WHEN WOMAN TURNS GAMBLER.
Those Who Claim to Know Say She
Becomes a Plunger.
That women are prone to the gambling instinct is proved by cases constantly occurring in the probate court. It was not many years ago that a woman reported that she had spent most of her husband's estate in the grain pit. When the estate was taken from her care and another guardian appointed, she was very angry.
Some years later she came into court and said she had been cured of the gambling mania. She added that the best thing that could have happened was the action taken by the court, for it had saved her children's share of the estate to them, while otherwise she might have gambled all of that away also.
Allegations that the gambling instinct seized another woman, whose estate is involved in a contest, are shortly to be brought forward. This woman is said to have dropped $4,000 on one deal alone. She is said to have had the idea that she could beat the market, but evidently the bucketshops saw her coming and took all her money.
While men may plunge oftener and for smaller amounts, it is woman who is said to be the real "game" gambler, spending her last cent to back an idea, be it at bridge, grain or stocks. Records in public places bear out that statement, it is claimed.
