Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12

nips In the evening. and then they
wonder that they get bloated and that
their digestion is bad and their liver
out of order, and their appetite is
not what it ought to be. / tell you that
it is a growing evil. and, if it is not
stopped, it will soon have to be treated
as a disease, for the effects are terrible
beyond measure. Soda water even, not
to speak of any other kind of drink,
taken on an emtpy stomach, is sure to
set up Inflammation or irritation Of
some kind. But it is women who are
the worst offenders in this respect.
Thanks to that beautiful law passed
by a great moral statesman, wines and
spirits can be obtained at any grocer's
shop, and what a boon this is to many
women. For there are members of my
sex who would never think of drink
who find it exceedingly convenient to
get n or W bottles in the house from
the grocer's. 1t is so respectable, you
know, and the husband never sees the
bills, so the amount can be success
fully spread owe the family tea, and
sugar, and biscuits and bacon. do not
accuse my seX of drinking. God for
bid. But l do say that tipping is as
much, If lot more, in vogue with them
than with the opposite sex. l will not
even accuse them of drinking spirits,
but there is eau de Cologne and sal
volatile and red lavender and heaps of
other drugs that are far more powerful
stimulants than brandy, and these are
taken freely and ~profusely. l know
myself women who would not take
spirits for the world, but who can never
brace themselves up for any social
function unless .
THEY DRINK EAU DE COLOGNE.
or sal Volatile They consider it is
quite moral and would be horribly
shocked if anyone suggested that they
were in the habit of tipping. A girl in
her first season gets tired and disspirit-
ed. She has had too much excitement,
too much fatigue, been up too late at
night, she gets nervous, and great black
rings come under her eyes from fatigue.
Some night comes and she is going to
a dance, and she looks washed out. Her
mother, or her chaperon, suggests a
glass of champagne, and the girl drinks
it. After a few minutes she sees the
color come to her pale cheeks, the bril-
and cheerful and witty. That glass of
champagne has worked marvels. So,
for the future, whenever she feels dull
or loW-spirited and out of tone, she has
one or two glaSSes-One glass soon
however, has not any effect, and jokes
are made of how much she can take
without her pretty little head being
turned. True, she has a headache in
the morning, but then that is not the
champagne-of course not. 1t is the
fatigue, the worry of social life-that
is all. The habit grows On her, and
from champagne to brandy is but a very
easy step indeed-so easy is it that one
never quite recognizes when it is made
"a sort of gliding imperceptibly along.
| have frequently heard fathers and
husbands wonder what is the matter
with their wives and daughters-the
headaches they suffer from, the Ian
guor, the low spirits alternating with
the greatest merriment and the widest
excitement. They have been anxious be-
cause their loved ones have sometimes
looked so wan and i'll and yet have sud-
denly awakened in the evening and
looked bright and beautiful. I suppose
it would be news that would horrify
them if were to say it was due to tip