Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-11-22
JOHN BULL AND HIS BEER.

scriptions of social gatherings, dinners, sup
wine or the beer or the punch. 1t is a part
of his civilization and of his domestic lifo.
And in truth John Bull gets along remarkably
well for steady drinker. 1t seems to us that
water drinking communities. A recent writer
who has visited England, speaks of John Bull
propensity to beer drinking as follows In
Great Britain everybody, appropriately speak
ing, drinks wine, ale or beer-women and
children not excepted A very large majority
of the English people look upon ale and beer
as being quite as necessary part of their liv-
ing as tea and coffee-and as being quite as
legitimate, too In the United States drinks
that will intoxicate have been nearl y banished
from good society, except in fashionable life
and among the lower strata of the people. In
England man who does not drink is some
thing of an oddity Abstinence is looked
upon as whim; few can detect in it a real
principle When the Temperance people get
together, they do, indeed, make fair muster,
but when they have dispersed, and gone
hither and thither to their homes, they are
few and far apart. Nearly all families keep
a jug of beer or ale in the house, and all par
take of it daily. When the jug is empty, the
wife or daughter thinks nothing of running to
the public house for a new supply. In the
United States, our drinking places, or saloons
fhav ara ravar oollad sa1oonc in Graot RritiapA
are mostly places where woman is rarely
seen, and where men are often ashamed to be
seen. The English public house is compare
lively respectable. The occupation itself is
considered reputable, and the most attractive
house fronts in almost any business street,
are these of the public houses Within they
contrast very favorably with other places of
business, and the tidy, good looking barmaids
are feature much more calculated to attract
than repel good custom. When people all
drink beer, the places where beer is sold can
not well be other than reasonably decent
would not be understood as saying that the
average English public house is thoroughly
reputable place, but it is less Objectionable
thdA Oui ALdeiICdu SdlOOl LII IlOSG puDLc
houses girls wait upon the bar, and, so far as
| can see, they are generally quite as intelli-
gent and well behaved as those who wait upon
customers in other branches of business. At
any busy part of the day you would not often
look into public house without seeing fair
sprinEling of women present. There is plenty |
of mere coarsness, but little or no profanity. |
and very seldom any real vulgarity. Of drunk
enness there is plenty, but it does not so often
manifest itself in real violence as in America. |
One of the Bishops of the Church of England |
says: ENGLAND is the drunkenest country in
the world" and his statement is doubtless cor
rect. The drunkenness is not of the most vio-
ent kind, but it is very general. English ale
md beer are much stronger that the lager
beer used in Germany and the United States
A person not used to English malt drinks,
and not much given to drinks of any kind, is
very likely to become tipsy on two glasses of
ordinary English ale. Christs Hospital
called the ''Bluecoat Schools a
amous institution of London Coleridge,
Charles Lamb, and Leigh Hunt received their
education there, 1t is exclusively for boys,
nd there are usually some 800 of them
hey live in the school while their school life
asts, anditheir average age is not more than
en- years, At dinner, each boy receives half
pint of beer That fact tells more of the
niversality of the use of strong drink in Eng
and than a whole column of explanation
rould do When children are taught to drink
eer, men are not likely to be abstinent. The
cad master is a clergyman of the Church of
,ngland, and the school is strictly under the
of the church.
"CoRsEr LIVER SO long as tight lacing
i'll produce snugness of form and make
resses fit nicely, just so long will the ladies
sregard the teachers and preachers who
weigh against the wearing of corsets. And ,
lie statement set forth in the following does
ot directly convey the idea that ''corset
yer" is necessarily a diseased one. Indeed, A
no knows but that organ is better for being :,
aped so that ''the wrist of grown man"
n be laid in it. 1t is certainly convenient at
r the side structure of the darling to be so
odeled as to facilitate a reasonable amount =
hugging. But for the information of our
rset wearing readers we reproduce from the
Commercial as follows. Some | 4