The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-01-22

my family. The children are out al
nurse In villages, as cheap as any two
| little brats can be kept. Al
for play. / do think ! may, indeed, in
dulge In that, now / am my owI
mistress. Just as I was
married, came dear Brag into fashion
and ever since It has been the Joy Of
my life; SO easy, 80 cheerful and
careless, SO void Of thought and SO
genteel! Who can help loving it?
Yet the perfidious thing has used me
very iii Of late, and tomorrow
should have changed it for Faro
Within a few hours must
be dragged into the country. The
wretch left me In a fit which his
threatenings had occasioned, and un-
mercifully ordered postchaise.
IN \ Who can tell but l may
still come back and conquer Lady
Parker?"
The following is the eyer-famous
Addison's testimony:
I'VE always 6ind that play, when
followed with assiduity, engrosses the
whole woman. She quickly grows un-
easy in her own family, takes but
little pleasure in all the domestic in
nocent endearments Of life, and grows
more fond of Pam than Of her hus-
band"
Addison quotes the testimony Of a
husband:
When she returns to me, with
Joy in her face, it does not arise from
the sight Of her husband but from
the good luck she has had at cards.
On the contrary says he, IL she has
been loser, am doubly a sufferer
by 1t. She comes home out of humor.
is angry with everybody, displeased
with all that could do or say, and in
reality, for no other reason, but be-
cause she has been throwing away my
Addison in sad satire exclaims
What race of worthless, what
patriots, what heroes, must we expect
from mothers of this make!"
A portentous phase of the recent
gambling craze is that it has invaded
the churches, not merely those that
tacitly allow everything that does not
make public scandal, but those that
have reputation for greater vigil
lnce. Clergymen, in their denomina-
tional meetings, and their interde-
meetings, and their in
DETERMINATIONS fraternal clubs, de-
plore the situation more wildly than
herein portrayed, but con-
less their inability to change the stu
alton. The wives and daughters of
lot few clergymen play Bridge
without the least regard to the in
'luence they exert. So strong is the
,ide, the total restitution of reason or
rue devotion, that many would give
Up their religious connection rather
han their gambling. The knowledge
If this has certainly silenced some
,lergymen. Some of another spirit |
with the ladies', and pro-
rose that the winnings be devoted to
he Cause of God" Some ladies of |
high degree" have gone straight |
rom the Holy Communion, on Sum
lay, to the Bridge party. The fever
las spread to all the great denomina-
ions. In Methodist churches there
ire sad cases of utter recklesness.
II mothers become so crazed with |
play naturally daughters will imi-
ate them.
One Of the professors Of Wellesley
ollege few months ago issued a
tatement to the students in which
he says:
"The bride-playing fever does not
bate, it threatens to become a fixed
orm Of relaxation in college, espe-
tally among women. The
owdiest college boy, however, does
ct probably spend SO much time In
is relaxation as does the quiet but
onstant bridge-player in our Wellesz
~ community"
To convince our readers tat moth
lg herein reaches the full measure of |,
le situation. we inform them that in
hicago:
The police department and the
aw and Order league have Joined
ands In 9 crusade to prevent .so-
ety women from gambling. The
iict applies to cinch. whist. and !
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