The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-06-23
The WINNING HlT
POSSESSED By WOMEN
THIS MAN IMPRESSED sY IT
WHEN APPLIED TO A
HORSEBACK.
T~O Of Fair Sex at Morris Park Who
Threw Reason to wInds. Ignored
All Tips ard Won Most Of Their
Bets 4snsiIy.

II takes woman TO understand q
woman when il comes TO a horserace.
No mere man can follow her reason
ing he doesn't think she does
reason When she bets on race
records and the antecedents CT the
horses any more than she wants to
know about Greek roots She has
her own private and particular way
Of picking winner and common
sense, she is thankful to say. has abb
Talk about the ways OF Providence.
being past finding OUT exclaimed a
Disguised man on the last day OF
the Morris Park meeting. Il believe
could make more Roadway figuring
on the ways OF Providence than on
the ways OF women.
That is the way some men feel
when they have played the fayorite
al II 10 5 and have seen him beaten
by horse that gum-ehewing wo-
man in the next row has played at
the pleasing odds Of 40 TO /.
The last day of the Morris Park
meeting was so perfect that it
brought the women out in force. For
various and complicated reasons a
woman seems to prefer to go to the
races when she can appear in all the
glory of her very gladdest raiment
II she wins. so much the better II
she loses. her general gorgeousness
sometimes proves to be an ameliora-
ting circumstance. Thursday being
superb day. except for a few super
fiuous degrees of heat. the grand
stand looked like a tipped-up flower
garden.
The messengers who take the wo-
mems bets were kept on the jump.
One of the amusing things about the
| feminine better is her habit OF ask
ing the bookmaker's agents or mes
sengers for advice. The naive way
in which stout old ladies appeal to
these perspiring young men for tip
on the winner is lovely tribute to
their trusting natures. That is. it
would be if they always followed the
| advice they got. AS they don't fol-
low it unless it happens to agree with
their previous intention one concludes
that it is Just a habit
Some of these stout old ladies think
they have learned wisdom. Now when
horserace her heirs ought to apply
for a guardian for her. She ought
| to be beguiled into Sorosis or some
thing in the club line, where women
can believe themselves wise without
having the belief prove too expen-
siye.
The stout old ladies don't do the
proper feminine thing and trust to
fool luck. They mix up facts with
/ fancy and that way destruction lies.
One grayhaired woman had mes
| senger off in corner before the first
race last Thursday. She was pump
ing him about condition and chances
and age and weight and odds. Final
| ly. running out her tongue after the
| fashion of women when they plunge
at decision. she said:
We'll. put five on All Saints for
met"
All Saints, by the way. was a fav
orite with the women, and for the
reason. incomprehensible to mascu
line minds. that the name Favored
OF things religious To lay money
on a horse named All Saints seemed
TO the women betters like placatins
the church. It was almost like put
ting money into the contribution box
Probably most of them made q vagu,
promise to their eonsciences to d,
something nice for the saints if tn
saints did something for them
But apparently it doesn't do to TT.
to mix up piety and horseracing. 70
All Saints only managed to get i
fourth. and piety was out of favo
the rest of the day.
1t is woman who is content to d
] things in the time-honored feminin
way that has a bunch which is pras
tically infallible. II she is green $
much the better She is 8 law unit
| herself then. She doesn't know tina
there is such place as the paddock
and as for the jockey. he is simpl
3 combination of colors-
The colors are regarded solel
from the point of view of their b
comingness to her. When she ha
selected her horse. which she doe
simply on the strength of the nam
her only qualm comes when she find
that the jockeys colors are not con
patibie with her complexion An
, il the horse loses. il is that allie
. coloring which is responsible Sh
feels that she deserves her loss II
having tempted fate with those hus
OF horror.
Two rather dejectedlooking me
rode down from Morris Park Q
Thursday in the first train after Il
races we're over. The policemen q
there call this the losers train. II
winners who go az the end OF the la
race to get their money don't cate
this train They come along istel
But these two men had evidently hs
nothing in the line Of winnings
detain them and were on hand
time TO get seats. into which tbs
sank gIoomilv. Then one of the
remarked ont Of the depths Of
thouehts:
Those fool women PLAYED the vi
ner every time but one.
"A fool for fnek. sighed the othe
"A fcols why. you never heai
ANYTHING so Edicsic as the wav tn
did. You we're down n the pad6o,
getting reliable information on su
things while thev did their piekin
and voa don't know anything aho
IN. You'd better have saved al n
perspirasi0n and stayed within es
3 shot OF those women A sure thil