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husbands and their aughters-ladies
who at home. would gasp at the very
thought OF 4 faro bank yet who play
aU Monte Carlo with all the Zesr Of out
cast gamblers
4 young married woman OF great So
CiaL Importance in America is here at
present with her husband and party
of friends. Did I not know her too
well for any mistake she would proba-
bly, have inspired the same suspicion
a the lady of the pale blue broadcIoth-
She appears three times day in diff
fereuu costume. each Of them superb,
she trails real lace over the dOOr OF rhe
casino she knows every possible COM
biua tiou IN the game Of roulette and
handles the louis with the skill OF j
croupier 1t is hard TO blame her.
however, for her devotion 10 the game
since she nearly always wins. and the
instant that one wins at roulette a real
gambler is created defy anybody
10 win once at Monte Carlo and 70 quit
for everm0re-
Ny visit here was only Incidental TO
q trip TO the Riviera. I came 70 see
the spectacle without the least thought
OF putting cent upon the board
Aside from al question of principle,
this species Of gambling had always
seemed to me uuutterably foolish. But
Dame Fortune sometimes resorts TO Pc
cuIiar methods Of seducing the ObstI-
nate Like many another who had
gone before me, 1 came to scott and l
remained TO play I had looked on for
an hour without having experienced the
slightest temptation to seek my fortune
in this easy way. when l felt some
thing hard on the floor beneath my
foot which proved TO be louis ga in
goIdJ-
1 announced my ind TO all the play
ers near ne but NO lady claimed the
louis.
Keep it" said a gentleman. st is as
much yours as anybody :
Il really did seem sUpeThuous to make
4 great fuss about such q trifie as
single louis when the table was piled
up with them and when men we're
throwing them about with absolute
not mine and I felt desire TO dispose
Of it. After very little delibeFatiOu l
threw il upon the number g.
-Aessieurs, faites v0s jeux, called
the croupier. in that measured way
that IS never forgotten by one who has
played at Monte Carlo. There was the
usual scramble for the last bets, the lit
tie ball commenced its flying journey
and what do you think. il tumbled into
the number ;. If some one had hit me
on the head I don't think I could have
been more stunned The idea Of that
particular louis winning had not been
definitely formed in my mind Had 1
stopped 10 reason about it 1 should not
have chosen a number sinEIy. as there
are many CombiuatiOns where one has
a much better chance of winning.
which. OF course, are paid proportion
ateIy less
The er0upier passed me 35 louis fs140)
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The Casino Monte Carlo Where Gaming Is Conducted

and the deed was done. I felt that the
world was mine.
To have poeketed my $40 and walked
away content with this much Of gain
would have been wise thing 10 do.
4 very wise thing But who would
have been thus wise under similar cir
cunstanees2 I knew not what great
things the fckIe goddess had in store
for me To pick louis from the
ffoor was certainly unusual, TO win $40
with It was extraordinary; It all suE-
gested that the hour Of my fortune was
at hand Twenty thousand dollars Is
nothing remarkable for one 10 win at
Monte Carlo. and the stories are even
told Of how the bank has Seyeraf times
been closed on account OF the marvei-s !
Gus tuck Of certain individuals. All OF
these things ran like wflddre through
nv brain: the poison Of success was
doing its deadly work
commenced a systematic play and Ii
half an hour had increased my win
rfugs with small bets TO S251. some
times losing but nearly always winning
So ren1a rkable was my success thaC
gentleman who was playing tre-
mendOus game-two or three nundFed
dollars at a tir7e-commenced to follow
NV lead I think he made a fortune
Two hundred and fifty dollars was GER
tainIy very nice 10 have picked up IN
half an hour and again l should have
been coutentad. but wasn't II seemed
S0 easy 10 make money at THIS opera
tiOu that I wondered why the whole
world was not here watching the move
rlants Of that little ball Why were
people grinding and Shaving and win
ming their bread by the sweat OF their
broVs when fortune was here. TO be had
for the asking? I commenced 10 plan
letters TO all my friends advising them
To abandon al once their kloudIke no
tions and 70 come by the first steamer
to Monte Carlo.
With a reckleSsneSS born OF my good
luck and my fuexperienee at gambling
I conceived the wild idea Of putting all
nv winnings on an even bet I selected
the rouge, deposited my wealth thereon
without a paug and in a moment had
$500. Then for the first time my head
commenced to swim; for the first time
I thought seriously about quitting
These notes and gold pieces were sooth-
ing 20 my touch. I was beginning TO
love them and the idea Of risking them
again was really repugnaut But then
I commenced TO reason 1t was evil
IDENTIFY my lucky day Why quit when
a. little nerve would perhaps win thou
sands? Yes, [ would play again on the
rouge l leaned forward with my
money in my hand, but it seemed to
stick to my fingers. I could not drop
il. IuvoIuntarfIy I drew it away, then
started forward. then wavered again
.sRfeu de plus" called the croupier.
Il was too Iste-tle little ball rolled
into the rouge 1 would have had
thousand dollars had my nerve not
failed ne I was disguised with my
self and resolved to risk it the next
tiule, come what may. With renewed
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IN HIS IS the middle OF winter, Is Il
not2 And yet 7 can feel q crop
-. 0f freckIes developing on the
bridge Of my nose as I sit bask-
ing IN the sunshine. Before ne
IS the Mediterranean bewfIder-
tngly blue and sparkling, 4 combination
- sapphires and diamonds that IS re-
ally too gaudy for perfection Like
many Of the ladies' whom see about
ne, nature at Monte Carlo is loud in
her Ioveliaess. How red the flowers
are, how tall the palms, how Iuxuriant
the cactus,
Il all suggests 10 ne & half-f0rgotteu
ALTERATION about the roses and rap
lures of vice. the lilies and Ianguors
Of virtue 'Tis true. there are here
10 traces 0f the lilies and Iaugu0rs.
Were the seeds Of these pale blossoms
ever implanted in Monte Carlo soil It
is probable that their little lives were
soon scorched away, for this IS The land
1-here thrive the roses and raptures.
Here their develebment IS more COM
pI4te. their hue d deeper scarlet, their
fragrance more dangerously Overpow-
ering than perhaps in all the world
. At this moment there IS q lady stand
ing before me looking out upon the sea
- She wears z sky blue broadcloth that
is q masterpiece Of the taiIOr's art, her
petrfCoat is scarlet, her hat IS 4 mass
:o2 rad and blue pIumes, one Of than
PREACHING 10 her shoulder. The hand
with which she holds her dress is glove
less and reveals q burden OF costly
rfng-diamouds. oDaIs and emeraids
fash IRE n the sunlight She Is only
one Of many thus couspIcUOusIy rObed
for & morning promenade before the
opening Of the great -ame- have no
:. r5Ced her particularly this morning, be-
cause last night she was the queen Of
the casino. I think I shall never for
get her as she swept from one table 20
the other. her gown Of reTaI spIeEdOr
trailing q yard behind her the dia-
'u0nds flashing OF her bare white
. sh0uIders. The Queen Of Sheba her
self could not have been more spIen-
did Who IS she and whence does
she come are questions that ones
curiosity naturally suggests one
:. nj ght make q guess It's true, but at
the risk OF beiCg very wide OF the
mark To esLa bIish her in ones mind
as Partisan cOcOtte would perhaps be
doing grave injustice TO the respecCa-
.bIe wife Of Z millionaire For at Monte
Carlo ladies' assume the manners. copy
the fashions and adopt the habits Of
those who ara no. ladies'
-. The superficial spectator might ar
rive at conclusion that the morality
Of society was based on nothing deeper
than Conve1UiCuality. since IL changes
its aspect so completely where cOuveu-
-cf0ualfty makes no demands There
Gare American ladies here with their
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discrimination I now placed my $500
upon the rouge
..Messfeurs, faftes vos jeux." called
the croupfer. I shut my eyes and
waited breat thIessIy, my heart thump-
ing at a mad rate. Why were people
so slow about making their bets and
wFv on earth was this croupieT so ex-
asUeratfugIy deliberate [ felt ike
shaking him and telling him TO hurry
IN and start that pesxy little ball But,
alas. it came soon enough.
seViuet huft, noir" he coolIy an
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nings to the bank He pocketed his 81,
and I am very sure that Monte Carlo
Will never have another chance at it.
Here comes a IOug-legged, striding
Euglishman who amused me a little
while ago ineXpressibIy- C0rraIed in
the garden are number OF Alpine
goats that are naturally the joy of the
children I was visiting their abode
with a little French girl, who loves TO
feed the gentle things, when my ear
was startled by voIley of English
anathemas. Naturally. I peeked around
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ftyI He who believes that the proper
study of mankind is man should seek
the prtncipaIity OF Monaco for his Ia
bors, for here, side by side, are all the
tragedies and all the comedies OF hu-
man life.
Who is this coming along the prone
nade2 It is little. man whom 1 have
not seen before Ye gods, he has q
hump on his backI Yes, I still have a
louis left from the wreck If I could
only touch that hump, who knows, who
knows I am off TO the Casino.
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woman. past her prime. ended all her
misery These were the IOsers-the fate
of. the winners is not SO easy TO follow
but perhaps none the less pathetic
Under all the glitter and glare the
gayety and life Of Monte Carlo there Is
a tafnt of path0s that is very hard 10
escape There are hundreds OF old peo-
Me hare men and women. who are ha-
bitues Of the place, slaves TO the game,
hosts Of withered old croues VINO are
ready to fight for a dollar with their
If--aS- thara are Young women gorge
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~ HIS IS the middle Of winter, is It
not? And yet I can feel crop
0f treckIes developing on the
bridge OF my nose as I sit bask-
ing in the sunshine. Before ne
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-29
READING ALOUD.
Ono of the Lost Arts Which Might be
Renewed with Profit.

Reading aloud to the children and in the
family circle-how fast it is becoming one
OF the lost arts. What muItitudes of chill
dren of former days, says the Hartford
Courant, were entertained and instructed
by this practice, and how few there are who
are so entertained and instructed nowadays.
Children now, after being taught to read,
join that great army which takes in the
printed word, swiftly and silently. Most par
ents, doubtless, are too busy to spare time
to educate their sons and daughters by read
ing to them, and as the children grow older
they find their hours too crowded to devote
any OF them simply to listening. What is
the use?' they would say, II asked. Tastes
diner, and we can read what We want in a
fraction of the time that would be con-
sumed il we had to sit still and hear it +"
This is all true enough, but Is there not
something lest in having the custom of
reading aloud lapse entirely? AS a sign of
the times, the change is another proof of
the rush and hurry of life and, in the fam
lily, 1t is more or less to be considered an
evidence or the tendency to "independence"
on the part OF the younger members. Com
mon interest in good book, read aloud by a
father or mother, Is factor in the home
that is important enough TO have some atten-
tion paid to 1t. The opposite of "skimming''
a book, it develops certain mental faculties
that 1t is well to have developed and as an
exercise for the reader 1t has distinct ad-
vantage Books so read are remembered
and their influence on character far exceeds
that OF many volume whose pages are
turned in desperate effort to reach the
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she put on the uniform she was of a SOL
dierly height and figure. In that garb and
secure from discovery she travelled to San
Francisco.
At Camp Merritt she devoted herself to
study of the military life. Discipline was
rather lax in the regiment in those days,
she says, and she was able to fall into line
and drill with the company without much
danger of detection. She declares that she
took readily to the work and was one of the
most graceful soldiers in the awkward squad.
Once she tainted during a prolonged drill,
but her sex was kept secret.
When the regiment went aboard the trans
pert Indiana Sadie was still in the ranks.
Two days out from port, however the
g>>aHled secret came out. She was discov
ered.a court -nlartfaled and put ashore at
Honolulu. There she passed a year very
pleasantly, although far from her soldier
betrothed, whom she speaks of familiarly
az, a"P J."
Miss De Lande is now in San Francisco
She came hither on the Marpcsa last week
Il was delighted with Honolulu she said,
"and there was only one reason which could
induce me to leave it. I have an appoint
ment to marry 'P. j. in this city as soon as
the Tartar comes in
In personal appearance Sadie is rather
pleasing. She is tall and has girlish face.
Her speech is that of an educated woman.
my experience has changed my opinions
and ambitions she said last night, 'and
advise no girl to initiate my exploits. Not
to count seasickness and the fear Of detec
tion, there Is the intense humiliation of dis
covery to deter one. All the romance has
left my head. But l had remarkable time.
Before 1 boarded the train in Kansas
p. j. called at the house to see if l had
lost my courage and resolution He found
me all equipped. I had on my feet a pair
of French -heeled boots. He told me the
feminine shoes would betray me. I took a
pair OF my uncle's shoes and put them on
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Talk Abou, women.

Mrs. lie Breton, Mrs Langtry's mother,
lives in Jersey and is still one of the best
looking women in the island in spite of her
advanced age.
one of the most prominent lawyers of
Oklahoma City is Laura Lykins, half
blood Shawnee woman, who was graduated
from the legal department of the Carlisle
Indian school in 1898.
The degree of doctor of philosophy honoris
CAUSE has been conferred on Mrs. Agnes
Smith Lewis of Cambridge England, by
Halle university. Mrs Lewis discovered
the Syriac gospels on Mount Sinai and
edited them.
Mrs. Susan Eleanor Andrews of Nevada
City, New, IS said to be a great-grandchild
of Robert Burns. She claims to be the
daughter of Elizabeth Burns, who was the
child of Robert, one of the sons of the poet
The manufacturers of millinery fixings
seem to think that so long as they manu-
facture a bird from the feathers Of a do
mestic fowl, who dies that others may i've
they may turn them out of any S,Ze-the
bigger the hatter. Some of them seen on
crows and they class themselves on sight
as being a part of the fashionable woman's
burden.
Miss l.. Perine, the present owner of the
house in Ripon Wis, IN which it is claimed
the name republican" was first used as
applied to the present party by small com
pany assembled there, has offered 20 sell 1t
TO the Wisconsin State Historical society,
but the society is without sufficient funds
to accept the prOffer. The building was
originally school house and was altered
into dwelling house and at one time was
owned by eX-Governor Peck.
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which would make Mrs Grundy choke with
horror and she found it.
After graduating at high school in Kan
sas, Sadie, who was an orphan, was sent by
her foster parents to an academy in st.
Louis. Rules we're strict at the academy
and the vivacous and unconventional Sadie
was kept in a straight Jacket OF discipline,
She did not like to be so checked and curbed
and resolved that to free herself she
would take a husband.
Then she bethought that marriage was re-
puted to have its obligations, and that a
wife as well as a man, had not due license
to do as she pleased. Miss De Lande decided
not to rush into wedoCk but to try trip
in advance
During a vacation spent with her cousins
at Coffeyville Kan, she accepted p. j. Moore
and persuaded him to consent to her project
of the honeymoon
Moore had already enlisted in the Twen-
tieth Kansas and was about to come to San
Francisco with his regiment. 1t was agreed
that Sadie should go with him. soldiers
fiancee, she thought, might travel with the
regiment in disguise. Passes are not granted
to women on military trains.
Sadie made herself a uniform and sat up
nights with her needle that 1t might be done
in time. Her hair was shingled and when
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RICHES TOR 4 WORRYING GIRL.
Dropped n Job in n Hotel to Sell n
Mining Claim.


Miss Abbie Eastman OF Phoenix, Ariz.,
fought with genuine American pluck against
straitened circumstances, but she is now
financially independent Miss Eastman IL
only IS years old. She has always worked
for a living. But nature has given her
much energy and a strong will and when
three years ago her uncle left her five copper
claims in Arizona, not far from Phoenix, she
visited her claims to learn the value of her
inheritance.
She consulted lawyer "He told me-"
said she, that the claims looked promising,
but that in order TO hold them a certain sum
of money would be required every month,
Then considered where that money was to
come from, as l had none CT my own. So,
after falling to find any other solution, l re-
solved to get employment in a hotel. When
told the lawyer what | intended doing and
how I meant TO set aside every cent that
could be spared from my wages, in order to
develop the claims, he said he admired my
determination, but wondered whether
should stick to it. But it has finally come
out all right, and guess now l shall be able
to live without working so hard
After the conference with her lawyer Miss
Eastman lost no time in getting position
and spent her savings to hold her claims.
Inc money came little at time, put the
work progressed slowly.
Miss Eastman has a pleasant face, dark
eyes and prepossessing manners. Among the
hotels at which she was employed was the
Hotel Green, Pasadena, Cal, and this sum
mer at the Hotel Colorado, Glenwood
Springs. The guests never suspected that
the girl working at the hotel had a fortune
| in sight.
Jpct haro tbo al of bar oil OF for
900, when more correspondence than usual
was necessary, it leaked out at Glenwood
Springs that Miss Eastman was soon to come
| into considerable money. Simultaneously, it
| is said, suitor appeared, but the shrewd
| business women knew a thing or two. The
entcrprising young man got no encourage
| ment.
Finally the deal was closed, and with large
| credit there were those who expected to see
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began to cry, Captain Evans, out OF pity,
took me ashore alone aud put the Kanakas
into another boat.
IL was in jail at Honolulu nearly a whole
day. but the sheriff was kind and took me
to his own home.
"Ae long as the transport remained in port
was watched, but the caution was unueces-
sary, for would never have gone on that
ship again while the chaplains wife re.
mained there.
Instead Of returning at once to the
United States | procured a position as gov
erness to Mrs. Podmore's children. With
them | remained until | sailed few weeks
ago on the Mariposa. They were very kind
to me at Honolulu"
And now?"
81 have purchased a trousseau with the
money which l earned myself-every cent
and now l am waiting for the Tartar and
p. j. VIII you come to the wedding?"
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living here couple Of years, and shortly
afteEward Mrs Craig returned to her home
in Wisconsin. Soon after her return friends
who were interested in an Independent tele-
phone company consulted her in regard 10 the
practicability Of establishing a plant there.
Her residence in Ashevlle had given her so
clear an insight into the possibilities for
the success of the project that she not only
urged the establishment of the plant, but
bought the controlling interest in the stock
company that was formed.
Then she changed her plans and came back
to Asheville so that she could direct the
affairs Of the company. Up to that time she
had had no practical experience in telephone
affairs. She has had to acquire the neces-
sary knowledge, and it has been gained ac-
Cording to the Froebelian principle of
learning through doing She spends part
of every day at the Office, keeps the books.
pays the bills and signs all checks and re-
ceipts. Her practical knowledge has been
gained partly through visits to plants in
other sections of the country and partly
through the close attention she has given
to the development, step by step, of the
Asheville plant. 1t is hardly necessary to
add that all Of it has been accomplished with
out rubbing off bit of bloom of very
charming personality.
ho IouStl uCtl-u VI lue ASueFllle planL
was begun just one year ago, and in last
March the lines were put into active use
. About $50 phones are operated by the COM
pany in or near Asheville. Ten thousand
calls were registered at the exchange one
morning last week.
There is no longer the slightest doubt
about the success of the undertaking and
neither is there any doubt judging from
Mrs. Craig's experiences, that a woman can
manage such a concern as well as a man
If she makes UP her mind to do it. Mre
Craig attributes the apathy of the rival tele-
phone companies during the early stages of
the construction of the plant to the fact that
they knew there was a young woman in it,
and believed for that reason it wouldn I
amount to much. But they were mistaken
In their estimate of the woman. There's
no reason why a woman shouldn't succeed in
venture of this sort" Mrs. Craig said, 'if
she is only willing to hazard something; but
the trouble is that most women are too
timid to run any risks"
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES afahSSsSHs SNIaS&SfsSs$&
y IN THE DOMAIN OF WOMAN. H.
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had their toilets made with more care and at
greater expenditure Of time and patience
than has gone toward the dressing of a great
lady's hair.
1t takes three hours sometimes to make
the toilet of a single rare specimen of the
chrysanthemum One would hardly believe
1t, but here is the process of dressing a
single flower and imagine the care, patience
and gentleness of touch required One look
at an ordinary chrysanthemum, or a fine one
in dishabille, will show that there is a hole
at the center of the blossom and that the
petals straggle in all directions, up and
down, right and left. 1t looks like a lazy
boy who has forgotten" to comb his hair.