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Show TEMPERANCE THEIR TEST. Long Inland Glrli Won't Marry Men Who Touch Llqaor. The white ribbon Is the badge of a little settlement on Long Island and temperance rules the town. "We do hereby severally and collectively agree never to marry men who drink. They must sign the pledge before they ask us for our hands." This platform has been adopted by the girls of the little Long Island town of Greenport. The men have dropped their drinking ways and they are all eating cloves. The saloonkeepers, seeing nothing but ruin In sight, have appealed to the girls to change their minds, but they declare they will not. The girl trust for the suppression of drunkenness was organized organ-ized at the home of Mrs. S. B. Horton in First street, Greenport. A total abstinence society was formed and the members announced that they had agreed to boycott drinkers matrimonially. matrimon-ially. Mrs. Cora E. Sherry, the late secretary of the woman's work department depart-ment of the W. C. T. U., made a speech paving the way to this stand. Mrs. Horton said that the only pledge absolutely ab-solutely required from them was that of total abstinence, the other agreement agree-ment being optional. The young men of Greenport, it is said, are not especially es-pecially bibulous, but more of their earnings go in liquor than the girl trust thinks right. A story will be made of the results of alcoholic marriages mar-riages and lectures will be given showing show-ing the dreadful endings of homes In which the husbands are drinking men. Mrs. Horton declares that the men must stop altogether, and would not admit that they could Just take a "wee little sip." |