The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-24

which occur annually from tuberculosis
three-fourthS are ascribed to alcohol
ism. AS for the insane asylums, they
are filled with inVeterate drunkards.
1t is further said that alcohol is fed
regularly to many children, piece of
bread being placed on a plate, then
alcohol poured over it as a substitute
for butter or molasses. This condition
OF affairs is causing serious alarm
among the earnest people of France,
who are forming temperance societies
all over the country in an attempt to
combat the habit of drinking. Fore
most among temperance organizations
is the French union, which, besides
publishing two temperance papers for
distribution among children, has OBJ
tanned permission from the minister of
public instruction to hang temperance
mottos and quotations on the walls of
the elementary schools, and from the
minister of wharf.-the right to prohibit
the sale of alcohol in army canteens.
Arrayed against this sentiment are the
wine merchants, with powerful eorpor-
at1onS back of them. Not content with
attempting to weather the temperance
campaign, the wine dealers are con-
Quoting an active propaganda in the
interests of a continued and even in
creased consumption of alcohol.
You can buy your way now among
the seats of the mighty, says an Eng
lish society scribe, in two ways, and
both are expensive. You can contrib
ute largely and ostentatiously to GER
tain modish charities, or you can play
bridge for such high stakes as to make
you welcome in the most exclusive
drawing rooms of the gambling and
racing set. The latter proceeding
makes you more popular, for there is
nothing certain kind Of twentieth
century woman enjoys so much as
winning money from her friends and
acquaintance. Stout lethargie per-
sons, however, who do not like mental
strain, late hours and hot rooms, ir-e
variably adopt the charitable scheme
for getting on socially, and it is these
unfortunateS who are the legitimate
prey of the most fantastic schemers,
begging letter writer's, foreign piano
forte players and all the tribe who live
on the Charitable rich. The bridge
player, however much she may lose,
has at least some amusement for her
money, and she becomes more init
mate with the people she wants to
know than the mere subscriber to
charitable lists. But excessive card
playing is fatal to Womans beauty
and freshness, and in the end it alters
the expression of the features. The
looks of more than one beauty have
seriously deteriorated since the rise of
the bridge mania, and over the en-
trance to the gaming rooms at Monte
Carlo might be written the words,
'Renounce all hope of remaining beau
tiful, all We who enter here"
medical journal has just come out
with a timely plea, which will prob
ably have no effect whatever, on the
danger of being in earnest. The paper
refers NOT n those dana rt of fo
in which earnestness is universally adj
mitted to be desirable but to those
pursuits and exercises which are sup
posed to be taken UP merely for recrea-
ton. Here, where it is not wanted
and where it aceomplishes infinite
harm, the passion for excellence as
sertS itself, and that which is taken
up as a recreation becomes a danger
Gus excess. The journal pleads In par
ticular for moderation in the pursuit
of golf, but motoring would have sup
piled an even better text.
A good many women, it is said, are
returning to the custom of their grand
mothers and preparing their own cos
metics and hair washes. This leads to
an immense saving in these necessary
extrava gances, and also insures the
use of perfectly pure ingredients. 1t is
also said to be a simple method of
economy, the only necessary properties
for the manufacture of gallons and
gallons of exquisite washes, guaran-
teed to insure perpetual youth and
beauty, being medium sized still and
a gas stove, since gas is more easily
regulated than coal or wood fire.
The smallest village in Great Brit
ain, and perhaps in the world, is
place called Bagley Wood, about four
miles from Abingdon. 1t was original
ly the abode of a hermit, who departed
when some one insisted upon being his
neighbor. But this unsociable first in
habitant seems to have left a spell
upon the place. for though many have
since settled there temporarily few
have stayed any length of time, and
the village now has only four inhah-
itants.