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SCENE I.
“‘Oh! look!”
The young girl’s voice was shocked.
She was of a pure, noble type of young
womanhood.
“Yes, poor Will,” replied her es
cort. “The punch was so strong it
was too much for him.”
“But how could it happen?” exclaim
ed the girl in a bewildered tone.
‘“Will has never drank. He has al
ways been such a good boy, such a
comfort to his mother.”
“It could happen to anybody who
took enough of that punch,” rejoined
her companion. “You see, the punch
is good, a fellow enjoys it. Being
taken in a private home, amid such
refined surroundings, he never thinks
about the danger, and the first thing
you know, he is drunk, just plain
“drunk.”
“But his mother, it will break her
heart,” the girl persisted.
“Say, Ed, let’s try to get Will home
before his mother sees him,” exclaim
ed the young man, sitting on the other
side of the girl.
■“Do, do,” she urged.
“You are right, Miss Marjorie, we
will. Excuse us.”
They hurried off to the staggering
boy who was making a fool of him
self, in the midst of a tittering, con
temptuous crowd. That crowd had
lured the innocent boy into his pres
ent disgraceful plight.
The two friends succeeded with
difficulty, in leading the staggering,
maudlin boy out of the drawing room.
Just as they reached the landing at
the top of the stairs, they came face
to face with Will’s mother.
SCENE 11.
The young hostess was in tears.
“It’s disgraceful!” she exclaimed to
a friend.
“It wouldn’t be very much worse in
a bar room. Half the boys here are
tipsy, and Blank was so beastly drunk
we simply couldn’t let him take An
nie home. He brought her, you know,
but we had to send her home in the
auto with other girls.
“What else could she expect,” whis
pered a bystander, who had overheard
the young hostess’ complaint, “when
she furnishes these boys champagne,
as if it was water?”
“Serves her right, I think,” re
joined his companion.
SCENE 111.
“The punch for the young ladies
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is in the alcove yonder,” said the
smiling host, “but you young men will
probably want something stronger.”
With that he led the way to the
den, where whiskey was served the
men.
At the close of that dance, one of
the young fellows, whom that smiling
host had led to whiskey, was so drunk
that, utterly unconscious of what he
did, he stumbled up stairs and threw
himself heavily across the foot of the
bed in which lay the young child of
the host. He was so found by his
entertainers. Yet the very next time
that young man visited that house,
that host again offered him highballs.
To his credit be it said, the young
fellow had the moral courage to re
fuse, though he had to do so in the
presence of young ladies.
The incidents herein related are
true, literal descriptions of scenes
which occur in fashionable homes in
Atlant i. Scene I occurred at the
should be solemn function, a wedding.
Scene 11, at a party given by a young
girl just “out,” who had not had time
to become inured to society’s vices.
Scene 111 was at the debut ofa young
girl, in her own home. These scenes
are known to hundreds. I have heard
many Indignant criticisms of them.
All these criticisers thought some pro
test should be made, but they did not
desire to make that protest them
selves.
I, myself, dislike to make this pro
test, but somebody must do the dis
agreeable duties of life, so I do it.
If the effect of such entertainments
are bad on young men, what is that
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Women who offer drinks to others,
can themselves become too fond of
drink. I recall the incident related to
me by a prominent New York physi
cian, regarding the heavy and chronic
drunkenness of women in New York.
The brilliant Henry Watterson has
protested against the degrading in
fluence and dissipation upon fashion
able women North. Is the conserva
tive South, whose ideals of woman
hood have always been so high, com
ing to the same point?
Do these hosts affirm they have the
right to do as they please in their
own homes? They might also say
they have the right to be unduly bois
terous, and to play poker in their own
parlors, but the law says they have
not that right, and can arrest them
for so doing.
Against the saloon are many war
riors, fighting—women, statesmen,
preachers and editors like that of The
Golden Age. But who fights the tip
ling hostess? Against her is no
weapon directed,
No sentinel warns the unwary of
this peril. Yet she is the most dan
gerous temptation of all. With her
beautiful flower-bedecked trap, she
lures youth whom the saloon can
not reach.
Look at that anxious mother.
She hoped that her son, on first
coming home from college, would not
marry soon. She wanted him to study,
to devote himself to his profession.
But alas! She has seen what drink
does to the handsome boy, when of
fered by a pretty girl in a brilliant
parlor. Now her hope and prayer is
that he may marry, to lead him away
from the “tipling hostess.”
Be it clearly understood, the words
“tipling hostess” do not apply to all
the hostesses of Atlanta. There are
many who would not allow such
scenes at their parties. There is even
one woman of means who openly pro
claims that no drink will be furnished
at her parties.
But tipling hostesses are too fre
quent, and are becoming more so. In
justice to all parties, such entertain
ers should inscribe on the invitations,
“Free drunks provided,” not free
“drinks,” free “drunks.”
If all those who indorse these sen
timents would write you, I believe
you would need a private secretary
to read their communications. But
the trouble with many people is, they
wish reforms effected, but they want
the other person to blaze the path, to
endure the ridicule, the opprobrium,
while they keep safely under cover.
They should remember that the
humblest individual can begin a re
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All history shows that civilization
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