The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-27

other small places.
The wheels and lsyouts are used for small
gambling parties, particularly by women
and the younger men.
The gambling started with the small
poker parties which came into vogue in
suburban peighborhoods about three or four
years ago. The limit was as low as 5 cents,
and in extreme cases 50 cents.
The poker party would meet on stated
nights at the house of one or another MEM
Der, and the kitty would 60 to pay for the
refreshments, or for some charitable or
other object to be decided on by the club.
1t might be that all the winnings in the
party would go TO getting up a dance or
some other matter in which local society
was interested.
These social countenances 20 poker tended
TO remove the ban which, in suburban So
ciety, rested upon all forms OF gambling
Poker parties were popular because they
were more exciting than the quiet whist or
euchre parties, whose places they took. and
because she gambling instinct exists In
almost every woman's breast.
From poker 1t was an easy step TO roulette,
in which there are chances OF greater re-
turns for the money risked. A 3 cent bet
on number at roulette may win as much
as 81 so, about
SIX TIMES AS MUCH
as the same Investment can possibly return
at poker.
n woman who is out several dollars NAV
recoup herself by the success of a number
on which 25 cents only is staked. Then
there are the fascinating whirl OF the wheel,
the fun OF seeing the ball 60 round, and the
interest in the faces and stakes OF the other
players.
From roulette it was easy to step 60 the
other gambling games. Faro is less popu-
lar game with women. but any clever
woman can make a fanoiful layout for herr
self by taking a piece OF black green satin
and painting cards on IL by hand.
She eau embroider the edges and put little
tassels on weighted with shot, like woman's
jacket or skirt. which will keep the cloth in
place on the table.
tasteful than can be found in the regular
gambling houses. Then all that is needed
is pack of cards, which may be dealt with
out the aid OF q cue box though the dealer
takes the chances of somebody seeing an
exposed card before it comes out.
A number of gambling devices are now
manufactured for this kind Of business.
Some people who have fine country houses
choose to buy a regular roulette table, with
the layout on either side and big wheel
between, but the expense Of this is consid-
cradle.
The kind Of roulette apparatus usually
gotten is the cheap wheel aud a cloth layout,
which can be spread on an ordinary table.
1t Is only recently that this gambling rage
has broken out, but the results Of it are be-
ginning to appear. Usually a man will
take the bank, and often he is some clerk,
who loses the amount of a weeks salary IL
a few numbers come against him In success
sion.
He wants to appear TO advantage before
the company, and is likely to take bigger
risks than he should. Thus such young
Ia. IN -, II
times have to hang up some OF the winners,
thereby causing good deal Of unpleasant
feeling.
Some Of the other social bad effects are
obvious The women get TO waiting anx-
iously for the weekly meeting of the club,
aud
SOME OF THEM GO so FAR
as TO join two or three clubs which meet on
different evenings Of the same week.
The amounts involved are small. but
LOSSES Of q few dollars several times week
begin to count up. and money is taken out
Of the household expense fund.
Then the system Of borrowing, which
every gambler knows 10 destructive 10
friendship, begins.
The dealers in gambling implements do not
know what 20 make OF the situation, or how
low the great demand for their wares is
going to last.
So far the trade has been confined TO
them, though the toy manufactures make
games like keno, another which can be
made into faro, and dice boxes and dice
which can be utilized by any one who will
take the trouble to copy French hazard
layout from a gambling house.
Any man who watches the workings of
the cheap roulette wheels carefully can
easily make good thing out Of it, as few
OF these roulette wheels are automatically
perfect, and there is tendency Of the
ball TO fall into some boxes rather than
others.
1t costs a great deal OF money to make a
good wheel. and even in the best gamblin &
houses there are few wheels which, after
being used for a while, do not show a ten
dency to favor certain boxes.
In the aheap wheels this tendency 10 more
marked, and any man who will keep a card
on the wheel las they do officially at Monte
Carlo, will be able after few meetings to
finds out the peculiarities of the wheel and
by making judicious use of his knowledge
he csn usually break the bank.
The pastors of the suburban towns are
beginning TO wake up to the demoralizing
effects of of this gambling outbreak on their
congregations though the church collections
often profit by it in the offerings OF con-
ADMINISTRATION winners.
1t is likely that sermons will presently be
preached upon the topic, and that INSTRUCT
i've lessons about the Generalization re-
sulting from gambling will be heard from
the pulpit.
m