The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-12-30
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THE VERY SOCIAL" HABIT OF TAKING SOME.
THING"


! I''Monseur X" In New York Sun
Physiciars say that nearly two-thirds o.
their male patients suffer in one way or an
other from alcoholic poison.
| No close observer will be inolined to doubt
| this.
| I went into the basement of one of Goth
| ANS greatest architectural piles this mornin a
and stood at the end Of the counter half an
| hour to zee what We done.
There were four bar-tenders, all busily On.
| gagged
In that brief time they sold TO ali sorts and
conditions of men, 200 beers, 80 WHISTLES, 10
lemonadts. plain ssltzeEs ind gin cock
tails
! be sure bot as took my seat at q little table
near the centre, noticed ia the next half
hour, and made q mePorandum to guard
kies and gin cocktails
The men who drank were not "bups."
Very many OF them ere known to the world
Of politics, several are noted writers, the City
Hall form shed it's quota, come do Business in
the swamp, aud not one seemed in the least
degree affected by what he drank
leaving hi, this place; we went to another
to, pay an annual rent of $50 { 90 for the PEE.
misses. which are kept open from eight O'Clock
in the morning until reven in the evening
placed at one de of the room, l devoted
half an hour to a clt IS count Of the drinks and
drinkers.
.,
all they could do to attend promptly to the
customers.
One company of sig yeupg men drank six
times in less than fifteen minutes, ard each
took his whisky straight.
IN half an hours time that bar sold SO
WHISTLES, four gi1ger ales, ciders and IA gin
cocktails.
AS went out said to one of the six young
men who drank six tim. s, What are you
drinking so much 70 to-dayf"
"oh, nothing" he replied az didn't in
fzFf6 A6 iii arx1 -, 80.
ter, and were ordering when those four fell
lows from Albany came along. Charley
asked them to drink. and one followed the
other"
That's the history of many q spree. The
spree doesn't intend to come off, bat meeting @
friend one teDpts the other.
Returning to the saloon visited first, or
dered q loRch and was soon ioined-I always
am-by an acquaintance, who, of course, said,
"WhaCI you take 2"
Being i9 taking mood, said would try
said: How and emptied our glasses, 1
said, Rufus, what did you drink that whisky
for ! Do you like itf"
"No, ! don't ike it. I am drinking too |
much, too. Guesa I'll pull up"
for 2"
~, Why, for soeisbility''s sake, 1 suppose.
" BscaIs' 1 wanted TO ask this question.
I've been looking at the fellows drink there,
ard believe the: eight ont Of ten drink just
Does it make your head ache to drink
"h' Yssy"
$50 it does mine. swore of whisky and
took to beer, but beer makes me bilious"
"Why drink apythiEgi"
Hanged If know; out we all do drink"
We were joined by actor. Being an
actor, and in the company of q newspaper
nan, there WAS, he thought, but one thing to
10.
Said he. "What'l you takeH"
We took whisky.
So did he
We each slid, Glow" and then said Dan,
do yon like whisky y
81 hate it."
"Why do you drinkitf1
/ don't often. I generally take gin bot {
hey both upset me ; give me fearful head
ohe: Bot what are you going to dot Must
rink something"
In that way have spoken to not less than
wenty men in this very day. Of the twenty,
fifteen R1id that drink always gave them q
owned that he "loved the
aste,' aud one confessed thst he was ION q I
ear" and he didn't "care who knew it."
1t stands to reason that this sort of thing q
nnst produce some impression on the human
orm divine.
The doctors ssy it induces paralysis, indi- L
estion, headache, rheumatism and weakness =
f many kinds.
Not being q DOCTOR don't attempt to in j
OF their opinion but this will say, that Q
mOng all the hundreds of drinkers, regular q
opers-not drunkards-to be found in the o
impossible to fud dozen men who will say :
hat they drink because they are fond of
quor.
They drink because it seems to be "the thing c
D do"
Tho popularity of JurgielewicE's Anti .
heumatio Mixture s steadily Increasing because Of
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