END OF THE BRIDGE CRAZE

Mataura Ensign, 18 July 1906, Page 3

END OF THE BRIDGE CRAZE

Om-e iii a wlii!<' tin.' "Four Hundred" (\'.-w York's exclusive set) do a good tiling, as when. :il tlii! latter part of this \vintit. it was decided that "bridge" had become so common thai, j it was no longer the "correct form," and the bun of social ostracism was. therefore. placd upon it in what arc termed the best circles of Gotham, That these social bans have an influence is shown in the admissions of manufacturers of playing cards that the demand for their product has fallen off to a remarkable extent during' tiie last throe months. ''This summer/' said one manufacturer, "only those who an; not 'up' will play bridge, and they will soon sec that it is no longer 'the thing;,' all of which moans that our output of cards will be very small." While sonic of us wish lliat the turn in the tido had been brought about in some other way, the speedy decline into which; "bridge" is now destined! to fall is welcome, whatever may be tin; cause of its downfall. There is no doubt that thousands of women have wasted precious hours at the game. Men have, for some time past, become dis-1 gustcd with the strenuous way inj which women have overdone the craze. It has belittled many an otherwise charming- woman ill (Ire eyes of men and women alike. and it was high time to call halt. The extreme to which some women carried the' game, playing it. in the morning, afternoon, and at all hours of the day, was silly, to say nothing of its pernicious effect. The craze lias perhaps to be carried to excess to have it reach its end. Now that it; has, tho women themselves whd wasted their tinio over the game will realise what geese they made of themselves, Thero is something worthier of a woman's time and skill tTum a pack of playing cards.—Exchange.