The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-03-25
PRACTICAL WORK FOR WOMEN.

Chicago Tribune
The women of Chicago have tried to
do too much, and therefore failed to do
| anything. Despite their prayer meetings
and their PROFESSIONS, their pleadings with
the powers above and the powers below,
the new Sunday ordinance passed tho al
dermen and was yesterday signed by the
| mayor. The trouble lie that the crusaders
have AIMED too high and have hoped 10
carry their point by q eingle dash. This
10 not the way 10 win. A spurt may car
| ry q crow across tho winning line, but
long, steady pulling must first have brought
1t near the line. II the femme reiormers
have pluck enough TO do hard work now
aud for sometime to como, and then to
wait for tho slowly ripening fruit of that
toll, there arc half dozen ways in which
they can powerfully countersct the desires
that drive men TO drink and women to
dishonor.
They can secure the passage OF law
which will punish Adulteration in drink
ables a. i. IL punished in eata bles, by the
forfeiture and destruction OF the poisoned
articles. They can, by steady, unfaltering
work, secure tho execution of such law,
for they would have the community a.
their back. The result would pe to scare
some people from drinking whisky and
brandy, when they found what the stuff
they had boon in the habit of swallowing
| roally was to shut up the lower saloon.
by repeatedly lining tho proprietors; and
to make tipping too expensive, by forcing
saloon keepers TO provide pure drinks, to
be half as common as IL is now, when
almost everything sold across bar is
adulterated down TO tho lowest possible
limit of cost The women can open tenn
J perance billiard rooms, where only cigars
and coffee shall be sold. They can thus
give young men an opportunity of spend
ing their spare hours in playing one Of
our best and most popular games, with
out being tempted by bar close at hand
To attract custom the price of a game
might be put as low as Is or 20 cents.
This project, once put into practice, would
probably pay for itself. But this billiard
room must not no barn. 1t must be as
gay with mirrors and brilliant with fres.
cos ne its rivals. There must be no tracts
distributed at the door. They can pro-
vide rival attraction to the saloon on
Sundays by heartily cooperating with th,
recently organized Sunday Afternoon
Lecture Society of this city. They car
! thus reach some of the SOC, 900 men, wo
mon and children who have no place II
the churches Of Chicago, and can aid il
, elevating their minds with truth and
7 their hearts with music.
/ They can, with no great self-sscrifice
open comfortable lodging houses for poo,
> people, on tho plan OF those built by Pea
, body and tho Baroness Burdett- Coutts, il
= London. 1t might be we'll to reserve tn
: first one for unprotected women. Sucl
, philanthropic Investments have paid YER.
-, H. mt,
: enormously in increased health and de
. Coutts pulled down rows Of rotten tene
a ments aud put up in their place clean
A airy, CHEEKY cluster OF little house,, hal
= the saloons in the neighborhood are sal
- TO have closed for lack Of patronage.
They can provide entertainment &c
i poor girls. Here womans quick fame
o. can certainly lind enough to do Ca
x. there not be low-priced and good concert,
I'd and talks, and picture-shows, etc, a
~ given by women TO women, and give
o. without offensive condescension The
h. can, perhaps, bring the poor into churches
as But TO do this, the seats must all be free
"a and tho hearers must all be plainly dressed
20 The latter ought not to BIO IN impossible
D. ity, though the average church-goer tao
lily prefers silk for herself 10 salvation
n for her poor neighbor. Some day woman
n will outgrow the bondage of dress as mai
n has done. He has risen above false hal
o and RAIN bow-colored garments, and sh
o will do tho same. But the day. thcreo
d has not yet como.
q Hore, then, are six ways of doing grss
Il good, all Of which lie open to woman.
:. anything could be done in any one O
Q them by prayer meeting and a process
q sion, no doubt it would be done speedily
0 Each of them, however, involves contin
0 uous effort, and Of this the crusaders ma.
h | OF NAV not be capable