A BRIDGE STORY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 821, 19 May 1910, Page 3

A BRIDGE STORY.

"Aii American Hostess in London," writing in "ii,A.P.," says that "bridge players may make as much money as they get the opportunity to do in society, so long as it is not known that they make a living by card play. Once let the idea get about that you aro in any ivay dependent on your winnings, and you will be dropped out of the invita•tion list. The wife of an officer in the Guards was one of the finest bridgo players in London, though her husband was an indifferent player. She played regularly where- the highest play was indulged in, and her winnings averaged at least £60' a week, 011 the strength of which she and her husband moved into an expensive flat, and began to live in a far 111010 extravagant manner than they had hitherto done. Their friends at first thought they had been left some money, but the real state of affairs soon became apparent. Several of the lady's friends asked her. to desist from playing so regularly, and for stick high stakes, hut she did not see why slie should not do as others were doing, and had her income been large enough she might have continued witliont injuring her social position. ]3ut in less than six months this lady, who had moved in the smartest society, was 'dropped' by all her friends and acquaintances."