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Show WOMEN ANU CHESS PLAYING. History Tells or No (ircat Cliess Players Anions Women. A great many new spapers are commenting- on the fact that history does not record a woman who has excelled in the game of chess. There is some-thin? some-thin? Strang? in the fact that only men have mastered this great frame. To become be-come proficient in thi frame one must have the cool, calculating faculty of the mathcmali. ian, the nerve of the professional iuinl'kr. and the face of a sphynx. In addition to this, one must have a great deal of time to devote de-vote to the study of the game. It is this last which makes the absence ab-sence of female chess players so curious, sa"s the Omaha World-IIerald. In this busy age men have no time to learn the game unless they steal it away from their business. A man in business must be at his office not later than nine a. m. Then he has to read the morning paper for an hour, talk politics until eleven, go out to lunch and remain until one p. m., take a country customer out to see the sights of the cits' until three p. m., return to the ollice and dictate- to the stenographer until four p. m., and then go home so utterly tired out that he feels cross, kicks the family cat across the sitting-room, viciously shakes the. furnace so hard that he breaks the grate, growls at his dinner, and finally goes down town and plays "freeze out" for the cigars in order to secure relief from the cares and vexations vexa-tions of business life. With a woman it is different. She has a great ileal of spare time and it is a wonder that the chess champion of the world is not a female. All a woman has to do is to get breakfast, get the children ready for school, wash the breakfast dishes, sweep the house, make the beds, dust, peel the potatoes, for dinner, go to the grocery and mai ket, get lunch for the children wh.en 1 they come home from school at njoon, see that their hands and facae are clean before returning, wasifrlie. dishes again, sew buttons on her husband's shirt, patch Tommy's troupers, let a tuck out of Susie's dress, darn a basket- lul ot socks, get supper, wash the dish- j es again, (ret the ehiktvon ready for bed I and, last 01 ail, preriare for the breal--- i fast in the ffiorirajj, if she would put her spare um. alter these few luti;-tasks luti;-tasks are o.-ne m learning to play e.ess Champion l.asker would soon lose his laurels, hut instead of this she puts in her ppare tunc darning more socks and sewing on more buxtonf and it is sai to say that the chess championship y-ai be held by a horrid man for a"-s tQ- |