TEMPERANGE COLUMN.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 108, 3 November 1900, Page 2 (Supplement)

TEMPERANGE COLUMN.

[The matter for this column is supplied by a representative of tho local Temperance bodies, who alone is responsible ior the opinions expressed in it.] THE CONTAGION OF DRINKING. Drinking is contagious. One drinker makes many—he is generally what the world calls a social fellow, and is. joined by first on© and then by another. The circle enlarges and they call for the nWing bowl; they persuade the unthinking that it is happiness ; they tell the young it is manly, each of- these influences some other connections. If the husband drinks abroad, the wife may take a similar liberty at home, The son asks what harm there is in doing what nis parents do? Thua the disease infects neighbours and relatives, and who can say whore it will Stop? Let him who spreads it remember that ho is responsible for all its consequences. Repeated or long continued ex : cess not only injures your health, but your example may be fatal to your companions. - • ■ i • JOTTINGS. Private T. Hopkins, the winner of the Alexandra Cup at Bisley this year, is » working mason and an abstainer. The Khedive never disobeys the command of the Koran by tasting wines or spirits. He is also a total abstainer from tobacco, and this in a land where nearly everybody smokes cigarattes from morning till night. Lieutenant F. M. Robertson, who has been awarded the Victoria Cross for his gallantry at Elands Laagte, is an earnest Army Temperance Association worker, having received the Association'^ award of merit in recognition of his work on the A.T. A. 's, behalf. Mrs. Maxwell, the Miss Braddon of literary; fame, never touches stimulants of any kind. For forty years she has been at her arduous ,work, and her pen is still brilliant, and apparently exhaustless. She attributes her perennial youth to her total abstinence. The young Queen of Holland is a total { abstainer, and pstentatiously refuses, on all publio occasipns, to partake of wine. Her most intimate friend, the Royal Princess Pauline of Wurtemburg, was by i her wan over to the cause, and each in her own circle is actively working to decrease the baneful vice of intemperance. M. Alphonse de Rothschild, of Paris, has made a donation of £10,000 in aid of Madam Lagrain's temperance work. The sum will in part be applied in establishing temperance restaurants, but chiefly in founding a home of industry for inebriates leaving the asylum who wish to reform their lives. A Prince's Horror.— ln a letter sent to Archbishop Benson, published in his biography, the Prince of Wales said:— "l have a horror of gambling, and should always do my utmost to discourage others who have an inclination for it, as I consider that gambling, like intemperance, is one of the greatest curses which the country could, be afflicted with.' A big drinker is never a big thinker. Bitter beer never makes a man sweettempered. Over 1000 people die every year of delirium tremens in England. Suicides from- drunkenness in France were formei-ly 5 per cent., now they are 12 per cent. It isn't the drop ii> wages that hurts the man as much as the drop he take* after getting his wages..