St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-11
DRINK AMONG WOMEN.
1t Is Becoming Alarmingly Prev
! alent in the "BeSt Society," in

1t Is Becoming Alarmingly Prev
alent in the "Best Society" in
the East.
New York Sun.
In many of the fashionable millinery
and dressmaking establishments in the
city woman can order glass of wine
or brandy and have it served in quiet
little parlor, where no one is the wiser,
and in one confectionery establishment,
patronIZed by UNREASONABLE people,
a woman can order anything from milk
to absinthe and have it set before her
with no questions. On the mar
gin of the bill of fare giving list of the
ices and light daintieS served for the
ladies lunch" advertised ON the Will
dow of this small establishment are
written the names and prices OF some OF
the favorite mixed drinks prepared for
fair tipplers. Sherry cObbler, milk
punch, claret punch, mint julep. all
have their customers, and it is no UNI
common thing to see tired woman
come in from shopping and noncha-
of clear brandy, or the contents of a
small bottle of champagne as country
woman would drink cup of tea or
lemonade.
Fashionable physicians, while ac-
knOWledging the prevalence OF lntem-
perance among society women, are eX-
tremely cautious in giving publicity to
individual cases; but they are called fire.
Quent to attend woman through de-
bauch, or to get her braced up from one
champagne dinner and ready for an
other, is a generally known fact. A
handsome woman in rich attire was
picked uI on the street one evening in
such state of intOXicatiOn that she was
taken to Bellevue hospital and
locked up in cell. About Md
night the husband came in an elegantly
appointed carriage to claim his
wife. He admitted that she frequent
ly became intoxicated, but had never
the street or outside her own home.
Among the guests at one of the summer
resorts last season were two sisters.
quiet, graceful, well-bred women, be-
longing to one of the first families of
New York, who frequently required
the services of physician to sober them
up after prolonged spree. and enable
them to appear before the other guests
i'm the house, who believed them the
most temperate of women, and Sympa-
thized with them that they were subject
to such sudden and severe attacks of
acute illness that they could be seen by
no one but their maids.
A little, delicate, pretty woman went
into a physicians office one morning
after late champagne dinner. feeling
much like one of the boys after stag
party, only more so.
"Well, you've been at it again, have
you?" said the doctor.
s.Voc onI 7 DON'T want lpaturp
either. | want something to brace me
up. so l can go to another one tonight"
Thoughtful and scientific physicians
have certain well-grounded theories of
the cause of intemperance among these
luXuriantly-bred women and girls. We
seem to have arrived at the transition
period when the wealthy father does
not exactly know whether to send his
daughter to faShinable boarding
school, where she will learn how to en-
ter and leave room, play the banjo
and waltz, OF to educate her exactly
like her brother. Presumably
he does tile former. She is
shut up in a boarding-school
through those years when she should
have most liberty and freedom to follow
her inclinatiOnS. AT eighteen she grad
yates in dream of dress, has coming
OUT GILL, pail Vi uldiiiOllts Cdll tuSS, dliu
begins to look out for husband which
she has been taught it is the one duty of
her life to secure. 1t is generally adj
mitted by the observing that the sue
cessful men and women in New York
are those who were country born and
bred, for the successful city man has so
exhausted his vitality and nervous pow
er in his own struggle for fame
and place that he has none to impart to
his progeny, and his sons and daughters
are apt to be dudish boys and brainless
girls. This fashionable girl then is
launched upon the sea of wOmanhOOd
with deprecated nervous power, mar
ries some one for money, or is herself
married for money. leads an exhaustive.
artificial life. and through the WEAKNESS,
wretchedness. and depression of it all
feels craving for stimulants, which
the regulations of fashionable life allow
her to use with no stigma OF disgrace.
The temporary eXhilaration of stimu-
lants is followed by corresponding de-
preston that calls for speedy relief, and
the chain tightenS.
The influence of the drink habit is
more demorallzing to woman than to
a man. because she is more highly Or
ganlzed, more impreSsionable, and so
delicately constituted that anything
that weakens her moral sense or blunts
her susceptibiitieS is likely to result in
greater and more apparent deteriOra-
ton, and is less likely to be recovered
from.
To Make Happy Home.