The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-06-04
THE GUARDIAN OF HOME.
Her Methods nna achievements.

THE following article written by Miss
Cleveland, now mistress of the White
House was published in the Youths
Temperance Banner, 1882.
RESPONSIBILITY OF GIRLS IN TEMPER
ANcE WORK.
J. G.. Holland wrote in Mrs. Hayes
album these words: "Women only can
make wine drinking questionable and
heal the nation Of this curse"
What did DR.. Holland mean by
"women only9" Is it true that only
women can make wine drinking uufash-
ionable and heal the nation OF this
cursew You and / need to know this
first, because if only i've women can do
this thing. why it is an awful respons!i::
bility upon us-each one of us. And if
somebody else can do it, we, like all
the Others, would like to give that some.
body else the job. Five years ago, at
Washington, Mrs. Hays became mistress
of the White House, and it was for her,
and no one else, TO say what the social
atmosphere should be which surrounded
her guests, and how they should be en-
tertained at her house. Well, she did an
unheard of thing. She banished wine
from all her entertainments, with just
one exception. Secretary Eyarts made
a fuss. He was mortified. He could not
endure to have Lord and Lady English,
Count and Countess French, Baron and
Baroness German, come to the White
House dinners and have nothing tit for
them to d.!nk-not drop of poison !!
It Was too utterly queer So Mrs:
Hayes mado one exception in favor of
those great foreign highnesses, and
allowed wine upon her table in their
presence. But only for once Her con:
science-highsouled woman that she Is!
-smote her for that one little cowardiy
com promise with wrong. She could
better endure to have Secretary Evarts
and the Smiths ashamed of her than to
be ashamed of herself. So she quietly
and forever after prohibited wine from
her table, and cheerfully endured the
lifted eyebrows and shrugged shoulders
of the diplonatics, British, French,
Russian--all, and the little shortived
hiss of fashionable" society: until that
hiss turned to a cheer, aud fashionable
society turned around, like the spaniel it
is, and trotted behind its mistress. 1t
became questionable to serve wine and
to offer wine in fashionable society while
Mrs. Hayes was in the White House.
What Mrs. Hayes did in the White
House every woman can do in her own
home, if she will If the girls who read
these words will each of them, all to-.
gether, use their influence on the side OF
temperance, they can make temperance
fashionable. Will you do it?
Gen. Grant does a manly thing in re-
fusing to drink wine everywhere and In
all society. 1t is only strong man who
can keep his winc.glass upside down-in
this case right side up, oo!-while sil
the grand people around him are slipping
champagne and toasting each other III
sparkling drinks. No one can tell bow
star this little candle sheds lis light"
But no man can do for fashion IN
society what woman can. 1t is women
only, as DR.. Holland said.
l wish some strong, bright angel stood
before you just now while you read,
girls, to flash before you, as no works OF
mine can, the power you possess to help
or to hinder the cause of temperance; to
make you feel your responsibility, be-
cause you are girls, in this matter; to
s.,udder at its weight, and to never cease
trying to fulfill it! Doubtless you have
heard great deal about the value, of
your smiles; but do you know the value
of your frowns. wish could make
you feel the value of your frown and
the Importance Of knowing just what to .
frown upon. What man must do by
blow woman can do BY frown. When
the time comes that The young man who
now shares his time in your society and
the saloon-who jokes about temperance
in your , sence, and takes glass,
socially, now aud then, is made 10 feel
that these things cannot be if you are to-
be his companion at party, ride or church;
that good society can not tolerate these
things in its members-in short, that
this kind of man is questionable and
unpopular, then alcohol will tremble on
it's throne, and the liquor traffic will hide
its cancerous face.