The Falls City tribune., 1910-06-17
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DRINKING is BANE OF NATION
Alarming Increase of Custom Among
Women of Leisure - American
People Should Take Warning.

business bars drinking men. Com
petition has become so keen that ey-
cry line of business is beginning TO
shut it's doors absolutely 10 the drink
ing man. and only men of steadfast
habits can find employment. Thus,
while business competition is pro-
noting sobrietv among men, among
women of leisure there has been with
in recent years an alarming increase
of the drink habit. The frequency
with which even respectable women
drink cocktails. whisky straight, wines
COMMON observation, and scenes that
shocked us ten years ago are now
passed by without comment. writes
Doctor Madison c. Peters in Chicago
Tribune. Indeed, so common Is drink
ing that the situation is often a source
of embarrassment to the woman who
does not drink.
If history is philosophy teaching
by example" the American people
should take warning, for there is no
palmer lesson taught In the republics
of history than that luxury, e%Xtraya-
gance. and immortality consequent up
on vast wealth in the hands of a few
are the certain forerunners of decay.
The plain lesson of history Is that
the last symptom of national decline
is found in womanly folly; corruption
may spread far and wide and do much
harm in the community, but there is
hope for both the church and the
state so long as the wives and moth
ers, the daughters and the sisters re-
tain their moral integrity. When that
is gone all is gone. Purity and worth
find their last retreat in the home;
if driven from thence they are doomed
to die, and with their death perish the
prospects of the land.
Mans ideal of what woman ought
to be is based upon his belief of what
she normally is-better than himself.
His own selfish desire is the chief fac
tor in dragging her down from the
| pedestal upon which he himself
placed her, and yet with that strange
inconsistency which characterizes him
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If sin seems blacker in woman than
in man it is simply because she is
by nature purer and has farther to
fall. If man seems to condemn sin
in the woman more than in the man
he is paying to her, for that reason,
his highest compliment. .
Intoxicants are dangerous enough to
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so. Romulus sentenced women to
death for intoXication as the begin
ming of unfaithfulness to the mar
riage vow.
The lack of moral balance and de-
fectiye will produced in the oma
by drink are more marked than in
the man. Woman's emotional organ
ization is more susceptible than that
of man, hence the special danger of
drink to the
The disastrous results of tipping
among women are already too we'll
known to physicians, and experience
shows that while men who drink oft
en- reform women who become victims
to drink seldom do.
That women drink as freely and fire.
quently as the men is a sight that you
| a see for yourself in the fashionable
cafes in our great cities, where wealth
abounds and beauty smiles. | speak
from what | have seen myself. dare
not trust myself to describe the things
| have seen among women young II
tender, upon whose more impression
able temperament and finer %organiza-
ton the destroyer had taken firm
hold, and among women no longer
young, but whose soul and sense were
dead long before their eyes were
closed.