Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-09-14
can be worked and the sore healed /
perfectly in little while.-Rdral
Carolinian.
women and Wine,

Women and Wine.
Woman has never been associated
with wine without disgrace and dis
aster. The toast and the bacchanal
that, with musical ALTERATION, couple
these two words, spring from the hot
lips of sensuality, and are burdened
with shame. A man who can sing OF
wine and women in the same breath,
is one whose presence is disgrace,
and whose touch is pollution. A man
who can forget mother and sister, or
wife and daughter, and wantonly en-
gage in revel in which the name Of
woman is invoked to heighten the
pleasures of the intoxicating cup, is,
beyond controversy and without NIT
igation, beast. "Dost thou think,
because thou art virtuous, there shall
be no more cakes and ale2" Ay,
cakes and ale, if you will, but letit
be cakes and ale. Let not the name
by which we call TIE pure and pre-
cious ones at home oe brought in to
illuminate degrading feast.
OF the worst foes that woman has
ever had to. encounter, wine stands
at the head I The appetite for strong
drink in man has spoiled the lives Of
more women ruined more hopes for
them, scattered more fortunes for
them, brought to them, more shame,
sorrow. and hardship-than any other
sss,il that lives. The country numbers
tens of lhousands-nay, hundreds Of
thousands -ot women whoare widows
t{.day. and sitin hopeless. weeds, be-
c..use their husbands have been slain
Ly strong drink. There are hundreds
OF thousands of holaes,s scattered all
over the land, in which womeR live
ives oftorture, throlghall theehanges
OF suffering that; lie Between the ex
tremes of fear and despair, because
those whom theB:love, love wine bet
ter than they do the syomen they
hhve swornto. leve. There are wo-
men by thousands Who dread to hear
at the door the step tiisat once thrilled
them with pleasure, because: e:that step
has learned to 3sreel under the inAu
ehce of the seductive poison. There
are women groaning with pain, while
we write these words, from bruises
and brutalities inflicted by husbands
made mad by drink. There can be
no exaggeration in any statement
made in regard to thismatter, because
no human imagination can create
anything worse than the truth, and
no pen is capable of portraying the
truth. The sorrows and the horrors
of a wife with drunken husband,
OF a mother with drunken son, are
as near the realization of hell as can
be reached in this world, at least.
The shame, the indignation, the sor-
row, the sense of disgrace for herself
and her children, the poverty,-and
not unfrequently the beggary,-the
fear and the fact of violence, the 'lin-
gering, lifelong struggle and despair.
Of countless women. with drunken
husbands, are enough to make all wo-
men curse wine, and engage unitedly
to oppose it everywhere as the worst
enemy Of their sex. az: q
Woman, there aresome things that
you can do, and this is one: you can
make drinking unpopular and dis
graceful among the young. You can
utterly discountenance all drinking
in your own house, and you can-hold
in suspicion every young man who
touches the cup. You know that no
young man who drinks can safely be
trusted with the happiness OF any.
woman, and that he is as unft,as q
man can befor woman s society. Have
this understood: that everyT young
m an who drinks is socially prescribed
Bling up your children to regard
thinking as not only dangerous But
disgraceful. Place temptation in no
mans way. If men willsmake.beasts
of themselves, let tn IN do itin other
society than yours. If your merce-
nary husbands treat their customers
from private stores skeptinthe count
ing g-rooms, shame them into decency
by your regard for tile honor of your
ho me. Recognize the living, terrible
fact that wine has always been, and
is today, the curse OF your sex; that
ii steal he heartsof rnen away from
you, that it dries up your prosperity,
iiilt t en;'engers your safety, that it
ell 1lv bring. you evil. If social
rlfsiotn compels you to present wine
.itlvour seasts, rebel against it, and
nake Social custom in.the interests
ofiivirtne and PARITY The matter is
very moi in nepr own hands. The
43fnen o. the eourtly, in what is
:aliel Poli5e society. can do more to
aake the nation temperate than all
'a{ legislators and tumultuous refor-
qrs ti.at are struggling and blunder-
Z in their efforts tothis end.-Scrib-.
Z, NgaLl