Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1898 — Texas Parson on Euchre. [ARTICLE]

Texas Parson on Euchre.

This is what Rev. Mr. Claggett, of Dallas, Texas, says about progressive euchre: “It is one of the cunndngest schemes of Satan ever invented to fill up his fiery dominion. It actually makes me blush to think that there is need to talk to Christians about the right or the wrong of this thing. It began as a fad, a makeshift of those who could find no other way of entertaining company. Now it is a curse—ordinary gambling.” The number of marriages is in the proportion of 75 to 1,000 individuals. People born in the spring are generally of a more robust constitution than others. Deaths are more frequent by night than by day. The number of men capable of bearing arms is calculated at onefourth of the population. On nearly every block in Japanese cities is a public oven where, for a. small fee, housewives may have their dinners and suppers coojced for them. Cigarette—A rank concoction with a light on gne god and nothing on the 9t|«,