Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-03-25

appetite, that it was resolved to complain
Of her to the landlady and secure her
election from the house. The resolution
was taken at late hour at night. when
she was creating disturbance. When
the complaners reached the door of the
landlady's roou---whieh was on the first
floor. considerable distance from the
scene Of disturbance--ihey paused, hear
ing high voice speaking within. What
was their CONSERVATION at fuding that
the landlady herself was drunk, and that
her husband was at that moment taking
her to task for it! or course all purpose
of complaining was at once abandoned. /
know another instance OF lady who was
found staggering about the hall of o
large hotel, in state of profound intoxi-
cation. ....e s.
One night, when was returning home
between two and three o'clock, from my
usual labors in the Office of one of the
New York morning papers, nay attention
was attracted by a group of persons,
fsultiessly attircd and of genteel aspect
save that they we're all more or less drunk.
There were two ladies and two gentlemen.
One of the ladies WAS iealy helpless
from ihtoxicstion, the other was only
drunk enough to be silly, and, in short,
unladyIike So bad was her behavior
that believed her to be a woman of bad
repute; but subsequently learned that
she was the young and ilolizcd daugh-
ter of one Of our most respectable fani-
lies.
The above are latter dark" examples,
the sun shines on others quite as painful.
My sister, widow lady from the ir-
terror of the state, now visiting in the
city. called on me to-day at my Office.
She informs rae that we'll dressed wo-
man, well appearing in other respects, in
the street car that she had jnst left, was
SO deeply intoxicated that she was inca
pable of entering or leaving the car with
out assistance She also tells me that on
the Hudson river steamboat which bro't
her to town few weeks since, New
York lady, of elegant manners aud dress,
and whose conversation had charmed her
during the evening confidently offered
her "swig" from her brandy bottle, as
they were retiring to their state room for
the night.
"lhank you, never taste liquor, said
my sister a'aa'fi'
"No2 so much the better for you. AS
for ME, / cannot exist without it"
One Of the fashionable constitutions"
Of New York is that which is termed a
"lady's luncA /" 1t is in reality an elab,
crate dinner. for which invitations are
extended to ladies only, and is given at
an hour of the day when the gentlemen
are down towa at their business, in Wall
street and elsewhere These "lunches'
are common in Fifth Avenue, and on all
the fashionable squares and "placcs."
There are generally given with the
"lunch,' or dinner. the following course
of beverages with oysters. Uhablis or
Sauterne; with the soup and FISH, sherry;
with the meats. champagne and Burguu-
dy; and after coffee, curscoa, aniscttec,
and other liquors." and frequently
brandy. As natural result, the ladies
get hilarious, some of them deeply intox-
icated, and scenes and dances follow, that
to say the least. would not be iudulgcd
in elsewhere The orgy is kept up till
exhaustion supervenes, and ut about
Ave o'clock P. NJ. the feminine debauches
enter their carriages and are driven to
their "aristocratic" homes.
The foregoing facts ! can testify to.
With regard to the statement that there
are dressmakers who furnish their custo-
mers wine, brandy aud whiskey, cannot
speak from knowledge. Such other facts
as the merriment o. fashionable ladies |
over champagne at dinners; their drink
ing beer at oyster saloons; their calling
for whislkey slings and gin cocktails in
popular Broadway restaurants, and the
like, | deem too common, too we'll known,
too obvious to everyday observers to cali
for mention.
These facts arc given, not to cater to a
vicious taste for scandal, but to call at
lention to growing evil against which
The public sentiment should be aroused
before it assumed proportions too large to
lefy correction. Further than this Of
Ter no comment on tbcm--W, w. s. in
the Watchman and Reflector. laaaf Y
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