The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30

of an eye The Baron pulled a long face as he wrote out his I. o. U. for the Count. q will play you this tme,' said the Baron, but seven to four you m ls' give me, though" And so Sam did Sam won that game. To make q long story short. the champagne and the ease with which he had beaten the Count and the
 3eron made the ci devant barber reckless, and he agreed to play the Baron. Twenty to che In guineas,' said Sam. Yes, twenty to one in poniesH roared tho Count. Ponies, done,' said the Baron and at it they went. In two minutes the Baron had Sam beaten.
 Oh. maybe Sam did not get it when he met his lady that night and told her what he had lost! In vain he swore it was guineas. The Count and the Baron de- clared 1t was ponies and pony Is twenty-five pounds sterling. When he canse to sum up he. found that he was expected to pay altogether to the Baron one thousand pounds sterling. How they did it he never knew. But in his account never played for money since. No, Not Catch me at that again if you can
 It was a very fashionable life that the Coxes lived, and in spite of their first rebuff in trying to get into society the persistency of Jemmy, coupled with her money, did finally make a little breach in the walls of that enchanted region where she desired with her whole heart to shine resplendent. Why should she not? She was uneducated, a little vul- gar, very self-assertive. But she had a great fortune and was willing to spend
 it to gain her ends If such women were all shut out of society where would society be? Besides she was a thoroughly respectable woman-which even in so- ciety, helps some. If Jemmy had been a little more obsequious to those already within the magic circle her difficulties of entrance would not have been so great. But Jemmy was a woman of spirit and would take nobodys 'imper- ance" If she could help it--cost what it might.
 When after the faux pas of her first ball she declared that she would like to tear out the eyes of the Duchess of Zero she meant it, and after that, when ever one of the famele leaders of fash ion and ton" attempted any insolence Jemmy gave them as good as they sent There was the Dowager Lady Kilblazes. who lived next door to the Coxe-Tugger- idge-Coxes fin Portland place. Jemmy made every effort to be friendly with her ladyship, but when she found that the dowager saw fit to reject her ad- Jor,, blaze's property was not as large as the Tuggeridge property by two thousand q year at least. and so, while the Dowager Countess kept only two footmen, Jemmy kept three. Whenever Lady Kilbazes and her carriage and pair came around Jemmy made it point to have her car riaee and four at the door She hired box at the opera next to the Kilblaze's box--only twice as big. Whatever mas ters went to Lady Julianna Matilda Me Turk-her adyshp's daughter, of the same age as Jemimarann-came to teach the daughter of Mrs. Coxe-Tuggeridge- Coxe.
 The countess second sons, the Hon.. Arthur Wellington AngIesea Butcher Bulow McTurk. was only 10 months older than young Tug. So the boys be- came fast frian|s and boxed each other in quite friendly way, oblivious of the social gulf which separated them and which was represented by the back fence over which hey used to exchangs condolences. Through the medium of the youngsters he dowager and Jem- my used to keep pretty well posted as to what was going on in the two households.
 1 When Master McTurk was sent away | to the fashionable boys school of the
 Rev. Clement Coddler, M. A., 'chaplain
 and late tutor to His Grace the Duk e | of Buckminster,' as his cards an nounced. Jemmy sent her Tug there lalso and addec 4C guineas to the hund :
 red and twenty paid every year for