The Record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1902-1904, 1902-11-21
SHE KNEW WHAT TO
DO.
So This Young Wife Said
When Friends Tried
To Teach Her Poker.

| fenced simultaneous wave of SYM
pathy for former chum and class
mate, who is now married and living
in Brooklyn. So they went over the
Bridge to call.upon their .one-time pal
and his wife.
| After they had talked over the whole
thing, domestic and foreign, pretty
thoroughly, the married mans delight
full young wife thought that game of
cards would be about right to fill
in the evening. The usual question
"What'll we play?n was gone over
and .threshed, whist being voted too
hard work, casino too simple, eucher
too stupid, and so OH, until at the end
of one the callers said
"Whats the matter with draw?o
DRAW? whats that asked his friends
wife.
"Why poker" was the reply.
20 surely, poker" she said. 81 didn't
know you called it draw, though.
Why do you call it draw"
Usual explanation here.
"I've always been perfectly crazy to
learn how to play poker she said
then.
you're going to. learn how right
nowp said her husbands chum. Got
any money!"
"Um-ye-es" she replied femininely.
Anyhow, Jack will. lend me enough
to start on; wont you Jack?'
Her husband nodded and made the
usual husbands remark about" having
dead one in the game" and then
they went ahead, after all three of
them had got themselves rather
hoarse in explaining to her just how to
handle her hands, what the hands
were worth, what bluffing meant, what
not to do if she had only eight high
and so on,
"You need't tell me any more" she
said, after they had explained all to-
getherfor awhile: II know what to
dou
IL was TO be five cents ante, ten cents
limit. The married man took the
bankers end, and all hands took a
dollars worth of five cent chips. The
chips were parlor matches.
The banker had the first deal, his
wife sitting on This left anteing. 9 All
three of the men seemed to have
caught something worth while, for
they all stayed.
The man who had suggested the
game sat next to his friends wife and
he took two cards. Tho other two
men took three cards each. The
young married woman didn't want
any.
They all looked hard at her when
she stood pat, and she smiled back at
them triumphantly.
"Pretty early to begin blufiing, "
they all said to her, but she only con
tinued smiling at them.
Then the betting began. The man
who had only drawn two cards Went
the limit-a dime The other two men
appeared to have filled, for they came
back,with the limit in their turn.
The HOSTESS came back at all three
of them when it got aroundl to her.
Then they all put down their cards
and expostulated with her.
"You'r making a break" they said
TO her. "You don't understand what
you're doing. Stop that blufling. You
don't have to bluff all the time, you
know; only when you've got some
thing to bluff on, you understand. We
don't want 10 put you in the poorhouse.
We don't want your person attached
for debt Better come of the perch
and lay down your hand. Well let
you reconsider"
She merely tossed her head airily.
"Yeu need'n waste your sympathy
ON me, any of you," she told them. 81
know just what I've got"
Whereupon the three hulking male
persons proceeded to get scared to
death and laid down their hands to q
little woman who doesn't weigh more
than 100 pounds. She raked in the
pot with a thoughtful smile.
"Now you don't have to show wha'
you've got in your hand unless you're
called by somebody, you KNOW salt
one of her husbands pals, "but jus
out of curiosity let's see what you'v'
got, will you please?"
I've got-what do you call it?-a ful
house." she said VIGOROUSLY, and sh
showed up three clubs and pair O
spades.
The three men gazed at each othe
In disguised sert af way.
"Nothing but IA lallapaloosa, the.
said to each other, "and seven-hig
allapaloosa at that, and she soaked th'
ythree of us with it,
what?p she inquired, look