Show PURITANISM An eastern paper tells that that a a Buffalo pure food inspector sets the trumpet to his lips and blows a horrendous blast against the free lunch That Thai food inspector would find his reform anticipated anticipated antici antici- if ho he would come to Salt Lake He does docs not compare with our city council which has gravely ely put under the black letter of the ordinance a decree that while certain men with licenses may during prescribed prescribed pre pre- scribed hours unload an article of goods upon the unwary customer an article which will disintegrate his ig stomach disarrange his spleen turn to clabber his liver and do up his kidneys still if at the same time that same vendor of firewater extends a dry cracker and a bit of cheese to the victim just a mouthful to break the fall of the firewater upon the inner coat of his esophagus and nd the ducts which absorb benzine then that vendor shall be fined fined fined- for all we know imprisoned the imprisoned the object of the ordinance ordinance nance no doubt being that inasmuch as drinking is bad business and inasmuch as certain men without the fear of near or distant dissolution before their eyes will Win drink of such beverages as are arc provided why then let the beverages do their work and cook I Ithe the man speedily and in in that way hasten the day of prohibition Now there area are a good many men that can do without drinking ing but with some men it is a habit when they do take a drink to also eat a cracker that at the cracker may be a buffer between the benzine ben zinc zine and the walls of the stomach and some of these will miss their cracker exceedingly others will miss it often others knowing blowing that its day is passed will have to get et breakfast at home if the they have any homes How the world runs in circles I There was vas a time in Massachusetts l when it was wicked to build a fire on Sunday morning even to make a cup eup of coffee or what was much m more re popular a cup of tea and the children had their constitutions shattered by eating only cold food on the Sabbath day It all had to be cooked the previous day People had begun to believe that the peculiar old world had outgrown some of those old things but n note te tho the way IvaY it comes back This time it is not aimed at the benzine it is aimed at the cheese factories and the cracker factories and the saloon men are arc hugging themselves with the tho thought that notwithstanding the increased license there will win be bea berl bea rl a a saving enough on the crackers and cheese to meet the the- advance laud And it is said that some of the men men who vho have passed this ordinance e are given to spending their afternoons sometimes in the back rooms of saloons where they play deep and intricate games with a little benzine for the thc stake We wonder why they cut off the crackers and cheese because when they were in vogue ogue those gentlemen did not have to have breakfast before they left home for a little hard luu-d tack and cheese mal make e a good substitute for a rather poor breakfast We wonder yonder if the real thought behind it was not to compel men to hoard Board at 1 t. t home |