Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-05-06

Miss Clevelamd's Temperance opinions.
From the Living Issue. Il
The following appeal to girls was written by
Elizabeth Cleveland, the present mistress Of
the White House, and was published in the
Youth's Temperance Banner, February 1S, 1882
RESPONSIBILITY OF GIRLS IN TEMPERANCE
WORK.
]. 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 only
Is is true that only women can make wine
drinking questionable and heal the nation of
this curse? You and need to know this first,
why, its an awful responsibility upon us. each
one of And II somebody else can do 1t we like
all the others, would like to give that somebody
else the job. Five years ago at Washington
Mrs. Hayes became mistress of the White
House, and 1t was for her and no one else to say
surrounded her guests, and how they should be
entertained at her house. Well, she did an I'M
heard-of thing. She banished wine from all her
entertainments, with just exception.
mortified. He could not endure to have
French, baron and baroness German come
to the White House dinners and have nothing
fit for them to drink.not drop of poison! 1t
exception in favor of those great foreign high
nesses, and allowed wine upon her table in
science high-souled woman that she isNsmote
her for that one little cowardly compromise
with wrong. She could better endure to have
her than to be ashamed of herself So she
quietly and forever after prohibited wine from
% the @
MATES, British, Frehch, Russian-all, and the
little shortlived hiss of fashionable society
BE society turned around, like the spaniel it is.
and trotted on behind its mistress. 1t became
nn1ashionable to serve wine and to offer wine
the White House.
What Mrs. Hayes did in the White House
will If the girls who read these words viii
each of them, all together, use their influence
on the side OF temperance, they can make tenn
do III '''0'''''' ''''' 'n'' "'e' -" III '''
Gen. Grant does manly thing in refusing to
drink wine everywhere and In all society. It's
upside down-in this case right side up, too
while all the grand people around him are sip
sparkling drinks. No one can tell how "far this
little candle sheds Its light" But no man can
DO i, for fashion In s1e l What woman can
wish some strong bright angel stood before
you just now, while you read, girls, to flash be-
you possess to help or to hinder the cause of
temperance, to make you feel your RESPONSE
bility, because you are girls, in the matter; to
to fulfil it! Doubtless you have heard great
deal about the value of your smiles; but do you
you KNOW the Value OF your frOWnS? wish l
could make you feel the value of your frowns,
and the importance of knowing Just what to
frOwn upon. What a man must do by blow a
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 presence and takes q
glass socially now and then, is made to feel
that these things cannot be if you are to be his
companion at party, ride or church, that good
society cannot tolerate these things in its mem
ionable and unpopular-then alcohol will trem-
BILE on its throne, and the liquor traffic will hide
its cancerOuS face.