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Show ENOLISM WOMBN'B QAMDLINO. Tfutlag Th.lr I.lt. anil Lo.loa Tlitlr .ir-lt.ixtl. Of course, for years, It has been a recognlicd fact that a certain soctlon of London well-to-do society folk spend day after day at each other' house, "having a llttlo Mutter," beginning be-ginning with carefully drawn down blind at about 4 In the aftcrnoou and going on until midnight, says London iJoclety. When one pause to think on what theae women ought to be and might be ono I abaolutely oatounded at tholr complete lot, tint, of telt-re-pect; second, of the opinion of their better frlendi; third, of their itlf-gor-ornment. The forer often bcglm In casual llttlo rounda at a halt penny a doxen to devolop Into tho ruin, the destruction of tho victim. It Is a universally uni-versally known thing that, after winning win-ning a little. It li very difficult to draw the line. They do not seem to remember remem-ber that la winning they are, especially especial-ly on the raco courso, taking money from those who cannot afford to loao or who aro playing with money that is not virtually their own. Who has not seen tha horrible flushed face of the young girls and women with tho con-vulilvo con-vulilvo twltchlngs of the facial nervoa, when tho horso aro (lying over tho courso at Kempton? And when oin think that they are women thoae who hato tho bringing up ot Innocent llttlo sona and daughters, una trembles trem-bles for their contribution to tbo men and women ot the next generation, They are throwing away, ns worthies, their great Influenco for good or evil on the men in their set. In their sphere; they are Influencing their husbands, hus-bands, brothers, couilui, to think that gambling is the proper thing to do. Talking ot race remind! me that what la done by the women of tho aristocratic aristo-cratic elataea at Kempton park la dons ub rota by their aorvant at home. |