The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1911-03-23
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ISA 49,
RAPID PACE IN TEMPERANCE
World 10 Forgetting How to Get Drunk
-Areients spent Immense sums
Of Money on Wine.
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The world is nearer real temper
,noe today than at any time In It's MS
DRY.
Teetotalers may not believe this. but
II they read the following they VIII
realize that the world at least Is Tor.
getting how TO get really good ana
drunk. The men of so or 20 years
ago we're great drinkers. but for point
ers on how to get drunk and spend
money II Ia necessary to turn TO the
incientg.
Caesar on a certain occasion WINE
trunk with wine IL said to have given
Eutychus, his Cbarlotcer. up
amounting 10 $4,000. the largest
money tip on record.
Philip Of Macedon was drunkard.
lie always LEFT the banquet table stag
roring. Alexander the Great. his SON
inherited his weakness for drink. IL
look him two days and two nights 10
,leep OF a banquet lie died OF drink
Il the age OF 90.
Dionysius. the younger. tyrant OF 81
,uv went on spreos which lasted three
months AZ n time. lie lost his eyesight
through oycrindulgence.
Nero was 10 the habit Of sitting at
noon and sticking there until midnight.
eating and drinking all the time.
Tberius was n sincere drunkard-
After becoming emperor OF Rome he
was drunk 90 often that hts army
aickunmed him "Biberius." meaning
'tippler" lie had two boon compan-
ons. Flaccus and Piso. with whom he
went OF sprees. ~ the weeHing stage
hey deplorcd the prevalence OF drunk
snnesg Tiberius was very fond of
mushrooms. and died from eating tho
wrong kind
Nowhere In all the world today VIII
YOU md a. many confirmed drunkards
"a there were among the Thracians.
the Iberians. the Celts or the Scythi-
ana The man who didn't get
trunk every day or two was consid'
cred queer.
Eat. drink and amuse yourself All
else IL vanity" said Sardanapalus, the
last king of the Assyrians, and those
words were written on his tomb
The Greeks were moderate drinkers
until they began 10 copy the luxury OF
| The Persian feas.s. The Romans int
lated the Greeks. Then the whole
world went ON a saturnalia.
In the beginning no wrong was
thought Of drinking. and the moralists
even advised drink to dl4pel melah-
choly. Hippocratcs upheld drinking
and earnestly advised people TO drown
their sorrows in wine.
The Romans carried over indulgence
% m extreme never eaualed In an
,ther age. Gluttony and intemper-
,nce relgned. ard huge fortunes were
spent In single repastS.
or the many feasts given by Vitelius
no, one cost less than 1880. and his
reign WAS an almost continuous de
bauch Commodus was notorious
irunkard. and Seplimus Severus was
not much better Several died OF over
Indulgence IN the flowing bowl
When Meliogabalus assembled The
throne he had hlstoriographer whose
special task was to record the orgies
Forty courses day we're served at his
feasts, each one Of which cost not less
than $4,000. He gave fortunes To new
inventors of drinks.
Apicius spent S3,000.000 on rare
wines and dishes lie went over ms
books one day aud found he had bu'
1850. 900 leti. Rather than siarve or
such pitrance he killed himself. Api
cius discovered how To keep oyster
alive during long shipments. For tina
he was reyercd as demigoi.
Many Of the famous drunkards drahA
$500 worth OF wine at single meal
Al a little luncheon given to Cicero
and Pompoy by Lucullus. $1,000 ~or't
OF wine was consumed by the three
These facts leave no doubt that w
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