The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-20
Qutprdyed the women
Kalamazoo Saloon Keeper Offers a
 Public Prayer.

the women crusaders visited a liquor saloon and tried by hard
 praying to induce the proprietor of the saloon to close the place.
 The proprietor of the saloon
 invited the ladies to seats and
 asked them to pray, and he him.
 self offered the following prayer:
 Almighty Creator in heaven! Thou who hast made the heaven
 and the earth, and created man
 in thine own image as a ruler of the earth. Whilst animals are
 living on grass and water, thou
 didst teach thy servant Noah to
 make wine, and thou didst punish
 him for making incorporate use
 of 1t. At the wedding of Cana
 thy son Jesus Christ transformed
 water into wine when the juice of
 the grape was exhausted that the
 guests might not be disturbed.
 The great reformer, Martin Luth- CT, said: He who does not love
 wine, women and song, remains fool all his life long, And one of the commands of the book thou hast given us Is that man shall drink no water, but shall use a little wine for his stomach sake and other infrmities. And all great men of this earth have been Of the wine thou hast | given thy children upon the earth Oh, Lord, we pray thee, have pity on the women here who are not grateful for thy gifts, who want to make thy children like the beasts of the field, and compel them to drink water like an OK, while they dress extravagently and lead their husbands by their other extravagencies not tending to our well being, to bankruptcy, deriving them of the pleasure Of this world; yes driving them to suicide.
 Oh Lord, have mercy upon those poor ignorant ladies; look town upon them; they wear not ven the color of the face which thou hast given them, but they are shining against thee, and not content with nature, paint their faces. Oh Lord, thou canst also perceive that their figures is not as thau hast made 1t, but they wear humps on their backs like thou seeist, that their head consists of fals hair, and when they open their mouths thou see. their false teeth; and, oh Lord, just make note of the spiral spring and cotton batting contrivances they wear in their bosoms, for no other purpose than to meak them voluptuous, and to excite Tn man much worse passion than the use of little wine and for the same rerson they have a number six foot pinched | into a number three shoe, and number forty waist squsezed in | to number seventeen corset.
 "Oh, these women want men who patiently accept all this with out using the power thou hast | given to man, that all women should be subject to man. They will not bear the burdens of mar ried life, and obey thy commands to multiply and replentish the earth, but are to lazy to raise their own children, and, oh Lord, thou knowest the crimes they commit. Oh, Lord, have mercy upon them and take themback in to thy bosom take folly out of their hearts, give them common sense, that they may see their own foolishness, and grant that thay may be good and worthy citizens of Kalamazoo. Oh, Lord, we thank thee for all the blessings thou hast bestowed upon us and ask thee to deliver us from all evils, especially hypo- critical, lying women, aud thine shall be the praise forever and
 forever. Amen '-Gem.