TELL GIRLS FOR ME NOT TO DRINK.

White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 258, 18 December 1916, Page 4

TELL GIRLS FOR ME NOT TO DRINK.

A young woman, a witness in the recent “white slave” scandal, sat in the office of the District Attorney in New York. “Tell girls for me.” said the girl, “not to drink. It was drink that brought me here. It was drink that brings almost every girl here who comes to this end.

“There’s a lot been said during this vice investigation about the men who prey on young girls, doping the drink that girls are given, or putting knot kout drops in their liquor. Believe me, every drink that a girl takes is dope. Every drink is a knock-out one for her.

“It doesn’t need to have drugs put into it. The liquor is enough in itself, for when a girl takes a drink I think her guardian angel takes leave of her.

“They say a woman can’t stand alcohol. I be.ieve it. Drink goes to a girl’s head, and it goes to her heart. It excites her emotions, and makes her do foolish things that she would be incapable of doing when she was cold sober.

“I have never met a girl who had taken the wrong turn of the road who didn’t tell me that she had done it when she was so befuddled with liquor that she didn’t know what she was doing, and I’ve never heard a man discuss whether a girl was good or bad that he didn’t begin by stating whether she drank or not.

“I was not a drinking girl, but one night I went to a party where there was much wine, and many toasts were drunk; and when I woke up next morning, I thanked God that my mother was dead.

“Tell girls for me that the only girl that is sate is the girl who never drinks anything stronger than tea or coffee. The devil may have tempted Eve with an apple, but he uses a cocktail now, and ruin and disgrace lie in the bottom of every glass.

“If you could keep girls from drinking there would be few such as I. It is drink that sends us to the gutter, and to the potter’s field after it has robbed us, in a few short years, of youth and health and beauty and the respect of our fellow -creatures, and of all that makes life worth having.”— Exchange.