The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1907-12-25


other letter on his recent trip to Eng
land.
The Diaholo Habit.
Mr.. Kelley says: England is at pres
ent suffering from a severe attack of
Diaoolo. One would assume that when
the national passion for ping pong
cooled, that they would cherish the
opportunity to embrace either some
substantial or hazardous sport; but Dia-
bolo has full sway and is considered COZ.
tagious from London to Rome.
| Addicted TO Tea Drinking.
After returning from England SIX
years ago felt constrained to comment
on the tea habit, but put it off in the
hope that they might outgrow it. Tea
is the national beverage in England. 1t
is as much part of the consumption
there as beer is in Milwaukee-and
more so. They know how to make good
tea and they seem to understand what
it is made for.
1t is tea for breakfast, tea for refresh
ments at IL o'clock, tea at lunch four
O'Clock tea, tea at dinner, q night-cap
OF tea, and if by chance person waxes
in the night potion of the steamlng
beverage is rushed to the bedside; tea
when they travel by land and by sea,
by day and by night, sick or well-they
never let up.
| [ don't mind so much q woman's be-
ing at the mercy of the habit, but it does
appear childish to see a big, strong
man when reaching a railway station
rush out of the carriage and nurse a cup
of hot mazawattee up and down the
platform.
But each nation must have, like the
| flag, it's drinks. Italy exclusively uses
wine. Wines for every meal, refresh
ment and lunch and wine when it's use
cannot be said to properly come under
any of these divisions. But it is more
than drink. 1t is unfortunately large
ly consumed as sustaining food in
Italy.
If Italy would cultivate the grape less
| and the child more, civilization would
expand where there is plenty Of room
and intoxication decrease where there
is profitable opportunity.
The Bar Maids,
The women, young and old, tend bar
throughout Europe, and particularly
is this observed in England. In view
of the fact that per capita consumption
of intoxicants in England is much be-
yond the average, it follows that the
occupation of the bar-maid is not en-
tirely che of form.
The situation as compared with in
temperate conditions ii the United
States presents opportunity for profta-
bic reflection. They contend in Eng
land that the identity of women at the
bar eIevates its standard, aud that less
corruption is manifested than in the
United States, where, in the absence of
women, vile language aud corrupt hab-
it's are less In check. That on account
of the women the bar, while being con-
sidered necessity, is looked upon as q
mercantile business, and is elevated to
a plane where respectable people may
openly patronize without fear either of
social ostracism or injury to reputation
or business.
This contention Is hardly true either
in fact, theory or result. English sem
sibilities are shocked at the graft and
speculation of the financiers. But
their practice is q speculation where,
instead of money, human souls are
placed at stake. Because they have
succeeded from the number of bar
maids employed q making the custom
both general and popular, it by no
means follows that the standing of the
bar has been elevated and purified.
Instead, society has lowered It's ideals
and tLlsrates civil conditions lower
still. They have substituted popularity
for p opriety. They acquiesce in the de-
struction of the highest asset on earth
the morals and ideals of women-be-
cause the extra rdinary number of
those engaged in the traffic makes it
popular. This can no more be Justly
done than can the itch be popular be-
cause the umI or of those affected Is
successfully increased. The evil is still
the same social ulcer ard moral para.
site.
Even in the high class theatre girls
are employed both as ushers and bar.
maids where intoxicants are freely dis.
pensed. They are generally employed
in so-calied restaurants, where meals
are served only to increase its ssloon
business; and am informed of women
engaged in pub bile instruction who coz
slider it no compromise of their position
to ''rush" the common "growler."
English society has long been won't
to sneer at the coarse and unpublished
manners OF the Americans, while su-
pinely tolerating a system at home
which stiles the very growth and puri-
ty of society itself. undermines the
home, lowers the ideals, palliates crime
bv making it popular and forces the