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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, January 28, 1868

Female Gamblers.—It is said that at Saratoga, female gamblers have become quite common. The most fashionable play against each other, and enter into games of hazard with fierce excitement. Cards are their weakness, and they have lately adopted “poker” as their favorite. They bet their jewelry and articles of dress, when they have no money, and have been known to pawn their watches, diamonds and bracelets to obtain means to regain their losses. Some of the private rooms of the hotels have been the scenes of such determined and desperate encounters between women as no one who saw them under the circumstances would deem possible. They have sat all night at the table, pale and haggard with excitement, unsexed and deformed by the passions of avarice, and have started from each other with affright when the grayish daylight revealed the ghastliness of their unnatural occupation.