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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 137, 8 December 1919, Page 4

IMTOYARD KIPLING, PROHIBITIONIST. The following incident (writes a correspondent) is related by Rudyard Killing to explain why he became a prohibitionist : — "The other sight of the evening was a horror. The little tragedy played itself out at a neighbouring table, where tw6 very young women were sitting. It did not strike me till very late in the evening that the pimply young reprobates were making the girls drunk. They gave them red wine, and then.white, and the voices rose slightly with the maidens' cheek flushes. I watched, wishing to stay, and the youths drank till -their speech thickened and their eyeballs grew watery. It was sickening to see, because I knew what was going to happen. My friend eyed the group and said: 'Maybe they are the children of respectable parents? I hardly think, though, they'd be allowed out without any better escort than these boys, and yet the place is a place where everybody comes. They may be.' And they were, all four, children of sixteen and seventeen. Then, recanting previous opinions,. I became a prohibitionist. Better it is that a man should go without his beer m public places, and content himself with swearing at tho narrow-mindedness of the majority-; better it is to poison the inside with very vile temperance drinks, and to buy lager furtively at back doors, than to bring temptation to the lips of young fools such as the four I had seen. I understand now why the preachers rage against the drink. I have said. 'There is no harm in it if taken moderately,' and yet my own demand for beer helped directly to send those two girls reeling down the dark streets to—God alone knows what end."—Advt. Wood,.' Great Peppermint Cure. For Coughs and Colds, never fails.— -Advt.

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