The Cedarville Herald, Volume 11, Numbers 22-52

temperance notes . ’* MBS, OHMIT'S STORY. » jfctw^efWI' Temperance Worker ■ . M mm | w « i j tbs. im ip t anniversary of. the aarc* TempsiirtfiS SJiple, llostoh, Mrs, Chapt mafic i*p Unresting an4 effective address. Frbtoi •wportof the meeting in the Christian we take tb* following: l ws not bom atptai abstainer. That ,^jwJous noonday light (same to me ;m t pomes to some of- us, It dame f jirpUgEa groat happiness; And, young [ ^pmsnand young men, let God toaoh math* common lessons of life through iouchappiness, and don't wait to leant ftett through great sorrow, I have lometimes thought, if I had not learned th« lesson through this joy, that ! ^ ht have learned it through some bitter pain. It came In this way: I Atrried a total abstainer. He said no aordabout my joining the movement; hpt left me tp work out my own salva­ tion. Ono. night, after we bad' been married about three weeks, I bad tb sit .up for him. He qad driven into the ppuntry in a bitter, blinding winter’s storm, and so I sat- up through- that sight waiting for him. It was tbe.first . sight that I bad been alone .since we «ore married; and through the pauses - .of the wind came the solemn boom of tbsguns of ships in -distress, and I be* £iit to partake of the sorrow of those who\\vero"watohlng for the sailors out atsea, and at last I went down to the . shore among the women who were- wait­ ing for those -who were being saved fromthe wreck and brought to shore in the life-boat, When I came home I thought of all the poor women in En­ gland, Scotland and Ireland who were doing what I was doing, and doing it So differently. I was in a beautiful home, with all the comforts of life around >me, waiting for my husband with the eagerness" of happy love; and they in poverty and hun­ ger, awaiting in some lonely gar­ ret thedreaded step on the stairs of a drink-maddened brute, in abject terror for the coming of their husband. And then conscience spoke. What was I do­ ing? He on the safe side; you the un­ safe. With two people who love each other well, one of two things would cer­ tainly happed—either, he would drag me over to hisjsafa side or I would drag himover to myunsafe Side. I liked my glass of .wine; 1 loved ray husband; which of the twdi wad/ I to choose be­ tween—wine, the thing I liked, or the being I loved? iW w whioh that nigh t. < And so the next\morning there crept -‘ a very meek and very humble, figure to the old rector in the rectory. 1 said: “ I want to jjoln the Temperance so­ ciety.’1 He was Very wise, I wish more, people were wise in such matters. He did not crow over me-i-no; he held out two hands of welcome, and said: ’’You don’t know how glad we shall be. You will bo a great help.” Now, al­ though pur rector was a stanch teeto­ taller, he let me choose my own way of coming along. I think he knew tho caught Tartar needs skillful handling. 'So I joined the laay division of the feShurch of England Tomperance Sooi- I «ty, tho division of those who merely promise to help, and not to drink alco­ holic liquor between meals! You see I .had said such"bad things about bluc- ribbopod fanatics I could not belong to them at once, I thought. Well, the rector sot me to work. -That Is the way to do, Don’t give all tbe work to tho ready-made saints; set some of the sinnors to work. That is the way to convert them, Well, beset mo to work to write a story and road it in a place that had never heard a woman's voice in public. It had seen her act love-parts in a theater, and heard her sing lore songs In tbe con­ cert hall, and it was not ashamed of that; but when It came to think of a woman standing on a platform and speakingwords of common sense to tbe people, it said It would turn the world upside down. 1 wrote out the brightest story I could think of, wrung out of dome former experience. I stood up that night in the mission ball half-full of women with vails on their fafces, and atone end some modest men ready to ranif they could not hear the dreadful Immodesty of the thing. Instead of tunning, however, they staid to the sad; and afterward I was invited to read aacther story. The next time was my baptism. Down in front there sat a poor, wsather-heaten fellow, and they said: “If you can only get that ndninl He is th* worst drunkard in the place.” So iftto that story I put a great deal that was •specially for his good. I did not talk at him, hut I read at him. After th* meeting was over, 1 Went down to try andcoax him to come to the pledge table. I brought him to the table, and . I smoothed out the book. This was my Ant convert. How delightful it wasl Joit aahe waa going to sigh his name, he turned round end aaked one very simple but awkward, question, “ I tm t yon have done i t yourself, teissls?” he said. I gave a very awk­ ward answer. Pity my bad taste. 1 Md him, with a little shrug ef my aitaWers, that it wae not neoissatyi for w to sign It—the total abstinence pl*4ge—but that it waa the only thing that would save him. He slammed the pendown and went down the hall, say- lag: “What is sauce for the gooee ii for the gander; and what i* good * * you is good for me, 1 reckon.” The* 1had an inward fight to fight—one of th**e batUea that no one knows hut <fei and yourself; hut you are ten J**tt older when you have fought Ik ’Wfethvr you lose or conquer. 1 waa -quite ten years olderwhen I went dew* the hall end laid my handon his aim, and said: ’‘Perilapa It Is you that ate to save me. I will take the pledge first, and you shall take it after me.” Apd so the happy, affectiohate woman* who. had never been drunk iv her life, and the bard, wojather-beatenman, ivho had boondrunknearly everyday, atood'there together; and there the baptismal serv­ ice was performed by that druhfcard for, the sober woman rather than by the sober woman for the drunkard. And the lesson I learned that-night wan thiB: that whatever vou v/ant others to do you must do yourself before you ask them to do it* — . MEDICAL OPINIONS, Th* Deleterious Kffects of Alcohol Upov “ tu*>Huj«,*!» floor. Dr.-Groavenor, in ,the Buffalo Medi­ cal Journal, sums up his views respect ing.tbe medicinal uso of alcohol as fol- lows: “ 1, Grave responsibility rests upon the' medical profession in, the use ol alcohol as a medicine, on account of Its deleterious influence upon the system and the liability of4he patient to con­ tract the habit of using it asa beverage, “ 3. Alcohol being an acrid narcotic poison, the bottle containing it should by labeled ’Poison,’ as a reminder of this characteristic, anil a warning to bundle it with care. - ' “ 3. Alcohol, containing notio of the compounds which enter into tho con, •traction of the tissues, can not prop­ erly be termed a tissue-forming food. ” 4. The evidence in favor of the ex­ istence of a heat-generating quality in alcohol, is not sufficient to warrant the belief that it is a boat-produoing food. ” 5. As a narcotic and anesthetic, al­ cohol has a limited sphere of adapta­ tion, and is much less valuable than sev­ eral other narcotics and anesthetics. “(I. .The stimulating effect of alcohol may be host secured by small doses fre­ quently repeated. 1 “ 7. Prom tho fact that its stimulating effec^results from its paralytio action, alcohol is more properly called a de­ pressant than a stimulant. ” 8. As an antispasmodic and an­ tiseptic, it may be superseded by othor remedies, without detriment to the pa. tiorit. “ 0. Although alcohol is a positive antipyretic, and therefore useful in the reduction of bodily temperature, ,it is neither so prompt nor so effective aa several other antipyretics. ” 10. ■ In cases requiring a remedy which will rapidly'evaporate, alcohol is useful as an external application. ” 11. So easy Is the acquirement of the alcoholic habit, and so ruinous its con­ sequences to body, mind and spirit that extreme caution should be exercised in its ubg in all cases, and its administra­ tion stopped as soon as the desired ef­ fect has been reached. ‘ ‘I i Alcoholj, as a medicine, should) be reserved for emergencies, unusual conditions and circumstances in which a more reliable and loss injurious rem­ edy can not bo obtained. ” 13. Adulterations of alcoholics are so extensive and so pernicious, and their different preparations so variable in tho Amount of alcohol they contain, that it 18best to demand pure alcohol of a definite strength In medical pre­ scriptions.' ” 14. In the prescription of alcohol, tho Batne care as to exactness of dosage and times of administration should be exercised, as it is used in prescribing any other powerful medicine. ” 15. When intended to act therapeu­ tically, alcoholics should not bo pro­ scribed a* a beverage and taken ad IVnimn. ” 10. The fact that methyl alcohol passos very rapidly into and out of tho system, is an argument in favor of its moro general use for. internal adminis­ tration. "17. So deleterious are the effects of alcohol upon the human body, that it is eminently proper to inquire whether its hatmfulnoss does not overbalance- its helpfulness, and whether it could not be dropped from our list of therapeutic agents without any serious injury to our patients.” , - ITEMIZED FACTS. T w elve million children in the United States ate now under Temper­ ance education laws. The good results are beyond estimate. TJ ik London Medical Journal be­ lieves that th* use of wines as a vehicle for the administration of drugs Is a fruitful source of the habit of tip­ pling. DK. Bohr., of Now York, discovers that In the hospitals of that city sixty- five per cent of the 'pneumonia patlont* die who receive alcoholic treatment, while in the LondonTemperance Hospi­ tal, where no alcohol is used, only five <per cent die. rA DisTiko wshed Englishman, return­ ing to his own country after a cateful Study Of our American institutions, on feting asked what he had scan that was most uniik# England, answered: “The winslsse dinner-tables of the great middle class.” J. A. DucKBorr, a contractor of Lincoln, 'Neb., says his monthly pay- rollisnot less1 than *30.000. He pays bis men svsry Saturday night, and from, thirty to forty per cent, of hw checks coma hack to him indorsed by saloon-keepers. “TiSMWtKAifCs,” Says Franklin, “puts wood o* the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the puwe, credit to the country- contentment m th* house, clothe* on the bairns, vigor in th* body, intelligence in th* brain i sadSpirit i» th* ffhol* constitution.” IN WOMAN’S BEHALF. THE BUSINESS WOMAN. X* She K »rrlsae*b l»y—M»ny ~ opinion* on Tk ti Intereetlac: Question. A fewweeks since, the Sunday World devoted three columns to thedisoussion of the “Business Woman; Is She Mar­ riageable?” in the form 6f toasts, most­ ly from womon who have fairly succeed­ ed as editors and publishers. Mrs. Pres­ ident Harrison la reported, to havestated that “ the woman of to-day la indus­ trious; an idle woman is the rare ex­ ception. There are now few walks In life that women do not tread, Wo find thorn in tho arts.'in the sciences, in al­ most every profession, hut I must say, that according to my view,'the woman that dCvotes herSelf to any calling to the exclusion of her domestic duties Is not marriageable, but I am happy to say that I do not think that type com­ mon. $omo of tho happiest wives and mostdovotedmoth?rs Iknow arobusiness women; that is to say, they have artis­ tic talents which they employ profita­ bly, or they wield a ready pen and are not,ashamed to' let the world know It; while at tho same time, they are the real, not the nominal heads of their own houses.” , A toast of considerable length from Miss Virginia D. Hyde, an editor from Pittsburgh, contains many.pointa of ’in­ terest, but it is toalong for our spaoo. Mrs, Lucy Stone Blackwell, of Bos­ ton, tbe notable advocateof her sex dur­ ing the last genoratipn, writes thus: Mr. Toast-Master: Women will al­ ways marry. But women who have in­ dependent business will be much more free to chooBOwhether they will or will not marry, and when they do marry thoir position will bo much more inde­ pendent-pecuniarily than It would be otherwise. To-day tho. wife of even a rich man may bo, and often is, as pooras any beggar. Tho law still- gives- to a wife only her- good clothes and medi­ cine.” The woman who has independ­ ent business' will not accept a poverty- stricken position. . The toast fromMiss Mary F. Seymour, proprietor of the Business Woman’s Journal of this city, contains many good arguments and cites tho numerous ad­ vantages of tho association of business men with business women, and vice versa. ■ / We quote tho following fromthe short toast offered by a bank president, as we always like toapo men’s views associat­ ed with thoaqpf women on subjects of importance. Mr. Toast Master: I feel )hat l aman interloper at this feast. So many.bright women will havo so'muoh to say on this occasion that tjbemenought to giro thorn tho floor, and, os usual, I am called to respond to a toast that I know little about. Wo raroly meet ebusiness wom­ ans, nevertheless 1wish to bo recorded in tho affirmative, for a business woman- is certainly marriageable, if ono can bo found when sbo is not ongagecl. Mrs. Croly (Jennie June): Mr. Toast Master: Allow mo to -add that tho question concerning a business, woman simply -resolves itself ini® whether sho can support a .husband. If •ho can, she would very.easily bo found “ marriageable." Toast Master—A lady who can start a qowspapor and* keop it going suc­ cessfully, as Mrs. E. B. Grannis has, should liavo opinions on the life of a business woman. 1 introduco her with pleasure. Air. Chairman: “The Business Wom­ an—Is Mho Marriageable?” In view of mystrongopposltlon to the Sunday news­ paper for its.moral and religious inllu- enco upon its readers, how can I say tho much or little which 1 would like to writo on this subject, in answer to the request from tho editor of tho Sunday World? I infer thcro must be a doubt in tbo minds of somo persona respecting the fitness of business urijfNn* |e fill tbo highest andnoblest respoftsitnilty in lifo —that of becoming wives and mothers. Every woman is hotter ‘fitted for mar­ riage in proportion to' tho amount of valuable knowledge that lias been gained by her in any or all directions, I f she havo business ability I believe she would make s better wife'had she had opportunity to cultivate the samo before marriage and to exorclso her increased capacity after marriage. I know of no reason why a business women, or a woman who has attained a reasonable degree of success in any honorable profession, should, giro it up on account of marriago, any moro than her husband should give up or change his secular occupation because ho is married. I f the husband and wifo have an amicable agreement' that the hus­ band aball earn the money from his business calling or profession, and his wifo devote her timo and ability to the privileges and duties of home Ilfe as housekeeper or entertainer and adorn- er, th* result may be for both a most happy one. - If the husband possesses intellectual and artistic talent, but has little or no business capacity, la lacking in energy, and the wife possesses one or all of these gifts coupled with business capacity, it would seem she ought to ex­ ercise her (act, which often Is of greater vain* than talent or genlus in providing the necessary support for the family,- and may be of great value In the sup­ port of one person or adding comforts to the support of two, in my experience I have known many * good-natured hus­ band who had inherited property, intel­ lectual and attlstio talent, strangely wonder, during his quiet meditations over the curling smoke of his dgat In his comfortable library, that his lovely wife endmoth** of hU children, should at times seem weary pud depressed at the daily routine ef .house­ hold ’ duties. Honsework -la good lOr women, and may be equally good for mein, for ought I know. Nursing'end caring for a dear, sweet baby ipperhaps the most remunerative and satisfactory employment that any women has aver boon engaged in. ’But every child has tbo same right to a father's love, care, companionship and instruction which it ought to have from a mother. Because, one or many varieties of responsibility are discharged by one parent, the other is not exempt from his or her duty to themsolyos repeated in their children. I believe, though, that tho business woman has greater capacity, a higher idea of loro and devotion to hor husband as a helpmate than the samo woman can possibly develop without business ex­ perience. . Whatever of good qualities qny wife may unfoldandmanifest in hor family sho would do better had"aho bus­ iness ability andexperience. Theso aro tbo best days that havo como to women, and especially to wives, and still bright­ er hopes bespanglo the morning sky of the near future, which promises equal­ ity to women in overy department of life with"man. I f an intolloctu&l man wishes to mar­ ry a woman for the gratification of his senses, or for his diversion in leisure hours to listen to her prattle, ho will havo an-easier, quietor, happier life to marry a woman withno business ability, or if she has, with no desire to exorclso i t If such a man wishes a wife as an intellectual, moral, spiritual and sooial companion, which is the highest gift of the Creator to man, let him seok a pre­ possessing, loving, strong; affectionate, womanly character among bualnoss woraen or any othor ol&ss of women. 'I have always found in my own oxperl- enco that men whohave businessability and exercise It are quite .as.interesting as men who have bad no business abil- ty to develop, or have not sought to in­ crease what they possossed. I have found that menandwomenare so nearly akin in organization, mentally, morally and physically, that what is good for man is good for woman, and-that which makes a man most companionable as a husband makes a woman equally so as-a wife. Mon and women are oxaotly on a par with different gifts, or possessing the samegifts, manifest them different­ ly, though moro acceptably to each. Tho most successful bachelor would havo don6 better work, would havo attained more in his life-calling, had ho been well married. Every unmarried wom­ an whatever sbo has accomplished in life, .would havo dono better had aho been well married. BIDDLE! ' XENIA, OHIO. < Enlarging old pictures a specialty* Artistic Crayons, the near Opal* and Transparencies. First class work guaranteed. ' GO . HENRIE^ — CONTilACTOR FOR— Tin.Ironai » 1 ^ s p o u t in g ; AND G E N E R A L JOB W O R K Castings furnished promptly for all kinds o f Stoves. Office over Hook's Dry Goods Store, Xenia, O. Agent for Eureka Furnace. WOMEN OP OTHER LANDS. T he Spanish papers have been report­ ing that tho wife of a judge (alcalde) near. Malaga has boon performing hor husband's judicial duties while he gath­ ered in his crops. ^ . . . , S kvex Norwegian lady teaohorsst tho national schools' havo obtained govern­ ment grants varying froni l.OOOkr. to 200kr. in order to make studies in va­ rious countries—England, Germany and Sweden—in different mattorsof interest for tho schools. C ano X Wii.UERroKCK, during his tour in India, lias been speaking with moro than his usual eloquence. Ho says that' there is no sox in citizenship, and that India should dovolop the intelligence of her womon. "No nation can possibly attain strongth that is afraid to odu- cato its women.” S kxoua D ona E mima F aiuio IU zan lately delivered before the SpanishAth* cniearn at Madrid Ashort course of lec­ tures on Russia. It was tho first in­ stance in which a woman had ever bceii invited to address that body, which is composed of tho loading representatives o£Spanish literature and scholarship. A n English idea that might bo adopt­ ed with profit in this country is a school for dress-making.. Such a school is sit­ uated in tho busiost and most fashiona­ ble thoroughfaro fn London. Tho term Is six months, and a girl who goes through the eburse learns to cut fit, drape and make a dress in ovory dotall, and is given a diploma. The cost of learning is about $35. T he lot of women who are poor is a pitiable one almost anywhoro on tbe continent of Europe. Tho Gormans are emigrating and Importing women to raise bread for the army. TboGermans are colonizing Africa in order to extend their foreign trade, while the fields of fatherland aro tilled by girls gathered from every part of the home land and from foreign parts. Near Bremen, I saw a dozen girls milking cows in a large field and carrying tbe milk in palls banging on wooden yokes that rested on their shoulders. I am think­ ing that more work is done in Europe by 25per cent, by women than by men. —Correspondence of tb* Lewistown Journal. T he other day, driving through the country round about Brussels, I saw scores of women in the. fields—bent al­ most double—digging, hoeing, raking, weeding, dibbling had sowing, or turn­ ing up mantire-beaps with forks; while in front of nearly every -one of tbe in­ numerable “estamiaetr* in the villages there was a groupef lazy, hulking Flem­ ish boors smoking their pipe* and swill­ ing beer. Was this politeness, or con­ trary towards (Sie feebler sex? In Cor­ sica I have seen strings of women, With heavy burdens on their heads, trudging down the rugged mountain pathq.into Ajaccio, while themen—their husbands, brothers and sweethearts—swaggered by tbe poor women’s sideu, hinging songs to encourage them.--George Au guatua Sale. &.X. PAINE, D.D.8. KBEBRKVNOLDS,D.D.» PAINE & REYNOLDS, D E N T I S T S ! Xenia National Bank building; cor# Main and Detroit Sts., Xenia, O. Vitalized Air end Nltroua.Oxide Cas used for the PAINLESS extrac­ tion o f teeth. CHARLES E. SMITH, THE BOSS BARBER Guarantees the best work in his line o f any barber in town. Give him a call. Basement o f Orr’s building. ★ TANK HEATER. A GREAT SAVING TO ALL CATTLE FEEDERS. Stockman nbo In n tiaad tbla Beater My they would not do without them at any price. Sectional view below ehotre bow th* flame and emeke fe carried around under the bottom, giving •rant heating surface. No spark# leave the heater. One firing w ilt last from * te 7day*. 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