Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-01-30
BELLIES WHO BET.
YOung Ladies' from the Blue Grass
Belt Who Risk their Cash ON
Racers.

Racers.
[Saratoga Cor Philadelphia Times.]
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
this amount, are the Kentuckians.
They inhale in their native ozone the
fever 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
Tales for the Uninitiated; they discuss horse
flesh and lotteries when the well-ordered child
of the north talks to her doll and botches baby
clothes as primary course in dressmaking.
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 chroniclers of
each days proceedings
She is handsome and. attired in a modest
white gown, presents no meretricious attrac-
tions. She is accompanied by companion,
whom she is heard to address by the title of
mother and who is only slightly 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 mongrel
type of masculine nature, the offspring of q
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
flyers of the turf she has turned her atten:
ton to another Market where speculation is
equally intoxicating and hazardous.
She has allowed o noted beau to
perceive her languishing dark eyes
resting interestedly upon him. Her gaze has
been purposely fastened upon him, until he,
by well known physical and psychological
law, turns as naturally toward her as the
sunaower to the sun or the willow
to the water; her soft, velvety lids
drops as unconsciously conscious as if the
fascinating artifice 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 swift glance toward
him she ascends tier by tier Of the
grand stand until she has reached tho
topmost rail, over which she leans,
looking down on the great dusty entrance
park to the course. IL the gentleman does
not follow Immediately there are evidences of
impatience in her frequent nervous backward
glance. He approaches her locality and, as
Stunning similar attitude, is also deeply in
terested in the arid, dusty stretch beneath.
Several covert and feeting 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 lifelong counselor.