Show GAMBLING ot IN EUROPE cluba aad pa palt alts at tue the baccarat chevaux 11 in public except at monte culo cu a irlo lo in F europe arop Ur op such as roulette and table om gambling bling has long disappeared et coir conge baccarat which is to the of course draw poker f what IBur european open n gambler is played in the american wan ame the is to td secluded places other in and clubb stakes but ant the tor for very ver V high often everywhere ry where regla against pub laws ar art casino people the and so ho sam gambling bl ing other agencies for bave hi TO to res resort ort stranger to and lightening the musing amusing i bis perse ars yrs w 09 1 saw te journal an account of the then novel game called petits petite chevaux this consists of a mechanical nee course arranged to run by electricity niue nine horses are placed nine folded numbers are put in an oval cush cushion on passed around at the end of a long handle le among the players each ea h player takes tak one of these folded numbers wi bers corre sp spending to one of the horses which h are likewise numbered from 1 to 9 the price varies fron from i 1 to 2 francs fran all the tickets dislo ed of a spring is touched and off po go the h da dashing slang round and rotc th the tink at break bieak nock speed but separating as they go when the momentum is h one horse hore is found in the lend lead lit lie who holds bolds the number corresponding to this horse gets the pool hs 1 two por eions held back for the hank to V vary 1 I v this scheme of opan op n and hirant robbery boas are son eti s for horses borses and a yacht race bract takes the place of the horse race thus bus a man inan is given giren the option of losing his money on water equally with vilh that of losing it on land such a game could gukl never lic ver have existed in america it Is too sim ply obviously absurd against the play er but at last the fat witted european Er along with the gullible stranger has got onto it as the saying is is and les chevaux and ansour du lac no longer suffice to lure the unwary vin wary but even in europe there is a certain progress so the casino people have added to their old racecourse race course coune lay layout out an appendage or annex w which alch looks very like gambling this is on either side of the machine or table on which lu in bright gold figures appear the numerals to correspond with the horse you ou bet on one of these numbers there are nine of thern them if you win you get five to one if you bet on three in a bunch you get even money in order to show however that this Is not gambling there is a limit from 1 to 5 francs according to the wealth or size of the casino or Kuru seal I 1 am told that at the more ambitious of these and late at night when the no us crowd has gone there Is a good deal of very steep rolling but as I 1 never sit up late nt at night myself I 1 can give no direct nv en n this point it will be seen seau at once that the sole merit of this method of pretending pret endine not lot to gamble lips lies in the bold transparent robbery which it embodies it la is worse than a mock auction or a church raffle if I 1 wanted to teach a child to be a sport and to plant in its young nud and tender bosoni bosom the horm lovo of gambling I 1 would bring him here and stake him |