The Dallas express., 1900-01-13

street, and since IheN famllleS are SuC
good friends, there is no harm 70
Jimmy to go over and play with hel
boys. Then those two or three boy
want other boys to know how wei
they can play. BY and by, one OF th.
boys says he can beat one of tn,
others, and there comes the first be-
in the expression, 81 bet you can't.
The other will quickly ask, ''Wha
will you bet?" Then look out! Their
is danger ahead! One taste of vie
tory in gambling, and he is gone!
Steele says: ''There is nothing tina
wears out fine face like the vigils
the card tables and those cutting pas
sions which naturally attend them
The effect upon character is worse.
Oh, parents, implore you, set you
wills like flint against cards! speal
of this particular game because it ia
by far the most dangerous. One O
the most fashionable games is ''pro
gressive euchre."
The Rev. Sam Jones, though harsh
was not far wrong when he said thi
new game was progressive damDa
ton"
No respectable person should play
it, much less ladies and gentlemen
who are followers of the meek am
loWly lamb. There are many gooC
and wholesome amusements Whicl
remove the imagined necessity of re
sorting to cards. Authors, logamachy,
ETC., are not only amusing, but in
structiVe.
And teachers, as near as lies in your
power, try to prevent your boys from
playing keeps on the school grounds
When a display of the home acquired
knowledge of card playing is to be
made, two thirds of the boys will moi
go to a neighbor's house, but will 60
to the places wherein they meet, aa
one writer has said: ''the devil in
liquid FORM" viz: strong drink, which
is one of the causes of the present
physical and moral degeneracy. Its
use is the source of untold misery and
no words can adequately describe the
evil. Even while [ write, this mon
ster is doing untold damage to thous
ands. There are mothers sitting at d
place for fire, with little children
leaning upon their knees hungry and
cold, but there is no wood or coal to
recruit the fire, and no food for the
children.
Where is the father who ought to
brighten that homo, bring in food and
build up warm fires? IfyOu could en-
ter some back room of a saloon you
could find him there trying to make
more money to purchase the accursed
rum, which is dragging himself and
family down. down, down.
TniS same man was once little boy
in nice christian home CD who
learned the art around his fathers
table, in order to keep him from bad
company. He had not gotten SO low
when he met Miss H., and people said
he is not saint, but he is man and
you know how men are; yet, she is
SpOtless, and if she were otherwise,
you would soon hear: "She is not the
kind of woman man wants for a
wife" Why not, if she is not trying
to live VirtuCus life?
If we would have our children be
women and men in the truest sense,
then the two must live as IS said: GA
white life"
Therefore, parents look well to the
things you teach your children, and
let your own aspirations be upward,
and be strong in every good resOlu-
ton. Seek the light of the Woman's
Christian Temperance union, tor in it,
there is life; while without it, there IS
darkness in which there is decay and
death. Mothers sign the w. G. L. U.
pledge and wear Inc white ribbon;
study your path of duty that you may
lead your children Alright.
Tennyson wisely wrote: "Self-rev-
erence, self-knowledge, self-control,
these three alone, lead life to soVer-
eign power"
Yours for the Master,
MRS. S. WARE WESTON.