Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28
DRINKING.
Hints TO Dinners. Out and Party. G GERS.

One or the latest contributions
the literature of the alcoholic ques
ton is an essay by DIR. Sutherland,
London expert in nervous disorders
who, regarding wine as ga good friend
but a bad enemy" and recognizing
moreover, the impracticabiity of tota
abstinence in social system whicI
includes dinner.parties, evening enter
tainments with supper, etc, lay
down the guidance OF "those who sus
pect they are taking habitually large
allowance of alchohol than is com
patlble with health" the following
rules:
"Alcoholic stimulant should never
be taken in the morning before lunch
If one be obliged to do so habitually
it is certain that alcohol is gradual,
getting hold on the individual, whicl
he will not easily throw off. II, in ex
ceptional cases, person be called
upon to undergo unusual fatigue il
the morning, and feel the necessity
for stimulant, glass of beer may be
taken. No one in good health should
ever take wine or spirits in the morn.
ing,
"lf any one fear that he is taking
too much alcohol, the easiest way to
limit the quantity is to drink the same
allowance 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 q
half after lunch, the same after dinner,
and one with biscuit in the afternoon
During lunch and dinner, water must
be drunk, and wine taken only at the
end of the meal.
"No healthy man should ever take
more than four glasses of wine daily
as his usual allowance, and should re-
duce this to three if possible. Those
who are accustomed TO wine should
not take less than this every day.
"Those who wish to become teeto-
talers 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 ever touch
spirits, wheather raw or diluted, ex-
cept under specially exceptional cir
cumstances, as, for instance, after
great exposure to wet or cold. Ii
quors at dinner are also to be avoided.
"Roughly speaking, one tumbler-
full Of beer contains about the same
amount of alchohoi as one wlneglassful
of wine or half a wineglassful of bran
dy.
"Ladies in good health should take
one glass of sherry or claret at lunch;
one and half ordinarily at dinner;
one glass OF champagne with seltzer-
water at balls.
Ladies' in delicate health, who are
going to ride in the park, if they have
breakfasted early and do notlunch IN
til late, may take glass of dry sher-
ry and a biscuit before starting for
their ride
"Men, at dinner, may take glass
of sherry with their soup, if they have
not had one in the afternoon, no hook;
glass and half OF champagne and
one of sherry or claret after dinner
If they will keep to this they may dine
out as often as they like and it will
not hurt them.
CAT public dinners the same rule
should be observed; but as there are oc-
casions on which it is almost imposs-
BILE to avoid drinking much, it is then
recommended that they should either
have tumblerful of water by their
side, and drink mouthful of it after
every sip of wine, or that they should
drink champagne and settler water,
half and half all through dinner
SAT balls, the safest drink as refresh
ment is claret-cup. Bad caret is the
least offensive bad wine. A biscuit
should be taken with it. 1t is aston
lshibg what reparative powers there
are in biscuit.
Sat supper under all circumstances,
champagne should be diluted with
settler. water. If the champagne be
questionable, claret cup should be ia
ken, or beer, if it can be got.
Swine should never be taken I'M
diluted, especially on an empty stom
ach, when one is hot and dusty This
rule particularly applies to travelling.
"Brandy and soda-water should be
avoided as rank poison. Diluting the
brandy does not destroy its pernici-
GUS effects; and the saltwater, by its
bulk, acts more injuriously by separa-
ting the food from the walls of the
stomach, thus preventing the gastric
juice from having free access TO it and
assisting in the process of digestion
"If these rules have been neglected,
and a severe bilious headache be the
result, nothing short of an emetic,
which may consist of a teaspoonful Of
mustard in tumbler of hot water,
will be effectual.
eff a person suspect he has taken
bad wine, and fear the result, it is a
good plan to take about 80 grains of
carbonate ofsoda, on the same night,
before going to bed
"The best kind of supper to have at
home is biscuit and glass of water"
In connection with the caution given
above against soda it may be men,
toned that the beverage known by that
name in England is usually made Of
soda, whereas what is enormously
called "soda water" here is simple
water charged with carbonic gas, and
forms an innocent drink. With this
exception Dir. Sutherlaod's rules are
quite as applicable to this latitude as
to England.
aa- The present system for penal
servitude for women in England is
one of solitary confinement, and it