A COCKTAIL, CIGARETTE MOTHERHOOD.

White Ribbon, Volume 39, Issue 465, 18 June 1934, Page 10

A COCKTAIL, CIGARETTE MOTHERHOOD.

Surely it seems as if there were iniluonces at work, during these passing days, seeking a semi-barliaric drift against a Christian home influence l>> way of a cork tail, cigarette motherhood. Not long ago Pr. \V. \V. Chipman. Montreal, had this to say to the Ottawa Women's Canadian Club: “Two or three cocktails a day and 30 cigarettes ill th. same period of time do not tend to make girls into good mothers’’ This issue of alcohol and the unborn child was of such pressing important * as to receive attention at the British Koval Commission on Licensing. Pr Courtenay Weeks, recognised as a medical authority, when h* tame before that Commission, as part of his evidence, quoted Pr. Louise Mcllroy. Pireclor of tlu* Obstetrical I *nit of the Koval Free Hospital, who declares: “1 think it no exaggeration to say that alcohol is a poison, and that the foetus, the unborn t hild, of a chronic alcoholic mother is itself a chronic alcoholic absorbing al cohol from the mother’s blood, and subsequently from her milk. I would claim that these are facts that ought to l>-‘ made known to every girl in the land’ When Pr Courtenay Weeks was closely examined and asked: "Are th** children necessarily inferior? Are the sin: - of the fathers visited upon the children in that respect?” he answered* "Absolutely'. The fathers have eaten >our grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge. There is no doubt about that in modern biology.”