Evening Star Newspaper, February 2, 1895, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1895-TWENTY PAGES, 13 L, ematuiaye ees GAMBLING REVIVED How the Game is Played at Monte Carlo, SOMETHING ABOUT THE SYSTEMS An Attempt to Reduce Luck to a Science. THE ONLY STEADY WINNER Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. NICE, January 15, 189%. HE REARISING OF Te public gaming tables is one of the phenomena of Eu- rope at the present hour. During the past thirty years thes had been chased from almost every continental city. Baden-Baden, Homburg and the rest shut up the shop, and roulette and _ trente-2t-quar- ante found their sole refuge on the bar- ren rock of Monte Carlo. There, thanks to an exceptional prince, with an excep- tional stake in European politics, the great- est game in all the world grew up, despite the virtuous protests of the other nations. This virtue now is passing into a more softened mood. Why should the Riviera only profit? Gently and without the slight- est noise the last five years have seen the opening of public tables in a dozen quiet resorts in France and Belgium, Dinard, Vichy, Aix-les-Bains, Trouville, Dieppe and Havre compete with Namur, Ostend and Spa. Now Rome, the latest rumor has it, is to see the setting up of a casino under government permission; and if Spain grants a concession to the Rio Tinto Min- ing Company, then Austria and Germany will have hard work resisting the appeals of their own waterirg places. For the She Has a Mathematical Combination. tourists go where there is public gambling; and a loosening up of public sentiment de- elares it cannot see the difference be- tween the gambling of the race course and the stock exchange and that which centers round a table covered with green cloth. Dinard and Spa are open and crowded all the year around. During 1894 the Monte Carlo corporation suffered heavy losses from their competition. But it will be a long time yet before the name of Monaco will cease to draw groans of re- pentancs from the tender consciences of those who have not won. No other water- ing place can hope to pass it in its power of getting tourists’ money from them. Mo- naco, root, stem and branch, is given over to the roulette. And visitors are hypno- tized. That is the secret. At Vichy and at Trouville, for example, life goes on as elsewhere, In a normal manner, with its varied interests. System All the Rage. At Nice and Monte Carlo there ts only one real subject of discussion: “How do you play roulette?" The very question ts a strange one, marking the great change which has come over people's ways and manners, fitting in with this revival of the gambling mania. Five years ago the question used to be: “What have you on?” “What have you lost?” To play a ‘system™ then was thought ignoble and commercial. Tuose who bet their money did it royally, with a loose hand; and they were of the higher classes, more or less acquainted with the so-called laws of prob- probability of win- ny serious sum by means of mar- 3, progressions, combinations, math- 1 or otherwise. Now all is changed. i@ middle and the lower middle classes wamp the salons. On the roulette you may play silver, bet a dollar only, if you wish to be 0 prudent; and the roulette tables number eleven as against six of the more aristocratic tables of trente-ct-quar- ante. Roulette is by long cdds the greatest favorite. Its combinations yield. them- selves to many schemes; and the new class of travelers learning how to play ft, now that railway fares are cheap and circular tours are all the rage, come with hearts fresh-and clean from’ any knowledge of the “zero’s” powers, the unrelenting hand of the “ecart,”” and they are unaware that all progressions are but “flat bets supe And so th y. “Flow do you The rage for hemat- ability and the lack of ning ical or empirical, Is at its height. A sys- tem is the novic first discovery, the loser’s last faint hope, the winner's cu- riosity and plaything, the old gambler’s paradox, the manna in the wilderness of sr-on about the tables and the 1 joke. And such Is the con- that nowadays no visitor is ic, rich or well-instructed to f the pleasure of a “system.” Roulette Described. Roulette is a gambling game at wi zch inc vid of the public participating in it bets individually and at his pleasure against the unk,” the corporation which built the Casino, runs and advertises !t. ‘The tank has any quantity of meney. All you have to do is to it. And the game her y long, whos has a sunken c ele in it. In this cir- cle there is a ma- chine, a dise, round like a pie plate, con- e and divided into thirty-seven equal pieces. The disc 1s loose, revolving round a center. As it re- volves, quite slowly, a -small ball is thrown into it and in the opposite direction of its revolution. The ball runs round the firm, unmoving rall- ing of the oppositely revolving dise, hops to the disc itself, rolls, bumps, dies down, and, finally, it falls into one of the thirty - sev com- Quits a Winner. partments. That com- tment wins. It may be red, it may be black, it may be number 18, or number 2, yr number J4 For each compartment has ts number, up from | to 36, and each fs olored either red or black alternately. Supp the ball falls into number 10, which happens to be black. Then black vir wins, those who have bet on hers win, the “first do: third column” (of twelve) wi jue,” or the lowest half of the x numbers, wins and number ten itself wins. Those who have het on the colo -ven, the first or last 1S numbers, paid in amount equal to what they have I:'d on the table in the various marked-off sp: Had anyone bet simply on the numb he would have been paid 35 times umount of his bet, because there are : numbers. Had any one on the third dozen (in which number 1 have been paid twice his bet, t are three dozens. So would also have be ——— paid twice his bet the man who bet o® the first dozen. The payments which the bank makes to you, on whatever style of bet you win are equalized exactly to the risk you run in putting down your money. And as there always is a large crcwd betting, filling up A Good Marche. the table three deep all around it, half of them, upon aa averege, really bet against the other half. The »K takes the losers’ money and pays it cver to the winners. Thus it often happens that the bank has not the slightest interest whether red or black wins, odd or even; though if all those who had bet upon the black before should cease to bet the bank would ipso facto take their place and win or lose. T! interest of (he bank Is not in this, how- ever, but in the “zero.” This is a thirty- seventh compartment in the wheel or disc. Whenever the little ball fails into “vy instead of a real number, then the bank wins all the money on the table ex- cept that on the even chances. As to all the single numbers, groups and columns, the bank is in the position of having one number in the 37 on which it may win any turn without the chance of losing. As to the even chances, when the zero comes, all bets on them are put in “pris- on.” They must stay upon the table till the next throw; then if they would other- wise have lost they lose still; if they would otherwise have won, they only get their money back. This is enough to give the benk its profit, though it is liberty, equal- ity and fraternity itself compared with the workings of the American roulette wheel, which has two such zeros, and of- ten takes your money on the “eagle bird” or double zero (‘00’), and the zero’s (“0”) coming out without the gentleness of put- ting you in prison first. A man must be extremely bored with everything around him and all other forms of entertainment to be desperate enough to bet against such impudence. On the even chances the Mon- te Carlo bank's advantage is scmething between one and two per cent. It is a tritle higher than the advantage of the “refait” (‘split") of the trente-et-quar- ante, against which the bank itself will sell you “insurance” at one per cent. And so the geme is played. The bank's Percentage scarcely seems to touch the casual player, as the ball falls seldom into zero (only once in 37 times upon the aver- age.) The casual player—everybody ts a casual player who has never played a dozen bets in his whole life—discovers that the even chance of red and black presents a strange set of phenomena. With “RK” for red (rouge) and “N” for black (noir), he marks down the winnings and the los- ings. R. R. N. R. N. R. R. R. N. N. N. NL N. RN. R. R. R. N. And they present themselves to him, not as a set of twenty single bets, each having no relation to the other, but as a series, to which the acci- dental falling of the ball each time, in red or black, is as nothing in comparison with something else which he sees dimly, a subtle symmetry, a chain of causes and ef- fects. He sees that black is always tread- ing on the keels of red, and red is always following after black. Eureka! Wait till red has won five times without an inter- mission, and then bet on black. Keep doublirg till black wins. The player's next discovery, however (induced by his own lack of capital to double up to $1,024 were it necessary, or by the laughter of his friends or new ac- quaintances), is that the doubling system is too strong. He ought to bet upon the final coming out of black or red along an arithmetical progression, not a geometrical er te Here he strikes the system— If he should lose his first bet, he would mark down on a card a figure “i,” and put down by its side another “1"—the “1” he wants to win beside the he lost— 1, 1. Add them together and bet 2. He loses. He marks down the 2, thus— 1, 1, 2. His next bet would be 3, the sum of the two extremes—the “1” and “2”. He loses—1, 1, 2, 3. He bets 4, wins, and scratches out the first 1 and the last 3. A Mathematician and Busted. ‘Then he adds the middle “1” and “2” to- gether, and bets 3. Should he win, he has completed his series, and won the “i” he started out to win. Should he lose the three, he marks it down, adds, bets again, and so goes on upon a line of conduct which insures that every time he wins that winning ts the surn of two losses added together. So that he will only need to win a little more than half as many individual bets as he loses to finish up his series with a triumpkant scratching out of all he had marked down; and it works well until a run of bad luck. That this ran of bad luck has a name, and, more, that it has laws which are well kno'vn, does not dawn on him for the pres- ent. He discovers only that to bet upon one color always is not safe. He notes that, looking over his score card, the thing most obvious is that colors alternate. Eureka! Play the alternations! is that events Discovery number three arrange to group themselves; that after two reds winning black will win more reg- ularly than it would after three reds com- ing ont. That this is in complete and total contr: ion of his theories held at first is nothing. This is the “coup de 3; but, what more, it is a “marche.” I cannot well forget the day that I di: covered that the “marche” of roulette w: in the “coup de 3.” Why conceal it? Be- fere that I had believed in simple inter- mittence: ed, black, red, black. I thought this marche combi i with a progression (of increasing and decreasing hets) known the “Alembert" might be infalhble. It v not. To plan intermittences is called the “perdante’ the “losing” marche. You bet the which has won will lose y It was not infallible. In- deed it was } Then if the “perdante” is bad the “gagnante” rust be good. It Crack! the “gagnante” will steal y’s money and the “perdante” is well named. Then came a combination of the gagnante and the perdante mixed, which “works with everything except the coup de 2.” It was the good road sure. I will not dwell upon the details. But three weeks’ success is not a solid enough foundation for a villa. ‘The Alembert consists in augmenting your bet by one unit after each toss and in decrecsing your bet by one unit after each exactly that and nothing else. You with unity (i silver dollar er a #4 piece) and when you have worked back to unity again your sum is done. You will have gained a half a piece on every turn. This system would win steadily and always were it not that three little condi- tions are lacking—(1) ‘There should be no ecart. (2) There should be no maximum. (8) There shculd be no zero. STERLING HEILIG. -see- He Was Sold. From Fliezende Blatter. Lady —““My father—this is between our- selv ‘alled on your landlady to muke inquiries about yo Gent (in a rage)—‘“‘You mustn't believe a word she says; the old hag tells a pack of lies every time she opens her mouth.” Lady —“Indeed? I thank you fer the in- formation. The fact is, she praised you up to the skie: next time. I 4 with scalp diseases, hair falling out re baldness, do not use grease or al- ttions, but apply Hall's Hair Re- If am mat Py MAGIC IN CARDS Clever Deceptions and How They Are Accomplished. ~ IMPORTANCE OF THE “PASS.” A Laughable Take Off on the In- come Tax Law. THE FLEEING COINS ————— Written for The Evening Star. Te ARE NU- merous —“‘sleights”” used in card conjur- ing, but most of them are merely orna- mental, and only a few are of real value to the magician. There is one, how- ever, that must be learned by all who hope to gain any sort of skill as card man- ipulators, and that is the “pass.” When once the performer has learned to make it cleverly, all the rest is plain sailing. The pass consists of bringing to the top of the pack, invisibly, the card that has been drawn and returned to the pack by one of the audience. The various movements will be explained in their order. First, when the pack fs offered to have a card draw, always spread the cards out in a fan shape, so that the selection can be easily made, and when the card is to be returned spread the pack in the same way. The moment the card fs returned, bring the pack (o- gether again, but as you do so slip the end of the little finger of the left hand over the draw card, as shown in Fig. 1. This end of the pack being nearest your body, the movement cannot be seen. Next cover the pack with the right hand, grasp the ends of the lower packet between the thumb and second and third fingers, push that packet as far into the fork of the left thumb as pessible and at the same time draw away the upper packet with the fingers of the left hand. (See Fig. 2.) Then lift the edge Y 19\ Tig of the lower packet just enough to allow the upper packet to pass beneath it, which will, of course, bring the desired card to the top of the pack. As described above, the pass seems to con- sist of a long series of movements,but,in re- ality, they are made almost simultaneously, ardonly occupy a small fraction of a second. The proper time to make the pass is at the moment you turn to go back to the table. The cards ere then held in the left hand, with the little finger inserted over the drawn card, and as you turn, you take the pack in the right hand and hold it well away from your body, in full sight all the time you are back to the audience. It is at the moment that you take the cards from the left hand and when they are covered ty the right that you make the pass. How the Trick is Done. It requires considerable practice to ac- quire this “sleight,” but it is extremely ezsy when once learned. A good trick 1l- lustrating its use is called “The Double Ccunt,” and is performed as follows: Have a card drawn and returned to the pack, make the pass and bring it to the top of the pack, then ask the person who drew the card to select some number between one and ten and you will cause his card to take that position in the pack. Suppose he selects seven; you say: “I will show you that yours is not the seventh card now Ccunt off six cards and throw them on the table, show the seventh ang then drop that on the pile. The chosen card will then be the bottom one of the seven on the tabie. Pick them up, replace them on the pack and it will then be seventh from the top. Ask the drawer to touch the pack with his firger and say “seven."’ ‘ards off closely, and when you reach the seventh, turn it face up and show it to be the card drawn. A similar effect can be produced without sleight of hand by using a “forcing pack, in which all the cards are alike (say all tens of diamonds) except the bottom card; but in this form of the trick you only count the cards off once. By working up appropriate “patter” this trick can be made very effective. It is quite a mistake to suppose that sleight of hand is necessary to good card tricks, for some very mystifying ones are done without the least use of it. One of these is the ‘Latin square,’ so called be- cause its diagram is formed of the Latin phrase, “Mutus dedit nomen Coci: in which it will be noticed that each letter occurs twice. Write the words thus: MUTUS 12324 D> Bar 56567 8 NOMEN So fF 6° cocis 10910 7 4 This arrangement must be firmly fixed in the mind, so that the exact location of each letter is known. You are then prepared for the trick, which is begun by dealing out twenty cards in pairs, face downward. Allow several persons to select one pair each, and, after looking at them, to put them back in the same position. You then pick them up in any order you choose; only be careful not to separate ciently the pairs. If you are sufli- expert, you may make a false eaving the cards in the same order a it, but it is fully as well to z the audience to indicate the pair to be picked up first, which second, third, and so on, till all are taken, thus showing that no regular order is preserv Then lay the cards down in five rows, face up, following this rule: The first card is placed where the “M” in “‘Mutus” would be if the above arrangement were marked on the tablk the second card on the in “Nomen; the third on the first “U;” the next two on the two “T's,” and so on to the end. You have only to ask any of the drawers in which rows his two cards appear, and you will know which they are. Thus, if he says the cards are in the second and third rows, you know at once that they are the card: on the spaces representing the two “E's. If in the first and fourth, they are on the “S’ spaces, and if both in the third row, they are in the “N's.” By writing out the formula and then taking a pack of cards and going through the trick once the above will be perfectly plain. Collecting the Income Tax. Patter whose fun is timely is all the more valuable on that account, a fact that is taken the fullest advantage of by bright performers. It is this quality which makes the next trick described particularly at- tractive at the present time. I call it the “income tax collector.” In beginning It, borrow a half dollar, and after making a few passes with it, say, “I will now show you the way the income tax works. When the collector comes areund the miliionaire shows his pile like this, and says: ‘This cne little half dollar is all I have, and even this is borrowed.’ But after the collector carefully questions him for a few minutes (while speaking, rub the face of the coin) another appears, like this! A little more rubbing and then another appears!” At each rubbing a_ half dollar is produced from the tips of the fingers of the right hand and thrown on the table, and it is kept up till twenty-five have been shown. Then ycu continue: “Then he changes the manner of his investigation, and shortly another comes to light.” This is produced from the lett hand, and the production is kept up till twenty-five mere have been ob- tained. “So, you see, it is folly to try to evade the new law, for the wily collector will surely get the better of you in the end.” At this point the borrowed coin may be returned. ' ‘Two piles of half dollars, twenty-five coins in each, are necgssary for this trick, and they should be tied together by pass- ing a thread under the pile, up the sides, crossing it on the top, carrying down the cpposite sides and this firmly. Place one of these piles under ,the waistband of the vest on the right sige, and the other be- hind some large object;on the table. After making one or two es with the bor- rowed coin, hold it in,the left hand and pre- tend to take it in the right, but by the “French drop” leaverit, in the left. Look at the right hand fona moment, and then suddenly sey, “Pass!”-,Qpen the right hand and show it empty,/reach down and take the coin apparently from the hend of the left knee. At the same instant, when all are watching the left hand, take the pile of coins from the vest with the right, and palm them by holding between the’ tips and lower joints of the second and third fingers. Then bring the hand up in front, take the borrowed coin between forefinger and thumb and rub it 2 moment, then take in the left hand and throw it on the table. Continue the rubbing motion, which will break the thread holding the coins, and produce another coin, and so on till only one is left. While rubbing that get the pile from the table in the left hand and palm as before. Transfer the last coin from the right hand to the left and continue till the coins are exhausted. A Brilliant Finish. Ordinarily the trick would end here, but a brilliant tinish may be added thus: After returning the borrowed coin go back to the table, and, standing behind it, pretend to sweep all the coins off the table with the right hand, catching them in the left, which is held just out of sight behind the table. In reality you allow nearly all the coins to fall on the shelf, only catching, hand if a dozen. Cover the left with the right, holding the hands a: full of coins, and come for them between the hand, say! only one trouble with mone: say, half this manner. It's a case of ‘easy come, easy go,’ and you can see that already the large number of coins has almost en- While speaking the palms nearer tegether, ou @nish the right is lying nearly flat on the left. You then raise the right hand and show that only a few coins remain. Then return to your table, and, standing behind it as before, trans fer the coins to the right hand and drop them into a bowl which stands on the table. Pick up the bowl and come for- ward, saying: “I have no further use for these coins, so you may keep them as souvenirs of this mystic occasion.” At the same time make a motion as If to toss the coins from the bowl toward the audi- ence, when it will be seen that the bowl is perfectly empty. The disappearance of the coins is effected by having on the shelf at back of table a bowl like the one used. Holding the coins in the palm of the left hand well back toward the wrist, make a motion as if to throw them into the right, but as the hands come close together, slightly bend the fingers of the left hand, and the coins will thus be caught by them instead of passing into the right hand. The result- ing chink and the immediate closing of the right hand make the illusion perfect, but considerable practice is required before the movement will appear natural. Hold the closed right hand just at the top of the bowl, with the back of the hand toward the audience, bending the body forward a little; this will bring the left hand, which still holds the coins, just above the howl on the shelf and oui.of sight of the audi- ence. Open both hands at once, and the sound of the coins dropping in the bowl will be supposed to come from the one on the table. Then, without a moment's pause, pick up the bowl in such a way that both hands wil] be seen to be empty, and finish as above. , ee CHEAPER CLOTHES FOR MEN. Small Tallors Who Make Up the Cas- tomer'’s Own Cloth at a Small Cost. From the New York Sun! “The days of $75 businegs suits are gone,” said a salesman as he “cut off what he would have called a “suiting” for a waiting customer, ‘You are getting in this what the fashionable tailor puts into a suit for which he used to get $60. Hard times have brought down the prices of even the fash- ionable tailors, but dozens of men who used to order of such makers now buy the cloth and have it made up for $18 or $20 a suit by tailors unknown to fame.” Economies that were a necessity of hard times are still practiced now that times have improved, and there is a marked change in the needs of men that still live in what really poor folks would call great gemfort. Scores of modest little tailor shops are scattered all over the city in out of the way places, and men that were once customers of the fashionable tailors go to these small makers. The latter will mend when they cannot make, and clean when there is no mending to be done. They will work wonders with old clothes, and they do a great deal of altering upon gar- ments bought ready made. The large cloth- iers that make a specialty of cheap suits undersell everybody but the dealers in ready made clothes, and you may have made to order for $15, or $25 at any one of half a dozen places suits that to the eyes of the uncritical look as well as the finest product of the fashionable tailor. Luckily for the purchaser of cheap gar- ments, nobody is over particular about the fit of other men’s clothes. Some tailors are advertising men’s evening suits at $30 or less, and overcoats, which men are getting more and more prone to buy ready made, are made to order as low as $20. -Meanwhile the small tailor, who will make or mend or clean, is making up the customer’s own cloth at from $12 to $20 a t. A few obscure tailors make a trim tirely vanished. you gradually bring so that When y ir of trousers for le: while “) is above the ayérage price. A large dry goods houses keep imported cloths only and sell them at from $3 to $5.50 a yard. The average man can be clothed with three and a half y inch cloth. His raw material, so to spe: then, costs him from $10.50 to about $1 The last price, at a trustworthy hou usually guarantees the finest and heavies imported winter goods. The best of the modern substitutes for broadcloth may be had for this price. 1f the accommodating little tailor be cne that makes and trims a suit for $12, the whole cost will be from $22.50 to $31. If he charges $16.50, as the better ones do, it will be from $2 $35. The most exacting of these little men will do the suit for $20. ir price for making up somewhere between $ material, would bring the cost up to $4 or $54 for the average man, and at most $60 for the of extraordinary size. Fashionable tailors seldom make such a suit to order for less than $4), and a few used to run considerably above $100. The inconspicuous tailors who are mak- ing clothes for the men that still cling to their belief in imported cloth work very hard and employ a few hardworked jour- neymen. The head of thé place 1s usually the cutter. Their profits’ are not great. One of them, who charges $30 for making up an evening suit, says that the work oc- cupies him a week and a half. These men will trot from one cné of town to the other to take measures ard to Teceive the cus- tomer's cloth; they do not mind a Uttle bullying, and they Will do anything to oblige, but they dote‘tipon cash payments. +o. + Shufile-Shoon and Ajnber Locks. Shuffle-Stioon.and Amber; Locks - Sit together building block Shuffle-Shoon is Old and gray, Amber Lock a Ifftle child, But together aw theif: play Age and Youth ape reconciled; And with sympathgtic glee Bulld their castles, fair to see. vhen I grow to Be a (So the wee one's pratth! ran) “I shall build a@ castie so— With a gatews Here a pretty vine shall grow, ‘There a soldier guard shall’stand; And the tower shall be so high Folks will wondor by-and-by! Shuflle-Shoon qui ‘Yes, I know; ‘Thus T builded ago! Here a gate and there a wall, Here a window, there a door; Here a steeple wondrous tall eth ever more and morel And the years have leveled low What I builded long ago!” So they gossip at their play, Heedless of the fleeting One speaks of the Tong azo, Where his dead hopes buried Me; One with chubby cheeks aglow Prattleth of the By-and-I y side they build their blocks— I Amber Loc Side Shut see From the Dallas (Texas) Time: Willetts. What's Blobsor Gilletts—“‘He isn’t doing anything. He’s got a government position.” DR, SHADES DISCOVERY | For Consumpion---Curing Promi- nent People. SLOW PROGRESS OF TRUTH What Cong~essman Wise Has to Say About the Treatment in His Own Case. From the Washington Times. ‘The Times reporter has been interviewing promi- nent people who have been cured of consumption and others who are yielding to treatment. Reformers and progressive men often wonder at the slow progress of truth, But when all the diffi- culties are understood the wonder is that truth akes any progress at all, One of the difficulties hat truth has to encounter is illustrated In the apathy on the part of the medical profession and their friends in the face of the facts and truths brought out in the investigation of Dr. Shade’s discovery in the suc wl treatmenth of the larg- est percentage of consumptives ever brought to the attention of the public In this or any other country. acts and truths that cannot be denied. The time ‘as when many diseases that are now curable were known to be incurable, so that the mere as- sertion that consumption an in- curable malady is no argument or evidence that it fs incurable now. Among the many es inter- viewed who are willing to have their names given to the public benefit of those suffering with Iung diseases is the Hon. Morgan R. Wise, from Pennsylvania, who is in the clty now, and ts ene of Dr, Shade’s patients. He speaks in the L t teems of Dr. Shade and his success in the management of his case. Mr. Wise sald: “I have been suffering with an aggravated form of throat aud lung trouble for ten was consile for the years, especially during the last four years. cough and expectoration has been increasing in se- veri I was gradually losing strengt during the night and 1 and 2 o'clock after midnight. I had become very much reduced in strength ard flesh—from 180 pounds to 140 pounds. Since putting my case into the hands of Dr, Shade, 1282 14th street, two months ago, I have improved amazingly. I should call it solid and permanent improvement. My stomach gave me trouble for years, so that I was unabie to digest food. After eating, coughing spells would not allow me to re- tain my food, and I lost strength day by day. However, since taking the mineral treatment for consumption, as preseribed by Dr. Shade, I began improving in a short time, so that at present, after two months’ treatment, I weigh 156 pounds and gaining every day, which fs a remarkable im- h troubled me mostly morning mostly 1 cot twee earls provement over my conditien for years past. Now 1 am getting strong and vigorous again, and I faithfully believe in the treatment, as the remedies immediate contact with the diseased I certainly expect a new lease come in lungs and throat. of life, I can walk for hours without fatigue. 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You are stopped at the very outset of your search by the sign, ‘Rooms to Rent—for Gentlemen Only,’ a sign, by the by, that is steadily growing in the frequency of its appearance all over the city. A girl friend of mine came in from the country last week to study short- hand, and she told me that some of her ex- periences in trying to get a room were most mortifying. In some places she was put through a catechism that was either insulting or laughable, she said, just as she was in mind to regard it; in other places she was told point blank that she could only be admitted with references; while it seemed to her that all the neatest houses presented the warning announce- re I have spoken of—‘For Gentlemen Only.’ ‘My friend’s story struck me go forcibly that I repeated it to my landlady and asked her if she imagined the experience was an sual one, 0, my dear,’ she said—you know I have been with her five years—I do not think it was. You see, we hav to be v careful about admitting single women into our houses. We have always had to be, but we are obliged to be es- pecially so now since the recent moral housecleaning, for it stands to reason that a woman has got to have shelter, no mat- ter how bad she is, and harrying her out of one place doesn’t put her out of exist- ence. That's one reason why we have to be especially careful just now. “«Another reason is that so many young girls and women are pouring into New York to try to earn a living, or to study something that will give them a start—just like your friend, my dear—and economy is such a necessity with them that they are driven into little tricks of light housekeep- ing, and that’s something we don't like. We put up with it when it is managed with exceptional neatness, when it is very light, or when there is per! one case of the kind in the house; but when it comes to every room being turned into an amateur kitchen and the house smelling like a com. bination of cabbage, coffee and coal oi why, then it’s about time to stop the whole thing. It has got so that every time we see a woman’s trunk come into the house we wonder whether it contains a coal-oil stove, a spirit lamp and chafing dish, or a cast- iron heater and a rubber pipe for tapping our gas jets. I say we because I have spoken to other landladies on the subject, and we are all of the same opinion. ‘Lastly, woman though I am, I must say that men make much more desirable room- ers. They don’t complain, except under extreme provocation; they don’t receive visitors, except at very rare intervals, and they are only in their rooms to sleep, ex- cept on Sundays or when they are sick. “‘So, you see, my dear,’ my landlady con- cluded, ‘there are several reasons why it is hard for single women to get rooms in nice houses and in desirable parts of the city. It seems hard, I know, but we have got to protect ourselves, you know, and really the woman question is just as much a problem to us as it is to Lady Henry Somerset and the rest of them, If any other of your girl friends are coming to town you would be doing good work if you were to advise them not to think of starting out to look for rooms without being provided with some simple guarantee of respectability and with a cast-iron assurance that they will go out to their dinners.’ ”’ soe The True Test of Nerve. From the New York Sun. “I used to think,” said Mr. Gratebar, “when I read of generals calmly dictaring dispatches amid the carnage and uproar of battle, what, nerve! But now as I try to write a letter here at home with the two older children in the parlor playing on the piano and singing with the vigor and voice of youth, the two younger children in the dining room learning their lessons for the morrow. ‘One times one is one; two times two is two; three times three is three,’ end ‘Did the cat catch the rat? No, the cat did not catch the rat; why not the cat catch the rat?’ with a carpet sweeper cbli- gato by Mrs. Gratebar and an occasional variation by the two younger children racing through the hall, coupled with a grand instrumental and vocal staccato in the parlor, why, I say to myself, ‘No, no; the true test of nerve comes not in the stormier scenes of life, but amid the ce- lightful repose of home.’ ” ————_+e+. Really Grateful. 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Coesose hon Se ae ee EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER CO. % SosSosiosioctosioosiote PLAYING TRICKS ON PATIENTS. ing a power ck People Sometimes Tell Whop-| mal. pers to Their Physicians. “One meets with many odd freaks of human nature in my profession,” said a physician to a writer for The Star. “‘Per- haps the most common fs the weakness of lying to the doctor. When a person goes to a medical man to be treated, the sensi- ble thing is obviously to help him to judge of the case by giving all details as to pains and other symptoms with as much accu- racy as possible. That anybody should try to deceive the physician to whom he or she is applying for advice seems the height of absurdity. Yet I do assure you that it is done s9 constantly that we have always to be on our guard. Women are much more given to that sort of folly than men are. I have a lady on my list of patients who is truthful enough, I doubt not, in all other affairs; but she does rot hesitate to mis- lead me as far as she can by false state- ments respecting her own maladies, though she is extremely anxious to get well. I confess that it is a psychological puzzle. “Besides the people who deliberately and willfully tell lies to the doctor, there are others who are misled to an astonishing extent by their own imagination. I will cite a case in point. Only yesterday a lady came to see me professionally for the first time. She told me that her vision was very bad. Her eyes looked all right, and I tried her sight by means of a card with printed letters of various sizes. From across the room she was unable to read even the biggest of the letters. I put a pair of glasses in front of her eyes, and she at once exclaimed: Merely Imaginary. “‘Oh, doctor! That is wonderful! see ever so much better now.” “In tact, she was able to read all am,’ I said. helped your “Naturally, trouble was went away of mind. as usual, in excitement. appeared in Lrain, one side. ferent from ness. would seek I can of the tha letters, down to the very smallest, exhib- of vision quite up to the nor- “This is certainly very surprising, mad- ‘The spectacles which have sight so much are nothing more nor less than common window glass.’ she was very much aston- ished, and would not believe me at first. But I convinced her at length that her entirely imaginary, and she in a decidedly pleased state The Hair Did It. “It does not always do, however, to be-so frank with v! This morning a lady who is a regular patient of mine called upon me. She was, ictims of such hallucinattons. a state of intense nervous Another new symptom had her case. She was convinced that something was the matter with her because her head was tender on By ch: that her hair was arranged in a way dif- ce I happened to notice her customary fashion, and doubtless that was the reason for the sore- Most women part the hair in a fresh place is apt to make the scalp sore for 4 time. simply because the hairs are turned in a new direction. “J said nothing about that to my patient, seve to suggest that she should wear her hair in the old fashion. scription of something harmless. Nothing more was needed, because the woman is in first-rate health, and there is nothing at all the matter with her physically. would never do fer me to tell her that her maladies are purely imaginary. so she would not believe me. and she have noticed that to It is I gave her 2 pre- But it If I did another physician. “In cases like this the conscientious medi- cal practitioner finds nothing n to humor the patient. beter to do THE PUPILS ARE NEVER From Fliegende Blatter. Inspector—*How is it that you maintain such excellent and yet never resort to corporal punishment?” ‘Teacher—“Oh, easy enough. Whenever the boys are un liver oil. The effect is better than wh!pp " . WHIPPED. discipline in your school iy i dose them with cod