Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1905 — WHOLE ROOM [ARTICLE]

WHOLE ROOM

l« Papered With Notable Hands Held in Poker Games. One of the oddest carcTfdonis in the city is in a bacheler flat up-town. It is the resort of a half a dozen pocker players, who gather about the green covered table almost every evening and play a five-cent ante game. Originally the walls were decorated with a few cheap sporting prints of the old Engl: h style and a set of poker pictures, Ohs night a royal flush came out, and the five cards were tacked upon the wall to commemorate the event. A few weeks later a |T pot went to a man tyith a pair of deuces and the nerve to bluff, and for contrast and as a warning the pair of two spots was placed alongside the royal hand. From time to time other hands were similarly posted until : they began to encroach upon the j prints. One night when three players each held four of a kind, a print was taken down to make room for j the hands, and the next evening al! the prints were removed. Two or three packs of cards are used each evening, and now instead of ' being thrown away, the big hands are outlined in court cards, while the , gaps in between are filled in with spots. The entire wall is filled in, and notable hands, carefully are now posted on the ceiling. Not a square inch of the wall plastering is now visible, and it makes a singularly appropriate decoration. The cards are so placed as to shed the dust as muc as possible, but they cannot be fastened down firmly, and the problem of cleaning the place was the despair of the caretaker until the own r of the flat rigged up a large | bicycle Hr pump, with a line of flexible rubl er tubing such as is used to extend tae shutter radius on cameras. I Now the air is forced under the cards, and by creating a draught through the window the dust is taken up.— New York Press.