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Show TAKING TO INTOXICANTS Temperance Worker Says ; Custom Grows in the Larger Cities. ST. LotTIS, Jan. 2L Miss Catherine Kelly of Kansas City declares that the habit of drinking intoxicants is increasing increas-ing to an alarming extent among women wo-men of the large cities. She Is supreme president of the ladies auxiliary of the Knights of Father Mathew.'and Is In a position to speak with authority on the subject, , " "The saloon cannot reach the children unless it is brought Into their homes," said Miss Kelly. "Then It becomes a most terrible instrument of evil. I know from personal observation that women are growing more accustomed to offer stimulants to their visitors and callers are more prone to expect that something of the kind will be offered. Whether it be beer, such as poor people can buy, or wine, such as rich women serve in their parlors, the effect is the same and always deplorable. The taste for liquor Is cultivated in children. I have met many children who objected to joining our society because they had learned to like intoxicants." |