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PARK AND PkAYGKOUND. 30£
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While an alteration , _gratefully acknowledged by wives , daughters , and sistershas taken lace among the gentlemen of our time , in the
matter of after , -dinner stimulants p , a great , dark stain remains on those a degree below them—the stain of Gin . All our people's
amusements , or rather , almost all provided hj themselves , are mixed up and seasoned with Gin ; for beer , hot spiced ale , and the more
moderate stimulants and cordials , are but ushers of Gin , and men in waiting upon Gin . But Gin has its enemies , and they are
marshalling its reliious their and forces intellectual with vigour enemies , and in in dail the y form increasing of reformatory numbers ; ,
ragged g school , Sunday school , poor man , ' s church , and a growing liost of others ; its moral and intellectual enemies , in the form of
library , museum , cheap lecture , picture gallery , and crystal palace ; and its strong rivals clad in green and sunshine , and fraught with
grounds every hol alread y and y health provided y influence , or to be , in provided the parks , for , gardens old and , young and p .
lay-Let us hasten to join the band of liberators , the combined host which would free men and women from the bondage of Gin and its
strike family at ; and the root by so of doing every , vice we shall and every with suffering God ' s hel , from p and the blessing misery
of the beaten wife and starved children of the drunkard , himself not the least miserable of the group , to that of the felon working in
victim chains lunge in of in the the the penal dark great river colony social and —or evil the , sadder , draug hesitating still ht , more that between of speedil the a poor y midni but young g not ht
p , , more So certainl much of y fatal the , statistics than that of for drinking which her have last been penny publi was she paid d . in
in every conne form ction , that on we the should one hand hesitate with to repeat crime a and thric on e told the tale other , except with
those counteracting , agencies whose , efficacy , is established on the best testimonyAnd for both we have much information in the
. mons form of on evidence Public Houses given before in 1854 a . Committee The general of facts the House , if not of the Com in-
dividual casesare the same now as then . All persons interested in the reformation , of criminals know of the laborious self devotion of
Thomas all his leisure Wright time , of Manchester to visiting , and gaols how and for endeavoring many years to he improve gave up
and befriend the prisoners . Mr . Wright says that , from enquiries trace made their among first criminals fall to the , he drunkenness found that at of least their nine parents out . of From ten could this
cause the same the poor vice neg with lected all its child concomitants , left to wander and in then the streets the downward , acquired
not course two rap out idl of y _twenty followed could . Among say they the had convicts , good mothers at Portland ; and Island among , hi
lanthrop twenty-seven ist , onl murderers y one did who not had attribute been his befriende early d criminality by this true to it p his be
mother believed ' s , that drunkenness many girls and , even neglect at ten . years Is it old known , are , perfectl or can y lost , y a
Park And Pkaygkound. 30£
PARK AND _PkAYGKOUND _. 30 £
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1858, page 307, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071858/page/19/
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