St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-05
DRINK IN LONDON.
Startling Prevalence OF the Terrible
Vice Among Women.
A Victim of Alcohol and n Happy
Home Devastated.

No sadder spectacle presents itself TO the
eye of the stranger visiting the metropolis
of England, if not of the world than that of
its thousands of unfortunate women ad-
dicted to the use of Intoxicating liquors.
In itself the mere habit on the part of
females on drinking brandy, gin or whisky,
is bad enough; but when the habit is carried
to the extreme of drunkenness it transforms
Gods nOblest and most beautiful creation
into something even below the beast. Walk
along Fleet street. go slowly along the Strand
or any of the many streets, lanes and alleys
crossing those two great arteries at right
angles, look into any of the beer or whisky
shops at any hour of the day or night and
and count the souls there. You will find
more women than men-women with
BABES AT THE BREAST.
young girls from 16 up, old women with
bloated faces and every tender Hneament
of their sex blotted from their countenances
by the brutaliZing agency of alcohol; old
women, too. scarcely able 10 stand from the
/ combined effects of age and dissipation. 1t
is horrible spectacle, which have never
seen in any other part of the world.
These poor female wretches huddled to-
gether outside the bar i'm small rooms ten
feet square, perhaps, imbibing the soul
poison from morning till night. cheering
each other mayhaps by ribald talk and jest,
neglectng all the duties of womanhOOd for
the sake of the loved dram or pint, and
after spending all their pennies or ha'pence,
as the case may be, Keeling out into the
busy streets with some muddled thought of
getting ''hOme again" before husband,
father or brother returns.
| ssliomp againf- What n homp II muct
be! Such a mother TO bring up children!
Such wife to welcome her husband from
his day of toll.
A MELANCHOLY EXAMPLE.
Only yesterday in one of the police courts
here fearful picture of the consequences
of this inOrdmate love of liquor was pre-
scented. Mrs. Fox, wife of an industrious
workman in moderate circumstances, stood
before the magistrate, with lack-luStre eyes,
her mind gone, perfectly unconscious of all
that was going on around her, not recogniZ-
ing husband Orchildren- complete physical
and mental wreck. The story of her fall
from the state of happy wife to that of a
besotted drunkard and maniac was sur
sounded with circumstances more than uSu-
ally painful. With her devoted husband, she
begun welded life with CHEEKY prospects
Her husband was more than kind, more
than affectionate-a model of patience
and courageous fOrtitude such as one sell
dom encounters in everyday life. She
commenced to driDk-a little at first, then
little more, until the desire grew upon
her with tremendous force. She bore chill
dren-tive of them; but neither this nor
the forgiving forbearance of her partner in
life, backed by the entreaties of friends and
relatives, could restrain her abnormal crav-
ing for the deadly Stimulant. At length
the husband was Obliged to place the UNI
!, fortunate woman in an asylum, in the de-
Spalring hope of reformation and TO save
his heartbroken children from the constant
spectacle of their mothers shame. But the
husbands tender heart soon made him re-
lent, and in a soft moment he yielded TO the
wOman's piteouS appeals to take her home
again.
VOWS BROKEN.
Though she had vowed most solemnly
''never, never TO taste again intoxicating
liquors" il was not long before the OLD
: fashion mastered again and down she went
faster than before, and into another asylum
1 was she thrust perforce. From this she
Z escaped at the risk of her life and made hel
way home again. The sequel is soon told
= Last Sunday morn, about the time wheI
the jangle of bells from many a steeple re
! minded each household TO prepare fol
: church, the poor, besOtted wretch, witt
, brain on fire. was furiouSly attack
ing her little ones. Soon aftel
she was seized with desire Il
e cut her own throat. but her husband sue
1 ceeded i'm wrenching from her grasp the
carving knife she had Snatched. In hel
{ madness she than tore herself with her owl
f nails; and now at last she is in a lunatiC
: asylum, helpless victim of alcohol Lon
don is full of benevolent institutions, bu
which one cares for poor women i'm the in
cipient stages of this alcoholic madness:
! Which one sends out agents TO coax tn,
poor creatures from the bar rooms and gin
, palaces before habit has become almost sec
Ond nature?
, This is great city; but it is a slave t.
old habits, old preiudices. old forms, which
! nothing but great revolution will Sweel
l away-a revolution social as well as polit
ical.
MRS. WELDON on FAIR, FAT AND FORTY
As have begun this letter about women
let me devote the whole of it TO the sam
subject. Here is a queer letter from tn
1 famous Mrs. Weldon, from her prison viii
l Holloway jaiD:
Dear Sir: You will laugh at me. Blu
: what do you think puts me out. of all tn
!. mnumeTable lies told about the Weldon
GOmod affair. most? That l have said ant
r that allow that because OF embOnpoint
n am no longer fitted to shine as a star a
opera houses" Why? am half the siz
. of Christine Nilsson and Marie ROZe-
: quarter the size of KrauSS; was describes
only last year as tall, slight woman.
Oh, dear, how dreadful TO be imagined
!, TOO stout" In answer 10 GounOds cOm
= sci L replied the exact reverse of what til
g newspapers have reported. l said wa
:. taken for a woman of %, that my voice wa
u as fresh as ever and that as long as
woman did not grow obese she could succee
N on the stage. Call me. as RochefOrt does
"she monkey. sorceress. witch, convict, bu
e don't propagate the belief that / am FAT
- People will not believe | am she mon
key, sorceress, witch or convict" besides,
l. can bring an action against ROchefort an
let off the steam of indication that way
l. but do not. do not let the world think al
fat-they might believe it! The sole res
son why have not ''got on i'm the profes
a. sion has been the persecution of the musics
trade and press; not from any personal fai
ing or fairness on my part. i should be. q
&c your Paris correspondent says, in the sc,
20 enth heaven of delight. if this dreadfI
le word fat did not stare me in the fac
lt VIII you. will any one. believe me when
y own TO being a hundred times more vain no
lie than have ever been i'm my life? like TO loo
y young as l do. l like people to see (,
III themselves that have passed PHYSICAL,
as as well as morally. unScathed through a
Il, the gratuitous miseries / have undergOn
ne for the simple reason that l have been goo,
C. true and pure, and that il has been impo
III sible for me TO believe that such a one
ne myself could be utterly crushed and tran