The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-07
GIRLS VERSUS BEER
CRUSADE AGAINST DRINKING
YOUNG MEN IN DANBURY, CONN.

Evil Habits and Prove that there is
Neither Spirituous or Malt Perfumes on
their Breath or q Suspicion of Even
CIoves-How the Young Men Manage to
Take 1t.
| Danburry, Conn, June 6.-Whtle the
organization OF the young Ladies club
formed under pledge not to marry or
have anything TO with young men who
drink, is taken for joke all over the
country, it is serious fact. The or
organization is known as the st. Peters
Ladies' Temperance society and num-
bers 500 in its membership.
The young women's crusade is just
two weeks old. A vigorous sermon by
| Father Lynch on the topic of women's
power in temperance work sowed the
| seed, and the harvest was swift and
! bountiful. Immediatel after his speech
the girls got together and began to dis
| ciss ways and means for carrying out
the plan outlined TO them.
AS the news Of the movement spread.
applications for membership poured in
and the second meeting was attended by
| 800 young women. 1t was here that the
| constitution was discussed. and the
| chief matter of debate was the section
relating to the attitude of members to-
ward friends who drank. The discus
sion was opened by a young woman,
| who said:
81 would like to know If we are prom
| iSng not TO go with any fellow who
drinks at all. / think we ought 10
make some distinction. A man needn't
be a drunkard Just because he takes a
drink once in a while. I know lots Of
| fellows that take an occasional beer.
maybe, but they never get intoxicated
/ and ii seems"
| the front seat. "She means jim"
II don't either" retorted the first
speaker hastily. Then she added with
! dignity: ~ don't think it's right peO-
/ pie should speak names out that
way"
QESTION AS TO BREATH.
what I want to know is" put IN a
| member who was OF an inQuiring turn
of mind, how can you tell if the young
man you keep company with has been
| taking a drink or two If ne hasn't taken
enough to show it?''
That's easy" put in a blue-eyed
| leSsie, rising in her desire to impart use
| fur information. You can smell his
breath when he kisses you
| "Oh, Lizzie" cried all the others, very
much shocked, and Lizzie turned the
/ color of wine and sat down so alb
ruptty that the hiarpins fell out OF her
| hair. When the sensation had subsidized
! gloomy voice said:
! "Well, I don't want any fellow that's
! got the Glove habit, either" declared q
sprightly brunnett. I'm going right
| to my fellow-er|I mean If / had one
I'd go right to him and say-that is, II
] T H. -r, d,-a,o L. h inc i
to him: Now, Jack-er-Or-er Jim or
-er Fred or whatever his name was,
IF you think more of your beer than
You do of me, you can stick to IL, put
you can't go round with me any more.
I'm not going to have a fellow VINO
drinks, so you can take your choice
That's what I'm going to tell him..
Great applause greeted this effort.
and after some further discussion If
was decided that the society should
stand for total abstinence on the part
of it's male friends.
MEN IN A PANIC.
The new movement has struck the
young men of Danbury squarely amid
ship They don't know what to think
of It. which doesn't prevent them from
thinking il very hard. The reporter
met a youth who had devoted consid-
cradle brain wear to the question, chief
" because of his interest in a certain
member of the new society. This youth
Is a member of a number Of orSaniZa-
tons IN Danbury, not including the
Sons Of Temperance.
He was found in a shady spot fan
ring himself with his hat, and dividing
his attention between a pictorial sign
representing a hugh beer glass over
flowing with creamy froth and small
Thermometer which was trying to force
Its top off by pressure Of the mercury.
What am I going to do about IT."
he sad, repeating the reporters query
Then he repeated thing ne couId never
have learned in Sunday school What
can 7 do about it? Look at me- He
pointed to his perspiring visage. He
haven't had a drink for three days" ne
added in heart-rending accent. His
gaze wandered up and down the swell
tering street. Then he turned swiftly
to the reporter.
'Nobody's looking he whispered
hastily. "CCrne and have a drink. Fol
low me and keep quiet
BACK DOORS POPULAR.
In the footsteps Of the Danbury youth
the reporter skirted through a narrow
alley, turned into a back yard, vaulted
a fence. threaded a dim passage, and
finally stopped before a rear door.
Opening this a crack the victim OF I'M
satisfied thirst peeped through.
away" he announced. and entering ne
gave an order. In five seconds he was
Immersed even to the forehead in
large mug. After long and significant
silence he said
ITS too tough to stand. Any other
weather might so, but not this kind.
tell YOU It's been a fearful strain. This
place has always been a free-and-easy
sort Of town until this wrinkle came up.
If you wanted a drink, why. you
went and got IL. Now it's as much as
a mans life is worth.
''Why, there's Jlm-vell, I won't
mention any names, but friend or
rnine-iust because he met one or the
81. Peters girls coming out OF a saloon
the other day. mean he was coming
out Of the saloon and not she-he got
the cold shake. and she wouldn't so 10
a show withe him the next night. And
that only one case out Of many.
why every time l speak 10 ? girl
now I feel as II she was prospecting for
nv breath. and II makes me- nervous.
Next thing you know they Will be max
ing the rounds Of the saloons with snap
ping cameras, running regulations every
time they press the button. And you
may have noticed that We came in here
a kind Of roundabou way
BOYCOTT on GUM.
The reporter said he had noticed Z.
well. that's the only way a fellow
dares do now. The back doors OF this
community ara just getting worn of
their hinges since the society went 70
work. one OF the fellows is trying 20
organize a boycott against girls that
chew gum. and that would hit 4 LOT Of
'ern. But Il wouldn't do ne any good.
he added glurnly. ~ you'll excuse me-
now. I'll go and put . coat OF onions
on this breath.
les Temperance society ara enrhusias-
tic over their work 1o- temperance.