Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 28, Number 47, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 22 January 1908 — Page 2
DRINK HABIT AMONG WOMEN ON INCREASE GROWTH OF DANGEROUS EVIL IS SEEN , Prof. Quackenbos and Dr. Parkhurat Join in Deploring Present Conditions —“Common Among All Classes,” Declares the Former Columbia Professor —Testimony of the Present Superintendent of Bellevue Hospital.
NEW YORK. —According to Prof. John Duncan Quackenbos, specialist In nervous and mental diseases, member of many American and foreign medical societies, and formerly of the Columbia university faculty, the drink habit Is spreading at an alarming rate among the women of New York. To a representative of the Sunday World he said: “It. is with real alarm that I note the rapid growth of the drink habit among women in New York city. I
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New Yorkers Becoming Hysterical
BY DR. S. T. ARMBTRONG. (Superintendent of Bellevue and the Allied Hospitals.) THE New Yorkers are becoming a hysterical people. They show, ap Increasing excitability, a dimlnishment of self control. This demonstrates itself in all forms of excesses. Less and less restraint is exercised. The extreme tension of life here is showing on the people. One sees plenty of examples of this in individual life. A vast demonstration Os it among a mass of the people is observed in the increasing hysteria of such celebrations as those of the night before the New Year. What is true of the. city men is true of the city women. The increase of drunkenness is a distressing fact It is a natural outcome of the restlessness, the overstnving, the unrestraint of present day life in New York. This subject is of tremendous importance: We should know just what we are confronting, what the future has in store for us, just where and how we are threatened. One may form an opinion as to an increasing inebriety among women from such exhibitions as those of New Year’B eve, "but beyond that it is not easy to go. There are no official statistics bearing on the question. The subject has had no investigation of scientific value. One cannot speak exactly as to condiand the poor, young and old. Girls in their teens evidently see no impropriety whatever in drinking publicly with men companions. Very often indeed I have had young girls brought to me for treatment, hysterically drunk. - - ... “I have treated within a year women whose weekly bill for champagne alone was SIOO and who filled up the intervals between their draughts of wine with highballs and cocktails. One woman drank a quart of champagne every morning, and when ready to go out her custom was to order her maid to bring her another quart. Then before leaving the house to enter her carriage she would empty the bottle to ‘steady her nerves.’ Girls Indulge in Liquor. “School misses and college girls ih great numbers are among the throng of women drinkers. A case was pointed out recently of a luncheon given here In New York at which 21 debutantes drank 36 bottles of cham pagne, and 15 of them smoked seven dozen cigarettes. “As everyone knows, the punch bowl figures largely in the growth oi the drink habit among woirfen of Net* York. It is found at all functions, anc many a girl has got her first taste oi Ljuor by a dip into it. The puact
bowl, however, is not to be blamed entirely. Many women dip into it and may do it many times without acquiring the drink habit, but many get their start there. It does give them the taste of liquor and then, with many of them, the taste for liquor. “Now, the tendency of the American woman is to go to extremes, and in drinking she over-drinks. It is dangerous for her to touch liquor at all. This is particularly true of the New York woman, because of the added excitement of life in New York. “It is hot my object to preach unless the mere statement of fact is a sermon, and the fact is New York women do drink, or rather too large a percentage of them drink, and drink to excess. If one doubts it let him go to any of our large hotels and restaurants any night and look about him. On every hand you find them and their sister visitors to New York drinking. No one thinks anything about it, and the women think they are simply doing the proper thing. Many of them drink just because they do think that way and many of them drink because they like the liquor. Do Not Want to Be Cured. “I have treated in the last eight, years 700 cases of alcoholism, with a large percentage of women, and I found in many cases where the patient was a woman that she did not, deep down in her heart, want to be cured of the habit. This fact is true especially in the case of the rich society woman. She usually comes to me either at the urgent solicitation of relatives or friends, or wtth only a surface desire to be rid of the habit.. Very few of them honestly and truly, and with their whole heart, want to be cured. “For instance, a certain woman came to me for treatment for the drink habit and seemed sincere indeed. I treated her by auto-suggestion, giving her the suggestion that she could not lift a wineglass to She went away and the xafy next night
tions, or to make comparisons between the present and the psst The records of the alcoholic and psycopathic wards of Bellevue haspital do not show the facts of inebriety even among the classes of men and women who would seek aid from this hospital. In 1904 there were 8,941 admissions to Bellevue for various forms of alcoholism. The number now is greatly less than that In 1906 it had fallen to 6,663. But even with this reduction the number of alcoholic patients is more than 25 per cent of all the patients admitted to Bellevue. But these records prove nothing in the line we would follow. The number of inebriates who seek treatment at Bellevue has fallen off simply .because an old offender who comes here is now liable to be turned over to a city magistrate, who will sentence him to an asylum as a chronic drunkard. This had the effect especially of keeping many women from taking repeated advantage of treatment at Bellevue.” What is the cure of the evil of increasing Inebriety in New York? Whatever will bring easement to the restless life in the city will lessen all forms of dissipation. The whole subject needs careful and thorough investigation to know what palliative measures can be taken. Drinking is only one symptom of what 1b wrong with us. she went with a man companion to one of our large restaurants, made no objection whatever wlien wine was ordered, and even tried her best to overcome the suggestion I had given her and drink the wine. But she found that she could not lift the glass from the table. You see, she did not really and honestly want to be cured and wasted but little time in rushing into temptation. • ... "Conditions might not be so bad, however, if women or men drank real, pure whisky, real, pure wine and real, pure Hqßors of all sorts, but they don’t. They think tftfey do, but what, they are really drinking Is a deadly poison and one-swift in Its execution. I feel safe in saying that out of 100 drinks sold In New York city as *whlsky not mere than one is the real article. Counterfeit Whisky. "But so cleverly is whisky ctrOhterfeited to-day that club connoisseurs cannot detect it, as was shown in an experiment made recently by Dr. Darlington of the board of health. Dr, Darlington went around and collected a number of samples of whisky from saloons of all classes, took the samples to his club, where he had several- of the members test them, and much to his surprise the cheap iml
tatlons of whisky were Judged to he the real thing. “It stands to reason, of course, that the great proportion of the liquoryiold Is counterfeit, when it is* known that the consumption is Car in excess of the ability of distillers and brewers to produce the geiggtae product Adulterations and criminal counterfeits must be resorted to in order to meet the demand. I will wager that there have been inmates ot Bellevue's alcoholic ward who have never tasted a drop of real whisky in their lives. They just think they have been drinking whisky, and if they had been drinking real whisky the chances are they would never have been in Bellevue. I don't say that real whisky, if taken excessively, is not harmful, but I do say that a man could'drink the pure article in moderation all hla life and not be hurt by it. Why, 15 drinks of pure whisky would not do a man the harm that one drink of this vile stuff they sell for whisky in New York would do him. Poisoned by Vile Liquor. “I know a man who' left his office one evening all tired out.-dropped into
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“A case was pointed out recently of a luncheon given here in New York at which 24 debutantes drank 36 bottles of champagne, and 15 of them smoked seven dozen cigarettes.”—Dr. Quackenbos.
a saloon of the best class and took only two drinks of their bar whisky and was lost for four days. I was called In to help find him, as he was a friend of mine, and when we found him he was in a pitiable cofiditlon, his mind was clouded, he could not remember where he had been or what he had done after leaving that saloon. He only remembered that he had taken two drinks of whisky. “The beer drinker, if he gets real beer, is handed a glass of the beverage which, to meet the demands of trade, is put out too new and improperly fermented. Beer should ho kept in the keg for six months before being sold to the drinker. “It Is rather surprising how many of our school children have become beer drinkers, especially those of foreign birth, and the habit is making them mentally sluggish to a degree that is attracting the attention of educators and philanthropists. “Another habit which is getting control of our shop girls particularly is the cocaine habit. This habit has grown in the last few years with such rapidity that to-day thousands of young girls as well as mature women and men are held In its clutches. The effect of the habit is noted in the
Dr. Parkhursi Says “It Is a Fact”
WHEN a representative of the Sunday World read portions pf Dr. Quackenbos’ article to Rev. Dr. Charles Barkhurst he said: “It is undoubtedly true, and a deplorable fact, that the drink habit is growing rapidly among the women of New York. “I have not made a real Investigation, as Dr. Quackenbos has, but one does not have to investigate; it is a fact which stares you In the face, it is all on the surface, and one cannot overlook It. “A chief reason for this Increase in the . number of women who drink is, I believe, that there has beep too much prosperity. Os course, Just now we are passing through a period of ‘hard
Rev. Dr. Charles Parkhurat. times,’ so to speak, but before the panic for a number of years the country was most prosperous, everybody had money, and life became too easy. When life is made too easy we are in a danger zone and more prone to give way to temptation. That tong period of prosperity made us too. material, alsq turned the desires of many only
dull, sunken eyes and pinched faoea, and the continuance of the use of the drug leads to nervous wreckage, delirium and insanity,”- . LITTER POSTED 32 YEARS AGO. Crossed Ocean Many Times Before Delivery to Bea Captain. A letter posted at Oarmstad, Norway, 32 years ago to CapL Thomas Nielsen of the bark Harmonia, and which has traveled across the Atlantic to and fro many times in pursuit of him, was delivered to Thomas Nielsen, a carpenter of the revenue cutter Manhattim of the local service, says a New York dispatch to the SL Louis Globe Democrat It was the right envelope, and the jdint letter it contained brought the mist to his eyes with the “news” it told of old friends and relatives in Norway, many of whom are now dead. Capt. Nielsen is now 68 years old, and has been retired from the sea for many years. The letter was from his wife, Alviner, and his brother John, who wrote to tell of an accident to an-
other brother, Nicholas, who had reJrom a sea trip with a broken leg. All three brothers are now employed on the Manhattan, and the wife, now an elderly woman, is living with her husband In Brooklyn. The envelope containing the letter was covered with postmarks, many of them so faded that they could not be made out. It was directed originally to Minoteteon, Mexico, In care of the Swedish consul, but had been directed so many times there was no further space, and when It was returned to Garmstad for the sixth time last June it had to be inclosed in another cover. The letter, which was posted January 9, 1875, had been opened and sealed with Mexican stamps bearing the date of 1876. * . J _ A Bargain. • exclaimed the husband. “You drew your savings from the to a broker’s office, and bought Z., X., and Y. stock at 14, when it has been dropping like a rock?” “But, my dear,” argued the wife. “It was such a bargain. Why, during the short time I was in the office I saw the man mark'it down to 14 from 46!” —Success Magazine.
to what they could see and eat and drink. “I suppose the growth of the drink habit has been principally among the. women of the richer classes. It Is at least reasonable to beyeye so, as they have the money and time to indulge in snch laxity. Idleness is usually dangerous. "Another phase In the drink question 1b the quality of the liquor. Dr. Quackenbos points out the shameless adulteration in whisky, but let me ask why it is tolerated? Where is our pure food law? Why, it is in our statute books, but it isn’t in the hearts or minds of those in authority or in the hearts or minds of the people who put those men In authority. If It were, the law would be enforced. “The growing tendency of the American people Is a disrespect for laws. We have plenty of good laws, but they are not enforced. That Is the whole trouble. , The men who should enforce them do not do it, and the people who elect those men to office do not make them do It, andffhey keep on. electing men who will not do it. - ~ "Our mayor is sworn to be active in the enforcement of the laws, but is he? He is not. Well,-~4f the mayor is inactive can you expect those un •der him to be otherwise? He is the man to whom the lesser officials look,and if he sets such an example, what is the resultflnactivity all along the line and our laws become mere printed matter. “We aIBO send Incompetency to ou legislative bodies in Albany. We hav< done so for years and probably wil keep on doing so. We know that w are doing it and have little or no n spect for a large majority of the me we send there, so how can we , hav respect for the laws they rpake? W cannot have respect tor those law and we have not”
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for the Oklahoma legislature to make the only provisions In the United States for the government of this offlee. Mr. Taylor is a native of Lynn, Mass., where he served as eity engineer for several years prior to coming west to Hutchinson, Kan., where he was employed as civil engineer and surveyor. Later he moved to Pratt, ■Can., and served as register of deeds ind deputy clerk of the district court, as vice president of the People's "iank of Pratt. During the palmy ’opulistic days in Kansas, while Gov: swelling was the state’s executive, Ir. Taylor was assistant state com ilssioner of insurance, and later eputy state auditor. He came to ’klahoma when the “Cherokee Strip’ as opened, and after being elected h the first state ticket of Oklahoma e began aright by becominf benedict, being married two dayi •lor to statehood to Miss Frances M kidmore of Pond Creek, which is alst Ir. Taylor’s home in Oklahoma.
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