St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-25
Whisky Sours and Cham
payne Cocktails for LADIES'
Exclusively.
Clubs in Which the Members
Can Have a Royal Good
Time.

81 tell you" remarked we'll known
man about town yesterday, ''that one Of
the most remarkable changes in the last
decade has been that in the sentiment
of the women of the Northwest regard
ing the use of intoxicants. When | say
women, don't refer to those who are
members or supporters of temperance
organizations, or to the poorer classes,
among which the moderate use of liq-
uors has been always prevalent, but to
the Weather people-those who can
afford to drink the most dainty of liq-
uors, the most costly of wines. Up to
ten years ago it was considered culpable
in measure to even eountenance the
presence of a spirit decanter un the fam
lily sideboard; now the absence of the
ocean ter would excite adverse criti-
ciSm. 1t is not TO the change in this
regard that L refer particularly, but to
the fact that where formerly no lady
could enter place in which liquor
was sold for consumption on the prem
ises, hundreds not only can but do en-
ter such houses daily at this time 1t
may not be generally known, but it is
nevertheless fact, that there are no
less than six
ELEGANTLY FURNISHED BATHROOMS
minus the bar-in st. Paul, whose
patronage is almost exclusively made up
of ladies well known in st. Paul soef-
ETY.. ALI brands of wines and spirits
are kept, together with the parap HERNIA
liza which go to make up a first-class
bar. As many as dozen of the best
KNOWN young ladies in the city have been
seen i'll one of these places at the same
hot H. III.
tails or whisky sOurs. and enjoying life
after the manner of their husbands and
brothers. They smoke little scented
cigarettes too, these darlingS of the
beau monde. and, in fact. do just exactly
as they please in the way that pleaSeS
them best. 1t must be added that these
places are most carefully conducted and
eminently respectable. No member of
the soiled siSterhood can possibly gain
admission, as the patrons of the houses
which are conducted after the
manner of clubS--are provided
with cards, without which they can
not be admitted. Sometimes the dear
creatures get little hilarious over their
cups-sing snatches of naughty French
songs, and reel off few steps Of the
can-can, just for devlment. you know;
but these little escapadeS seldom reach
the ears of any but the circle. and no.
body cares. The girl or young married
woman who hasn't
SPICE OF OLD HAL
about her doesn't count in these mod
ern times" The statement made above
calls to mind the indisputable fact that
there is an alarming amount of drunk
enness in St. Paul in quarters where
drunkenness would least be expected to
exist. There is young married lady
she hasn't been married. by the way.
more than four months-whoSe husband
is the sorriest man in town. in all proba-
bility. She is handsome, accomplished
to an unusual degree. of winsome man.
ner, and the idol of at least one mans
heart. The drinking habit, however, is
hers by Inheritance, aud it is safe to say
that she has been in a horrible maudlin
condition of int0Xication twO-thirds OF
the time since her wedding day. Two
young girls, daughters of a well known
family, live within three blocks of her,
and get dangerously happy every two or
three days in her company. There are
dozens of men in the city who work
hard and faithfully from weeks end to
weeks end. and whose wives are con-
firmed drunkards. A local physician,
III referring to the increase of drunken
ness among women in st. Paul, said the
ladies on his list of patients
WHOSE ONLY AILMENT
was the depression which each morning
resulted from the excessive use of slim
ulants during the day. "A woman"
said the medico, ''has not the self-con-
troll as rule that man has. We know
we'll enough how the liquor habit gets
possession of even the strongest-willed
men-it becomes utterly beyond their
power to abstain from drinking. | will
state bIankly that when the craving for
liquor once gets possession of a woman
she is a lost woman. She will descend
to any degrading means in order to pro-
cure that which she Graves, and she
generally gets enough by one means or
another to keep herself in half-soaked
condition most of the time. | believe
remorse has good deal to do with the
rapid strides to the devil made by the
woman who has beeeme drunkard."