The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-15

going to win ouf,---you bet your life
| do,
, 1t is cstimated-st tistics are hard
! TO Ect--that <So,000000 changes
hands a day IN gambling. sl2a,2o
06o 900 year! 1t Kills industry. The
. -s,.sx "a, T5 81 VIZ , tss0 q 5ees y,
6y,sz,1 hts aSs,, hanging -areSs~sS -
looms and drinking and spending his
time in absolute idleness II dulls
the saw, stops the engine, puts out the
. fires in the hold of the ship and in
the furnace OF The great big factories,
and all over and away IL is driftin &
on.
There is no;1in~ SO tame as to ask
: anybody TO play game of cards for
/ fun that's learned To play with the
sky limit. or even penny-ante. You
couldn't hold them. SO they had To
have their progressive euchre and
, whist and all these things Why,
some church members have cards on
their tables a. often as food.--oh,
! sure,
preached in a town In Iowa. They
were having the last card party be-
wanted TO get IL out Of the way.
was entertained IN this woman e
; home She was IN actress, by the
way. I met her out in Los Angeles
Well was entertained and they were
! having the last game, and she was a
crackerJack and bringing all her
skill to bear TO win the prize. and IT
was a cut-giass dish from Tiffany
Ii was "A beauty, valued at $40, and
: abe brought all her skill TO bear
When they counted the points, some
body else was high by two points
more than she had. Well, sir. II gave
her nervous prostration. She went &c
, bed and staid there two days moan
, ing over losing that cut-glass dish
: She had boy with face on him
Q like horse, and head on him like
, an 49, plant. and ears like the sails
on n cat-boat, lips looked like two
: slices Of ham. and every time he
shook hands with ire. fle said Hello
Bil1. I'm glad to see you"
SO he came staggering in one
morning, with his hands III his
4, breeches pockets Mp TO his elbows, hi:
] legs looked like piano egs.---aud he
{ came walking in. the hat on his head
$ looked like a fried egg, and his moth
\ or had dragged herself down, and
Q she said: where's Harold -
J The maid said: Tie isn't home;
e guess he's out with some of hi:
4 friends
She sat there pale and anemic. She
@ had on a crushed geranium tea gown
d trimmed with an elephant breast
- ribbon, and she was slipping a crane
q fruit. lie came swa ggerlng in. Hs
= said: Hello. ma" Gosh" he said
/: cut it out"
q He threw her down a $40 golc
il piece. He said The jewelers. go
another dish just like that one yol
:. didn't win. go down and get it,
81 She said: "Aarrold where did yol
t get this money! from your papa"
c He said: NO, got II down here a
" Richardson's" "A fellow named
n that ran a saloon and a gamblint
Joint, and the fellow used to go III
II there and nit 1t upD She said: g
y wouldn't take the money shat yoS
z won gambling and take 1t and bu,
mo a cut-glass dish"
4 He said Ma. cut il out VIVA
q IS the difference between playing f.
- a cut-rlass dishand playing 70
1t twenty hones.-go buy one" Yes
10 that was all there was to IT.
" Dr. J G. HoIla nd-some OF yor
Is. people have listened to him--in hi
r. htt'e book cutitled. Cold VIII Tell
N said; II have all my days hoped t
@. see card playing disappear. Whe
,e ii does. there VIII be moral upllft
"a ting"
&c &c Somebody said DO you pia
~ cards, BilIT"
~ No. sir, haven't had a pack o
cards in my hands for thirty years
>, and il was thirty years ago. one dar
,g ana stormy night, that | found Jesu
90 Christ, and I've never had a pac
10 of cards in my hands from that da
.. till this have never tasted hooz
., since the day ! was converted dow
=. to this day. although the whiske
20 gang say ! am drunk II there
any lie that human lips haven't tol
about me trot 1t out, and IN max
y. that gang lay down.
=, Now, then. If the world was mad
q. up OF one family. | guess I wouldn
-, need TO preach this sermon, BIT
- fortunately II - made, up of man
+, families. and each family is more @
- - less interependea upon the other
~ It's a hardship ID keep your child o
= he right side of the proposition whe
:" they see other children doing certai
;. things. When they see them don
=, II, they naturally want to do il them
"a selves,
10 The Dancing Master
y / remember one time in Chicag,
% where / lived for twenty odd years
n Helen, who was little girl said
'e Mamma ! couldn't go to dancin
school. could IT,
te She said: Il should say you couldn
who ever put that nonsense in You
n head? -
'e Mr.. Rerniques little girl the wa
/" a. little hook nosed dancing master
i WAS down to The school today an
had on a new dress with eightee
:. yards of ribbon on II, and she wa
q showing us the cps, and she sal
n for US to ask our mamas If w
couldn't take dancing lessons fror
her father, because il would max
" US all graceful
!. I'd rather has my daughter O
:. sister waddie through lie like a hip
> popotamus
Somebody said: You condemn I'll
y square dance ?"s They all look aIik
- 10 me. There's many a shortcut /
> The round one
a The dance had its origin anon
the ancient Egyptians.---let me Civ
:, you sonre history. That's as far a
- we know anything about II, and
a was described as an invention o
d. their god.
A.. Plato. tells us that dancing wa
;, never used by the Egyptians as
y social amusement The sexes neve
n mingled togetheri-nev.r. 1t was
?. religious ceremony to their gods
9 Men and women danced to their god
as religious exercises.-never, never
al in ole