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Show Husbands Combine Against Euchre SpouBes Weary of Wnlking Floor "With "Babies While Their Wives ' Play Cards. NEW YORK, May I. Twenty-one , husbands who reside in Bayonne. X. J., 'hftvo met and organized the Marrled Men's Antl-Euchrc party. They declare it in Umo their wives and other mt-n's wives were cured of the progresslvo ouchre habit and propone to uso all their efforts to establish, es-tablish, such a cure. Several letters from other towns and cities were read Indorsing tho movenicnL A gcntloman of the name of Kicks, In accepting tho presidency of tbo new society, said: "It is high time we aserlel our manhood nnd made a determined effort lo down this habit which threatens to wreck our homes. Many a night I have had to walk the floor with the baby until un-til 2 qr 3 o'clock waiting until my wife returned from a euchre jiarty. It has got so that the clubs meet every afternoon after-noon and ovening and 'art- now talking about playing on Sunday." Other men spoke in a similar vein and rosolved to curb tho popularity of euchre by every means In their power. |