A great many religious denomina
tions have put card playing under the
ban, but it is a peculiar fact that the
Roman Catholics are not only openly
in favor of it as a means for raising
money, but it is the only denomina.-
tion which holds regular card parties,
or “euchres,” as they are called;
everything “goes” as prizes, from
houses and lots to diamond rings; an
admission price is charged, and,
needless to say, as all the prizes are
donated, a tremendous sum of money
results from these public card games.
Being under “religious” auspices,
the police never interfere, and the
women who attend fight as grim a
battle with King, Queen and Ace as
do their brothers in a “quiet game”
elsewhere.
This is another instance of where
the solution to deplorable conditions
is in the hands of the women of the
country.
It is quite possible some of the
dames who worked hardest to abol
ish race-track gambling in New
York, played hardest all that winter
to add to their bridge scores or to
their cut-glass collection.
And woman’s inconsistency is
something she was born to, as the
•parks fly upward, and when it comes
THE JEFFERSONIAN
By L. A. L.
to a “show-down” it reads funny for
her to demand any more “rights,”
doesn’t it?
The Mormons are in a sweet mess.
Some Senators neither die nor re
sign—they are whitewashed.
The worst of it is, the clay feet of
these political idols are so infernally
big.
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Another thing about Senator Ollie
James is, he doesn’t look a bit like
his front name.
Funny how much those opposers
of reciprocity don’t know about
farms and farmers.
The temperature in Atlanta went
up ten degrees after the Georgia
legislature met.
