Another characteristic invention is the establishment of a home for female inebriates, into which women of the working classes arc admitted at the low tariff of eight shillings a week. Alfred Carpenter, an enthusiastic teetotaller, meantime, has been delivering a new reading of ancient history, according to which Alexander the Great was cut short by drink at thirty-two, and the Romans were unable to withstand the invasions by the Goths and Vandals owing to the intemperance of their military leaders. A critic suggests that the supremacy of the modern German in the swilling of beer and the bearing of arms scarcely accords with this new revelation. Lord Malmesbury also still furnishes bright sayings, the best of which is the answer by a littlo girl to the query " What is the outward and visible sign of baptism ?" The answer is: " The baby."
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Evening Star, Issue 6762, 29 November 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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141Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Star, Issue 6762, 29 November 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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