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Show LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHI, UTAH k3O!0OGO13i HOW ? O v . " m 1 am m tt.j .. "V. siMr k-i- v This American Institution; Women Like It, Too! By JOSEPH W. La BINE She might have been hypnotized, but slot machines don't jctually hypnotize people. The girl with the little red hat tossed quarter after quarter to a mechanical pickpocket, drunk with her desire to win. she had paused for a moment, if someone had taken pencil fed paper to show her how slot machines work, how 80 cents it of every dollar goes to line somebody else's pocket I But the girl in the little red hat was playing a hunch. She iought hunches always win because last week she won $5 on a Irse called "Rainy Weather," aving placed the bet in the stenographers in Queens contribute pddle of a thundershower. their daily share to a business Jfomen will gamble, it seems, that grosses $100,000,000 a year. A zi if you think daddy is the conservative estimate is that women are responsible for half this investk one who spends his at a bookie, take a look ment. Next most popular game and I the record! New York isn't alone in this is the the law notwith- - sport known as Bingo. From Portpambling, 1 Ore., to Portland, Maine, men anaing, nas grown mio an land,women and alike gather nightly, ofttitution of the first water, en at church socials, to gamble :hing millions of dollars a for small stakes at the Bingo board. $v pay-See- - 1 of . 1 A from the pockets of those who afford it. Some favor legal- . u i j luiici ics uu uic iiicuij' tiicii KHA ll gamble anyway. They claim jih,offers the poor a chance to get thereby making for less What they forget is iat "small money is sucker mon-- f ill ; yeu-wi- f-- in the gambler's parlance. Big racket are stakes and faners in the betting ose who start with big 5a afford to lose. Business in Bookies. tour around the jantry shows that bookmaking on se races is thriving despite its igal status. Chicago's city coun- set a precedent last winter by ??alizing bookies to operate out-- i e the race tracks provided they :y an annual license fee. But the te of Illinois clamped down on scheme to fill Chicago's as Ohio, Maryland, Calinia and Michigan have rejected Miliar proposals in the past. Several southern California cities Kently decided to license bookies ;Iees ranging from $2,500 to $5,000. the appellate court stepped in i ruled the ordinances violated rfifornia's racing act. New Orleans ? 8 bookmaker's paradise even ugh they operate illegally. In wisville between 250 and 500 book maker ' '' . . JfJlllJ Ul(1 ... .'All...'', thpv operate at ease despite Jeats by the state. . 1 out this is a story about gambling general and women in particular. story is more interesting a few years ago there were 'al and moral taboos against fmbling, while today Mother ives Junior's buggy on the while she walks into the corner and places a bet on the fifth jje e at Suffolk Downs. Fortunately fs situation isn't commonplace pughout the country. It's con-- d mostly to large cities and for 3oratory purposes let's put New under our microscope. Here is a town where it was once, ladylike to sit down on the floor throw the dice. I. Housework Is a Bore. this metropolis, where Friend sband spends his days at the C"ce it's often easy for the wife to pome bored with housework, knit-and reading. To satisfy her fsire for something new a huge .mbling business has arisen, g exclusively to women and I Big 1A You buy a board, probably for 25 cents, on which are printed a group of squares, each carrying a number. As tiie announcer calls numbers you look for them on your board. If you have an unbroken line of numbers called up and down, across, or diagonally on your board, you win. That is, provided nobody else in the game calls "Bingo!" before you. The prize is probably a $2.00 blanket and the total "take" for the game may be $5.00. It's pretty fair profit. two-minu- te ... bt in.;,, Aren't the Only Devotees of l mm "Free" Bathroom Scales. New York's estimate for Bingo is year spent by women alone. It becomes a fiendish $35,000,000 a i ei m wai i i : and down. This situation has produced a queer type of woman customer. One wizened old lady arrives promptly each morning at a brokerage house and sits in silence until closing time, seldom trading. Women are suckers for horse races. They play hunches, placing their money on a horse because they like his name or because he hasn't won a race for two years. There's no way of estimating how much money they bet, or what percentage of the total annual investment 0 comes from them. But half the daily calls coming into telephone rooms of dope sheets in New York are from women. If women are allowed only 10 per cent of the annual $350,000,000 total bet at New York tracks and bookies, it still amounts to $35,000,000, which isn't chicken feed. Sometimes They Win. Sweepstakes take millions out of the country every year and half of it is said to be paid by women. The figures for New York stand at grand total per year. A favorite plan is for several women employed in the same factory to buy "shares" in a sweepstakes ticket. Bridge, the genteel game of club women, has become a gambling business in New York and other cities. Sometimes the stakes are only a dime for the entire afternoon's play; sometimes a twentieth of a cent a point. Again, some women play for 25 cents a point but they must be "well heeled" before trying it. New York is infested with bridge "sharpies," professional players who make their living gambling. Sometimes they sit in as partners to men (always poor bridge players, they say) who want to make an impression. From bridge it's only a short jump to poker, a traditionally masculine game that is winning women followers in New York. "Poker go up oJ? Ruth Wyeth Spears most economical way to a slip cover is to make a you pattern first. Do this before sevbuy the material, then fold eral bed sheets the width of the fabric you wish to buy, and lay the pattern pieces on them to estimate the amount of goods needed. Some of the pattern pieces may be made cf paper, though unbleached muslin is better for parts that must be fitted. Allow 1 inch at all seam lines to insure an easy for a tuck-i- n all fit, and around the spring seat as shown here at A. Cut the sections with straight edges, then pin them in place and shape them to follow the lines of the chair as at B. 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You'll be delighted to see how easy it is, and what a saving it means to sew your own by means of these pat three-quart- er sleeves. order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., 149 New Montgomery Ave., San Francisco, Calif. Patterns 15 cents (in coins) Send your each. OGDEN, UTAH S50 Rooms 350 Baths - $1.00 to 14.00 Family Rooms for 4 persona - - M.Ob Air Cooled Lounge and Lobby Grill Room . . Coffee Shop . . Tap Boom Home of Rotary Klwanls ExeentlTes " Exchange Oplimua Chamber of Commerce and Ad Club. "20-JO- HOTEL BEN LOMOND Coma as you are T. E. Fitzgerald, MgT -- 3 cof-jus- t, l""7- -' -- , ft ill SALT The Real Thing Hairdresser Shall I give you a shampoo, madam? Mrs. Newlyrich I can afford the best a genuine poo or nothing at all. ji His Lesson promised you a bicycle if you worked hard at school pnd parsed. And you have failed. What have you been doing? Tommy Learning to ride a RASPBERRY (VAf7 ' , c If? i ; v u f A Father ill J - h So Unprepared Husband (hearing burglar) Be quiet, dear. This is going to be a battle of brains. Wife Yes, but shouldn't you hae a weapon of some sort? a bike. The new couple is said to be well matched. She was a grass widow and he's a vegetarian. ca-Y- ig Native good money at it. A con-- ( estimate is t hat New 9lm ... "York invest half a billion dollars a m cnmhlint. ne policy racket" or "numbers" a polite form of larceny for the rise and downfall : . . many Z1" " ash a big-tim- e 'racketeer, is cv York woman's favorite of gambling. This is true J'"u can invest any amount be-.'- e ne Cent tn n hnnHrnH Hnllnrc women down in Harlem and Ro- Bill Haven't you ever kissed a pretty girl? f H What is the flavor of Ben mance? side-,iJi- k Softer, Please Indignant Customer Really, Mr. Sands, you get dearer and dearer every day. Grocer Not so loud, mum. My wife's powerful jealous. Miss Ethel Jupp, 21, one of three New York sisters who won $150,000 an Irish sweepstakes ticket, shown at the doorway of her apartment as she received a cablegram announcing her good fortune. MMSJsjpjlVBWWSjj urge, something like dope, and they flats" are commercial institutions go back night after night, satisfied where the girls may gather of an if their $3.00 investment nets them afternoon. Then there's dice, mah $2.00 bathroom scale. Stock market speculation isn't exclusively a man's game in New York and there are those who claim it isn't speculation at all. But women are heavy customers along Wall Street call it speculation or just plain "investment" and many of them spend five hours a day in brokerage houses watching the ticker tape and the exchange boards. The stork market is a big money game and most women gamblers are small players, being content merely to sit and watch the lines a jong and backgammon, besides such pastimes as rummy, pinochle, hearts and euchre. 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