Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-01-29 | Page 6 | Bets on a Boy, but Gets a Girl as Well

BETS ON A BOY, BUT GETS A GIRL AS WELL NKW YORK, Jan. 20. Francois Barlerin, chef at the Cafe Martin, has liecn presented with twins. $'27 anil :i lot of trouble. The trouble if the tinv boy and girl be omitted comes beeause of a bet the laiTier made with Henri Mamet, another chef in the establishment, es-tablishment, whose owner recantlv announce. an-nounce. 1 that he would give $l'i0 to each ot his employees who married and other $l'iO if a bab.v blessed the union. Htirlerin expected "a little boy " and was so delighted at the prospect that Mamet said, satiricallyt 'How do you know it's going to be a bov ' ' ' "I'll V'Ct 1'J." it's a boy." said the chef. His colleagues took the bet. 'It-' wa twiin a boy mid a girl, riarlerm demanded the money. Mamet said his friend hadn't won the bet. Kminent sporting authorities were akcd concerning tlie rules yoverning the bet. Not a Solomon among then; i nuld solve ihe problem. So Barlerin tvili gie Mamet .12." and Mamet till give Barlerin $12". And there you arc.