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THE ABOMINATIONS OF MODERN SOCIETY.

BY REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE,

AUTHOR OF "CRUMBS SWEPT UP"

1872.

PREFACE.

This is a buoy swung over the rocks. If it shallkeep ship, bark, fore-and-aft schooner, or hermaphroditebrig from driving on a lee shore, "all's well."

The book is not more for young men than old.The Calabria was wrecked "the last day out."

Nor is the book more for men than women. Thebest being that God ever made is a good woman, andthe worst that the devil ever made is a bad one. Ifanything herein shall be a warning either to man orwoman, I will be glad that the manuscript was caughtup between the sharp teeth of the type.

T.D.W.T.

BROOKLYN, January 1st, 1872.

CONTENTS.

The Curtain Lifted 9

Winter Nights 25

The Power of Clothes 38

After Midnight 59

The Indiscriminate Dance 79

The Massacre by Needle and Sewing-Machine 94

Pictures in the Stock Gallery 114

Leprous Newspapers 137

The Fatal Ten-Strike 154

Some of the Club-Houses 186

Flask, Bottle, and Demijohn 201

House of Blackness of Darkness 226

The Gun that Kicks over the Man who Shoots it off 241

Lies: White and Black 262

The Good Time Coming 276

THE ABOMINATIONS.

THE CURTAIN LIFTED.

Pride of city is natural to men, in all times,if they live or have lived in a metropolis notedfor dignity or prowess. Cæsar boasted of hisnative Rome; Lycurgus of Sparta; Virgil ofAndes; Demosthenes of Athens; Archimedes ofSyracuse; and Paul of Tarsus. I should suspecta man of base-heartedness who carried aboutwith him no feeling of complacency in regard tothe place of his residence; who gloried not in itsarts, or arms, or behavior; who looked with no