Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-12


"Play cards to midnight and
you can not go to the house OF
God to worship the next day"
"step oat boldly and denounce
fashionable gambling"
"Lift the lid in OttumWa and
you will find In high society and
the church people the practice
of card playing
Cards will keep a woman's
tongue still for there is the
ten,pter there saying, Keep still
and play cards."
"Eighty-five per cent of the card
players are protesting Christians,
some on the official boards, sup
erintendents Of Sunday schools,
Sunday school teachers"
"GamhIina Is no whit better
in high society than. in the gamb-
ling dens of vice"
800 not talk about John D.
Rockefeler's tainted money, but
turn the searchlieht on your card
playing"
"cards are the dividing line.
Wouldn't you rather be wall
flower for Jesus Christ than
diamond for the devlI?"
"The fruits Of the card table
are iniquity, fathomIess, whore
there is no bottom"
''The card game ministers to
dissipation; it is allied with w1is.
key and the saloon and with tho
brotheI."
"Sin cursed pagans and heath
ems are the authors of the game
Of cards.
card playing is the DEVILS long
suit. Give your children a Bible
instead OF pack Of cards."
"No card player is lnnoculated
with the blood Of Jesus Christ"
"The parIor game of cards is
the college where gamblers grad
uate."
Cards. every form of playing, ";
bitterly denounced yesterday afte
noon by Mrs. A. B. Sims of ID,
Moines. and an audience of fully 4,0(
men and women heard her address
Mrs, Sims is the eX-whist champion
America, having won the Amsterda
trophy in st. Louis in 1906. She ga'
up the playing Of cards two yea
ago, when Dr. Wilbur Chapman WI
preaching in Des Moines.
The shafts Of the reformed viii
enthusiast We're aimed directly at d
voices of fashionable card game
Mrs. Sims, who looks every whit Il
part OF a dignified society matro
made it plain at the very outset tn
she was here to denounce card pla
ing, and her address was filled wi
scathing denunciations Of the gan
which she claimed led to ganblin
Authors and other simple games we
not touched upon for they are n
PLAYED in the gambling bells a,
brothelS.''
The speaker prefaced her remar
with the statement that she had n
denounced games for the sake Of i
toriety, Notwithstanding that ma
papers in this country and forei
lands had stated it such, that s
was not here for show Or TO increa
her popularity, but simply to sht
herself in her chosen work, that
elevatins herself to higher plane
the eyes of God, but never forgetti
the shame Of her life while playi
cards. She referred to the playing
cards in high society as she stat
she knew no other.
Mrs. Sims related number OF in
dents Of her own experience to sh
that fashionable card games lead
ruin. She told Of one family wht
the father and the son both becaI
defaulters to provide the funds Il
the wife and daughter might lead
life Of gaiety in the ball rooms a
at the card tables; another was OF
mother who induced her son 10 q
going to church, to attend her cf
parties, and her boy dying a few ds
later, his last words being, Moth
why did you keep ME from churc
l am lost" Another story was Of
woman who was showing her friel
some beautiful prizes she had "
at whist party. when her son ca
running in and showed handful
bills, exclaiming: and here, moth
is what won last night down
| Sloan's saloon"
Tells Numerous Experiences.
Delving in her personal exp
ences, Mrs. Sims said;
Friends, I feel that must g
some of my own personal experieE
in fashionable card playing and 81
bling. AS soon as the invitati
are out, the telephones of the soci
lines are kept so busy it is difficult
get on the line even to announce
fire, and conversation will be carr
on something like this: "Oh, S
Have you received an invitation
Mrs. sC.'s' card party? Oh, the pr
| are just beautiful Say. will
play with me?'' Il wonder if We
get Mrs. B. she Is crackeriac