WHY BRIDGE IS DYING OUT.
WOMEN MAKE BAD LOSERS
Last week (says <( M.A.P.” of May 26), an inquest was held on a Streatham lady who committed' suicide after losing some rubbers at bridge. It was started that she was, as a rule, a first-rate player, but that on the evening of her death she played very badly, and lost games which she should have won easily. This tragedy is another example of the unsuitability of card games to the feminine temperament. Many women are admirable bridge players, as far as mere skill and knowledge are concerned, but they are nearly all bad losers. They are too emotional, and too easily upset by the outrageous tricks that fortune so often plays. This is really the reason why bridge has lost its popularity. and is so rapidly falling out of fashion. When the game was at the height of its vogue its supporters were mainly women. “Mixed” card dubs, i.e., clubs where men and women could meet for bridge, sprang up all over London. But the ladies could not stand the strain. The game got on their nerves, and the clubs from being pleasant social .gatherings degenerated into nagging and hysterical institutions. There were no suicides, but there were minor tragedies in. abundance. Husbands complained that their wires returned from their bridge clubs in a state of nervous tension that made conversation impossible. The nagging that- was meiely exasperating at the card-table became utterly intolerable when transferred te the home. In a member of cases, the domestic peace was irretrievably shattered, but the more usual ending was resignation from the club which caused all the mischief. The last couple of vears hare seen the closing of Half a dozen of the princinal mixed card clubs in London, and bridge, as a social relaxation, is apparently doomed'. At a big private dance given in London last week, there was a room set specially npairti b~ the hostess for bridge, but it failed te attract a single player. The reign of bridge is over.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3272, 18 July 1911, Page 6
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340WHY BRIDGE IS DYING OUT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3272, 18 July 1911, Page 6
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