The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-02

ago, dearest? Oh. ! know That your
dear hubby is down there Well, it's
the gay little town, dearie. and if [
were you
"Oh, don't you think I worry about
him. says the woman whose husband
is i'm New Orleans. Deed l wouldn't
bother about the best man thar ever
lived. They're all alike. anyhow and
there's no trusting any of EN-.
How? Waiting for me? Deed. I
wish you people'd give me chance TO
look at my hand I'll pass-no, wait
a minute, When you've gol three
clubs and two spades IS that anything,
On, no, of course not Only las So
puzzling, isn't 1t. that way?
Well, I pass. What? To,r omen il.
Sadie? How mean Of YOU. after You
know what I've got i'm my hand? I've
a good notion 20 stay anyhow. nut my
husband always gets cross when stay
on three-card flushes.
My husband hates to play i'm a POKER
game when / am playing, anyway. He
says that | play poker like somebody
in tunnel suffering from the benis.
but didn't ! have four aces once? 'Dsed ,
| did, and won S1.35 with my four aCeA,E
too, and I'd have won more than TIA &
only l was so tickIed that / shOvZh
EN- before the man who was betting
against me got through betting-he had
king full-and my husband cot as
peevish as could be. He gets Deevish
over the littlest things when he's play
ing poker with me.
How is that? Waiting for me again?
Well, I'll"
"Oh. l forgot, I've got some saItcd
almOnds-wait a minute and FH get
en- says the hostess, jumping up
from her chair again. Now, Won men
a4aIx- soI-
minute And, anyhow, / want to start
to make some coffee
What? Too late for you men tJ
drink coffee? Keep you awake? Well.
If you won't have any coffee I've got a
fresh bottle of olives and you'll like :
Oh, we'll the girls'll enjoy some olives.
won't you. girls? And / must
get those sailed almonds.
My say? Oh, wait till ] look at DIV
cards. Ye-es, I think I'll open tier
oh, somebody else has opened it al
ready and you're waiting to see if III
stay? Oh, that's il, is it?
We'll, ] always do have the horri>I-
est luck with pair of queens, but /
guess I'll No, 1 won't. I'll get the
sailed almonds. Don't deal me hand
for a minute"
Then the hostess disappears for
about ten minutes. and when she comes
1etNh tAANAE al SiSilS VI the IEeSnlN aD-
pied powder rag on her nose. There
had been an agreement early i'm tine
evening that they should quit playing
promptly at midnight, but at midnight
two of the women are 1920 and s215
behind. and they chime in and say that !
it's shame to quit 80 early, Just Whog%
the games getting interesting, and
complain that they haven't Won for
weeks and weeks at poker, and talk
? fnfL hot T.
wanting to quit just on the agreed
while they themselves are al
ways willing to play all night if there
are folks in the game that are persist
ent hard luck losers.
So the game goes on. and the two
men in the game groan when they
think of the big day ahead of them at
their offices, and then the hostess
Jumps up fifteen or twenty more times
TO chase the cat from the kitchen to
the fire escape and from the fire escape
down to the courtyard, and then on
)f the women gets angry because no
BODY stays when she opens the Dot
with pat ace high flush and saws INA
there's a conspiracy against her, ausa
lne of the men kicks the other on 10,
'hins under the table and the man who
has been kicked suggests that, as it's
quarter past 2, they might as veil
]uit anu play some other time, ana by
hat time four of the women in the
game are losers and the hostess has d
good deal of their change, and they be-
gin to wink at one another, as much as
10 say that the hostess is standing I'm
With the men folks because she's
winner, just as they are, and wants to
Iuit for the same reason that they do
So they play till a quarter past 8, and
hen the men have to take some of the
women up in the subway to their
homes in the Bronx. and the milkmen
Ire numbering through the streets when
hey turn in with furry tongues from
he cheese and almonds and chocolate
AXE and warm beer and junk that
hey've eaten and drunk, and the wo>
men whO've lost dollar or so have got
he men charted as tight wads, and
''Nixerine. Not again" repeats the
nervous man. II may play fantan
while I'm smoking hop and chewing
,etelnut down in the Chink division,
n I may lean up against the shells or
like that the next time I
axe in country fair up in Sullivan
county or somewhere.
But poker with women folks agains
Got any more, as accessory either De-
ore or after the fact. I'd rather work
or living, and I'm not such a nue.
ver work at that"