The Washington times., 1917-03-24
PAWN GIN TO INSURE.
SUPPLY ON SUNDAY.
British Workers Find a Way to
Get Liquor During Hours
Saloons Are Closed.

NEW YORK. March 24.-Marmaduke
N. Mizzle, q caraway seed merchant
of Mincing lane. London, who arrived
in New York recently on his way to
Chicago, said that one of the difficult
problems Premier Lloyd George had
to solve was to persuade the British
workingman to learn to go without
his beer. On April the output from
the breweries IL to be reduced 80 per
cent, and q further reduction will be
made in the product OF the distilleries,
because the alcohol Is needed in the
manufacture OF explosives and also
for hospital purposes.
"Under the present restrictions
Mr.. Mizzle said, "the public houses
are open from 1890 to 2:30 p. m. and
from $50 to S:30 D. m. The pro-
prietors are not allowed to sell q bot
tie OF spirits, beer, or wine, to be
taken away from the premises after
y. m, and from that hour on Friday
until 1890 o'clock on Monday after
noon the places are closed. This in
cludes clubs, hotels, or restaurants.
Entails Great Hardships.
at entails a great hardship on the
average British workingman, because
he cannot realize the advantage of
having money II 1t will not buy quart
pots of foaming beer. Pianos will not
quench a thirst. One OF the most pop
ular ballads Of the music halls was
written about an idiot who always
was willing to spend his last shilling
on beer-glorious beer Another
classic refrain was entitled Blowing
Foam on the Top
"In order to get something to drink
on Saturday night and Sunday the
workingmen conceived the happy idea
of buying bottles Of gin, whisky, or
rum on Monday and pawninR them
for small amount until Saturday
night, when the pawnbrokers are
allowed to keep open until IL o'clock.
Since the war workers have had good
wages, and the pawnbrokers' busi-
ness, which thrives on poverty, has
been dull until the fad of leaving
the rum with uncle and getting It
out for the week end was started.
AntI-Treating II Hard.
THE anti-treating too, has been a
great hardship, as It prevented the
Saturday night parties in the bril-
liantly lit public house, where the
head of the family dealt out glasses
of purl or four-'alf from its native
pewter in glasses to his friends,
while his missus shared half a pint
of blue ruin or white satin as gin
IL called. among her neighbors, and
the children had ginger beer and
bandbury cakes.
The oId-fashioned drink called
dog nose which is made OF old ale
made hot with a dash of gin, sugar
and cinnamon, said to be most CRATE
full and comforting, has almost entire
ly gone out of fashion. Whisky
Is on the decline. because
the whisky is half water and is
served in a silver thimble, about the
size OF the implement used by tailors.
1t just moistens the bottom of the
glass as II 1t had been out in the
dew a few minutes.
Considered Marvellous.
at is considered nothing short of
marvellous that the workingmen
should have submitted to the re-
strictions Lloyd-George has imposed
on them so far, because for the last
century no British statesman had
dared to. become between the British
workman and his beer. The Duke of
Wellington trid to do II, about 1880,
I think. and had to escape from his
house in Piccadilly by the roof while
the mob smashed his windows down
below. This he considered was such
Ingratitude that he never had them
replaced. He died twenty years later.
"Asquith's government came in in
1906 on the top of the tide of popular
favor and tried to introduce some
new license laws. At the first bye
election, which was at Peckham, near
known as Sloper's Island on
account of the habits Of the inhabitants
lust before quarter day. the government
candidate was showed under. and the
new law regulating the sale of in