The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-08

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u am sorry.= he said, but II Is TIE rule
Of or place There Is no reflection on you
II anT waE, but ne VIII not serve liquor 70
lsdles who are not escorted BY gentlemen
We would rather lose their custom We
had 70 do this in sslf-defense- We used 70
serve liquor 10 women but. II got Us into no
end Of trouble l az very sorry We cannot
obhge you"
The lady arose hurriedly. took up her
bundles and walked out
1t would never do said the proprietor
Of the plsce as he walked b. nv table. I'VE
! have tad enough experience with drunken
| women here 4 drunken nan Is bad enough,
| but & drunken woman Is immea ursbly
worse. OF course, il must not be under
stood that there is any rejection upon
women who come here and want % drink
AM are refused the privilege. The
lady who Just left here Is the wife Of
a downtown merchant ! know him
/ very well, and II Is none OF my business
what his wife may do, but l could not
I Afford 70 risk nv reputation here. II she
| should drink little to much Ny Gus
/ toners are for the most part respectable
/ people, and II would hurt Us greatly If an
intoxicated woman should Be- sssn in this
I place. There Is no sentiment about this 81
/ all We take this stand for business res
sons. pure and simple.
1 But II there are few places that deny
this privilege 70 woman she need not 90
] athirsf. Insre are more than 10 O00 saloons
/ in New York where liquor Is sold openly
ard above board When you say this the
half hss not been told. Whe1 you are in
/ formed thai there are several thousand
drug stores in New York in which liquor
can be obsai ed upon very fimsy reason
for wanting il, not all has been told And
when you are Informed that grocery stores
sell as much liquor, comparatively speak
| ing. as the saloons do. the half IS not yet
told
The keeper OF any Of the swell restau-
rants viii tel yOu that some Of his best Gus
TONERS. 50 far as liquid refreshments are
Concerned, are women; Just as the druggist
viii tell you that the persons who enable
him 10 pay bis license for the sale Of liquors
are largely women. and Just as the grocery
MAJ will, II he tell yol the truth in the mat
ter. say that many of his best customers are
women who send 70 him for bottled liquors,
and have il put down on the charge books
as ''sGn3TissS
Three women walked into q restaurant
not far from Union Square only few
nigbts ago. They sat 81 one Of the tables,
but il was apparant from their order that
they were not in search Of an ordinary
dinner. The were treated with the utmost
Difference By the walters, for the women
were wives of men well known in social
circles The lunch they ordered WIS not
extensive in one sense, but champagne and
imported liquors were the important ele-
ments in il. Nor did one bottle or
twOdO, until the proprietor Of the place,
who had been looking on with some uneasi-
Tess, for ne did not know az what time some
one who knew the ladies might come in,
came TO the table and in an undertone said
something TO one of the ladies. She flushed,
beckOned TO the other ladies, paid her bill
and left the place"
They are ladies' said the proprietor
in his broken English, but they make the
rroublen
Women have no opportunities to drink!
That Is a mistake. They have them and
they know 1t.
The ordinary reader does not know, but
it is q fact nevertheless, that the woman has
the advantage over the man in the way Of
getting her ripple. The man goes about in
very stupid way, and for that reason you
can tel a msn who ranges anywhere from
uppler 70 q dipsOmaniac almost at
sight The man being the coarser and
in some respects the less sscretive
animal stands mp at public bar and drinks
20 an exteat that all men may know thereof
or he places a bulging flask in his pocket in
such way that all the public can at once
see that he has bliss and brandy in both
possession and contemplation. Or in some
other cases he awakes very early in the
morning and hies himself away 70 the near
est lodging place Of strong waters, and as
the cocktail steals down his throat and takes
possession of the territory TO which it was
naturally assigned, he smiles. de smiles
satisfied smile.
" Ny wife is a. home, he says to himself,
or perhaps 70 the model bartender who
serves drinks aud agrees with everybody
and commits perjury about 800 times day
without turning hair
Ny wife is at home" he continues, "and
at just about this time she is dreaming of
me, not thinking | am here SIZE is a
dreaming now of the time when. to use the
words Of Don Piatt:
Tire bloom was on the alder
And the tasSel on the corn
"Lord, how we do get the best Of women
sometimes, " this indiscreet young man says
The gentleman spoke according to the
lights by which he was enlightened. He
thought he was foolng his wife. He
wasn't She was no. thinking much of
him or OF Don PIatt's poem. 1t may be
that she wanted her cocktail, too. But her
way of obtaining it was infinitely superior
10 his His was the boldness of the less
acute animal Hers was that of the woman
Ii was of the order that Mother Eve herself
possessed and displayed on one occasion
now somewhat famous
There is another subject that goes hand
In hand with this drinking of liquor. 1t is
no longer strange thing to sse women
sitting in public restaurants after a hearty
dinner surrounded by half a dozen friends
OF both sexes smoking cigarettes Such
scene would have surprised New Yorker
dozen years ago. To-day it causes no
comment. The women have simply taken
step or two in advance Of their preroga-
tives. What they use TO do in secret they
now do openly. and this does not apply so
much to women Of easy reputation as to
those Of good family, and who hold their
heads high in the community.
Drunkenness among men has been a
topic of universal interest. Drunkenness
among women bids fair to become the
blight of our too rapid civilization
The picture Is not overdrawn 1t is ap-
palling in its suggestiveaeSs, but as a
famous politician, now gathered to his
| fathers, once remarked. What are you
going to do about it!n FOSTER COATES.
Too Honest for Lawyer.
The late Clement A. Livingston, for many