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Show GAMBLING BUG GETS UN BF FRANCE Ma'm'selle Is Heavy Speculator Specu-lator on Race Course and in Stock Market i-.n 11. .1 GR1 1 n i l l,. Corresnoudcn I for I be iaii Express nnd Interna t Ions 1 t w Service PARIS. Auk. 14 Albert Gulllaunie. the Frenchman who draws folly ;ls it files, has been having several sly digs lately at the current craze of gambling. gamb-ling. l'.efore me is the latest number or Fantaslo. Therein is a picture of a yoiing man kneeUnx bsfort a woman At her feel are a big bunch of roses and a beautiful diamond necklace.; The young man clasps a revolver In hl left hand, and It p.-lnls toward his temple. He is begging the woman to marrv him "lie mine, or I will shoot mys- If here at your feet.' he K BIS to be say ing. And the woman, reading c financial newspaper replies: "W hat do you think of Royal Dutch?'" The other day Gmllaume had another an-other picture in the Journal A young man Is making love to a woman. -"Come and see me tomorrow' he mu-, "and vou shall have perit fmirs even though it is i cakelesi day." The woman answeri 'Momleur, I am an honest girl." "And." continues the man. "you shall know the fluctuations of the Stock Exchange Ex-change hour by hour ' "I 11 l I JTOU tomorrow. to-morrow. serpent,'1 replies the woman Place aux dames ladles first 1 have pu" them flrsl in this little itory of .., ia..,. t Prio Imrrinu" ble.v Vr.l they would be firs, aUywa FUOW 1) Vt RACI When you Kt radii"; and l .j.e your place in the sun and the queue to l"it yo'ir money on ypur fancy In the nexl race you will Had that, although youth may be served if it has a h.'ftv fore-ai fore-ai in Wild women will do their, pest to purh. elbow, Jostle, thrust and tie h; t-pin? t-pin? w thin the meaning of the act. Then standing on both your feet ' thev smile and say "So sorry.'" i they? 1 doubt i. I think the only' sorrow I heard expressed by ih's new-race new-race of women gamblers was when one of them wa-i unable to buck her way through the crowd and get her monev on before the race stnrted. Then "she ihld iut i couldn't repeat it. Wdirien certainly have caught the1 gambling c raze very badly. NOl only do they crowd the rs urse, but the are the heaviest speculators on the Bourie -the Paris Stock Bxclunge, ne hears two dear VOUUg things talking in an omnibus: "Oh. yes. dearest dear-est J he told bit 10 buy umpteen hundred hun-dred Royal Petroleums and what do you think ?'"" Romance is dying: dress Is a ba k number unless the dressmaker has ai tape machine and good Bourse tips And then the men .t:i lust ,s had lh N SHOW ING W An o'.ii newspaper seller is found on a bench drunl;. hut with several hundred hun-dred thousand francs on him. b ll taken to the police station, where he says he won the money ra in - n ! the net week a bank messenger who has been a faithful servant fur years goes off with thousands of francs to try his luck on the course, and Is ar-1 rested with but io francs In his pos- session. When you see a man como Into a bar looking as If the world ll In-oyster In-oyster and every month has an R in It. you know that he has either Just) come out of a ' tripot': a clandestine betting cluV or has managed to baCk an outsider. Although bool.making is prohibited In France les books," as the hook-1 makers are clled ha- nev er been so j flourishing as now. Most of the bars: take bets over the counter and send a waller out with the monev to a man hawking fruit, who i the hook-maker's tout. Philosophy may tell us that this gambling erase li waia reaction, and hat everything will lettle ii".n In time The get-rlch-qulch erase for obtaining money without working for It Is doing France much harm, of thai there l- no doubt. Even the children have caught the era The other duy questions were asked In Parliament about the number of i Ice-cream and hokey-poke; sellers, who had roulette wheels on their stalls, with which the'- tempt little Georges and Marianne to gamble away their pocket money This gambling craze Is awful. It Bui pardon me. this afternoon's rate for the pound sterling Is Just comlnK up on the tape. 1 must go! |