Show Drinking in Vermont We have so lately legalized barrooms in our Slate that the people have hardly got used to open drinking yet said IrE Ir-E G Potter of Burlington Vt at tho Ilalelgh You see In the old days when the blind tigers flourished men would slip in stealthily two at a time and because oC a haunting fear that maybe it might be their last opportunity they would pour the gloss full to the brim concealing conceal-ing the size of the drink by encircling the glass with their fingers I am Sieved to say that they still indulge in that practice In our State and any picture pic-ture of a Vermonter in the act of Imbibing Im-bibing would show his fingers tightly clasped around and totally covering the goblet which contained his rum One funny feature of our saloon law prohibits a man from treating his friend and so each man is supposed to r pay for his own bracer This statute is observed only in the t case of strangers and whenever a barkeeper does not know his customers he solemnly re fuscH to let one settle the whole bill The difilculty is often obviated however how-ever by one lending the other enough change to square his individual indebtedness indebt-edness Washington Post I |