Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-18
pGAR DRINK CURE.
ny ling Question Opened BY he.
Cent Theory That Men Use
Sweets Instead of AIco-
hoIic Liquors.

Can a man put few extra spoon
fuls of sugar in his breakfast cup Of
coffee and so do away with his craving
for an alcoholic "eye-opener"? Can
he nibble stick of peppermint candy
and forget that he has had no midday
"bracer"? Can he eat jelly tart OF
two after dinner and not regret the
half bottle of claret or burgundy from
which he has abstained? These are
the interesting questions that are
opened by the theory recently pro
| pounded by an Englishman, that men
are now using sweets in the place OF
alcohol.
This Englishman sums his personal
| observations up in this way:
"'What are you going to drink
Whisky and soda or claret?'
Neither, thanks. I'd like some
jam roll or apple tart
That is, in effect, what men are
saying to one another every day in
their houses, in restaurants, in clubs,
wherever they meet to eat. They do
not say it in so many words, but that
is what the altered way of living of a
great many men amounts to. They
take less alcohol, but they increase,
to make up for it, their allowance of
sweet things.
$50 far the largely reduced con,
sumption of alcohol is pretty well con-
fined to the upper and middle classes.
~ la, -,
much beer as ever, and in the lower
middle class whisky and water is still
more popular than water.
"Yet among the older boys, both of
the laboring and the lower middle
classes, the new view about alcohol
has taken firm hold, and the conse-
quence is they eat sweets far more
than the boys of the last generation
used. Sweet shops have increased
strikingly in number in recent years,
and their customers are not chiefly
girls, as was the case formerly, but
chiefly boys.
Street sellers with baskets OF
chocolate and others sweet stuffs have
become common in London. They are
quite a new feature in street life, and,
according to one Of them WHO dis
cussed the business, they do a good
trade
Among men, however, sweets In
the cnildren's sense of the word are
not much eaten, though the chocolate
dishes on the dinner table are GER
mi. lOF -
used to be. But sweets in the restau-
rant sense are in far greater demand
to-day than they ever were before"
The Englishman consulted a doctor
on the subject, and thus reports the,
professional opinion:
The reason is, of course, that men
in our class don't drink intoxicants,
as they used. l go to my club to lunch,
and find them nearly all drinking wa
ter or ginger ale. Well, alcohol is
able to take the place of the sugar
which the body needs. 1t has been
noticed that drunkerds who have been
frightened off whisky often begin to
take an interest in sweet things.
1.-The relation between sugar con-
sumption and alcohol drinking, by the
way, is illustrated by these figures.
Australians and Americans are the
largest sugar eaters. In both coun-
tries it is usual to drink water with
meals, and although there is a good
deal of hard drinking on both CONT
nents, yet it is confined to a few. In
Germany and France, on the other
hand, where beer and wine, the re.
spective national drinks, are drunk by
everybody, little sugar. is eaten. Great
Britain comes in between. We eat on
an average 81 pounds head in year.
The other averages are: Australia, 129
pounds; United States, SO pounds;
Germany, SO pounds; France, 80
pounds. Britain is going up, though.
Just you watch the sugar bowl after
lunch!"