The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-31
LONDON MILLIONAIRES
TAKE TO CHEAP DRINKS
Heavy and Expensive Wines Are Out
of Fashion

LONDON, July 3O.-Londoners have
formed new drinking habit. 1t has
nothing to do with the hot weather
They have been experimenting with it
quietly for year or two and the habit
is now quite confirmed Caterers
shareholders have distinctly felt the
force of it.
What is this new drinking habit
In the words of the manager of the Sa-
voy, it is this: More people drink
wine than ever, but they do not drink
SO much per head as formerly. Its.
scientific, sensible drinking habit.
t. "Over their dinner in the evening
they think of headaches in the morn
ing. They want to live as long as pos
Isible in thissvery fine world, and to feel
hit and we'll every day. Moderation is
| the fashion with the smartest people
For that reason We no longer meet
with the two-bottle or three bottle gen
ueman of the past. Even one-bottIe
gentleman is very rare. He only ap-
pears when there are no ladies present
Ii by any chance he should fall off his
chair-whieh, of course, she never does
at the Savoy-tfen he is an outcast
and no gentleman
Champagne at EOS Or 30s bottle is
left in the hotel cellars to gather cob
webs. Only on the roSiest occasions do
even wealthy men pay these prices.
American millionaires seldom do;
Frenchmen, Germans and ScotSmen
never do; Englishnen only do when
dining with ladies. Irishmen have no
use for fizz.
Fifteen shiIIings bottle is about
| the top price paid for champagne" say
! the people at the Cecil, land Us the
| ruling price. Only connoisseurs can
distinguish the superior flavor
And here is a strange thing. For
one man years ago there are ten today
who content themselves at lunch and
supper with Scotch and Soda You
hardly ever hear of a B. and s. now
adays."
1 For dinner the less expensive light
! variety of beverage wines is preferred
by West end families, to whom a
| spread table without decanters would
| be a cherries object
| Claret is winning a way back to the
honorable position it held with out
grandfathers-no the high vintage
| costly claret at 30s a quart bottle, but
claret a fifth of that price. BLACK
| port for dessert is going off, and most
4 men eschew sherry for their stomach's
sake.
mo people in the world drink more
wine than Englishmen do today said
/ the manager of the Carlton TT is wine,
wine, wine all the time, but always in
! studied moderation. This has of late
years become very marked. Beer? Oh,
| no!''-with a Carltonian gesture of es-
! thetic diStreSS-"our customers do not
drink beer-glorious beer, you call IT,
| Wine merchants are all cognizant of
| the new drinking habit. They welcome
| it, on the sound business basis that
moderate drinkers are good, steady
| customers. The curious thing about
| this silent, salutary revolution is that
! it began at the top of the social lad
der.
.'The whole tendency is towards mod
Grafton said one of the heads of a
4 whose office is decorated with a pic
/ ture gallery of king1y and queenly pa
irons.
! Among the younger generation
1 physical fitness is craze that initiates
against excess. Indoors or outdoors,
every gentleman scorns to exhibit
wine exhilaration. A drunken man
would be bundled out of sight by his
friends for the sake of his reputation
! Another West end wine merchant
4 of the fine old English gentleman
type, hit off the new habit. Thus: .Oh,
yes. An alcoholic pfmple would put
your present day moderate wine-bi
Der into fits. He would consult his
| doctor about it.
why, believe English families are
giving up keeping wine cellars now.
I They are certainly not stocking them
with 92s and 74s for posterity What
would their grandfathers say to this
i moderation fad. <But, perhaps, should
not call it fad - -
Progress
/ 1.-THE last time / saw Rieder he told me
| he was studying three foreign languages,
i and could speak fairly well in all of them.
/ Is he still at it?"
ssYes, but he has improved wonderfully.
4 He was telling me only today that he
| knows enough to keep his mouth shut
| in all of them. Philadelphia Press.
Expensive Brand
DO his cigars cost him much g''s~