The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-09-08
London Liquors.

Nasty has been sampling English
"tanglefoot," and writes to the Toledo
Blade his opinion of the various brands.
What follows is brief extract: But the
liquors consumed in London by the
lower classes are probably. the most exc
cradle and vile that the ingenuity OF the
haters of mankind have ever invented.
The brandy they drink is liquid light
ming, chain lightning, which goes crash
ing through the system, breaking down
and destroying every pulsation toward
anything good. The gin--well, their gin
is the very acme, the absolute summit,
of vileness. There is quarrel i'll every
gill of it, wife-beating in every pint,
and murder in every quart. A smell of
a glass of it nearly drove me to criminal
recklessness.
And yet they all drink it, and es-
pecially the women. The most disgust
ing sight the world can produce is a
London gin. drinking woman standing at
bar waiting feverishly for her drain, :"
with unkempt hair, a small but intensely
dirty shawl, with stockingless feet, and
shoes down at the heel, with eyes rheum
and watery. that twinkle with gin-lignt
cut of the obscurity of gin-swelled
flesh, with face OH which the scorching
fingers of depraved appetite have set
red lines, as Intellectually as though they
had been placed there by red-hot iron,
every one of which is the unavailing
protest of q long-outraged stomach.
There she stands, blotch upon the face
of nature and satire upon womanhood.
It is difficult to realize that this bloated
mass was once fair young girl and had
a mother who loved her, and it is equally
difficult to comprehend how any power,
even that of nature, could ever make use
of it. But the elements are kindly to
man. When they have done their work,
sweet flowers may grow out OF this pu-
tridity.
In America this sort of being exists,
but is herded somewhere out OF sight.
It does not stand ut the bars in the best
streets to offend the eyes OF the decent
people. But il is everywhere here. 1t is
in the strand and on Piccadilly and Re-
gent streets. The average Englishmen
Of the lower and even the middle classes
dearly love to booze. Drunkenness is
not tho result either of cOnviviality or
desperation, as it is in other countries.
1t is the one thing longed for and set de-
liberately about. And while am about
it may say that slcoholization is not
confined to the lower order by any
means. Everybody drinks. The trades
man who can afford it has clsret at his
table, and during the day his drains"
OF brandy are very frequent. The gen.
try and nobility drink more costly wines
and better brandy, but liquor Is every
where. Nothing is done without the &C.
compsnying drink; it is universal and in
all places. The climate prevents the in.
Jury that would visit the same man in
America, but it hurts. II the English
could only live as temporarily Is the
Americans they would be the greatest
race of people on earth.
An Englishman has invented sewing
machine which it is claimed Is capable Of
making from 1000 to 5000 stitches per
minute according 70 the number Of
needles employed, doing, in fact, the
vork ~ % ,,er:onc. This i said 70 be
he Ara machine invented that will make
: rsgular running stitch in szsct imisa-
ton Of handiwoEk.