El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-14
BUG
GETS FRENCH
WOMEN
Mamselle Is Heavy Specu-
ulator On Race Track
and in Stocks.
PARIS GOES MAD
TAKING CHANCES

DARIs. France. Aug. 14--Albert
Guillaume. the Frenchman who
draws folly IS It flies. has been
having several sly digs lately at the
current craze Of gambling.
Before me Is the latest number Of
Fantasia. Therein is a picture OF a
young man kneeling before a woman.
At her feet are big bunch Of roses
and a beautiful diamond necklace.
The young man clasps a revolver In
his left hand. and II points toward
his temple. He is begging the woman
to marry him
BE mine. or I will shoot myself
here at your feet" he seems to be
saying. And the woman. reading a
financial newspaper. replies:
What do you think OF Royal
The other day GuilIaums had an
other picture in the Journal. A your =
man Is making love 70 a woman.
Come and see me tomorrow ne
says, and you shall have petits
tours, even though It e a cakeless
day"
The woman answers:
Monsieur, I an an honest girl"
Place aux Danes.
And" continues the man. you
shall know the fluctuations Of the
stock exchange. hour BY hour"
81 see you tomorrow, serpent"
replies the woman
Place aux dames=ladies first.
have put them first in this little
story OF gambling In Paris. because.
bless EN-. they would be first any
way.
When you 90 racing and take your
place in the sun and the queue 70 put
your money on your fancy in the next
race you VIII find thar. although
youth may be served y IL has a hefty
forearm. wild women viii do their
best 70 push. elbow, josie, thrust and
use hatpins within the meaning Of the
act
Then. standing on both your feet,
they smile and say
so sorry.
Are they7 I doubt t. I think the
only sorrow heard expressed by this
new race OF women gamblers was
when one Of them was unable 70 back I
ner way through the crowd and get
her money on before the race started. I
Then she szid-but couldn't re-
peat f.
Women Crowd Race Course.
Women certainly have caught the ]
gambling craze badly. Not only 90
they crowd the race course but they I
are the heaviest spectators on the Z
oourse-the Paris stock exchange.
one hears two dear young things |
talking in an omnibus.
-Oh. yes. dearest. he told me TO 4
buy umpteeu hundred Royal Pstro- /
Gums, and what DO you think-7r
Romance is dying dress is a back I
number-unless the dressmaker has I
z tape machine and good bourse tips. /
and the men are just as bad
An old newspaper seller is found on 1
! bench. drunk. but with several hun /
ired thousand francs on him; he Is 4
AIKEN to the police station, where he 4
says he won the money racinE-and I
he next week a bank messenger, who ]
las been 2 faithful servant for years,
goes off with thousands OF francs TO 4
~ his luck on the course. and is ar
-ested with but two francs in his pos
session.
When you see a man come into a
lar looking as IL the world Is his
lyster and every month has an z in
[, you know that he has either just
.ome out OF a .tripot'-a clandestine
'etting elub-or has managed TO back
"a outsider
BOokmal1ers FIOurisl--
Although bookmaking is prohibited
n France les books" as the box
makers are called. have never been so
Furnishing as now. Most OF the bars
axe bets over the counter and send Z
waiter out with the money TO q
nan hawking fruit, who is the book
Makers tout
Philosophers may tell Us that this
,ambling craze is wars reaction. and
hat everything viii settle down in
inc The ger-rich-Quick craze for
obtaining money without working for
1 is doing France much harm; OF /
hat there is no doubt. Even the
hildren have caught the craze.
The other day quotations were asked
q parliament about the number OF
&c cream and hokey-pokey sellers
Who had roulette wheels on their
tails, with which they tempt little
ieorges and Marianne to gamble
way their pocket money.
This gambling craze Is awful it
sut pardon me, this afternoons rate
OF the pound sterling is Just coming