Drunkardess

I remember a time (not so very long since) when the slaughter of a single man or woman sufficed to rouse the whole country to the highest pitch of excitement, to fill all the newspapers with immense columns of details and particulars, leaders, pleaders, observers, and examiners, which was daily renewed in shape and colour, with additional remarks, and so kept up the steam for a month or more, until another drunkard happened to suffocate another drunkardess, when the wheel set to turn on its rounds and round abouts again, till new orders.

These vulgar drunkardesses are only fit themes for such papers as the Alliance News; and yet socially their degeneration may be productive of more harm than the demoralizing influence of half-a-dozen eau-de-cologne swillers in Mayfair or Belgravia.

He is a good German, and he never brings presents to any little boys or girls who ever expect to be drunkards or drunkardesses.

The drunkardess was as profane, as shameless, as maudlin, and as pitiable a wreck as her brother drunkard often is.

He [William Lane] also complains that while Mary was a member of his household she acquired the habit of drinking, and is now a habitual drunkard or drunkardess.

The following list of drunkards and “drunkardesses” were given ten days by Mayor Westcott this morning in lieu of the usual fine of $3.67: William Campbell, Julia Lamont, Sara Paxton and Samuel Bacon.

John Kissinger says that it was on the first day of May, 1893, that Florence put her hand in his and promised to love and obey. He charges that she has forgotten all about this, that she has become an habitual drunkardess and has been frequently fined in police court because of her affection for the cup that inebriates though it cheers.

Lovette Babcock cast as Oletha Middlecraft, made a bewitching young drunkardess.