The Washington herald., 1919-07-01
"Lkker" Has fingered
Since Pre-Historic DAYS

sap Of palm-oil trees. The Baby
ionions. bit earlier. had Q mysteri-
Gus mtxed drink that had Q double
barreled kick.
Cabarets originated in the music
and dancing that attended driekfnE
bouts among the Egyptians. Greeks
and Romans. Egyptian parchments
depict banquets -disordered by
drunkenness-
Chrtstisns Adopted DRINK.
The cabaret drink was wine ana
water mixed for all IN a huge bowl
The master Of the revels decided the
strength OF the beverage ana the
toasts TO be drunk. Christians TOOK
up the pagan custom OF health drink
ing AND began drinking at wakes ana
births
The frst cocltail-or at lesst M
custom OF the aperitr--=wss used by
Greeks and Romans in Drinking BE-
fore eating and on occasions Of sol
enn prayer TO pagan gods
homers Ooysseus was probably the
man who started the Here's Bour-
practiceL Upon leaving the Phaes-
Clans he took up the Drinking bow
and said to Alcinous wife: I drink
70 you: De happy"
Ulysses. after the fall OF Troy tn
llA B. C. ran into the frst u.e or
knockout drops'-when the ench.pt-
ress on the island OF Circe mixed
drugs with wine and then turned her
Greek victims into swine.
Lisser Lawn In $500 h c.
Old records prove that iiouor
laws. seeking to curb the evils N
drink, are not inventions Of the
modern era
The ancients began reeulatine
the nouor traffic as far back as
Swenty-three centuries before the
birth OF hrist-
King Knammurabi found ,h.,
drunkenness was getting so had n.
baoylonia in 2250 B. c. that he
enacted liquor regulations in the
now celebrated Khammurabi code
OF Babylonian law.
Baolonia was in the valley be-
tween the Tigris and Euphrates in
Asla Minor. The kings code fixed
a fair price for wine and provided
death as a penalty for a tavern
Keeper who permitted disorder.
Tsvernkeepers were usually worp.
like this:
II r1otous persons assemble in
tne mousse OF wine merchant ana
tnese r1otous persons she setzes NOT
ana drives TO the palace, that wine
merchant shall be put to death =
carthaginiaas Loxe c.p,.e
First military restriction OF drink
lns-the first time the canteep was
taken away from soldiers-vas in
the case OF the Carthaginiap army
IN the ninth century before Christ
WINE was forbidden In camps ana
also ITS use was forbidden among
ma slstrates holding public Office,
IN lzSS A. D.. London tayerns
were 50 restricted by law that they
we're forced 70 close at curfev.
hlchard II, first regulated liquor
prices IN England in 1881. In 1897
'he authorities uncovered the first
case OF illegal adulteration and $50
barrels OF wine were Condemned sn5
emptied into the streets Of IonYon
by order OF the lord mayor.
During Queen Elizabeth's r,ign
beginning 1855. spirits were sr.t
taxed. The liquor industry was
then beginning to assume oonsioe--
able importance
China First Bone-Dry Lana.
LEGISLATION for a bone-dry nation
IKE the United States after July l.
is nothing new.
Temperance movements and prohi-
hition crusades date back AZ lesSt
S.oo years! 1t was China thar irsr
tried to be bone-dry.
Early reforms along Temperance
lines are attributed TO the priests o.
india and Persia But the Chinese
claim that in the Eleventh century
oeiore Christ their emperor. SO dis
eusted over The prevalence Of drunk
eeS' oroereo all the grapc vines
/ IN the Kingdom uprooted.
The Chinese Emperor removed IN.
cause Of wine drinking. Thai NAV
be the reason why the Chinese fook IA
making Intoxicating liquor out OF rice.
\ hundred years before tins bope-
! dry effort. in the Twelfth century he
iore Christ King Wen tried partiss
reform in China. Wen. founder OF the
Shou dynasty. promulgated an An
nouncement Against Drunkenness.
according TO ancient Chinese docu-
mDlts handed down by Confucius
king Wen declared drinking has
long been a national vice" He or
dered that wine be used only in con-
neCIoh Win sacrtficeS-and even
then drunkenness was not TO b
tolerated
But there was a foker ,p ,,f.
edict Here IL is: when. boUevcr .
you high officials and Others hsvS
Done your duty in ministerinE 10
the aged and 70 your soverSien' you
may then eat TO safety and drink
to elevation"
The first Temperance. soeietv a,
the United States was formed in
April. 1905. at Moreau. Saratoga
county. N. Y. Had forty-three mem
oers, prescribed a fine Of 25 cents
Tor each person drinking rum. gin.
whisky. wine or distilled spirits and
IL existed fourteen years In 1895
the American Temperance Society
was founded at Boston. and in 1893
prominent members Of congress
formed the Congressional Temper
ance Society,"