New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-28
Women Present Day Habits
Are Called a Disgrace
by Billy
Lesson for Parents
In Catholic Church
"Inhdels of Professors At
tackled for Troubles in
Nations Colleges

THE mother Of Moses heads the list
Of great women on earth. Think Of
that. YOU gin guzzlers, you beer guz-
zlers, YOU matinee gadders. you
Somewhere in the Tabernacle
woman laughed, and Billy Sunday
wheeled in a fine frenzy. He beat the
rulpit with his fist and jammed his
heel savagclv into the green carpet on
his rostrum.
ooh. YOU needn't laugh" he shouted.
eft is a disgrace to humanity that there
are so many God-forsaken. booze-hoisi-
inc women. Yes. it is. 1t is DIS
grace the way women are drinking
around these days
Blly's voice troubled him greatly
Yesterday. and he seemed unusually
tired and sensitive to the sound OF
coughing; but despite the handicaps he
nut some of his best work into his
sermon on mothers. one Of the premier
pieces in his repertory and one Of the
few he has allowed to be printed. lie
delivered it at both services.
Particular About Mothers
God. said Billy. was mighty particu-
lar about mothers. Most any old stick
would do for father, but mothers had
10 be fine. seasoned timbers, not
poodle fondlers and bran mash drink
ers." The mingled laughter and APP
plause which greeted that and similar
expressions concerning the superiority
Of the hand that rocks the cradle indi-
Gated that the distinction was popular
as we'll as true.
Pm old-fashioned enough to believe
that there aren't enough devils in hell
TO pull a boy out of the arms Of a
Christian mother" Sunday went on.
"If every cradle could be rocked by a
Christian mother those hell holes Of
saloons would close tomorrow.
Sometimes a boy would be better off
II his daddy died before he was born.
It's enough to make a mother despair
when she tries to train her child not
to swear and then the father comes
home cursing; when she tells him not
to smoke. and the father sits around
smoking
A lone woman applauded that senti-
ment vigorously, and the evangelist
continued that there was lesson for
parents in the practice Of the Roman
Catholic Church.
Instructs the Children
The Roman Catholic Church says,
Give us the child until it is ten and
we don't care who has il aftcrward.'
That Church isn't losing any sleep over
the loss OF adult members, because II
has instructed the children"
Not all mothers did their full duty
though. Billy admitted. He thought he
could give some of them valuable adj
vice, particularly on the subjects Of
tango lizards and bullet-headed, spider
legged dudes. If such ventured in the
vicinity Of his daughter. the evangelist
asserted that he would get 40-gallon
squirt gun. load it up with Rough on
Rats and buttermilk and drown the
wretch"
Then there were those whose sins
we're the sins Of commission rather than
of omission. Such were the delicates-
sen mothers, who spent the day looking
into shop windows, at the movies or
dandling a little dog and rushed home
when the o'clock whistle blew to tele-
phone for potato chips and sliced ham.
There was also the nagging mother,
the ill-tcmpered mother and the saddest
mother. The last. Billy explained, al
ways wore a velvet hat in August be-
cause it would be the style in October.
That brought applause, and Billy ex-
/ claimed:
/ 81 see I'm hitting you where you live
Tells of Other Mothers
Then he went on to ticket the drunk
en- mother, the irreligious mother and
the disconnected mother.
With his usual agility Billy leaped
to another theme and said that if any
one wanted TO know why the people
were having so much trouble with col
leCes these days he could tell them II
was because Of the seed sown in the
hearts OF college boys by a lot of good