Five hundred children of soldiers are being cared for in the great Homes founded by Mr. Quarrier in Scotland, and most of them are there because of drinking mothers. _Facts in Reports_ A soldier’s wife at Biggleswade spent her allowance on drink and left her three children locked up in the house for days at a time. _Police Court Records of Biggleswade, September 1915_ A soldier’s wife was found reeling in the streets of Dublin with a baby in her arms. At her home were found four other children, cruelly neglected. _Facts in “Dublin Mail,” August 16, 1916_ Nineteen hundred children of soldiers have come into the care of the N.S.P.C.C., mainly through drink, since the war began. _Records of the N.S.P.C.C._ The Ruined Wives Who does not remember the terrible rush for the last drop of drink when Prohibition seemed to be coming with the New Year? Long queues of women besieged the whisky shops in Glasgow. There were women of all ages, said the _Daily Mail_, tottering in grey hairs, young wives with babies in their arms, and men of the loafer type. “There was not a respectable citizen,” says the _Mail_, “who did not deplore this discreditable scene, but the remarks of passers-by provoked only torrents of insult.” The promise of the new year and the new Government, alas, was not fulfilled, and now in place of Drink Queues we have Food Queues. Let us see what drink is doing among our soldiers’ wives: Of 3000 soldiers’ wives being cared for in South London, 2000 are splendid, while 1000 are sinking daily to lower and lower levels through drink. _Records of Shaftesbury Society_ A soldier’s wife, with a separation allowance of 32_s._ 6_d._ a week, drank most of it away, ruined her home, neglected her children, and became a lunatic. _Records of Claybury Asylum_ A young soldier’s wife, hitherto “quite an elegant type,” is rapidly becoming a drunkard. Women hitherto sober have not the courage to keep from women’s drinking parties, and young girls come out of factories and go to publichouses in little groups. _Records of Charity Organisation Society_ Outside a public house in Dublin 15 small children were crying in the cold, waiting for their mothers. Ninety-four drunken women came out in 25 minutes. There were ten drunken soldiers, and two girls of 15 were thrown into the street hopelessly drunk. _Facts in “Irish Times,” April 20, 1915_ In Dundee over 170 wives of soldiers gave way to drink last year, and cruelly neglected their homes. _Records of the N. S. P. C. C._