Women's Gatherings

Though William Branham's first wife, Hope, enjoyed parties of all sorts, from pool parties,[1] to bunco,[2] to birthday parties with music and contests for William as a young pastor,[3] later versions of William Branham's stage persona spoke against such things — especially parties for women.  According to Branham, when women gathered to sew, cross-stitch, or for casual tea parties, they were doing wrong.  Women were not permitted to tell jokes.

You women that used to have your pink tea parties, and tell little jokes, and call it your stitch-and-sew and sew-and-stitch, and stitch-and-sew and talk about miss so-and-so, you get away from that kind of a party and go to an old fashion prayer meeting. 
Branham, William.  1957, March 26.  Jehovah Jireh.  (57-0326)