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

IIPrLiNG WOMEN OF NEW YORK.

IIPFLiNG WOMEN OF NEW YORK.
There has been much discussion Of an
article published in one of our most re-
spectacle literary weeklies some months
since, which asserted that the vice of
intemperance was appalIingly prevalent
among the women of New York city. Not
the low and degraded creatures who mock
womanhood with their orgies in the Five
Points and Water street localities, but
fashionable womeu- women who move in
good society, dress with elegance, and
have the manners and the education OF
the better classes.
The statements of the article have been
Indignantly denied in some quarters, and
its author has been pronounced villifer
of his fair countrywomen. 1t is never an
agreeable task to expose to the public
gaze vices that affect the morality of any
class of persons, and especially of women ;
but. ii exposure is necessary to secure re-
form. it becomes the duty of sonre one to
bring to light the hidden evil. Is it
true, then, that ia New York wJmen are
in the habit Of tipphng? In answer to
this question | will present some facts
which have come to my knowledge, aud
the reader may then draw his own con-
clusious. propose neither to moralize
nor generalize but TO particalarize. i
There is--or there was very recently
"a daughter of one Of the most promi-
nent business .iren Of New York. an in
mate Of an asylum for the cure of habit
ual inebriates.. She is. aside from this
sad vice. young lady who, it is said.
has adorned the circles of New York SO
ciety in which she moved. She had
become SO welded to the habit of getting
intoxicated, that it was deemed impera-
lively necessary to remove her from the
reach of temptation and subject her to a
course of medical treatmest that might
break up the fatal practice.
Near Fifth Avenue, in fashionable
uptown street, there is a genteel hotel
or more strictly speaking, boarding
house for fashionable families, though it
calls itself hotel, and bears a sign over
the door to that effect. There is no pub
lie bar in this place, and it is not open
for the accommodation of travellers. Its
inmates are composed exclusively of we'll
to-do families, and individuals of both
sexes, who all dress, converse and behave
as fashionable New Yo,kers commonly
dress, converse and behave. A lady of
my acquaintance who boarded in this
house last winter, relates that the use of
liquor was common with several Of the
womcn who lived there There was espe.
cially one womanu-a charming person ia
other respects--who was almost iiabitual.
ly tipsy, and visited the rooms of other
ladies while in that condition. Que
night, at the hour Of two o'clock, this
LADY came to the room of my acquain-
tance and raped loudly. When the door
was opened the visitor entered in state
Of beastly intoxication--when. with q
thick and stumbling utterance, she de-
slared that she was sick and wanted
brandy.
81 have no brandy" was the reply.
go back to bed"
The woman refused to 60 without
brandy. She made such a disturbance
hat the occupants Of the other rooms
we're roused, and it was finally found me-
,essary to put her out of the room by
main force.
The next day the nocturnal visitor
,olled upon the lady she had disturbed,
md made an ahject apology. She said