A QUESTION OF ODDS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 312, 26 September 1908, Page 13

A QUESTION OF ODDS.

It is on apparently good' authority that the, opposition to Tattersall's. sweeps .is daily growing stronger, even in Tasmania.' Wlion the island-colony ejects tl_o 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 bo that a feeling. against gambling, except in its simplest arid least noxious forms, is steadily gaining ground, throughout the world just now. , Arguments' against the vico wero never more logically; and pithily put. The reformers urge that' gambling is not merely bad morality, but;, also bad business. , Take the simple, but 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 the dealer. These are the odds against him having the hands useful in play—

One Pair ... 13 to 10 ! Two Pairs ... .;. ... 20 to 1 ' Throes . ... 45 to 1 ■ Straight - 254 to 1 Flush ... ... ... 507 to 1 , Pull Hand ' ... ... ... . G93 to 1 • Pours ... 4164 to 1 - Straight Plush 64974 to 1 Eoyal Plush G49740 to I On the whole, it would seem that the man who builds any hope of getting rich on a royal flush is of a sanguine disposition. Gambling is bad business, then. . It-pavs bettor to stick to one's proper calling. Gambling' often means physical decav; out work ia health, renewed. In guarding.,your, 'health, you can afford to take no risks: no gamble* you understand, in the, big matter of foods and drinks. Good tea, for instance, is an excellent stimulus;, inferior tea is worthless or ■worse. To drink inferior tea is' to »ambl« with, your hoalth, and the stake is' too" high Why. gamble at all? The best and purest .Ceylon , tea, the wholesomest .in the world'' is. Suratura.; .If .you ffant to convince jW.v 'Self, try it once. : : .