ROBUR.

Waikato Times, Volume V, Issue 272, 7 February 1874, Page 2

ROBUR.

I hays been seeking for such a cup for * very long time. For how many yean shall I gay ? Forty -five ? well, semething like it. 1 must have been bom, I think, in a state somewhat as adust as that of Gargantua, who, so soon aa be saw the light, began to ,b«wl out A boyre! a\b<yre! signifying tbat he required something to drink; and-Rabe-lais, with bis customary minuteness, speedily tell* us how many cows were presently aJJoted to the service of the ' robust infant. An, me ! what » desideratum b*«'ifc always been to me, this "cordial and tonic stimulant" so'eloqnentlv dwolt upon b/Di iaines Tee\an, F.KS.,,as " holding m solution, and in & very agreeable form, ingredients calculated to exhilarate the system without subsequent depression !" Do you remember what Ovid (jolly old Ovid !) says ? Hamttit aqva mihi nectar erit. But I have never been able to find the nectar that I liked ; I am a thirsty soul, and (purely for sweet science' nnke) I hate tried many ! fluids. Of wine* more, perhaps, then art! set down in the famous list at the "Drei Mobren," at Augsberg, or are catalogued with a memorable eulogy on the virtues of wine, from the pen of Justus I iebi>, nr their bead, in the " WeinKarte" of the " Quatres Saisons "at Munich. Of brandyand'WAter sufficient perchance to float the Channel fleet. Start not at the assertion. Many a little makes a tnickle. There are bnt a thousand drops in a bottle of brand y, and you may get through many hundreds of flasks even in the oourae of twenty years. Of beer— well, when I w«b young, I drank ptrter " in the pewter," because it was cheap, and I liked it. I have had since, 1 suppose, my share ot Bass, of Allsopp, of Guinness, and of Ind Coope. Huw many bottles of champagne have I emptied at a sitting ? Well, how many quarts ot Mnmni, 01 ClicquoJ, or Piper's Dry have you ever got thiougli, my ftiupeiate mend? Theie is a detestable account of hypocrisy prevalent in English Hocioty about the consumption of fermented liquor*. It is no longer fashionable, Mty, it has Lecouie a ctiminal offence, to get drunk in public. The poor, unfortunately, are generally bereft of the opportunity »if becoming intoxicated in pnvatt ; their bius against sobriety arc usually moat tiag* rautly displaced »t th< bars of tsvemo, or on ±b« street yavufler.t; and it it tho'.efoie iiaagmed by finaple-tHThdcd. yeop'e snf* by fcreif *>r-d— Jind the delusion, is fostere<i>b7 native hypocrites— that the poor, or at all events- the •• working-classes, in England have a monopoly of the shaiftaMi the degrading, the biutalisiug, the body-aad-soal-iUlißg .

cfll uhte<. to exhilarate the uysteiH,' but uot alas ! capaible ot doing so"- 'ion*- produce "B" 'sequent depression." The teeto' ...c u iiv v* vj- Hied of •.. ding you that it is the "models o drinker .' 'lie people who would shudder at at the bana n iiip*-' uio-i of taking, "a gins? too much," and who ar->yet takinp li- It drops <-t aoiru hinp all daj long, who, in th-j lo igrun, iolhemseh* ? tbe grtatest anmuut of h-roi ii >\\ v.-ouJ it be, I wonder Jiiii moderau 'lrmLors forea«ore i/i^t "^tiM of aher.y .~nd .. biscuic, my ooy," which are 1 ' tvs w conveniently as hand in the cheffonier o. m the ohit ill bureau- -I have known ♦hem even tv lie perdits in the cupboa 1 d of j, vestry — and devotod thf.iselves exclusively to Kobur Y Only run over the beneficial qualities of the Tea-Spirit on your Sngers One gentleman— »n ex]>crienced diner out — tells me thai, he never feels counf >it*b!p after an extraordinarily luxurious banquet until he hap ♦■•''•en a pKps of Robur-and«water. The theme and the tuiuju, L aa.\ ■„ Ai^nt digestion. How many thousands, nay, tans of tbousandi, of the public are there who are nurfcyrs to indigestion! and would it not be a priceless boon to the dys^jpac If llie vii >,ues vi lioLar w«.re umvera.tllo acknowledged, and if tbo consumption thereof became an universally uitfued ?? — •* (Jt. A. o«tU, ' iv JBelgravia.