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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 11, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 6.

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The Rink Curse.

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An exchange says: "Skating rinks have caused so many divorces in Madison, Wisconsin, and so much domestic unhappiness and other scandal, that the Common Council has taken action intended to drive the rinks out of the city." Many Christian people have thought that the rinks afforded a good place for "innocent amusement" for the young people; but it is a question if they are not quite successful rivals of the liquor saloons. It is not a question, however, which will be first compelled to go. The liquor saloons will out-stay the rinks; and this makes us almost believe that the rinks are not quite so bad as the saloons.