Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-12-25
JUST ONE LITTLE
DRINK after the
OTHER IN FRANCE
THEY DRINK 1T IN THE
MORNING AT NOON AND
AGAIN AT NIGHT

no ho, nay friend that's e dreom--
BIKE
So Iierrc. my onc,cycd. black mus
iached FELLOW board,r az the lab0rrrs
boarding house IN north France ~
dressed hirHcf had lust finished
telling him ih't in America we under
stood that neither Germans nor Frcch
men ever drank 90 excess.
II Is not dream or Joke with the
Letter class ~ French workers with
them drunkenness H. greatly ioOL I'd
dosn upon-aad very much hidden and
hnbhed up. hut among the lower
groups u common laboror. Il Is fairly
common especially over the week end
In TACT from SATURDAY o. Monday. the
hours Of both working and loafing lp
psafrd 10 consist pretty much Of just
one Title drink after another,
Cognsc n breakfast.
Tho ball started rolling my very lru
working day-lust az sccn A. uo gut
down % the Kitchen 40 80. By the time
we had washed NJ the pump. the tnd
lord had our coffee ready for ~ with
= stiff shot Of cugnac In II
Shortly after the whistle At the plant.
Invitations came by various high s.gus
when the boss was no, looking L. drop
ms work and GO over To- the locker ~
nearby lsborer. Here h. maintained
secretly q small but highly effective cm
potlum of hard lquor.
At noon. Ike most al Frances work.
ers, we had an hour and hall off
Most ~ the msn used bicycles "a get
back and forth from a substantial noon
dinner. FoT soma ~ them thu bicycle
permitted a stop into a nearby "cstam.
met fcf a cumpanioablc drink ~ beer
81 wine
AZ dinner stir another drink ~ either
wine or oognac was generally furnished
after the regular beer witch was al.
Ways served III thu boarding house IN.
siead ~ water.
~ sunday evcning you can hear q
great desl - singing 90 alcoholic har.
nony an the Surkingman's restaurants
and bar rnoslS. Iiy thu, tius Henri the
'ail mason with The huge red mgsta che.
would haVs enough beel and white wine
70 make MAJ eaNiOus o. tell tn story
OF MS hfe h. anybody. On MoDdav
mofnlHs ~ refussd ms portion 81 cog
nae and keW lnquiring as To- how he
had Aequirsd ~ painful a headache
Il find that alcohol IL good Tor the
heslth--yes. very good sid the. rail
WAY laboreg one day al dinner HIS
mustache sas a. huge az tho mason 4
ana Nsry rcd bui c0uld never see his
hair because h. never took ~, his hat
al table.
W Tor lnsisnce walk oul On the
stfefi without Iay coffee-cognac In IN
H,"ruing TIA into al tho had odoIf
aipns ihr street and pretty soon ! find
myself With 4 Deidachr But Il 3,
out fsri'fsee with my cagnac u much
soof rad sine. then I never notice thess
o31rs ans r~Ysf have a headache ~ a
for the hralth. This alcohol"
OF corr. the cognar had made hin
ohllsloas u h4s SURROUNDINGS.
IN cermany : saw i~-- drurk~-rrs,
among thC vDFkers Bur the rcasor
fsr "a wRs no, rcsssurinK
Tor 49,. g so~fs too muDt-tni
Keeps cpsfing Hsof. - the value u m
me@<- thsv earn keeps falling
2 Goa a. Il THE b true about Johr
Esr5e<rurp.
WtBs-s.f lsngtnee they use. wnfkrii
~hs ~ u, lac doxn equally Dad loh'
sr tc-ntrfl1nf m equally heavy prtf
are ~ frr. iGsisncs 90 " q D. ui'
49, i4pf shout equal interest," in ~
p<r7k l1hn Dzsleycrrn speaks 10 them
tn ~sl d sake John Baiieyeorr
spA~.Ai<>< : - improve nep'- j'i'f and
r~r's hfe-.