The Cairo bulletin., 1905-10-08


before anyone had written UP "Fren-
Hed Finance" and who will now say
that the Mexican card expert was
wrong?
A Sudden Change in Luck.
The little Monte Carlo of Tacubaya
was merely "quinta, or country
houes, surrounded by a pretty garden.
always with grass and flowers and
trees in leaf the year through. The
standard card games ware going on
always and, Of course. roulette, which
has SO great a fascination for the
ladies' The tourists would flock Our
from the city 70 try their luck and
sometimes would make from $40 To
500. and the story Of Their winnings
would spread through the hotels and
the next evening there would be a
rush TO Taeuhaya, when tourist luck"
would suddenly change,
The Mexican professional gambler
HIS almost Invariably cool, charming
and interesting person, Some gamb-
lers are mest Respectable persons
and one old chap with white chin
whiskers might easily have been
taken for 4 good New England deacon
Of strict views. Others had a dashing
romantic air, most fetching with Tht
\ fair sex Well might they all smile
and preserve the utmost tang froid
their business was sure thing.
1.-THE greedy public, intent on winning
merited tn plucking Of their fin,
feathers
No people are more charitable
mere heedful of a "hard-luck' stor
than the professional gamblers. 0i
ten in the big gambling-houses. noN
closed, a young man who had los
his last dollar was taken aside an
given little money to break It'll
force of his ruin. Il don't run M
places TO rob children" the bigges
gambler in Mexico used to say.
The employees of the great CANT
lers We're Invariably well paid an
rarely did they ever WOO the GOODIES
| Chance ON their own account Th
| most important gambler in the coui
try left cards strictly alone. Thi
| man would not permit one of his en-
| plcyes to gamble; it meant instar
/ dismissal
II People who have often asked ii
II gambler in Mexico was not in GOO
/ social standing. Visiting American
Y have always seemed to think that b
no peas bility could a gambling
proprietor in this country be locke
4 upon al unfit for geaeks& societ
4 Yer The fact has long been evidel
Il that good society" frowned upc
II gamblers and their families.
II The women folk Of gamble
II might display cpstly jewels and we
J the NEST tastefNt gowns, but alwa
: the Whisper would. go around: "Yt
don't know them, of course. TIL
are the So;and-sos, gamblert, AZ
quite impossible Thus the, gamblil
professionals and their women q
kcptDn the fringe Of saciety. The
has long been among the nice peoI
d marke aversion to taking up" 4
ladies Of professional gamble
family
p HUNTING OUT THE POKER DEN
IT, One of the tasks Of the police, q
" ing undor thten Sersct ordele, n
ii. been to hunt Out the poker dens, son
times ruin by Americans In side stree
r. places were our Wis ting fellc
Il, countrymen would be lured on 3
w. lprctext or another and plucked |
III mercifully Stories have been told
he men who had lost their money bel
10 Itakan out to the suburbs and I,
III, never to come back to the city or
~ police would arrest them and pa
vs. them Off To prison The Fighter
10 victims Of poker gamblers would
ne thrown into state Of panic and {
IT. ror and start for--anywhere. {
iss man was put on the old canine +
TO or Kings highway TO Acapulco 9
De. told to walk to the Pacific Coast. 7
mt stranger to the country and its WI
Is easily frightened and usually Ike,
IT. still tongue In his head for fear
nj some dreadful happening
Many an Americans visit TO the (
he has ben sppiled nv such incidel
no Having no notion that the POI
,at would protect Inc victim of sharp
in the ruined man was N mortal fear
he being apprehended. Hence hs siler
do WHAT the gamblers feared was \
ers y knowledge Of thor doihgs We
vas come 70 the ears Of the authorit