The Old Game; a Retrospect After Three And a Half Years On the Water-Wagon
The Old Game; a Retrospect After Three And a Half Years On the Water-Wagon
Blythe Samuel George
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The human stom- ach will easily accommodate numerous seidels of beer, poured in at regular or irregular intervals; but the human stomach cannot and will not take care of a similar number of seidels of water, or of any other liquid that comes in the guise of stuff that neither cheers nor inebriates. I have never looked up the scientific reason for this. I state it as a fact, proved by my own at- tempts to accomplish with water what I used easily to do with highballs, Pilsner and other naughty su...bstances. The reformer boys will tell you there is no special need for such a drink; that water is all-sufficient. Of course everybody knows the reformer boys think the world is going to hell in a hanging basket unless each person in it comports himself and herself as the reformer boy dictates! But it is not so. And it is so that the social intercourse, the interchange of ideas be- A Nation V Need 39 tween man and man, both in this country and in every other country, is often predi- cated on drinking as a concomitant.
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