Women in Chess

   End of December Jottings: . . . . A starling was blown into my bedroom last night . . . . woke me up at four-thirty . . . don't know which was the more startled . . . A raft of Christmas cards . . . Pleasant to be remembered.  May Karff, who is getting good practice playing in the Boston City Chess Tournament writes, "I hope to have six or seven women enrolled in the Commonwealth Club perhaps as a sort of auxiliary.  We shall have separate rooms at our disposal."  . . . She may go to St. Petersburg (Fla.) this winter . . . Nice to get away from the cold . . .Reminds me that Adele Rivero has just returned from a long rest at Miami Beach . . . Seems to have done her good . . . Didn't play much chess, except to give a couple of  exhibitions for children in one of the parks . . . One six year old boy was pretty good . . . Only one girl played against her . . . Says Kathryn Slater has improved her play a lot but shows no inclination to engage in tournaments . . . Card from Norma Sloan (Cheyenne, Wyo.) recalls a pleasant meeting at the Marshall Chess Club two years ago . . . She reports, "I haven't been playing much chess this winter, tho' hope to get back to it again soon. Our club is small - about twenty members - but persistent." . . . Mrs. A. H. Palmi is the new president of the Jackson (Mich.) Chess Club . . . From Muscatine (Ia.), Jean Moore Grau writes, There is nothing I can report in chess at the present, perhaps in the Spring."  . . . Mary Bain celebrated the holidays by getting out of that cast . . . Pauline Papp (Cleveland) won the championship of the Queens Women's Chess Club without losing a game . . . Mrs. Hilda Riley, second, and Mrs. Gustav Hauschild, third . . . New champion is problem editor of the Mid-West Problemist . . . also only woman in Cleveland to be chosen to play against Koltanowski . . . Which reminds me I haven't written how charming I found him and his attractive young wife . . . Wish there was more space to enlarge on them . . . Raphael McCready has started a chess club in Hackensack (N.J.) . . . Which recalls the pleasant evening spent with the Kashdans when they entertained their chess group . . . Wandered out into another room where several people were gathering about a chess board, just in time to hear the leading exponent of the superiority of bishops say, "The bishop and knight are usually considered to have the same value." ... Happy New Year, everyone . . . Wish you would all write me your news.
                                                               -E.L.W.
                                                            (Edith Weart)