Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-08-05
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IIa5 and HEAL PREACHERS.

hhSo anu AAStAL PREACdEh rs.
-popular preacher in New
sNAror 70 q sermon on the sins OF
mnHHlltsiety. . His description of
- umes of the first ladies Of
,,-.--.Ied that his mind was not Of
" yPthSst, and his reflections upon the
dancing customs Of society were char
acterized by q ZoLA-hke vulgarity. Stall
waIt men with pure wives and daughters
listened to the rawlings of this preacher
without throwing him out Of church, and
ignored him or went of to other churches.
Perhaps they were right, but how much Of
this sort Of talk is q congregation called
upon to stand?
Last Sunday the Rev. Mr.. SVEN
preached q sermon in Washington, in the
course Of which he said that many Wash
ington ladies, shining lights of society,
were gamblers in the fullest sense Of the
word.
These women, - he said, do here on the sly
Whist Parisians do publicly" Poker playing"
he continued, sis a common thing among Wash
ington ladies Of fashion, and l am told that they
play for heavy stakes, and are a. bold rs the
women who sit around the boards at Monte
Carlo. They will bet their last dollar on a game
of cards. Many Of them lose as much as a nun
dred dollars at q sitting. Four young ladies and
two old matrons sat down to a game of poker one
night last winter. One ofthe girlslOst $50. The
money was won by one Of the mstrons The
vawf Aay kbnSgfrI aa1laA -~tk. ,,.R-,, ,nA o1kAN
that the money he returned, said that her father
h&&Give1Ee the money which she lost in order
To bH Sdresses, and asked for its return. Did
that woman return the money! asked the
preacher, in laundering tones. mo, she coldly
told her victim, just like q professional gambler,
that If she could not afford to lose, she had no
business to play. Talk about mans inhumsnity
to man" exclaimed Mr.. SVEN, SIT is nothing to
compare with woman's i~nhumanity to woman"
He went on to say that ladies at the
summer resort do not spend as much time
entertaining their gentlemen friends as
was formerly the case, because they prefer
to 90 to q quiet room and gamble. He
said even rougher things, but we have
quoted enough.
Now, if these preacheas have told the
truth, our society is on the road TO perdi-
ton, and almost at the end of its jouoney.
But there are many good and sensible peO-
pie who believe that these sensational
preachers are talking recklessly through
ignorance, if they are not deliberately in
venting their sensations for the sake of
eOtoriety and revenue. We are inclined
70 accept this latter view, and it is
in order to suggest that it would have 3
happy effect if people would keep away
from the pulpiteers whose chief stock
in trade appears to be wholesale denunci-
alton and Islander. Possibly such q course
would drive some of them from the pulpit,
and induce others to preach the gospel.
MISS NELL NELSON'S EXPERIENCE
The metropolitan journals Of to-day ap-
pear to have discarded the old-time repor-
tar and engaged in his place the secret
service detective, who seems to be gener-
ally q woman. The Chicago Times is now
engaged in publishing, rs q serial, the
results Of the experience of 3 female re-
porter who engaged herself in all sorts of
work by which women and girls earn their
bread in Chicago. In the latest in
stallment Miss NELL NELSON tells how
working girls are subjected to the insults
of well dressed seoundrels on the street
and n-dresZSd scoundrels of the street,
etc, and also touches upon wages and
'satment of girls who work. She applied
Awork in 3 tobacco factory at 81 q week
Psosl the prospect Of IS next year. She
ing plaN
As O'Clock / went into the shop
COL gwen q char in front OF Q barrel
Gh Enehes Of tobacco called
oSsS and lined with gunny-eloth.
ere was q little tin pail Of brown water
X wetting I don't know what near my
and on the othet side q pine board
tbree feet long and sixteen inches wide.
VIVA tie tobacco leavN were stripped
"a laid ON the board il was dubbed .
sss.oF duer,, and cafrisdRf to The mex
u,cm In tho shop with were some
s;c6t, Epsn or more rollinet NO .niisrs"