Temperance Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 291, 13 June 1895, Page 3

Temperance Items.

o An elderly gentleman accustomed to " indulge, " entered the room of a certain inn, where sat a sedate old Quaker by the fire. Lifting a pair of green spectacles up to his forehead, rubbing his inflamed eyes, and calling for hot brandy and water, he complained to the Friend that his eyes were getting weaker and weaker, and the spectacles did not seem to do him any good. " I'll tell thee, friend," replied the Quaker, "what I think. If thee were to wear the spectacles over thy mouth for a few months, thy eyes would soon get well again." — Boys. . Though editors of papers are begming to see the extreme folly of the use of alcohol as food, and doctors by the hundred are now convinced that the human body is infinitely better without alcoholic drinks, it seems that all archbishops are not yet converted. The Band of Hope Chronicle lately remarked thus :— 'lt is a pity there were no Bands of Hope when the Archbishop of Canterbury was a boy. Had there been, his Grace might have been saved from saying in his place in the House or Lords that" in his opinion alcohol was a food.'' The circumstance seems to point to the desirability of some elementary scientific training for eminent ecclesiastics, or else to the advisability of their saving nothing on physiological questions. "What wonder tbat tho publicans fell emboldened to appeal to the Church for help in defending their nefarious business when its highest dignitary regards a cause of moral evil as simply a form of wholesome nourishment.' You often hear the remark that there is no harm in a glass of wine per se. Per se means by itself. Place a glass of wine on a shelf, and let it remain there, and it is per se, and will harm no one. But if you take it from the shelf and turn it inside a man, then it is no longer per se. — Medical Pioneer.