FAIR TIPPLERS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1341, 11 August 1877, Page 19

FAIR TIPPLERS.

Let us follow, the movements, for the brief space of twelve hours, of a young girl who goes much into society. Somewhere about nine or ten a.m. she makes her appearance in the morning-room — after having jigged about in a crowded assembly until daybreak — languid, heavyeyed, unrefreshed by the matutinal tub. Without the* ghost of an appetite she ■its down to an unwholesome meal of ipiced and peppered dishes, hot rolls, strong coffee and cream. After breakfast -ii-too tired, in all probability, to ride — •he whiles away the rosy hours until lunch-time in doing inticate things with coloured silks, writing notes, or fluttering the pages of the books sent in from Mudie's. Luncheon is a heavier breakfast, with the addition of wine and pastry. A turn or two in the park, lolling back in * barouche, varied by an. interval of ■hopping in a West End " emporium ; " Some to afternoon tea, with plenty o* sweet cakes to destroy the little appetite created, by the fresh air ; another spell of the dolce far. niente, a languid toilette, and thea dinner. The real business of the , day (begins long after the birds are asleep and the stars are Btiining in the sky.:' A. menu in which you look in vain for plain- roast or boiled ; the glare of a score of' candles ; a wine for every course ; laughter,* excitement, coffee, flirtation, and' finally the brougham, in which the flushed and feverish girl is whirled away to. n more hot ' rooms j more excitement, more champagne ; what can result from such ah unnatural and unhealthy mode of existence but an increased' craving for dissipation j and an impatient desire to be relieved from the lassitude attending reaction by the abuse of alcoholic stimulants I—Whitehall1 — Whitehall Review.