Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-03-02
GAME LATEST
DISCOVERED IN PARIS
las Thrills and Suspense and Backs
Poker From Map rs Stiff
s Contest.
LUCKY IL ONE CAN GET OUT
Getting Out Of France and Crossing
the Channel to London Not Quite
as Easy AS Using the Tube to
Hobokcn.
~ ROBERT wELLEs RIrcHrE.


81 ROBERT WELLES RITCHIE.
LONDON. March 1.-Theys got a
/. began. and for real thrills and sus-
peSsc the stihest game OF stud
poker ever Nayed in the back room OF
house of twenty years ago drops down
TO the level of jack-straws and fiddle
3 dc. "inkS in comparison. Il is called
'viSc--NiSc-whoS got a viSc""
The only requirement. 10 become a
1 player in this new and exotic sport -
that YOU wish 10 go from one country
TO another country in a hurry; tina.
You know. the kind OF temper which
takes everything that comes and
makes no more bones abou, il thar
job did. Since Job-or somebody for
him-sct his thoughts on his ati!c-
tons down in writing. there's excuse
for modern sufferer from this start
The wise game to do likewise on,
may talk Of being gaSsed in the Ar
Sonnc or having Shrapnel fragments
extracted from his person with a..
events and circumstances on this side
OF the Atlantic is he who's been sue.
ecssfully vised out OF France and still
has strength left TO rccite the tale OF
his experiences.
moss THINKS IT'S EASY.
hut HE'S LONG WAYS OFF
Surprising your boss IN New York
had sent YOU u cable ordering YOU TO
get from France TO London immedi
atclN. and supDosnS the aforesaid
boss labcrS under the dclusion tina;
crossing the Channel is about the same
thing as taking the tube 70 Hobokcn?
Granted Now, the editors preface
10 the continued tale reads, Go on With
the story
You know there arc three ways OF
crossing the Channel-thcorctica at
lkslS f 10 10
Calais. Upon receipt of orders 10 pro-
ce@d from Paris TO London you mako
inquiry of the first friend YOU meet
rs TO which OF these three avenues OF
exit to choose.
But, my dear fellow" that friend
means, of course you know there's
no way open except the Havro route,
which is an aii-night trip on tho Chan
neil hope you're not subject TO any
distress at sea, YOU understand but
the British have closed the BouloGnc
aud Calais routes 20 all but the mill
tary.'
Reconcled to six hours OF scasick-
ness YOU play your FIRST card in the
cams cams p You go 'S the AmsIiean En-
YOU Your precious passport and AN
abiding faith in an mankind Tho
anteroom Of this Passport Bureau is
nice, cheerful place, rs antorooms go.
You learn 10 feel quite honey therein
after two hours wait OF course. IT,,
boots not---as tho writer's of historical
V.
Micajah Smedioy European crusade
for the Home Purity League. ret
passed through the doors ahead OF
YOU and out OF his turn. The Rev
leaving France.
MUST MAIZE OUT
MANY REPORT BLANKS
AZ length You are in the santiiicd
inner chamber ana have filled out Two
blanks These certificates tc!I all Of
YOUR secret history that the Insurance
companies already know and IA good
deal more They are. in short. COM
rchensivc-dreadfuilN 50. Anybody
could be indicted back in tho states
for the confessions he makes in these
1Wo documents.
. But VOL and good You have the
Passport Bureaus wise stamped on the
INSIDE OF YOUR passport and are taking
- swift slant at the old wrist-waich
70 see II YOU have time TO buy tina;
{tickct Via Havrc whom young lady
with severe smile says;
New IL youll just go 10 the French
prefecture OF Police and then the
British Passport Bureau youll DC all
Ah. brother, that little word Just"
From the American IaSsport Bureau
to the Prefecture Of Police is forty
Metro. Being q reckless devil with the
mile route.
NOV the Prefecture OF Police is To-
Gated IN very roomy building which
the tcrrorists. with admirable judg-
incnt' chose -. "a prtaon for their vic
Gaping pria6nef' IN. those interesting
times could have found his way out
Of the building even if he had broken
his cell. The only person In Paris no,
having an office in the prefecture is The
wcli-knowm real catatcr. y. Loucr
TURN TO TIT: LEFT"
ADVICE or GENDAnME
The sendarme at the entrance YOU
riul YOU como 10 tho stairs. then as
ccnd three flights and turn TO your
icft again; one, turn TO the right and
two more TO the left and you'll mud
tile Passport Bureau "toot sweet"
The faci that he tells YOU this in
rand French help whole lot;
make inquiry asain--you being
stupid old ihing.--and a little french
Ean win a NAKED mus,achc kindly
brt that frcnchman viii be humor-
list some day,
Thcre at the gnd Of The corridor
French, call it-inchinr patiently UP
40 door through which one imdi.
nidual passes about every ten minutes.
All, hero YOU are. and thar ticket 10
e LONDON viii soon bc purchased.
II is o'clock and YOU have tiXcd
belief that Office ahead Wonder is GO
son YOU perspirc freely while you arc
moving ahead inch by inch a. Nun
Der !"5 in the queue. How about tina
ticket TO london and can YOU pack
our trunk tonight and catch the early
morning train TO liavrc?
DOG LICENSE BUREAU
PLACE OF WORRY
\; 5:27 o'clock you arc near enough
Ito the desired door 70 read the sign
Something ABOUT "Chiens." Yes. in
decd, ii is very explicit about Chi
ems" .when YOU come to worry IT out
With your limited know edge Of th-
language lei. IN short, one procurcs
the license for ones "chieu.'