284 



THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



September 



WOMAN'S WORLD. 



DR. SARAH MORRIS, WHO TREATS 

 DRUNKENNESS AS A DISEASE. 



Tralued Nursery Maids — Woman Kngi- 

 neers — The Girl Baclielor — Her Political 

 Aii;>iratiou8 — Wiimen in Public Life— Ac 

 luterestine Keniiui^cence. 



Philanthropy and science occasionally 

 get on speaking teiuis with one another. 

 When they do, it is a good thing for 

 philanthropy. 



A Buffalo woman has embarked in a 

 new work which will excite wide inter- 

 est because it is one of practical reform. 

 The need for it is a need of the hour, 

 and the woman is Dr. Sarah Howe Mor- 

 ris, known by thousands to be giving a 

 lifetime to loving, earnest work for the 

 good of the world. 



For years and by degrees Dr. Morris 

 has been getting to this special task — 

 the scientific and effectual raising not 

 of the dead, but of those sometimes 

 more hopeless, the inebriate. She has 

 endeavored to reach them through the 

 Woman's Christian Temperance union; 

 she has looked into prohibition; she 

 has labored with drunkards individu- 

 ally and in the jails. Twenty-five years 

 ago she established in Brooklyn the 

 famous Morris home, where hundreds 

 of inebriates were cU|red simply by the 

 power of gC'-d hygienic living and 

 wholesome teaching. But there has al- 

 ways been something lacking until the 

 year of grace 1896 What that some- 

 thing is and how she found it make a 

 very interesting chapter of their own. 



"Thirty years ago Horace Greeley 

 said, 'Drunkenness is a disease, not a 

 crime, ' and he was roundly abused for 

 his idea. The habitual drunkard was 

 the cherished target of the pulpit, the 

 press, the reformer and the judRe, and 

 these powers refused to have their bulls 

 eye knocked out in that e-asy way T!.o 

 drunkard was jailed with enthusii;siii. 

 and he has been kept jailed most of the 

 rime since at large expense to him and 

 to us. It is only of late that Greeley's 

 advice has struck iinme, and by the heli) 

 of scientists we are finding that it is <'« 

 wise to imprison a man for drnnkeune<s 



as it is to 'cage' him for rheumatism. 

 His disease may be, often is, his own 

 doing — most diseases are the result of 

 our own mistakes — but a disease, dipso- 

 mania, remains, and we now rightly turn 

 to the physician for the solution of the 

 great temperance problem. " 



Dr. Morris was one of the first to 

 ceme out and agree with Mr. Greeley, 

 and she has her half of a very interest- 



l)K. SAK.Xll HOWE MOKRIS. 



ing correspondence which the two car- 

 ried on over i he situation. The inebriate 

 •was a sick man He needed medicine. 

 Man cannot live by bread alone nor can 

 the drunkard be cured by moral suasion. 

 After awhile the home in Brooklyn 

 was given up, but through all these 

 long years of heavy and varying labors 

 Dr. Morris never gave up her hope of 

 finding a remedy, a specific, for the 

 liquor habit 



Strangely enough, for many of ns 

 look for notliiug practical from a re; 

 former, the suggestion that led to Dr^ 

 Morris' new work came from Francis 

 Murphy While visiting at her Buffalo 

 home he told her of a liquor cure which 

 was being used with great success. She 

 immediately went to Chicago, investi- 

 gated the remedy'and was convinced 

 that at last »he lacking something was 

 in her baud. 



With this remedy at her command, 



