The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 324, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 9, 1923 Page: 40 of 76
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THE MARRIED LIFE
of
HELEN AND WARREN
By Mabel Herbert Urner
AN EVENING OF KOI LETTE AT LUCERNE ENDS IN A
HUMILIATING REBUKE
“I wish we'd dressed.” anxioused
Helen as they mounted the marble
ateps of the Casino. "They may not
let us in.”
"Don't worry: all they're out for's
the coin. If you look like you've got
it—you could wear your pajamas 1"
scoffed Warren.
In the gilded light-studded foyer a
haughty uniformed attendant collect-
ed the two Swiss francs admission.
“Where's that holdup game?” ns
they passed a restaurant and concert
hall included in the Casino's attrac-
tions.
“Dear maybe it's on the floor above.
Let's follow that couple.”
Up the palatial stairway with its
red plush hand ropes and they came
to a heavily curtained doer guarded
by a pompous official.
“Hope he'll know our mugs nex*
time he secs us.” grumped Warren
resenting the man’s keen scrutiny.
“I suppose in these gambling places
they have to be careful. Ob. like pic-
tures of Monte Carlo 1” a« the cur-
tains were drawn back permitting
them to enter.
The lofty room lit by massive crys-
tal chandeliers had four long tabb*
each surrouded by nn entrossed crowd
mostly in evening dress.
A brilliant scene. The very air
Charged with feverish absorption.
Edging in behind two women over
their powdered shoulders Helen had
her first glimpse of a gambling table.
Each end was marked off into nine
equates. In the center a man on a high
stool presided over a mahogany disk
with nine cuplikc depressions num-
bered the same as the squares. A ball
whirled about this disk finally settled
into one of C l ® cups: the winning
number.
“Is it roulette?” whispered Helen.
“Something like it. The real rou-
lette has 36 numbers; only nine here.
They play so darn fast! Haven't got
the hang of it yet.”
But with his usual keenness after
a few moments' watching he knew
the game and could answer her eager
questions.
“Huh nine numbers and they pay
only six to one! Talk about a sucker
game! And lamp this bunch of boobs
trying to beat it.”
Fascinated. Helen watched the be-
wildering swiftness of the play.*
There were no chips. Before each
player was a pile of money. When
the attendant who twirled the ball
called out in French: “Play your
money” coins were placed on the
squares. Then the ball was started
holding every eye until it rolled into
one of the rod cups.
The croupier who presided over each
board would rake in for the house the
money on all the squares except the
winning one. To the lucky players on
that number his dexterous rake would
shove back six times the amount of
their bet.
“Cinch for the house all right.”
muttered Warren. “They get away
with murder here. At those pirate
odds. I'd like to open a joint myself."
“She’n been losing right along.”
Helen whispered as the woman sitting
before her placed her last note on
“Five.” “And always on five.”
This time the ball rolled into
“Two.” Again she had lost.
Now she was fumbling under the
table her cigarette dropped ashes on
her velvet gown. Drawing from her
stocking a thousand-franc note —$200
—-she tossed it across to the croupier.
Making change from rhe over-flow-
ing tray before him. his nimble rake
shoved back to her a packet of smaller
notes.
Two plays later when “Five” won
the woman gathering in her winnings
with the same nonchalance with whicc
she had lost left the table.
“Dear. I'd love to try it just onee."
Helen siipped into the vacated seat
PRICE REDUCTIONS
° f ’A Va ¥2
NOW IN EFFECT THROUGHOUT THE STORE
A Real Sale—Offering Real Savings on Every Dress Every Coat Every Suit
and everything in the house —A Before Xmas Sale you do not want to miss.
HATS SKIRTS WAISTS FURS
Hats worth up to $20.00 New camels’ hair skirts in Waists of canton ete. val- Fum In the late»t styles on
on sale at $5.95 $4.95 tan and brown on sale Sat- ues to 510.00 on sale at ~ „ . .
$3.95 and urday at $4.95 $3.95 and at * discount of
’1.95 ’4.95 ’2.95 y 3
COATS yW ~ ~ DRESSES
^"L549.50 ^^529.75
Coats worth up OK I fig [a M a jr
to $60.00 on sale SOy./□ Dresses worth to £ 1 Q 57
Coats Werth jp CJOA QE By $35.00 on sale.. *
io $35.00 on sale Z ST
_ . ... . ~ \ Also some big savings on
S? JTs or 1 ' iioaE 208 W. Houston (Cor. Main) him. S 7 oc
to — $9.95 and .0. v
— SUNDAY.
“What's the least you can play? A
franc?”
“Two's the minimum. Not fixed up
here for pikers” Warren stood back
of her. “But go ahead take a crack
at it!”
Flushed and self-conscious timidly
she reached over and placed two francs
on the nearest square. "Four.”
This time si* watched the twirling
ball with breathless intensity. If it
went into "Four" she would win
twelve francs!
It was slowing down now —its last
whirl around. Drunkenly it toppled
toward "Four"! But no. it rolled on
into “Three"!
The hateful rake swept away her
two francs with many others.
"Be a sport!” laughed Warren.
"Day it again—same number.”
She shook her head. If she lost
again it would be four francs—Bo
cents. She could buy another of those
Swiss hand-embroidered collars for
that.
"Here” Warren drew a coin from
his pocket "slap it on. No? Jove
you’re a cheap skate! There" he tossed
it on "Four.”
Again her eyes were glued on the
red ball in its giddy whirl. With
thrilled excitement she clutched War
ren’s arm as it finally quivered into
"Four"!
"Will he knoiw your two francs?
You're so far back. Did he see you
put it on?” in an anxious flutter as
the rapacious rake cleared the other
squares.
Besides several notes there were
five two-franc pieces on the "Four."
But the iinperturable croupier
shoved back the winnings with dex-
terous accuracy.
Reaching over Warren gathered up
his twelve francs.
" Now go to it! ” tossing the coins
in her lap. “Blow that in. Try
five."
When she lost he urged her to
play again and still again.
“Dear you try! You won. You're
always lucky.”
“Nothing doing. If I play I'd put
up more'n two francs. Better not
get me started. Hello what's that
Johnnie doing with that squirt-
gun?”
An attendant holding aloft a huge
nickel syringe was spraying the air.
"Perfume!" sniffed Helen. “To
freshen the air and clear it of smoke."
A sudden commotion from the other
end of the table. A middle-aged wom-
an. in rusty black had burst into
tears. Her sobbing French was inco-
herent. but it was evident she had
lost her last coin.
Thore was no sympathy in the faces
of the other players only resentment
and impatience at the interruption.
Two uniformed attendants rushed
forward. Roughly they hurried her
out.
The game went on. But for several
rounds Helen could think only of that
sobbing woman. How much had she
lost? Why had she played? What was
her story?
And that old man across the table!
His evening clothes were shiny and
his hand shook as he played from his
fast duyiidsliinu pilq. „ ..
It was stifling sickeningly hot.
Helen wanted to go yet she wanted
to win back what she had lost —all
but one of the two-franc pieces.
Tired of waiting for her to play.
Warren had strolled over to another
table. She felt so conspicuously
alone. But if she gave up her chair
■some one would take it. They were
standing three deep around the table
now.
* Still holding on to her last two
francs she watched a stout florid man
play what seemed a bankrupting “sys-
tem.” Doubling on the same number
until he won. he had lost heavily on
“Six.” Now he was playing “Seven!"
—Photograph By Raba.
The picture shows the bridal party at the wedding last Wednesday evening of E. P. Grona and Miss Paul-
ine Magott. The wedding took place at St. Joseph's church.
In the picture in the back row left to right are Miss Eleanor Maurer bridesmaid: Mrs. C. A. Pierce ma-
tron of honor; Mrs. E. P. Grona the bride: and Miss Haddie Mayatt maid of honor. The flower girls loft to
right are Marguerite Naugebaum and Gladys Zerr. The couple will make their home at 411 East Huisache
street
Suddenly the croupier called out
something in French. Something
sharp.
Then came the panicky conscious-
ness that every one was looking at
her! It was to HER he was speak-
ing !
Bewildered Helen gazed at him
tho hot blood rushing to her face.
What was he saying? What had
she done?
An Englishman across the table
leaned forward: “ He says you can-
not keep your seat at the table
madlune. if you do not play.”
“Oh!”
She felt rather than saw the
amused smiles that followed her as.
blindly leaving the table she flew
over to Warren.
"What's wrong?" glancing down
at her crimsoned face.
"Oh. oh! That man! He was shout-
ing at me in French I Said I couldn't
stay there if I didn't play!”
"Well wljat of it?" with a shrug.
“Don't want pikers bolding down their
best seats. No free show here.
They're out for the coin. You play—-
or (ado away I”
"But I did play!” quiveringly.
“A few measly francs. What were
you doing—nursing that Inst coin all
this time? No wonder he bawled you
out. Come on ready to go?”
"1 want to go—l hate this place!
To call at me before every one!
Oh.^fJ^y're so greedy! That poor
old woman the wry they dragged her
out!"
"What d'yott think this is? A Sun-
day school? You’re wanted here only
as long as you've got the dough—and
plunk it down lively!”
Out through the velvet curtains that
were drawn apart for their exit; past
the pompous official at whom Helen
directed nn indignant glance down the
marble steps aiyl out into the moist
air pungent with the fragrance of
the Alps.
The walk back to their hotel was
along the moonlit lake beyond whi< 1:
loomed Mount Riga and Pilatus. their
dark peaks surmounted by the lights
The Grona-Magott Bridal Party
of their tgimmit hotels hardly distin-
guishable from the stars.
But even tho world-famed witchery
of Lucerne at night could not distract
Helen's thoughts from anguished re-
hearsals of that humiliating moment.
“What’s eating you now?” as her
hand twitched on his arm. "Still
mooning over that call down? For-
get it! If we'd given ’em a chance
to trim us — you'd have something
to gloom over.”
“But to speak to me like that!
Just because 1 didn't play every
minute!”
"Every minute! You’d been hug-
ging that two francs for an hour.”
"But 1 lost all the rest and I was
waiting ”
"All the rest? Only had twelve
francs. You're a bum sport!” Then
with a malicious chuckle "We’ll be in
Interlaken next week. Big Casino
there—minimum s .five francs and
sky's the limit. Like to try jour luck
again?"
“You know I wouldn't!” flamingly-
"Oh the greedy way they rake in the
money!”
“Those birds'd rake in the gold fill-
ings out of your teeth. Suckers’ game
all right. Tnlk about chance —darn
little chance about those odds. Stick
to thnt long enough and you'd lose
your shirt! ”
“But they needn’t insult you.” still
intent on her mortification. “The way
he said it—that contemptuous tone.
I'll never go near one of those casi-
nos again! Y'ou couldn't hire me
to!"
"Don't worry I'm not going to try.
Those Swiss hotels separate you from
your coin fast enough. I’m not look-
ing for any quicker way of getting rid
of it!”
Copyright 1923. by Mabel Herbert Harper
Canadian Alien Arrested.
Del Rio Tex. Dec. B.—A Canadian
alien giving his name as Emery E.
Landers was arrested here Tuesday
by Immigration Inspector Johnson and
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
turned over to Chief Inspector T. P.
Cook. The man claims to be 42 years
old. and that he served in the World
War with the Canadian forces. He
is being held by the local immigra-
tion officials until final disposition
of his case. Inspector Cook believes
that he will be deported by the gov-
ernment as an undesirable alien.
Victoria Tex. Dec. B.—A 100 per
cent attendance marked the regular
meeting of the Victoria Rotary Club
and an excellent attendance record
was made during the month of No-
vember. District Governor Lester
Dawley of Paris will visit the club
next week and it is planned to have
another 100 per cent meeting in his
honor.
“SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL”
ARE THESE NEW DECEMBER STYLES IN
Satin Footwear
These new instep strap styles artistic in line are styles
that women with gracefully arched instep will adore.
—the 3 Styles pictured above in
Rich Black Satin —Black Suede Trimmed
Never were Slippers more lovely—and how perfectly they meet
the taste for daintiness fine quality and exquisite design. The three
styles as pictured made of rich black satin with black suede trim-
mings. Sizes and widths complete.
EXQUISITE
YET INEXPENSIVE
IS OUR GIFT HOSIERY
OUR CHRISTMAS HOSIERY EMBODIES THE ATTRIBUTES YOU
WISH THE GIFTS YOU GIVE TO POSSESS—RARE BEAUTY AND
QUALITY.
AND OUR PRICES WILL AFFORD YOU A PLEASANT SURPRISE
AS WE CARRY ONLY SUCH BRANDS WORTHY OF SATISFAC-
TION. A BEAUTIFUL XMAS BOX IF DESIRED.
All Rotarians Present.
Politicians Use Child Labor
Laws to Gain Favor of Women
Children’s Bureau Gets
Thousands of Letters a
Year Requesting Informa-
tion Ranging From Meat-
curing Methods to Raising
of Babies.
By CAROLYN VANCE
Copyright by The San Antonio Light.
Washington. D. C. Dec. B.—Curry-
ing fnvor with women voters by in-
troducing child labor amendments into
Congress is a favorite method with
the national lawmakers. Already
twenty such amendments have been
introduced by congressmen with the
prospects of many more entering into
the game now that the President has
recommended such legslaton in his mes-
sage.
A prominent Mid-western senator
makes a point of sending women of
pleasing appearance and address about
his state to speak before women's
clubs on the subject of child labor.
They discreetly mention the senator's
amendment in such a way as to make
it appear that he alone can retrieve
the lost childhood of more than a
million immature laborers in this coun-
try. Nineteen others are each pictur-
ing themselves as the saviour of the
children before their constituencies.
The women’s organizations who are
working with might and main to push
a child labor amendment through Con-
gress look with tolerance upon such
foibles of the congressmen. It makes
little difference to them who grabs
the glory of being the author of the
amendment just so the instrument is
effective in actually prohibiting the
labor of children. Already two fed-
eral laws have been passed each be-
ing declared unconstitutional. The
first was passed in 1916 and declared
void in 1918.
Need Wise Statesmanship.
The second federal law was passed
in 1919 and declared unconstitutional
in 1922. Thus it can be seen that
wise statesmanship is needed to frame
a law that will hold water rather
than the makeshift legislation of op-
portunists who are seeking fame in a
popular cause. The following form re-
ceived the approval of the majority
of organizations supporting such an
amentment:
“The Congress shall have power to
limit and to prohibit the labor of per-
sons under 18 years of age and power
is also reserved to the several states
to limit or prohibit such labor in any
way which does not lessen any limita-
tion ot such labor or the extent of any
prohibition thereof by Congress.”
The latest figures received by the
United States children’s bureau indi-
cate an increase in child labor in 1922
as compared with 1921 and in 1923
as compared with 1922. For 28 cities
furnishing monthly figures the increase
was 46 per ceht.
Nearly 100000 letters have been
received this year by the children’s
bureau from parents anu other indi-
viduals who naked information about
some phase of child care. Some of
these letters are pathetic but more are
amusing. Some of the writers of these
letters thoroughly believe that Uncle
Sam is omnipotent and his advice is
solicited on any and all subjects. Here
is a sample letter:
“Kindly send me books on the care
and prevention of disease how to can
meat and vegetables how to care for
and raise turkeys bow to care for and
raise chickens how to care for and
raise babies and small children how
to cure meat.”
Another writer wants advice on how-
to reduce. Still another desires a
list of names suitable for a boy. The
children's bureau always anxious to
oblige its correspondents sent the
latter u list copied from a diction-
ary. Old Noah Webster did not slight
any names and the baby was en-
dangered to the extent that his parents
might select such names as Athelstane
Ebenezer Hezekiah. Erasmus Sigis-
mund etc. if they happened to prefer
originality.
Mrs. Max West's bulletin on infant
and parental care is still being sent
out from the bureau by the million.
Many testimonials of their efficiency
are constantly being sent in. One
mother writes':
“I wish to exuress my appreciation
of these books. My baby is now 8
months old and has never had colic
summer complaint or any other infant
trouble and be was born in New York's
East Side and spent the summer there.
I believe the booklets saved half of
my doctor bills at birth and he was
very pleased not to have the ordinary
unnecessary ‘overhead’ and nervous-
ness of the first birth to contend with.
Since my baby has been born I have
never needed a doctor and never have
had to suffer any personal or finan-
cial inconvenience—all because of the
bulletins.”
Seguin Man Honored.
Seguin Tex. Dec. B— Eugene Nolte
prominent Republican of this city has
been appointed by Governor Neff to
the position of chairmen of the var-
ious committees for the raising of
funds for the erection of a suitable
memocjal to the late Warren G. Hard-
ing. Mr. Nolte has established state
headquarters at Dallas.
Reduced Oiiirstmas Fares.
Holiday rates of a fare and a half
for the round trip to all points in
Texas and Louisiana have been an-
nounced by the railroads entering San
Antonio. Tickets will be on sale
from December 20 to 24 with final
limit to return to point of origin Jan-
uary 7.
DECEMBER 9 1923.
STEPHAN INC.
“gANS LIFTED ON |
Yarns.” Just the !
headline we have been ‘
waiting for appears in ’
one of the daily papers. |
We have been waiting :
so long to spin a yarn j
and with tne above an- j
nouncement —here goes.
’Twas the day after Christ-
mas
And all through the hemse
Not a creature was stirring
Not even a mouse.
A sense of contentment
Seemed to reign in the air
Everyone got from old
Santa
What they wanted this I
year.
Mother got from Dad
A platinum fox fur
The one we helped him
Select Here for Her.
Granny Her Slippers
And robe of old rose
Gwennie dainty underwear
Marilyn hose.
And other gifts and pres-
ents
Too numerous to state
But all were appreciated—
All happy to date.
Of course this was written
before Santa made his
round.
Though this is a yarn
’T is possible I’ve found
To give what folks want
With little trouble or pains
And have a Merry Christ-
mas
Whether it shines or it
rains.
• * *
AS THE TIME FOR j
selection grows |
shorter the gift shop- |
pers get more excited
over the question of
what to give.
It would seem that j
our shop is just one big I
answer to all of these i
questions.
• * *
ABOUTTONIER of
flowers for the coat
lapel or fur will make
a very attractive gift ■
and yet not one that !
carries with it any obli- j
gation.
» » »
RHINESTONE
buckles for evening ‘
slippers will prove a if
bright spot in the young
misses’ gifts—We have
them all sizes and
styles.
* * •
^ITH BLOUSES AT
such reduced prices
25% off in fact and
such a wonderful selec-
tion of frilly styles and j
mannish models — you i
are sure to find the ap- I
propriate gift for some ‘
name on your list in
our blouse department.
* * *
QH THERE ARE
hundreds of gifts—
• gifts that will be appre- j
ciated the kind you
would select for yqur-
self right here for your
choosing—We will be
glad to help you with
your choice.
■• ♦ *
you KNOW WE ARE
remodeling our shop :
and expanding our]
room — the carpenters i
are working now and
making remarkable
progress. To listen to
them though you would
think they were jazzy
but they are lazy—just
knocking around.
That’s that.
MARION LLOYD.
STEPHAN INC.
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