Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-14
MODEL LICENSE LEAGUE
Bv Frederic j. Haskin

resents only 1 per cert of the worlds
vintage 1t is said that the people Of
Paris alone drink more wine than the
entire population of the United States
But Parisians drink little beer. There
are said to be over COCO different kinds
of intoxicating drinks known to hu-
manity. The American Indians are be-
lieved to be the only race that was
found without it's intoxicants but what
they lacked in the generations before
the discovery of America they have
made up since, contributing their full
share to the consumption of the 60,000,-
900 barrels of beer consumed annually
in the United States. The increase in
beer drinking in fifty years amounts to
1000 per cent.
The city of Munich, famed in Euro.
pean history, possesses the largest sa-
loon in the world. 1t supplies beer to
about 1900 people every day, and on
| holiday occasions as many as $4,000
quench their thirst over it's bars.
There are wooden seats without backs
for 1900. All the stems are carefully
washed with boiling water at night,
and stacked away for the next day.
Before being served each man helps
himself to stein, takes it to stream
Of water which is kept running all
the time, washes Ii with such degree
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filled with bumper from the royal
brewery which was founded by Ludwig
the Severe in the thirteenth century.
The profits go toward the maintenance
of the Munich hospitals.
King Edward might do large liquor
business if he were SO minded. He
maintains distillery, and il he would
label the product to show that it came
from his place, he could not begin to
Gil tho nrdarG ho usni11d r0paiVn
he makes whisky only for the royal
family. He is not much of a whisky
drinker himself, but some of his rela-
| tives arc very fond of the product of
Brother Edwards stillbouse.
An American actress has broken the
record for fancy drinking. After two
| thousand years Cleopatra's concoction
of vinegar and pearl has rival. 1t
happened that the owner Of a world
champion hen was a friend of the ac-
| tress, and he told her he was going to
express her $40 egg from Kansas City
| every day for month. OF course such
an egg could not enter into the un-
seemly scramble of a commonplace
omelet, so another friend provided her
| with a quart of fine old sherry taken
from a Spanish monastery in the Phil
! ippines, which was so valuable that it
! sold at auction for 5000 the quart. This
| egg and sherry, used as a morning ap-
petizer cost SIS every day for full
month.
The latest thing is the drinkless
drink, guaranteed to get around all
| prohibition laws. 1t is John Barley
| corn in tabloid form, the very es
sence of whisky imprisoned in little
gelative tablet. One can take his
choice, chew it like a cough drop or
| dissolve it in a little water and drink
| it. A beer tablet that will keep for
six months was invented recently, but
putting old John Barleycorn himself
| into a tablet is the newest thing.
Central America probably will enter
| the field as an important producer of
| spirituous liquors. Experiments indi-
cate that a fine quality of spirits can
| be made from bananas that are unfit
| for shipment. Each bunch of bananas
| will yield a gallon OF spirits at a cost
| less than that of manufacturing whis-
ky in the United States, which would
seem to indicate that distilleries can
| be made a very profitable investment
\ in banana shipping ports.
| George G. Brown, vice-president
of the Model License league, is one Of
| the best known distillers and whole
| salers in Kentucky. He has been an
| active member of the Presbyter
| ian church for forty years and
| has made careful study of the
| BlDIe III reBdru TO Ine use OF VINE
| and strong drink. Recently he COM
piled a typewriter pamphlet giving
| the full text OF every verse in the Bible
that contains the words "wine" or
| 'strong drink" In the heading the
| declaration is made that while the
Bible condemns intemperance, it not
only fails to advocate prohibition, but
| commends and commands the temper
ate use of alcoholic beverages. Some
| of the verses used to emphasize this
claim are as follows:
Therefore God give thee of the dew
| of heaven, and the fatness Of the earth,
and plenty of corn and wine." Genesis
| 27-2S.
"And for a drink offering thou shalt
offer the third part of an hin of wine,
| for a sweet SAVIOUR unto the Lord"
| Numbers 15-7.
"Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy,
| and drink thy wine with a merry heart,
for God now accepreth thy works"
| Ecclesiastes 81.
"I come into my garden. my sister,
my spouse, 1 have gathered my myrrh
with my spice, have eaten my honey
comb with my honey, have drunk my
wine with my milk eat, o friends,
drink, yea, drink abundantly, be-
| loved" Song of Solomon 81.
"Drink no longer water, but use q
little wine for thy stomach's sake and
thine often infirmities." First Timothy
5-23.
Tomorrow-Malsing of Watches.