Poker is still a parlour pastimo in tho homes of wealth and refinement. Progres-i sivc euchro has bcconio very popular, but it docs not contain tho gambling clement which makes the other gamo so seductive. Tho do-' sire to win a dollar or two is as strong in, tho belle whoso allowance of pin-money is' 100 dollars a month as to ono whom the loss or gain of a trifle is of consequence, A; tough old club man, notably a stickler for ex-, actitudo in his [day, was brought the other night in direct antagonism with a bewitch-' ing maiden. Ho held three kings. She had' cards which, according to Hoylc, couldn't have won the pot or anywhere near it, and, yet ho pushed tho chipß over to hor after a moment's hesitation, ' " What under heaven did you do that for?" a friend who saw both hands after- 1 wards asked. " Her two pairs boat my three of a kind,"- he replied, " But she didn't haw two pairs," " Oh, yes, she did—a pair of aces in hor' hand a pair of eyes in her head; blue ones with tears in thorn, They'd beat a royal (lush if I held it."

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