The New York herald., 1921-10-02
ILLS HIS EXPERIENCE WHEN HE QUIT DRINKING

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could turn the cup completely around with
out moving the grain or the LIQUID.
We are sure that this can be applied tc
the universe in way. Prof Einste.-
could take simple fact like this and prove
that the thing we call the sky is merely the
top OF our bubble in the coffee cup of some
prodigous being. while the earth is speck
of dust inside the bubble.
Presently he will drink his coffee and our
bubble with it. Or maybe he has already
drank it. in which event our universe is by
now probably lodged in his veriform appen-
dix to his own discontinue and the delight
of his physician
w re have read over the first part of
M/ this article and somehow or other
we gain the impression that we did
not make it very clear in the beginning that
in our struggle against drink it was coffee
of which we were speaking. So many per-
sons have come to believe that the only pos
sible drinking habit is whiskey drinking,
which, of course, includes everything con-
tanning more than the forbidden one-half of
per cent; but it isn't true. There are all
sorts of drinking habits, and whskey is
Now that they have made it impossible to
ret drink of liquor there is every reason
10 broaden the word drink" to it's original
meaning, so that when man is said to be
drinking the natural question should be,
Drinking what?"
OF course in the old days it was different.
We are speaking of the days when a man
could hire couple of negro musicians, one
with a fiddle and the other with banjo,
md arrNf fhnn1 orO xxtfb inn FOR an
tire evening that he and his friends
could have music whenever they wished.
We had a friend who used to do that
The last time he performed was in Wash
ington. He was from our home town, but
we ran across him several years ago in the
national capital. where he had gone to Sc
cure a Government contract. He was in a
seven passenger car which he had rented
for the occasion, and had his two musicians
with him.
Our business for the day being over we
accepted his invitation to ride and enjoy
the music.
The wartime patriotism was at it's height
The hunt for spies and slackers and draft
evaders under way. 1T may have been
this influence or it may have been just
natural desire to recite poetry. Anyway
friend suddenly said, Driver, stop your
car" He did so.
Driver" continued our friend, ''Lives
there man with soul so dead, who never to
himself has said, This is my own, my
tive land" If such there be, go mark him
we'll"
At this point our friend forgot the re-
mainder of the poem. He stopped short.
mo, sir don't know any such man." an
swered the driver of the car
"Very well, Them said our friend, impress
sively, you may drive on
1t evidently appealed to his sense Of
humor, for in about five minutes he again
stopped the automobile and the dialogue was
repeated. Again the driver disclaimed any
knowledge whatsoever of the man in ques-
ton.
A third time the thing was repeated to
the amusement of our friend The driver
was becoming little nervous.
IF such there be, so mark him well,'"
quoted our friend in reiteration, shaking a
solemn finger at the driver of the
Mark him, mark him." answered the au-
tomobile driver. Say mister, won't only
mark him, I'll beat hell out Of him and then
turn him over to the police"
The remainder of evening was con-
fined to music.