St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-01

or society IN Gredt DTlldln, anu Ill
minor degree here III the United States,
writes Carrie Careless in the Philadel-
phia Item. There is but little of it on
the continent OF Europe, and the ten
dency to strong drink, as far as women
are concerned, appears to be confined to
the Anglo-Saxon races. 1t is difficult to
assign any reason for this. but refer
ence to the records of the divorce courts
in London. Edinburgh and New York
will furnish abundant evidence OF the
fact that in almost every case where the
dissolution of the marriage has been
pronounced in favor of the husband,
dipSomania has played very prominent
part i'll bringing about the matrimonial
Shipwreck.
1t is especially in the higher circles of
London society that this vice is ram
pant, and it would seem that in proper
ton as the Old-fashioned heavy drink
ing of the men diminiSheS that OF the
ladies augmentS. Nothing is more III
structive than to watch the women,
both young and old, at the dinner par
ties in Mayfair and Belgravia, or to OBJ
serve them lunching. supping or dining
at the Hotel Bristol, at the Amphltryon,
the New Club. at the Bachelors, and at
every club where the fair sex is admit
ted. Formerly ladies of social eminence
would have recoiled from the idea of
drinking spirits, liquors or even wines
in public. and if they felt the need of
stimuIants they took them sub rosa and
in secret. Now, however. their heSita-
ton OH this score has disappeared, and
the amount of sparkling and still wines
and liquors that they consume coram
publicO is absolutely appalling.
As a General Rule
the heads of our sex are not our strong
est point. Our hearts are superior
thereto, and we are Invariably disposed
to permit the latter to obtain the mas
terry of the former. When, therefore,
we allow ourselves to give way to any
disposition toward StlmulantS we lose
our heads far more rapidly and more
completely than do men, and become
far more reckless and needless of con-
sequences. And when we lose our
heads we generally end by losing not
only our honor, but also that of our
lords and masters. For few women are
i'm pOssession:of their sober senses when
they betray their husbands. They have
invariably lost their mental equilibrium,
their common sense and their powers
of reasoning at the time, and in nine
cases out of ten this abnormal phase of
disposition is attributed to drink.
When their moral and mental faculties
are obscured by stimulants they can no
longer be held strictly accountable for
their works or acts, and inaSmuch as
men are aware of this, they are apt, es-
pecially when INSCRIPTIONS, to take ad-
vantage of the knowledge.
Rotten Row and Vanity Fair, the two
promenades of Hyde park, which, dur
ing the London season, are thronged at
certain hours with all the smartest ele-
ment of society. have repeatedly, dur
ing the past years, been the scene of
manifestations of drunkenness on the
part of women belonging to the highest
rank.
1t was but the other day that Lady
Zouche, peerless Of the realm, was
taken into custody by a policeman and
charged with drunkenness before a
magistrate, She was so intoxicated at
the time of her arrest that she was I'M
able to remain seated on her horse. and
rolled off into the sand. There is we'll
known embaSSadreSs in LONDON who has
already once been under restraint for
dipsomania, and whose inveterate taste
for stimulants constitutes the curse and
the bane of the existence of her famil Y.
Then there is the Lady Ida Wilson,
sister of the Duke of Fife and sister-in
law of Princess Louise of Wales, who
has repeatedly disgraced herself by APP
pearing in the Row i'll state of alter
nately noisy and maudlin intoXicatlon.
Her first husband was the well-known