Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-02
DRINKING.
Hints for Diners-Out and Party


One Of the latest contri buttons 10 the Htera-
ture OF the alcohol question lie an essay by DIR.
Sutherland, a Lon don expert in nervous disor-
oers, who, regarding wine a. "a good friend,
but bad enemy" and recognizing, moreover
the imprs cticahliity of total abstinence in a
social system which includes dinner parties,
evening entertainments with supper, ETC., lays
down tor the guidance of "those who suspect
they are taking habitually larger allowance of
alcohol than IL COMP atible with health" the
"Alcohohc stimulsnts should never be taken
in the morning before lunch. If one be Obliged
TO do 30 hsbituslly IL is certain that alcohol Is
ne will not easily throw off. II, in exceptional
ca es, person be called upon to undergo unu-
suai fatigue In the morning, and feels the neces-
slty for stimulsnt, glass OF beer may be TAX
wine or spirits III the morning.
III any one fears that he is taking too much
cobol, the easiest way 10 limit the quantity is
u drink the same allowance of the same wine
every day. This, for various reasons, should be
own shtrrg, and should be taken as follows:
Ether two gia sss after lunch, and two after
dinner, or one and half after lunch, the same
after dinner, and one with q biscuit in the
afternoon. Daring lunch and dinner, water
must b crank, ana wine taken only at the end
mo healthy man should ever take more
than iou tiasses OF wine daily as his usual al
lowaI &C. and should reduce this to three if pos
slbe. Those who are accustomed to wine should
not take less than this every day.
"IhOse who wish to bee me teetotaIers shoult
leave of aic hol very gradually, and the period
during which this reformation is brought abO u
seOuld extend ever not less than two years
No healthy man should ever touch spirits,
whether raS or diluted except under especially
exceptional circumstances, as, for instance
after great exposure to wet or cold. Liquors
at dinner are also to be avoided.
Roughly sps aking, one tumblerful of beer
contains about the same amOut of RlcohO, 4s
one wneglassful of wine or half q gIassful OF
brandy.
"Ladies who are in good health should take
an Gh a F.aln raN h.
half ordinarily at dinner; one glass of cham
payne and one of clsret at dinner parties; and
balls.
Ladies in delicate health, who are going to
ride In the park, If they have breskfsstsd early
aud do not lunch until late, may take glass OF
Dry sherry and biscuit before starting for
"Men, at dinner, may take a glass Of sherry
with their soup, If they have not had one in the
afternoon, no hook; glass and a half of cham
payne, and one of sherry or cIsret after dinner
III they Will keep to this they may dine out as
often as they like, and 1t will not hurt them.
cat public dinners the same rule should be
observed; but as there are occasions on which il
Is almost impossible to avoid drinking much, 1t
Is then recOmme nded that they should either
nave tum oierfsl or water by their side, and
drink mOuthful OF IL after every sip of wine
or that they should drink champagne and
seltzer-Water; half and half all through din.
ner.
cat balls, the safest drink az refreshment i.
claret-eup. Bad claret is the least Offensive
bad wine. A biscuit should be taken with il
1t is astonishing what recuPerstive powers there
are In biscuit.
eat supper, under all circumstances cham
payne should be diluted with seltzer-water IL
the champagne be questionable, claret-cuD
should be taken, or beer, If IL can be got.
brandy and soda water should be avoided as
rank poison. Diluting the brandy does not
destroy the perniciOus OBJECTS, and the soda
water, by its bulk, acts most iniuriously by sep
srsting the from the walls Ofthe stomach, thus
preventing the gastric juice from having free
access to 1t and assisting in the process of dges-
ton.
"lf these rules have been neglected and a
severe bilious headache be the result, nothing
short OF an emetIc, which may consist OF table,
spoonful OF mustard in tumbler OF hot water,
will be effeetual.
"f person suspect that he has taken bad
wine, and fears the result, il is a good plan TO
take about thirty grains of carbonate of soda
on the same night, before going to bed.
1.-The best kind of supper TO have at home il a
biscuit and glass of vater."
In connection with the caution given above
against soda water, it may be mentioned that
the beverage known by that name in England
is usually really made of soda, whereas what / D
errOneously called ''sOda water here is simply
water highly charged with carbOnic acid gas
ana forms an innocent drink. With this excrp-
ton DIR. Sutherland's rules are quite As appli-
cable TO this latitude as to England.-NelU FORK
World,