The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-28

OF thelr use is always disastrous A man
may De a steady moderate drinker for a
iiIotlihe' ana be little the worse for it.
t Sut the same thing isn't true of woman
'oHe may never get drunk. but she uavs
- oiie way or another for fooling with her
eINeS' IL a woman is tired. let her put
lieI not cloths on the back of her neck
anu over her eyes, or lie fiat on her back
anu relax completely for five minutes or
take a bowl of hot milk or clam broth or
poulilon' II would be easier to turn to
Ilie hquor cupboard, more promptly eff
Taclous' 100, admit but the relief is less
idsuhg and the ultimate consequence pos
lively disastrous"
. Inc perspective in which women viewed
Tue SUBJECT seemed to differ considerably
allu 'he reporter decided to get a purely
masculine verdict from some member of
the 400, not chivalrous enough 10 swear
that the women he knew never drank env.
uhlng stronger than cambria tea. He
Ioulu ms man at studio tea. where he
was talking to several women He was
qulte wiling to give expert testimony
"hen the subject had been launched
Drlhk? OF course the women drink.
mere never was anything like it before.
II isn't only among the 400 1t is every
Where' suppose there are a great many
women who drink in moderation or not
y
crease in the drink habit among women
IS Simply appalling. A man hates to tell
the women he is entertaining that they've
had enough wine ana would better stop
drinking Perhaps he doesn't even notice
When they've reached the danger line; and
thrust upon me when I've supposed my
SELF doing the uneXceptionally proper
thlng with the most correct people It's
my opinion that no young girl should
a in
another of my opinions that women ought
TO pass all mixed drinks Cocktails are
deadly for anyone; and a woman is too
HlghlY strung, nerVOusly, to take the
chances on tampering with nerves that
man viii take. As for absinthe-that's
drink that's rap dly growing in favor over
here; and it's a funny thing that the wo-
men seem to take to it more kindly than
the men. Go to a certain tea room in one
of our big hotels at o'clock any after
noon and you'll see more absinthe drunk
than you'll see drunk in all the saloons
of the city in the same amount of time.
The women ought to stop that. It's beast
~ bad stuff, even when one has the stead
lest nerves. You know the French doctors
tried injecting whisky and absinthe into
the veins of a dog. The dog that got the
whisky went off into a corner and went
to sleep. The dog that had the absinthe
went Sldihi staring mao ana naQ TO De
killed. l dropped into that tea room yes
terday with a woman friend and l was
Mortified. If they'd only stick to wine or
beer or even whisky, it would not be so
bad, but cocktails and absinthe will play
havoc with the women
Il went with some of the SWEETEST peo-
pie in town to a theater supper the other
night. The women were all married wo-
men; and all but one had husbands in the
crowd. Now, I tell you, it was a lively
time; and I could hardly keep up with
the procession. I helped one man take his
wife to a carriage. I don't know who
helped the rest. They all needed help"
He bowed himself away and the two wo-
men with whom he had been talking look
ca at each other and at the reporter. do
you suppose it is true?" asked one of
them. The other Strengthened her Shout
ders and elevated her chin eXpressively.
at may be true; but if any one h ad
asked him whether he believed women
drank he should have lied, like a gentle
man.