen to attend to several matters. It \va3 stated that there would be no finality to the requirements of tho Inspector uttloss tho Government passed an Act setting out definitely what should be done, and a motion was passed expressing an opinion that the position of dairyman should be made secure by the parsing of laws regulating dairies for nut less than thrco