Show SINS OF THE MOTHERS 1 GIRLS MEET AT PUBLIC HOUSES longon aug the closer the investigations into the drinking habits 0 women the more startling arc the revel actions which aliey bring taci publia according lo 10 ono publican who keeps a suburban hotel liaa now become u refuge for courting couples and a chero kothera spend the money ihly are supposed to save in the saturday nights chopping whenever it is raining ho fui the saloon bars are full of young men and women who utter hour on saturday I 1 have frequently been more women than men in the saloon bar to which there is a side entrance the working class woman is not the only one who takes little children into public houses in my haae I 1 have halt a dozen well dressed children who it on the lounges and take up alia gwm required by grownup grown up popple the women are of the middle class type aal I 1 have noticed that beginning with one visit a awk they eventually pay ft via it almost every some come every night call for their own drink and in more than one instance have stood un at the bar like tho men tha men do not like it I 1 can do nothing SIGHT inquiries in the city bhoj that it is s quite a common practice for young fac tory girls of a superior type to meet on t friday nights at favorite public houses and take turns in standing drinks f generally take the form of port f wine very frequently half a 1 is taken home by each of alio girla tho craving for drink is ot to inrid f boua a character that they imagine that ho faint feeling of which they coni plain is a eign that a Umit lant h needed they grow up to look upon drink as the panacea for all the ilia that they are heir to medical officers arc unanimous in abo opinion that the drink habits of women result in the birth of t drea in the north country towns alio I 1 infantile deaia rato is terrible dr fire enwood of blackburn recently in formed the iown council that out of 1000 babies born in the borough do not live to be a year old more than half the deaths in darlas ton are those of children who have not reached the age of five in leicester out of a a average of saffy dea each week twenty are those of children in birkenhead out il every 1000 children bom die before they are year old the of drink are insanity pauperism epilepsy and feeble minded ness in london there are 2000 epileptics and about pauper and all over the country anere are certified lunatics the chairman of a school board attendance committee in the suburbs informed an express representative that 75 per cent of the basea of irregular nt en danco were caused through the drinken habata of the mothers some of whom appear before the committee in a crying state of inebriety HAVOC WROUGHT no one he ays knows better than school attendance officer havoc iha drinking habit of the mothers play with the children who are deprived of food care which binl tendes abile mothers have zaro at each others houses the chud messenger act did arta t good but it aaa not stopped tha ng among women their at homes take the form of a drinking bout towards the expenses of which they all contribute each taking a turn in fetch ins the liquor A jury yesterday found that alic death of mrs aped 35 of rayna parac wimbledon Wimble don was duo to t wast ornate secretary lo 10 the late ir arancis book bloc lie ul for alleged libel thea nim pounds damages bit on appeal the result was set anil a new trial ordered it was in that had affected mr allaf ca nerves 1 i and eife lio cro very often botu i affected by drink after liis cifes death mr wallace ia alleged to havo tried tu suicide he is at present under remand |