PEACE IN HER VINEYARD.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 1812, 15 July 1891, Page 5

PEACE IN HER VINEYARD.

If you would go the proper way to pacify Society, To bring in the millennium and put a atop to sprite, Get a lot of feeble nobodies of every known variety, And bid tbem meet and teach the world the gentler way in life. Get a gentlnnan from Kansas to depreciate pugnacity. A New York lady orator, two Belgians and three Swedes ; Add a water politician so renowned for his vivacity, A millionaire, a marquess, and a delegate from Leeds. The gentle Gallic spirit which objects to deeds colonial (On the part of other nations) will come in for proper praise ; You'll a< range for Arbitration with due legal ceremonial, And annihilate the soldier with Mb naughty fighting ways. If anyone reminds you that the blood-stream rushes gaily, That as yet tho lion still prefers to have the lamb inside— You'll reply that you've the sanction of a leading L mdon daily, And that Moral Suasion is a force which cannot be denied. Then propose your resolution about Universal brotherhood, Though some >ay "solidarity" (whatever that may be), Then finn-h up with soothing chat of Father and Grandmother-hood, And with blessings on the Masses go with dignity to tea.

A mild sensation was recently caused at the Women's Temperance Convention at Melbourne last month by Fraulein Lepper's attack on the evils of tea drinking. She asserted that tea drinking had the effect of partially destroying the liver and other organs. It also rendered people nervous, irritable, and prematurely old, the skin weariDg the appearance of parchment, and the body either pinched or stout, and it was the greatest master of will and destroyer of vitality next to alcohol. She thought that the nerves of tea drinkers were seriously impaired by the pernicious habit, and they were much less susceptible to the truth about correct living than alcohol imbibers. The Fraulein also condemned the use of tobacco and coffee. Her astonished hearers did not, however, endorse her statements, for they passed a resolution that tea drinking in moderation was not " open to condemnation." Chicago has a cosmopolitan population. An address to the voters in that city was recently printed in eight languages.

Printed and Pnbi3hed b 7 the Proprietary Puling Brothers, at the Tu->pek* Times P-titng office, Ross place, Lawrence, New Zealand, Wednesday, July 15, 1891.