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Show Th C urte f fo lona Toar. Lady Henry Bonirrset lias n striking . nrtlcloin Tho NutliAmeriiori Jtelew for January on the great curse of tho xf in London. This distinct U tune, sho na 9, Is drink. "The women drink, Mothers, daughters, sisters, w Ire, grownwouidi, children of tender year tbogimthtpiii open to oil, And all go In it. Nowhero In hovf YorkdlU shi or hear of women not uttcrl) abandoned liabltunllv frtiUimtlng saloon. No-whero No-whero In Lou Ion I thero a publlo houso but tho women will bo n goo-lDcns-tomer as tho men. It I impossible to o erroto tho Influence, tho mui destroying destroy-ing lufliitnco, this ha had ujou tho home of tho poor; or It 1 by thl, I am cuivlntod, that tho lloa of right and wrong; lias como to Ut liopoltwaly con fused where It i not absolutely lost. "It U not uncommon to Hud a mother who since marrlago has bttn u faithful w Ifo, nnd perlmp tiefora that 11 virtuous girl, looking on with indifference while hcrdanghUr'gocfl mi Iho strttt,' nul is lost iu tho iinnumlterod li glon of ic-lira ic-lira hourly sairlflcod to tho demon of vice. Wto may regret tlo fact, a a mother In n wtalthier station might regret re-gret her daughter inamins beuiath b u but there i no chock, no nittitsl horror, at tho wanton marring of Uod fairest baudlwork, a woman'd soul.H |