The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-21
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
FEMININE GAMBLING - EMIGRATION -
OLEOMARGA ARINE-BU
NEW YORK, Aug. 10. 1874.


NEW YORK, Aug. 10. 1874
FEMININE GAMBLING.
1t has been generally supposed that
the spirit of gambling did not rest in the
feminine soul, to any alarming extent:
but this, like many other general suppo-
sitions, is a mistake Let d woman once
get the passion for gambling fixed in her.
and she is the worst and most persistent
gambler on the face of the globe. 1t
takes full possession of lIer-it becomes
part of her very mature Il l. a mad
ness, which only succunGs 10 the Sc
verest possible treatment.
The fashionable women of the great
cities fall into it easily. The life they
lead is of nature that makes it almost
a necessity to them. The season. of
fashionable gaiety, which commences in
October and November, is nothing but
whirl of excitement from four p. NJ. till
long after midnight There is the opera.
the great theaters, the parties, recep-
tions and balls, and a thousand other
forms of the most exciting dissipation.
The lady who has spin all night in the
voluptuOus dance i'll the arms of flushed
men-who has drunk wine and eaten
exciting delicacies- who goes to her
bed at three in the morning, wearied
but not satisfied, awakens from her sleep
in about the same condition that a last
young man does after debauch. There
is space of time to put in after her
rising, and to woman who lives on the
hercest eXcitements, an hour that has
nothing exciting in it is an hour iD pur-
gatOry. As male debauchee is com
PEELED TO take his cocktail at intervals
during the day to steady himself till the
time comes for his regular drunk, so
does the female debauchee require some
stimulant during the terrible hours be-
tween nine \. NJ. and four p. NJ. to keen
her alive. This excitemant they have
found in gambling. Some of them pIav
draw-poker, the regular game. but not
many. That game, as have been told.
requires firmness, decision, knowledge
of human nature, judgment, dash, dar-
ing, and pluck-qualities which the little
dears are not, as n rule, blessed with.
What they prefer is a game Of pure
chance, in which no skill is required.
To this end Il dozen of them will gather
at house, and make a pool Of saw
So each, making a pot" of $50 The
twelve numbers are put into a box, and
one drawn at random. The first num-
Der drawn is entitled to One-half the not.
the second to one-fOurth, and the third
to the remaining fourth. This goes on
for hours and hours-till, in fact, it is
time to dress for dinner.
This game, simple as it is, is exciting
enough to satisfy their natures. particu-
larry as they can win or lose a very large
sum of money in a day. At one hotel
in the upper part of the city, at which n
great many rich men board, the ladies
made game in which each put in 800
each time. One lady won that day
nearly 81, 200, which was lucky thing
for her, as she was in debt, and wanted
it. But how was it with the losers, who.
probably, were also in debt and wanted
it likewise.
EMIGRATION.
Many good people have felt some
alarm at the vast number of foreign
born citizens who, this season, haze gone
back to their former homes, supposing
that the panic and the consequent scar
city of labor had driven them back to
Europe. All these fears are groundlesS
The fact is the dullneSs of trade has told |
terribly upon the steamship lines. and |
all of them have been running at a loss.
they all put down the rates of passage |
TO IA very small sum to induce travel. |
Thousands upon thousands of well-to- |
do lrishmen, Germans and Frenchmen |
have taken advantage of the reduction |
10 revisit their old homes, and that is |
ali there is of it. They will all return in |
the fall and bring others with them. who |
will be attracted by what they say of |
the LAND of the free, but more, by the
evident prosperity of those who return.
Emigration is not as brisk as in former |
years, for the simple reason that there |
is but little work now. But emigrants |
are coming every day, nevertheless.
The farm-laborers of England who are |
out OF work i'll consequence of the great
strike, are coming. Indeed, one hun
dred and fifty of them landed here last
week, and took the trouble to see them
They are generally good people, though
lamentably ignorant. They lived the
life of animals, almost, on the great es-
tates that held them, with no earthly
opportunities for development in any
direction. One of them told me that
his entire family, consisting of himself
and wife and eight children, lived in
cottage" of two rooms, in which there
were no floors, the entire family sleep
ing together III one room, In this mans
family was one rather pretty girl of eigh-
teen, who every year had to go away to
work, living with her fellow. Iaborers in
precisely the same way, The condition
of things on those estates may be imag-
med. The wages paid TO laborers i'll
this country seemed to them enormous.
and they were anxious to get West and
get at it.
why, said one of them to me, ''they
say we'll get never less than four shillin'
a day. At that, | can earn house for
myself"
Some day that man will not only own
a house, but it will stand in the centre
of 160 acres of Kansas land.
OLEOMARGARINE
has gone up. You remember it. 1t was
a process for making butter out of
grease Fora time it created a sensation
here. Samples of butter made in this
way were shown, and they were good.
Well. they ought to be. for they were
actually butter. The inventor" of the
process kept up the stir till he sold the
patent for the Pacific States to a verd-
ant Californian, who did actually pay
so, 900 down and gave his note for
Sos. 600.
\ company was organized in San
Francisco, and $4,000 worth of stock
was actually disposed of, when the in
ventor appeared and wanted the re-
S65, 900. There was an explO-
sion. The process was tried and found
to be entirely worthless, and the rum
pus that ensued was something terrific.
The antecenents of the ''inventOr" were
looked up. and twas discovered that he
was an old speculator in this style OF en-
terprise, and that ''Olemargarine' was
neither his first or his worst swindle.
Exit grease butter. The cows are rein
stated.
BUSINESS
IS picking up all the time. and the great