The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-03


stand Will get out on the pavement and bsl-
aDce themselves against the lamp.p0st or
against the ratings OF the fence. The young
man who Is o. able 10 stand will haye bed
improYissd for MIN in the club house, Cr
TWO not quite so overcome with liquor viii
conduct him 70 his fathers house ald they
will ring the door bell and the door will open
and the two imbecils escorts viii Introduce
into the hallway the ghastlisst and most
hellisn specsc that ever enters front
dooI-a drunken son. II the dissipzting
club houses of this untry would make q
coDtrsct with the Inferno to provide il TO-
eco men year, and for twenty years. on the
condition that no more should be asked of
them, the Il Ib-ho5ses could afford TO make
that contract. for they save bomesteads, save
fortunes, save bodies, minds And souls. The
10000 men who would bs sacrificed By that
contract would be but a small part OF the
multitude sacrificed without the contrSct.
But make vast difference between clubs
/ have belonged 10 four cluos-a theological
club, ball club and two literary clubs. l
got from them physical rsjuvenation and
moral health. What shall be the principle2
III God will help me, will lay down three
principles By which you may judge whether
the club where You are member or the club
ID which you have been invited is legiti-
mate or an illegitimste clubhouse.
. First OF all l want you to test the club by
It's influences on home, if you have q home.
IA Ciuo life that three-fourths OF the mem-
hers of the great clubs of these cities are
N fried men. That wife soon loses her in
tidtnce over hsr husband who nervously and
TO )lishiy looks upon all evening alb ssnce as
an assault on domesticitY, How are the
graf enterprises of art and Itera-
tule aud ben efcence and public veal to be
carried on If every man is to have his world
unded on one side by his front door step
and on the other side by his back window,
knowing nothing higher than his own attic,
or nothing lower than his own cellar2 That
wife who becomes jealous OF her husbands
attention to art or literature or religion or
charity. IL breaking her own scepter of con-
genial power. / know in this church an
instance where q wife thought that her hu-
band was giving too many nights to Christian
NeTvlce. 10 charitable service, TO pray er-mses.
ings and TO religious conversation. She sys-
tens tically decoyed him away until now ne
attic nds neither this nor any other church,
and is on rapid way to destruction, his
morals gone, his money gone, and, l fear, his
soul gone. Let any Christian wife rel jice
when her husband consscrates evenings to
the service of God, Or to charity, or to art,
or TO anything elevated; but let not man
sacrifice home life TO club life. / have the
rolls of the members of grsa. many of these
prominent clubs OF these cities, and / can
loint out to you great many men who are
guilty OF this sacriIege. They are as genial
Is angels at the club house, as ugly as sin at
home. They are generous on all subjects of
wine suppers, yachts and fast horses, but
they are stlngy about the wife's dress and the
children's shoes That poan has made that
which might be aheaihfhl II CT .ation an usur-
per OF his affections, and ne has married il
and he is guilty of moral bigamy. Under
this process the wife, whatever ner features,
becomes uninteresting and honely. He be-
comes critical CT her, does not like the dress,
0neq a u " oh q q har hair
is amazed that he was ever so unromantlc as
to offer her hand and heart. She is always
wanting money, money, money, when she
ought TO be discussing Dextsrs and Darby
day and English drags with six horses, all
answering the pull Of one ribbon"
/ tell you there ara thousands of houses n
Brooklyn and New York being
CLUBBED TO DEATH.
There are club houses in these cities where
embership always involves domestic ship.
wreck. Tell me that man has Joi ned a
certain club-tell me nothing more abo 1T
him for ten years, and l will write his mis-.
tory, If he be still alive. The man is q wine.
enZzler, his wife broken hearted or prems-
turely old, his fortune gone or reduced, aud
his home mere name in a directory. Here
are six secular nights in the week. What
shall do with themp says the father and
the husband. II will give four Of those
nights to the improvement and entertain
ment OF my family either at home or in good
nelghborhood; viii devote ons to clarit.
able institutions; will devote one to the
club" l congratulate. Here is man who
says: II will make different division of the
six nights. 1 will take three for the club
and three for other purposes" | tremble.
Here is man who says: "0ut of the six sec.
ular nights of the week I Will devote five to
the clubhouse and one TO the home, which
night will spend in scowling like March
Il cnf inc mt Il
had the other i've" That mans obituary is
written. Not one out of ten thousand that
goes so far on the wrong road ever stops.
Gradually Lis health Will fail through late
hours and through too much stimulus. He
will &c hIst-rate prey for erysipelas and
rheumatism of the heart. TIE doctor, COM
ing 10, will at glance sac it is not only
present disease he must fight, but years of
fast living. The clergyman, for the ga ke of
the feelings OF the family on the funeral day,
will only talk in religious generalities. The
man who got his yacht in tbs eternal rapids
will not be st the obsequies. They Will have
pressing eu gagements mat day. They will
send flowers to the coffin and send their wives
to utter words of sympathy, but they will
have engagements elsewhere. They never
come. Bring me mallet and chisa aud l
Will cut on the tombstone that mans cpl
tsph: BLESSED sre the dead who die in the
Lord" Mo- yoE say, that would not be
appropriate" LET me die the death of the
righteous, and lei my last end be like his"
NO" you say, that would not be sppropri-
ate" Then give me- the mallet aud the
chisel and VIII cut an honest epltsph:
Here lies the victim of dissipating club
housem think that damage is often done
by the scions OF some aristocratic family who
bsloHg to one o. these oissipating club hoQses
People coming up from humber classes
feel il an honor to belong to tbs same club,
forgetting the fact that many of the sons
and grsndsons OF the large commercial es-
tablishments OF the last generation are now
IS to mind, imbscile; as to body, diseased
es 10 morals, rotten. They would have got
through their property long ago IL they had
hsd full possession of IL but their Uilv an