The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-23

| confides in him over the after dinner c1ffee
that her husband few nights ago mixed
/ her milk punch, for which little attention
she recOmpensed him by rising t. her feet
and declalming with exaggerated gesture,
/ MY father was gentleman" if a yellow
haired little fairy prattles II him OF how
/ she saw "a business brace-n announced
on a wine list, and, concluding that that
was Just the sort of bOlstering she
required, had the waiter fetch It for
| kcr mixed Of little OF everything under
/ heaven; If she further informs him that it
cost 81 a pint and didn't suit her taste after
all, and if, when he attends an afternoon
reading held in rather dismal temperance
lodge rooms, the last gdiy creature TO
leave the place utters audiDly her regrets
that she can't make ii smell of rum punch
| against the coming Of the rightful tenants
In the evening; if again the girl who sits
| tete-a-tete with him at a O'Clock. while
that half-cold yIllainOus mixture that is
called by courtesy tea IS served in exquisite
little cups Of rare Old china, informs him
that m1st ladies' like sherry but, that for
her part she doesn't care for sweet wines,
aosinthe Is her tippla, what is the CORES
pendent to cOlcludes
If he sets down his pretty tipplers as
fast except, indeed, in braggadOcio
speech, he will make it evident that he
knows much less Of the world-a1d esDaci-
eAAAJ VI LiAb AGLlAullE Guu lL-LutQ he pre-
tends. How IS he to know that CalOs barely
slipped a teaspOonful and that shs was in her
Utmost soul 50 Mortified u fad her head
swimming mora easily than other peoples
that she has watered her claret regularly
from that dayl How is he to know that the
golden haired little fairy fell from
horse IN her childhood aud lay on
her back for years dosed by a backwoods
doctor WITH Kentucky whisky ito keep
her STRENGTH nm
she has grown, in spite of the doctor, sweet
aud dainty, and refined, and would as soon
think OF stealing bottle of wine as of get
ting drank on its contest is proof, if proof
were wanted, that women are less suscepti-
bic to the drink habit than men! How is
he to know that If a girl c)nfesses to piece
OF naughty mischief, If it does not by any
meals follow that she is a habtual doer of
that particular form of iniquity, but
usually quite the contrary. that she mas
done 1t aud told OF it for the spice of ex-
citement aud NOVELTY How is he to know
that the girl who wants TO be bon comrade
makes herself out a great deal worst than
she Isl he correspondent must not take too
much on the fashionable girls word
1t IS not, indeed, TO be denied that wine
Is used IN social life with a frequency cal
culated to shock person of serious ideals
GA one point, indeed, we have evolved a
new social code. To turn down ones wine
glasses at table has become discourtesv;
1T implies rebuks to ones host, and Is con
sidered decidedly bad form. One must not
refuse the fish or roast at a dinner, no
matter how much one may dislike them,
but one need make no more than
a pretense at eating So one NAV
not obtrude ones scruples or "bear testi-
mony" against claret or sherry, but after
the glasses have been filled there is no rea-
son why they should not remain full The
writer Of a powerful temperance novel
visits in a family where wine is served for
dinner every day. For year after the
appearance of her book her friends plumed
themselves on their superiority to small
Sights because they were not offended by
her table manners, but at last accounts she
had yielded to custom, even slipping from
her glass occasionally.
AT musicale few days ago | happened
TO notice that Of a roomfull of lauies to
whom light wines were offered there was
not one who refused. AT crowded even
ing reception it was the men who fingered
about the punch bowl after supper but this
might easily have been because they were
50 busy serving the ladies in the earlier
stages of the proceedings. In the confec-
tlonery establishment patronzed by the
Understandable where woman can order
anything from mint julep to a sherry
cobbler it excites no surprise to see a
lady weary with shopping take clear brandy
or whisky straight as another woman would
take beef tea 1t would excite much sur
prise to see any woman show the slightest
evidence of intoxication.
The typical city woman, well-to-do, wom-
anly, presiding over her household in the
fear of the Lord, may drain glass Of wine
as she would eat peach and think the re-
freshment just as allowable. The danger
to women from alcohol lies far less in ex-
cess, for, comparatively speaking, this is
extremely rare, than in the fact that it
implies breaking down of barriers, which
being leveled all manner of things detri-
mental to self-respect may rush In The
woman who is brought up to think it right
TO wear decollete gowns can wear them
without detriment to her modesty.
The woman who is brought up to
think them indecent and then puts one on
must feel uncovered aud ashamed. The
woman who is brought up to sip wine and
offer 1t to her guests may take no personal
harm, but the woman who has been brought
up to believe such indulgence wicked
commonly suffers weakening of the fiber
and a bunting of the susce capabilities a de-
terioration which makes her less and less a
woman. Women are far less likely to
suffer physically from wine than men. be-
cause it is not etiquette for them to take
more than tritle in quantity, but they are
far more likely to suffer morally.
ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.