The evening world. Newspaper, March 4, 1903, Page 13

HOW MONEY Is LOST BY THE BOOKMAKERS. “a; SEE that Davy Johnson, the bookmaker, says he lost $1,000,000 last year,” remarked the Cigar-Store Man. “He must fnave lost it in the United States Treasury,” com- mented the Man Higher Up. ‘I wont looking around town for some of it , last night and I couldn't find a bean. Whenever I hear a gambler make a yammer about being a million to the bad I begin to study the lists of peo- i ple that have engaged passage on an ocean liner for a loop-the-loop through Europe. The only gamblers I ever heard of going broke were the ones that had good press agents who got stories In the papers about how much of the cush they were putting in cold storage. “Of course, Davy Johnson is a plunger. He would bet on anything, "from the chances of snow on the Fourth of July to the probability of a brick coming down when it is thrown up. It is only a short time ago when ‘we had a talk about how much Davy got out.of that Bitters Boy from _ Pittsburg, young Hostetter. When they came to settle up the estate of the ‘Bitters Boy Davy Johnson put one of his hooks’ in and pulled out a hunk that left a hole as big as the opening under’ the Brooklyn Bridge. In his interview after he had cashed in he said that he had spent most of the summer with the good thing from Pittsburg, and how he had time to shovel $1,000,000 into the discard and clean up che Hostetter rake-off at the game time makes me think.” ,. “But Johnson has sold his membership in the Bookmakers’ Associa- » tdon,”’said the Cigar-Store Man. “Because a man sells his membership in the Bookmakers’ Association,” replied the Man Higher Up, “it is no sign that he needs the money. I heard a man say last night that Davy Johnson's spiel that he had lost a million in a year was made to grease the slides for the come-ons who will pack the betting rings in the race tracks about these parts next season. “It may be that Johnson is to the bad on the year, but if he is is, who got the money? Pick up a thousand men who have played the races on * the outside for a business in the last year and find out how many of them have got the price of a shave. Under the system they make book on these days a bookmaker can't lose unless he is a boodle incendiary. “Bookmakers don't lose at the track as a general thing unless they get * their share of the double-cross, You'd think that a bookmaker after a ses- sion in the afternoon at the track would be content to go back to town at < = night, sit out in a quiet place and talk about the high price of diamonds, . But they don’t do it. It {sa case of a hurry feed when the season is on and then a quick rush to the nearest gambling-house. “They know that the percentage is against them, but they sit in and “@ésault the bank until the porter closes the front doors. Then they have to get up early in the morning and see that the guys they are paying sal- aries to for riveting up the race-track cinches haven't been putting cracks * da the rivets. *,, “If Davy Johnson lost $1,000,000 last year they ought to put his statue “fm the Hall of Fame. There is no reason why the Eastern bookmaker ~bouldn’t ‘have all the money he can count. It is up to Johnson to show the Missourians in town where the cush went.” “Ig it possible for a gambler in New York to lose $1,000,000?” asked the Cigar-Store Man. “Not if he has got $1,000,000,” answered the Man Higher Up. "GOLDEN HAIR---BY M. S. PADEN. a Girl’s Tresses That Brought Wealth and Love. (epyright, 1903, by Daily Story Publishing Co.)7Golden to take her to the graduation OW still the man sits! Will he ever | exercises at the hall he looked at ner move again? twice as if to be sure she was the A lght wind stirs the moonlit] same girl, “faves outside the cabin window and| “Well, what is it?” she laughed snd they rustle and whisper. dimpled saucily. + gg Gdated on a cot in the corner, @ sitl-| What ig It—you?” he retorted. “What ie rred restiessly, His eyet| has happened? What have you done to “ggught the glow of the golden ha'y flow-| yourself? Has something happened? he fing over the PANLO.w repeated, eagerly, looking at her happy Poor Golden Hair—the mine had been | eyes sparkling so bewitchingly under her ,Bamed for her, Was this golden-haired|juxurlous golden pompadour, ‘ao that {Millie's life to be as jpiack a faiture as) you won't need to-to"— and he the mine had proven? touched the wonderful pompadour fear- Now there was revelation in the face,| fully with one finger, +p the very figure of the man alone past “Well, on the principle that the con- midnight, facing despair, with failure demned convict gets a square meal and back of him his last luxury,” she sa'd mischievous- The girl lay awake, thinking, thinkIng|ly. “I determined to spend my last dol- . ora girl's thoughts against a great, de-|lar on a shampoo—not the kind 1 have 4 Manding, threatening new world, a|beon used to giving it up in the creek, : world that could crush mon, ‘The stress|but the regular hairdresser sort—and of It was on her still next morning, and} @ ‘colffure,' ag they call what I call ‘fx- afte helping the busy mother set the|!nz’ {t, and this is one result. Do you day's household machinery in motion, | like it?” Amd she turned her nead and inducing the beaten man to Me/ daintily as a bird from side to side be- y down and dream again, she ran down to| fore his admiring eyes. the stream and laved her head in it#| “You look stunning.” was his satie- - gooling waters, factory reply, »> @pread out in the pun to dry, the| “But here's the miracle,” she went Yellow tresses shone Hike the heat of] 0M, her eyes dancing more gladly than ® tine: 80 thought a young man|é@ver. “The girl who did my hair was bringing wp the steep path and'at her| tho conversational kind of a female wide ‘before she covid can rer the golden] barber. She told me at lest that my Ringe into“neat cestraint, hair and scalp were powdered with real “Why didn't you whistle? I didn’t| Sold and asked how I washed it. I told ‘hear you coming,” she sald blushing, | her the only fixings it got was @ little “You remember my telling you that| 804 and that I washed it in the creek ¢ @enator Blayre’s daughter was with us| @t home, because the water was so nice ‘em our camping trip last month?] and sof / Well, she has lovely golden hair, with] “‘Oh!" whe gaid, ‘I've heard of them ‘thode peculiar bronze shades in it, like] Washing gold in the creeks: placer- Yed" gold, something lke yours, only|mining, you cali it, don't you?’ And *Rera is not quite so bright and beaut a eaten 3 . I don't think 1 yt imed, excited« eee 2 Soa R AnH AE Je aa ne "he creek | gravel” in probably 4 ; in of it, and the ‘fine four swe it isn't now,” and he laughed ghurned “up and t floating | by the re in, “It seeme she had typhoid fever | force of the urrent. our hair wou! Miing short hair, wore a—a—wall, | the strands 0 nd deposit on your ‘Wot exactly @ wig—’ poalp. Why, ts most likely a “4h switch? mine at a at ey, door, ae our wae f poor father been work hard Yes; I guess thit'’s wnat you call it, }and puting A ne fee in into Ute “Golden ‘Well, in trying to crows Deer Creek on| Hair Bway 0} mou ye ems slippery. Dowiders one day "when | tie Gulden, Halt, placer vas pay, det ‘we were all out fishing, she and one of | million conservative mi at ‘the other girls slipped and got into ee pretty deep water. We had a great LONDON’S FIRST BRIDE. ome pulling them out, and aie lost the} sre fret London bridge 1s said to have 4 , ot, Md she'd paid & small )igs, putit in 978. A bridge of wood wad constructed In 1044 and wae partly 1h email fortune!" He father's 80°) purned in 1M ‘The laut old bridge was @t midnight haunted her, At what| commenced about 1176 and completed in @aorifice had he stopped? Everything | iy99, ‘There were gate-houses and the fhad gone to “Golden Hair," the mina bridge waa lined with stores, was the Wat was ber crue] namesake, Would It) custom to hang the heads of criminals But be only appropriate to give this, 1, ‘The head ot itr ‘ uot, When he peara how the father had | 1905; pome home fs |ing the foot for taking @ step in walk- What He Should Weigh and How Tall He Should be at Birth; and the Ages at Which His Various Accomplishments Should Appear. ““ BOY or a girl?” A That is always the first question, and as invariably follows tie second: “What does it weigh " ‘Then in no set order come the series of questions as to which parent the fluffy pink, wriggling atom more closely resembles; the color of its eyes, of its future hair, &c. But the first two queries are all-important. To begin with the first of the two: the odds in this country are 1.06 to 1 that it will be a boy; according to Dr. J. B. De Lee, the famous Chicago spe- cialist. But as more boys die at birth or during the firet year than girls the average is fairly well maintained. In other words, more boys are born, but fewer girls die in infancy. Now, as to the point of weight: out of 400 babies born in one hospital only two weighed as much as ten pounds. Both were boys and one weighed ten pounds four ounces, while the other was four ounces heavier. But the American baby is larger than is his European brother. In this country the average weight at birth is seven and a quarter pounds for boys and seven for girls; while the European boy baby weighs at birth only seven pounds and his little sister but six and three-quarters. Everywhere the girl has the larger body and the boy the larger ‘head, An equally interesting baby-querry (but one that for some reason is seldom asked) is: ‘How tall is he?” Baby is laid on the scales almost as soon as he is born; but only statisticians think of measuring him, The average baby is about 20 inches tall at birth, The child that weighs 7 pounds at birth should be 19.5 inches tall, The normal baby may vary from that height up to 23% inches. Here are some measurements whereby it may be learned if baby is symmetrically formed, At first glance he 4s anything but symmetrical, the dwarfed arms and legs being ridicu- LETTERS. CASTORIA QUESTIONS, For Infants and Children, ANSWERS. | tho Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the A Coaric ey Signature To the Editor of The Evehing World: of y A says that the steamship Cedric is the largest ship afloat. 1 says it may be the largest, but not the longest. Which Is right? JAMES D. _ Ta 5 The Cedric has the greatest tonnage Eves, 8.15, a Tig omar taste Cain. rmage CIRCLE Sr 8 longest vessel. With & Bway, Heel Should Touch First. ALL-STAR | 4s tm oer at tan Bening yivpevite & A claims that the proper way of plac- Mate. he Re ing is to put the heel down first, B PASTOR’ S Ath a claims thet the toes should touch the Ly ground slightly before the heels. pa ee JQNORANT, | PUNTO MELVILLE & STRTBON No. Champion of America Only, Brigdway and 334 Stapet To the Editor of The Rvening World: Mhattane: 00. Pgh Td yeGet8. 15 Where Is No National Legal Holiday MAJRSTIC® GRAND, CIRCLE, Bi wa! To the Editor of The Byening World: 8 Mats ‘To-Day n National lege) holiday, in WIZARD OF OZ. ntry? ED. Bway & 30 Can Be ought at Any Beok Store. Weber & Fields’ ues wnat SoM oe To ihe Edior of The Evening World: THE Musical pe, ‘Can you tell me of any publication of | -AMsU TWIRLY: WHIRLY Saughable recitations, dialogues or a Burisae- THE BIG LITTLE VR pieces? 1. ©. U. MUCH, nA LED ver Aight 8.20. Ta'yamat Mate 2.90 v1 oust (THE LITTLE PRINCESS Te the Editor of The Brening World: RT EVERY SUN NIGHT. “What day of the week did May 81, 1564, ehe-VIOUA ALON footy Te'v come on? B. B. KE. Ne ry Wax, N UPS, as af pepe i ‘ EDEN DEN “et (atthe asthe ato ~p ie a ea myn ARTROPOLS fl ound Oita A Pat PO A he, Premier &eo. 9 mosaws, {WEST END Ji, (008 40, 1 rThace H, THOMPRON 6 Science Has : ae Last Discovered Chat Every Mother <x Already Knew About His Majesty the Baby TBesins Ta creep At 8 Menths lously out of proportion to‘the big head and trunk. The distance from the crown of the new-born baby's head to the bottom of his chin should be one-fourth the length of the body. With grown people the length of the head {is usually from one-seventh to one-ninth the height of the body. This will give some idea of the abnormal size of baby’s head, | Growth—rapid growth—begins at once, but along eccentrie lines. For instance, during the first three days after he is born baby loses weight. In the next four days of his first week on earth he should recover this loss, and at the end of the week weigh as much as at birth. From the age of one year up to ten years the child should gain from four to five pounds per annum; and from ten to sixteen years old the annual growth ought to be about eight pounds. This schedule gives the rate at which measurements and weight should Increase during the first twelve months of its life, taking a seven-pound baby as standard: Length, Weight, Girth months later baby should be able, with the help of a chair, to get to 7 Age. * inches. pounds, inches, ing posture. . At birth ... veo 1016 a8 By the time he is eleven months old he should be able to take One month 20.5 [= steps with help, and should walk unaided at fourteen months. At eighteen Two months ... 21 or months of age he ought to be able to walk or run with ease. Three months 2 = “Crowing"” begins usually by the time baby ts eight months old, and Four months 23 Bs) during the next two months he should master several easy words. By the Five months . 23.5 = time he is a year old he should be able to construct simple sentences. Six months ... 24 16 Few people who have not taken personal interest in children know that Seven months 24.5 rr jew babies shed a tear until they are three months old. The howls that Eight months 25 —s keep unsympathetic people awake aro wholly tearless. Nine months 25.5 _- Teeth are seldom cut before the seventh or eighth month, though ine E 26 aa stances are on record of the tooth-cutting process beginning at four montha, Ten months .. The two lower middle teeth are first to come. The four upper incisors follow, Eleven months - 26.5 = tho last” usually coming through y the tenth month; the second pair Twelve months bf Ww lower incisors following these in from six to ten weeks. The full set Muscular progress increases in somewhat similar proportion during the first year, and the unweildy sections of the helpless little body begin to learn tbeir first lessons in the law of co-ordination. begun almost from Dirth. ‘The earliest efforts are pathetically awkward and feeble, but progress !s “You may say," he says. “that steady. quire a habit, indicated in a pref tieth to the thirtieth month. head erect, Not firmly at first, but with only a few lapses into the Iimp- necked condition of earlier months, and he should sit up with ease at six months of age. About this latter time he has learned the use of his hands sufficiently to know enough to grab with tolerable accuracy for anything within reach, Creeping usually begins by the end of the eighth month, and one or two ably short time to a method of holdi tions from it will provoke protest. simply the absence of a person fro: ery because of it.” twenty “milk teeth” are usually through the gums anywhere from the twen» Dr. De Lee believes that acquiring habits of thought and action may be sees and hears, it tastes sweet and sour, and there are indications that odora By the time baby 1s three months old he ought to be able to hold his Erect It /pleacantly br uopleneansty, “At one week old the baby has intelligence. 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