I am told that it is becoming more and more fashionable for women to drink; and it is not very long ago that a lady of great respectability, in this city, having taken two glasses of wine away from home, became violent, and her friends, ashamed, forsook her, and she was carried to a police station, and afterward to her disgraced home.
I care not how well a woman may dress, if she has taken enough of wine to flush her cheek, and put a glassiness on her eye, she is intoxicated. She may be handed into a 2,500 dollar carriage, and have enough of diamonds to confound the Tiffanys—she is intoxicated.
She may be a graduate of Packer Institute, and the daughter of some man in danger of being nominated for the Presidency, she is drunk. You may have a larger vocabulary than I have, and you may say in regard to her that she is “convivial,’’ or she is “merry,” or she is “festive,” or she is “exhilarated”; but you can not with all your garlands of verbiage, cover up the fact that it is an old-fashioned case of drunk. —TALMAGE.
