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Show French Drink Less Since Wine Is Costly Paris. Greedy wine growers seem to be the most effective temperance workers work-ers in France. Statistics Fhow that high prices have markedly reduced win dinking. Ordinary Or-dinary wine has doubled In price in a year and consumption now Is less than two-thirds what It was a year ago. Wine dealers recognize quite frank ly that many persons who drank wine have changed to water as a matter of economy. Many others water thel wine. France consumes about 40 gallons gal-lons a year for every person, babies Included. |