The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-21
WOMEN AT WHIST.
Those Who Have Been in Business
 Make First-Cl Players.

Those Who Have Been in Business |
 Make First Glass Players.
 American men have been playing a scientific game of whist in their clubs for long time, but they kept it all to themselves. Finally their wives want ed to play at home and, of course, were rebufred by the lords of creation, be- | cause their foolhardiness, their reck lessness, their want of thought and dis cretion, and great many more short comings. Immediately they determined they would play whist and play it, too. in a way to make their husbands look well to their laurels if they cared to keep them When woman will, she will" though it is nothing more than to become good whist player. At once whist teachers were placed on the list of professors, and the whist lesson twice week became as necessary as the dancing of music. Indeed, in New York and other eastern cities whist is taught as one of the accomplishments, and the whist teacher is quite as im- portant as the gymnastic instructor of the dancing master.
 Besides being a pleasant recreation and mental pastime, whist has been placed among the healthful and bene- ficial pursuits for men and women. It is beneficial because it demands sys- tenn and method of play it we'll It trains the mind and is good for the nerves, so that makes 1t healthful. Women who are harassed with house. hold duties, with the demands of the butcher and baker, incessant calls from the nursery, and the never -ceasing so- cial duties, take a course of lessons in whist to quiet the strained nerves and teach calmness and repose. Those who have much trouble find course helpful | to divert the mind from it's worriments and the careless and inaccurate find | the lessons a good training. Men who | have been engrossed for years on one | subject discover their mental faculties | dwarfed, having too little to do. Pre- | viously dozen verses nemorized, or | course of memory lessons have been l the ordinary means used to bring the | memory back to it's proper action, but
 now whist accomplishes this, and for
 this reason, if for no other, business
 men enjoy and indulge in the game.
 ''The average woman does not make
 as good whist player as the average l
 are usually trained from boyhood to
 reason and think while the average
 woman has her thinking done for her.
 But business women and those accus-
 toned to managing their own affairs
 make quite as expert players as men. They may not draw as quick or as good
 differences as the men, but their in 1 tuitive powers of reasoning enables | them to grasp points more quickly and 1 to see long way ahead in the game l The really good player these days
 knows after two rounds have been 1 played, just what cards the other play l CTS hold and can tell by the card that | one player lays on the table why he l played it. When each player knows thoroughly what his partner and his | opponent will do, the game gives the
 keenest pleasure, but when one player
 plays according to the scientific rules and the others after the old way, 1t is
 misery itself for that one player. If l one wishes to stand well in society he
 or she must learn to play whist just as
 certainly as to learn to dance, and ''un- til the game is learned properly have mercy on other people and do not in- 1 fiict your ignorance on scientific play
 ers,' is the advice given by one good
 player, who had had one evening spoil
 ed by careless pIayer.-Ruffalo Ex- | press.