New-York tribune., 1915-03-24

house cleaning" declared another. as
the committee meeting broke up the
other day. This is the first time IN
my life ! ever let anything interfere
with my housework. but | don't care.
am going to attend every meeting.
The parlor can stay dusty"
Women may be required to neglect
| their homes for Billy Sunday, but their
babies are TO be spared. This is due
to the energy of Mrs. &. A. Hobart,
widow of the former Nice-President,
who is chairman of the day nursery
committee, which will be conducted IN
connection with the revival. Cradles
! for fifty babies have been borrowed
from the Memorial Day Nursery, which
she founded.
Debutantes have offered TO give up
matinees, and High School girls VIII
neglect spring basketball practice to
help with the work of checking the or
spr'ng of the religiously inclined. Mrs.
Hobart has insisted on a rigorous sys-
tenn of Identification. She knows that
a little thing like the wrong baby
wheeled home after a hard days ser.
vice might do harm that month OF
Sundays sermons could not counteract.
Checks Ready for Babies.
Each baby will be provided not only
with number corresponding to the
check held by its mother, but its ad-
dress and parents names Will be en-
/ tered on a book, so that all infants
may be returned to their homes under
public escort if anything happens TO
/ their guardians in the turmoil OF the
revival.
"a am confident that great good will
CtNn To-
visit" said Mrs. G.. A. Hobart yester-
day. 1--WE are thankful that we were
so fortunate as TO persuade him TO
come here.
I'VE do not expect that every soul
in Paterson will be reached personally
bv Mr.. Sunday, but his presence will
quicken the dullest spirit into new
! interest in the religious life. Those
, who never go near the Tabernacle
may get the message in some rounda-
bout wav. We shall never know really
how much good has been accom-
five hundred Cottage" prayer meet
ings n week have been held in Pater-
son during the winter. These are a
part of the thorough campaign OF prep
aration conducted by the agents of the
revivalist.
The city has been divided into prayer
I districts, with a meeting for every
/ thirty families People who never be
| fore have spoken to their next door
J neighbors because Paterson observes
+ all the conventions of great city
have welcomed them to their Libraries
and there knelt in prayer beside them.
Each member of the group has prI-
vatc prayer list Of his unregenerate
II hn
/ night.
Il is whispered that the presence OF
/ these prayer lists has done more to
make sinners uncomfortable than all
| the sermons thundered at them from
Paterson pulpits. The following story
is vouched for by an ardent worker on
the women's committee.
PRAYERS Foil Card Game.
When the cottage prayer meetings
made their first appearance in the
neighborhood of the rich an. sinful, ~
: was the women who bore the brunt OF
/ the experiment. One evening the
/ charming woman next door invited her
neighbor to attend the prayer meeting
4 at her home. lie declined with Jeers,
saving he wasn't interested in prayer
meetings, and that he intended 20 have
/ his little game of cards as usual that
i night. "All right" she said, wei
pray for YOU" His wife informed the
: charming neighbor next morning that
the card game was a complete failure.
81 never saw men so fused in my
life" she chuckled. "They would play
game and then they would tramp
around the room, talking about this
Billy Sunday and how you had to hand
/ it to him for being a wonderful Or
ganizer anyway. Then they would
| start another game, bC. their hearts
were not there The next week they
all attended the prayer meeting.
! at will take more than Billy sunday
10 wipe out card playing from Pater-
/ SON" declared Mrs. George ). Nc
Carter, a member of the women's com
mittee. "Its the only sin we have.
+ We're so near New York, you know,
/ that ANYBODY who wants to tango or
eat lobster can lose herself on Broad
way. It's much safer than to do II
under the eyes of all your neigh1ors.
1--WE do expect, however, that sun.
DAVIS visit will lessen the amount OF
card playing considerably. SO many
| of the society women are already IN
tcrested in the campaign, and there
are so many tales of how many more
people become interested as soon as the
campaign is actually on, that there
won't be anybody left to play cards
with"
No one in Paterson will admit that
d h r city needs Sunday any more than
. half a dozen other towns she could
mention in Northern New Jersey. The
/ blot on her 'scutcheon left there by the
| strike. every loyal daughter of Pater-
son says, has been painted great deal
blacker than it really was, and when
/ the blame for that is placed where 1t
really belongs. with the !. W. W, there
is no other blemish on the far name
Of the city. That it wants Billy Sunday
/ is a credit to its high-mindedness
rather than a confession Of deprayity.
| SUFFRAGE LOSES IN MAINE
Referendum Resolution Fails