The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-02-28
WORK FOR GIRLS.
They Alone Can Make Wine DRINK in e
Questionable and Aid Tenn
perance Cause.

j. G. Holland wrote in Mrs. Hayes
album these words: Women only can
make winedrinking questionable, and
heal the nation of this curse
What did DR.. Holland mean by ''wom-
en- only?" Is it true that only women
can make drinking unfashiona BILE
and heal the nation of this curse? You
and | need to know this first; because
if only we women can do this thing.
why, it is an awful responsibility upon
us, each one of us. And if some one
else can do it, we, like all others, would
like to give that somebody else the
job. Mrs. Hayes became mistress of
the white house. and it was for her to
say what the social atmosphere should
be which surrounded her guests, and
how they should be entertained at her
house. Well. she did an unheard of
thing. She banished wine from all
her entertainments, with just one ex-
ception. Secretary Evarts made a
fuss. He was mortified. He could not
endure to have Lord and Lady English.
Count and Countess French. Baron
and Baroness German, come to the
white house dinners and have nothing
fit for them to drinll-not a drop of
poison. 1t was too utterly queer! So
Mrs. Hayes made one. exception in IA
vor of those great foreign highnesses,
and only for once. Her conscience
high-souled woman that she was
smote her for that little cowardlv COM
promise with wrong. She could bet
ter endure to have Secretary Evarts
and the Smiths ashamed of her. than
to be ashamed of herself So she qui-
city and forever after prohibited wine
from, her table, and cheerfully en-
dured the lifted eyebrows and shrugged
shoulders of the diplomats. British.
French, Russian. all. and the little
short-lived hiss of fashionable" soci-
ETY. until that hiss turned to a cheer.
and fashionable society turned round,
like the spaniel it is, and trotted on
behind its mistress. 1t became I'M
fashionable to serve wine and 10 offer
wine in fashionable society while Mrs.
Hayes was in the white house.
What Mrs. Hayes did in the white
house every woman can do in her own
home. if she will. If the girls who
read these words will each of them. al
together, use their influence on the
side of temperance thy can make tenn
perance fashionable where they are.
VIII you do it?
Gen. Grant did manly thing in
refusing to drink wine everywhere and
in all society. 1t is only a strong man
who can keep his wine glass upside
oown-in this case right-side I'D. too
while all the grand people around him
are slipping champagne and toasting
each other in sparkling drinks. No
one can tell how ''far this little candle
sheds its light" But no man can do
for a fashion in society what a woman
can 1t is women only, as DR.. Holland
said.
L wish some strong, bright angel
stood before you just now, while Won
read, girls, to flash before you as no
words of mine can, the power you pos
sess to help or to hinder. the cause
OF temperance; to make you feel your
responsibility. because you are girls.
IN this matter; to Shudder at its WEIGHT
and to never cease trying to fulfill itt
Doubtless you have heard great deal
about the value of your smiles; but
do you know the value of your frowns?
I wish I could make you feel the value
OF your frowns and the Importance of
knowing just what to frown upon.
What man must do by blow, a wom-
an can do by frown. When the time
comes that the young man who now
shares his time in your society and the
saloon, who jokes about temperance in
your presence and takes a glass So
cially now and then, is made to feel
that these things cannot be if you are
to be his companion at party, ride or
church; that good society cannot toll
crate these things in its members: in
short. that this kind of a man is IN
fashionable and unpopular. then al
cohol will tremble on its throne. and
the liquor traffic will hide its cancerous
face.-Rose Elizabeth Cleveland. in
Presbyterian Banner.