The Christian Advocate, wishing itself mistaken or the statistics incorrect, quotes The Apologetic, which credits Lady Isabel Somerset with saying that “fifteen years ago the ratio of arrests for drunkenness in London was five men to one woman, but it is now three women to one man. This is an astonishing statement.” The Advocate remarks further:— It is a fact of serious import that drunkenness is greatly increasing among society women in this country. The afternoon teas of many of the imitators of the highest social circles are often not confined to the “cup which cheers but does not inebriate,” but that cup is strengthened by strong liquors. Arrests of well-dressed women, not of evil reputation for other vices, increase in frequency here. Sooner or later, what society does a large number will imitate. Women throughout England have been much more in the habit of drinking at bars than they ever were in this country. In frequent visits to London we have seen literally hundreds of women going in and out of the gin places, and crowds of them in the street at eleven or twelve o’clock at night intoxicated; but never so many in London as we have seen on a Saturday night in Edinburgh.