Evening star., 1899-04-08
WHEN DREAMS CONE TRUE

II tell you what" said the man with the
receding chin and the abbreviated forehead
on the rear platform of 18th street car,
''womens dreams are great things, when
you come to think of 'em; and when you
take their dreams In connection with that
funny thing they've got that we call intui-
ton. why, you've got a combination that
We'll anyhow, 1 went out to the races
yesterday. Don't know a race horse from a
bucket o whitewash myself, and always lose
trying to beat them, but my wife got me
started this time by a dream she had night
before last. You know how they wake up
in the morning and tell you all about their
dreams. never letting you even get in a
word edgewise, not even to ask 'em where
your clean cuffs are, or anything. Well
my wife had a dream about a chestnut
horse I couldn't make head nor tail Of the
whole thing-was trying to find where she
had put my vest when had taken 1t of
the night before, anyhOw-but 1t struck me
hers must ha' been travelling at a mighty
rapid clip, from the way she told about
his performance. 1t seems, from her
dream. that this chestnut horse and lot
o other horses started in to see which
could run up the side of the Washington
monument first, something like that;
anyhow the chestnut horse won by a
block. Now. my wife doesn't know any
thing about races. and she didn't even
know that there were any races going on
here. Said l to her:
Are you dead sure that was a chest
nut horse that made all the rest Of those
horses in your dream look like aluminium
dollars?
''She was dead positive about it.
Well said 1, there's some racing
going on out at Benning this week, and
should think that If dreams cut any ice
1t would be good proposition for this
f. md on, pt,o ho 41ln
II any chestnut horses going to run
Now. I had kind O. sneakin' hankerin'
to take in one of the days racing, and I
Thought this was pretty crafty way of
wonder.
Why. yes, I really believe that would
be good plan,' she said, and then she
went ahead and told me that dream of hers
about the chestnut horse all over again.
well, on my way down town I bough.
one OF these here sporting papers that
publishes the racing entries along with
the coiors of the horses. and I found that
for the running yesterday. That was II,
the first race, and when I came home at
noon for lunch / told my wife about it..
She got off that old one about not approv-
ing of betting on principle, but she really
thought that her dream was too vivid to
be overlooked-that any chestnut horse
booked to run was bound to win, she felt
certain.
just because you nad tnat dream?
asked her.
We'll. that, and then intuition, too,' she
replied.
so 1 went out to Benning to play the
chestnut horse in the first race. Had heard
good deal about the startling way these
dreams of women folks come out once in
while, and l determined to play that
chestnut horse no matter what the price
on him was or whether anybody l met
out there thought the horse had a show
on earth to win or not. Well, that horse
was at so to l in the betting and 1 had
$50 along with me. So, you see, If 1 had
l intended to play, 1t would have figured
81, 600 to so. and"
Did you funk on playing the chestnut? -
asked one Of the listeners
Yes was the reply, the price scared
me to death. That's the edge those book
makers have got on you-they put up a big
price on horse that you feel certain is
going to win, and you conclude they ought
TO know, and you peter out on your deter
mination and finally land on the favorfte.
That's what / did-showed the white
at the last minute, and put my $40 down on
the to favorite. Queer isn't it. what
And the chestnut horse, your wifes so
to l shot, won in a common walk, of
course?" asked one of the listeners.
Not on your 1ife," answered the man
with the receding chin. THE favorite the
horse that 1 put my so down on, buck
jumped in and won by two Philadelphia
blocks, and that chestnut pipe dream was
running yet when | collected my $50 and
came home in caiash. tell you what,
womef1's dreams, and their Intuition, are
great things when you come to think of
them, but"