The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-03-23

pose to take will be in no sense n no
trump hand. and the rules for paying
up will be even more stringent than
among the ladies of high degree who
refuse to- allow a dinner guest to leave
their house after little game OF
bridge until he has paid his losses,
Young men who are much In society
although not possessing great wealth.
are growing to be very wary about
accepting these invitations to many
homes where they have formerly been
entertained. They say 1t costs too
much and that the spectacle of a hand
some hostess with the fierce hungry
glare of a Monte Carlo gamester on
her face is not one that Is nice to
hang on mcmory's walls. They really
prefer her as size was i'm the old days
hospitable. gracious but not so grasp
ing and not so prone to hold them up
after hurried dinner with an evening
AT bridge, In which she firmly insists
upon receiving her gains spot cash.
The majority of young society men
cannot afford to lose $500 or S4O0 in one
night and are not apt to have that
much In their pockets when they go
out to dinner. but with the modern
custom of high stakes such losses are
| not infrequent.
IT the prominent New York lady
who promises to open crusade
! against these elegant and fashionable
! gamblers. really pursues her plan she
VIII be or more benefit to her age and
| race than many Carrie Nations and
u troop of Tombs' angels"
The craze for bridge has penetrated
/ scranton and there are many little
| afternoons devoted to IL in homes of
| leading society women, but as yet the
| playing for stakes has not been adopt
ed. Scranton gets things hard when
! IT. does take them up, but our people
stop this side of the imitation of
high-class vice in vogue in other cities.
| When in other places at a debutante
dinner. young girls have to be assisted
to their carriages while reeling with
| the effects of champagne, our young
| women at their debut seldom see wine
| on their own tables or at the homes
| of their friends
| When in many cities the cachet ol
| favoritism seems to be fastness among
I young men, those in our city, good
sensible work-a-day fellows that they
are, want to be decent and are decent
or the nice girls will avoid them in
most marked fashion.
| While in many exclusive circles
scandals in high life are common and
create little CONSERVATION. here the
| social conditions are So well adjust ed
| mat freedom from anything sensa-
tional or the suspicion Of fast living
| is the rule.
And just here is Il text for a SER
! mon. There are those who would
spread abroad the decarat ton that our
city is reeking in wickedness in high
places and low--don't you believe it.
We are making a great disturbance
about the corruption in office and the
name of Scranton is becoming cele-
/ brated i'm this way in all the yellow
journals of the land. 1t is good
omen that we are making such dis.
turbance. 1t shows that public apathy
has not yet reached a stage of hope
lessness. The only difference in this
respect between our city and Others
of its size and greater is that we dc
create a sentiment which probes bri-
berry and NAL administration and
brings evil doers tn justice. In other
| places the corruption exists usually I,
an unSpeakably greater degree and
| everybody knows II exists and vet
nothing is done. We are growing TO be
renowned for strikes. spoliation and
street car grievances and largely it is
because we do such "A lot of howliug
about our own errors and failures and
draw gloomy pictures of the future
If we would make less public and