The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-06-03
HOW WOMEN PLAY CARDS.
"eAs" breaches A seamoNE1re.
Playing Hearts with n Bonds-wOmen mt
Poker-Dark Light Beauties-
These of Whom TO beware
Sermons in Sentences.

are getting tired of going to the theater;
they are tired OF going TO teas, but they
never seem to get tired of playing 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
Tor her to be dishonest and how greedy
she is. You viii then see what an i'm
mense amount Of cheek she has, and how
she viii rush into game about which she
knows nothing, and of which she declines
10 DC taught anything. If you have any
prediction for whist, you have undoubt-
sdly met the young woman who is so
fond of the game" but who viii tell you
nine times out Of ten that she really has
not played it very much. She commences
operations by strengthening out her hand
upon the table, making q pile Of spades
and pile Of clubs, pile of hearts and
pile OF diamonds, until from knowing your
own hand and making a general guess
about the others you are pretty certain as
10 what she holds After she has lost
three tricks, by throwing low cards where
she should have put high ones, she very
vaguely asks. cob, what did you say was
trumps2" 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 a king and then to say,
u never believed IN sending boy to do
mans errand."
/ don't blame you il YOU take a drink
don't blame you ii you hate all woman
Kind, but l enjoy seeing you the next
evening. when you are to play hearts with
sweet blonde woman in gown of heav-
en.y blue. She says she has played the
game several times, and she's pretty sure
she knows all about it; but she asks you
cOntldentlally, "Oughtn't | TO lead my
highest cards first?" You're charmed at
having such an intelligent partner, but
your eyes open a little when she leads the
ace of hearts, follows it up with king.
then dances out the knave, and eventually
she has all thirty hearts in her pile
There's no use trying to teach this woman
70 play hearts; YOU can never make her
understand that the policy OF the game is
70 get nd OF them-nO, indeed. She thinks
that she has achieved the most when she
is gathering in the ruby red cards and
paying out her chips.
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
g Jackpot was TO the fore, and it had been
and everybody was prepared to bet pretty
heavily, when the tender-hearted lady
said: Now, children, Pm not going TO
let you be cheated; there's no possibility
OF anybody beating my hand, and so
there s no use N my taking any more OF
your money" The natural conclusion
Was that she had a royal flush. Had she?
When that marvellous hand, that was 10
beat everybody, was LAID down, it was a
straight jack hight The woman opposite
her held lOur aces a man had full hand,
queen high, and another one held four
tTeys. y 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 upset 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 you don't
know how to play the game you had no
business TO make things uncomfortable for
other people, and, il you want to learn,
then you ought to be willing to endure
dIsappOintments until you find out the
right way. You've broken up the game:
you've made everybody feel miserable:
feel as if had been brute TO you, and
yet think you are q cOnsummate idiot"
Then they both cried, and the men said
they would 20 and have game of bill
iards. And later IN the evening. when
they came back. they found the two
women as friendly as possible, and on her
way home the one who had broken up
the game said to the men who formed her
escort: Kate is such a dear thing! You
know she has got quick way of speaking,
N.rnF h. H. 4 IL
her SOUL! And one OF the men said:
by George. That's beautiful for one
woman 70 say about another" And the
unlucky card-player answered: We'll, it's
true. She speaks her mind sometimes,
but tonight l really think ] deserved it."
And every man in the party positively
said: You certainly did"
The English newspapers have brought
up curious question for discussion. Ii Is
this: In your experience have dark or
light women been the most faithful?"
Three women sat down 10 discuss this the
other evening. Said number one, who
happened to be a blonde, pretty and
young: Il have never found but three
women who were absolutely faithful to
me In my Tile, and they were rather neu-
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-
gether, and the friendship lasted abso-
luteiy until death did us part. The second
one was woman in whose society found
pleasure, aud the third was my mother.
On my visiting book there are the names
OF hundreds Of women. If they were
asked If they were my friends they would
say yes, and yet tomorrow, if | needed
woman friend, should 90 to the one who
likes me because L am pleasant compan-
ION, or 70 my mother. But / would much
prefer TO 20 10 a man."
Another woman, a woman with brown
hair and brown eyes, then gave her ex-
perience. She said: Il had a curious ed
ucatiOn about women. Girls were very
scarce IN Ovr family, and we were al
taught 10 think them OF great value II
you could do anything to give pleasure TO
woman, If Won could help her by pleas
ant words. by deeds or in any way what
ever, then It was more than kindness TO
her, II was courtesy to yourself. That
was the theory upon which | started out
IN life, and the result IA, that though ma
terlally am not black and blue, spirit
ually l am. The woman to whom / gave
the helping hand usually finished up the
performance by biting the hand. The
woman 70 whom / gave a certain amount