Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1913 — Womanly Reason. [ARTICLE]

Womanly Reason.

The families of two neighboring flats were playing 10-cent limit poker together. After the busting of a pot the opener diew one card and the mistress of the flat where the game was played also drew one. She held to start with the deuce, trey, four and five of diamonds, and acquired the six of the same suit The opener bet a dime and the woman merely called. When the cards were spread her husband went up in the air. “Why didn’t you raise with that hand?" he exclaimed; “didn’t you know it was worth it?” “Yes,” answered the wife, “but I didn’t want to break a quarter”