MAY GET DRUNK ON BREAD.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 911, 22 August 1907, Page 22

MAY GET DRUNK ON BREAD.

“You could get drunk on fresh bread if you could eat enough of it at once,” said a chemist to a woman with a white ribbon in her button-hole. “I don’t believe it,” the woman answered. “And yet it is a fact,” the chemist continued. “It used to be thought that tion generated all passed out in the baking ; but Thomas Bolas, a distinguished scientist, has proved that bread, after it is ready for eating, still contains alcohol. The other day twelve loaves of fresh bread were examined, and found to contian, on the average, alcohol in the proportion of .314 per cent. When, therefore, you have eaten loolb of bread, you have consumed five ounces of alcohol. That is quite as much alcohol as you would get in a pint of whisky. You, madam, eat, I fancy, about 3501 b of bread a year. That is 35 001 b in ten years. In these 35001 b

there are 175 ounces of alcohol, which is the same as seventeen quarts of whisky. Think of it 1 Every ten years you consume seventeen quarts of whisky with your bread.” “I don’t believe it,” said the woman with the white ribbon, and then she went out to get signers to remonstrances against Kokomo saloonkeepers.

A husband was being arraigned to court in a suit brought by his iwife for cruelty. “ I understand, sir,” said counsel, addressing the husband, “ that one of the indignities you have showered upon your wife is that you have not spoken to her for three years. Is that so?” “It is,” quickly answered the hueband. “ Weil, sir,” thundered the counsel, “ why didn’t you speak to her, may I ask ?” “ Simply,” replied the husband, “ because I didn’t want to interrupt her!”