The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-13
DECLINE OF DRINKING.
LESS INHERITANCE AMONG
 MEN AND WOMEN.
Number of Courses at Dinners are Not So Great and Less Wine of All Kinds is Demanded.

anQOuQcemenl IudI incompetence IS 4Al
 creasing among women comes from {
 playwright. That is the chief novelty
 about the recent utterances of Bronson
 Howard.
 As has been said many times. any
 body who comes into contact with so'
 ciety women of the day knows that in
 diligence in liquor has not increased
 among them, but declined. They have
 learned that their health and beauty are to be kept only through sanitary living. ...=.-.s .....
 Indulgence in liquor is one of the first
 things that doctors nowadays prohibit
 Indeed, most physicians of the younger
 school are so rabid and uncompronis- ing on that point that the effect of theil advice is sometimes lost on patients.
 T can always tell at a glance" said one of the physicians who have many New York women Of social importance under their care. "the man or the wo- man who takes too much alcohol. Ii produces fat in nine cases out of ten and fat os a kind that is immediately recognizable. Bloat is the vulgar name for it, and that describes it accurately enough.
 Any woman who drinks to excess is going to show the first effects in that way. And the stout woman is now entirely out of the mode.
 Athletics are so common to the younger generation of women that they 2 have the advantage in retaining their figures over those who cannot indulge in these sports. So the others struggle by prudence in eating and drinking to keep as attractive in figure as their friends.
 They know that massage alone will not do this. nor will exercise by itself keep them down. They must give up fattening things, and women willing to do without bread. sweets and starehes are equal to abstaining from liquor. Cocktails. even though they be rather dry, are the most fattening drink a wo- man can take, and next to that come sweet champagne.
 Formerly women, and for that mat ter men, never knew what caused their troubles until after it was too late. But in recent years there has been such a spread of publicity on this subject that . the effects Of alcohol are now well un- derstood. 5
 Certain things are going to happen if people indulge in too much drink, and nowadays they know it. Formerly they did not.
 The general decrease in drinking during the past few years has had it's effect chiefly on the women, of the kind that MT. Howard spoke of, because they. more than any others. are com peled to guard against the results, that liGuor causes.
 The testimony of one expert at the head of aa institute for the treatment of the liquor habit, that the number of his women patients had increased dur ing recent years, has no bearing on the habits of women of fashion As mat ter of fact, there have been, during the past ten years. only three cases in which women that could rightly be nlaced among New York's smart set have been criticised for drinking too much, whether justly or unjustly it was not in every case possible to tell.
 One of them went to regular hospi- tai for that kind of treatment and as she remained there the time necessary for cure 1t was supposed she was taking one. In former years there was more talk of this kind heard about wo- men we'll known in society, but for at least a decade only three names have been mentioned in city gossip.
 & The increase in drinking" said the head of the institute visited by the Sun reporter. "seems to be the result in measure, of our prosperity and the re- sulting growth of the drinking on all H sides People go to expensive restau- rants now and order wine-usually champagne--Who would not have thought of drinking such thing de- cade ago. They have more money now and spend some of 1t in that way.
 Again. women find that they can order drinks in public without causing criticism. IL was an usual thing ten years ago to see TWO women lunching together order a cocktail Now they think nothing of it. nor does anybody who sees them.
 Unlike the women of the set MT. Howard criticised, these women havenot always been familiar with the effects of wine and drinking in general They are much more likely to go beyond the limit than women who have always seen wine about them, have had it on their tables. whether they dring it or not and are familiar with the harm if will do them, Such women are much less likely to go to extreme than those who come to look upon drinking as the accompaniment of every diversion and entertainment" <
 That men drink less in New York clubs than they did some years ago is reality that has made intoxicated | men in clubs rather a rarity. There are of course, men in every club who | take too much to drink, but they are exceptional. | < One reason for this change is the fact that men now frequent clubs in the l largest numbers before dinner, The | most popular hour in the clubs is be- | tween 5 and 6:30. as most men are go- ing afterward to dinner, and they must restrain themselves. l..
 During recent years only one man has been discussed in New York from his habit of becoming intoxicated in public. He became so notorious on that account that he was no longer invited No Dessert l hK 10