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Show WOMEN GAMBLERS OP YORE Lord Kenyon's Threat Proof Practice Was Common 100 Years Ago. However ono may deplore tho present craze for gambling among women, It can at lenet be urged In their favor that they do not in-dulgo in-dulgo their love of cards to anything like tho same extent u did tholr sex u century ago. when Lord Kenyon made his ramou scathing scath-ing comments from tho bench and threatened that any women convicted before him of public pub-lic gumlng "should certainly exhibit themselves them-selves In tho pillory, though they should be tho first ladles In tho land." , Only a short time, beforo hie lordship maiio thin sevcro threat three leaders of the world of fashion ladlen of high rank and moving In tho moot oxalted of social circles had each been fined &0 for making their houses confers of gambling for high stakes, and It was stated at tho llmo that ihcru woro hundreds of otljer great ladles whoso drawlng-roomo were nothing noth-ing Ioj than gambling Infomos. whoro lens of thousands of pounds were lost nnd won In a single night and tho floors of which, when dawn broke, were artrevvn nnklo deep with CI1"Tlicro Is scarcely a houio of any Importance," Import-ance," wroto a chronicler of the time, "the hostess of which hub not her faro bank, and whero tho world of fashion. Including royal princes and princesses, does not concroguto dully to play for tho highest stakes It is notorious that many of theso ladle add tens of thousands of pounds yearly lo their pin money In this dlbcredltablo foahlon." Nor wus this oncouragument of gambling by women any Innovation, for u couple of generations earlier It was. a common thine for ladles of rank to open gambling-houses for the entertnlnmant of their aristocratic friends nnd tho plenishing of (heir own purses and this they did In defiance of the law. Tit-Bits. |