The times., 1901-06-02

comprehensive to masculine minds. that
the name Favored of things religious. To
lay money on horse named All Saints
seemed to the women bettcrs like placat-
ing the Church. 1t was almost like put
ting money into the contribution box.
Probably most of them made vague
promise to their conscienceS to do some
thing nice for the saints If the saints did
something for them.
But apparently il doesn't do to try to
mix up pIety and horseracing, for All
Saints only managed to get in fourth, and
piety was out of favor the rest of the
day.
1t is the woman who is content TO do
things in the time-honored feminine way
that has a hunch which is practically in
fallible. If she is green so much the
better. She is a law unto herself then.
She doesn't know that there is such a
place as the paddock, and IS for the
jockey, he is simply a combination of
colors.
The colors are regarded solely from the
point of view of their becomingness to
her. When she has selected her horse,
which she does simply on the strength of
the name, her only qualm comes when
she finds that the Jockeys colors are not
compatible with her complexion. And If
the horse loses, it is that alien coloring
which Is responsible. she feels that she
deserves her loss for having tempted fate
with those hues lof horror
Two rather deJected-looking men rode
down from Morris Park on Thursday in
the first train after the races were over.
The pOlicemen up there call TINS the IoS-
ers' train. The winners who go at the
end of the last race to get their money
don't catch this train. They come along
later But these two men had evidently
had nothing in the line of winnings to
detain them and were on hand in time, to
get seats, into which they sank glooniiiy.
Then one of them remarked:
Those fool women played the winner
every time but one
"A fool for luck sighed the other.
"A fool? Why YOU never heard any
thing so idiotic as the way they did. You
were down in the paddock getting relia-
bic information on sure things while they
did their picking, and you don't know
ANYTHING about II. You'd better have
saved all that persp!ration and stayed
within earshot OF those women. A sure
thing hadn't show II they bet against
II. Do YOU know how they did?'
Shut their eyes and stuck a hatpin
into the programme and bet on the horse
they stuck ] suppose That's about the
way a woman does.
.Well, these women didn't do it Prob
ably they couldn't spare the hatpin. They
hadn't been sitting behind me five min
utes before ] found out two things that,
if | had had one grain or sense, ought
to have made me go out and borrow eV-
ery cent of money / could raise and then
play whatever they did / found out that
they were as green as grass and were go
ing TO play for fun. rake my advice and
II YOU ever come across a woman who
doesn't know a trotter from buffalo and
doesn't care whether she wins or loses,
follow her play and you will wear dia-
CHATS n rare combinations; because as
a general thing a woman feels worse
about losing a dollar bet than she would
over having a diamond tiara stolen from
her These two innocent creatures had
evidently thrown discretion to the winds
They had said goodbye to caution and
We're perfectly prepared to zee every dol
lar they bet go to the bookmakers. There