Show 1 JIEN IS NOT Now the telegraph tolls tells us that a movement in Chicago has been begun begun begun be be- gun against society women who play playcards playcards car cards s for prizes And tho department is said to havo ruled that such playing is gambling and that even o bridge whist or society five hundred can not bo be advertised or announced in tho the society columns of or newspapers that are expected to have havethe havethe have havethe the freedom of ot the United Stat States s mails mail And AntI yet tho the editor of a a. religious newspaper at Milwaukee tho the Living Church argues that the officials officials of of- are wrong and that these games of aC cards for tor prizes aro arc not nat gam gambi gambling bUng ing Here is Ig his argument nt The essence of af gambling is 13 In the attempt through covetousness to secure seure se- se cure ure from fram another that which the theother theother theother other docs does not offer as a a. free tree gift gilt A lottery latter Is an indirect form torm of ot gambling gambling gam gain bling In which tho prize is of ar such as to Inspire covetousness and tho the contest for tor it a direct challenge to that sin The purchase of at a lottery lottery lottery lot lot- tery ticket or a chance Is an at attempt attempt attempt at- at tempt to secure a valuable article for far oneself with the assistance of af money maney payments from fram other people peaple such as are arc not intended as gifts C It Involves a n. willingness to win by means of or tho the losses of ot other people There are no prizes In a lottery there is the sale of at an article denominated a n. prize in which many Join to pay an extra extravagant ant purchase price but only anly one ane receives that which all Jointly Joint joint- ly 13 have havo purchased But tho the prize offered by a hostess to tho the winner at a card contest in involves involves In- In valves none of these principles The hostess Is not competing for tor the prize against her guests It Is her will free gift in which the only element clement of at uncertainty Is as to the recipient And It does not nat Involve the tho principle of ot the lottery for fOl tho the prize Is not nat won wan b by means of or tho the la losses ses of or other peo pea plo pIe It Is 15 not purchased there Is no loser laser who has mado mada an Investment In Inthe tho the hope of ot winning a thousand fold moro more than he Invested it Is a 0 transaction transaction transaction trans trans- action in which no party has been een Injured and In which tho the impelling motive mativa has been not covetousness but mental relaxation The prize Is the he expression of aC good will wUl on an the part of ot the hostess to all her guests alike all of ot whom are arc treated equally Evidently E tho the Milwaukee e man has never seen women play cards for prizes If he ho had he ho would change his mind about the Intensity of af their desire the deceptions they practice the sentiment of or hostility that Is engendered engendered en en- gendered under tho timo pretense of ot affa arfa- If It the editor of at the Living Church could watch a a. good poker game Same for tor halt half an hour haur played by very hardened gentlemen who wouldn't think of or denying that It was ws gambling and then watch the dear women wamen who turn from tea to games for far prizes he would vote in a minute that the tho poker game had less of Unchristian unchristian unchristian un un- christian spirit and influence than the tle society struggles which Io be he has lias been defending Let UH us hope that Chicago may make malte an end of ot the society games and that the reformation In that wicked city may be so complete that no other city in the nation will for fora ri a minute permit tho the practice to con con- |