The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-29
At Present All ia Calm

The rain falls on the Just aud the unjust. es
peeiany if the weather bureau says It is coins
10 be clear day; so the most praiseworthy
enterprises encounter difficulties the same a.
enterprises which ought 70 fail entirely, say.
the New York Tribune. There comes from the
town Of Shelton, Conn. a story which illustrates
this TO perfection.
There is in Shelton a Ladies' Aid Society
made up OF members of the Shelton Method 81
Eplscopal church The object of this society il
not only TO foster and encourage the deserving
albeit lightly clothed, heather in distant lands
out u has gone so far in the past on several
ocas SIC a; 70 and certain poor folks living in
an excellent society and its plans ought "a
prosper; but mark the inexorableness of fate
A lew weeks ago the Aid Society published a
COOK DOCK, one OF those neat, oilcloth-covered
volumes which do so much to raise the rate
OF morality among young husbands. 1t
was compiled in beh IF Of the society
oy Mrs. Tucker and Mrs Wilkinson, two promi-
nent shelton ladies, and was immediately pro-
nounced an excellent work of its kind all of
the recipes having been tested in advance by
the Two ladies' and found innocuous These
recipes ranged from salt-rising bread to mysteri-
GUS dishes with long French names full of
nypens, apostrophes, accented letters. and so
forth. The book was handsomely bound and
clearly printed, and encountered no adverse
criticism. with the exception that some captious
persons objected to the grammar in the closing
sentence OF recipe for meat gravy, which
read; Now sit on hot stove and stir con-
stantly, though these hypercritical individuals
might better have found fault with the idea
than with the grammar, as it would seem that
ira person were to sit on hot stove he would
stir constantly without being told. But we
must hurry on and cease this undignified revival
OF pleasantries of a bygone age.
Four days ago the crash came. Shelton is a
no-license town. The ladies' of the aid society
are all, or nearly all, active, belIigerent pro-
hloitlonists. Judge, then. if you can of their
CONSERVATION when somebody pointed out the
fact that the cook book which the society had
mothered contained several recipes for wine
sauce! The Shelton Ladies' Aid Society was
thrown into tumult. The ladies simply grew
pale when they realized how near they had
come to using the $500 already made from the
sale or the book for the benefit of the distant
folks who blindly bow down to wood and stone
That this money was no better than that
made directly from the liquor traffic was
clear. After having fought rum all their
lives they could not consistently carry it into
the place where it would do the most damage
the family, and there present it in semi-sold
state TO old and young. Visions of young men
brought home in the dark hours of the morning
and dumped promiscuously on their front steps
by their hooting and riotous companions rose
up before the ladies' eyes. and these young
men took their first downward step on wine
sauce made according to their book! No, many
thousand times no! The thing could not be-
The book must be suppressed. The wine-sauce
recipes must be eliminated. All of which is
being done
But this does not settle the question as to
what shall be done with the $500 already real
lied It is settled that it must not go TO the in
nocent heather. Some favor using it against
the rum power, arguing that this could be JUS
titled on the ground that It is allowable to fight
the devil with fire; but all do not agree to this
AT present Mrs. Tucker and Mrs. Wilkinson
have the money. Mrs. Tucker and Mrs. Wilkin-
son are calm. They say il worse comes to the
worst they will keep the $500 themselves We
shall watch report from Shelton with interest
to see what disposal is finally made of this
money. And in the meantime we would most
heartily congratulate the ladies of the aid So
ciety for their courageous and consistent stund
in the matter