BEES, BOOZE, AND BIZ.

White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 270, 18 December 1917, Page 5

BEES, BOOZE, AND BIZ.

Humans may learn many iessons from the bee, but few know that he is a temperance advo< ate. True, the unwary bee may fall a victim to the 1 rimming poppy cup, and you have perhaps seen him fall off the water wagon and sprawl in a boozy stupor in your flower garden. But, if so, he soon picks himself up. says “Never again,” and means it. Naturalists tell us that a bee never makes the* mistake twice of mixing business with booze. If he hit* the juice once, he is “bone dry” for ever after. How doth ihe busy, boozy bee Improve each shining flower, And sip the poppy’s juice till he Reels sprawling by the hour! 1 ve seen him in a poppy cup, Prone soused in ecstasy, While myriad comrades whooped it up, All drunk as lords can be. With two legs and a jug. .1 man Is in an awful fix ; 1 hink of the boozy bee—how can He ever manage six ? But, unlike man, the busy bee Is w r ise—you bet he is ! Once stung, he cuts the ecstasy, And settles down to biz ‘lf in life’s game you would not lose,” The busy bee makes oath, “You’ve got to choose ’twixt biz and booze ; You can’t get on with both.” —Copied from “Munsey,” Nov.