The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-27
The Feminine Poker Pest


after frequent repetitiOns of this ma
neuver a player may become peeved
and give way TO criticism. This may
be the manner of the ensuing dialogue:
Mrs. Manhattan-Are you making a
collection of blues, dear?
Mrs. One Hundred and Eighteenth
Street, hate white chips. re. he, TIE,
he! l had so many 1 know nohodv will
mind my changing some IF them for
blue.
Mrs. Manhattan-But. see. You have
only two whites left, so you couldn't
have had more than seven when you
put in five whites for a blue,
Mrs. One Hundred and Eighteenth
Street-Well, seven is a coed many,
isn't it, dear? Ha, ha. But lin an
injured tone and with business Of
picking up blue chip I'm sure if any
body objects to my making change
out of the pot / am willing TO put the
chip back.
Mrs. Manhattan-Oh, no. dear. Don't
be foolish. I was just thinking that
you would have to change the blue
back again the very next pot we're in.
That was all Deal the cards, dear.
Next time five whites slide in AMI
blue slides out Mrs. Morningside will
inquire of Mrs. Cathedral Parkway,
who is the banker:
Aren't you going to cash ALL the
chips at the end of the game?''
Il hope to-" Mrs. Parkway will re-
ply. Il don't recall having failed yet
to cash all chips outstanding IL the end
of the game"
side, alphabetically, that perhaps yon
had made a rule while I was out Of
the room under which You would re-
fuse to cash chips"
Mrs One Hundred and Eighteenth
Street fidgets and the rest OF the la
dies grin maliciousy.
I'VE haven't made any such rule"
treasures Mrs. Parkway.
And you will give us just as much
at the end of the game for five white
chips as for one blue?" pursues Mrs.
Morningside.
Eyes, indeedy," says Mrs Parkway,
cheerily.
I'm glad to know that" says Mrs
Morningside, much relieved. Il thought
from something that happened just now
that the white chips were worthless"
This doesn't cure the woman who
dOtes on the blues, though it may halt
her for few minutes. She continues
to exchange her whites for the checks
of higher value. After d while Mrs.
One Hundred and Eighteenth Street
ostentatiously throws a white chip into
the pot and removes another white one.
Mrs. One Hundred and Eighteenth
Street looks mystified.
Are you staying?" she asks.
"Oh, no." says Mrs. One Hundred and
Sixteenth street sweetly; I'm just
making change"
Il thought you put in a white and
took out a white says Mrs. One Hun
dred and Eighteenth Street.
Il did," says Mrs. One HundIe ed ard
Sixteenth Street, pointedly.
Then Mrs. Lenox will pass Mrs. One
Hundred and Eighteenth Street a white
chip and say:
Change that for me, won't you,
dearie?" and then in affected surprise
draw it back, saying:
why, 1 thought that was a blue
How stupid of me-"
And all the others viii litter, ard
Mrs. One Hundred ana Eighteel.th
Street will fidget some more.
Finally when ridicule has proven in
! effective, someone viii say, as Mrs.
! One Hundred ard Eighteenth street is
reaching for one more blue from The
center:
DO you mind leaving that in the
pot, Mrs. One Hundred anc Eighteenth
| Street? l have a fancy I am gong TO
! win this hand, and Ia like the sensa-
| ton of taking in a pot with q blue cnIp
/ in it,
! And then Mrs. one Hundred and
Eighteenth Street takes the hint and
doesn't do any mora changing for at
| least fbrpa hands