The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-07
IS THE GAMBLER A GOOD FELLOW


Such expressions respecting professional gam
bers are current in every community. What is the
gambler?
l. He is Il eech.
He takes the money over the green cloth and
gives nothing IN return. He saps society. He is
parasite. He produces nothing. He is Il consumer
of other mems produce and does not pay for what he
gets. He lives ON others as absolutely as does the
louise or the tapeworm He absorbs but does not
give out He fchcs So far the good Of the
BODY polite IS concerned he is worthless. Society
has no use for HIM because he renders good SER
vice. He is never pointed to with pride. He is al
WAYS viewed with alarm. He is human leech.
,. He is usually 4 criminal.
The man who debauches himself with drink may
reform. The gambler seldom reforms His habits
are the hardest of all habits to break The rule is:
Once a gambler always gambler. He wins money
dishonesty and it will burn hole in the bottom of
his purse though the purse be made Of asbestos.
God has tied Il curse to that kind Of money The
gambler cannot keep the money ne wins. One day
he gets desperate for "a stake and commltsa crime
There Sampson.
He was the first gambler we know of. He wag-
cred thirty suits Of clothes with the Philstines
The latter were smooth citizens and outwltted him.
Whereupon he committed murder. And Sampson
was prototype of the gamblers They usually end
by being criminals.
g. He is an outlaw.
In every state are strict laws against gambling.
In every city gambling is prohibited by ordinance.
1t is the daily vocation of the gambler to violate
the laws He makes business of 1t. He Is abso-
utely and deliberately lawess He is not citizen.
He is all outlaw. He is professional law breaker.
He is bandit.
4. He is Il man-ruiner.
Woe to the young man who gets into the clutch
es of the gambler. That young mans feet are point
ed toward hell; he will be robbed Of money, reputa-
ton, busines, everything He'll is in the next room
to where the gambler stays.
And yet there are some persons who think de-
spite his business the gambler is u good fellow"
WHAT BECOMES OF THE GIRL GRADUATE?
Once upon time it was argued that woman S
brain was not the equal of mans. That she had
intelligence was granted but expected her to
think like a man, even approach him in mental
attachments.
There has been a change! Not in woman's
BRAIN but in the world appreciation of her ability
At the great colleges and high schools of the
country women are taking honors with ease. Young
men are no longer the stars.
In Boston last June fifteen women and one lone
some man were admitted to a college society where
the credentials fer membership depended upon the
candidates high standing in college stud e5.
''What becomes of these women college grad.
uate ?' somebody asks
Bless your innocence! The majority of them
parade their learning for little while, enjoy the
distinction that comes with diploma and degree
and then they marry. They make line wives and
Notwithstanding never was and never can be a
bar to happy home life. Just as likely as not the
Vassar girl will wed some big fellow who has gram
atical paralysis and dictates all his letters to hide
his lame spelling.
Of course every woman has her dreams, at some
time in her life. She has planned Il career that
would mean fame, in big letters; and later she ex
changes marriage and happiness that is real for
dream that was perfect, because it was dream.
She keeps her diploma. 1t is up in the dresser
drawer with the bnnch of old love letter, the baby
first shoes and the curl that saved when his hail
was cut Those are all parts of her romance. They
belong to the past, the joy that be lived over il
memory
Once in while there is afternoon when thu
children are out at play, the house is still and sh
steals up to the chamber and looks at her treasures
one by one A man wouldn't do that His mature
isn't fine enough. 1t is a woman's joy. Perhaps
when she puts the letters and the curl and the tiny
shoes and the diploma back in safe hiding there arr
tears in her eyes But there are no regrets for wha
might have been. She is fulfilling Destiny as il
was planned, and her life story tells what becomes
of most of the college girls.
THE BLUES AND SUICIDE
If it were possible to look into the minds Of
men what a lot of mysteries and cranksms would b.
explained!
month or two ago Frederick Beuor, New