Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-19


frequent raids.
A woman has about as much chance OF
winning In these plants as deluded race
| playing man has of beating six 800 to
| shots In one afternoon at a race track,
but feminine recruits to the bucket-shop
game are almost as numerous home
| dissatisfied young women over here who
banker to go to the seat of war to nurse
wounded Japs.
Three or four raids week are being
| made on pool rooms whose clientele lie exc
| clusively feminine. but the women's pool
| rooms go right on doing business, and,
when You move into the vestibule-tr train nat
| up Harlem way that your wife has picked
out for you, you have no means whatever
| OF being certain that the fiat across the
| hall from yours Is not women's poor
room
| Dozens OF these plants for the exclusive
patronage of women have been raided up
| in Harlem fat buildings during the past
rev months. but the raiders do not scare
| anybody. When the women are rounded up
and carried of to the station. some of them.
| IL Is true, and naturally enough. give vent
| to vociferous and more or less hystericai
| weeping. but their husbands or brothers
soon get them out" and some women
over here with the horse bug have been
! captured In three or four distinct raids on
| women's pool rooms
| Which. by the way. makes room for an
| account or a man who was arrested I'D IN
Hariem Few weeks ago for pound ng his
| wife's countenance almost To a teIly He
was arraigned before the magistrate for
| wife beating"
Licked His Wife for Race Betting.
he was pretty solid and respectable
| looking citizen of forty-five or So with
| nothing brutal In his exterior. He told the
magistrate that he hadn't lad a hand on
MS vile in all of the twentyfour years or
their married life until the night before
| Then she had come drifting in at
O'Clock. after playing the New Orleans ana
1 nj aAnfa All
| room all the afternoon and evening
| I1e hadn had any supper at home. and
| ms young daughters were on the streets,
| with nobody TO look out for them
His wife had been arrested in two pooI
| room RAIDS within the past two months,
and both times he had had to leave COL
lateral to get her out OF limbo
| She was deyoting all of the household
money to Dlaying the horses, and she had
| even taken to pawning the silver and other
| with
| All of her jewelry was in pawn altbougb
ne mad got it out for her. after her disas-
trous race-playing experiences. times with
| Uu' NUMBER he wasn't an illiberal man,
| ne saiu- he liked to have his wife enjoy
| herself. '''
But he couldn't stand for her becoming
| common. he remarked simply and after
| repeated talks and warnings and imnIora
| tons he had been so wrought up the nrs-
| vious night when his wife came home
| imp from her losses and partly intoxi.
| oteu. anu with the daughters gadding
| the streets, that he had lust beat HI
| out OF her. and he glad of it and
| stances" e1
| HE hated to hurt her, for there was moth
| ing bad about her except her gambling ana
the things he feared her gambling might
| lead to, and
| I'll take your personal bonds. nv
| irieno. the magistrate said to the decent
| looking wife beaten" after half a dozen
witnesses had testified in his behalf thai
mere wasn't any better husband or father
| on Manhattan Island.
| Nobody despises a man who s+r;,-o
| woman any more than do. But there are
| sone proVocations of which even the So
ueiest MAGISTRATE must take account IL
| your WIFE doesn't behave herself in the f,
| ture, L seriously advise YOU to senarata
| dren." ~ '"oA eHii-
re Yae climax OF the women's gambling
| ieVer was capped over here on Tuesday
iasl' however. when a women's faro hank
| Mas raided and the PROF .ietress arrested
ne woman not young and handsome
| aecoi uiHs only TO the police reporters view
out actually SO. dealt the faro game harseiS
ana was an adept at It,
police matron secured admittance to
the Womens faro bank and obtained tho
| evldence- 1t was a fashionably fitted-un
| Piace and the matron declared that MANY
OF the patrons Were among the best-knowp
Motneh IN New York. including a number
whom she the matron knew to be sirnnq
| church members 's
| Declare Their Jewelrv.
The women setting out for European tour.
this spring are putting a new scheme into
| practlce with reference to their jeweIry In
| previous years. many New York women of
wealth, possessing magnificent jewelry.
| have been put to great ANNOYANCE ana
| often enough to the humiliation OF the
| search. on their return to the United States
| owing to their jewelry.
rrNr,l1
| upon thelr return to this country having
peen IN possession of the things for wears
put word would have reached the customs
| authorltes In New York that they were
| bringing vast quantities of new iewelrv
back to the United States with them.
The agents of the customs authorities I'm
| Parls, for example. would write or cabla
| to the customs people here that a certain
| wealthy woman had been buying a lot OF
new stun in one of the great Paris jewelry
| estaDilshments. when. as a matter of fact
| the woman's visit to the Paris jewelry shop
| had only been for the purpose OF having
i her jewelry cleaned or repaired
| Then. upon her return to New York, she
| would be held up and her regular ieweIrv
OF which she had been possessed for
| years. put under suspicion or actually con-
| hscated as new stuff bought abroad and
| then 1T would be up to the woman TO nroye
! TO the customs people that she had owned
| the Jewels for wears and had bought them
| In New York, or previously paid duty upon
them If they had been originally bought In
| Europe.
| The women are now obviating the posi-
| blnty of such experiences as these by de
| claring their jewelry before starting to
| Europe-of taking their Jewels that is to
| say. to the customs authorities here before
| starting for Europe. and having descrip-
| lions taken of the things. thus to make IL
| certain that upon their return they will
| not be bothered by the customs inspectors
| over articles with which they are on record
| as having SAILED away from here with
| One woman who started for Europe three
| days ago took the $4,000 worth of her lew
! elry which she decided she would need In
| Europe to the customs people before sailing
| and had them make a list of the articles
| with descriptions of each. so as TO be GER
| tain of avoiding unnecessary trouble upon
| her return next fall.
| This woman came near losing a $4,000
! pearl rope a couple of years ago OWING TO
| the extra officiousness of a custom house
| detective in Paris. She had taken the pearl
| rope from this country TO Europe, but had
had 1t cleaned in Paris and the Paris agent
of the toms cabled to New York that she
! had bought the thing at Paris jewelers.
1t was confiscated upon her return here
| and the New York ieweler who had origin
| 10 thing 70 he aA-iu