The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-03-05
JAM ROLL HIGH BALL
THAT is ORDER NOW INSTEAD
OF WHISKY AND SODA.
Mems Habits Are Changing as Indi-
Gated By the Orders in Cafes and
Clubs; Sweets in Great Demand;
Tons of Sugar Consumed Every
Month and Amount Increasing.

London, March 2.-"What are you
going to drink? Whisky and soda OF
claret?
Neither, thanks; I'd like some jam
roll or apple TART
That is in effect what men are say
ing to one another every day i'll their
houses, in restaurants in clubs, wner-
ever 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, as everyone knows, less alec
hol, but they increase, to make up for
it, their allowance of sweet things.
An American consular report shows
that Il million tons of sugar are con-
sumed every month. OF this quantity
"a rapidly increasing amount is ac-
counted for by this country. Excise on
intoxicants has dropped in the last
six years from $l57, I4l,245 to 1854
ll3,7S5 Customs receipts from sugar
rose, on the other hand, from $22,393,-
$50 in 1923 to $33 ,539,04O in l907-S
So far the largely reduced con
sumption of alcohol is pretty well con-
fined to the upper and middle classes
The working man still drinks almost
as mucn beer as ever, and in the mid
die class whisky and water is still
more popular than water.
Take Sweets Instead of Drinks.
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 consequence
Use they eat sweets far more tnan 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 or bar
rows of chocolate and other sweet.
stuffs have become common in Lon
don. They are quite new feature
of them who discussed the business
yesterday they do a good trade. "Tho
sight of the sweet-stuff seems to tempt
people," he said.
Conclusions of a Doctor.
Among men, however, Sweets in
the children's sense of the word arc
not much eaten, though the chocolate
dishes on the dinner table are GER
tainly not left to the women, as they
used to be. But sweets in the res
taurant sense are in far greater de-
mand today than they ever were be-
fore.
But a doctor who was consulted on
the subject gave a more positive re-
ply. "The reason is, of course, that
men in our class don't drink intoxi-
cants as they used. l go to my club
to lunch and find them nearly all
drinking water or ginger ale.
well, alcohol is able to take the
place of the sugar which the body
needs. Men who drink hard scarcely
eat any sugar at all, Teetotallers
on the other hand, eat great deal
-Ao Z" ihuli lCo'OS ol dlCOuOl, therefore
he naturally eats more sugar. It has
been noticed that drunkards who have
been frightened off whisky often be-
gin to take an interest in sweet things
illustrates By Figures.
"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 few.
In Germany and France, OH the
| other hand, where beer and wine. the
respective national drinks, are drunk
by everybody, little sugar is eaten
Great Britain comes in between We
eat on an average 81 pounds a head
in year. The other averages are
Australia, l29 pounds; United States
80 pounds; Germany, SO pounds
France, 30 pounds. Britain is going
up, though. just you watch the sugar
bowl after lunch!'
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