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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="11f285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Berton Braley Cyber Museum</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Berton Braley Cyber Museum"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B>     </B></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="11ed2c00dkelyh.png"> <div> <A HREF="news_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News"><U>News</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="biography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Biography"><U>Biography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="works.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Works"><U>Works</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="bibliography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bibliography"><U>Bibliography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="correspondence.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Correspondence"><U>Correspondence</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="library.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Library"><U>Library</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="meeting_place.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Meeting place"><U>Meeting place</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="guestbook.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Guestbook"><U>Guestbook</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="market.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Market"><U>Market</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="links.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links "><U>Links </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="search.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Search"><U>Search</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id400.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Foundation"><U>About Foundation</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="about_museum.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Museum"><U>About Museum</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>For Men Only</I><I>                                                                                                   </I></div> <div>      <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>Rules of the Rude</B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>Whether for Nothing or for Yen</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I'll play my Contract Bridge with Men!</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>For though my partner be a lout</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Who doesn't know what It's About</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>It's easier to bear by far</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Than playing with a Female Star.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>For I can bawl him out; and he</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Can ull the same rough stuff on me</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>And whether we be wrong or right</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>We need not be too damened polite.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>For all my partner's roars and rants</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Are better than the martyred glance</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>A woman partner always darts</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>When you get set four tricks in hearts.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>And when the lady is a Sap</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>You still must wear upon your map</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>A gentle smile and lie like hell</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And say "You played it very well."</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>And when the time comes to collect</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>You feel a woman's life is wrecked</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>And that her whole career is done</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Because of fifty cents you won.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Thank you, I'll take the black abuse</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>That male practitioners turn loose,</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>In preference to what you get</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>In mixed games ruled by etiquette.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Whether for Nothing or for Yen</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I'll take my Contract Bridge with Men!</B></I></div> <div> <I><B> </B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Published in: </I><A HREF="id69.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Life Magazine"><U><I>Life Magazine</I></U></A><I>, July 1934</I></div> <div>  </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>© 2000-2006, Berton Braley Cyber Museum. </I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>All rights reserved.</I></U></A></div> <div> <I>---</I></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U><I>Contact Webmaster Peter Leeflang</I></U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U> </U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>