BEER-DRINKING WOMEN

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 23, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 37.

BEER-DRINKING WOMEN.

THE Chicago Tribune quotes a restaurant keeper in that city as saying that many women in Chicago are becoming great beer-drinkers. He says: "Ten years ago the spectacle of a woman drinking beer while lunching was so rare as to cause comment. Now they come in droves and order with the familiarity of veterans their favorite brands, and many of them have so far cultivated the failing of their masculine brethren that they are not happy unless they also have a plate of Limburger. Wines and stronger drinks are little called for, but the growth of the beer-drinking habit is astonishing, and although I am in the business, to me it is really alarming."

The beer propagandism of the present period, especially among the women, as in Chicago, and among the young of both sexes, is the greatest obstacle the temperance reform now has to contend with. The doctrine enunciated by the Supreme Court of the United States, that the brewery and the beer saloon are nuisances which the people of any State may cause to be abated and destroyed, should be everywhere and unceasingly proclaimed and enforced.—National Temperance Advocate.