The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-09-04
which naturally fixed attention, sound

ed fairly brutal:
''So-and-so drinks too much" said
the first speaker, using the name of a
well-known belle.
Glow can you say such a horrid
thing?" said her companion, nervously.
Fancy if your chickens come home to
roost."
81 don't care if they do, =" rejoined the
other; lit is quite time that mothers
realized what their daughters are ex-
posed to in society. / have seen many
a girl this winter over-eXcited by wine.
1t seems dreadful thing to say, but it
is actually true, and they get to depend
upon it, too Often girl goes to a
dance tired and listless and looks to
her champagne to give her fun and en-
train, and the joyous Bacchante who
romps through the german owes her
high spirits not alone to her youth and
natural love of gayety, but to put it
plainly-actually to stimulants. know
several l could name who actually look
to the exciting stuff to make them talk
with more brilliancy, to enable them to
be audacious, witty-in word, sue
cessful.
"Do the men know it? of course
they do, and they like the sport it
gives. Very few of them have cool
heads themselves after the early part of
the evening, but if the girls could only
hear the criticisms of their so-called
admirers who encourage their spirit
they would be overwhelmed and
ashamed. And the misery of it is that
it does not end there in the ballroom.
Many a physician could tell the true
name of some of his cases of nervous
prostratiOn' or malaria and, as the
taste for drink once formed surely saps
the foundation of the finest character,
who knows into what darkness these
women may be led?"
But" said her companion, ''all this
is rather hard on the girls, who are
naturally full of fun and frolic. How
can the distinction be made between
stimulated gayety and that which is
natural?"
ANY experienced person can tell
the difference" answered her friend;
but, better STILL let the girls avoid all
appearance of evil; let them abjure
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misconstrue their high spirits and
every man will respect them for it; for,
whatever license he allows him, there
is no gentleman but would shrink in
seeing his sister or sweetheart flushed
with wine. He knows too well himself
what it means. And if IL good and
pure maiden avoids it from principle,
not hiding her convictions there is no
knowing the good she may do; there is
no telling the strength she may give.
A prominent physician says: 1 do not
mean to say that there are any number
of society women who become literally
intoxicated, but l do mean to affirm
that there are numberless women
young, old and middle aged-who are
in the habit of putting themselves vol
UNFAIRLY under the influence of wine "
WELL" said her auditor, you may
be right, but l hope you exaggerate
the danger. My girls take their glass
| of sherry at dinner, or champagne at
supper, and see no harm in it. How
ever, l will tell them what you say,
and they can judge for themselves"
| Outside the range of fashionable So
ciety few people, probably, are aware
of the extent to which wine drinking
obtains among the young of both sexes
within its social sphere. That young
women not few are in peril there
from as the above significant CONVERSE
ton implies, there is no doubt, The
| lesson of abstinence ought to be more
generally taught, both by example and
precept, in what is called good soce-
ty," as social safeguard both for
young women and young men.-Na-
tional Temperance Advocate.