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Show Blinking Habit of English Women ' The Htor) of Our farm, ' w hlch l.ad) Henr) Koimrsct tells In the November No-vember numbei of the North American lie view Is a story of benevolent and, In vir) huge measure mccessful en-cleavor en-cleavor to rescue fiom mill women who have fallen a prey to the appetite for drink laid) Henry pilnts a dalk und mournful il.lun of il. .,.,,,11,1...... whli li Kiiriniiml the poor of London and of the 1 xtent to which drunkennisn prevails pre-vails among them men women und even children It wus to do some. thine lo suvo the women and chlldien (hit Lid) Ilonr) Somerset established nn Industrl il farm eolon) foi Inebriate wo-men wo-men at Buxhuist In Hurre), the IIIIim Institution of Ihe kind opened In ling, land, and her account of the means b) whlili hei farm Is )ear by year raising the fallen and lestorlng them in their rmiit minds to the homes which their vice hid iiiaclt desolate Is full of en-leiuragement en-leiuragement tu those who are. Inteieit-eel Inteieit-eel In philanthropic work of slmllir kind line Is pail of i.ad Ileni)' ,,. acrlptlon of whit li to he seen dally In Bonn of the Btiocts of London . i".".Jn ",'Ur "Rh" ,c understand what this colon) m,ug, we must leave for a nioment the nel Is d the Howe rs and the birds and beasts, nnd go Into the dingy 1 Itv and pass the courla and the ule anil tlu pawnbrokers shops an! the old-clothes shops, vvo must go down Into the kit. hens whe4e the rati slut to the damn dukness with the Inhabitants, In-habitants, und then w ilk 'out again Into the dusty street oud then wc .ia b;. g n to imdc viand what l the center of nttiactlon to the dwellers In the nar-row nar-row court and gloomv Mum At the corner of the stieet there Is a pulllc-house pulllc-house nnd If we watch that swing nc door for a moment we shall he a bio to realise wh) It Is that in Kngland theie aio more drunken woman than In nny other nation, and how It Is that 'iie. biewers haie made larger fortunes than tan be oniasied ut an) other trade Between the hours of 1 and i 11 clock von will s.e In Ihls squalid ejls-trlct ejls-trlct from 0110 hundred to two hundred women inter the drink shop with little babies In their arms and, as those women wo-men crowd Into that public house and stand to drink they will often give the biby a share of Ihe liquor, and the little lit-tle mouth will greedily suck the spofn or the glass thit has In It the taste of Bin Between those hours too ou will see n hundred and fifty or two hundred girls, with tattered clothes, torn pinafores, pina-fores, some almost shoeless all ragged, all dirty, all disheveled, entering with Jugs to carry away the drink to their miserable homes As many bo)s under the age of 14 or 15 will bo there too, making perhnps 11 total In one afternoon after-noon of SOO children ' |