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The Gospel of Good Cheer at the age of 32. Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humour, good humour cavses good thoughts, good thoughts .bring forth good vorks, good works carry a man. to Heaven; therefore good wine entrieth a man to Heaven.-—Ancient maxim. The Dean of Canterbury is eighty-two, is a man full, indeed, of learning and years and honour. In his study facing the immemorial lawns before Canterbury Cathedral he accorded an interview to '.he Sunday Herald. ' The Dean said he war not an authority on alcohol, but he realised the importance of understanding how it should be used. • Prom a shelf in a great bookcase the Dean took down the bound report, a black-bound sturdy volume — of the findings of the committee under Lord D'Abernonon the'effects of alcohol on the human system. "I was astonished," he said, "that this report was not read more. It is exceedingly important for people to understand rightly regarding alcohol. "Scientific conclusions fraught with the greatest possibilities of human happiness are set out here for. the first time, yet nobody will read the volume. I admit it is dull reading in this form. I, therefore, as you know, have attempted to put the matter of the report before the public in the Quarterly Review in plain English., Rest and Cheer. "The first, conclusion this very able committee came to is that alcohol—in ? oderation of course: moderation in alcohol is implied all the time—affects only the nervous system. The effects on the respiration, circulation, digestion and muscular system are not of serious and practical account. "The second conclusion is that alcohol is not truly a stimulant. It is essentially a sedative. "A third consolation is that alcohol does not possess a food value. "These most authoritative conclusions place the use of alcohol on new foundation. That wine is a beneficent gift to mankind is by no means a new idea. The mighty trouble has been to have it taken in the right way—the unhappy sons of men have not by any means all known lioy/ to use the t,'ift. ' ■ F^^in<y Ih£ Tired Rom "That was some time ago, but it correctly anticipates these most recent conclusions, that alcohol is to be uced as the opposite of a stimulant. \ "Alcohol, undoubtedly, is to be used as a sedative, a narcotic, if you like. Something to ease a man's tired brain or spirits—to give him cheer, comfort, and a rest."' It was mentioned to the Dea:^ that when he spoke of the sensible uses of alcohol as a sedative he referred usually to wine. Did he place beer and spirits in the same category? "Yes," he replied. "What tastes nicer than a good glass of beer? For myself, I am sorry to say, I cannot digest a glass of beer now." "Spirits," he continued, "are not an English drink like beer. I have read in an old encyclopaedia, under the heading 'Whiskey': 'A local beverage consumed in the mountain solitudes of Scotland,' -or wordo to that ; effect. , - "Whiskey belongs to Scotland and to Ireland—conceiveable to Wales! Beer is the.English drink.".' The Real English Drink. The Dean mentioned that Beer was the drink of England for centuries, but did not know the time of its discovery. The authorities ara vague on the subject, writing leather in the. mystic vein: Hops and turkeys, caps and beer, Came to Old England all in a year "Drink," continued the Dean, "is greatly a natter of climate. As a rule the v/e£ countries are the drinking countries. Spain is a very dry country. When I was travelling at one time a friend who knew the world offered to bet one could not find a drrnk man in Spain. It was a safe bet." On the point of moderate alcohol in sickness the Dean of Canterbury mentions r.s "delightful" this interesting passage from the old-fashioned "Health Manual":— In ague the combination in which alcohol is offered is of considerable importance. The most generous red wines should'be .■used, and the distance at which the bouquet may be smelt may be taken as a rough test of their utility. ■ . ! , ' ' i ' ■ . . ■ Prohibition "Positive Cruelty/*The Dean makes short wor.: of the idea of total prohibition— a plan that may be carried out in the United States. He believes in regulation of drink, but not in "vain attempts to suppress a natural craving." "IT WOULD BE, POSITIVE CRUELTY," he writes,. "TO .MANY PERSONS OF'A NERVOUS TEMPERAMKNT TO DEPRIVE THELI, By PROHIBITION, OF THE SEDATIVE COMFORT" V/Hloil THEY FIND IN ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES ALONE." / THE DEAN KNOWS THERE ARE WORSE THINGS- -DRUGS, FOR EXAMPLE. (1) I VOTE FOR NATIONAL .CONTJNU4NC.E. , (Z) 1 :vlr.it; T.UR Dl;\*V rURVIwoi; Any 'CunißUL.' ; (3) i-.Yuic ru>K iiAiiuimL rKuiiiuuwa ON DECEMBER 17. ■ : ■ ~ —AD.VT. j

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