The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-06-06
w. CT. U. COLUMN.
CONDUCTED BY MRS. NJ. l.. HOBBS.


MISS IinIing, 0t LONDON, uives Some
Facts About Topers Of the Fair Sex.
"Our women drink a great deal
English women are drinking far
more than they used to, and by the
statistics culled from British death
reports, it is seen that women are
going to the bad from alcoholism
faster and in greater proportion than
men.
think drinking among women
in our country is due greatly to the
granting Of licenses to grocers.
English grocers have been licensed
for some forty years. The action
was taken in the first place as a
temperance measure. 1t was
Thought that if there were more
places where people could get light
wines there would be a noted de-
crease in the sale OF stronger liquors
and the public houses would not be
so freely frequented. The grocer's
license is big fallacy. 1t did not
make bit of decrease in the sale
of stronger liquors, and it did not
make the least whit of difference
in the attendance at public houses
and bars. 1t has led to heavy
drinking among the middle and
upper classes. The women OF these
classes 60 to the licensed grocer and
carry away under their own capes
bottles of brandy and whisky, TAX
ing the liquor in their carriages to
their homes, and here charging the
purchase OF the intoxicants to such
things as candies and groceries, SO
as to keep their husbands in the
dark regarding their wives free
use Of intoxicating liquors.
English ladies get into the prac-
tice Of drinking while doing their
shopping. In the candy shops
those confections called by the
English "booze sweets" are sold in
quantities to children. AT enter
tainments sponge cake soaked in
alcohol is served. 1t is no uncom-
mon thing, in fact, a most usual
sight-to see women enter bar
rooms in England for their liquor.
These are not the lower classes OF
women, either, but well dressed,
handsome and talented women.
They 90 into these bars with their
husbands. Young girls 60 in alone.
Mothers 60 in for drink, carrying
their babies in their arms.
l am sure that the employment
Of women bartenders is one prime
cause for this unusual drunkenness
among English women. With a
woman serving the liquor it has be-
come most natural for women 10
enter the barrooms and ask one OF
their own sex to serve them. l
recommend, both in this country
and in England, that all White
Ribboners and others refuse to buy
their supplies from licensed grocers'
Miss Tinling said she most thor
oughly believed in individual work
among inebriates. She told OF
Lady Somerset's colony for the re-
|demo,ion OF inebriate women a,
|Duxhurst, England. She told oi
1.-The mode Of living as adopted there
and Of the duties the patients per.
Horned out in the bright sunshine,
whore their thoughts were not 81
lowed to run free riot with theil
progress in the course Of treatment
The sad sequel to this, England
greatest shame, is that Christian
|America, the bright star Of hop'
that shown with such promise q
|one time, is fast following England
lin this downward drunken debauch
What has been said Of England il
literally true Of America to-day. II
this the great cities have led, while
the smaller cities in their order are
fast taking up the habit. Citizens
|of America, let US ask what is to b
Tho outcome if we are to see thu
women Of our land, in the proper
|tion which the male sex have been
debauched by drink? What is thu
hope Of the generations OF the future
ilif the mothers Of America and the
world, is to have, as liquor will Ger
|tainly do for her a. it has for thous
lands and millions Of men, sunkel
them below the level Of the beast
Think Of the mother OF the future
Ia bloated, drunken, diseased Great
|ture, with her system saturated
every pore Of the body, blood &c!
and brain tissue filled with alcohol
becoming the mother Of the chi!'
which is to make this world whs
God intended. II. as il lie true Q
this, the present generation, tha
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