Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-27
HANDBOOKS AT MARKET AND
HOW THE WOMEN FLAY EN-

you We got Your mind on and that 49,, -,
peaten race on the tape tho last time out.
ought. In consequence. today tn w, nj,
rae on the bit. and ~ course YOU play mar
one Just that way. That one finishes along
l|"ard shutdown in his race and then IN.
uoie chart that yoa eagerly grab on Inc
following morning informs Nou that ina
Nurse You played on the strength of The
piie.F'lns dop" ran out. or was "pocketed
,,t, 'l -, WY or was carried t. the outside
"it NN lot "I horses" or was short OF
M"'H' or WAS left standing ratfootsd ar
ar .ro5 "a COULDN'T untrack himself
a., 500 h'u break, or something Ike
tnH'' ana The writer of the remarks ,InIer
the dope chart consoles you Iy ILL.,,
Watth ttlS one the next time out - ar
W ith break this one could not have
LOST or This one would have rnnned -,
another sixte nth" or Worm sn,, IA
pet the next time he starts Ana nil n
similar lot more.
Has Swell Chance"
u srizz'ed men with crowsf-et under
i''F eyes have always been falling down
Pe''hhihiiy in their attempts To do any
so"l D! reading tho dupcbooks- who
nave oeeh following the horses at al! Of tho
tracks since Hickory jim was a neanlin.
hasn't the tidy Young housewife with IN.
horse bug. who visits the market h,,,,so -
morning with a basket Oh her arm aud
VINO hurried!y snatcaes Il peek AT some
body's dopebOok before sI -. c
hafd-wrung dollars-to he charged g., ,ho
meat billion some plug that is TIMED 10
MiI-AaSii such tidy young housewife
me sven chance to beat the old game and
TO get a whole lot out of it?
IL Is probably we'll within the mark +,
say that these market chaps engaged Ina
making iAe landlords for housewives nav.
, nept d soo1 - per cent OF all OF the money
mat the deuded women with the horse
pug have pushed their way For thev
nave the situation cinched coming and
gong, and both ends from the middle,
lt.4,p
cases, tell their woman handbook natrnns
Just what horses to play! Just that And
the women listen to their tips and play
the horses they suggest And ,io ,besa
market mouse handbook makers suggest
I'VE ones to their woman patrons so that
the women will carry away the tnonev at
pay-of time on the next day? That were
the Olanuiy delightful question to ask IN
the women who, incredible AS ii may soon,
actually take the tips OF the men with
"hom they are betting their money-the
money that should go toward the market
ins-these market house handbook makers
dlsh out the names of horses that haye
ABOUT as much chance of winning as the
ProhiDitlon candidate has Of being elected
President of the United states and az
they annex nearly all of that soft money
The women who don't take the tips of the
market handbook makers, but pick them
themselves, are pretty nigh as easy
iney play what are called lunches" or
follow the dream dope" and when thew
get anything back it Is purely by accident
Inc majority or the women who make
market house bets on the horses however
complaisantly accept the tips Of the men
VINO make the landlords This is exactly
equivalent to what the situation would be-
~ man were to walk up to the stool OF
Benning bookmaker and ask the LAYER
what morse to play in the next race and
then get his coin down in accordance with
t INA, e innn, instructions Is such a
who knows the game is in the enjoyment
OF his waking hours.
How the Habit Grows.
Before the anti-handbook crusade began
nearly all Of the women who visited the
markets to buy meat and to bet In the
market handbooks became acquainted with
each other through their mutual addiction
TO the horse game. and it was the curious
thing to hear them buzzing about the old
game that has been entangling and be-
mazing male mortals almost since Buceph-
aius was a pup. Their comparison OF
notes was generally the same. This one
had begun playing them in the handbooks
with a little pocket money that she had
laid away. Lost that Then she began to
bet. In driblets, the money that her hus-
band had given her to buy a little dress
for herself All lost. too
Then the money he'd given her for a new
hat had disappeared and he'd wondered
where the new hat was. and she'd been
compelled to tell him that she hadn't been
able to ind anything to suit her and was
therefore putting off buying one till she did
md the right thing. Then. to recoup she'd
begun betting the marketing money. ar
ranging with the market handbook maker
that her losings be deftly tackled on to the
market-book account. Yes, and tales have
been told around the markets of how some
or these women have even bet the money
their husbands have given them to pay
the house or fat rent, and lost it,
But they were kept at 1t. although suffer-
ing desperately all the time from the fear
OF being found out, by hearing of other
women who had actually won a bet or two
Now, the fact that stands out clearer
than any other in connection with the wom-
en- who have been enriching these market
house handbook makers is this: No woman
ever gets the horse bug anywhere else but
at race track. She never begins to bet
her own or her husbands money wilt. a
handbook maker until she has had her
imagination fired by seeing the horses
actually run. She acquires the horse bug
at the race track. and when the racing is
over at the track she takes to the hand
books when she finds that that sort of thing
Is just as easy as buying a pound of pork
chops.
To what place. then. does the women's
habit of playing the horses in Washington
handbooks directly lead?
Well that place is to be reached by both
train and trolley, and everybody Is en-
titled to take one guess at the name of IT,
OF late. the price Of meat has been sufi-
GENTLY high But for a long time past
many man In this town has been suppos-
ing, from cursory examinations of his meat
account. that it has been a good deal higher
tnan IL really ever was. The market house
handbook Is the answer, and one seems to
De able to mentally name quite few Wash
lngton homes that will be considerably hap
pier than they have been for a long tlrns
when the meat market handbook makers
are rounded up. corraled. or dispersed
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