Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-06-04
Bah breaches A SERMON.
She Prattles PrettIly, Wisely and
Maybe Too Truthfully.


Discussion : Is Woman Cautious OF
Woman?
special Correspondence Of Gazette ana journal
NEW YoRK, May 30.--people are getting
tired of going TO the theatre; they are tired
of going to teas, but they never seem to get
/ tired of playing cards.
HOW WOMAN PLAYS CARDS.
II you want to see lovely woman at her
best, or her worst, watch her at the card
table. You will then see how easy it is for
her to be dishonest and how greedy she is
You will then see what an immense
amount of cheek she has, and how She
will rush into game about which she
knows nothing, and of which she declines
to be taught anything. If you have any
prediction fol. whist, you have un.
doubleday met the young woman who is
$50 fond of the game, but who will tell
you nine times out Of ten that she really
has not played it very much. She COM
mences operations by strengthening ont
her hand upon the table, making a pile of
spades and pile Of clubs, pile Of hearts
and pile of diamonds, until from know
ing your own hand and making general
guess about the Others you are pretty GER
tain as to what she holds. After she has
lost three tricks, by throwing low cards
where she should have put high ones she
very vaguely asks "Oh, what did you say
was trumpsY Her mind satisfied about
this, she proceeds, when she is the last
player, and the deuce of trumps would
have taken the trick, to put on king and
then to say II never believed in sending a
boy to do mans errand.n
PLAYING HEARTS WIN A BLONDE.
don't blame you if You take to drink
don't blame YOU if You hate all woman
Kind, but enjoy seeing you the next
evening, when you are to play hearts with
= sweet blonde woman in gown OF
the game several times and She pretty
sure she knows all about ii; but she asks
4 you confidentially, ''0ughtn't to lead my
highest cards first 2" You're charmed at
3 having such an intelligent partner but
your eyes open little when she leads the
!, ace of hearts, follows it up with a king,
then dances out the knave, and eventually
she has all 10 hearts in her pile. There's
no use trying to teach this woman to play
hearts; you can never make her under
htand that the policy of the game is to get
nd Of them--no, indeed. She thinks that
she has achieved the most, when she is
II gathering in the ruby red cards and pay
Ing out her chips.
PRETTY WOMEN AT POKER.
n Another type Of woman to be dreaded
at the card table is the tender-hearted one
\ She was at her best the other night when
jackpot was to the fore, and it had been
& opened for % cents, Everybody was in il,
and everybody was prepared to bet pretty
heavily, when the tender-hearted lady
said: Now, children, I'm not going to
let You be cheated; there's no possibility
of anybody beating my hand, and so
there's no use in my taking any more of
lyour money" The natural conclusion
was that she had a ROYAL flush Had she?
When that marvellous hand, that was to
beat everybody, was laid down, il was Il
straight jack high The woman opposite
her held four aces, man had q full
hand, queen high, and another one held
four treys. A madden party than
this you never saw In your life And
THE WOMAN WHO HELD FOUR ACES
gave her friend a piece of her mind said
she: when you don't know how to play
game, don't fool away the time and up
set the tempers of people who do, and
when You are playing cards don't get too
tender-hearted Keep that sort of feeling
Tor the seclusion Of your family and for
your sewing society. don't care If you do
cry: if Won don't know how to play the
game You have no business to make
things uncomfortable for other people,
and, if yon want to learn, then you ought
TO be willing TO endure disoppointments
until you find out the right way. You've
broken up the game; You We made every
body feel miserable; ! feel as if had
been brute to you, and vet think you
are consummate IDIOT Then they both
cried, and the men said they would go and
have game of billiards. And later in the
evening, when they came back, they
found the two women as friendly as pos.
sible, and on her way home the one who
had broken, UP the game said to the men
who formed her escort: kate is such
dear thing You know she has got uuck
way of speaking, but she wouldn't do
mean thing to save her soul y And one
Of the men said; BY George That's
beautiful for one woman to say about
another. And the unluclsy card player
answered well, it's true. She speaks her
mind sometimes, but tonight really
think deserved it," And every man III
the party positively said you certainly
DARK OR LIGHT WOMEN ?
The English newspapers have brought
up curious question for discussion. Ii il
this; "ln your experience have dark or
Light women been the most Faithful"
Three women sat down to discuss this the
other evening. Said number one, who
happened to be blonde, pretty and
young: II have never found but three
women who were absolutely faithful to
me In my life, and they were rather ncu-
tral IN their coloring One had brown
hair that wasn't quite dark, another had
light hair that wasn't quite blonde, and
the third had grey hair, The first one had
been my friend when we were children to
HSenol, am phe LltHuslp lasted abso
iutely until death did us part The second
one was woman in whose society found
pleasure, and the third was my mother.
On my visiting book there are the names
of hundreds of women. If they were
my friends they would say yes and vet
Tomorrow if | needed a woman friend, | |
should go to the one who likes me because !
am pleasant companion, or to my
mother. But would much prefer to 20
to man."
A woMAN's ESSAY ON WOMAN.
Another woman, a woman with brown |
hair and brown eyes, then gave her eXper-
fence. She said II had a curious edu-
cation about women girls We're very scarce |
in our family, and we were all taught to /
think them of great value. If You could /
do anything to give pleasure to woman,
II you could help her by pleasant words, |
by deeds or in any way whatever, then it
was more than u kindness to her, it was q |
courtesy to yourself. That was the theory I
upon which ] started out in life. and the
result is, that though materially am not
black and blue, spiritually am. The I
woman to who. ! gave the helping hand I
usually finished up the performance by 4
biting the hand. The woman to whom +
gave certain amount of affection and con
sideration and kindness was usually the
one VINO said the most dreadful things /
about me, who thought had n reason for
everything did and who was firmly CON
WINGED that was entirely selfish in my
desire to assist her, No woman friends?
Well, very few, and they are women for +
whom ! done nothing. with whom it
is merely a question Of general liking.
The woman for whom YOU do d
good deed Immediately concludes she
wants to cut your acquaintance. why, +
don't know. except that she is like
certain kind of mougrel dog, the
females of which can never meet Without
having a row. Faithfulness with me has