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Show CRIED WHEN SHE LEARNED $1 BET BROUGHT HER '$14,481 "Lady Luck" " &? 7-7- SEATTLE. All?. 9. "I like to take a chance. That's how It Happened. Hap-pened. I guess," says Mario Wal- , iace. A few days ago she "took a chance" on an English horse race. The chance cost her $1. And now she is worth $14,496. "I can hardly believe that all that monev is mine, or that it came to me thru a litle thing like a dollar bet." Miss Wallace is a typical stenographer, stenog-rapher, in a customs and ship brokers' brok-ers' office. She is blonds and 20. There are thousands of working Kirls just like her in all but one respect. She "took a chance." On a visit to Victoria, B. C, Miss Wallace ventured her dollar wagei. buying a tic'.t in the "Stewards Cup race, run a Goodwood, England. Eng-land. Her number was 898 the horse "Fleeting Memory." Returning to Seattle, she forgot the incident. And then, one morning, morn-ing, a bond salesman called at hei office. "I'd like to sell you some I good securities." be said. I "Why?" asked Miss Wallace, ln- noceivtly. "I have no money to ln- vest." The salesman was amazed. "Haven't you heard that you had won nearly $15,000 on a horse race?" he asked. The gill stared at him. It was not eusy to convince con-vince her. And then her incredulity gave way to joy, so completely that she laid her head on her desk and sobbed. "I just couldn't help crying," cry-ing," she said, "altho I was ashamed to weep with anybody looking." When work was done for the day, i sho went to Victoria to claim her I money. Mario Wfiluue, who won v on a si nice ticket. I "Gee," she says, "it sure Kern wonderful to have that much, n a wonderful sensation. But r cured. I'll put my money into n securities and never take a chai. again. Lightning never sink twice in the samp place." |
