. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal ^nxt^mnltmt* An Alarming Habit and Custom. ^^Ds. AcEicuLTUBisT: A Loiidoii correspon- j'*^ dent of the Sau Francisco Chronicle al- J^ ludes to the curioiis custom of women yef frequenting bar-rooms with the same freedom as men. Respectable-looking wemen, with their prayer-books, stojj on their way from church, call for whatever drink they like, and enjoy it with a cracker. In hiring a servant, too, the custom preva
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal ^nxt^mnltmt* An Alarming Habit and Custom. ^^Ds. AcEicuLTUBisT: A Loiidoii correspon- j'*^ dent of the Sau Francisco Chronicle al- J^ ludes to the curioiis custom of women yef frequenting bar-rooms with the same freedom as men. Respectable-looking wemen, with their prayer-books, stojj on their way from church, call for whatever drink they like, and enjoy it with a cracker. In hiring a servant, too, the custom prevails to agree to furnish a certain amount of beer daily, or to pay them a stipulated siim as beer money. A mass-meeting was held on Ash Wednes- day in one of the theatres to discuss the pro- priety of opening museums and other places of amusement on Sunday in order to win peojjle from the drinking saloon or public house. One speaker argued that it was im- possible to induce the people to give up any enjoyment without offering another in its stead. Can it be possible that the opening of places of popular I'esort for amusement will lessen the sale of stimulating drinks? The one calls for the other; and in a country where both sexes patronize the bar, surely they would not pass them by without their jjatronage in go- ing or coming from the museum or other place of amusement. We Americans should be charitably inclined towards those whose taste for fermented or spirituous liquors comes to them from both father and mother for generations. Our duty here in cosmopolitan California should be to helji the dear children of such parents to over- come their inheritance, which is often a source of grief to the parents, but which they find it impossible to cure in themselves. Santa Cnnz, May, 1875. Nell Van. [We also ascertain on good authority that ladies in San Francisco are learning to smoke tobacco as a fine accomplishment, and say that it is " the thing" in the di(e of society!
Size: 1584px × 1578px
Photo credit: © Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcollection, bookpublishersanjose, booksponsorsloanfoundation
