What Wine has done for Women.
By Ada D. Buckingham
WAR is not so sore an evil as intemperance, for some virtues can flourish on the battle-field, and some humanities can find a place of rest upon the point of the sword, but there is no room for virtues in the cup, or for humanities in the bowl. Of the worst foes that women have ever had to encounter, wine stands at the head. The appetite for strong drink in man has spoiled the lives of more women, ruined more hopes for them, brought them more sorrow, shame, and hardship, than any other evil that exists. The country numbers tens of thousands of women who are widows because their husbands have been slain by strong drink. There are hundreds of thousands of homes in which women still live lives of torture, going through all the changes of suffering that lie between the extremes of fear and despair, because those whom they love, like wine better than they do the woman they have sworn to love. The sorrows and the horrors of a wife with a drunken husband, of a mother with a drunken son, cannot be described. The shame, the indignation, the sorrow, the sense of disgrace, the poverty, (and not unfrequently the beggary,) the fear and fact of violence, the lingering and life-long struggle and despair of countless women with drunken husbands, are enough to make all women curse wine and engage unitedly to oppose it everywhere as the worst enemy of their sex. — Ada D. Buckingham. IT is the sad, sorrowful moods, the natural yet evanescent periods of depression, that foolish men and women fly to alcohol for relief. For a time the stimulant quickens the circulation of the blood, and does often seem to cheer. But remember that it does nothing more. It does not help to remove from the body the exciting causes, those agents which can only be removed by brisk exertion and active waste of the body. On the contrary, alcohol locks up the secretions; causes accumulations of the products of excretion; makes the breath heavy and disagreeable, arrests the action of the liver, and, in the most favorable seasons, leads to the very evils it is so often taken to relieve or remove. — Dr. Fooi's Health Monthly for October. 384BLEEDING from a wound on man or beast may be stopped by a mixture of wheat flour and common salt, in equal parts, bound on with white cloth. If the bleeding be profuse use a large quantity, say from one to three pints. It may be left for hours, or even days, if necessary.