Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1912 — Pole’s Passion for Gambling [ARTICLE]

Pole’s Passion for Gambling

The trial at Crakow of a Polish advocate named Stelnfeld who has come to grief through gambling has been the occasion of some curious revelations about the hold which this vice has on business men in Austrian Poland. Dr. Steinfeld’s wife in her. endeavor to keep her husband out of temptation tried the plan of never leaving him out of her sight even when he went to his office. The lawyer then made a practice of going to bed early and rising at 4 in the morning before his wife was awake in order to hurry off to the so-called “Monte Carlo” at Crakow, which he would find still in full swing at that hour. When staying at betels during the summer he would arrange, meetings with other card players in the bathroom and play there for hours, while he told his wife that he was taking a cold water cure.

mlt, but I can cap the worst in the sheaf with a sign I saw In your country this summer. That sign was the epistolary expression of a tendency we had noticed in many a custodian of public treasures, to commit assault and battery upon any sightseer who usurped his functions of lecturer and incidentally robbed him of his consequent gratuity. That sign was placed near the door of a private museum in a tumbledown castle and read: “•Persons who have been here before are requested not to explain the collection to strangers.’ ”