Court cards in trumps are useful only for the tricks they make…

But first…
Dulltown, UK: Today’s augmented chord is the one at the beginning of No Particular Place to Go.
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It’s that old fat battered book again!
Yes, it is that cheap junk shop book, The Daily Express (a British newspaper) Enquire Within, from 1934. Here’s a picture of the title page, dear reader.

1934! Goodness, me, that’s about ninety years ago! And the book smells like it, too!
It is a household book of useful information on a wide variety of subjects, for that era, of course. What do you think of today’s title? It sounds like it has ‘deep meaning’ in it, doesn’t it?
But no, it’s just from a game of cards, a solitary one.

Across the top of every page there is printed some words of wisdom, a proverb, or a historical fact – I will include some of these with today’s selection of items.
Actually, I have been using these quotations from this book for so long, I have now posted almost all of these top-of-the-page items. When I’ve posted one, I put a little pencil line through it – there are very few left unmarked now… So, some of them might now sound, familiar.

Page 185. (Ale used as a beverage 404 years BC.)
Solo Whist – Mode of Play.
Every round at Solo is complete in itself and is played to attain one of these six objects, and there is no scoring. Honours are not counted as at ordinary Whist, and court cards in trumps are useful only for the tricks that they make. The players having examined their cards, the eldest hand (the player on the dealer’s left) declares first…

Page 41. (Every good act is charity.)
To boil cardoons.
Cut the storks into lengths as required, taking off the prickles, and parboil them in salted water for a quarter of an hour; then drain them and scrape off the outer skin, and put them in cold water; cook them as artichokes.

Page 404. (Short reckonings make long friends.)
To Wash Blankets.
First shake them well and soak them for a quarter of an hour in warm soap lather in which a small lump of ammonia has been dissolved, then wash in the same way as flannels, afterwards rinsing well in several waters, the last of which should be a tepid blue water. They should be dried in the open air, being shaken down occasionally and well shaken to raise the nap.

Page 467. (Good wine needs no bush.)
Palmistry.
6. The line of the heart runs across the hand under the fingers, and generally rises under the base of the first, and runs off the side of the hand under the base of the little finger.
7. The line of marriage is a short line between the base of the little finger and the heart line.

Page 273. (If you are in debt, somebody owns a part of you.)
Gargles.
Alum.
Dissolve one teaspoonful of alum in fifteen ounces of water, then add half an ounce of treacle, and one teaspoonful of diluted sulphuric acid.
Use as an astringent.