Show THE By Elbert As a cold business mc give you I would not i trust an amateur gambler as far as I you could fling Taurus by the will not do business with a man i who plays cards for money if I can help No individual in my era- ploy or anybody else's who plays j cards for money can ever hope for j A professional gambler may be but your clerk or business i man who indulges in a quiet game j of is a a liar and a And the man he cheats most is And the only man he really deceives is And the man who deceives himself and cheats himself will get no chance to cheat me if the matter be Beware white the soft hands and the impassive smile of the The amateur gambler is not necessarily a bad primarily his intents are He plays first simply for re-S then to add the game transforms itself into penny From this to betting all the money he is a very easy when the fever is He But quit when you have and not give your opponents a chance to win their money is more or less of a He plays again and Then he wants a chance to get his money He plays only in the evening an hour after Then if he can get away from work at four o'clock and play until supper he will do just as scores of government clerks do at In the evening he plays again excitement is in the air challenge is abroad he will come out and then Men who have worked today cannot play j all night and do business the next so midnight may end the But Saturday night the game goes on until the of nothing need be said all I that simply absurd to enter on-a habit where success is and to win is a The successful amateur gambler graduates into a he has for business men shun No man who plays cards for money can keep his position The fact none of us have a surplus of and if you are going to succeed in all the power you have to your credit is The man who can play cards at night and do business in the hasn't yet been Life is a bank with so much divine energy at your What are you going to do with If you draw your checks for you cannot for that take your And above do not draw on the Bank of Futurity by breathing bad keeping bad hours and bad The man who succeeds in business is the one who goes to bed before ten o'clock at and only one thing is he jealous and that is outdoor Gambling robs a man of and the keen edge of his life is lost in shuffling the All he gives to his employer or the world is the Outside of his play he is a inefficient and his weakness is very apt to manifest itself in burdening his The curse of gambling does not fall on the gambler any more than does the drunkard alone suffer for his Suffering falls upon every one within the radius of the If your gambler is on a he very often comes around for his wages before pay then he gets to discounting his salary to a money if he he will his pay before he earns without first consulting He intends to pay it back yes He wins and pays it This encourages him to borrow more the next He takes more in order to win He is now obliged to play heavily because his debts are It js an old and dozens or men in Sing Sing can tell you all about it One bad feature of the poker game is the white face with its cold smile It reveals nothing nothing but And the principal reason it reveals nothing is because there is nothing back of it to reveal- it does not token love nor intellect Our actions and thoughts budding cells of His face is astute as the face of David Harum It gives nothing In the of the man becomes he is a living He lies to his and business He forever plays a Life to him is a game of And get it out of your head that the liar does not look you in the The poker-player is a scientific running on the low and his eyes look calmly into He is Astuteness is only valuable in protecting us from astute It adds nothing of value to the Astuteness adds no beauty to the nor does it make life for any man In strict scientific economics the gambler is a parasite and a He consumes but does not If four men start in to play poker with ten dollars or a thousand dollars it is just a matter of mathematical calculation before all of them will have All they have will go to rake-off and for cigars and and the midnight which they would not need if they went to bed at a reasonable No man can play the races continually and John E. who has made a million dollars out of horse says that defeat and nothing but defeat awaits the better on cards or And of all the the biggest is the man who bets on sure has followed the business for a quarter of a and says quit betting years and if I ever bet it will be because the disease has gotten the better of my business The bookmaker gets it all he has but to wait and the whole thing is It is just like the game of where the dealer takes care of the and gives the first booster an ace in the If the booster don't get the money the dealer will he gets all the others as sure as if they continue to Do not imagine that all the gambling is done in the made the God the country- but the devil made the small Hardly a village in America is free Irom the Gambling means blurred weak shaky Loss o of physical bad excitement a S poly of bad death and the grave am a member of the Christie Endeavor iTT the Baptist Un- Knights of Columbus for the Suppress' and all I can say here little plain talk by one fV to with all soft we need all brai in our and cutting out in we do well E-do not believe we can hope for success unless we the pasteboard a cold business I am f |