A QUESTION OF ODDS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 336, 24 October 1908, Page 11

A QUESTION OF ODDS.

It is stated, on apparently good authority that' the • opposition to. Tattersall'S sweeps is daily growing stronger, even in Tasmania. When the island-colony ejects the big gamble, it is not easy' to see just where or how the executors of George Adams will continue their operations. The fact seems to be that a feeling against gambling, except in its simplest and least noxious forms, is steadily gaining ground throughout the world just now. i .Arguments against the vice - were ' never more logieallv and Pithily cut. l'he reformers nree f.linl gambling' is not merely bad morality, ; but also bad business. TaEe the" simpleTjut still occasionally popular game of poker. A man bets on certain cards in his hand, cards .which' fall to him'by chance, or (perhaps less frequently) by arrangement of tho dealer. These are the odds against him having the hands useful in piny— One Pair 13 to 10 Two Pairs 20 to 1 Threes — *5 to 1 Straight 251 to 1 Flush - J" J Full Hand .... 693 to 1 ■ Fours } Straight Flush 61974 to 1 Koya! Flush ■ 6497-10 to 1 . On tho whole, it would seem that the man who builds 'any hopo of getting rich on a royal flush .is of a sangnino disposition. Gambling is bad business, then. It pays better to stick to • one's -proper calling. Gambling often means physical decay; but ■ work is health renewed. In guarding health, you can afford to take no risks: no gamble, you understand, in the big matter, of foods and drinks. Good tea, for instanco, is an excellent stimulus; inferior tea is worthless, or worse. To drink inferior .lea is to gamble with your health, and the stake is too high. Whv gamble at all? Tho best and purest Ceylon toa, the wholeaomest in the world, is Suraturn, • If you want to convince yourself, tsy it omo. .. . 1