Skill alone will not win a ' golf championship: It requires. a stimulant; .and that stimulant is:brute force —a stimulant which, whon taken raw, is as fatal to success as 1 raw. brandy, but which, when judiciously blended w.ith . tho mineral water of skill, is as refreshing and as provocative of success as a brandy-and-soda—" Golfing." It is a reproach against temperance drinks that, as a rule, they are very distasteful. One would think that tho science of tho day oucht to be sufficient to manufacture something more satisfactory. Probably a cider could be made with a low percentage of alcohol that would supersede many or . the fluids now in common use. —"Country Life. ' All Cambridge men who know Oxford will agree that it 1 seems there that ovorybody is somebody's son, . and that it appears to be the self-imposed duty of one's friends to toll strangers all about' it; At Cambridge We aro less inquisitive.—Cambridge Man, in "Oxford and Cambridge Review.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 214, 3 June 1908, Page 5
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161Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 214, 3 June 1908, Page 5
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