San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-30
SUBSTITUTE FOR WHISKY.
Habits Of the Ginger Drinkers of Georgia
Terrible Results.

Habits of the Ginger Drinkers of Georgia.
Terrible Results.
"a man can't get drunk on ginger, can her
druggist was asked.
"Well, if you could see some of my regular
ginger drunkards at times you would think
so. Ginger Is made from alcohol and ginger
root. The root is ground and put into one of
these funnel shaped percolators, after which
the alcohol is poured upon it and soaks
through it, dropping into the jar, in the
mouth Of which is fixed the funnel This
tincture is, as you know, IL you've ever tasted
it, as hot as liquid fire, and a teaspoonful is a
big dose for an ordinary man. One pound
of ginger will make two quarts of tincture,
and many prefer it to whisky"
"How much does confirmed ginger
drinker take at doseF'
"There are one or two men who are regu-
lar ginger drinkers, that take as much as
four ounces at time, or to show you the
difference, thirty-two teaspoonfuls If you
or l or any other man unaccustomed to
drinking ginger should take that much at
once it would kill US We would be apt to
have commissions at first, followed by COM
atose condition, in which state death would
Gomez
"How much to make man drunkf'
II have seen one man get drunk on four
ounces, and then again I've seen a man who
drank the same quantity have a sort of cpl
leptic fit, lasting for several minutes"
What effect will the drinking of ginger
produce in the long runF'
ut is far more injurious than whisky. and
will kill a man who drinks it regularly in
from two to three years time. If you should
hold tablespoonful of ginger in your mouth
a minute it would blister the inside coating
Of the mouth, and you can imagine what the
effect on the stomach would be graphing
with two or three tablespoonful of ginger
every day"
Can you tell ginger drinker from an
ordinary man, or, in other words, will the
drinking of ginger affect the personal ap-
pearance Of a man as whisky doesg"
Whisky drinking makes mans face red.
Ginger drinking makes it pale, as the ginger
draws the blood away from the surface to
the center of the body. I've watched these
ginger drinkers closely and I've studied them
a good deal I've learned that a habitual
ginger drinker, like morphine eater, loses
all regard for the truth, and would rather lie
than tell the truth. They also become hypo-
chondriacs and imagine they are affected
with every disease under the sun. One day
they'll come in with long face declaring
they've got cramp collie and must have gin
ger. Another day they'll have heart disease
and will surely die unless they can get GIN
ger. The next time they have dyspepsia or
rheumatism, but no matter what they have
they seem to think ginger the sovereign
remedy, and nothing else will do them. The
trouble with them is the ginger drinking, for
it ruins the digestion, inhames the stomach,
and throws the whole system into disorder"
'Is there any advantage iu buying gin
gerf'
Ginger costs 81 pint, while whisky sells
at from SO cents up. The people who drink
it, and they are numerous, both men and wo-
men, are for the most part mere physical
wrecks who were confirmed drunkards when
prohibition came upon us, and their unnat-
ural .appetites must be satisfied, so they
bought ginger as the next best substitute for
whisky. We ship ginger by the barrel to
prohibition towns, as the old topers think it
is the best substitute for whisky and once
they got accustomed to it they prefer it to
whisky. Atlanta Journal