TARANTARA!

Evening Post, Volume XILI, Issue 113, 14 May 1891, Page 2

TARANTARA !

« No doubt eaoh Britieh " heart of oak " in tho Australasian oolonios will thrill with pardonable emotion and swell with excusable pride on reading the important announcement in the cable mo3eages that tho London polioo ore assimilating quinine pills twice daily as "a precautionary measure " a?aiust tho attaoks of the insidioui "La Grippe." Past-mastera in the technique of many and various "grips" themselves, they require protection against one " grip " which stalwart musoles or the athlete's skill aro powerless to loosen. I'aternal Governments, Imperial and Municipal, are accordingly nursing up " Robart," and for tho first time on record the police "system" may be said to bo receiving duo attention at the hands of the authorities. No doubt, aa a companion to " The Roll Call," Mrs. Butler will shortly give to the world a painting of the "Pill Parade" of the London Police, and the humane character of the Britiab Govornment will thus be immortalised. Great national traits of this kind should not be hidden out of sight. But if " a policeroau'H life is not a happy one " his last " bittor " experience, at any rate, will but sharpen hia appetite for the delicacies nightly provided by " Mary Ja.no " and " Cookey " at the expense of their employera. The quinine treatment will, of oonrse, improve tho "tone" of the force, a very desirable consummation. Perhaps the Press Assooiation will also oblige with cabled information when A 1920 or XSO correct their bodily oondition with the patont liver pill or the domestic Gregory's Powder. It would be so interesting, and qnite as instructive as the quinine pill incident.