The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-05-23
WOMEN'S FDWER.

WOMEN'S FDWER.
Miss Cloveland's Appeal to Young Girls
in 1882.
The National Temperance Society
and Publication House has a copy of the
Iouth'S Temperance Banner for Feb
ruary Il, 1882, in which is the follow
Ing article for young girls, by Elizabeth
Cleveland, sister of President Cleveland:
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 only?" Is it true that only
women can make wine-drinking I'M
fashionable and heal the Nation of this
curse? You and | need to know this
first; because if only we women can do
this thing, why it is an awful respon-
sibility upon us. each one of us. And
if somebody elese can do it. we, like all
the others, would like to give that some
body else the job. Five years ago, at
Washington, Mrs. Hayes 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 entertained at her house.
Well, she did an unheard-Of thing.
She banished wine from all her
entertainments. with just one eX.
ception. Secretary Evarts 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 tc
the White House dinners and have
nothing fit for them to drink-not
drop of pOisOnl 1t was too utterly
queer! 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 high-souled
woman that she is smote her 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 af-
| ter prohibited wine from her table and
| cheerfully endured the lifted eyebrows
and shrugged shoulders of the diplo-
MATES British. French. Russ an all,
and the little, short lived hiss of fash
| ionabie" society, until that hiss turned
to cheer, and fashionable society
turned round, like the spaniel it is,
and trotted on 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 wifi. Ii the girls who read
| these words will each of them. altoge.h-
! cr, use their influence on the side of
Temperance, they can make Temper
ance fashionable where they are. VIII
! you do it?
General Grant does a manly thing in
refusing to drink wine everywhere and
in all society. 1t is only Il strong man
who can keep his wne9lass upside
down-in this case right side up, too
while all the grand people around him
are slipping champagne and toasting
each other in sparkling drinks. No
one can tell how far this little candle
sheds Its light" But no one can do
for fashion in society what Il woman
can. 1t is women only, as DR.. Holland
said
wish some strong, bright angel
| stood before you, lust now. while you
read, girls, to flash before you, rs no
words of mine can. the power YOU pos
sess to help or to hinder the cause OF
! Temperance; to make you feel your re-
| G,nDs hilitN- hanait-a riVl, -,