Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-14
WON TOO MANY PRIZES

About three fortnights ago q party Of
young Columbia Heights matrons organized
progressive euchre club.
When they started to make the plans,
they found that they were only seven. So
they let In young Georgetown matron
well known to them all
The young Georgetown matron didn't
know how to play euchre, and told them
SO. But they were SO anxious to have her
Join to make the required eight that they
volunteered to teach her the game.
She had four or FIVE lessons before the
progressive euchre clubs first seance. The
club was to play for prizes-first. second
and third prizes. Each member was to chip
IN dollar in advance Of each weekly meet
Ing. making IS In all, and the prizes were
to be purchased out Of this fund
The prizes were stems. First prize each
week was "a stein, second prize, a $3.50
stein and third prize $3.50 stein.
Enc young Georgetown matron won the
though she had the merest elementary
knowledge of the game, and in spite of the
Iact that she usually had to ask What's
trumps, on an average of three times dur
Ing each deal.
The other seven, each Of whom considered
herself pretty expert euchre player, were
a bit chagrined. but they laughed with
somewhat hollow merriment over the queer
WiH-out VI lIe- GeorSetOWn young matrOn
at the first session of the progressive eu-
chre- club, and congratulated her on her
success.
At the second session the young George
town matron walked off with the first prize
"a stein. In what the racing people call a
common canter
She was congratulated with considerably
more constrafnt this time by her seven fell
loW-members. but still, in a way, she was
congratulated.
The young Georgetown matron had no
difficulty whatever in annexing the first
prize stein at the third session of the pro-
gressive euchre club. She didn't appear to
be able to lose
Some OF the members omitted to con-
graduate her this time. while the others
her "re-mark- able luck"
AT the fourth session. 1t seemed to be the
simplest thing in life for the young matron
from Old Georgetown to carry the first
prize Off under her arm
The cards just came her way. and AL
though she played them with no particular
SIKH, she played them well enough to get
the big stein. with Its bas-relief Teutonic
cavalier. who looked to tip the beam at
about 49S pounds sitting astride Percher-
on horse and picking at an eight-foot guitar
beneath the lattice of his plump checked
fraufein.
The other seven members of the proeres
sive eucAre club, each of whom was simply
wild to aggregate a collection of stems for
the s1deboard at home, merely gazed va
this fourth successive win Of the young
matron from Georgetown. and seemed to be
In very low spirits indeed.
The fifth session of the progressive euchre
club happened last week.
The young Georgetown matron led all the
way from the drop of the flag. and won
away off by herself in a common romp.
she had an appointment to hold up her
husbs nd for his half-months pay at 4:3O
O'Clock that afternoon. and So tuckins her
fifth stein (Which an attempt to pic
ture one of the German emperors of the
middle ages after he had consumed seven
kegs of beer on a wager). under her arm,
she graeiously made her adieux leaving
the other seven in a state of more or less
constrained silence
None of the other seven spoke a word
until it became quite certain that the Young
matron from Georgetown was out of the
house and at the corner waiting for her
car. and then the following conversation
ensued:
No. livery extraordinary. I'm surel
Amazingly hard to account for.
NO. 2-Exactly what I was about to say,
Never heard of such thing in all my
born days. deed I didn't! I'd hate to do
anybody an injustice but goodness gracious
sakes alive and pity sakes.
No. 3-They do say. you know that her
husband is frightful gambler. and that
he wins a good deal oftener than he loses
and
No. At couldn't be. now, could It. that
her husband has taught her card tricks
you knOW-What our husbands call stack
ing the cards. and that she's
No. 81 was just perfectly confident all
the time. although I hated to say So
that that was just little made-up story
of hers about not knowing how to play
euchre, and that
No. 6-Tm sure. I hope, for her sake, that
I'm mistaken. but was watching her care
fully this afternoon, and-welI. trust I
injustice-but I saw her, just as plain as
day, deal from the bottom of the deck
and
No. well, I don't know what the rest
better get somebody else to take her place.
Now, I remember-and I used to go to
school with her. you know-she was always
deceitful. contriving girl. and
All together-I suspected as much all the
time-have had my suspicious for years
and years. deed have!
Just at this point the front door bell
rang, and the hostess. one Of the seven.
maid being busy in clearing away the re-
mains of the luncheon.
1t was the little matron from Georgetown
at the front door. She had returned to get
her gloves. which she had forgotten.
AS she entered the room where the seven
were seated. here Is how they greeted
her:
No; Ibid you forget something, my
dear?
No. 2-It's such bad luck to come back.
honey
No. s-Yes. and you'd better sit down
for half second, and count thirteen, and
thatll drive away the back luck. dear
No. 4-Catch her sitting down She's SO
anxious to see that jolly. good-lookfng
husband Of hers that she can hardly con-
tain herself
No. swell, I for one, think it's per-
fectly lovely that she should be SO in love
with her husband, and he with her. after
they've been married for five years.
No. 6-What lovely glow the cold wind
puts into your cheeks, my dear! 1t makes
my nose so red and my lips blue!
No. Now, take care when you go down
the steps. and don't slip on the ice. Agnes,
dear!
All Observation-Disclosures, dear! Be sure
and come and see me soon!
Institute for Psychic Research