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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 5199, 13 February 1904, Page 9

In the Anti-Alcoholic Museum in connection ■with a Temperance Congress held in Paris, a noticeable exhibit is one of the bills issued by the Italian Temperance Union, detailing some of the/ ostensible reasons why men drink. The reasons given are;—“One man drinks because ho is gay. another because he is sorrowful. One because the -weather is wet. another because it is dry. One because he works so hard, another because ho has nothing to do. One because ho has met with an old friend, another because ho has parted from one. One because it is cold, another because it is hot. One because he is alone, another because he is among companions. One to keep himself awake, another to send himself to sleep. One bocaueo he is attending a wedding, another because bo is at a funeral.”