The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-01
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S DRUNKENNESS ~
GROWING AMONG
WOMEN?


To deplore "the great increase of drunk
enness among women of education and
refinement to dwell on its dreadful con-
sequences and to discuss measures for
abating the evil, seem to be necessary at
certain intervals. The latest voice heard
crying its warning belongs to a woman.
and 1t was at temperance meeting that
her address was made She said the
usual pessimistic things on the subject,
declaring that drunkenness was increas-
ing at destructive rate. She was If
possible, little bit more discouraged
about the outlook than the average per-
son who sets out to deplore the increase
OF drunkenness among women Some
idea of the dependency of her views
may be gathered from this part of her ad
dress.
Many women she said, acquire the
taste for alcohol from cologne, which
they drink constantly, although it con-
talns 96 per cent of alcohol. They drink
all the essences made for the toilet. Com
pound tincture of lavender is one thing
they drink great deal. know ons
New York woman who drinks eigat
ounces Of lavender tincture every DIV
1t contains 80 per cent of alcohol Women
drink the essence of cinnamon and cloves
A well known physician has written 10
me that these habits are growing TO an
alarming extent among women. Women
also acquire the alcohol habit through
temperance drinks, many of which have
peen found to contain 40 per cent of
alcohol. Peppermint drunkards are made
IN this way and they are very difficult
to cure. Peppermint drunkards are nAar-
~ always women
Jamaica ginger, bakers yeast. alcohol
medicine nd o-;o
Feminine upples were mentioned by this
Cassandra, who apparently sees verv NJ
Tie nope for the women of this country
Continuing the discussion. the Nep,
FORK sun says that it is a fact that New
YORK society has during the past ten
years mao only two scandals In which If
was SHOWN That women were drunka rds
One OF these was faithless wife and II
was urged in her defense that her use of
sumulants had caused her downfall The
other case has never attracted such oen
eral attention, but it IS known with com
pafative accuracy why a beautiful and
attractive woman in society has never
married She is not now much more
than thirty, and her misfortune became
known first some years ago In a set
when is the most conspicuous in New
York, which is the center of attention
4AolH d44 sizes, only these two women
been discussed. So it Is fair to presume
that the forebodings of the temperance
lecturer were unnecessarily dark. 1t is
usually in fashionable society that most
of the drunkenness is to be found. accord
ing to the yarns which regularly appear
about cologne and other essences that
women are supposed to drink AS mat
ter of act, drunkenness among women is
now as much confined as ever to a GER
tain class Among women of refinement
and respectability there is no greater
taste for alcohol, no greater indulgence
in it than there always has been The
women of that particular class which has
always been addicted to drink probably
drink no more than they ever did, and
any consideration of their case has no
| place in discussing the alleged increase
in drinking among women in general.