BEER AS A LIFE PRESERVER.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 881, 24 January 1907, Page 22

BEER AS A LIFE PRESERVER.

The use of beer as a means of prolonging life is advocated by many authorities and well-known physicians. One of them, Dr. Willis King, of Kansas City, Mo., says:—“l beg to say that I do not regard the moderate use of beer by an adult as injurious to health. On the contrary, it is the experience of everyone, I believe, that the moderate use of beer by ■persons in delicate health has a decidedly beneficial influence by improving digestion, stimulating assimi ation, and thereby increasing weight and strength. Beer, to persons in moderate health, when used in moderate quantities, does not only increase the weight and strength of the body, but has the influence of aid--ng the digestive apparatus to digest other things taken as food. For nearly forty years I have prescribed our best beers, ordering three or four glasses a day, in a great variety of ailments, and the results have been uniformly beneficial. In combat'ng disease, we know that we have not only to prescribe appropriate remedies in the way of medicines, but we must also improve digest on and assimilation, and thereby keep up weight and strength, for there can be no improvement where body waste is constantly occurring. Both of these indications are

met by a good beer, taken in moderation, and it is one means of treating the wasting forms of diseases which have never disappointed me.”

Appreciative listener to a local politic an, “May I ask if your remarks were extemporaneous?” Local politician: “They were worse, sir; they was what you might cal! almost profane. But the other man riled me so that I couldn’t help it!” V * « A coloured preacher took some candidates for immersion down to a river in Louisiana. Seeing some alligators in the stream, one of them objected. “Why, brother,” urged the pastor, “can’t you trust the Lord? He took care of Jonah, didn’t he?” “Ya-a-a-s,” admitted the darkey, “but a whale’s different. A whale’s got a memory, but of one of dem ’gators wus ter swaller dis nigger, he’d jes* go ter sleep dar in de sun an’ fergit al ’bout me.”