Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-10-17
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF iNTEMPERANcE.

flow New York Society Women Drink
-TN. Guzzlers Are What the World
Calls Ladies' - Girls Sit and Order
Drinks without Food. Il
Nre Fila a. Roole. Prerident Of the
New Yo~H State Women's Christian Tens
nero-c" Union. has been waking some in4
vestications concerning the ir,bibing OF
irto-;oonts in public pieces bv tho women
OF Gotham. ard furnishes the following
significant table of lurcheons taken at
the places named to the New York World:
No
No. of using What the
pace women LIQUORS. women drank.
ro'-, onic,'s. 80 AZ Wine or cocktails.
Wo'dorf Astoria lnn aS Wine or cock tails.
C'Neilps. S5 - Wine co ia = beer.
e-er-y's 25 ls Wine or cocktails.
Manhattan. .. 60 4n Wine or cocktails.
s1T9v ~ H W,ne or cockIa,.s'
The wo-,nn who furnished the raw ma
terial for Mrs. BODIES table were not dis
reputable characters who had staggered
in from the streets. The names of the
places at which the observations were
made are sufficient TO indicate that the
~-'zzlerS were what the world calls ladies.
More than that, these same women con-
etitute. or help to constitute. that which
is tnowr &c the highest social circle.
At I'll the fashionable restaurants in
New York the larger mart of the receipts
are said tn be derived from the sales Of
wines whisky and other alcoholic drinks.
Even popular candy stores of the ruetrop-
ole now serve champagne, cocktails and
hirhhalls. Restaurants in the shopping
districts that reach out esneciallv for the
PATRONAGE of the women who trade in the
dry goods stores and whore men unaccom-
ranied hv )adies are seldom seen. serve
drinks to at least seventy-fve per cent. of
H., ", 4,oy. nf
tie scere witnessed by Mrs. Boole at the
Wa'dorf- Astoria:
"There were twentv-six tables in the
first room. seating two. forr, siy or eight
persons. In the course Of an hour the
guests at most of these tables had changed
once.
"Of the persons at these tables thirteen
were drinking at ore time. and eight wait
ers with empty cocktail glasses came from
tables that were partially hidden by the
stove columns in the room.
with three. possibly four. exceptions,
these guests We're all women-wor'en with
gray hair fne-ioolling women of thirty,
young girls of eighteen.
Gone young girl, of perhaps sixteen or
seventeen, drank cocktail and also glass
of wire"
In the restaurants in the shopping dis
trict it Is CUSTOMARY. we are told. for
women and girls to sit down at the tables
and order drinks without calling for any
thing to eat. This may be a little more
genteel than leaning against bar and
drinking but it is probably just as dan
Gerous.
1t has been customary for people in
general TO look uoon Chicago as the wick
edest rlace in the world. but it would
surely be impossible for anyone to bring
such an Indictment against the women of
| this city as Mrs. Boo|e has brought against
the feminine half of New York's smart set.
The saloons which flourish here indicate
that there must be great deal of drink
ing by Chicago men, but it has not become
| necessary to turn candy stores in grog
shops as yet and no first class hotel in this
city has thus far found it necessary to
maintain special department for the use
of men and women who RAY wish to meet
by appointment and drink together. -
It is hardly surprising. considering all
tie facts in the case, that Mrs. Boole cries
out:
"In the name of womanhood. in the in
terest of the children yet to be born, We
call upon every class of society women
and every woman who loves her kind to
discourage the custom of social drinking
and help save the wonanhood of the ma
ton from the curse of drunkenness
But Mrs. Boole nrst not make the mis-
take of regarding New York as the ma
tion..-Chicago Record Herald.