HOW TO DRINK.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVIII, Issue 1045, 17 March 1910, Page 22

HOW TO DRINK.

The question of •“ how to drink” is as important as “ what to drink. Some French doctors have had the subject under consideration. “Drink according to your thirst,” says Dr. Lancereaux, who is an authority on alimentary hygiene. “But it is best

to be rather moderate. Not to drink, however, would be much more disastrous.” Professor Doleris, of the Academy of Medicine, says: “Wine is good lor the Health; it aids di o -s~ tion; it cleanses and stimulates the digestive canal. It should be drunk in small quantities, and with a small addition of water.” Professor Marcel Labbe counsels moderation, advises drinking rather at the end of a meal, and, better still, in the intervals. Liquids swallowed with food distend the stomach. Taken fasting they are better assimilated and expelled.” As for wine, the professor thinks an active worker can take a maximum of a litre per day, a sedentary worker half that quantity. A litre is about a quart, English measure. The writer had occasion recently to consult a leading New South Wales medical specialist, who recommended wine or whisky diluted with water with meals. For workmen, and those who undergo physical exertion, there is nothing so refreshing as beer. The Emperor of Germany, a typical busy man, we are told by “ The Gentlewoman,” an English fashion paper, takes two glasses of beer per day. He also drinks whisky. “ The chief steward of the Hamburg-American steamship ‘Hamburg,’ on which his Majesty took a trip (continues our contemporary), says that, he drank one glass of Rhine wine at dinner. At dinners where the Emperor is the guest of honor he allows his glass to be filled a second time with champagne. He, therefore, well deserves the designation of being a moderate man, acknowledging the due restraints of true ' temperance.” After all, in drinking, as in other things, moderation and temperance are the ideals. But temperance is not teetotalism —quite the reversal! —Sydney Fair Play.