Evening star., 1921-03-06

He claims it's in the interest of
morality"
There are only ,hirty-six numbers
on the roulette wheel.
x x :: :.
T ADY DICKMAN tmany say she is
- American) has given me permis-
sion to use her name. Visitors may
remember her. mature in years. orig
inal" in manner, always seated in
good place. no matter what the crowd;
imposing large. intent and Yet not
silent; in modest black relieved by
various jew"lry.
Lady Dickmau has the name OF win
ming exactly $50 francs per day. Just
to see what she would answer. 1 asked
how she did il.
DO you give your word Of honor
never to divulgc it," she said.
81 call it the third and ail-my own
invention. Yor divide your capital
into three parts. Say that you have
800 francs. You stake one-third, 800
francs. for your first bet. When it
wins. YOU have 1900 francs. You
stake third of il 400 francs, II it
wins, you have 1900 francs. and. your
next AXE. . third tas near as po>Ss!-
bleJ, is 800. When it wins your orlgI-
nal caDitai has already increased 10
100 fraucs-thinh of that, from 500
in three spins, 1t is 9 snowbaIl II srs-
TEN. piling up big earnings on the
3rk's njoney.
Yes" ! objected "but suppose You
lose ore of thosA thirds"
"Ah," Sd" SAID that's lust wh"r"
my inventor comes in. If You los".
slap the othar two-thjrds. So Nou
win your third back ard anoth"r--
ius' a If you'd won the nrev;ou<
take instead of losing The SNOWFALL
co"tinres rollin" up. and
Yes" answer eagn"lv. but +
seventy years ago Monaco W.
"IIl;hn''
Your second loss Il saw that
had caught her). don't it wipe YOU
ou'""
Sha looked up blindly.
why. | had not thought of that.
she answered. And I saw that she
had caught me.
SOW ,'-- yf.:.. .~n No"""o V"
rock. pines and barren land. to be
bought for nothing. Today il is as
valuable as business or residential
frontage in the best parts of Paris
and London. II is the cleanest city
in the world. With its stately house
es. perfect streets and roads. public
gardens blazing with color. good
harbor. police force and minia-
ture army II costs its citizens not
u cent of taxes.
All is paid by the Casino. The vast
revenues of the princinality are OBJ
tanned solely from outsiders.
The gross receipts from the gam
bling tables in 1918 We're 43.o00.0O0
francs. In the year just passed they
leaped to "A. 900. 900 francs. Allowing
for $4,000 players u9l@ fignre). the
,vc-...re '~~c wo-'-: ont ~ - f''''''t 30
head. Every PLAYER. on the average.
frar n
than he wins to account for the
Casinos annual earnings"
The "boarderS" do not tell their
secret. but there has been Just one
man-an American. tenderfoot.
speaking J ; foreign language ana
una cquainte9 with games oil chance
who used the colossal fact of every
body, on the averaTe. losing more
than they win. in order to do some
winning of his own. more than he
lost
He was "the deacon" and he looked
it. He wandered about. idlN melan-
choly. my health has had break
down" he said, and he looked it. He
had a curious faculty to total at
glance. the entire amount Of stakes
on any part of the layout Il have
been much in banks" he said. and,
again. he looked il.
One day. at last. he woke up.
Il have seen the gambling sta-tis-
tics" he said. There is million
per week more money lost here than
is won. He nodded toward roulette
ta BILE" See that group of folks bet
ting on red aud another betting on
black? Which bunch of money is
most likely to lose On average. sure. |
he bigger of the two. An extra mil |
lion per week more than the public i
wins has got to be lost by the public |
re don't expect the mi !
1ority to lose it. do you?"
He started betting-and he never |
.alked again.
LIE won and lost. but never quit I!
l. loser With fattering interest |
hey watched the deacon rake in his |
" winnings, but. speaking no French. he !
,ould not explain how he did it. |
Tinally. he disappeared-a winner.
They say that the esta tablishment
bought him off, because. whether he /
lad a discovery or just worked on
moral principle. he was mysteriously
Undesirable. OF course, the legend is /,
hat "the deacon discovered defect
n one of the roulette machines" but
his. according to opinion. is lust the
,on won, as you or 1 could do. by
betting with the minority"-i.e., by
taking with the notably smaller
otals.
1t requires capital to start with