The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-03-17
|SAYS DRINK HABIT
GREAT MENACE OF
AMERICAN WOMEN
Club Worker Urges Them to AS
sist in Rescuing Fair Sex
From Peril.

New York, March 1.-THE time has
come when u men must rise up and
rescue women from the cocktail habit
Liquor drinking among women has
grown until 1t now presents q very SEE
rious state of AFFAIRS"
Mrs. Gabrielle Stewart Mu1liner, law
yer, officer OF many women's clubs and
author of the movement now advocat-
ing a separate our for wonnen made
the above plea at a secret meeting OF
Sorosis.
"This time Of year. said Mrs. Multi
ner. ''one hears much talk of women'S
broken down nerves. It has been q
hard social season. they say, and the
rest cure Is the natural order OF things.
believe. however, the large number
Of fashionable sanitariums would be
entirely eliminated, or at least greatly
diminished, IL the excessive use OF stim-i
ulants were not the fashionable order
OF the day.
"a few hours OF healthy sleep after
an evening Of dancing and one Is res
few hours to recover from h effects
of the champagne served with that
dance.
"Tea" Merely a Misnomer.
MANY women get their first taste OF
liquor at the so-called afternoon teas.
I have seen women disgustingly under
the influence of liquor after attending
Vi " - ~ PallSi e kOuA Ala0
been referred to by men as a pretty
stiff drink
IA woman who attends. say q
luncheon, a reception n a tea In an
afternoon, and drinks a cup or two OF
punch at each place, will feel its effectsa
by the time she starts for home.
II never noticed so nue. drinking
among women as I have this winter.
Last week I saw a handsomely
gowned woman carried out of q train,
plainly under h influence OF liquor.
The subway guards told me that they
recently with well-dressed women.
THE trouble Is partly due to the Free
dom and independence with which
women deal with themselves in TAX
ing stimulants to keep up their work.
But drinking Is much more extensivet
among the idle classes of women
1T has become a well-established
habit for women to drink cocktails.
It Is thought the mart thing to do.
When 1t Is known thai a woman of the
fashionable set serves two or three
wines with her luncheons others fol-.
low to show that they ran do the same
thing.
"If Mrs. Clarence Mackay, for in
stance, would sanction dinners without
wines, she would lead in the temper
ance cause exactly as she leads In the
suffrage cause, for others would follow
ltA>i "a EVOoia pS
ionable."
Thinks Suffrage Would Help.
Wouldn't woman's entrance into poll
itics If she gets suffrage. help to ag-
gravate the present drinking habit
among women? Mrs. Mulliner was
asked.
NO" she replied quickly, II believe
suffrage would lessen the evil. Think
ing women engaged in the big and act
I've affairs Of life know that a clear
brain is needed to accomplish results.
And women entering politics would see
this very plainly.
1.-THE political education now being
given to women through the various
suffrage lectures are the finest thing
that can be done to uplift the whole
plane Of woman.
For years the slogan of the w. c..
T. u. has been against man and drink,
at least that is the way we were
pleased to put it. But I believe now
that the shoe is on the other foot. I
believe 1t Is high time that the men
should demand prohibition for women,H