EBOOK THE ABOMINATIONS OF MODERN SOCIETY ***
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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 shall keep ship, bark,
fore-and-aft schooner, or hermaphrodite brig 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. The best being that God ever
made is a good woman, and the worst that the devil ever made is a bad
one. If anything herein shall be a warning either to man or woman, I
will be glad that the manuscript was caught up between the sharp teeth
of the type.
T.D.W.T.
BROOKLYN, January 1st, 1872.
CONTENTS.
The Curtain Lifted
Winter Nights
The Power of Clothes
After Midnight
The Indiscriminate Dance
The Massacre by Needle and Sewing-Machine
Pictures in the Stock Gallery
Leprous Newspapers
The Fatal Ten-Strike
Some of the Club-Houses
Flask, Bottle, and Demijohn
House of Blackness of Darkness
The Gun that Kicks over the Man who Shoots it off
Lies: White and Black
The Good Time Coming
THE ABOMINATIONS.
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