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NZ Truth, Issue 66, 22 September 1906, Page 5

The number of Christchurch women who raise the little finger is surprising. A visit to the side room of a gargle emporium, or tp the jug and bottle department, is to them a pleasant interlude m a perhaps somewhat monotonous day. One thing about these unobtrusive visits is that they don't stay long ; but when some of them go from pub to pub it is a different matter, insofar as temperate swigging is concerned. People of that stamp find themselves on the visiting list at the cells. Many thoroughly respectable women trot m for a quiet hip, or something m a bottle, but they know that that's the stopping point. One who overstepped the mark appeared at. court t'other day, however, and as there was nothing against her she was released. She was young and unmarried, and on stepping outside there were four prosperous-looking women waiting to receive her. Then sb* cried. T* was a painful spectacle^