The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-19

nestle, but Saturday afternoon brings
the masculine element, and then every
thing feminine draws its corset laces
tighter. assumes its best frock and goes
down 10 the station to meet the expected.
Some Of us 20 in the milk wagon, some OF
us 20 in greater style in the buggy, and
some of the rest of US who put on great
airs 90 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
male much OF and has been scolded for
not bringing the right fruit or the right
sweets or for forgetting the tin bath or
the bottle of blackberry brandy We as
semble in the parlor to enjoy ourselves
The mode of enjoyment most IN vogue Is
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 a
thief and how greedy she is. You VIII
then see what an immense amount OF
cheek pardon the slang, but nothing else
expresses it) she has and how she VIII
rush into a game about which she knows
nothing and of which she declines to be
taught anything.
Possibly YOU are a good whist player,
In that case you may have met the young
woman who is staying here and VINO Is
ESQ fond of the game" but who, after IN
sisting upon playing it, tells you that she
doesn't know much about it. And you
belong to a whist club famous in two
countriesl She begins operations by
STRENGTHENING out her hand upon the Ia
Bile. making a pile Of spades ana plle oil
clubs a pile of hearts and pie Oh uia-
monds. until, from knowing your own
hand and making general guess about
the Others. you are pretty certain as TO
what she holds.
After she's lost three tricks by throw
ing low trump cards where she should
have put high ones she very vaguely asks
for at least the fifth time; wv hat are
trumps? You know l never can reIneIh-
ber." Her mind satisfied about this, she
nroceeds. when she is the last player and
the deuce of trumps would have taken the
trick. to put on king and then TO re
mark placidly, arranging herself as II
asking for appreciation, Il never DelleVe
in sending a boy to do mans errand.
You are suffering at this time for the
sins of your life.
Next Friday. however. remembering
your experience. you decline to play
whist You elect to play hearts with a
sweet blonde in a gown heavenly blue
She says she's played the game NUMBER
of times, and she's pretty sure she knows
all about it, though she asks you conf-
dentially, "Oughtn't to lead my highsst
cards first?'' You are charmed at hay-
ing such an Intelligent partner. but your
mid n
surprised when she leads the ace of
hearts, follows it up with a king, then
dances out the knave and eventually has
all thirteen hearts in her pile. There's
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. Origi-
nally she got the idea that she was
achieving the most when she gathered in
the ruby red cards and paid out her
chips.
The next Friday little game of poker
is got up. Knowing what gamblers wo-
men are you think that here at least you
will meet some sensible ones. But you
had never calculated on the tender heart
ed card player. She was at her best that
night Everything was going pretty well
when a jack pot was to the fore, to be
opened for p cents Everybody was in
it, and everybody was prepared to bet
rather heavily when the tender hearted
lady said; Now, children, l am not go
ing to let you be cheated. There's no
possibility of anybody beating my hand,
and so there's no use in my taking more
of your money" The natural conclusion
was that she had a royal flush, the hand
that couldn't be beaten. Had she?
When that marvellous hand was laid
down, it was a straight, jack high! The
woman opposite held four aces. You
had full hand, queen high, and another
man held four treys.
This was the maddest party l ever saw,
and the woman who held four aces gave
her friend a piece of her mind. She said:
When you don't know how to play a
game, don't fool away the time and up
set the people who do, and when you are
playing cards don't get too tender heart
ed. Keep that sort of thing for the Sc
clusion of your family and your sewing
society. l don't care if you do cry. I'm
less you understand a game you've no
business TO make things uncomfortable
for other people and If you want to learn
to play you ought to be willing to endure
disappointments until you find out the
right way. You've broken up the game.
You've made every body utterly miserable.
feel as If had been a brute to you. and
Yet think you are a consummate IDIOT"
Then they both cried and the men said
they'd go out and have a walk, and later
in the evening, when they came back,
they found two women as friendly as pos
sible, and the one who had broken up the
game said to her husband: "Kate's such
dear thing! You know she's got a
quick way of speaking, but she wouldn't
do mean thing to save her SOUL"
And the other man answered: by
George, that's the beautiful for one wo-
man to say about another!"
And the unlucky card player added
well, it's true. She speaks her mind
sometimes, but tonight 1 really think
deserved every word she said"
And every man in the party said posi-
lively, You certainly did
Even in the country and generally or
Sunday, when the men are here. It's
warm once in awhile. But what
would like to know is, When do people
expect it to be hot If not in the summer
Likewise what would any OF us have {
eat during the winter if it were not fol
these golden rays? Are you the sort o.
person who suffers intensely from tn,
heat, who swings around and means anC
Groans and are always ready for glas
OF ice water and palm leaf fan? If You
are, your friends approve Of YOU and sal
you're human and sympathetic, but II 10y
any chance you learn how TO keep decent