Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-02-02
BRIDGE WHIST
CAPTURES CAPITAL
Society Women of Washing ton Addicted to the Game to
Such an Extent as to Amaze--Mrs. John A. Logan
Writes on the Subject-Women Neglect Home and
Husbands for the Love of the Game.

posted as to what is going on i'll the
world; they become SO selfish that
they give themselves over absolutely
TO bridge, varying it occasionally with
poker and in trying to devise ways and
means to account for their losses Or
to add to their winnings.
How any woman, with keen moral
instincts, can deliberately give all of
her time aud thought to the gambling
game of bridge and take the conse-
quences of it's demoralizing influences
upon herself and her family is beyond
comprehension.
In Washington most games are
played in homes, but to say that they
play at home does not, in, any sense.
minimize the evil. They desecrate
their homes in this way, which adds
immensely to the enormity OF the evil,
and. 1t would be better to go to the
clubhouse Or place that was devoted
to gambling if they must needs play.
The means to which the unfortunate
, resort to pay their gambling debts
and the deception they practice upon
their husbands to obtain money is
something appalling.
There was time when those who
were known to play cards for money
were ostracised and it is very sad
! thought to think that the same stand
ard of morality in women is not still
maintained and there is no more rea-
son why women should be respected
who will lay aside all restraint in such
an evil propensity as gambling and be
received and welcomed in society to-
| day than there was in the olden time.
If there is not some united move
ment to suppress poker, bride and 9TH
err gambling games, We shall not be
able to prognosticate where all this
will end We must naturally expect
that the young will follow in the foot
steps of their predecessors, and there
is no estimating the consequences to
the morality of the coming generation
should the present mania for this
baneful evil continue.
The police are supposed to keep q
watchful eye over gamblers. We fire.
quently hear of places being raided
and men and women arrested and
brought before the police court for
playing cards for money. 1t is much
worse in the higher classes than it is
in the lower classes as they have. SUI
perior opportunities for refinement
and culture and for leading proper
lives.
They have it in their power to spend
their leisure in the higher amuse-
ments They have no claim that there
is necessity for them to gamble for
the sake of the money that they win,
as it is a we.l-known fact that no
gambler was ever in the end sue
cessful, his losses usually far exceed
ing his winnings.
History proves that gambling Is not
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ing Of the demoralizing influence 1t
has upon the character Of the people
who indulge in this pernicious habit.
To hear men say that Mrs. So-and-
So plays "a "stiff" game is a very
doubtful comp, iment, and one that l
hate to hear paid to any woman.
There was formerly at the Capital a
coterie of women who played poker
continuously, and who were we'll
known and avoided by many on that
account.
They have unfortunately been sue
ceeded by women who do just as much
harm and set just as bad an exam
| nla hx their addiction to bridge.