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Show TOT7NO W0ME3TDOWN. 36 -' BOTTLES; OF CHAMPAGNE NEW" YORK. March 6. "At a recent luncheon In this city twenty-four very young women drank thirty-six bottles of champagne and fifteen, of them smoked seven dosen cigarettes."" The above statement was made last night by the Rev. Madison C. Peters of the Baptist Church of the Epiphany, In a lecture on "Where the Money Goes," delivered de-livered at the Twenty-fourth Street Metn-pdlst Metn-pdlst Episcopal 'church.' "The alarming increase of the drink habit among women of America, especially in New York," he said, "is one of the great perils, both to the home and to the public. ; , t t - . V ;"U is a common sight Jn this city to se women, and often girls In their 'teens, drink in public, and as frequently and as bard as men, . and often With men old erough to be their fathers.? - |