GLEANINGS.

White Ribbon, Volume 1, Issue 13, 1 July 1896, Page 10

GLEANINGS.

Sir B. \Y. Richardson, M.D., thus summarises his address on the “ Physical Foundations of Temperance ” : (1) That the body as an engine of life is a water engine, and was never intended to be worked at the temperature provided for it by any other fluid than water. (2) That, from a purely physical point of view, alcohol is too light a fluid for the purpose. (3) That alcohol contains an element —carbon—which is not wanted for the natural part water plays in the living creation. (4) That by well diluting alcohol it may, as indeed is too often seen, make a kind of living world, but that such a world is one having two leading false quantities—a shortly-endowed bodily mechanism and an idiot’s mind, neither of which objects is of the selection and manifestation made for us by the Giver of Life. The London Technical Education Board has appointed a lecturer on the care and management of Infants. The lady, Miss Wallich, delivers in each place a course of six lectures dealing with cleanliness, clothing, washing clothing (woollen), food and feeding, treatment of ailments, and accident# ; and last, but not least, the moral traiiiing. The drink difficulty lies at the root of everything. Nine tenthsof our poverty, squalor, vice and crime spring from this poisonous tap-root. Many of our social evils, which overshadow the land like > so many upas trees, would dwindle away and die if they weie not constantly watered with strong drink. —General Booth. The view which teaches women to think of family claims as embracing their whole duty sets before them a standard of obligation which, in proportion as it is adhered to, vitiates not their lives only, but those of the men on whom their influence might be of a far nobler sort. Emily Davies.

A curfew ordinance has been introduced in several of the American States. All youths and maidens under fifteen or sixteen are forbidden the streets after the ringing of the bells, unless attended by older persons. Women’s Eire Brigades. —To Girton is due the credit of organising the first female fire-brigade. Holloway College, the London Eastern Hospital, besides several business firms, each own a woman’s brigade. An English lady writer says : “ What many women are asking about the new photography is this : Will it do away with the assumed necessity for vivisection ? ” Rosa Bonheur recently celebrated her seventy-fourth birthday. She is one of the only two French women who are legally authorised to appear in public in men’s clothes. Dr. Fenton declares, in the Nineteenth Century , that cycling has done more to improve the health of women than almost anything that has ever been invented. Under the provisions of the new liquor law, called the Raines’Bill, which came into force in New York on April sth, no woman is allowed to serve liquor. Says the New Age, the Jersey States have finally adopted the Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill, subject totheconfirmation of the Privy Council. The French ‘'Cross of the Legion of Honour " is conferred on distinguished women as well as on distinguished men. If heaven were mine, with only me in heaven, Few hells could be more hard for me to live in .—Goethe. It is prophesied that, in a few years, engine-carts and engine-cabs will entirely supersede the city horse-van and hackney-cab. “ Drinking makes thinking impossible. Some day thinking will make drinking impossible.” Messrs Novello have just issued a second and enlarged edition of Miss Mundella’s “ Day-school Hymn book.

A Home for inebriates has been taken under the patronage of the W.C.T.U. of Chandalli, India The Queen recently gave a cheque for £2OO to the Church of England Temperance Society. The Vicar of Ramsey, near Harwich (England), has nominated Mrs Isabella Saxhy, wife of a farm labourer, as his Churchwarden. At Denver, Colorado, a woman sat unchallenged among the jurors in a recent divorce case. A lady has been appointed a member of the medical staff at the Essex County Lunatic Asylum.