Show how to keep sober we shall pick up many interesting bits of information from oui returned globe circle rs the officers and crews of the battle fleet ne of the former now of high rank whom I 1 anew five years ago as a lieutenant told wonder ful tales about the ability 0 the en glish navy men at hong korg to drink everybody under the table and their immunity to drunkenness was attrib buted to copious draughts ot olive oil before sitting down to a banquet rear admiral says it was mostly a fake we learned something on the cruise A high toned official told me just before we sat down to a banquet take two grains of opium it will enable ou to withstand a much greater quantity of liquor here just an hour before joining a festival we take a grain or two and we are never drunk new ork press |