Our Honoraries and the White Ribbon.

White Ribbon, Volume 17, Issue 193, 15 July 1911, Page 7

Our Honoraries and the White Ribbon.

ArorsTA C. Bainhridoe. Should they wear it? Wear a ribbon, just like a woman? Does it not look womanish on a man ? Does it ever do any good ? Is it not rather a sign of weakness, and a source of ridicule? Some prefer the little white enamelled pin ; but the hero of our story wore a ribbon bow, made by his wife, cut from the same bolt that hers was, and made just like hers. You could not have told them apart. He wanted it so. He was a business man, and he wore it always, on the street, at home, in the store, on Sundays and on week days. So, of course, he wore it as usual to the Business Men’s Club, of which he was a member. Most of the men knew him, and counted him brave to wear that sign. (»n this day there was a larger attendance than usual; some came who were seldom present and there was one who had never seer, our honorary brother before, and had no idea what the white ribbon meant. He said, at the close of the meeting, “Come, boys, let us go into the next room for some liquid refreshments.” The man who stood next him gave him a “Shut up” nudge. Several reproving glances came his way, and one whispered to him, “Sh, ah, see that white ribbon,” while one man, a little bolder than the rest, said, “ No, not while we have a member who wears the w hite ribbon.”

Someone then explained to him what the white ribbon meant; and he slipped quietly away, and said no more about liquid refreshment. “ Little, silent pleader for the right,” hold on your way. None can measure your might.