The Monitor., 1885-05-01

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mistress Of the White House, and was pub
lished in the lomh's Temperance Bdnner,
Feb. is. 1889. Al that time she co;:ld not
have had the remotest idea that she would
have an opportunity to emulate under sim
iliar circumstances the example ofour hon
ored Mrs. Hayes. We expect that the So
cial drinking customs of Washington
which have increased at such fearful rate
within the last few years will be .trowaed
upon and made unpopular by the little wo-
man who so fully appreciates woman's in
fluence and therefore woman responsible
ity in establishing the practice of total alb
stinencc.
RESPONSIBILITY OF GIRLS IL TEMPERANCE
WORK.
J. G. Holland wrote in Mrs Hayes
album these words: Women only can
make wine-drnking questionable, and
heal the Nation of this curse.
What did Dr. Holland mean by 'wo-
men only?" Is it true tina. only woman
can make wne-drinking questionable
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 responsibility upon us, each
one Of us And il somebody else can do
it, we, like all others, would like to give
that somebody 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 sur
rounded her guests. and how they should
he entertained at her house. Well. she
did an unheard of thing. She banished
wine from all her entertainments, with just
one exception. 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 to the White
House dinners and have nothing fit for
them to drink-not a drop of poison, 1t
was too utterly queer. so Mrs. Hayes
made one exception in favor of those great
foreign highnesses. and allowed wine upon
her table in their presence. But only for
once. Her Observation-Disclosures wo-
man that She is,-smote her for that one
little cowardly compromise with wrong.
She could better endure to have Secretary
Eyarts and the Smiths ashamed of her.
than to be ashamed of herself so she
quietly and forever after prohibited wine
from her table, and cheerfuily endured the
lifted eyebrows and shrugged shoulders of
the diplomatics, British, French. Russian
all and the little short-liyed hiss of
Fashionable" society until that hiss turned
to a cheer, and fashionable society turned
round. like the spaniel it is, and troited on
behind its mistress. 1t became unfashion-
able 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
every woman can do in her own home, if
she will If the girls who read these words
will each Of them, altogether, use their in
tlucnce on the side Of temperance they
can make temperance fashionable where
they are VIII you doit?
General Grant does manly thing in
refusing to drink Wine everywhere and in
all society 1t is only strong man who
can keep his wine glass upside down-iu
this case right side up too,-while all the
grand people around him are slipping cham
pagne and toaSting each other in spark
ling drinks No one can tell how far
this little candle sheds its light" But no
man can do for fashion in society what a
woman can. 1t is " )men only. as Dir.
| Holland said.
/ wish some strong, bright angel stood
before you. just now, while you read, girls,
to flash before you, as no words of mine
can, the power you possess to help or to
hinder the cause Of temperance: to make
you feel your responsibility, because you
are girls, il this matter; to shudder at its
it, Doubtless you have heard a 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 youi
What to frown upon. What man must
! do by blow u woman can do by frown
When the time comes that the young mar
! who now shares his time in your society
and the saloon, who jokes about temper
ance in your presence. and takes a glass
socially, now and them is made to fee
that these things cannot be if you are to bt
his companion at party, ride, or church
that good society cannot tolerate thos,
things in its members: in short, that thi,
kind of man is unfashionable and unpop
ular then alcohol will hemble on its throne
and the iiQuor-traiIic Will hide its cancer
ouS face
The Postmaster General has issued
circular order to Postmasters cxplanator,
Of the changes made By Congress at th'
last session in the rates Of postage. Th'