The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-09-03
DRINKING BELLES.

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Psrils 81 the Drink Habit In Social Cir
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Under the head of .'Home and Soci.
ETY." the, New York Tribune. In a rt cent
issue, pu blished the following:
An interesting conversation be-
tween two ladies who knew their
world very we'll might somewhat
startle the mothers and fathers whose
sons ind daughters live in the gay
whirl Of fashion. The first sentence,
which naturally fixed attention, sound
ed fairly brutal:
"So-and-so drinks too much" said
the farst speaker, using the name of q
well.known belle.
How can you say such horrid
thing?' said her companion, nervously.
"'Fancy if your chickens come home to
foost."
II don't care II they dc" rejoined the
other; lit is quite time that mothers
realized what their daughters are ex-
posed to in society. have seen many
girl this winter over-excited by VIE.
1t seems dreadful thing to say, but it
is actually true, and they get t. depend
upon it, too. Often q 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
rornps through the german owes her
high spirits not alone to her youth and
natural love of gayety, but to put it
Enthusiastically to stimulants. know
I L.
to the exciting stuff to make them talk
with more brilliancy, to enable them to
be audacious, witty-in q 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 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 f:olic 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 abjurc
wine altogether. No one, then, can
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 we'll himself
what it means. And if q 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: Il 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 NUN berless women
young, old aud middle aged-who arc
in the habit of putting themselves VOL
unfairly under the influence of wine'"
'Well," said her auditor, ''you may
he right, but l hope you exaggerate
the danger. My girls take their glass
Of sherry at dinner, or champagne at
nd L-,.
ever, 1 will tell them what you say,
ancs they can judge for themselves"
OSSside 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 socie.
ty," as social safeguard both for
young women and young men.-Na-
tional Temperance Advocate.
DESCENDANTS OF DRUNkAR0s.
| eunerings Caused ~ Inherited Weak
ncsSes.
DIR. Grenier in a Paris medical jour-
tai gives the result of one hundred and
eighty eight observations of individuals
whose parents were subject to inebri-
ETY.. Among some of the facts found
from this study are the following: The
morbid influence of the parent on the
Child is greatest when conception takes
place at the time when one or the 9th.
er of the parents are intoxicated. The
children of inebriates have decided
propensity to similar excuses, and over
one~half of the cases noted by the
author came from inebriate ancestors.
The majority of children from this
parentage suffer from commissions in
infancy. Epilepsy is neurcsis that
we NAV consider almost characteristic