The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-14

cons titute him an important authority,
told the parliamentary committee ghai1
drunlEe nness entered directly or indt-
rectly into half the inquests he held.
The matter was treated mostly as a oke
and the iuries, coming from the people
that loca lily, think no hing whatev pr .
drunken less among women. lie BELIEVES
great nu mbers Of Woodworking. :Oba :
men would have good homes but 70 III :
curse Of drunkenness that aihicts thel :
wives, an in some respects the condltio l
of the wO men in this regard is worse than
that Of the men.
The parliamentary returns of drunken
ness in Scotland for last year show tina
in that land reputedly of steady habit
10, l42 women were arrested during th e
year for beiEg drunk and disorderly,"
while 6,027 more women were arreste 4
for disorderlY conduct while drunk. In
! the same period % 901 men were arrested
for the former, and 10, 4f23 for the latt sr
otfense. which shows that almost half las
many women as men in Scotland are ad-
dicted to the vice of drunkenness.
The British Medical Journal say s.:
The standard of sobriety among wom eu
has come of late TO be gradually but per
ceptibly lowered, till, unhappily, nbw
women are OfIen seen affected by liqT or
in the streets and at public and privllte
gatherings" The Lancet says: 'fNo
one who has his eyes open can fail to see
that women are fatally losing modesty in
the way in which they enter public
houses"
The public mind, or that portion viii ch
has been aroused TO an active interest in
this matter, is tKying to devise some way
to stop the further spread of the scours e.
1t is conceded by those best able to jud ge
that Incarceration in prisons is of no be n
eft whatever in the case of women drum X
ards. Sir Andrew Clark's proposition for
the compulsory seclusion and cure of
drunkards in retreats under state contR oil
finds many supporters. He said he wou Id
run the act of connpulsion as close as tile
feeling of the English people for the fire e.
dom of the person would allow, and NVou Id
especially enforce it in the earliest stages
of the vice in the case of women. EIe
said, and he spoke from great e.Ipari-
ence, especially in private dealings with
drunkards, that the drinking habi b was
difficult to cure in men. but it was II but
impossible in women. When TAX en- in
hand early, cures were obtained in! both
sexes, but, in his experience, even I'll en-
the proportion of cures Of womeIl was
painfully small.
The governor of Pentonville r rison
says when a woman is thoroughly nd in
this vice Of drunkenness she is thOro lghly
hopeless. These deductions have been
partly explained by the fact that n the
case of women of the better class bspee-
tally, among whom DR.. Clark 81 lid he
could not recount five cures, womt IN ape
screened in the practice Of the vice for a
considerably longer time than men I'D he
come very much addicted TO it be tore a
cure is attempted. The general sen IT,
ment just now seems to be for the ,ssti b.
hshment of retreats under state OF. 10, ,al
county control, where drunkards will be
compulsorily treated But whatever he
remedy adopted, the need of drastic dine
Is most painfully apparent. DrCnkt IN
ness among women has indeed, in EIlg-
land, become "a nat ional shame"