Show The PokerPlaying Craze The craze for playing poker has broken out among fashionable ladies in Washing ton writes a correspondent The doings of the Army Poker club where the lives I and reputations of so many officers have been blasted are a matter of general knowledge and gossip but during Lent when it was so wicked to dance the fair dames consoled themselves with the clat ter of the chips and the excitement of the draw It is stated that one young society belle recently lost over 200 at five sittings This is quite a large sum in a game where betting above twentyfive cents was prohibited The favorite game among the young ladies however is the penny ante 5cent limit This is almost al-most exclusively confined to ladies who have only a limited or moderate amount of pinmoney each week but there is said to be a heap of fun for the spectators Very few gentlemen are admitted to this game A much more refined and respectable respect-able form of amusement has been estab lished for their enjoyment The poker I parties where both sexes nlav dn not USA vulgar chips or still more vulgar money that would be carrying the thing too far elaborate and costly favors are provided paid for of course by the gentlemen and then the entire party sits down toa game of freezeout This is a very popular and entertaining style of amusement amuse-ment and is played quite extensively Some of the lady players have become adepts at the game One of the most deI I murelooking young misses tn town recently re-cently defeated an old stager at a party given at a certain fashionable residence and when a few evenings later he came back for his revenge she won enough kid gloves to last her a year I |