BILLIARD ROOMS.
While places like the White House and other men-traps are denounced — and very properly too— by moralists and social reformers, I think some attention might bo spared for the billiard-rooms. They are as dangerous sources of temptation to fast young men as many other houses which the temperance people rail against. Some of them are merely sly- grog shops in disguise. The hotel billiard-rooms are not the real sinners. They are always public, and are supposed ;to be strictly closed at 10 o'clock. But some of the private billiard-rooms are subjected to little or no supervision. They keep open till all hours, and attract the men who are unwillingly expelled from the hotels at closing time. They are carefully screened from observatin from the street. An innocent-looking shop, or something of the kind, is the screen, and the windows are carefully blinded so that no ray of light is seen from without. Perhaps the police will take the hint.
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 233, 28 February 1885, Page 3
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161BILLIARD ROOMS. Observer, Volume 7, Issue 233, 28 February 1885, Page 3
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