The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-19
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ly mine isn't it? Well. then, too, am 1
not entitled to one-third interest in ev-
erything you have? I've always under
stood it that way. All right. I'll play
the money I've already got and my one
third interest in your estate. You can adj
vance me installments on it. Then, Tom,
III bust you Isn't that what they call
it,?
Well, Jimmy said Tom. TN go
your
q" 1t was such a novel sort of PROPOSE
ton he said to me afterward, and it was
so insinuatingly put, besides, that l just
couldn't help but to agree to it then and
there, and to stand for it afterward.'
We'll, this couple started their two
! handed game of draw the very next night,
and Tom told me that from the very go-off
he never had so much fun playing cards
in his life. Not that his wife didn't know
the game. He had taught her the game of
poker soon after they were married, and
on his evenings at home they had often
played quarter limit game for the fun of
She thing. But it was so queer to be play
ing with his wife for really immense
stakes, as they did in all earnestness play
when the game was well under way, that
this Butte man relished the play enormous
ly. He quit the faro banks altogether, and
devoted all of MS spare time to the at
tempt to beat his wife.
" If l succeed in breaking her. he said
to some of us after the first few weeks, of
course I'll hand back TO her all of her
deeds and securities constituting her one
third that she has solemnly made over to
me. But she doesn't know that will, and
is playing for keeps, and so my fun is not
diminished particle
'IIe soon found that his attempts. to
beat his Wife's game and her luck were not
panning out. The whole truth of the mat
ter is that she was a better poker player
than he. but what man would ever own
up, even to himself that his wife could
beat him at the game of draw or any other
kind Of a game of cards? In the first place
she was about 100 per cent. more cool
headed than he; in the second place, she
had keener appreciation of the value of
hands; in the third place. she was a bluff
fer; and in the fourth place. she knew her
husband like q book, and could figure
down pat from the expression Of his face
just what his hands were worth. When
you throw in with all of these advantages
the natural intuition of a woman, and the
instructive 'hunch' she has to do the right
thing just at the right time, you can per-
ceive that this man / am telling you about
didn't have such a show as he thought he
had when he talked to his friends about
restoring all Of his winnings to his wife at
the wind-up.
The little woman was not loser a dol
lar from the very first night they started
pay. At the emu Oh a LHOILil, dS ON IOlQ
me himself, IL seemed to be no longer a
question as 10 which Of the two would
come out ahead on a nights play, but sim
ply question as to how much he would
lose. At the end Of six months his wife
had 10000 worth Of his securities in her
compartment OF their safe deposit vault.
Lose" said Tom to me about this time,
| Holy smoke, she doesn't knew how TO
| lose! She'll have me a pauper before
| know where l am. And bluff Say, she
bluffs me out Of my own jack pots on eight
or ten high when there are thousands of
dollars IN the pot. Then. when l conclude
10 put a stop to this bluffing and raise her
up to the ceiling by betting whole slathers
Of money on really good hands 1 happen
10 hold, she holds fours or a straight flush
| There's no way l know of to get a line on
the way a woman plays poker; but she's
got me so deep in the hole now that I've
got 10 see the game through.
Wen, at the end of a year this nervy
little woman had not only captured all
that portion Of her husbands income that
had formerly helped to enrich the green
cloth men Of Butte but she had gathered
IN about an even half of his capital. 1t