Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-14
COULD NOT AGREE ON CANE
Rise and Fell Of & Gard Club Com
posed Of Girls
INDIVIDUAL wHlEs RUPTURE THE DEAL
whist High rive and Poker Each
Had Advocates. hut Were
voted Down for
Solitaire.

When the tell girl was invited to help
make up a second table at whist she de-
clined on the ground that she had had no
practice at card playing this winter and
would spoil the game for everybody else.
The hostess vas surprised at that excuse.
That is strange" she said. Il thought
you had belonged to a card club all winter.
You told me early last fall that you ana
a lot OF girls in the music and art classes
were going TO play cards two evenings
week for recreation"
The tall girl sighed y know I told you
that" she said. and ! thought We we're
going TO. We had talked - over and had
perfected all our plans. We even got far
enough along 10 borrow extra tables. and
one evening we met up in my rooms, but
we never got any further than that because
we couldn't decide upon what game TO play.
Personally / inclined to high Eve. be-
cause you can talk when you are playing
that and have a good time, and that is
what ! play cards for. ! don't see any
sense in sitting down 10 a card table in
the same solemn spirit that you take TO e
funeral.
wanted TO show on.
when 1 said that the senior art student
accused me Of being frivolous. She In
sisted upon whist. She just did that TO
euuh Ous CuE mas n memory hpuuA AoAA
yards long. and she likes TO play whist so
she can make a display of her mental pow
ers. She never forgets what cards have
been played and who holds them. and when
the game is ended she likes to have people
congratulate her and say, Dear me, what
a wonderful memory you have. You never
forget a point, do you?' l think it per-
fectly awful for any girl to be so pulled
up with pride as that girl is. Even II
did have a memory that never gave out
wouldn't inhict my friends with II all the
time.
The girl who makes a speciality Of
classic heads wanted TO play casino-she
said # was so restful after an all-day tussle
with the features Of Sophocles and Diogenes
and Peter the Great. The composer from
Indiana said that the rest of us could play
any old thing we pleased, but as for her 1t
was hearts or nothing. That girl is too
silly for any use. She really Is popular
4 with the men-I cannot deny that-but that
IS no reason she should make herself so dis
agreeable when there are other women
around. The idea OF talking about a game
Of cards as il she was only playing TO get
practice in the manipulation of real hearts
between times. We were all perfectly dis
gusted with her and we vowed that. nc
matter what game we did decide upon. II
most certainly should not be hearts.
Another girl wanted to play euchre.
am afraid that girl will come to a bad end
! IL she doesn't look out. She has the true
gambling instinct. She said frankly that
she looked upon cards as a means TO an
end and that she preferred euchre because
It gave you the best chance to win bis
prizes at a progressive game.
| The Poker Advocafe
''The girl from Chicago came out stronl
for poker. There is another girl that viii
bear watching. Some of us remonstrateS
on the ground that you cannot play poke'
without money. 'of course you can't salt
the Chicago girl That is why l like q
play it. What do you suppose ! want {,
play for-peppermint dropsT She seemed
to think that was smart. but we did not, y
we voted down poker.
Another girl put up a strong fight 70
seven-up, somebody else wanted fantan AM
each Of the other girls held out for SOM
favorite but impossible game. We talke,
the matter over from s o'clock till T. Tn
discussion waxed real hot at times and tn
hotter It waxed the further we got from al
| agreement. At last the Chicago girl sal
that the only way she could see for US 4
play cards together was for each girl 4
have a table TO herself and play solitaire
The whist advocate argued that there woul
not be much fun in that and that If W
were going TO play solitaire we might a
well play it al home and avoid the risk o
catching cold by running around to eRc
others houses in bad weather. We hnall
agreed that there was some sense In tha
and so adjourned at ten minutes past mid
night in a tolerably amiable frame Of mind
$50 there you have the history Of IN
rise and fall OF our card club. Since
have played nothing but solitaire for fou
months am afraid ] should not be a yer
desirable partner at whist and so woul
pathar bA ercused New York Times