The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01
a FEMALE pokER GLUE.
How u Society Woman Played Her
Pin Money and Was Discovered.

How u Society Woman Played Her
Pin Money and Was Discovered.
[From the Washington Evening Start
cit wouldn't do to mention any
Names" said a prominent club man,
who was one of a pleasant party at
Wormley's last night; but L caromed
up aginst poker story today that is
being eagerly retailed in every boudoir
from here to Bar Harbor. OF course,
you all are aware OF the poker play
ing that has been INDUCED in here for
the past few seasons by a bevy of we'll
known society women. They began in
the usual way with penny ante, but
pretty soon the bride was loosened, and
during the past season three Ken
lucky with white chips at 80 cents and
table stakes as the limit, has been the
rule. The fact is, the ladies who have
been indulging in the seductive charms
Of bluff have grown to be inveterate
gamblers, as almost every day until
hot weather came they met at the
house of this or that one, and not only
played the morning hours away, but
took off pretty good slice of the
afternoon as well. The result has been
that a scandal is brewing that may
break forth any moEent that two hus-
ldpPSA " IllSCI - SIOIy WHICH
1 can almost swear to the truth of is
something like this. Early in the
spring one of the ladies afflicted with
the mania / have described got shy in
her account with another member of
the group and demand was made for
a settlement. The losers husband is a
very careful and methodical man, who
kept his eye open, so far as his sub
stantial possessions were concerned, so
n iS Wi o fIo Of my irf Or
her diamonds, and went to a dress
maker and ordered four fine gowns.
The garments were sent home accom-
panied by bill something over $500,
and the husband cheerfully handed the
amount to his wife in order that it
might be liquidated. The latter took
the funds, which were sufficient to set
tie her poker debt and leave her a good
stake remaining, settled with her adj
versary and began to plunge. With
the natural hopefulness of a gambler
she was sure that she could recoup her
losses, pay her dreSSmaker and let no
one be the wiser. But you fellows know
how that is. The lady I am speaking
of was not deficient in luck, but she
didn't know the value of a poker hand,
while two or three of the other players
were as shrewd at the business as a
politician from the southwest. She lost
and put off the dressmaker from time
to time until the latter got tired. The
other day her lord and master was sent
a bill for the four gowns for which he
had given his wife the money u long
time previous. When he demanded an
explanation from his erring spouse she
broke into tears and confessed every
thing, and then had the Mysteries. She
told him in the lucid intervals the
names of the other women she had
played poker with, only one of whom
happened to have a husband living.
The indignant gentleman wrote each
one of the poker players demanding
the immediate return of the money won
from his wife, accompanied by the
threat that failure to comply with the
demand would result in publicity of the
entire affair. The other husband in the
case is not in town, but he is a, fiery
individual, who knows that his wife
played poker, and didn't object to it
and there is liable to be proceedings of
interest when he meets the stronger
half of the loser at the game. The I'M
protected females are waiting to see
what the outcome is before they dis
gorge"