PRESIDENT ELMENDORF, of the Chicago Citizens' League, in a temperance speech recently delivered at Youngstown, Ohio, gave it as his opinion that in Chicago one woman in every twenty-five is a drunkard. And this degrading vice is not confined to the lower classes, but invades all ranks of society. Neither is it peculiar to Chicago. Drunkenness is as prevalent in other cities, and the speaker said he has reason to believe that women and boys are becoming victims of strong drink. Mr. Elmendorf gave the following startling chapter of personal experience, the scene being laid in Chicago:— “I took a ride one Sunday night between eleven and one o'clock, visiting the chief police stations. My eyes were opened as to female inebriety. In the Desplaines Street station alone, I saw thirty-five girls reeling into their cells, singing, ‘O how I love Jesus,’ and other Moody and Sankey songs. They had just been arrested in one State Street dive—one of the infamous number well named by the Inter-Ocean ‘the hell hole.’ At all the stations, without exception, I found drunken women, and generally they were noisy. In one case I arrived just as a batch of five young women were being locked up, and so beastly besotted were they that they had to be carried into the lockup. All were richly dressed. “Among the non-criminal classes do you hold that your indictment holds good? “Very measurably, though I doubt if the average is so high. Of late years the custom has been to send liquors home; and I know there is a great deal of drinking among women on account of this increased facility offered in bottled liquors. This is the opinion of several eminent Chicago physicians. A proof of the increased intemperance of the sex is the now admitted need, and effort to supply it, of an inebriate woman's home—a Washingtonian Home for the sex.”—Review and Herald.