The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-12

ty, beauty that you will find oftener
in the brunette than in the blonde, a
beauty more piquant, more solid and more
lasting; but i know brunettes OF thirty
who are passes, and blondes of forty who
are beautiful. You cannot lay down any
rule.
Did hear you ask me which l prefer?
How can you ask such a question? How
can any man answer it? Good, light Sau-
terne is an exquisite wine, ll-bodied
Bergundy is a most excellent beverage. l
like both
In northern countries you very seldom
see a pretty woman among the working
classes. They are faded wrinkled or
freckled, and lack expression.
In Italy and Spain you see in the
streets flower girls and fruit sellers who
could have given sittings to Raphael and
Murillo
But will tell you what | like, although
you do not ask me, and that is a blonde
with brown eyes, or, better STILL a fine,
tall brunette with dark blue eyes and
the fine. delicate skin of blonde, and
II you want to see the latter, go to Ire
land you will find her there in plenty.
SOCIETY WOMEN LURE TO RUIN.
New York World)
When lady will use the attractions OF
her home to induce young men to gamble
therein and thus rob them of their money
she is meLner than Is the proprietor of a
professional gambling hell.-Statement
OF Rev DR.. r. S. Macarthur, of Calvary
Baptist church, to a World reporter.
Gambling in society and that tolerated
by the church is a matter on which all
the ministers of the city are endeavor-
ing TO unite that it may be abolished. 1t
has been asserted at clerical conference
that gambling was so prevalent among
church women of society that they We're
enableditO give large offerings at Easter
services. q "i1rH IS"
The Rev. Dry Macarthur. when asked
. yesterday about the impetus received bg
the movement against gambling in So
ciety, said: 9at # '"sag M
IL doubt not that there is much. social
gamblingaoIl do not know Of single case
in my own church, but am frequently
! told of cases i'm which parents put pp
money ITO be won. by their children III
games of cards played at.their homes. sI
know also Of certain church women wha
frankly q acknowledge that they play
zest to the games lF
i A'T hold some, church largely respohE
sible5 for the mania for gambling ~
would be easyto name churches that en-
courage games OF chance to pay church
debts and tosear4y on church enterprises,
1t IS commended that the end being good
the means employed are not bad.
& hogThfs is aodoetfine of devils and not
F.s aka a. 3 ri a
would >eover almost any SIN.
lsGambIing OF any kind cannot be
spoken against. too strongly, and gamb-
ling. in the social circle is in many re-
spects particularly disreputable:
Here DR.. Macarthur delivered the ut
terance about the woman who is worse
than the professional gambling-hou
keeper and added:
How women who so attract and rob
Young men can muster up courage enough
to meet the families of such young men
I'm social life is a mystery which ! am
glad cannot explain. should be glad
to see such men and women punished to
the utmost. 1t would be better still for
them to be shamed out of their mean
ness.
Social gambling is a reproach to our
American CIVILIZATION uDI " SPSdh VI
our holy religion. / have not one word
Of apology or mitigation for the offenders,
but l must take exception to the report
ed statement OF this clerical conference
regarding the absence OF young people
from the congregations and the small
ness Of the Sunday schools. My own ex-
perience contradicts both these state
ments. have been in New York as a
pastor for nearly thiTty-one years, all
my pastoral life being in one church in
one city. / have heard these pessimistlc
walls on many former occasions, and ! ex-
pect to hear them very often in the flu
ture.
"The world never was so good as 1t is
today and it will be better tomorrow than
today. During all the years OF my min
istry | never have had so large num-
Der of young men and women in my
church as now. | never knew SO many
college men ready to become earnest
church men as now. And that assertion
will apply to the various professions.