The independent., 1907-02-14

enabled ner to adopt uch drastic meth
DDS She gets UP early-it is no ioager
| fashionable in Paris to lie abed late
! into the morning. But above all, she
can now dress her own hair
| The Partisan lady has aids In her
| noble endeavors. She can now buy
store hair" She selects the lovely
waves, the puffs and the curls at the
hair store and pins them on herself
The puffs come in little punches 2 for
3. and it Is inconceivable how many
punches Of puffs can be pinned on
The front wave comes way down over
the forehead and is often bordered
with soft fringe of hair The wave
and even the fringe come from the
hair store, but it is no longer called
a wig or false front as formerIy-it is
a transformation"
Happily for the ladies who now
| dress their own hair, the fashion OF
wearing the hair low in the neck which
threatened to become prevalent. was
put passing one. And there has also
oeen compromise on the cry: Away
with the blondes" As to being q
blonde, the law now Is 'one may" not
one must. So fortune favors the
Farisleillie, who combs her own hair
ahi reJoices in her independence while
monsieur the hairdresser seeks other
| employment.
Not for d long while has ANYTHING
In Paris clubland SO stirred it,
nabitues as the precipitate flight few
Gays ago of over forty of the most
familiar figures in the best known
gambling clubs in this city. saws the
Manchester Chronicle.
one night these gentlemen were all
at their accustomed places, the next
they had completely vanished
Inc police could not find them, and
tney were more anxious to find them
tnan anybody else, for they held de-
crees from the minister of the interior
informing them that their presence
was no longer desired i'm France, and
that they would be obliged to see them
safely over the frontier
France is pretty tolerant i'm most
things, gambling included, provided 1t
is done decently and in order, but
when number of recent arrivals from
Belgium came along with a new game,
winch, because of its deadly results,
was known among it's victims as the
Faucheuse," a game which gave the
unhappy player no chance, and when
tnese same gentlemen in few weeks
swept into their capacious pockets
over 100000 pounds, the authorities
considered it was time to make in
quiries.
Then they discovered that the club
men of Paris and Nice, of Pau and
Biarritz, were practically in the hands
Of disreputable gang of nondescripts
-Belgians, Spaniards, and Argentines
who were making tons of money by
playing what they termed "baccarat
untableau," game something SIM
llar to railway baccarat, with this diff
ference, that i'll the new game the
banker always deals the cards.
The moving spirit in the whole af-
tair-the Napolean of the game-was
Belgian named Marquet, at one time
cafe waiter, who, having made some
money at gambling, organized band
Of cropiers and accomplices. Being
obliged to leave Belgium when gam
bling was prohibited in that country,
he descended with his acolytes on
Paris
The best clubs refused to admit the
compatriots of King Leopold, but in
the second and third rate clubs Mar
quet simply hired the gaming tables
at SO much a nght-usually less than
hundred pounds-and only allowed
''baccarat un tabeau" to be played.
I1oN IOHS he WAS Ill getting Ddck MS
money may easily be guessed when it
is stated that at the Modern club in
the avenue MacMahon the losses in
one night sometimes totalled more
than 1000 pounds
One of the worst features of the
scandal that has just been brought
to light was that in certain west-end
clubs where women are admitted the
fair gamblers became so infatuated
with the new game that. once fairly
launched on the path of treacherous
chance, they could not stop until
every sou was gone.
Even then they did not stop. but
snatching their jewels from their necks
and fingers, they kept ON playing In
desperation until they had not a sia-
gle article of jewelry left
Senator Knox Is quoted az saying.
when informed that his son had
'eloped' and been married as simply
as rural clergyman could do IL. II
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