The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-27
BELLIES WHO BET.
Young Ladies' from tho Blue Grass
Belt Who Risk their Cash on

nett VINO htsk their Cash on
Racers.
lSaratoga Cor. Philadelphia Times.1
Neither the vast dining salon nor Congress
park offers so fine an opportunity for sketch
ing the varied scenes indicative of the 'ele-
mental life here as the grand stand at the
race-course. Foremost among the women
who bet recklessly, often losing 500 in an
afternoon, and oftener winning double
TINS amount, are the Kentuckians.
they inhale in their native ozone the
Iever for gambling, in its multifari-
Gus phases, as they do the miasm of malaria.
Turf slang is the familiar vocabulary of the
nursery; they read from their betting tablets
at an age when our little girls sing Mother
Gooses melodies and quote from Christmas
lales Tor the Uninitiated; they discuss horse
hesh and lotteries when the well-ordered child
OF the north talks to her doll and botches baby
clothes as a primary course in dressmakipe
The blue grass belle usually takes her place
immediately back of the reporters gallery,
where she can receive all information in re-
gard to the favorite, high stakes and the price
OF pools as it is handed to the chronicles of
each days proceedings.
She is handsome and, attired in a modest
white gown, presents no meretricious attrac-
tons. She is accompanied by a companion,
whom she is heard to address by the title of
M ohu VIM II only SuHntly Older and
slightly less attractive than herself, but who
is more conspicuous in the general brilliant
makeup of her face and personal parapher-
MALTA. She hands her money to a mongrel
type OF masculine nature, the offspring of a
combined dude and jockey, who is soon in
the whirling current of the quarter-stretch
and drifting straight to the pool section.
While he is taking stock for her in the fast
myers OF the turf she has turned hor atten-
ton to another market, where speculation is
equally Intoxicating and hazardous.
she has allowed a noted beau to
perceive her languishing dark ewes
resting interestedly upon him. Her gaze has
been purposely fastened upon him, until he,
bv a well known physical and psychological
law, turns as naturally toward her as the
sunfiower to the sun or the willow
to the water; her soft, velvety lids
drops as unconsciously conscious as il the
fascinating ~artiiice had not been practiced
hundreds of times and has been brought to
the present state of artificial perfection
through courses Of carefully-attended gesta-
ton. Accustomed to success in the adroit
movement, she continues to repeat it
until she is satisfied it is effective.
She rises and with a swift glance toward
him she ascends tier by tier of the
grand stand until she has reached the
topmost rail, over which she leans.
looking down on the great dusty entrance
park to the course. II the gentleman does
not follow Immediately there are evidences of
impatience in her frequent nervous backward
glance. he approaches her locality and, as
suming a similar attitude, is also deeply in
terested in the arid, dusty stretch beneath.
Several covert and fleeing looks are ex-
changed as he draws nearer and nearer. and
without alteration of position they fall into
conversation and talk about-the weather.
the inadvisability of sowing marketable
crops where only tares will grow, and topics
Of equal interest. She returns to her seat in
time to receive her winnings from her specu-
lating envoy and soon the wooing satyr is at
her side with the bold and confidential bear-
ing of u lifelong counselor.