The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-02-24
GODDESS OF THE GAmING-RooM.
Beautiful Woman Lures the Dollars


A Beautiful Woman Lures the Dollars
From Wild Wooley Mems Pockets.
Some people say that Wooley. alias Sedro, is a
tough place, that its whisky is away below par,
that the majority of its citizens are not such as
would be received in polite society, and that its
gambling games are unblushing skin games.
Those who express such an opinion do the town
an injustice. II is true that the citizens of
Wooley do not put on dress suits and boiled
shirts when they so to call on their friends;
man who takes more than moderate dose of
whisky may get his feet tangled together so that
he cannot distinguish his right from his left foot
or his toes from his heels: the language of the
residents may be rather heavily loaded with
snltry epithets. But these gentlemen have a
high appre ciation OF the beautiful in at least
one direction. One would expect that they
would be satisfied With a man like unto them
selves to sit behind the faro stud poker table
sleeves rolled up to his elbows; big Albert
chain dangling from his vest a paste diamond
in his shirt bosom, pair of cold steely eyes and
bloated face. Most men think such an indi.
vidual good enough to lose their money to.
But not so with the boys at Wooley Follow
them on Saturday evening. after they have
drawn their pay at the sawmill or logging camp.
or at the buildings they are engaged on and thew
will drift into Murdock' gambling rooms which
are on the second floor OF frame building
beauty But here presides fairy You nafur-
ally join the biggest crowd and find it is gathered
around the tud-poker table. The dealer is no
common male gambler such as that described.
but is a woman of most enhancing beauty She
is hardly woman either. for she looks TO he
hardly Is years old. A simple tailor made dress
fits closely to her dainty figure She has
rich mass of dark hair, pair OF soft, dark ewes
and complexion of such freshness and purity
as needs the aid of no powder or Cosmetics
She is not overloaded with jewelry, for a soli-
tary diamond ring sparkles ON one OF the fingers
OF those small, perfectly-formed hands which
nimbiy scatter the cards and gather up the
chips; Under her snow -white throat glitters
brooch formed of plain bow of gold adorned
with one diamond. Her demeanor is marked
~ every sign OF modesty, and ''the bows re-
strain their natural inelinations to damn their
luck as her dainty fingers seize the bets thew
have lost. The game is probably no more
ION the square" than any other stud-pOker
game IN the country. but no one murmurs In
fact. the men crowd up to lose their money TO
her. Ii is esteemed high honor TO be the vic
tim OF such charming persouifeation of fortune.
ana the graceful movements of thst sweet Greg
tnre as she gathers in his last chip takes away
the sting of the bad luck Tor the loser
The same house has another attraction of the
same kind, but not cast in the same exquisite
mould. She is a rather stout woman of about ~
years. plainly dressed, of quiet, modest manners
and simple dress, similar to that OF the fair stu
poker dealer. She deals faro and rakes in the
shekels with unexceptionable grace of move
menc