, 1879-01-26
GOSSIP FOR LADIES.

I Or 1'd say fo1 to you. You're 10 slow!
| II you can't take a kiss without oskinc. fear
| fehall have to say Goose: to bsaur'
| --Erchange.
OyER-STIMULATIoN IN WOMEN. >,
| .Heu }trt Ercn.n1 la,st.
| In the January Number Of the London Gentle
| mans Maqazine, under the title, ssOycr-stinu-
| lation In Women," is an article which in sub
| stance asserts that at the present day many En-
| gish women in every class Of society Eabitualiy
"oyer-stimulatc.' The magazine speaks with
the authority OF publication of great age and
! wide repute, and the writer OF the paper ia
questioll-who, by the way, appcnds his name
| to it's welt-known physician. This gentle
man, Dr. Frederick Fl. Daily, atlirms that lie is
| not total abstancr or believer in total absti-
nence; he is, however. great stlckler for mud
! eration and o[ this he implies, il he does not
directly assert, that women are rs rule less ca-
pable than men. The strain OF modern society,
| Dr.. DAILY remarks, is far more hnrtcnsome than
| formerly. Our nncest ors d1ncd ut noun, and Nen.
| tt bed at about the time tile fashionable world
now dimes. Durin. the "scason ~ a London lady
"wdrks really hard.n and she works in crowd
Ell town, keeping late hours, a;d living in hot,
| gas-taintcd rooms. ''Thesc are just the cond-
| tions which INDUCE languor that glass Of
sherry will, for the time, quickly relleye; aud
| it is taken, and taken too often, ard the occa-
ora nftar t;,nn -nSst;1nteI ~ +i,e sncrrv nnT
,he ,.;ct;n hv a fnc;lc gro'1o.ion, hctomss an
habituaI, and gea.erallv secret, drarn-drinker.
Such cases, Dr.. DAILY intisnatcs. are not only
st;tr, or.,u,;n,r nd to-r;h, ;1,,.rer Hc warns
female tlpplcrs that their nervous organization
is liable to injury from alcohol than that OF
! men; that the mental aud moral elects with
and .senr"e orarr woman Who ia constantly
ovcr.s1innIatinv that ma dov she viii prt onuf
or E;dncr ;lisr,sa or hroin lse,se or disease of
thc liver. followed by dronsy.n He saws that
women shoul1 onlv fake ,yin,. or heer. II they
take ihc,n wi,h their fond and that thev onght
ncrsr ~ ;ni. snir;tr ~ III In nnints ont ti,t
the Seeds of fatal habits Of exccss are often i'm
nIanted by the nsc Of stimuIents Mt the neriod
of lnrtntjnn md adr;srs lint at nil rrents thev
. should he discontinued As soon as wcaninr Is
done,n lie proceeds to show that the middle
and lower classes arr. for snccaI reasons. suf-
fering from d1psomania rs well as the upper
classes. It is Tin aud strong beer With them
instead of sherry and brandy. The evil. It, is
this writer'a conclusion. should be cranpled
with nj onc-: and the british sIiegisla.nre has
two duties to ncrform before We can hone for
Grorrrs' license tr.. other is to n,ss into law
the Hahitual Drnnkard,s hill or somc snch
measurc'1
The picture drawn by DR.. DAILY is very dis
tresslnS one. ioW lar lte accuracy may De ln-
puncL te'a.hs , pe sssn' ~ alc ..aan1su, 1
icccie;1 fcr Years non 1T the Woman ri Nc,T
York. 1t excited much indignation and was for
time hotly discussed. The case was, without
question, too s11ps:!y put. 4ht t u'spt
t1,c nrnmn1pa1or hid hcen to mase a sensa-
ton rather than to subserye the cause of truth
and good morals. Suspicion was drawn to the
Wand by thc Plquancy ol ITS sauce: fct II can
setee1t ~ haruess pJ aen.ee iarai ~ dr',a
Ia. orSn tnnt pa. -. eS h'i, % han tr,a j. ~.
nnes 1,.not;o, ~ i,-1n,;er, =, 'recr otta,tio1
~ ,,'a o,.i on8 donnn - Te d;f,;cit, cnn-
.',oI,3, ~. - tIut th"ra G airs-s ;n snch casce
.rnn ,1,t"r:t. a. an ari in or1er
az anforce H.. rern;etc ~ cnri"n r. # We fnnc
for Tho sain of rbc women of En@land that
H. - +r,,a ~ Tho ,r+;n1o n +he Hsafe7nan1v
uno1zne. for # Wnn1I h.. far more arreesble to
snnnost that si,,rt, writer had sEetchr1 nm nm
fait1f,i ,3;ctnre ~ cvsn mr. forfh carirat,,r..
than th,t a cons;i1erahft. nnmbcr of Enrlish
gant1ewomen as vel as an cnna} fract,on from
fhe classes not 50 DESIGNATED. have snnk to the
r;lo ;nGn,gancr ,1,ot 13r no,v DESCRIBES. We
must nus remember, however that be writes, not
as m anonymons nr General writer hnt under
h;s 81 n,vn s;rnnt,re md n7th the cxner;snce of n
nhyscian. The nreyalcnt imnression in these
c;rcnmstonccs vii he that wbere there IS 20
mich smoke there ia likely to he trace Of ire.