Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1890 — TEMPERANCE COLUMN. [ARTICLE]

TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

* WORK OF CATHOLIC WOMEN. The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America, at its twentieth annual convention held recently at Pittsburg, was addressed by Miss Sal lie Moore, of Philadelphia. Greetings trom the W. C. T. U., of Pennsylvania, and from the Non-partisan W. C. T. U., of ceived with applause; It was Resolved. That, appreciating the good work done by our women’s socie ties in giving added strength, tenderness and enthusiasm to the cause of total abstinence, we earnestly desire the extension of the work among the women of the land, and to bring thi* more effectively before our intelligent and devoted Catholic women, we recommend that this convention address a special appeal for this purpose tt> the Catholic women of America. CIGARETTE ADVERTISING. Every firm manufacturing cigarettes has striven to outdo every other in the nuthber and the nastiness of the pictures with which it tries to coax custom. This has come to such a pass that every firm spends a fortune each year on its pictures. One lithographic flam in Philadelphia furnished, last year, one cigarette company with 15,000,000 pictures, besides 100,000 albums for prizes for buying the greatest number of cigarettes. It did a similar amount of work for other firms. It is estimated that for the last five years the leading cigarette manufacturers have paid, in the aggregate, at least $2,000,000 annually for these pictures. Now they have gone into a “combine,” whose central object is to reduce the expense of advertising cigarettes. As the pictures have been the most expensive part of this advertising, work in this direction is to be largely curtailed, if not dropped altogether.—Union Signal.

THE USE OF aLCOHOLTC DRINKS ON

NURSING WOMEN. Dr. Jacobi, of New York, in a recent discussion before the section on children’s diseases of the New York Academy of Medicine, contended that so long as a nursing woman was secreting healthy milk there was but little danger that any deleterious matter which might be floating in * the blood could get into it, but as soon as the woman became anaemic, or got below par in her general health, the secretion from the breast would not be simpiy milk, but part of it would be watery and other material foreign to its normal composition. Whatever was floating in the water of the blood would find its way then into the breasts and into the baby. He denied that alcohol would increase the secretion of milk; The utmost that could be said for it was that a small quantity, if regularly given, might not be harmful. Alcohol acts in the same way as other foods containing carbon and the elements of water, the carboi* hydrates, and its benefits can be equally well obtained by administering carbohydrates in some other form, namely, by milk and farinaceous foods. A nursing woman needs nearly twice as much as a woman in ordinary condition. Extra diet should be Jtftken to supply this need. That nursing women requires malt liquors is an ancient and very popular belief, which does not rest, however, on any solid foundation. In the interest of the babies, Dr. Jacobi’s attack on this venerable superstition is welcomed. The above note on “The Use of Alcohol by N ursing Women” occurs in the editorial department of the British Medical Journal, and for that reason will carry additional weight as an unexpected declaration of opinion from a source in which a more favorable opinion of Christian Advocate. NOTES. A confirmed drunkard, of Kansas City, seventy-three years of age, recently committed suicide because his daughter-in-law would not give him money with which to get more whiskey. The French Temperance Sooiety of Paris has offered an international premium of l,ooof. for the best original work on alcoholism and its cure. The competition will close on tho last day of 1890. The Bishop of Bloomfortein has resolved on prosecuting an earnest temperance work in South Africa. At the outset he will particularly devote himself to the Bechuanaland police and the workfork of the British African Company. The Lord Mayor, of York, England, after tracing the] progress made in temperance during the last thirty years —in social customs, religious observances, and domestic life—says he has faith in all Kinds of moral suasion, but not in them alone. They must be accompanied by legislation.

To Catch Mice.

New York Tribune. A paper mouso-trap? Certainly; and an uncommonly good one, too. It was invented—ordiscovered; Joeh Billings used to say that all our inventions are mere discoveries—by a bright little housekeeper in a neighboring city, after this fashion: Despite all screens, the übiquitous fly persisted in visiting her kitehen, and to stop this buzzing she bought some sticky fly-paper and told madame the cook to display its attractive and retentive surface freely in various parts of the room. And it was so. But the next morning there was a sound of squeaking and of squealing, and lo! upon a sheet of the piper which had been laid flat upon the tub lids, was a Master Mus Musoulus, very much distressed in mind, and as to all four feet very much stuck fast. Thereafter, whenever mice became troublesome, a sheet of the paper was laid near their run, with a sure repetition of the above result Up to .date eight have been thus ta>en, and the paper still holds grod. No patent applied for. *.