The daily gazette., 1874-12-12
EOlEMBER. az u. 1874. PRICE lOs,1T:
Hints to Dtners-0wt and PorSv-
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On of the latest contributions to
the literature OF the aIcohols quest ion
Is an essayby DR.. Sutherland, Lon.
don expert In nervous disorders, who,
wine as "a good friend. but
a bad enemy" and, recognizing,
moreover, the impracticability of total
abstinence In social system which
Includes dinner-parties, evening enter
tainments with supper, &cl, lays down
for the guidance of "those who suspect
they are taking habitually a larger al
lowance Of alcohol than is compatible
with health" the following rules:
Alcoholic stimulants should never
be taken In the morning before lunch.
II one be obliged to do 80 habituaily,
1t Is certain that alcohol is gradually
getting hold on the individual, which
he will not easily throw off. If, in
exceptional cases, person be called
upon to undergo unusual fStiKue in
the morning, and feel the necessity for
a stimulant, q glass Of beer may be ta-
ken. No one in good health should
ever take wine or spirits in the morn
ing. .Ia. ~ M
Ii anyone fear that he is taking too
much alcohol, the easiest way to limit
the quantity is to drink the same al
lowance of the same wine every day.
This, for various reasons, should be
brown sherry, and should be taken as
follows: either two glasses after lunch
and two after dinner, or one and a half
after lunch, the same after dinner, and
one with biscuit in the afternoon.
During lunch and dinner, water must
be drank, and wine taken at the end of
the meal
mo healthy man should ever take
more than -four glasses of wine daily
as an usual allowance, and should
reduce this to three if possible. Those
who are accustomed to wine should
not take less than this every day.
Those who wish to become teetota-
lers should leave off alcohol very
gradually, and the period during
which this reformation is brought about
should extend over not less than two
years.
No healthy man should touch spirits
whether raw or diluted, except under
specially exceptional circumstances, ,as,
for instance, after great exposure to
wet or cold. Liquors at dinner are
also to be avoided. l.
| Roughly speaking, one tumblcrful
OF beer contains about the same
amount of alcohol as one wineglassful
of wine or half wineglassful of bran.
ldy
Ladies who are in good health
should take one glass of sherry ol
claret or lunch one and half ordi
narily at dinner one glass of cham
lpagne and one of claret at dinner par
ties /; and two glasses of champaign
with seltzer water at balls.
Ladies in delicate health, who ar
going to ride in the park. if they hav,
breakfasted early and do not lunch til
late, may take a glass of dry sherry
and biscuit before starting for thief
ride.
Men, at dinner, may take a glass o
sherry with their soup, il they hav,
not had one in the afternoon, no hook
glass and half OF champagne an.
one of sherry or elaret after dinner
If they will keep to this they may din
out as often as they like and il will
, not hurt them.
Il At public dinners the same rule
shOuldbe. observed; but as there are oc
casiOns ON which it is almost impossi
BILE to avoid drinking.inuch, it is thel
recommended that they should eithe
, have tumblerful of water by thei
side, andsdrink a:mouthful of it afte
every sip of wine,o or they should drin
: champagne and seltZer-water, half an
half, all through dinner
| At balls, the safest drink as refrcsl
ment is claret-cup. Bad claret is tn
least offensive bad wine. A biscui
should he taken with it. 1t is astonisl
ing what 'reparative powers there ar
in a biscuit.
II At supper, under all circumstance.
champagne should be diluted wit
seltzer-water. II the chamgagne b
questionable, clarct-cup should b
9 taken, or beer, if it can be got.
Wine should never be taken undil,
;. ted, especially on an empty stomach
kwhen one is hot and dusty. This rul
particularly applies.to travelling.
Brandy and sotla-water should h
Iavoided as rank poison. Diluting I'll
Ibrandy does not destroy its pernicio,
Ieffects; and tile soda water, by its bull
. acts most injuriously by separating I'll
, food from the walls of the stomacl
thus preventing the gastric juice fro
Having free access to it and assistir
in the process of digestion.
I'll If these rules have been neglecte
land severe bilious headache be IL
J. result, nothing short of an emeti
(which may consist of table spoonf
of mustard in a tumbler of hot waite
/ Twill be effectual.
If a person suspect that he has take
"a bad wine, and fear the result, il is
Igoo1 plan to take about thirty grail
of carbonate of soda, on the samenigh
before going to bed.
The best kind of supper to h ave
home is biscuit and glass of \vate
In connection with the caution Civ,
above against soda-water it may
:: mentioned that the beverage know
= by that name in England is usr ,al
j really made of soda, whereas VIII, at
erroneously called ''soda-water" he
is simple water highly charged wi
carbonic acid gas, and forms an in q
cent drink. With this exception J