Temperance And The Home

"If we save our Homes to-day, We have saved our Nation to-morrow." Tlie lectures of Dr. Mary Wood-Allen to mothers and their daughters last week were full of wise suggestions in reeard to our liomes and cbildren. She said motliers are largely responsible for the doublé standard of morality existing between their sons and daughters, and that the training wbich leads unconsciously to this result, cominences at a very early date in the child's life. That up to the age of twelve orfourteen years children of both sexes should have the same studies, training, exercise, etc, and be made uneonscious as far as possible of sex. Never excuse a boy for any immodesty, fault or rudeness, simply "because he is a boy." What ever is right for the boy, is right for the girl ; if wrong for one, wrong for the other. Mrs. Allen also gave the young ladies some excellent advice, assuring them that they, more than any one else, hold in their hands the key of the solulion o this social problem, wbich is so vexatious. That just as soon as the majority of young ladies recognize this fact, and refuse to associate with, or receive any attention whatever froui young men uot as clean and pure as theniselves, just then the reformation will begin. If the young women demand it, young men wil make theniselves their fit companions, free from the fumes of tobáceo and whiskey, and pure in life and character. HOUSEIIOLD REMEDIES. The habit of "dosiug" has a very strong hold upon the American public. We run to the medicine chest, the drugstore or the family doctor for every little ail. The patent medicine man also doth "abound in the land," and his "cure all" advertisements adorn our most conspicuous landscapes, cover the walls and roofs of farm houses and line the highways to vülage aud city. All drugstores, many dry goods stores, and even groceries keep proprietary medicines for sale, and dispose of tbem without let or hindrance. The ease with whicb poisonous drugs can be obtained accounts for much of the drug habit prevalent at the present day. These drugs do not cure disease, simply temporize with it and put off the final day of reckoning whicb must come sooner or later. Nearly all the remedies in use for the relief of the aches and pains of humanity are virulent poisons and opérate by deadeuing the action of the sensory nerves so as to prevent perceptivity. The great quantity of soporific drugs daily consumed in this country has a terrible siguificance to those who are conversant with the facts. Few persons jump into the drug habit at once, but are gradually led into it by the use of sleeping potions, beadaehe powders and catarrh cures. The easo with which these drugs may be obtained, the false promises they botli hold out for the relief of pain, coupled with the lack of knowledge extantregardingtheir poisonous action on the system, makes the dauger in their use imminent. Bad as is the habit of the selfadministration of drugs, tenfold worse is the dosing of infanta and children with soothing syrups, sleeping potions, cough syrups and the like that contain opiates aud otlier narcotics. The seeds of narcotism are thus many times thoughtlessly sown in infancy by mot her or nurse. That this is done tlirough ignorance of the true character of the remedy used and the danger incurred goes witliout saying. Few inothers would be so heartless as wilfully to endanger the welfare of their offspring by administeriug of known narcotics. It behooves tlie motlierhood of the land to study this question if they would ayoid the dauger. OUR SCEAP BAG. A protest agaiust the sale of'intoxi cants on the Fair Grounds, during the Fair, will be made by the Ann Arbor V. C. T. U. j Mrs. F. E. Britten, of] Albion, one of the popular lecturers of the W. C. T. U., was present at the last meeting, and spoke wordsof greeting and eheer. Mrs. Britten was formerly a resident of Ann Arbor, and graduated from this University. It bas been decided by the Chicago Presbytery that the chürches belonging to it must not use fermented wine for comrnunion and that unfermented grape juice must be substituted at all times. Soveral other large bodies of ministers have reached the same decisión within the past year. The Catbolic Total Abstinence Union of America celebrated its twenty-fifth anmversary at lts annual meeting last week in New York. The resolutions adbpted denounced the liquor trafflc, neking those engaged in the business to give it up, ceusured tlie publishing of liquor advertiseuients by Catholic papers, and advocated strict Sunday lawa. liev. Fatlier Cleury was reëlected president.