The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1911-06-08
U.COLUMN
Mrs Merrill Pipkin, Press Supt.

The Christian Work and Evange-
| list says. We are not alarmed at
among men, for, from careful study
of the facts, We believe that there
| has been decrease in drunkenness
/ in its vilest form. hut what We are
concerned over is the increase in
drinking among women and the
alarming custom of our business
men keeping themselves uyer-sttu-
ulated aud on the verge of breaking
point by the constant use of whisky
and cocktails. In these two things
there Is IA growing aud awful men
ace To our finest civilization Once
it was "A rare thing To- see women
drinking at dinners. one rarely
ever saw them drinking at hotels
aud woman would not think Of EN-.
tcrIug saloon. But all this has
changed to an alarming extent. Wo-
men not ouly drink cocktails before
dinners now in New York, but they
drink strong wines and much cham
Ipagne, and ii is no uncommon thing
to see them 50 flushed with drink
that they lose all sense of modesty
and say loose things that, bad
enough in men, sound horrible in
women. At one dinner party given
not many miles from here. the com.
Ipany being made up Of members of
society whose names many would
recognize, and who go to church on
Sunday, one of the women drank 81
indulgently that she ran from the
table and, in the presence of dozen
men, attempted to climb pillar In
the room, amid the clappings and
. cheering Of the drunken guests
Another woman had to be put in her
carriage at the close of this dinner,
and before the company had broken
p up they attempted to sing Il Chris.
, tan hymn, about which gathered
the t"nderest association Of years,
ito n comic opera tune. These Were
people who are received into uur So.
, called best society, and such actions
de- not bar them from social rccOg'
. milton.
Sow, we are not Of those who be-
licNc that vice is any more vice in
women than in men. Their" shoulC
, hr one standard Of purity and NOR
ality for both men and women Nr
women have been So free from in
temperance ana excess of drink, aHt
= mothers are much more with the
children than are the men, and the
beauty of wOmcu's character lies :,
much in its exquisite gentlencss anC
! refinement, that excess Of drini
r with them gives us shock and pain
( For drinking seems Ia cOarscn W"
, men at once. With her intense
emotional nature il seems more
luuiCkly to overthrow her. We have
} noticed shat women who begin drink
q ing IN public inevitably begin Il
grow loud aud vulgar. The yer!
habit seems to transfer women int
common clay, even though the!
Keep far from drunkenness. AM
iutoXicution IL relative term. |
is easy To he ON the border line of |
when still not drunken. And |
seems to weaken wOmen's instinC
e tive resistance Of immortality. Al
j. most every trial for seduction il
, this city reveals IN court the inev
, table champagne before the eri
hour. A greater menace to our civ
e ilization does not exist than this in
e creasing habit Of drinking amont
, women. Christian women SHOULD
set their face against it with strengtI
u Of steel.
d Another menace is the CROWN
t habit Of constant drinking anon
9 men. 1t IL becoming very common
for business men to stimulate them
: selves throughout the day wit
=. drink. In clubs one sees every
where the inevitable cocktail 4