Show RA W POKER FIGHTS FOR STANDING IN H FRANCE Argot ig t of Game Makes Bid id fo for Entry Into D. D Dictionary P f rII Oct 23 The The French academy ost austere body I in the world O d is con con- J hf the ea admission SI of re ret t the words rJ full Ii Iio o ouse se i straight flush and Joker i to the I official French n dictionary i t The The- movement to make a these words wide spread pread of the r french followed the l oker craze during which the game Mark Marl wain said was the truest American ra has attained enormous R VO tartly ker is not only played everywhere 5 5 i l' l farts but Is encroaching on the right right- i ui i 1 territories of dominoes and In numberless cafes diCes de la comerce com com- erce throughout the republic com I I American soldiers initiated the French ollus into the Intricacies of the game game- bringing away with them I many ma hard ean earned earned d sous and sous-and and no now V the tM demobilized are back teaching I their fathers and grandfathers in the lit littie little lit lit- tie tle towns and villages I The American phrases the combinations combinations combinations I are Core used for Cor lack of possible trans trans- lation In Paris poker was first Introduced by Benjamin Franklin first United States State ambassador who taught members of oC the court that 1 poker had dominoes beat 11 a amile amile mile To this day a group of white ha haired I j F Frenchmen descendants n W of the club r Franklin founded fOUl meet neet every night at I 6 o'clock on the first floor of the Taverne Royale and pIa play poker with many ejaculations ejaculations ejaculations lations and the most absorbed I ness until it is time for dinner They I number among them two millionaires the head of a famous dressmaking firm a aI senator and a famous socialist author I and they play with sous as ns chips and a aI limit of fifty centimes centimes about about 7 cents at atI I present rate of oC exchange exchange on on the game I One of Franklins Franklin's peculiarities was a contention that a flush beat a full house tha I and even now the he majority of Frenchmen I that play way |