The age-herald., 1897-09-11
WOMEN GAMBLERS
Running Gaming Establishment in the Fash
 ionabIe Part of Washington.

Washington, Aug. 2S.
 Two young women, daughters of one of Washington's most noted adventur- esses, are said to be running gambling concern here which is a pale reflection of the noted establishment their mother conducted for so many years and which so many noted men frequented. It was In a line old Colonial house in sleepy George town that this remarkable wo- man lived and for years dealt the cards in poker game which every night gave her rake off, of from $500 to S750 and in which more than one man was so bad ly winged that he limped financially for the rest of his life. This woman died only short time ago, and her arrival In the next world was heralded by the advent on the same mysterious shore of one of her victims-a well known young man about town here, who blew his brains out because of losses in the house of they woman who but few days later followed him to the grave.
 Just who the woman was is not known. She came here from the Pacific coast in 1882. bringing with her two pretty little girls, one of them g and the other II years of age Her presence was so com handing and she had such a nimble and graceful wit that when she took to lob pying she made money at bewildering pace. Her extravaganza was equally be- wildering, so that when the lobbying ceased to pay she had barely enough saved to set up the gambling establish ment.
 It was beautiful furnished house. and her receptions" which generally began at midnight and ended at dawn, were, barring the abnormal hours and the ab- sence of women, to all outward appear ances models of propriety. Nobody was admitted unless inthduced and fully vouched fro. Any coarseness of behay- for resulted in instant and irreyoca ble ha mi ehf11apt Tho da1 beautiful young women, and 1t is said their mother for long time tried to ex- clude them from the nocturnal recep- tions, but they gradually filtered into the life, and by their musical and conversa- tional gifts added much to the brilliancy of the entertainments.
 Gambling at poker and for heavy stakes was the serious business of the nights. although up to the last the wo- man always carried out the affs ctaticn of having some one of the guests propose the game, as though it were little im- promptu affair. The womans skill in handling cards was marvellous. IL is said that on one occasion she even astounded Hermann by repeating all his card tricks and showing him some new ones. But the game gradually fell off in the number and character of those who took part in it, and now that the mother is dead and the daughters are carrying 1t on it is bad boys and little clerks who nave tdheH lAe pidct Ol lHe statesmen and high-rollers whu formerly patronized it. On the very night after the mothers funeral the daughters conducted the game.
 The young attaches of legations, and not few of the ambassadors themselves, used to be seen often at the Georgetown establishment They probably went there not so much for the sake of the game (for stud poker always seems an incom- prehensible affair to foreigners). as for the mental relaxation they enjoy d in be- ing entertained in their own speech, for