SOMETHING THE LADIES COULD DO.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1074, 24 November 1882, Page 3

SOMETHING THE LADIES COULD DO.

The magnetic influence nf the B'ue Tlihhon movement:, for the sup Tension of intemp“ranoe, his alrea'y reaclieil onr shores, anil an army, though umler another name, no.v regularly para les onr streets. It is too carlv as yet to note results. In conn' ction with this sn' j ict the thought has of-en suggested itself to me that earnest sytnp ithetio wnmmi coni I often save a vast number «f men from becoming drunkards by a very few words. Men who are constantly “nipping,” strange though it may scan, have no conception of how positively loathsome their presence is m those who do not drmk. They think their breath is, perhaps, a little unpleasant to persons who are o'nse to them, hut are quite unconscious of the true extent of the annoyance they are the source of. 1 adies generally reset such unpleasantness either by a light jisting remark, which is forgo’t n n almost as soon as it is heard, or by an offensive rebuff, which by wounding makes a hitherto one-sided antagonism become mutua'. If, instead of this, the unconscious offenders were privately spoken to in a kindly spirit, and had impressed upon them how they vitiate the whole atmosphere of a room when they enter it, many of them would, I believe, cease to drink ; because nine of every ten men who drink are kind, generous, and sensitive, just such men a- an earnest sympathetic appeal would have weight wi’h. I do not refer to those unfoitunate ones who have sunk to the level of social ostracism, but to those who while s'ill moving in society diink far to ranch. Kiti lne-s. be it remembered, is a great reforming power seldom trie 1, but as seldom failing when put to the test.