The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-17
MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY AUGUST H. 189OrwELvE PAGES

races and the club houses your opportuni-
ties are many, for who knows, among 50
many, when you drop in to play that Seduc-
tive game, roulette, and who can say nay
when clergymen are reported as being win
ners at tie racesl
Something funny happened the other
evening at a roulette table Young man
came in and lost SIS; then be said in a
quiet way, to himself, "Now it's sisters
turn" sisters money" was put on 1. 8.
81, and Is and black, and won in such a way
IN lt even the gamblers with great interest.
w hen the last of the four numbers had
been played the winnings were gotten, and
the girl who played on Lena Despard' s num-
bers and colors was richer by a deal than
when the day began.
Another sweet young thing was play ing
poker at private house and flirting. with a
nice young man at the same time She
frlvoled and laughed, and the real earnest
poker players were disguised with her, but
were to polite to say so. In a flippant
fashion she announced that she did not want
single card, and everybody believed she
had straight. She giggled and kept rails
ing the bet, and then giggled with the
young man, and said: wasn't it awfully
nicer And he glggled, lawfully
nice" The old stagers had
dropped out, and the one left who
had tour mines, kept raising the bet, as she
did. At that time he thought she was a
fool-later on he changed his mind. At
last he called her-she laid down the most
beautiful royal flush in diamonds that you
ever saw. The frivolous look disappeared
from her face, and she took in that pot with
an air or triumph that was interesting, if it
was not lovely. Sweet woman does not
shine well at the card table if there is any
money in the question, and if she had an
idea how greedy and grasping she appeared,
she would not indulge even in little
ante"
THE RACE TRACKS DEvoTEES.
Out at the race track she is not quite so
bad, for her alteration Of the horses is a
real reason. But she makes such-well,
might as well say it-a holy show of her
self, that you wish her piety had been
greater and she had stayed at home. She
overdresses here-a something that she does
not commit at Sheepshead or Monmouth.
and there is a sort of hard line about her
mouth that you would not like to see about
that OF any one you loved.
''BAB" ON VARIOUS CRANKs.
Societies of all kinds are prevalent here.
They come here because of the waters. be-
cause they find the air delightful, and for
every other reason than the cal one, which
is because they like to see the people. Most
Of the societies are composed of cranks
pure and simple. | say that, but / never
saw a crank overwhelming either with
purity or simplicity. If they come to be
temperate, they take the youngest lamb of
the flock, and drink the waters with her un-
til ''bus alton" seems likely. If they are
course-of-study cranks, they take off the
girl who has gone in for Italian literature,
and find out from her what she considers
the real stories of the Decameron. If
it's scientific crank he is trotting
around showing how, if the world be-
gan round, like an apple, it was afterward
changed by pair. Then he is SO delighted
at his attempt at joke that he yearns to
see his name in comic paper. If he is here
to discuss whether dear little babies shall
ever know what heaven is, | hate him so
that put on my best scowl, assisted by my
lorgnette and a lemonade with a stick in it,
thai Mr.. Adams has given, and | firmly
announce that in the fortress about which he
talks so much, and knows so little he will
pass his time among nlongrels and bats By
the-by, what's a crank 2 A crank is a man
who does not agree with you or me.
A crank is a man who, while YOU approve
of John Collins, does not approve of you.
A crank is a man who believes that the
world was arranged for his ideas, and those
alone
A crank is man who worries you with
fish stories, with his valorous deeds before
and during the war, and announces his
great conquests among the fair sex.
A crank is a man who dotes OF a special
patent medicine, and wants to experiment
on you as dog, with it.
A crank is man who wants to run all
the important incidents of lfe--marrying.
burying, and the times.
A crank is a man who is a source of much
woe to his household, whose love he has. by
his crankiness, turned into fear aud tremb-
ling.
Woman cranks9 There are none. AS
soon as they become cranks they cease to
be women. Isn't that the golden truth?