The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-02
DOKER AND OTHER THINGS
WAS TALK FOR INSTANCE IN WOMEN

Never say word. and you'd think they
were at a wake, deed you would.
81 think it's the funniest thing to see
eight big, hulking men sitting around
poker table and nobody saying a
word. GIOW? They consider it better
for the game not to have any CONVEX
sation?
Nov that's meant for us girIs-you
know it is! And isn't it silly!
Dear me, | never win any more.
declare, l hate to think of how much
money I've lost at poker the last six
months 1 guess 1 play poorly. 1t
must be that
Whose say is it? Mine? Why. no.
I'm dealing-oh, no, / forgot, it's my
next deal. Why, no. of course 1 can't
open it. 1t isn't good poker to stay on
anything less than a pair OF tens
We'll, as / was saying. they've got
way of making coffee down in New
Orleans that's just gorgeous. / think
they fill the cup half full and then fill
the other half with hot milk, but what
ever
What's that noise? Gracious, it's
that horrid cat of mine climbing over
the dishes out on the stationary wash
tubs! Wait a minute. III be back in
a minute. Deal me a hand, and I'll be
right back to
Il can't play, so I'll see if she can
open it" says another of the women
picking up the cards of the hostess,
who flies out to attend to the cat in
the kitchen.
''N-no, 1 don't think she'd care to
open it on pair Of jacks-dO you
think?
Mildred. oh. Mildred, I'm not play
ing, and I've looked al your hand, and
do you want to open the pot with your
pair of Jacks? Oh, well, if you do, of
course only 1 thought
We'll, if she's going to open it with
her pair of jacks why 1 wish somebody
would take her cards and play them
for her, for I've got a pair OF tens my
self. and I How's that? I can't do
that? Well, I'd like to know why
not?
Just because I've looked at her hand
is no reason why Don't you all know
just as well as I do that all she's got
is pair of jacks? Well, then.
III play Mildreds hand, then. Let's
see what she's got. oh, Mildred. you
caught another teenchy -weenchy little
pair to your pair of jacks, and do you
want to bet. or do YOU want"
Il declare" says the hostess, return
ing just then, that cat worries the life
and soul out of me. and if l didn't
watch him-now, how is this? Oh. You
are playing my cards.
well, give them TO me. Oh, who
opened it? I did? l did not. Oh. it
was opened for me?
We'll, I thought that it must have
been something like that, for 1 was out
in the kitchen when it was opened
Well, is it my bet then? Oh. yes, you
say that / opened it, or that it was
opened for me. or something. though I
don't remember anything about it. so
it must be
Wait a minute How many are in ?
How many cards did you all draw?
My bet. is it? Well let me see. III
bet dime.
What, you all drop? Well. you mean
old things, you must have guessed
what I've got in my hand. Wait
minute.
Here are only four chips. Some
body's shy. Hey? Only three people
stayed, and my own chip makes four,
and Mighty peculiar.
Wont somebody have some beer?
No? Oh, / am sure you must want an
other glass, all of you, Wait minute
I'll go get some.
"Oh, it's my deal, is it? Well some
body else deal for me then I've got
to get some beer. and I suppose that
awful cat is tearing around in the
kitchen again.
my. There goes that glass of beer.
all over the cards. too Isn't that q
shame? Well, I've got lots Of cards, |
but theyr all mixed up. Wait a min
ute. I'll get some blue cards out
and you men folks can sort them out
and make good blue deck out OF
them, I guess.
Now, wait till I get a cloth to wipe
that beer I'D from the table. And
then III get some more beer. but do |
be careful, dears, with your glasses
Game comes to a standstili for fif-
teen minutes while the hostess mons
the spilled beer up from the table GOV |
sring and chases the cat from the kit /
chen to the fire escape. and then gets !
)ut some more bottles of. beer and then /
ooks around for the beer opener and !
decides that she'll change from her |
waist to g comfy house jacket. and |
then rings IN her sister in BROOKLYN |
20 find out how her sisters sick baby l
And then when she's got these things /
lone some sort of blue deck is sorted |
,ut of the nine hundred mixed anu /
cards of many decks /
hat she's tossed on the table for
out, and then they be-
gin again.
Now we're all comfy again. says
he hostess. What is that vou were
aging about New Orleans a moment