The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-12

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furniture Ia the Neu YORK drawing room.
--e table Of conurel.ai times had little
L--otl sr-oI-pearl cups art In t. wherein
our iilustrious anct stor~ kept their coin
AS "A notice Of tht u1Ger matinee never
tels INTO the scciery column under that
2 little discreet lf uot exactly sham
faced about ia
DO Me rent rooms for afternoon poE-
me clerk ~ q Broadway not-l
luoheu wise. Really. I cOuldnt say "
serve luncheon ia one ~ our private ill.,
lng rooms once or twice week. or o.
tener 70 parties Of ladies'. Then after
i1nlneon they spend the afternoon ia the
room Ihey play cards, ] believe. /
cal say whether they play poker or
10y oi whether treE play Tor money
MS clerk was man wise in has own
conceit. and when ] asked If the kitty
PAD the room rent he 1roze up and re-
FUSED 10 answer
in one Of. the largest apartment houses
on the west side Of the city, the clerk
conlesses 10 having broken up what ne
called poker nes-, al the head OF which
were man ana wife of foreign eXtrac-
llOns VINO depended on their winnings TO
meet their living expenses. When they
had run Of bad lucB and continued 10
lose, the clerk had a VIrtuOus fit and eX-
PEELED them from the mouse. Poker IS
never so boneful as when loss attends
righteous effort
In one Of the cross streets OF the upper
west side dwells the daughter Of one Of
New Gofk's late ministers Of the gospel,
VINO stood in the front ranks, and in her
mouse every third Sunday night hundreds
OF dollars slip through fair, jeweled I'M
Hers 70 DE grasped again by other fin
gers, 1eweled and fair. A mOOnstone is
a mascot while broken CHIP for an
ante brings luck TO one brunette. A
blonde woes tickle fortune with a dia-
mond mounted glove-Duttoner and piles
me cnips in huge columns before her.
Woman's intense nature never is so in
tense as when appealed to by poker. She
usually gives full play TO her emotions,
although in the game Tor high stakes she
IS tast learning TO control her features
so they tell no tales TO her opponents.
But mention of a poker matinee does
get into the society column now ana
then, only not by that name. The
Browning Club" is the name 1t masquer-
AIDES under, and the members smile at
one another when they mention il in the
presence of outsiders. The feminine
world requires amusement more and more
as IL advances.
Woman as a poker player is an inter
esting study She plays Ii for business
and considering her money-making am
billions her emotional nature plays sad
havoc with her chances. Her face is a
barometer. Indicating the character of
her poker hand. When her hand prom
ises well, she beams; when she has no
hand, she is glum; her judgment is not
very good and her "bbf' only carries
with women. The trained masculine eye
can discern the tell-tale weakness OF
guilt by the time she has raised three
times. Poker is very much like the game
of life; a man knows woman better
IMAM woman does.
The seriOus-minded New York man IS
cycling this poker innovation with no
small degree of trepidation. one discreet
lord of creation planned a little scheme
to act as a specific in the case OF his
wife. She played with him ana MS
friends, who fattered and caJoled her
and assured her she was an expert, but
she lost constantly. The husband put up
the money cheerfully for the wife TO lose
1t took about three weeks to erect a
cure, and those men dined each other be-
tween times and talked it all over.
An army officer. who is well known
among his military and social colleagues
here in New York has a grievance against
a woman poker player and he has cherish
ed il within his breast since last summer,
when they were both staying at the same
hotel on Staten Island. The game began
at o'clock on Sunday evening and was
made up of the woman, the army officer
in question, a brother officer and friend
Come, gentlemen, pony up! No credit
here" said the hostess. This sounded
very business-like and 1t sounded still
the morning she gathered in all the chips
on the board having won them like lit
tie man, and excused herself from the
game. -
must retire early. as l am going to Green
wood tomorrow morning to place flowers
on the grave of my sonI'
But poker is not the only snare that
lures the gentler sex. The wife of one of
New Yorl's prominent druggists keeps a
little roulette table in her room and Sun
day afternoon is the time when my lady
lures her friends to the game.