A Townful of Sweeps Winners By El beth Pepys Despite. the fact that only one person can expect to hold the winning ticket for the first prize in the Champion Sweeps, every one who has invested $10 fully expects to win first money. No matter how you may pretend, beneath sophistication beats the mad, Unquenchable hope that you will be the favoured of fortune.
Money has seldom bren_ less plentiful in Shanghai, yet tickets never sold so wildly. On the principle of nothing venture, nothing have, those who can ill afford to lose have traded plentifully in futures, just because: they needed the money, Some have drawn dreary: morals from this fact, ut to others it is merely cheerful testimony to the number of optimists still remaining in aeynical world, Think of the thousands of people in Shanghai who still believe in fairies. Think of those who are already tasting the j of easily earned money, who are released from the shackles of economy. What matter that these airy visions come to nothing! They are pleasing while they last, and to the true philosophers they are never illusioning, for is there not always another Sweeps?
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