St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-23

ings is In good physical condition
and has good htemper and gentle
disposition. His lace becomes red, too,
from the effect of the smallest amount
of exercise. so that the suspicion of in
toxication is dOubly great. There are
some men who cannot help laughing at
some curious conception, however grave
the situation may be, and so there are
officers who cannot help talking 20 their
neighbors as enthusiastically OH the
most commonplace event-as enthusiasts
tically as if it were some discovery
which was about to rid the world of
all its Ills. Such man is predispoSed
to drunkenness; that is one drink may
produce greater degree of eXhilara-
ton in him than would four in one of
less buoyant temperament. That is my
idea of q psychological drunkard."
when do you consider the epithet
drunk can with justice be applied to a
MANI" asked a reporter of one of the
proprietorS of large wholesale house.
That is rather difficult to answer" re-
piled the owner. IA theologian, be-
lieve, has designated drunkenness as a
condition of the mental faculties in
which one could not tell the difference
between stack of hay and stone
wall. That is scarcely an accurate de-
scription; and then there are so many
kinds of DRINKS. For example. there is
that kind which some alphabetically
term 'beady.' Then there is the jag, in
which there is feeling of citation, and
even of ecstasy. Then there is the
skate, when man completely loses
thought every place OH which he set
his foot was skating rink.
Then there is the booze. where man
falls helpleSsly to sleep, breathes deeply
and heavily, and shores until he awakes
every neighbOr. Personally, if could
wish for drunk it would be that which
would enable me to forget all the events
of my life which were disagreeable and
recall those which were pleasant. That
think is the height of happiness. But
| have not given you my opinion as TO
when man may be justly regarded as
drunk. A temperance reformer, who
will not have his equal for many day.
was in the habit of applying the test of
sum i'll long division to the people
who admitted that they had been drink
ing, but did not admit they were drunk.
That L think was perhaps good rule.
1t is one by which l am prepared to
abide.'
''Do know of any cases of what you
are pleased to term
Accidental Drunks?o
repeated white-aproned gentleman at
one of the most famous resorts of the
city. "Well. l do, if l rightly under
stand your question. interpret an ac-
cidental drunk as being this: A young
man is going home after his days work,
and he has no thought of any drink and
no desire for it. But he meets friend
and that friend insists that he must go
| and have 'one,' and so the young man
| goes. He takes one at his friends eX.
| penSe; then the friend takes one at his
| expense, and then the genial barkeeper
| insists that the two shall have drink
| at his expense. Then the young man
who was gong home intent on spending
| couple of hours over an interesting
volume begius to feel as frisky as the
| most friSky of kids, and insists that he
won't 90 home till morning. A couple
of more drinks follow, and for that
night at least the subsequent proceed
ings interest him no more. That is an
| accidental drunk, as l understand the
| question, and it is one which you may
witness every night in the week."
''Yes, there are great many cham
| payne drinkers in st. Louis, of course"
| said the head barkeeper of one OF the
hotels, "but the number of champagne
drunkards is very small. In fact, l
don't believe, in spite OF what we hear
about what happens in New York, Paris
and London, that there are many cham
payne drunkards anywhere. 1t IS not
unusual, of course, for men 10 get
drunk OIL champagne at banquetS and
dinners. but it is quite unusual for men
to start in to drinking champagne as
they would start in on whisky, and to
keep it up until they have taken enough
to unbalance them. What are called
The Steady Drinkers
rarely touch champagne at banQuets or
elsewhere; they don't seem to like it
somehow. One reason may be that its
effect is not quick enough-they can't
feel it soon enough; at any rate, they
don't take to it, or if they do they only
use it as beginner to lead the way TO
that the effects of champagne drinking to
excess are much worse than those pro-
duced by drinking whisky to excess. l
know of several cases of premature
whitening of the hair that are said to
have come from drinking too much
champagne for number of years at
stretch, and l have heard the doctors
say that champagne debauch is harder
to get over than any other kind
of debauch. Then L think the
difference between the manner of
uIllhltlS tuc tWO dTllCltS-WUiSky anu
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS for the difference
in the number of DRINKS produced by
the two. Champagne is generally called
for at bar by number of neil drink
ing together. They take small bottle
or large bottle and divide it between
two or between four. 1t is expensive
and is not often repeated The largest
amount of whisky sold at bar is in
single drinks, but the number of re-
peats' in parties of three or more is very
large, and here's where a good deal of
| the heavy drinking begins. A man
| feels like returning the treat, and when
| three or four have done this there is
| pretty good basis for few drunks."
THE men most to be pltied in this
drinking business" said bartender in
the West end, "are those that cannot
touch drop without starting in on a
big spree. l know lots of them, and,
although l make living by selling liq-
uor. hate to see one of them coming
into my place. know what it means
for one of them to get even smell of
liquOr-it'S as bad as the tigers smell Of
blood. 1t arOuses their passion for
drink, and they might as we'll drink
gallon as spoonful. The first taste of
whisky starts them on spree which may
last for weeks. Their DRINKS run from
one day into another. They go to bed
drunk tonight and wake up in the
morning only to start in again. AS
rule, such men are only sobered by
sick spell, after which they mold Off as