The New York herald., 1879-12-29
NEW YEARS WINE AND DRESS SUITS.
WILL THE FORMER BE GENERALLY ABoLIsHED!-
AND IN WHAT COSTUME SHOULD GENTLEMAN
MAKE HIS CALLS?

WILL THE FORMER BE GENERALLY ABoLIsHED!- =
AND IN WHAT COSTUME SHOULD GENTLEMAN
MAKE HIS CALLS?
To EDIToR THE HERALD:-
possible that all to be coereed into giving up
ern reform demand that shall even pledge our
years Il plain @ ai sns S'a be- sho
10 o oSg or MSY aSx as ANxo LA
To THE EpiroR OF THE HERALD
wish you would let in little light what to be
young men shat, gentleman wear dress suit IN max.
wose whole object IN life IS to do the Correct thing as
they call bgt who do not know how In the absence Of
different Eurapesn countries they suicisn
tighten them and SPARE US ladies' tho of enter
snSg young men who are made %ssTshs y s1Se Sthsr
These two communications were given toa HERALD
reporter yesterday with instructions to learn what
was the popular feeling the two important ques-
tions involved 1t seems emnently proper. Maine
law and practice to the contrary notwithstanding,
that the will of the majority should rule in q demo-
cratic country and accordingly that popular senti-
ment should settle these questions. Therefore. in
quiry made of representative people OF all kinds
and their various opinions noted. AZ to the ques-
tion Of wine bibbng. it found in the first place
that both. sides amply fortified by texts OF
Scripture, so that deciding IL religious grounds
seemed. to the reporter at least entirely out the
and in this respect two arguments put forth.
One was that the sight. smell, taste of q single
glass Of wine danger to mon and that
therefore all should be willing to abstain from
needless luxury. Further, that IL all ladies. or
almost oil, offered wine to their guests.
the gentlemen with long visiting lists would be Sc
riously overtaxed IN the course Of the day. sim
gle glass of wine is harmless. perhaps, said some.
but seventy five or hundred can hardly be called
SO. To this argument many replied that man
obliged to drink seventy-fve a hundred
glasses. That man who was sufficiently intelligent
and respectable to be the visiting list of lady
was to be supposed gentleman. and was to be
pected to know whom he had enough. Moreover. 1t
was said. gentleman may put even hundred
glasses Of wine to hts lips courteously in response
to q courtesy without drinking any dangerous
amount. While it is impossible, without taking
census, to know the actual majority. 1t may be
safely said that many fashionable ladies will have
wine on their tables New Years Day and that
many others will not zone of Many" there
FORE need not be distressed to whether she s in
the fashion, whichever way she decides about her
own table.
As the other question while there Is less in 1t to
excite the passions of controversy. yet 1t is some
thing which serves to perplex many. The steel.pen
coat, to which gentlemen cling with as much de-
votion they do to their stovanipe hats has been
for many years the subject Of much talk and much
writing. The unfortunate resemblance it creates
between the guests and the servants of house has
led to many contretemps and much laughter, and
causes not a little nervous apprehension on the
part of many bashful young men, 1t is told that
the Duchess who of all in England made the most
graceful and impressive courtesy. once at court
abashed funkey, whom she mistook-aorriJle
dicu!-for the Prince Consort. And one Of ianch's
na dress meeting in the lobby at the opera and one
saying, Jaw, are you aw. the boxkeepcr? To which
the other replies, mo. Are you. aw?''
The moral thus pointed sufficient to keep o
man from wearing dress coat at all times when 1t
is strictly obligatory. but it is generally sup
posed that every gentleman has and the fact Of
this possession seems to act many a prov
ocation causing thom to display 1t as often pos
sible apparently in the fear that they will not be
! taken for gentlemen unless they are arrayed
| gentlemen dress at the dinner hour, never
before. "a gentleman" said q we'll known club man
last evening" would as soon think Of going to the
opera i'll his pajama to appear in the daytime in
! evening dress. Not even at wedding-not even at
| his own wedding--would he wear evening dress
unless it evening. II he is calling in the
ing and the occasion Is festive one, such gen.
era rsceptiSn on New Years OF any % other DAY s
| on day like New Years, when the reception In
cludes morning and ovening, it is not absolutely
necessary. but he simply makes spectacle OF him
| self il he wears 1t In the daytime"
REMARKS BIZ CLERaYMEN AND LAY BRETHREN
| ON THE EVILS OF SOCIAL DRINKING ON NEW
| YEARS DAY.
At the Brooklyn Rink. which has recently been
| Httod nm as n churchsbv Rev Jus,in d. FuIton',
congregation. "tomperance rally was held yester
| day afternoon. which was attended by about five
.,r.a ,,ao,,. Tho sroc,s, ohiact IN v;sv v.s =,
"AN -
denounce the custom OF SOCIAL ornking' especially
with reference to New Years Day. Brother Conway
r..a tho aaarsss NJ tho Temnaranco pro.berbood ~
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asking that the habit of spreading wines and other
Intoxicating liquors on the New Years table
be discontinued in Brooklyn. The peril OF
social drinking, he said, threatened every home.
He told OF former officer Of the National Guard
who died some time ago of delirium tremens in New
Orieans' wno Was iea 20 PerIion oy . paraAne AM OF