TEMPERANCE NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3748, 28 February 1891, Page 2

TEMPERANCE NOTES.

PROHIBITION AT SANDRINGHAM. The Prince of Wales has again been solicited to allow the erection of a public house on his Sandringham estate and has again refused the request. But we are not aware tbat his refusal has been denounced by the public press nsa tyrannical act, nor as an infringement of the liberty of the subject. Neither has his conduct in this respect been denounced as unconstitutional. And yet when temperance reformers have sought that similar power to which His Royal Highness ha 3 exercised might be entrusted to the people, we have been told by some of our most sapient legislators that it would be unconstitutional to allow them to exercise such a power, as it might lead them to deprive some of their fellow citizens of the means of procuring intoxicating drinks. What we, however, contend is, that if it be right to allow the Prince of Wales or any other landed proprietor to prohibit the sale of drinks on his estate, it cannot be wrong or unconstitutional to allow the majority of the ratepayers of any district the option of prohibting the sale of intoxicants in their neighborhood if they desire to do so.—People's Friend. WOKTH KNOWING. Mrs Hayes, wife of the ex-President of the United States, always declared that a perfectly adequate substitute for liquor, when needed as a stimulant, jould be found in hot milk, and after any cold or wetting she gave this in place of wine or whisky, which ethers would have considered necessary. This is, by the way, a custom of Mrs •Cleveland's also, who discovered after the fa'.igues and many long and wearisome receptions which she was obliged to pass through, standing for hours on her feet and shaking hands with bundieds of people, that nothing would restore her so quickly aa a cupfull of boiling milk brought to her by her maid, aud which she drank in little sips as hot as it could be taken. The Washington girls caught the idea from her, and finding how quickly it helped them after a hard day of calls and social duties they began to substitute it for the various malt preparations which they had been in the habit of taking, or the hot wine-and~water which their maids usually administered when they came in too tired out to dress for the next engagement.