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Show The late John Philip Quinn, who for twenty 'years traveled all over America exposing the electric roulette wheel and other cheating de-Ivices de-Ivices used in gambling, had a reform story that he would tell while exhibiting his queer paraphernalia parapher-nalia in his private car. "Don't be afraid to reform," he said. "Help every poor fellow who wants to reform. The way most people act you'd think they all believed religously in the reform story. "'You stopped smoking because she asked you to?' was the question put to a solemn looking look-ing chap. " 'Yep.' " 'And you stopped swearing because she asked you to?' " 'Yep. " 'And you gave up your poker parties and went into refined, serious society for the same reason?1 " 'Yep, yep, yep.' "'And yet you never married her?' " 'Well, you see, after I'd reformed like that, I found I could do better.' " |