Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-03-09
WORK FOR GIRLS.
They Alone Can Make Wine Drinking
Unfnshionable and Aid Tenn
pernnce Cause.


]. G. Holland wrote in Mrs. Hayes
album these words; Women only can
make wine-drinking unfashionabl BILE, and
heal the nation of this CURSE
What did DR.. Holland mean by "wom.
en- only?" Is il true that only women
can make wine-drinking unfa shion able
and heal the nation of this curse? You
and need to know this first; because
only we women can do this thing,
why, 1t Is an awful respohsibilit upon
us, each one of us. And If some one
else can do 1t, we, like all others, would
ike TO give that somebody else the
Joo' 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
hing. She banished wine from ell
her entertainments, with Just one ex-
ception. Secretary Evarts made n
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
NJ Tor them to drink-not drop of
poison. 1t was too utterly queerI So
MRS. Hayes made one exception in ia
Tor OF those great foreign highnesses.
end only for once. Her conscience
hish-souLed woman that she was
smote her for that little cowardly COM
promise with wrong. She could bet
ter endure to have Secretary Evarts
and the Smiths ashamed of her, than
10 be ashamed of herself. So she oui-
city and forever after prohibited wine
from her table, and cheerfully en-
CURED the lifted eyebrows and shrugged
shoulders of the diplomats, British.
french, Russian, all, and the little
fnort-lived hiss of fashionable" soci-
ely until that hiss turned to a cheer.
ana fashionable society turned round.
IKE the spaniel 1t is, and trotted on
Dehind Its mistress. 1t became I'M
fashionable to serve wine and to offer
wine in fashionable society while Mrs
hayes was in the white house.
what Mrs. Hayes did in the white
mouse every woman can do in her own
home, II she viii. If the girls who
read these words will each of them. al
together, use their influence on the
soc OF temperance, thy can make tenn
perance fashionable where they are.
Will you do it?
zen. Grant did a manly thing in
refusing to drink wine everywhere and
IN all society. 1t is only strong man
VINO can keep his wine glass upside
oown-ln this case right-side up, too
while all the grand people around him
are slipping champagne and toastinp
each other In sparkling drinks. No
one can tell how ''far this little candle
sheds its light" But no man can do
for fashion in society what a woman
can: 1t Is women only, as DIR. Holland
said.
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 Won nos
sess to help or to hinder, the cause
OF temperance; to make you feel your
responsibility, because you are girls.
IN TINS matter; to shudder at its weight.
ahd TO never cease trying to fulfill It'll
doubtless you have heard a great deal
about the value of your smiles. bnt
90 you know the value of your froXvns2
! wish l could make YOU feel the vaIra
OF your frowns and the importance of
knowing just what to frowp unon
what man must do by blow. a WON
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
orally now and then, is made to feel
mat these things cannot be if YOU are
10 be his companion at party, ride or
church; that good society cannot toll
crate these things in its members; in
snort, that this kind of man is nm
fashionable and unpopular, then al
sShoi VIII tremble on its throne, and
tAe hquor traffic viii hide its cancerous
n Elizabeth Cleveland, in
Presbyterian Banner.