KAISER AND TEMPERANCE.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12498, 26 March 1909, Page 4

KAISER AND TEMPERANCE.

Owing to the manner in which enthusiastic advocates of temperance have been exploiting a report that thu Kaiser has become a teetotaller a statement has been issued to the effect that the report is utterly without foundation. His Majesty has been much annoyed by this use of his name in temperance propaganda: .The Kaiser takes a glass of light Moselle wine at lunch and dinner, and occasionally a glass of champagne. When he is host at one of the "men's evenings," which he is fond of giving for a circle of intimate friends, or at a card party, the Emperor drinks, on-3 or two glasses of beer, as has long been his custom. The story that the Kaiser has "pledged himself never to touch alcoholic liquor again as part of his policy of reform" is, of course, ridiculous. • . His Majesty has tried to popularise tea in the Army, and to induce his officers to drink less and . cheaper wines.