Show cure f for air whisky hisky IT habit tall ing cucut rot halg n than to take the place nf rif whisky when one wants to quit for or a while said a thoughtful man nian reminds me of the interesting plan of a friend of aine and one by the way who had an original method of doing almost ev ery grything thing he undertook to do lie ile was in the habit of getting on sprees and they were lively event events I 1 can assure you but 1 nhen hen he quit he quit in dead earnest there was no middle ground in his hi case ho ito did not drink to get drunk ho ile drank for the fun tere Mere mag 1 in it and ho he could ret get more jun un out of at the game than any other roan man I 1 bavo have ever known but these i sprees did not come often enough to interfere with his business plans however I 1 started out to till you about hia his sober life and not about the drinking part at 0 hia his career except AS an incident to tho story drinking Is exciting it Is a roost most difficult matter I 1 as a rule for a nan man who drinke drinks to J find anything sn that will 3 the place w of arlu ang because ri r excitement f of 0 the th babat if it this ere ore an cy tarl I 1 am sure there would be IMA lest drinking la in the world because it would bo be easier for men inen to control tho the passion for strong drink once the passion assion finds lodgment in lit the system Bya my bly friend had solved this problem and he solved it in an original way lie ila would take to dime novel m lie ile would buy a carload of the most exciting stories he could find the very yellow est of tho the yellow and whenever you found him with a lot of at mesa book books you could bet he was in tor for n long sober spell lie would carry one in hu his po pocket clet all the time and whenever the houra hours began to drag and the day got dull would find him pouring over the hook book ite its juat just an exciting be would say and a whole hole lot cheaper than drinking A s it wa but ho ie Is tho the only man I 1 over ever knew who hit upon really successful plan of 0 finding something oine thInK that would supply the excitement needed to over overcome como the longing for drink in the case ct tbs man who ho once becomes used to that sort of thing new orleans tica tiva democrat |