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Show j WOMEN BEGINNING TO DRINK LIQUOR. The consumption of alcohol is diminishing both in England and the United States. The theory that hsrd times and temperance go hand in hand is not borne out, for while times are bad fn England, they 'never were better in this country. The secret is: women are beginning to drink liquor, and that has a sobering effect on their husbands. The increase of ' drunkenness among women in all the large cities of 1 England and the United States is one 'of the sad- i dest signs of the times. And the worst of it ris. the new contingent to the army of -tipplers is re-, re-, cruited from the upper ten. "Western' Watchman. |