TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4631, 27 January 1894, Page 2

TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

t A little oa'thal boundary lino dividing the townships; of Darweh 'and Oawaldtwiatle, ■ casbire. The line thna ilireotly througb J the oentre of the hostelr'y,and\aß theft:' are public rooms on either side of.the' passage, two lioensea aro necessary. The publioania compelled to close, the? Darwerrside of the house at ten o'olook every night, according' to the ooiidif;; tiona of his license, but the Oswaldtwiatle'license allows him to keeptiis; door open until eleven o'olook. : : I order not to toy himself opento a pro-'; !secution by Darwen, landlord, when the clock compels his oustomers to ! tlio Davwea to the of the the early-closing by the landlord that he qualifies himV ! self for voting in both townships by; fixing his bed direotly over the boundIhe Newcastle DailyGhromck obv serves: " From some advice tendered by the Zancei, it appears that the beat beverage for those compelled to undertake exhausting physioal exercise during abnormally hot weather is cold tea flavoured with lime juice. People: to whom the musty taste of lime juice is objectionable, may, we presume, substitute lemon juice. - And, failing cold tea, let them take water. As long as a healthy man perspires freely, and has plenty of water to drink, says our medical, contemporary, he may experience discomfort, but he should not suffer injury of a seriouß kind by oxeroieing in the open air, provided he lives temperately, and rests' in the sliade ffhen fatigued."

Mr Cecil Chapman,' an Assistant) Labour Commissineer, reports that the English peasantisdeterioratiogin physigue. "In Truro," he says," it is remarked that men are smaller than they were, a fact which can bo proved to demonstration in the wrestling rings." With, perfeot truth' it is asserted that the labouring swain ia • mure easily knocked up than were the rude forefatbora of the hamlot, that he is not up to the hardy and laborious feats they could accomplish, and that what he calls a day's work is not more than used to be enough for a woman. It is difficult to know (says the Pall Mall Gazettes) where to begin in aceountiog for this 1055...pE... muscle, but, naturally, ouo is first inclined to ask if the jjjqthera are as. good as they were o£ yore. It is doubtful if their diet is as nourishing as it'was-in the old time. It consists 100 much of white "bread and sloppy tea, eked, out with bad whisky purchased from the licensed grooer. Any one who looks at the flatbreasted, paje, ansemio mortals who suckle babies in our villages will wonder exceedingly where the rosyfaced, buxom matrons of old romance have gone, to,' ■

To an interviewer of th* Christian CommmweaHhviho asked, "Doyou thing the drinking customs of the country will ever be amended or the drink abolished ?" The Rev. Dr, Walter 0, Smith, of Edinburgh, replied, "'You can-never abolish it* until you have taken the intense craving for intoxicating drink out of." human nature. You will never abolisk.it by political activity. But, unquestionably, something may be done. This ought at leaft to be done; the power ought to b'e'|rj»n to poor people as well as rich to stop the planting of public-houses • at their doors, We find that wherever there is poverty there the public-houses are most plentiful in order to work more mischief. I think that if the licensing power were placed in other hands we might see a reform in this reaped. On the wholo the Temperance movement has done a great deal of good. You hear a great ontory about the increase in the consumption of drink, but the amount that is drunk by respectable families is immensely diminished to what it used to be when I was a boy. At this period eyery man sat down to his toddy in the evening; now all this is dono away with."

Aoeording to the Boston Qmrdian, "The Bishop of Ohesteronce expressed a desire to run tfpwuo-house; Lord Lifford, who owns an estate in Northamptonshire, is going to doit. Be is the owner ol a licensed house at Oundle, and proposes to run it in bis own namo, It is to be hoped (pays the Echo) that the Oundle Benoh are not of those magistrates who insist that a house shall be personally con. ducted by tbo license-holder, Lord Lifford's experiment will be watohed with interest. The Prbhibitionisfc theory is that the evil lies in the stuff sold, and not in the character of the man that sells it. If a member of the House of Lords, and a county magistrate tO'boot, cannot conduct a publichouse harmlessly, no ordinary 'wittier' can hope to do so." ,