The sun., 1908-08-09
SIX WOMEN IN A POKER GAME
INFLICTED VARIED MISERY ON
A COUPLE OF MEN. .
Y ! Woman who Pelieed the Game was the
Worst-Next Came the Woman VINE
Gioated-vegaries OF the Women VINO
Won and OF the Women Who Lest.


Won and OF the Women VINO Lest.
"If you want to do something that'Il
mako YOU need tablets" said the man just
back from his vacation, "all you've got to
do is sit into poker game with a passel
{. women.
AT the house out In the country where
| stayed was yanked, captured. herded
and corralled one night into poker game
with six women people There was only
one other he person In the game besides
myself. and the last saw Of him, after the
breakup of the game, he was headed for
the crick lcketty-split. and he hadn't
got back when left,
"The woman who polioed the game was
the one who did the most TO stake me to .
pink ticket for the BOBBY hatch, She was
a dowager with q parrot proboscis and q
pair Of vindictive eyes. and II she could
have cashed on every glare she shot around
at folks who were one-tenth OF o second
late in anteing in the jaokpots she'd have
made more money than she ever saw be-
fore. She was the slkirted cop on the job.
never bother about that.
swell, I'm in,' she'd start of. tossing Q
red chip right In front Of her when the
jackpot came around and holding jewelled
forefineer on top Of it as IL 10 was . small
deep eea turtle that might feel like moving
away on her. 'Ha, another one up and
then she'd dart her farins and flashing
wicks around on the people who. engaged
In little side lines Of talk. had momentarily
or secondarily overlooked the chip-in thing
for the Jackpot.
.'Only two up-lot OF people shy around
here she'd 60 on. and then she'd begin to
souirm and wriggle In her seat as II she
meant to grab a-hold Of the edge Of the
table and overturn IL. cards. chips and all,
1ust to get hunk with the stil shy.
s'Everybcdy come up, it's Jackpot
she'd 20 right ahead: no matter II all hands
around the table were mingiing up In some
little yarn or lest that interested or amused
them. Four up and four shy. Who's
shy3 Are you. MIR. Hoidoutl Huhi Notf
You put in. you sayi HUH Very curious.
that, very indeed.
well, there are five up now. Who are
tho others7 It's Jackpot. you know.
people-a jackpot. Wait. dealer. Don't
deal till everybody's up. Who's shyf
Seven In now. One still shy. Who's the
shy onei You. Mr.. Lsmmelonef All.
thought 90. Very we'll. dealer; they are
all In now and by that time all the fun Of
the game would be sort Of frustbittsn and
congealed, and frsqusntly two or three
OF US would stick our money into the centre
a couple Of times In ordeg to sort Of muffie
the inoessant olaok Of the woman who took 1t
upon herself to police the game.
sFour or Ave hours at that one alone
would be enough to drive q man with the
constitution OF lumberjaok TO the spiked
~. fhox- Ind M n
poker players in the game that made me
require medicine when 1t was all over.
~The gloaty woman was one Of them.
The woman who gets out In front OF the
game at the first tinkle of the bell and
staying there for quite spell. because she
gets hold OF the kind OF pagers that can't
be beatFwith a coal maui. develops that
triumphant feeling. = -.-. II
sshe's there with the goods every time
she's called, and without spreading out
her hand at all she just reaches over to the
centre, like somebody hooking South Afri-
can spiders with net. and rskes In the
funk, all the time delivering herself Of little
raspy chuckles and short rauoous laughs
that after an hour or DO Of 1t make you
think the unworthiest things that ever
entered your head.
and when she's got jacks UP on mines
to the other top hand. which Is tens up on
eghts, she is thefe with bundle Of VIC
torious chirps that makes the man in the
game wish that he'd enlisted in some
regiment bound for the Philippines about
two days before and gone there.
Then there's another kind Of woman
poker player--there was one In this game
who is there with only an occasional break
it of in you. but when she does connect
you feel as IL you'd been hit on the left
side of the wishbone by steamboat under
forced draught.
She's the one who. you having three
aces pat all the time. draws d card and
then begins to bet on her one Gard draw
as II she nad all the papers that ever oame
out OF the pulp nills. Naturally enough.
being used to the male brand Of poker.
when you see her traipsing away out In
front that way with the Bet thing, you
have little heart to heart conversation
with your subcopsciousness and you re-
One card draw for her, heyi And
she's betting em like a man-o'.war's man
just back from the China station? Uh. huh.
Well, she's there with the merchandise.
and me for the dump.
Stag heap. and then she slaps her busted
flush or distorted straight face up on the
table and tosses her little head back and
laughs and laughs and laughs, oh. 30
merrily. and she calls you an old 'fraid cat.
and she whispers to her neighbor that YOU
have about as much nerve as GerI- IN
carp, and then all the other women At
the table look at you out Of the corners
Of their eyes as II they considered you
somebody about nineteen pounds and
quarter lighter than a sheet OF tissue
paper-and still the slvery assonanoe OF
the laughter OF the lady who's shown you
her, no hand after having slugged You
you feei ike damp soda cracker, and. oh.
rs just the finest little game that you ever
sat in IN all your born days
Then there's the woman in the poker
game-she was In this game Of course
who never bets or opens anything In her
out except her and it's gone away beyond
her nd you're sitting back Of q pair OF
queens that you don't want anybody to
go in with-she waits, I say, till everybody's
tossed their papes into the discard, and
then she says-you having already opened
it-'O!i, want to play. and open 1t, and