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Show ALt FOND OF QAMBLINQ. Pa"jtn on Ocean Liner Unable to Realit Fascination. n.-ll known lad that no nation na-tion IiuIiumi found hlKh or low In thn scale of i-ltihiatlnn whnr. the passion for guanine; docs not cilnt. A Phlla-tlrlrtlaa. Phlla-tlrlrtlaa. who In too gcnid a Christian to hiv( hts namo In print. Is rcspon-slblfor rcspon-slblfor thn following tale: "l waa roturbltR fnun Kuropn this fall on ono of lln large ocean llnfra. A rrnwof ua In tb smoking room on tho trcond day out with stnkos as low as a pnny. If rist fun. and th roara of latigliln could lie heard In thn cabins. People ho never played before looked In to k,. ()11e of tho tables covered with tarda and such a makeshift 'laycot'as could he gathered up among trav.'lsrs. "r trlitnient ran high, and dealera chat ii often, for the bank went broke ,ery little while. Kverylxnly wanted to get Into tho gnme, and on the fourth dny three clcrcymen who had hjlininiiicd In thn i nliln to any one bn would IlKtcn to them on the folly of the vice of gnnililliiK. artunlly staked th..r pennies. They simply ro-.i' ltt help It. The thing waa simply Irre'litihle. On the mill dny the e-rlteinmt e-rlteinmt riiliiilnnle.l when the giinie went fitht Hlniig rer.nrillcss of the illuiitr hell, and then thn raptaln stoi rw) It. No one player lost or won as marh as fft from siart to nnlnb." |