Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-08-06
Wine-sauoe.

The rain falls pn the ja>t and % fhr un,
just, especially If the weather bureau says
II Is going To be a clear day; 80 the most
praiseworthy enterprises encounter diHi-
culties the same a. enterprises which ought
10 fail entirely. There comes from the
town of Shrlton. Conn q story Which H.
lustrateS this TO perfection.
There Is n Shelton Ladies Aid Society,
made up Of members Of the shelton Meth
odlst Episcopal Church. The object of
this society l. not only 10 foster and en-
courage the deserving albeit lightly. cloth
ed heather, in distant Lands, but ii has
gone So far in the past OH several occa-
stprS a. t. aid certain poor folks living in
one Of the hack streets Of Shelton itself.
II an excellent society and itS plans
ought to prosper; hnt mark the nexora-
beness ~ fate, A few weeks ago the Aid
Society published a cook book, one Of
tho>e neat, oil-cioth covered volumes
which do % much 10 raise the rate Of NOR
tality among young husbands. Il was
compiled in behalf Of the society bv Mrs
Tucker and Mrs. Wilkinson, two promi-
nent Shelton ladies, and was Immediately
pronounced an excellent work OF it, Kind,
all of the receipts having been tested in adj
vance hy the two ladies' and found innocu-
=
ing bread to mysterious dishes with long
French names full OF hyphtnS apo>tro-
phcs, accented letters, and so forth. Tie
book was handsomely bound and clearly
printed, and encountered no adverse crlti-
clsm, with the exception that some cap
tlous persons objected 70 the grammar Of
the closing sentence Of receipt for meat
gravy which read Now lit on a hot
stove and Stir constantly" though these
hypercritical individuals might better have
found fault with the idea than with the
grammar, as ii would seem that If d per
son were to lit on hot stove he would
stir constantly without being told But
we must hurry on and cease this undigui-
fled revival of pIea-antries of a by-gone
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,
beiligerent prohibitonists Judge, then,
If you can, Of their coustei nation. when
somebody pointed out the fact that
the cookbook which the society
had mothered contained several receipts
for wine-sauce! The Shelton Ladies Aid
Society was thrown into a tumut. The
ladies simply grew pale v hen they realized
how near they had come 70 using the $500
already made from the sale of 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 di-
rectly from the liquor traffic was clear.
After having fought rum all their lives,
they could not consistently carry 1t into
the place where it would do the most dam
age, the family, and there present it in a
semi-solid state to the old and Young Wis
ions 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 suppress
ed The wine sauce receipts must be elm
mated. All of which is being done.
But this does not settle the question as
to what shall be done with the $500 al
ready realized 1t is settled that it must
not 60 TO the innocent heather. Some
favor taking it and 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 this money and are
calm. They say that if worse comes to
the worst they will keep the 5000 them
selves. We shall watch reports from
Shelton with interest, to see what dispo-
sal is finally made Of this money. And in
| the meantime we would most heartily
congratulate the ladies' of the Aid Society
for their courageous and consistent stand
in the matter.-N. Y. Tribune.