The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-29
'T|GR[ssEs'
LURE YOUNG TO RUIN.
Gambling in English Smart Set
Circles Wrecks Girls, Priest d.
Declares. il

Cne smart set, FaLner bernard vaughan,
has been at it again, creating wide
Of the increasing wickedness Of Eng
lish society, dwelling more, particularly
on man-eating tigresses' and traps
set for the ruin of girls =, rs
Against the man-eating tiger Of the
jungle he said man might defend him.
self, but from the man-eating tigress
of society he could not escape. Some
women OF the set to which he referred
seemed to combine the savagery of the
animal with the cunning OF the devil.
Smart, dainty ladies tho they were,
once they had pledged themselves to
the winecup of pleasure, they became
worse than savages, far more cruel and
than the rocking of young men, and
that was the running, thru gaming ia
bles, of young women. 49, ..
/ What a piteous series of pictures he
could paint, he said, depicting the fall
and ruin Of innocent, beautiful Eng
ish girls over the cardtable. i SIS: .
Many debutante had been drawn
the hostess herself, and had been
sucked down to the lowest degradation
| to which woman could come. What
could a girl with the gambling curse
upon her dos Her de BITS must be paid.
Where was she to find moneys In her
| oudulc, Su0 udIc uOC ~ W AC1 4dGu0I
or mother. Then it was that the devil
in human shape who had laid the trap
made bargain. The money was hers.
The debt was paid. >~~- "A =.
Got .Deathbed Call. !:
"But oh, my God,,' said Father
Vaughan, poor glrl,, she becomes 50
she can never be the same again. And
| this ID O0inO On pVarv dav. ~ + ,,-.i .
He knew well what he was talking
about, he said. He had his evidence.
| Not long ago he was sent for by, frall,
beautiful girl lying on her deathbed,
broken with misery, passion g victim
rather than passions slave. She had
sent for him to let him see to what
loathsome thing man might bring
woman.
"You are right to speak out as you
do,' the girl said to him. For God g
sake raise up your voice, and if you
save but one girl from the stain which
I am, you will have, done much, for
I am in the misery and agony OF hell. =
was the. milestone about soicety's
neck,''' he said. Perhaps Father
Vaughan g denunciation would not have
| attracted so much attention had it not
| been that it was followed by the pub
licationE in London newspaper. OF a
remarkable letter from a colonial, who
recently returned to England after ten
years absence and who declared him
self startled by the change he observed
in the old country in regard the grow
ing luxury. 5~s~ - =-- .@s
! Sabbath Violated. T..
| Widespread gambling had increased
the strain Of life and broadened the gar
between the rich and the poor. The
ferocious competition caused extraor'
binary disregard Of religion.
CIT is Notorious he wrote, "that
in London there are not enough
churches to seat one-tenth of the popu
lation, yet I have been il. churches
), where only about one twentieth Of the
seats were occupied. Sunday, which il
my youth used to be a day Of rest, il
now become one of strenuous pleasure
for some, laborious toll for others -
Then he goes on to describe scene
on the Thames on fine Sunday
} crowds Of pleasure boats waiting fol
II have journeyed thirty or forty mile
/ in the country and turnout the journe,
have been enveloped in a continuou
s cloud. of dust raised by thousands of au
). tomobilists, cyclists and carriage load
3 Of excursionists, rushing pell-mell afte
8 pleasure. Conversing with people O.
E religion, I have found almost complet
J Indifference to religious observance, pos
tive hostility to anything like religion
q creed %s..z .-...- ~
Little Gambling, Some Say.
Naturally, there are some correspond
i ents who are indignant at the sweep
q ing attack on the morals of English Sc
= ciety, declaring that high play at bridg
= is not INDUCED in; that the girls ar
n not allowed to engage in gambling. Blu
i clergymen Of the Church Of Englan
who have followed Father Vaughan an
q the colonial into the arena general
= deplore what Bishop Wilkinson define
a as Hthe terrible moral and social d.
cline of the English nation which h
" attributes to wealth and property
!. badly used, which has already prove
" disastrous. = y, IN
e After quoting instances in supper
:, of, the argument that the decline Of RI
9 hgious observance marked the decline {
10 a nations prosperity, Bishop Wilkil
j son dwells on the increasing gambling
h fraud, intemperance, immortality Of til
/ nation, and adds that Father Vaughan
e denunciations have not been one VIII
|. too strong
v IT respect him for his outspoke
ness Rev. Webb Peploe. presbyter
of st. Paul q cathedral, joining in th
lament, writes: eve older men of tn
clergy could never have believed tie
or twenty years ago that now what
y patent to us all would ever have bee
seen in England.
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