New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-01-07
Taking a Drink

We have nothing to say to the morale of drinking 1t
is sufficient for that almost all people in all countries
do either to greater less extent indulge in the
tom and is very questionable whether those who not
much improve the matter by of opium and ar
ssnc. In country at least, brandy and water
whisky mixed liquors rule paramount and supercede
every other style and iusrumenality Of exbilaraton.
drink is conceived to be necessity Whether to
friendship terminate hostility to make an ac-
quaintance to call out do honor intro
ducton magnify favor the readies and most accept
able Is supposed to be found through drink
OnG invited to indulge before dinner sharpen his
petite at dinner to relish his food and subsequently
settle 1t He is requested in the mornng because
customary and in the evening because it is necessary
The shaking of hands be performed with true cor
diaity unless cemented by drink, Hopalitg flags un-
less spurred by drink Every class and all times reeog
nize the binding force of the continue its
prevalence
We have been astonshed at the multiplicity of coca
which call this acknowledgement and warrant its
acceptance They countless and innumerable-oee.
pyng all hours aud monopozing all occasions; seized
upon with avidty and assidunusly encouraged Men
drink to honor birth death for business pur
poses from Friendship and because they like it 1t would
to be prevalent idea that the heart was most i'm
medatey reached through the throat and that the afrt-
tons were moved by liquor the liver is supposed to be-
affected by caome II is very evident that some u1p,i
lar belief attached to which SO universally OBJ
tains, aud is so supremacy acknowledged
The custom of taking drink general that the man
ner is almost equally notable. One man. who drinks in
order to greet the return OF his friend hardly swallows
sufficient to mosten his throat Another who drinks be-
he requested pours down the liquor as though
bottomess pit yawniug receive the contents q
his glass lady merely touches her lips old soldier
dains to The very dregs MIR Brown by his consderate
manner OF pouring from the doanter glass will be
able to friends all day while Mr. Smith less
careful in his philosophy will be put bed in very me-
odious state before dinner
Our people do not acknowledge the old writer who sang
2fsiioa adore. They put out Of the door ard
stick strongly to manufactured beverages The wisdom
of the practice lies with themselves we have nohne
to say Only sometimes the custom becomes n NUISANCE
and costs in the shape If cocktails much more than it
GENES to. Our community is specially marked by
the habit 1t rules as largely in the North and West as
here and in Great Britain the United States In fact
the taking OF drink has became necessity as well as a
custom, and cannot be abrogated by all the Maine
Laws prayed for 1t has been sanctioned by the
poets from Anscreon to Tom Moore by the noytsts
and terateurs in general The world has accented the
hsbit and recognized its propriey The verb to drink
Is corrugated daily in all moods and lenses from drink to
drunk between the Aroostook and Rio Grande We arc
invited to honor the custom while recording its pre-
yslenee.