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Show oo WOMEN WHO DRINK AND THE NEW YEAR'S ORGIES. The drink habit among women Is treated In a vein of ptrong reprobation reproba-tion by the Christian Work and Kvsu- , gellst. The practice l of recent I growth, but lt prevalence in the circles of society In our cities calling themselves respectable and even Christian Ir gaining a w ider and wider hold. "Women not only drink cocktails cock-tails before dinner now In New York, but they drink strong wines and much champagne, and It Is no uncommon thing to see them so flushed with drink that they los all sense of modesty mod-esty and bay loose things that, bud enough lu mon, sound horrible In women." This Journal gives some specific Instances: "At one dinner party given not many miles from here, the compnn being made up of members of society whose names many would recognize, and who go to church on Sunday, one of the women drank so Indulgently that she ran from the table and, in the presence of a dozen men, attempted at-tempted to climb n pillar In the room, amid the clappings and eheerlngs of the drunken guests. Another woman had to be put In her carriage at the close of this dinner, and before the company had broken up they attempted at-tempted to sing a Christian hymn, pbout which gathered the tenderest association of years, to a comic-opera tune. These were people who are received Into our so-called best society, so-ciety, anil such actions do not bar theiii from social recognition. A woman wo-man who Is connected with some of the most prominent families In New-York, New-York, and who, according to the papers, pa-pers, has just taken a suite at one of our best hotels, gave u Ptag par'y once, a party for women only, and at the close, white half Intoxicated and smoking a cigar, hurled a plate at the butler's head, an act which nearly cost her very serious consequences."' conse-quences."' Attention Is called to conditions that are more or less notorious, namely, name-ly, that New Year's eve has "become a perfect orgy ut the hotels and restaurants." res-taurants." More: "Last New Year's eve even the reporters re-porters of the dally papers, who se many sordid and bestial things, got disgusted at the sordidness and obscenity ob-scenity they saw. The event has become be-come ,i byword all through the nation. na-tion. It Is a stench In the nostrils to all decent people Notice is In all the papers that only champagDO will be served People one thought decent and respectable entae tables weeks r.head, and on New Year's eve these j.ublic dining rooms are crowded. In some of them a perfect orgy of drinking drink-ing goes on. Men and women who never met before sit down together. Wine flows in rivers. Shouting and revelry ensue, and In some places It becomes a saturnalia. A guest at one hotel saw vvomau after woman carried to carriages. All this in a city of churches. Of course, all the people peo-ple who thus spend New Year's eve do not go to this extremity. lUit that they can sil and have purt in it is horrible. For ni the large restaurants restaur-ants you can not have a table unless you order wines. And thousands were there last vear. It has been rebuked, but it goes on. It Is a disgrace to .-ur city, and all decent people should frown upon it." |