Show A + i DRINK HABiT AMONG T Ii t WOMEN ON INCREASE 3 0 GROWTH OF DANGEROUS EVIL IS SEEN I I I Prof QuaclceiiboB and Dr Parkhurst Join in Deploring 1 Present Conditions Common Among AH Classes r 1 a Declares the Former Columbia Professor Testimony < < 1 of the Present Superintendent of Bellevue Hospital i f I Ew YORK According to t I NEW John Duncan Quuckcn bOil specialist In nervous y l and mental diseases member mem-ber of many American and foreign medical societies and formerly f a fef the Columbia university faculty tho drink habit IB Hproadtng at an I Jalarmlng rate among tho woman of 1 i Now York To a representative of 4 tho Sunday World ho said I It is with real alarm that I note the rapid growth of the drink habit r i among women in Now York city J 1I 1 f 1f f I j t II I I I t 1 t I r l + I I 1 I I 1 1r 1 I I t dU112 QJMCLtZJBCJl i 1 I Jiavo been in a position to wntch that if r I growth closely and I can say with i q i full knowledge that ten women drink t I today where one drank a dozen years I I ago agoTho it I Tho growth of the habit has been U among women of nil classes the rich and tho poor young and old GIrls In their teens evidently see no impropriety t I impropri-ety whatever in drinking publicly t with men companions Very often 1 indeed I have had young girls brought to mo for treatment hysterically drunk I 1 I have treated within a year t ti women whose weekly bill for champagne cham-pagne alone was 100 and who filled jJ up the Intervals between their a draughts of wino with highballs and cocktails Ono woman drank a quart I of champagne every morning and when ready to go out her custom was to order her maid to bring her another flit quart Then before leaving the house I to enter her carriage she would empty tho bottlo to steady her nerves I Girls Indulge in Liquor J School misses and college girls In great numbers are among tho throng pf woolen drinkers A case was f pointed out recently of a luncheon given here in Now York at which 21 a debutantes drank 36 bottles of champagne IL cham-pagne and 16 of them smoked seven dozen cigarettes As everyone knows the punchbowl punch-bowl figures largely In tho growth of i the drink habit among women of Now York It Is found at nil functions and many a girl has got liar flrst asto of liquor by a dip Into It Tljfj11 punch 1 ty v bowl however Is not to bo blamed entirely Many women dip Into It nnd may do It many does without acquiring acquir-ing the drink habit but many got their start there It does give them tho taste of liquor nun then with many of them tho taste for liquor Now the tendency of tho American Ameri-can woman is to go to extremes and In drinking she overdrinks It Is dangerous for Her to touch liquor at nil Tills Is particularly true of tho Now York woman because of tho added excitement of life In New York It Is not my object to preadh unless un-less the more statement fit fact is a Herman and tho fact IB Now Yorjc women do drink or rather too large a percentage of them drink and drink to excess If ono doubts It lot him go to any of our large hotels and restaurants any night and look about him On every hand you find them nnd their sister visitant to How York drinking No one thinks anything about It and the women think they are simply doing tho proper thing Many of them drink just because they do think that way and many of them drink because they like the liquor Do Not Want to Be Cured 01 have treated In the last eight years 700 cases of alcoholism with a largo percentage of women nnd 1 found In many cases where tho patient pa-tient was a woman that she UQ not deep down In her heart want to lie cured of tho habit This fact Is true especially In tho case of the rich society so-ciety woman She usually comes tome to-me either at tho urgent solicitation of relatives or friends or with only a surface desire to bo rid of the habit Very few ot them honestly and truly and with their whole heart want to be cured For Instance a certain woman camp to mo for treatment for the drink habit and seemed sincere indeed I treated her by autosuggestion glv Ing her tho suggestion that she could not lift a wineglass to her lips She went away and the very next night she went with a man companion to one of our largo restaurants niado no objection whatever whon wino was ordered and even tried her best to overcome the suggestion I had given her and drink the wino Hut she found that she could not lift the glass from tho table You see she did not really and honestly want to bo cured and wasted but little time in rushing into temptation Conditions might not bo so bad however If women or men drank real pure whisky real pure wino and real pure liquors of all sorts but they dont They think they do but what they aro really drinking Is a deadly poison and ono swift In Its execution I feel safe In saying that out of 100 drinks sold In Vow York city as whisky not more than one Is tho real article Counterfeit Whisky Hut so cleverly Is whIsky counter felted today that club connoisseurs cannot doter I 118 was shown In an experiment made recently by Dr Dar lington of tho board of health Dr Darlington went around and collected a numbor of samples of whisky from saloons of all classes took tho samples I sam-ples to his club + wlicro ho had several sev-eral of the mqmburs test them and much to his surprise tho cheap lini 1 J ntlonn of whisky were Judged to lie tho cat thing It stands to reason of course thitt bo great proportion of the liquor bold Is counterfeit whon it Is kaown that ho consumption Is far In excess of the ability of dlstlllero and brewers to produce tho genuine product Adul teratlons and criminal counterfeits must bo resorted to In orfler to meet the demand I will wager that there have been Inmates of BellcvuoH nlco hone ward who have never tasted a drop of real whisky In their lives They just think they have boon drinking drink-Ing whisky and It they had been drinking real whisky tho chances are they would never have been ill Hello vuo 1 dont say that rEdl whisky if taken excessively Is not harmful but I do say that a man could drink tho pure article In moderation all his life and not bo hurt by It Why 15 drinks of pure whisky would not doa do-a man tho harm that ono drink of this Vile stuff they sell for wHisky in Now York would flo him Poisoned by Vile Liquor 1 know a man who left his office one evening all tired out dropped into f 1 null sunken eyes and pln hull faces lId tho cdntlnuance of the use of the drug lends to nervous wreckage delirium de-lirium and Insanity f i Km iplp MlLuMnM V t S L A case was pointed out recently of a luncheon given here In New York at which 24 debutantes drank 36 bottles of champagne and 15 of them smoked seven dozen clgarettesDr Quackenbos a saloon of tho best class and took only two drinks of their bar whlBky and was lost for four days I was called In to help find him as lie was a friend of mine and when wo found I him lie was In a pitiable conditionals I mind was clouded he could not remember re-member where ho had been or what he had done after leaving that saloon Ho only remombered that he had taken two drinks of whisky Tho beer drinker If lio gets real beer Is handed a glass of the bever ago which to meet the demands of trade Is put out too new and Improperly Im-properly fermented Deer should bo kept In the keg for six months before being sold to tho drinker It Is rather surprising how many of our school children havo become beer drinkers especially those of foreign for-eign birth and tho habit is making them mentally sluggish to a degree that Is attracting tho attention of educators ed-ucators and philanthropists Another habit which is getting control con-trol of our shop girls particularly is the cocaine habit This habit has grown in the last few years with such rapidity that today thousands of young girls as well as mature women wom-en and man arc held in Its clutches Tho effect of the habit Is noted in thoU tho-U h |