Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-02-20
WANTS A WHIST SCHOOL ESTAR.
IISHED IN THE CITY.
Editor Register:

understand what seems to me the in
trlcate plays. Perhaps it is because
m novice at the game. I am any
lous TO learn and become proficient
therefore write to enquire if Won can
not suggest simpler method bv which
one can learn to become. at least a
1alrly good player. In some cities
there are teachers of Whist-persons
VINO give practical instructions. Is
mere not some lady in our midst pro-
hclent IN the game who would open
school OF instruction for ladies?
III OF the gentler sex, and as Whist
nas become so popular and fashiona-
PIE, | feel the necessity of being able
70 40 my part when called upon 10
make one at table.
what say you, Mr. Editor?
Whistler.
Wheeling, 18th February.
AnsWer-We sympathize with the
writer OF the above and hope her
WISHES may be realized. Certainly
there is no method so effective for ac
curing practical and rapid instruc
ton as actual play under the care of
competent teacher. AS to whether
there IS anyone in Wheeling who
would care to act the role of Whist
instructor remains to be seen. How
ever, If a Whist school would pay. it
IS likely teacher might be found
who would take it up for there are
plenty of ladies and gentlemen in
Wheeling who would fill such posi-
ton with credit. Apropos of the sub
ject the following clipping is an
pended:
Seven thousand dollars a year does
seem good sum to have been made
by woman in New York in the last
year, and that by the teaching of
whist. The statement is made
and guaranteed, however. the
woman in question having at
tanned a position as an in
structor in whist within the space of
very few years. which makes her
success all the more remarkable.
A few years ago she and her sister
were left dependent upon their own
efforts for support owing to the death
of their relatives and the loss of a for
tune. Quite at a loss to know what
to do, they consulted a practical
friend of theirs, VINO asked if there
was anything they excelled in. They
hated sewing and embroidery and the
thousand and one dreadful things that
women do when they are suddenly
told they must earn their own living.
Finally one of them said: The only
thing | can do is to play a rafting
good game of whist" Just the
thing said her friend; well start
whist classes for you"
And no sooner was it said than it
was done. Since then one Of the sis
tiers has married and the other CON
tinues the work by herself.
ENTHUSIASTICALLY GAME.
Whist is becoming more and more
fashionable all the time 1t is no
longer solace to the Old, but is an
amusement for the young, and women
who do not play whist in this age of
the world are apt TO find themselves
sadly left. There is no place. either.
for poor player. 1t behooveth every
woman to know exactly the different
points of the game, and she must keep
right up to date in it, too and study
all the time.
There is a host of fashionable wo-
men who play as well as the men of
their acquaintance.
1t is q well established fact now that
Lent brings an increased interest in
cards and card clubs are one of the
principal entertainments Of the Lent
en- season. But the whist instruction
classes begin some time ahead, in fact,
keep up all the year around. This
teacher has almost more than she can
do. and is busy from morning till
evening, and, indeed, well on into the
night.
RULES WITH A ROD OF IRON.
She forms her classes as much as
possible with reference to the people
who are to be in them, endeavors to
get together people who are known
to one another, but when this fails,
she does not hesitate to issue her man
dates that such and such a class is the
one that you can enter and you must
be there at such an hour or your place
will be filled. She understands her
subject thoroughly, does this young
woman, and when the winter is over
and people go to watering places, she
goes also, SO that she has work both
summer and winter.
Women who find u o'clock early
enough to get up as a rule will go TO
their whist lesson at 10 o'clock. if or
dered so to do, and go cheerfully
knowing well if they do not their
place Will De TAKEN Young ana OIu
women go. and all under the strictest
kind of discipline, while they are at
the club. They speak when they are
spoken to. and do as they are bid in
the most literal meaning Of the term.
Her evening classes take in both men
and women, and she rules the men as
we'll as the women with a rod of iron.
Women who have been anxious to
become known socially have imagined,
when they joined these whist classes.
that they would be thrown on init
mate terms with the people they play
cd with. But this boon has not been
guaranteed by the teacher and has not
ALWAYS been forthcoming.
Let it not be imagined that these
classes can be gone into by rank out
siders. on the contrary, they are most
exclusive and you must needs be in
vited to spend your money. The
charges. however, are not heavy. and
Won will find your money well spent.
so CAN ALMOST EVERYBODY.
If 7 can have plenty ov mackrel for
breakfast | can generally make the
other two meals out ev water.--Josh