Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1865-08-05
WHISKY On the Brain.

Is there country in the world where
drinking is carried on to the extent it is
in this enlightened and free republic of the
United States of America? Can nothing
be done to stop it2 Are there no laws
that touch it? Is our country, with all its
wealth Of resource, in all its wide extent
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, to become
one largo bar room? I question if sin.
gle transaction is ever concluded without
tho parties interested adjourning to some
adjacent saloon and sealing it with q
drink. Will tho women of America try
and .Gud out how much of this terrible
curse and its consequences lie OF their
door? Will they exert their influence to
guard their. husbands, brothers, aud sons
from this fatal snare7 Will they exert
their talents in the endeavor to make home
what it should be, bansbing in the even.
ing all that il unpleasant and ULTRA practi.
cal. and trying the experiment of pleasant
harmless amusements in their own par.
lors, instead of locking them up for state
occasions? Why not set up gu opposition
attraction-a lively dance, q merry round
game ut cards, a singing club, or reading
club, and give our men chance to exhibit
their talents in the home circle? If the
mothers would drop all illusions to house
keeping utensils, and what the prices of
them have gone up TO, bad servants, house
cleaning, and 50 torth--things that men
hate to hear of in detail, and certainly
When they supply the money tina. keeps
the house they deserve to be excused from
them; and il the young ladies would leave
off discussions on their own and their
neighbors waterfalls: Grecian curls, hats,
nets, wells, engagement rings, and all the
other pomps and vanities with which they
adorn their pretty persons, and if they
would talk more on art, literature, music,
and so forth, and take little interest,"
just enough 10 show that they are no, fools
in the history Of their country aud the
world generally, now 10 progress, it is no.
just possible that the gentlemen would
End amusement at home some NIGHT, in
the week, and spend their evenings out in
hkes honest, private houses? Some men
and they are not generally models of
their sex-cry down q young woman who
expresses an opinion outside domestic
details. A woman, thew s,v. shou)a bo a
| pretty, we'll dressed nonent;,v. can,hlo of
sitting gracefully Of the head Of the table
aud answering siily, rapid specchc, that
| men provide themselves with for these
occasions. with sm,I|irr u,,.',ndes T,ov
| FORGE, that tho oonfro,:,, =, t,o ,rss,,,.
would be mono the aorsn ofr j. ,,ov to,,d
in tho mother q communion for THAR later
veors H,w ma,v 1o,s. ,;,1o, oo,,
princ;,,ed women 5r;v. b,sh.hd 9 M so,,
| ont of doors with ,he;r o,e-,., ho,so
cleaning on the b, sin, U,v MANY na,en,s
having ou,-prown sucL f,l,;os ,,ousa,yo,
attemp. putting "old heads on vounr
shoulders" and, BY refusing to allow n
pack of cards inside the ooor. nv forbid.
ding dancing. charades. theatres md CON.
cert rooms, drive the children into habits
of deceptiou-for Amusement thew vii,
have. The consequence is that. driven
out of their own homes. they 20. auo,,
bad CON pahions, and into vice which they
would probably never have heard Of until
old enough to resist them. had their par.
ents gone with them ia their natural desire
for recreation. and oneued to them such
nmusemeuts as are perlectlv harmless
when used in moderation. Perhaps some
one will ask what has this ~ do with
drinking? We answer cyervih;no Strike
the mischief q, its root, ard keep the men
and BOYS at home. No wonder orr CITY
is filled with ,averns and ale houses for