The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-02-24
BITTER WAR ON INTEMPERANCE
SOLDIERS FIGHTING THIS CURSE
GREATLY CHEERED.
"Just a little TOO Much Champagne"

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woman was arraigned in police
court yesterday. She had been ar
rested by q policeman the night be-
fore. She was alone on the street,
smiling foolishly and talking foolish
ly to herself.
The policeman guessed that she
was drunk, and guessed right. so he
took her to the station. despite her
protests that she was respectable, OF
a good family. and ought not to have
to submit to the indignity of arrest
When the girl was arraigned,
friends. who were also friends of the
magistrate. spoke in her defense.
They said she had been attending a
dinner party, had drunk a little too
much champagne. and had somehow
wandered out on the street and lost
her way
A delightful memory this police
court experience will be TO the wo-
man in after years. When she is
married and has children of her own,
how pleasant it will be TO recall that
once upon time she was arrested in
the street, and for drunkenness!
It Is likely that that little chapter
Of her life will be kent carefully from
her children, and from her husband.
TODAY the girl would be willing to
sacrifice all the dinner parties she
has attended or hopes to attend If she
could blot out that memory But
such memories do not blot out. 1t
viii remain with her to her grave.
and 1t will 1t is to he hoped. make
her pretty careful about the way she
hrings up her daughter. If she has
any.
Cocktail drinking and champagne
drinking. whether at parties or else
where. are very dangerous pursuits
for women.
Men are rapidly getting over the
idea that 1t is either manly or funny
to get drunk and behave like idiots.
But, disgusting as is a drunken
man, a drunken woman is ten times
more disgustinc
No man who has q mother likes TO
think of any woman being drunk.
No man. If he is human, can look
without ritv on the spectacle of
woman whose reason has been stolen
away by alcohol. and who. as did the
poor creature the policeman found
on the street, goes about smiling and
TALKING to herself like the inmate of
an insane asylum.
Let no one ever think that it is
smart or up-to-date for women to
drink.
Men viii tell you that they like to
see women who can drink a cocktail
or glass of champagne without ma
king faces over ii, but no man who
says that speaks the truth.
Ask the same man if he would like
to remember his mother as a drinker,
or II he would enjoy seeing his wife
drunk, and YOU will find out what he
really thinks.
Dinner parties at which champagne
IS served alike to men and women
are by no means confined to the very
rich.
In restaurants where cheap course
dinners are served 1t is the custom to
becin with cocktails, and to finish
with one or more strong liquors that
are equally Intoxicating.
In many families where the daugh-
ter's birthday partyto Coming out"
marty means a long period of saving
the foolish mother thinks that the
affair would not be comnlete without
champagne, and serves it.
If she happens to be rewarded bv
the sight of her daughter intoxicated,
she usually knows better the next
time.
Put II her daughter develops an ap-
netite for liquor, as many women do
the harm done bv the mother in try
ing to give a "smart" dinner can
never be undone
Drinking and cigarette smoking
are both decidedly unwomanly hab-
it's. Both ruin compilations and good
looks, besides giving men very queer
opinions of their victims.
Young girls especially should be
kent away from champagne and cock.
tails as they would be kept away from
exposure to any other dangerous dis.
ease.
No man who has ever seen a wo.
man drunk would permit any girl
under his protection to take even
harmless glass of champagne.
The blame for the condition of the
girl who went to the police court was
rot hers, but belonged to the man or
the woman who allowed her to drink.
And the police magistrate would
have proved himself far more worthy
TO All his position II he had made it
point to hunt down and rebuke
that person responsible, and give such
publicity to the rebuke that that per-
son would never again commit like
offense.-From an editorial by Ar
thur Brisbane, in the New York Even
ing Journal.