A news item says:
Mrs. A. B. Sims, of Des Moines, winner of the woman’s whist
championship of the United States, stood before an audience of
4,000 at Winona Lake and told why she burned up the forty decks
of cards that she had at her home.
“It was not uncommon for me to play whist from 10 A.M.
to 11 P.M.,” said Mrs. Sims. “After that I saw what
I was really doing. I burned up all the pasteboards, and I
should like to speak in every church to the women and tell them
what card-playing led me to, and what it will lead them to.
It was undermining our church. The whist and euchre parties
were sweeping the women of the congregation and the church was
sinking because of their neglect. The card craze as it prevails
among women is the most serious competitor the Church has
to-day.”
Worldliness manifests itself in its games as in other phases of its
life. As the fathers saw the horror of the gladiatorial shows and
their pernicious effect on morals, so in these latter days is caution
necessary and salutary.
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=Anarchy, Remedy for=--See EVIL, SELF-DESTRUCTIVE.