WOMEN AND WINE.

Evening Star, Issue 4290, 25 November 1876, Page 1

WOMEN AND WINE.

to encounter wmtfsttafoaSffijKdTS* appetite dME Jun« 2*%** wJ? V< ? of >*^. more hopes for, them ? for,i^; e #^,aitr^ <^ numbersfrmi their .hifebandsT§Us >bß& slalnliv ri™£» drink.'! i Ther«*^«U?3d 2 Btron Jf feS»rV *S* ¥#W<* fear andxiespair. lore SHIS better have '2H? to v tev mo 'women b&fou. sjndj who dreM*> tear 'a*fcefSeor the fevfel5 nC6 Jh«MwMjdeasure. mfluence of ajdnoSte pojgon. There are women jCTOam|f while we write sffi#&K*#<#Wt *»>teß*« c iaa»no "ML ¥wS»BJ»I T ;ore*te: anylShin* of pourtraying the truth** sorrewfand the horrors of"».wife with a drunken hueband, *f amither with a drunken son. are as -M ttawailMoii of yMiWijh be for herself and and notlnfre. of Violibce, taeHlhgertng, life-long'sSggle and despair of .countless women with drunken husbands, are enough to make all women to oppose it everywhere as the worst enemy of their sex. :-ti ; t • And now what dp we see ona New.Year's Day ** Women all here and over the country where like social custenls Wail-setting out upon tteir tablesithe wefi-filled decanter, which before night shall close down wiffbe emiSd into the brains men and old men, who will go reehng to darker orgies, or the homes that; wil* feelWemans lips will give the invitation f woman s hands will-. M' and present the glass; woman's careless voice will laugh at the effect of the miscHevdus draught upon their friends; and, Jiaving done all this, woman will retire ~to balmy rest previously having reckoned Jjfa, number, of- those to whom she has during the day presented a dangerous temptation, an* rejoiced over it in tna degree,of u itsjnagaitude.-.„ . .<*+ Oh, woman I woman. ;1 8 ; it not aoout time that- this thing were* BtbWd ?_Are , they stronger thm&eir neßtoors'wno have | one aftei-another droppedinto the graves of I drunka.ras T Lopd around you and see <the | desolation thatdrinkmthiVught'along yourjwquaxntances, whether you have a right to place temptationinany man s way, or do ought tfr make a soeial oustom respectable which, leads hundreds'of «r pan ■<* ■«s•&»*> bondage and death" Women, there are some things you can do, and this .is one; You may make4innkinff impopular and disgraceful ameng the young* You can utterly discomitenance' all drinkina in your own house?and you can Sold in' suspicion every yduntf man who touches the cup. You know that no young man who he safely/feasted happiness of any womas and he is unfit a. a man ; can be. for woman's sooiety. Save it underI stood that every man who drinks is socially proscribed; firing up your* children "to regard dnnking our .not <only dangerduT but disgraceful. . Place temptation in- v jio man/s way. -If' men will make beasts of themselves; let. them- do it in other society thin yours: y °lf .Mercenary # husbands treat ffqm private stores their eouniingrooins, shaine them into decency by your regard for the honor of,your-home. Recognisetheliving, that wine' has always been, and is today, the curse amcngyqor sex; that it steak the men away from you;" that it dries up/ your prosperity j that it' endangers your safety * that it can only/bring you>evU. If -social 6Ustpm compels you to present wine at'your teaits, robeLagainst it,, and jnake Especial custom in the interest of virtue and purity. The very muoh/in your himdß. The *omen :of: the country, in what is oalledpolitesociety,- cahr do-more t8 make the nation temperate thati aHlshe 'aid teJnultuous refbrmersthat are struggling and blundering in their effotte tolihls end.