New-York tribune., 1905-02-28
LIZZIE'S REFORMATION.
Christian Scientists Working to
Ouercome Her Passion for Drink.

Lizzie Arlington. Of Newark. who has practically
spent the last eleven years in jail for drunkenness
having been committed hfty-seven times by one
oourt alone during that period has been reformed
70 paths Of pleas asantness and peace The Christian
Scientists have done il. and candy and fruit were
among the agencies which they used They
also gave her absent treatments and lent her
Science ana Health with Key 10 the Scriptures.
fy the Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy.
Lizzie says she never wants 70 drink again.
q fact. she cannot imagine anything that would
sn6ucs her to take another drink.
~ the county jail. which she mas just left on
she completion Of d six months sentence as
confirmed inebrate. they shout with laughter at
fhe mention Of reformation and Lizzie Arlington
n the same breath.
She's corker." said several Of the employees
choking down their mirth. Why. four weeks last
summer she never let up her screaming and hol-
iering except for the few minutes she'd doze of
And she can swear beat any pirate
She's great on the Iairpin act, Is Lizzie NO
sooner does cop try 10 arrest her than shell out
With her hatpin and gouge il into him. anywhere
that comes convenient. II takes from four 10 SIX
husky policemen to manage her when she's got
jag on
Lizzie Arlington reformed2 You mark M
words. in Jess than week she'll tear things up in
that refined Christian Scientist home Were they've
taken her as a maid and she'll go on lark and
land here again. just the way she's been doing
these eleven years
Lizzie Arlington thirty-tWo years old At least,
that's what Judge Algernon T. Sweeney. who has
got himself appointed her guardian says But he
has only been judge in the lst Criminal Court, Of
Newark since August. At the jail where they
have known her for years they say she thirty
seven three years ago Anyway, eleven years of
dissipation and prison life have made Lizzie Airing
ION an old woman She looks sixty her hair is
gray: she is beginning TO be infirm in body Those
who know her. say that never more beauti-
ful face and hgure and finer clothes seen in
courtroom than May :. 1893 when Lizzie Airing
ton faced the judge for the first time
Lizzie Arlington was not always a drunkard.
Born OF decent Irish-American family in Morris
County. she moved with her people to Allentown
Penn, then came back to Newark as Mrs. Dietrich
the wife Of ironwCrker employed in Paterson.
j vas not TIL she was in her early twenties that
the drink hend began to get his grip her. At
the birth Of her child she very i-so i'll that
for six weeks she lay unconscious. life maintained
n her frame all only by the incessant admins
Iering Of whiskey. Lizzie Arlington emerged from
ihat hand TO hand grapple with death alive but
with the passion for drink ingrained in her nature
Even then she need not have gone the dogs so
a Is said, had her husband been patient with her
Ealing and helped her by tenderness and confidence
70 overcome H. Instead. he seems to have aban-
o.nso her in disgust TO her own devices.
. " ne' those devices were the police blotters in
1he various station houses of Newark tell plainly
az hsr record for 1892: Arrested March 2. sen
tb4rT7 a % thirty days. april g. sixty days: May
s,s dSyt July s. fined so (renlitted September s.
sAtN Gays; september = thirty days; No
T5tI y six months. assault and battery.
49,. 1fAngton Is not The first prisoner with
i.LLo-t ne Christian Scientists of Newark have
IeTIso. lee. Owing 10 the efforts OF George Mortimer
---1-..!llisck whose wife il Christian Scientist
80 I,uoner, several women and least man
-iIss been reformed
s.-serg Thursday Mr. McClintock is allowed to
i;t.I tAs lsll a door is opened admitting him
~ - Srateo cage The prisoners brought
eht:r cells snd placed behind thick screen.
e-S5ssh which hardly than their features are
sois The screen is twelve fifteen feet dis
80 80 rom the grated cage Thus. by long distance
,iesplSnt rs u We're. has Nr. McClntock
'leeo his spiritual education II Is said that three