The Washington times., 1938-02-12


regarding them all as potent
stories.
You are sitting in a cabaret lis
tening to a floor show. A lady ha'
Just finished singing. The ap
plause has not yet died away. Sh'
is pretty good-too good. Some
body on the inside nudges yol
and says-"Taklng the cure. She
got three more weeks to go. Pick
ing up a little change while Shef
at it."
CAN DO 1T FOR $50
It may be your waitress, or th'
girl in the hairdresslng parlor, o.
the girl behind the drug-stor'
counter. One doesn't have to o'
wealthy to get a Reno divorce
merely active and able to work
Attorneys will handle cases for a.
little as $50 if the client is hon
estly poor.
A lot of them try to do 1t or
the gambling tables. That's a oac
way, but sometimes it works. LucE
runs in funny streaks.
A roulette dealer told a Stor!
about himself. He was down anc
out, broke and out of a job. HI
had 80 cents. With 10 Of 1t HI
bought a cup of coffee for a trient
and himself. On the way out HI
dropped the &c cents on numbe,
five of the inevitable roulette
table in the cafe. Number fiv'
came up. He left the table will
$500.
TIRELESS TAKERS
The women who come to Rem
are indefatigable takers. Whel
it comes to their divorce trials
they demand the closed door ant
the sealed testimony. But by tina
time they have told their storie
dozens and dozens of times. Al
Reno knows them. And all Rem
keeps discreetly silent.
It is a city that knows how t
keep it's mouth shut. and stranger
who ask questions are not popular
But the women talk, They tai
to bartenders, to hairdressers, t
gamblers, to headwaiters and t.
bellhops, to the hotel clerks AM
the landlords. The little blue
singer in one of the cafes says
"Oh, boy! If I could only
write! incidentally, she wasn't
there for the cure.) The stories
those danes tell me. Boy, you
can't stop 'em. You stand UP
at the bar for a few minutes
having drink, and they start
right in"
BARTENDER BORED
The bartender at famous hote
yawns and says:
"Gawd! Wimmen. The more
I see and hear of them the more
I like my dog. I'm on the night
shift, right through until morn
ing. Stay in this room for a
month and listen to 'em and
then see how you feel about
women. They chew my ear off
at 5 o'clock in the morning.
Nuts"
Talk to enough repositories o
these stories and you will fin,
them in agreement on one point
Ninety per cent of the women VIII,
come to Reno are not wrongel
or heart-broken wives, but won
en- who have number two al
propped up and waiting for ther
to get free of number one.
They come out and have ST
weeks of high life and then g
back and marry the other fe
low.
SOME ARE TRAGIC
The other ten per cent have
Story-and usually pride. The
have caught their husbands a
something and force themselve
or let their friends talk them int
getting a divorce. Or their ma,
riages have turned into genuin
tragedies. and the six weeks i
Reno is a time of trial and to-
ture, tears and loneliness and tn
terrible anodyne of liquor.
In fairness to Reno one mus
report that while today the divorC
industry is the chief attractio
there, it is waking up to its ow
natural attractions and in tn
next years will make stror
bid for recognition as a nations
playground for plays sake. 1t
an absolute sportsman paradlS
GAME AND FISH ABUNDANT
The hills are full of game ar
the lakes of fish. Hunters brir
down 300-pound bucks and thir
it not unusual. In Lake TahC
and Pyramid Lake are 30-and 4
pound trout which fight like ma
lin, and there are half a doze
stores in the town devoted to S
equipment. Within a short riC
of Reno. the slopes of the Sierri
offer wonderful skiing
Some of the wilderness in Il
State has still to be explored.
And so the Reno adventu