Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-10-04
AS A HORRIBLE EXAMPLE.


that this once talented and beautiful IA
vorite OF the stage nearly destroyed her
self-body and mind and soul-by the
use of the fiendish drug.
Pearl Eytinge has renowned the
stage for the lecture platform.
All this winter she is going to crusade
against the curse of morphine.
And it is subject, alas, on which
Miss Eytinge can speak as one having
authority, for has she not told herself in
the most vivid and fearful language Of
the horrors of The slough of despond and
the lake of hellish tortures she waded
through before she was reclaimed.
But reclaimed she is-now-absolu1s
~, and so she is going to devote herself
with all the strength of her nature to
save other unfOrtunates before it is too
late.
The Devils Right Hand" is the title
she has chosen for her lecture, and its
sub-heads will be Morphine, Choral,
Cocaine, Opium and Alcohol"
Il think people will listen to me,
knowing as they do that am fully ac-
quainted whereof | speak" she said the
day before yesterday, in outlining her
plans. 81 can tell from a hard, harsh
experience how terrible and disastrous
are the results Of drugging oneself, and
! think | can very fOrcibly point out
wherein the temptations lie, and how
best to avoid them. Perhaps that seems
a commonplace enough prospectus.
But l am sure l can accomplish
much" she added. with a kind at SAD
irony, "as a horrible example"
All my winter nights are filed" she
went on. Il shall probably speak first
in Whitesboro, where is the Baksr-Rose
Sanitarium. From there l shall travel
! all over the State, hammering as | best
and most effectively can against NOR
phine poisoning And early in Septem-
! Der, some Sunday night, at a big New
| York theatre, am going to have talk
with the members of my old profession
on the same subject-which is especially
applicable to people OF the artistic tenn
| permanent.
Yes. it will b. quite change frons
the stage 10 the platform. In some ways
a very pleasant one to me. 1t will I've
hard work again, as before, Of course
but there's one thing" she explained,
with something of her old-time gaiety.
81 shall hold the center of the stage
without interference.
my old friends, whom I will talk TO
that Sunday night, hardly believe even
LOW that l took eighteen grains OF NOR
nhine every twenty-four hours for six
whole years? .,,.
the. scheme of reformation she has I'M
dertaken:
q do believe I've got something to-
tell the public, and propose they snail
hear II. I shall appeal to common sense
and prove how much better and happier
we can be without false aids, how much
wiser 1T is to struggle less and smile
more.
"Tbere isn't half enough laughing in
the world anyway, and laughter is ton
"a. and awakens the appetite for happi-
mass I shall tell as scientifically as l
cen how vice and disease and deformity
Of body and mind are reproduced for
generation after generation as result,
positive believer in heredity, and that
sin breeds and transmits IN, yes, even
10 the third and fourth generation. The
mother is thinking, planning first, last
and all TIE time for Tie expected little
one. so that her physical and mental
condition must of necessity affect the
new life And the influence Of the fan
er upou the unborn child may be as
great. I believe that criminal traits are
handed down from sire TO son, and 1t is
along these lines of me steadfastness
of heredity that hope TO make a strong
argument against the curse OF drugs.
notice that millionaire owners of racing
stables are precious careful how they
breed their horses. Why otherwise
with tGe breeding of human beings? II
they would take as much interest in the
marriages among their own offspring,
how much better men and women we
would have.
For the devil is so busy he sometimes
has to skip couple of generations. In
nv lectures l intend 10 go straight 10
the root of this most important ques-
ton in so far as / am able. and as for
the horrors of drug slavery more bitter
than any human slavery. | speak from
an awful personal knowledge and exper-
fence with the sins and sorrows and SUI
fering which excess in any form brings
upon its victim. And the child that is
born of alcoholic passion or morphine
exaltation is only too likely TO be alb
normal. idiotic or a criminal, that I
know. II we can't legislate upon matri-
mony. at least we can do our best 10
correct its hideous mistakes, and that is
one OF the ends to which am defeating
nv chastity experience for whatever II
can do.
81 hope she concluded, chat when
microscopic picture of my past life is
contrasted with the one of my future,
the latter will compensate in some sort
for all the faults of the former. | feel
sure. anyway. the world will realize the
truths depicted In the Devils Right
Hand" and that manye young people will
be frightened in time to be spared from
his clutch. But oh, ii I only had my life
70 live over againr'
Would you 60 on the stage, Miss
Eytinge?"
mo"
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