GETTING A DRINK IN A DRY TOWN.

White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 272, 18 February 1918, Page 8

GETTING A DRINK IN A DRY TOWN.

The current issue of “Life” describes in a series of picture's the difficulties of getting a drink in a drytown. 1. The thirsty man meets an old man with long hair and tattered garments, and inquires where he can get a drink. 2. He is cautioned to be extremely careful 3. He is given whispered directions where to go. 4. lie meets a suspicious guardian. 5. He gives the signal. 6. He is given a signal in return. 7. He finds a sliding panel. 8. He climbs up a pair of gloomy stairs. <>. He comes to a trap door. 10. He finds himself in an empty attic. 11. He climbs a rickety ladder. 12. He emerges on to a roof. 13. He passes by a wobbly plank to an unlatched window. 14. He raises the window, and finds himself in an empty chamber. 15. He discovers a fake chimney. 16. He lets himself down by a rope ladder. 17. He finds himself in a cellar. 18. He crawls on his hands and knees through a tunnel. 19. He enters a secret chamber. 20. He gives three raps at a little window. 21. The window opens, and at last a man’s hand appears with a drink of whisky. It is a safe guess that this series of pictures will not be reproduced in the liquor publications, which publications are insisting that there is more liquor sold in dry than in wet towns. And nobody has ever accused “Life” of whooping it up for the dry programme either.—“ American Issue.”