The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-26

During the week all the people IN
our house are very domestic, but Sat
nrday afternoon brings the masculine
elament and then everything feminine
draws its corset laces tighter, assumes
;ts hest frock and goes down TO the
station to meet the expected Some of
MS go in the milk wagon, some of us
go in greater style in the buggy, and
some of the rest Of us who put ON great
airs 60 in the two-seated carriage. In
the country it doesn't make any differ
ence about your trap. Style is not look
ed for. Getting there is your object.
Then when the masculine element is
made much of and scolded
for not bringing the right
sweets or for forgetting the tin bath or
the bottle of blackberry brandy we as
semble in the parl0r to enjoy ourselves.
,Fhe mode Of enjoyment most in vogue
IA card playing. Now, if you want to
see lovely woman at her best or her
worst. watch her at the card table
You will then see with what ease she
becomes she becomes a thief and how
sreedy she is. You will then see what
an immense amount of cheek pardon the
elanr. but nothing else expresses it,
she has and how she will rush into
lanae about which she knows nothing
aAa of which she declines to be taught
asv thing.
Possibly You are good whist player,
h that case you may have met the
ysuag woman who is staying here and
who is $50 fond of the game" but who,
after insisting upon playing it, tells you
that she doesn't know much about it.
Aud you belong to whist club famous
in two centuries! She begins opera
1ens by Strengthening out her hand upon
the table, making a pile of spades and
q ,Sle of clubs, pile of hearts, and a
piie Of diamonds, until, from knowing
your own hand and making ageneral
guess about the others, you are pretty
certain as to what she holds.
HOW WOMEN PLAY WHIST.
After she's lost three tricks by throw
ing low trump cards where she should
have put high ones she very vaguely
asks for ut least the fifth time: What
are trumps? You know / never can re-
member" Her mind satisfied about this,
she proceeds, when she is the last play
er and the deuce of trumps would have
taken the trick, to put on a king and
then to remark placidly, arranging her
eelf as if asking for appreciation, Il
never believe in sending boy to do a
mans Grand" You are suffering at this
tinAe for the sins of your life.
Next Friday, however, remembering
your experience, you decline to play
whist. You need to play hearts with a
sweet blonde in a gown of heavenly blue.
She says she's played the game num-
Der of times, and she's pretty sure she
knows all about it, though she asks you
ccnfidentially, "Oughtn't / to lead my
highest card tirst??s Yod are charmed
at having such an intelligent partner,
but your eyes open wide and you are a
little surprised when she leads the ace
of hearts, follows it up with a king,
then dances out the knave, and eventual
ly has all thirteen hearts in her pile.
There is no use in trying to teach this
woman to play cards. You could never
make her understand that the policy
of the game is to get rid of them. No.
indeed. Originally she got the idea that
she was achieving the most when she
gathered in the ruby red cards and
paid out her chips.
KIND HEARTED POKER Play
ERS.
The next Friday little game Of
poker is got up. Knowing what gam
blers women are, you think that here
at last you will meet some sensible ones.
But you had never calculated on the
tender-hearted card player. She was
ut he7 best that night Everything was
going pretty well when a jack pot was
u the fore. to be opened for IS cents.
Everybody was in it, and everybody was
prepared to bet rather heavily when the
tcnder-hearted lady said: Now, child
rem, | am not going to let you be cheat
ed. There's no possibility of anybody
beating my hand, and so there's no use
- my taking more Of your money"
TIE natural conclusion was that she had
q royal flush, the hand that couldn't
be beaten. Had she? When that mar
Vicious hand was laid down, it was a
straight, jack high! The woman opposite
held four aces. You had a full hand,
4aeeA high, and another man held four
tegA
This was the maddest party I ever
saw, and the woman who held four
aces gave her friend piece Of her mind.
said she: when you don't know how
to play game, don't fool away the time
and upset the people who do, and when
you are playing cards don't get too ten
der-hearted. Keep that sort of thing for
the seclusion Of your family and your
sewing society. j don't care if you do
cry. Unless you understand game
you've no business to make things I'M
comfortable for other people, and if
you want to learn to play you ought
to be willing to endure disappointment
until you find out the right way You've
made everybody miserable. ! feel as If
/ had been brute to you, and yet
think you a consummate idiotr'
Then they both cried, and the men
said thed go out and have a walk, and
later in the evening, when they came
back they found the two women as
friendly as possible, and the one who had
broken UP the game said to her husband
Hates such dear thing! You know
'he's got quick way of speaking, but
he wouldn't do mean thing to save her
oul'
And the other man answered.: by
George, that's beautiful for one woman
/, say about anotherp'
And the unlucky card player added
We'll, it's true. She speaks her mind
sometimes, but tonight l really think !
deserved every word she said"
And every man in the party said posi-
lively: you certainly did"