St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-20
When the Demon of Strong
Drink ActuateS
Them.
Women Are by Far the Worst
Sufferers From In
ebriety.
Broadway's Gilded Palace Of
Whisky and Bowery
DenS.
A Wife-Beatep Who Will Not
Soon Forget His Pun
iShment.

Owing to their familiarity with one
remarkable phase of New York's
splendor, the citizens Of this town
sometimes forget that we have the cost
hest saloons in the world. New York
is badly equipped in pavements, but
when it comes to corner groggeries, it is
all there. People who visit the city
from all quarters of the globe are as
founded at the superb manner in which
the multiplicity of beer saloons are lit
ted up. There is veritable craze among
the saloonkeepers to see which can eX-
eel his neighbor in lavish decoration,
and the end is not yet. The first boom
in this direction was started in
Broadway hotel, but there has since
been a good deal of rivalry, 1t is worth
noting that the newer places have given
up decorations in what is known as the
Queen Anne and stained glass style, and
are giving their attention to heavy
crystal plate mirrors and the most eX-
tenSive and mahogany and cherry cary
ings. 1t would be pleasant, but a
blamed lie, to write that the drinkers
are as polished as the woodwork in their
manners. Yesterday | counted no less
than five little newS-eirlS clustered
in big saloon on Park Row. and
they were ten, twelve or fourteen years
of age. Three were decidedly pretty
and attractive children. They were
larking and playing with the heavily
built and beefy IoaferS in the saloon,
and their talk IN many instances
showed shocking familiarity with pro-
family and indecency. The men around
IN. oh fn1 tb,n,v mi
two instances, romped clumSily with
them. Every time a newcomer en-
tered the girls fiocked around him anu
begged him to buy their papers. 1t was
a sort of spectacle that ought to interest
the Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Children.
That was by daylight in Park row, at
time and place where civility, if ever.
should be found in barrOom. Of
course. if you 20 to the B0wery for your
object lessons you expect to get rough
material. And you need never be dis
appointed. A party OF brute-faced,
frowsy, inebriated men stood at dllap-
ldated bar in a saloon on the BOwery at
l o'clock in the morning. While the
air was ringing with blaSphemy, the
side door of the saloon opened, and a
white-faced, frail, little woman stole in
and stood to one side, gazing with great.
dry, blue eyes into tire face of one OF
the drinkers, young man with
A Harsh Face.
| Who was at that moment cursing a
companion for having different opin-
| ion on the subject of bull pups. Dis
covering the trembling woman at his
| side the fellow stopped short in his ar
nIltnant anh demanded what she
wanted.
81 want to speak to you alone, JIM"
"Well, yer can't growled the man,"
and now you get out o. here or I'll slug
yer"
II must speak to you, JIM" went on
| the woman.
II tell yer no. shouted Jim.
II must" continued the wife.
The man took step forward and
| swept his big, rough hand through the
| air, letting it fall with a whack on the
| cheek OF the woman, upSettlng her as
| though she had been a child. and fol-
| lowing up the blow with command TO
get out as quick as she could get on her
| feet. The little woman arose from the
| floor, and. drawing her hand from under
| her shawl, extended it toward her huS-
band.
IL was only to give this to you, jim" y
said she softly. II thought you would
| not want these men to see it."
| jim took her hand and she opened the
| fingers, revealing crimpled one dollar
| bill i'm the palm. The brutal husband
| bounced on the money. and then num-
| bled sort of apology to his wife for
| having struck her. and even invited her
! to have a glass of beer. This she re-
| fused. and went quietly out into the
| night, leaving her man in possession of
| the money she had earned. he cared not
how.
Such things make one feel like
| preaching total abstinence - even
| against the mild and foamy beer. A
| physician said to me: 'sSome men may
| drink without harm, while others should
let alcohol alone. Persons who are
| heavy or lethargic should never
| touch beer-I do not mean physically,
| but for its mental effect. If L drink
| half glass of beer at dinner nothing
on earth interests me for an hour after
wards but an easy chair, slippers and a
! quiet nap. IF my wife, on the other
| hand. drinks glass of beer, it sets her
nerves tingling, and she wants to dress
| and go to the theater or dog show.
There is no telling exactly what the
effect OF drinking beer will be on man,
but it is always interesting to me in
travelling to note the difference in the
faces of people who drink various bev-
erages. In the West, for instance,
+ whisky is the staple, the men are sharp.
active, nervous, lean, thin, and intense.
They work night and day. They can
get along with six hours sleep, because
they
Take Cocktail
| Before breakfast. which stirs up the
energy which the short hours of sleep
have taken away. In Berlin. where
| they drink beer all the time. the men
are heavy, stout and loggy. They sleep
nine hours night. and very frequently
take an hours nap in chair in beer
| garden during the day. In France,
where they drink wine. the men have
salow skin and wrinkied faces. The
wine has slightly stimulating effect,
but not as much a one as the whisky of
our nobility in the West. The best
thing for man to drink is water.
| Never make any mistake about that.
am not teetOtaier, but am able to
look at the thing clearly, and
IL know, as every other man of
of the mischief in society comes from
drink. Many woman goes wrong who
would never have thought of it had it
not been for the preliminary cham
payne. Besides, it is the best opinion
| of medical experts everywhere in the
world that a man is healthier without
wines or liquors of any sort than he is
with them"
There is one sort Of drunkard whom
everybody despises, and he is the wife
beaten. just as one of the big Boston
boats threw its gang plank out over the
pier on North river weary and pale
man came flying ashore considerably
faster than his legs would carry him.
The fact Is he was assisted on his jour
ney by the stout hands of several of the
steamers officers.
.'Well, that brute has had a good les
son." said another Of the passengers. as
the unfortunate man hurried up the
pier. without making any objection to
the rough treatment he had been made
the victim of.
"He will never strike another woman
with impunity, guess" exclaimed still
another passenger.
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