Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-05-08
Miss Uleyeland's Appeal to Girls.

? AStn kssl otiSO bssulAci, AOi ICOiu ltIf IL,
1882, in which is the following beauti-
full article for young girls, by Elizabeth
Cleveland. It is certainly something
wonderful in the ways of Divine Prov
idence thao lady Of such excellent
Christian temperance principles, and
experience as teacher, should be
raised to preside in the Presidential
Mansion, and doubtless from thence to
exeita purifying influence, as in the
case of Mrs. Hayes, over the whole
land. The following Is the article:
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 two
men only r. Is it trne that only wo-
men can make wine drinking unfash-
ionable and heal the Nation Of this foe
Yon and / need to know first; be-
Cause if only we women can do this
thing, Why it is all awful responsibility
npon us, each one of us. And if some
body else can do it, we, like all the 9th
ers, would like to give that somebody
else the job. Five wears ago, at Wash
ington, Mrs. Hayes became misssess Of
the White House, anil 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 die.
an unheard Of thing. She banlshed
wine from all her entertainments, with
just one exception. Secretary Eyarts
made fuss. He was morti fed. He
could not endure to have Lord and
Lady English, Count aud Countess
French, Baron and Baroness German,
come to the White House dinners and
have nothing titfor them to drink-not
drop of poison! 1t was too utterly
qneer: So Mrs. Hayes made one ex.
ception in favor of those great foreign
highnesses, and allowed wine upon her
table in their presence. But only for
once Her conscience -hlgh-souled
woman that she is!-smote hel for that
one little cowardly compromise 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,
aud cheeIfully endured the lifted eye
brows and shrugged shoulders of the
diplomatics, British, French, Russian
all, and the little short-lived hiss of
''fashionable" society, nutil that hiss
turned to a cheer, and fashionable So
q i.ty,tur led round, like the.spaniel it is,
and trotted on behind its mistress. It
became questionable to serve wine
and to offer wine 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 together use their influence on the
side of temperance, they can make
temperance fashionable where they are.
Will you do itl
G G,nerrl Grant does manly thing in
refusing to drink wine everywhere and
in all society. It is only strong man
who can keep his wine glass upside
down-in this case right side up too!
while all the grand people around
him are slipping champagne and toast
ing each other in sparkling drinks
No one can tell how "far this little can
die sheds its light But no man can
do for fashion il society what wo--
man can. 1t is women only, as Dr.
Holland said.
/ wish some strong, bright angel
stood Def re you, Just now, while yon
read, girls, to fash before you, as no
words of mine can, the power you pos
sess to help or to hinder the cause of
temperance; to make you feel your
responsibility, because yon are girls. IN
this matter; to shudier at It's its weight
and to never cease trying to fulfil 1t!
Doubtless you have heard great deal
about the value of your smiles; but do
YOU know the value of your frownsl
] wish could make you feel the value
of your frowns and the Importance of
kr owing just what to frown upon
What a man must do by blow wo-
man can do by frown. When the
tine cones that the young man who
now shares his time in your society and
the saloon, who jokes about temper
anae in your presence, and takes a
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 can
not tolerate these things in its mem
hers; in short, that this kind of man
is questionable and unpopular, then
alcohol will tremhle on It's throne, and
the liquor-aatlic viii hide its cancef0us
face.