Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-02


Gambling fortune has act hard
With Cards all evening, and now In
semi-hysterlcal stu
port she Is playing madty. The trem-
bling of her hands and the pulsing OF
her throat beneath her splendid collar
are the only Indications she gives of the
tremendous excitement under which she
is laborng. A friend approaches the
table, looks at her score-card, and with
an air of establishment turns and whie-
pers to her The shrug of white
shoulder and an impatient recourse TO
the whlskey glass constitute her only
answer. She does not know how much
she has lost; she does not realize that
she can never repay the sum. She only
feels that she has lost and experiences
u sick. tense consciousness that she
must win. win. win
The last rubber Is played in an al
most audible silence. She loses, and the
game ends, Dropping her cards upon
,he table, she turns TO her hostess ana
tsks the total amount of her IA abted-
ness The hostess tells her In g. tone
which the fair player uses WI. u she
most mercilessly ntsnds to demand
payment. A moment of silence. OF
struggle, and then her hands 20 to her
1eweled collar she unclasps 1t with
q laugh, II think perhaps this will set
tie IT, She says. Otherwise, can
never nay you. ffeT pow
erty was generally known, and IL was
confidently expected by all that the
hostess would decline to accept the
glittering ransom. Not so. The hostess
smiles IN her opponents face as she
adds her last possession to the pile of
gold before her. And 80 the Jewels OF
several generations OF proud, right
living women We're made the price of
an evenings infatuation. But the hug
ha, VI In, m a
The following day he peremptorily de-
rnanded from the winner the return OF
the heirloom, He received 1t after Il
rather stormy scene, In which he had.
too, the satisfaction OF stating In terso
language his opinion of Bridge. From,
Bridge Whist-a Social Riot" in
Broadway Magazine.
Better Than The feeling that riches
Riches. Also are a curse to the sec
Than Poverty. ond generation is very
deeply rooted in the
minds of the rich themselves. To pos
sess the luSuries Of the rich and the
virtues Of the poor is a condition, it is
thought very difficult Of attainment by
the children of opulence. How often
we hear It said OF some rich young
prodigal that, had he been born poor,
he might have amounted to something.
But there Is no way OF confirming the
truth of this conviction; and the prod
igals and reprObates who We're born
poor, and yet derived no moral adyan-
tage from their birth. might lead us 10
suspect that the prejudice against rich
young men Is founded more upon a
theoretical than an actual basis The
rich young men who have turned out
well and have served nobly the cause OF
truth and righteousness are often over
looked for the purpose Of pointing a
moral and adjoining tale BY curl
us coinpensa ton of nature, poverty Is
far more beguiling to the poetic mag
nation than wealth. But this is true
only of those who are far beyond the
verge of need. To those who are Inn
mersed IN its CRIME, deprivation, Its un-
cleanness, ugliness, unsanitary condi-
tons, where every day body to body
the wolf must be fought from the door.
II presents the stern unlovely side OF It's
face, without the padding OF dreams or
the glow of i6x-,llsm. 1t were we'll to
remember that to the poor riches wear
Just such halo as surrounds poverty
for the well rto-do. The dividing lines
are thinner and weaker than we are
aware. Deep below the shame of the
rich man that he Is so rich. the shame
OF the poor man that he Is so poor, lies
the inherent consciousness OF other ana
better standards, an appeal to the es-
sentially human. the quality of nature
that enables us 10 get glimpses of real
Nalues-to measure ourselves with the
mysterious fate that has brought us
hither, the wonders by which our lives
are encompassed. the unknown des-
tiny toward which we tend, the pathos
and pain of life only to be relieved by
mutual Kindness and helpfulness.-
Christian Register.
An Apprc- Longfellow had no We
citation Of hemence, no passion.
Longfellow. no bent for the dark,
the seamy, the forbid
ding aspects of life. His own life was
quiet simple. uneventful, and he had
no storm and stress" period. He had
dignity, scholarship, love and APP
probation OF beauty in nature, art and
conduct, he was a graceful, fluent.
an elegant" writer and certainly his
ideas. II not deep or original. We're
those OF npan of progress and hui
manitariansm. OF an apostle OF sweet
ness and light. 1t would he idle to
compare him with poets like Shelley,
Byron, Swinburne, TO say nothing
about the French school OF symbollsts
and decadents. But no critic denies
that within his literary domain he
was without a superior in his day. As
an English reviewer said of him In
1868: He shows US the poetic side
of ordinary events" he ITS the IA
niliar friend who has sung to every
household and set to music its as.
Mira lions and affDctions'i IIn u,ne th,