The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-10
Drinking and Gambling in Vari-
GUS Parts Of the East.
GREAT INTEMPERAYCE IN INDIA.
salvation Army Cranks-Brandy Of Japan
Take Peg With Ne"-Tha
Game OF Fan Tan.

reformed EDgllSn men ana women Salled
from London TO Bombay, aud there began
their war against intemperance in truly
original way. They discarded their Eng
lish clothes, and put ON the dress Of the
natives. This dress, in many of the dis
Ericts, is little more than a dirty white
sheet, wrapped in folds
AROUND THE BARE BODY,
and the fair, white skin of these Caucasians
shown out strangely among their blacker
brethren. Most of them were barefooted,
ard twist Of the sheet not seldom showed
bare legs as well. The girls appeared upon
The stage and told their experiences with
Intoxicating drinks in this garb. The men
peddled about the streets with drum and
fife, and the same fantastic drumming up
Of recruits went on as is seen in the Saliva
ton Army in this country. The better
Glass of foreigners were disguised with
the antics of the Salvationists, and they
claimed that they did the cause of temper
2nce more harm than good. The Salvation
Army officers replied that they wanted to
show the Hindoos that they were their
brothers, and that they could be closer to
them while wearing the same dress. They
said that they proposed to go throughout
India and to carry their crusade into each
district, attired
IN THE DRESS OF THE NATIVES.
1t is hardly probable, however, that they
will do this, for the dress Of both sexes, in
some Of the remote districts of India, is not
more comprehensive than the fig leaves of
the Garden of Eden, and the wardrobe of
the most fastidious of the Flora Mctlim-
seys is confined to anklets, earrings and
Oh 4 ,yNf
India, the women dress in loose pantaloonS
and shirts Of cotton, and these shirts are
decidedly decolette at the neck. The pan
falcons grow narrower and smaller from
the hips to the knees, and from the knee
down they clasp the calf with the folds of
a Sara Bernhard glove. Their costume, is
by no means, pretty one, and the pretty
English Salvationists have not improved
their appearances by adopting it.
INTEMpERANCE Is GROWING
to an alarming extent in India The sale
Of beer and liquors is licensed by the Eng
lish government, and john Bull adds to his
pile every finger of bad whisky that the
poor Hindoos drink. Queen Victoria sent
1000, 900 gallons Of beer from England to
India in a single; year, and in addition to
this she has licensed breweries all over the
country. There is a sort of palm in India,
which, by being tapped, produces a liquor
which. by several days fermentation, be-
comes Intoxicating. Nature has thus pro
vided India with cheap means of getting
drunk. and her people have taken advant-
age Of it. I he English liquors are, however,
preferred. and wherever our civilization
goes our strong drinks make progress in
advance of our Bibles. Korea was opened
20 western ideas and men a little over
decade ago and the Koreans were delighted
with Scotch whisky and Jamaica rum.
They had never seen bottles before and
they priced these as rare curiosities. In
many of the hVts throughout Korea you
iaay find
BEER BOTTLES AND WHISKY BoTTLE5
Sc up "a works Of fine art, and taking the
place that we allow to rare bits of china or
venetian cut-glass English beer, French
brandy and S otch whisky are now sold all
over the east, and nearly every town in
japan Of any size, has It's liquor store. In
both Japan and China the different brands
Oi ales and liquors are counterfeited by the
ua1ives The labels on them are forged,
.aG the poorest intoxiCant5 are sold under
forged names. 1t is not uncommon to find
the cork of d whisky bottle acting as u
stopper for an article labeled "Mumm's
Lxtra Dry and you will see if you ex-
anime the bottles which are supposed to
contain the finest Of French cognac, that
Zoe cOrks of Browns stout and Basis ale
y are used in them. Old bottles which have
contained the finest of liquors are saved
b. the natives, and rehlled with the
cheapest limitations. The result is that
poor beer, bad whisky and logwood wine
are running the constitutions of the
C@.estials of the eastern ports.
The Chinese are
VERY PoND or CHAMPAGNE,
aad. when I called upon any Of the govern
Iuent officials IN China, Japan or Korea,
champagne was brought out. Ii Hung
Chang, the Viceroy Of China, drinks with
his callers when he wants to terminate the
interview, and the bringing in Of the
sparkling liquid serves the same purpose
as coffee sometimes does in the east. The
Mlrado Of Japan is passionately fond Of
champagne, and it is whispered at Toxic
that his majesty now and then drinks too
much of it. Champagne intoXication lasts
for full day after the liquor has been
drunk. and these periodical sprees of the
Emperor, if indeed the stories told of him
INDUCING in them are true, must be q
serious matter to his cabinet and the
Iaiies of 1.-THE palace. l attended
at Seoul, the capital of Korea, a review
of the army, AID drank champagne
in company with General Dye and other
American officers, who have gone there to
re0rganize the troops. We clinked glasses
with the biS-hatted Korean generals, and
upon going to the palace had again to drink
the same liquor in company
WITH THE KINGS CABINET MINISTERS.
IN calling upon his blesselne3s, the Patri-
arch of Jerusalem, joined with him in
Tiger of some liquor, which was IS strong
as Chartreuse, and | seldom made a call
upon any Of the foreigners il Asia without
-neing asked to take peg.
Pegs is tue name for drinks among the
4
y peg with me-" means Come and take
drink, and the expression rose, l am told,
from the old saying that every drink that
"a man takes puts peg into his coffin. Few
dinners are given by foreigners in the east
at which three or four kinds of wines are
not served, ana more wine is seen on the
tables of the hotels than on those Of
Europe. never saw SO much whisky on
the tables OF any European country as I
found upou those Of the Anglo Oriental
hotels. We drink whisky as stimulant.
The foreigner in the east drinks it rs
beverage. At his lunch and at his dinner
he has his bottle Of Scotch whisky beside
his plate, and he drinks it diluted with
sOda-watcr, or with plain Adams ale.
This he does day in and day out, year after
year, and many an American, and not few
Englishmen, are
Ruined BY THE DRINKING CUSTOMS
Of the eastern ports. As class, however,
there are no brighter business men and no
more cultured good-fellows to be found
anywhere in the world than the Anglo
Asiatics The most of them are bachelors
with establishments Of their own. They
are men of broad experience, wide travel,
and are bubbling over with the milk Of
human kindness for every man whose face
IS white and who speaks the English
tongue. There is q club in Toxic which
would be a credit to Washington, and there