Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-12-21

not contain such plan will prove inef-
fectual.
The Secretary, without proceeding to the
discussion of the general subject of resum-
ing specie payments, thinks all will have
been gained that is of value when the
Treasury shall be prepared to pay the de-
mand notes of the Government In coin, and
the banks shall be prepared to pay their
notes either in coin or legal-tender notes
and then our good fortune will clearly APP
pear in this-that our paper currency ia
not exclusively of national bank notes, nor
exclusively of United States notes.
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! (From the Woman's Department Of the Sunday
Republic)
Female Inebriates.
A gentleman writes us that he thinks
the idea of having hospitals for female ine-
briates is absurd, and believes our asser-
ton that the vice of drunkenness prevails
TO great extent amongst women in good
society to be altogether false and sensa-
tional.
He asks: "Do you of your own personal
knowledge know of one single instance
where well-5red and intelligent woman
has became a slave to the demoralizing
vice of intoxicatiOn ?n
Yes, several. Within the past two weeks
beautiful and refined girl of twenty years
told US that she inherited an appetite for
strong drinks which she could no more
control than she could the wind. That be-
fore she was ten years old she had stolen
from her fathers wine closet and secreted
a five-gallon demijohn Of whiskey aud had
drank every drop it contained before being
discovered.
She added "After the guests had been
| entertained at night and the house was
| nl nd n its tas ha1 rot T
little frightened child, would leave my
bed and 60 prowling through the parlor
and dining room in search Of the decanters,
and if I failed t. find them, trembling in
! the darkness, would drain to the last drop
the liquor that had been left in the glasses"
We have seen many beautiful women,
but the unfortunate girl who told US this
story was the loveliest one we ever saw, in
mind IA well as person, and yet she was
just recovering from spell of illness, in
which she came near dying, caused by ex-
cessive indulgence in strong drink.
| She told me that before her illness she
could drink half bottle of brandy, whisky
or gin, and yet give no evidence Of intoxi-
cation.
When we saw her, after six weeks of ex-
treme suffering, her longing after the ac-
customed stimuents were painful to wit
u
being used by another person as medicine,
she went to its owner and besought that it
might be hidden away, for she said Il de-
sire to be honorable, but seeing it cannot
much longer restrain my appetite l shall
go mad if do not get it,
This young lady, who Was taken from
| fashionable boarding house when at The
point of death by dear friend of her own
and nursed to life, has 50 little chance Of
overcoming the appetite, that our friend
says: whilst doing everything i'll my
power to restore the poor child, have
prayed upon my bended knees that God
might take her home to himself. An or
phan and beauty, exposed to all the
temptations of II large city. l can see moth
! ing before her but ruin and social ostra-
! cism."
This is an extreme but by no means an
unparalleled case, though it is the saddest
one in our experience.
We wish our readers to believe that in
this department we never aim to create
sensations we neither manufacture nor
color any facts we publish here, although
we sometimes suppress incidents calculated
to identify the persons alluded to,and some
! times change dates and localities.
Our experience OF twenty-five years,
partly as editor and publisher of papers
devoted to the interests of woman aud
partly as contributor and reporter for sew
eral leading weeklies and dailies, brought
to our knowledge many interesting facts
and startling histories.
Thus we feel that we have a perfect
right to use whenever we think it necessary
to point moral"
To demonstrate truth by illustration is
| better, We epine, than any more assertion
could be, and so even, at the risk OF being
deemed sensational, we shall continue TO
draw upon our memory, but never upon
our imagination for our facts.
The gentleman who doubts that well-bred
American women ever do become inebri'
ates, adds If this demoralizing vice has
really become habitual amongst our women
it is certainly due to the greater liberty OF
thought and action that, in these degener-
ate days, is accorded them" With this
dictum we do not altogether agree, but
think the hurry and progress OF the age
induces nervous disorders IN women as well
as men, which are temporarily forgotten in
stimulants or allayed by narcotics. Women
are truly allowed more freedom of thought
than ever before, but have scarcely more
liberty of action than in the dark ages.
Society permits the education of the fe-
male brain to certain extent, but as rule
| prohibits the education OF female hand or
tho useful and profitable occupation OF the
intellect.
Hence the mind becomes restless and dis
satisfied, and seeks in forbidden directions
the wholesome and legitimate excitement
which useful occupation alone can supply,
and which every reasonable being has a
right to demand.
Failing, this, some women take to wine
or opium to kill time and thought. AT
leact this is our theory about this "manly''
womankinG.
A Gallant Woman-At Fort Davis,
Texas, on the 2lst ule., Mrs Kendall, wife