Substitute for Alcohol

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 135, 21 May 1887, Page 3

Substitute for Alcohol

If- U-en^will drink, there is no reason why they should "drink alcohol, says' I the Milwaukee Sentinel. It is a popular hdticiii t|iat the purpose of ] alcohol can not be filled by any thing • oise^'and the drinker submits to: the staying*, drunk after the; fun ; is allover,' andbaiving ff l blooming headache ! the next day aira matter of necessity. _'[ Now, it ie a weH-esfablisted fact that , a man can make just.a s .great a fool of luihsel^ ahd '^U;havej _en_e of 'degradation on ether as he can on alcohol. Out of wood can be. obtained an a. f alpoholt wbich lis iighter than the ajjcphol 'ofj ordiuary,drinka,. and-which-produees ! the-eame ejects, jouly^more -quickly, j aii<fVhich leaves the drinker broken up. A mag»mayssake his, pther, and in, a few minutes he wiU be wildly oxcited, -. apd wiR want. r. to. •Whip' • all '§ creation ; but before he! gets ready* to * whk».:anybody-.he 'will' be > id ' & stupor - —_nd in- bail -&n hour- he will *■ he as c sober a«*he e^er w^s'in Mi Uf§.';^ He j *y eaa get drhnk aiid sobCTa dozen limes' tti^drMkeir bf; whisky is getting through one debauch. In Ireland thero is a district where, ether is the only drink. ' It is not pure ether but a mixture of that with methylated d, (alcohol.: It sells for 3d a pint; and : that quantity is more than enough for one luxurious - and degrading drunk. Be it has economy in itfavour. Dr Richardson, who visited the region, says that ' none of the : savage acts of a man. raging f rom j alcohol are cbm'niitted ' by the ether drinkers. The man who limits .his drinking to this, does not. acqui^. the. Alcoholisappetite and constitution. If be do_sn?t make a mistake and «nougti to kill him, he is not injured ty »*• A. ■,- A :-•:■;..; ie ■ .d Cowtinuattonofreading 'toatfar dn'uhpap