Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-02-27

excellence of the product made By his
company; but, even under these cir
cumstances, there is no escape for the
beer agent. He is on duty and bound
be sociable, polite and genial, and
when he sits down 80 or 10 minutes
to transact business with the house,
something to drink must be ordered
and disposed of while he is talking.
He is introduced to those about and
before the business is finished he has
taken enough to last an ordinary man
for a day.
THE health of the beer agent, l am
positive, breaks down IS much through
eating as drinking. He never be-
comes intoxicated, nor even half way
tipsy. In his business it is drink,
drink, drink, all day long, schooner
here and small glass there, just
enough to keep his stomach full OF beer
all day long, and until late into the
night. His eating is of much the same
character. He is Obliged to attend
all the openings of new saloons, and
every manner of festive occasion
where there Is an abundance OF eat
ables and to be sociable he must be
nibbling and munching away all during
his working hours.
Instead of waiting, like an ordinary
person, until he is hungry, and then
eating at regular hours, he begins eat
ing in the morning, and for Ia hours
daily his digestive apparatus continues
working overtime to dispose OF the
quantities of food tina. lie is obliged to
stow away. Moreover, beer drinking
creates a sort of unnatural appetite
that causes a man to eat more than
is good for him.
"On numerous OCCASIONS have eaten
as many as four suppers in night, as
result of attending openings, etc.,
where the proprietor had set up
spread Now the kind of food set
forth on all such occasions, and in all
the places visited by beer agents, while
on their rounds, is of the richest and
most indigestible sort, and to stand
such a routine for any length of time
man ought to have stomach made
of copper and galvanized iron. for one
| thing is certain, no ordinary stomach
can resist such diet for any length
of time,
1.-THE kind of food that the beer
agent eats at all such places, and on
ell occasions of the sort | have just de-
scribed. is not suited for regular diet
under any circumstances: Cheese OF
every sort, from Roquefort, Neuf-
chatel and Parmesan to Limburger and
Schweitzer, sausages, hot with spice,
rich salads. olives, boiled ham, roast
pork, turkey, blood pudding, head
cheese liverwurst, cucumbers, sar-
dimes. salmon, kippered herrings;
everything. in fact. that is hard on the
stomach.
When | first engaged in this bust
ness was enjoying robust health and
an excellent appetite, and for the time
| really enjoyed the round of eating
and drinking. Then things began to
pail on my appetite and today the
sight of tempting spread, or free
lunch makes me sick at the stomach.
Wine agents have a much harder
| routine than beer men for the reason
that they are obliged to attend swell
dinners, where food of a quality richer
even than that encountered by the
beer agent is placed before them.
Gren turtle soup, terrapin, lobster la
Newburg and the like, make short
~,
know there are some people who
imagine that food of this sort ought to
be conducive to health, but unless a
man takes an immense amount OF out
door exercise he will not be able to
| stand it.
"You ask me how much beer used
| to drink in day. That is a hard
question to answer. There were times
when, / suppose drank as high as IS
or rs glasses, schooners, ETC., In a day.
Another very bad feature about the
| work of a beer or wine agent is the
number of cigars he will smoke in a
day.
"Often to avoid drinking, he will
take a cigar, and sometimes while
holding the cigar in his hand, he will
be nibbling away on a sardine sand
wich. At other times he will be drlnh
ing and smoking at one and the same
time, so that after the first year of
such life you will see Mr.. Beer Agent
walking into drug store some morn
ing and asking for something to cure
that tired feeling in his stomach. and
to remove the cobwebs from his
| mouth.
''In short If young man decides to
become a beer agent or wine agent,
he can simply count on holding out
three years and spending the rest of
his life at Hot Springs. Washing
Post.