" Atlas," tfie gossip-writer in Truth, has the following paragraph on the increasing disuse of intoxicating drinks : " Nothing is more surprising than the number of persona who in the last year or two have given up spirituous liquors. It used to be rare to meet a water-drinker, but now it seems to be becoming somewhat the fashion only to drink water at dinner parties, whilst for incidental drinking the soda-and-lemon runs the soda-and-brandy very closely. There are, no doubt, a great many people who really do like wine and "brandy, but unquestionably there are many who used to drink these liquors because they imagined that (hey gave evidence of a vulgar taste eschewing them."'
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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3083, 4 January 1879, Page 3
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113Untitled Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3083, 4 January 1879, Page 3
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