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Show Ths Women's Christian temperance union of Massachusetts are kicking 1 up a muss with Houghton Jt Co., because they placed liquors on the menu of the Whittier birthday ban-ajuet ban-ajuet recently. The women say that eminent literary men have been destroyed by liquor, and they regret that the publishers o! the Atlautio Monthly should have placed tempte-tion tempte-tion in the way of their contributors. Zealot usually make themselves and their cause ridiculous, as in this instance. Does anyone suppose that Longfollow, Whittier, Bryaut and their literary associates are going to indulge in the flowing bowl to such an extent as to injure themselver or the cause of temperance? Can anyone fancy Whittier reeling across the floor to the weaving Holmes, and hitting him in the eye with a goblet of old port, or Loogfel-law, Loogfel-law, held up by the unsteady Holmes and the "too full" Bryant, reading one of bis poems to a jolly orowd of carousing convivialisU? The temperance- women only make a laughing stock of themselves by such ailiy actions. |