Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-11-16
Newest Attack Against Card
Playing For High Stakes
As an Amusement
EVIL OF DEBTS OF HONOR
They Generally Have But One Result,
the Divorce court-society Women's
Passion for Gamblina-"6rdse Now
Enthroned as the Goddess of Play
sidelishts on Women's Ways.

Tic 1t!itItNoitItii tiIc iittii t'N-N'NA
her campaign against The Sin ana
Scandal OF the Smart Set, the new
est attack being directed against gam
bling The authoress ridicules the idea
that card playing for high stakes can
be considered amusement. She says;
1T can never be pastime. Instead
OF amusement, it brings fatigue an.
anxiety, instead of good fellowship,
acrilnony, envy and bitterness; but
worse results attend private gam
bling. The worship of bridge has pro-
duced as fierce 4 gambling fever as
the Sales De J<uN in Monte Carlo
Ii is a worship inexcusable. as are
most vices of the smart set, for wom-
en- who have been inoculated with this
malady have taken it. as they take
most exeitenents. very badly. Unless
It be the passion for stimulants, there
is nothing worse in woman than the
passion for gambling; nothing more
iemoralizing. nothing so calculated to
arouse bad feeling and instincts of
injustice and worst of all. complete
IIjQIdl ItChitSSASSs DtS ~ Wv
ing little, borrowing a little. specu-
lating a little In order to get hold of
some ready cash. she finds herself en-
tangled by obligations to which her
milllner's and modiste's unpaid bills
are mere bagatelle.
But a worse thing turks behind All
men are not models of honor, and q
woman, be she of the type yclept
smart, has generally string of adj
mirers following her comet like flights.
From one or the other of these fol-
lowers she has to borrow. She dare
not confess to her husband. SO she puts
herself under obligation to one of her
friends and as a rule, the day of reck-
oning is more largely concerned with
herself than her purse or her j. o.
US.
Debts of honor between man of
the world, an habitue of clubs, and
a smart woman equally celebrated can
and generally do have but one re-
suit The divorce court. This is plain
speaking, but have no desire to mince
matters or affect to misread one of
the crying scandals Of the day. The
noted bridge player has become an
open seasame to ones exclusive circles.
Good birth, good breeding. social dis
tinction, artistic eminence, all pale be-
fore the champion gambler. whose
badge of merit Is his stakes. The pro-
ficient bridge player is the hero of the
hour. He is in constant demand. He
threatens to rival even the important
individual who has ruled society by
means of leading the cotillion.
Bridge is now the goddess Of play
She has dethroned even baccarat AMI
roulette. She stands smiling and
gracious at the threshold of the great
homes and smart salons. The garb of
gold and silver tissue rustles at the
most exclusive doors, and they are
thrown open at her summons. That
woman's tears and woman's honor and
mems despair echo on her footsteps
concerns no one; that prelates preach
against and moralists denounce her
makes not the slightest difference to
her worshipers They hear the click
of her golden feet, but heed not. No
rival does she fear. Terrible as ara
the gambling tragedies which claim
men as their victims, they shrink into
the background before those offered by
women. All men of the world know
this.