The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-23
Chicago Inter ocean.)

Chicago Inter OCEAN,
It's all very well to laugh at the
superstitions of women said a racing
mans wife the other day, as she lodged
around the ladder which was being
used for cleaning the windows of her
observation-disclosures, but men are just
as bad. or worse. You remember the
Tenny year? Well, my husband was
Tenny mad. He backed the horse heav-
lily every time he ran, at all sorts of
prices, and placed all his winnings on
the swayback for the Suburban to beat
Salvador. 1 forget how much he stood
to win, but it was pile, for [ was
to have about everything l wanted.
Well, we went to the track, got there
late and he gave a restaurant waiter
s. for a chair out of the dining-roonl
for me to sit on, as we could not get a
seat in the stand. The race was run
and DOOR Tenny was beaten. My huS-
band never said a word, but as they
rounded the turn for home he shut up
his glasses and sat down on the floor
by my chair-did not even see the fin
ish. By and by he gtunbled a little to
himself, and turning to me, said:
Got any money. little woman
About 81, L replied. Why?
I was so dead sure of that horse
winning he said. that never brought
any money with me but some small
change. Now, we have Dick and his
wife and the others to dine with us at
the beach, and 1 must have some cash
to pay for it. Guess I'll go and get 500
from Tom, naming a bookmaker he
had dealings with. He rose to go, and
then, turning, said: Which name do
you like better, Vengeur or Folsom"
l thought of Frances Folsom CleVe-
To-,
about Tenny, and said 'Vengeur.' He
went up the aisle to the corridor and
met there one of the Goodwin brothers
and a. woman who used to be seen
about the race tracks and was notice
able for having a deformed back. Well
my husband tripped and fell all over
her, nearly knocking the poor girl down
in the attempt to save himself from
falling. He apologized, the party Just
smiled, and he passed on. When he
came back I said:
You clumsy thing! You nearly
knocked that girl DOWN.
" Clumsy nothing! he remarked. L
was rubbing her hump
" Rubbing her hump
Her hump for luck, you know,
am up against it, and when you back
an outsider you've got to do something,
don't you understand? You liked Ven
l and 8 to /, and 1 put $40 on for third
with Tom; he is to let me have another
$50 if 1 lose, so the dinner is all right?
Hump Luck Didn't Work.
81 said it was scandalous, but he only
laughed, and when the three Numbered
down the stretch, Folsom and Waiter
son a dead heat, Vengeur third, half a
length away, nearly choked with eX-
element. My husband said: There
GENES the hump Two days later 1 saw
a humpbacK across the road, and said:
There's some of your luckr He LOOK
ed at me and said: Are You in train
ing for a Jonah? That luck is where
can't touch it and, sure enough, into a
house the hunpback went, and he
wanted to sit down and wait until the
poor creature came out, but instead
went on to the track and lost $500. 1t
ought to have been a warning, but =
wasn't. Another time l saw a hump
back he went after him, and found that
the poor thing was cross-eyed also, ana
that day he lost more than $500. Since
then l have never dared to say
'humDy' even in my dreams, and he
declares that those two days, barring
the Suburban, were the only losing
days he had that season. On some he
won nothing, on some not much, but he
never lost except then"
THAT is not the worst case" said
the husband of the speaker. when
was making a book in the west a good
many years ago, | struck a streak of
bad luck; could not do a thing but lose;
it was impossible to make a round
book; had to pound or back something.
and, great Scott if they could not do
anything else they fell down on me.
My ill-luck became a jest, and one day
a darky, black as the ace of spades,
bent nearl-y double with an enormous
hump. came and asked me for work,
and [ took him on just to run with
messages. My luck changed from that
day. I stood on the block patting him
on the back, until, If the meeting had
lasted much longer, l would have
rubbed his poor old back straight. He
refused to come east, and I left him
pretty we'll fixed Well. this got around,
and later one of the boys struck a SINH
lar streak of bad luck, and hunted rr
humpy. I told him this was dead
wrong. but he insisted that if the noun
tain did not come to Mahomet. the sage
was going TO SLOUGH breezy quarter
out after it, and he found humpback
and had him at the block side. 1t maze
no difference: he lost just the same:
and when I told him it was no use g
try to get luck from a humpback, ne
said: That's all you know about it:
the trouble was the fellows back was
as straight as yours. 1t was a false
hump. l think Sol Lichtenstein did il
on purpose.
All Right, Except On Age.
II know of another case. A racing
| man met young girl who was thus
| deformed and asked her age She saif