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of the female sex who had been sent to
rcformatories were but girls. The fact
that it is far more difficult to reclaim II
woman from her drunken habits Than it is
to reclaim a man is too well known TO
need emphasis here.
Persons who nave had considerable
experience in the poorer localities of Lon
don IA well as in the tenement district Of
New York and in the w%Orkmen's sections
Of other American cities and who are there
fore able to give a comparative opinion in
respect to American saloons and British
public houses say unhesitatinEly that in
all respects the saloon on the other side
of the Atlantic Is superior to the British
public house. II is cleaner and it seldom.
II ever. presents the grimy appearance
which characterizas the ordinary public
house in the poorer districts on this side Of
the water
The best time to view the London public
house in all its glory. or it's shame, is on a
Saturday night, Both men and women are
then more or less we'll supplied with money
which a large number Of them freely dis
tribute at the particular public house which
they affect Such "A place il crowded to
suffocation with a motley and it must be
said u generally uncleanly throng of men
and women and even Of boys and girls.
The so-called private bars are a distinctive
and a peculiarly Objectionable feature OF the
London public house. The bars are merely
narrow boarded partitions opening to a
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common counter and afford excellent facili.
ties for women TO drink, TO some extent
shielded from the public gaze.
The ventilation of these bars il made
Quate, indeed execrable; the heat is very
great. as the poor insist that the temporal
Nre should he high and prope sanitary
arrangements are conspicuous by their
absence. The result is that the atmosphere
is stuffy and almost suffocating, which
combined with the PROVIDED state of the bars
is especially conducive to the contracting
and the spread of disease,
English women, and perhaps London
women more than women in any other
part of the country, are probably the only
members of their sex in the world who
will shlmelessly and unblushingly stand
at the bar Of a public house and drink. OF
course. Americans who ave visited the
districts of London in which the poor most
do congregate have been greatly struck
10y this feature Of London slum life.
Jack London in some sketches he made
a few years ago Of life in the East End of
London mad reference to this matter.
and Tim Sullivan even, when he paid a
visit to London in the summer OF 1876.
Expressed himself disguised With the brazen
manner in which English women Of a certain
class drank at the public bars.
1t is not only women Of the lower classes,
coster girls and factory workers and wives
of laborers who drink in public. but those
who may be termed entirely respectable
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are subject is due TO the abuse Of spirit
drinking.
Unfortunately Great Britain occupies
an unenviable position so far as the con-
sumption OF alcoholic beverages is con-
cerned. Perhaps the people of this country
are not so greatly addicted TO strong drinks
as was formerly the case, but the situa-
ton in this respect is still melancholy.
The report of DR.. Brathwaitc, inspector
@. ;nsbriate homes for a part of England,
which was issued a few weeks ago. affords
"A striking confirmation Of this statement.
To such homes are committed for a term
of years, as a rule for not less than two
wear rs, those persons who have shown
themselves to he incorrigible ~drunkards.
Individuals, too. who are conscious that
they lack the s~elf-control necessary TO
keep them from drink, can commit them
selves to these homes.
The report of DR.. Brathwaite testified
that drunkenness was lamentably common
in Great Britain and that on the whole
the vice exhibited few If any signs Of de-
crease. The most pitiful and in many
respects the most sinister and ominons
part OF the report WAS that which referred
to the female inmates of inebriate homes.
Female inmates mt the time the report
was issued outnuinbered male inmates
in the proportion of more than three TO
one. Further, il was shown that alcohol
ism began at a much earlier age than
formerly and that many Of the member
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One Of these, most delightful. who
summed up in himself a whole section of
the Midi, drove about with delicious nom
chalance. Had there been anything un-
pleasant during the previous night, the
night of greatest rioting; had there been
any real disturbance of the city's accus-
toned calm2 Oh. no; except for those who
sought excitement.
To he sure, there was always a chance for
them anywhere. AS for Mister CoachInan,
he went home about dinner time in the
evening and remained there till noxt day,
CONNIE d'hdbitude. and found most of his
neighbors living also as usual.
Couldn't he hurry his excellent horse a
litsle so as to Permit a more complete view
Of the environs of his delightful town, the
largest in the Midi. of Montpelier? His
horse was veritably A good one, far ahead
Of any drawing a carriage plying for hire
even in guise Of a private carriage in Paris.
Most certainly he could, but then Monsieur
or Madame would I've unable TO see, or If to
soc then unable to appreciate. the beauties
Of Montpelier and It's surrounding valleys
of verdurc. of forest and Of vines.
An excellent cocher this. tied up in the
TpbJTicteu DTetlilClS VI NhOlitHtllVl' NV
like the coach drivers of older times, an eX-
ronent only of his class, experienced in
giving travellers just what they wanted TO
hear. but thoroughly one of the reople OF
this community who had been misrepre-
santcd ~ rcody to go To n extremity OF
revolt. He would Ike to have bu siness
better. but in no way intended TO have the
r~eGceful routine OF Ms oily life interfercd
with by the perfectly natural processes Of
unequal seasons or unequal distribution Of
business.
Surely | will willingly hasten, Monsieur,
Madame. but remember you will see less Of
the beauties of the countryside of our cx-
cellcnt city"
EDEN IN THE PYRENEEs SHADOW.
. But the beauties Of the Htrault, of Mont
pellier. are as naught to the natural attrac-
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II is a satisfactory sign that public opinion
in England has so far been aroused as to
clamor for legal methods to put an erd
to children entering public houses. I'm
fortunately the evil will be only scotched,
not killed. So long as the custom con-
tinues to prevail of women drinking in pub
lie houses. just so long will the harmful
effects Of the habit be exhibited in the rising
generation.
a year ago put the situation in a nutshell
when he said: The drunken woman whose
duties are supposed to be domestic Is a
particular curse TO the community. be-
cause she has not the check upon her that
is applied in the case of "A man by the ordi-
nary discipline of labor. and because her
children suffer in ~ appalling A~y physi-
The assertion may he made that drunk
enness is common among a certain part OF
the female population OF london and of
other large British cities. and that this form
of drinking IL almost the greatest curse
which exists in Great Britain Although the
theory is no longer held that the alcoholic
faint can be transmitted from parents to
children, yet II Is known that the children
Of drunken parents are invariably of q
high strung. nervous n%eurotio disposition,
predisposed to the Use Of alcohol and peCul-
iarly susceptible 10 its injurious action.
The hopeful phase Of the situation is
that the leaders of thought in all the pro-
fessions in England have become alive to
tie menace involved in the drinking habits
Of some British women and will use their
best efforts to stop the evil.
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women think il no shame to drink and
gossip in the public house. In fact, the
private bar has come TO be generally re-
glrdei as a convenient place in which GRO
MES of the female sex may foregather to
exchange the local news and scandal, while
Mt the same time they may refresh them
selves with the beverage they prefer.
1t goes without saying that women who
drink must neglect their children and home
duties. Unlike the man, who often has
perforca 10 keep sober for fear Of losing
his work, the woman is under no SUPER
vision.
She may neglect and starye her children
ana in many instances not be interfere
with. The degeneration OF the British
race, concerning which 80 much is heard
nowadays, is due to city life and the vices
which such life brings in it's train, and
mon these vices drinking among women
is conspicuous.
For a long time little or no notice was
taken by the lay OF the medical press or
by medical men OF the increasing habit of
public drinking by British women. Now
and then an outspoken person would de-
claim against the evil, but his voice was
as one crying in the wilderness" II
seemed as il people were afraid and ashamed
to lay bare such a blot, and the subject
was ignored.
Iatterly the question has become so
serious hat IL has absolutely thrust itself
upon the attention Of public and scientific
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peal on the keynote Of distress is never
made in vain. Ifpersonal interest heightens
susceptibility to this call the response is
likely to be correspondingly accumulated.
This was the case in the Midi. with the adj
ditional factor Of the spontaneous gen.
crosby characteristic Of the warmblooded
Meridionaux.
The Departments of Herault and Gard,
on the northeast, and Of the Pyrenees ORR
entales on the south. whose wine industry
languished even az did that Of Aude, were
keen to spring to the aid Of distressed
brothers. The people Of these three De-
partments were not seated on the edge Of
suffering as we're those Of Audc, for they
were not 30 exclusively viticultural, but
their prosperity through the cultivation Of
the grape was at a low ebb. Succor for
the Aude's wine industry would disseminate
its soothing beneicenoe among them.
The call to come over into Aude and help
met an instantaneous response. Meetings
were organized. Leaders were selected
The politicians. who in France are quite as
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have been elaborated in the description
by the excellent journalists. Behold! here
is the prefec ,ure, which was set afre four
times in -four places on the same night.
Where is the mark Of all this damage?
Vertically you need be wise to find the
smudge of the incendiary's smoke
And 80 il was. Not so much as a mark
remained on the prefecture building Of the
awful attempts of the aroused inhabitants
of this section OF the Midi.
And was there likelihood. was there
desire upon the part OF the inhabitants,
of an uprising against the central Govern
ment at Paris? All around market women
and men. who were said to be the worst
of the manifestants. were selling ~artichokes,
fat and juicy to a degree that ought to
make Mouquin buy better qualities. And
the people said in smiling self-indulgence
"Ah, we Galatians, we talk much, but we do
little"
And terrible as may he the Galatians when
aroused. and as their history shows. they
are not aroused as a people now; they
merely went to the aid Of their less fore
sighted brothers.
CAUSE OF II CRISIS.
And what brought about this Midi crisis?
The answer is altogether too long and too
complicated to give in a paragraph or to
give exhaustively in a volume. But with
a little attention the reader may obtain a
better understanding Of it's essentia features
than is to be derived from the necessarily
brief cable dispatches which have chron-
icled the Midi's demonstrations, and a
better comprehension even than large
numbers Of the Meridionaux have them
selves.
The Midi was prosperous. II was prodi-
gal. The wine Of its vineyards was sold
at a good profit. n a few days labor gave
a years plenitude.
The phylloxera came and destroyed the
vineyards. That part Of the story is old
and need not be repeated. The Government
helped the distressed Midi. California
vines were imported and they are cultivated
yet, not. as fond Americans would fain be-
lieve. to grow grapes for producing wine.
but for purposes Of grating with a view
to reinvigorating the native stock.
In those days before the phylloxera Of
1875 the Midi drank its wine and was happy
without intoxication. There was so much
wine that great quantities were distilled
and the resulting cognac was drunk also in
the Midi.
After he misfortunes of those years
there was no wine for distillation and little
to drink. The Midi itself took to absinthe
and then to beer. but mainly to absinthe.
although the quantities Of both these bever-
ages consumed in the Midi are
With Government aid the Midi again
prospered in its wine growing. but it did
not return to its former habits OF wine
drinking. In the meantime a change
was coming over the habits of the people
of France.
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or gone so far, and TO subside gradually into
habitual calm .w8s cosy.
In the most northerly Department, Gard
the nearest to Paris. where the people read
more newspapers and think more. theie
was never at any time real trouble. In
Herault, the most important of the De-
partments, with the largest city. Mont
pellier, such trouble as there was was
caused. chiefly by hoodlums. although the
troopers eNasperated many by Needless
and needless disregard for the citizens
rights.
After trarersing these Department Is, to
enter into the Department Of the Pyrenees
Orientales is to behold the realm where
nature herself, the arch coquette, invites
to all the sweet enjoyments Of Andalusia,
Of Granada. with a flip which south of
the PyrGnees is wanting; thus men say
when analysing their sensations on a re-
turn from Spain. With the Gard, where
there is no trouble beyond a Business de-
preston, and where, knowing that, the
people are prepared, as in America, to look
out for themselves, one has passed a terri
tory where common sense reigns. In
the Herault one has seen struggling com
mon sense ~triumphant. In the Aude one
has seen all the misery tnat the Midi can
display, and it must be said that most Of
that misery is to be found in verbiage put
at the disposition of INSCRIPTIONS poll
tic,ans
NO REVOLT, SAYS THE WISE CoACHMAN.
Even in HGrault the people are more IN
teTested in pointing out the beauties of
their country than in explaining upon their
misery. Coachmen are about asprompt az
any to detect "A falling off in locai pros
pcrity. The coachmen were az busy as they
ever want to br-and there has been NJ
influx of strangers into the Midi, either:
quite the contrary-and the coachmen
were more interested in indllging them
selves continuously. as from habit, in tho
enjoyment Of their countryside than in
charging upon the distress Of the wine
growers,
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ions Of the Pyrenees Orientales. The very
railway itself, unpoetic in it's natural rigidity,
seems to caress the limpid shores OF the
Mediterranean on the one hand, while with
the other it reaches like a patriarchal lover
toward the blue seductive Pyrenees-en-
comprising in one magnificent embrace
tine giories and the charms Of a world meant
for happiness and plenty.
The whole landscape smiles. The people
are happy as the livelong day. Eat? They
can cat as Sir Toby could drink aye. and
drink so, too, while there is a passage in
! their threats and wine in Illyria, which is
10 say, the Pyrenees. For there is food in
plenty, and wine TO accompany it-yes. and
money to buy it at the cafes; beer and abb
sinthe to give by contrast a relish to the
vinous beverages Of the n~eighboring fields
which il TO the inhabitants
than water TO a Yankee farmer.
And they are proud Of their abundance,
are these people of P%erpignan. The town
is full of Tartarins. Will Tartarin acknowl-
edge that his Department is suffering?
Never. Look about and you cannot doubt
! even Tartarin.
But he is lovely in the freshness of his
braggadocio. Time nor age can stale the
inventiveness, the pride. the confident
view of the ever living Tartarin- and he
lives as well under the towering shadow
of the blue, snowcapped Pyrenees as he
does on the easterly side OF b Rhone's
mouth.
Tartarin, the most modern and progressive
Tartarin of them all-did he not have rubber
tires on his carriage, the only carriage in
all PerpigDan which boosted these novelties
of a twentieth century c~ivilization? Tar
tarin from a tentative beginning developed
himself quickly till he was able to boast
that under the Pyreneean wings which
folded and expanded themselves in shelter
ing care over the people of his Department
were grown all the fruits and vegetables
of Africa and of France, all indeed that the
world held good. We're the kindly fruits
and vegetables of the earth that northern
n~eighbors prayed their God to preserve to
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them till the harvest time also grown under
the Perpignanian sun?
Why, there Ia no land but Tartarin'sl
Who knows, who cares, who dreams OF sught
misguided outlanders may think is good
just because it springs up In their styf
Are the people Of the Pyrenees OrientaIes
poor and suffering? Has building ceased
among them2 Are they hungry Neverl
They have not set their fields with vines
to the exclusion of other products.
They are gardeners largely. They live
we'll and gayly. New buildings are going
up rapidly here in Perpignan, the chief
city OF their region.
Why have these Pyreneeans turned in
their lot with the people Of the more north
ern am lesG Wise Midis Tout supplement,
Monsieur. they are our brothers; we go to
syIupathize with them. Why not? Blu
iudoei we do not suffer. We have To ea'
ans 10 drink. 1t is only the vulgarians
who dospise the law who have attempted
to burn the prefecture and their efforts
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indefatigable as and much less stable than
those Of Tammany Hall or any other VOL
organized American political machine, saw
their opportunity and joined forces with
the industrial population.
Clemenceau had held power too long.
Socialists, monarchists, clericals, each had
grievances enabling a rapprochement
with a common destructive end. however
different might be their several methods of
reconstruction. That political machina-
ton profited by the economic dyspepsia Of
the Midi is i~ndisputable. That the enthu-
siastic hordes of excitable MeridionauX
didn't know that they were being exploited
is equally beyond cavil.
The remarkable demonstrations by hun
dreds OF thousands in the principal towns
of the four Departments of which the world
knows were the esult. Word was sent
broadcast hat the people we're starving,
yet to the establishment of the world these
people instead Of improvising weapons and
attacking the breadshops ~oompassed or
derby pilgrimages in astounding numbers
and cried please" where their power might
AVE wrought ruin, revolution.
DREAM ENDED IN BLooDsHED
Amazed at their own success, misled by
the specious exhortations Of deluded lead
ers and the more reprehensible instigations
of political charlatans, the people worked
themselves into the belief that by a sort
Of laying on of hands the Government
could cure instantaneously a deep rooted
disease. II not they would have none of
the Government, albeit they failed to
recognize that refusal to carry on relations
with the central authority at Paris was
tantamount to secession.
They wanted to show their resentment.
to live their own lives and to force the
Government 20 enable them TO live IA they
had always lived, but they imagined that
this could he accomplished without seced-
ing from the republic, which they hadn't
any real intention or desire TO do. The
bloodshed at Narbonne, probably caused
through mistaken severity on the part OF
mo n troops. riddled their dream and
left them Gazed upon awakening.
Deplorsble as il was. this bloodletting
marked the beginning Of the end Of serious
difficulties. II gave people time 20 Thin
Of the i%gnominious flight OF him whom
they had dubbed Apostle, "Eedcemcr.
"A small wine grower and cafe proprietor
OF the village of .Areeliers, a hamlet OF
100 people.
He had been acclaimed az a leader OF
men. He proved to be more facile in Light
than glib in oratory. The people soon
dropped hir from his pedestal. althougl
g~rudgingly relinruishing their. idea that
one whom they had taken 80 warmly tc
their hearts must I've worthy OF "A higher
place.
from the day that hude and Narhonne
woke up the other DEPARTMENTS lesseneC
their interest. None had suffered no much
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BABIES In LONDON SALOONS
IN tSE or THE DRINK EVIL THAT
GFTES ALARM ~ ENGLAND.
Nov 10 Prevent Childrcn From Drink
Ing at Public Bars Alcoholism Among
women I'm LondOn- Evils Of Private
Bars and Plans 20 Remedy Them.

LONDON, July Physicians by no means
agree in regard to the action OF alcohol
on the human system. In the London
Lancet a few weeks ago a number oil the
Lest Nuown British physicians published
a manifesto, expressing their opinion that
in certain circumstances. n when used
With due discretion. alcohol was beneficial
& man.
This statement came somewhat as a
bombshell and has given rise to an acrimoni-
GUS discussion among some Of the leaders
Of the medical world. IL may be asserted
nevertheless that the trend OF scientific
opinion is in favor OF total abstinence and
hat the greatest authorities now hold
the view that there are few cases OF disease
IN which the employment OF alcohol is
Serviceable.
Itany rate. opinions are altogether unani-
nous that excess Of alcohol il injurious
to man in the highest degree and that much
oF the physical and moral degeneration
and degradation to which civilized races
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-08-16
SPAIN FAR BEHIND NATIONS.
iiiitsrscy Prevails There TO . Nest
Amazing Extent.

OF the 20.o0o.OOO people inhabitlng
Spain. only about 3s per cent can
read and write: another two and one.
half per cent. Of the population can
read without being able 10 write. but
the remaining s2M per cent are alb
aolute Illiteratea. In the south of
Spain It Is impossible 90 get a serv.
ant who can read and write, and
many OF the postmen are unable 10
tell TO whom the letters they carry
are addressed. They bring bun.
die OF letters 20 house and the
owner looks through them and takes
those which are Cor which he thinks
are) addressed TO him. The Spanish
postmen are not paid by the state.
the recipient Of the letters have TO
remunerate them according to the
amount Of their correspondence. and
each letter costs the addresses at
least one cent. II Is q joke among
the easy-going Spaniarda that he who
treats the postmen best receives the
most letters whether they are in.
tended for him or not
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FEARFUL BURNING soREs.
Bey IN MissFy " Years-Eezsma In
Rough scales, itching and IN.
hamed-Cured by cutleura.

*Cuticura has put n stop 10 twelve
years of misery passed with my son.
A. an infant ! noticed ON his body a
red spot and treated same with differ.
ent remedies for about Ave years. but
when the spot began TO act larger I
put him under the care OF doctors.
Under their treatment the disease
spread to four different parts % his
body. During the day IL would get
rough and form like scales. Al nlEht
IL would be cracked. infianed and bed.
y swollen. with terrible burning and
itching. One doctor told me that M
sons eczema was incurabie. and gave
Il mp. decided TO give cnticura trial
When had used the first box 81 Cuti-
cura Ointment there was a great Inn.
proyement, and BY the time ! had used
the second set OF Cuticura Remedies
my child was cured. He Ii now twelve
years old. and his skin II az fine and
smooth as silk. Michael steinman. I
Sumner Avenue. brooklyn. n. T.. April
i0. 1906"