Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-04-27

house ana they VIII rinR INC uVOl'oOA
the door will open and the two imoeclle
escorts win introduce into the hallway the
phastliest and most helish spectacle that
ever enters front door--a drunken SOL.
If the dissipating club houses of this coun,
try would make q contract with the Inferno
TO provide it ten thousand men year and
for twenty years on the condition that no
more should be asked of them, the club
house could afford 10 make that contract
for they would save homesteads, save for,
tunes, save bodies, minds and souls. The
ten thousand men who would be sacrificed
by that would be but q small part OF the
multitude sacrificed without the contract,
But make
A Vast Difference Between Clubs.
have belonged to four clubs-a theology,
cal club, ball club and two literary clubs.
/ got from them physical rejuyenation and
moral health. What shsll be the principle
If Gcd will help me, will lay down three
principles by which you may Judge whether
the club where you are a member or the
club to which you have been invited is q
legitimate or an illegitimate club house.
First of all want you to test the club
By its influences on home, if you have a
home. | have been told by . prominent
gentleman in club life that threetonrths. Of
the members of the great clubs of these cities
are married men. That wife soon loses her
influence over her husband, who nerVously
and foolishly looks upon all evening ab'
pence as an assault on domesticity. How
are the great enterprises Of art and htera-
ture and benefcence and public veal to be
carried on if every man is to have his
world bounded on one side by his front door
step, and on the other side by his back win
dow, knowing nothing higher than his own
attic, or nothing lower than his own cellar
That wife who becomes jealous of her hus-
bands attention to art or literature, or re-
Hgion or charity, is breaking
her own sceptre OF conJugal
power. l know in this church
of an instance where wife thought
that her husband was giving too many
nights to Christian service, to charitable
service, to prayer meetings and to religious
convocation. She systematically decoyed
him away until now he attends neither this
nor any other church, and is on rapid way
to destruction; his morals gone, his money
gone, and, fear, his soul gone. Let any
Christian wife rejoice when her husband
consecrates his 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 a great
many of the prominent clubs of these cities,
and can point out to you a great many
names of men who are guilty of this sacri-
lege. They are as genial as angels at the
club house, and as ugly as sin at home.
They are generous on all subjects OF wine
suppers, yachts and fast horses, but they are
stipgy about the wife's dress and the chill
drens shoes. That man has made that
which might be healthful recrea-
ton an usurper of his affections,
and he has married it and he is
guilty of moral bigamy. Under this pro
cess the wife, whatever her features, be-
comes uninteresting and homely. He be-
comes critical OF her, does not like the
dress, does not ike the way she arranges
her hair, is amazed that he ever was so uu-
romantic as to offer her his haAd and heart
She is always wanting money money,
money, when she ought to be discussing
Dexters and Derby day and English drags
with six horses, all answering the pull OF
one ribbon"
| tell YOU there are thousands Of houses
in Brooklyn and New York being clubbed
to death! There are club houses in these
cities where membership always involves
domestic shipwreck. Tell me that q man
has Joined certain club, tell me nothing
more about him for Ten years aud l will
write his history, if he be still alive. The
man is q wineguzzler, his wife broken
hearted or prematurely old, his for
tune gone or reduced and his home
mere name in a directory.
Here are six secular nights in the week.
What shall do with them p says the faith,
er sad the husband. II will give four OF
those nights to the improvement and enter
tainment of my family either at home or in
good neighborhood; l will devote one to
charitable institutions; will devote one to
the club" ] congratulate you. Here is a
man who says: "I will take three for the
club and three for other purposes" l
! tremble,
Here is Man
who says "0ut Of the six secular nights b.!
will devote FIVE to the club house and one
to the home, which night / will spend in
scowlipg like March squall, wishing ! was
out spending it as had spent the other
five" That mans obituary is written. Not
one Of ten thousand that ever gets SO
far on the wrong road ever
stops. Gradually his health will
fail through late hours and through toe
much stimulus. BE will be first rate prey
for erysipelas aud rheumatism OF the heart
| The doctors coming in will at glance see
| it is not only present disease he must fight
but years Of fast living. The clergymen
for the sake of the feelings ofthe family on
the funeral day will only talk in religious
generalities. The men who got bis yacht
in the eternal rapids will not be at the
obsequies. They will have pressing en-,
eagements that 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
maliet and chisel, and l will cut on the
tombstone that mans epitaph: Blessed
are the dead who die in the Lord" mo,
you say, that would not be appropriate. I"
Let me die thf. death of the righteous and
let my last end be like His" NO" you
say, that would not be appropriate" Then
give me the mallet and cbisel and will cut
an honest epitaph: Here hes the victim
of dissipaing club house" think that
damage is often done by the scions Of some
aristocratic family, who belong to one OF
these dissipatiug club houses. People COM
| ing up from humber classes feelit an honor
to belong to the same club, forgetting the
fact that many Of the sons and grandsons
of the large commercial establishments
of the last generation are now, as to
m ind, imbeciles; as to body. diseased;
as to morals, rotten. They would have got
through their property long ago if they had
had full possession Of it; but the willy snces-
tors who got the money BY hard knocks,
foresaw how it was to be and they tied up
everything in the will Now there is moth,
ing Of that unworthy descendant but his
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