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Show A Reform Saloon. The Acorns, a Goods Government or- I ganlxation in New York, have planned, to open s. reform saloon on Broadway between Thirty-fourth and Forty-second streets. Real drinks are to be sold at this saloon to sober customers, but every man must pay for his own. That is the chief peculiarity of the place; treating; will not be allowed there. An-other An-other peculiarity is that the bar keep- 1 era are ail to be total abstainers. That Is right; barkeepers ought all, for their own safety, to be total abstainers. They are sure to take in quite as much rum as is good for them, through the pores and the lungs. Mr. Fulton Cutting, Mr. City-Chamberlain Gould and Mr. Herbert Parsons are named as being among the backers of the enterprise, and Bishop Potter and Parson Rains-ford Rains-ford are expected to indorse It. The purpose behind the no-treating saloon is not to make money, nor yet to keep ' liquor in circulation, but to disassociate disassoci-ate llquor-selUng from private profit, politics, blackmail and immorality, and to decrease the per capita consumption of liquors. - Such saloons have been started in England and are thought to 1 be useful there, and maybe there is a field for them in New York. No one who is not in the habit of drinking in saloons is qualified to say how valuable valu-able the no-treating regulation may be. The ability of the average, responsible, re-sponsible, well-to-do man to pay for drinks so far exceeds his capacity, or, at any rate, his desire, to consume them, that the question of who pays is of very slight consequence to him. What he Is apt to insist upon (to himself) him-self) is that his occasional or semioc-caslonal semioc-caslonal drink shall not be taken alone. Treating or being treated has very little lit-tle to do with the number of bis potations. pota-tions. But experienced saloon' drinkers drink-ers have reported in intervals of coherency cohe-rency that in saloons the practice obtains ob-tains of setting up rounds of drinks, each partaker contributing a round in turn, until the social glass has overflowed over-flowed into the convivial cup, the emotions have been unwarrantably stirred, and proper expenditure and moderate Indulgence have both been far exceded. If the no-treating rule corrects inconsiderate excesses of this sort without encouraging- the habit of solitary potation, it may evidently be useful. To drink wisely seems . to be so fine an art that the inexperienced may well despair of acquiring it, but it will seem easier if the neophyte will remember that all the serious mistakes , are made on the side of over-consumption, and that it is the rarest thing ' for anyone to find cause for regret in drinking too little. So long as there is such a conspicuously safe side to err on, no observing person need go se-' se-' riously amiss. Harper's Weekly. |