The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-12

public tables IN the FANNY, and let me
have some fun out of IL besides
Jimmy, your looney, says Tom
No. I'm not. either replied Mrs.
Tom. Nuu know I've Eut 4 lut II
money in the bank that really have
no use for. You gave it 10 ms Hat, and
it's really and truly NINE isn't il:
Well. then. too. am / not entitled 10 a
onc-third interest IN everything yan
have I've always understood it that
way. All right. I'll play the money
I've already got and my oue-third in
terest in your estate. YOU can adj
vance mo installments on ii Then.
Tom, IN bust you isn't that what
Well, Jimmy said Tom I'H 80
1t was such a novel propositions
he said to mo afterward. and il was 81
insinuatingly put, besides. that ! just
couldn't help but agree TO il then and
there, and To stand for il a[terWard
We'll, this couple started their two
handed game Of draw on The very next
night. and Tom told mo that from the
Very go-on 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 all
or they We're married. and on his even
ings a home they had often played a
quarter limit game for the fun of the
thing. But il was so queer. 10 be play
ing with his wife for really immense
stakes as they did in an earn,atuaas
play when HE game was we'll under
way. that this Butte man relishod the
play enormously lie quit The faro
banks altogether, and devoted all If
his spare time 20 the attempt 10 beat
his wife.
IF I succeed in breaking her he
said II some Of us after the first few
weeks. of course I'll hand back 10 her
all the deeds and securities constituting
her one-third that she has solcnnlN
made over To mo. But So doesn't know
that ! viii. and is playing FOR keeps
and So my fin is not diminished "a par
tice'
He soon found that his attempts II
beat his Wifes game and her luck were
not pauninE out. Tie Whnte truth IF
the matter is that she was better
poker player than he. but what man
would ever own up. even 10 himself.
that his wife could beat him al tine
game ~ draw or any other Kind ri "A
game ~ cards In the first place she
was about lbh per cent more COO. head
ed than he. in the second place. sh, had
q lseener appreciation of tho value If
hands iu The third place she was a
buffer anna u the fourth place size
kneH her husband lil,, "a book aud
could figure down pat from the ex-
preston uII his lace just Nhai AlS
hands Were worth. When yeu throw Tia
with All ~ tEese advantages the natur-
al intuition 81 a woman. and the IL
stine1iNe HuHeh she has To- do the right
thing ait th right time. you cam per-
reiSa that this man / am telling Sau
abaul didu have such show as he
thought b" mad when he talked 10 his
friends about restoring all Of his VIM
nnes ~ his wife at the wind-u
THE Iittia woman was mot loser il
dollar from the very first night they
started tu pas At the end al a month
as Tom told me himself. it seemed To-
b. na longer question az t5 which Of
the Two would come out ahead on 4
nights play but simply question as
tn Eor much he would loss. At the
md 81 siN months mis- wife had $zea. 600
worth af hi- a#urities In her cumuart-
fnaHg 81 th safe deposit EauIt
sIa- said Tom IL me about this
time H1iy smoke. shr doesn't tHUA=
baU a. l.-a Shell have me 4 rauuer
h. f0Ia EuaA whore / am. And blum.
SAY. She tluffs me out Of ms own lack
pots 81 eight or ten high when there
an. thousands ~ dollars in the pot
Tho IS hem / propose to put stop -
this 6luruG and raise Der up To- IRE
Collins hy betting whole slather af
meH=s aa really good hands | happen