The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
WOMAN'S APPEAL TO WOMEN
Her Influence Is Great in Moldins
chIId's Character for Good or III
DO Something.

| DO leW OF our Well-lO-uO WOlueu beSh
to realize how greatly intemperance
| Is increasing in their own ranks. Most
of them can say that they know one
case OF lady who takes more alcohol
than is good for her, but they believe
this Is almost d solitary case, and that
! the habit cannot be at all usual The
writer can say that in the course OF
five days, from different sources, she
| heard of four cases in the town In
| which she lives, all Of whom we're far
removed from the working classes, and
! two Of them were moving in good so
clety, says a writer In Temperance.
! One had appeared at party in state
! of intoxication, with her husband In
the same condition. they were people
/ who were In good circumstances. An
| other of the four, while In an intoXi-
Gated condition, fell over her little
| girl Of three years and broke the
chllds leg and otherwise injured her.
| In the same place, two ladies' (mar-
| ried women, near neighbors, put an
end to their lives through the effect
Of alcohol on their brains; further,
three ladies', living in houses of high
rent in the same town, close togeth-
| er, were known to have died from the
| effects of strong drink. There are
many, very many, who are not what
| they might and ought to be, because
| the alcoholic drink which they take,
/ though It does not apparently intoxi-
/ cate them, is undermining their ply
sical, their mental, and their nervous
| power. The writer has often been
told: Il am obliged to take alcohol for
my health's sake; | cannot get on
without It; | tried more than once
! three months, and had TO take 1t
again" A lady doctor said, when ad.
dressing a meeting recently, that three
months was no test; at the end Of six
or nine months people would feel the
benefit Of abstaining, and would find
| that they could do well without stim-
| ulants. We women could do so much
to save those of our own class, If we
| took a little trouble to get more knowl-
edge on the subject of the evil eff
fects of alcohol on the body and then
| tried to pass the knowledge on.
That people often show unwilling
ness to listen to anything on this sub
| ject seems to prove that even most
moderate indulgence in alcohol has
taken a hold upon them which they
shrink from casting off, They have
learned to like it, and to depend on its
narcotsing powers, and the thought
Of doing without II is not a pleasant
/ one They are the more concerned with
the momentary enjoyment than with
its ultimate consequences. A very
. large number Of doctors, who have
taken the. trouble to study the sub.
ject. have come to the conclusion that
alcohol does mischief and not good,
except in extreme cases, when used
as o drug. They say that mothers who
take it not only njure themselves, but
also their unborn babes, and 90 on to
do sull more harm to them if taking al.
cohol when nursing them. Many will
say that they doubt this, for they
have brought up children and nursed
them on stout, and they are healthy
and not inebriates This may be true,
but the doctors tell us that though
stout increases the flow OF milk the
quality is impoverished
! A study of the subject could not but
convince anyone wishing to do the
best for their babies that they would
be wise to leave alcohol alone. But,
! apart from yourselves and your chill.
dren, have you any care for or duty to-
those who are falling into intemper.
ate ways around you? Cannot you
by example and by helping to form
public opinion on the matter do some
thing to stem the tide Of female in.
temperance? How will It be by-and-by
when the Judge Of all asks you, What
did you do to stop the evil?" win the
reply have to be, 81 liked it, and was
not unseldsh enough to give II up in
order to help a sister, May 1 tell you
that It is an unselfshness which brings
its own reward in better health, better
nerves. better brain power, and a
consciousness that you are doing
right?
could point out to you that your
influence on the side Of temperance is
great, the greatest influence there is
for it is you who are closely related
to those men who fill high positions
as statesmen, clergy, doctors it is
you who give the first impressions OF
right or wrong to the child and mold
its character for good or i'll, and IT
is these impressions lasting through
life which affect the nation.
Christian women, call upon you tC
search into the matter, and on YOU
knees ask to be shown your duty. i
is a great work, and educated womer
can do more than anyone else to hell
It on. DO not let anyone say; IT
does not matter what do" If eaci
one said that nothing would ever b,
done. There Is something that eacl
one is meant to do, that can be done
by no one else. See to it that you TAX,
your part in the great whole, anC
you will not be without your reward.
Less Beer Being Drunk