The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-12-09

clubs. But why organize Browning,
Shakespeare or Tennysoa clubs?
You never hear of a David Club or a
Paul or Mark club. defy the COM
bined genuises of the world to put all
they have ever written together and
rival with il the beauties of the
poetry in the book of David. Iwant
to say seriously that your clubs and
federations of clubs and societies for
the study of things are going to be
your ruin If you keep on exclud-
ing your husbands and sons and meet
behind closed doors, without a male
present, you need not be surprised if
the men 60 to their clubs and their
saloons. Oh, your tete tetes and
your ons-functionsl' cxclaim-
ed the Bishop in a burst of sarcasm
The Bishop spoke of the evils of
card playing and wine drinking at
these functions, The Bishop illus
trated his warning about ca,d>play>
ing and wine drinking by relating
the story of young man who died
drunk and gambler, who first
learned to gamble in his mothers
parlor, by playing for cut glass
vase, and had learned to drink at
function. We think that the Bishop
is little inconsistent in his illustra-
ton, as he had but a moment before
warned the women against excluding
their husbands and sons from these
clubs, societies aud functions, for We
think it would have been well, ah!
better had the young man of whom
he speaks been excluded from attend
ance upon the functions at bis
mothers home, where it is said he
had first learned to drink and play
cards.
Said the Bishop, "You may call it
a cut glass function if you want to, but
the devil calls it gambling. Keep it
up you women and you will see in your
own state what saw in Butte, Mon.
l saw a saloon with side door en-
trance to it marked, Ladies En-
trance" Think of it. An entrance
to drinking saloon for ladies'"
The following taken from The Youths
Companion, we think, illustrates as
great, or perhaps greater evil ten
dency than that pointed ont by
Bishop Duncan in his sermon, and
more destructive Of domestic felicity
and leading to divorce suits:
THE EVIL OF AN OvERwoRKED GOOD.
''Let your moderation be known
to all men" is a motto which does
not lose its force in modern conGi>
tions. 1t is fatally easy to let the
good hurry on until it becomes the
evil. 1t is not strange that the good
influence possible for women's clubs
should be forced and overworked un-
til it threatens the welfare OF the
very communities which they seek to
help.
The author of a recent novel has
taken this tendency as the motive of
her plot. She tells the story of
Western country girl who marries
Chicago grocer, and begins her new
life by joining club. She is soon
swept into a swift current of activi>
ties, social and civic. Her name
figures in the club column of every
newspaper. She is a member of
dozen committees. Their meetings
and the breakfasts, teas and dinners
pertaining to club life fill her days
and evenings. Husband and chill
dren are neglected or half>forgotten
in the pressure of public duties.
Finally the husband loses patience,
packs his bag and leaves home.
Fortunately he encounters railway
accident. The report of it brings
the wife to sense of her actual love
for her husband. She drops every
thing and hurries to the scene of the
accident, to find him unhurt, and to
reveal her real heart to him and to
herself.
In the hours of agonizing suspense
she has learned that husband and
babies are better and dearer than all
the glamour Of club life; aud the