GAIN THROUGH LOSS
Ella Wheeler Wilcox writes:
I will not doubt, tho sorrows fall like rain,
And troubles swarm like bees about a hive;
I shall believe the heights for which I strive
Are only reached by anguish and by pain;
And tho I groan and tremble with my crosses,
I yet shall see, through my severest losses,
The greater gain. (Text)
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Gain and Loss—See Fast Living. GAIT AND CHARACTER The firm foot is the ordinary type in men. A firm walk is a sign of self-control as well as of power. When the shoe thickens so obstinately that the foot can not bend it, and when the walker does not care what noise he makes, the firmness and power are developing to a degree that may inconvenience weaker or more sensitive folk. The weak foot is the more common. The stand suggests a knock-kneed body and a mind not strong enough to make the best of life—one might almost say, altogether a knock-kneed character that is always stepping crooked and going its way with an uncertain gait.—Cassell's Family Magazine.
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Gait of Criminals—See Criminals, Gait of.
GAMBLING
The chaplain in charge of the penitentiaries
in Kings County, N. Y., states that
one-half of all the young men whose careers
he has investigated show that the race-track
and its attendant evils were the beginning
of their downward course. The records of
the evil and criminal courts, are replete
with similar testimony. Bankrupts, women
who risk their married happiness, clerks, pilfering
from the till, embezzlers, forgers, defaulters,
suicides, show how, to quote a victim
who stole and then lost at one time
$10,000 at the races, "that betting is the
devil's own joke," and there are many full-sized
victims.—S. Parkes Cadman.
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See Juvenile Court Experience.
GAMBLING AS RELIGIOUS DUTY
One of the three great annual Hindu festivals
is in memory of the occasion when
three of the Hindu gods sat down to gamble.
Krishna, the guileful god, won. This festival
is celebrated by universal gambling.
Indeed, the people believe that unless they
gamble at this time, they will be born as
rats, or take some other undesirable form in
the next life.
After the festival is over, thousands of families have to start life again from the very bottom without a stick of furniture, as all has been lost at gambling.
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Gambling, Some Results of—See Juvenile Court Experience.
GAME OF GREED
Ask a great money-maker what he wants
to do with his money—he never knows. He
doesn't make it to do anything with it. He
gets it only that he may get it. "What will
you make of what you have got?" you ask.
"Well, I'll get more," he says. Just as, at
cricket, you get more runs. There's no use
in the runs, but to get more of them than
other people is the game. And there's no
use in the money, but to have more of it
than other people is the game. So all that
great foul city of London there—rattling,
growling, smoking, stinking—a ghastly heap
of fermenting brickwork, pouring out poison
at every pore—you fancy it is a city of
work? Not a street of it! It is a great
city of play; very nasty play, and very hard
play, but still play. It is only Lord's cricket-ground
without the turf—a huge billiard-table
without the cloth, and with pockets as
deep as the bottomless pit; but mainly a
billiard-table, after all.—John Ruskin.
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GATE, THE, OF STARS
H. Aide writes this apt fancy of the stars:
Stars lying in God's hand,
We know ye were not planned
Merely to light men on their midnight way.
Shine on, ye fiery stars!
It may be through your bars
We shall pass upward to eternal day."
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