The Dolores star., 1910-06-10

AlssmsWO Increase u cusesm AwseWG
WemeN u leisure I'D American
people ohould Take WARNING.

petttbOn has become % keeu that ~
cry line Of business n beginning 70
shut its doors absolutely 10 the drink.
ing man, and only men Of stsadfast
habits can md employment Thus.
while business competition 10 pro.
noting sobriety among men. among
woaaen 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
and liquors OF all kinds IL = matter OF
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 ID drink
ing that the situation 10 often source
Of embarrassment to the woman who
does not drink.
II history Ii philosophy teaching
by example," the American people
shoald take warning. for there Ii no
palmer lesson taught In the republics
Of history than that luxury. extravs-
gance. and immortality consequent up
an vast wealth In the hands Of few
are the certain forerunners OF decay.
The plain lesson Of history Il that
the last symptom Of national decline
Is found In womanly folly: corruption
msy spread far and wide and do much
harm In the community. but there IL
hope for both the church and the
state so long Ms the wives and moth.
ers. the daughters and the sisters 70
taia their moral integrity. When that
n gone all Is gone. Purity and worth
find their last retreat in the home:
n driven from thence they are doomed
10 die. and with their death perish the
prospects Of the land.
Mans ideal Of. what woman ought
20 BE- IL 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 characteriies him
he viii idolIxe her n she resists.
n sin seems blacker In woman than
in man n h simply because she h
by nature purer and has farther TO
fall. n man seems to condemn sin
in the woman more than In the man
he d paying to her, for that reason.
hts highest compliment.
lntoxicants ere dangerous enough 10
mca. 70 women they are especially
10. R0mulus sentenced women TO
death for intoxication - the begin.
ming Of unfajthfulness to the mar.
riagc VOW.
The lack OF moral balance and de.
fective will produced In the woman
by drink are more marked than In
the man. Woman's emotional organ.
isation IL more susceptible than that
Of man. hence the special danger Of
drink to the woman.
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
In drink seldom do.
That women drink ~ freely and FIRE.
quently a. the men Ia sight that you
can see for yourself In the fashionable
cafes In our great cities. where wealth
ahounds and beauty smiles. speak
from what have seen myself. dare
not trust myself to describe the things
] have seen among women young and
tender. upon whose more Impression.
able temperament and finer orEapsa.
tion the destroyer had taken Arm
hold. md among women no longer
young. but whose soul and sense were
dead long before their eyes were
cl0aed.