Show england teaching babies to drink I 1 london women rarely are seen drinking in saloons in america says a staff correspondent of the new york if a man entered a public house bouse as saloons are called here and found no woman imbibing lie be would regard it as an exceptional experience during th the hours when the quenching of bibulous thirsts is pursued with the greatest ardor they fairly swarm in the 44 pubs and a surprising number of them are accompanied by babies in arms or children n that is on one e of the md mst st shocking features of eng lauds lans rottenness ss just as the twig ia hi bent the trees inclined A considerable section of th the e population population tio n is bent in early infancy towards the public house the home office has been collecting information about the frequenting of public houses by women and children and the report just published makes melancholy reading the evil is worst in london twenty three p public bublic houses inthe metropolis were kept under observation for twelve hours a day ou oil four days during that period it ic was found that no less than women and children entered them of the chil dren many were infants in arms in the twelve months ending april 30 last 1028 persons parsons were arrested for being drunk while in charge of children under 7 years of age of these were men and women the chief constable of brigham says the practice among women of taking infants and young children into public bouses houses atall at all hours from early morning until late at night in iu generd general and very extensive he has seen women giving infants a portion of their beer to drink to make them sleepy and quiet in the lower quarters iu in brig ham women resort to the public bublie house shortly after 10 in in the morning in in large numbers number when they are supposed to be doing their shopping and on these occasions they take the younger children and in infants infanta the same things occurs late at night especially on oil saturday night into ten public houses watched for portions of sixteen days 2949 young children were taken many anany of them babes in arms alms the chief constable of bf manchester cl iester reports that in the large towns of the th e north women ate are found i in 11 public houses bouses in the th greatest number they bably lie he adds tako take with them their infants and if their young children are not in attendance at school they also accompany the mother to the public house on many occasions mothers have been seen to dip their fingers in the intoxicating liquor and by that means give an in fant a taste of the liquor reports from all the big cities disclose diSO 1080 an equally disgusting 0 state of affairs and an d yet y et the publication tiou of the homo home office figures sensational as they are are treated with apathy no loud demand ernand ti bus bits arisen from any quarter for legislative action that would put a stop tolt to it one influential london paper discussing curo duff the matter editorially says it is easier to deplore tho the evil than to be sure of find ing a remedy perhaps there is none wholly adequate none that is ig J apart from gradual improvement pro in all social conditions A most melancholy conclusion surely it is not the way americans would bo be content t 6 treat such a horrible state of affairs |