Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-08
Some Sundayisms

$40 you GO to the dance with
your wife? You don't dance and
she is flend. You see man after
man claim her and you stand
there and watch your wife folded
in his long voluptuous, sensual
embrace, their bodies swaying one
against tie other. their limbs
tWinrg and INTERVIEWING, her
head resting on his breast, and
you etand there and tell me there
is no harm in it,"
''ln Monte Carlo they kave one
special room fer the men and
women, who have lost their ali
gambling TO 90 and commit suicide
in, and they keep that room pref
ty busy all the time. There is
another padded room there
especially for people who go in
sane at the tables, it's damned
most Of the time too"
"You say, Hold on--you'rc
speaking Of the sIum dances and
we attend the club Dances It's
all the same dance and tie
brothel dance has the best Of you
women. The girls there have al
ready fallen, and anyway most
of them wear more clothes than
ycu people do"
"You say, Look here, can't !
dance with my own wifc?' Dance
with who? YOUR wife? You old
lobster you would just as soon 60
out and husk corn all night with
the lantern hanging on the end.
gate as dance with your cwn
wife; it's some other teIiows's
wife you want to dance with"
Cards end dancing are worse
enemies Of the church than ths
saloon. ! hate the saloon-Good
God, how ! hate 'em-but the
church loses more members
through the influence Of cards and
dancing than hy the saloon"
Cards were incnted for the
amusement Of crazy king. They
were made to please the old idiot
and from that day to this they
have done nothing else but stay in
the same business
eighty million dollars change
hands. every day in the United
States through gambling; S123,-
oco.oco changes hands every year
in this country through the same
medium. We are le1ding the
world in the game
Gambling has its lever under
the foundation Of mercantile life
it prizes open safes and under
mines our commercial industries"
owe got more respect for
saloon keeper than have for
dancing master. I'd rather have
my daughter dead than in the
HANDS of dancing master
"No man nor woman ever gets
too, low down to dance and play
cards"
"The man that bucks lack
pot Of $40 gold pieces at o'clock
in the morning is no more of
gambler than the woman, that
plays for dnky little cream
pitcher, Whisk broom or tin dust
pan. She ought to be in the
calabocse with the rest of the
black-Iegs. You condemn city
officials for permitting gambling
bells to be conducted when you
have gang of miserable old
church members in your own
church doing the same thing
every day. Physicians, heal thy
selvos---then you can tackle the
other bunch. 1t would be dandy
haul If the patrol wagon would 90
out and bring in load OF you
society sissies with the rest OF
the gamblers, wouldn't it?"
6Where do you find the most
accomplished dancers? In the
brothels. The reason is obvious.
Ninety per cent Of the girls are
graduates Of dancing schools"
Cards are sooiety's contribu-
ton to the forces which send mon
to hell"
"I'd sooner be a chamber maid
in livery stable then the caller
for a dance"
"If these narrow gauge bugeies
around the ottunWa livery
stables could talk there'd be some
thing doins and don't you forget
it,
"Any church that encourages
dancing and card playing Is too
low down to deserve the name of
church"
Dancing is nothing but hug
sing match set to music"
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