Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-13

noon what fort mean the diamond
wearing bunch; the automobile gang; the
silk gowned-thats the bunch. She can
take, home a dinky cream pitcher,
whisk broom or a pair OF silk stockings,
/ have more respect for the professional
gambler than have for the church mem
Der who plays cards The one IS openly
a gambler, the other Is a gambler and
pretends to be decent.
You will never know what a good time
Ia until you become an out and out
Christian II every man will walk out OF
the church and line up. you could close
every saloon In town tomorrow.
The dance Is the dry rot the finder
box OF society l always thouSht It was
big nuisance to gsllop a mile or two
Just to get hug or two dancing
church member is never a soul winning
church member. Some OF you girls say
Goodbye Lord. have to so to the
dance with this dude; I'm sorry"
There is nothing so tame as to ask a
fellow to play cards for the fun OF Il
when he is used to a sky limit
II does not make any difference whether
It is a penny ante or sky limit. SO we
have progressive euchre. and lots OF
church members in Omaha have cards on
their table as often as food,
l hear some churches have been hav-
! ing more card parties than prayer meet
ings. II you have a Bible and a deck OF
cards In your home, either throw the
cards in the furnace and keep the Bible
or throw the bible into the garbage car
| and keep the cards Don't let them both
stay under your roof all night.
II you keep booze in the cellar get out
of the church.
| In town where 1 was preaching they
had parties early to get them off theil
hands before / came. They had bis
affair and the prize was n. $50 cut glas:
| dish. and a society woman worked anC
sweat. and lied and cheated and tool
progressions which she didn't win ant
then lost the dish by two points. She
went home and was sick In bed for tive
days. She had son named Harold, L
years of age. He had a head like al
eggplant. face life a horse, eyes like
poached eggs, ears like the sails on g
catboat. a regular Ciydesdale fellow
and she came down one morning in hel
crushed geranium tea gown with ele-
plants breath ribbons, with red slippers
that turned up like sled runners, anC
her son came in and said: Here, ma,
don't worry about that cut glass disl
you didn't win; here's a 500 gold piece
and you can go and buy one Just like 4
from the jeweer."
Won II Rt Cards.
why, where did you get itT" sh'
asked
II won It at Richardson" chats thu
gambling hell Of the town.. and she said
why, dear. do you think l would taxi
$40 you won at gambllng7"
why not?' he asked. where's tn
difference between winning a prize tina
cost $40 and winning the so and buyinI
the prize?"
The woman said to me afterwards whel
she came down and took her stand 70
Christ. she would never play cards again
She Is one of the most active worker
and most Christian women of the churcl
today.
used to play cards. 1 could lie an
cheat like the rest Of them. But Tn
after the devil now; / don't care wher
he shows his head.
One of the GideOns.
While they were there the mans oil
washerwoman came down and pied wit
him to accept Christ. He told her h
would do 1t for her and went up 1
front and took his stand. He was one Q
the five men who founded the little ban
Of Gideon-Charley Kitterege,
There was time in America whe
the stately cotillon seemed to satlsf
America. but it Is too slow for the he
blood Of the twentieth century. The
must have something that will chas
hurdles through their veins. There
nothing so insipid for the devotee of tn
waltz as to dance quadrille.
1 am asked to give reason to tn
saved why they should not dance.
Your love for those things keep yo
out OF the church.
1 believe that most Of the girls sold a
white slaves are enlisted from the bali
rooms. The dance is the rottenest. mos
hellish. vice-producing institution tina
ever wriggled from the depths of perdI
ton.
Certainly believe in amusements. bu
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