Show " i - THE — " " - ST A NDARD-EXAMINE- R i r ' I ' - ' ' OGDEN i " ' f £4 iv y iii ri ii ii mn u y n t chi ? www w e y y ii rtitauvdl acwyy luuy Villi ImV'"1 Ii fi mihimmj now Smart Society Gamblirig" Carried the mm I w w it "When you become enslaved by th gambling mania yon care for nothing lse I used to like dancing and the theatre now I'd rather sit in on a game of cards than do anything else I knew"'— From Mrs Stein's Confessions Here She Is ating Pensively et the Cards That Caused Iler So Much Trouble A ' II' ' "l!-- Banker's Beautiful Wife Into Hectic j ' Sessions a All-Nig- ht Maze of Debts and Finally JAIL! everish 1 1(1 a wv- - 111' 11 Ik r'W t rt t al J lTie:P5a VkkT Vl!l Ml rr- V a" fl 11 r:WSft ::v-jS:¥- t - f "1:1 V :l — — JT VbW fl''H i2Hf£?r' V Jis" v- -' HWH 1 5fw Artist Louta Btedermann'a Impression ot the Card Deck to King and Queen from Symbolize Chicago's Poker Craze with a Photograph of Judge Joseph Sa bath Who Tried to Reconcile the Steins Between the Two Figure stakes but that Is nsuaL My life was a round of bridge parties for there was a game every day of the week either at the home of one 6f the members of our set or at a hotel or smart - ClUb o amazing society of Mrs Annette Stein popularly known as "Chicago's fleeing poker queen" She is the beautiful and cultured wife ot millionaire She is thirty her husband is sixty He is the! former president of the State Commercial and Savings Bank of Chi I cago v: Mrs Stein was thrust into the national spot-ligwith dramatic suddenness when she was arrested by her husband and taken from a train as she waa 'about to leave Chicago He instituted a divorce action against berj She said she was running away from hef stupendous gambling! losses her husband asserted that her arrest frustrated an elopement FOLLOWING are the ht with another man1 The next day Mrs Stein made disclosures about smart set gambling that shook Chicago to its foundations Her story as given here is account of the first detailed and be given to KNOWS them conditions as she to the general public il ted Tk lftiSOW- i 9k f"- - ITf t 1 - f- 5 ? fl ' v " s f -' Meanwhile my husband and 1 continued to drift farther apart for we had no true community of interests As he gave me little if any spending money there was an added incentive to play for my winnings came In very handily They were small but they helped out Then the women ! knew took up poker and so did L We used to play bridge in the afternoons and poker in the evenings'' After a time my interest in bridge was effaced by my gffeater passion for poker During the first year at pokei I was frightfully lucky — 1 think 1 must nave cleaned op at least $7000 that year In fact my luck was so that my friends began to fear me Ehenomenal time my husband had some financial reverses and I devoted my winnings to keeping op our home We women became very good at poker PT1 venture to say that the wives of most wealthy Chicagoans can hold their own with their husbands at the game nowadays They have mas- ' tered the technique by intensive oUfyin? during v the past two of three years Often we played all night We would buy a $25 stack of chips at the start About one- - V' thirty In the morning we would call "Time outl" for i refreshments —perhaps thirty minutes During that £rst year J averaged ahout $25 a day in winnings! jit sounds funny doesn't It this Idea of wives ttaying up all night at poker? It might almost seem like revenge on the hus bands who had stayed away from borne to play in former years I have known husbands to 'phone frantically to the homes of their wives' friends trying to locate the wives in the middle ©f the night r I My own husband reproached me but J paid no Attention to him nor would I have paid any attention' to anyone at that time I was too deep in the game After my first good year the Jinx came— 1 j ! j i ANNETTE STEIN Series of Newspaper Interyievrti) not bridge is the rage among the POKER of Chicago society The days when men used to call up their wives and alibi themselves so they could stay out for poker sessional are gone — in Chicago The conditions are reversed the women do the calling up I have sat in on games that began in the afternoon and lasted until daylight The losses were terrific and the players ready to drop from exhaustion at the close Yet the next pay we i were back at it again hard we woifk rich us idle but call They when the poker mania hits us I knpw one woman who is said to have lost $400000 at gambling I myself have seen her drop $1000 at a single poker session I attribute all my troubles to gambling The my truth is that when I came to love cards I lostwith I never fell in love love for my husband as he says I simply gave up inotherman — home money clothes jewels — beeverything1 cause of a terrible passion for gambling that I r sould not control 4 Curiously enough it was my husband who first unwittingly putt me in the way of gambling He doesn't care for cards but he introduced n athletic club tn e to his friends at a and I found myself in a set passionately devoted tobridge as a recreation Perhaps the real basis ot my drifting away from my husband lay In the disparity of our ages I was twenty one when I married him and toe was fifty-tw- o He was "set in his ways" and for much care didn't gaiety butwe got along well a while for 'guite However our story up to a certain point is the old one of the rich middle-age- d pusiness man who is interested only in his worlcfapd the I wife roung pleasure-lovin- g me ave husband ' his In spite of money my — only a small amount to run the home on $20 me while-no spendand he gave 1 week for a ing money - He was always nagging at me about :l xpenses During the first! four years of our imarrieda life we went out together and entertained nagging great deaL In spite of his occasional At the time he asked fits I was fairjy happy the wives of his friends at the athleticjlclub to teach me to play bridge I didn't knowj! a lack - ! from a queen Soon however bridge became moreji than a was a cult with all of us with' me Fastime to it easily Itstudied it with care and a year later I won the women's bridge champion-ihi- p of the athletic club Bridge Became My Life i played It talked It nd dreamed it My husband may have protested infatuation but he did not say much against my because I did not lose money at bridge My terrible losses werei all associated witB poker "which came later Of course we always played bribes for Gainng Craze By MRS CAs Told in Eich Chicago Wires It CjotMeSaysMrs Stein all-nig- ht vfj Vyf? rri " Ii V ' - V v :- -- - V'iw ' h ' "s " s wor and lost won and lost but 1 never could get ahead of the game Of course I had spenit my winnings of the first year thinking jto go on in the same way f A I should be soablewhen I began to lose heavily I had no reserve to draw upon When I began to lose consist ently I wondered whether I had walked under a ladder ox some Often I would thing borrow frpm one girl to i w- -' another I also gave ray U's which T would pay up when I won Oh those dreadful I O U's those horrid little bits of used to Eaperl They in my me I st ow''' sleep 1 used to count them over and over ' again— $50 1 v - 'X " ' J?y here 1 00 there $60 0 and sometimes $1000 The ? f c¥ x v I ' ! Latest Photograph ot Annette Stein the Beautiful J Mrs Young Wife of Sixty-Year-O- tf II if N V i'' Chicago Millionaire Taken the Day After Her Husband Had Her Removed from a Train She Said She Was Trying to Run Away from Her t Gambling Debts f I saddest won $35 in the afternoon and $75 in the This was at evening a game with a fifty-ce- i I i even thing is the delusion under which the vie- tim lives She or he always thinks that luck will turn It does but never for long I had a run of good ruck a month ago It started one afternoon at— -- a hotel apartment 1- vts 1 1 : nt limit My lock held for a week and I think 1 was ahead about $200 Then it turned a and one Saturday at private session I lost my $200 and $300 more O u t all day - and-nig) poker sessions ht Brxpp ll $ $200 — j! X f Heatjline from a Chicago Newspaper Printed Just After Mrs Stein's" Arrest and Iler Gambling Disclosures flad Shocked and Shaken the Smart Set of That City well-know- ii Grips Cmtni latrbt 192 were fn private homes and apartments but a favorite rendezvous of our set was at a North Shore hotel j You may wonder who they are If Iished their names it would cause a furor Their husbands are prominent in the business and professional life of Chicago j In this fashionable hostelry our set played i regularly — sometimes draw sometimes studt j Draw poker-with- ' deuces wild gave me poker the game that carried the greatest thrill of my f gambling career It was table stakes and in! f the pot when the showdown cam was S0C It was four o'clock in the morning — after an j siou We had begun to play bridge ! in the afternoon then W4& had tapered offf early at the dinner hoar with tea and sand-- f slightly wiches served while we continued to play At about 6even in the evening we got down to! f poker with real gambling gusto For nine hours the five of us that remained from the bridge game — there were twelve women ! originally but seven couldn't alibi to theiT hus- bands and had to go home — had been sittings around the green8 baize table The hostess' j I husband was playing with us We had started with draw pokei'—jacks or limit We had raised better— with a fifty-ceit to a dollar then five dollars Three of the party were losing heavily check books were working overtime and they wanted action So l we shifted to deuces wild with no limit I had dealt the hand and the woman on my left hid opened the pot for ten dollars The next a nteedtn dollars and the hostess' husband! jwho Rit across from m'e rai?ed it twenty dollars! making a total of thirty dollars he had to con-- j tribute to the kitty I knew he had a hand Thei woman next to him studied her cards and decided to stay Then I looked at my hand I held three naW nral aces and a jack and a trey I knew it was! a good hand and with any luck I would have a hand worth the limit I saw my hostess' husband's raise and tilted dollars but still everyone de- the pot twenty-fiv- e cided to remain in the game and they calledj i j I all-nig- ht J nt ! for cards - The woman ot my left bet ten dollars the next one "saw" lier hand and the man raised the pot thirty dollars The woman next to him dropped out I had' a' hunch that I needn't' worry about the woman that my real opponent So I was the man And I felt be was blufSnjj - saw his thirty dollars and - raised - him fifty m i dollars It was between the man and myself Ha saw my fifty dollars and raised ma another fifty dollars Then I knew he was holding! something My instinct told me I had bette get out He had four aces — a natural and three deuces There was six hundred dollars in the pot and J lost two hundred and twenty-fiv- e dollars So the game ended and I weht home— Just In time to have breakfast with my husband 1 When you become enslaved by 'the gambling5 mania you care for nothing else 1 used to and the theatre but now I'd rather sit in on a game of cards than do anything else I know t j Bridge and poker parties comprise 89 per cent of the social recreation in the best Chicago homes I've gambled in the fashionable North Shore suburbs and in the fashionable ' clubs in the Loop know women who have pawned their feweli and bought paste diamonds so they could foot their husbands and go pn with the game" They i have even borrowed on their cars In their fun and evening gowns they are living a lie They' look rich but they haven't as much pocket money as a shopgirl It all goes in gambling ' I was trying to get away from Chicago simply to escape from a mountain of gambling debts when my husband had me arrested It isn't true I was trying to elope I am not interested in any other man I am interested in cards Did I take any oil stock and liberty bonds? I did pawn many of my belongings—! No have $2000 in pawn tickets —and I' did charge several gowns and two fur coats to my husband's account before'I boarded the ' train but I did nnt ltak nnv Rprarities Debts (debts debts — when shall 1 ever es cape them - like-dancin- so-call- ed - |