WOMEN WHO SWANK.

NZ Truth, Issue 123, 26 October 1907, Page 6

WOMEN WHO SWANK.

Ail Aristocratic Friend to the Fore. When a woman takes to 'drink it's blazes. It gets, her down bad, and no mistake ; she loses her self-respect and is degraded m the eyes .of her ifriends. Especially is this so if she fis seen swaggering up the street, or riding m a public conveyance m a state of intoxication. But there are women boozers and women boozers. /The woman of the town who boldly enters a pub and inhabits the side loom, and whiskifies, and gets locked up, is on a different plane to the respectable bit of muslin, who only ;takes one on the sly m the grog establishment, or who procures sixpennorth from the jug and bottle department when her husband sis away at graft. But THE WOMAN OF INDEPENDENT MEANS, who is able to order m wliisky, or brandy, or wine, or beer, by the barrel, and proceeds to drink herself, Wind horrible paralytic m her own (home is different to either of the a- i ibove classes. Her condition is only known to visitors who make calls on ,'i»er when she is half squiffy, and as . often as not she makes them as bad 1> as herself, and engenders a taste for which they didn't previously •possess. There is. a lot of drinking ''done fty society women m Christ- ■ church, but one lady— a -very drunken sort of a lady— has been going ■•' it .so strong lately that an aristocratiie friend felt that he had no option but to apply to Magistrate Bishop ■lor a prohibition order against her. .The application was made the other morning, and it was granted. It appears that the woman, who didn't appear, but who was represented by counsel, who acquiesced, has been Jdrinking for years, and spent the greatest part of her income m grog. . (And she"; can swill, too. The case was iHsted as Helmore v. Woodhouse, and an order was made prohibiting the Hefendant for a year, the S.M. remarking that it could be renewed at the end of that period.