The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-24
WHAT pERE Abb TALKING ABoUz

A physician 70 has had large general practice IN
New York for my years in talking yesterday about
alcoholism. sRihat the most Painfu part OF his prao-
tice involved treatment OF women for tipping or In
some instancsven for out and ont drnnkenne% II
am aware he i'd that the subject Is capable OF
rood deal OF eSgerntion, and that many doctors go
beyond the lin Of the exact truth In describing H. but
there Ia dot about the wide prevalence OF Excess
sivs drinking Anng women. one point which nave
never known eiyiss this subject to touch upon il
| that women arded TO drink from entirely different
causes from tho which inhuerce men, II ia very
| rare thing. in,ed, for woman to fall INTO
| tho habit OF tpping fo' any other reason
than personal aoow or unluppiness. Men drink be
cause they arc w,rv have bAcRachc, feel too tale
| for the moment to cope with dhcnlt business
| problems, or fromgood fellowship ruro and simple.
II a man ia unhappy he uually goes 10 work IL some
forcibo fashion torelev himself OF the load This
wife IL intoerAble make hight for divoroe ifhia
| expenses arc high no rdoubles his energy 10 make
money and In a ReerAl way ho mRkesG pretty fair
effort toward Kidding hiiselt oil tho blues Women.
however, are debRTa from this In great
measure by tho Try fact that they are
women Some few Of then arc driven by
domestic trouble to wiling boohS or eeturng but the
majority of them, wha they nndtRt their burdens are
| pretty hard to ear, get mo the habit Of
taking little sip of a. glass of teer between meala
or still smallips of whiskeNon an empty stntn
| ach as a means ofrelieving then from depreasion
| Even small drin has a wonderfully eIhilaratinR
| effect on highly nervous woman and alcoholism 10
more easily contrated than the ubrphine or cocaine
| habit because liqors arc always b be found in tho
majority of well eEuAted households in New York
Many In tIs city have Viruhy been drunk ards
for years thouEftneir husbands tve even haS
suspicion OF It They are nearly III of them shreEd
enough to take mp before ocldk If they feel At all
confused and wen the head OF n house comes homo
tho wife rises pfreshsd and without any indication. az
her condition rhen she sank heATy to sleep an hour
earlier"
That picturesque representative the Western kirt
Porter Ashe Is again In New YORK He "a tall and Ath.
letic in bull. with perfectly 9th face and Spirits
that are always at top notch wlohor his race horseu
win or los He 10 the hero OF nurberi.ss anoctntes-
including those of the divorce and he has hold
unique pace in the small tax of San francisco for
great miny years. though ~ does not look day over
Is year. of age. At present his hobby is AtheucS ana
he doc, almost as much rurnnE tie race traeku IN
the m'rning for exercise Usome of he horses
good deal OF interests felt in he person atyoen
YOU'RE woman of perhapt25, who has Of late been drv
ing great variety of thoroughbred horses through the
streets OF New York aer attir, always consists of
small dark straw hathnd lnE green driving coat
which buttons all ~ way DOWN to her boots she
wears an.colored gSeS and her hair u drawn baor
severely from her fee sfo is thoroughly rood form
and exceedingly nodeN N manner. People stop ana
look after her whoever 40 but IL is always in ad.
mirAtion of her Iuperb driving. sho usually driyea
either q spider plaetonr beautifully built French
mall cart. Her horses AZ nearly all OF size
beautiful RniuGlR VIII plenty OF knee action and
IRE She drives undt tho elevated rAIlwAya ana
through tho crowds orehicles Fifth ayenuo and
Broadway at fast pac with her hands well down and
without trace OF snxty or interest her face She
ages the ncry annals in most complete manner
without any trac of exertion, and she looks ne
ther to tho right nobeft when she goes along big
thoroughfAre though 10 must know that Thousands of
men staring at with all tho external signs Of
extreme admiration.
Mrs, LanRtry. sccdinR to The gossip which drifts
hero from Lond has been guilty OF rather risky
dressing In her new ay. She was bitterly prejudiced
against this sort OF ting during mosof her experiences
in America, and cAnsd 10 have extreme horror Of
women who made too liberal display of their charms
parted from her ttition in this respect 1t will rather
eurpriBe OF Dr. admirers here though people are
prepared TO hea almost anything of tho Jersey Iiy
since the news cne the water a few weeks ago
that she bad rot religion" In very forciblo way.
There arc som indications of the onnipotent and In,
dustrious pres agent in mauy OF tho dispatches,
Tho odft acluaintances OF hrs LanGtrY In this couu
try Stigng the notion that she in a shrewd conser
vative, careful and money.making woman, and moth.
ing eb, There is no getting away from the gossip
abourer however. She is still OF the most inter
estin personages in theatriealnfe.
"ho arrest OF Eyraud" q Central once detective
Bat5 yesterday. "goos TO show again how thoroughly
q
tice ay where Garth 1t Is not much say that
In twatyhye years from tho possibility of avoid
Ing u police will have disappeared is duo in some
meaare to the telegraph; in degree also to the wide
publicity which tho newspapers give to crime nova
day but mainly to the marvellous perfection with
nth tho police forces Of the world work together
rh' Chiefs OF Police in different cities take pyda in
assisting ono another in all OF these cases. because suo
SOB reflects 80 large credit upon tho local force The
cations OF the international police forces have been
eady improving during tho past years so that to-
~ the forces OF London, Berlin Paris St. Petersburg
nd America, through New York work in thorough har
lony and with rapidly. There a time whom the
oiice did not str themselves particularly here in re-
oonse TO any requis!tion from tho water
nd It Is perfectly we'll known that the looa
uthordeS OF London and Paris at loggerheAdsfo
ome years, though they pretended that friendly re
ons prevailed between them Belgium Is still moline
be little osh In its relations with tho French polio
hese the only two countries that have any diffe
nee II IA fact now that active COOPERATION can
Oured in tho police forces OF tho nVo principal COR
les on the globe within twenty four hourA SO thar
'min Al who can be described accurately 10 oertAfno
II under the eyes OF skilled policemen. no mapr
hero he may go. The old theory that tho safest pie
the world to hide is in tho middle OF big city al
bids good. Eyraud would have been safer in Pts
an in any country foreign TO him. for tho simple ia
n that every Frsnchman In a foreign land was lh-
OF suspicion after tho details OF tho Goure nuier
mo out Tho detection OF EyrAud out OF PrancSFna
certain As the ueIectlon OF a German would
en- out of Germany or an Bnglishman wher, MS
ople and language were strange.
q would be difficult TO pick out two mon nOrs
orouRhly unlike than two who stood at ChH,bera
est and Broadway a few GAYS since within yard
each other. One John l.. Sullivan loktnR
ely, heavy. and not particularly athletic cowiux
stump Of a cigar and laboriously deciphrinK
ter. His brawny legs were stretched far Anrt Ills
1t bagged down n little in front, and his ut yay
ly face was drawn up into perp!eIed scoSI staIi-
with his back to sullivan and talking eaprIy ia
i-known court reporter was Abraham Hum,sL NhO
kcd about +feet inches in height and5robaIly
IS not weigh much over los pounds Mr. IummIs
was on tho back OF his head and he was fixing II.
eddy and neryously. He almost iostled SULTAN
en- no finished talking to the reporter and tartodpn
IN for apassinR Broadway car. Sullivan was On.
unE to peruse the letter perplexedly when he Is.
'ered that half hundred or moro pooplowere Iak.
at him. and then with sigh he thrust tie lettetD.
his pocket and ounged lazy across the street nd
VII toward the elevated railroad station
me OF those mon who IL never satisfied unless His
milling met another man Of the same disposition
days and got done up" in the vernaculAr OF he